Six years after graduating from university.

As a member of the city's migrant workers, Wang Cong is immersed in busy work all day long, even if he has occasional leisure time, he wastes his time in games.

On this day, a strange call came to his mobile phone.

"Hello?"

"Wang Cong! You obviously know that Chen Mo is real, he just disappeared suddenly, I'm not crazy, why don't you tell them about Chen Mo! Why! ”

Hearing the angry voice on the other end of the phone, Wang Cong's face was very ugly.

"I ......"

A touch of guilt and apology appeared in his eyes, Wang Cong swallowed, not knowing what to do.

"Chen Mo is real! I'm not crazy! You bastard! ”

Without waiting for Wang Cong to respond, he hung up the phone.

Because of this phone call, Wang Cong's mental state was in a trance for the next whole day.

Night.

Wang Cong returned to the apartment alone, and the room alone was exceptionally quiet.

He took off his coat, turned on the lamp, and sat quietly at his desk, his chin propped up with his hands, his expression gradually becoming painful as his eyes grew more and more guilty.

"It's been ten years, because I don't want to be like you, to be a crazy person in everyone's eyes, and I've been telling others that Chen Mo doesn't exist in their eyes, I just want to live a normal life."

It all started in a full-time vocational school for fine arts in the provincial capital around the capital.

The time was March 12, 2011, 56 days before the college entrance examination, and that day was Chen Mo's birthday.

The reason why Wang Cong remembers it so clearly is because on March 11 of that year, a magnitude 9 earthquake struck the waters around an island country, triggering a large tsunami, and the students in the class celebrated warmly because of their patriotic feelings.

Since the school is a full-time closed management, the college entrance examination is about to begin, and everyone is under a lot of pressure, I remember that Chen Mo also said that day that tomorrow is his birthday, and he should also celebrate it.

Then came the nuclear radiation leak and the salt rush.

With the recollection, Wang Cong's thoughts became more and more distant, as if he had returned to the winter of that year, the day when Chen Mo disappeared.

……

At that time, I was very introverted, I didn't have many friends at school, and I only interacted with two classmates often.

One is Wu Huiteng, who is at the same table, and the other is Chen Mo, who has been living with his grandmother in the neighbor's house.

Chen Mo lived with his grandmother because his parents divorced and remarried, and I became neighbors, we have been in the same class since junior high school, and later entered high school together, and we are still assigned to the same class, so the relationship is naturally needless to say.

In order to celebrate Chen Mo's birthday, I specially called and asked my cousin to order a cake from outside and send it over.

There is a low wall in the backyard of the school, outside is a dirt road under the railway, and there is a breeding farm behind it, which is relatively remote, so there are often people climbing over the wall here, and the teacher often comes here to check on duty, which makes me frightened for a long time when I receive the cake.

Chen Mo also doesn't have many friends, but he is not withdrawn, just because of family reasons, he is reluctant to take the initiative to communicate, but because he is very handsome, fair-skinned, and very good at studying, he scored 148 points in mathematics in the sophomore final exam, the first in the whole grade in a single subject, and the eighth in the school in total, so I know that many female classmates like him.

At noon that day, the three of us met in the abandoned dormitory building at the back of the school to celebrate Chen Mo's birthday in private.

This dormitory building was not abandoned before, but was rented to another railway vocational school, but because of the school's poor discipline, the lease was not renewed and it was vacant.

The brick building looks very shabby, the red bricks are starting to darken and smell musty, but it has become a favorite spot for some couples at the school.

In the evening, someone will play badminton here, usually a freshman in high school.

Wu Huiteng and I both took gifts.

Needless to say, my cake was given by Wu Huiteng for a pair of Yonex badminton rackets, which cost about a few hundred yuan, which was a huge amount of money for us at that time.

Chen Mo also gave us a gift in return.

Wu Huiteng was given the full volume of the "Slam Dunk" comic book, and I was given a Winnie the Pooh keychain, which his parents bought from abroad before their divorce.

After eating the cake, there was still some time before class, Wu Huiteng proposed to play badminton, saying that he wanted to feel his Yonex racket again, six balls per person, and he would lose.

Although the weather in March in the north was very cold, the sun was a bit dazzling, and there was wind, which was not suitable for playing badminton, so when we played, we unconsciously began to approach the abandoned dormitory building to avoid the wind, until Wu Huiteng used too much force and hit the badminton into the window on the second floor of the abandoned dormitory building.

All the windows in this building were closed with broken wooden boards, and many of the glass behind the wooden boards were broken, and the shuttlecock fell through the cracks in the broken wooden boards.

Because there was only one ball, Wu Huiteng proposed to go in and pick up the ball.

Some people said that before the school was established, there was a cemetery here, and some strange things had happened, and I was a little scared, but Chen Mo said that it was his gift, so he climbed in through the window with Wu Huiteng.

I was in charge of letting the wind out of the air to prevent the teacher on duty from coming.

I remember very well that after at least twenty minutes, the two of them had not moved in there, and I couldn't help but look around, and climbed in.

The hallway was very dark, with only a little light coming through the windows sealed by broken wooden boards, and there was dust everywhere and some rotting musty smell.

I mustered my courage, lowered my voice, and shouted Wu Huiteng and Chen Mo a few times, for fear of being heard by people passing by outside, but I didn't get a response.

Since the shuttlecock fell to the second floor, I tried to go up to the staircase to see, the sound of the wind blowing in through the gap in the window, like the cry of many people, was less than 100 meters away, I walked for about two or three minutes, during which I called the two of them several times and did not respond.

"Ahh

In the gloomy corridor, there was a sudden scream.

I got goosebumps, and almost without thinking about it, I reflexively ran towards the window where I came, and crawled out of the window, and then I gasped for breath to see Wu Huiteng also crawl out of the window.

"Where's Chen Mo?"

I asked Wu Huiteng.

At the time, I thought it was the two of them working together to scare me.

"I don't know!"

Wu Huiteng gasped: "He said that the keychain was given to you, his key seemed to have fallen to the place where he had just picked up the ball, so he went back to find the key, I was waiting for him, the ghost scream startled me, and I ran away when I heard someone running, and I thought it was Chen Mo." ”

Only then did I realize that he had mistaken me for Chen Mo.

"How did you get in for so long?"

"Aren't we going in for less than a minute?"

Wu Huiteng's words made me a little confused, I had been waiting here for at least twenty minutes.

Next, the two of us waited outside for a long time while wheezing, but we didn't see Chen Mo come out, and we stretched our heads into the corridor several times to look into the corridor and call Chen Mo's name, but we didn't get a response.

It wasn't until the class bell rang that Wu Huiteng noticed that the "Slam Dunk" comic book that Chen Mo gave him was gone, and it was obviously placed on the concrete floor before.

Without thinking too much, we hurried towards the classroom.

When we got to the classroom, the math teacher had already arrived for a while, was lecturing, and we didn't say anything to see us panting, and let us in.

We were at the same table, sitting in the opposite back row, so we naturally passed by Chen Mo's seat, but found that his seat was occupied by Rong Yeye, the representative of the mathematics class.

After the two of us sat down, we searched in the class for a while, but we didn't see Chen Mo.

"Did you see Chen Mo?"

I quietly patted Zhu Yidan's shoulder at the front table and asked in a whisper.

"Who is Chen Mo?"

Zhu Yidan's rhetorical question made me stunned for a moment.

She has had a crush on Chen Mo since her freshman year of high school.

Wu Huiteng seemed to be a little impatient, and repeated: "Chen Mo! ”

The math teacher threw a chalk head and asked Wu Huiteng to stand up and listen to the class, and we could only force our doubts and wait until the end of class.

As soon as class ended, Wu Huiteng began to ask Chen Mo about the news one after another in the class, but everyone showed a confused look without exception, who is Chen Mo?

Even Chen Mo's previous tablemates all looked puzzled, as if everyone didn't remember Chen Mo, or this person never appeared.

Wu Huiteng once thought that the whole class had joined forces to deceive him.

Then he began to ask his classmates in other classes, and even asked the teacher, but he got the same result, Chen Mo seemed to disappear out of thin air, and everyone forgot about his existence, including the transcript on the wall, and Chen Mo's name was gone.

This feeling is like there is some kind of power that has brought Chen Mo to another dimension, and there is a mysterious force in this universe that repairs the negligible impact of Chen Mo's disappearance.

Wu Huiteng was a little stunned later, and when he saw people, he said that Chen Mo had disappeared.

The head teacher noticed Wu Huiteng's abnormality and called his parents, saying that it was because of the pressure of the college entrance examination that he was looking for non-existent classmates all day long, and suggested psychological counseling treatment.

At the beginning, Wu Huiteng also told everyone about Chen Mo's past again and again in the QQ class group, including Chen Mo's previous grades, who he had a good relationship with in the class, and then he was kicked out of the class group by the unbearable class leader.

During the college entrance examination, Wu Huiteng came to school once, and he asked me in public, why didn't I tell others about Chen Mo.

I was scared because I didn't want to be crazy in the eyes of others, so I didn't speak.

"Chen Mo is wrong! I'm not crazy! I've made a mistake with a friend like you! ”

I still remember that Wu Huiteng, who was watched by everyone with strange eyes, tried to pull me out to testify after repeated painful and powerless defenses, but my silence finally turned his gaze into anger when he looked at me.

He hated Chen Mo for not justifying him for the mysterious disappearance, he was not a madman.