At the No. 6 bus stop, the door opened, Chu Zihang put away his umbrella and took steps to get on the bus and put in coins, and in a blink of an eye, the bus was full of empty seats, only a few figures sat quietly in the corner wearing raincoats, and the cold light of the mobile phone screen illuminated the pale faces like dead people, making people shiver all over the body.

Chu Zihang carried an umbrella to a corner by the window and sat down, the window in his ears was crackled by the rain, although it was only evening and it was time to rest and go shopping after work, but not many people would be willing to go out in this weather today, the heavy rain and the gray and dark sky made everything covered with a layer of dust, and the flow of people on the street was cut off by the rain like a knife, and I could only occasionally see the cars passing by on the street with their headlights on, honking their horns, and the wheels pressing up the high water splash in the heavy rain.

Chu Zihang sat firmly, the bus began to start, a slight push back sensation pressed him on the seat, the raindrops pulled out an inclined trajectory on the window glass, he took out the black iPhone that 'Dad' gave him for his birthday and pressed the screen on, the screensaver was a family photo taken by him, Mom, and 'Dad' at the entrance of Disneyland. In the photo, he is standing in the center of the two of them, wearing expensive sunglasses from 'Dad' on his collar, and the expression on his face is like taking ID photos, and 'Dad' pressing on his shoulder with one hand seems to declare the ownership of this excellent boy.

For this kind of photo, Chu Zihang just glanced at it and unlocked it into the desktop, unlike the lock screen straight, his desktop background is not a life photo, but just a Maybach 62, this desktop background is very good, even if it is accidentally seen by 'Dad', he will only think that he loves the car, and his heart is full of ambition, after all, even 'Dad's car is only a Mercedes-Benz S500, but his son is looking forward to a Maybach that is several times more expensive, and it is always a good thing for the children of entrepreneurs to have ambitions.

The wipers running at full power in the quiet bus keep making friction sounds, no matter how many pounds of rain are swept away, the sight of looking at the road will always be immediately submerged by new water marks, resulting in the 6th bus speeding in the past driving very slowly, and the driver seems to have been ready to grab the steering wheel with a cigarette between his fingers, the green smoke is sparse and is pulled away by the small gap in the window, and the raindrops penetrate the car like needles and fall onto the hot soot to make a small sizzling sound.

This morning's mobile phone weather forecast said that the heavy rain will continue until late at night, looking at the current rain momentum weather forecast is finally accurate, I heard that the United States across the ocean has been hit by a typhoon, maybe it is because of the butterfly effect? Thousands of miles away, the coastal city was hit by this heavy rainfall.

Although the weather is not as good as the typhoon that swept away so much in the past? In recent years, it has been a rare rainstorm, and he can't help but want to go out for a walk every rainy night like this? Trying to find a gap in time and space in a chaotic world full of rain? Re-embark on the elevated road that huddles up with the abandoned Maybach.

Plugged in the headphones, Chu Zihang turned on the 3G cellular mobile network and connected to the chat software? Usually he doesn't like to spend too much time and energy on social software, but recently, he has to spend more than half of his free time in the day on class groups, alumni groups, and campus forums.

Log in to the chat app? Chu Zihang danced dozens of private chats in the background? He clicked through the conversations one by one and then deleted the conversations, every topic of private chat was provoked by him, and in just a few months he had asked the same question to hundreds of people, about a private aristocratic university far away across the ocean? And the answer that everyone gave him was the same blank and ignorant.

If the relationship between people is like a thread and a balloon? While dragging it in his hand, he floated lightly in the sky, until one day the line between him and the man broke, and he looked up at the hydrogen balloon constantly flying, and the apple-like red reflected the aqua blue sky? Don't know how far to float and where to drift? Young and ignorant, I just thought that I would float all the way to outer space, to the universe? Lonely flying towards the distance with no end.

There is no chance of remedy, and every time it rains heavily, he wanders away like a lonely soul in the rain over the years? Looking for the smell of a diluted man in the smell of rain? The only trajectory he could follow in his hands was a sentence he inadvertently uttered that night? One place, one name.

Kassel Academy.

As if he had tried his best to grasp a glimmer of possibility, a thread of silk lingering in the rain, he was trying his best to gather all the information of the Kassel Academy while also trying to improve himself as much as possible, because he didn't want to be limited by his own shortcomings and inadequacies when he really stood in front of that threshold. Athletics, learning, talents, all the obstacles that might be obstacles were overcome, and if the Kassel Academy were an academy, he would have to allow himself to cross its threshold in its heyday and grasp the line of drifting in the rainstorm.

Chu Zihang tried to search for the Kassel Academy on the Internet, which is the reaction that everyone will make, but there are only a few double-digit entries about this college on the Internet, and there are even two pitiful pages on the search engine, and there is only one page of introduction to the private aristocratic university in the relevant link.

Lush gardens, old buildings, verdant paths, beautiful models in doctorate gowns, and a few lawns and teaching buildings under clear skies, Chu Zihang has seen too much of this kind of official university page.

When 'Dad' learned that he was interested in studying abroad, he also took the initiative to find several famous foreign private schools for him that were sought after in the rich circle, and most of the so-called aristocratic universities were the same, but 'Dad' didn't know that what he was looking for was not a university with strict teachers and good students, what he had been looking for was the god who stepped on the thunderstorm on that rainy night, and the trousers who were blown by the wind when the man turned his back.

With his intuition, the Kassel Academy must not be a simple academy that is commonplace, and the fact that the name of the academy came out of the man's mouth that night was enough to see that the academy was hiding a lot of unknown things. He was looking for madness and became a madman, a madman who was questioned by the world, giving up his great future and a bright future, desperately rushing into rainy nights to run wildly towards the man's past.

With Chu Zihang's family background and his own strength, his choice is not limited to private prestigious schools, with his grades and comprehensive quality, he can be admitted to any Ivy League college even if he relies on hard power exams, he tried to compare the admission difficulty of Kassel College with those Ivy League colleges, but in the end he found that he didn't even know what the admission conditions of this college were, on the surface, it seemed to be a private aristocratic university, but when he got closer, he found that everything about it was covered with an eggshell-like film, Looking from the outside is just like looking at flowers in the fog.

Throwing away the information about the Kassel Academy from the Internet search engine, Chu Zihang put the search target on the surrounding social circle, although his own social circle is very small because of his usual style, as the only son of local entrepreneur Lu Tianming, his circle of friends can be very large, as long as he reports that most of the circles are willing to open the door for him.

After collecting information in various circles for several months, Chu Zihang gradually sketched some outlines of Kassel Academy, knowing that this is a private university located in the suburbs of Chicago in the Great Lakes region of Illinois in the United States, and the school emblem is a half-decayed world tree, which is said to be a friendship school with the University of Chicago.

However, some people mentioned that they would have sailing and surfing competitions on Lake Michigan every summer, and won the championship every year, which made Chu Zihang think for a while that Kassel College was a sports college, so he let 'Dad' take the whole family to the beach to spend a whole summer vacation, during which he learned a few hours of sailing and surfing skills in the local area, and the black teacher who was taught gave a thumbs up and praised him for being able to balance on the top of the waves for the first time he played heavy boarding, and he had not seen such a talented person for several years.

It's just a pity that he still hasn't found the way to the Kassel Academy after the completion of sailing and surfing, and the half-decayed world tree has gradually sprouted and flourished in his heart over time, and the black cloud-like branches and leaves have cast a heavy shadow on his heart.

He once thought about giving up on looking for this mirage-like university, but the heaviness and sense of fate of each rainy night awakened his memory, how many times the fortress by the sea was washed away and still rebuilt, every time it rained, he would repeatedly take out his mobile phone, and mechanically search for the name of the Kassel Academy over and over again, a little frightened, but more difficult to express the pain.

The contact on the phone was drawn to the last one, and the reply from the other party was to recommend him a private university in Germany, and he just glanced at it and replied with a thank you, and then deleted the conversation.

He sat blankly by the window where the rain crackled for a while, and then he moved his finger and clicked on a contact to enter the history page of the chat with him, on which there was a chat log that spanned almost half a year.

For half a year, he failed to recontact the other party countless times, all inquiries and greetings were lost, there was no effective way to find him on the Internet, and he even thought that the owner of this account had suffered an accident, and the avatar might never light up again for the rest of his life.

Even if he inquired about the people around him and found out where the other party once lived, he only got the empty house, but despite this, this contact person has become a reason to never give up looking for the Kassel Academy, just because of the words left by the other party in his last communication.

"Don't come to the Kassel Academy, it's full of crazy people!"

The handwriting on the mobile phone was reflected on the glass of the bus in the rain, and the remarks ID of the contact person was only two simple words.

Lin Nian.