Chapter 26 Rescue the Hostages
When the lights came on, not to mention the audience, Jian Cang and Xiang Chen both laughed.
Xiang Chen was really scared to the point of flying out of her wits at that time. However, someone's demonic voice filled her ears and quickly pulled her back. After that, nothing was more terrifying than this big cutie holding his waist and jumping hard.
Now seeing the condition of Ye Yuanyu and Shu Hua, Xiang Chen suddenly felt fortunate in his heart. Jian Cang was pretty good.
Ye Yuanyu leaned against the locker. A perfectly fine cold and handsome guy was dented into a shattered feel. A look of despair was on his face. Shu Hua stood aside with a guilty conscience, "It was truly scary just now."
Jian Cang had just finished being frightened and was now laughing crazily. Then he laid down on the experimental table in exhaustion and didn't want to move.
Qin Shiyu and Jiang Yu were in their original state. However Jiang Yu finally contributed a gif. As for Qin Shiyu, he took the initiative to protect Jiang Yu. It can be regarded as the only heartwarming scene in this session.
In short, in just a few minutes, Jiang Yu and the others were exhausted while the audience laughed happily.
After a while, everyone continued to look for clues.
Still have to start around the chair where the person was tied up.
A lot of things fell from the ceiling just now, including rats, cockroaches, eyeballs, skulls, and ferocious-looking dolls. Especially around the chair.
"Being tied here and receiving this every now and then is truly getting scared to death.” Having the experience just now, Shu Hua could relate to it and condemned it with lingering fear, "It's too cruel."
Ye Yuanyu said calmly, "It's not bad. If someone is arranged to scream and beat others, the torture will be doubled."
Shu Hua:......
Xiang Chen quickly picked up a box with a password and placed it between the two of them. "Come on, look at this. It seems that it just fell. It happened to fall on the chair. There are words on it!"
【Hahaha, after God Ye’s aloof image is destroyed, he becomes completely childish. 】
【Xiang Chen seems to be coaxing a childish elder brother: Stop the fighting and see what kind of fun toy this is. 】
Shu Hua knew she was in the wrong, so she took the step down given by Xiang Chen’s change of subject. She leaned over to read the contents on the lockbox: "Do you want to leave here? Then repent seriously, maybe you can have a chance of survival."
She fiddled with the combination lock on the box, "Five-digit English letter password?"
"But the 'want to leave here' she mentioned can’t be left?"
Jian Cang stood up from the experiment table and pointed to the doorway of the laboratory, "That's the combination lock."
The passage they came from was blocked by stones. Got to find the code to go out.
"So they locked Zhang Diyi here to scare her. Then Zhang Diyi broke away from the rope, found the password, and ran out?" Shu Hua looked around the laboratory and expressed doubt, "But this is a bit exaggerated. They destroyed the laboratory and the school elders and teachers don’t care about this?"
"Something doesn't feel right."
"Not feeling right is right," Ye Yuanyu said, holding a notepad, "This isn’t the chemistry laboratory in September 2013."
"What is it?" Jian Cang looked at the notepad in his hand.
"This is originally on the window sill next to the chair." He placed it in the middle of the crowd and opened it. "It is three briefing books."
Jiang Yu gathered with everyone. They were briefing papers written in three ordinary A5 notebooks. Ye Yuanyu took out the thickest one first.
The first page opened was a notification sheet: Li Zhen, Sun Xue, and Wang Zha from Class 9, Year 3, bullied their classmates and refused to change despite repeated admonitions. This resulted in serious consequences... They were expelled from school - the time was March 2014.
On this notification sheet, Sun Xue's name was circled with a red pen.
"Resulted in serious consequences..." Xiang Chen guessed, "Did they go too far with Zhang Diyi in this experimental class and were discovered by the teacher and were eventually expelled? After all, there was an investigation and evidence collection process. Their parents will definitely have to plead their case. Plus the winter vacation in between, it would take about three months."
Ye Yuanyu said nothing and continued to flip. On the second page, there was a news briefing about the collapse of the textile factory in City C, as well as an analysis of the large amount of unemployment of executives and workers. This wasn’t a small matter? It took up a whole page - —The time was 2016.
Jian Cang tilted his head and thought for a while, "In the file just now, Sun Xue's parents were the management of the textile factory, right?"
Ye Yuanyu nodded and turned another page. This time it was an admissions brochure for a technical school. The main skills taught include car maintenance, cooking, beauty salons, nursing care, etc., among which beauty salons were circled.
At this point everyone almost understood.
Xiang Chen concluded, "This should be Sun Xue's life trajectory after being expelled. In 2014, Sun Xue left school. In 2016, the textile factory where Sun Xue's parents worked closed down. After her parents lost their jobs, she no longer had good living conditions. She went to a technical school to study beauty and hairdressing.”
"What happened next?" Shu Hua was curious.
Ye Yuanyu glanced at her and continued to flip through. It was a photo of Zuimeng Beauty Salon. It should be the place where Sun Xue worked. First, it was a photo of a young girl with exaggeratedly dyed hair bowing her head and sending someone out. Then there were photos of her coming out in the arms of various men. More than a dozen pages of similar content in the following several pages. Finally there was a social news briefing: Zuimeng Beauty Salon in City C was suspected of illegal and criminal activities of selling prostitutes. The public security had arrested Sun XX, Li XX, Ma XX, Wang XX and others... Among them, Sun XX's name was drawn with a red circle.
Sun Xue’s current ending can be imagined.
Then they read the second book. It had the disciplinary notification form at the beginning. Only Wang Zha’s name was circled in red pen.
The content of this book was more exciting: first was an introduction to KTV, presumably the business run by Wang Zha’s parents.
Then there was a missing person notice. The time was May 2014, which meant that Wang Zha ran away from home shortly after being expelled from school.
Reading further in, in August 2014, Wang Zha was found. After that, there was various social news: a surnamed Wang and others were caught gathering a crowd to fight. After a while they were caught gathering a crowd to gamble. Later they were arrested for taking drugs. The previous ones were small reports, but the last one took up half of the newspaper: Wang and her accomplices committed robbery and extortion, causing the death of the victim. They were punished for several crimes and sentenced to 20 years in prison and were deprived of political rights for life.
The newspaper specifically reported on Wang's short life. Her wealthy background made her bully the poor and favored the rich. She liked to fight and eventually join gangs to do bad things. Eventually, she embarked on a road of no return. The KTV that started out glamorous seemed extremely depressed in black and white in the newspaper.
The last one was naturally Li Zhen's. Compared with the previous two, this one had very little content, only four pages.
The first page was the notice of punishment. The second page was a photo of a hotel. It should be the hotel where Li Zhen's father worked; the third page was a photo of an airplane flying over the sky; and the fourth page was ten years later, aka this year. It should be a screenshot taken from the Internet: Welcome the returnee elite Li Zhen to join our company as a marketing manager... The picture was of a young and capable lady.
And on this page, in big red letters it said "An eye for an eye!"
After reading these three briefing books, things became a little clearer. Xiang Chen concluded, "Although these three bullies of Zhang Diyi were expelled, Zhang Diyi, who lived in their shadow, was paying attention to their life trajectory.”
"Both Sun Xue and Wang Zha got their own retribution. Only Li Zhen, who had directly left the country at that time, reappeared and returned to her hometown with an elite attitude and was sought after by others. Zhang Diyi can’t accept this result. So she kidnapped her."
Ye Yuanyu said, "So this is the place where Li Zhen and the others bullied Zhang Diyi in 2013. Now it is the place where Zhang Diyi kidnapped and tortured Li Zhen."
He pointed to the last line of hate-filled red characters, "She probably taking revenge on Li Zhen the way they treated her back then."
Xiang Chen picked up the password box again, sat on the chair, and looked around, "Li Zhen was tied to the chair, but the briefing was beside it. The password box fell from the ceiling. That means Zhang Di Yi wanted Li Zhen to recall what she did to her."
He looked at the password and the content on it, "If she can remember what happened back then and sincerely apologize, she may be able to escape from this room."
Ye Yuanyu said, "The password is intact. Obviously Li Zhen's 'reflection' didn't work or she didn't repent at all."
Jian Cang said, "Since Zhang Diyi wanted to torture Li Zhen the same way they treated her, then Li Zhen may have been taken away. There should be clues to where they went in this box."
Xiang Chen said, "Then let's look for clues to the password first. Apart from throwing things, splashing water, and locking her up to scare her, what else have they done? Can this password clue be related to Zhang Diyi's injury to her hand? A HAND?"
Jiang Yu took the password box.
When Jian Cang saw this, he immediately stopped thinking, "Bigshot, do you have any ideas?"
As soon as he finished asking, Jiang Yu opened the lock.
Jian Cang:......
Xiang Chen:......
Jian Cang laid on the table, "I no longer have the energy to be surprised."
Ye Yuanyu came over and saw SORRY on the password lock with a look of realization.
"So, the clue was the instructions on the password box," Xiang Chen patted his head, "A serious confession may have a chance of survival. That’s right, Zhang Diyi definitely wants an apology. Our thinking is too complicated."
Shu Hua had unconditional trust in Jiang Yu from the beginning. Now she took it completely for granted. She just raised her head and asked in concern, "What's in the box?"
Jiang Yu took out something: it was a draft notebook. It seemed to be a notebook specially used for class communication. The three different handwritings represented three people.
In addition to what was written on the notebook itself, there were some written on other papers, which were all collected and pasted together inside.
Everyone gathered around to watch together: at the beginning, the content was discussed by high school girls: what to eat after school; which comics to borrow after class; which celebrity they like or which boy they think was handsome; and later, who they hate in the class, who is White Lotus and who is Green Tea. And how to teach the other party a lesson. But the majority was how to bully Zhang Diyi.
Probably to make it easier for them to recall, Zhang Diyi thoughtfully labeled the three types of handwriting with names:
Li Zhen: It’s so annoying. My dad nagged about my grades again;
Wang Zha: Me too. It’s all that bitch’s fault. If her mom hadn’t shown off her good grades in front of your father.
Sun Xue: A sweeper is really proud until no limit.
Wang Zha: I have longer find her an eyesore. Why don't we deal with her after class?
……
Sun Xue: I'm in a bad mood and want to hit someone.
Li Zhen: Isn’t that easy. Anyway, there is someone that needs sorting and can beat her at any time.
Wang Zha: Take me along. Let’s do something new today. How about blocking her in the toilet and splash water?
……
Sun Xue: I’m going. What to do when the classroom teacher sees the injury on her face. What to do?
Li Zhen: Don’t worry, she doesn’t dare to tattle. If she dares to, I will get her mom to kneel down and kowtow to me before getting my dad to expel her!
Wang Zha: She better not dare, otherwise even if your father fires her mother, I will have to beat her up. Can the classroom teacher keep an eye on us every time? Just give her one beating and she’ll submit.
……
The thick book recorded almost every "reason" the other party used to bully Zhang Diyi and their methods became more and more excessive.
Turning to the end, they finally saw a page about Zhang Diyi’s hand injury:
Li Zhen: How are we going to mess with her today?
Sun Xue: Do you have any fresh ideas? It feels boring. Now she doesn't even react to beating or scolding her and not even afraid when locked in the classroom all night. She seems to be immune. She is so thick-skinned.
Wang Zha: It’s snowing today. I heard that if the hand is in the snow for a long time, it’ll lose sense of feeling. When scratched with a knife, it won’t feel the pain. I wonder if that’s true.
Sun Xue: This... if her hand was injured, the teacher would definitely ask.
Wang Zha: Go ask Li Zhen if she dares to file a complaint.
Li Zhen: Humph! Unless her mother doesn't want to work anymore.
Wang Zha: That’s it, no? And isn’t she going to participate in the chemistry competition the day after tomorrow? Let’s get her to fail it and see if the classroom teacher favors her.
Shu Hua threw the notebook angrily, "They went too far! Are they human?!"
Among them, Wang Zha was particularly vicious. But thinking about the social news in that book, it was obvious that there were traces to follow.
Xiang Chen frowned and picked up the book and continued to flip through it, "No, Zhang Diyi's hand wasn’t injured in the chemistry laboratory."
Shu Hua was confused, "Wasn't in the chemistry laboratory?"
Xiang Chen pointed to the content below and said, "These were written in chemistry class."
Li Zhen: **, that bitch lied to us. Her hand wasn’t injured at all?
Wang Zha: How is that possible? We saw with our own eyes that her hands were frozen and the blood flowed all over the floor.
Li Zhen: I don’t know. Anyway, I went to the infirmary to get medicine last night when I had a stomachache during self-study. I happened to see her dyeing gauze with red ink. There was nothing on her hand!
Sun Xue: What’s going on?
Li Zhen: This time we will do it ourselves and let her know the cost of deceiving us!
Wang Zha: I see there seems to be sulfuric acid on the experiment bench. I have always been curious about what it would be like to get poured with concentrated sulfuric acid.
"Fu**...cough!" Jian Cang almost cursed, "That's so stupid and vicious!"
Jiang Yu and the others couldn't help but frown.
They had some exchanges later. They probably didn't expect the consequences to be so serious. At first, they were a little nervous. Then their parents were probably called. Their exchanges were all curses and resentments, but they didn't have a trace of regret.
However, they never mentioned how to bully Zhang Diyi again, because Zhang Diyi was sent to the hospital for treatment by three’s parents who pooled their money.
However, this serious accident attracted the attention of the school. Zhang Diyi's failure to participate in the national chemistry competition was noticed by the Education Bureau, which discovered Li Zhen trio's long-term bullying and were directly expelled from school.
At the bottom of the draft book, there was a note written to Li Zhen: "I heard that you are now an elite returnee, so you must be very powerful, right? Do you know how I deceived you when I injured my hand? Using that method, you can find the password to get out."
"If you can find the password before twelve o'clock, I'll let you go. If you can't find it, then you have to personally experience what you did to me back then!"
Jian Cang sighed, "Li Zhen didn't even open this box, so she probably can't remember what they did to Zhang Diyi."
Shu Hua said, "So Zhang Diyi probably took her to reminisce in person."
【Though it’s a little gratifying, it’s good to recall it in person. 】
【That’s right. You should solve the puzzle slowly, otherwise it would be very bad if Li Zhen doesn’t finish recalling it. 】
But no matter what the consequences were for Li Zhen, they had to escape first.
Xiang Chen picked up the draft book, "So their first plan was to freeze Zhang Diyi's hand with snow and then scratch it with a knife to causing the other party to bleed a lot."
"But these are all illusions. Zhang Diyi's hand wasn’t injured. How did she deceive them?"
This was obviously very difficult.
When he saw Jiang Yu observing the reagents on the table, Ye Yuanyu caught on, "Chemistry! Chemical reaction."
"Which two transparent reagents will turn red when mixed together?"
Hearing this, Jian Cang, Xiang Chen and Shu Hua laid down together.
Shu Hua said, "Arts majors don't know. I just remember that phenolphthalein solution turns red when exposed to alkali, but it's pinkish red."
【Dead chemical knowledge suddenly attacked me. 】
【Review lessons with "All Rounder". 】
【From the moment I finished the college entrance examination, I didn’t keep any trace of the chemistry I studied. God Ye’s major is finance and he graduated from graduate school. Why does he remember it? 】
【Maybe other people’s brains are like buckets, they will always be there as long as they are put in them. But my brain is like a bamboo basket. No matter how much water is pumped in, it will eventually leak out. 】
Chemical reaction equations were quickly discussed on the barrage while Jiang Yu and Ye Yuanyu made rapid progress.
【Look at their operation, the teacher's standard demonstration during the lecture! 】
【The operation is so smooth. Turns out that doing experiments can be so pleasing to the eye. 】
After all, they were top students. Once they grasped a thought path, the whole process would be connected quickly.
The two tinkered for a while. Ye Yuanyu said, "Here, let me do a magic trick for you."
As he spoke, he smeared something on her hand and put her hand into the solution prepared by Jiang Yu. Then ice crystals formed on the entire surface of her palm. It was as if it was surrounded by ice.
The few liberal arts students had never seen such a scene before and they immediately gathered around in amazement.
Jian Cang said, "This is so awesome. It really looks like ice."
"Sodium acetate crystals." Ye Yuanyu stated, "The second time they used sulfuric acid and they did it 'by themselves'. Which means that the first time, they may have got Zhang Diyi to do it herself because they were afraid of the cold.”
"Since Zhang Diyi can participate in the finals of the chemistry competition, she must be very familiar with the reactions of these solutions. She made preparations in advance after learning about their plan."
"And Li Zhen and the others are uneducated and unskilled. When they saw the ice on Zhang Diyi's hands, they thought they had been frozen."
"What about cutting with a knife and it bleeds?" Shu Hua couldn't help but be curious.
Ye Yuanyu poured another solution on his hand, then picked up the plastic piece soaked in the brown liquid, scratched it hard in his palm, and then held it up. Red blood dripped down instantly. Quite a shocking sight.
Jian Cang and Xiang Chen were both startled, while Shu Hua panicked, "Is it okay?"
It can be seen that it was realistic.
Ye Yuanyu then stretched out his hand, "The reaction between potassium thiocyanate and ferric chloride will form this liquid that resembles blood."
This was how Zhang Diyi deceived Li Zhen and the others.
"Then, how can this method unlock the password?" Jian Cang was curious, "Is it a chemical formula? The password lock is indeed made of letters."
Ye Yuanyu stared at the chemical reagents and pondered.
Jian Cang noticed that Jiang Yu brought a small watering bottle over, "Elder Sister Yu, what are you doing?"
Jiang Yu directly poured some reagent on the table into the watering can and then walked toward the bloody wall.
The group looked at her in confusion and saw her spraying those hate-filled words. After a while, those words magically disappeared. In the end only "Go die" was left.
Ye Yuanyu tapped his hand, "Sodium fluoride."
"Other characters are written using a ferric thiocyanate solution obtained by reacting potassium thiocyanate with ferric chloride. Sodium fluoride reacts with ferric thiocyanate to obtain sodium hexafluoroferrate and the color disappears. He looked up at the wall, "So only this 'go die' was written with ordinary paint."
Xiang Chen had an idea, "This is the password!" He walked directly to the door and pressed it a few times. As expected, the door of the laboratory opened with a beep.
Shu Hua said, "Wow, Elder Brother Chen, you're so awesome! What's the password?"
Ye Yuanyu said behind her, "GO DIE."
Shu Hua:......
She turned around and said angrily, "Why are you cursing out of nowhere?"
Ye Yuanyu:......
Jian Cang clutched his stomach and laughed so hard, "Hahaha, what Elder Brother Ye means is that the password is 'Go die'!"
Xiang Chen smiled and said, "Since there are the words 'go die' left on the wall and based on the password of the lock box just now, the password of the door should be of the same style."
"Zhang Diyi wants her apology and wants her to die."
Shu Hua caught on. Her face turned red. She rubbed her nose awkwardly and said to Ye Yuanyu, "I'm sorry, I wronged you."
Ye Yuanyu lowered his eyes and looked at her. Then he suddenly let out a chuckle and walked toward the door.
Shu Hua:......
Her eyes widened, "He is mocking me! Did you all see it? He is mocking me!"
Xiang Chen didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he quickly opened the door and said, "Let's go, let's go, we have to save people! Ye Yuanyu, come and lead the battle..."
"En?"
Jian Cang suddenly wailed, "What's going on! Are you kidding us?!"
【Hahahahaha, the program team finally strengthened up! 】
【This is too cool. You tried so hard to find the password, but when you open the door, you see a wall? 】
【Thankfully it was easy for the top students to solve problems. If it were a study scum like me who finally found the password but got this result, I would probably be furious. 】
【Perhaps this was Zhang Diyi's aim. She wanted to make Li Zhen angry to death. 】
【It sounds normal now that you said this. It can be more despair. 】
The anger was real, but the password was not fake either. Just as Jian Cang finished howling, the floor suddenly made a soft sound. Everyone turned around and saw a piece of floorboard about one meter and a half square that was raised.
"Huh?" Shu Hua ran over and stretched out her hand to pull it. A hole was revealed, "Are we going to leave from here?"
She peeked in and said, "It looks like a slide."
She shuddered again, "It's dark!"
Jiang Yu stepped forward and looked at the board she raised, "There are instructions."
Shu Hua read it out loud, "The upper limit of the load is 125 kilograms." Her eyes lit up and she looked at Jiang Yu, "Us two can go together!"
Jiang Yu nodded. At this time, she no longer disliked Shu Hua. They felt safe holding each other.
It was Ye Yuanyu who took the lead. After hearing him yelling that it was okay, Jiang Yu and Shu Hua hugged each other and slid down according to the diagram.
Then……
They both disappeared.
When the lights came on, not to mention the audience, Jian Cang and Xiang Chen both laughed.
Xiang Chen was really scared to the point of flying out of her wits at that time. However, someone's demonic voice filled her ears and quickly pulled her back. After that, nothing was more terrifying than this big cutie holding his waist and jumping hard.
Now seeing the condition of Ye Yuanyu and Shu Hua, Xiang Chen suddenly felt fortunate in his heart. Jian Cang was pretty good.
Ye Yuanyu leaned against the locker. A perfectly fine cold and handsome guy was dented into a shattered feel. A look of despair was on his face. Shu Hua stood aside with a guilty conscience, "It was truly scary just now."
Jian Cang had just finished being frightened and was now laughing crazily. Then he laid down on the experimental table in exhaustion and didn't want to move.
Qin Shiyu and Jiang Yu were in their original state. However Jiang Yu finally contributed a gif. As for Qin Shiyu, he took the initiative to protect Jiang Yu. It can be regarded as the only heartwarming scene in this session.
In short, in just a few minutes, Jiang Yu and the others were exhausted while the audience laughed happily.
After a while, everyone continued to look for clues.
Still have to start around the chair where the person was tied up.
A lot of things fell from the ceiling just now, including rats, cockroaches, eyeballs, skulls, and ferocious-looking dolls. Especially around the chair.
"Being tied here and receiving this every now and then is truly getting scared to death.” Having the experience just now, Shu Hua could relate to it and condemned it with lingering fear, "It's too cruel."
Ye Yuanyu said calmly, "It's not bad. If someone is arranged to scream and beat others, the torture will be doubled."
Shu Hua:......
Xiang Chen quickly picked up a box with a password and placed it between the two of them. "Come on, look at this. It seems that it just fell. It happened to fall on the chair. There are words on it!"
【Hahaha, after God Ye’s aloof image is destroyed, he becomes completely childish. 】
【Xiang Chen seems to be coaxing a childish elder brother: Stop the fighting and see what kind of fun toy this is. 】
Shu Hua knew she was in the wrong, so she took the step down given by Xiang Chen’s change of subject. She leaned over to read the contents on the lockbox: "Do you want to leave here? Then repent seriously, maybe you can have a chance of survival."
She fiddled with the combination lock on the box, "Five-digit English letter password?"
"But the 'want to leave here' she mentioned can’t be left?"
Jian Cang stood up from the experiment table and pointed to the doorway of the laboratory, "That's the combination lock."
The passage they came from was blocked by stones. Got to find the code to go out.
"So they locked Zhang Diyi here to scare her. Then Zhang Diyi broke away from the rope, found the password, and ran out?" Shu Hua looked around the laboratory and expressed doubt, "But this is a bit exaggerated. They destroyed the laboratory and the school elders and teachers don’t care about this?"
"Something doesn't feel right."
"Not feeling right is right," Ye Yuanyu said, holding a notepad, "This isn’t the chemistry laboratory in September 2013."
"What is it?" Jian Cang looked at the notepad in his hand.
"This is originally on the window sill next to the chair." He placed it in the middle of the crowd and opened it. "It is three briefing books."
Jiang Yu gathered with everyone. They were briefing papers written in three ordinary A5 notebooks. Ye Yuanyu took out the thickest one first.
The first page opened was a notification sheet: Li Zhen, Sun Xue, and Wang Zha from Class 9, Year 3, bullied their classmates and refused to change despite repeated admonitions. This resulted in serious consequences... They were expelled from school - the time was March 2014.
On this notification sheet, Sun Xue's name was circled with a red pen.
"Resulted in serious consequences..." Xiang Chen guessed, "Did they go too far with Zhang Diyi in this experimental class and were discovered by the teacher and were eventually expelled? After all, there was an investigation and evidence collection process. Their parents will definitely have to plead their case. Plus the winter vacation in between, it would take about three months."
Ye Yuanyu said nothing and continued to flip. On the second page, there was a news briefing about the collapse of the textile factory in City C, as well as an analysis of the large amount of unemployment of executives and workers. This wasn’t a small matter? It took up a whole page - —The time was 2016.
Jian Cang tilted his head and thought for a while, "In the file just now, Sun Xue's parents were the management of the textile factory, right?"
Ye Yuanyu nodded and turned another page. This time it was an admissions brochure for a technical school. The main skills taught include car maintenance, cooking, beauty salons, nursing care, etc., among which beauty salons were circled.
At this point everyone almost understood.
Xiang Chen concluded, "This should be Sun Xue's life trajectory after being expelled. In 2014, Sun Xue left school. In 2016, the textile factory where Sun Xue's parents worked closed down. After her parents lost their jobs, she no longer had good living conditions. She went to a technical school to study beauty and hairdressing.”
"What happened next?" Shu Hua was curious.
Ye Yuanyu glanced at her and continued to flip through. It was a photo of Zuimeng Beauty Salon. It should be the place where Sun Xue worked. First, it was a photo of a young girl with exaggeratedly dyed hair bowing her head and sending someone out. Then there were photos of her coming out in the arms of various men. More than a dozen pages of similar content in the following several pages. Finally there was a social news briefing: Zuimeng Beauty Salon in City C was suspected of illegal and criminal activities of selling prostitutes. The public security had arrested Sun XX, Li XX, Ma XX, Wang XX and others... Among them, Sun XX's name was drawn with a red circle.
Sun Xue’s current ending can be imagined.
Then they read the second book. It had the disciplinary notification form at the beginning. Only Wang Zha’s name was circled in red pen.
The content of this book was more exciting: first was an introduction to KTV, presumably the business run by Wang Zha’s parents.
Then there was a missing person notice. The time was May 2014, which meant that Wang Zha ran away from home shortly after being expelled from school.
Reading further in, in August 2014, Wang Zha was found. After that, there was various social news: a surnamed Wang and others were caught gathering a crowd to fight. After a while they were caught gathering a crowd to gamble. Later they were arrested for taking drugs. The previous ones were small reports, but the last one took up half of the newspaper: Wang and her accomplices committed robbery and extortion, causing the death of the victim. They were punished for several crimes and sentenced to 20 years in prison and were deprived of political rights for life.
The newspaper specifically reported on Wang's short life. Her wealthy background made her bully the poor and favored the rich. She liked to fight and eventually join gangs to do bad things. Eventually, she embarked on a road of no return. The KTV that started out glamorous seemed extremely depressed in black and white in the newspaper.
The last one was naturally Li Zhen's. Compared with the previous two, this one had very little content, only four pages.
The first page was the notice of punishment. The second page was a photo of a hotel. It should be the hotel where Li Zhen's father worked; the third page was a photo of an airplane flying over the sky; and the fourth page was ten years later, aka this year. It should be a screenshot taken from the Internet: Welcome the returnee elite Li Zhen to join our company as a marketing manager... The picture was of a young and capable lady.
And on this page, in big red letters it said "An eye for an eye!"
After reading these three briefing books, things became a little clearer. Xiang Chen concluded, "Although these three bullies of Zhang Diyi were expelled, Zhang Diyi, who lived in their shadow, was paying attention to their life trajectory.”
"Both Sun Xue and Wang Zha got their own retribution. Only Li Zhen, who had directly left the country at that time, reappeared and returned to her hometown with an elite attitude and was sought after by others. Zhang Diyi can’t accept this result. So she kidnapped her."
Ye Yuanyu said, "So this is the place where Li Zhen and the others bullied Zhang Diyi in 2013. Now it is the place where Zhang Diyi kidnapped and tortured Li Zhen."
He pointed to the last line of hate-filled red characters, "She probably taking revenge on Li Zhen the way they treated her back then."
Xiang Chen picked up the password box again, sat on the chair, and looked around, "Li Zhen was tied to the chair, but the briefing was beside it. The password box fell from the ceiling. That means Zhang Di Yi wanted Li Zhen to recall what she did to her."
He looked at the password and the content on it, "If she can remember what happened back then and sincerely apologize, she may be able to escape from this room."
Ye Yuanyu said, "The password is intact. Obviously Li Zhen's 'reflection' didn't work or she didn't repent at all."
Jian Cang said, "Since Zhang Diyi wanted to torture Li Zhen the same way they treated her, then Li Zhen may have been taken away. There should be clues to where they went in this box."
Xiang Chen said, "Then let's look for clues to the password first. Apart from throwing things, splashing water, and locking her up to scare her, what else have they done? Can this password clue be related to Zhang Diyi's injury to her hand? A HAND?"
Jiang Yu took the password box.
When Jian Cang saw this, he immediately stopped thinking, "Bigshot, do you have any ideas?"
As soon as he finished asking, Jiang Yu opened the lock.
Jian Cang:......
Xiang Chen:......
Jian Cang laid on the table, "I no longer have the energy to be surprised."
Ye Yuanyu came over and saw SORRY on the password lock with a look of realization.
"So, the clue was the instructions on the password box," Xiang Chen patted his head, "A serious confession may have a chance of survival. That’s right, Zhang Diyi definitely wants an apology. Our thinking is too complicated."
Shu Hua had unconditional trust in Jiang Yu from the beginning. Now she took it completely for granted. She just raised her head and asked in concern, "What's in the box?"
Jiang Yu took out something: it was a draft notebook. It seemed to be a notebook specially used for class communication. The three different handwritings represented three people.
In addition to what was written on the notebook itself, there were some written on other papers, which were all collected and pasted together inside.
Everyone gathered around to watch together: at the beginning, the content was discussed by high school girls: what to eat after school; which comics to borrow after class; which celebrity they like or which boy they think was handsome; and later, who they hate in the class, who is White Lotus and who is Green Tea. And how to teach the other party a lesson. But the majority was how to bully Zhang Diyi.
Probably to make it easier for them to recall, Zhang Diyi thoughtfully labeled the three types of handwriting with names:
Li Zhen: It’s so annoying. My dad nagged about my grades again;
Wang Zha: Me too. It’s all that bitch’s fault. If her mom hadn’t shown off her good grades in front of your father.
Sun Xue: A sweeper is really proud until no limit.
Wang Zha: I have longer find her an eyesore. Why don't we deal with her after class?
……
Sun Xue: I'm in a bad mood and want to hit someone.
Li Zhen: Isn’t that easy. Anyway, there is someone that needs sorting and can beat her at any time.
Wang Zha: Take me along. Let’s do something new today. How about blocking her in the toilet and splash water?
……
Sun Xue: I’m going. What to do when the classroom teacher sees the injury on her face. What to do?
Li Zhen: Don’t worry, she doesn’t dare to tattle. If she dares to, I will get her mom to kneel down and kowtow to me before getting my dad to expel her!
Wang Zha: She better not dare, otherwise even if your father fires her mother, I will have to beat her up. Can the classroom teacher keep an eye on us every time? Just give her one beating and she’ll submit.
……
The thick book recorded almost every "reason" the other party used to bully Zhang Diyi and their methods became more and more excessive.
Turning to the end, they finally saw a page about Zhang Diyi’s hand injury:
Li Zhen: How are we going to mess with her today?
Sun Xue: Do you have any fresh ideas? It feels boring. Now she doesn't even react to beating or scolding her and not even afraid when locked in the classroom all night. She seems to be immune. She is so thick-skinned.
Wang Zha: It’s snowing today. I heard that if the hand is in the snow for a long time, it’ll lose sense of feeling. When scratched with a knife, it won’t feel the pain. I wonder if that’s true.
Sun Xue: This... if her hand was injured, the teacher would definitely ask.
Wang Zha: Go ask Li Zhen if she dares to file a complaint.
Li Zhen: Humph! Unless her mother doesn't want to work anymore.
Wang Zha: That’s it, no? And isn’t she going to participate in the chemistry competition the day after tomorrow? Let’s get her to fail it and see if the classroom teacher favors her.
Shu Hua threw the notebook angrily, "They went too far! Are they human?!"
Among them, Wang Zha was particularly vicious. But thinking about the social news in that book, it was obvious that there were traces to follow.
Xiang Chen frowned and picked up the book and continued to flip through it, "No, Zhang Diyi's hand wasn’t injured in the chemistry laboratory."
Shu Hua was confused, "Wasn't in the chemistry laboratory?"
Xiang Chen pointed to the content below and said, "These were written in chemistry class."
Li Zhen: **, that bitch lied to us. Her hand wasn’t injured at all?
Wang Zha: How is that possible? We saw with our own eyes that her hands were frozen and the blood flowed all over the floor.
Li Zhen: I don’t know. Anyway, I went to the infirmary to get medicine last night when I had a stomachache during self-study. I happened to see her dyeing gauze with red ink. There was nothing on her hand!
Sun Xue: What’s going on?
Li Zhen: This time we will do it ourselves and let her know the cost of deceiving us!
Wang Zha: I see there seems to be sulfuric acid on the experiment bench. I have always been curious about what it would be like to get poured with concentrated sulfuric acid.
"Fu**...cough!" Jian Cang almost cursed, "That's so stupid and vicious!"
Jiang Yu and the others couldn't help but frown.
They had some exchanges later. They probably didn't expect the consequences to be so serious. At first, they were a little nervous. Then their parents were probably called. Their exchanges were all curses and resentments, but they didn't have a trace of regret.
However, they never mentioned how to bully Zhang Diyi again, because Zhang Diyi was sent to the hospital for treatment by three’s parents who pooled their money.
However, this serious accident attracted the attention of the school. Zhang Diyi's failure to participate in the national chemistry competition was noticed by the Education Bureau, which discovered Li Zhen trio's long-term bullying and were directly expelled from school.
At the bottom of the draft book, there was a note written to Li Zhen: "I heard that you are now an elite returnee, so you must be very powerful, right? Do you know how I deceived you when I injured my hand? Using that method, you can find the password to get out."
"If you can find the password before twelve o'clock, I'll let you go. If you can't find it, then you have to personally experience what you did to me back then!"
Jian Cang sighed, "Li Zhen didn't even open this box, so she probably can't remember what they did to Zhang Diyi."
Shu Hua said, "So Zhang Diyi probably took her to reminisce in person."
【Though it’s a little gratifying, it’s good to recall it in person. 】
【That’s right. You should solve the puzzle slowly, otherwise it would be very bad if Li Zhen doesn’t finish recalling it. 】
But no matter what the consequences were for Li Zhen, they had to escape first.
Xiang Chen picked up the draft book, "So their first plan was to freeze Zhang Diyi's hand with snow and then scratch it with a knife to causing the other party to bleed a lot."
"But these are all illusions. Zhang Diyi's hand wasn’t injured. How did she deceive them?"
This was obviously very difficult.
When he saw Jiang Yu observing the reagents on the table, Ye Yuanyu caught on, "Chemistry! Chemical reaction."
"Which two transparent reagents will turn red when mixed together?"
Hearing this, Jian Cang, Xiang Chen and Shu Hua laid down together.
Shu Hua said, "Arts majors don't know. I just remember that phenolphthalein solution turns red when exposed to alkali, but it's pinkish red."
【Dead chemical knowledge suddenly attacked me. 】
【Review lessons with "All Rounder". 】
【From the moment I finished the college entrance examination, I didn’t keep any trace of the chemistry I studied. God Ye’s major is finance and he graduated from graduate school. Why does he remember it? 】
【Maybe other people’s brains are like buckets, they will always be there as long as they are put in them. But my brain is like a bamboo basket. No matter how much water is pumped in, it will eventually leak out. 】
Chemical reaction equations were quickly discussed on the barrage while Jiang Yu and Ye Yuanyu made rapid progress.
【Look at their operation, the teacher's standard demonstration during the lecture! 】
【The operation is so smooth. Turns out that doing experiments can be so pleasing to the eye. 】
After all, they were top students. Once they grasped a thought path, the whole process would be connected quickly.
The two tinkered for a while. Ye Yuanyu said, "Here, let me do a magic trick for you."
As he spoke, he smeared something on her hand and put her hand into the solution prepared by Jiang Yu. Then ice crystals formed on the entire surface of her palm. It was as if it was surrounded by ice.
The few liberal arts students had never seen such a scene before and they immediately gathered around in amazement.
Jian Cang said, "This is so awesome. It really looks like ice."
"Sodium acetate crystals." Ye Yuanyu stated, "The second time they used sulfuric acid and they did it 'by themselves'. Which means that the first time, they may have got Zhang Diyi to do it herself because they were afraid of the cold.”
"Since Zhang Diyi can participate in the finals of the chemistry competition, she must be very familiar with the reactions of these solutions. She made preparations in advance after learning about their plan."
"And Li Zhen and the others are uneducated and unskilled. When they saw the ice on Zhang Diyi's hands, they thought they had been frozen."
"What about cutting with a knife and it bleeds?" Shu Hua couldn't help but be curious.
Ye Yuanyu poured another solution on his hand, then picked up the plastic piece soaked in the brown liquid, scratched it hard in his palm, and then held it up. Red blood dripped down instantly. Quite a shocking sight.
Jian Cang and Xiang Chen were both startled, while Shu Hua panicked, "Is it okay?"
It can be seen that it was realistic.
Ye Yuanyu then stretched out his hand, "The reaction between potassium thiocyanate and ferric chloride will form this liquid that resembles blood."
This was how Zhang Diyi deceived Li Zhen and the others.
"Then, how can this method unlock the password?" Jian Cang was curious, "Is it a chemical formula? The password lock is indeed made of letters."
Ye Yuanyu stared at the chemical reagents and pondered.
Jian Cang noticed that Jiang Yu brought a small watering bottle over, "Elder Sister Yu, what are you doing?"
Jiang Yu directly poured some reagent on the table into the watering can and then walked toward the bloody wall.
The group looked at her in confusion and saw her spraying those hate-filled words. After a while, those words magically disappeared. In the end only "Go die" was left.
Ye Yuanyu tapped his hand, "Sodium fluoride."
"Other characters are written using a ferric thiocyanate solution obtained by reacting potassium thiocyanate with ferric chloride. Sodium fluoride reacts with ferric thiocyanate to obtain sodium hexafluoroferrate and the color disappears. He looked up at the wall, "So only this 'go die' was written with ordinary paint."
Xiang Chen had an idea, "This is the password!" He walked directly to the door and pressed it a few times. As expected, the door of the laboratory opened with a beep.
Shu Hua said, "Wow, Elder Brother Chen, you're so awesome! What's the password?"
Ye Yuanyu said behind her, "GO DIE."
Shu Hua:......
She turned around and said angrily, "Why are you cursing out of nowhere?"
Ye Yuanyu:......
Jian Cang clutched his stomach and laughed so hard, "Hahaha, what Elder Brother Ye means is that the password is 'Go die'!"
Xiang Chen smiled and said, "Since there are the words 'go die' left on the wall and based on the password of the lock box just now, the password of the door should be of the same style."
"Zhang Diyi wants her apology and wants her to die."
Shu Hua caught on. Her face turned red. She rubbed her nose awkwardly and said to Ye Yuanyu, "I'm sorry, I wronged you."
Ye Yuanyu lowered his eyes and looked at her. Then he suddenly let out a chuckle and walked toward the door.
Shu Hua:......
Her eyes widened, "He is mocking me! Did you all see it? He is mocking me!"
Xiang Chen didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he quickly opened the door and said, "Let's go, let's go, we have to save people! Ye Yuanyu, come and lead the battle..."
"En?"
Jian Cang suddenly wailed, "What's going on! Are you kidding us?!"
【Hahahahaha, the program team finally strengthened up! 】
【This is too cool. You tried so hard to find the password, but when you open the door, you see a wall? 】
【Thankfully it was easy for the top students to solve problems. If it were a study scum like me who finally found the password but got this result, I would probably be furious. 】
【Perhaps this was Zhang Diyi's aim. She wanted to make Li Zhen angry to death. 】
【It sounds normal now that you said this. It can be more despair. 】
The anger was real, but the password was not fake either. Just as Jian Cang finished howling, the floor suddenly made a soft sound. Everyone turned around and saw a piece of floorboard about one meter and a half square that was raised.
"Huh?" Shu Hua ran over and stretched out her hand to pull it. A hole was revealed, "Are we going to leave from here?"
She peeked in and said, "It looks like a slide."
She shuddered again, "It's dark!"
Jiang Yu stepped forward and looked at the board she raised, "There are instructions."
Shu Hua read it out loud, "The upper limit of the load is 125 kilograms." Her eyes lit up and she looked at Jiang Yu, "Us two can go together!"
Jiang Yu nodded. At this time, she no longer disliked Shu Hua. They felt safe holding each other.
It was Ye Yuanyu who took the lead. After hearing him yelling that it was okay, Jiang Yu and Shu Hua hugged each other and slid down according to the diagram.
Then……
They both disappeared.
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