Chapter 36: It Never Existed

"It was a terrible experience." Wan Ruyue exhaled softly: "But such a big thing, the whole village has become that kind of thing because of the mask, and a small team of Red Guards has died, even in that era, it is a big thing, why didn't I find any relevant information when I checked the news of Fox Immortal Ridge in the archives of this city?" ”

Teacher Ren...... Your ......" Teacher Cui hesitated for a moment and then said, "This story is too surreal, isn't it?" If it ever happened, I'd have to doubt my worldview, and it's really hard to believe if there's no solid evidence. ”

"Moreover, under such a dangerous situation at that time, how did you escape, Mr. Ren? That sick man lying under the tree seems to have been attacked by something, right? The squad leader and Tian Yu were bitten to death alive, and the whole village was roamed with those masked people who had lost their humanity, according to common sense, with all due respect, you will not be spared. Yang Kang added.

"That's why I haven't talked about it in years, and when I saw that scene, I went into a panic and then ...... I fell asleep. After Mr. Ren finished speaking, he laughed dryly, and he felt ridiculous.

"Asleep?" Everyone didn't know how to react, how hard the nerves were, and how could they still fall asleep in this situation?

"When I woke up, I found myself lying under the tree that was supposed to be asleep, and it was almost two o'clock in the afternoon, and a bunch of Red Guards were singing and laughing and burning the Fox Fairy Temple in the north of the village. There was not a single villager in the whole village, so I went to ask the Red Guards, and they said that the villagers had already heard the wind in advance and wandered around, and then as I communicated with the Red Guards, I found something even stranger. Ren Zhiguo said faster and faster, recalling the scene of that day, cold sweat dripped from his brows.

"What could be weirder?" Ruyue felt that Ren Zhiguo didn't feel like he was lying, people in his era generally lacked imagination, if she could really make up such a thing so vividly, she felt that Ren Zhiguo could write a thriller novel.

"All the people who went through that incident were, was, erased, gone, gone!" Ren Zhiguo emphasized word by word: "The squad leader has never existed, the Red Guards of my squad have never existed, and everyone around me doesn't remember that there were still these people around me." I searched for them from house to house, and found that the traces of their existence seemed to have been destroyed by an inexplicable force, their letters were blank, the places where they stood in the photographs they took were replaced by other people, and their parents, brothers, relatives and friends did not remember their existence. The charred corpses and stone statues in front of the Fox Immortal Temple never existed at all, and there was never any cult cremation ceremony held here, and I remember everything in my mind, which is all contradictory to the present world! ”

Everyone present felt the anxiety and uneasiness that permeated the air in Mr. Ren's increasingly anxious tone, Mr. Ren really didn't lie, he always believed that he had seen that terrifying scene forty years ago, he had dreamed again and again in nightmares that the evil fox fairy wearing a white fox mask, dreaming of a dozen dead colleagues, dreaming of the team leader and Tian Yu's desperate eyes......

"I'm afraid you all know about Vice President Lin's defection and crash to Mongolia now, right? At that time, it was already very strange in our eyes, a few days ago, we were still the vice president of Chitose Lin who had to sing the praises of virtue every day, and today he has become a great sinner of the people, and thousands of families are rushing to spit on him, and his name must be crossed out from all the slogans in books, and everyone seems to have forgotten him overnight, as if this person never existed. But the kind of thing I am facing is even more weird, except for me, everyone else, everything, and all the information in the world have forgotten those who used to sing, criticize, eat, and drink with me, and there was nothing to believe in that era, but I suddenly found that my memory could not be trusted, or my memory was tampered with by someone, or the whole world was crazy! Can you understand the feelings? As I meditated one night at a time, I suspected that I was crazy, and I suspected that I had imagined such an unrealistic scene with so many people! And you know why I used all the names of 'squad leader', 'female soldier', 'sick number' and so on when I recounted this story? Ren Zhiguo's current speed of speech is like a cannon, once the secret that has been closed for decades is spit out, he can't wait to confide out more frightened doubts and thoughts sealed in his heart.

"Huh?" Yang Kang, Liao Qingyin, and Cui were already stunned by this unbelievable thing, and Yang Kang didn't know how to organize the language for a while.

"Because I found that as time went on, their existence began to blur in my mind, and from the day after that incident, I couldn't even remember their names myself! What do we use to prove that we have left a mark on this world? How do we prove our existence? Isn't a name the first thing a person needs to mention in the world? My mind is so ridiculously quick to forget their names? No matter how you think about it, you can't think of the slightest thing! Ren Zhiguo grabbed his head, didn't care if anyone paid attention to him, and just continued to speak almost hysterically.

"Teacher Ren, I'm afraid you haven't forgotten everyone's names, have you?" Like the moon suddenly interrupted Ren Zhiguo's narration, her hand pulling a strand of hair on her forehead, and the light in her apricot eyes flowed.

"Huh? Who else have I not forgotten? Teacher Ren asked with a stunned face.

"Tian Yu! The female soldier who took the lead in singing, the lover who died tragically under the siege of the masked man with the team leader, you subconsciously said her name when you narrated. Yang Kang and Teacher Cui discovered this fleeting suspicion, Teacher Ren thought that he had forgotten the names of all the team members, but he still unconsciously remembered the name "Tian Yu".

"Really," Ren Zhiguo knocked on his head, and said hesitantly and nervously, "Why...... Why...... Why do I still remember her? She's not related to me......"

"Sister, you sit on the bow of the boat, and my brother ......walks on the shore" At this time, the mobile phone in Ren Zhiguo's trouser pocket rang, and Ren Zhiguo took out a gray Huawei low-end small-screen smartphone from his trouser pocket and clicked on:

"Teacher Ren, come over quickly, these bear children are getting more and more difficult to manage!" As soon as it was connected, it was the voice of the middle-aged female chemistry teacher in the second and third classes of high school where he was the head teacher: "Dai Zhongxuan, this kid is sleeping in class again, and when he wakes up, he is still making loud noises in the classroom, and he is still doing it with me!" This lesson can't be taken up and down at all! ”

"Ah, I'm sorry, everyone, I'm the head teacher, I must, cough ......" Teacher Ren cleared his throat, seemed to recover a little from that terrible memory, and straightened the tie on his chest: "I must always follow the class closely, control those disobedient children, as for what you want to name these things......"

Teacher Ren pretended to be open-minded and smiled bitterly: "There will always be so many things in this world that you can't figure out if you want to break your head, rather than blindly investigating and going deeper, it is better to let go of it, too deep into some taboo things, I'm afraid it won't end well, after so many years, I am not as extreme and persistent as I was back then." ”

"Teacher Ren, thank you for sharing the story with us, but I still haven't figured out what you said about what is related to the disappearance of the three girls......" Yang Kang thought about Teacher Ren's narration, still confused.

"Teacher Ren, go get busy, I already understand what you mean, I'll explain it to him." Ruyue looked at Teacher Ren and wanted to start explaining again, and said to Teacher Ren with a smile, Teacher Ren looked at her beautiful eyes that were shining, and nodded, understanding that she had already understood.

"Then I'll be one step ahead, those kids in my class can't do without my discipline for a moment." Teacher Ren waved his hand and hurriedly left the monitoring room, his two short legs on the ground with small steps in a hurry.

"Can you explain that to me as well? My interest has been fished. Teacher Cui asked curiously.

"Teacher Cui, didn't Teacher Ren just say it? This kind of taboo thing like you ordinary people is better off less investigated and left to us professionals to investigate. As the moon spoke, she dragged Yang Kang's sleeve and walked outside the monitoring room, Yang Kang protested dissatisfiedly: "Don't pull me!" I can walk myself! ”

"Okay, okay, I'll continue to be an ordinary computer teacher...... "Teacher Cui turned his head resentfully, lying on the computer desk with an injured appearance.

The door was gently closed by the moon who was going out.

Just like the moon has been pulling Yang Kang back to the small flower bed they met before, now the campus has not yet finished class, it is still very secluded, the surrounding sunlight through the artificially cultivated trees, on the ground to create a quiet shadow.

"Now can you tell me what you found in Teacher Ren's story?" Yang Kang was still talking about the case, but he didn't know where he had drifted in his heart, smelling the fragrant fragrance in front of him like the tip of the moon's hair, looking at her apricot eyes that seemed to be happy and disgusting, and couldn't help but think that this seems to be the place where the young couples in this school who fall in love under the teacher's high pressure often have trysts.

"When the fox fairy was sacrificed, the eighteen stone statues of foxes on the side of the altar were inlaid with beads on the top of their heads, and fifteen of them had turned red. After 40 years, why does Mr. Ren still remember such details? Do you want to bring it up specifically? Wan Ruyue asked.

"Oh, I see!" Yang Kang already had some clues, but at this time, he patted his head and finally found the connection: "When Tian Yu was about to be burned to death, the beads were also turning red, but the ceremony was interrupted!" This may have something to do with Teacher Ren still remembering her name! ”

"How did you come up here?" Ruyue's eyes widened, and she looked at Yang Kang in surprise: "Maybe it's really possible!" But what I want to say is that according to Mr. Ren's description, we can probably deduce that if you sacrifice eight stone statues, if you sacrifice one person, the beads on the head of one stone statue will turn red, and this ceremony has been interrupted by a shot from the team leader, so it will ......"

"There are three people left unsacrificed! And in the same place, forty years later, three more girls disappeared here! Maybe it's connected! Ruyue said seriously, Yang Kang looked at her face and felt that she had an intellectual charm when she was thinking so seriously.

"So Miss Wan, where are we going to investigate next?" Yang Kang asked, this case that he was originally indifferent to is now more and more interested.

"Do you still need to ask? Naturally, the old teaching building that once stood the Fox Immortal Temple! Ruyue said firmly, looking at the old school building next to the new school building, like a dark shadow of a shiny school building.

"Your chemistry teacher said, you're sleeping in class again? After she woke you up, you still screamed and even punched her? What's going on? In Ren Zhiguo's office, he crossed Erlang's legs and looked coldly at the thin boy who was fidgeting in front of him, his eyes reflecting a wincing light under the high-count glasses.

The boy in front of him is called Dai Zhongxuan, he is the thorn in the class, he likes to sleep in class, his grades are a mess, he loves to skip class and go to the Internet café to spend the night, and he ...... is still the same table of the missing girl Qiao Nan, and when Ren Zhiguo reported to the "eyeliner" squad leader in the class, he seemed to chase Qiao Nan a month ago, and then he was issued a good person card.

"Teacher, I, I dreamed of Qiao Nan, Anya, Shen Jiayi, this dream is so realistic, I was so scared that I punched the chemistry teacher......" Dai Zhongxuan didn't dare to look directly at Ren Zhiguo, and said tremblingly, he was not afraid of heaven and earth, and he was most afraid of the head teacher.

"Oh? What did you dream about? Ren Zhiguo felt that a certain uneasy string in his heart trembled.

"They kept falling in the light of a chandelier, and finally fell into the space surrounded by countless mirrors, in which many eyes were staring straight at them, and they kept running and running away, and they kept running away, until finally a big white fox head appeared, opened its mouth, and ate them all." Dai Zhongxuan narrated intermittently and slurredly.

Ren Zhiguo gasped, fox, why is it a fox again?!

At the same time, Mr. Cui in the computer room silently lowered his head and gently lifted his sleeve, revealing his bronze forearm.

On the forearm, a lifelike white fox is tattooed, and the fox's blue eyes are shining with spiritual light.