Chapter 5: After Returning Home
13:13。
"13" again.
This seems like a bad number. Everyone has their own lucky numbers and their own unlucky numbers. And these "lucky" or "unlucky" numbers will have a kind of universality because of cultural reasons.
- That's what he learned in an English class. It seems to be an English class in junior high school. Taeyang can even remember the expression on the face of the English teacher who was in the class at the time. It made him feel a little incredible. Although the English teacher is also his homeroom teacher and values him very much, it seems too strange to suddenly remember his expression at this time after so many years. It should be on the list of the strangest things.
No!
There are even stranger things.
Taiyang has seen this number more than once - 13. On the mobile phone, N point "13" points, bus "13" road...... No! Why are there so many 13 buses?
Taeyang has been back from home for several days. In the past few days, he has been helpless to the extreme. If you remove those inconsequential times and inconsequential places, Taeyang sees the same number "13" almost all the time and everywhere.
It's not a great number, it's just an ordinary number. However, this number has a homonym that scares him - 13 - lost.
Chinese people pay great attention to the auspiciousness of numbers. Taiyang is no exception. And there seems to be a kind of paranoia - if he can choose the number 3, he tries not to choose 2 or 4, especially not 4 (the number 4 sent a letter of protest, indicating that it is very innocent)......
13 – Separation. Even if he linked 13 to separation, he couldn't figure it out. Be scattered? Separated from whom? His classmates have all gone home. Friends are somewhere else. Is this a sign of this? At this time, he seemed to be really separated from everyone.
Recently, however, a classmate from the same school who had only met a few times in the association was talking to him about the summer vacation. It's a very cute girl. Once, as soon as he got off the stage after playing his original song, he was accosted, and he felt flattered. That cute face is so cute!
A few conversations on QQ made him think she was a girl with a lot of ideas. I don't say I like such a girl, but I definitely don't hate it. And she looks so cute. Although he is a little smaller. That's not a disadvantage - Taeyang thinks.
Ding dong!
A message. It was sent by the girl. But time has the number 13 again.
What the hell did you see? Taeyang couldn't help but mutter. Those who don't know are fearless. But through an English class in junior high school, Taiyang knew. So he can't be fearless.
"Taiyang, are you free at night? Shall we go to the piano shop tonight? ”
Nothing seems to have happened tonight. Taeyang thought about it for a while, and then returned the message.
"Yes!"
Soon another message came back. Taiyang thinks that the three-tone ringtone that comes with the iPhone phone is better, and he opens the QQ setting function of the mobile phone, message notification, sound, and prompt tone type - three-tone. As soon as it was set up, he received another message, and the sound of the three voices began.
The message reads:
"And you're coming to pick me up at seven o'clock?"
"Do you have a dorm?" Taeyang sent a message to ask.
"Yes."
"Where's your dormitory?"
"13 buildings."
13 again? What's going on, I'll just ask you what's going on? (Hey, handsome, who do you ask?) )
"Why 13?" Taiyang sent a message directly to ask.
"Huh?" "Our academy is in the thirteenth building!" Taiyang received two QQ messages in a row.
"Oh! That's right. ”
At this time, Taiyang was very, very much a chicken thief thinking that it was better not to talk face-to-face, otherwise it would be embarrassing.
"Hmm. That's right. Then you come to our dormitory downstairs to pick me up! ”
"Good!"
After exiting the mobile QQ, Taiyang quickly opened the mobile phone map and typed "GX University Building 13" in the search box.
Ooh! Good thing it can be found on the map.
The current map is amazing. You can even find a dormitory building in one school. It's really the biggest in the world, and there are no surprises. Taeyang sighed boredly.
Taiyang has also been out for a few days. It stands to reason that he should have called home to report his safety.
Sorry, the number you made is not in service. Sorry……
Sorry, the number you made is not in service. Sorry……
Sorry, the number you made is not in service. Sorry……
Sorry, the number you made is not in service. Sorry……
Dizzy!
Taiyang made four calls in a row, but none of them went to the service. You're going to shut down, or you're going to be down, or you're not connecting, or you're on a call...... Why don't they all go to the service?
Why?
Even if Taiyang asks questions from the left, asks up and down, asks before and after, and asks all the directions, it seems that he still can't get an answer.
Ever since he came home and back, Taeyang has always felt weird. It was a weird feeling like he had a boundary with the whole world. And the world is always reminding itself – in the form of the number 13. Or maybe it's to warn yourself.
In fact, there has always been a person by Taeyang's side who follows him. It's just that Taeyang can't see it. The person reminded Taeyang in various ways, but except for the number 13 that caught Taeyang's attention, all other ways seemed to sink into the sea, and there were no waves at all in the ocean of Taeyang.
There is one more thing that makes Taeyang strange. That is, Mark's phone can't get through. Since the last time they met, Taeyang has not even seen him in person again, and there is not even a trace of his existence in this world. That contract is also gone. Aside from Mark's number stored in his phone, the contract seemed to be the only evidence of Mark's existence. But it's gone. The phone number in the mobile phone has also become a simple number.
The number you dialed is empty......
Taeyang couldn't help but try again. But it's still the same tone. Nasty beeps.
After returning home to school, Taeyang has been trying to contact Mark. But it keeps prompting empty numbers. What the hell is wrong with the world?
Mark really doesn't seem to exist anymore.
But Taeyang didn't believe it. For this reason, he not only searched the dormitory, but also searched the cabin he rented all afternoon. But the result was the same - the contract seemed to evaporate.
He remembered clearly, he had already put the contract in his bag. But now, except for the fact that the bag has not been split, it has been turned over. Everything is inside and outside the bag, but the contract is missing. He made countless phone calls home, but he couldn't get through. It was at this time that he suddenly discovered the bank card.
He hurried to the nearest ATM.
Six zeros. The money is still there. But I can't take it out.
At this time, Taeyang suddenly thought of what the old man said. The word "cost" comes to mind.