55 Taboo 16 || The Truth
"But! He doesn't care about me. I can't accept it. Why? Why does he treat others like that but never even look at me?"
"So in order to please him, you went to find Liu Nian," Jing Ning said.
"Yes, Liu Nian is pretty and has a good personality. She also considers me a good friend. Most importantly, she also likes Teacher Zhang. So I just pushed her over. It's funny to think about how she thanked me back then." Gao Yan chuckled, "I thought he would change his mind about me..."
"But you underestimated your possessiveness. When you found out that Zhang Bin really liked Liu Nian and still ignored you, you wanted to destroy her and make her isolated in school." There was no warmth in Jing Ning's eyes and his tone was calm.
"I didn't. I didn't want to ruin Teacher Zhang Bin's reputation because of her," Gao Yan argued. "She was accidentally seen by others. I didn't expect it to turn out like this. Not long after, she died in her dormitory."
"Zhang Bin killed her." Yan Shuang said.
Gao Yan suddenly raised her head and cold sweat began to appear on her forehead.
"I happened to be feeling unwell that day and had taken a leave to rest in the dormitory. Not long after I lay down, the dormitory door opened. It was Liu Nian running back crying. I was sleeping on the upper bunk, and she didn't notice me. Not long after, the door opened again. I thought she had gone out, and just as I was about to draw the bed curtain, I heard Teacher Zhang Bin's voice. At first, they were just arguing, but later there were sounds of fighting and Liu Nian's screams."
"It was the first time I saw Teacher Zhang like that. He was completely different from the gentle and kind person he usually was. I was so scared that I hid in bed and didn't dare to make a sound. Liu Nian's screams became weaker and weaker until they stopped, and then Teacher Zhang left," said Gao Yan.
"Didn't you get out of bed to check on her after he left?" Tian Yiyi was furious after hearing Gao Yan's words. "Didn't you ever consider that she was still breathing?"
"I'm afraid he'll come back again. I'm afraid I'll go to jail. I was the one who asked her to go find Zhang Bin. I'm afraid..." Gao Yan finally started to cry, but suddenly she stopped and stared at Tian Yiyi. "No, no, how could she blame me? She liked Teacher Zhang herself. I was helping her. She wouldn't come looking for me."
If Gao Yan had gotten out of bed in time to check on Liu Nian, perhaps Liu Nian wouldn't have died. Betrayed by his own friends, isolated by the entire school, beaten to death by his beloved teacher, all because of a little love he initially had for her.
Gao Yan wanted to grab Tian Yiyi's arm, as if she would have a support if she could do so.
Tian Yiyi frowned tightly and took two steps back.
Gao Yan missed and fell to the ground, crying loudly.
Jing Ning lifted her up from the ground and asked the most important question, "How did the missing people die?"
Since they were all victims, there was no reason for Liu Nian to kill people like himself, so there was only one possibility, that Zhang Bin killed them and then blamed Liu Nian.
Gao Yan was mentally unstable at this time. She started screaming wildly, and her screams echoed throughout the corridor.
Strangely, no one in the classroom paid attention to this side, as if Gao Yan's voice did not exist.
"They, they are all murderers," Gao Yan said excitedly. "In order to prevent Liu Nian's ghost from leaving the dormitory, they found a Taoist priest. The Taoist priest said that if they buried a living person under each building, they could suppress Liu Nian."
"This is simply insane!" Yan Shuang clenched her fists tightly, unable to suppress the anger in her heart. "A prestigious school, for the sake of reputation, buried people alive down there."
"They?" Lin Haichen's face was extremely ugly.
"Are these the ones?" Jing Ning took out a photo of teachers that was previously placed on Zhang Bin's office desk from his clothes.
"Yes." After the excitement subsided, Gao Yan said with a hollow look in her eyes. "After Liu Nian died, I was afraid I'd be implicated, so I wanted to go to the office and secretly take out the love letter. I didn't expect to hear Wu Huimin asking Teacher Zhang to continue to send a few girls under the pretext of tutoring. I was so scared, I wanted to run away from school, but the school did such a good job of putting on a good front that none of the parents knew about these things. They just wanted me to be obedient in school."
Liu Nian hates everything about the school, and she hates the teachers even more, who trapped her in a small dormitory and prevented her from going out. She wants to make everyone who breaks the rules die in pain just like she did.
The bell rang again. There were only a few minutes left before the next exam. The few people ignored it and took Gao Yan to the playground.
Yan Shuang went to the warehouse of the laboratory building to find a few shovels and started digging at the location pointed by Gao Yan.
Several people took turns digging, and soon they dug a pit more than two meters deep.
"I dug it up." As soon as Yan Shuang dug the shovel down, he felt resistance. He pushed hard and a white bone was revealed.
Although the sun was shining brightly, Gao Yan felt cold all over and kept shivering.
Lin Haichen took the shovel and gently scraped away the dirt from the bones. He examined them and said, "The flesh has decayed, and there are no scars on the bones. It looks like they died from lack of oxygen while buried there."
Jing Ning jumped to the bottom of the pit and said, "Lift it up first."
The four men carefully carried the body to the ground. The person who had been missing for two years finally saw the light of day again.
They repeated the digging process under each building until dark, when they finally dug out all five bodies.
"What should we do now?" Ye Jing'an wiped the sweat from his forehead. He had been a little scared at first, but now he was numb. He was so tired that he lay side by side with the corpses and asked, "It's dark now."
"None of us took the exam today, so we've already violated the rules." Zhang Fan, wearing high heels, hadn't asked her to dig, but her feet were starting to ache after standing in the sun all day. "If we don't find the door tonight, we'll all die."
Yan Shuang saw Gao Yan squatting in a corner, shivering and keeping the same posture. She didn't know whether she was afraid or feeling guilty.
The body had been dug out, and Liu Nian would not be trapped in the dormitory. Last night, Liu Nian asked Yan Shuang to bring Zhang Bin to him, but he couldn't do it. But now he can go find him in person.
"Don't come over here! Go away! Don't come over here!!! I didn't kill you, why are you coming to me!" Gao Yan screamed madly, making a miserable cry, her expression almost distorted with fear, "Liu Nian, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, please forgive me, help me——"
Not far away, Liu Nian, wearing a white dress, stood there, tilting her head and grinning at the frightened Gao Yan.
She pinched Gao Yan's neck with her hands. Gao Yan opened her mouth because of difficulty breathing, "Ahhhh!!!" intermittent screams rang out again.
"Sizzle——" Liu Nian used his other hand to exert force and pulled Gao Yan's tongue off.
Blood gushed out. Gao Yan could no longer make any sound because she had no tongue. She could only helplessly open her mouth. The pain instantly hit her, and she fell to the ground twitching in agony.
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