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Many, many people die every day, and the number is about 150,000.

In other words, about 150,000 people die every day in the world, some of them die of old age, some die of illness, and some die of accidents.

There are many others who will be quietly killed without being discovered.

Jasmine has been reading more and more curiously recently, and when she finished flipping through the book called "Fifty Common Sense You Don't Know", she soon fell into a new round of idleness.

Then, her attention began to focus on a certain point ahead.

Would you notice if someone close to you suddenly became behaving erratically?

In Jasmine's view, this question is an obvious question to send off.

Jasmine's recent focus has been on her front table.

It's like observing Chen Chen at the beginning.

She could somehow sense that Zhang Xiaofalcon was getting a little ...... Not quite the same.

How to say it.

The boy with the heavy spectacles usually has no glorious deeds, is unpretentious, and seems to have no other characteristics other than indulging in binary dimensions.

Since taking a week's vacation because of illness, the whole person has had some inexplicable subtleties.

I used to be a silly big boy who occasionally showed sunshine and a little shy smile, and he had a very kind temper, but lately, I don't know why, I can always feel his irritability and irritability.

There was a very oppressive aura around him, and whenever Lin Zhou next door wanted to talk to him or joke with him, he would cast a cold gaze.

He has always had a weak aura in the class, and occasionally becomes the object of jokes for the boys, pushing and shoving, or making fun of him.

But no one wants to mess with him anymore.

Wrapped in a heavy coat in the hot summer, carefully avoiding the sun, and not even going to recess exercises and physical education classes.

The teacher also noticed his abnormality, and asked him several times, but he said that he had not fully recovered from his illness and could not meet the wind.

He would sometimes disappear from the classroom, his whereabouts unknown, and return to class on his way, an obvious oddity that made Jasmine feel that the question wasn't so easy to solve.

She silently observed Zhang Xiaofalcon, and scribbled some words in her notebook in confusion.

"Irritable, gloomy, weird."

She couldn't find any words to replace his anomaly, except for those words.

Looks like a different person?

Jasmine lost her mind in a daze, and Fang came back to her senses, only to find that the pen was full of names.

Chen Chen.

It is unexpectedly similar to Chen Chen, whose temperament changed greatly after being injured on that rainy night.

She was stunned, then covered the scratch paper in frustration.

No matter how you think about anything, you will turn in that strange direction.

Chen ChenChen ChenChen Chen......

Why do you think of him no matter what you do?

If Chen Chen knew the reason why Jasmine was annoyed and angry, he should have secretly rejoiced.

The sound of reading reverberated from the classroom echoed in the corridor where no one passed, and the teenager stood quietly at the back door of Jasmine's classroom, hiding sickly in the white wall, quietly watching the deserted girl in the classroom.

He knew that he was sick in his heart, but he couldn't suppress the uneasiness of Yan zhòng, and just wanted to put her in his eyes all the time.

Even if it is a boring daily life, she wants to get a glimpse of the end, sometimes she listens carefully to the lecture and sometimes stares at the boy in front of her in a daze, but the pen in her hand has not stopped.

She seemed troubled, and she didn't know what was bothering.

In the end, he simply put down his pen and shook his head a few times in frustration, and began to read the textbook carefully like a good student, listening attentively.

Chen Chen watched more than half of the hour, and retracted his gaze with satisfaction, thinking that the class would be out in less than twenty minutes, and he would be able to come to her again at that time, he was in a very happy mood.

Jasmine didn't know anything about this kind of Chen Chen, she only knew that that guy had recently started to stick around her again, and she couldn't shake it off.

After school, Jasmine was physically and mentally exhausted.

"Chen Chen, can you not always come to me? The eyes of the classmates are super strange now. ”

Chen Chen glanced at her a little shyly, grabbed the soft little hand and refused to let go.

"Hey, don't look at me with that weird look!"

I really can't stand it, he still dares to sell cuteness with her?

"Jasmine cares too much about other people's eyes." The boy said with a smile, looking in a good mood.

"Our business has nothing to do with them."

His steps were brisk, and he even took out a free hand and patted Jasmine's head gently, as if to compliment her on her good performance today.

Wait a minute.

Is Jasmine inexplicably good?

She stopped at the school gate stupidly and thought about it for a moment.

"What do you call our business?"

The boy didn't answer the question, but grabbed her index finger dotingly, and rubbed it gently.

"Jasmine didn't get too close to the others, I'm still the only one, it's good."

What!?

【(QAQ)】

"It would be better if Jasmine didn't always stare at the guy in front of her." It's starting to change its face again.

Jasmine looked at the boy who wrote, directed, and acted in horror, and there must be a limit to playing fine.

Why scare her?

"Sick!" She glared at him, shook off her hand, and walked to the bus stop on her own.

At the entrance of the school, a middle-aged woman dressed in simple clothes held up an eye-catching picture sign, which stood out on the noisy pedestrian aisle.

She stood on the edge of the big iron gate, her face was sluggish and her face was yellow, her face was full of sadness, and her cloudy eyes looked red and swollen.

There were already a few bystanders who looked like high school students standing next to them, curiously pointing at the contents and poking and poking at them.

It's a missing person notice.

Jasmine stopped, turned her head to look, and soon came to the middle-aged woman, who was gradually surrounded by students in a small circle.

"Who has seen my daughter? My daughter is gone, where the hell is she? Who knows...... Sue me! ”

"Where the hell did she go......

The heart-wrenching cry and blood pray, everyone who heard it felt the sorrow from the mother.

Jasmine's eyes stared straight at the girl in the photo who was smiling like a flower, she was wearing a junior high school uniform, she was small, and she looked as inconspicuous as a small flower on the side of the road.

The date of her disappearance was the day before yesterday.

The girl, who has always been self-contained, did not go home directly after school that night, she was a student in the art department, so she would go to the art building to study painting after class.

However, because of the first two killings, the school activities in the school were ordered to end at five o'clock.

But since that day, the girl has not been seen.

The parents searched everywhere, but in vain.

It's a good person to disappear like this.

Jasmine heard a few girls whispering to her, as if she knew the girl who had disappeared mysteriously.

They said—

"The police asked Ye Zi and them all over again, it's really scary, it's clear that Xu Wenwen and them went home together after the end of the school department, how can they say that they are missing?"

"Could it be that Xu Wenwen ran away from home?"

"No......"

In the crowd of people, a strange young man in a long coat and trousers quietly walked by, he looked back at the crowd slightly, his face was almost white with blood loss, when he heard the whispers from the crowd, the dead fish-like eyes turned a few times, but the corners of his mouth rose strangely.

"Jasmine, you go back first!" Jasmine heard the instructions of the young man next to her, came back to her senses and looked left and right along the dense crowd.

Where is this going?

Jasmine wanted to catch him and ask him to understand, but the figure could no longer be found on the street.

She took the bus home alone, half of the sky was dyed red with blood like flames in the sunset, and the dim afterglow sprinkled on her small courtyard, filling the room with the enticing smell of food.

Grunt.

Jasmine touched her shriveled stomach, which was already rumbling with hunger, and opened the courtyard door.

"I'm back!"

In the afterglow of the setting sun, the stepmother squatted by the well-manicured flowers and plants, tending with potted plants with gloves, and Jasmine squatted down, her knee-length skirt casually spread out on the soft grass.

"Jasmine, look at the bonsai I bought, is it beautiful?"

The stepmother happily cut off the messy dead branches of the potted flowers, and the warm sunset seemed to be injected into the depths of her gentle eyes, and Jasmine's eyebrows softened.

When the stepmother's temples also had a trace of gray hair, she couldn't help but shake her head.

At that time, she was timidly hiding behind her father, tugging at the corner of her father's clothes, looking at the woman in front of her, and couldn't tell what mood she was in to greet her arrival.

Afterward.

Jasmine followed her stepmother's gaze to the pine tree that was blooming alone.

She's really nice.

Gentle as water, treat her as your own, and give her love and care.

"Jasmine knows, this little pine tree has a nice name, it's called five-leaf pine."

The stepmother put down the scissors and took off the mud-stained gloves, and Jasmine obediently helped the stepmother pick up the pruning tools.

"Five-leaf pine?"

"Five-leaf pine is a beautiful and medicinal plant, its needles can be used in medicine, but also to quench thirst, after the summer should pay attention to drink more water to prevent heat stroke, if you feel uncomfortable, remember to tell sù mother, mother will pick some needles and lemon water for you to drink."

"Okay." Jasmine coquettishly followed behind her stepmother, and before entering the house, her stepmother looked back at the gate of the yard and asked sideways, "It's all out of school, why didn't Ah Chen's child come back?" ”

Jasmine put down her schoolbag at will, curled up on the fluffy sofa, holding the cushion in her hand, she also felt strange, why Chen Chen suddenly left her just now, and she didn't know where to run.

"I don't know." She got up and knelt on the couch and stretched out her hand to grab the remote control placed on the coffee table, and the stepmother held the fruit and juice in front of her, and couldn't help but pat her hand as her stepdaughter couldn't wait to get the grapes on the platter.

"Go wash your hands, you kid, you've said a few times that the first thing you do when you get home is to wash your hands."

She ran off the sofa with a grin, and after washing her hands, she grabbed the watery bunch of grapes, put her arms around her stepmother's waist, and coquettishly brought the bunch of grapes to her stepmother.

"Mom, you can eat one too."

Jasmine is actually a very clingy child, after her mother left, her favorite thing is to stick behind her father, and when the stepmother came, she quickly became the little tail, if her biological mother gave her life, but only her father and stepmother have been watching her grow from an ignorant girl to this sensitive and optimistic girl.

"Mom, school is really strange lately, there are always people dying and missing.

Jasmine hadn't had this kind of homely conversation with her stepmother for a long time, and when she talked about school, she told her about the dead in the library and the fact that she had just seen her mother looking for her child at the school gate, and the more she listened, the more her stepmother frowned.

Obviously it is the No. 1 middle school in the city, the best school in the city, can this kind of thing still give children a good school environment?

"Jasmine, in fact, your dad and I have been thinking about whether to transfer for you recently."

"Transfer?" Jasmine froze for a long time, she didn't think about transferring at all, and heard her stepmother say, "This kind of environment can't let you study with peace of mind, and this kind of thing happens all the time, and we are also very worried, so we want to just do you in the middle of the scene." ”

Makumi Middle School?

Well, it's a well-known international private school.

Jasmine didn't have much thought, anyway, it was the same wherever she went, but if she left, what about Chen Chen?

"That Chen Chen ...... him"

Before the words were finished, I heard my stepmother say: "Ah Chen's parents are still abroad, and they have also heard about these recent incidents in the city, and they also have a headache, but they can't think about it until they come back." ”

Jasmine lowered her head and was silent, her stepmother looked at her silent appearance, and thought that she was reluctant to Chen Chen, so she suddenly patted her hand, and said with a slightly stern expression: "Jasmine, you can tell your mother well, is it with Ah Chen, huh...... Got up? ”

She blinked her eyes cutely, a little unable to realize what she meant by "get up".

"You have been sticking together lately, Ah Chen's child is a baby to our jasmine again, you tell your mother honestly, are you together?"