Chapter 9: Fear Makes People Cruel
I have to say that the gatekeeper of the underworld is really going too far, and he even asked us to spend money. You know, we are all high school students and don’t have much money. This 5,000 yuan is definitely a huge sum of money for us.
Mo Yu and Zhao Pengyu disappeared separately. It seemed that they went to withdraw money separately. After all, the stipulated time was getting closer and closer.
It was not until the afternoon that Zhao Pengyu hurried back. From his expression, it seemed that he had received enough money.
After arriving at the classroom, he didn't have time to say anything, and directly lit up a bunch of banknotes. As the banknotes burned, Zhao Pengyu's face was very complicated, with both relief and pity.
But he quickly returned to his seat, breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and said thank you to me.
I looked at him and asked, "Why? Is it easy to borrow money?"
"It was really difficult. I went to several relatives' homes. They all thought I was cheated. None of them were willing to lend me money. In the end, they still lent me money." Zhao Pengyu sighed and said with a hard-working look on his face.
"No wonder, it's really troublesome." I sighed, looked at Zhao Pengyu, and said in a complicated voice: "The tasks issued by this damn gatekeeper of the underworld are getting more and more difficult. If this time it is not 5,000 yuan, but 10,000 yuan, or 50,000 yuan, then we can't take it out at all."
"Yes, it took me a long time to borrow the two thousand yuan alone. Li Yutian is lucky." Zhao Pengyu glanced at Li Yutian with jealousy. Now Li Yutian has become a celebrity in our class, and many people deliberately flatter him.
Because everyone knows that this guy is rich, if you encounter such a money-burning task again, there will be absolutely no problem in borrowing money from him.
"There's nothing I can do about it. After all, he has a rich dad." I shook my head , looking helpless.
"Oh, I don't know how Mo Yu is doing." Zhao Pengyu said.
"I think he'll be fine." I said uncertainly.
"I hope so." Zhao Pengyu said.
So we continued to wait in the classroom. Now everyone's enthusiasm for class has become less and less. Even the top students are more concerned about whether they can survive rather than their grades.
The head teacher has also noticed this problem and has talked to us many times, but to no avail.
Who knew that we didn't see Mo Yu come back until the fourth class in the afternoon, and I was a little anxious. Because the mission deadline was ten hours, and seven or eight hours had passed. If it continued like this, by the time of evening self-study, Mo Yu would be dead.
Just as I was thinking this, Mo Yu came back. He looked a little embarrassed, with a faint bloodstain on his clothes. He looked extremely depressed.
In this situation, many people asked him out of curiosity, but he didn't answer. He just looked at everyone indifferently, and then he stood on the podium and started burning money. However, because he didn't bring a lighter, he could only borrow from others in the class.
Zhao Pengyu hurriedly lent it to him, and then took the time to ask, it must be very hard to borrow money.
Who knew that Mo Yu's eyes changed, he glared at Zhao Pengyu, and then silently burned the money. As the money burned, his expression was a little distorted, but it soon disappeared.
No one took it seriously and breathed a sigh of relief. After all, no one died in today's mission. No matter what, this was a good thing.
"Although the mission of the gatekeeper of the underworld is perverted, it's good now that no one died. I only need to complete seventeen more such tasks and I can successfully escape." Zhao Pengyu said.
"Will things be that simple?" I suddenly said, looking a little indifferent.
"What's wrong with you?" Zhao Pengyu looked at me curiously.
I lowered my head with a strange look, and then whispered, "Didn't you notice the blood on Mo Yu's body?"
"I noticed it, what's wrong?" Zhao Pengyu asked curiously.
"I know . They are not locals at all. They can raise 5,000 yuan in such a short time. It is definitely a small amount." I said with squinted eyes.
"So what do you mean?" Zhao Pengyu looked at me and said.
"Judging from the blood on his body, he may have killed someone," I said with a frown.
Zhao Pengyu was startled, then quickly reacted. He lowered his head and looked at me and said, "How is this possible?"
"I hope so. This is just my guess," I said.
As soon as I finished speaking, several policemen came in from outside the classroom. When the police came in, I could see that Mo Yu shuddered obviously, and then he lowered his head in a hurry.
The policemen looked at us, and then someone shouted, "Who is Mo Yu? Stand up."
We hurriedly looked at Mo Yu, and Mo Yu raised his head nervously, his eyes full of panic.
"Catch him." The leading policeman shouted hurriedly, and then rushed towards him. Mo Yu stepped back in panic, and then reached out his hand. In his pocket, there was a bloody dagger.
When he took out the dagger, the girls around him screamed.
Mo Yu looked around with a pale face, then suddenly grabbed a girl and put the dagger on her neck. The girl was so scared that her face turned pale and her whole body was shaking.
The police who were about to pounce did not dare to act rashly for a moment.
"Don't come over here, or I will kill her." Mo Yu shouted madly. He was in a crazy mood now, just like a madman.
"Calm down and don't be impulsive." Li Yutian shouted.
Who knew that Mo Yu looked at him angrily, and then roared: "It's all because of you. If you hadn't refused to lend me the money, I wouldn't have killed someone for robbery!"
"What, you killed someone?" Li Yutian said in amazement.
"That's right, I robbed an old man, but he refused to give me the money. So I killed him." Mo Yu said this and laughed crazily.
"But I really have no money. This is all I have with me. If I had money, I would definitely lend it to you." Li Yutian said helplessly.
"Anyway, it's all your fault. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be like this." Mo Yu shouted madly, then he looked at the police, his eyes full of madness and violence.
Seeing Mo Yu like this, we were all shocked. No one would have thought that Mo Yu would become so crazy. He was just like an extremist.
But I can understand Mo Yu's madness. Judging from the dirt on his body, he probably went to many people to raise money. But no one probably lent him money. So in this desperate state, he had the idea of robbing. And he even killed someone.
Seeing the crazy Mo Yu, many people left the classroom, leaving the situation to the police. The police tried hard to persuade Mo Yu, but Mo Yu was not moved at all. From his appearance, he was determined to resist.
As we were watching the scene in front of us, my phone suddenly rang. I opened it abruptly and saw in the WeChat group that the gatekeeper of the underworld spoke.
"Because the money Mo Yu burned was fake, the mission was not completed and he was sentenced to death by beheading."
Seeing this, I suddenly widened my eyes and looked at Mo Yu in disbelief. Mo Yu picked up his phone and was also stunned by the text message. He frantically shouted "impossible" and "this is not true". Then he stabbed the girl in his arms with a dagger.
Just as the tragedy was about to happen, gunshots rang out. Mo Yu was shot in the head, blood and brain matter flowed out of his shattered head. And Mo Yu's body fell backwards powerlessly. When Mo Yu fell in a pool of blood, I saw that it was the police who fired the gun.
This policeman was the same thin policeman I met when I was first questioned. He looked indifferent, and the muzzle of the gun in his hand was still smoking.
In this way, Mo Yu, with a heart full of reluctance, finally paid the price for his crime, and we fell into unprecedented fear.
When everything was settled, it was already evening self-study. Mo Yu's body had been taken away. But the whole classroom was in despair.
"First it was the squad leader, then Mo Yu. Are these people crazy?" Tong Tong said dissatisfiedly.
"Yeah, even if it's just for survival, there's no need to be so extreme," said another girl.
"Hmph, it's easy for you to say that. After all, the incident didn't happen to you." Ye Lingyun retorted.
"Yeah, you know, if they fail to complete the task, they will die. That's how Mo Yu died today." A boy immediately retorted.
For a while, boys and girls in the classroom started arguing.
I watched all this indifferently, feeling helpless deep down in my heart. In fact, I understood the mentality of the squad leader and his men. Although they committed crimes , their fundamental purpose was to survive.
We are just a group of high school students, with an instinctive fear of death. Therefore, no matter how shameless and demanding the task of the gatekeeper of the underworld is, we have to complete it.
Perhaps many people would say that doing evil just to stay alive is too selfish.
But humans are inherently selfish, and we are not saints. We simply cannot sacrifice ourselves for others.
The classroom is now shrouded in a nightmare, and to this day, the nightmare has not ended. Each of us is wandering in the nightmare.
It can be said that fear makes us cruel.
I frowned slightly , and I made up my mind to find a way to end this nightmare. We can't go on like this. Three people have died so far. How many more will there be in the future?
What I am more afraid of is the people in the class. From the class monitor to Mo Yu, they have to do crazy things to survive. Human nature has gradually become distorted. If it continues like this, I am afraid that there will be no need for the gatekeepers of the underworld. These people alone are enough to turn the class into hell.
