"Liqi! Liqi...Are you here? Are you there? Are you there...?"
No matter how much Sun Yingning shouted until her throat was hoarse, no one came to open the door.
The windowless equipment room became a completely enclosed space, filled with the smell of dust accumulating on the clutter; the rustling darkness began to spread, and a cold chest opened and embraced her from behind; the bone-chilling cold penetrated her heart, and her consciousness began to fade.
Sun Yingning's body grew colder and colder, and her face grew paler and paler.
Occasionally she would wake up startled, and could only do warm-up exercises in the limited, cramped space to warm her body, but that was far from enough, far from enough.
"Bang—"
The wooden plank suddenly cracked, and she plummeted downwards. The feeling of weightlessness shot from her feet to the top of her head, making her head buzz.
Before Sun Yingning could even grab anything, her petite body sank heavily like a stone thrown into the sea, crashing into a 1.8-meter-tall, lidless walnut barrel.
Fortunately, there was a large, thick, soft pad at the bottom of the bucket, which cushioned much of the impact of the fall. Although she inevitably suffered some abrasions and her feet were numb from the shock, thankfully she did not lose consciousness.
Sun Yingning clutched the front of her clothes tightly, still shaken.
My heart, which had been pounding in my throat, sank a little lower.
Still alive, still alive...
At least she's still alive.
She should hold on a little longer; if she could just wait for someone to come looking for her, she would be able to get out soon.
Hold on... You have to hold on...
Sun Yingning reached out her hand, instinctively trying to find an exit or mechanism.
The hand, with its raw and torn skin, moved slowly, exploring cautiously.
Everything was pitch black, and Sun Yingning couldn't see anything.
The pain stimulated every nerve, conveying her wretched state and her profuse bleeding.
"Snap!"
Sharp throwing knives pierced through the layers of the wine barrel, flying in all directions, arranged in a neat pattern... passing through Sun Yingning's body.
Terrified eyes, slightly parted lips—they didn't even have time to scream.
Her body was like a blood bag filled with blood, with several holes poked in it, and blood gushing out from different places.
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"Old Sun, why hasn't Yingning returned yet?"
“Even if something happens, this child will call us... What’s going on today? We haven’t heard a thing!”
"No, I need to go out and look for it."
"Don't rush, let me call the teacher first."
"What are you asking! School's been over for hours, hurry up and look for her! If she's with the teacher, she would have called already! Go out and look for her now."
The Sun couple rushed out, forgetting even their cell phones.
In the early hours of the morning, a rich second-generation drunk driver struck and killed two pedestrians. In this frigid night, death spared no one.
In the vastness of space, life is far too fragile and far too insignificant.
...
...
As the illusory scene faded, Wu Yue still felt somewhat melancholy. Her long eyelashes drooped slightly, and her eyes held a hint of doubt and confusion.
Yan Chiyu seemed to have read Wu Yue's mind and said softly, "Principal Liang is Qiu Liqi's father."
"Hmm? Why doesn't Qiu Liqi share the same surname as the principal?"
Wu Yue scratched her head, met the boy's helpless gaze, and explained, "Ahem, it's just a conditioned reflex."
Yan Chiyu looked at her and replied, "To be precise, he is my stepfather."
"Sun Yingning's mother called Qiu Liqi's mother before setting off to find Sun Yingning, and mentioned that they had arranged to meet at the sports equipment warehouse. Qiu Liqi's mother went to check the warehouse the next morning... She was about to leave when she saw the iron gate locked. But then she saw a rat darting out with a dried-blood finger in its mouth, which nearly scared her to death."
Later, Qiu Liqi's mother called the principal. Thinking about what happened last night and her daughter's attitude towards Sun Yingning recently, Qiu's mother had a bad feeling.
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