I Am Guilty, Because I Am Cowardly

With the aid of this biological detector, Punishment Department personnel began excavating the collapsed ruins half an hour later.

As one body after another, covered in white sheets, was placed in the open space in front of the building, everyone's mood grew heavier and heavier.

Even those media people who had sharpened their heads to get news couldn't bear it any longer.

They stayed here for half the night, and it wasn't until dawn that the Punishment Department rescuers announced the end of the excavation and began to sort through all the data for comparison.

Almost at the same moment, a long Star Network post suddenly appeared on the Star Network.

The attached topic was—#I am Yu Wangyou, I am guilty, because I am cowardly#.

This topic, after it appeared, took only ten minutes to reach the top of the real-time Star Network Hot Search list.

Behind this topic, there wasn't just one "Hot" character, but three "Hot" characters stacked together! The popularity of this topic was even more "Hot" than the time the emperor implicated and killed members of the Imperial Clan!

Countless people simultaneously received notification sounds for the Hot Search push.

Curiosity piqued, everyone hurriedly clicked on the topic to see what exactly had been posted.

Unexpectedly, the person who posted the topic was a verified account named Yu Wangyou, and it was posted using the timed function.

This long Star Network post was quite long, and many people didn't have the patience for it. They generally had a "too long, didn't read" attitude towards things on social media.

But this time, the Star Network post that Yu Wangyou posted had a strange attraction.

It made everyone unable to help but read it word by word, sentence by sentence.

"Hello everyone, my name is Yu Wangyou, and I am a senior at Mulan City No. 1 High School on Guiyuan Star. My home is in Building E, Room 122, North District 177, Mulan City."

"By the time you see this long Star Network post, I will have already left this world."

"I'm sorry to take up public resources at this time. But if I don't speak out, more girls may be harmed like me, but they won't dare to stand up and testify, thereby indirectly encouraging those perpetrators, allowing them to harm more people."

"If I had called the police the moment I escaped from that Hell-like place, my three hundred plus classmates would not have died tragically this time."

"If it weren't for my cowardice, my fear of being scrutinized with strange eyes, I wouldn't have hidden in Mulan City, bringing a devastating disaster to my three hundred plus classmates."

"I am a victim, but I am also a perpetrator. I used my cowardice to add fuel to the fire of evil. I am guilty."

"Since I was little, I have loved reading. I like learning all kinds of knowledge, just wanting to grow up safely, find a job I like in the future, and live quietly like this until I grow old."

"But even such a small wish, I have not been able to fulfill."

"In May of last year, the day after my eighteenth birthday, on the way to the library in Wind Sea City, I was abducted by the Judge Organization, a cult."

"From then on, I fell into a Hell-like place."

"There, there was no light, hope, or kindness, only darkness, filth, and sin!"

"I don't want to bury my whole life there. I'm only eighteen years old. I want to live! I want to go home!"

"So I endured, succumbed, and played the role of the most worry-free Saintess."

"I was beaten, scolded, harmed, and molested by that so-called Guardian, and then violated..."

"Time after time, I thought my forbearance and pleading would make him discover his conscience, but it only made him intensify his actions."

"In the end, he finally believed that I was willing to be their Saintess, so he relaxed his vigilance towards me, allowing me to find an opportunity to escape from that Hell-like place and return to my family who cherished me."

"After I returned home, I had severe post-traumatic stress disorder. Every blade of grass, every tree, every street, and every house in Wind Sea City filled me with fear, making it impossible for me to take a step out of my house."

"I couldn't continue to live in Wind Sea City, so my family quietly brought me to this beautiful city of Mulan City without informing any relatives or friends, so that I could go to school and study like a normal person."

"I don't understand why, even after I came to Mulan City, far away from my former home, that Guardian was still able to find me?"

"I also don't understand why Mulan City No. 1 High School, which has zero tolerance for guns and very strict security measures, would allow a man to bring a gun into the school?"

"Also, that Guardian is not mentally ill. He is a normal person, a normal pervert."

"The so-called mental illness is just a protective umbrella he found for himself."

"If he hadn't been shot and killed on the spot by my classmate, he would have denied everything he said about the Judge Organization in court and used mental illness to escape punishment."

"Not only would he be exempt from legal responsibility for the lives of those three hundred plus people, but he would also be exempt from any legal responsibility for my violation."

"It's a pity that you calculated so well, but the net of Heaven is vast, and its meshes are wide, yet nothing escapes. No matter how well you calculate, you can't escape the sanctions of justice!"

"Here, I especially want to thank my classmate and best friend! She is kind, brave, hates evil as if it were her enemy, and is also excellent in her studies and approachable. She is as noble as a real princess!"

"It was she who acted righteously, risking her life in such a tense and dangerous moment, to avenge me and our more than three hundred deceased classmates!"

"As for the nobleman who hid behind the scenes and planned all of this, I admit you won."

"It's my fault that I'm better than you. It's my fault that I'm cowardly."

"You ruined me, making me fall from Heaven to Hell!"

"I couldn't face anything in Wind Sea City, so I transferred to Mulan City, but you still wouldn't let me go, chasing me to Mulan City!"

"You succeeded, using this method, using more than three hundred lives, to ruin me!"

"But don't be complacent. Justice resides in the hearts of the people. You know in your heart what you are!"

"You don't dare to reveal your true identity! You treat human lives like dirt! You and your mother will be punished!"

"I once again apologize to the parents of all the victimized students. I, Yu Wangyou, am guilty."

"To atone for my sins, I have already revealed the information I know about the Judge Organization to the relevant departments."

"They should have arrived in time by now to destroy these strongholds and rescue more victims like me."

"More than three hundred dead classmates, I'm sorry to you all. I'm atoning with my life. I'm coming to join you."

"Goodbye, everyone. If there is an afterlife, we'll meet in the next life. -- Yu Wangyou, last words."

This long Star Network post went viral within ten minutes of being posted.

Because this long Star Network post contained a specific address, it was naturally linked by the Star Network's mechanical intelligence to the event that occurred at the same address.

Therefore, the associated event below this long Star Network post was the fire, explosion, and collapse of the residential building in Building E, North District 177, Mulan City, Guiyuan Star, which occurred in the early hours of the morning.

Everyone immediately linked Yu Wangyou's suicide to the fire and explosion of this building.

Countless netizens, whether local or far away on other planets, were discussing on the Star Network whether the fire and explosion of this residential building were directly related to Yu Wangyou's suicide.

Various inquiries flew in like snowflakes, almost crashing the official website of the Mulan City government.

The Mulan City government had no choice but to instruct the special investigation team for the fire in Building E, North District 177, to hold a press conference to answer all kinds of questions in a unified manner.

The fire investigation team, having received authorization, immediately held a press conference at the site of the collapsed building.

"According to our investigation, this fire and explosion incident resulted in the pulverization of Building E in North District 177 of Mulan City, and catastrophic damage to Buildings D, C, and F in North District 177."

"A total of five hundred and thirty-seven residents were registered in Building E. Among them, thirty people did not reside in the building for various reasons, and three others escaped. The remaining five hundred and four people have been confirmed dead. Their bodies have been recovered, and the biological characteristic data comparison has just been completed, which is consistent with the data from the Mulan City Population Management Department."

As soon as this data was released, there was an uproar at the scene.

One reporter muttered, "This is almost total annihilation! More people died than in a building during the magnitude 10 earthquake in Mulan City hundreds of years ago..."

He had checked the records, and the buildings at that time were made of this kind of building material, and they collapsed very badly, but half of the people in the building still survived.

Another reporter asked, "What caused the building to catch fire and even explode violently? Is it related to the Yu Wangyou suicide incident that has just been rumored online?"

The spokesperson for the fire investigation team looked at the materials and found Yu Wangyou's name on the list of the dead.

He said, "I am not aware of the Yu Wangyou suicide incident you mentioned, but Yu Wangyou's name is indeed on the list of the dead. Her biological characteristic data comparison has been completed, proving that she is dead. Her cause of death was poisoning. The time of death was two hours earlier than the fire and explosion."

"Ah? How can it be such a coincidence?!" the reporter exclaimed, "After she committed suicide, did someone break into her house and blow up her whole family?!"

The spokesperson for the fire investigation team said very cautiously, "Yu Wangyou's cause of death was poisoning, but the subsequent explosion and fire were not related to a third party."

That reporter pressed, "Are you saying that Yu Wangyou committed suicide by taking poison, not by turning on the gas?"

The spokesperson for the fire investigation team said, "Yu Wangyou's direct cause of death was poisoning, not suffocation caused by gas."

Then another reporter asked, "If it's not related to Yu Wangyou's death, what was the cause of the fire and explosion?"

The spokesperson for the fire investigation team continued, "According to our preliminary investigation, the collapse of Building E in North District 177 was due to a natural gas leak in the kitchen area on the top floor of the building, which then caused an explosion. The huge explosion shock wave and heat destroyed the main structure of the building, which is why everyone was buried here."

"We found that all the dead died in their sleep, or were suffocated by thick smoke, or were shocked to death by the shock wave, with no signs of escape."

A reporter immediately asked, "Then why were the family that escaped able to escape? Where did they live? Could it be related to the explosion?"

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