But I needed to think about how my past attempts at teaching had failed. Maybe I could find a different way to teach by looking at Juanjuan's example.
As I walked and thought, the four children behind me staggered along, each keeping five meters away. None of them tried to run.
Mengmeng's eyes were filled with fear as she kept glancing around. The boy of about ten sniffed the air as he looked around. Unlike the other three children,
he crawled on all fours instead of walking.
The fifteen-year-old kept studying his surroundings, his head bowed in thought. I had no idea what was going through his mind.
The last one, a girl of seventeen or eighteen, simply walked along without doing anything. She didn't look around at her surroundings,
or even at the ground. She just followed me with empty eyes.
In plain terms, this girl had been... broken.
It would probably take a long time for her to recover. I just hoped she'd be able to come to terms with what she'd been through. Otherwise,
it would haunt her forever.
As I walked, a sudden "bang" came from the direction of the strange noise. Then a man shouted something indistinctly.
"Where the hell is everyone?"
Someone hadn't left?
I paused in surprise, and then the voice shouted again.
"Damn it! Where is everyone?! Booze, get me... hic... booze!"
Was this some drunk?
The instant I heard the voice, someone behind me began breathing faster. I turned around instinctively and saw the girl with empty eyes.
No... I couldn't say her eyes were empty anymore. In them, I saw a jumble of emotions that ultimately became deep, seething
hatred and... fear.
Chapter 187: Weeping (Bonus chapter for a donation)
So... it looked like this man had played a part