After hearing that unfamiliar voice, the short-haired player
froze in an instant, slowly turning his head back.
Standing behind him was none other than Su Zhiwei, the owner
of the office they were trying to break into.
And the few people who were just standing with him a moment
ago had silently distanced themselves.
The atmosphere froze in that instant, and there was nothing
more awkward than being caught red-handed.
Moreover, if this were an ordinary high school, breaking into
the principal’s office would at most be considered a theft offense, and one
could get out of jail in a few days. But this was in a horror game instance,
where a slight oversight could trigger a fatal opportunity.
Although Su Zhiwei’s expression and gaze could be considered
gentle, the short-haired player instantly broke out in a cold sweat,
stammering, “Um... I... I...”
“Continue breaking in,” Ruan Qing interrupted the
short-haired player before he could say more, arrogantly speaking with a tone
full of swagger, as if he didn’t care about Su Zhiwei at all.
The others looked at Ruan Qing with shock. How could he be so
unscrupulous, openly breaking into someone’s office right in front of the said
person?
Was this the confidence brought about by his identity and
background?
...Truly deserving of being the school bully.
Su Zhiwei slightly turned his body, looking at the arrogant
teenager beside him, sighing helplessly and speaking with a tone full of
doting, “My little rascal, what mischief are you up to again?”
The surrounding people were somewhat surprised, looking at
Ruan Qing and Su Zhiwei. Even considering their fear of the school bully’s
backing, Su Zhiwei’s tone shouldn’t have been like this, right?
Did these two have some other kind of relationship?
The players looked at Su Zhiwei’s face. Although he was
thirty-three, he appeared to be around twenty-five, and his handsome and
refined appearance added a touch of charm to him.
The aura of a mature man like him would be hard for
inexperienced high school students to resist.
Most importantly, the tone Su Zhiwei used just now sounded
like the indulgence and helplessness of a lover.
Could this principal... also be involved with the school
bully?
“You want to know? Do I still need a reason?”
“If I must find a reason...” Ruan Qing slightly lifted his
chin, arrogantly looking at Su Zhiwei. “It’s because I don’t like you.”
In response to Ruan Qing’s extremely capricious words, Su
Zhiwei merely raised an eyebrow, his tone still gentle as the wind. “Have I
recently made you angry?”
“No,” Ruan Qing answered firmly.
Su Zhiwei furrowed his brows at his response, seemingly
puzzled. “Then why do you dislike me?”
Ruan Qing lifted his head in arrogance once again, his tone
filled with superiority and disdain. “I heard that you’ve been an ordinary
teacher in this school for three years.”
“As a member of the Su family, you actually became an
ordinary teacher. Isn’t that a disgrace to the Su family?”
Ruan Qing’s contempt was clearly directed at the school
itself, rather than Su Zhiwei, as if the identity of an ordinary teacher was
unworthy of someone from the Su family.
The players looked at Ruan Qing, then at Su Zhiwei.
Su Zhiwei turned out to be a member of the Su family. Could
he be... the brother of the school bully?
Now the players understood why Su Zhiwei had that tone. It
turned out they were family, but indeed, both of them had the surname Su. It
was just that ordinary people didn’t think about it in that way. After all, the
surname Su wasn’t particularly unique.
“Oh?” Su Zhiwei’s expression remained unchanged, and his eyes
even carried a hint of amusement. “Where did you find out?”
Ruan Qing snorted coldly, “Of course I know. I looked at the
information of the First High School yesterday.”
Su Zhiwei chuckled lightly, patiently explaining, “I worked
as an ordinary teacher for three years to observe the situation at the First
High School, so that I could manage it better. If I had become the principal
from the beginning, it would have been difficult to understand what exactly
this school lacks. That’s why I came to the school as an ordinary teacher for a
few years first.”
Su Zhiwei paused and continued, “It was actually the elder
brother’s idea.”
“That means I came to the First High School as an ordinary
teacher with the consent of the Su family. Naturally, there is no such thing as
embarrassing the Su family.”
After Su Zhiwei finished speaking, he took out the key to the
office and opened the door. “Come in and have a seat.”
Su Zhiwei stepped into the office, followed closely by Ruan
Qing.
Meanwhile, the others looked at each other and eventually
entered the principal’s office as well.
However, unlike Ruan Qing, who went in and sat directly on
the sofa with an arrogant attitude, they stood next to it with a restrained
look, as if they had made some mistake.
Su Zhiwei poured a glass of water for Ruan Qing and placed it
on the table in front of him. He also pushed the fruits on the table towards
him. Then, with a gentle expression, he spoke to the others, “Please have a
seat. No need to be so nervous.”
Upon hearing this, the others did not immediately sit down.
Instead, they remained uneasy and stood at the back, as if they were a group of
ordinary students who had done something wrong.
Su Zhiwei did not insist on them sitting down. He sat across
from Ruan Qing and his tone was not particularly severe, even verging on
gentle. “Su Qing, picking a lock is not a good behavior. You can’t just pick a
lock without someone else’s permission; it’s very impolite.”
An act that could be considered a crime was merely regarded
as impolite in Su Zhiwei’s words.
Then Su Zhiwei looked at the students standing and his tone
became stricter. “All of you are Su Qing’s classmates. I hope that when Su Qing
makes a mistake, you can remind him instead of directly helping him make
mistakes.”
Due to his family background, Xiao Shiyi was the one who
understood the situation of the Su family the most. Su Qing was the only child
of this generation in the Su family, and the person in front of them should be
the rumored youngest young master of the previous generation in the Su family.
He was Su Qing’s uncle.
Xiao Shiyi took a step forward and politely spoke, “Uncle,
don’t worry. Next time, we will definitely remind Brother Su.”
“Xiao Shiyi, please refrain from forming arbitrary
relationships within the school,” Su Zhiwei’s tone carried a hint of
displeasure, whether it was because they were helping Ruan Qing make mistakes
or simply being called “uncle.”
Xiao Shiyi didn’t pay too much attention to it and politely
changed the way he addressed the other. “Alright, Principal Su.”
Su Zhiwei wanted to say something, but his phone rang,
interrupting him directly.
He took out his phone and glanced at it. After gesturing to
Ruan Qing, he walked outside the office balcony to answer the call.
The balcony had floor-to-ceiling windows, but the
soundproofing was quite good. Su Zhiwei could be seen speaking, but his voice
couldn’t be heard at all.
However, the floor-to-ceiling windows provided a clear view
of the office’s interior. Initially, Su Zhiwei was positioned sideways to the
windows while speaking, but gradually he turned his back to the windows, facing
the outside of the balcony.
In other words, he couldn’t see what was happening inside the
office at that moment.
Several people in the office exchanged glances.
This was a good opportunity, but it also came with great
risks because if Su Zhiwei turned around, they would be done for.
But if they missed this chance, finding another opportunity
might become difficult.
All the players decided to take a gamble. Without entering
the tiger’s den, how could they catch the tiger? In this perilous instance,
safety was already out of the question.
Ruan Qing felt it was too risky and too coincidental. As soon
as they forced open the door, Su Zhiwei appeared.
Were there surveillance cameras in the corridor?
Installing surveillance cameras in high school corridors was
relatively common, but monitoring them constantly seemed a bit suspicious.
Moreover, it was a weekend, a day when nobody was working.
They had only been forcing the door for a little over ten minutes
when Su Zhiwei arrived, as if he knew about it from the beginning.
Would school staff members really monitor the cameras
constantly? Ruan Qing thought it was unlikely.
Even during working hours, they probably wouldn’t monitor
them constantly. Usually, they would only check the surveillance footage when
something happened.
If this was a coincidence, then they were just unlucky. But
if it wasn’t a coincidence...
Ruan Qing glanced at Su Zhiwei, who was answering the phone
on the balcony, then discreetly surveyed the surroundings, but didn’t find any
mirrors or surveillance cameras.
It’s like an ordinary principal’s office.
There were piles of documents on the office desk, and there’s
a regular photo frame placed on it. The cabinet next to the desk, where documents
were stored, was also filled with a lot of materials.
A few people silently approached the desk and gently searched
through the documents, but they didn’t find anything useful.
After organizing the documents, their gaze shifted to the
cabinet.
The cabinet was locked, requiring a key to open it.
The short-haired player skeptically tried using a wire again
but couldn’t open it. Both the lock on the cabinet and the one on the office
door seemed custom-made and difficult to open without a key.
The other players glanced at him with a difficult-to-hide
disdain in their eyes.
The short-haired player rolled his eyes. Some locks in the
instance couldn’t be easily opened without obtaining a key.
If everything were so simple, not as many players would have
died in each instance.
To open the cabinet, they must first obtain the key, which
was definitely with Principal Su Zhiwei.
The problem was, how could they get it?
Everyone silently looked at a certain school bully sitting
motionless on the sofa.
Ruan Qing: “...”
The players believed that the school bully and Su Zhiiwei
were uncle and nephew, so he should be easier to approach than the others.
Although everyone thought that way, no one dared to suggest
that Ruan Qing should steal the key.
Mainly because it was already outrageous for the young
master, who acted high and mighty, to do things. Not to mention asking him to
steal, especially since he was someone who would only settle for the stars and
not the moon.
It was too risky to even think about it.
Ruan Qing wasn’t unwilling to steal, but he felt that Su
Zhiiwei had a lot of problem. Once he discovered it, the consequences would
undoubtedly be terrible.
The original owner’s parents were away on a business trip for
more than ten days, which meant they wouldn’t return during this whole game
period. If Su Zhiwei was truly involved in something, his background wouldn’t
be able to help him in any way.
Because his parents and Su Zhiwei made phone calls
simultaneously, Su’s parents unquestionably believe Su Zhiwei. After all, no
matter how well-behaved the original owner pretended to be, Su’s parents must
know his true character.
So, without being clear of Su Zhiwei’s situation, Ruan Qing
didn’t want to take such a big risk.
What they knew for sure was that ten years ago, something
significant happened at this school that made Su Zhiwei care about it, which
was why he came here to teach.
Ten years ago, Su Zhiwei was only twenty-three years old. He
graduated from a top university at twenty-two, worked at the Su Corporation for
a year, and then suddenly transferred to this school as an ordinary teacher. It
didn’t seem like he suddenly wanted to nurture the country’s talents.
Even if he did want to do so, with the strange incidents
happening at the school now, could it really have nothing to do with him?
Ruan Qing had always believed in one theory: when there were
too many coincidences, it’s definitely the result of someone carefully
calculating.
So, the First High School must have experienced something ten
years ago, and it was highly likely that someone died in that incident. This
person might have a significant connection to Su Zhiwei.
It couldn’t be a parent-child relationship, as high school
students were at least fourteen or fifteen years old, and a
twenty-three-year-old Su Zhiwei couldn’t have a child that old.
...A younger brother or a younger sister?
This was also unlikely since Su Zhiwei was the youngest of
his generation in the Su family, and it’s impossible to have younger siblings
below him.
Moreover, even if there were, if something happened to the Su
family at the school, the school would have vanished immediately and couldn’t
have existed until today.
Could it be... a girlfriend or a boyfriend?
Well, it’s not impossible either. High school students do
engage in early relationships, and if Su Zhiwei’s girlfriend had an incident at
the school, it would make sense for him to come here to find the truth.
However, all of this was just his speculation. The specifics
of what happened back then needed to be investigated.
This school should have staff members who had been here for
over a decade. Perhaps they could provide some insights...