Chapter 0263 – Bad Stench

　　Yang Chen and Li Xue hurriedly ran out, the three of them stood in the corridor and looked towards the way they came, it was pitch black and they couldn’t see anything clearly.

　　”Where are the footsteps?”

　　”I really heard it! It’s like someone is bouncing down the passageway.”

　　”Don’t scare yourself, hurry and come help.”

　　Li Xue dragged Wang Diem into that last room, Yang Chen stayed outside for a while, mumbling what Wang Diem had said, “Jumping?”

　　The three of them rummaged around in the last dormitory, most of the junk piled up on the beds were sponges and wooden blocks made into props, it looked dirty and messy, but in fact it didn’t give off a strange odor.

　　”Is this dormitory dedicated to storing trash?” Li Xue covered her mouth and nose with her sleeves, “But why is there bedding on that bedpan in the innermost part? Who would want to live in such a dirty environment?”

　　”The thing to consider now is not who would live in this place.” Yang Chen picked up the garbage model on the bedpan and put it under his nose, “We smelled a stench when we entered the hidden scene, and this room has the strongest stench, which means that the thing that emits the stench is in this room, and we can only crack the secret of this scene by finding that thing.”

　　”I think Old Yang has a point, there are garbage piled up everywhere in the room, but it’s not these garbage that emit the stench, it’s strange.” Wang Diem walked over to the only bed with bedding, “This bed that doesn’t have garbage on it has the heaviest odor instead.”

　　He grabbed a corner of the futon and lifted it with gritted teeth.

　　There was nothing horrible underneath the tattered comforter, only a notebook.

　　Turning it over casually, Wang Diem glanced at it briefly.

　　”I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have gotten too close to you guys, I just wanted to help you guys pick up the ball.”

　　”Teacher, I didn’t mean to get my clothes wet, no one caught me, it’s my fault.”

　　”Dad, I’ll try to do better, please, don’t hit me again.”

　　”I’m sorry, I don’t know why my smile makes people sick, I won’t do it again.”

　　”What do you guys think is wrong with me, I can change, I can change anything!”

　　”I really just want to be like them, sorry ……”

　　The notes weren’t exactly thick, filled with apologies and a little depressing to look at.

　　”Is there something wrong with your brain? Apologize for what? If you’re bullied, fuck him!” Wang Diem was a quick-tempered man, he bristled, disapproving of the note owner’s approach.

　　”You guys come over here and look at this.” Li Xue found some torn photos in the dormitory trash can, she inspected a few of them, and after putting them together, she could barely make out the people in the photos.

　　”It should be a father and son.”

　　The kid was severely obese, and you could tell he had some low self-esteem, and seemed to be camera-shy, so he hid behind his own father.

　　His father, on the other hand, had a bad temper, his face was full of anger, and he was very rough with him, grabbing him by the neck with one hand and forcibly dragging him out from behind him.

　　”Is this the stepfather?”

　　Wang Diem turned over the notes for the other two to view, the first few pages were quite normal, the further back they looked the more unpleasant it became in the minds of several people.

　　The boy had no name, his classmates called him Pig, and his father was one of the investors in the private academy in the western suburbs, his family was rich, but his father was extraordinarily harsh on him.

　　The notes don’t explain why, but one can guess between the lines that the boy’s mother seems to have betrayed his father and that the boy’s birth was supposed to be a mistake.

　　The boy longed for his father’s praise, but no matter what he did or how much he knew, the response was always violence and reprimand.

　　He lived a careful life and only felt a sense of fulfillment in his body when he ate, but the end result of uncontrolled eating and eating as a stress reliever was that the boy was grossly overweight at a very young age.

　　Seeing the boy’s ugly appearance, his father, instead of worrying, developed a thrill of revenge.

　　The boy, who was not aware of anything, just sensed his father’s happiness and ate even harder.

　　By the time he grew up slowly, he had become both mentally and physically sick.

　　In school the boy is inferior and weak, no one wants to sit with him, back home, the slightest upset, you have to face his father’s punches and kicks.

　　Gradually, the boy’s psychology has a very serious problem, other people think beautiful things, in his eyes will become incredibly ugly.

　　And what others loathed and avoided, he treasured as a treasure.

　　The boy would often do some ridiculous things, for example, he would take away the leftovers of others in the cafeteria, and he would also go into the garbage to pick out some dirty and smelly things to take home.

　　His father would beat him up every time, but the kid seemed to have lost control of himself, and his worldview was completely turned upside down.

　　Several times in a row, once his father hit him too hard and put the boy in the hospital, an incident that alerted the police.

　　In the end, under the education and persuasion of the police, the boy’s father agreed that the boy should move into the school dormitory.

　　The boy’s father is an investor in the West Side private school, the school simply agreed to come down and prepare a single room specifically for the boy.

　　After moving into the dormitory, the boy could not help but come into contact with other students, and he had to apologize more often each day, while his illness became more and more serious.

　　Not long after, near the boy’s room in several other dormitories have smelled a stench, the school authorities looking for the smell of pry open the boy living in a single room, an open door are dumbfounded.

　　Originally clean dormitory room stuffed with all kinds of garbage, those dirty and smelly garbage in the eyes of the boy has become the most beautiful decorations.

　　The school authorities asked someone to throw away all the garbage in the house, gave the boy a disciplinary action, and notified the parents.

　　The boy’s father had been rough with him, punching and kicking him.

　　The notes detail the events of that night, and his father beat him until late at night.

　　No matter how painful it was to be alive, life went on, and with each physical wound that healed, the boy’s mental illness became worse.

　　The stench reappeared in the hallway and there was nothing the school could do about it; the boy’s father was a private school investor, and expelling his child was inappropriate from either side.

　　After repeating the cleanup a few times, the boy still hadn’t changed much, so the school had to empty all the dormitories close to the boy’s room, and then hire someone to go to his room once in a while to clean it.

　　Over time, the stench in that room had become impossible to remove and seemed to soak into the walls and floor tiles.

　　At that time, the West Suburban Private School was so busy because of all the things going on in the girls’ dormitory building that they didn’t bother with the boy anymore.

　　The boy, whose psyche had become completely diseased, kept carrying the garbage back to his own dormitory, and the stench became stronger and stronger.

　　And from this time on, the boy’s diary also became monotonous and repetitive, and he began to constantly apologize to his father, praying that he would forgive him.