"Ah, I remember. I saw her right there!"
Reminded by the third senior brother, the little ball also recalled the woman's face.
She finally knew why the woman looked so familiar.
She had just seen her the night before last.
Beside the woman sat a man. His face also seemed a bit familiar. He looked quite similar to the little girl they had rescued later.
That night, they were sacrificing to an evil god. When they later fought with the evil god, everyone present was drained and sacrificed by it.
The people who should have died there actually showed up later and tried to harm Grandpa Shen.
This was enough to prove that the woman was extraordinary.
The probability of her showing up at that small auction was high, and she might even be a member of the Holy Cult.
As for what happened to Grandpa Shen today, Lu Mengyao was just a middle - man or a pawn. This woman and the Holy Cult behind her were the real culprits.
So, had the Holy Cult set its sights on the Shen family?
Was she the bad woman who had bewitched the girl's father into sacrificing his own children to resurrect his wife?
With these questions in mind, the little ball continued to read the information.
However, the information showed no details about the woman being married or pregnant.
Even her name didn't quite match up.
At first glance, her resume seemed ordinary, but the more she read, the more something seemed off.
The woman's name was Qiu Dongmei. She came from a small place and used to be a farmer. She had been married, but it was not a good marriage. Her father was a gambling addict, and her husband was an alcoholic. Neither of them treated her like a human being. Later, when her husband beat her, she fought back and accidentally killed him. She then dismembered the body and dumped it in her cellar. Since then, she had been on the run and had not been captured.
This was the information after she changed her identity. During that time, she had been working in various cities. But one day, she suddenly became a teacher at a private educational institution. From then on, her actions became very suspicious.
Qiu Dongmei was a typical example of someone who, having suffered herself, wanted to ruin everyone else's lives.
The educational institution where Qiu Dongmei used to work had already moved.
It was called the Blue Sky Educational Institution. Its former site had a large area, at least twice as big as the current one.
The reason for the abandonment of the old site was rather mysterious. It was said that seven or eight teenagers suddenly died there one after another. However, they were all the kind of naughty and lawless teenagers on a daily basis, so the institution didn't pay much attention.
These teenagers all died accidentally. Some fell down the stairs during a fight and died, some were blown up while fooling around in the chemistry lab, some choked to death while eating, and some drowned due to a leg cramp while swimming in the gym. Their deaths were various, but none were the institution's fault. The families had come to make trouble, but it was of no use. They only received some compensation and the matter was quickly settled.
Everyone thought these were just accidents. With so many people in the institution, it was impossible for everything to always go smoothly. It was just a coincidence that these accidents all happened around the same time and there were a few more of them.
The institution thought there was no problem, but the teenagers were whispering to each other and making up a lot of campus horror stories. Later, during a chemistry class, a teenager's improper operation led to an experiment accident. A whole class and the staff were not spared.
The institution was forced to suspend classes for investigation. With the social outcry and the teenagers' panic, the institution had no choice but to cancel the chemistry - related majors.
The Blue Sky Educational Institution had capital backing and a good reputation, so it was unlikely to go bankrupt. Finally, it resumed classes and order. But just a few days after the start of the semester, a large number of teenagers suffered from food poisoning. More than a hundred people, including the staff and teenagers, died. After so many incidents, the boss was almost bald from worry.
Finally, it was found that a large number of rats with the plague had died in the institution's water pipes, which led to this large - scale food - poisoning incident.
Connecting these events one by one, they seemed like coincidences, but they had left an indelible shadow on the teenagers and the staff. The most widely spread and terrifying rumor was that a female ghost had come back for revenge and destroyed the institution's feng shui.
The principal had no choice but to choose a new address, which was the current one, as the location of the Blue Sky Educational Institution. Unexpectedly, after moving to the new site, there had never been any strange events in the institution again.
However, after this incident, the admission standards of this institution had dropped significantly. Now, not many parents were willing to send their children there.
But there were still many legends about the old institution in the school, and the speculation about the girl's revenge was still talked about with great interest.
According to those who had studied there, there was a girl named Xiaofang in the institution before. Because her family was poor and she was quiet, she was often bullied in the institution.
Her family had sold everything they had to send her to the institution for tutoring, hoping that she could make something of herself. But they didn't expect that the innate gap in social status would cause her so much harm.
Some of the teenagers from better - off families or those who were more naughty liked to bully her for fun. Xiaofang reported the matter to the staff, but the staff's attitude was to downplay the issue. Since the institution didn't care and the staff didn't intervene, everyone bullied her even more recklessly.
Even the teenagers who didn't participate in this violent incident played the role of bystanders. From top to bottom, no one dared to talk to Xiaofang. Once, a little girl couldn't bear it and just said a few words in Xiaofang's defense. She was then naturally ostracized and resented.
One of the bullies, from a relatively well - off family, took the lead in humiliating the girl who had spoken up, and bullied both Xiaofang and the girl. Later, this battle between good and evil ended with the girl transferring out of the school.
After that, no one dared to speak up for Xiaofang again. Then one day, Xiaofang suddenly jumped off the rooftop of the institution's teaching building. It was said that some teenagers saw four male teenagers dragging Xiaofang upstairs.
No one knew how the four families had managed it, but finally the eyewitness changed their testimony, and Xiaofang was judged to have committed suicide.
Xiaofang's parents had been running around for a long time and still hadn't given up appealing, but due to insufficient evidence, the result couldn't be changed.
Xiaofang was the first child to die in the institution. Coincidentally, the teenagers who died after her were exactly those who had bullied her the most.
Qiu Dongmei had shown no abnormal behavior in the institution. According to the teenagers and the staff, she had a good reputation during her tenure as a teacher. But she was Xiaofang's one - on - one tutor.
After reading all this, both the little ball and Shen Weixun couldn't help but think of a conspiracy.
Qiu Dongmei's role in this was definitely not just that of a bystander. There must be a reason that had made her stay.
When the institution moved out of the old site, Qiu Dongmei also submitted her resignation. Shen Weixun suspected that Xiaofang's tragic fate was very likely orchestrated by Qiu Dongmei.
As for Qiu Dongmei's motive, he couldn't guess it for the time being. But if this woman was really working for the Holy Cult, then whatever she did was inseparable from the support and arrangement of the Holy Cult.
This woman had to be caught, and the Holy Cult had to be investigated.
How could they ignore the clues that had fallen into their hands?
The little ball and the third senior brother glanced at each other and decided to go to the old site of the institution.
After all, people were not gods. As long as they existed, they would leave traces. They would surely find some evidence.
Maybe by following the clues, they could also find information about the Holy Cult.
Previously, every person they had captured had died. This time, they had to keep a live one at all costs.