Chapter 2125: You Are Expelled
"No one can help me," the girl said softly. "Here, minors who intentionally kill are also sentenced to death. There's no one else like me in the school."
"Have you tried other methods?" Xu Huo asked.
"I can't go to the rooftop, can't touch knives, forks, or other sharp objects, and can't get near stairs or walls," the girl answered truthfully.
"Then how did you get that wound on your hand?"
"A classmate gave me a metal shard. He's already been locked up. I dragged him into this." The girl was full of self-blame.
Xu Huo paused before saying, "Can I take a look at your file?"
The girl took off the badge on her shoulder and placed it on the small table beside her, then said to him, "Teacher, I'm very sleepy. Can I go back to sleep? I won't kill myself."
Xu Huo agreed and went out to call the woman to come pick her up.
The woman arrived quickly but was very dissatisfied with him. "You haven't fulfilled your therapeutic duty."
"Treatment doesn't have to be rushed. It's better to let her rest well," Xu Huo said.
The woman was insistent. "This child is very ill. She must undergo at least one psychological counseling session before she can fall asleep on her own."
Xu Huo opened the girl's file in front of her. The file was extremely detailed, not glossing over the girl's past experiences. It seriously and meticulously recorded the entire process of her being assaulted and then beaten, resulting in multiple bone fractures and three critical condition notices. Even under the medical conditions of Zone 008, she had to be hospitalized for a full month.
In addition, after the criminal who harmed her was arrested and sentenced, her parents died from excessive drinking one after another. After being discharged from the hospital, she was taken care of by an aunt. After a while, she began to develop delusions, frequently saying that her deceased parents had returned to her side, telling her that someone had killed them and that she should seek justice and revenge for them.
The records stated that this incident once attracted considerable attention on the Message Collection Terminal, until the criminal's confession was disclosed.
After the girl's condition worsened, her aunt sent her to this special school.
"Making her sleep well is simple—just kill the murderer who harmed her and her parents." Xu Huo pointed his chin at the content in the projection.
The woman clenched her teeth for a long time, unable to relax. Then she pushed him aside, opened the door, and took the girl out of the psychological counseling room.
A year had passed, and the relevant information was no longer on the Message Collection Terminal. Xu Huo found the address of the girl's aunt based on the contact information left in the file.
The other party no longer lived at the original address. From her neighbors, he learned that after taking care of the girl for a while, the aunt suddenly came into a windfall. She sent the girl to the special school and then hurriedly moved away. The neighbors speculated that it was hush money, because people around had heard the girl say more than once that the one who harmed her was not the person sentenced to death, but three classmates from the same school. As for who exactly, it was unclear.
The school's address was easy to obtain. Xu Huo quickly got a list of suspects from the school's security personnel, and these children had already transferred schools nearly a year ago.
The internal records of the school were not easy to obtain. He spent some time finding a school teacher and learned the truth of the whole incident from him. The real criminals were indeed three students. The one sentenced was just a scapegoat specially arranged. After verification of identity, that person naturally died, because the authority of the district's judicial organs was inviolable. Therefore, in the stages of sentencing and punishment, there would absolutely be no tricks like substituting one person for another or escaping by cunning means; otherwise, the government would step in to hold people accountable.
However, in the stages of determining the criminal and supplementing evidence, there was considerable room for manipulation. Two of the three students came from families with very good backgrounds. They had prepared scapegoats before committing the crime, so the evidence and the criminal process all matched up. In addition, the girl had been injected with drugs beforehand and was mentally confused after waking up. Under repeated questioning by judicial authorities and psychologists, she herself began to doubt whether what she saw and heard was real. After dragging on for a while, it ultimately became impossible to convict the three students, so they had to be released.
In fact, by this point, the suspicion on the three students was very small, because during the investigation process, a special government agency would intervene—psychological interrogation. This agency could use drugs, Spiritual Interference, and other methods to induce the subject to recount their true memories, thereby avoiding the possibility of error.
This case had high public attention, so the psychological interrogation agency made public the investigation process of the three students. They were all injected with drugs and then hypnotized, voluntarily stating what they were doing on the day the girl was harmed. Both the psychologist and the instruments ensured that these were true memories.
Due to technological progress, the possibility of criminals trying to argue their way out had become very small. However, in the actual implementation of the law, the difficulty was still great. For example, some criminals were not easy to catch, and altering appearances or forging evidence was easier. For instance, in the girl's case, assuming what she said was true, many methods could be used to overturn her statements, even creating a situation where she herself could not distinguish truth from falsehood even in a clear-headed state.
Similar cases in many districts could only be left unresolved. The comprehensive strength of Zone 008 ensured that the law could be implemented, and the publicly available investigation materials also made the public willing to believe that the judicial organs had indeed restored the facts.
However, the death of the girl's parents was too coincidental. Moreover, judging by the school worker's demeanor, it seemed there really was a hidden story.
With no further progress, Xu Huo returned to the school. Outside the school building, he contacted the woman. "You know the whole story, don't you."
The woman's voice remained cold and hard. "The school is not a place where an outsider like you can do whatever you want. Leave immediately. Tomorrow, I will inform the principal to revoke your identity certification!"
"Her parents are dead, but she is still alive and well. The school is actually a good haven," Xu Huo said. "It just so happens that I am an outsider, with no conflicts of interest with the people of Zone 008. Understanding the ins and outs of the incident is nothing more than helping that poor child. She has attempted suicide at least six times. Even if she is saved every time, she will eventually reach her limit. Don't you want to save her?"
The woman's breathing was heavy. After a moment, she asked, "Can you really help her?"
"I'll do my best," Xu Huo promised.
"Alright, go to the counseling room." There was the sound of her getting up on the other end. "I'll be there in a few minutes."
Ending the communication, Xu Huo entered the school building alone. However, he did not go into the counseling room but simply stood outside the door and waited.
As the woman had said, she arrived in a few minutes, but she brought two players with her. As the three of them arrived, the school building activated a Blockade Barrier.
The woman stood outside the building, expressionless, looking at him. "From now on, you are expelled."
(End of chapter)