"Qiqi! I'm Teacher Qi. If you have any grievances, tell me. Don't let it get to you!"
Teacher Qi, with an anxious face, stood tremblingly on the stone railing at the edge of the rooftop of the school building, still unable to reach the top of the dome. The gap was enough to be an arm's length.
The dome can only be climbed up with a hook ladder, but the ladder has been thrown down by Qiqi, a girl kneeling on the dome, and it fell apart.
She was wearing a white school uniform, white socks, and no shoes. She was a student of this school. He has short blond hair, a thin figure, and is very handsome.
But her face was full of misery, and the tears from the corners of her eyes kept flowing down her cheeks, dripping on the dark blue collar, and instantly turned into a line of water vapor under the scorching sun, leaving no trace at all.
When she saw Teacher Qi, her tears couldn't stop flowing and she burst into tears. The way she covered her face with her hands frightened the teachers and students watching on the playground.
On the dome where Qiqi was standing, the only object that could stabilize her body was a flagpole. Now Qiqi let go of her hand, and with the shaking of her body as she cried, others felt that Qiqi's body was slowly falling downwards.
The dome is about seven stories high from the ground, and Qiqi will definitely die if she falls.
Teacher Qi no longer cared about her own safety and leaned forward as much as possible so that half of her body was hanging in the air, making everyone worried about Qiqi and Teacher Qi at the same time.
She did this just to get into Qiqi's sight and be able to talk to her, "Qiqi, look at the teacher, tell me if you have anything, can the teacher help you solve it?"
"No more...all gone..."
Qiqi whimpered and took away her right hand, holding her skirt hard. The exposed eyes were dull and without any luster, as if there were only endless holes in the eye sockets, like endless abyss, which made people feel inexplicably uneasy.
Teacher Qi once worked as a psychological counselor. She knows that this is a look that has lost subjective thinking, has serious negative psychology, and can easily commit suicide.
Teacher Qi became more and more anxious, but she couldn't help but feel puzzled after hearing Qiqi's words. Qiqi's father is a well-known local wealthy businessman with a lot of wealth. She can have whatever she wants. Yesterday, she heard that her father took over a big project, so it is impossible for her family to go bankrupt.
Moreover, Qiqi is a child who doesn’t frown even if she loses her mobile phone worth several thousand dollars. If she is broken up in love, I heard that the boy who abandons her will definitely be repaired. If the person she admires rejects her, she will quickly find the next person she likes, and she has never said that she would cry so hard that she would die or live.
How could such a girl commit suicide for love?
So... what could be the loss that makes Qiqi so sad and despairing?
"Qiqi, tell the teacher what you lost, and let's go find it together, okay?"
Qiqi shook her head and cried harder, almost bursting into tears, "It's all my fault... It's all my fault... No... It's not entirely my fault..."
Teacher Qi was confused and surprised at the same time.
Although Qiqi is not a bad girl, she is in a period of youthful rebellion. She has a very bad temper. If someone dares to mess with her, she will lose her temper and even hit them.
Besides, even if it's Qiqi's fault, she won't apologize. Now that Qiqi says she is not good, it means that she has done something that makes her feel very guilty and blames herself. But then he said it wasn't entirely his fault, so the mistake might have been caused accidentally by multiple people.
As for what this mistake was, Teacher Qi had no time to think about it. Now she just wanted to persuade Qiqi to come down.
"Qiqi, listen to me, you are very young and it is normal to make mistakes. No matter what you do wrong, you will be forgiven by everyone, Qiqi? Do you hear me?"
"I don't want it!...What does that have to do with me!?" Qiqi cried suddenly, scaring Teacher Qi so much that she almost lost her footing.
It's not because Qiqi's volume increased, but because her eyes suddenly changed, her pupils were trembling, her eyes revealed helpless pleading, revealing overwhelming fear, even if she shouted loudly, it was just a cry before death.
In the blink of an eye, Qiqi cried, "I don't want anything...as long as, as long as..."
Just what? Nothing more to say.
Only then did Teacher Qi realize that Qiqi was not talking to her. Although Qiqi's eyes have been looking at Teacher Qi, she is not looking at Teacher Qi, but looking at the top of Teacher Qi's head, as if there is someone there!
"This is troublesome." Teacher Qi thought to herself, "Qiqi may be too guilty, causing her to become insane and have hallucinations. If she is addicted to hallucinations now, even if I say nothing, it will be useless, and she may not be able to hear a word. ,This is how to do?!"
I saw people coming to the top of the building, some carrying ladders and some holding ropes. At the same time, police cars and fire engines also arrived. Teacher Qi finally breathed a sigh of relief and secretly gestured for someone to come over quietly.
At this moment Qiqi cried again, "I don't want it!... I won't go... I don't believe it..."
Teacher Qi no longer knew how to comfort Qiqi, but she still did not give up and kept talking to Qiqi. Even if her actions could distract Qiqi's attention and prevent her from discovering the physical education teacher walking behind her and the firefighters laying air mattresses at the bottom of the building, it would be good.
However, things were not as expected. Qiqi slowly stood up, her legs trembling and she seemed to be shaky.
Everyone's hearts were in their throats, and even the timid ones shouted "No -"
For a moment, it was as if the air had condensed into ice, making people feel suffocated. Qiqi didn't give anyone a chance to struggle. She turned around and lay flat on her back. Accompanied by the shouts of many people, in the blink of an eye, Qiqi fell to the air mattress on the ground. superior.
However, the air mattress had just been inflated and had insufficient bearing capacity. The back of Qiqi's head hit the ground, causing a large gash in her scalp. The blood flowed like a fountain, dyeing her white shirt scarlet in a moment.
The blood kept flowing and soon reached his heels. But for some reason, perhaps because the socks were highly absorbent, when she was lifted out, the white socks on her feet were stained red with blood, making her look like she was wearing a pair of red boots!
Qiqi died, and no one knew why she committed suicide.
But even if they knew about it, not many people cared about it. Living in a family that favored sons over daughters, family affection was dominated by older brothers and younger brothers. She was usually willful and unruly and annoying, and she didn't even get a few sincere tears at her funeral.
Death... just makes others forget her faster.
Only Teacher Qi has been tortured by this painful memory. She hates herself for not saving Qiqi, feels guilty for her death, and is almost on the verge of a mental breakdown.
She couldn't concentrate on teaching, so the school had to put her on leave.
Teacher Qiqi rested at home for two months, but... the situation did not improve at all.
Five months later.
After a winter vacation, Qiqi's suicide has been forgotten by people. Teacher Qi also got over this painful memory with the help of a psychiatrist.
Today is the day before welcoming new students to the school. Students and teachers are busy decorating the school so that the new students can feel warm when they arrive tomorrow and eliminate their fear of the unfamiliar environment.
Teacher Qi’s task is to distribute books to freshmen, and her assistants are four male classmates from the student union.
Starting from the morning, Teacher Qi counts the books in the library and moves the organized books to the office in the teaching building.
At noon, Teacher Qi received a call from the bookseller, saying that the truck transporting books had an accident and would have to be delivered in the evening.
Since there were not many, Teacher Qi planned to sort them out alone after dinner. It happened that the conversation was overheard by Zhao Xiaoli, the leader of the student union, and she wanted to help. Teacher Qi couldn't shirk away, so he had to let her go.
However, it was said to arrive in the evening, but it was delivered at around 8pm. If the driver hadn't had gauze wrapped around his head when he got out of the car, Teacher Qi and Zhao Xiaoli would have gone crazy on the spot.
When asked about the reason, it was found that the truck had a flat tire on the way, causing the accident.
It took the four people about ten minutes to move the books in the car to the office on the second floor. Teacher Qi saw that it was already late and asked Zhao Xiaoli to go home first, leaving her alone to sort them.
An hour and a half passed. Teacher Qi stretched vigorously, thinking that he could finally finish his work and go home to sleep. Unexpectedly, the door was locked!
Through the glass on the door, you can see a slight light coming from the window of the duty room at the school gate. It seems that Uncle Liu is not asleep yet.
However, no matter how much Teacher Qi shouted or even turned on all the lights in the classroom that could open the door, he could not attract Uncle Liu's attention.
Teacher Qi ran up and down, but made herself very tired.
To make matters worse, the power supply in the teaching building stopped at ten o'clock. Teacher Qi's mobile phone had already run out of power and was shut down. The phone line in the teaching building happened to be under maintenance, making it even more difficult for people to know that there was someone in the building.
Helpless, Teacher Qi gave up the idea of going home and planned to spend the night in the health care room on the third floor.
However, when she woke up, she found that it was still dark but the room had changed!
There was an iron shelf standing next to the bed, with a medicine bottle hanging on it. The medicine was slowly entering her blood vessels along the hose and needle.
"What's going on!? What happened!?"
As soon as Teacher Qi thought about it, he felt a splitting headache, his whole body was extremely sore, and his mouth felt like it was on fire.
Teacher Qi was puzzled, "I was obviously sleeping on the school bed? Why was I carried to the hospital?"
In the blink of an eye, he saw a girl sleeping next to the bed, and he pushed her awake regardless of the situation.
"Teacher, please wake up!"
The girl jumped up for joy when she found out that Teacher Qi was awake. As soon as her feet landed, she turned around and ran out of the ward. Then she heard her yelling "Doctor - Teacher Qi is awake! Come and take a look -" It made a fuss. .
After questioning, Teacher Qi found out that she had been unconscious for two days.
According to Zhao Xiaoli, who cared for her, she was discovered by school worker Ma Chunfang that morning.
At that time, she was lying among the books in the corridor on the third floor and could not wake up no matter how she screamed. Even when she was sent to the hospital, no specific reason could be found. Now the doctor can't deduce the reason from her physical condition after waking up.
Teacher Qi is thirty-two years old this year. He has no bad habits and is in good health. She also has the habit of running in the morning, so it is unlikely that she fell into coma due to overexertion.
However, when he was first sent to the hospital, Teacher Qi's physical symptoms were overstrain, muscle hardening, and calf ligament strain.
But to cause such a degree of strain, you have to run at a sprint speed of 100 meters for at least 15 minutes.
The corridor of the teaching building is less than 100 meters, so it is impossible for Teacher Qi to run at high speed and for a long time. As a result, the doctor gave Teacher Qi an unfounded illness. It is said that this is a special phenomenon of the body repairing itself after being overworked physically and mentally.
The next day's physical examination showed that Teacher Qi was fine and was discharged from the hospital.
After returning to school, Teacher Qi learned of an even stranger incident than her inexplicable coma.
After Teacher Qi was taken away by ambulance that morning, school janitor Ma Chunfang continued to work.
When she arrived at the sixth floor of the teaching building, she discovered that in front of the stairs leading to the rooftop, there was a circle on the ground consisting of red marks that looked like footprints, about one meter in diameter. The distance between all the prints is about a fist, and the gap is so small that it seems artificial.
Ma Chunfang tried to compare her own feet. The shapes were almost the same and smaller than her own feet, indicating that the prints were indeed footprints.
However, Ma Chunfang remembered that she had never touched the red mark, but the unknown red object on the mark was stained on the soles of her shoes. I picked it up and took a closer look. It was sticky and smelled like fish. I couldn't rub it off my hands and had to use detergent to wash it off.
At that time, Ma Chunfang thought it was some naughty kid secretly playing with oil paints - the second classroom next to the circle with red footprints was an art classroom.
Ma Chunfang immediately washed her hands with water in the bucket. Before she could wash her hands, the unlocked stair door was blown open by a gust of wind. Ma Chunfang glanced at her naturally, and she was so frightened that she sat on the ground.
I saw a pair of red tube socks standing on the first step of the stairs, as if there was an invisible man standing there wearing only socks!
What's even more frightening is that the four letters "qiqi" are embroidered on the bare feet of these socks. Ma Chunfang remembers clearly that there is only one person in the school wearing such socks, and that is Qiqi, who committed suicide a few months ago!
Ma Chunfang panicked and called the guard, dean and others, but when everyone arrived at the scene of the incident, the red footprint circle and Qiqi's tube socks disappeared without a trace, leaving no trace. The school authorities assumed that Ma Chunfang was causing trouble and ignored her.
But the students were prone to making noises, and since then rumors of "Qiqi is back" have been flying everywhere.
The day before Teacher Qi returned to school, another school janitor, Li Yulan, also found a circle of red footprints in front of the rooftop staircase on the sixth floor, and Qiqi's tube socks also appeared on the stairs. This time, he actually went up one more step than last time to the second step, and when he looked for someone to look at him, he also disappeared without a trace.
Two days later, Ma Chunfang found the red footprint circle again, and Qiqi's tube socks moved up a level to the third level.
Ma Chunfang bravely extracted a small amount of red objects and took them to the chemistry teacher for testing. The result turned out to be human blood!
As a result, the rumor that "Qiqi is back" became more credible, causing a certain amount of panic, and the school had to take measures. On the one hand, security patrols are added, and on the other hand, monitoring equipment is added.
However, events continued to occur according to a certain pattern.
There are two days between the first and second times, three days between the second and third times, four days between the third and fourth times... In this way, the time when the next event occurs is equal to the number of days between the previous event. Add one day.
The red footprint circle appeared as expected, and the tube socks embroidered with "qiqi" went to a new level.
After that, various rumors spread all over the sky. Some people said that they saw a girl in red clothes and bare feet standing on the dome on the roof of the school in the middle of the night.
Some people say that they saw a girl in white clothes and bare feet floating between the third and fourth windows from the right on the fifth floor in the middle of the night. Others say that it is not floating, but is hung there by some kind of rope, and is blown back and forth by the wind like a pendulum.
Some people said they saw barefoot girls wandering around the playground in the middle of the night, and others said they heard crying, but they didn't know where the rumors came from.
And the most popular topic is "What will happen when Qiqi's tube socks reach the twelfth step at the top?"
No one knows... Some people guess that someone will commit suicide by jumping off a building like her.
Some people speculate that this is a time limit, and Qiqi will use this time to fulfill her wish and then go to heaven.
Some people guessed it was a curse, some people guessed she was waiting for someone, some people guessed...
No matter what the outcome is, it casts a shadow on the hearts of many people.
It seems as if disaster is coming and there is no way to escape it.
