Chapter 296: World Virus (11)
The sunset in the evening is full of red blood.
The dilapidated five-story tube building in the urban village has peeling paint on the exterior walls, and there are some colors in the dust.
Small advertisements are plastered everywhere on the four walls, and the clotheslines and wires that are randomly pulled up above the aisle ruthlessly cut the sky that can be seen when you look up, leaving only a small square tile blue and bright as if sitting in a well and watching the sky.
Each floor is densely populated with noisy people.
The clothes on the corridor rope are displayed at will, there is always impenetrable sewage flowing on the ground, various packaging bags thrown in the corners at will, and the space with poor sound insulation and no privacy at all, revealing the almost rough survival essence of the people at the bottom.
"Hey, that kid looks different from everyone else. I knew she was going to have a good time! ”
"It's really a different person's creation, you said that she has no father or mother, and no one has ever taken care of her, and even the tuition fees have to be earned by herself, but people are still admitted to prestigious universities!"
In the narrow and dim corridor, several middle-aged women sitting on the edge of the steps washing vegetables were chatting, and there was a bit of excitement with honor in their conversations.
An uncle in a sweatshirt leaned out of the next room, and interjected with a smile:
"Who said no, I haven't seen a girl who is more beautiful than her, this famous university is gilded, and after graduation, she marries a good family, and she doesn't have to continue to suffer in this tube building."
"Lao Li, I think you are sour, your son's virtue still wants to fight Qiaoqiao's idea, people are not yet adults, what do you say if you marry or not."
"That's it, it's not the same as before, I think Qiaoqiao is amazing, maybe he will open a company and become a big boss in the future."
"Oops. She's back!"
In the magnificent glow of the evening, a slender figure gradually appeared at the entrance of the passage.
The girl's face was a little pale, looking like she hadn't been in the sun for a long time, her black hair, simply tied a high ponytail, revealing clear eyebrows and eyes, and her eyes were calm, revealing a little coldness.
Around his neck, he hung a key threaded with a woolen string, which made a faint clanging sound when he hit the zipper of his school uniform.
Dressed in a blue and white school uniform, he was washed and white, carrying a schoolbag that was also badly worn, and even the strap had obvious stitch marks.
The bicycle pushed at hand, creaking, and the whole body was full of poverty, and the poverty of life was obvious.
"Jojo, why did you come back?"
"Just now, the director of the street office came over and said that he was going to pull a banner for you, I heard that you were admitted to the Z University, ouch, congratulations!"
"I knew you were a child. I haven't eaten dinner yet, wait, Aunt Wang bought cheap lettuce today, bring you two to add vegetables! ”
"Do you want to bring some chili peppers too?"
"It's all vegetarian, we Qiaoqiao was admitted to such a good university, today is still your 18th birthday, don't eat something good. Uncle Li gives you half a piece of meat, make up for it, you see how thin you are. ”
The warm and friendly faces gradually became quiet in the girl's strange smile.
"Jojo, what's wrong with you?"
Aunt Wang always felt that today's Gu Qiao looked a little weird, with a gloomy expression and a pale complexion, as if she hadn't rested for a long time, and she was full of exhaustion.
The eyes she looked at were also a little weird, excited and restrained and calm, and a little weirdly sad.
"I'm back."
The girl smiled at her, and the strange expressions faded in an instant, and she became the familiar well-behaved and sensible little girl again.
"Hey, I'm back, Aunt Wang knows that I'm going to get the vegetables, you wait."
"Hey, I'm back, Aunt Wang knows that I'm going to get the vegetables, you wait."
"No more"
Gu Qiao, who was about to carry his bicycle upstairs, showed a detached smile at the door of his neighbor and went upstairs silently.
"What's wrong with the kid today and how does it look. It's like I've been bullied outside. ”
Behind him, there was the whispering of Aunt Wang and others.
Gu Qiao pursed his lips and turned his head slowly, his gaze swept over the figures almost greedily, and he just watched in silence as if he was afraid of being disturbed.
Until someone came down the stairs and greeted her with a smile:
"Jojo, you're back."
Gu Qiao turned his head, raised his eyes, and looked at the woman with a big belly, Fang Cai's strange emotions rushed to the top.
She opened her mouth and shouted, "Sister Xiaojuan." ”
"Hey, congratulations, I heard that you were admitted to Z University!"
The woman responded with a smile, holding her waist and carefully going downstairs to wait for her husband, who was about to come back from work.
Gu Qiao looked stunned, the woman's smiling face, and the bloody face, flashed back and forth in front of Gu Qiao's eyes.
She seemed to have had a long nightmare, in which all the familiar faces in the building were fine, and now that she had woken up, she had returned to reality.
Gu Qiao raised his hand and touched his eyebrows, and those nightmarish memories in his mind became a little blurry at this moment.
She was desperate to go home, but she couldn't restrain her emotions at this moment, and walked up a few floors and into the hallway, until she stood in front of the door of the rental house, and her body trembled faintly.
I don't know if it's excitement or fear.
"I'm back."
The door clicked open, and Gu Qiao walked in.
The familiar display made her feel a little strange at this moment, and she really hadn't been home for a long time.
When he was about to step into the door, Gu Qiao's figure paused, and glanced back at the blood-colored dusk sky.
From the beginning, she had always felt that there was a gaze watching her secretly.
There was also a faint murmur of broken noise, like the buzzing of insects.
But when the corridor looked out, the corridors on all sides were empty.
Bang –
The door closed, Gu Qiao frowned, and walked into the house.
Until her figure completely disappeared into the corridor, the air outside the door fluctuated, and an anxious mechanical voice came:
"Gu Qiao, Gu Qiao, can't you really hear me, I'm Eva, look at me!"
"Oh no, we're completely disconnected, Gu Qiao doesn't seem to remember anything, could it be that the tragedy will happen again, should I bind her again?"
The fluctuating air gradually returned to calm.