Chapter 62 : Chapter 62
Chapter 62: Look at Me!
The old director’s real name was Zhang Dahai.
He had killed many, many people. Back then, his crimes had caused an enormous public uproar. Yet because of his identity, his flexible mind, and his experience as a former police officer, his true identity had never been uncovered.
At the time, the outside world called him the “Ghost Child.”
This was because investigators had discovered that most of his victims were parents from abusive or depraved families. In the majority of cases, the actions those parents had committed before being killed were so horrifying that merely hearing about them made people feel those parents were not just unfit—they deserved to be torn to pieces.
For example, there was one case where both parents were hopeless gambling addicts.
They had accumulated a massive gambling debt, yet instead of waking up to reality, they chose an even darker path. They broke their child’s arms and legs and threw the child onto the streets to beg, forcing the child to repay their debts.
Because of cases like this, many people believed Zhang Dahai was a “killer” summoned by those pitiful children.
Case after case followed.
Too many people died.
Naturally, the children who were left without anyone to care for them were gathered by Zhang Dahai through his connections from business and the police force and sent to his orphanage.
At the beginning, he truly believed that those children could gain a new life in his care.
But gradually, he changed.
Those children became his tools—tools for killing, for gathering intelligence, or for satisfying his twisted desires.
Shen Shuyun had followed him for a period of time.
What she discovered was that Zhang Dahai had not changed at all.
He had simply revealed his true nature.
His mentality was extremely twisted. He believed that the children had received an immense favor from him and therefore should repay him by doing these things for him.
They owed him.
Because of certain experiences from his childhood, he also had a disturbing obsession with young girls, and he enjoyed harming these children to satisfy himself.
In truth, those children had not escaped suffering by coming to him.
Instead, they had entered another hell.
Worse still, after those children gathered together under his influence, their mentalities gradually twisted as well.
In other words, when a great villain gathered a group of children who were blank sheets of paper, those children eventually became little villains themselves.
This result was actually the complete opposite of Zhang Dahai’s original intention.
He simply never realized it.
In order to kill him, Shen Shuyun chose to use the ability she had possessed since childhood—communicating with ghosts.
She went to every crime scene and brought out all the ghosts that remained there.
During that time, those ghosts hid on her body, whispering in her ears at every moment.
Most of the people who had been killed by Zhang Dahai had not been innocent.
Except for some of the victims in the later period, the earlier ones were hardly good people either.
Even so, being surrounded by such a large number of ghosts for an entire year should have driven anyone insane.
The fact that Shen Shuyun had not lost her mind was already a miracle.
In the end, she used those ghosts to kill Zhang Dahai.
She also killed every child Zhang Dahai had adopted.
A total of one hundred and thirty-eight people.
Among them, the most tragic were the children she burned alive in the dormitory.
Killing those little villains had been her deliberate decision.
They also needed redemption.
And the reason she had gathered so many ghosts together was precisely because of those children.
From the conversation between Shen Shuyun and Zhang Dahai, Bai Yu had learned everything.
She had no intention of judging it.
She only knew one thing: Shen Shuyun was also insane.
If Bai Yu had guessed correctly, Shen Shuyun had made those ghosts kill their own children.
And the reason Shen Shuyun had been drawn into the Scum Game was now obvious.
Killing so many children certainly met the requirements of the Scum Game.
“Even without me, they would have turned out like this,” Zhang Dahai said as he continued lying on the ground in the same position. “At least I gave them a completely new life, did I not?”
“If I dragged all those little ghosts outside and threw them in front of you, would you still be able to say that while looking at them?” Shen Shuyun narrowed her eyes.
As expected, Zhang Dahai fell silent.
No one understood the situation of those little ghosts in the school better than he did.
He simply refused to face it.
But while he remained silent, Shen Shuyun suddenly changed her words.
“On second thought, there is no need. Since I was able to kill them once, I can kill them again. This time, I will give them a true release.”
“No!”
“What? Regretting it now?” Shen Shuyun sneered. “Do not worry. I will not let you see it. Before killing them, I will kill you first.”
The butcher’s knife pierced into Zhang Dahai’s heart.
But this kind of attack meant almost nothing to him.
Bai Yu kicked Shen Shuyun away and unleashed a surge of blood threads from her body, which began devouring Zhang Dahai’s body frantically.
This time, Zhang Dahai could feel pain.
And it was not ordinary pain.
It was a piercing agony that no one could endure.
Immediately, a scream like a pig being slaughtered echoed across the second floor of the Cafeteria.
Not long afterward, Zhang Dahai died.
Completely.
He became part of Bai Yu’s body.
Leaning against the wall, Shen Shuyun watched the scene unfold.
Suddenly, she burst into laughter.
It was wild, almost manic laughter.
Bai Yu did not know what Shen Shuyun had learned during her “reunion” with Zhang Dahai, nor whether she had obtained the answer she had been seeking.
But judging by her reaction, it seemed she had found what she wanted.
Bai Yu wondered what meaning such a simple exchange held for Shen Shuyun.
Was her method of retrieving memories really nothing more than chatting with Zhang Dahai about the past?
Bai Yu was not Shen Shuyun.
She could not understand her way of thinking.
But one thing was certain.
The process of seeking an answer did not have to be dramatic.
It only needed to be profound enough.
Meanwhile, Lu Liangting was still standing behind the door.
His gaze moved from Shen Shuyun to Bai Yu.
He felt as though he understood something, yet also understood nothing.
Shen Shuyun had come here with him, and this place clearly held deep meaning for her.
As for the girl in the white dress, she seemed to have come to help Shen Shuyun.
The two of them apparently knew each other from before.
For some reason, a hollow feeling suddenly appeared in Lu Liangting’s heart.
No matter what the final truth was, everything pointed to one thing.
The girl in the white dress had not appeared here because of him.
Saving him had only been incidental.
But that was fine.
Even if it had only been a coincidence, she had still saved him.
If not for her, he would certainly have died this time.
The danger here had been even greater than what he had faced in Sunshine Apartments.
Taking a deep breath, Lu Liangting stepped forward and extended his hand toward Bai Yu.
“Thank you for saving me again. Back at Sunshine Apartments, I wanted to properly thank you, but I never had the chance. By the way, my name is Lu Liangting.”
Bai Yu only glanced at him before turning her head away.
She had no intention of shaking his hand.
Lu Liangting’s hand froze awkwardly in midair.
After a moment, he withdrew it and scratched his head helplessly.
Perhaps it was just his imagination, but he always felt that Bai Yu seemed wary of him—almost hostile toward him.
Even though he had not done anything wrong.