I don't know how long it took, but I knew that the whole world gradually fell silent, and the dark clouds in the sky made the night darker even deeper. Shi Jiaojiao calmed down a lot, she stomped her paralyzed feet, found consciousness and walked out of the room. The curtains were not drawn in her parents' room, Shi Jiaojiao stood by the windowsill, looking through the old screen, the room was too dark, only the white sheets on the stretcher car faintly showed her position. Shi Jiaojiao could feel that her parents were asleep, she let go of her hand and slowly exited the eaves.

Shi Jiaojiao stood on the path in front of the door and looked at the black hole of the bungalow, where there was a father who was injured who didn't know why, and a mother who fell asleep and endured everything silently, but there was no self who should have slept too. The wind was whistling from all sides, making it a little cold, and Shi Jiaojiao couldn't help but hug her arms.

She saw the air begin to condense white from her parents' room, and then the entire old house turned white in the night. The white condensed air slowly spread and spread like spider silk, covering Shi Jiaojiao's pupils. "It wants to catch me!" Shi Jiaojiao took two steps back in fear, turned around and started running.

The white color chased Shi Jiaojiao like a teaser, fast and slow, she was almost out of breath, and she still ran desperately with a sense of fear. She ran across the scenic river and up to the concrete road to the town. If it's a dream, please wake me up, I'm so scared! Shi Jiaojiao gasped heavily, looking back, her home had been submerged there, the lines were undulating, and the silhouette of the dark house.

Shi Jiaojiao stood at the T-junction, in front of which was the direction of the home she had just fled, on the left was the depths of the village where Lili's house was located, and on the right was leading to the town.

She looked up, and saw the dark clouds moving, spinning as if they had become the terrible wound on her father's shoulder, and in a moment they were like her mother's empty eyes, and the wind in her ears through the birch trees blew from the direction of the lake, and it was clear that Lili had hidden a lie in her laughter that night! "I know they're all protecting me, hahaha......" Shi Jiaojiao closed her eyes and opened them again, running towards the town without looking back.

The girl didn't know what she was running away from, much less what she was after, but she just wanted to run, run a little farther, far enough to see the whole picture of the village, maybe just the whole picture of the bungalow where her parents were asleep in the village. She couldn't run, her heart was beating so fast that it seemed like it was going to explode in the next second, she could only walk in a hurry, she couldn't stop, and as soon as she stopped the movement of her limbs, her heart really couldn't bear it.

Later, when her physical strength was exhausted, she staggered on the cement road that she traveled every day, and the scenery changed on both sides of the road: past the shadows of the trees, past the empty rice fields after harvesting, past the houses that were only separated by a small river from the main road, past the pond with faint lotus stems and leaves, and past the farms that have not started this year for unknown reasons......

There was no direction but the direction was already set, and the road only led to the outside.

Shi Jiaojiao gritted her teeth and ran up the slope, and when the power acceleration was zero at the highest point, she stopped. In front is a town with street lights all night long, and behind it is a village in the dark. The light of the last street lamp wrapped around the darkness of the road, and Shi Jiaojiao stood in the ambiguous area where light and shadow intertwined.

Running too far, I can't see anything from home, village, village. The moment I rushed up the high slope, the sense of liberation that broke through a certain cocoon chrysalis was carried away by the hollow wind at the moment, and I was even more overwhelmed. "Let's go home." Shi Jiaojiao told herself, but looking at the road when she came, it was so dark that it was terrifying.

"Where can I go?" Shi Jiaojiao followed her instincts and walked towards the town lights at midnight. The dense buildings revealed the breathing of people from sleep, which made Shi Jiaojiao's fear dissipate a little after she woke up. Once again, the wind whistled wet from the moat, carrying the signal of the coming rainstorm.

One drop, two drops, countless drops...... Crackling, just like that, the rain seemed to have endured for a long time, and it was thrown down in an instant.

Walking here, there is naturally a place to shelter from the rain. Shi Jiaojiao ran into the aisle facing the street in the faculty community, the aisle looked like a black hole from the outside, like a monster's mouth, and when she walked inside, she found that part of the light of the oblique street lamp was absorbed, and there was a clear diagonal line at the junction of the backlight and the light.

The aisles were filled with two- or three-wheeled vehicles for residents, leaving only a narrow space for people to move. Some of these cars had leaflets in their crates, and some were covered with dry raincoats...... The dense traffic just blocked the wind through the hall, Shi Jiaojiao stood for a while, squatting on the side of the light with her arms crossed, her back against the wall, her body facing the street on one side, and a clumsy red battery car on the other.

She was a child after all, and the intense emotions and excessive exercise, as well as the deep nights, had made her extremely tired, and in spite of the pouring rain outside the passageway, in spite of the terrible conditions, sleepiness swept over her body. Shi Jiaojiao's head was pressed against the wall, and slowly, the weight of the entire back was handed over to the wall, and the collected leaflets were padded under the buttocks, so she found a homeless way to rest.

The orange light shone on the girl's face, quietly casting a faint shadow under the eyelashes. Her tiny body exudes an incredible amount of heat, allowing her to resist the cold of midnight in early November despite her thin clothes. Her face unconsciously rested on the black rubber tires of the battery car, and her hot breath formed a round black dot on the tires.

The first thing that spotted the little tramp was a shadow stretched by a street lamp, which crept silently up the girl's face, obscuring her sleepy eyes. After a sound of tired, heavy footsteps, a pair of brown leather shoes stained with rain stepped into the aisle. The visitor was busy shaking off the rain from his hair and face, and did not find the girl curled up in the corner like his own shadow.

I don't know who alarmed who first, but in short, the only two people in the aisle found each other. Shi Jiaojiao, who woke up, was still leaning on the wheels, and she felt that someone was standing beside her, and she was very scared! She remained motionless, hiding her round eyes in the dark, thinking repeatedly about the possibility of getting out if danger came.

The owner of the leather shoes was startled, he never thought that there would be a sleeping person in this place at this time, and when he looked at it again, she was actually wearing the school uniform of the town middle school, and she was still a schoolgirl! Tang Jianyu raised his right hand, pointed his tiger mouth to his forehead, and pressed his temples fiercely with two fingers to refresh himself. He wondered if it was because he was frightened today and was so tired from driving continuously that he hallucinated!

This curled up person, how could it be Shi Jiaojiao!

The face with his back turned back, the black hair tie with no decoration on the loose ponytail, the blue and white autumn school uniform that all the students in the town middle school wear, and the canvas sneakers that have no characteristics...... There is not a single evidence in front of me that can show that this is Shi Jiaojiao, but there are a hundred reasons to prove that this cannot be Shi Jiaojiao! But Tang Jianyu is more and more sure that it is her.

"Jiaojiao." Cautiously, tentatively, he called her name.