Feather Voice 4: Roaring at the Shadow

The clock was ticking, and the time finally came to ten o'clock that night, and the incandescent light in the classroom remained the same. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Because the head teacher Ren Zhiguo sat on the podium and monitored the whole class, no one dared to say a word now, and the whole classroom was so quiet that only the sound of more than 40 people in the class could be heard, rustling, rustling, such sounds are endless, last night was like this, tonight is like this, and tomorrow night will be like this. The homework in the third year of high school can never be finished, and the waves of the sea of books are wave after wave, but Chen Shi is a person who can't swim in such a crazy wave, so she can only struggle to sink into the deep sea, looking at herself with a hideous face suffocating a little but not making a sound, her heart is like death.

Chen Shizheng was immersed in his homework, his movements were stiff and sluggish, and his eyes did not shine at all. With almost no food really digested today, and the horrific things that had happened one after another, Chen Shi's brain was now only blank in despair. Not to mention solving the math problems that seemed to her or memorizing the vast amount of English words in her head, she barely listened to anything from morning till night.

As the homework was written, the words written by the tip of the pen were unconsciously twisted into some symbols of unknown meaning in Chen Shi's eyes, and they sank like whirlpools, snakes, and worms in front of Chen Shi's eyes. She knew every word written by Chen Shi, but Chen Shi didn't know the "thing" formed by the combination of hundreds of words.

In a trance, it seemed that a half-rotten human face appeared in front of Chen Shi's eyes, this face became clearer and more familiar, and Chen Shi could even see the dark black worm waving its tentacles from the eye sockets of the corpse......

There was a tingling pain in the depths of her brain, Chen Shi's pen was hanging on the homework book, she couldn't put pen to paper anymore, she supported her head with her right hand, lowered her head and coughed lightly a few times, something wanted to cough out, but it was stuck in her throat and couldn't spit it out.

Chen Shi rubbed her dry eyes, and a few tears flowed from the corners of her eyes unconsciously.

The face that jumped in the depths of her mind reminded Chen Shi of the painting she had drawn during the day, although she had torn it up and thrown it into the trash, but whenever she closed her eyes, that hellish picture would always come to her mind, that face was one of the countless corpses sitting in the classroom.

"Knock, knock, knock~" The death knell-like bell of the end of class echoed in the night sky of Linyang No. 1 Middle School, finally making Chen Shi's spirit lifted, breaking free from those nightmarish visions, and the day that had been like a year seemed to be finally coming to an end, and Chen Shi would soon be able to return to her warm and eccentric home and reunite with her mother.

"After school, the students remember to memorize all the twelve phrases I taught today when they go home, and they will take the dictation test tomorrow." The short and fat head teacher Ren Zhiguo cleared his throat, even after school, he still didn't forget to assign tasks.

No one will question him, after all, it is now the third year of high school, every minute and every second cannot be wasted, and if you can remember one more test point, you must not remember one less test point, "No one knows what will be tested in the college entrance examination, so we will test everything in the monthly exam, of course you have to learn everything." That's what the teachers say.

The students walked out of the classroom in groups of threes and twos, and the chatter and laughter were endless, although they were very close to Chen Shi, but no sound could penetrate Chen Shi's ears.

And Yuan Xi's attitude towards Chen Shi did not improve because of a few brief words of communication with Chen Shi today, she just packed her schoolbag in silence, and her petite back disappeared into the crowd in front of the classroom door in the blink of an eye, without looking back at Chen Shi even a little more, and the hair ornament of the blood moon disappeared in a flash.

Chen Shi wants to go home, but she can't go yet. She is the life committee member of the class, and she has her responsibilities.

Chen Shi laboriously carried the dirty bucket in the corner into the toilet alone, first poured cold water into it, and then carried the bucket into the classroom tremblingly, along the way, the classmates would turn their heads and pretend not to see anything when they saw her, Chen Shi didn't expect any kind boy to help her, after all, she was Chen Shi who no one loved.

There are very few students left in the classroom, Teacher Ren is still sitting in front of the podium to correct the English test papers, Linyang No. 1 Middle School will not turn off the lights until a quarter of ten, the teacher will generally stay a little longer and wait for the students to ask him questions, and there will be a few studious students who stay to grasp the ten minutes to study for a while.

saw Chen Shi standing alone at the door of the classroom with a bucket full of cold water, alone.

Teacher Ren stepped forward a little reluctantly and helped Chen Shi lift the heavy bucket, although Teacher Ren was already over middle age, his short arms were still stronger than the thin Chen Shi. Chen Shi lowered her head and said thank you dryly to Teacher Ren and walked away, Chen Shi took out an absorbent blackboard eraser from the back of the back door of the back door of the classroom, turned her back to Teacher Ren, first stuffed the absorbent wipe into the bucket, and then began to wipe the blackboard with the water-filled absorbent wipe.

The blackboard in the classroom was filled with dense board books written by the teachers, layer after layer, Chen Shi pushed the blackboard eraser from the bottom to the top, again and again, this kind of thing has happened countless times in this classroom, and everyone is used to it.

Chen Shi actually likes to wipe the blackboard alone, wipe all those messy characters and images in one go, and finally leave only a white and clean blackboard, which will always make Chen Shi's heart inexplicably peaceful. When wiping the blackboard, Chen Shi occasionally thinks of the famous Zen saying: "Always wipe diligently, don't make dust." Sometimes she compares herself to a Shaolin sweeper with self-deprecation, but unfortunately she can't erase any peerless magic skills when she wipes the blackboard.

How nice would it be if her life, her soul, could be like this, wiped clean by the chalkboard eraser and smeared up and down a few times?

"Chen Shi ......" The blackboard was wiped most of the time, and Chen Shi suddenly heard Teacher Ren behind her calling her, and she stopped talking.

"Teacher Ren, what's the matter with you?" Chen Shi replied in a very soft voice.

Although Mr. Ren is not tall, only 1.6 meters, and his voice is not loud on weekdays. But everyone in the class was afraid of him, and the timid Chen Shi was naturally no exception. All this is probably because Ren Zhiguo is the strictest in his studies, and he has the greatest temper, once he dares to disobey his will in class, he will always be severely punished, and many students who have been treated quite badly by various means by him privately call him "dwarf tyrant".

"Do you really want to continue to be a member of this life committee?" Teacher Ren asked with some hesitation.

"Teacher Ren, did I do something wrong?" Chen Shi only felt a pang in his heart.

"No, no, I didn't mean that, I meant to ......" Teacher Ren sighed a little helplessly: "The life committee member is for the students, but not for the classmates, I have also heard about some things about you." Some people do go too far. ”

"It's okay, Teacher Ren, I can still bear this hardship," Chen Shitou continued to wipe the blackboard without looking back, lowering his head, and the squeak made by absorbing water and rubbing against the blackboard was extremely ugly: "I am willing to serve my classmates and sacrifice for them...... A little something. ”

"No one forces you to sacrifice anything, and although I am your teacher, we are all equal in the end. If you don't want to do anything, what grievances you have suffered, what unspeakable things you have in your heart, you can tell me, the teacher is not the kind of person who only looks at people by grades, and the teacher can help you. Teacher Ren said worriedly: "Chen Shi, you have been in a bad state recently, and I am not blind." ”

"Teacher, I'm really fine. Doing this for my classmates is my only meaning, if I can't even do this little thing, I'm in this class, I really ......" Chen Shi's unspoken words are "really worthless", no one cares about her, no one cares about her, no one will even realize her existence, Chen Shi is more afraid of being treated as an air person with no sense of existence than being bullied, despised and ridiculed.

"I see, Chen Shi. I won't say anything, but please remember one thing," Mr. Ren stood up with a pile of unfinished papers, took off the glasses he was wearing on the bridge of his nose and put them into the glasses case: "If you need any help, just look for me, the teacher will never hurt you." ”

Teacher Ren left, Chen Shi found a few white threads in his black hair, and said that the third year of high school was hard, but the teacher of the third year of high school may not be much easier than the students.

As soon as Teacher Ren left, the classroom completely fell into death-like silence, and occasionally Chen Shi could still hear the breathing of a few people, but they would not stay long, after all...... The lights will go out at a quarter past ten.

Chen Shi buried her head and wiped the blackboard three times without saying a word, obviously the blackboard had been wiped clean, but Chen Shi still continued to wipe like a walking corpse, repeating monotonous and boring movements, Chen Shi herself didn't know what mood she was in now.

The clock was ticking and ticking to almost ten o'clock, and Chen Shi still wanted to erase the blackboard for the fourth time, and now the blackboard is not getting cleaner and cleaner, but getting dirtier and dirtier the more it is wiped.

Chen Shi suddenly heard the whispering voices of two girls behind him, the voice was extremely low at first, and then slowly raised to the extent that Chen Shi could hear clearly.

She's a little weird, and there are still people who haven't left class?

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Let's go home together. A girl greeted her best friend sweetly.

"Okay, wait for me, it's going to turn off the lights." Another girl hurriedly responded, followed by the sound of her collecting her bag.

"Hey, you know what? Today is a special day," the first girl laughed pleasantly.

"What day? In addition to the holidays, what other days can be special to us? In addition to classes, exams are homework. The second girl complained dissatisfied.

"Do you know, three years ago today, there was a senior senior like us who jumped from the rooftop on the fifth floor at twelve o'clock in the morning! By the time she was found the next day, she had broken her neck and was still holding a pair of scissors wrapped around her hair in her right hand! The first girl said with a pretense of spoof.

"Oh? So why did she jump off the building? The second girl asked with interest.

"I heard that she was bullied by a group of bad girls to the point of madness, her grades were at the bottom again, she didn't have a friend in the class who could make heart, she was ugly, she felt that her life was worthless, and she liked to collect butterfly specimens, so she wrote in her diary...... 'I want to fly like a butterfly!'!" The first girl screamed exaggeratedly.

"Giggles, so stupid, so stupid, this kind of lifeless person has no value in dying......" The second girl let out a hairy laugh, "It's like a cockroach that has been trampled on." ”

"I heard she's still waiting for someone on the rooftop......" The first girl's voice suddenly lowered again.

"Who is she waiting for?" The second girl's voice was almost drowned out by the sound of her breathing.

"Who knows? Maybe it's someone she hates, maybe it's someone she loves, maybe it's ...... Her kind? The first girl's voice was so faint that it seemed to come from an endless distance.

Chen Shi felt something break in her heart, the blackboard eraser slipped from her hand and fell to the ground, and tears swirled in her eyes, her back to the two whispering girls, her body trembling with ignorant anger.

Chen Shi stayed in Linyang No. 1 Middle School until her third year of high school, she had never heard of any "senior sister who jumped off the building" three years ago, and Chen Shi certainly knew that this was all nonsense.

The two nasty girls didn't mean to whisper anything about it, no doubt it was for her, and they were referring to the "girl who was trampled to death like a cockroach"β€”referring to herself.

"There should be a degree of joking! You just think of me like this......" Chen Shi turned around and let out a heart-rending roar under the podium, Chen Shi had never roared like this to anyone in her life, she roared out like this, such a roar was really happy, as if she was spitting out something that had been accumulated in her stomach for a long, long time.

The sound of electricity sounded in Chen Shi's ears, it was the sound of power failure.

Tick-tock, the clock on the blackboard finally reached a quarter past ten.

Chen Shi was stunned, her anger froze on her face, and then the entire classroom sank into a solemn darkness.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Dead? Chen Shi's last voice dissipated into the darkness, and the classroom was so quiet that Chen Shi could only hear the sound of her own breathing, heartbeat, and the echo of her voice.

"Dead...... Dead...... Dead...... Dead ......" In a trance, it seemed that there were countless girls chuckling and whispering to her in Chen Shi's ear.

There was no one else in this classroom except Chen Shi.

So who was talking to her just now?