Chapter 7: They Came Back to Me
For a while, the room was surprisingly quiet, and Officer Wang kept recording in his notebook.
When he finished writing, he asked, "What time was the last time you saw them?"
I thought for a moment and said, "It should be around 17 o'clock in the afternoon, Officer Wang asked again, :
"Didn't you just say that you were going to the town with the three of them for a night out? That's what the dots are.
I clasped the little finger of my right hand, "I drank too much last night and was in a daze, was it a dream or did they really come back?" I don't know.
Officer Wang obviously didn't ask why, he looked up at the quartz clock on the wall, and asked suddenly:
"What time did you get up this morning, what did you do first thing when you got up?
Officer Wang's words suddenly reminded me that I had overlooked an important issue, that is, this morning, I was running back to school from the poplar path, and I didn't sleep in the dormitory at all last night.
I suddenly felt that I was weaving a set of reasons to completely convince myself, but I was torn open by Officer Wang, and I began to become a little overwhelmed, and at the same time I went around myself.
I pressed my temples hard, not knowing how to explain it.
Officer Wang's tone gradually became stern, saying:
"Han Bing, I just need you to sue me, when was the last time you saw them? Did the three of them come back to you after they left school, do you know where the three of them are now?
At this time, my brain was in a mess, and I said incoherently:
"Last night...... They seem to have come to me, we spent the night in the aspen grove, and we parted this morning at dawn, and you should go to their house and ask, I really don't know where they are.
Officer Li, who was sitting on the sofa without saying a word, took a sip of tea, walked over, and said in a hoarse voice:
"Their house, I have been there overnight yesterday, Han Bing, don't be nervous, we came today to verify, yesterday Ding Dapang, Tan Xiaolin, Guo Feipeng, the three of them, in the end, take the special bus from Wulitang to Yangbei East Station.
Seeing that I was a little confused, Officer Lee continued:
"At about 18 o'clock yesterday afternoon, on the north side of your school, there was a major traffic accident on the Wulitang road section, a special line small passenger car from Wulitang to Yangbei East Station rushed into the Fan River when passing the Fan Gong Bridge, and we found 11 bodies on the car.
While sorting through the wreckage of the car, three schoolbags were found with the student IDs and belongings of Ding Dapang, Tan Xiaolin, and Guo Feipeng. After a night of salvage and searching, we found no bodies of the three of them.
Just now, you Principal Liu told me, Ding Dapang, Tan Xiaolin, Guo Feipeng, the four of you live in the same bedroom, and you usually have a good relationship, we hope you can tell me clearly, the three of them, did you take the last special line from Wulitang to Yangbei East Railway Station yesterday.
I looked at Officer Li in a daze, I suddenly felt a tingling pain in my heart, gritted my teeth and nodded hard, Officer Li patted my shoulder comfortingly, :
"If the body is not found, it means that there is a silver lining! Think about it? My heart was heavy and sad at this time, and we were not speaking to each other.
Then Officer Li took out a business card from his pocket and handed it to me, saying:
"You go back first~! Call me if I think of anything.
I took the business card and read it, which read, "Yangbei County Traffic Police Detachment, Instructor of the Sixth Brigade of the Accident Brigade: Li Chunshan." Then I left the office in a daze, holding my business card.
Just as I left the office, Officer Wang smiled and said, "
Principal Liu, your martial arts school should pay attention to cultivating students' ideology and morality, you can't practice martial arts all day long, you see that this kid's brain is broken.
Yes, yes, what Officer Wang said is that we will definitely develop together in moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor in the future.
The dim cloudy day, just like my mood, was particularly depressed, I tried to restrain my heart, the extremely sad thoughts, the cruel reality told me, Big Fat, Xiaolin, Feipeng and the three of them, yesterday at 17 o'clock took a special bus home, and an hour later suffered a car accident in Fanqiao.
Who was with me on the aspen path last night, who were the figures they saw in that row, who were the kind reminders, who were the familiar and unfamiliar voices, and my head began to prick like a pinprick at the thought of this.
I pressed my temples, walked to the faucet, and stuck my head over, the tap water running down my head, cold and pain-relieving.
Could it be that last night the ghosts of Big Fat, Xiaolin, and Feipeng came to me to complete the agreement that we went to the night.
I jerked my head out, and froze there, cold water dripping down my scalp and onto my clothes, but I didn't feel the cold.
I went back to my dorm and lay down on the bed, and I don't know how long it took to fall asleep.
A fishy smell like a river swept by, and I faintly saw several figures standing at the head of my bed.
I was so sleepy that I opened my eyes in a trance, and suddenly I saw a white, puffy face, and blood-red eyes staring straight at me, and I screamed and instinctively burrowed into the bed.
I shuddered suddenly, and I felt the blood in my whole body freeze in that moment, the hairs of my sweat stood upside down, and a coldness that penetrated deep into my bone marrow surrounded me, and it was like a living person lying in an ice cellar with no clothes on.
Time passed by second, and I didn't dare to let go of the quilt that I clung to, but I found that the quilt I was clutching was being torn apart little by little by a wet and cold external force.
The room was so quiet that my heart began to tremble violently, as if it were breaking free from the atrium and beating outward, and it was then that I heard a voice, a young woman, low and sharp
"You should have had enough!
This was followed by the voices of several boys
"You don't meddle with things."
"He's our best brother"
"The three of us would be lonely without him"
The young woman's voice began to laugh, "You little ghosts, you don't look for the skin that was washed away by the water, but you come out to harm people, it's really shameless." :
"Big sister, what do you want?"
I don't want to do anything? Leave him alone and go back to where you belong."
"Eldest sister, it's not for you to have the final say today, the three of us are from martial arts training,:
"Hehe, a few little ghosts who don't know the height of the sky, just the three of you, hehe! It's not that I look down on you. Maybe you have forgotten that in the infinite land of the underworld, there are seven layers, and the most murderous death, you three are just imps who are dying, dare to act in front of me, believe it or not, I will tear your souls apart.
One of the voices was visibly frightened, saying:
"Xiao Lin, forget it, look at the cold on her body, we can't fight her.
I could hear the voice being a conversation between Big Fat, Xiao Lin, Fei Peng and a woman.
But I was so frightened that I didn't dare to make any noise, so I hid under the covers, listening to the conversation between them, but I didn't even have the courage to look at them.
As the conversation stopped, the dorm room became dead silent.
I carefully exposed a corner of the quilt, squinted my eyes and saw that the bedroom was empty, I jerked the quilt away and jumped out of bed, running out without looking back.
A nameless anger rushed up from the bottom of my heart, and the more I ran, the more angry I became. I kept asking myself what was wrong with me.
I am a child of a funeral parlor, I have seen countless corpses since I was a child, my ancestors were people who lived on corpses, but now I am as cowardly as a hamster, and the strong self-esteem in my heart makes me feel ashamed.
Big Fat, Xiao Lin, Fei Peng is my best brother, Han Bing, Han Bing, how did you become so timid now, I remember being caught by the wind chimes, and I was not afraid of witnessing the murder scene, but I have become so timid in the past few years.
I suddenly understood why my father threw me into this boarding martial arts school under the pressure of the whole family, which made me learn to be lonely, independent, enduring, and bearing too early.
The more you are afraid of something, the more it will follow you, and if I can't overcome the fear in my heart, I will never be able to get out of my own narrow-mindedness, and I will lock myself in the dark room of my own building.
I stopped suddenly, looked up at the gray sky, the breeze was a little cool on my cheeks, and I said energetically: "Lao Tzu didn't do anything wrong, I'm not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door, I want to see what you want!"