Text: Episode 2

1.

Cao Chengrui sat quietly in front of the computer. The electric fan swings its head and blows hot air.

The computer monitor showed his "inspiration" for last night's drinking: the young girl was lying on the ground, Bai Huahua's body twitching, red blood spreading from under her, neon flashing around her. He just sat quietly in front of the computer, letting time slip through his hair.

12:14。

He picked up his mobile phone, and the almighty netizen had already discovered the truth of the matter.

Of course, the matter itself is not complicated.

The police called up surveillance and quickly caught several foreigners involved.

There was a lot of scolding on the Internet, and some netizens restored what happened to the girl on the light rail.

"Were there no men around at the time?" Someone commented.

"If I'm here, I'll kill these deflated calves!" Someone else commented.

"This is a case where we don't want to see tragedy, and we still have to learn to protect ourselves at a critical moment." There are also people who comment.

"What's your keyboard?" Of course, there are also people who ridicule.

"Passers-by don't go online, and those who go online don't go out." Someone snorted haha.

"Most of the people who come to China to become foreign teachers can't get along in their home country!" There are all kinds of rhetoric, "flying all over the sky".

Cao Chengrui's heart was extremely entangled, as if he had pushed the girl down from the third floor with his own hands.

He took off his glasses, closed them and rubbed them with his left hand, his neck as if he was being pinched.

"It has nothing to do with me, I didn't kill her." Cao Chengrui thought, took a deep breath, stood up and walked to the refrigerator, took out a bottle of beer from it and took a big sip. After steasing his mind, he sat back down in front of the computer.

Cao Chengrui opened Tao Qiwu's file and found a novel he had recently compiled and written, which began with an incident that took place in a mental hospital.

"It's really your consistent style, you can write wherever you are." Cao Chengrui licked his lips and continued to read the novel called "Untitled" with his glasses.

In the novel, Tao Qiwu is the main character, and he experiences many strange events in the mental hospital where he works. Some are scientifically able to explain, and some are unexplainable.

The middle of the article is also interspersed with stories written by Tao Qiwu before, in Cao Chengrui's opinion, some places are very blunt, but some places are smooth.

Cao Chengrui revised while watching.

There are also many plots in "Untitled" that describe Cao Chengrui, and the characters are very well portrayed, righteous, and upright.

Seeing this, Cao Chengrui thought of the girl who jumped off the building.

If he was really like Tao Qiwuwen in the article, he should have jumped up and "roared when the road was uneven, and he shot when he should have made a move".

But he didn't pull his sword to help.

He had to take another sip of beer to calm down, and then read what Tao Qiwu had written.

2.

Tao Qiwu's hometown is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Songbai City, and the history of the city is more than 1,000 years earlier than that of Songbai City.

Take a bus from Songbai Bus Station, and you can reach it in about 40 minutes at high speed.

The town is not very big, but it is well built, with neat streets and many buildings.

There is no attractive scenery to see on both sides of the highway, and the whole horse is flat and the river is the same.

He leaned his head against the window, deep sleep.

"Everyone, fasten your seatbelts!" The female attendant who accompanied the car shouted in front of the car.

Tao Qiwu was in good spirits.

The on-board TV at the front of the carriage slowly flips over from the folded collection. The display screen changes from black to blue, and after a pause of a few seconds, the safety instructions for riding on the bus begins.

"Cherish life, please fasten your seatbelts!"

The screen began to repeatedly broadcast the case video of the high-speed bus accident: the vehicle rolled, and the person who was not wearing a seat belt was thrown out of the seat in an instant and flew out of the car; Although the person wearing the seat belt also rolled violently with inertia, he was still able to hang on the seat in the end.

Life and death are instantaneous.

Among the people in the whole car, only Tao Qiwu looked the most serious.

He fumbled with his left hand for the edge of the seat and fastened his seat belt.

The middle-aged man sitting next to Tao Qiwu grinned and said, "How the king of Hades lets us die, we will die, and we can't hide!"

As soon as the middle-aged man's voice fell, the whole bus jolted violently, and there was a loud "bang" at the bottom of the car.

The driver also noticed the problem, slowed down slowly with double flashes and stopped in the emergency lane.

The middle-aged man beside Tao Qiwu turned pale and panted. It took a while for the passengers on the bus to come back to their senses, and everyone asked the driver and the crew what had happened.

The driver put the warning sign behind the car and returned to the car and said to the passengers: "Don't worry, everyone, I have called other buses to come to pick you up, and you can come over in half an hour."

There was a commotion in the car.

Tao Qiwu touched the stubble on his chin.

The heat inside the bus without air conditioning was unbearable, and many people wanted to get off, but the driver and crew prevented passengers from getting off. The scolding of adults and the crying of children are mixed together.

"Why don't you let us get out of the car?" The middle-aged man next to Tao Qiwu got up from his seat, held the back of the seat in front of him with one hand, and pointed at the driver with the other.

"What's the noise? Just like you have a loud voice? The driver also shouted, "It's for your safety that I won't let you get out of the car!"

"Safe fart! Wouldn't it be safer to go to the fence? It's like a steamer in the car! It's stuffy and suffocating! The middle-aged man said.

"If you have something to say, say it! Clean your mouth! The driver said as he took out his cigarette and lit it.

The carload of people was noisy, and only Tao Qiwu was silent.

Forty minutes later, Tao Qiwu got into another bus.

"The bus broke down on the highway, and it was the first time I encountered it." Tao Qiwu said to Cao Chengrui in the other section of the mobile phone.

"The fault is on the highway? You're all right, right? Cao Chengrui asked.

"It's okay, I'm off now." Tao Qiwu said.

"It's good that people are okay." Cao Chengrui sighed.

Tao Qiwu hung up the phone, tightened his backpack and walked in the direction of home.

He was walking when he heard someone shouting behind him, "Get out of the way!"

Tao Qiwu subconsciously turned around, and a gust of wind came towards him, only to feel a flower in front of him, and he lost consciousness.

"Wake up."

"Huh?"

"Hey! Wake up! ”

Tao Qiwu felt a heart-pounding pain and slowly opened his eyes.

"Are you alright?"

Tao Qiwu blinked vigorously to dispel the feeling of dizziness.

"Why don't you look at it?"

"Huh?" Tao Qiwu came back to his senses and found himself lying on the ground, next to the thick half of the branch at the mouth of the bowl, and he could clearly see the traces of insect bites on the leaves.

"Shouted at you several times! Don't you see the pruning of the east part of the road? Hurry up and shout that you're still going here! Thanks to not being hit by a big tree fork! It's too hanging! This is going to be smashed, you can talk about it! You have to watch the road in the aisle! How hanging! Scare me out of the sweat! Can you see if you can sit up? Slow down, don't be violent. Come and see me! The branch swept its head, and it was nothing! It's not broken! It's a big bag! What a hanging! I told you that if you want to sue, you have to go to the bureau to sue, we are all temporary workers! Hey, it's not easy! Can you get up and walk? If you can go, let's go to the front clinic and let the doctor take a look! ”

14:34, a clinic on Huaxing Road.

The "temporary worker" big brother next to Tao Qiwu was still babbling.

"I'm fine, I definitely can't look for you if there's something wrong, don't worry, brother." Tao Qiwu said a relenting word, and the temporary worker brother grinned.

Walking out of the clinic, Tao Qiwu held the phone number left on the medicine box by the temporary worker brother in his hand.

3.

I stood panting in the dark hallway.

Just now, at 14:56, downstairs in the community.

With a bang on my head, and in the normal reaction of my conditioned reflexes, I looked up to see an unknown object flying down from an unknown position above, falling from above me. I hurried a few steps forward, and the unknown object shattered where I had been standing.

An empty bottle of a snowflake dry beer.

I walked out of the clinic and just walked into the community, thinking about what I had recently experienced in my heart as I walked, and comforted myself with "No Ji Tailai". At this time, I came across an empty wine bottle falling from the sky. I stared at the empty bottle in a daze, until the swelling pain from the branch on my head made me realize what had happened.

Then I threw my head up and shouted, "Who's upstairs?" If you want to die, you don't have to pull a cushion, right? How good is it for you to jump off yourself? ”

"You want to die!" Two small heads poked out from the top of the building, looking eight or nine years old from afar.

I was furious and yelled, "Who's a little bunny! ”

Before I could say anything else, a passer-by behind me said, "What are you angry with the child?" It's a big guy! If you have the ability, you can beat the children's family and the adults will go! ”

The next moment, my blood gushed upwards and I turned my head to look at the passerby who was opening.

He looks to be in his twenties, with a shiny bald head, wearing a black T-shirt and black leggings. The middle of the T-shirt features a wolf's head with its mouth open. There are two other people beside him, a man and a woman, the man is also dressed in black, and the woman is wearing denim hip-length pants and a white suspender suit.

"What do you see? That's you! The bald head lifted his chin.

I gritted my teeth and nodded, not wanting to say more, and turned to leave.

"Look at him like this!" There was laughter behind me.

Walking faster and faster, I stood panting in the dark hallway. My heart was beating fast, and the anger in my heart had reached its extreme. It would be better for these two children to keep throwing bottles, preferably a few more.

What happens if I happen to be hit just now? The green bottle shattered, and the glass scattered, leaving a small white mark where it had first fallen.

How did two children climb to the top of a building? I was panting in the hallway, and I had to go up there to find them. Even if I get angry again, I don't want someone to be smashed and ruin a few families.

I stopped at the door of the seventh floor leading to the rooftop, and a gust of wind blew into the hallway from behind the door, with the smell of wine, and when I looked closely, the door opened with a crack the size of a fist.

I gently pushed the door open, and the summer heat blew on my face, and I couldn't open my eyes. I walked out of the hallway, bypassing the solar panels of several water heaters, looking for the two children.

The roof is rectangular, and there are six units in a building, each unit has two families per floor, a total of seven floors, and only four units can go up to the roof. I turned a large tank and stopped. I saw five green plastic beer crates piled up near the edge of the building.

There was no one around, and I looked around in surprise, wondering where the two children were hiding.

I had to shout, "Don't hide! The roof is not safe! You two get out of here! ”

The only thing that answered me was the "whirring" of the wind on the rooftop, as if to say "get out of here".

"Anyone?"

The sound of the wind is still there, and the sound of cars coming and going on the streets outside the community can be heard.

"Is there anyone?"

Downstairs came the laughter of old people playing with their children.

"Fuck it...... It's weird. ”

I looked around the roof again and walked towards the hallway door.

The smell of alcohol came back and had been around me since the beginning. I drink a lot, but it doesn't taste like any ordinary beer, and the roof is so windy that it shouldn't smell like it lasts long.

I raised my nose and smelled it, and it tasted good.

The doors of the residents on the seventh floor are locked, and if the two children live on the seventh floor, they can definitely run straight home. I should knock on the door and if the parents of the children are also there I happen to discuss with them about the child's education.

I knocked rudely on the door and made a noise. Instead of knocking politely and then knocking twice after a pause, it was a continuous slam on the iron security door. The couplets on the door were trembling.

I knocked on the door and didn't open it, but opened it with a "creak".

Through the crack in the door, a girl leaned out and looked at me timidly. Her fair skin is very noticeable, but her face looks a little pale. I couldn't help but say, "I'm sorry." ”

"I'm looking for two little boys in their teens." I asked, gesturing to the top of my head, briefly recounting what had just happened, and asking, "Have you seen them?" ”。

After the girl made sure it was safe, she opened the door wider, and faintly saw an upright piano against the wall in the living room, with many oil paintings hanging on the wall, and a vase on the table. I'm sure those two mischievous bastards couldn't be her children.

The girl was silent and shook her head.

The furnishings in her home look vintage.

"Well, I'm sorry to bother." I smiled apologetically and nodded, thinking to myself that I was going to knock on the floor to find these two little boys.

I noticed that the girl was staring at me, her expression unnatural, as if she was terrified.

I tightened the strap of my backpack and tried to make a harmless smile: "You can play the piano?" ”

She looked back at the piano in the living room, her expression softened, and she nodded at me.

I gave a look of adoration when I stretched out my thumb, and the girl smiled embarrassedly, and her face turned red when she lowered her head.

I was about to say goodbye, but the smell of wine reappeared.

The beautiful girl lowered her head and smelled the good smell of wine, and my heart was still depressed.

4.

I walked up to the first floor.

A few old people sitting in the shade at the door of the corridor were chatting.

An old lady with gray hair fanned her fan and said, "It's a pity that the girl of the old Zhao family on the seventh floor." ”

"What do you say? Didn't you go to university in Songbai? A few old people on the side were interested.

"I heard that yesterday I jumped off a building in Songbai and died! His house passed early in the morning! The old lady who was fanning the fan continued with a look of pity: "It's pitiful, that girl is good-looking and can play the piano, why is her life so thin!" ”

I stopped dumbfounded, not because of how catchy the topic was, but because it was my normal reaction to extreme shock.

I turned around and did not run away, but ran to the seventh floor, and when I got to the door of the girl's house just now, I slammed the door hard.

No response.

Text: Episode 2 -End-