While the wind and rain invaded the island, it was also like a huge invisible spoon, violently churning the atmosphere.

The sky is like a sponge wrung out uncontrollably, squeezing out the rain, mercilessly locking up all sounds.

Jiang Yuanshen hurriedly ran out of the worship hall, the gray downpour outside became more violent, and the atmosphere of the festival in the air had already been slaughtered.

Tourists walked down the mountain in groups at the moment of the rain, and only the vendors who had not had time to withdraw their stalls still landed here to deal with the aftermath.

The ground was littered with garbage, and the food thrown on the ground looked like tiny corpses, emitting oil stains that looked like the outline of oil spreading across the ocean.

"Why is it raining all of a sudden?"

"It's over! These ingredients are inedible! ”

"The sky lantern is gone......

Jiang Yuanshen rushed into the rain curtain, making a crackling sound under his feet, and his shoes were also making an ugly crackling sound.

- There won't be many places she can go to, because Chitori Island is small......

As soon as this thought popped up in his mind, Jiang Yuanshen couldn't help but slap himself.

Although the two have discussed that Chitori Island is small, is Chitori Island really small? Is it small enough to know exactly where everyone is?

The splash of water had already wet his body, and Jiang Yuanshen hurriedly rushed down the stone slab with an unknown number of steps.

Bang Bang –

The back heel suddenly stepped on the takoyaki that was discarded by someone I don't know, causing Jiang Yuanshen to lose his center of gravity, and the whole person rolled down the stairs in embarrassment.

He hurriedly supported his body with his hands, but his cheeks still rubbed heavily against the ground.

- Shaoxing took the bus and walked home, at her speed, it should be close to an hour......

If it's in the direction of home.

Jiang Yuanshen didn't stop for a moment to come to the bus stop at the foot of the mountain.

At this time, there are already many people waiting in line for the bus, and even the orange-painted bus has already lined up in a long line, and the lights are dazzling.

Even on a rainy night, the speed of the bus did not decrease at all, and it rushed past Jiang Yuanshen's side.

There was a staff member at the scene who arranged the order of getting on the bus, and he didn't care about the pain and wet body, and walked forward quickly.

"I'm sorry, but did you see a girl in a purple kimono?"

A short and stocky female staff member with her back to Jiang Yuanshen turned around when she heard the voice, and when she saw a dirty guy, she was suddenly startled.

It was inevitable that the people around him would get drenched, and the boy seemed to have crawled out of a ditch full of weeds.

Not only the staff, but everyone else looked at Jiang Yuanshen dumbfounded, even if it rained so badly.

"Are you alright?" The staff member kindly asked.

Jiang Yuanshen's mind went blank.

"Have you ever seen a girl in a purple kimono?"

A "purple kimono" alone is not enough to remind people, after all, many girls wear purple kimonos today.

But only the apricot shook in the sky was impressive, and the short and fat middle-aged woman immediately raised her eyebrows and said:

"Is it a barefoot? Hair to the shoulders? A girl who looks beautiful? ”

"Yes, yes, where is she? I'm looking for her. ”

"I've been in the car back to the town for a long time, and it's estimated that I've been on it for almost half an hour, it's strange, I obviously have shoes but don't wear them, isn't it appropriate? I don't run when it's raining. Humpty Dumpty shouted as he spoke, "Everyone, get on the bus in an orderly manner!" Don't crowd, don't cut in line! Enough vehicles! ”

"Thank you!" After Jiang Yuanshen finished speaking, he immediately jumped into the queue and got on the bus directly, "I'm sorry!" I really have something very important! ”

The people in the queue and on the bus frowned slightly, but when they saw that Jiang Yuanshen was dirty, no one spoke to accuse him first, so he didn't say anything.

Jiang Yuanshen stood directly in the aisle, and the socks wrapped around his feet were stained with water at this time, which was particularly annoying to the touch.

The bus has finally started -

Most of the people in the car were from outside the island, and they were sharing today's journey with their mobile phones.

"Luckily, it rained, and I didn't finish eating."

"I'm laughing to death, he was just about to eat takoyaki when he got wet in the rain."

"I'm a wet beautiful girl, will you fall in love with a wet me?"

"The sky lantern is really outrageous, that person is really good or bad!"

"Hmmm! Good or bad! Already uploaded? ”

"If it's uploaded, the number of hits will definitely exceed 10,000!"

"Mom's sky lantern is gone...... Woohoo......"

From time to time, there were broken words carrying various emotions around him, and Jiang Yuan looked absentmindedly out of the car window, the halo formed by the street lamp.

The lights move quickly along the road, drenching the bodies of everyone in the car.

He suddenly discovered that Zhitori Island may have various meaningful values for some people, but in the eyes of others, it is meaningless garbage.

Even if one day it sinks, it is limited to surprise.

Jiang Yuan looked up as he grabbed the ring, and saw his mud-stained face reflected in the car window, like a creature out of his control, twitching with pain.

No wonder no one said they cut the line......

If yesterday's Chaokong Shaoxing saw her appearance, she would definitely laugh and tease herself-

"I knew you often went into the sea to catch fish!"

With bloody saliva in his mouth, he swallowed and gritted his teeth.

A number of buses drove along the mountainside, their lights adding to the darkness around them.

There are people on the outer islands who don't care about themselves, and they smile happily at the camera, and take a photo of him in a low voice with him as the background.

A labyrinth of white stars appeared on the inside of his eyelids, and Jiang Yuanshen pressed his eyes tightly with his palms, hoping to reach the station when he opened his eyes.

◇

Chitori Island is very small, and it took a fifteen-minute bus ride to the station in the town.

The torrential rain has quietly stopped.

The moment Jiang Yuanshen stepped off the bus, the muscles in his whole body ached as if he were moaning, but even so, he still strode towards the house of shaking apricots in the sky.

There are a large number of raindrops on the eaves of residential streets, which fall on iron tiles, plastic bags, branches and leaves, puddles, and soil, making clumsy sounds.

In the chaotic rhythm, even the faint creak of the soil absorbing the rain can be heard.

Jiang Yuan ran for more than ten minutes panting, and finally saw the outline of Chaokong's house in his eyes.

The house was dark, and there was not a glimmer of light.

Jiang Yuanshen came to the door, and the hot air exhaled seemed to be overdrawing his vitality.

He held the door with one hand and kept ringing the doorbell with the other.

But there was no answer, and during this time, the chill that seemed to cling to his back continued.

- Not at home? She's not at home? Where else can you be when you're not at home? Where else could she go?

I rang the doorbell while thinking about it, but no one came out.

Jiang Yuanshen looked at the white-painted gate in front of him dizzily.

He only now realized that he couldn't find any places where she might go.

Nowhere else!

- Where can she go, and where can she go......

As soon as he thought that he didn't know anything about shaking apricots in the sky, Jiang Yuanshen's heart felt a heart-rending pain, like a sharp arrow inserted into his chest, ripping blood and flesh.

Will she be in the park she played with as a child? Or in the port? Or under the ginkgo tree that day?

Jiang Yuan thought about it carefully, and there were only a few places where he might go to shake the apricots in the sky.

For the first time, he complained in his heart, why did Bird Island be so big.

◇

Ran to the park where he played when he was a child, but Jiang Yuanshen hadn't been there since he came back, and he didn't know what had become of it.

"Eh, eh! That man! The one who is running! ”

Suddenly, an anxious voice came.

Jiang Yuan stopped cautiously and looked at the place where the voice came from.

I saw a woman in her thirties trotting out of a store selling second-hand clothes while stretching out her hand towards him.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Yuan stopped cautiously, but his heart quickly let his body drive up, "I'm sorry, I'll ...... later."

The woman hurriedly grabbed his arm to prevent him from running away.

"What are you anxious about? Do you go to school every morning with the children of the Asakura family? I should have a good relationship with her, right? ”

Jiang Yuanshen glanced at her, he and Chaokong Shaoxing walked this street every morning to take a car, and it was not uncommon for them to be seen by nearby residents.

But when she heard the words "children of the Asaka family", it was difficult to hide the excitement in her heart.

"Yes, did you see her?! I'm looking for her! ”

"Hey, I'm so worried, listen to me, she just bought a second-hand dress here......" The woman's tone was full of helplessness.

Finally with her news, Jiang Yuanshen's body was trembling.

"How long? How long ago? Where is she? Where are you going? ”

"Listen to me, she bought a second-hand dress, but forgot to take it, and I specifically told her to take it away."

She re-entered the storefront, picked up a kimono with purple violet flowers from the bamboo basket, and walked straight to Jiang Yuanshen.

"She didn't take this kimono with her, can you help me give it to her? I'm in charge of this shop alone, and if I go out to pay it back, I'll have to close it, which is quite troublesome. ”

Looking at the kimono on her arms, the water stains on it were dazzling in the light of the fluorescent lamp.

Jiang Yuanshen's hot breath blocked his throat, and his chest was bitter and uncomfortable.

This is the purple pansy yukata that was worn during today's festival in the sky.

"I'm going to get dirty now, but I'll definitely bring her back to pick it up later, can you tell me where she's gone?" His throat throbbed up and down.

“...... Okay, okay, I'll open the door at 8 o'clock in the morning, so I'll have to come and get it. The woman smacked her tongue and pointed to the other side of the street, "She walked there." ”

Jiang Yuanshen looked in the direction she was pointing, and was stunned for a moment.

The night hung over the area like a fluffy curtain of a theater, and it was darkness as far as the eye could see, and there was no sound of people walking or the roar of car engines.

There is only noise during the day, and only the whispering of the night at night.

Looking at the large area that seemed to be soaked in black ink, the lonely melancholy in Jiang Yuanshen's heart was suddenly revealed.

That area, which was also the site of the last major earthquake, was where he lived as a child, and where Kyoko Egen lost her life.

Indescribable emotions rose into the air, rushing to the face, overwhelming, surging like ocean waves, repeatedly attacking Jiang Yuanshen.

He nodded slightly in thanks to the female store manager, gasped and walked there.

Just then, the phone in his pocket vibrate.

Jiang Yuanshen took out his mobile phone and found that it was a call from Officer Jun Ito.

He frowned, but picked up the phone as he walked.

"Hello?"

"Jiang Yuan? Where are you now?! On the other side of the earpiece, it was Jun Ito's impatient shout, which was sure to be a shout.

"I didn't run, I'm still on the island." Jiang Yuanshen said as calmly as possible.

"I'm not talking about this, I'm talking about ...... Shake the apricot and find it. ”

Jiang Yuan stopped cautiously, and his breathing stopped abruptly at that moment.

"Where?!"

I could hear Juna Ito's long snort: "Now...... I am being taken to the hospital. ”

“...... What did you say? ”

"Sorry, we found her in the ruins......"

"Ruins?"

"Hmm..... We found her in the ruins of your house. ”

“——？！”

"You calm down first, she probably drank something, and now she's on her way to the hospital-"

Jiang Yuan couldn't help but tremble, and he couldn't hear anything other than the cry of Jun Ito and the sound of raindrops falling.

The sense of time fades, and darkness approaches from behind.

The night slowly changed the color of everything around it.

◇

Jiang Yuanshen walked into the cold hospital dizzily, and the smell of disinfectant water was extremely choking.

The narrow corridor was crowded with many adults, and Jun Ito and the other policemen were nearby, and when he saw Jiang Yuanshen walking in, he immediately came quickly.

"Jiang Yuan, listen to me first, it stands to reason that as long as you carry out gastric lavage and catharsis, it is no problem, in short, you have to control your emotions-"

Jiang Yuanshen's cold body leaned against the wall, and the eyes of Christ on one side fell on him indiscriminately.

The narrow passage in front of me is like the tunnel that feels bottomless when I first came to Chitori Island, and there is no end in sight.

"Woo——! Shake the apricot ——! ”

Suddenly, there was a mournful cry in the hallway, causing the air to shake slightly.

Asakura Masamune collapsed to the ground in front of the tall doctor, and the voice in his throat became as unpleasant as the cry of a toad.

He roared violently, groaned, roared, writhed on the ground in pain, cried like a child, and finally went crazy and pounded his cheeks.

Soon, the doctor, who had seen a lot of winds and waves, came over from front of Asakura Masamune and said to Jun Ito with great regret:

"Sorry, we tried our best......"

Jun Ito subconsciously glanced at the boy next to him.

Jiang Yuanshen's pupils shrank, as if he was engulfed by a dark whirlpool, and the fear that his body and soul were slowly being crushed made him scream.

"Ahhh——!h

I couldn't stop the tears, and I desperately tried not to let myself fall to the ground, and only the tears flowing down my cheeks were hot.

The time that is desperately trying to save has rushed to the torrent of destruction, and it is inevitable that it will "pass".

I can't see each other again, I can't contact again, I can't even continue to hate it.

- "Caution too...... Can you feel more ...... me?"

The last words of shaking the apricot in the air, like a stuck CD, kept repeating, repeating, repeating in Jiang Yuanshen's mind......

Like the wind, it never stops.