Chapter 109 24-Hour Teacher (12)
"Dad, why do you insist on saving those students who have already died?" Bai Jin didn't understand.
Bai Ye bluntly stated, "Of course it's for making money!"
"What?"
"We need to collect the death energy to exchange for it with the shop owner, but we also can't give up on helping them. These two things don't conflict; it's just that the process is a bit more troublesome, right?"
He had great faith in Bai Jin's abilities; he believed that handling both matters simultaneously should be feasible.
Seeing that Bai Jin's eyes were not quite right, Bai Ye quickly explained, "There's nothing I can do. Before, when I was the only one eating, I didn't care much about how much I earned. But now that I have you, I have to shoulder the responsibility as a father."
Bai Ye didn't understand the phrase "a mother's strength" that was often mentioned online before.
I feel like this exaggerates the power of human willpower. How can having a child change someone so much?
But during the few days that Bai Jin was by his side, he spent his free time thinking about how to raise a child.
The daughter is not like ordinary people; raising a strange person and wanting to take them out is extremely difficult.
The first problem is that I'm not earning enough money!
She only started raising her daughter halfway through life, and hasn't even experienced the hardships of childbirth, yet she's already so worried—that's completely out of character. What about those mothers who need to consider their children from the very beginning of pregnancy…?
"My mother is truly amazing," Bai Ye exclaimed with emotion. "Thank you, Mother, for giving me life and raising me."
Bai Ye suddenly went crazy, which Bai Jin didn't understand at all, but her father said he would earn money to take her away, which warmed her little heart.
Although I don't know what the human world is like, and I don't know how much money I need to save to leave with my dad, I'm so glad that my dad won't abandon me!
"Dad, I'll help you make money." Bai Jin put her little hand into the big hand.
Bai Ye held her daughter's hand; it was icy cold, completely different from the hands of a human child.
But he didn't care at all, and patted the other person's head, saying, "Making money is something adults should worry about. You just need to help me out."
The father and daughter entered the Jinyao Building and, as Bai Jin instructed, went up the stairs to the eighteenth floor.
"Why don't we take the elevator? I don't think it's broken." Bai Ye asked as he climbed, glancing back occasionally. He still had a bit of a phobia about stairs.
Bai Jin said, "Dad, the elevator is a shortcut. Even if it goes straight to the eighteenth floor, it's useless. What we need to find is the source of the death energy."
"Oh? What do you mean?"
"Even if it's bizarre, death has a reason, especially since you're currently in the school instance, well, humans are called instances, right?"
Bai Ye nodded, and Bai Jin continued, "Yes, the dungeon has a specific scope, so the students who died in the school, these strange deaths, were definitely not killed by strong people or human players. Their deaths must be related to the school or their families."
Bai Ye nodded. "Like Li Xiaoman and He Baixuan, if we hadn't been able to rescue them, their deaths would have been caused by family issues, right?"
"Yes, Dad is so smart," Bai Jin praised with a smile.
Bai Ye was immediately embarrassed. How did she end up praising him? But if his daughter thought he was smart, then he must be very strong.
Suddenly, my blood rushed to my head, and I was full of energy.
"Little Bai, Daddy will hold your hand, so you don't have to be afraid to walk up the stairs at night."
The two walked and talked, and when they reached the twelfth floor, Bai Jin suddenly stopped.
"A discovery?" Bai Ye asked softly.
Bai Jin squatted on the ground, looked at it for a while, and then gently brushed her fingers across it, instantly creating mottled spots on the clean ground.
Bai Ye also squatted down and looked around, but couldn't find what it was.
"It's bloodstains, strange bloodstains. It's normal that Dad can't understand them."
"An Wenyuan's?" Bai Ye immediately thought.
Bai Jin hummed in agreement. "I could smell that it was his. Actually, there were small amounts of bloodstains starting from the fifth floor, but the amount of bloodstains increased on the twelfth floor."
Bai Jin looked up and saw, "The blood kept rising, and it looked like there was a lot of it."
Bai Ye's heart sank. What exactly happened to this student? Why was there so much blood left in the Jin Yao Building?
"Has a murder occurred?"
"I don't know, Dad, let's go up and take a look."
Bai Ye held Bai Jin's hand and walked ahead.
Although he knew his daughter was a second-highest level of supernatural being with explosive combat power, he still subconsciously felt that his daughter was still young.
Bai Jin's hand was held tightly. At first, she wanted to shake it off, feeling that it was inconvenient to do things this way. But Bai Ye's words, "Dad is protecting you from the front," made her feel at ease enjoying this special treatment.
"My dad is afraid I'm in danger. Are all human fathers like this? Even if their children are very strong, they will still protect them."
"My dad likes me."
Bai Jin felt this love clearly once again, and her heart was filled with joy.
She was initially unhappy about the possibility of spending money to help the deceased student, but if her father continued to show that he loved her the most, then it wasn't impossible.
Anyway, these strangers are just passing through.
At the top of the eighteenth floor, Bai Jin spoke up: "Dad, the bloodstains disappear here."
"Um?"
Bai Ye stopped and looked up at the stairs. "So An Wenyuan only made it to the eighteenth floor. He was too exhausted and collapsed."
"No, the bloodstains are here; they've completely disappeared."
"What's the meaning?"
Bai Jin was also puzzled. Why did they disappear? It shouldn't be like this!
“Let’s go up to the 18th floor and take a look. There’s no one in the building at night. An Wenyuan said he lives here. If we go in, we might run into him.”
With Bai Jin as his cheat device, Bai Ye could move freely through the entire 18th floor as if it were empty.
But after looking around, they couldn't find An Wenyuan anywhere.
The deathly aura, however, permeated the entire eighteenth floor, faint and unable to gather.
"Xiao Bai, what's going on?" Bai Ye frowned. "Shouldn't death energy only gather around the dead? Why is it spreading across the entire floor? It can't be that An Wenyuan covered the whole floor, can it?"
"That's possible."
"What?"
"Dad, have you ever heard of being buried alive?"
Bai Ye's heart skipped a beat, and the hairs on the back of his neck stood on end.
He had a very bad feeling.
Just as she was about to stop her daughter from speaking, Bai Jin spoke first, "Being buried alive results in a death filled with resentment before death, and the death energy will continue to spread. If the resentment is very strong, the death energy can even spread to an entire building, or even a village."
“An Wenyuan, he…”
"He was buried alive, on the eighteenth floor."
Many fragments of memories flashed through Bai Ye's mind; they were the memories of this body's original three years.
The Jinyao Building was built three years ago. Due to its advantageous location, companies moved in quickly after its completion, making it a very lively place.
The new building was completed a year ago, and every floor is now packed with all sorts of companies, which has even led to the construction of a subway line nearby.
The only time they could be buried alive was during construction.
Bai Ye recalled a distant "past event." In her memory, it was raining heavily that day, and An Wenyuan arrived at school later than usual.
The second period was math class. Halfway through the lesson, a student stood at the classroom door, soaking wet, with scratches on his face and water dripping from his hair.
An Wenyuan claimed that he was late because he was taking care of his grandmother and tripped and fell on the way.
He didn't think much of it at the time and told the student to go to his office to change his clothes and wash his hair.
He got the new school uniform from the administration office; he paid for it privately.
"So on that day, An Wenyuan was very likely..."
"Yes, he should be dead."
"Is it bullying?" Bai Ye felt a tightness in her chest, and for the first time, she sighed at how difficult it was for a child to live.
But Bai Jin shook her head, "It's not bullying."
"What was that? Could it be that he deliberately went to his death?" Bai Ye couldn't think of any possibility other than bullying.
Bai Jin had already begun to grab the death energy with his bare hands, saying as he did so, "Dad, I don't know either, but once I catch An Wenyuan, we'll ask him directly."
"Didn't you say he was about to break up?"
"Yes, so I need to hurry. If it gets light, he'll be gone."
"Xiaobai, can I help you?" Bai Ye watched his child running around on the eighteenth floor and suddenly felt useless as a father.
Damn it! Making a child do hard labor.
Bai Jin shook her head, wanting to say "no need," but quickly remembered something and said with a smile, "Daddy, use the props, the doll will put on the clothes you gave me."
"That Lolita dress?"
"No, it's a silk cheongsam, the doll's favorite. It will open your eyes."
Bai Ye experienced the special effects of Lolita, which is probably what it means to see through appearances to the essence.
Moreover, since the user remains unchanged, this prop is actually very useful.
"Use the prop, a silk cheongsam." Bai Ye made her choice without hesitation.
I thought it would be the same as last time, but when I opened my eyes, the sky had fallen.
He actually wore a silk cheongsam, and it was very form-fitting, completely custom-made to his own measurements.
"I... this... Xiaobai!"
Bai Jin turned around and looked at it, her smile becoming even sweeter. "The baby said it looks good, and I think so too."
"Xiao Bai, did you already know?"
"Dad, hurry up and get to work, I'm so tired by myself," Bai Jin complained at the opportune moment.
Bai Ye originally wanted to give her a few words of advice, but upon hearing her daughter say she was tired, she immediately threw herself into her work.
Each person was responsible for one side, and they worked until dawn, finally managing to gather all the deathly energy that had dissipated throughout the entire floor together.
Bai Jin kneaded and flattened the death energy, rolled it into a ball, and it eventually transformed into a human shape.
An Wenyuan gradually focused his gaze from the transparent area and was somewhat surprised to see the two people in front of him.
"Zhang Xiao, Teacher Bai."
"Dad, hurry up and ask, there's not much time left."
An Wenyuan was still wondering why Zhang Xiao called Teacher Bai "Dad" when Bai Ye spoke up, "An Wenyuan, are you really willing to die like this? I remember you always studied very hard. Didn't you say you wanted to get into university on your application form when school started?"
An Wenyuan turned his head and looked at Bai Ye with a desolate look in his eyes.
"It's no use. He's already dead, sealed away, and can never leave."
"What seal? An Wenyuan, don't be afraid, your teacher is here, I will definitely find a way to help you."
"What can we do? That person is already locked up, what else can we do?"
Lock them in?
Bai Ye wondered, who locked her up, and who locked her up...?
"It's your father!" Bai Ye exclaimed in surprise.
“He lost money gambling and owes high-interest loans. The construction site is not safe, and they need to seal away evil spirits. My birth date and time match the description.”
An Wenyuan didn't say anything more, but the truth had already come out.
An Wenyuan's gambling-addicted father was willing to sell his son's life to pay off his high-interest loans.
"How could he do this? Is he even human?!" Bai Ye's face was extremely ugly. "How dare he, such scum!"
"He dared to do that! He brought me here himself and watched those people take me away. The cement was so cold, I couldn't breathe..."
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