Her legs were numb, and she took only one step before falling to the ground.
Her eyeballs were bulging outwards, full of red bloodshot, her lips were frighteningly white, and her fingers were trembling unconsciously.
Maybe it was because she fell too hard or for some other reason, but she started to retch.
The door was open at this time and she actually forgot to escape.
It was as if her soul had been sucked out.
Gu Yiming just reminded her again: "The confinement time is up, you can leave now."
Su Fangfang was like a rusty machine, turning her head inch by inch.
She looked for a moment before she recognized who was in front of her.
She rushed over and grabbed Gu Yiming's arm fiercely, "You are the one who reported me, right? It must be you. You are the only one who has a grudge against me. You want to take revenge on me!"
"You know how dark it is here—"
Gu Yiming had an injury on his arm.
The wounds from his mother beating him hadn't healed yet, and here he had new wounds. The wounds hadn't healed and were already a little inflamed.
He frowned and said in a very cold tone: "I know."
"You sent me in here once, remember? I was in there longer than you were."
"Also, I didn't report you."
Because there is no need.
He is now the president of the student union, responsible for checking students' dormitories and daily routines. Those students knew that Sun Fangfang had framed him before, so in order to please him, they would naturally target Sun Fangfang.
Sun Fangfang seemed to realize this, too. Her face was filled with despair.
Gu Yiming was in no mood to comfort her, he just said: "Go back to the dormitory, you still have physical education class in the afternoon."
After that, he ignored her and walked straight forward.
His destination was the cafeteria.
In order to prevent students from stealing food, the cafeteria usually does not leave any food.
Gu Yiming had inquired and found out that the tuition fee for this school was 16,000 yuan per semester, but the food they provided for each meal consisted of uncooked radish and kelp soup, half-cooked rice, and various meats that the "leaders" did not eat, had been frozen for who knows how long, or were about to rot.
There is no chef in the student kitchen; the people who cook there are students.
This is a good position. Occasionally you will get to eat the leftovers of the "leader", but you have to please the chef who cooks for the leader.
Today's kitchen helper had a good relationship with Gu Yiming. He whispered to Gu Yiming, "There's a snack today. It's fish. Don't eat it. It stinks."
Gu Yiming nodded, and without stopping, walked towards the leader's kitchen.
'Leaders' refers to principals, teachers and instructors.
There are about 800 students in this school, and less than 20 'leaders', but their kitchen is twice as big as the students.
If superiors come to inspect, this place will immediately become a student canteen, and the real student canteen next to it will become a warehouse.
The person who cooked for the 'leaders' was the owner of a small restaurant in the village. He didn't have much business on weekdays, so he came here to work part-time.
The chef knew what this place was like, and the principal was not afraid of being found out by them, because on the first day they were captured, the instructor clearly told them that the villagers were in cahoots with them.
If they run away, the villagers will get money as long as they report it.
There is no point calling the police because "the police will help us too. You can't get away."
Now is the hottest time of the year. When Gu Yiming thinks of the scene at that time, he can't help but feel a chill in his heart.
Gu Yiming pushed open the door and saw the chef cooking.
He was shirtless, with a cigarette in his mouth, and beads of sweat from his fat belly occasionally fell into the pot.
Seeing Gu Yiming, he laughed, "I knew it was you."
"You're the only one here, so you'll knock before entering."
He threw the cigarette on the ground and crushed it casually: "I really don't understand, you are such an obedient child, why did your mother send you here."
He shook his head. "If my son could achieve your results, I would be willing to call him dad."
Gu Yiming lowered his head and whispered, "Maybe I'm not obedient enough."
To save money, the kitchen didn't have a range hood. But the iron pot and spoon made a lot of noise, and the chef didn't hear clearly, so he asked, "What did you say?"
Gu Yiming put on a smile: "Can I help you with anything?"
The chef wiped the sweat off his bald head with his hand and said, "Xiao Gu, you came at the right time."
"I had a stomachache this morning and need to go to the toilet."
Gu Yiming knew clearly that he was not having a stomachache.
No one likes to stay in the kitchen in the hot summer, he just wants to be lazy.
There was a palm-sized piece of braised beef on the countertop. In front of Gu Yiming, he cut a large piece, wrapped it in a plastic bag, and put it in his trouser pocket.
There was about two fingers' width left. He winked at Gu Yiming and said, "This is yours."
Gu Yiming smiled sweetly again: "Thank you."
The fat chef left quickly, leaving Gu Yiming alone in the kitchen.
He was thin to begin with, and after being captured he became even thinner, even skinny. But he didn't even look at the piece of beef.
He put on a mask and stir-fried the vegetables in the pot attentively and seriously.
He certainly wouldn't eat his lunch snack, he wouldn't even eat his lunch.
Because today is his last day at Yuzhang Academy.
During the time at Lin Jiaqiao's grandfather's house, in addition to having fun, Gu Yiming also learned a new skill from Qin Guan: identifying various poisonous plants.
He didn't know before that plants that can be found everywhere can actually become highly poisonous if they are processed using special techniques.
Gu Yiming took out a handful of plant leaves from his pocket.
He found these in the school park and collected them slowly over a week.
When this leaf is exposed to heat, it will produce symptoms similar to digitalis poisoning, ranging from nausea and abdominal pain in mild cases to arrhythmia and atrial fibrillation in severe cases.
The only problem now is that Gu Yiming doesn't know how to measure. If he uses too little, it will be useless, but if he uses too much, it may cause death.
Gu Yiming didn't want to kill anyone, he just wanted to create chaos to make it easier for him to escape.
Twenty days was already his limit.
Just that day, Gu Yiming met a boy coming out of the venting room.
He was no longer a human being, just a human-shaped lump of flesh.
He crawled out of the house using his hands and feet, and lay in the sun, motionless, as if dead. His face was also dull, like an old man with Alzheimer's disease, or a person with dementia.
Gu Yiming smelled a strange odor on him. He was incontinent and his excrement for several days was in his pants.
This boy is tall and strong, like a hill. I heard that he was originally a shot put athlete. He was sent here because he didn't listen to his parents and always hung out in Internet cafes with his classmates.
When he first arrived, he relied on his strength to fight with the instructor, so he was locked up here.
Gu Yiming remembered it very clearly. The teacher who took him to handle the formalities said proudly that they only detained the boy for three days and only gave him a sip of water and a little food every day.
The teacher was smiling at the time and said they welcomed bad students the most.
No matter how 'bad' a student is, as long as he enters their college, he will become a 'good' child.
Gu Yiming understood at that time that this was not a place for normal people to stay.
So he disguised himself as a doll without temper.
At noon on the first day, under the scorching sun, the teacher took them to the playground and asked the newcomers to pull weeds with their bare hands. He did not resist.
The next morning at six o'clock, the teacher called them to get up for physical training, and he did not resist.
He did thousands of squats, sit-ups, and bunny hops. Although it was very difficult for him to complete them, he still tried his best to complete them.
Because he has seen the consequences of not being able to do it.
Just the evening before, after they had pulled the weeds, they had an hour-long physical education class.
If you can’t complete the goals set by the school, it doesn’t matter. Someone will press your back or your head to force you to do it. If you still can’t do it, it doesn’t matter. The whole class will make you run laps together as punishment.
Gu Yiming understood the rules of survival here on the first day. Unity was impossible, and if he wanted to escape, he could only rely on himself.
He was kind to others and lived his life carefully, but at the end of the first week, he was still beaten.
In this school, every student has a psychological teacher who is responsible for supervising students to write diaries and call their parents.
If anyone says something bad about the school, they will be scolded after the call is hung up.
Because Gu Yiming performed well, he got the chance to talk to his mother that week.
In the past week, Gu Yiming spent all his time trying to survive. He didn't dare to spare any time, for he was afraid that he would think about how he had fallen into this situation.
He was afraid that he would hate his mother even more.
He actually wanted to call his sister because he knew she would be worried if she couldn't find him, but the school had a rule that he could only call registered contacts.
Then he called his mother.
He still pretends to be a doll.
He is very skilled at this.
When he was a child, he wanted to avoid being beaten by his mother, so he pretended to be a well-behaved and obedient child.
When he grew up a little, after Gu Xiaoxu disappeared, he knew there was something hidden, but he was afraid that his mother would not pay his tuition, so he pretended to know nothing and asked nothing.
He didn't like going to school, but it allowed him to get away from his mother.
Later, whether he asked Lin Dapeng to help him find Gu Xiaoxu, or made friends with Lin Jiaqiao and Qin Guan, he always put on a mask of being well-behaved.
After a long time, he even forgot what kind of personality he had.
But he didn't care, because he knew that people always liked good children.
So, when he talked to his mother on the phone, he was still well-behaved.
He had a smile on his face, and in the face of his mother's accusations, he kept nodding, admitting that it was all his fault.
But his mother was still not satisfied.
Immediately after their conversation ended, his mother called the principal and accused him of being perfunctory.
She blamed the school for not teaching him well.
Then he was beaten.
The psychology teacher slapped him twice on the spot, and the instructor hit him with a ruler ten times.
The ruler was originally meant to hit his hands, but because his palms were already rotten after the sixth hit, the remaining four hits were on his back.
But his punishment was not over yet.
He was punished by not being able to eat dinner that day. After returning to the dormitory, the instructor asked his roommates to watch him while he did plank exercises for two hours.