Then he tapped his phone screen and answered the video call from his mother, Wen Wanyi.
The moment the call connected, Wen Wanyi's relieved voice came through the phone:
"Phew!"
"He answered!"
"Thank goodness, our son's all right!"
In the video window on his phone, Wen Wanyi patted her chest, her tightly knitted brows relaxing considerably.
Gu Qing asked with concern, despite already knowing the answer, "Mom, what's wrong?"
Before Wen Wanyi could speak, his father, Gu Mingbo, who was sitting beside her, leaned into view and cut in:
"Your mom and I just heard something happened at Haida. We found out there was a very serious ground collapse, and we were so worried about your safety. Thank goodness you answered, or we probably wouldn't have been able to sleep tonight."
Mom and Dad only know something happened at Haida?
They haven't seen the video of me killing the rats yet?
Then I can hold off on explaining that to them for now.
Once I have time to go home in a few days, I'll have a proper talk with them face-to-face...
With that thought, Gu Qing said, "I happened to be off campus today, so I escaped the disaster."
"You weren't on campus?"
Wen Wanyi narrowed her eyes, studying the background in her son's video window. "No wonder I thought your background didn't look like your dorm."
Then she asked, "If you weren't at school today, where did you go?"
Gu Qing was just about to answer.
His younger sister Gu Yao's urgent cries came from his parents' end:
"Dad, Mom, something huge happened! Quick, watch this video!"
As her urgent voice rang out, Gu Yao soon appeared on camera.
Holding her own phone, she opened a video and put it in front of their parents, urging them to