Chapter 861 - Fan Yu! (1/2)

Chapter 861: Fan Yu!

Translator: Lonelytree Editor: Millman97

The old well behind the field is the school’s loophole, and the headmaster said that this is a wound that can’t heal. If the entire school is compared to a person’s heart, this well is the place where the deepest secret is buried.

Chen Ge was suddenly reminded of a detail.

“Sir, you said that the School of the Afterlife is made up of the memories of countless students, and the reason Mu Yang High School showed up here is because there was a student at that school who was bullied, yes?”

“Yes.” The old headmaster did not seem willing to answer that question.

“Can you tell me more about the student?” Chen Ge knew that the old headmaster did not wish to bring up that past, but every clue related to that kid from Mu Yang High School would be very crucial!

The only loophole in the School of the Afterlife was in Mu Yang High School’s ruin campus. There was another detail worth noting—all the buildings in the School of the Afterlife were arranged randomly, but Mu Yang High School was placed at the fringe, the closest to the blood red city.

“I don’t really know the details. I only know that the child’s name was Fan Yu. His adopted father was our school’s teacher. He used to teach in the city, but for some reason, he was blackballed by the industry, and it was us who accepted him.” The headmaster’s words rocked Chen Ge’s memory.

“Fan Yu? The kid was once a student at Mu Yang High School?”

“Yes, Mu Yang High School might have been small, but we offered primary and secondary school classes.” The old headmaster smiled sadly. “That was something we were forced to do. The countryside has no primary schools, and the children I adopted and the children of the nearby families had nowhere to attend school, so I set up a primary school class.”

“That is not important.” Chen Ge moved his body upward little by little. “How long has Fan Yu spent at Mu Yang High School? Why did he leave?”

“It was because of his adopted father that Fan Yu enrolled at our school—he was our teacher. At the time, Fan Yu was still too young to attend primary school, but under his father’s insistence, we arranged for him to follow Primary One class.”

The old headmaster remembered what happened then. This was where the headmaster was different from other Specters—most Specters could only remember their hatred.

“After a few months, Fan Yu could not keep up with the rest of his class. The child was very clever and talented, but his talent showed only in painting.” The headmaster had a clear memory of this. “The child was a master painter; he could be seen as a genius. At the beginning, the adopted father had nothing against his hobby, but one day, the child drew the face of a person in class, and that caused his father to explode. According to the other students, the father tore up his painting on the spot and gave the child a few harsh slaps. Naturally, it caused a huge commotion, and it was me and a female teacher who pulled him back.”

“If he was just drawing in class and not paying attention, his father wouldn’t have been so furious.” Chen Ge was sharp. “Perhaps it was the painting that had angered his father. Sir, do you remember what he drew?”

“The painting was torn up, but I heard from his deskmate that when Fan Yu was drawing the painting, he borrowed his red crayon. He said that his own red crayon had run out.” The old headmaster tried his best to think, but he could not remember what Fan Yu had drawn.

“Red crayon?” Chen Ge’s eyes narrowed. “To be able to finish all of his red crayon and have to borrow one from his deskmate, that proves that the painting used a lot of red!”

His expression turned serious. Chen Ge slowly turned to look at the headmaster and pointed at the blood fog around them. “Just now, you said that Fan Yu is a talented painter. Then think about it, what kind of painting was he doing that required so much red?”

Initially, the old headmaster did not think much of it, but being reminded by Chen Ge, it hit him. “A murder scene‽”