Chapter 0860 – Fan Yu!
”The withered well in the back playground is a loophole in the school, the old principal said that this place is a wound that cannot be healed, if we compare the entire school to a person’s heart, then this deep well is the place where secrets are buried.”
Chen Ge suddenly remembered another question, “Principal, you said that the Psychic Ghost School is made up of the memories of countless students, and that Twilight Sun Middle School would appear here because there was once a child in our school who was also bullied, right?”
”Yes.” The old principal wasn’t too willing to answer that question.
”Can you tell me something related to that kid?” Chen Ge knew that the old principal didn’t want to recall that part of the past, but all the clues indicated that the kid from Twilight Sun Middle School was very crucial!
The only loophole in the Psychic Ghost School was in the burned down campus of Twilight Sun Middle School, and there was another point worth noting as well, all the buildings in the Ghost School were randomly lined up, but Twilight Sun Middle School was squeezed to the very edge of the school, which was the closest place to the Scarlet City.
”I don’t know the specifics, I only know that the kid is called Fan Yu, his adoptive father was a teacher at our school, he used to teach in the city, then I heard that he was offended and no school wanted him, so he ended up coming to our school.” What the old principal said once again subverted certain memories in Chen Ge’s mind.
”Fan Yu? That kid took classes at Mureyang Middle School?”
”Yes. Don’t look at the small size of Mureyang Middle School, but it offers all the courses of elementary and middle school.” The old principal had a bitter smile on his face, “We have no choice, there are no elementary schools over in the suburbs at all, the children I adopted and some of the children of the migrant workers around me don’t have a school to go to, that’s why I specifically added elementary school courses.”
”That’s not important.” Chen Ge moved his body up a little bit, “How many years did Fan Yu attend Mureyang Middle School? And for what reason did he drop out?”
”Fan Yu would come to Mureyang Middle School because of his adoptive father, the same teacher from our school. At that time, Fan Yu wasn’t even old enough to go to elementary school, but we placed him in the first grade at the strong request of his adoptive father, who even begged me to help with the certificate in the first place.” The old principal recalled the events of that time, he had a very good memory, which was what made him different from the other Lich ghosts, most of them only remembered their obsessions.
”After about a few months of attending, Fan Yu couldn’t keep up with his peers, the boy was very smart and talented, only his talent manifested itself in painting.” The old principal remembered this point very well, “That boy drew everything like he did, you could say he was a genius at drawing. At first, his foster father didn’t object to his drawing, until one day, the boy drew a portrait in class, and his foster father was furious. According to the students in the class, his foster father tore up his drawing and slapped him hard in class. It was a big deal at the time, and it was me and another female teacher who combined our efforts to stop him.”
”Just drawing in class and not listening carefully, his father shouldn’t be so angry.” Chen Ge was very perceptive: “Perhaps it was something that the boy drew that angered his father, principal, do you know what he drew?”
”The paintings were all torn to shreds, but I heard the boy’s deskmate say that Fan Yu borrowed his red colored pencils when he drew that painting, as if he was saying that his red colored pencils were out of water.” The old principal tried his best to recall, he didn’t remember what Fan Yu had drawn at that time.
”Red colored pencils?” Chen Ge’s pupils narrowed, “To be able to use his own red paintbrush to run out of water, and to go and borrow his deskmate’s red color pencil, that means he used a lot of red in that painting!”
His complexion gradually became serious, Chen Ge slowly looked at the principal and pointed at the blood mist around him, “You just said that Fan Yu is very talented at painting, and paints like anything, so what scene did he want to paint that required the use of a large amount of red?”
Originally, the old principal hadn’t felt anything, but when he heard Chen Ge say this, he was jolted awake.
”A murder scene?!”
”Very likely!” Chen Ge slowed down his speech, “This would also make sense why his adoptive father would be furious, I suspect that the murderer is Fan Yu’s adoptive father.”
Things were more complicated than Chen Ge had imagined, Chen Ge’s had initially thought that Fan Yu’s adoptive father had only killed Fan Yu’s mother alone, but now it seemed that things weren’t that simple, and that his father could be a complete pervert.
During the day, he was a teacher who was respected by his students, but at night, he was a murderer who was brutal and unable to control himself.
”That’s right, only someone like this would paint eyes all over the toilet cubicles in Mureyang Middle School as a way to peek in, I really underestimated the bottom of a person’s evil before.”
Rethinking it all over again, Chen Ge realized that Fan Yu had lived a far more painful life than he had guessed, “Fan Yu’s aunt’s twins disappeared for no reason and wandered into Mureyang Middle School after their deaths, could their deaths also have something to do with Fan Yu’s adoptive father?”
Chen Ge told the old principal about the true nature of Fan Yu’s father, and the principal’s eyes were filled with crimson: “I thought Fan Yu was simply bullied at school, but I didn’t realize that there was so much going on behind the scenes.”
”Knowing people, he hides it well, otherwise he would have been found out long ago.” Chen Ge had a new perspective on some things, “Principal, did Fan Yu do anything strange before he dropped out of school?”
”I didn’t pay attention because Fan Yu was in his adoptive father’s class, and a tiger’s poison doesn’t eat its children, so I didn’t ask much. By the way, there is something strange, Fan Yu always carries injuries on his body, and his foster father gave me the word that the boy is not likeable and especially loves to fight.” The principal regretted a bit, “Now that I think about it, those injuries might have been made by his adoptive father.”
”Are those the only ones?”
”Fan Yu was isolated in class, everyone inexplicably disliked him, and his adoptive father even strictly forbade him to draw, and would beat and scold him whenever he saw him drawing. That kid was like a different person in just a few months.” The old principal couldn’t bear to say any more, “It’s my responsibility, at that time the school was going to be outlawed, I ran around and rarely stayed in the school, neglecting too many things.”
”Even if you took the initiative to ask, Fan Yu probably wouldn’t answer, no matter how much he struggled, he still had to go home in the end, it wasn’t that he didn’t want to talk about it, it was that he didn’t dare to talk about it. Other students who are bullied at school, at least they still have the comfort of their parents when they go home, but for him, after being bullied at school, he still has to go home and face that horrible foster father alone.” Chen Ge was heartbroken for Fan Yu, and it also strengthened his idea of continuing to take care of him, but immediately afterward, another question popped up from his mind, “If the appearance of Twilight Sun Middle School in the Psychic Ghost School was because of Fan Yu, then Fan Yu must have entered the Ghost School, but the actuality is that Fan Yu is still staying honestly in the Hanyue Welfare Institution, and hasn’t left it.”
Chen Ge’s eyes narrowed, and many things he had experienced before came to mind.
He and Fan Yu were very close, and he had seen the paintings that Fan Yu had drawn.
The current Fan Yu could be said to have no drawing talent to speak of, and all of his drawings were composed of very simple lines, similar to a kindergarten child.
”This drawing technique is completely unrelated to genius, could it be that Fan Yu’s situation is the same as Li Xuezuo’s? The desperate side of him entered the ghost school, leaving only an empty shell of pure beauty?”
As if his brain was struck by lightning, Chen Ge bit the tip of his tongue, realizing that there was another “person” who had discovered Fan Yu’s abnormality long before he did!
After the Living Coffin Village trial mission ended, the female ghost that had existed for hundreds of years gave Fan Yu a bracelet when she parted (see Chapter 339 for details)!
That top-ranking red dress was indifferent to everyone but Fan Yu, as if she was intentionally trying to make contact with Fan Yu and leave a good impression.
”When she attached herself to the little girl and was sent to the orphanage, there were so many children in the institution, but she chose to find Fan Yu! Staying with Fan Yu all the time, ginger is still old and hot, I should have realized it long ago!”
Climbing out of the withered well, Chen Ge looked at the deep, bottomless well, thinking about Fan Yu, and remembering the east-west campus constructed by the painter, desperate and gloomy on one side, but beautiful and serene on the other ……