Chapter 899: Start of Cla.s.s
Since Xiong YaoYue had just spoken to me on the phone in the morning, the Seven Heroes of Dong Shan thought that she had the best relationship with me and released her to explain their conditions to the police.
“I think it’s better if I stay and you let Gong CaiCai go.” Xiong YaoYue pointed at Gong CaiCai, who had been petrified at her seat for a long time, repeating the words ‘air cushion…’ over and over again.
Lolicon No. 3 refused, “This milk cow can’t even speak properly anymore. If we tell her to talk to the police, what if she gets the conditions wrong? But you could let her leave together with you…”
Lolicon No. 3, who likes small b.r.e.a.s.t.s, still wanted to get rid of Gong CaiCai, the cla.s.s leader, and Xiong YaoYue from among the hostages.
“There are nine hostages in total. If we let one go, then there will be eight left.” White suit calculated, “If we let one more go, then there will be seven criminals and seven hostages, it sounds pretty good.”
White suit had no qualms about calling himself a criminal.
“That’s right, we should let one more go.” The cla.s.s leader also added. Although she hoped that they would let all the hostages go, that would obviously be unrealistic. If the number of criminals and hostages both became seven, it would at least rea.s.sure the cla.s.s leader’s OCD.
Sideburns wanted to let Mu ZhongMing go, because when he saw Mu ZhongMing sweeping the floor so calmly, he couldn’t concentrate and wanted to put down the butcher’s knife even though he wasn’t holding a butcher’s knife.
Xiao Li wanted to let Sun Yu go because he suffered from intermittent facial recognition impairment and suddenly said that Sun Yu was his pet dog ‘Cerberus’ and he needed to let Sun Yu go to watch his home.
Lolicon No. 3 wanted to let Gong CaiCai go as always. If white suit didn’t set a limit, then he would have also wanted to let the cla.s.s leader go too. It was because seeing a beautiful girl’s developed b.r.e.a.s.t.s makes him very sad.
In the end, of course, it was decided by the usual game of Morra. ‘Thousand-Hand King Kong’ Xiao Li won, so Sun Yu, who had bruises and a swollen face was released together with Xiong YaoYue.
“Make sure to take good care of our home.” Xiao Li shouted from behind to Sun Yu, “If a stranger named Hercules comes to our home, don’t open the door for him.”
The police did not take advantage of the moment they opened the door to release the hostages to rush in and subdue the criminals because the gas tank was a real threat. Xiao Li also brandished a fruit knife in front of the hostages, which also prevented the police from acting rashly.
After Xiong YaoYue and Sun Yu were released, there were still seven hostages in the cla.s.sroom, including the cla.s.s leader, Teacher Yu, Xiao Qin, Gong CaiCai, Loud Mouth, Little Smart, and Mu ZhongMing.
Xiong YaoYue met Officer Ma outside the building. She told the police about the conditions proposed by the mental patients and called me on the phone to explain the whole situation.
At the same time, the Seven Heroes of Dong Shan got bored waiting in the cla.s.sroom and started to pretend to be a teacher and teach a cla.s.s.
The seven hostages were ordered to sit in the front row of the cla.s.sroom and listen to the lectures given by the seven mental patients in turn.
“Hawaii is composed of 132 islands in the central Pacific Ocean. Its capital is Honolulu on the island of Oahu…” White suit began talking about Hawaiian knowledge, as if he was a native of Hawaii.
“Scientists have proven that in ancient times, all women had flat chests. Their b.r.e.a.s.t.s only began to swell when they were breastfeeding. Increased b.r.e.a.s.t.s size used to be a signal to weaken s.e.xual attraction and suggest that men shouldn’t get close to them. Therefore, only flat chests are beautiful. Modern people have it all wrong.”
Lolicon No. 3 said while spitting.
“Once a very dazzling UFO came to earth to pick me up. I didn’t cherish the moment and only regretted it after it left. There’s nothing more painful in the universe than that. If that UFO could come back to me again, I would say three words to it: Wait for me…”
‘Tanghulu costs ¥2 a skewer’ shared his experiences on earth with us in a sad tone.
The seven mental patients took turns giving lectures on the lectern, which made me feel like I was late for cla.s.s when I knocked on the door and entered the cla.s.sroom.
A person should accept the consequence of their own deeds and this incident happened because of me. The Seven Heroes of Dong Shan didn’t accept any other conditions from the police, so I simply appeared in front of them.
It was now complete chaos outside the school building. Although the police already cordoned off the perimeter, they still couldn’t stop the students’ parents. For example, Gong CaiCai’s parents were yelling, and there were other parents rushing here after getting the news.
“It’s your fault if my sister gets hurt.” Shu Zhe, who had not yet left school with his bag on his back, said to me after seeing me arrive.
“I won’t let Shu Sha get hurt.” I looked at Shu Zhe, “Do you want to go to the cla.s.sroom with me to save your sister?”
“Why, why do you want me to go with you?” Shu Zhe avoided my gaze, “The criminals didn’t ask me to go… anyway, please hurry up and rescue my sister.”
Although he wasn’t completely unworried about his sister, I guess he still put his own safety first. I shook my head and stepped through the main entrance of the school building under everyone’s gaze.
As I was walking through a hallway in the school building, I saw through the window that Zhuang Ni had rushed to the school with a serious look on her face and was asking Xiong YaoYue about the situation in the cla.s.sroom.
Did you bring a utility knife to deal with the criminals who wanted to hurt the cla.s.s leader? Don’t come in and cause more trouble for me. Fortunately, Officer Ma and the other officers prevented anyone from following me into the school building.
“Ye Lin cla.s.smate, you came to save me.” Xiao Qin shouted to me happily when I approached cla.s.s 3-3. She was sitting in the second row behind Gong CaiCai and the cla.s.s leader.
“Ye Lin… you know these people?” Teacher Yu and Mu ZhongMing were sitting next to each other. His face only looked a little better than Gong CaiCai, who had turned into a stone statue with tears hanging from the corners of her eyes.
Mu ZhongMing closed his eyes like a monk in meditation, and seemed like he didn’t even notice my arrival.
The phone Loud Mouth used to update Weibo was confiscated. The reason wasn’t because she was informing the outside world, but because she ‘wasn’t paying attention in cla.s.s’.
“I think these guys really ate too much and have nothing better to do.” Loud Mouth muttered, “I’m still hungry though.”
The cla.s.s leader didn’t say anything to me when she saw me walk in. She only gave me a ‘be careful’ look, and I nodded slightly in response.
“So you’re Ye Lin.” Xiao Li glanced at me, “Why do you look nothing like the photos? Where’s your horns and tail?”
How can a person with intermittent facial recognition disorder say that I look different from the photos?
White suit waved his hand, “Xiao Li, you go watch the hostages, I’ll talk to Ye Lin.”
Lolicon No. 3 locked the cla.s.sroom door again behind me, then white suit walked in front of me.
“Ye Lin, do you know why we called you here?”
I raised my eyebrows and said, “Isn’t it to defeat Fang Xin? You can let all the hostages go, and I’ll stay here and tell you slowly.”
“No.” White suit said decisively, “If we only take you as a hostage, the police will definitely shoot us down together with your looks. We have to save a few good-looking ones to neutralize them.”
“But now there are eight hostages again.” The cla.s.s leader suggested, “How about letting one more go to keep the number of hostages at seven.”
Unlike me, the cla.s.s leader, tried to get them to gradually release the hostages one by one.
“Then let Gong CaiCai go.” I pointed at the curly-haired girl sitting next to the cla.s.s leader. She was really pitiful because she had turned into a stone because she was so frightened.
“Keep dreaming.” White suit sneered, “I just said that we need to keep a few good-looking ones. If we let the person called Gong CaiCai go, what if the police thinks that we’re below the appearance threshold and shoot us? Even if we let someone go, we can only let this person go…”
He pointed towards Loud Mouth.
“You’re the one who’s ugly.” Loud Mouth slapped the table and stood up, “I’m a heavy beauty with a fairy-like appearance and a cheerful personality. I won’t leave.”
“I won’t leave if Loud Mouth doesn’t leave.”
“I’m ugly, I’m really ugly, can you consider letting me go…”
Teacher Yu stopped halfway through and was embarra.s.sed to continue talking. It wasn’t because he was afraid he would be looked down by others because he claimed to be ugly to survive, but because as a teacher, his reputation would be destroyed if he left his students behind.
In the end, Mu ZhongMing, who was calm from beginning to end, was let go because an enlightened Buddhist was unqualified to be a hostage as he didn’t give the hostage-takers a sense of accomplishment.
“Everyone, put down your butcher knife and become Buddha.” Before leaving, Mu ZhongMing still wanted to impart some teachings, but sideburns yelled at him: “It’s too late, why didn’t you come persuade me when I had a butcher’s knife in my hand?”
Thus the number of hostages in the cla.s.sroom returned to seven. I took Mu ZhongMing’s place and was arranged to sit to the right of Teacher Yu.
In front of me were the cla.s.s leader and Gong CaiCai. Xiao Qin was on my right, and Loud Mouth and Little Smart was on Xiao Qin’s right.
The Seven Heroes of Dong Shan didn’t change their presentation style and wanted to ask me questions as if we were in the middle of a cla.s.s.
“Ye Lin, do you know Fang Xin’s weakness?” White suit put his hands on the lectern, leaned forward, and asked me while looking down on me from above.
“Black mice.” I replied as a test to see if the Seven Heroes of Dong Shan could be easily deceived.
That was actually the cla.s.s leader’s weakness. The cla.s.s leader, who was sitting in front me, shuddered slightly and turned around to look at me suspiciously.
“Nonsense, only Doraemon is afraid of mice.” Xiao Li picked up the blackboard eraser and threw it against the blackboard, “We have tried both live and dead mice, and Fang Xin doesn’t care at all.”
“A big black beetle with wings.” I mentioned Xiao Qin’s weakness and she was so frightened that she yelled, “where, where?” while covering her head with her arms.
“Fang Xin isn’t afraid of these ordinary things.” White suit found the pointer from under the lectern and held it in his hand, he narrowed his eyes and said:
“Recently, Fang Xin has been writing formulas on the floor of his room. No one can understand those mathematical symbols. The only two Chinese characters in it are your name. It seems that he’s using you in some sort of calculation… so you must have some special value to him. Tell me, what purpose does Fang Xin want to use you to achieve, how can we use you to fight back against him… and then fly to Hawaii.”