Chapter 21: Alisi Will Never Catch Up with the Turtle (Part II)
Shijie and Li Chan left, and Ah Chao lingered in the courtyard for a few days, and moved back to school at night. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Looking at his dark eye sockets, I can already guess the reason why he can't sleep well in the small courtyard. Nightmare is a bridge between him and the invisible world, but I have always been worried that when he crosses the bridge, he will meet all acquaintances, what should I do? When Ah Chao is in class, he will unconsciously scribble and draw on his notebook, and that section is full of wooden pane patterns of various old windows, not one by one, but continuously, endlessly.
One afternoon after I had painted half of the book, he suddenly asked me, "Zhu, have you ever had the same dream?" I shook my head, but Chao ignored me and said to myself, "In the Sweetwater Garden, I basically have the same dream every day" Chao pointed to the pane pattern on his notebook. "At night I would dream that the walls next to my bed suddenly became wooden panes covered with paper, and the light on that side was very bright and came through the paper. I lit him a cigarette and could hear him tell the story with a lot of determination, and his tone trembled. "There was a dark shadow on the side, sometimes like an animal, sometimes like a human figure, sometimes lying on the ground, sometimes like pacing. And the light will get stronger and stronger, and I will suddenly have a nightmare, and I will wake up, but I can't move my hands and feet" "You know why I don't dare to stay there at night, right?" he paused and looked up at me. "I can feel the shadow getting closer to the wooden pane every day, the shadow is getting bigger day by day, the other day, I think I can smell a smell of earth just across the window paper from it, if it does come, and I still have a ......"
At this point, I knew it wouldn't help me to comfort him, but curiosity made me blurt out, "Chao, do you think there's one thing, or many?" Chao looked at me suspiciously, for I was as frozen as he was.
After that, Wu Nan, another character in the small courtyard, also broke out completely, he returned to school, within a week, he fought, pried through the security department, explored the air-raid shelter, in order to pursue a girl, wore a military uniform, carried a wooden gun, guarded the door of the girls' dormitory, and spent the whole night, saying that it was to protect the girl, and he couldn't let a cow ghost and snake god go in, until he was captured by the dean himself the next day, and became a laughing stock for a while. Others treat him as a monster, in my opinion, those who go out of the small courtyard have not become neurotic, and they have already completed their cultivation.
Regarding everything that happened in the courtyard of Sweetwater Garden, sometimes, I feel that I have sorted out the context, and there can be a reasonable explanation. But I feel that I am always one step behind, and I can't justify myself, starting from Lao Hao's Northeast Yellow Squirrel Spirit, to the dead thing in the tank, from Shijie Taolai Tomb Beast, to a series of abnormalities of everyone, these events seem to be all led by a rope, but just like Alixi can never catch up with the turtle, this mathematical paradox, I will always be a little bit away from the truth, and this is the farthest distance in life.
After the story, I will follow Shijie and Li Chan, go west to Taihang, the narrative and style will be different from the previous article, Li Chan's memories, there is Shijie's confession, there is also my understanding, I just hope to find a key, and then throw it into the river called fate, let it go to peace.