Chapter 19 School for the Blind
Inside the secret room, an eerie silence filled the air.
The boy in the cage seemed to realize something. He quickly closed his eyes and spoke timidly.
"I-I didn't mean to see that."
He didn't understand why the person who had just spoken to him gently and given him delicious food would have such a big reaction, but thinking of the experience of being scolded in the past, he bit his lip, lowered his head and began to apologize.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Please don't be angry, okay? I won't look at you again in the future."
"...No, I won't be cursed. Don't worry. I swear my eyes are just blind and won't bring any bad luck."
The boy in the cage explained eagerly, feeling a sense of fear in his heart, and the faint hope that had just risen in his heart seemed to be extinguished again.
Xu Zhiyan touched his neck and looked at the boy in front of him.
He is actually a blind man...
Was the emotion he had just seen an illusion? Or an illusion?
The difference is too great. It is impossible to connect the poor little thing in front of him with the mad dog that almost strangled him to death before!
The pain was still there, but he couldn't say anything harsh because of the other person's self-blaming and helpless look.
If we follow the logic of this timeline, the boy in front of him lived for ten years, waited for him here for ten years, and finally turned into a monster, does it mean that he will definitely go back smoothly? And then he will definitely not be able to save the person in front of him?
Xu Zhiyan is a person who doesn't like to do useless work.
If the outcome of everything has already been determined, then can he just find a safe place to lie down until he can return safely?
In order to find the answer, he called up the game panel.
[As an S-level item, past modifications will affect future ones. ]
[Players please do not think that you can go back to the past by lying down. 】
"If the past is modified, what will happen to the replica?" Will the predetermined future also be modified? What will the players do?
[The difficulty of the dungeon will be adjusted accordingly, please rest assured! ]
After reading the panel, Xu Zhiyan sighed deeply after a while and made up his mind.
"I'm not angry, what's your name?"
He walked back to the cage, half-knelt and looked at the boy inside.
"Bai Jin, I will never open my eyes again, so don't be afraid of me." Bai Jin pleaded in the cage.
Xu Zhiyan reached his hand into the cage and gently touched the boy's dry hair. He tried to slow down his tone and said, "I'm not scared. Your eyes are very beautiful. I have never seen such beautiful eyes."
"Huh?" Bai Jin froze in place. He hadn't had physical contact with other people for a long time.
"Come, tell me about yourself first, and how much you know about this school for the blind." Xu Zhiyan withdrew his hand.
What better way to get information than to ask a local?
And according to the game system prompts, there are no game tasks here, so will there be fewer monsters? If they are all ordinary people, he thinks he still has a better chance of winning.
Bai Jin thought about it and started talking about himself first.
He has no memories of childhood.
The townspeople regarded this pair of invisible yet strange eyes as ominous.
Bai Jin was sold by his biological parents when he was young, and was sent to this blind school by his adoptive parents when he was ten years old.
Everything was normal at first. As long as he closed his eyes, he was no different from other people. He went to school and went home normally. He was neither outstanding nor abrupt. This was a school for the blind and everyone was the same as him. He was like a grain of sand.
Everything changed four years ago.
He opened his eyes during a physical examination, revealing his bright golden pupils. He found that although he could not see who was in front of him, he could sense that the other person was about to encounter a disaster.
The eleven-year-old boy saw color for the first time, a deep blood red color, so gorgeous that it was breathtaking.
He gave a kind reminder, but the school doctor didn't take it seriously.
Just a few hours after the physical examination, the school doctor encountered a gangster on the road and was accidentally killed.
At that time, he didn't understand what the use of his abilities was, and perhaps he still doesn't understand it now.
An investigation ensued, and soon the news reached the principal's ears.
"They let me see a lot of people, and I gradually understood how to use this power."
"But I couldn't see all the time, so they gave me some food. It was strange that as long as I ate that food, I could see again."
"But the food tasted terrible, disgusting and raw, I didn't want to eat it."
"Later, I saw more of the 'future'."
The blind school holds a ceremony every three months.
Some people asked him to predict life and death, some asked him to guess the direction of his fortune, some asked him to look at future city planning, and some asked him to see when other people would die...
His abilities became a cash cow for the principal, and countless dignitaries flocked to him.
The overall scale of the school for the blind has increased several times in just a few years, from just two small dilapidated buildings to a complex of tall buildings.
Xu Zhiyan listened with a blank expression and did not make any comments.
He stood up and said calmly: "I will take you out, but you may have to leave this city by yourself."
The life experience of the young Bai Jin was indeed miserable. The power that did not belong to human not only failed to make his life smoother, but instead brought him a catastrophe.
His current simple and seemingly imperfect personality should be due to these reasons. Although he is fifteen years old, his mental and physical development seem to have stopped four years ago.
Just a little gentle gesture of goodwill will make them completely dependent on each other, and even offer help and see what they are looking for.
But Xu Zhiyan knew clearly that he was now in the game.
He also had to go back to the 'right time'.
The best way is to send the person out, and it would be even better if you can get some money.
After comforting Bai Jin, Xu Zhiyan touched the back of his right hand. The ghost's hand bones were much larger than his own and wrapped around his fingertips.
The abrupt half-embedded bone felt a bit rough to the touch and was extremely hard.
Although the ghost god once said that this hand bone could be used to resist in dangerous moments, Xu Zhiyan thought of the game live broadcast and did not dare to use it rashly for fear of exposing too much information about himself.
Now that there is a safe house, if you can enter it, you can use the safe house as an excuse to display your right hand as an extra gain.
Bones are hot, and the safe house is nearby.
Following the direction pointed by Bai Jin, Xu Zhiyan came to the floor at the end of the secret room and found a secret door.
After he struggled to pull away the floor tiles, a ladder appeared at the entrance.
I climbed down the ladder into the room, where a warm light came on and the safe house system appeared at the same time.
[Congratulations on finding the dungeon safe house (past tense)]
"Past tense?"
[That's right! Because the safe house can only accommodate players, now is not the right time, and there are no other players except you! It's a bit useless! ]
As if afraid that the host would be sad, the safe house system added some more information.
[However, the search progress has reached 50%. Although it cannot be fully released for use, the host can temporarily use this place as a shelter and warehouse to avoid being chased by monsters.]
Xu Zhiyan looked at the nesting doll secret room which was probably only a few square meters, and couldn't help but miss the two-story building of his old house.
They are all safe houses, why is there such a big difference!
“Will the safe house be moved?”
If he doesn't move, he can find a safe house immediately when he returns to real time, which is not a loss, right?
[Of course, the safe house is usually located around the most dangerous location in the current instance.]
"Danger? That poor little thing outside?"
Xu Zhiyan found it a little funny.
If he didn't have a conscience, he could have just killed the unlucky guy outside. How could this be considered dangerous?
[…In addition, players can choose whether to exchange this 50% of safe house progress for skills.]
Perhaps the safe house system did not find any danger here, so it quickly changed the subject to avoid being questioned on its judgement by the host!
Hearing this, Xu Zhiyan finally perked up a little.
If he gives up using the past safe house, then this safe house can be exchanged for a skill.
This place was remote and small, and there were no other players to collect protection fees from. After making sure that it would be difficult for him to run here if he encountered danger, Xu Zhiyan chose to exchange it for a skill without thinking.
[Skill name: Absolute safety time (primary)]
【Consumption: None】
[Skill details: When the player uses the absolute safety time, the current space will exist as a safe house, forming an absolute safety zone, with a time limit of 1 minute.]
[Note: This skill is a special skill. Each copy can only be used once and cannot be copied or traded.]
Equivalent to one minute of invincibility.
After closing the skill panel, Xu Zhiyan finally felt relieved.
What is the difference between a safe house that cannot collect protection fees from players and barbecued pork?
He was still looking forward to the safe house at the right time.
It was already past midnight. In order to rescue Bai Jin and to prevent himself from being strangled to death in the future, Xu Zhiyan needed to go out and find the key.
He took out two more packs of biscuits and gave them to Bai Jin, and made an appointment with him to come again tomorrow night.
Before leaving, Bai Jin reached out and grabbed Xu Zhiyan's trouser leg again, raised his head and asked, "You can see, right?"
"Um."
"This school is for the blind. I've occasionally heard the principal say that he has to leave work immediately after the time is up. Normal people can't stay here."
"Okay, I'll pay attention."
When they came out of the passage, the difference in style between inside and outside was so huge that Xu Zhiyan almost thought he had traveled through space again.
After closing the door of the secret room, he looked at the crowded principal's office and began to search.
School celebrations, sports meets, organizing activities for students...
Most of the documents placed here are normal. Some things related to the school's gray transactions are not placed here. The rest are the principal's personal letters.
There is no key that fits the cage.
What was found were spare keys from other departments in the building, all covered with room labels.
I don't think the principal would put such an important thing in his office.
Moreover, Bai Jin said that apart from the ceremony, he had never been released, so it was not certain whether the key was in the principal's possession. It was very likely that someone else was controlling this matter.
Among a pile of messy and expired documents, Xu Zhiyan found several recruitment notices.
But unfortunately the time stated above was last month and the vacancy has already been filled. Xu Zhiyan felt a little surprised when he saw the recruitment requirements above.
"Only recruiting disabled people? Blind people first?"
Whether it is school workers or teachers, the recruitment requirement of this private blind school is to only recruit people with disabilities.
"I have to find a new identity."
He put down the recruitment notice in his hand, frowned and thought. There were still three days left before the ceremony held every three months, so he had to hurry.
However, even as he was thinking, Xu Zhiyan did not stop his actions.
The principal's personal letters were scattered all over the table. Anyway, this school doesn't even have a phone, so there is definitely no surveillance.
Finally, he found useful information in the letter.
The writer of the letter was the principal's wife, and she had beautiful handwriting.
It turns out that the principal is not from this town.
He was transferred here from a faraway city three years ago. At first, his wife didn't understand why he came to such a remote place where there was no telephone, but the two of them had a good relationship and his wife supported him.
The further back in time one goes, the more one can see from the letters that the two had a very close relationship.
About a year ago, everything started to change.
The wife used the number given by the principal to buy a lottery ticket in a big city and won the jackpot. The family's conditions also changed dramatically and they became wealthy people in the local area. She thought her husband should go home and not stay outside all the time.
From then on, the conflicts between the two increased.
[Brother Lai, I don’t understand why you don’t come back. Now we have money. I have planned to buy a new house. We can live a better life. Why don’t you come home…]
[What contract did you sign when you joined the company? Even if we have to pay compensation, we have money now. It is unnecessary for you to suffer outside. I haven't seen you for several years. You don't even have a phone there. Why do you want to isolate yourself from outside information...]
For about half a year, the wife wrote letters to dissuade the principal from going back. Although Xu Zhiyan could not see the principal's reply, he knew by counting on his fingers that the principal had not chosen to go back.
The most recent argument was over a letter two weeks ago.
[Brother Lai, my family heard that you are the principal of Shiming Blind School. Everyone is very envious. This is the best blind school! So they want to ask me to send my distant cousin there. He is also blind. I have forgotten his name. It is not important. I know he is in his twenties and cannot be a student, but can we arrange a job as a school worker for him? We just hope that my cousin can have something to do...]
The incident started because the wife wanted to let her distant cousin work in a school for the blind, but looking at the wife's furious look in the following reply, I'm afraid the principal refused without even thinking about it.
That's right. After all, when it comes to monsters that can see the future, it's better if fewer people know about it.
But...
He already knew that, didn't he?
Xu Zhiyan curled up the corner of his mouth into a smile, sorted out the letters, took out new letter paper, and began to write new content on it.
[I'm sorry, Xiao Lai, we don't want to trouble you, but your cousin can't stay idle at home every day. We think it would be best for him to go to your place to study. We hope you can arrange a job for him, such as working in the cafeteria or being a school worker. Auntie knows that you are a kind person and have been engaged in blind education...]
Because he couldn't imitate his wife's handwriting very well, he chose to write a letter to the principal in the tone of the principal's wife's aunt.
He wrote several hundred words in a fluent manner, with solid arguments and convincing content.
After blowing the letter dry and putting it in his pocket, Xu Zhiyan tidied up his desk briefly and put away all the messy things.
He was going to knock on the door of the message room right now!
A truly sudden traveler would definitely not appear during the day. He would go to the message room to sleep for a night, and the next day everyone would know that the principal's brother-in-law had arrived!
Wouldn't it be easy to arrange an identity by then?
Before leaving, Xu Zhiyan seemed to have thought of something. He looked at his right hand which had taken off the gloves, and took out his cell phone which he had not seen for a long time. His eyes lit up.
【School for the Blind-01-Xu Zhiyan】
[A system failure has been detected and the live broadcast room is under repair! ]
The plan worked!
As expected, entering the safe house would block the live broadcast signal. In this way, the bones of the right hand reappeared in the live broadcast room, and the audience could fill in the blanks with their own imagination without exposing more of the identity.
Does he have an audience?
Thinking of this, Xu Zhiyan paused holding the phone, and awkwardly put the phone back into the system backpack.
If it's a newcomer, probably no one will watch it.
I don’t know if planning so many things is just to give myself extra drama.
Thinking this in his mind, he used the spare key to the principal's office that he found in the drawer, opened the locked door in front of him, and stepped out.
Little did he know that the moment he stepped out of the principal's office, the entire live broadcast room was successfully repaired.
【School for the Blind-01-Xu Zhiyan (Ten Years Ago)】
[Ding! Repair successful! This player used the prop incorrectly, causing himself to get stuck in the wrong time BUG. Other players please do not imitate! ]
The audience who had been waiting anxiously looked at the black screen that was being restored and quickly posted comments.
[Fuck! Awesome! How can you use the props incorrectly? ]
[…Amazing! I’ve been watching live broadcasts for so long, and I’ve seen people get stuck in different dimensions, and I’ve seen people get stuck in the boss’ lair, but I’ve never seen people get stuck back to ten years ago!]
[It's really a small knife pulling the butt, it's really eye-opening! ]
[Little Millionaire! Do you have any surprises that I don't know about? ]
After a few seconds, the screen lit up.
The noisy comments in the live broadcast room came to an abrupt end, with only a few scattered comments left, but the content changed from ridicule to shock.
【Grass! Grass! Grass! 】
【wocao! What kind of snake skin is this? 】
[Ahhh help me, this is mental pollution, my mental value is about to drop! ]
【Oxygen inhalation.gif】
[I think it's okay, but it makes me want to vomit. ]
However, compared to the viewing users who all took their mobile phones away.
After Xu Zhiyan walked out of the door, he froze in place.
The dark corridor looked nothing like it did in the evening.
A pungent stench slowly emerged from all directions, and there was a continuous rustling sound, as if some multi-legged creature was walking on the ceiling.
But Xu Zhiyan didn't have time to turn around to check, he didn't even dare to move.
In front of him, a tumor-like mass of blood vessels and muscles was connected to an eyeball as big as a human head. It was staring straight at him and blinking from time to time.
From the corner of my eye, I could see that the entire corridor was covered in rotten flesh, with countless eyeballs of all sizes embedded in it. It looked extremely weird under the moonlight, and it made my scalp tingle.
At this moment, all these eyes seemed to be attracted and looked over here.
It seemed like a long time, but in fact only a few seconds had passed.
Xu Zhiyan’s mind started to work rapidly.
No wonder the safe house is nearby!
It turns out that the danger does not come from Bai Jin in the cage, but from the monster outside!
The panel did not pop up, and the game was not opened at this point in time. In other words, these monsters were not created by the game system, but were already here?
He didn't have time to think about it. His right hand, covered with sharp white bones, clenched into a fist and then unclenched it.
Too many...
There are so many weird-shaped eyes!
Rather than saying this is a corridor, it would be more like a monster's lair. These eyeballs connected to nerve tissue are creepy. They remind him of the eye that blinked in formalin solution that he had seen in the school hospital!
Just as he was thinking about what means to use to attack, he heard the monsters' conversation.
"Human! Human!"
"This human has beautiful eyes~"
"Eat him! Eat him! Eat him!"
"He can see...he can see!"
"I saw his eyes moving! Eat him!"
Xu Zhiyan was startled and suddenly remembered what Bai Jin had said to him just now.
'This school is for the blind.'
'No normal person can stay here.'
Why did the principal leave immediately after dark, and didn't even bother to see if the students had eaten the food? It turned out that many monsters would appear in this school after dark.
The monsters' voices became louder and louder, and some blood vessels burst out from the flesh walls and crawled slowly.
Xu Zhiyan remained in the same position without moving, as if he didn't notice the blood vessels that were about to climb onto the back of his feet.
He raised his hand, his eyes paused, and then became even crazier.
"He can see! He can see!"
"Eat him quickly...eat him..."
"Let these beautiful eyes join us."
"he--"
The monsters' whispered discussions suddenly stopped.
Because the human in front of him was not going to attack, he was just... stretching.
"Hey? Where's my... my hearing aid?"
"That's weird, why is there a buzzing next to my ear?"
"What's that smell? It's so weird."
Xu Zhiyan wasn't sure whether he should hear it now, but to be on the safe side, he decided to pretend to be deaf and blind.
After blinking, he reached out his hand and felt around his head for a while, but found nothing. Then he slowly reached into his pocket and searched for a long time, but still found nothing.
The densely packed eyes in the corridor no longer dared to speak, all staring quietly at the human in front of them.
"Did you lose it in the office?"
Xu Zhiyan muttered to himself, not daring to move too much. He first took a half step back, holding onto the door frame, and then slowly retreated into the office.
It seems I will have to stay in the office until morning!
But just when he was about to close the door, several blood vessels climbed up the door of the principal's office and blocked it tightly.
Xu Zhiyan quietly pushed hard several times but failed to close the door. He could only watch those eyes follow him into the door.
He sighed heavily and cursed these monsters in his heart as disgusting, but he didn't dare to slow down and groped his way to the desk in the principal's office.
Fortunately, he had just turned the place upside down. Although he didn't get any useful supplies, he did find several hearing aids that were collected in the drawer as prizes!
Until he put on his hearing aid, the monsters outside did not relax their vigilance at all.
Seeing several crutches in the umbrella bucket at the door of the principal's office, Xu Zhiyan fumbled to pull out one as he passed by. After a few minutes, he finally locked the door and walked into the corridor again with his crutches.
I don't know what the attack mechanism of these monsters is.
But he clearly felt that after he had complained about the bad smell in the corridor, the smell was much less when he walked in again.
Even the rotten flesh that had just covered the ground seemed to have become less, as if leaving him a narrow passage that was only wide enough for one person to pass through.
"Da! Da! Da!"
Xu Zhiyan raised his crutch and knocked it on the ground, making loud noises. He didn't even look at the path left, but turned around and walked towards the window.
"Did the cleaner close the window? The smell in this corridor is too strong!"
He seemed very dissatisfied with the peculiar smell in the corridor. He explored his way to the window, threw his crutch into the corner, and reached out to touch the window without paying any attention to the pile of rotten flesh and fascia in the corner.
Poor eyeball monsters in the corner, they had no time to react and were hit in the face by the crutch.
But they did not resist, but quickly dispersed.
When Xu Zhiyan went to grab the crutch again, the corner had already been cleaned up and returned to its daytime appearance!
Seeing that the monster really would not attack and would even retreat on its own initiative, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Next, Xu Zhiyan imitated a blind man, assuming that he could not see the road covered with rotten flesh in front of him, and walked along with his crutches.
And wherever he went, the monsters retreated.
In the live broadcast room, the barrage became cheerful again after a brief period of rapid drop in sanity.
[Xiao Baiwan turned into a deaf and blind man! Is this the decline of morality or the decline of humanity? ]
[Hahahaha, don’t tell me, he really looks good in pretending! ]
[These people's eyes are all dumbfounded, it makes me laugh to death. 】
[Damn, why did you guys recover so quickly? I feel like vomiting! ]
[Are you a newbie, aren't you? You haven't seen this kind of storm before? You're not as quick as Xiao Baiwan in reacting! ]
[hhh Do you think Xiao Baiwan is not afraid? Look carefully, his calves are twitching! ]
【Hahahahaha it’s true! 】
[Xu Dadan, you also have come to this day! Hahahaha, I thought he was not afraid of anything! ]
After a round of barrage, Xu Zhiyan went down to the third floor.
There are just as many monsters here as upstairs.
In some places, you can even see white and yellow stuff, not sure if it's fat or brain matter piled up, rising and falling, and oozing out some brown liquid from time to time.
This scene was really disgusting. Even though Xu Zhiyan boasted that he had a strong psychological endurance, he couldn't stand watching it for so long. He had to pretend that he didn't see it and kept walking in a straight line!
Fortunately, the administrative building did not have an outside lock ten years ago, and the key he got from the principal's office could be opened from the inside.
When Xu Zhiyan finally left the administrative building and stood at the gate, bathing in the dim moonlight, his entire back was soaked and his legs were so weak that he could hardly stand.
The monsters behind him did not chase out and were trapped inside the door.
He wanted to run away, but the door was not locked yet, so he could only take a deep breath of fresh air and then turn back to lock the door.
But just as he was locking the door, an accident happened!
A thin vein of blood came out of the door and took the key from his hand.
Xu Zhiyan subconsciously reached out to grab the key, but before he could get it, the glass door in front of him was covered with eyes in the next second!
Eyes of all sizes seemed unwilling to give up and stared at him intently.
"...Huh?" Xu Zhiyan was startled, and fiddled with the key in the air a few more times, pretending that the key was hung somewhere.
"Where's the key? How come it's gone all of a sudden... That's so strange."
He gritted his teeth and continued to act with this group of eyeballs.
"Bang--"
The key was thrown on the ground, about a few steps away from where Xu Zhiyan was.
Instead of walking over to pick up the key, he squatted on the ground and moved inch by inch towards the source of the sound.
The eyeballs inside the door also squeezed together with his movements. Some of them were squeezed to pieces because they were too small, and some disgusting mucus flowed out and stuck on the door.
Xu Zhiyan, who picked up the key, didn't even glance at the creature in the door. He picked up the key and locked the door quickly and accurately, leaving only his back.
Quickly left the administrative building in the moonlight.
Xu Zhiyan walked a long way before he finally leaned against the flower bed to rest, feeling as if all his strength had been drained out.
So disgusting!
These monsters are so disgusting!
When he recovered, he put his hearing aid in his pocket, hid his walking stick in the flower bed, and looked towards the message room where the light was still on.
…
The next day, early in the morning.
As soon as Principal Wang Lai arrived at the school, he saw a lot of people gathered at the school gate, chattering non-stop.
Before he squeezed in, his heart skipped a beat just by listening to what everyone was saying.
"So he's the principal's brother-in-law! I didn't expect he's so good-looking!"
"That's right. The principal didn't even greet us in advance."
"Why are you going to stay in the message room for a night..."
Wang Lai pushed through the crowd and walked in. He saw a young man with a delicate face wearing a thin white shirt, standing there at a loss, looking very nervous, with a crumpled letter in his hand.
No matter what the people around him said, he just lowered his head and smiled. He looked gentle and harmless, but his eyes were lifeless, and it was obvious that he was blind.
When everyone saw him coming, they all started talking.
Soon, Wang Lai understood the whole story.
It turned out to be the cousin of his wife whom he had rejected before. He didn't expect that this person would come on his own! How abominable...
But there are so many people in front of him. If he drives them away immediately, the news will spread throughout the town the next day!
"Brother-in-law, don't be too embarrassed. I just want to help you." Xu Zhiyan saw Wang Lai's embarrassment and spoke to the aunts and grandmas beside him. Anyway, he is blind now, so it doesn't matter who he talks to.
"If you think there is no job for me in school, you can let me be a volunteer..." As he said this, he scratched his hair, looking embarrassed to speak.
"I, I lost my luggage when I came here, and now I have nothing on me. I can work, just give me a meal, I eat very little..."
Without waiting for Wang Lai to respond, the people watching on the side felt sympathetic and said that if he didn't have to work in school, they had some simple jobs at home that they could give to him, and if that didn't work, they could help with some travel expenses.
Wang Lai was too embarrassed to say this in front of him. Seeing that the blind young man in front of him looked like an honest man, he reluctantly said that he could be a janitor and do some odd jobs in the school for the blind.
After saying goodbye to the aunties and grandmas passing by the school gate, Xu Zhiyan took out the branches that the security guard had picked up for him, followed Wang Lai, and entered the campus as a formal worker.
This remote town seemed to be hiding something. Although its infrastructure was quite good, there was no telephone service. It seemed as if the people here were deliberately isolating themselves from the outside world.
He asked the doorman and found out that letters were sent and received every other week.
The last angry letter from the principal’s wife was sent two days ago, which means that there were still twelve days between the time Wang Lai sent the letter and the time his wife sent it back.
Twelve days... If calculated based on the future time copy, the dormitory game would take at most sixteen days to play. When he arrived, it was the second day of the dormitory game. Even if it was further back, there would definitely be new tasks in two weeks.
We still have to hurry up.
Wang Lai didn't like Xu Zhiyan, the brother-in-law who appeared out of nowhere. He threw him to the relevant department and left without even looking at him.
This was exactly what Xu Zhiyan wanted.
He spent the entire morning in the personnel department and processed all the necessary documents.
Before leaving at noon, Xu Zhiyan went to the finance office, put on a nonchalant smile, and spoke to the two middle-aged staff members.
"Well, I want to know, when will the salary be paid here? You know... I lost my luggage on the way here." He pretended to be embarrassed and lowered his head, wondering how many months of salary overdraft he could get from this place.
"I don't want to borrow money from my brother-in-law. I know he won't ask me to pay it back if I do." No way, the principal would rather he gets out of here and probably won't lend him any money.
"But I want to be self-reliant. Can I get some salary in advance?"
Anyway, it's either going back or dying, there's no way he can work here for a few months. It would be a waste if he gets the salary now.
The teachers in charge of handling salaries looked at each other. They knew that the principal's relative had joined the company, but they didn't expect that he was so ambitious even though he was so poor.
A few minutes later, Xu Zhiyan came out of the principal's office holding a thick envelope containing more than three thousand yuan.
The live broadcast barrage called it shameless.
[666666! This is not as good as the pocket money before! ]
[How did he get this kind of personality? I’m impressed]
【Wild Goose Plucks Feathers 2333】
[Hahahaha awesome! By the time the principal realized what was happening, he was gone!]
Until school was over, Xu Zhiyan didn't see his unlucky brother-in-law.
The other party had something to hide and was deliberately avoiding him.
But he didn't care at all. After going to a familiar store to make some purchases in the afternoon, he slept soundly at his assigned workstation. No one came to call him to work.
When the sun set and the entire campus fell into darkness and silence again, Xu Zhiyan took out his walking stick from the flower bed, put on the sunglasses he had just bought today, carried a bag of snacks and drinks, and entered the administrative building again.
It went smoothly when we got in, and it seemed that it was not time for those eyeball monsters to come out yet.
But the live broadcast room was quite miserable.
As soon as Xu Zhiyan entered the principal's office, the live broadcast here was immediately disconnected.
The principal's office was still the principal's office. Xu Zhiyan opened the secret room, but before he could walk over, Bai Jin, who could recognize his footsteps, heard him.
When he turned in, he saw the boy in the cage staring at him with wide eyes. His eyes were lifeless, but his voice was full of energy.
“You’re here!”
"Well, here I come."
After a brief greeting, Xu Zhiyan took out a small jar from behind, poured all the eyeball soup sent by the principal into it, and then opened some snacks and milk and put them into the cage.
Looking at Bai Jin, who was startled and lively while eating snacks, his eyes darkened.
I was shocked by the situation in the secret room yesterday and overlooked a lot of details.
But after Xu Zhiyan encountered the monster at the door, he thought of Bai Jin's appearance and began to doubt whether the other party was human...
Assuming that the other party has been imprisoned in there for the past few years as he said and has never gone out, then why is there not a trace of dirt in this cage even though the space is narrow?
It's so clean here.
Even the smell in the secret room was just that of blood and decay, which was not the smell of a living person.
Moreover, Bai Jin, ten years later...
Controlling the black shadow to attack and easily cutting off Yao Xianxian's arm was no longer something that the weak boy in front of him could do!
Those eyes were bright and full of emotions, somewhat different from the little blind boy Bai Jin now.
Just when Xu Zhiyan's mind was in a mess, he suddenly felt his arm poked. It turned out that Bai Jin suddenly handed him the milk carton.
"You, do you want to try it too? It's really delicious!"
There was a hint of anticipation in the boy's voice.
Looking at Bai Jin's bright but lifeless eyes, Xu Zhiyan suddenly laughed, pushed the food back, and said, "Just drink it."
After that, whenever Bai Jin ate something delicious, he would take some out of the cage. Xu Zhiyan would taste some but not others. He would quietly watch the boy inside eat and drink his fill, and a smile would appear on his face.
Before leaving, Bai Jin listened to Xu Zhiyan dealing with the garbage, and the disappointment in his tone almost overflowed.
"Will you come tomorrow?"
"Come."
"...Will you really take me out?"
This question left Xu Zhiyan silent for a long time.
Only after he had put away all the garbage did he turn to the cage, reach in and pat Bai Jin's hair.
"I'm sorry, I may have given up on you once."
Looking at Bai Jin’s confused expression, Xu Zhiyan withdrew his hand.
If he guessed correctly.
If the past could really change the future.
Then the blind school he entered was the copy that was created after he gave up Bai Jin.
However, the residents of the town were not as normal as they are now. Instead, they all seemed to have some serious illness. Eyeless monsters roamed the streets, and the eerie campus was filled with death.
He didn't know what happened to him at that time that made him make this choice.
Xu Zhiyan just looked at Bai Jin and gave his assurance again.
"Not this time."
"I'll take you away."
He will do his best.
Never break your promise.
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