Chapter 69 Transfer Student
"Ding-ling-ling..." The bell for the end of class rang, and a moment later the entire silent campus became bustling. Students rushed , some ran to the toilet, some ran to the playground, some ran to the canteen, and some grabbed books and exercise books and ran to the teacher's office.
Jin Yang was still organizing his notes. His deskmate sighed, slumped over the table and said, "Ah~ah... I really want to have another winter vacation!"
"I think it's good to go back to school. It's better to be relaxed in class than to be visiting relatives and friends during the Chinese New Year!" said another boy in the class who can be considered a top student.
"That's you!" Classmate Jin Yang pointed at his own face angrily and said, "Look, it's only been a few days since school started and I already have dark circles under my eyes!"
The boy actually came over and stared at it for a while, then nodded seriously and said, "Yes, it's true."
My deskmate blushed.
"Who's pregnant?" Zhou Jing, who was passing by, only heard the tail end of the word and asked casually.
Everyone was stunned, and then everyone around burst into laughter: "Hahahaha... Mr. and Mrs. Baiyun are pregnant! How many months have they been?"
The boy's surname was Bai, and his name was Bai Qi. The girl's name was Zhuo Yiyun, which has the character "Yun" in her name. They sat at desks in front and behind each other for several months and developed feelings for each other. They were often teased by their classmates as the "Baiyun couple."
Bai Zhuo and the other boy, who were teased by the crowd, buried their heads in their books with red faces and stopped talking. Another boy who also felt the hardship of studying could not help but sigh and said, "Ah, Rong Yuan is still the best. In S City, he lives in a good environment, has beautiful girls to accompany him, occasionally does a few questions, and then is recommended to B University."
Jin Yang frowned.
"If the Olympiad is so easy, why don't you do it yourself?" Zhou Jing's anger rose reflexively when Rong Yuan was mentioned, but she also couldn't stand such an attitude of talking without any concern, so she immediately retorted angrily when she heard it.
The boy was not angry, and said with a smile: "If I had half the brains of that guy, I would have done it! Isn't it because you don't have it that you are jealous and envious?"
"You know you're not good enough but you still don't work hard. You only finished half of your math homework yesterday, right? The class representative told me! I'm telling you, Jiang Hongbo, if you hold our class back again in this exam..."
Poor Jiang Hongbo was being scolded by Zhou Jing like a machine gun. He had the illusion that he was facing his mother and class teacher combined. His head lowered lower and lower, but at the same time he secretly winked at Bai Qi, indicating "Brother, I jumped into the fire pit to rescue you, you have to remember that."
Bai Qi understood and nodded solemnly, his eyes full of sympathy.
Zhuo Yiyun, who was forgotten by everyone, also raised her head, her face still red. She poked Jin Yang's arm and whispered, "Hey, do you think the monitor likes Rong Yuan? Since the beginning of the school year, Rong Yuan has been away, and I think her temper has become more and more irritable."
"No way?" Jin Yang also lowered his head and spoke in a low voice, imitating her, with a surprised look on his face.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, you're too slow." The girl said with an experienced look: "Isn't there a saying that the more you pay attention to a person, the more you like him?"
Jin Yang thought about the possibility that Zhou Jing liked Rong Yuan, but he couldn't see any signs of her being in love. He whispered to his deskmate, "Do you dare to tell the monitor about this?"
Zhuo Yiyun imagined Zhou Jing's reaction when asked this question. A scene of a female Tyrannosaurus breathing fire suddenly appeared in her mind. She shuddered involuntarily and murmured, "Who dares to do that? She will tear it apart and eat it, right?"
Golden Sun Black Line.
"But seriously," Zhuo Yiyun came back to her senses and said, "When will Rongyuan come back? I heard from the teacher in the office that they have finished the final exams?"
"Yeah." Jin Yang nodded and said, "Yesterday was the last physics exam. He should be back today or tomorrow."
"I don't know how he did in the exam? But if it's that monster Rong Yuan, there should be no problem, right?" Zhuo Yiyu said to herself.
——It should be... okay, right?
——But now, for him, competition...is it still important?
Jin Yang couldn't help but think so. He thought Rong Yuan would come back immediately after the exam, but he hasn't returned to school yet. Is there something else he needs to do?
…
At the garbage disposal center on the outskirts of the city, the various types of garbage piled up like a small mountain emit an unbearable stench all year round. Some people in dirty and old clothes covered their faces, wore arm-length gloves, and wore black waterproof boots. They used long homemade tools to rummage through the garbage, and from time to time, they picked out some things that could be sold or still used and stuffed them into the bags they carried with them.
Rong Yuan also wrapped himself tightly, endured the nausea and climbed over the garbage mountain. After walking for a long time, he finally found his target.
In a corner of the garbage mountain, the dark and broken iron sheets formed a broken outline, with twisted metal debris and hideous intertwined parts, making it impossible to tell what its original shape was. It is even more difficult to imagine what kind of change it had encountered to become so horrible.
"Is this it?" Rong Yuan asked.
"Yes." Pea replied.
Rong Yuan walked over and walked around it. Most of the surface was covered with charred marks, but from the remaining iron railings and the window frames with a few pieces of broken glass hanging on them, it was not difficult to tell that this was a bus.
A bus that was first hit violently and then burned beyond recognition.
There was a shaky iron plate hanging at the rear of the car. Rong Yuan found an old piece of clothing on the ground and rubbed it on the iron plate, revealing the first few numbers that could still be seen clearly - [a-p23]
a-p23205 is the license plate number of a bus on route 223 that passes by his house every day. Rong Yuan used to memorize bits and pieces of information like this when he had nothing to do.
Rong Yuan was sure that this was the bus he took when he went out that Saturday. He always went out at a very regular time on weekends, and the schedule of the public bus was also fixed. Therefore, if he went to the library, he would meet this bus nine times out of ten.
After searching the news of that period, Wandou soon discovered that at 12:06 noon on September 11, a bus in City A rushed into a gas station at high speed, causing a major explosion. The bus was burned in the flames, and none of the passengers and the driver escaped. The gas station staff and nearby passers-by were also affected, with 20 to 30 casualties. The fire burned for more than three hours. When the fire was finally put out, more than 50 people on the bus had been burned beyond recognition and their bodies were incomplete. Finally, through DNA identification, the identities of 16 of them were confirmed.
According to reports, the driver of the bus may have had a sudden emergency, and the vehicle lost control when the driver lost consciousness, which led to this tragic accident. As for why there were so many passengers on the bus but no one escaped, the official explanation was that the accident happened very suddenly, and most people in Taiwan lack the ability to respond to emergencies and escape in their comfortable lives. For this reason, many schools and government departments in City A have also specially carried out safety education and first aid and escape training courses.
But Rong Yuan knew that this statement was just an official excuse to cover up the truth. The real cause of the accident was definitely not just that.
Apart from other things, the post was sent at 11:23, and the accident happened at 12:06. So what happened in the half hour between them? Did the girl who posted the post also die in the accident? What does this have to do with him? The route of bus 223 does not actually pass by the gas station where the accident occurred, so why did the car drive past it?
If he was responsible for all these people's deaths, if his 178.5 million negative merit points came from this, or if the Merit Book was responsible for all this, then he...
"Bang!" Rong Yuan hammered the carriage hard, his teeth chattering.
"Pea, scan this carriage. Don't miss anything suspicious!"
"Yes." Pea started scanning, Rong Yuan put on his glasses, and after a moment a three-dimensional holographic composition appeared in his field of vision.
After peeling off the charred and broken exterior, Rong Yuan saw the truest appearance of the car in the three-dimensional view: the iron sheet was squeezed and deformed, glass fragments were scattered inside the car, the plastic seats were burned and melted, forming a small pool of black colloid on the ground, various broken metal parts appeared in places where they should not be, and in the gap between the deformed seats and the car, Rong Yuan also saw a small piece of charred hand bone.
In the green 3D image, the pea is circled with red lines.
"What is that?" Rong Yuan asked.
Pea said: "After analysis, it turned out to be the shell casing left after the bullet was fired."
——Bullet shell?
…
"This school has surveillance personnel, which may pose a threat to your safety. Do you need me to take certain measures?"
In the black car, the stern-faced man sitting in the driver's seat spoke without turning his head, his tone cold and without any emotion.
"No, I want to see what he will do." The girl sitting in the back seat pushed the hair hanging on her face behind her ears and asked, "How do I look?"
The man glanced in the rearview mirror and said dryly, "Very good."
"Really? That's good." The girl looked down at her blue and white school uniform with some curiosity and said with a smile, "I've never worn this kind of clothes before! It feels so strange."
…
There are still two minutes left before the first class in the afternoon. The students in Class 1 are whispering, wondering why the head teacher, who always arrives in the classroom ten minutes in advance to check the hygiene and arrival of students, has not shown up yet.
The head teacher finally arrived until the bell rang, but no one paid attention to the teacher they had been waiting for for a long time. Everyone's eyes were on the person who walked in behind him.
“So beautiful!”
——This was everyone’s first reaction. Boys and girls alike were all stunned, so much so that the class was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
The girl in front of him had naturally red lips, naturally dark eyebrows, skin as white as ice and snow, black hair like a waterfall, and her starry eyes, when she turned slightly, made people feel as if she were the clear autumn water or the rippling lake light.
There is a beauty in the north, peerless and independent. One look from her can conquer a city, another look can conquer a country.
“Ahem, ahem!”
The head teacher coughed twice to bring everyone back to their senses, and then said, "Classmates, this is our new student, Xiao Xiao, who just transferred back from abroad. Welcome everyone!"
"Wow, wow, wow..." A warm applause broke out, and the boys in the class clapped especially hard.
Jin Yang was also in a daze, but he was not surprised by the girl's beauty - when he was in City B, he often saw many celebrities at banquets, some of whom were more outstanding in appearance than this girl - he was surprised that he knew this girl.
——Maybe we can’t say that we know each other, but we met once in City B.
