Human Bricks were the foundation of Hande Private Academy. Without them, the academy would inevitably collapse. But if draining students dry and turning them into Human Bricks still wasn't enough, if the academy had to keep clinging to them and sucking their blood, what reason did it have to exist?
The School Rules and Situ An's Rules fought without breaking anything. Both wanted to devour the other, but neither wanted to destroy the "dining table." Gao Ming was completely different. If human flesh was the only thing on the menu, he would rather overturn the table.
He already had nothing. Why should he fear a flood that swallowed everything?
He took one blurry Student ID after another out of the Black-and-White Posthumous Photo. There was no need for Gao Ming to search for their owners individually. The Human Bricks had already sensed the familiar presence emanating from the cards.
Each tattered card held their memories, all the beautiful dreams they had once cherished, and even the people they had once been.
Many of the students in this school had killed their past selves with their own hands before they could resign themselves to becoming Human Bricks, built into the ground beneath the school.
Surrounded by nothing but Human Bricks, they might have gradually grown accustomed to it. But Gao Ming offered them a different choice, showing them that there were other paths they could take.
The tangled, entwined "roots" moved aside for Gao Ming of their own accord. These Human Bricks saw their blurry yet bright selves on the Student IDs, just as they had gazed up at the stars from the courtyard as children.
Back then, they hadn't understood why the sight captivated them so deeply. Only now did they realize that what they had been looking at was