fifty-three

Opened, inside is a piece of paper that has only been folded once, it is a page torn off the notebook, opened, it is pen words, very beautiful, but? There are only five words on it, and two punctuation marks, which are: Thank you, madman.

The madman cried dumbly when he saw this, at this moment, there was nothing in his heart, it was so empty that it made people tremble, he cried, but he really didn't make a sound, he gritted his teeth, his whole body trembled, his cheeks were so sore, and his nose and eyes were so sore, and the tears slipped out silently......

He gritted his teeth and took a long breath, and then exhaled it with a trembling voice, his mind blank, and folded the letter again, put it back in the envelope, and folded it again and put it in his pocket.

She was gone, there was nothing left, this was Lili's room, he knew, Lili was only instantaneous, this was completely disappeared from his own world, as if she had never been here, he lit a cigarette in a trembling way, and in a panic, trying to find out something from this empty room, even if it was just anything Lili had used, trying to prove that this was Lili's room, but? The room had obviously been deliberately cleaned, and there was nothing, not even the basin she used to wash her face.

He smoked a cigarette that seemed tasteless, felt the nicotine that was no longer anesthetic, and struggled to turn on the light bulb in the room, and the tattered tungsten light bulb lit up with it, and he himself had been lying on the bed with the futon several times, always staring at the light bulb, yes, Lili had done the same thing several times.

And now? The tattered tungsten light bulb was still the same, and he turned off the light and went out, without closing the door, because there was no need at all, because there was nothing in the room.

He cried silently, his steps were hurried and extremely messy, he didn't know where he was going, was he going to work for an Internet company? Really, I'm so confused.

Walking into the alleys of this ancient town again, the scenes of the past are vivid, the former roommates, the former apprentices, and even the former Lili, yes, he also saw the night when he first met Lili, in the dark night, she hid in the gatehouse here, she seemed to still stand here, her eyes were full of confusion and fear......

In the small shop at the mouth of the alley, the old man is still sitting inside, still holding his purple sand cup, now? The madman was alone and walked straight in, and the old man got up in an instant and took a bottle of the strongest liquor, Beijing Erguotou, which was sixty-five degrees of wine.

When the old man saw the tears still flowing in his eyes, he smiled and said, "What about your friends?" ”

But he didn't speak, just paid, and when the old man saw that he didn't speak, he didn't say anything more, but just sat back down with a smile and picked up his purple sand cup again, which was really nothing more, as if nothing had ever happened in this small shop until now.

He walked out of the shop, and the sun was so dazzling and hot. He opened the liquor, cooed and cooed, and drank three sips in one go, and all of a sudden the liquor was crazy and burning, cough cough ...... He began to cough violently, squatting on the ground and continuing to cough, his nose and mouth were full of the extremely pungent smell of liquor, and his eyes that were still tearful could not be opened at the moment.

He coughed for a long time, then got up, wiped his tears indiscriminately, at this moment, he felt like crazy, so scared, as if there was nothing in his heart all of a sudden, he took another sip of wine, and this time he was not choked, he just felt so scared, so he took out his mobile phone, looked at the phone number in the address book, it was his beloved, and his own number, and directly edited the text message to his beloved: I'm so scared.

The text message was sent, but there was no response at all, yes, as if there would never be a response, he lit a cigarette, and the road was still full of people and cars, as if everything had never changed anything, but? The world looks so dim, there is no color at all, there is really no color at all, and it is as if all the prosperity and hustle and bustle here have suddenly disappeared.

He walked to the company, tried to wipe his tears, he carried the bottle, ran into the boss, the boss seemed to be ready to tell him, you can't drink bars in the company? No, the boss sensed that he was very abnormal at the moment, so the boss stopped talking, and tacitly accepted that he could drink today.

He didn't say hello to his boss, he just sat numbly next to his computer, and there were a few new employees next to him, who only came yesterday, right? Like the day before yesterday? I don't know, I really don't know, he just grunted again, took a big sip of wine, and started the computer.

Suddenly, a girl with dyed yellow hair next to him spoke: "Master, do you know my account password?" ”

Master? He turned his head, oh? By the way, he is a master, and the seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl next to him is his apprentice, and he grinned bitterly: "I don't know, I'll go find you an administrator." ”

He got up, and even carried his wine bottle, and found the administrator in the smell of alcohol, the administrator was a boy, twenty-five years old, right? I don't know, but he looked at him blankly, and then at the wine bottle in his hand, as if he wanted to say something, right? But he wanted to say something and stopped, and he explained his intention to the administrator.

He returned to where he worked, and the administrator followed, logging his apprentice into the game account, and then his apprentice continued to play the game, but what about him? That's right, he was staring at the computer screen in a daze, he was really in a daze, he didn't know what to think at all, his mind was blank, he just wanted to cry, he felt so uncomfortable, so uncomfortable, and he felt so scared.

At this moment, he must be an outlier in this company, yes, he didn't talk to anyone today, he just played his own game, drank liquor, and went out of the room to smoke cigarettes from time to time, and even today's cigarettes were smoked so fast, during which he bought them twice.

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After work in the evening, he returned to his dormitory alone, gritted his teeth and closed the door fiercely, it seemed that if he had more strength, this dilapidated room would collapse, he moved his bedding and other messy things to the empty Lili room, he found the landlord and told the landlord that he would live here in the future.

In this room, it seems that there is still Lili's residual breath at the moment, in fact, there is nothing, suddenly he found a black spot on the ground at the head of the bed with the help of the light of the tattered tungsten light bulb, he wiped it with his hand, it was the pen ink, it should be Lili used to absorb ink for the fountain pen, accidentally fell on the ground.

He giggled very bitterly, now? Start recording, but? What exactly is to be recorded? I don't know, so let's scribble? But as soon as he picked up the gel pen and saw the notebook, he just wrote: Today, Lili said goodbye without saying goodbye. Then, he really didn't know what to write.

He longed to write more about Lili, but nothing happened, he wanted to write about his roommate, but without a roommate, he was his own roommate. He drank again, smoked again, and the tiny room was filled with smoke from the light of the tattered tungsten light, oh? Is this smoky?

It seems like? There seem to be a few flying insects that don't like smoke very much, right? They even dodge, and it seems that mosquitoes can still buzz in their ears, summer? Is it? Is it summer? I don't know.

He probably felt like he had been in a daze for too long, right? So I took out my phone and looked at it blankly, waiting for Yuhan's reply? Or are you expecting an unfamiliar phone number to come in all of a sudden? In fact, these are extravagant hopes, no one will call him, and Yuhan, who is someone else's girlfriend, has no obligation to reply to his text messages from this good-for-nothing person.

Or rather, at this moment, there was nothing in his eyes, as if he couldn't see the light, but the light existed in this small and smoky room, and he was in a daze for a long, long time, until he was really sleepy, drinking, turning off the lights, lighting a cigarette, and sleeping.

Soon, in the dark silence, the cigarette in his hand burned out, and he threw the cigarette butt on the ground casually, muttering softly: "Dreamers all over the world, good night, Lili, good night." ”

But why say good night to Lili? All of a sudden, there were thousands of thoughts, all of a sudden I couldn't help crying, I cried silently, my heart hurt as if it was completely superfluous, it was a severe pain, how could it be so painful?

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And this dazzling, more than ten days have passed quietly, the madman at this time, he is still sitting in front of his company's computer, still playing games, but the people around him have changed, he doesn't know, but he seems to know again, because these people are his apprentices, and they were re-recruited by the boss.

The room was full of people, and it was chaotic, everyone was telling their beautiful dreams, telling that in the game they could go to heaven and earth, they could do anything, they said, without the game, it was like there was no life, they had to show their strength in the game, for the future, for the happiness of the work.

Oh? Maybe that's what people call hilarious, right? But? Why doesn't the madman himself feel the excitement? What he saw in his eyes seemed to be the departure of this group of people again, he thought of Lili again, and his mood was extremely complicated in an instant, he picked up the wine bottle at his feet, cooed, and took a big sip of wine, and some of these new employees actually patted their ass, saying, the master's amount of alcohol is really good or something.

The madman just smiled helplessly when he heard this kind of sycophancy, and even suddenly bitter, because he thought of Lili again, I don't know how Lili is now, has she found a good job? He was really worried about Lili, and even thought that Lili might still be in the city, but she just changed jobs, right?