"Goodbye"

"Knock, knock."

"Creeeak-"

After two knocks, the door was pushed open, and He Siying walked in.

"What's wrong? Why isn't anyone talking?"

He Siying had flown straight in through the second floor. To Liu Yiyi at that moment, she really was a godsend.

"Are those mutants taken care of?"

Shen Bai, who had remained silent until then, finally spoke.

"Yes, they're all dead."

"Good."

He Siying glanced toward the school gates and said:

"I heard sirens. The police should be here in a little while."

Shen Bai nodded.

With a click, Shen Bai finished what he was doing, turned to look at everyone, and said:

"There's no rush. Everything else can wait. You can head back first if you want. I can handle talking to them and helping them on my own. Don't all sit here brooding. Anyway, the school is definitely going to close for a while. If you two don't want to come straight with us, pack your everyday necessities and head back to your places first. We'll stay in touch."

Shi Yu and Han He did not object. Seeing that the most serious wound on Hu Zihao's body, which had gone all the way through him, had almost disappeared, they nodded and left the outer room together. Before leaving, they also said they would pack Hu Zihao's luggage for him.

As the two walked away, Liu Yiyi went over to the desk in front of the surveillance monitors.

Bang!!!

She slammed her head hard into it.

Inside the vice principal's office.

The floor gleamed, as though someone had given it a vigorous hosing down. On the sofa beside it, five corpses, their bodies broken and twisted into spirals, lay still.

Shi Yu and Han He soon finished packing their luggage.

They were both students, so there was not much to bring. If they really joined Liu Yiyi and the others in the future, they probably would not need to attend school anymore.

"Ziiip-"

Shi Yu briskly zipped up his suitcase and looked up at the others in the dorm room.

The others were still asleep. According to Shen Bai, the school's students and teachers had all suffered corruption from a level 1 Evil Sin, which was why that level 4 Evil Sin had been able to do whatever it pleased at school.

Now that the Evil Sin was dead, the students and teachers still needed time for their damaged brains and depleted energy to recover, but their lost memories would never return.

He did not know what he was really thinking right now.

Did he envy those classmates who knew nothing?

Was he glad he had learned the truth before everyone else?

Should he join the authorities?

His thoughts were a tangled mess, but he did not know what other choice he could make.

No one could remain composed after experiencing something like this. He was only a high school student, and he had already seen that his own strength amounted to very little.

What would he do in the future if he did not join? If he really ran into something like this again, would he survive?

Shi Yu had acknowledged his selfishness long ago.

He had no lofty sense of duty. If he really were that kind of person, he would have chosen to act the very first time he felt that terror.

He was afraid of dying. The growing terror only made him more afraid.

But running away would not solve anything. Shi Yu understood that clearly.

So he agonized over it, but still chose this path.

At that moment, Shi Yu wished so much that he really had a family member he could tell, just as Liu Yiyi and Shen Bai had said.

But he did not, and he had not for a long time. He had long since grown used to the feeling of forcing himself to make a choice.

Like warning Liu Zunfu, or saving Hu Zihao.

Or choosing to join the authorities.

Shi Yu had no one beside him to talk to. He stood alone at the dorm room door, looking at the cabinet he had pushed open.

"...Goodbye."

With a click, the door behind Shi Yu was pushed open.

Shi Yu jumped, and most of the emotion he had worked up faded. He turned to look at the person who had opened the door behind him.

Han He stood there, carrying two suitcases, one of which was Hu Zihao's.

Han He looked around Shi Yu's dorm room and said:

"Done with your farewell ceremony? Shall we go?"

Shi Yu sensed that Han He seemed to be trying to lighten the mood, but looking at Han He's largely expressionless face, he really felt that the guy was asking for a punch.

Still, that little interruption settled Shi Yu's mood. He tugged his suitcase and said:

"Let's go. What's there to say goodbye to?"

"I heard you say goodbye."

"You heard wrong."