255: Chapter 53 This is all left for the kids 255: Chapter 53 This is all left for the kids Qinghe Middle School Campus Ghost Story Number One: The girl hanging in front of the girls’ bathroom.
Campus Ghost Story Number Two: The unnatural parents who snatched their own daughter back to sell her off.
For students, parents are like insurmountable mountains that they can hardly ever get over.
Especially in this era, the culture of filial piety still takes root in the subconscious of the general populace.
Parents selling off their children, no matter the reason, is completely justified and lawful within the traditional moral views of feudal times.
Children cannot resist, nor can they bear any resentment, otherwise, they will be accused of being unfilial.
Such exalted and perverse moral views, of course, cannot emerge from nothing and be passed down for thousands of years.
Behind it lies a very complex chain of interests called “raising filial and incorrupt officials.”
Perhaps, for children born in such families, their parents are like nameless, indescribable, invincible evil gods.
But it’s a different story for others.
When Wang Yunxiao appeared at the entrance of the teaching building with his fully-armed brothers, those two monsters that were grabbing a student and trying to drag them out stopped their movement, and all four murky eyes turned to look simultaneously.
“Alright, you guys stay here, I’m going to help.”
Chen Yan put on her helmet, pulled down her visor, and walked towards the outside of the building.
“Senior sister!
Senior sister, don’t go!”
Whether asleep or awake, the students subconsciously wanted to stop Chen Yan.
“That monster is too horrifying!”
“They eat kids, don’t they?”
“Senior sister, you can’t beat them!”
“Shh—”
Chen Yan put her finger to her lips, signaling everyone to quiet down.
After the last battle, she had matured a lot.
There was a simple truth that went without saying.
Monsters aren’t something you can ignore just by not looking at them.
“Cherish your happy lives now.”
Chen Yan looked at the bewildered students in front of her, and a warm smile involuntarily appeared on her face.
She seemed to see her past self.
And saw her parents who toiled every day to fry nuts to pay for her education.
Some people willingly degrade themselves, while others stride forward proudly.
…
The Heavenly Crossbow emitted a piercing wail as the massive crossbow arrow penetrated the body of the monster, and the chain tensed in an instant.
Wormwood hadn’t returned to the team yet, so the operation of the Heavenly Crossbow was handed over to Sorghum from the same group.
Although his craftsmanship wasn’t as precise as Wormwood’s, targeting such a big, living target was significantly easier with sufficient lighting.
Taking advantage of the moment Matuan and Youbing kept another monster occupied with a rattan shield, Eryang silently approached the beast, and his ox horn knives plunged into its body.
With a twist of his hands, the monster burst out with a piercing, agonizing scream.
Gao Shan watched on the side with cold sweat dripping, while Wang Yunxiao shook his head secretly.
Too weak.
It felt like fighting Vanklif’s daughter and then turning around to fight Vanklif himself.
Of course, this was no illusion.
Compared to those cunning old Western monsters they encountered on the battlefield last time, these male and female monsters were merely born from campus ghost stories, recently emerged nightmares that were not yet two days old.
It could only be described as a nightmare, one that even outdid the woman who hanged herself at the entrance of the girls’ bathroom.
At least she really did hang herself, while those male and female ghosts were merely the result of students’ idle gossip and wild imaginations.
Beyond their fierce and terrifying exteriors that could make a child cry, they were in fact paper tigers that would break at the slightest poke.
Without even using their full strength, his team had knocked them down, not a single one managed to explode into a puff of smoke.
Just like intricately carved frozen pears, these school ghost stories were special training programs developed by the school for the new sprouts.
These old timers like them had gone through real battlefields and no longer needed these child’s play games.
We didn’t envy them one bit, didn’t want to play at all, really.
Gao Shan, however, did seem eager to join in, but just staying here had already exhausted half of his spirits.
He felt his eyelids growing heavier and he might collapse into sleep at any moment, unable to muster the energy to lift a finger.
“Why aren’t you guys affected?”
Watching Wang Yunxiao and his young brothers strolling around as if they were out shopping, while the officers he brought were all languishing and finding it hard to breathe, Gao Shan couldn’t help but ask out of curiosity.
“Have you suffered before?”
Wang Yunxiao countered.
“Who hasn’t suffered?”
Gao Shan didn’t understand.
“I was born in the countryside, working in the fields with my parents since I was a child.
What kind of hardship haven’t I endured?
Later when I joined the army…”
“Joined the army, but you’ve never fought in a war, right?”
Wang Yunxiao said with a smile, “I heard from Director Qin that your group was recruited as reservists at first.
But by the time you finished training, the war was already over, right?”
Gao Shan replied defensively, “The training at that time was very tough too.”
“But it didn’t starve you to death.”
“What kind of talk is that?”
“It simply means what it says, no sarcasm involved.”
Wang Yunxiao spoke in a low voice, “These brothers of mine aren’t related to me by blood.
A couple of years ago during the war, the whole area we lived in was blown to ruins.
I dug each of them out from the rubble.
There were more of us at the time, but in the end, only a few remained.
Can you guess what happened to the others?”
“So we really treasure the peaceful and tranquil life we have now.
If anyone dares to disrupt this happiness, we’d risk our lives to fight them.”
“Captain Gao, do you have such conviction?”
“Of course, I do!”
Being lectured by a younger man, Gao Shan’s face turned as dark as the bottom of a pot.
“I believe you do, but what about the brothers under your command?
Are they truly earnest in following you here?
Or are they just obediently following orders, not wanting to disobey their leader’s commands?
Can you grasp their state of mind?”
Though the words were unpleasant, Wang Yunxiao still said them.
I can grasp the minds of the brothers under my command; can you?
Gao Shan looked at his officers, hesitating to speak.
Serving in the army meant following orders; why bother with their mindsets?
He could only guarantee that his officers would follow his commands; grasping their mindset… that was a bit too difficult for him.
And the Outer Dimension was precisely the place that tested one’s mentality.
“Alright, everything here is under my command.”
Wang Yunxiao walked to the school gate, placed his hands on the gates of Qinghe Middle School, and turned to look at Chen Yan.
“Wait a moment…
I’m finding the way…”
Chen Yan pressed on her temples, her eyes emitting a silver-white glow.
“It should be this one, it looks the most stable…
Listen to my command, countdown from five, five, four, three, two, one…”
Wang Yunxiao pushed forcefully with his hands, flinging the gates open.
Darkness engulfed his sight suddenly, and the world spun around.