Chapter 2: The Truth

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My name is Su Wu, a first-year high school student, and I have crossed paths with several boys with strange abilities, and you ask me why a group of boys are more familiar with playing than girls? Forgive me for not finding the right answer to your question, which is probably called "fate".

It is said that people who own "Twilight Bookmarks" have some weirdness in their hearts, and at first I thought it was the result of false rumors, but when I actually read the phrase "People who have 'Twilight Bookmarks' have some weirdness in their hearts", I realized that I knew too late.

From the moment I took revenge on those three people, I was convinced that there was no turning back.

"Weird" refers to someone with the special ability to create space in the "Twilight Bookmark", really? Is this a narrow definition? Are ordinary people who are incapable of being all normal people?

"Life is like a play, it all depends on acting skills", I am afraid that actors will get lost in the labyrinth of "in the play" and "outside the play".

A "mouse" was forced to the edge of the rift by me, and her paw inadvertently flicked the stone at the edge of the rift, and the small stone rolled down with a "gurgling" and disappeared into the endless abyss, without even hearing the sound of falling to the ground.

Looking at her little eyes full of horror, I felt the urge to look up to the sky and laugh. I lifted her chin with interest and blew gently into her ear.

Is it cool? It's going to be cooler under the rift.

Hey, where is all the arrogance you had when you did that to her? Didn't expect me to do such a thing? Didn't expect her to walk out of the door of the operating room? There are so many things you didn't expect, you are only allowed to be arrogant, and I am not qualified to be arrogant?

Monster? Look down on me? Oh, it's okay, I look down on me so much, you don't deserve to be on the leaderboard.

Worried that no one will find out about you? Rest assured, someone in the real world will find you.

I was holding a postcard that the man had given me, given to me just three days before her accident. Standing on the edge of the abyss where she had stood a few minutes ago, I suddenly wanted to leap forward and embrace the endless darkness beneath the ground.

No, you've only got rid of one mouse, and there's one rat waiting for you to catch them and "comfort" them.

I know you won't agree with my approach, but I'm not a saint, and I can't be indifferent.

Good and evil, right and wrong, are inseparable, straightened, and incomprehensible. I don't mind letting her see me badly, she's not there anyway.

I don't think my mom is crazy, and I don't think my dad is the murderer who made my mom crazy.

I don't think it's just, it's useless, the majority will always win over the minority with an absolute advantage, the truth that the majority insists on is always right, and the truth that the minority insists on is always wrong, when a small number of the majority people find out that the truth that the minority insists on is correct, unfortunately, they find out too late.

Originally, life was quite peaceful, and the well-informed old aunts in the community always had some subtle changes in their expressions when they saw me, and their proud loud voices would always involuntarily lower their voices when they saw me.

Wearing sunglasses for a long time to observe things around you doesn't make you colorblind?

As usual, there was no difference, and those words were just a noise caused by the wind blowing the leaves, but they were just a little noisy.

"Why you again! What the hell are you going to do! Don't come, don't come, don't come! The woman held a fruit knife in her hand, threatening the helpless man in front of her.

"Calm down, hey, keep your eyes open and see clearly, who am I?"

The man tried to grab the woman's hand holding the fruit knife, but unexpectedly it made the woman's expression even more panicked, and she swung the knife wildly, almost slashing the man.

"You are..." The woman's consciousness seemed to have recovered a little, but after only a few seconds, the knife that had stopped swinging began to swing wildly again, and the woman's emotions became even more agitated. "No, who are you! You're not him! You liar! Go away! At this moment, the wielded knife slashed the man, but fortunately the force was not great, and only a hole was cut in the sleeve.

The man was still unwilling, seeing that the woman's movements were becoming more and more intense, the man couldn't care so much, and hurriedly grabbed the knife in the woman's hand, and the blood that flowed out seemed to be unfelt, he just wanted the woman to stop this dangerous action, and grabbed the knife with the woman, both of them wanted to fight for the knife, and then the accident happened.

The knife was pointed straight at the man's chest.

After that, the man was taken to the hospital by passers-by for rescue, the woman was sent to a psychiatric hospital for treatment, and the man and woman signed a divorce agreement shortly after.

After that, for some reason, rumors began to circulate among the neighbors, "The woman was driven crazy by the mad man, and she kicked the crazy woman away afterwards"

"A child in such a family situation must not be a normal person, maybe a good person to be a criminal"

If you listen to this kind of rumors for a long time, you don't necessarily care, who would have thought that men's "evil deeds" would become the reason for some "messengers of justice" to "sweep away the evil and eliminate evil".

Because of the make-up class, the school time was a little later than the usual normal time, and the sky had become a little overcast, and along the way I felt as if someone was following me, and I turned my head many times to find that there was no one behind, so I didn't think much about it, maybe it was the illusion that I was too tired from studying recently.

I decided to speed up my pace when I saw the traffic lights at the intersection that were about to turn red, but just as I ran to the corner between the restaurant and the hotel, a crowd suddenly rushed up and surrounded me.

I know them, to be precise, the whole first year of high school knows their "reputation", and they have been "taken care of" by the police station several times. Why are they targeting me? No, I can't be stunned, I must find a chance to escape.

Call someone, yes, it's the rush hour after work, just take this opportunity! I shouted "help", and the people were probably afraid that my noise would be too loud to attract the attention of the people around them, so they looked at each other at a loss.

Thankfully, these few seconds of stunned thought gave me a good chance to escape, now! I took advantage of my small size to make a mistake, and I ran like crazy down the road almost as fast as I could in my life, regardless of whether there was a red light or a green light in front of me.

The people in the back scolded some vulgar words such as "the child of the madman's family" and "the things raised by the scumbag", and the harsh words gradually became blurred, I heard this kind of words too much, I don't know if it was because of the habit or the urgency of escape that I had to ignore these words. Some passers-by also noticed my unusual behavior, but they just looked at it and walked away.

I was running so fast that I didn't pay attention to my surroundings and accidentally bumped into someone. I was about to apologize, but he just waved his hand and told me to hide behind him.

"Hey, you guys, enough is enough"

The gangsters froze for a moment, and then became more arrogant, and a gangster who was in the front of the extremely untidy clothes rushed up and gave a punch to the boy who blocked him, who knew that the gangster who took the lead underestimated the boy's force value, he grabbed the gangster's wrist at a very fast speed, and his foot followed to trip the gangster's ankle, and gave the gangster an over-the-shoulder fall.

It's really unseemly, it seems that a boy who is weak can easily bring down a gangster who is a little stronger than him. I wanted to thank him, but the boy who had been standing next to him and hadn't spoken spoke up: "Jin Yan, I told you that being nosy will cause trouble for you, isn't this a punch in vain?" He glanced at me as he spoke, and straightened his glasses by the way.

"I'm just in charge of my own duties, these people are from the same school as us, and I'll send them to the student office tomorrow, and you've already recorded the video materials, right?"

"You really know me" The boy with glasses shrugged helplessly, deliberately avoiding the eyes of the boy named "Jinyan".

One of the gangsters seemed to recognize who the boy was carrying them, shouting the boy's name and his position at the school, and seemed not afraid of the boy at all, but no one dared to take another step.

"He Jinyan? Grow up? You're a bit wide, aren't you? This is outside of school! โ€

"Bullying students after leaving school violates Article 76 of the school rules, and tomorrow we can report the video materials to the student office for a school-wide notification."

"And there are quite a few witnesses," the bespectacled boy looked at passers-by who were hiding far away.

Seeing this situation, the gangster leader had to give the followers behind him a look and ran away stupidly.

I saw that I had a chance, so I thanked him: "Thank you for saving me, where you were beaten... You okay? I pointed slightly at the chest of the boy named "He Jinyan", and did not dare to look him in the eyes, after all, I had only taken this punch because of me.

"It's okay," but I could clearly see that he had been holding on to the place where he had been beaten. "In the future, you should pay attention to the movements around you, it's easy to deal with gangsters who are people in the school, but it's troublesome if they are idle people in society"

"Wei Ci, let's go, there's too much time delayed here"

"Hey, wait, what's your name?" I regretted it when I said it, even if he was a classmate in the same school, it was really rude to ask his name when we met for the first time.

He paused, but told me, "I'll see my name on the school's bulletin card tomorrow, and one of the thugs has already said my name."

Tomorrow afternoon, during the big recess, the school did report yesterday's events through the radio, thinking of what the boy said to me yesterday, I quickly ran to the bulletin board to check, and found his name on the newly posted bulletin - the president of the student union, He Jinyan.

My very close friend and I heard an unexpected news, yesterday's gangster was instructed by Yang Liu to chase me.

I know what her reason is for doing this, it is nothing more than because of it, but I try to persuade him not to listen, how can I get her to believe what I say? No, it's supposed to be how to stop her now.

"Cut, I don't believe that a madman family can teach a good child, your grades must have been copied!"

"Obviously you are all teaching by the same teacher, and you are all in the same class, why are your grades higher than mine every time! Why! โ€

Enough, I've heard enough of these words, whatever you want.

I can also guess what the three of them can do, I have heard those dirty words countless times, and I have also "encountered" countless times the next three indiscriminate methods of fancy renovation.

Always doing things that have no bottom line will reap the consequences sooner or later. I guess it's illegal to see them taken away by the police and driven down the stairs to the hospital.

I saw them taken away by the police and witnessed her death.

I didn't expect that the ultimate goal of Yang Liu was not me, but my friend.

I only remember that it was a rainy night, the white fog covered the dark theater, and I sat down on the ground as I watched the panicked murderers and the scrambled passers-by, and suddenly I felt a sense of joy in my heart that I had never felt before.

The black hole-like night swallowed up the moon and stars.

My wet hair obscured my vision, and was the liquid dripping all the time rain, or tears? Or have they already been mixed together?

The sound of my crazy screams and dripping water echoed in my ears.

Hydroacoustics? Where is the water? It's all around with patches of dazzling red.

I thought we would never see each other again, preferably never, but I couldn't help but go and see her, a white cloth covering her face.

I knew that I would never see her again.

Half a year later

"Let's go," He Jinyan said lightly.

I don't want to leave yet, even though I've been in the rain for an hour. The crisp sound of the dripping rain falling on the stone slab always made me feel at ease, as if she was still there.

The rain, the fog, it was all the same as that day, only there was no rioting crowd, no speeding ambulances, no her.

The murderer behind her fall has not been found, so what if she does? Law and justice cannot eradicate all problems.

"Still thinking about what happened that day?"

"Hmm," I whispered.

There are two other people, even if they have a clear relationship with the falling incident, they can't deny what they have done before, and their friends related to me have been attacked by them.

He Jinyan held the umbrella above my head, "Sooner or later, I will catch her, and those two people will never be right."

"Thank you, though, it's better to stay away from me, the farther away the better," I pushed him away, and returned to the gloomy rainy night.

Anyone can forget that rain, but only I can't.

"As long as they're gone... Can't do that! โ€

"Who are they to ask for your forgiveness?"

"What right do you have to deprive someone of their life?"

The two voices grew clearer and clearer in my head, and I was so restless that I didn't want to hear their noise, and even the pleasant sound of the rain became a constant sawing sound.

"What's wrong with you?" He Jinyan ran over and held the umbrella above my head again. He touched my forehead, "No fever?" โ€

"I've been in the rain for so long, and I didn't listen to you, but fortunately I didn't have a fever" He grabbed my hand and draped his coat over me.

"Huh? What about you? โ€

"It's not a big deal, I've got two coats on and I'll be fine if I take off one," he said, and he showed me the coat he wore underneath.

"Why do I always feel cold about you?" I observed him from head to toe, and it was no wonder that it was not cold on a rainy day when he was missing a piece of clothing.

"Is it cold? It's hot," he rolled up his sleeves to prove that he was hot, but the hand he was holding me was shaking slightly.

I burst out laughing.

"What are you laughing at? Oh, I see, the law of true fragrance, a few minutes ago you said 'stay away from me', slap in the face"

"When you say that, you suddenly feel very hot" I shrunk back, not by the surface temperature, of course.

He chuckled lightly, and then reverted to his usual indifference after suddenly thinking of something.

"Don't do things you regret"

"What did you say?" I guessed the meaning of this sentence almost immediately, but how did he know? Instincts are a little too sharp, aren't they?

"Nothing," he said.

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little awkward, he took the first step to change the topic: "Xiaobai, are they waiting for me, let's go together?" โ€

"But you... It's a boy, and it will be miserable if the school leaders see it."

"It's okay, the school leaders shouldn't interfere with the students' weekend time, and the director also said that the school allows normal communication between men and women"

"If there are boys around, the ruffians don't dare to do anything to you," he said and immediately covered his mouth, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said this to you."

I reflexively trembled when I heard the word "ruffian", afraid that he would immediately return to his usual appearance if he found out that there was a clue. Normally, I would laugh when I heard him apologize, but this time, I would never laugh.

"Let's go, it's not good to keep them waiting" I let go of his hand and quickened my pace to run forward.

Along the way, even Shiraishi, who could speak the most, was silent, and everyone seemed to be paying attention to me... and the movement around it.

Exactly, what happened?

"Shiraishi! Where did you go? I shouted as I walked along the path in the garden.

Until I walked to the location of the antique pavilion and found a pool of blood on the ground, as well as a white stone lying on the ground.

"Brother Pu, you're here, you don't know what I've just experienced..." He clutched his head, as if he was not very conscious.

"You, you, did you just fall from somewhere? No, there's no high place around here, right? โ€

"It's just falling! I don't know what the hell sucked me in, I saw Su Wu's past."

"Suck it in? Things from the past? You're stupid."

"I believed all the strange things you encountered before, didn't you, buddy?"

โ€œยทยทยท It seems that there is nothing wrong with it, but what do you mean by 'suck in'? โ€

"I touched the blood on the ground, and I was inexplicably sucked into a whirlpool, and then I saw Su Wu's past"

"Her past? It doesn't mean that half a year ago, right? โ€

"Well, and what happened before we got to know us, you should know that his parents are divorced."

"Yes, but we don't know what the reason for the divorce is, and it's normal for us to not know about other people's affairs."

He mysteriously approached me, lowered his voice very low, and looked around to see if there was anyone around, for fear that the wall would have ears.

"His parents behaved very abnormally before the divorce, and her mother seemed to treat her father as something terrible, and even confronted her father with a knife, and she accidentally injured her father without knowing what was going on."

"Didn't you say her mother was crazy?"

"What if it's just a rumor? We were outsiders, and we didn't know anything about it except for their family."

"Also, do you see anything else?"

"I heard that the two people who bullied her with Yang Liu half a year ago were sophomores in high school, and their class happened to be the same class where the student fell today."

"Falling from a building?" I immediately thought of the hottest gossip at that time, it was said that Su Wu's friend also accidentally fell to his death.

"It's all the way to fall from the building, will it be... Get you back? Shiraishi was very sure of the incident of "Su Wu's friend falling to his death", but none of us witnessed the scene with our own eyes, and the school and police reports were only vague, and the names of the people who fell from the building were not disclosed.

"You see?"

"Well, but I can only confirm that the witnesses are Su Wu and two gangsters, Su Wu arrived at the theater after her friend fell from the building, and I guess she doesn't know if the fall was an accident or deliberate."

"Forget it, the police will investigate this kind of thing, and they can't just fool around with a life."

"And you remember, the person who has been following her, He Jinyan should have seen it too"

"I remember it was raining, and she was the only one who didn't see it"

Bai Shi and I said in unison, "Yes, it's her, someone who looks almost exactly like Su Wu!" โ€

Seeing that it was getting late, Shiraishi and I escaped from the school at a fast speed, and we were almost locked in the school by the doorman, and we were scolded when we ran out.

"It's over, how do you explain to your parents when you go home" Shiraishi stomped his feet in a hurry, and the schoolbag he was carrying made him jingle.

"You tell them it's raining and getting stuck in traffic, and that's true anyway," there were all kinds of horns honking on the road, the traffic at the intersection was chaotic, and the side of the road into the main city was already jammed.

"Or you're witty, then I'll go, I really won't be able to catch the bus in a while!"

Baishi "flew" out of my sight, I glanced at my phone, oh no, half an hour late, I have to run quickly!

Shiraishi didn't breathe a sigh of relief until he ran into another street and couldn't see me again.

"There are some things that you'd better not know"