Balls continuously hit that man and he was yelling for all of that to stop, however, no one paid attention to that. Rather, they kept on cheering and laughing loudly.
"What's happening in here?" slowly whispered Zhao Yuhui. Her eyes dashed at the red dot on the top corner, then at the date of the CCTV footage which was from the second week of September.
The frown on her face deepened when the same boy somehow came out of the glass room, proceeding to get through the crowd by running but tripping the next second. The other boy who had struck his leg forward to make that happen whistled.
Without bothering to react in any other way, the boy got up and ran towards the door of the room, followed by another round of cheers.
Humiliation...that was the word Zhao Yuhui felt seeing that.
The screen changed, and the boy was seen madly running through the corridor towards the extreme end.
The screen again changed, this time to the scene where the boy entered the pool area looking berserk and jumped into the water before groaning painfully. The crowd too get to that place in the meantime.
All of them seemed to be having tons of fun looking at the man crying loud in pain. Soon after, the crowd quietened down and the noise of hardened heels clicking on the marbled surface came through the screen.
That sound was too intimidating to be ignored. Zhao Yuhui roamed her eyes all over the screen but couldn't tell whose shoe it was.
As if knowing the turmoil, the little junior guided from the side. "Look at the left corner."
Zhao Yuhui's eyes accordingly followed the instruction and found a pair of legs. The body above the knees wasn't visible through the angle at where CCTV was, however, she could tell it was a male. The burgundy-coloured formal shoes stood in stark contrast to other men's shoes.
The quietude was broken, all the eyes were pointed at the corner. "Fun, isn't it?" Even if the face of the person wasn't in sight, Zhao Yuhui was sure he had a smirk gracing his lips.
The boy in the water froze, his whole body shivered and he looked frightened. After a good two minutes, as if been through an inner conflict, the boy slowly swam and climbed out of the pool.
With staggering steps, he dragged his body all the way up to the man in the corner. He went down onto his knee while clasping his hands together. "I-i, I give up! Forgive me, I was wrong!" He looked like someone who was barely able to gather the energy to talk.
But the man ahead apparently was not affected in any way by his apology, he simply brought his left foot to apply pressure on the shoulder of that boy. "Ahh!" Another painful groan left his lips.
"Pathetic" A scoff was released in the air while the owner retracted his foot from that shoulder. "You should have thought all about it before challenging."
With that, he stepped back and left after giving a single command. "Continue."
The boy bending on the floor looked miserable and ready to plead more but before he could have done that, he was yet again surrounded by the crowd.
The screen turned black.
Zhao Yuhui was in a state of shock, too stupefied to gather the words out.
The little junior looked hopefully at her and carefully questioned. "Did you understand anything?"
This time even if she wished to, Zhao Yuhui couldn't muster her brain to believe that it was a joke. It didn't feel like one!
"Was all of that scripted?" Zhao Yuhui asked this bearing the tiniest hope, all because she didn't want to come to the terms with it not being a lie.
"Senior Zhao, you still think so?" The little junior felt like crying. She did everything she could do because she didn't want someone new to get into trouble because of a mere ignorance.
Zhao Yuhui looked into her eyes and shook her head. "Not really." After a pause, she added again, "I believe it."
Only Zhao Yuhui knew how hard it was for her to keep herself calm.
The little junior's eyes shone with relief. "For real? Now you know that I wasn't lying?"
"Why do they do that?"
"What?"
"Bullying."
The little junior countered immediately. "Don't feel bad for that boy. He deserved it!"
"Why?"
"He was the son of some political family and was transferred in mid-semester from another city. Such a nuisance he had been since he arrived! He totally deserved it."
"Instead of going down the stairs, why did he come to jump into the water?"
The little junior was impressed by the detailed question. "You see the smoke which inside that glass room, right?" Zhao Yuhui nodded.
"It burns the body." She had assumed this much, Zhao Yuhui only wanted to confirm. Things were not as much simple as they seemed.
Thereafter, she didn't ask anything more and gave herself enough time to dawn this information. With that pause, came her another worry, "And who exactly are bullied?"
The little junior grinned nervously. "The one who enter this place." Zhao Yuhui's eyes widened and before she could have retaliated, the little junior panicked, "Don't worry! Nothing would happen to you! Look at me, I have been using this place for several months now and have never been bullied."
Relief washed over Zhao Yuhui instantly.
It shouldn't be her, moreover, she was just a visitor who roughly had been here for two hours. "But why would someone even come here when they know there is a possibility of going through such a thing?"
This question was making her frustrated. Are youngsters nowadays that dumb-headed? Why would they enter the lion's den on their own accord?
"That's a nice question there. To be honest, we can't exactly call it bullying because all they do is a bit of ragging here and there. However, there are certain rules which needs to be maintained and whoever breaks them gets to feel the extent of that bullying."