"Evil kills the wicked; Whoever hates the righteous will be condemned. ”——

Qi Zihuan looked at the line of inscriptions on the lintel of the gate of the school office building, thoughtful.

He, Rose, and Sybil searched all the way to the school, but found nothing on the way except for a strange "tights" monster.

The school occupies a large area, with separate office and teaching buildings, separated by a meadow, and should have been a beautiful campus with a comfortable and pleasant environment. It's a pity that it has been abandoned for a long time, overgrown with weeds, and the two buildings with religious shapes are also mottled and dilapidated, but they look a little depressing.

There was no electricity in the building, and there was light from the windows in the office, but the hallway was almost dark. Fortunately, Sybil was fully equipped and immediately took out a police flashlight from his belt, otherwise the Zippo lighter in Rose's hand alone would not last long.

The trio walked slowly down the hallway, discovering Bible inscriptions or religious images in every corner of the school.

Suddenly, there was the sound of hurried footsteps ahead.

Sybil swept the flashlight beam over, only to see the figure of a girl flicker by the end of the hallway, disappearing around the corner.

"Sharon!"

Rose shouted excitedly and chased after him.

Fearing that she was in danger, Sybil followed closely behind her.

Qi Zihuan turned his head to look in the direction of the gate behind him, where the beam of the flashlight was also flashing, and there was a faint sound of birds chirping.

He hesitated, as if remembering the ultimate fate of these men, smiled silently, and chased after the two women.

……

Chris and Randolph, a middle-aged police officer, also turned left and right in the town and came to the school.

Randolph adjusted the mask on his face, covered it tighter, looked at the school gate in the evening sun, and said with emotion: "I also studied in this school at that time, and at that time, there were many students and teachers here. ”

"By the way, your father opened the barbershop just now, so what about your father now?" Chris was also wearing a mask, and his words were angry.

"He died that year."

"Died in the coal mine fire of November 1974?"

Randolph looked at the cross on the glass window at the corner of the staircase and whispered, "Yes, a lot died that time. Perhaps, they deserve it. ”

"Deserved? What's going on here? Chris felt as if the weird town was hiding a lot of secrets.

"Let the past pass." Randolph led Chris to search one office after another, not wanting to go any further, "The most important thing now is to quickly find your wife and daughter and my men, there is soot in the air in this place, and it will be more dangerous to stay for a while." ”

……

Rose ran out of the office building following the sound of footsteps ahead, and there was no one on the lawn outside for the students to roam freely.

"Are you sure it's your daughter Sharon?" Sybil asked, and she and Qi Zihuan followed.

Rose carefully recalled the figure he saw for a moment just now, and replied: "The body shape and hair are the same, it should be Sharon, but the clothes seem to have changed." However, Sharon sometimes sleepwalks and does strange things, and it is possible to find a dress to change from somewhere. ”

"She might have gone to the school building over there, let's go over and have a look." Sybil led the way.

On both sides of the first floor of the school building are classrooms, which can accommodate thirty or forty single desks, and the windows are shuttered, and the light outside is cut into strips of light and shadow.

After inspecting the past classrooms, Qi Zihuan found that there were several hanging paintings on the walls of each classroom, and the most eye-catching position was always a painting engraved with the word "god", the content of the picture was similar to the common statue of Jesus in the church, but it was a woman in a white cloak who stretched out her hands to the four people seated, as if inspiring the believers, with holy light and white doves in the background.

With Qi Zihuan's superficial knowledge of Catholicism, he can only judge that the person in this painting is definitely not the Virgin Mary, and it is impossible to know who he is painting.

However, since God is written, there is a picture of a woman I don't know, which looks like a cult.

"You come here." Sybil shouted at a desk.

The desks in the classroom were all covered with a thick layer of dust, except for the two handprints in the dust on the desk in front of Sybil, the handprints were very clear and clean, obviously not long after they were printed.

The handprints wiped the dust away, and the exposed table top was inscribed with the word "witch" with rough marks, like the work of a child with a pencil sharpening knife.

"It's definitely Sharon's mark." Looking at this handprint, which was obviously more than an adult's, Rose said excitedly.

"Why this desk? Is there anything here? ”

Sybil is worthy of being a police officer, and he thinks carefully, opening the drawer and rummaging through it, and really finds a notebook with the girl's immature handwriting.

The notebook consisted mostly of the contents of the school curriculum, transcribed Bible passages, and a few graffiti, except for one page in the form of a diary that recorded what happened to the owner of the desk at school.

Because she was born to her mother before she was pregnant out of wedlock, she never had a father. In a place where the whole town is ethical, she has been ostracized, ridiculed, and bullied by her peers. The classmates would engrave the witch's words on her desk, smash books on her head, dump everything in her bag down the toilet, and slap the table and shout "burn the witch" together...... The girl was powerless to resist, and she didn't even know what she had done wrong, so she could only endure it in silence......

Qi Zihuan sighed in his heart, sure enough, happy people have their own happiness, and poor people are often similar.

Whether ancient or modern, Chinese or foreign, there are examples of being tormented by prejudice, Chu Renmei is like this, and this girl is also like this.

It's just that in the story of Chu Renmei, most of the villagers are just ignorant and blindly obedient, not subjectively evil. In the story of Silent Hill, these townspeople are already fanatical and extreme, taking the initiative to show their power to judge with the blood of others.

……

Chris and Randolph, who found nothing in the office building, also came to the school building.

Looking at the familiar classroom, Randolph could only feel distant memories flooding into his mind, and he could even remember where he sat at that time, and where the girl he silently liked sat down.

As he walked, he recalled that when he passed by a classroom, he suddenly stopped, and slowly walked to a desk with some hesitation.

The desks were covered in a thick layer of dust.

He reached out and wiped it off, revealing the word "witch" engraved on the table.

Flipping through the drawer, an old yellowed notebook was placed in it, with the name of the notebook's owner written on the cover.

Aletha.