Ten years ago, Shaojian Middle School's first year of high school D, after half a semester passed, a transfer student came halfway, his name is Hegu, he is a boy with a withdrawn personality, he doesn't like to talk to people, ignores the group, and behaves strangely, so he is also unpopular with his classmates, and even hated. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

But—

When a classmate "followed" him home, they discovered a certain "incomprehensible" behavior of Hegu.

At first, they followed him normally, from the car to the walk, no different from ordinary people going home, before they knew it, they almost forgot that they were following the grain all the way forward, when suddenly someone said, "Look, what is the valley doing?" ”

A few people threw their eyes over together.

They could see that He Gu was holding a piece of red glass in his hand, and he held it up in front of his eyes, as if he was looking through the glass, and he looked at it, took a step, looked at it, took a step...

The classmates didn't follow any longer, because some people said that their backs were cold, and they felt that Hegu's behavior made him creepy, so they abandoned it.

Although he gave up following Hegu, Hegu's strange behavior was deeply implanted in the hearts of those classmates, stubbornly affecting their thinking activities, like an inextricable and uncontrollable consciousness firmly rooted in the depths of the brain.

- "I wonder what he's looking at?" "Why did he do that?" "What the hell are you looking at from inside that piece of glass?" ... Voices like this kind of psychic voice came endlessly, and several people couldn't stand it anymore and decided to ask for clarification.

"Hegu, what exactly were you doing with that piece of glass when you came home from school? What's there to see, show us too..."

"yes, tell me quickly, where is the thing hidden, show it to us..."

Some of the men pushed the grain so much that they threw him to the ground.

"You can't go home if you don't see it that way." He Gu used a soft-spoken and cold tone, which he always spoke.

Several classmates punched and kicked him and did not resist, and this indifferent attitude aroused the malice of those people even more, and they even pulled his hair and smashed his head with something.

"The thing must be in his bag, search it out." One of them said.

They turned his schoolbag upside down and didn't find the piece of glass, and some people couldn't bear it anymore, so they tied up Hegu's hands and hung them from a tree in the school grove, but they didn't do any cruel atrocities, just hung Hegu, but they just blindly asked where "that piece of glass" went.

Those students didn't realize that their behavior had been detached from their autonomy, and they didn't ask so much under self-control, but they should be constrained by "some kind of inducement".

"Something is swaying their thinking?" I asked with a shudder.

"Yes." Dr. Sennan nodded, "So to speak. ”

The grain that was hanging from the tree finally spoke.

"If you can't find it, don't try to look at it—the window of the lily of the valley puppet, the cave that leads to the cause of death."

"Lily of the Valley puppet" appeared abruptly in this sentence without cause and effect.

Those classmates were confused and didn't understand what it meant, so they let He Gu go, because some people said that He Gu's eyes at that time were terrible, not like the eyes that people should have.

At this point, a question suddenly popped up, "Teacher, has the teacher ever been to Hegu's home, or met his parents?" ”

I seem to think that's the crux of the matter.

Dr. Sennan glanced at me, and probably understood what I was trying to say.

He shook his head and said: "Parents have not seen it, Hegu's home is indeed a key issue, the teacher searched according to the address filled in by Hegu himself, but he didn't find it, it seems that the ordinary xx road xx house number, after looking for it, I found that it didn't exist at all." ”

In addition to the fact that the "grain family" is the key, I am also aware of a phenomenon that coincides with "a certain factor" in the narration -

No matter who is talking about Hegu - whether it is Shui Jing, Momoi, or Doctor Sennan, from the time they started to tell it, everyone's mouth was only about Hegu's character, what happened, what he said... The only thing that doesn't is that.

What does the grain look like?

This seems to be in agreement with "he disappeared from the picture", and after he "disappeared", it also sucked all the images of him out of everyone's mind.

"Xiaoxi, don't go to the matter of Hegu, it's not good."

Dr. Sennan threw his worries directly at me, and I took a deep breath and asked, "Why?" ”

He also took a deep breath, and then said: "The school once blocked a situation, that is, the students who followed Hegu at the beginning, a total of four people, I don't know who came up with the idea, it was the four of them, in the name of the 'lily of the valley puppet' to write to Hegu, maybe just with a prank mentality, I didn't expect Hegu to really die, everyone knows that something happened to Hegu, but everyone doesn't know that the school is hiding a terrible situation... The four classmates all committed suicide a week after the death of Hegu, and they had no suicidal inclination before their deaths. ”

Dr. Sennan continued: "The school removed the four students from the student roster in the name of temporary transfers, and they all committed suicide at home, as long as the parents did not show up and cooperate with the school to conceal it, of course, no one would know, and soon after, this situation was heard from the relatives of one of them, and the school transfer was just a reassuring lie, and the truth is that they all committed suicide." ”

I was hit by a chill from my heels to my back, were they really all "suicides"? Can suicide in the normal sense be explained by those few people?

He Gu said the words with "lily of the valley puppet", but after receiving the letter from the lily of the valley puppet, he asked everywhere... Didn't he say it himself? Is he deliberately playing dumb? Or was it that at the beginning, he was hung from a tree and said that... It's not really a grain at all.

Dr. Sennan leaned back in his chair, sitting in a languid posture as if to indicate that his mission had been accomplished, "everything that should be said was said without reservation", we were all silent with each other, silent after he finished saying "The truth is that they all committed suicide", each with his own thoughts, from the message I gave him to him to the story he told me, there is no doubt that the reason for our silence is the endless cycle of doom, because the death accident caused by the "letter from the lily of the valley puppet", although it was all an accident, makes people think that it is not a pair of hands that are turning the wheel of fate, but the bloody scenes that make people who have seen it unbearable are caused by some "dark thing" to direct this unfinished death drama.

Dr. Sennan asked me about everything about Grain 10 years ago, and I thought it was the answer to all the "sticking points", no, maybe that was the prologue that had just begun.

Do I have to face "that fact"?

To whom will the lily of the valley puppet write the next letter...

"Xiaoxi, don't see it as inevitable doom." Dr. Sennan comforted me and said, "Although I don't have any position to say such things, but your classmate did die accidentally, we don't rule out that it was really just an accident, there is no special significance, don't think about those problems that are easy to make people go crazy, I, as your doctor, only hope that you can live a healthy and happy life after recovery, I will continue to help you if you need it, you can call me at any time." ”

He made a cheering gesture at me.

"-Hmm." I nodded, but suddenly remembered something, "Oh, that... What did Dr. Sennan think of the 'thing' I saw in the classroom? ”

I still can't get rid of this shadow torture, but I still think that "he" and the lily of the valley puppet are not the same thing, they have nothing to do with each other, I can't explain it in a word, and I can't explain why I have such a firm idea, but I just think that "he" is definitely not.

――What is "he"?

Dr. Sennan couldn't answer that.

I know it's a question that no one can answer.

Entering the new week, the class leader Momoi posted the week's class schedule, although there are still bouquets of flowers and a few small objects for girls in the corner of the wall, not turning a blind eye to it, but everyone can still maintain a calm state in class and study, and spend a day when they think they are peaceful.

The "reply" is still uninterrupted, if this is the way to prevent the arrival of bad luck from the beginning, whether the death at the beginning of spring is the first on the list of bad luck, this method is still silently implemented by everyone, just want to spend the year safely, that's all, there is no other way to do it, so we are still replying to the lily of the valley puppet every day.

――Of course, no one asks, "If someone forgets to reply to the letter one day and bad luck begins, is there any way to save them at that time?" ”

This is also a question that I have always had in my heart, is there anything else? What room can be saved? ... Because, I think, it's already started.

However, at such times, some discord also began to gradually surface.