Pollution throughout the territory

Judge Tang, a bald and muscular man, rarely came this time. Instead, he sent another person wearing the uniform of the Arbitration Court to accompany him.

The bodies of the victims were stored in the morgue of the police station. After Xia Ren and the others went there, they discovered that most of the deceased had been closed as suicides and then cremated. Needless to say, Huang Qiuyuan's contribution was not small.

Only two bodies have not been cremated, one is a student of Liming Middle School, and the other is a woman in her twenties, but they did not find any spider silk.

"Team Leader Li, please check again. My son must have encountered something at school. There is no way he could have committed suicide!"

When Xia Ren and the others were about to walk out of the police station, they saw a middle-aged man at the door holding the window of the police car and pleading.

Student commits suicide.

Could it be the parent of the student whose body was in the morgue just now?

Xia Ren stopped.

Team Leader Li in the police car was the superintendent in charge of the dismemberment case the day before yesterday. His brother killed his sister and was later killed by her sister's infected body. However, the infected body disappeared later. Xia Ren went to the hospital but could not find the other party's body. Because of the traces of the pursuer, Xia Ren had no time to continue tracing. Later, the hanging rope appeared, forcing him to temporarily give up on the infected body.

"Mr. Duan, I understand your feelings, but didn't you confirm it yourself? You and your wife were also at home that night, and it was impossible for outsiders to enter your son's room."

Looking at the haggard middle-aged man in front of him, Team Leader Li felt helpless.

The police station was no longer able to intervene in the incident at Liming Middle School, and all suspicious deaths were concluded as suicides by the new criminal investigation experts. When encountering such a thing, he had no choice but to do so.

Through the car window, he saw Xia Ren standing not far away and recognized him.

The two of them greeted each other with their eyes. Xia Ren didn't say anything, turned around and left with Liang Wan and the others.

"The principal of Liming Middle School is not simple. When I taught the students, the atmosphere in the class was normal. No one seemed to question the disappearance of the classmates around me."

Xia Ren sighed.

"It's also a means of protection."

Liang Wan said seriously: "This is beyond what ordinary humans can handle and understand. Even if it is announced, it will only cause unnecessary panic. The luckiest thing for human beings is ignorance."

Xia Ren glanced at her in surprise, and then realized that she was not defending the principal and others, she was probably just thinking of the situation of the Salvation Foundation.

But is ignorance bliss?

Xia Ren imagined what would happen if he died completely in the hospital that day without meeting Zhao Mingyue?

The answer is that if he could choose once, he would undoubtedly choose death.

Pollution and all that, it’s terrible.

People who have not witnessed it with their own eyes will not understand it, and once they are involved, they can never look back and can only sink deeper and deeper into the abyss.

Jupiter City is like this now, so the pollution all over the world combined...just thinking about it makes him feel desperate.

Wait, despair?

Xia Ren suddenly thought of a possibility.

"Should we go back to school to eat, or should we just eat outside?"

Liu Xiuxiu asked.

It's been nearly two hours since they left school, and it's almost time to eat.

"I haven't learned anything yet..."

Liang Wan was about to speak when she was interrupted by Xia Ren's low tone.

"Eating doesn't matter at all. The concept of eating is only necessary to survive. Since humans will starve to death if they don't eat for seven days, can't we just wait until the seventh day before eating?"

"Uh..." Liang Wan.

"Eh?" Liu Xiuxiu.

"Why are you so depressed suddenly? Don't scare me, Xia Ren..." Liu Xiuxiu said anxiously.

Sitting in the passenger seat, he could clearly see that, as if in the blink of an eye, Xia Ren's energy and energy disappeared, and his whole person was as languid as a deflated balloon.

Liang Wan cast a curious look, and she also didn't understand why he had such a big contrast in a short period of time, as if he were two completely different people.

"What are you talking about? I'm obviously very energetic all the time."

Xia Ren was hunched over, his hands resting weakly on the steering wheel. He turned his head, his eyelids were twitching, and there was no luster in his eyes. He looked at Liu Xiuxiu like an old man who was seriously ill in bed but unattended.

Liu Xiuxiu was frightened: "...the way you are now, the word "fundamental" and "spiritual" are antonyms, right? You should be normal!"

"Is it possible that it was affected by the spider silk?"

Liang Wan took out an old seal and slapped it on Xia Ren's arm, but the white paper had no changes, indicating that it had not been contaminated.

"Are you really a ghost in three forms?" Liang Wan asked in surprise.

"Isn't the focus of attention now?" Liu Xiuxiu was completely confused.

"don’t worry."

Xia Ren casually tore off the old seal that had not been triggered and put it into his pocket, and said listlessly: "I just suddenly thought that since the Hanging Rope is looking for people who have no hope in life, then as long as I become desperate , can it become its target?

Because I write novels, it is easy for me to be emotionally involved, so I recalled that when I first entered junior high school, both my parents passed away, leaving me and my sister who was also still in school to depend on each other. Not only did my relatives not pity our sister. My brother, on the contrary, is still deliberately thinking about the inheritance left by his parents, using the name of guardian to defraud us of all our money and then run away;

In the dead of winter, because my body was growing, my old shoes soon became too small to fit, and I had no money to buy new ones. My toes were covered with blood blisters;

In winter, I was reluctant to heat hot water and could only take a bath with cold water. I caught a bad cold due to cold and had no money to see a doctor. I had no choice but to walk to school to continue classes. As a result, I passed out during class. If I hadn’t discovered it in time, I would have almost slept to death;

Neither of the siblings knew how to cook and couldn't afford vegetables, so they ate fried steamed buns for two years and never had good ones during the holidays;

Because I had no money, I didn’t even go to the key high school I had always dreamed of, even though I had enough scores in the high school entrance examination;

He clearly knew that his childhood sweetheart had feelings for him, but because of his low self-esteem, he could only act stupid;

When I got seriously ill, the first thing I thought about was not the treatment, but how much it would cost. As a result, because the medical expenses were too high, I had to hide it from my sister and put off getting treatment..."

"Stop, stop, stop talking.

This story is too tragic. "

Liu Xiuxiu and Liang Wan couldn't bear to hear this.

"Your idea is possible, but pretending to be desperate is completely different from true despair. Hanging Rope should be able to easily distinguish this."

Liang Wan thought for a while and said.

"I'm not pretending, and I'm not making up the story."

Xia Ren continued to drive and said, "What I just talked about was my personal experience."

"..." Liang Wan.

"..." Liu Xiuxiu.

The car was suddenly filled with an atmosphere of despair.

The car was driving a little slowly, and they saw that the intersection ahead was blocked, the fire truck was parked on the side of the road, and a circle of people gathered around it.

Liu Xiuxiu stuck her head out of the car window, took a clear look at the situation and said, "It seems like someone is about to jump off the building."

"There are so many people who want to commit suicide recently. I went up to help persuade them."

Xia Ren said, stopped the car, opened the door, and walked over there.

Liu Xiuxiu looked at his extremely lonely back and said uncertainly: "I feel like he wants to jump off the building too."

Liang Wan nodded, saying that she felt the same way.

"Hey! Who are you? It's dangerous ahead. You can't go past!"

the fireman shouted.

Xia Ren ignored them and continued to walk forward.

"Don't come here! None of you can persuade me! If you come here again I'll jump!"

At the edge of the rooftop, there was a man in his thirties with a stubble on his face, who was extremely emotional.

Xia Ren ignored his threat - if it was a threat - and walked to the other side.

Probably because he saw Xia Ren's expression of despair, the man did not "jump down if he comes back again" as he said.

"The place next to you is quite spacious. If you don't mind letting me stay for a while, too."

Xia Ren said calmly.

The man saw the scene where the firefighter shouted just now, and combined with his expression, he felt that the other person was not from the police station.

“The scenery here is really good.”

Before the man could agree, Xia Ren naturally sat down cross-legged next to him. It was too late to refuse.

"Are you... here to persuade me?"

The man hesitated.

"No." Xia Ren answered simply.

Probably because they saw another person on the rooftop, the crowd below was a little commotion, and they all speculated on Xia Ren's identity.

"It felt more like suicidal."

Liu Xiuxiu raised her head and said.

"He doesn't look like he's pretending. Is he too into the drama?"

Liang Wan found that she couldn't guess Xia Ren, not at all. She was fine before, so why did her state change so quickly?

Xia Ren stretched his head and glanced at the air mattress that was still busy being arranged below, and asked, "Why do you want to commit suicide?"

The man looked very distressed and didn't want to answer this question.

"At your age, you should be married, right?"

"My wife is cheating on her with someone," the man said in a low voice.

"..." Xia Ren.

Adding fuel to the fire.

He thought of Gao Le and said, "There should be some close friends, we grew up together."

"The person I cheated on was my best friend."

"..." Xia Ren.

"That child..."

"The child is not my biological child, but my friend's."

The man held his head high, trying not to cry.

Xia Ren felt that if he continued to hit the target, the opponent might jump right away.

"Actually, I don't want to live anymore."

"Why are you doing this?" the man asked with a hint of choking.

Xia Ren sighed and said: "When I first entered junior high school, both my parents passed away, leaving me and my sister who was also still in school to depend on each other. Not only did my relatives not pity our siblings..."

He talked for more than ten minutes, from junior high school to high school.

"Stop, that's enough!"

The man couldn't bear to listen any more, and with a look of deep sympathy on his face, he hesitated for a while, and then persuaded him: "You have persisted through such a hard life, even for your sister..."

"I have a terminal illness, and the treatment costs are astronomical. My sister has lived a hard life for so many years, and now she has finally found a good job. I don't want to burden her anymore."

"……"man.

"Then you should have some good friends, right?" the man asked cautiously.

"some."

Xia Ren lowered his head: "One of my childhood sweethearts has liked me since childhood. I have always understood it, but because of my low self-esteem, I always pretend to be stupid. If she knows that I am sick, she will definitely help me at all costs, but this disease cannot be cured. Well, it’s been delayed for too long, instead of letting her watch my slow and painful death, it’s better to do it now.”

"……"man.

He didn't dare to persuade him any more, because if what he said was wrong, the young man might jump down immediately.

"It is fate that we meet today. Why don't we die together? We will have a companion on the road to hell."

Xia Ren suggested very sincerely.

The man was stunned.

He originally wanted to die, but for some reason, seeing someone worse off than himself, he suddenly felt that his life might not be as bad as he felt before.

"I think... we can both think it over carefully."

At this time, the man felt that the rooftop was too high and unsafe, so he wanted to step back, but unexpectedly Xia Ren slapped him on the back, almost causing him to lose his balance.

The man's spine instantly went cold, his body leaned back, his upper body lay on the ground, his hands clasped on the ground, and he yelled angrily:

"What are you doing! What if I fall down accidentally!"

"Didn't you just want to jump down?"

Xia Ren also asked angrily, "I'm just helping you."

"Crazy, crazy!"

The man looked frightened, cursed and got up from the ground, and took the initiative to walk towards the firefighters waiting behind.

"It turns out I still don't want to die."

Xia Ren felt very bored. He glanced at the crowd of onlookers below, stood up, patted his pants, and walked downstairs.

"It scared me to death. I almost thought you were going to jump off the building."

Liu Xiuxiu was very worried about his current state and asked, "I can't tell now whether you are pretending or not."

"Even if you know something is false at the beginning, if you tell yourself it is true a thousand times, you will inevitably start to doubt its authenticity. So don't worry, I still know it."

Moreover, with the system and the water of rootlessness, even if he really wanted to commit suicide, it would probably not be an easy thing.

When they returned to school, it was already half past twelve. They had just finished their meal in the cafeteria and were eating when they saw the potbellied principal coming over.

"What happened this morning..."

He had already learned the news through his own channels, and he came here now to discuss with them what to do.

"Don't worry, we don't plan to announce the matter yet. If it causes confusion, it will also hinder our investigation."

Liang Wan raised her head and said.

"This is really troublesome for you."

The principal looked around. At this time, the students had almost finished their meals, and there were not many people in the cafeteria. So he took out a bank card from his pocket, pushed it to Liang Wan naturally, and said, "Don't refuse in a hurry. , this is a little hard-earned money, it is not easy for you to travel back and forth, use this money to add some gas, if you need anything else, please tell me and I will do my best to help you solve it."

In fact, in the whole school, the person who wants to find out the truth the most is the principal.

This has nothing to do with political achievements, just responsibility.

Even if it turns out to be suicide or someone else plotted it, he still wants to give an explanation to the parents of the students.

In the past few days, the principal has lost more than ten pounds. He has hardly had a good night's sleep. He keeps his feet on the ground every day, busy going to the police station to inquire about the progress of the case, busy comforting parents, busy questioning students privately, and... He was busy shutting down the media who were quick to follow the wind, so that students could attend class with peace of mind. If it weren't for his efforts, the school would have been in chaos. Just the mere presence of the students' parents would have caused enough trouble.

If he didn't really want to improve education, he wouldn't have sat as the principal for decades and turned Liming Middle School into one of the top key high schools in Jupiter City.

Being in the system, he has been exposed to the corruption within the Supreme Alliance government for decades. Not to mention the higher level, just in the small city of Jupiter, if he wants to make any decision, even if it is to build a road, ten Members can keep arguing with each other for two or three years and will never let up until they get enough benefits.

In his opinion, this level of bribery is necessary to get things done, because everyone is like this. If you pretend to be aloof, sometimes it will make people feel that you don't understand the rules and you will be looked down upon, deliberately stumbling you, and violating the rules.

In addition, internal chaos has begun to occur in recent years. Just like this matter, the police department was originally responsible for it, but for some reason, the police department hastily concluded the case and threw it all to the Dispute Arbitration Court. The principal also had a headache.

"How embarrassing."

Xia Ren said, reaching out to pick up the bank card from Liang Wan and stuffing it into his pocket.

"We are also teachers in the school now, and the principal has become disloyal."

Liu Xiuxiu looked at his serious look and breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that this was the Xia Ren he was familiar with. The death-like look just now made him feel uneasy.

"In addition, after my preliminary understanding, three students went to the psychology teacher before committing suicide. I don't know if this information is of any use to you."

The principal said with a smile.

The three of them made eye contact and thought it was worth checking.

"Then I won't bother you."

The principal did not continue to be polite and turned to leave.

"My afternoon classes are full," Liang Wan said.

"I only have two classes, so let me go and take a look."

Xia Ren put down his chopsticks and said.