CH.8 I Am Among You (1)
3-B, Head of household: Qiu Xuefang and her husband)
"Smack!" The lights are on!
Zhang Kunyue opened his eyes and habitually cursed a foul language, and found himself in a strange and crowded secret room, although the hour hand of the watch pointed to 12 o'clock, but because the window was tightly blocked by wooden boards, it was like being in the dark before the lights came on. There were seven or eight people around, and it seemed that they were also awakened by the sudden light. Suddenly the room became noisy: "Where is this?" "How did I end up here?" "Who are you?"
At that moment, a voice came from out of nowhere in the room, duffling out everyone's shouts. The voice was obviously specially processed so that the age of the gender was inaudible: "Hello everyone. You are of different ages, different genders, different occupations, and you don't know each other. The reason why I have brought you together is to study the wonder of human nature. Now that you've woken up, take care of yourselves. I am among you, and from now on you try to recognize me, and if you do not find me in an hour, one of you will die, and if there is no answer in the second hour, another will die, and so on, until you are all dead. Now let's make sure you make the most of your time. ”
The hour hand stopped at twelve o'clock in the afternoon, which is a second later, and almost everyone began to look at the others with hostile eyes, and some even screamed, "Don't come near me!" ”
"Everyone! Quiet, quiet! Zhang Kunyue stood up and shouted, "This is pure fucking prank!" What he says is not credible, and who knows if he is really among us? ”
A tall man with a lot of courage asked coldly, "How can we believe you?" Who knows if you're 'that person'? ”
Zhang Kunyue frowned and retorted: "You really don't know how to do it......
At this time, a middle-aged woman wearing pink-rimmed glasses stood up and said, "Whether 'he' is hidden among us or not, it's always right to calm down." Well, I suggest that everyone introduce themselves, get to know each other, and then we can find a way to leave......"
This proposal was approved by all. The middle-aged woman continued: "In that case, I'll come first. I am a reporter for Yanzhou Daily and a professional writer, my real name is Qiu Xuefang, and my pen name is Qiu Yan. If you don't believe me, you can search the Internet after you go out smoothly. ”
Before Qiu Yan could finish speaking, another young woman hurriedly said, "You are Qiu Yan?" I've read your book and it's so well written! I can testify for you. She was overjoyed, not like she was pretending, and then she added: "My name is Nie Xiulan, I am 26 years old this year, and I teach mathematics in the first and fifth classes of Yanzhou No. 1 High School. ”
The youngest teenager among the nine suddenly interjected and asked: "My name is Cen Kai, I am from the third middle school, I am very familiar with the students of your fifth class, and I have played basketball together, can you name a few boys in the fifth class?" ”
Nie Xiulan thought for a while and said, "I am more impressed by Jiao Lei, Huang Peng, ......"
Cen Kai nodded: "It seems that you are not lying. ”
Qiu Yan seemed to suddenly realize something: "Wait a minute! We seem to have nothing to do with each other, but it still seems to be a little subtly related! ”
Zhang Kunyue wiped his cold sweat: "Maybe it's just a coincidence." We didn't know each other, and even if we had passed by on the street, we wouldn't necessarily remember it. ”
The tall man saw that the eyes around him were converging towards him, so he said, "My name is Gu Yuanfang, and I am a taxi driver." ”
Zhang Kunyue just wanted to introduce himself, but was preempted by a man with a fat head and big ears: "My name is Su Le, I do real estate, do you know Beidou Villa?" That's mine. He looked up proudly.
Cen Kai was stunned, and then said angrily: "It's you? Our family lives in Beidou Villa. You are really lacking in morality, the house often has power outages, water leaks, the elevator is always broken, the wall skin is not strong, and it is still so expensive, we have reported the situation many times, and your company doesn't even pay attention to it, it's really black-hearted! ”
Another thin man dressed as a migrant worker also stood up suddenly, he had been silent, but then he angrily shouted in a strong local accent: "It turns out that you are the boss!" He didn't pay us back the money he owed for the project, and he hid and didn't let us see it. I didn't expect you to be caught here today, it's really God's eyes, evil has evil retribution! ”
Su Le's originally energetic face immediately turned yin, and he knew that he was at a loss, so he bowed his head and said nothing.
The migrant worker then said: "My name is Dai Fuqiang, and I am a villager from Daewoo Village, Wanping County. I came to Yanzhou to build a house for this turtle son for three years, and I didn't get a penny! ”
There are three people left. A middle-aged man with a fair face and a dignified appearance lifted his glasses and said, "Contemptible Lu Ming, the doctor of Wanghai Hospital." ”
"What do you have to prove your identity?"
Lu Ming was stunned: "You can pick and choose medical problems, I'm afraid that you may not be able to understand what I say." ”
Seeing that he was confident and confident, everyone didn't ask any more. They all set their eyes on the last person. The man was not fat, but his belly was extraordinarily big, almost surpassing Su Le, and he said in a hurry: "My name is Sui Kaiguo, yes...... It's a chengguan. ”
Zhang Kunyue pointed to his stomach and said without hesitation: "Needless to say, he is a corrupt official again." ”
Sui Kaiguo glared at him angrily and asked contemptuously, "What about you?" What do you do? Look at your outfit, you are a ruffian and rascal with no quality, an unemployed gangster! Maybe he's still a re-education through labor element! ”
Zhang Kunyue disagreed, shook his head and said, "My name is Zhang Kunyue, and I am a good person." ”
Cen Kai was taken aback and said, "I know your name. There are a few bad students in our school who always borrow your name to collect protection money, and if you don't give it, they will beat them, and they say that you are their backer, squatting on the number, killing people without blinking an eye, or something......"
Everyone originally looked down on him, but Cen Kai's last sentence "killing people without blinking" made everyone's hearts cool down to below zero again, and they all looked at him suspiciously.
Zhang Kunyue looked embarrassed: "What do you think I'm doing?" I was blowing it, just trying to get some money to spend. I've never been in jail, and I've never killed anyone! How dare I kill someone? If I'm so capable, I still need to go to school and blackmail students? ”
Qiu Yan ignored Zhang Kunyue, she seemed to have become the leader of the nine: "Okay, let's introduce ourselves." Now we have to supervise each other, and we have to cooperate with each other to get out together. ”
Zhang Kunyue is a single-celled animal, his body moves before his mind, and he felt that the room was too dark, so without thinking, he took out the switchblade he carried with him and pried open the wooden plank, and then kicked the window pane behind the wooden board to smash. Qiu Yan wanted to stop him, but it was too late. After the curtains are opened, there are high-rise buildings outside the window, and the most prosperous downtown is below. Everyone was stunned, they thought they were imprisoned in a secret room in the wilderness, but outside it was a city they were all too familiar with, the driver Gu Yuanfang recognized the scene outside the window at a glance, and shouted: "This is Yulin Street!" ”
Everyone gathered in front of the window to look out, and sure enough, the place where they were located was the famous Wanghai Hospital on Yulin Street, and this room was a storage room for old things. Lu Ming saw that everyone was looking at him, so he explained embarrassedly: "I have only been assigned here for a year from other places, and I am not very familiar with the new working environment. Besides, our hospital has seven or eight floors, and I'm on the second floor, so it's impossible to be in every room, and I haven't been here before, so it's not surprising that I can't recognize it. ”
How did they get here? Under the leadership of Qiu Yan, everyone cautiously walked out of the door, for safety, they did not take the elevator, but walked seven or eight flights of stairs before reaching the door.
The door was facing the street, and they saw the bustling scene of thousands of heads crowded and shoulder to shoulder, although it was only a day, they felt as if they were in a different world, and they missed it very much. The environment in front of them, which was no longer familiar, made them feel that the strange sound they had just heard in the room was either a delusion or a farce, that they were not isolated from the world, that they were still free!