Chapter 1: The Grey Heaven, the Dead Earth
"Trab, you did well in the exam, don't you? You think you're a top student at Tsinghua University!?" The vulgar scolding was mixed with the sound of punching and kicking from the small alley. A middle-sized junior high school student fell to the ground, trembling and clutching his head, not even daring to scream.
Because he screams more, he may be punched a few more times.
There were a few cigarette butts scattered on the ground on the side, as well as fragments of textbooks, "Hehe, study well, Lao Tzu tore up your book to see what you are studying?"
"Stop, stop!" the junior high school student hurriedly shouted, just hit him, why didn't he even let go of the book?
"I still have the strength to speak, it seems that the beating is not hard enough, continue!" After the words fell, he was beaten more violently......
Finally, in the evening, the abusers laughed and walked away, and the abusers had to struggle to even stand up after this inhuman torture. He looked at the books and pieces of paper scattered on the ground, fell to his knees, covered his face and cried bitterly.
He hates, he is full of grief and indignation, but he is weak, he cannot resist, he does not dare to resist, he can only express his hatred with tears and cries, and beyond that, nothing can be done.
Wang Xi, a student in the second class of Qinghu No. 2 Middle School, suddenly looked up and walked out of that dark memory, where he was sitting under a tree by the street. The above was the beginning of his suffering this semester.
It is no exaggeration to say that Wang Xi is a coward who is bullied by ruffians every day, just because as the first in his grade, he did not help the ruffians behind him to cheat during a midterm exam, and then he was targeted by the angry ruffians.
Since then, there has always been an inexplicable lack of things on his desk and in his school bag, and he has to run errands for the ruffians every day, and pay a certain amount of protection money every week.
If you don't comply, you will be dragged to a small alley and beaten severely.
Sue the teacher, the teacher will only be with the mud, impatient and nonsense such bastard logic as "why only hit you"; sue the parents? Yes, it is a little useful, but afterwards not only the ruffian, but even the people in the class look down on him and whisper to him - sometimes, the numb spectator is more terrible than the abuser.
Speaking of which, I have to introduce the land where they live: Qinghu Town. Qinghu Town used to be the ruling center of a huge gang called the Emperor Gang, which had its roots in the late 70s, rose in the mid-80s, and entered its heyday in the 90s, but was soon eliminated by the government, and the gang collapsed and split into many different factions, some of them were harmful, and some of them confessed to the government in exchange for living space.
Because of the history of the heart of the gang, Qinghu Town is still a paradise for gangsters and crimes, and there are many ruffians who pursue to get ahead in the mixed society. They form gangs and cliques and bully their classmates; fighting and beating are a demonstration of their strength, collecting protection money is their source of income, and tobacco, alcohol, and online games are their spiritual food.
Did he resist? Yes, but to no avail, in addition to the fact that there were many ruffians, and because of the prevalence of unhealthy tendencies in the dark environment of Qinghu Town, he alone could not change all this.
Every time he was angry and cried out of his mind, he would angrily pick up something and smash the ruffians, or attack them by all means: hit, kick, smash, even bite them, hit them with his head.
But in exchange for more vicious beatings and ridicule.
Among his friends, no one dared to stop these ruffians, and Cai He, a good student, only dared to go to comfort him or give him medicine after class; Zhang Lin and Zhu Chong, who were relatively tall, did not dare to say anything because of the large number of people on the other side, so they could only shout one or two sentences, "We will call the teacher like this again"; even Zhao Lin, the most popular "Internet addicted teenager" who played with the ruffians, only dared to dissuade him, "Don't beat him too hard, something will happen."
Because they have no strength, the ruffians look down on them.
Because they don't have the strength, the confidence and confidence to talk to riffraff.
But only Mabutang is an exception.
Ma Butang was mixed with the ruffian, and the people outside called him "Qinghu Desperate Saburo", and it was said that he chased people with kitchen knives when he got into a fight, which made people frightened.
The two got acquainted because of a pursuit.
That day, Wang Xi and the three ruffians in the class started fighting in the class, the broom was broken twice, the chairs and tables were smashed everywhere, and the classroom almost became a battlefield. Wang Xi was defeated in this battle, but the gang of ruffians did not take advantage, but was smashed in several places, they were angry, so they called other accomplices to catch Wang Xi when they got out of school. Wang Xi was chased by six or seven people all over the street, and finally Wang Xi hid in the alley, but was unfortunately discovered by Ma Butang, who was chasing him.
Seeing that it was only himself and Wang Xihou, Ma Butang whispered to him: "When I go home, I will talk to you about something on QQ." Then he started to "beat" Wang Xi - the sound was very loud, but it didn't actually hurt, and he scolded while scolding, and only after scolding did he pick up the phone: "Wang Xi was caught by me, I just beat him and let him go" and waved Wang Xi to leave.
After Wang Xi returned to his empty home, he took out his mobile phone and put it on QQ, which had a verification message from Ma Butang, but he looked at the message but began to get entangled.
Is Mabutang evil?
Every time he was beaten and tortured, Mabutang would always say, "This kind of person can't stand it, don't go too far," and he never did it.
A few times when Wang Xi fell into the hands of Ma Butang, Ma Butang would directly scold: "You get out of Lao Tzu!" and then let him go home immediately.
"You think I'm a ruffian, don't you?" sent a message from Mabutang.
"Sort of," Wang Xi replied tremblingly.
"You think I am, that's right, it means I'm not exposed. Mabutang sent an incomprehensible sentence.
Just when Wang Xi was thinking about how to reply, another message came: "What I want to do is to break into the gangs of those ruffians and destroy them from within." You have to keep resisting so that you can destroy them from the inside out. ”
"How?" asked Wang Xi.
"You don't care about this, in short, remember, you must insist on resisting. "After Mabutang sent such a message with no beginning or end, there was no response.
That was the day on, and things were a little different.
Almost every week, three or four of the ruffians in my class would go missing, and when they were finally found, they had lost their lives for an unknown amount of time.
For a while, the people of the second middle school were panicked, and it was rumored that there was a serial murderer who specialized in killing those ruffians who bullied their classmates.
It didn't take long for all the ruffians in the first class to be gone, and there were five or six empty seats in the classroom, which made people look disturbed.
But at this time, ruffians began to have accidents in other classes.
Just when the ruffians were panicking and thinking about transferring schools, there was suddenly such a news - Ma Butang of the first class and Ye Mao, the ruffian boss of the second class, died together, and both of them were slashed by a lot of knives, and they were cut by each other!
The serial murder case that has made Qinghu Town panic for so long has finally been solved, and the murderer is Ma Butang.
In fact, Wang Xi had known the truth for a long time, and he also understood what Ma Butang meant by destruction, because he had witnessed it once.
That night, after finishing the cram school, he had just walked a few steps when he saw Mabutang running by, and he felt strange, and glanced in the direction from which Mabutang came, it was an ordinary alley. But the next day, the news of the death of a certain ruffian came, and he probably understood what was going on.
In fact, some people have long suspected Ma Butang, for example, Officer Xu, an old policeman in their area, often patrols around their school, all of which Wang Xi has seen. Later, I heard from my classmates whose parents worked in the police that Officer Xu had long put forward the hypothesis that the murderer was Ma Butang, and he was rewarded for this and transferred to work in the city.
When Wang Xi learned of Mabutang's death, he cried for a long, long time.
It was you who encouraged me to fight back, and it made me understand that it was you who could be destroyed by riffraff, why were you the first to go?
Although he and Mabutang have not known each other for a long time, this affection is deeper for him than anyone else.
At the funeral, he looked at Mabutang's familiar face and wanted to cry, but he couldn't cry anymore, because the tears had long since dried.
Sitting under the tree, he stood up, raised his head and looked at the sky, and in less than a second, he chose to lower his head again. The sky was full of dark clouds, and the sunshine that was incomparably abundant a few days ago became so rare at the moment, and the gray sky was so oppressive that people could hardly breathe, and no one wanted to take a second look at this kind of sky. Not to mention a man who was deeply in grief, a man who had just attended a friend's funeral, a man who went home alone, expressionless, dressed in a lifeless black dress and black pants.
Wang Xi returned to an empty home - his parents went out early and returned late, and his grandparents also returned to their hometown to recuperate because of their age.
After washing up at night, he turned off the light and lay on the bed for a long time to think, should he resist or not?
Being bullied is actually ...... Isn't it a big deal? Isn't time the solution to everything? Endure the calm for a while, take a step back and open the sky, as long as you go to a good high school in the future and stay away from these garbage people, you won't be bullied again. Resist and resist, but in the end you still can't resist, what is the point of someone as strong as Mabutang taking his life because of this?
No, if everyone thinks so, then wouldn't the ruffian be lawless? What is Ma Butang doing this for? So that more students can not be bullied and bullied! That's why he chose to use the most extreme methods to accomplish his best ideas! Wang Xi, Wang Xi, if you continue to be like this, are you worthy of the sacrifice of Ma Butang?
Enough is enough, I don't want to think about it. Wang Xi told himself that tomorrow was Monday, and there was class tomorrow, he should go to bed earlier, he shouldn't think so much, he just had to live every day ordinarily......
Heaven is a gray sky, and the earth is a dead earth.
When will there be a brave man who will stand up and put an end to the long-standing darkness and chaos in Qinghu Town?