Chapter 54: Fragments of Memory
After inspecting the inn, Zhang Shun made sure that the stranger and the back door were not here, so he left the inn and walked to the second familiar place - the Spartan Fitness Center.
There were more acquaintances on the road, and Cooper's hair was still messy like a bird's nest, and even the raindrops the size of beans could not weigh them down; Liu Jun was smiling wryly, and after showing this expression and saying that he was willing to give up the mission, he only lived for five seconds; Panshizi and Caiyunzi walked together, both laughing carefree; Du Cheng stared blankly at the red paper in his hand and stood next to a pastor; Zhang Jing's feet were kicked on Lu Zhiqiang's buttocks, and his mouth was half-open and scolding, thinking it was related to words such as little boy and frizz.
As he walked, Zhang Shun stopped next to a dark-skinned and tall man, time can't dilute everything, three years later, this face is still so clear.
This is a typical Oriental man, with dark hair, slender eyes, a standard Chinese face, a big round nose, and a short and thick braided braided on the back of his head, which is shiny and very elaborately braided.
Ten years of mercenaries, it was this guy who took care of Zhang Shun for seven years, and it was he who turned Zhang Shun from a child who didn't understand anything into a trustworthy mercenary, and he was still taking care of Zhang Shun until the last moment of his life - isn't the big hole in his forehead with a diameter of four centimeters the best evidence?
The edges of the bullet holes from the sniper rifle were jagged and the wounds were blurred, but the man's expression was calm, even a hint of satisfaction, and he looked into the distance with pride.
"Role model", this is the title that Zhang Shun later gave to this big man, which is nice and appropriate.
"This guy's brain is made of metal!" The captain often used this phrase to describe this strong Mongolian man, and based on the extremely simple reason of "he is also Asian", he took good care of Zhang Shun. Zhang Shun can't remember how many lives he owes him, if there was no role model, he would have died ten years ago, and the role model took care of Zhang Shun for the last time, and finally paid the price of his life.
This guy's brain is indeed made of metal, and Zhang Shun often thinks about it afterwards, pours spirits, and sheds tears. If it weren't made of metal, how could a bullet from a sniper rifle not penetrate his head, only a hole in his forehead? If it wasn't made of metal, how could this guy stubbornly treat Zhang Shun as a hairy boy who didn't know anything, and even gave his life for him?
The death of the role model became an opportunity for Zhang Shun to transform from a sneak attacker to a firepower attractor, and Zhang Shun once vowed that he would never let any of his companions die for him again, even if this vow cost him his life.
The rain continued to flow from the top of his head to his chin, forming several streams on Zhang Shun's face, washing away the salty unknown liquid.
"Now, I have a chance to repay the favor." Zhang Shun rubbed his sour nose, patted the role model's shoulder, walked away without looking back, and silently thanked Cooper, who gave Zhang Shun a chance to repay his kindness.
Walking into the Spartan fitness center and walking around, nothing abnormal appeared, Master Gu was smoking a dry tobacco bag, the same as when they first met.
Back on the street, Zhang Shun's figure shuttled among those stationary pedestrians, looking so lonely, he was not in a hurry, because illusion and dream, time must pass much faster than in reality.
A few hours later, Zhang Shun sat in an open space and cursed loudly.
It was only then that he finally realized that the creator of this illusion was too generous, and from the very beginning, he had shown himself something that was out of step with this world - heavy rain.
Everything can only interact with Zhang Shun, and if he doesn't touch it, it can only remain absolutely still - except for this rain.
That's a big loss! In order to find clues to the "back door", Zhang Shun delayed too much time, shopping malls, Guokui restaurants, underground parking lots, Bolt Hotel...... Although the body does not feel tired, it is still a lot of brains to search so many places carefully.
After venting, he got up from the ground, looked up at the sky and sighed, what if he knew that the heavy rain was the back door? It's not a good thing that the clues are too big, and he can't find any clue about how to get out.
There is only one last location left, which is a place that Zhang Shun has never been to since his rebirth and does not want to go again.
Stepping on the main road in the north of the city, although he has not walked this road for ten years, Zhang Shun knows that this road will definitely work, and the end of the road is the place where he grew up and studied - Qingji Children's Welfare Institute.
As an abandoned baby, he hated his parents when he was very young, but as the frequency of incomplete atomization increased, he gradually "realized" the reason why his parents abandoned him - no one wanted to live with a monster.
"You're a monster!" When Zhang Shun showed his atomized arm to his best friend Xiaodong on the day of his fourth birthday, Xiaodong said such words, and then burst into tears.
Xiaodong's reaction scared Zhang Shun into crying, the two of them stood in the corner of the courtyard and cried loudly, not long after crying, the frightened Xiaodong ran away, and in order to prevent Zhang Shun from chasing the monster, he picked up a stone and threw it over.
Xiaodong's strength is not small, the angular stone hit Zhang Shun's forehead fiercely, smashing a hole, Zhang Shun is still standing in place crying, his forehead is swollen with a big bag, and there is blood at the top.
When a classmate saw it, he called the teacher, and the teacher hurriedly took Zhang Shun to the infirmary for treatment and asked him what was going on.
Zhang Shun didn't know how to lie at that time, and he didn't want to say Xiaodong's name, so he could only answer the teacher's question by crying, and the helpless teacher finally let the matter go away, and Xiaodong, who had deliberately avoided Zhang Shun from that day, was adopted a few months later.
Since then, Zhang Shun has become a "naughty ghost", he will rush out of the classroom during class, he will suddenly run away when talking to the teacher, and he will hide in the toilet and cry in the middle of the night - he has really become a monster, a withdrawn, maverick eccentric.
Undisciplined people are very unwelcome in the orphanage, and the teacher often punishes him, but when he is punished, Zhang Shun will still run away, as if he is deliberately going against the teacher.
All this is just Zhang Shun trying to hide the secret of "he is a monster", at that time his ability was not controllable, and suddenly appeared, and the atomization was only a certain part of the body, most of the time the arms, and occasionally the body and legs.
Incomplete atomization gathers but does not disperse, there is no entity, Zhang Shun will fall very badly when his legs are atomized, but what is a fall? At least the teachers and classmates will not look at him with the eyes of a monster.
When he was a little older, Zhang Shun began to be bullied by his senior classmates, and because the teacher didn't like Zhang Shun, he turned a blind eye to his bullying, which made those senior classmates even more unscrupulous.
Being bullied badly, Zhang Shun began to resist, and after throwing the first punch, he became a regular visitor to the confinement room, although he was much shorter than his senior classmates, but Zhang Shun dared to be ruthless, not afraid of punishment, and he could win five out of ten fights.
Later, he often thought that he dared to let go and kill people probably from that time, and if there was no "role model", he would probably become a perverted killer who does all kinds of evil.
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The orphanage's rusty iron-barred gates were closed tightly, as before.
At that time, Zhang Shun liked to grasp a railing with both hands, put his forehead between the two railings, and looked at the traffic outside. And keep repeating.
Zhang Shun didn't really want to run, because the outside world was too strange, he was just too lonely, hoping to find someone who could understand himβor a monster, if someone said to him outside: "Come on, come with me, my body will also turn into black smoke." "Then even if he squeezes his head out of shape, he will pass through the narrow iron railing.
Stretching out his hand to push on the railing, the door groaned and slowly opened, as if whimpering, Zhang Shun took a deep breath and walked into the orphanage.
The rain was still very heavy, and he had just walked a few steps before he heard a "buzzing" sound, the sound came from the teaching building, mixed with the sound of the rain and could not be heard clearly, this was the third sound that appeared in the fantasy world in addition to thunder and rain.
"Sure enough, it's here!" Zhang Shun wiped his face and changed the trajectory of the water flow on his face, so that the rain would not suddenly flow into his eyes when he encountered the enemy.
Now that the other party has spoken out to lead the way, Zhang Shun has no reason not to go, he can't find the back door, and the only way to get out of the illusion is to kill the person who created the illusion.
Walking cautiously into the teaching building, the sound of the rain suddenly became quieter, and Zhang Shun finally heard clearly that the "humming" sound came from the piano in the music classroom, and the sound continued unchanged and would not weaken at all, adding some weird atmosphere to the dark teaching building......
The light in the school building is very dim, and the floor is paved with wooden strips, and the wooden floor at that time is very different from the current one, there is no buckle tenon, and as long as it is slightly deformed, people will "squeak" when they step on it.
The closer you get, the louder the sound of the steel strings becomes, this single, continuous sound makes people irritable, Zhang Shun's heart beats faster and faster, and it feels like making a horror movie - in a horror movie, the chance of the actor surviving is very small.
Walking to the door of the music classroom, he put on his fist gloves, and those few talismans and magic weapons probably couldn't be used, and the only thing he could rely on was this pair of weapons.
Gently push open the door, the first thing that catches my eyes is the dark Pearl River piano, the piano is very old, I don't know how many years it has been in the corner of the music classroom, the back of the piano is facing Zhang Shun, he can't see the person playing the piano.
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