When the sunlight vanished completely, the sky still reflected the pale white of the snow.
Heaven above and earth below became almost indistinguishable when the snowfall reached an unprecedented peak.
Between them, the tiny black specks were the staff members caught in the middle, abrupt and insignificant, as though they could not blend into the world.
19:45. A snowy night. -10°C.
Qiu Taoyu tucked both hands into her pockets, her thick fur hat fastened over her head. Stepping through the snow, she said softly:
"Strictly speaking, all of us have violated the rules. It's just that claiming there are ghosts only counts if someone reports it.
But Mr. Xue, your situation is similar to Miss Zhong's.
You both killed workers on campus. That is clearly a serious violation."
School Motto—Unity, Mutual Support, and Love for Others.
Logically speaking, murder was an exceptionally heinous act and clearly violated Article Five of the General School Rules.
Yet neither Xue Tinghai nor Zhong Feiluan had received any punishment after killing the Dormitory Administrator and the counselor.
Clear footsteps sounded from the other end of the communicator. Xue Tinghai was presumably in a very open area.
After pondering for a moment, he offered his explanation:
"My killing the Dormitory Administrator and Zhong Feiluan killing the counselor can be regarded as similar incidents, so we can reason by analogy.
The counselor had supernatural phenomena attached to him when he came after you. Zhong Feiluan could not possibly have killed him.
In other words, Zhong Feiluan's action did not actually produce any result, so she was not punished.
By the same reasoning, my situation should be the same."
Xue Tinghai's speculation made some sense. It was also the most reasonable guess at present.
That raised a problem.
The administrator of the male dormitory, Wang Jianguo, would