Chapter 6: Hypnotic Memories
Perhaps it was because of the double deception, and I decided that I would find the clues myself before Li Jing did. I don't have an impression of the boy who hugged my senior sister, and I don't even feel strange about this person's existence, is he really a member of our club? Why I don't have any impression at all. If not, then in what capacity did he appear in the group photo of our club. Maybe it's really because I don't often go to activities, so I don't know this senior, but I'm still biased towards my first conjecture. I laughed at myself, and look, I wasn't even in the final group photo. Wait a minute, there is no me in this photo, and I realized that what really feels strange is not only this senior I don't know, but the whole group photo without my shadow.
I'm pretty sure I'm suitable for everyone to take a group photo, I still remember that I was not familiar with other club members, I could only stand awkwardly between Zhang Xue and the senior sister, if I remember correctly, I should have taken the pose with one hand around the senior sister, and the other hand with the senior sister compared a small peach heart. But in this photo, I am standing in my place with a man I don't know, and even his movements are the same as mine. Why did you replace me in the photo?
I looked at the subject of the post again, and found that there was another line of subtitle - Looking for the missing Zhang Chengyu classmate collection. I looked at the other photos in the post, and I was immediately sure that the man standing in my place was Jang Sung-woo, who had been confirmed missing. For what purpose did the club deduct me from someone else, which means that no one knew that I had been in the club according to the photo. Why did you post such a photo in this post, you must know that there has never been such a person in our community. The more I thought about it, the more weird I felt, and even the sound of the water dripping to the ground in the bathroom made people tremble clearly.
I immediately dialed Li Jing's phone, for me so late has not rested, Li Jing was a little surprised when he first answered the phone, but after listening to what I said, Li Jing comforted me on the phone, and urged me to send the photo to Shi Hao immediately for identification. Twenty minutes later, Li Jing rushed to my house, saw Li Jing, and threw myself into his arms before the door was closed.
Finally, when I calmed down, we studied the photo I had just found.
"If you think about it, do you know this boy, or have you seen him during club activities?" Li Jing pointed to the man in the photo and asked.
I shook my head and told him categorically that today was the first time I had known this boy.
Li Jing looked at me and hesitated to say, "Do you mind recalling the scene you took pictures at that time?" ā
I closed my eyes: "I remember it was the second semester of my sophomore year, because it seemed like it was very hot that day, and I was sweating a lot, so I wanted to find a shady place to stay as soon as possible." ā
"Do you remember who was around you?" Li Jing guided me step by step.
"Senior Sister Liu Yi, Zhang Xue, and a few seniors."
"Did you hear anything?"
I shook my head: "There is no sound. ā
"Did you smell anything?"
As I thought back to the scene, I suddenly felt as if I smelled a sweet smell: "I smell the sweetness of popcorn." ā
"Okay, you smell the popcorn and you turn your head to find the source of the flavor. Where did you find it? ā
I looked around in my memories and finally found a popcorn stall across the road behind me.
"You found the popcorn counter, did you see walking over and buying a pack?"
"Nope. We're still taking pictures. ā
"Did you see the photographer?"
I turned my gaze from the snack shop in the back to the front, there was a middle-aged man in front, I always felt that I had seen that man somewhere, and I looked at him carefully in my memory: "It's Qi Feng." "I suddenly remembered that this man was the man I saw with Li Jing on the profile at noon today, and I became excited.
I felt a tap on my shoulder, and a reassuring voice in my ear told me "well done," and I went back to my memory.
"Do you think you know him?"
"I don't know, but he was standing there waiting for us at the beginning. When taking pictures, he kept saying that we were not happy to laugh and kept repeating the shots. ā
"Did any of you dispute with him?"
"No, we just stood there and waited for him to shoot."
"Did he make you do that action?"
"No, it was the senior sister who mentioned yƬ." I remember that the senior sister kept smiling at me and said that I should be closer to her, I originally put one arm around the senior sister, and finally the senior sister put my hand on her shoulder, and asked me to compare a small heart with her hand.
"Finally, after you finished taking pictures, have you found a shady place to rest?" The reassuring voice asked me again.
I frowned: "No, we seem to be on the street, there is no cool place." We crossed the road, and then where did we go? ā
"Do you still ask about the smell of popcorn?"
I struggled to recall, and suddenly nodded: "Smell it, we're getting closer and closer to popcorn." My sister bought me popcorn and orange soda, and then we went up the stairs next to the stall. ā
"Did you see anything upstairs?"
"A hall, there seems to be a place to sell tickets in the hall, yes, it's a movie theater, Senior Liu Sheng went to buy tickets." I immediately recalled that day we went to the cinema across the road to watch the new literary film after we took pictures.
"Is the photographer still there?"
I looked around the cinema in my memory and found no photographer in the waiting room. "No, he didn't come with us."
"Do you remember what the movie was that day?"
I reminisced over and over again, but I didn't remember at all, I felt a little headache, and it seemed that something was still in my memory waiting for me to discover. Suddenly, I heard a phrase "Okay, don't think about it anymore, it's already in the past." ā
I opened my eyes and saw Li Jing looking at me anxiously, and I slowly breathed a sigh of relief: "Li Jing, I fell asleep when I watched the movie that day. ā
Li Jing comforted me for a while, telling me not to take this matter too seriously, maybe it was just a prank by a few people. But judging by his expression, I knew it couldn't be as simple as a prank.
I just thought that it was my criminal law, Li Jing's phone suddenly remembered, the caller ID was Shi Hao's brother, and when Li Jing didn't have a Sanskrit voice, I grabbed the phone and put it on the public. In order not to let the male god think that I was weak, I deliberately greeted the other party loudly: "Brother Shi Hao, I am Xiaozhi!" Are you going to sue Li Jing about the photo? ā
The other party was obviously frightened by me, and it took a while to reply: "Well, I checked the photo, there is no problem, except for adjusting the brightness and saturation of the photo, there is no other sign of PS composition." ā
I wondered why my hunch seemed to be even worse, if it wasn't a post-synthetic photo, why would I look for an identical photo? The photo in front of me and the group photo in my memory are exactly the same in terms of standing, background, and what everyone is wearing. My newly appeased heart hung in the air again. I looked at Li Jing, and he also looked puzzled.