Chapter 35: Month
With endless confusion, Li Weiyin walked down the safe corridor in despair.
He knew very well, rationally, that now was not the time to despair, if he was caught by Kang Long's people, his fate would probably be even worse than the fifty dragon whips Lan Silin received.
But so many days of torment, the cesspool, the boring room, and the dead maggots in the hot water sink that have not been shaken off on the arms. It all brought his spirit to the brink of collapse.
Walking out of the dining hall with a blank mind, a sentence suddenly came to Li Weiyin's ear:
"You're here."
Familiar sounds. Endless horror crept into my heart. He looked up suddenly.
The person he saw was Instructor Liang with a sinister smile on his face.
At first, Instructor Wang's behavior of looking at the direction of the trash can, coupled with the cleaning workers who disappeared in a blink of an eye, made Instructor Liang suspicious.
So, after looking around, and making sure that the cleaner with the garbage bag should not be far, he tiptoed around the dining hall to the rear, and found the garbage bag in front of the safe hallway.
He was overjoyed, knowing that something was wrong, and Li Weiyin was probably still nearby.
After a little deliberation, he did not break into the dining hall directly, but set up an ambush nearby, quietly watching the wind and grass around him.
The sky lived up to his wishes, and less than ten minutes later, Li Weiyin walked out of the safe corridor of the canteen wearing a cleaner's uniform.
At the moment when the two looked at each other, Li Weiyin suddenly shouted, overcoming the fear all over his body, not advancing but retreating, and the whole person ran wildly and pounced on Instructor Liang.
Liang Xuewen didn't expect Li Weiyin to have this, hurriedly raised his arms to parry, the whole person's center of gravity was unstable, and he was knocked to the ground by Li Weiyin's help after running.
As soon as Li Weiyin landed, he snatched the walkie-talkie from Liang Xuewen's waist with lightning speed, and smashed it against the wall with his backhand.
His original purpose was this walkie-talkie. Against an adult man whose physical fitness is far greater than his own, the odds of victory are slim, but if he uses the walkie-talkie to call more accomplices, then Li Weiyin is completely finished.
Liang Xuewen scolded a foul language, and slapped Li Weiyin's face hard, Li Weiyin was in pain, and the whole person was poured to the ground, Instructor Liang turned over and stepped over, rode directly onto Li Weiyin's body, and wrapped Li Weiyin's neck with both hands, with a hideous face.
Li Weiyin couldn't breathe, his whole face was bruised, and his limbs were constantly struggling, but his strength was never as strong as Liang Xuewen, and he couldn't break free of the hands stuck in his neck.
At the last moment, Li Weiyin punched violently, knocking down Liang Xuewen's farsighted eyes, the frame on the tip of his nose scraped the bridge of his nose, Liang Xuewen subconsciously opened his mouth and screamed in pain, and then Li Weiyin's right hand poked out like electricity, put his five fingers together, and stabbed straight into Liang Xuewen's throat.
An incomparably foul smell exploded in his mouth, and Liang Xuewen didn't dare to bite it, leaned back, and freed his hands to grab Li Weiyin's right hand.
The pressure on Li Weiyin's body was light, and he mustered up all the strength to prop himself up, broke free from Liang Xuewen's restraints, coughed constantly, breathed in a big breath of air, and recovered from the suffocating state.
Liang Xuewen's state was not much better, he knelt up, spit out the sewage in his mouth, he squinted his eyes, and saw the phlegm he had just spit on the ground through the moonlight, and there seemed to be one or two small dead maggots in it.
He turned his head away from his anger.
"Li Weiyin, Lao Tzu killed your whole family!"
Li Weiyin struggled to get up and ran away. Liang Xuewen ran wildly, made a flying pounce, and directly pressed Li Weiyin under him.
Li Weiyin was lying on the ground, and Liang Xuewen, who was more than 150 pounds on his body, was pressed and couldn't move.
Liang Xuewen pressed his knee against the shoulder blade of his back, grabbed his left arm, put one hand on the joint, and let out a loud shout, pulling Li Weiyin's arm to an anti-human angle, Li Weiyin couldn't help screaming, struggling desperately, but he couldn't break free.
His left hand was wrenched like this, and it was scrapped in a short time, and there was even a possibility of dislocation.
Liang Xuewen put down his soft left arm, his anger did not subside, and he reached out again to pinch Li Weiyin's neck, as if he was going to strangle him to death here.
Li Weiyin's eyeballs gradually bulged, his lungs seemed to be burning, and his brain completely lost the ability to think. The only remaining right hand unconsciously scratched around, touching the large bag of garbage that he had placed in front of the door of the safe hallway.
He was about to suffocate.
His fingernails scratched desperately, cutting through the thin plastic bag, and a lot of garbage gushed out of the garbage bag, cans, plastic boxes, waste paper, cigarette butts.
At the moment before he completely lost his breath, his hand felt a small severed ring ruler in the garbage heap.
He picked up the ring ruler, bent his elbow, and stabbed it to the back of his head, and the sharp end pierced Liang Xuewen's right eye.
Liang Xuewen let out an earth-shattering scream, and kept rolling on the ground.
Li Weiyin escaped death, staggered to his feet, coughed and breathed hard, reactivating the oxygen-deprived brain.
He looked at the ground, Liang Xuewen was still rolling on the ground, covering his eyes and screaming like a pig.
He ignored it, turned his head, reached out and grabbed the garbage bag on the ground, dragging the bag little by little to the flower bed next to it, and the garbage was scattered all the way.
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There was still chaos throughout the academy, and it could be heard clearly even in the laundry room.
The radio searching for Li Weiyin is repeated every 1 minute, and Tan Ran has listened to it more than a dozen times and has little impression of the name.
She sat on the bench and stared blankly at the constantly rotating drum washing machine in front of her, which contained her and Gu Lingling's clothes.
It takes a lot of time to wash clothes, and she can't look at her phone in the academy, and there is no other pastime, so she has to wait stupidly.
She was bored. She had counted the tiles on the floor many times, and she was afraid that she would fall asleep after counting the number of turns of the washing machine.
The laundry room was empty, only Tan Ran herself. She looked around, then at the doorway, crossed her legs on the bench, propped her chin on her elbows, and lazily looked at the moon outside the small window overhead.
"Outside the pavilion
The side of the ancient road
The grass is green
……”
After singing two sentences, the impersonal radio search came to my ears.
Tan Ran sighed a little depressedly, she had lived in Kanglong for too long, and she couldn't remember any other songs to sing except for "Farewell".
- If it was before, before he was caught in Kanglong, every semester vacation, classmates and friends would go to karaoke to get together, she remembered that there was a classmate who always liked to sing out of tune, but he was also a wheat bully, everyone often laughed at him, saying that he would crowdfund to invite him to wash his mouth.
- She can't even remember the names of her classmates anymore.
Tan Ran sighed faintly again.
"If you sit like this, you'll become a loop."
A light voice suddenly sounded in her ears, Tan Ran was startled, jumped up from the chair, turned her head, and Guan Ying, who was holding a basin of dirty clothes, couldn't help laughing.
Tan Ran felt ashamed and happy.
"It's you, scared me to death, I thought the teacher was here."
Guan Ying said:
"yes, that's a coincidence, right?"
She walked over to the row of washing machines, put her change of clothes in the drum, pressed a few buttons, and the drum began to turn. She sat down next to Tan Ran again.
"Won't that little girl come to accompany you?"
"She's resting in the dorm."
"Oh......" Guan Ying thought for a while, and then asked:
"If I'm not mistaken, it seems that the little girl can't hear anyone else, right?"
"Yes, she's deaf."
"It's so pitiful......"
"Yes......" Tan Ran replied in a low voice.
Guan Ying turned her head, glanced at Tan Ran, and asked again:
"You're good friends, aren't you? What's her name? ”
"Gu Lingling, Gu who takes care of you, Wang Lingling."
"Gu Lingling......" Guan Ying read softly a few times, and said with a smile:
"I'll remember. Do you know sign language? The next time you see her, you can help me translate, I want to say hello to her. ”
"Okay!" Tan Ran blinked her eyes and said with a smile, "Gu Lingling should also like you very much." ”
"She's a lovely kid." Guan Ying looked at Tan Ran with a smile: "You too." ”
A hint of crimson flashed across Tan Ran's face: "Nonsense! You'll be about the same age as me next year, so we're still kids. ”
"That's different, I'll always be a cute little baby."
"Stinky and shameless."
The two looked at each other and giggled. The mentality is much more relaxed.
The topics of small talk have also begun to change, from all over the world, to the tune of mind, to the funny and funny, and the ones who don't dare to say it on weekdays, and a lot of laughter wandering in this small space of only two people.
There was another radio sound outside the window, and Guan Ying stretched.
"I've been looking for more than half an hour, and I haven't found it yet?"
"I guess so."
Guan Ying pursed her lips:
"Hey, speaking of which, do you know that one named Li Weiyin?"
"I don't know. It seems like...... Is it a zero-breaking shift? ”
"Those guys who broke the zero class are really powerful," Guan Ying lowered her voice:
"If I hadn't been lucky, I would have almost been imprisoned in the zero shift."
"Huh?" Tan Ran's eyes widened and she looked at Guan Ying in surprise.
Guan Ying looked at the door again, confirmed that no one would come in, sat close to Tan Ran, opened her sleeves, and showed her a shallow wound on her wrist.
"When I first came to the academy, I couldn't think about it. I think life here is too hard, I have to be beaten twice in three days, and even my mother has never beaten me...... Then, I wanted to kill myself by cutting my wrists with a pen, but then it was too painful to do it. ”
Guan Ying patted her chest with palpitations:
"If I faint from excessive blood loss, the people in the school will know about it, and I will definitely be whipped and imprisoned in the zero class."
"Suicidal thoughts...... I've had ...... more or less" Tan Ran hesitated for a moment and said in a low voice:
"It's not because of the instructor's teacher's problem...... It's because I can't make friends at school...... Everyone is afraid of being beaten and reported, so they don't dare to communicate much with other people......"
Guan Ying sighed: "Yes." ”
The old washing machine suddenly shook violently and stopped, and Tan Ran's clothes had already been washed.
She stepped forward, put her clothes into the basin, and sat down next to Guan Ying again.
Guan Ying asked with a smile:
"What? Are you still going to stay with me? ”
"It's okay, it's still a while before the dormitory curfew."
"Isn't it okay? Isn't that little girl waiting for you in the dormitory? ”
"This is also ......"
"Hurry up and go back, let's have a chance to talk again, our class is not far away."
Tan Ran nodded, thinking about Gu Lingling in her heart, so she stood up, she turned her head, and saw the small moonlight outside the window.
The broadcast had stopped at some point. In the empty laundry room, only the rumbling sound of Guan Ying's washing machine remained.
Tan Ran blinked, remembering the promise she had made in her heart.
She wanted to find a companion and escape from Kanglong Academy with Gu Lingling.
Guan Ying is undoubtedly the best candidate. And she's sure - she believes that Guan Ying won't betray herself.
Slowly, stiffly, she turned around and looked at Guan Ying in her chair.
"Guan Ying......"
"Huh?"
"I ......"
Guan Ying looked at Tan Ran seriously. Tan Ran's eyes wandered a little, she hugged the basin and sat down next to Guan Ying.
Guan Ying also seemed to realize the atmosphere at this moment, and without saying a word, she looked at Tan Ran, waiting for her follow-up.
Tan Ran's hands under the basin were intertwined with his ten fingers, and they gradually clenched. She raised her head, looked at Guan Ying, and slowly lowered her head, unsettled.
How should I say it?
If she says it, will she say yes?
If she said yes, what would they do?
I obviously don't even have a decent plan, if I am caught when I escape, what will Gu Lingling do, what will Guan Ying do?
Maybe they'll all be locked up in the zero-breaking class. If that's the case, you're hurting Lingling.
She had already heard of the inhumane physical training of the Breaking Zero class.
The price of failure, she can accept.
But as the initiator, she also has to be responsible for Guan Ying and Gu Lingling.
The current life is already so unsatisfactory, once it fails, Tan Ran will have to spend the rest of her college life in endless guilt.
Countless worries surged into her heart in an instant, like a surging strong acid, quickly corroding the courage that Tan Ran had built up with great difficulty.
Guan Ying pursed her mouth slightly. She quietly reached out and grabbed Tan Ran's wrist.
"Tan Ran, I've always been ...... I have something to say to you. ”
Tan Ran turned her head stiffly and looked at Guan Ying in surprise.
Guan Ying looked at her, opened her mouth, wanted to speak several times, then turned her head away and sighed.
“…… Still doesn't work......"
“…… Is it. ”
"Hmm."
“…… I...... Also. Tan Ran muttered softly and lowered her head.
Neither of them spoke, the atmosphere dropped to freezing, and there was silence in the laundry room.
After a long time, Tan Ran raised her head again and looked at the clear moonlight outside the small window.
The window in the laundry room is really small, like a porthole. If this place was a big, big ship, they might have to drift at sea for a long, long time. If they are surrounded by an endless sea, what is the point of jumping out of the boat?
Tan Ran opened her mouth softly and said, "The moon is beautiful tonight. ”
Guan Ying said yes.