"Was he really dead?" Xiao Ling pressed.
"I'm not sure," Teacher Pan replied.
"Do you think he's dead?" Xiao Ling turned to ask Xu Huo.
How could he be dead?
A serial killer who could butcher so many innocent people was no depressive. He couldn't have been driven to his death by threats, either. Even the idea that he couldn't completely evade the death threats didn't hold up.
He'd killed so many people without a shred of remorse and left no trace behind. That meant he was emotionally stable, cold-blooded, meticulous, and exceptionally intelligent. He wasn't just seeking revenge; he was also toying with these people. By posting the video on his own social media account, he was telling everyone that he'd killed them, but no one could do a thing about it.
Would someone like that kill himself? He probably already thought of himself as a god who could control the lives of ants.
"Even as a Player, I find someone like that terrifying," Yu Guangnan said. "He committed so many crimes without leaving a single clue. It's downright unbelievable!"
That would certainly be unbelievable if he were an ordinary person. No matter how capable a person was, they were still human; they couldn't go beyond the limits of humanity. But if he was a Player, that was another matter.
"Yeah," Teacher Pan said. "This person was even more capable than a Player."
"But he was avenging his family. That's understandable, isn't it?" Xiao Ling said. "Didn't those people deserve to be tortured? Even if the people who died were innocent, they'd enjoyed the comfortable lives provided by the criminals, so of course they should bear responsibility for their crimes. They can't blame anyone for retaliating."
"Has your brain not developed yet?" Sun Bo sneered. "Collective punishment is a