Hospital 444
Chapter 370 - 23: Imprisonment

Chapter 370: Chapter 23: Imprisonment

"Hello, teacher."

When Lin Sunzhu stepped into the room being used as a classroom, she found...

... another two people were missing.

Qin Liqun and Qin Bosheng.

Only four students were left: Qin Qingji, Qin Yujuan, Qin Mi, and Qin Shenluo.

And on the roll call list that was handed out, only four names remained.

"Qin... Qin... Where are Qin Liqun and Qin Bosheng?"

Lin Sunzhu spoke with a trembling voice.

"Teacher," Qin Qingji still spoke with a calm tone, "I don’t know who these two people you’re talking about are. Qin Mi, Yujuan, do you know them?"

Qin Qingji directly ignored Qin Shenluo and specifically asked the two girls, Qin Mi and Qin Yujuan.

"I have no idea," Qin Yujuan shook her head slightly, "I have never heard of these two names before."

Qin Mi, however, bit her lip and remained silent.

At this moment, Qin Qingji showed a hint of dissatisfaction.

"Qin Mi. Why aren’t you speaking? I mentioned your name just now, didn’t I?"

Qin Mi seemed to be very afraid of Qin Qingji, her body even began to tremble.

"Qingji, we... "

"You better not tell me that you know the two people Ms. Lin just mentioned. You don’t really know them, do you? You wouldn’t want to mislead ’its’ cognition, would you? You won’t raise any objections to the teacher’s following roll call, right?"

Mislead... cognition?

Qin Mi’s body trembled more and more, then she spoke, "I have never heard of Qin Liqun and Qin Bosheng’s names."

"Good," Qin Qingji showed a pleased expression and said to Lin Sunzhu, "See, Ms. Lin, your students for this class are just the four people on the roll call list: me, Qin Mi, Yujuan, Shenluo. We have no objections to the roll call list, so go ahead and do the roll call, start the class."

Qin Yujuan then raised her wrist to glance at her watch and said to Lin Sunzhu, "Ms. Lin, don’t waste time, start the roll call, in the order on the list. Immediately."

Lin Sunzhu was already accustomed to the numerous abnormalities of this family. But she hadn’t expected them to be this extreme. These children... they all needed to be treated by psychiatry!

Speaking of which, didn’t the back of the business card from Hospital 444 mention the Department of Apparitions, which specializes in treating mild mental issues caused by apparitions?

"Qin Qingji."

"Present."

But for now, Lin Sunzhu could only proceed with the roll call as listed.

Beyond that, there was nothing she could do.

During the roll call, she subconsciously kept her distance from these teenagers, moving to stand beside a bookshelf.

It was at this moment that she happened to see a book.

"The Cthulhu Mythos."

She remembered, during her college days, she had once seen this book online.

The author believed that gods do not differentiate between good and evil, humanity is merely an accidental occurrence in this cruel, dark universe, human life had no meaning, and could face unstoppable destruction at any time.

Comparing it with her own experiences, it eerily resembled some of the stories within...?

"Qin Yujuan..."

"Present."

"Qin Lanting."

"Present."

"Qin Li..."

Suddenly, Lin Sunzhu realized something was wrong!

She had been recalling the tales in "The Cthulhu Mythos," so much so that she had become distracted!

She just now...

called out the name "Qin Lanting," right? And she also heard Qin Lanting’s response of "Present"!

She turned her head back in horror and looked!

But where was Qin Lanting?

There were only Qin Qingji, Qin Yujuan, Qin Mi, and Qin Shenluo, four people!

"You..."

Qin Yujuan stood up abruptly, staring at Lin Sunzhu in alarm, "What did you just do? Whose name did you call out?"

"I’m sorry, I... I was distracted!" Lin Sunzhu apologized hastily, "Let me take the roll call again, um, starting with you, Qin Qingji..."

But the next moment, something terrifying happened.

Qin Shenluo stood up abruptly!

This boy, who hardly ever spoke in class, always with a poker face devoid of expression, suddenly grabbed his chair, lifted it high, and smashed it toward Lin Sunzhu!

Lin Sunzhu managed to dodge in fright, and the chair crashed into the bookshelf behind her!

"What happened?"

The door opened, and the servants rushed in.

"Summon Butler Qin immediately!" Qin Qingji screamed hysterically, "Lock her up for now! This class must be canceled..."

"Can it be canceled?" Qin Yujuan also shouted, "How can a class schedule decreed by Father be canceled?"

"Then what else can we do? Lin Sunzhu, you’ve caused a huge disaster! You will die, I assure you, you will die a very miserable death!"

The servants swarmed up and seized Lin Sunzhu!

"Stop it! I am just a private tutor you hired, what are you doing? This is illegal!"

"You’re making me laugh by talking about the law," said Qin Yujuan coldly, "It will be up to Father to decide how you will be handled. But don’t even think about leaving Charm Shadow Villa again!"

Qin Qingji walked up to Lin Sunzhu, looked at her with those cold, dry eyes that contained no moisture, and said, "All you had to do was follow the instructions given to you by Butler Qin and be a good tutor, but you had to be like your predecessor, meddling in unnecessary things, and Chen Peian was the same. You’re never content! Father is always right, yet you always defy him!"

"You’re all insane, all of you! Qin Qingji, listen to me, you’re all being gaslighted by your father!" Lin Sunzhu showed a look of fear this time, "Listen to me, you’re still young, you can’t do illegal things. Please let me go, I don’t want your money, I’ll refund your deposit, just let me leave, please... You can’t just listen to everything your father says, you have to make your own judgments, if you break the law..."

"Because your mother told you, so-called filial piety is not about being compliant, is it? No, our following Father is not about that vulgar concept of ’filial piety’; you cannot possibly understand Father, so stop making wild guesses! Take her down and lock her up!"

"Yes, Young Master Qingji!"

After Lin Sunzhu was escorted out by several servants, no matter how she cried and shouted, it was no use; the servants were much stronger than she was. Soon, she was taken to a basement room and locked in a small room of less than forty square meters!

"Let me out! Please let me out! No!"

Lin Sunzhu didn’t know what she had done to provoke them?

"Please let me out! I beg you, please!"

However, there was no response from outside the door.

After shouting for about half an hour, Lin Sunzhu’s voice was almost hoarse.

In the end, she took out the severed finger of Fang Zhou and held it close to her mouth.

"Fang, Director Fang! Please save me! They’re insane, they’re going to kill me!"

But there was no response.

Lin Sunzhu shouted for a long time, to no avail.

Lin Sunzhu was utterly despondent.

That father, the head of the Qin Family, would he kill her? Were the former history and geography teachers, and Teacher Chen Peian, also killed like this?

"Hm?"

Suddenly, she remembered what Qin Qingji had said.

"Filial piety is not about being compliant"... those were her words to Qin Lanting... At that time, she should have been the only one outside the door, right?

Why did Qin Qingji... how could he know?