After waiting for an hour, the instructors came downstairs, chatting and laughing. Lin Shuyue hurried out of the dormitory and locked the iron gate according to Tian Li's instructions.
The instructors didn't even look at her, and left after making plans to go out for a drink.
Lin Shuyue took the key and returned to the cabin. Before leaving, she casually glanced at the camera in the corridor that was flashing red light.
Lin Shuyue couldn't sleep that night.
The next morning, when the school alarm rang, Lin Shuyue glanced at the system panel floating in the air. It was only five twenty.
Without thinking much, she got up and opened the iron gate at the staircase, and the neatly dressed students rushed down from upstairs.
Lin Shuyue stood by, waiting for Ah Hao to come down.
Just as Lin Shuyue thought, he with the blue ring on his hand was still walking at the end.
When he was going downstairs, Lin Shuyue took advantage of the students' cover and quickly handed a note into his hand.
With the foreign object in hand, Ah Hao quickly raised his eyes and looked at the woman in front of him who had an unfamiliar face but vaguely familiar. Before he could think too much, the person in front of him had already left, and Ah Hao hurried to catch up.
He held the note tightly, then put it into his shoes while squatting down.
It was still foggy and dark at this time. More than eighty students stood in a row on the plastic track. An instructor blew a whistle and they ran forward like arrows.
Lin Shuyue was sweeping the floor with a broom and watched them running around in circles as if their lives depended on it; no one dared to stop.
One girl couldn't run any longer, so the instructor closest to her stepped forward, raised the ruler in his hand high, and brought it down heavily. The girl groaned, stood up quickly, and ran forward mechanically.
Lin Shuyue quickly picked up the broom and went to the cafeteria with the swept garbage.
She was afraid that if she looked at her one more time, she would not be able to resist and would beat up the instructor who hit her.
Mei Daliang in the cafeteria has already prepared breakfast.
There was rice porridge so thin that you could see a person's face in it, a black dish of pickled vegetables that were made of unknown ingredients, and a large bowl of steamed buns with unknown fillings.
Lin Shuyue fetched water and wiped the kitchen table at the door, then mopped the floor.
At seven o'clock, the students finally finished their one and a half hour run and came in to eat. A spoonful of rice porridge, a chopstick of pickles, and a fist-sized steamed bun were their breakfast.
After eating, they went to class.
Lin Shuyue cleaned up the kitchen and carried a bucket to clean the teaching building.
At this time, she looked at the classroom where the students were having classes. They were very different from the day before when Lin Shuyue came to visit undercover as a parent. There were no desks in front of them. They just sat on stools, holding a pen in one hand and a notebook on their legs with the other hand. The teacher was teaching in front, and they were taking notes on their thighs.
Lin Shuyue was very slow. She listened to the teacher's half-lesson. Really, it was all bullshit. Lin Shuyue felt that this teacher must not even have a junior high school diploma.
Otherwise, how come he can't even read the articles fluently according to the textbook?
She went up the stairs to the second floor.
There was no one on the second floor, and no one was in the infirmary or the art room.
Lin Shuyue cleaned the second floor and then went to the office building in front.
It was just past eight o'clock.
The students at the Internet addiction treatment school have been up for almost three hours, while outside the school, many people are just heading to work.
Wang Mingzheng was the same. He had a smile on his face and held the Pengcheng Daily he had just bought at the newsstand. On the front page of the second page, the article published by their city newspaper yesterday was clearly printed.
As soon as he sat down on the chair, the phone rang.
Wang Mingzheng picked up the phone casually. The caller was his friend at Pengcheng Daily. Their talk show wanted to interview Lin Shuyue. After all, apart from this case, Lin Shuyue, as an intern reporter and a young girl in her early twenties, bravely captured a vicious murderer.
Since yesterday, many people have called Wang Mingzheng to interview Lin Shuyue.
Wang Mingzheng did not agree with anyone. After all, such news would be exclusive if released, and Wang Mingzheng wanted to keep the news at home.
He had already found out that the court trial of Duan Taoyong would begin in half a month. By then, he could put this report together with the result of Duan Taoyong's trial as the headlines, and he would not have to worry about sales.
"Ah Feng, it's not that I don't agree with you, but Xiao Lin went out to cover a new news yesterday. I can't contact her now..."
A voice came from the other end of the phone: "That's no problem. We have to arrange shifts after the interview, and it will take at least half a month to produce the film. Ah Ming, you and I have been classmates for many years, you must give me this face. So, I will treat you to a meal at Su Xi Zhai tonight."
Wang Mingzheng tapped his finger on the desk, thought for a moment, and agreed.
Ah Feng on the other end hung up the phone.
When Wang Mingzheng entered the office, the water was already boiling. There was a knock on the door and he casually called out, "Come in."
The person who came was Li Weisheng, and Wang Mingzheng also smiled.
This Li Weisheng is the nephew of Mr. Li from the advertising department. He didn't study media-related work at school, but he showed good abilities after joining the newspaper. He came in for an internship with Lin Shuyue, and several of his reports have been published. Wang Mingzheng still likes him very much.
Li Weisheng has been anxious for two days. He just wants to know what news Lin Shuyue has done. He asked Lin Shuyue's master Huang Qiang indirectly, but Huang Qiang knew nothing. Li Weisheng couldn't stand it anymore, so he planned to ask Wang Mingzheng early this morning.
Wang Mingzheng naturally couldn't tell him. Undercover reporters were a high-risk group, and no one else would know what kind of interview they were going to do except their immediate superiors.
Even if Wang Mingzheng felt that secretly visiting an Internet addiction school was not a dangerous business, he still would not reveal where Lin Shuyue was.
Li Weisheng returned to his desk disappointed, looking even uglier. His loyal younger brother Qian Yongqiang saw that yet he did not go to find him immediately. Li Weisheng saw that and became even angrier.
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While going to the toilet, A'Hao took out the note that Lin Shuyue had slipped to him from his shoes.
The first sentence that caught his eye was "Ah Hao, your grandma is waiting for you outside", and Ah Hao's tears welled up in his eyes.
Today is the fourth day since he was arrested and brought to this school. He resisted every day and was beaten every day. No matter how painful it was, he never shed a tear. But when he saw this sentence, he couldn't help it.
His grandmother has diabetes and her blood pressure started to rise last year. His father passed away early in an accident while working on a construction site. The compensation money from the construction site was taken away by the woman he called mother without a penny left.
Over the years, he relied on his grandmother's odd jobs and the money she earned from selling vegetables to support him. It wasn't until he was thirteen years old that he started to make money playing games online with his neighbor's older brother, and his life became better.
His grandmother's health was getting worse and worse, and she was most worried about him, so after that woman came back, her grandmother had been working hard to make him reconcile with that woman, so that she could leave with peace of mind.
Ah Hao didn't want to make her sad, so even though he hated that woman, he was still willing to get along with her.
The woman said she would send him to a school for Internet addiction. He didn't think it mattered at the time. He thought this kind of school was the same as a boarding school. But after he actually arrived at this place, he realized how outrageous it was.
In just four days, Ah Hao's understanding of school over the past decade was shattered.
If he hadn't thought about his grandmother every day, he would have collapsed. The only thought that kept him alive was to get out alive and see his grandmother.
This note was like a ray of light shining into Ah Hao's darkness. He looked at the note almost greedily, imprinted the words on it deeply in his mind, and then threw the note into the toilet and flushed it away with water.
When he was getting his lunch at noon, he placed the spoon on the rice bowl covertly. This was the secret signal that Lin Shuyue had agreed with him on the note.
So after lunch, when she opened the gate, she took the opportunity to slip the prepared miniature camera into Ah Hao's hand.
Ah Hao still kept it in his shoes, and when there was no one around, he installed the button-type camera on his clothes, replacing the previous buttons.
After a Chinese studies class where the teacher was so stupid that he couldn't even pronounce the words correctly, an instructor called Ah Hao out and said, "Xu Shuhao, you've been here for four days. Tell me, have you done anything wrong?"
Ah Hao looked at the man in front of him, and the words of apology came to his lips, but he swallowed them back.
The note that the dormitory manager gave him said that she was an undercover reporter and needed his cooperation to take more photos to prove the abuse and beating of students in the school.
Ah Hao chose to believe her. He really wanted to get out of this place. His grandmother was still waiting for him outside the school.
He looked into the instructor's eyes and said word by word: "I am not wrong. What did I do wrong?!"
The instructor admired a rebellious person like Ah Hao. He grabbed his neck and walked upstairs to the infirmary: "Good boy, it seems that your illness is very serious. I must teach you a lesson today."
The doctor in the infirmary saw him coming and called the principal, Xiao Changxin. Xiao Changxin had always been the one to perform electrotherapy on students, and never asked anyone else to do it.
After a while, Xiao Changxin came with his men. He put on a white coat and looked at the stubborn Ah Hao with a smile in his small eyes: "Xu Shuhao, you are such a courageous kid. It's been four days, why don't you admit your mistake?"
"If I were you, I would have admitted my mistake earlier and suffered less physical pain."
Ah Hao stiffened his neck and sneered, "I did nothing wrong, why should I admit it? And even if I admit my mistake, does that mean I can bear the physical pain? Students in this school will be beaten even if they fart in class!"
"If earning money with your own hands to share the burden with your family is wrong, then why don't you arrest all the people in the country and treat them?"
The smile in Xiao Changxin's eyes faded, and he said to the doctor in the infirmary: "This kid still refuses to admit his mistake. Give him some treatment."
After a pause, he looked at Ah Hao and said, "Remember, the treatment you received today are also paid with cash. The medical expenses are also included in the tuition paid by your mother. Bring it in."
The doctor nodded, and the instructors took Ah Hao to the inner room of the infirmary.
There is another room inside the infirmary. Only Xiao Changxin has the key to this room, so he opened the door.
Several iron beds were placed against the wall, and an electrotherapy device was placed at the head of each bed.
One of the four instructors carried Ah Hao to the bed, and one of them held one of Ah Hao's limbs. Xiao Changxin put on the equipment and casually turned on a button on the machine.
Suddenly, a roar sounded in the small infirmary, but was blocked by the well-soundproofed room.
At night, when Lin Shuyue and other students were closing the iron gate, Ah Hao stuffed the button into her hand and went upstairs without saying a word. He held the iron railing with his hands and his body was shaking unconsciously.
Lin Shuyue entered the dormitory holding the button camera and put it into the backpack rewarded by the Good and Evil System.
The good and evil discrimination system detected the images inside and played them for Lin Shuyue to see.
In the dark night, Lin Shuyue hugged her legs and covered her eyes, but tears seeped out from between her fingers.