The first chapter at the beginning of this article is adapted from this article

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Li Xiaoting is a boarding student in the second year of Yuqi Middle School, and today, their school organized an outing and did not have to go to class. She didn't have the habit of sleeping lazy, she got up from bed early, went to the playground for a run, and after a few laps, the sky gradually brightened, and she walked slowly a few laps, and then left the playground and walked towards the restaurant.

The distance between their playground and the cafeteria, one in the northeast corner of the school and the other in the southwest corner of the school, almost diagonally spanned the entire school, and when they walked from the playground to the cafeteria, they passed near the school gate.

When she walked to that neighborhood, Li Xiaoting couldn't help but glance at the school gate, but she couldn't help but be stunned. At the school gate, there was a school bus parked, and at the same time, she saw that her classmates were lining up to get on the bus, and the head teacher, Mr. Liu, was standing at the back of the line.

She couldn't help frowning, took out her mobile phone and glanced at it, it was just over seven o'clock, she clearly remembered that the time of the school assembly was half past eight in the morning, why did they start assembling so early? When did they change the assembly time, but she didn't know what to do? Why didn't anyone inform her?

She didn't have time to think about it, so she immediately changed direction and walked towards the school gate. And her classmates, even the head teacher Teacher Liu, had already boarded the car when she arrived at the school gate, and the door was slowly closing.

She couldn't help but be stunned, and there was some anger in her heart, what was the reason why they didn't wait for her? She quickened her pace, three steps and two steps, and rushed straight towards the car door, and jumped into the car before the door closed.

Standing at the door, she was a little out of breath, holding on to the handle at the front of the car, looking into the car. The people in the car were all her classmates. Her homeroom teacher, Ms. Liu, was sitting at the front of the seat, next to the car door.

It's just very strange that she noticed that Teacher Liu and all her classmates were sitting upright, sitting very straight, with their hands on their knees, looking ahead without squinting, and their sitting posture was clearly like the sitting posture during military training when they first entered the school.

Their faces were expressionless, and when they came in, they didn't say anything, didn't even look at themselves, just stared blankly in the direction of the front of the school bus.

She wondered for a moment, what was there to see in front of the school bus? She turned her head to look ahead, but found nothing. She turned around and muttered to herself, amused in her heart.

At the same time, she found that the driver of the school bus had changed, and the driver was a man in his early thirties who she had never seen before. The original driver sat in the back seat of the driver's seat, like his teacher and all his classmates, sitting very upright, with his body straight, his hands on his knees, and his eyes looking ahead.

Li Xiaoting's heart was surprised again, and she wondered: How can there be two drivers? Could it be that we are going to a far place on this outing? The school is worried that one driver is too tired from driving, so another person is added to replace him?

While thinking, she walked towards the back row, hoping to find a seat to sit down, until she walked to the back of the car, but found that all the seats were occupied, she stood at the back of the car, turned around, looked forward again, and found that the whole car, only one seat was left next to the head teacher.

Glancing at the back of her head teacher, Li Xiaoting couldn't help but shrink her neck, the head teacher has always been a stern old antique in their eyes, and it is difficult to get close to. Therefore, Li Xiaoting did not go over after all, looked around again, and found that in the class, her two best classmates, Fang Rou and Zeng Qian, were sitting together, and their seats were probably in the middle of the bus.

"I squeezed them together and sat together, so I didn't have to sit next to the head teacher. Li Xiaoting thought so, and then walked forward.

Walking a few steps to the side of Fang Rou and Zeng Qian, she reached out and poked Fang Rou's arm, "Fang Rou, sit inside, let's sit together." ”

Strangely, Fang Rou didn't move, she didn't even turn her head to look at her. Li Xiaoting was puzzled, and then stretched out her hand and pushed Zeng Qian in the back seat, and said suspiciously: "What's wrong with Fang Rou, why don't you talk to me?" Zeng Qian, move inside. ”

Who knew that Zeng Qian's actions were the same as Fang Rou's, and she ignored her. Li Xiaoting's heart suddenly became a little angry, and she wanted to say more, but the new driver suddenly stood up, glanced in her direction, and asked loudly: "Classmate, what's your name?"

"Li Xiaoting. Li Xiaoting didn't have time to care about Zeng Qian and Fang Rou, so she answered the driver's words first.

"Li Xiaoting?" the driver repeated, took out a piece of paper from his side, looked at it a few times, then raised his head and said to Li Xiaoting: "Classmate, there is no your name on it, get off quickly." ”

Li Xiaoting was stunned for a moment, "How can the school bus for our class's outing not have my name?" ”

The driver's face was serious, "I don't know if I made a mistake, there is no name on it, so please get out of the car quickly." ”

Li Xiaoting said: "What kind of car do you get? Our whole class and the head teacher, Mr. Liu, are all here, everyone knows me, do you know what to do if you ask them?"

The driver was extremely stubborn, "Please get out of the car quickly!"

Li Xiaoting had no choice but to step forward, walk next to the head teacher, and say to her head teacher: "Teacher Liu, you tell the driver master, it's a mistake on the list, you can't go on an outing with the whole class, and I can't go alone, right?"

But her homeroom teacher, Teacher Liu, didn't know what was going on, and behaved exactly like Fang Rou and Zeng Qian, as if she hadn't heard her words, she still looked ahead and didn't turn her face.

The driver had already urged again, "Please get out of the car quickly!"

Li Xiaoting glanced at her homeroom teacher helplessly, spread her hands and said: "Teacher Liu, you have also seen it, it's not that I don't want to go, it's that my name is missing from the list, this driver master won't let me go, if you write something like a travelogue when you go back, don't look for me." ”

The head teacher still ignored her, and Li Xiaoting got out of the car angrily.

As soon as she got out of the car, the car started and drove away. Li Xiaoting was stunned for a while, looked around, she was in no mood at this time, and she didn't go to the restaurant to eat, she bought something to eat casually on the side of the road, and thought: My classmates have gone on an outing, and I am left alone, there is nothing to do, and I was acquiesced by the head teacher, so I just went to the Internet café to play.

Thinking of this, he immediately rushed to the Internet café with food. The Internet café is located right near the school, just outside the school gate and across the street. Li Xiaoting looked left and right a few times, didn't see any vehicles, and immediately walked quickly across the street and entered the Internet café.

After arriving at the Internet café, she asked for a machine, paid a deposit, and immediately opened the web page and started the Internet.

It's just that when she was surfing the Internet, her phone suddenly rang, she lowered her head and glanced at her mobile phone, and the caller ID showed the words 'Teacher Liu'.

This call was actually from his homeroom teacher.

Didn't the head teacher already take the car to go on an outing? Why did he call himself again? Li Xiaoting was suspicious, but she still picked up the phone.

As soon as the phone was connected, her head teacher asked with a slap in her face: "Li Xiaoting, where have you been?" The whole class is waiting for you, why don't you hurry up and gather at the school gate!"

"Ah!" Li Xiaoting was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but say, "Teacher Liu, haven't you already set off?"

"What's going, hurry up. Her homeroom teacher scolded her, then urged her in a commanding tone.

Li Xiaoting was extremely puzzled, but she couldn't figure out what the reason was, so she had to go to the bar immediately to settle the bill and come out of the Internet café.

As soon as she walked out of the door of the Internet café and walked to the street, she saw the two school buses that had been driving away parked at the school gate, and through the window glass of the school bus, she could clearly see her classmates in the school bus.

It's just that at this time, the performance of their classmates is too different from the first time I saw it, they are sitting on the bus, everyone is moving around excitedly, and a few classmates by the window even open the window of the school bus, poke their heads out, and wave to themselves.

Didn't they leave? Why did they come back again? Did everyone join forces with the head teacher to play a trick on themselves?

In addition, she really couldn't think of any other possibility, so she walked forward quickly, and when she got to the school bus, the door of the school bus was open, she boarded it without thinking, and then saw the head teacher, Mr. Liu, in the seat near the door.

"Teacher Liu!" she bowed her head and greeted the head teacher.

Her homeroom teacher snorted softly and said unhappily: "At such a little time before departure, I actually went to the Internet, and when I came back, I wrote a review, and now I will go first to find a place to sit down." ”

She said 'um', she felt that her voice was a little low, and at the same time, the doubts in her heart had reached the extreme, looking at the expression of the head teacher, it didn't seem like she had joked with herself at all, what was going on? And the strictness of the head teacher made her unable to raise the courage to question.

She subconsciously glanced at the driver who was driving, and it was still the old driver who was driving, he had changed from the seat behind the driver's seat to the driver's seat, and the rookie driver was gone.

What's going on here?

Li Xiaoting was puzzled, and then walked to the car, she walked to the back of the car, but the situation in the car was exactly the same as when she first came in, the seats were all full, she glanced forward, and saw her two best classmates, Fang Rou and Zeng Qian, sitting in the seats they saw last time.

She walked over to the two of them and stabbed Fang Rou on the arm as before, "Fang Rou, let me go inside, I'll sit with you." ”

Fang Rou listened to her words, and immediately leaned in, giving her a little seat, and the three girls squeezed into two seats and sat down, and at the same time only heard Zeng Qian ask: "Li Xiaoting, why did you come here now?"

Li Xiaoting only felt full of grievances, but she didn't know where to start, she glanced at Zeng Qian, "You... Why do you still want to ask me? By the way, I was talking to you in the car just now, why did you ignore me?"

"We ignore you?" Zeng Qian glanced at her suspiciously, and then asked, "When did it happen?"

Li Xiaoting glanced at her, and saw that the expression on her face was very serious, not like a joke at all, and she was suspicious, but she still explained, "At seven o'clock, all of you and the head teacher are on the school bus, looking very strange, I talk to you, and none of you pay attention to me." ”

"How is it possible?" Fang Rou suddenly exclaimed, her voice a little sharp, "At seven o'clock, Zeng Qian and I just got up, how could they be on the school bus, are you mistaken?"

Li Xiaoting shook her head, "Impossible, how could I be mistaken? I clearly saw that each of you was on the school bus, the old driver was sitting behind the driver's seat, and the new driver said that my name was not on the list and drove me off." Otherwise, how could I run to the Internet?"

Fang Rou and Zeng Qian both looked at her like looking at a monster, after a while, the two of them looked at each other, Fang Rou reached out and touched Li Xiaoting's forehead, "What old driver and new driver, there has never been only one driver, I think you are sick, and you are not lightly ill, otherwise, how can you talk this nonsense?"

Li Xiaoting insisted: "I really didn't talk nonsense, it's all true." ”

But where did Fang Rou and Zeng Qian believe her, and retorted a few more words. The voices of the three of them were a little loud, and they spread out, and somehow, they were heard by their homeroom teacher again.

Teacher Liu turned his head, glanced at the three of them, and immediately shouted, "Li Xiaoting, come and sit here." ”

Li Xiaoting was laughing with the two, and when she heard this, her face suddenly turned gray, and she walked towards the car as if she had been sentenced to death, and when she arrived at the head teacher's side, she sat down next to her seat with a trembling little ass.

Sure enough, as soon as she sat down, Teacher Liu counted her down again and taught her a good lesson about going to the Internet café to surf the Internet.

Li Xiaoting listened tremblingly, until the head teacher was tired and ignored her, and then she was relieved.

And the school bus finally started and drove forward.

Li Xiaoting sat in her seat, and there was always a feeling of uneasiness in her heart, looking back at her classmates, and then at the head teacher Teacher Liu, the more she thought about it, the more strange she felt, at seven o'clock, the things she encountered were definitely not fake, it couldn't be something she imagined, but why did her classmates seem to know the way?

If his classmates are deceiving themselves, why do the head teachers say the same? Looking at his old-fashioned attitude when he speaks, how can he joke with himself casually?

If neither side is lying, why would such a strange thing happen?

"Hell!"

Her eyelids jumped suddenly, "Could it be an omen? There will be a car accident on this outing, so the new driver, no, his real identity is not the driver, but the messenger of the soul, the list he took out is actually the death list, the head teacher, classmates, Drivers, everyone is going to die, so their names are on the list, so the first time they get in the car, they are in that posture and expression, just because each of them is a dying person, and the soul is hooked in advance, so they talk to them themselves, and they ignore themselves. ”

Thinking of this, a deep chill suddenly surged in her heart, "I knew about this matter in advance, so I avoided it, and it was because I avoided it that I didn't die, and I didn't die, so my name didn't exist on the list." ”

"Do you want to tell your teachers and classmates? No, it's useless, their names are on the death list, and you can't save them yourself, unless... Unless you can erase the names from the list, which is obviously impossible. It's just when will the car accident happen?"

She looked ahead, and the car had already entered the mountains, and when she turned a corner, she was about to take a winding mountain road, "Oh my God! Could it be that the car rolled off the cliff while passing through the winding mountain road?"

At this moment, a man appeared in front of the road, waving his hands to the school bus while waving his hands to signal the school bus to stop.

Li Xiaoting glanced at the man, her face turned extremely pale in an instant, she recognized this person at a glance, "It's him, the new driver, no, the messenger of the soul, it's him, there will be no mistake, God! He appeared at this time, the car accident must be about to happen." ”

The man then walked up to the door, which opened, and the man said to the inside, "There is a mudslide on the mountain, don't drive forward." ”

"It's a mudslide! Oh my God, it's not a car accident, it's a mudslide, and all of them are going to die from the mudslide. Without thinking, Li Xiaoting stood up from her seat and rushed to the car.

Almost at the same time, she heard the screams of teachers and classmates in her ears, and when she turned around, a car instantly grew larger in front of her eyes, and she felt her body fly out of the way.

Before she died, she realized that the list was not a death list, but a list of people who had been rescued, and that the 'Soul Messenger' had saved others from the mudslide, but had not saved herself from a car accident.

The reason why the people in the car ignored themselves at that time was only because they were the ones who were going to die, which was indeed an omen, but it was an omen of their own death.