Although she was mentally prepared, Lily still couldn't hide the downturn on her face after hearing the bell.
Something really went wrong with John's team. If he and others didn't go looking for it...
Lily stopped her random thoughts, patted her cheek gently, put the brown line that was used as a bookmark in John's diary on the table to the page she had just finished reading, closed the diary, and closed the book. He put down the lamp, stood up and left John's room with the diary in one hand.
She wanted to take the diary back to her room and read it slowly, although based on the reading experience just now, this would probably make her very angry.
But since it was a certainty to go out to find John, Lily needed to be fully prepared. The only thing that was uncertain was how many useful things John had written.
Another thing is that the day after tomorrow is my birthday, which is also my 15th coming-of-age ceremony.
St. Lance Orphanage in London, the capital of the British Empire, stipulates that the children's coming of age ceremony is on the day they turn 15.
If children who reach this age have not yet been adopted by a family or are taken away by some institutions because of their talent, then they need to pack their bags and leave the orphanage the day after celebrating their coming-of-age ceremony. Find your first job to support yourself under the British Empire's comprehensive child laws and welfare benefits for orphans.
There are no teachers or adults in the orphanage now. In the first two or three months before the fog surrounded the orphanage, the teachers working in the orphanage chose their own paths one after another because of the fear of not being able to see the light of day for a long time and being unable to contact the outside world. They fled in different ways, so they walked away and dispersed. Even the director of the orphanage ran away, but in the end no one came back.
The orphanage became a veritable orphanage.
Lily had been strongly opposed by Xiu just now in the basement, objecting to her taking risks like John did. She and Aiden also witnessed a very terrifying scene with their own eyes:
In the early morning of his birthday, John was suddenly erased inch by inch as if by an invisible hand holding a huge eraser. This process was extremely fast, taking only 2.4 seconds.
Although John reappeared in front of several people later, the terror could not be described in words. Just like what Lily read in a psychology book, fear all comes from the unknown.
Several children aged 14 or 15 saw with their own eyes that their friends were suddenly "wiped away", and the door to the room became unable to be opened. Even shouting was of no avail, no one could hear them... ...
It was really scary.
The weirdest thing is that that day, Aiden's watch and the clock in John's room both stopped at the same time——
00:24 minutes and 24 seconds!
It's hard not to make them guess that John's disappearance is related to the fog that enveloped the entire world outside.
Lily is now pinning her hopes on this unknown fear. Of course Xiu will think that Lily is crazy.
However, the next few people also speculated and thought about it, thinking that if it was really the influence or change brought about by the fog, then it might be possible that every child who reaches the age of 15 would be "wiped" once.
As for what John experienced after being "erased", John himself was very vague, saying that he barely remembered it.
Now that this description of "that world" appeared in his notes, Lily had reason to suspect that John was lying and that he actually remembered what he had experienced.
So why did John lie?
Forget it, since I can't get the answer, I won't think about it for now. I'll go have something to eat first, then go back to the room and then take a closer look at John's diary.
She couldn't see Xiu in the cafeteria, but Lily didn't have that much energy to care about it for the time being. She believed that Xiu actually understood it, but just needed time to accept it, so she had a hasty dinner and found Ender to explain a few words. , and quickly returned to his room.
She spread the diary again on her desk, turned on the desk lamp skillfully, and took out another small notebook, preparing to write down the important parts and some of her own thoughts.
Rain + fog on August 28
After borrowing Aiden's "Oxford English-Chinese Bilingual Dictionary", I finally figured out what those two square characters that often haunt my dreams are——
midnight
Those are the two words, but what do they mean? Just looking at the definitions of each word in the dictionary, I couldn't find a definition that was good enough for me to understand.
Can't this Oxford dictionary form a few more words?
Seeing this, Lily imitated John's writing on her notebook, and wrote the word "Midnight" a little crookedly on her small notebook, and then put a question mark behind it.
John said that these two words haunted his dreams...but he said that he only slept for 2-3 hours a night. Could he also be dreaming?
No wonder some children told me that when they get up at night to go to the toilet, they see a dark figure running around in the orphanage...
I think the "murderer" is John.
Shaking her head helplessly, Lily turned to the next page, but suddenly reached out to cover her mouth.
I saw that this page of John's diary was crossed out line by line with thick black ink that was as wide as a finger. Even the blank unwritten area was not left out, so the entire page was completely black.
"This..." Lily finally came to her senses and looked at the diary in front of her at a loss.
Is it John's own fault? Why did he do this?
It was dark all night, and only the date on the top line could barely be seen - September 1st.
"September 1st...September 1st...Did anything happen?" Lily couldn't remember a little bit, but in other words, nothing big happened.
After thinking about it, Lily got up and left the room, went to the computer area on the third floor, took out a booklet from the desk drawer next to a computer, and then returned to the room again.
Several children playing on the third floor greeted her on the way, and she just responded with a slight smile without stopping for much. This made those children uncomfortable. In the past, Sister Lily would stop and talk to them. A few sentences.
Lily didn't care about this, she just hurried back to her desk, spread out the book in her hand, and started browsing quickly.
"September 1st...September 1st...Yes!" Lily found what she wanted.
On August 29, John's team set off on a "screening patrol". The travelers were: John, Campos, Hodges, Tran, Camille, and Watson.
Returning on the afternoon of September 1st.
This book is used to record the outings of the orphanage personnel. It is a tradition of the orphanage. Although there are no adults in the orphanage anymore, Aiden still insists on recording these.
So, what did John experience during this "screening" trip?
