Chapter 1: She Disappeared
In the late summer evening, the flamboyant noise of the finches breaks through the twilight and disappears into the red glow on the horizon.
The balconies of the school building and the school road were crowded with students eating melons and watching the excitement, watching the police car and ambulance drive away from the school.
The oolong incident that caused a sensation among teachers and students was 'suspected of a university girl jumping off a building' came to an end with the twilight.
The evacuation of the guards did not extinguish the heat of discussion among the melon-eating college students, and between word of mouth, the beginning and end of the matter became more and more mysterious-
Someone said, 'Who can jump off a building!' I haven't heard anything downstairs all the time! β
Someone said, 'Jump!' What a jump! You don't even know that scene, my son almost smashed me when he gave me food......
Someone said, 'It's not a girl who dances, it seems to be the grass from the computer department!' β
Someone said, 'Don't make trouble, it's the police of Zhou Zhongqing's newspaper, how can it be that he jumped?' β
Everyone began to look around: "What about Zhou Zhongqing?" β
Zhou Zhongqing is in the school's psychological counseling room at this time.
After making the record, at the strong suggestion and request of the police officer, he came to the psychological counseling room for a simple examination - because no one was found to have jumped off the building from beginning to end, and the informant Zhou Zhongqing swore that a girl jumped from the roof of the building in front of him and jumped down without any hesitation.
ββ¦β¦ That's the nineteenth floor! After listening carefully to Zhou Zhongqing's story, Doctor Li lifted his glasses and looked at the young man in his early twenties in front of him.
"Not really! Nineteenth floor! She jumped off in a daze! I was stupid, you know? Zhou Zhongqing looked palpitating.
Thinking back to the scene just now, Zhou Zhongqing still has a strong sense of unreality, the girl's face is firmly engraved in his mind, not because she is good-looking, of course, this is one of the reasons.
The important thing is that she jumped down with a resolute, emotionless expression, which didn't give him the slightest chance to save it, and she jumped from the nineteenth floor in front of him!
This Nima's, she really doesn't plan to live! Are all college students so crispy these days!
It was supposed to be a beautiful late summer evening, but I didn't expect to witness such a sudden scene on the rooftop.
Zhou Zhongqing was dumbfounded at the time, hurriedly took out his mobile phone to call the police, ran down the stairs all the way, and when he returned to the ground, his lungs seemed to be dried by the dry and hot air at the end of summer, and his breathing was hot and painful.
ββ¦β¦ What did you see when you came to the ground? β
"Nothing!"
"A girl."
"Yes."
"She jumped from the nineteenth floor."
"Yes."
"This is the place for sure."
"Yes."
"And then there's nothing on the ground."
ββ¦β¦ Right. β
When he said this answer, even Zhou Zhongqing himself hesitated for a while, and after recalling it again and again, he still gave an affirmative answer, and before that, he had already answered no less than three times.
Dr. Li's mentality was obviously calmer than that of the police officers who made the notes, and he glanced at Zhou Zhongqing deeply with a somewhat pitiful gaze, as the most popular confidant sister in the school's psychological counseling room, the state of this handsome junior in front of him was really worrying and regrettable.
"But how is this possible......" Her voice softened, trying to minimize irritation to him.
"yes, how is that possible?" Zhou Zhongqing frowned, and asked her in turn.
"Don't think about it yet, you say is there a possibility, you ......"
"Senior sister, I'm not sick."
"That's what everyone who comes to me says."
ββ¦β¦β
Seeing that Zhou Zhongqing was silent, Dr. Li eased up and continued to ask, "Did you say anything when you saw her upstairs?" β
Zhou Zhongqing was not in the mood to talk about mental illness, he was energetic when he talked about this, and he retold the conversation on the rooftop as it was, not only because he had a good memory, but mainly because he said those two sentences-
'Classmates! Y-What are you doing?! β
ββ¦β¦ Can you see me? β
'There's something to discuss, hey! It's too dangerous on the side, or you ...... first. Hey, hey!! ! β
"And then?"
"And then she jumped."
Zhou Zhongqing repeated it like this, and this scene still made his scalp tingle when he recalled it, and he couldn't even think of what it would be like to make such a young girl in the flower season seem to be doing such a thing as drinking water and eating, so resolutely, so calmly, and without the slightest hesitation to give up her life.
"Hmm."
Dr. Lee nodded, "...... So she's actually surprised you can see her? β
"Maybe?" Zhou Zhongqing also thought about it, and it was true that almost no one went to the rooftop.
"And what are you going to do on the rooftop?"
"I didn't do anything, I took advantage of the good weather to go up and blow the wind and play the guitar."
"You just want to be alone for a while, don't you?"
"That's normal, isn't it?"
"Has the junior been under a lot of pressure lately?"
"It's fine."
Dr. Li used to be the senior sister of one of his clubs, and he also knew a little about Zhou Zhongqing's family situation, his parents were dead, his sister had a house, his sister was young, and he usually had to rely on him to take care of her, and her family background was not rich, for a college student who was only 20 years old, this kind of family background was somewhat stressful.
"Getting used to pressure doesn't mean that pressure doesn't exist, you usually pay more attention to rest, and you can also tell your senior sister if you have anything in your heart."
ββ¦β¦ Senior sister, I'm really in good spirits. β
"I know that it's normal to be in a trance when you're under pressure occasionally, so I'll get you some medicine to calm your mind and recuperate your mind first."
At this point, Zhou Zhongqing also sighed, and if he continued to talk, he might have to confirm that he was mentally ill.
β¦β¦
With the medicine packed for him by the intimate senior sister, Zhou Zhongqing returned to the downstairs of the incident site.
The concrete floor is not clean, but it is also absolutely free of any filth other than dust.
He raised his head, and his gaze fell from the bottom to the roof of the building, the height of the nineteen-story building made it difficult for him to see the scene above, but from the position, it was certain that the girl who jumped off the building just now jumped from the guardrail directly above.
Could it really be that I was so stressed that I had a mental trance?
When all the facts pointed to Fang Cai's incident and did not happen, Zhou Zhongqing couldn't help but waver a little, suspecting that he had really made a big fuss......
The girl who committed suicide was not saved, and the door lock on the rooftop was changed by the school, and the secret base for leisure in the future is gone!
Zhou Zhongqing suddenly felt tightness in his chest, took a deep breath, he didn't think about it anymore, it was getting late, and he still had a lot of things to do.
With his bag on his back, Zhou Zhongqing turned around and left the school and followed the flow of people into the subway station.
As time passed, he became more and more suspicious that it might be a hallucination of his trance, and he had decided not to think about it anymore, but his mind couldn't stop popping up with the look back of the girl on the rooftop, and the moment she jumped down, she was in a trance, her concentration was not very concentrated, and her mood deteriorated.
At this time, it is the peak period of the evening shift, the subway is crowded, as the door opens, the people inside are in a hurry to come down, the people outside are in a hurry to enter, and there are subway staff at the door who have practiced for more than two years to push people in with the help of Tieshan.
Even the tall Zhou Zhongqing felt uncomfortable in such a crowded environment, and the expressions of the passengers and passers-by around him were numb, and they were mechanically pushing, hugging, and repeating their work and life step by step, and they no longer had the slightest extra strength to pay attention to others.
When encountering this kind of time, Zhou Zhongqing can't help but think, seagulls know how to go to the dock to order fries on the hour, what is the meaning of human life?
In a short life of several decades, working eight hours a day, and retiring at the age of sixty-five, my teeth are loose, my eyes are spent, my ears are deaf, my appetite and desire are all gone, and finally it is like a screw being screwed off the machine, saying that you are free, rest.
At the age of 20, he is still a sophomore in college this year, and after graduating in two years, will he be like this?
Damn, I can't help but think of that rooftop girl again......
After recovering from the bustling and crowded environment, Zhou Zhongqing realized that someone had stepped on his foot.
Naturally, he looked down, and in a position in front of him, a certain petite girl was about to be squeezed into a deformation by the crowd that was frantically pushing in, and she in a white dress was like a little white flower that had fallen into a herd of wild beasts, and she had no power to resist it.
The point is that the insensitive passengers and pedestrians around are unaware of this, and still indifferently push in.
Zhou Zhongqing felt a burst of anger inexplicably at this indifferent atmosphere, stretched out her arms and pushed the people around her away a little, and shouted: "Don't squeeze!" Don't you see a little winter melon here! What if you can't breathe for a while?! β
Thank you, Metro Man, a little conscience but no politeness.
Under his shout, it was like a dish soap falling into the oil soup, and the crowd in front of him dispersed in an uproar.
When the scattered crowd curiously looked for his so-called 'little winter melon', Zhou Zhongqing also looked down at the petite girl who finally gasped.
She lowered her head slightly, her delicate ears seemed to be unable to distinguish the noisy noise around her, and the moment she saw her face, the noise around Zhou Zhongqing seemed to disappear.
His eyes widened, and all that was left in his ears was her words, which exploded in his mindβ
"You can really see me."
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