Text: Episode 28

1.

I wrote everything.

I sat in front of my computer in the living room and looked at the words "Nightmare Floating" on the screen.

When the northwesterly winds blow, the city freezes.

1929 didn't shoot, 3949 went on ice......

The cold wind outside the window gathered smoke.

"Done?" Li Ling came out of the kitchen, holding a bowl of hot noodles in her hand, "Rest, eat a bowl of noodles." ”

She rarely cooks for me, and I look at her suspiciously.

"Look at what? Touched? ”

"Why are you so nice to me today?"

Li Ling put the bowl on the computer desk with a smile and said, "Look at what you said, I used to treat you badly?" ”

"It would be nice if all of this was true." I muttered.

"Why have you been talking nonsense lately, and you can't sleep well, or let's go to the hospital to have a look." Li Ling raised her right hand and stroked it on my forehead, it was warm and soft, and it felt so real.

"I'm fine."

"Strong!" Her touch was changed to "one-finger zen" and tapped on my forehead.

I can smell the fragrance on her body, and for some reason, my heart is suddenly very panicked, which feels familiar.

"I'm going out in a while, you're obedient at home, wow, write for a while and rest your eyes."

"Going out again?"

"What do you mean?"

I laughed.

"Don't worry, I'm a little stunned, I found a job, and I'll go for an interview later." She hugged her from behind, "It's not like going out to meet men." ”

"Hmm." I nodded and said, "Okay, I'll raise you." ”

"Yes, yes, you raise me......"

2.

Cao Chengrui looked around at the empty room, so quiet without Li Ling.

He raised his left hand and grabbed his neck, and a nameless feeling of oppression came over him.

"I've got to keep writing."

3.

Zhao Shu took a sip of hot coffee from the cup handed over by Liu Yinghong.

The abandoned barn is ventilated everywhere, and you can only feel warm if you are close to the fire.

She tightened the blanket around her, typed the first word on her laptop, then stopped, looked up at the barn, "I hope he's okay." ”

"Keep writing, he'll be fine."

Liu Yinghong stuffed firewood into the stove and put the kettle on it.

Looking at the rising steam, he slowly spoke, "It's going to be fine." ”

4.

Winter in the city does not often snow.

If it falls, it will be goose feathers and heavy snow.

Immediately after that, the air after the snow was like freezing, minus twenty or thirty degrees.

Every night, the world outside the window seems to freeze with the darkness.

Every time Tao Qiwu looked out, a feeling of helplessness and fear would swell up in his heart, like a cold wind soaking into the bone marrow through his clothes.

"Old Tao?"

Cao Chengrui, who was sitting opposite him, called softly: "What's wrong?" ”

"Why are you here while eating and drinking?" Zhao Shutong, who was holding chopsticks, took a bite of the freshly soaked lotus root slices, and said again: "Brother Liu, you can put some more bamboo shoots." ”

"Okay."

"We've been on night duty with you all the way, what are you doing?" Cao Chengrui saw that Tao Qiwu didn't react and said again, "Are you worried that your leaders will come to check the post?" This snowy day, impossible. ”

Zhao Shutong giggled, now there are only four of them in the boiler room of this hospital, eating hot pot around the induction cooker. Liu Yinghong and Cao Chengrui drank two bottles of beer, and their faces were flushed.

Tao Qiwu came back to his senses and smiled awkwardly, I am afraid that only he knows that in the same snowy day twenty years ago, he experienced a nightmare encounter that no one else had experienced.

5.

That year, Tao Qiwu went to high school. His father was hospitalized due to illness, and he and his mother and his second aunt worked shifts to accompany him, and his mother or second aunt took care of his father during the day and left him alone at night.

The hospital is located in the northeast of the city, near the East Ring Road, and further east is the entrance to the highway out of the city. There are cargo stations, small restaurants, and small supermarkets near the hospital, and there are no homes.

On the third day of Tao Qiwu's father's hospitalization, his mother left early because of something and told him to do his homework well, and if the matter was over, he would come to accompany them early.

Tao Qiwu did his homework, carried the thermos to the water room to get hot water, just walked into the water room, he saw the white towel hanging by the window fell down, he hurriedly picked it up, and suddenly a black shadow burst out from under the towel, startled him to throw away the towel, took a few steps back, and almost broke the thermos bottle. The shadow crept into the shadow of the corner in the blink of an eye.

When you look closely, it's a giant mouse, the size of three adults' fists. It looked like it was trying to escape through a gap or hole in a corner. The moment it got in, it turned around and glanced at Tao Qiwu. Tao Qiwu was very uncomfortable at that glance, no wonder there was no good word to describe the purpose of the rat. The rat's nose nodded, and it barked as if mocking. Its body was soft, its fur was black and shiny, and it turned back and disappeared into the darkness without looking back.

The mouse was gone, but the shadow of its looking back was imprinted in Tao Qiwu's head, and it couldn't be dispersed for a long time. He took a deep breath, steadied his beating heart, and fetched water.

After a while, Tao Qiwu walked out of the water room with a thermos bottle, and saw the dean talking to the nurse in the corridor, with a serious expression. There were still a few people standing next to the dean.

He knew the dean, and his father had visited him during the operation, and he was said to be a relative or friend.

Tao Qiwu bypassed everyone and returned to the ward, where he found that a young woman had moved in to his father's clinic. She was tall, well-proportioned, with long hair, and white skin without blood, which was a morbid beauty. She lay on her back, her chest hunched together, her mouth slightly open, her eyes staring blankly at the ceiling.

Tao Qiwu felt as if she was struggling with something she couldn't see.

6.

Because of sitting for a long time, my waist and back are terrible.

But I couldn't stop. If I stop, I don't know what will happen again in Untitled. Hands are constantly tapping on the keyboard, and my mind is churning.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door behind him, unhurried.

It can't be Li Ling, she has the key.

So who else but her? I stood up, stretched my muscles and walked to the door, "Who?" ”

"It's me, next door! I would like to thank you last time for my daughter. ”

It turned out to be him, so I reached out and opened the door.

The neighbor's eldest brother outside the door stood at the door with a smile, and there was a person standing behind him.

"Excuse me, brother." He nodded and smiled: "I just went to the Asia-Pacific supermarket to buy groceries and came back, I met this girl downstairs, she asked if there was a family surnamed Cao in this building, in her early thirties wearing glasses, I thought it was you, I didn't take her to see it." ”

I thought to myself that I could be so warm-hearted? Aren't you afraid of being a bad guy? Then I looked behind him, and I was so shocked that my heart almost jumped out of my throat.

Standing behind him turned out to be Yang Xinyue.

7.

"You sit as you like."

I hurriedly took Li Ling's lace pajamas off the sofa and threw them on the bed in the bedroom.

"What are you nervous about?" Yang Xinyue didn't sit either, and walked around the room a few times as if she was visiting a museum, "Do you know that you look like you are sleeping with me for the first time and are afraid that Jiang Long will know?" ”

"How could I be afraid of him." I say.

Although he said this, his heart was in chaos.

"Worried that my girlfriend will come back and find me at home?" She said.

I shook my head.

"You should have known this would happen, didn't you think about her when you held me in bed?" Yang Xinyue smiled playfully, helped her glasses, and sat on the sofa.

"How did you find here?"

"Because I miss you." Yang Xinyue looked into my eyes. She took off her coat and began to take off the white sweater underneath, and the pink underwear inside the sweater. "Don't be afraid, I'm just hot."

Yang Xinyue put her coat away, adjusted a comfortable posture and leaned on the sofa, looking at Li Ling's photo on the TV cabinet for a long time, as if she wanted to see something from it. I can't figure it out. She sighed, closed her eyes, and touched the bracelet on her wrist.

"If you have anything to say, just say it." I said, "You already knew I had a girlfriend. ”

"Is it true?" Yang Xinyue said, "I don't think it's true, even if I saw her ...... There are also pictures of underwear, and I don't think these are real. ”

Maybe you'll be able to see her in a little while, I thought to myself, but I can't say that.

"Remember the last time you took me to visit the grave? We watched your friends together, and then we went to see Xiaoxiao, and after we broke up, I was thinking, what the hell do you think of me. If it's just an ordinary friend, you won't go to the cemetery to sweep the grave of your best friend, right? It should only be a more intimate relationship so that we can visit the deceased together. Yang Xinyue looked into my eyes again, "So what do you think of me?" ”

When he said this, I seemed overwhelmed.

"I thought, maybe...... Maybe it's my sister? ”

"You slept with your sister?" She said, with an incomprehensible look on her face.

It's not like her, what's wrong with her today?

"I advise you to think about it."

As soon as she finished speaking, the lights in the room flashed, and the computer case made a "buzzing" sound.

My novels! It dawned on me that none of this was true! He created it on purpose!

Thinking of this, I hurriedly ran over to look at the computer.

8.

Suddenly it snowed heavily.

Soon the wind swept snow in through the broken glass windows and into the barn through the holes in the roof.

"What is Cao Chengrui doing? It was fine just now! Can't you just get a good weather? Zhao Shutong complained.

At this moment, I heard the "creaking" of the beam overhead.

Liu Yinghong shouted: "Be careful! ”

The sound did not disperse, and the roof collapsed under the weight of the snow.

All of a sudden, the snow and fog were thick.

Before the snow and fog settled, the light of two car headlights shot out of the fog, followed by the roar of an engine, and a car rushed out of the ruins of the warehouse.

"Are you alright?" Liu Yinghong looked at Zhao Shutong, who was the co-pilot, and asked.

"I'm fine." Zhao Shutong was holding a laptop in his arms, "It seems that he has an accident over there." ”

"Leave him alone, we have to get out of here first."

The wheels slipped in the snow and it was not easy to drive up the mountain.

Text: Episode 28 -End-