Chapter 30 Wang Chongyang.

"Brother Mo, all twelve bundles have been cleared."

Xiao Zhang wiped the sweat from his forehead and ran back quickly.

It wasn't from exhaustion, but from extreme nervousness.

Time was tight, and there was simply no time to wait for the bomb disposal team to arrive.

He was a police officer, true, but first and foremost he was a human being, and only then a police officer.

Very few people wouldn't be afraid in the face of a bomb.

But out of professional duty, he eventually overcame the fear in his heart.

Fortunately, the bombs didn't detonate while being moved.

"Good work."

Chen Mo also breathed a sigh of relief. He was quite scared too, but he couldn't show it at a time like this.

It would affect morale.

"Has Liu Hongxia's location been found?"

Xiao Zhang looked troubled. More than twenty people had come this time, and they had almost turned the school upside down without finding anyone.

It seemed that searching blindly wouldn't work.

Chen Mo didn't blame him. The office building in front of them was currently the only place that hadn't been searched.

They had been delayed because they were blocked by the bombs on the perimeter.

"Brother Mo, do you think Wang Chongyang put the bombs here and then ran away? He might even be watching us right now."

Xiao Zhang looked around at the high vantage points with some trepidation.

He wasn't wrong to think that; in all previous man-made bombing cases, there hadn't been a single instance where the perpetrator was blown up themselves—they were always hiding far away when they pressed the detonator.

"He won't!"

Chen Mo said with a certain tone.

His gaze was fixed on the office building in front of him.

The person was definitely inside.

Moreover, he had guessed Wang Chongyang's intentions.

He wanted to take all the teachers with him to the grave.

For a child who walked out of the mountains, the help of teachers on the path of learning was undoubtedly immense; such people often had a strong idealized view of the teaching profession.

The more they worshipped them back then, the more they hated them now.

From Wang Chongyang's own perspective, this was the reason he wanted to blow up all the teachers in the building.

As for blowing himself up as well, that information had actually been revealed when he killed Li Jiaxin and Song Fei.

He had no intention of continuing to live after his revenge.

Otherwise, given Wang Chongyang's level of education and awareness, he wouldn't have dumped Li Jiaxin into the well.

Because the smell of decomposition would drift out within two days, and two days was just enough time for him to finish killing everyone.

"He wants to take all the teachers in the building to the grave with him."

...

At the same time.

On the rooftop of the office building.

The moonlight was bright.

A young man wearing a baseball cap and a gloomy expression was dragging a middle-aged woman along the ground by her hair with his right hand.

"Ah!"

"Chongyang, let me go!"

The pain in her buttocks and hair made her face contort, and she cried out in agony.

The young man called Chongyang paid no attention, continuing to drag her forward on his own, until he finally stopped at the edge of the rooftop.

Turning his head back, there was a long trail of blood from the rooftop entrance to where they were.

"Let you go? Then who will let me go!"

Wang Chongyang crouched down and looked at the counselor he had once respected immensely.

His emotions flared up instantly, his eyes filled with resentment.

"Do you know how I've spent these past few years!"

Meeting Wang Chongyang's gaze, Liu Hongxia shivered, and she nervously admitted her fault.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

"I was the one who wronged you back then, please don't kill me."

She knelt on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly to admit her fault.

She was completely enveloped by fear and regret.

If only she hadn't been greedy for Song Fei's parents' money back then.

But where in this world can you buy a cure for regret?

She could only hope that Wang Chongyang would spare her for the sake of their teacher-student relationship.

"But you've already killed me!"

Wang Chongyang's eyes were bloodshot, veins bulged, and his fists were clenched tight.

All these years he had studied hard, just so that one day he could bring his parents out of the mountains to live in the city.

To find a decent job after graduation, and let his parents, who had been tired their whole lives, enjoy their later years.

But!

Why!

Why was it so hard!

"I just wanted to live a normal life, why did you have to harm me!"

"Do you know how the people in the village look at me, do you know how many times my parents have cried at night!"

"The rapist was clearly Song Fei, why did you all say it was me!"

Thinking back to when he was released from prison, the disappointment of his parents, the disdain of the villagers, and peers who couldn't get into college saying, "What's so good about college? I didn't go because I didn't want to be a rapist"—these words deeply stung his heart.

"Just because I was always submissive to you, and my family had no background, you thought I was easy to bully!"

"Speak, tell me, am I easy to bully!"

— Squelch.

The dagger in Wang Chongyang's hand instantly stabbed into Liu Hongxia's palm.

"Ah!"

Fresh blood gushed out, and she let out a miserable shriek.

She curled up on the ground, screaming in pain.

Boom.

A peal of thunder sounded from the horizon.

The originally calm night sky suddenly gathered dark clouds.

A light, drizzling rain began to fall.

The rain hit Wang Chongyang's hair and face, eventually spreading over his body.

"Ah!"

"Fuck!!!"

The veins in his neck bulged, and holding the knife, he looked up at the sky, venting his resentment and unwillingness.

You ruined me!

I will ruin you too!

He looked down at Liu Hongxia on the ground.

He walked slowly toward her, holding the knife.

It was time to end it.

"No!"

"Chongyang, calm down."

"Don't kill me!"

Seeing Wang Chongyang walking slowly toward her, Liu Hongxia looked terrified and quickly scrambled backward.

Just at this moment.

Chen Mo's figure appeared at the rooftop entrance.

"Don't move, police!"

He bellowed, and Xiao Zhang and the others instantly moved forward to surround him.

— Bang.

A bullet hit the ground at his feet as he advanced.

"This is a warning. If you move forward again, I'll shoot."

Wang Chongyang took out the detonator.

"My business has nothing to do with you. Leave now."

Xiao Zhang immediately retorted mockingly, "Bombs? They were already dismantled by us."

He had been scared to death while dismantling them, so getting in a few sarcastic remarks now counted as revenge.

"Then what about this?"

Wang Chongyang slowly lifted his shirt.

A circle of detonators was wrapped around his waist.

Silence.

The scene fell into an eerie silence.

Only the sound of the light drizzle falling on the ground remained.

Xiao Zhang wished he could slap himself twice.

Damn it, I have such a big mouth.

"I'll repeat it one last time: leave immediately!"

Looking crazed, he roared at Chen Mo.

He only wanted revenge and had no intention of being a terrorist.

But if the police stopped him...

"Look down."

At this point, saying anything more was useless; the person who tied the knot must be the one to untie it.

Wang Chongyang was stunned upon hearing this, as if he realized something. One hand was ready to press the detonator at any moment, while he looked downward.

The office building was six stories tall. Although it was night, he could still see a group of people wearing worn-out clothes standing below, looking up.

The bright colors of the clothes, the ill-fitting sizes, these... he was all too familiar with them.

He had also once been one of them.

Tears streamed from his eyes once again.

He stood in the rain, his body trembling as he cried helplessly.

"Chongyang, Mom and Dad know you were wronged. Please, don't kill anyone else, okay?"

"Brother Yang, we misunderstood you. Let's start over."

Listening to the familiar voices coming from the loudspeaker below.

Wang Chongyang's sobbing grew louder, and mixed with the rain and tears, he murmured, "We can't go back... we can't go back..."

"Mom, Dad, I'm sorry. In this life, I couldn't bring you out of the mountains. If there's a next life, I'll be your son again!"

He shouted down with all his might, his voice choked with tears.

Then he turned his head!

"Fuck!"

"Kill me!"

He roared at Chen Mo with agitated expressions.

His hand was ready to press the detonator at any time.

"Kill me, or I'll blow you all up!!!"

— Bang!

— Bang!

— Bang!