IJRELD: Hide and Seek 5

MAY 23, 2023 ~ KIWII

No matter which school they are in, this kind of underage school violence is a cancer that cannot be removed. Their existence is a physical and psychological threat to other students, and it is also a threat to adults. At the least, it will cause the victim to have a lifetime of psychological shadow, and at the worst, it will take the victim’s life. Relatively speaking, the price they paid for this was too small.

Song Qingshu seemed to have thought of something, a trace of ruthlessness flashed across his eyes, and he opened and closed his red lips and said, “Do you know what the best way to deal with school violence is?”

Sang Yu froze for a moment, thought for a while but couldn’t come up with any effective and feasible method, and asked him: “What is it?”

“Only magic can beat magic.”

Sang Yu didn’t understand the meaning of this sentence, and obviously didn’t understand what he was talking about.

“Adults are always at a disadvantage against minors, but minors are fine against minors. Since they can take advantage of minors to bully others and are not responsible, then minors are also not responsible for beating them.” Song Qingshu said.

If I was one of those students whose family conditions were not so good and was bullied, I would definitely fight them hard. Anyway, I didn’t lose money, and I was a minor, so they couldn’t do anything about me, right? The better result is that they dare not bully me in the future, and the worse result is to hurt each other, at least you can’t let yourself be bullied in vain.”

In fact, Song Qingshu didn’t just talk about it, he also did it. When he was in junior high school, he developed late, his facial features were not developed yet, he looked a little delicate, and he was very thin. He was usually introverted and not very talkative, which gave people the illusion of being easy to bully.

In the second half of the second semester of the second year of junior high school, he was targeted by a group of delinquent teenagers. In the last class before school, he was blocked in the toilet and beaten. He also resisted, but there were so many people, so he was beaten badly.

It happened that the last class was the class of their head teacher, so he told the teacher. The teacher took him to find those people and gave them a verbal education. In the end, those people reluctantly apologized to him.

Of course, that group didn’t let him go, they were waiting for him at the school gate early. But he had expected it a long time ago, so he climbed over the wall and went home.

When Song Qingshu went to school the next day, he deliberately avoided them, even if he went to the toilet, he would go with other students. He didn’t confront these gangsters head-on, these people usually fought and were not vegetarians, even if he could fight again, one-to-many will suffer.

But from that day on, he began to observe the leader’s whereabouts. In the physical education class a week later, their class happened to be in the same class as those few people. The PHE teacher asked that person to go to the equipment room with their class sports committee to pick up things. He volunteered. Instead of the sports committee, he went to the equipment room with that person.

Then he beat the man half to death in the equipment room, with multiple fractures and severe concussion. Of course he also was punched a few times and had some bruises.

Song Qingshu looked at the person who was lying on the ground and couldn’t get up. The stale breath in the chest was completely dissipated, and the body and mind were extremely smooth and comfortable. There is nothing more satisfying than fighting back against those who bully him. As for the other people who beat him, he does not want to let go, but there is plenty of time.

The PHE teacher saw that two people had not come back for a long time, and came to find them by himself. Song Qingshu judged from the footsteps of the approaching person that it was an adult, and immediately fell to the ground and closed his eyes tightly.

The PHE teacher quickly called an ambulance and sent the two to the hospital.

Later, when the teacher asked him, Song Qingshu told the teacher that the other party did it first and that he couldn’t beat him. That person usually fights frequently and has a lot of bad deeds. The teacher didn’t say anything, but told him to protect himself and stop fighting in the future.

The other party was beaten too badly, even if he was wronged, he would have to pay more or less. In the end, Song Qingshu had nothing to do, and the parents paid the other party more than one thousand to settle the matter.

Song Qingshu felt that if he was based on his current fighting strength, he would definitely lose money without a reason. He was still too young at the time.

Since then, no one dared to make trouble for him, and some people even walked around him. Their bullying behavior was also restrained, probably because they were afraid to meet a ruthless character like Song Qingshu.

“Even if I can’t win, I will fight back to let them know that I am not easy to mess with. Sometimes winning or losing is not too important, but being bullied and hitting back is an attitude.

Of course, it would be even better if they could hit back and cause a lifetime of psychological shadows on the perpetrators, just to let them experience the feelings of those victims.” Song Qingshu said calmly, as if telling another matter of course.

Moon in the Water seemed to have expected this person’s actions a long time ago, and the corners of his mouth curled into a meaningful smile.

Sang Yu and Yan Ruyu were dumbfounded after hearing Song Qingshu’s theory, how could it be like this?

Sang Yu’s mother taught him not to cause trouble at school since he was a child, not to bully his classmates, and to tell his teachers and parents if he was bullied, but she never told him to fight it himself. It seems he never had this kind of awareness, but this method is indeed effective at certain times.

“Damn, why didn’t I meet you earlier, so that I wouldn’t have to suffer so many beatings in vain. But I really couldn’t beat them, I was scared, I’m afraid of being beaten even worse.” Sang Yu said.

Song Qingshu glanced at him, and said to him: “You can push them from behind when they go downstairs, or push the person who bullies you onto the road when they go home……there are many ways, but right now forget it, you’re too old.”

Sang Yu suddenly felt chills down his back. Thinking back carefully since Song Qingshu joined the company, several dismissed people in the company were indeed more or less connected with Song Qingshu. Now that he thinks about it carefully, he’s afraid.

He was immediately glad that he had a good relationship with Song Qingshu, and that he hadn’t offended Song Qingshu at work, otherwise he wouldn’t know how he died.

Seeing that Sang Yu seemed startled by his own thoughts, Song Qingshu smiled and changed the subject.

“Is it the first time for you to play this kind of game? Is it always so perverted like this?” Song Qingshu asked the other two people.

Moon in the Water replied calmly: “I haven’t played it for long, I started playing it a year ago, and this game is the last one.” After a moment of silence, he said: “Maybe it’s not the last one, there may be more in the future, who knows. As for perversion? Yes, but we can’t stop playing.”

Seeing Song Qingshu’s face full of doubts, Moon in the Water sighed and said in time: “Don’t ask, asking is addictive. But how did you get in here?”

Song Qingshu: ……He remembered the boss who deceived him.

Just as Sang Yu was about to reply, he was held down by Song Qingshu, and he closed his mouth tightly. His fingers made a zipper movement around his mouth, and Song Qingshu let him go.

Song Qingshu tidied up his clothes, with a professional smirk on his face: “Don’t ask, it’s just out of curiosity.”

They couldn’t talk anymore today.

“Ghost! Big-headed ghost, red-haired big-headed ghost…” The scream of the girl in 106 was heard by several people in 105, and they quickly rushed to 106 who was facing diagonally.

Song Qingshu quickly walked up to the girl, grabbed her arm, and asked her: “What else did you see?”

“I saw a a red haired ghost with such a big head.” The girl’s nervous voice was trembling, and she suddenly raised her hand and gestured, almost hitting Song Qingshu in the face.

The girl grabbed Song Qingshu’s arm firmly after making gestures, exhausted her whole body, looked at Song Qingshu’s eyes rolling with fear of something unknown, as if Song Qingshu at this moment was the straw that could save her life.

Sang Yu saw the girl clutching Song Qingshu desperately, and wanted to come up to help, but was stopped by Moon in the Water, and pointed to the crazy girl on the bed, beckoning him not to provoke her any more.

Song Qingshu looked straight into her eyes, and slowly stroked the hand that was not held by her on top of her head, hoping to calm her down.

“Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid, it’s all a dream……” Song Qingshu said slowly, as if to comfort a child who was frightened by a nightmare.

When the girl’s tense nerves could no longer bear to pass out, Song Qingshu carefully laid her flat on the bed and covered her with a quilt.

After doing these things, he looked at the girl’s crying dirty face, with pity in his eyes, and then sighed, he was doomed, and there was a high probability that he would not be able to make it back alive in this kind of game.

He moved his eyes away from the girl’s face, and when he looked up, he saw Moon in the Water leaning against the door frame of 106, the expression on his face was somewhat unpredictable.

“What the hell kind of game is this? Why is it so difficult to play? I thought a singing rabbit would be enough to scare people, and now a big-headed ghost with red hair came along.” When Sang Yu heard the girl call out the red-haired big-headed ghost, his heart turned cold. He thought it was a normal difficulty game, but it was directly upgraded to a difficult game. He couldn’t accept it.

“You are wrong, there are three, at least three.” Song Qingshu stretched out his slender fingers and gestured three fingers in front of Sang Yu, “Except for the known singing rabbit and red-haired big-headed ghost, judging from the lyrics and the sound made last night, there is still a wooden ghost. As for whether there are three or more, we will have to look for it at night.”

After listening to Song Qingshu’s analysis, Sang Yu sat on the bed dejectedly, “The game is directly upgraded from the normal mode to the hell mode, how can this make novices play?”

“If you don’t play, you can only wait to die.” Yan Ruyu looked at Sang Yu’s dejected appearance and said the truth. Newcomers are emotionally unstable in the game. As time goes by, they will gradually lose hope, and they will collapse like Sang Yu, which is not a good sign.

“I don’t want to die, I’m young, I don’t have a girlfriend yet.” Sang Yu couldn’t help feeling sad when he thought that he would die in this ghost place without even having a girlfriend.

“I don’t want to die, I’m young, I don’t have a boyfriend yet.” Song Qingshu imitated Sang Yu’s tone and said.

“I’m going to die, don’t imitate me.” Sang Yu whispered, “If you imitate me again, let that rabbit catch you at night.”

“Let’s go to lunch.” Moon in the Water walked to the side of the two of them, with an undeniable sense of oppression in his tone.

Sang Yu looked at Song Qingshu, then at the Moon in the Water, and finally his gaze fell on Yan Ruyu who was about to go out, and suddenly felt that he was at the bottom of the food chain.

No, it must be his illusion.