Chapter 06: Dreams
Mother Earth gets angry and everything gets a little weird.
The sun is scorching, and this huge city is now in a furnace. There are reinforced concrete buildings everywhere, and in this hot steaming, they seem to be steaming white.
The road, which was not very wide, suddenly became much wider at this time near noon. Cars were driving in it, squirming their otherwise very athletic bodies.
It's an unusually hot April, and it's a bit of a headache.
Not far away, a red 'behemoth' slowly stopped, and after brewing for a few seconds, it suddenly spat out a bitter villain from its mouth.
Looking up at the stop sign, Wang Yu reached out and wiped the sweat on his face, lifted the drawing board behind him, and kept looking around.
"You shouldn't have saved that dollar."
After pouring a sip of mineral water, Wang Yu smiled bitterly in his heart. Just now, in order to save a dollar in fare, he didn't take the air-conditioned bus, looking at his appearance, he should feel very regretful at this moment.
Raising his head and squinting at the passionate sun, Wang Yu suddenly lowered his head and slowly walked towards a small tree next to the road.
Although, there wasn't much shade under that tree, but looking at the bright and empty world around it, Wang Yu really couldn't find a better place than this.
Taking the drawing board off his back and putting it aside, Wang Yu lit up the screen of his mobile phone weakly.
After reading a few complaining text messages from the 'watch man' at the same table, Wang Yu smiled and put the phone back in his pocket. He buried his head between his legs and let out a long puff of turbidity.
Looking at the cement road under his feet, Wang Yu suddenly regretted choosing to come out today for a photoshoot. In fact, the so-called photo, Wang Yu knew that this was just an excuse he made for himself, because since he came out in the morning, until now, he has not even painted anything on his drawing board, and the most terrible thing is that he did not bring a paintbrush at all when he came out this time.
But why did he suddenly find such an excuse to take leave today, and even he himself has not yet figured out the real reason.
slapped the hot swollen head hard, and Wang Yu didn't know how many times he despised himself again.
Maybe he was really tired, Wang Yu slowly leaned his body against the small tree behind him and closed his eyes slightly. But the sweat on his face did not slow down as he imagined, and he was still running wildly.
The slightest hot wind hit, and it actually made people feel a little sleepy.
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Amid the dazzling flashing lights and deafening cheers, the huge stadium was already in a frenzy at the moment.
On the field, a bearded man was surrounded by many people in the middle, and then people threw him high, again and again, and again.
The bearded man squinted slightly, looking at the ceiling in front of him, grinning happily, letting the tears in his eyes mingle with the sweat on his face.
The shouts of "MVP" resounded throughout the stadium, and the bearded man ran to the center of the field while greeting everyone around him.
An old man with a heavy trophy in his hand was slowly walking here. Looking at the old man in front of him and the trophy in his hand, his hands suddenly tightened, but it didn't seem to have any effect, and tears still rushed out again.
His vision became more and more blurred, and he took the trophy from the old man's hand and held it high. However, this joy and pride, at this moment he did not want to and could not be alone, and in the shout, he turned around, wanting to call everyone around him together.
However, the next moment, the joy on his face turned to horror.
The gymnasium, which had just fallen into a complete frenzy, suddenly became silent and empty for a moment. At this moment, except for his own heartbeat, there seems to be only death-like silence here.
He opened his mouth and shouted desperately, but where could he make the slightest sound? He sat weakly on the ground, and slowly all that remained in his blurred vision was the trophy in his hand.
Good thing you're here! He held the trophy tightly in his arms.
Suddenly, the expression on his face froze there, and a very shrill laugh floated out of his arms.
He slowly made eye contact with it, but where was the trophy? A strange face that was slightly hideous and full of smiles was looking at him in his hand at the moment and smiling coldly.
"Ahh
With a scream, the bearded man threw it out and moved backwards quickly.
Suddenly, there was a pain behind him, and it seemed like he had hit something in his back. The bearded man had no way to retreat, only to open a pair of frightened eyes, staring at the strange face in front of him.
Under the cold gaze, his mouth grew bigger and bigger.
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Under the small tree, a slightly emaciated boy was sitting bare-chested, wiping his face with the waistcoat in his hand, and the boy's face seemed to be a little pale, perhaps because the weather was too hot.
The boy's other hand holding the mobile phone was also trembling slightly at the moment, isn't it heat stroke?
Putting the vest on his lap, he lowered his head and reached out to pick up half a bottle of mineral water on the ground, and poured it all on his head.
Shaking his head vigorously, he lit up the screen, looked at the text on it again, and the boy slowly stood up. With a gentle breath of air, the boy looked left and right with the drawing board behind him, and then strode to the stop sign not far across the road.
The boy gritted his teeth fiercely, but the face of the bearded man in his head and his eyes full of horror slowly resurfaced again.
Why? Why is that bearded face so similar to me?
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"Classmate, is there anything wrong with you?" In the duty room, an old man who looked old walked out slowly, looked at the slightly thin boy in front of him with a sweaty face, stretched out his hand to stop him, and asked softly.
"Hello uncle, I am a student of the No. 4 middle school in the county, and today our school has a friendly basketball game with your school, and I am here to cheer for our school." Wang Yu wiped the sweat from his face and replied with a smile.
"Oh, it looks like there's some kind of friendly basketball game, but it doesn't start until after four o'clock in the afternoon, why did you come so early?" A trace of doubt flashed in the shrewd uncle's eyes, and he looked at the boy in front of him with a smile. "It's only a little past two o'clock, huh?"
"I'm an art candidate studying drawing." Wang Yu said and took down the drawing board behind him, and said with a smile: "On the one hand, I came here today to cheer for our school, and on the other hand, I also want to step on the scenery and sketch." Wang Yu said, groping in his pocket for a long time, took out a note and handed it to the shrewd uncle, and said with a smile: "For this, I also specially asked our teacher for a day off, you see this is a fake note." ”
Taking the fake note from the boy's hand, the puzzled and wary look in the old man's eyes receded slightly. He smiled and said to the boy, "You're too early." ”
Wang Yu wiped the sweat from his face, smiled and did not speak. Because he felt that he had finished everything he could say, and the rest could only depend on the mood of the uncle in front of him.
"On such a hot day, grandpa can't bear to let you have a doll standing outside all the time." The old man looked at the sweat that kept running down the boy's face, and felt a little unbearable. "Uncle made an exception, let you go in now."
"Thank you, uncle." Wang Yu smiled slightly, his heart full of gratitude.
"It's okay to go in, but we're going to talk about it now, you can only walk around the woods by the school lake, you can't run around, I'll have to check it later, okay?" The uncle returned the fake slip in his hand to the boy and said with a smile.
"Okay, I promise I won't run around." Wang Yu smiled heartily.
"Okay, let's go inside. It's so hot, be careful not to get heat stroke. The uncle smiled and waved his hand at the boy, turned around and walked towards the duty room.
"Thank you, uncle." Wang Yu thanked the old man's back loudly, and just wanted to take a step, when suddenly a somewhat nauseous dizziness struck, Wang Yu gritted his teeth fiercely, but his face seemed to be a little paler.
Shaking his head and taking a deep breath, he walked towards the beautiful and quiet campus in front of him.