Text: Episode 34

1.

"Are you there?"

A preview of the message is displayed on the phone screen.

"Yes."

I replied with one word.

"I'm leaving."

"Hmm."

"Thank you."

I was holding my phone and didn't know what to reply.

Li Ling, that familiar and unfamiliar name.

My heart felt like it was being grasped, clenched, and kneaded by an invisible hand...... A sense of déjà vu......

None of this was true, and I adjusted my breathing as I admonished myself—

Including myself, I'm not real.

"Come on! I'm sure you can become a best-selling novelist, and you must stick with it and write a full-length novel......"

I was staring at my phone screen and my nose was sour.

"That girl's name is Crescent, right? Very nice people. ”

A few seconds later, she sent another message.

"You have to be nice to her, even better than to me."

A few more seconds later.

"You have to be good too, we are all good, getting better and better......"

2.

On the streets in the afternoon, passers-by are in a hurry.

I don't know when the sky began to be gloomy.

The headlights shine through the lilac bushes on the green belt.

The air is humid and floral.

After a while, heavy rain poured down.

Zhao Shutong looked at the sudden heavy rain outside the window and was distracted alone, and Liu Yinghong, who was sitting opposite her, coughed lightly, "How many times do you want me to say it, none of this is true, you can write it quickly." ”

"You've said that many times, is that your new mantra?" Zhao Shutong retracted his gaze, "I also know that this is not true. ”

Liu Yinghong smiled awkwardly, raised his hand and pulled his neck and said, "I'm worried that you will be affected."

"Don't worry, I'll finish the story." Zhao Shutong thought for a moment and then said, "I will also let him disappear completely."

3.

Cao Chengrui tapped on the keyboard with blurry tears in his eyes, his cursor flashing, "I will finish the story well." ”

"I'll make him disappear completely, too."

4.

"Hey! Call you! Tao Qiwu was startled by the sudden voice, and following the prestige, there was a young woman standing at the door of the ward.

It was the woman who was clinically practiced yesterday, the young woman who was still thinking about her soul dream.

The woman raised her right hand and hooked her fingers, Tao Qiwu instantly understood what she meant, and the woman was beckoning him over.

Tao Qiwu nodded, stood up, and walked towards the door of the ward.

"Where are you going?"

The father, who was lying on the hospital bed, asked in a hoarse voice.

"Huh?" Tao Qiwu turned around and replied stumblingly, "Go to the toilet."

Tao Qiwu didn't know why he didn't say it directly, but his head seemed to be short-circuited, and the words "go to the toilet" came out directly.

Dad said "oh" and closed his eyes again.

Tao Qiwu calmed down, turned around and walked towards the door of the ward again.

At the moment of turning around, he raised his eyes and looked over, and suddenly felt strange-

The woman who was standing in the doorway just now was gone.

Did the woman retreat into the hallway because she heard her father's voice?

5.

Time seems to have frozen.

The hallway outside the ward was lit with dead lights.

Slowly, out of nowhere, a writhing and swaying smoke rose from nowhere, and for a moment the corridor was shrouded in fog.

Tao Qiwu squinted his eyes, trying to see the front clearly, his brain seemed to be confused as if he had drunk too much wine, and his eyes sank.

He raised his hand, rubbed his eyes, and then looked down the hallway to see what smoke was there.

Tao Qiwu let out a long breath, thinking that he hadn't slept well during this time.

"Come here."

As he pondered, the voice of a young woman's call entered his ears.

Tao Qiwu followed the prestige, and the woman was waving to him at the door at the end of the corridor.

After a moment's hesitation, he walked over to the woman.

6.

The young woman lay on the bed, staring at Tao Qiwu who was probing his brain at the door.

"Come in." The woman whispered, sit down.

The woman's eyes always looked at Tao Qiwu, watched him raise his legs and walked, watched him dare not come out, and watched him sit on the edge of his bed trembling and full of anticipation.

Tao Qiwu swallowed, "Did you move to this ward today?" ”

The woman smiled and looked at Tao Qiwu without speaking. Under this gaze, Tao Qiwu was like a puppy that had made a mistake, and he would glance at it from time to time while his eyes were dodging.

The room was surprisingly quiet.

It was as if there were only two of them in the world.

Tao Qiwu could clearly hear his heartbeat.

The young woman suddenly reached out and lifted the quilt on her chest.

Tao Qiwu was shocked by this sudden movement, and couldn't control his eyes from looking at the body in the quilt.

"Look at your stupidity, it's not like I'm not wearing clothes."

Tao Qiwu blushed, "I know, I know." ”

"Still red?"

Tao Qiwu took a deep breath, as if he was about to shake off his body, "You asked me to come over for something?" ”

"This, please give this to my mother." The young woman said as she removed a jade bracelet from her wrist.

"Huh?" Tao Qiwu didn't know whether to reach out and take it, "Then, why don't you give it to her yourself?" ”

"I was sleeping when she came, and she wasn't with me when I woke up."

Tao Qiwu opened his mouth, and then closed it again, obviously such an answer could not convince him.

"Can you help me?"

The young woman stopped looking at Tao Qiwu and stared back at the ceiling.

"Good...... Okay......" Tao Qiwu took the bracelet, touched it lightly with his fingertips, and felt the coldness through his bones, "What is your mother's surname?" I'll give it to her tomorrow when I see her, don't worry. ”

"The surname is Zhao."

Tao Qiwu nodded.

7.

The sunlight shines through the glass, kissing Tao Qiwu's face.

He slowly opened his eyes, his neck stiffened from his twisted sleeping position.

It was another difficult night, but fortunately he survived again.

Tao Qiwu stood up and subconsciously put his hand into his trouser pocket, and the cold hard object made him feel excited.

It's the jade bracelet.

He frowned, trying to remember the events of last night.

But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't remember how he got back to his father.

If it weren't for the bracelet in his trouser pocket, he even felt like he had a dream about the young woman.

"The surname is Zhao." Tao Qiwu frowned and muttered.

In the next time, Tao Qiwu fetched water and washed his father, ate breakfast, waited for medicine, and went to the young woman's hospital room last night after all this work.

With his memory, Tao Qiwu searched the corridor a few times, but he could not find the young woman, he looked carefully at each ward, and there was still no trace.

While he was wondering, a miserable cry came from the end of the hallway, and then a group came out of the stairwell, and in the front were the director and nurses of the hospital, who were holding a woman who looked to be fifty or sixty years old.

"Sister Zhao, people can't be resurrected after death, you ...... like this"

The woman who was being supported did not speak, her mouth was open as if she wanted to shout, but she could not shout.

Tao Qiwu looked at everything in front of him in a daze.

8.

I stopped and moved my fingers.

I suddenly want to lie in bed and continue writing on my phone.

My chest was still tight, and it was hard to concentrate.

I have discussed this with Tao Qiwu before, and I don't know how many times I feel like I have walked into a dead end, and I can't write anything anyway.

"I've had that time, I know!" Tao Qiwu grinned, "You can relax and relax, find something written by others and take a look, whether it is his masterpiece or Internet ninth-rate literature, look at it and you will be inspired." ”

I nodded, and it was.

Stories are mostly told by others.

But in this way, how powerful is the first storyteller, who can make up such a good story,

"Lao Cao, what you said is not right, it may not be made up, but he has experienced it himself!" Tao Qiwu's eyes were blazing.

I smiled and breathed a long sigh of relief.

It was late at night, and only the light of the computer screen was bright.

21:01。

Time never abandons those who follow it.

I raised my hand and pulled my neck, then straightened up and stretched, instantly feeling much more comfortable.

The blood flowed rapidly in an instant, as if a hole had been opened in the head, and a large sip of cold beer was poured into it.

Old Tao, I want to drink.

9.

Cao Chengrui licked his lips and returned his mind to Untitled again. He has to control the development of the plot, and if he doesn't write it, he will write it.

There was nothing to lose, Cao Chengrui thought to himself, he didn't have it at all.

He didn't have anything before, everything in front of him.

Everything is illusory.

10.

Zhao Shutong looked at Liu Yinghong, and since she saw Tao Qiwu, she found that Liu Yinghong had become very strange, as if he had changed someone.

"Brother Liu, you wait for me here, look at my computer, I'll go to the bathroom."

"Hmm." Liu Yinghong responded.

Zhao Shutong got up to leave, turned the small corridor of the store, and stood still around the corner.

Thinking that this scene was designed by Cao Chengrui, Zhao Shutong couldn't help but look up at the ceiling, her gaze seemed to pass through the floor to the roof, then through the clouds, and finally a dark place, the cursor flashed in the void, and the words and punctuation marks were pieced together to form a large section of text.

An invisible sense of oppression came from all directions.

Zhao Shutong gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, trying to make this strange thought disappear from his mind.

A few seconds later, she leaned sideways to look at Liu Yinghong, who was sitting in her place, her hands tapping on the keyboard of her laptop.

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