in2ebook Chapter 261 Thorny Rose (18)
Chapter 261 Thorny Rose (18)
"Explosion at Bihai Private High School"
This incident quickly made local news headlines and attracted a great deal of attention.
The explosion occurred in broad daylight. Many people near the high school heard the loud bang, and an external camera on a tall building captured the location of the explosion from a distance; it was inside the school building.
The surveillance video showed thick smoke billowing out, and someone uploaded a video showing many parents rushing to the school gate to pick up their children immediately after the explosion, as well as seven or eight ambulances rushing out of the school. In an instant, online discussions about the incident remained high, and various rumors, some true and some false, spread rapidly.
"I heard the explosion happened in the second year of high school. It blew through the wall of the classroom next door, and the teacher who was teaching there died on the spot."
"Dozens of students were killed in the bombing. The school was clearing the bodies out, and there wasn't enough room on the ground, so they had to wrap them in white sheets and put them on the playground. The scene was... tsk tsk, it was terrifying."
"It's terrifying. My cousin is a sophomore at this school. The explosion happened in the classroom on the floor above theirs. The blood of the victims flowed down the stairs like a stream, all the way to their floor. My cousin even saw a severed hand downstairs."
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Yan Zhen lay in a hospital ward, browsing the school's official WeChat account's notice about class suspension on her phone.
She had a bandage on her forehead, and several small cuts on her face and arms from flying shards of glass. Because she was so close to the source of the explosion, she was temporarily deafened by the loud bang.
Song Yi sat on a chair by the hospital bed, a bowl of grapes on his lap, and he was peeling the grapes.
After peeling each one, he would bring it to Yan Zhen's mouth and feed it to her.
After reading the notice about the suspension of classes, Yan Zhen had just exited the WeChat official account when she saw a statement issued by the local police regarding the incident.
"At 2:36 PM on [Date], 2024, an explosion occurred in the classroom of Class 3, Grade 11 on the third floor of Building X at Bihai High School. At the time of the explosion, all students in Class 3, Grade 11 were having class in the gymnasium."
The explosion has injured nine people, including one seriously injured, two with serious injuries, and six with minor injuries. All the injured are out of danger, and the cause of the explosion is under further investigation.
The public security authorities remind the public that the internet is not a lawless zone; please do not create, believe, or spread rumors.
Putting down his phone, Yan Zhen pondered how to execute the next step of his plan.
The person most seriously injured in the explosion was Qin Huai, who was closest to the entrance; he remains unconscious.
The two who were more seriously injured were Qin Huai's henchmen.
Of the six people who sustained minor injuries, besides herself, the other five were students from the next class and a teacher who was teaching a class. They were either frightened or, like her, had their hearing affected by the explosion.
Given the severity of this incident, the police will undoubtedly investigate it thoroughly.
Although she had erased most of the traces and made thorough preparations to escape, there was still a risk that the police would find out.
Therefore, the first statement given after the incident is very important.
Yan Zhen's mind was racing when Song Yi, who was peeling grapes, suddenly stopped and got up to open the door.
somebody is coming.
The people standing outside the door are police officers.
Song Yi didn't intend to let anyone in. He stood in the doorway, said something, and the other person left quickly.
"They're here to take a statement," Song Yi returned to the bedside and typed on her phone to tell Yan Zhen, "I've asked the housekeeper to handle it."
Yan Zhen paused slightly, then said, "It's alright. Cooperating with the investigation is my duty. Let them in."
She was prepared to deal with the police.
Song Yi handed over a peeled grape: "You need to rest now, leave the rest to me."
Yan Zhen was silent for a moment, then asked, "Aren't you scared?"
Song Yi forced a stiff smile and said, "Don't worry, I'm on your side."
Yan Zhen: "..."
Sometimes she didn't quite understand Song Yi's thought process.
As a wealthy heiress living a life of luxury, she should have been a flower nurtured in a greenhouse, spared from any hardship.
Yet he took the initiative to approach her, watched her hang up and beat her classmates, set fire to the dormitory, and even after learning that she was a "criminal" who dared to make homemade bombs to blow up the school, he still did not choose to stay away.
Is he brave enough to take risks, or is he just reckless and ignorant?
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Yan Zhen didn't know who Song Yi was, but after that day, the police never came looking for her again.
Moreover, she heard that Qin Huai had woken up, but neither Qin Huai nor his family came to cause her any trouble.
However, the online buzz surrounding the explosion is growing.
On the third day after the incident, one of the victims injured in the explosion came forward and recorded a video to publicly accuse Qin Huai, a senior high school student at Bihai High School, of long-term bullying of his classmates.
The whistleblower is a teacher who was teaching a class next door when the explosion occurred. She was temporarily deafened by the blast and twisted her ankle while evacuating students. She is currently receiving treatment in the hospital.
In the video, the female teacher surnamed Peng holds up her ID card and recounts what she witnessed about the explosion.
From the moment Qin Huai announced that he would use a reward of one million yuan and three years of peace as bait to incite the entire school to bully a second-year high school student surnamed Lin, to the day of the explosion, she personally witnessed Qin Huai and two boys escorting the second-year high school student back to the classroom, and then the explosion occurred.
In addition, she also revealed the phenomenon of students at Bihai High School ganging up to bully classmates from ordinary families, a trend that peaked three years ago after Qin Huai enrolled.
Qin Huai, relying on being the only son of a school board member, frequently beat and humiliated his classmates. More than a dozen students have been forced to drop out of school because they could no longer endure it.
The day after the video was released, anonymous accounts claiming to be "former students of Bihai High School" began to post comments, either recounting their own experiences of being bullied or talking about bullying incidents they had witnessed.
Finally, an account claiming to be a relative of a student at Bihai High School posted a detailed account of how the student surnamed Lin was bullied, and how on the day of the incident, Qin Huai brought two people to the gymnasium and took the student surnamed Lin away in full view of everyone.
"Qin Huai made a bet with Lin X, saying that he would make Lin X drop out of school within a week. If he failed, Qin Huai would be the one to drop out. The day of the explosion was the last day of the bet. It is reasonable to suspect that Qin Huai was desperate and, unable to force Lin X to leave, wanted to take her to the classroom and blow her up."
This statement shocked netizens who were following the matter.
A teenage high school student not only forced his classmate to drop out of school, but also tried to kill his classmate over a bet.
If this is true, how powerful must the Qin family be to raise such an arrogant son who treats human life like dirt?
Moreover, just how brazen must Qin Huai be to openly take away classmates right under everyone's noses and even plant bombs in public places like classrooms, attempting to kill his classmates?
The Qin family must be thoroughly investigated!
Driven by these statements, the "Bihai High School Explosion Incident" has become an unprecedented hot topic, and relevant departments have lived up to expectations by quickly announcing their intervention in the investigation.
After several days of treatment and rest, Yan Zhen's hearing had recovered by half. She sat on the hospital bed, scrolling through related news on Song Yi's tablet, her expression becoming increasingly strange.
The online public opinion has a familiar air of conspiracy, and there must be a mastermind behind it all... She used online public opinion to achieve her goals quite often when she was doing missions in the past.
She knew this method well.