Chapter 2 LINE ONE
Jim Becker is a very popular guy.
At Kitchener Far Mountain High School, you just mention his name and no one will say they don't know him.
In his sophomore year of high school this year, he is the number one star of the Yuanshan High School ice hockey team, not only is he handsome and tall in his life, but his family background is also very wealthy.
His father was a school director and his mother was the president of the PTA (Parent Teacher Association), and although his family was not yet super-rich, it was undoubtedly a minority of the wealthy class.
On weekdays, Becker wears luxury goods and makes friends who are all "cool kids"; His girlfriend is either a hot cheerleader or a perfectly designed little princess; Even if he didn't study very hard, the teacher didn't dare to fail him; And he organizes a party once a week...... At least once.
It can be said that Becker lived a high school life that countless people thought only existed in fantasy.
For the average student, Becker is happy if he can have one of the things he has.
However, Becker himself, who had all this, was not satisfied.
Because he had never experienced the feeling of having nothing, he didn't think there was a big deal about what he was enjoying; Because he has long been accustomed to having everything, he ...... As time went on, the satisfaction he could get from it would only diminish.
This is human nature, and it is also the quality of desire.
Sometimes, standing on a high place doesn't broaden your horizons.
Becker...... is a good example; He was born with a variety of resources that were better than the average person, but he clearly didn't use them in the right place.
Unlike many people who have a "hard" high school life, Becker quickly adapted to his relaxed, "perfect" high school life, so he spent all his excess energy and time chasing "new thrills".
At first, all he did was pranks and school bullying; If you do too much of this kind of thing, there will naturally be times when you "play out of bounds", but fortunately, his father is also a bit powerful in the local area, and most of the things that can be settled with money have helped him settle down.
Although his parents would still blame him after the accident, it was obviously different from punishment from the outside world...... Because of this, Becker, who did not pay any price for his "transgression" behavior, began to intensify his efforts.
He found a secret chat group on the dark web for Nishizu like him to communicate, and in that group, many individuals and groups would share their ways of finding "excitement" - which illegal drugs are high and not addictive, where there are underground nightclubs for all ages, how to cover up their criminal behavior...... Similar information flooded the group.
Although he paid a large amount of "entrance fee" when he joined the group, Becker did not regret it at all, because the chat content in it really opened his eyes; When he listened to others enthusiastically discuss a certain luxury gambling game only for "princes, kings and grandchildren", he realized that he was not an "elite" at all; When he heard that a small group that was not short of money had casually made hundreds of millions of gambling money by relying on a live broadcast show of real torture and killing, he realized that the ones he used to play could only be regarded as a house drink......
In this way, Becker, who "broadened his horizons" from another angle, seemed to have an "epiphany" and never went back on the road of "learning badly".
After joining the group for more than a month, he took his fox friends and dog friends to connect with some local "drug dealers"; They started "topping" the party's drinks, and then had some "consumers" who weren't students bring the schoolgirls into the room and even home......
Most of the victims were forced by the power of the Becker family, or the power of the "Dao Er", or because they were filmed...... In the end, silence was chosen.
As a result, Becker, who has repeatedly succeeded, has made this "business" bigger and bigger, and has a certain reputation in Taoism; Of course, what he enjoys more than money is the sense of superiority that someone says "I know this person" immediately after his name is announced, and the pride when he shows off his "deeds" in that chat group.
Today, it's the weekend again, and it's Friday night, and it's a "party night".
With all the gossip at his school and several nearby high schools, it is now difficult for Becker to invite beautiful girls from nearby schools to his party, so he now does one thing every weekend – handing out flyers.
Some people will question why such a primitive method as handing out leaflets is still used to invite people these days? And even if you want to hand out leaflets, you don't have to have Becker go in person, right?
In fact, the reason is very simple...... First of all, choose the form of leaflet distribution to limit the area where information is circulated; Becker, of course, knew that posting information on the Internet would allow more people to see it, but then he would face a problem - for example, if he posted an invitation announcement on the Internet, then people from all five schools would come tonight, and the "victims" would be evenly distributed...... Although these people will not report the incident, they are likely to warn or imply that the girls at the same school have a problem with the party afterwards...... In this way, before this weekend, the "supply" of these five schools will have to be cut off.
And what about handing out flyers? Becker can selectively invite only one or two schools at a time; After going to schools A and B today, and going to C and D tomorrow, even if some students will share the news of the party through social media and attract some people from other schools, the publicity is very limited and far less effective than the organizers directly posting the news...... By doing so, he would be able to use the same party venue in one area for at least one weekend.
So, why did Becker take it upon himself to hand out the leaflets?
For one, the others were still in school on Fridays, and no one dared to care if he skipped class; Second, his student image can help him easily blend into any high school or university; Third, as mentioned above, he was born tall and handsome, and with his famous brand, it is naturally easier to invite people.
To sum up, early this morning, Becker set off as planned.
He parked his sports car in the school parking lot, then grabbed a backpack and trotted out of the school gate.
After crossing two blocks, he walked into the subway station.
Becker's destination today is two colleges and universities near the city center, and the plan is to go to one in the morning and one in the afternoon, and then return to his school before school and drive home.
What Becker didn't know was that he had been followed before he left school.
Following him was a boy named Adams, his classmate.
Of course, Becker didn't know Adams, because Adams was just a small guy, an ordinary high school student - he felt confused about his future, he felt powerless about his studies, he wanted to be cool but was always self-defeating, he felt rebellious but essentially a philistine.
If there's anything Adams cares about in particular, it's his girlfriend; For someone his age, love can be bigger than anything else...... Or many years later, when he looks back, he will find that he doesn't really like each other very much, but at the moment, this is the only thing in his eyes.
Hormones are like a pot of boiling water, and it's hard to make the judgment you should make when your sanity is soaked in it and it's scorching.
This is the case for Adams, who not so long ago became reticent and estranged from Becker after a party he had attended, and his fierce questioning was met with wordless crying.
In this case, Adams did not think at all about turning to an adult, and he did not even try to make any reliable speculations about the situation...... Although with his IQ, he may not be able to imagine what is happening.
Anyway, Adams recognized one thing - the change in his girlfriend must be related to Becker. So, from a few days ago, Adams began to secretly observe Becker's actions.
This morning in the parking lot, he spotted Becker sneakily leaving school with a bag on his back, and he followed.
He followed Becker on the subway, took the bus to the city center, walked all the way to a high school, and mixed in with the other party.
He watched Becker post flyers in the hallways and lockers of other people's schools, and hand out flyers to students during recess; Then, he followed Becker out of the school and on the subway again.
After only two stops, they arrived at another university. It was lunch break, and Becker easily got in and did what he had done at the previous school.
This time, however, Becker caught the attention of one of the academic staff, who approached him and asked him a few questions, only to find out that he was not a student of the university, and then asked him where he was from......
Becker didn't want to get into trouble here, so he hurried away before the situation became serious.
There was no reason for the main player of the high school ice hockey team to be overtaken by a middle-aged liberal arts teacher, and Becker ran away smoothly and ...... in the process of escaping Aware of Adams' presence.
Becker soon realizes that this person is a classmate from his school, and then surmises that the other person has been following him since the morning.
Becker, who has always been a school tyrant and is now a criminal, will never be intimidated by a mere peer, let alone a student in his "land snake" territory.
After running for a while, Becker deliberately turned into an alley, and Adams hurried to follow for fear of losing it, but was blocked around the corner.
The stout Becker stepped forward and put his arm against Adams's throat and pushed him against the wall.
He asks Adams why he is following him, and Adams in turn asks what he did to his girlfriend and threatens to denounce him; The two were basically not on the same channel, but that didn't stop them from arguing and quickly escalating into a fight.
They fought from the bottom of the alley to the end of the alley, and in the end, it was Becker who had the upper hand...... Facing Adams, who was already unsteady on his feet and staggering, Becker threw a punch that sent his opponent backwards and fell on his back.
The next second, with a hissing of brakes, a school bus full of elementary school students crushed Adams, who suddenly fell sideways beyond the shoulder.
For such a large car, it is dangerous to slam the steering wheel and brakes while driving, plus Adams is a big living man under one side of the tire...... At that time, there was a roll-skid accident.
This is not the end, just as the school bus skidd, there happened to be a black SUV that was obviously speeding from the reverse lane, and the opposite driver was also caught off guard in the face of the sudden oblique killing of the school bus.
Suddenly, a tragic impact inevitably occurred.
After the loud bang, the school bus rolled over and slid on its side, and the SUV was badly deformed and turned into the shape of a squeezed can.
Becker, who saw this series of chain accidents, was already stunned, but the next scene made him pee his pants in fright.
Just about five seconds after the two cars collided, but see ...... A sharp claw-like substance tore through the outer shell of the school bus, and then a black beast arm as thick as a street lamp pole poked out of the bus.
At the same moment, the door of the SUV was kicked open from the inside, and a man in black clothes and pants with a ski mask on his face stumbled out of the car; Behind his back...... It was several people whose bodies had been crushed and deformed by the car, and two of them were still breathless and moaning in horror as they watched the bones they poked out of their bodies.
The man who got off the bus glanced over to the school bus and didn't think about it...... Turning around, he pulled out two black, heavy bags from the back seat of the SUV and straddled them diagonally over his shoulders...... Turn around and run.
And the "monster" in the school bus tore the whole car in two at this moment and crawled out of it.
"It" roared furiously, and at the same time grabbed a few corpses from the car and stuffed them into his mouth, chewing them like snacks before swallowing them in a few bites.
On this day, many people died, Adams, Becker, the adults and children in the two cars, and the residents of the neighborhood...... That's a hundred.
All the media outlets throughout Maple Leaf County rushed to break the news about the incident, but until the evening news, people still didn't know what was going on here......
Because the FCPS and EAS intervened in the investigation at the first time, the information released to the outside world was quickly restricted; Although some people also filmed "monsters", the official use of the same method of "online fake video" immediately reduced the credibility and dissemination of such information.
Of course, they themselves have a lot of "monster" images captured by road probes, but they ...... It is also unknown where it came from or why it climbed out of an overturned school bus.
Later that day, a man who claimed to be "in the know" came to the police station and asked for help in their investigation.
After some negotiation with one of the EAS agents in charge of the case, the man, who identified himself as "Uncle Xue", was allowed to watch the footage taken at a nearby intersection at the time of the crime and learned about ...... The two people who initially caused the accident have been identified as students at Toyama High School.
And while the detectives were waiting for Uncle Xue to tell them the origin of the "monster......