After the incident was resolved, the vengeful spirits of those girls finally dispersed completely, and Fang Zheng and the others returned to the original school building. It was rather interesting—though they had spent over two months in that world, only half a night had passed in reality. Not only were they back, but the three girls who had previously gone missing were also lying unconscious nearby.
The rest was easy to handle. The injured were all sent to the hospital for treatment. Only Fang Zheng took Silvia away from the old building afterward, finding a secluded place with no one around.
"What are you planning to do next?"
"Next?"
"W&W—or rather, the Thousand Mile Cult."
Fang Zheng stared at Silvia. Her expression shifted slightly, and she turned her head away.
"But... that was a long time ago, wasn't it? Even if the Thousand Mile Cult really was like that back then..."
"A dog will always eat shit."
Fang Zheng snorted and cut off Silvia's defense.
"You should know better than I do what W&W is really like. You don't honestly think those people are good guys, do you?"
"..."
At that, Silvia fell silent. As the Student Council President of Queenville Academy, she naturally knew about the parent company's affairs. In fact, many members of Yaoguang Star, Queenville Academy's intelligence organization, had been bought by W&W, trained, and then treated as company assets. Put bluntly, it was no different from the human trafficking of old.
Or rather, similar human trafficking schemes had existed before, but they had at least been illegal. Now, after the Starfall disaster, the world ruled by the Integration Enterprise Conglomerate had effectively legalized the trade in human beings... Fang Zheng was not surprised in the slightest. That was just how capitalists were. If they weren't hung