1971 The day after the toilet monster
Old toilet ...... at school Gao Chuan remembered it, as if a memory that he had never had before came to mind, but when he remembered it, he felt that he should not have forgotten it. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info It was an indescribable feeling, it was not true to say that it was nostalgia and familiarity, his body suddenly tensed, and there was a sense of tension and anticipation, as if the clues that had been looking for a long time finally revealed a clue. From the feeling of it, this "old toilet" is certainly not simple, but judging from the information in memory, for this school and the teachers and students here, it is just a toilet that will be demolished.
There are many reasons for the demolition, first of all, after the school has been rebuilt many times, the location of the old toilets has become remote and inconvenient to use, and because of the age, some of the toilet cleaning facilities have long been outdated, which often makes users complain. Of course, the more important reason is that the school's latest classroom building has toilets on every floor, and it intends to spend 200,000 yuan to build a new, more modern toilet next to the stadium.
In this way, the old toilet seems redundant - in fact, there are very few people who choose the old toilet when it comes to going to the toilet, and in Takakawa's sudden memory, the people who will use the old toilet are some "poor students" for school education: poor academic performance, self-depravity, laziness, and the habit of smoking and fighting.
The old toilets, which are remote and rarely used, are not a clean place, but they are regarded by these "poor students" as a place to pass the time - why do you have to choose a place that smells so bad? No one can say for sure, it's like a habit, and as far as Takakawa knows, students who smoked at first habitually went there, and after that, more students who smoked also went there, and over time it seemed to become a "secret base".
Of course, the "secret base" is not to the extent that Takakawa knows about the "mysterious organization", in fact, most of the school administrators know about it, but no one has deliberately controlled it in the past, and perhaps the demolition of the old toilet does not include the idea of rectifying these "bad students". All in all, if you want to say that the reasons for demolishing the old toilets can be found more or less, both positive and negative, which will inevitably lead to the result of "demolition of the old toilets".
If it is put on other people in normal times, of course, there is nothing to worry about about the "old toilet". However, for Takakawa, at such a time, in such a place, and in such a way, it was as if some kind of secret news was hidden, calling his soul as a mysterious expert.
In particular, there are new rumors about this old toilet.
Rumor was brought by a "good friend" at the back table: "I heard that there were several cases of disappearances in the old toilet. But if you continue to ask, the other party doesn't know why, just say it is gossip, even so, it is enough for Gao Chuan to decide to go and explore. As a student leader, he did not hear relevant clues from the school management, if there is really a disappearance, no matter how much the school hides negative news, there will definitely be some unusual movements, but in Gao Chuan's vision, there are no signs of such movements at all.
There was no particularly active operation, and no police involvement, as if rumors of a disappearance were only among a few students - in Takakawa's view, it was like a deliberately leaked smell to lure prey.
Do you want more students to go to the old toilets? Or is it just for your side? Gao Chuan thought for a moment, but did not continue. Of course, he will not forget that he came to this strange and familiar place, and being in such a situation is strange in itself, and it is involved with his goal of action "Jiang" everywhere - he does not quite understand whether the current situation will definitely happen after the program is operated, but one thing is very clear: he is very close to "Jiang", this sense of distance is different from all previous attempts to contact, and it is likely that there are clues to further contact with "Jiang" hidden here.
Takakawa is an excellent student in high school here, but he is not here to study, and any clues that may bring him closer to his goal are attracting him, and conversely, it is also possible that the enemy has deliberately set a trap. However, if this is a trap, doesn't it also mean that the enemy chose the trap instead of the frontal attack and defense for some reason? Takakawa was also curious about this reason, because it could be the enemy's weak point.
Does "Jiang" have a weakness? Takakawa didn't know, couldn't judge, and from the past deeds, because it was too terrible, he felt inclined to "have no weakness", but he also hoped that it had weaknesses.
With such mixed feelings, Takakawa went to the old toilet after school.
The old toilets are located at the back of the school building, and the vegetation along the road is so lush that it seems to be deserted, and it takes ten minutes to walk, but there are few other students in sight. The blue-brown stone slabs exposed in the weeds were not neatly paved, and they had been weathered and had been trampled by countless people, and the soil had covered one-third of the stone face, so it was easy to slip when it rained. As Gao Chuan understood, there is a breath of life that no one can enter, and after two bends along the stone road, you can see two stone table tennis tables hidden in the bamboo forest, and then, Gao Chuan inexplicably remembered that when he was a primary school student, he often ran into this school with his friends, just to compete for these two table tennis tables - the laughter, the footsteps, the feeling of pushing shoulders, when the table tennis ball jumps on the stone platform and racket, it is not at all like the sound of a formal wooden table, like traveling through time and space, Surround him in a hallucinatory and delusional way.
It's like I really had those days, happy and peaceful childhood...... It's a pity, Gao Chuan thought, he didn't have these, "Gao Chuan" grew up in an orphanage since he was a child, and before he was about to become an adult, he became a seriously ill patient, both physically and mentally. That healthy, happy, running child...... It's just an enviable imagination.
Takakawa's heart was throbbing, but the cold nerves quickly pulled his thoughts back into silence, although in his ears, the carefree happy voice could still be heard, and his shoulders still seemed to hear the warmth and touch of his friends, and even his fingers seemed to be shaking with the swing of the ping pong ball and racket.
It wasn't until he got closer and saw more clearly that the illusion surrounding the ping-pong table disappeared, and Takakawa saw that the stone table was already covered with moss, and it became daunting and dirty, and he didn't want to get closer.
Suddenly there was a melancholy and bitterness that grew out of his emotions, and he walked quickly around it.
Bypassing the abandoned ping-pong table, you can soon see the old toilet, the same dirty appearance as expected, the red brick structure, the cement powder paving, the slogan is written on the wall with white lime, but there are more colorful strokes, and the graffiti around these slogans and large characters, the intelligible and unintelligible fonts and patterns are crowded on the walls like a garbage heap.
You can smell the smell of ammonia from afar, so you can imagine how strong it will be if you get close. Even so, in my memory, it was still a mecca for students to smoke - few people would want to fight here, and it seemed difficult to breathe without lighting a cigarette. As if it was a physical instinct, Gao Chuan put his hand in the pocket of his school uniform, and his fingertips touched the soft carton at once, and when he took it out, he saw that it was half a pack of cigarettes in his pocket at some point.
Camel's, of course.
The lighter was also found, in the other side of the trouser pocket, along with the keys.
Along the way, as always, I didn't see a few students. Takakawa only has a feeling of "getting closer", but to say that he is "approaching something" cannot be clearly said to be "approaching the river". Some kind of sudden change that greets you in front of you may not be caused by the "river", but it is absolutely inseparable from the "river".
Habitually, Takakawa lit a cigarette with a lighter, and the sound of "pop" was especially loud in an environment that seemed to be the only one. He remembered again that the "honor student" was just an appearance of "Gao Chuan" deliberately drilling camp. Needless to say, the signboard of "top student" is more popular in the social circle of the school, and it has action and subjective advantages in many aspects, so it is only because of it that he is an "honor student". Of course, it is true that you study well, it is also true that you have good interpersonal relationships, it is also true that you will use certain means to use public affairs for personal gain, and it is also true that you smoke.
"Well, just a little clever guy." Gao Chuan commented on himself in the memory of this school, and slowly spat out a smoke ring.
When he walked into the toilet, he saw that there were several cigarette butts on the floor covered with yellow urine spots and moss in the toilet cubicle with the door open, and he had a feeling of "as always". It looks like someone was here not long ago, probably students, but the question is, where are these guys at this time? I didn't see anyone else on the way, and if I got behind the toilet, it was unlikely, because there was only a gutter, which was completely unsuitable for movement.
The smell in the toilet can't bother Gao Chuan at all, although it smells bad and makes people physiologically repulsive, but, in mysterious events, things that are much worse than these smells and visions happen from time to time, just "smelly", just "dirty", if you don't feel it deeply, a few lives are not enough to lose. Although here, Takakawa no longer has a prosthetic body and magic patterns, as if he has completely changed back to the most ordinary human being, but if he uses absolute will to suppress inner irritability and physical rejection, and uses experience to mobilize the senses of the whole body to feel the surrounding environment, he will get more detailed information than most people.
However, there is no clue that anyone is still in the toilet or around the toilet.
At this moment, he was the only one within ten meters of the old toilet, and there was no one when he came, so it seemed that there was nothing wrong with judging that the person who threw the cigarette butt in the cubicle was "missing".
Gao Chuan smiled, such a situation that would make him feel that something was wrong when he thought about it was exactly what he wanted. On the other hand, if this is just a trick, it will be disappointing.
Just when he wanted to continue his research, there was a sound from the window, as if someone was sneaking around, but he accidentally stepped on a stone, making a small crushing sound, and if he didn't pay attention, he would miss it. However, for Gao Chuan, this voice could not be clearer, but he still did not instinctively feel that it was a "person".
Voices don't come out for no reason, something does pass by, but it doesn't have to be a person, it could be something else. Rather, hope is something else. The thing was very agile, and it passed by at once, Gao Chuan estimated the trajectory, and his eyes turned to the entrance of the toilet, and sure enough, he saw a shadow passing by quickly, and he didn't see it clearly with the naked eye. He didn't chase after it immediately, because the speed of that thing was really fast, and with his current physical fitness, it was impossible to catch up at all, and if the other party wanted to hide, it would probably be difficult to find out.
The question is, since that thing is here, will it really just leave? And the movement made by that thing, could it be a ploy to divert the tiger from the mountain? Takakawa thought calmly, and reached out to open the door of the other compartment, intending to explore it thoroughly, one by one.
However, in the third room, the door of the compartment, which had just been inspected and no special clues were found, suddenly closed with a "bang", as if someone had deliberately closed the door. Gao Chuan subconsciously turned around, his eyes drooped, and he saw a shadow seeping out of the crack in the door, and, from the perspective of light, the direction of the shadow should not be in this direction.
There is something unnatural behind the door - this conclusion is almost inevitable.
When such a thought crossed Takakawa's mind, he immediately heard the sound of a beast's low breathing, which seemed to be watching his side through the door. It began to walk, the size of the chamber completely inhibiting its range of motion, as if the walls had disappeared where he could not see, and the beast, who did not know what it looked like, was pacing back and forth in a much wider space, salivating and somewhat restlessly.
In Takakawa's mind, there was a vague conjecture about the outline of this beast, which was huge and dangerous. According to common sense, this body is completely incapable of confronting it head-on.
Therefore, Takakawa did not open the door immediately.
There was some sweat on his forehead, and he felt that it was not because of fear and nervousness, but purely a physiological reaction. There is no doubt that the situation you want has already appeared, but you must find a way to seize this dangerous opportunity.
Takakawa's gaze wandered, trying to find a weapon, but the keen sense still lingered on the beast behind the door, and he still had a sense of déjà vu with it. The breath, the pace, the low, rolling roar, as if out of a bygone time.