BGM: Silent Night (Koji Takanashi)

"Hey, are you there?"

"What's the matter? Call me so late, I'm taking a shower. ”

"I can hear, well, I just thought about something. ”

"Straight to the point. ”

Magpie wiped his face with a towel, and the white mist filled the air.

"Didn't one of the two girls you mentioned earlier be hospitalized?"

"Well, yes, broken bones and trauma. ”

"And the other one? I just checked the records, and she didn't come to class today. ”

"As I said, she was with Xiaoyi in the hospital, yes, she was the one who was injured. ”

"Not normally, right? It's not dying. ”

This shows that people have a good relationship, what's so strange. ”

"Use your keen sense of smell, Que! It stands to reason that this kind of thing will be told to the head teacher, but she didn't ask for leave today, and she didn't answer the phone calls she made. ”

"Who will pick you up if you call so late. ”

"No, she didn't answer, but her mom did. ”

"Guess what her mom said?"

“。。 Dead?"

"What died. With your thinking, how can people die so easily. ”

"So?"

"Her mother said she couldn't be found, and hospital staff said she was out of the hospital. ”

"Maybe it's going to buy something. ”

"I went out in the middle of the night to buy something, and I bought for a few hours? There is a convenience store in the hospital. ”

"Well, you're worrying too much. Can a person of this age get lost?" the magpie wiped his body dry.

Ake's tone was a little gloomy, "Magpie, do you really think so?"

The movement in Que's hand paused, and he raised his eyebrows: "What do you want to say?"

"Until just now, I asked a few people from the general affairs department of the student union and counted the people who had been to that café, which accounted for 53 percent of the total number of students in the school. ”

"Until yesterday, Xiao Yi and her friend, the one who disappeared, had been to the café many times. ”

"Any questions?"

"We've been monitoring the movements of these people who have been to the café here, and she's the only one who knows what's going on. ”

"Surveillance?all?"

"I'm at the school right now, and there are twenty-eight people here, all boarding students. Well.. We're going to be targeting these people under the guise of the Student Growth Record Report. ”

"Yes, you are very good. ”

"My gut told me something was going to happen. ”

"Do you still have a gut feeling? ”

“。。 Well, what you said today I always think something is going to happen. There's always a good way to prevent problems before they happen, right?"

"Why are you looking for me now? You want me to help you find her? Please, I've just finished a fight, and now my shoulders hurt and my neck hurts, so please go ahead and find someone else, don't you have a lot of people?"

"It's more effective to find you, or it's only up to you, doesn't it mean that there are your monitoring facilities everywhere?. ”

"On campus only. ”

"I'll give you a little bit of the biscuit my sister made herself. Ake said earnestly.

"Don't. ”

"Eh, really? That's my sister's own hand... ”

I said. Didn't we all make it clear? The Tao is not the same, and I have no intention of interfering for the time being. ”

"Ake, it's useless to just ask for someone, you should know it very well. ”

“。。 What if it's Xiaoyi's request?"

"She said that, but it didn't work. ”

What a merciless man.

"So, how about I do one thing for you in the future?"

“。。 Reluctantly, hehe, in fact, I have nothing to do now, and it is not impossible for me to take a trip. There was a pleasant smile in the magpie's voice.

"You... It wasn't like thinking about it from the beginning. ”

"Hehe, I'm just testing your resolve, besides, this world is full of lies and fraud, and fakes are already part of the world, you have to learn a lesson. Well, maybe I'm lying to you right now. ”

"Can I take it back?"

"What do you say?"

"Okay, okay, I have to get it back. ”

"Try your best, live or die. ”

Surrounded by a white towel, the magpie stood behind the glass and looked at the city from above.

Took a sip of pure milk.

"Whew-"

It's a long night in the city.

。。。。。。

"Damn! Damn! What the hell is going on?!" the redhead walked hard, making a crashing sound as his feet hit the ground.

Forest!

Unexpectedly.. How dare you 。。。

She stopped, calmed her rapid breathing, and saw the side door of the school.

It's usually closed, and there are guards patrolling, so even if she's a student here, she shouldn't be put in.

But at this moment, there is no one around.

The redhead warily leaned his head close to the iron fence gate, relieved to see that there was no one.

She looked at the door, clenched her fists, climbed up, and after a hard climb, she finally landed and came to the world inside the door.

I touched my arm, and there were red marks left by the iron railing, which hurt a little.

Looking up at the school building, the black buildings are intricately intertwined, this teaching park is amazingly large, even if I have been studying here, it is limited to a small range, and I am not very familiar with the whole school.

Fear.

Terror.

Inexplicable panic.

It's so dark. Why is it so dark.

The anger and energy in my heart quickly subsided and cooled.

The black trees stretch out in rows and rows to the invisible, like strange giants, complex terrain, buildings and rooms are connected together by corridors and passages, twists and turns, the road is not clear, and it feels very strange.

"Boom-"

Swallowing a mouthful of non-existent saliva, the redhead plucked up the courage to move forward quickly, completely forgetting where he was going, just like being urged by something, being chased, scurrying around indiscriminately and directionlessly.

Flustered.

My heart is beating so fast. My heart is beating so loudly, how can I hear it so clearly?

Heart.. It hurts.

After unconsciously walking into it, I thought about the information I had received before, and I was anxious and hesitant.

There is only darkness around the redhead.

Front, back, left, right, up, down.

Black, black, black, black, black, black.

"Yes. . . That's right.. Lamp.. ”

The redhead tried to turn on the switch, fumbling along the wall for a while, and finally found the switch.

“。。 How could it be. ”

The lights are not on.

No.. Wait, I remember someone saying that the main power switch at school is disconnected at night.

Woo woo, how is this?

The redhead clenched her hands, her sister protruded, her nails embedded in the flesh. Her scalp tingled—her teeth clenched, and the muscles on her head tensed.

Wandering.

Wander around.

Want to find.

Ahhh

Her lips were slightly open and a little trembling.

The brain is a little dizzy.

The staircase connects to the corridor, and the corridor connects to the classroom, and next to the classroom is a staircase, which leads to the upper and lower floors, and the upper and lower floors are exactly the same. I don't know when I can only see the school building next to it through the window.

It's the same everywhere, where is this? I don't understand, I don't understand, I don't understand!

Her steps quickened unconsciously.

From the beginning. Who's there!

A faint and slight sound could be heard, like amber rubbing, like dry fingers rubbing, like a multitude of people whispering.

Drain Drain –

Zizi - hee hee hee - smack -

Smack-smack-wow-smack-smack-s

"Damn! you can't scare me! Get me out!" the redhead yelled as if venting.

Just as her back was against the wall, her whole body couldn't help but tremble, her pockets lit up.

The whispering voices around him disappeared inexplicably.

"Oh yes, I still have my phone!"

I took out my phone faster than ever and looked at it, and it showed that there was only three percent battery left.

"Damn, shit, shit! I didn't charge it when I got to the hospital. ”

Discouraged, driven to a dead end, the feeling of running out of oil and running out of lights.

The redhead bit his lower lip, and just wanted to turn off the screen to save some electricity, when he was suddenly attracted by a message.

"Left. ”

The sender is the same person from before.

It's the reason why I'm desperately here.

She didn't think about the possible traps, she just subconsciously lowered her head and ran to the left, she didn't want to, she didn't dare to think anymore, she subconsciously followed this instruction under some kind of great mental oppression.

Give up thinking.

Refusal to judge dangerous safety.

Forest.. It must be there, right?

Certain.. We'll be fine ...

Ostriches bury their heads in the sand when faced with danger.

Some people are stiff and silent when faced with danger if they do not show strong aggression.

This is actually an evolutionary trait, the result of natural selection.

However, the price of natural selection is the death of many individuals, and even when there is no disaster, many so-called "defective products" will be born for the sake of the diversity of the gene pool.

Organisms are faced with selection, selection, and the same is true for human beings in social life, how many of them are infiltrated with sand and gravel to become silt, and how many can enter the sea?

Just as sludge loses water and water vapor returns to the atmospheric cycle, the death of an individual has no adverse effect on human beings as a whole, just normal metabolism.

"Whew-Whew-Whe-Hhh-Hhh-Hh———h

The wheezing became more and more rapid, like a worn-out bellows. The redhead feels like he can't breathe anymore, his lungs are burning with pain, and now he must be so hoarse that he can't even hear himself, right?

The screen lit up again.

"Go upstairs. ”

Do it without hesitation.

"Left. ”

"Go upstairs. ”

"Left. ”

"Go upstairs. ”

"Left. ”

"Go upstairs. ”

"Left. ”

The command was repeated several times, and the redhead moved forward as if in a magical obstacle.

。。。 Wait for me!

I must ... ！！

Intense conflicts, inflated emotions, irrepressible impulses. The redhead felt his body begin to lighten, the wind was blowing under his feet, and he had nothing to fear.

In order to. Lin's words.

Wait for me!

If it were me ...

It's going to be fine.

There's nothing to be afraid of anymore!

The redhead couldn't stop, she felt the malice coming from all directions, the whispers of Suo, the small, the indistinct, the big and the small, the dense, the ubiquitous—how could I stop! I won't be fooled!

“zawa——zawa——”

“sawa——sawa——”

"Da-da-za-wa-"

The redhead felt his muscles spasming, and in the past, a thousand meters of the sports test made him unbearable, and now how much did he run?

Run, run, run, run.

Run wild, run wild.

How long have I been running, damn it!

The school is very large, the building is very high, and when you are in it, you will feel that the stairs and corridors are endless, and it is a huge labyrinth and cage that you can never get out of. But this is reality after all, and there are limits and limits in the physical sense.

"Whoa-hah-a-a-a-a-"

Stop.

The redhead felt dizzy in her head, as if she was being put in a washing machine and spin, she was weak, her hands were on her knees, a few strands of red hair stuck to her neck with sweat, and her body seemed to be steaming. As soon as I stopped, a feeling of exhaustion rushed over my limbs, and I didn't want to move. But unexpectedly, I made myself feel at ease.

I don't know when the screen hasn't lit up again for a long time, and the previous indicator is "left".

My gut told me I couldn't go any further.

A source of danger.

There was a feeling of emptiness behind the iron door, and the whispers behind it were particularly noisy at the moment.

I'm going to die ...

In front of me is the staircase, the last staircase, that is, the top is the top - the last staircase leads to the rooftop, although I don't know where I am, but I used to see other roofs on the roof of my own teaching building, there are some strange big objects on it, I don't know if it is a power distribution room or something.

At that time, I just felt that my house was so high, and the ground was full of people. The school is so big, there are so many places that I have never been, and there is a city outside the school, there are many high-rise buildings, like building blocks, close together, stretching into the distance, gray in the distance, I can't see clearly.

The world is so big, I have to see it one day.

The world is so small, as if there is only oneself, Xiaoyi. When?

Later, there was an extra forest.,Lin he.。。 Now think about it, how did we come to know each other, and how did we become friends?

It really is. Before you know it...

Imperceptibly ...

Is.. I like it so much.

The door opened,

The redhead opened the door,

Imperceptibly.

The evening breeze blew across the rooftop, gently ruffling her hair. In a moment, it should be said that it is Morrowind, right?

Red-haired girl looking at the world below,

The city is so quiet at night, with only the occasional bus sound.

The nights in the city are so long.

But it's time to get to the end, right?

Soon it will be full of students and morning light, right? Just like yesterday, just like the day before yesterday. As it has always been. Then, I'll talk to you. Xiaoyi, and Lin...

The girl turned away, and it was hard to describe her expression at the moment, calm, regret, tenderness, hope, or something else.

In front of him was a shadow, and "it" stood on its feet, like a child's rough graffiti, a humanoid shadow.

On its face, there was a layer of something that covered the shadows, and it was the face of an old cleaner.

"It" appeared there silently, as if it had always been.

The erect shadows, which are difficult to define thick, appear extremely incongruous - especially the normal human skin.

"Lin Ta. ”

The redhead seemed to be trying to determine something from "it", though her legs couldn't help but tremble, though her every cell was trembling, trying to run away from this thing. But the great courage that arose out of nowhere overwhelmed the instincts of the body.

Why did I come back here?

"Lin. Lin Ta. How?"

Why am I standing here?

The shadow didn't move, just made a strange sound of objects wriggling.

Behind "it" there are many similar things to "it".

"They" are tall and short, with different shapes, and some are even hard to imagine having the ability to move in a physical sense, and their faces are covered with various skins, and most of them are students.

Constantly pouring out from behind the cleaner, trying to squeeze in, wanting to get close to the living flesh not far away, the young life.

"Lin ——"

The redhead squeezed a word out of his throat.

She turned, squeezed out the last bit of strength, and ran to the edge of the rooftop.

The shadows behind her all stirred, and "they" pushed and shoved wildly, squeezing each other out of shape, and stretched out their black limbs to reach her, and their faces twisted with it.

There are no guardrails on the rooftop.

The redhead flew out as if he were embracing the whole world.

A glimmer of morning light faintly emanated from the horizon, illuminating her pupils and making her feel a momentary sense of happiness.

"Xiao Yi. . . Forest.. ”

The red hair fluttered in the wind, like a beautiful carp.

Behind her, there is the spectacle of "them" rushing to fall downward.

The carp is getting closer to the dragon gate of despair.

The more you go to tomorrow.