Outside the corridor.
"I'm sorry, Qiye. I'm really sorry!" Li Yifei stood there with his head lowered, constantly admitting his fault. "I was really scared at that time. I, I didn't think much. I just ran away directly...
I left you and Jiang Qian there, and it even caused her to...
I don't expect you to forgive me, but since we're classmates after all, I still hope to apologize to you!
I'm sorry!"
Li Yifei didn't dare to look into Lin Qiye's eyes, but his words were very sincere.
After he finished speaking, Lin Qiye slowly opened his mouth.
"It's human nature to run for your life when you encounter danger. There's nothing wrong with that." Lin Qiye patted him on the shoulder. "Moreover, if it were me at that time, I would have run even faster than you."
Li Yifei: ...
Li Yifei scratched his head, as if thinking of something: "By the way, did you also sign that non-disclosure agreement?"
Lin Qiye was taken aback. After hesitating for a moment, he nodded.
It seemed that Zhao Kongcheng hadn't lied to him. They really wouldn't do anything to the witnesses. It was only natural that Li Yifei had signed the non-disclosure agreement after being caught by them when he escaped from the monster that night.
If he wasn't mistaken, that Liu Yuan had also signed the same agreement.
Although he himself hadn't signed it yet, it was only a matter of time. If he told Li Yifei now that he hadn't signed it, it would be difficult to explain.
"Actually, even if they didn't ask me to sign it, I wouldn't tell anyone." Li Yifei let out a sigh. "I don't want to remember that scene for the rest of my life...
What's more, after signing the agreement, if I violate it, I'll have to spend the rest of my life in prison. I don't want to ruin my own life with my own hands."
Li Yifei placed his hands on the railing of the corridor and looked down at the lively campus below. A glimmer of longing appeared in his eyes.
"Actually, I wish I could join them."
Lin Qiye asked in surprise, "You want to join them?"
"Yeah. I proposed it when I signed the agreement. I was willing to give up my studies and join them, but unfortunately... they didn't want me."
"Why do you want to join? Although your grades aren't very good, aren't you about to be admitted to the Sports Academy on special terms?"
"Being a sports student is so boring. No, I should say... being an ordinary person is so boring." Li Yifei's eyes gradually lit up.
"Joining a mysterious and powerful organization, silently fighting against the enemies lurking in human society, making countless contributions, and when all of this comes to light, the world will remember my name!"
Li Yifei gradually clenched his fists and said excitedly, "This is the dream of so many men. This is what a meaningful life is all about!"
"You're thinking too optimistically." Lin Qiye mercilessly shattered his fantasy. "Maybe you'll sacrifice yourself on your first mission, be eaten into pieces by a monster, be buried in the mountains unknown to anyone, and your parents might not even know about your death. You'll just leave the world all alone like that."
Li Yifei: "…"
"Qiye, your imagination is too gory, isn't it?"
"This isn't imagination." Lin Qiye shook his head. "What you just said is."
Li Yifei let out a helpless sigh. "Anyway, since they don't want me, I don't need to think so much. In the future, I just need to keep this secret in my grave."
"Okay." Lin Qiye looked at the time. "It's time to go back. Class is about to start soon."
The two of them walked back to the classroom. Lin Qiye could feel that Li Yifei was much more relaxed than before. It seemed that his guilt towards Lin Qiye and Jiang Qian had indeed brought him a great deal of pressure.
Although both Li Yifei and Liu Yuan had run away, they had made completely different choices.
Lin Qiye had no interest in deliberately causing trouble for Liu Yuan, but if he had the opportunity in the future, he wouldn't mind giving him a lesson by the way.
After finishing a day's classes, Lin Qiye picked up his schoolbag and walked home.
The deaths of Wang Shao and Jiang Qian in the previous two days had caused a lot of trouble for the school. Under pressure, the school had to cancel the evening self-study system and let the students go home early.
However, what Lin Qiye didn't expect was that the Night Watchers' authority seemed to be really high. Generally speaking, after the deaths of two students, people like Lin Qiye and Li Yifei, who had been with the deceased, would surely be questioned by the police.
But two days had passed since the incident, and no one had come to find them yet.
It seemed that the Night Watchers should have completely taken over this case, and their authority was high enough to make the local police keep their mouths shut about it.
As he walked, the sky gradually darkened, and a light drizzle began to fall.
It was only a little past six o'clock, but the sky was already pitch dark.
Lin Qiye frowned. He didn't have an umbrella, so he could only quicken his pace and walk home.
The rain got heavier and heavier. When Lin Qiye rushed home in a hurry, he was already soaked to the bone. However, as soon as he opened the door, a strong aroma of food greeted him, extinguishing all the negative emotions in his heart.
"Ah! Xiao Qi, you child. Why did you come back so drenched?" Auntie, who was busy in the kitchen, quickly came up when she saw Lin Qiye's appearance.
"It's raining quite heavily outside, and I didn't bring an umbrella today." Lin Qiye smiled.
"If you didn't have an umbrella, you should have found a place to take shelter, or you could have called Auntie. Auntie would have come to pick you up. What if you catch a cold by coming back soaked like this?" Auntie pretended to be angry.
Lin Qiye smiled and scratched his head, not saying anything.
"Hurry up and dry yourself. Oh, by the way, your teacher came to see you just now. I asked him to wait in your room." Auntie seemed to remember something.
"Teacher?" Lin Qiye was taken aback.
"Yeah, it's your PE teacher. He said he had something to talk to you about. Hurry up and meet him. Don't keep the teacher waiting for too long."
Lin Qiye held a towel and wiped his hair in a daze.
What the hell? The PE teacher came to see him? He had just transferred to the school a few days ago and hadn't even had a PE class yet. What did the teacher want with him?
Could it be...
An idea flashed through Lin Qiye's mind. He dropped the towel and rushed into his room.
He saw a familiar middle-aged man leaning against the chair, holding a teacup and looking at him with a smile.
Lin Qiye frowned slightly. "It's you? How did you find my home?"
Zhao Kongcheng smiled slightly, picked up the badge on the table, and waved it. "Since you left me behind that night, I was more careful. I dropped this thing into your pocket last night. It can be used for positioning."
Lin Qiye locked the door and walked straight to the bed and sat down. "I said I won't join you."
"I know, so that's not why I'm here this time."
"Then did you come to ask me to sign the non-disclosure agreement?"
"Not that either." Zhao Kongcheng shook his head. "I reported to the others that you were missing. Since I've decided to let you go, I can't ask you to sign the agreement anymore. Otherwise, if they find out that you're not missing, they'll send someone else to persuade you.
They... aren't as easy to deal with as I am."
Lin Qiye was taken aback. "Then you're here to..."
Zhao Kongcheng took out a roll of kraft paper from his pocket, placed it on Lin Qiye's table, and slowly opened it...
"The treatment of the Night Watchers is much better than you think. After working for so many years, I still have a lot of savings." Zhao Kongcheng chattered as he opened the kraft paper.
The moment the kraft paper was opened, Lin Qiye's eyes focused.
Inside was a thick stack of money.