The first person to find out that Teacher Shan was missing was Master Lu from the school cafeteria.

Originally, now that the summer vacation is over, the canteen has stopped opening, but because Mr. Shan usually has a good relationship with Master Lu, Master Lu specially promised him - in the few days when Mr. Shan delayed his home, the small fried department of the canteen was still open.

But for a few days, Teacher Shan never went to the cafeteria at all. Master Lu was curious—what had he been eating these days?

Finally, five days later, Master Lu couldn't help but come to Teacher Shan's single bedroom. He wanted to figure out what was going on.

Knocked on the door, no response. Master Lu leaned down on the window and looked inside—there was no one inside.

Teacher Shan didn't say hello and said goodbye? This was Master Lu's first reaction. But soon, he found out that this was impossible - Mr. Shan's clothes were still hanging on the windowsill, and his two suitcases were also left motionless.

Master Lu thought about it carefully and felt that something was wrong with this matter.

He hurriedly asked a few households near the school - only to find that no one had seen Teacher Shan in the past few days.

Master Lu's intuition told him that something had happened to Teacher Shan. He immediately notified the local police station.

The police arrived at Mr. Shan's home and found nothing unusual. The head of the police station sent people to look for and inquire about Teacher Shan's whereabouts in Nanxiang.

But after looking for a day, I couldn't find Teacher Shan at all. When I called his hometown, the family said that Mr. Shan had not come back at all.

The news of Mr. Shan's disappearance spread quickly in Nanxiang, and well-meaning villagers spontaneously organized themselves to find Mr. Shan, including the parents of the four Meide.

Everyone almost searched Nanxiang to the bottom, but they didn't find Teacher Shan. They wondered how a big living person had just vanished from the world?

In the evening, a villager approached the head of the police station and said with some hesitation: "There is a waterhole near the school, should Teacher Shan be ......?"

The director frowned and thought for a while, and said, "Immediately organize people to salvage in the waterhole!" ”

A few hours later, several strong people in the village took the initiative to find a large fishing net and tried to salvage it in the pool, but they were not sure if they could really catch Teacher Shan's body.

But Mei De and Yuan Bin knew very well in their hearts what the result of this salvage would be. They stood by the waterhole along with dozens of other onlookers to watch the salvage — and they had to know what would happen to the police after they fished up Mr. Shan's body.

It was just after 8 p.m., and everyone was casting nets into the water with torches. Med and Yuan Bin glanced at each other in the flickering firelight, and they could tell from each other's expressions that their hearts were beating wildly.

The salvage work lasted about an hour, and all that came from the nets was glass bottles, large handfuls of aquatic weeds and some garbage. Teacher Shan's body was not found.

"Alright, call it a day." The director said, "There can't be anyone in this pool." ”

The villagers breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that things were not what they thought, and Teacher Shan was just missing. Everyone began to speculate that maybe Mr. Shan just went to the field to do something and didn't tell anyone.

The villagers dispersed as they discussed. The police also returned to the police station, and the incident was tentatively classified as a disappearance.

Only the four Dmitry were left by the waterhole.

The four of them looked at each other, each with fear and doubt written on their faces - they didn't understand, what was going on?

The four of them left with heavy footsteps, and on the way, Yuan Bin suddenly stopped.

"Dmide, Sunset, and Li Yuan. I...... I'm so scared......" his voice trembled, "why isn't Teacher Shan's body in a waterhole?" It...... Where will it go? ”

"yes...... If it's a river, it's a river, and it might have washed downstream...... But this ...... It's a waterhole! It's a pool of stagnant water! Sunset shuddered, too.

Dmitry also began to feel dizzy: "Maybe, Teacher Shan is really not dead?" ”

"But we saw him with our own eyes......"

"That's it!" Dmitry suddenly shouted, "This is the end of the matter!" No one is allowed to say it again! ”

Several people looked at him together.

"From now on, we don't care whether Teacher Shan is dead or alive. We just need to remember one thing: Teacher Shan was not killed by us, he accidentally fell into the pool by himself, and it has nothing to do with us! ”

"But in fact......" Li Yuan wanted to say something.

"Listen!" Dmitry looked at him viciously, "We didn't mean to! It was just an accident! Do you understand? ”

"Yes, it was just an accident." Yuan Bin echoed.

"It was an accident, not our fault." Sunset also looked at Li Yuan.

"So, from today onwards, let's leave this matter alone, the police have already designated this case as a disappearance. As we said before, we must never tell anyone the truth about this. Dmitry said.

"I'm for it." Yuan Bin said.

"I'm okay with that." Sunset said.

They looked at Li Yuan together.

"Okay...... Then I'm ...... Agree. Li Yuan said helplessly.

"Well, the four of us have made an agreement: from now on, no one can mention this again, never again! Of course, we must not divulge this secret that we guard together! Dmitry said.

Several people looked at each other for a few seconds and nodded in unison. They then folded their right hands together......

Since then, the incident has been characterized as one of hundreds of ordinary disappearances, just as they thought. The police had no doubts about the result.

As time passed, Med and the others gradually forgot about the catastrophe they had caused. After graduating from junior high school, they go to high school in the prefecture. After leaving Nanxiang, they got rid of the psychological shadow and lived a peaceful ordinary life.

Ten years have passed.