Chapter 18: Teacher, it has nothing to do with me!

  Until the evening self-study bell rang from outside, Zhou Hao finally came back to his senses from Li Ruolan's fragrance, and it really felt like time had passed unknowingly. Li Ruolan glanced at her watch and said to Zhou Hao, "You go out for a walk first, I'll go take a look at the classroom, come back here after the second evening self-study."

  Zhou Hao nodded, feeling a bit reluctant to leave the office, but thinking that he would be able to come back and spend time with Li Ruolan alone later, he let go of his concerns. He walked out of the office building towards the playground on the other side, under the deep night sky, a crescent moon hung above, casting a bright white light down, making the sand on the playground shine brightly.

  At this time, Yu Ning Middle School was building an indoor sports stadium on the vacant land east of the playground. Now it's deep in the night, those workers have long since gone off duty, and the stadium surrounded by nets and bamboo fences under the night sky is like a huge monster that chooses people to swallow.

  As he passed by, Zhou Hao suddenly saw a few figures flashing in the dark gymnasium, and the sound of bricks falling to the ground. Zhou Hao didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that there might still be workers inside the gymnasium. Just as he was about to leave, a strong premonition emerged in his heart, as if something was going to happen.

  Zhou Hao knew that his current intuition was very accurate and wouldn't appear for no reason. This time, the intuition should be related to those figures in the gymnasium earlier. Therefore, Zhou Hao nimbly jumped over the wall of the playground and quietly entered the still unfinished gymnasium.

  The gym was very dark, and with the netting outside, even moonlight couldn't get in. But Zhou Hao's eyesight was amazing now, although he couldn't see objects at night like those internal power experts, he could basically make out the things around him.

  The gymnasium only had a rough framework, without even walls, and the ground was uneven with piles of steel and cement everywhere. Zhou Hao carefully looked around, although the gymnasium was only one story high, it covered a very large area, and there were many piles of steel that were stacked very high, blocking his view.

  "Wooo..."

  A muffled voice came from the front, and fortunately, it was relatively quiet around, otherwise Zhou Hao wouldn't have heard it. Zhou Hao looked in the direction of the sound, but there was a row of turning heads there. He walked quietly with light footsteps, and as he approached, he saw two figures hunched over, their faces unclear, nor could he see what they were doing.

  Zhou Hao bypassed this row of bricks and saw the situation clearly, and at the same time, a strong anger burst out.

  Those were two men, who appeared to be construction workers from their clothing. Even though the man in front blocked Zhou Hao's line of sight, he could still see that on the ground over there was a figure constantly struggling and twisting, wearing Yun Ning Middle School uniform. One of the men firmly held down the person's hands and tightly covered their mouth, the "uuu" sound Zhou Hao heard earlier was from the person being pressed to the ground.

  And another man was wildly tearing at the person's clothes, Zhou Hao also saw the person's exposed snowy flat belly, that person should be a girl. These two workers were obviously going to rape a female student from Yu Ning Middle School!

  "Damn it!" Zhou Hao cursed in his heart. He had seen the news before he was reborn, saying that a female college student was raped by four migrant workers when she passed by a construction site at night, and the girl later jumped to her death out of shame. Zhou Hao did not expect such a thing to happen here at Yuning Middle School.

  He picked up a brick and walked quietly over, coming up behind the worker who still hadn't noticed. Zhou Hao didn't hesitate, raising the brick to heavily strike the back of the worker's head. This was just an ordinary yellow brick, relatively brittle in texture, which immediately broke into two pieces under the violent impact, while the worker let out no sound and fell directly onto the female student below.

  The worker who was holding the girl saw his partner fall down, and before he could react, Zhou Hao threw a hook punch at his chin, sending him flying into the air, landing on his back, and knocking him out.

  "Waaa... help... save me..." The girl on the ground wailed, trying to push away the worker who had fainted on top of her. However, due to being too shocked, she lost all strength in her body and failed after several attempts.

  "Don't worry, it's all right now." Zhou Hao tried to make his voice as gentle as possible so as not to scare the girl, while he quickly pulled away the unconscious worker.

  It was also at this time that he saw clearly what the unlucky girl looked like, and it turned out to be Gao Jingyi!

  Gao Jingyi's hair was disheveled, her face was covered in tears, and her whole body was trembling. Her school uniform jacket had been torn off, and her shirt was also ripped apart, leaving only a pale blue undershirt to cover her budding figure. The exposed skin was snow-white, but it was stained with dust, which made it look somewhat unattractive.

  Zhou Hao took a look at her pants and saw that the school uniform pants were still intact, it seemed that these two thugs had not succeeded yet, and he also let out a slight sigh of relief.

  Gao Jingyi was apparently frightened out of her wits and for a moment couldn't recognize Zhou Hao, only shouting "Save me!" over and over again.

  Seeing her usually proud and aloof self now so disheveled, Zhou Hao couldn't help but feel a pang of sympathy. He helped Gao Jingyi up and took off his own school uniform jacket to wrap around her, comforting her by saying: "Gao Jingyi, it's okay, Gao Jingyi." Seeing that Gao Jingyi still looked lost and out of sorts, Zhou Hao gently patted her face a few times while calling out to her: "Gao Jingyi! Gao Jingyi!"

  After a while, Gao Jingyi finally came to her senses. She let out an "ah" of surprise and murmured: "Zhou, Zhou Hao?"

  "It's great that you've finally woken up." Zhou Hao let out a sigh of relief, he was really afraid that Gao Jingyi would collapse mentally because of what happened earlier and never recover.

  Gao Jingyi looked down and saw the two workers on the ground, only then did she confirm her own safety. She let out a "wa" and flung herself into Zhou Hao's arms, bursting into loud sobs and releasing all the fear and anxiety pent up in her heart.

  Zhou Hao gently patted her back and softly comforted her, "Cry, cry, let it all out. It's okay now, don't worry, you're fine now."

  She cried for a long time before Gao Jingyi finally lifted her head, feeling somewhat embarrassed. Her face was like a flower cat's, with tears and dust mixed together. Zhou Hao wanted to help her wipe it clean but found he didn't have any tissues, so he said, "If you don't mind, you can just use my clothes. I usually use them to wipe my nose anyway."

  Gao Jingyi, who had just experienced this sudden event, was made to "heh" laugh out loud by Zhou Hao's one sentence, "Who uses your nose-wiped clothes?" Although she said so with her mouth, she still used the clothes that Zhou Hao draped over her body to wipe her face. And as she did so, the skin on her neck and lower abdomen was exposed in front of Zhou Hao.

  Zhou Hao thought, "If those boys in school who like Gao Jingyi find out that I saw her body, they might kill me without hesitation."

  Because of the dark surroundings, Gao Jingyi also didn't notice Zhou Hao's lecherous gaze.

  Zhou Hao helped her up, "How did those two guys catch you and bring you here?"

  "I was originally going to take advantage of the class break to go to the bathroom, but just as I passed by here, two people rushed over and dragged me in." Thinking back to the situation earlier, Gao Jingyi still had a lingering fear, thinking that if Zhou Hao hadn't arrived in time to save her, she would have been taken advantage of by those two workers. As soon as she thought of this, she couldn't help but shudder slightly, and at the same time, she couldn't resist sneaking a glance at Zhou Hao. Suddenly, she felt that Zhou Hao's already handsome face had become even more captivating.

  Zhou Hao also said: "Just now I saw a few figures flashing by when I passed by, so I came in to take a look. Fortunately, I arrived just in time." His intuition was indeed accurate, not only could it allow him to avoid danger, but also save others.

  He took a look at Gao Jingyi's tattered clothes, "You can't go back to the classroom like this, I'll take you to Teacher Li's place and notify your dad. By the way, what do you want to do with these two guys? Should we hand them over to the police?"

  At the mention of these two wicked workers, Gao Jingyi gritted her teeth and picked up a brick that was piled beside her, intending to throw it at them. However, she saw that the row of yellow bricks suddenly collapsed towards this side.

  "Be careful!" Zhou Hao immediately pulled Gao Jingyi over, while the falling bricks buried the two workers entirely.

  Gao Jingyi was so shocked by this sudden change that her heart was racing, and if it weren't for Zhou Hao holding onto her, she would have gotten hurt. And at this moment, she suddenly realized that she had leaned her entire body into Zhou Hao's arms.

  "Uh, never mind." Zhou Hao hastily let her go.

  "It's...it's nothing." Gao Jingyi's face flushed a deep red, but it wasn't too noticeable in the dark environment. Thinking back to the feeling of leaning against Zhou Hao's chest earlier, she secretly thought that his chest was quite solid and warm.

  The two of them left the gymnasium and headed towards the office building. Since it was already the second evening self-study session, there were no people on the playground or school path, which spared Gao Jingyi's embarrassment. With her usual proud image in school, if others knew she had encountered such a thing, the rumors would also make her unbearable.

  When she arrived at the English teaching and research office, Li Ruolan was still wondering why Zhou Hao was so late. But as soon as she saw him supporting Gao Jingyi with her clothes disheveled, she was shocked and immediately went over to help support Gao Jingyi. "What's going on? You two..." She looked suspiciously at Zhou Hao and Gao Jingyi, involuntarily speculating that this couldn't be the case where Zhou Hao had tried to take advantage of a girl, only to encounter strong resistance.

  Zhou Hao met Li Ruolan's suspicious gaze, and his heart felt wronged. The key was that he absolutely couldn't leave a bad impression on Li Ruolan. So, after helping Gao Jingyi sit down, he said to Li Ruolan: "Teacher, this has nothing to do with me."