I was busy until midnight, but I couldn't find any clues about Chen Chichi. As she said herself: her existence disappeared.
The only thing that puzzles Li Huixi is that since she disappeared, why does he still remember her?
Thinking about the problem and the time before and after Chen Chichi disappeared, Li Huixi couldn't sleep for a long time. At twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, there was a knock on the door of dormitory D402 where Li Huixi was located.
Dong dong dong...dong dong dong...
Sounds that were not too urgent echoed in the quiet night. Li Huixi was the only one living in the whole building and even the entire dormitory building tonight. The aunt in the bedding shop downstairs had already closed her shop, and there was no dormitory manager in the school.
It can be said that Li Huixi is basically the only one in this school tonight.
The wind outside the window is still howling, blowing through the leaves and making a swishing sound. The person outside is still knocking on the door, the sound is regular and dull, matching the sound outside the window.
Knocking on the door at this time, Li Huixi couldn't help but imagine that the person outside the door was someone with evil intentions.
"It doesn't matter if he has evil intentions. I'm afraid it has something to do with Chen Chichi's disappearance."
"In that case the door will definitely open."
Li Huixi talked to her heart again and kept convincing herself to get closer to the doorknob. As if the man knew that the person inside was approaching, the knocks on the door gradually became more urgent.
Click...
The door opened a crack, and Li Huixi's eyes scanned the corridor warily. His left hand was hidden behind his back, holding a fruit knife.
Suddenly, a worried face appeared in front of Li Huixi's eyes. The two looked at each other. Li Huixi calmly judged that it was Teacher Song who registered her student status during the day.
Li Huixi didn't say anything and opened the door a crack. Then Teacher Song walked in quietly without talking nonsense, her voice was a little hoarse, and she took the lead and said:
"Chen has disappeared for a long time..."
Li Huixi was a little impatient with her. She went to look for Teacher Song in the office building the second after Chen Chichi disappeared, but her behavior at that time was not much different from that of the aunt downstairs. She seemed to have completely forgotten about Chen Chichi. It was a delay, but at that time Li Huixi smelled the smell of lying in her words.
"Now I look worried again, hypocritical..."
Li Huixi was thinking this in her heart, but she just stared at Teacher Song in front of her expressionlessly. Li Huixi never believed anything anyone said. She always only believed in her own intuition.
Regarding Teacher Song in front of me, I felt uncomfortable the first time I saw her, and I never had a good impression of her from the beginning.
When Teacher Song saw that Li Huixi had no reaction, he was a little surprised, and then said to Li Huixi:
"Chen Chichi...don't you remember?"
Li Huixi still looked at her expressionlessly, but this time she shook her head slightly.
Then Teacher Song tentatively asked:
"Have you been out of school?"
Another voice sounded in Li Huixi's mind:
"What does she mean by asking?"
"Maybe it has something to do with Chichi."
"Then why don't you cater to her first?"
"You don't need to remind me."
Li Huixi's thought activities ended in an instant, and the teacher didn't notice it at all. Then Li Huixi said:
"Help the aunt downstairs move the bedding out of school."
I saw Teacher Song let out a long sigh, and the false worry on her face immediately turned into a smile. In addition, she also had a bottle of mineral water in her pocket, with her right hand stuck in it. I wonder if Li Huixi Tell other answers and what actions will Teacher Song take.
After hearing that Li Huixi had left the school, she took her hand out of her pocket and lowered it slightly.
"You are really sensible."
After leaving these words, Teacher Song closed the door and left.
Li Huixi never put down the fruit knife in her hand.
Teacher Song brought too many doubts, but without further clues, there would be no progress. Li Huixi felt a little tired and fell asleep.
After a moment, the door of D402 was opened a small crack, and the light from the corridor that spilled into the bedroom just fell on Li Huixi's sleeping face.
Footsteps sounded in the corridor, getting farther and farther away.
According to the report the next day, after Li Huixi briefly introduced herself, she found a seat by the window and sat down.
She had already gone to greet Chen Chichi's mother before going to class. Except that she knew her name was Lu Yi, she didn't get any other useful information. As expected, she had no memory about her own daughter Chen Chichi.
Li Huixi could feel that her memory about Chen Chichi was starting to become blurry.
Perhaps it was too much denial from others that caused her to doubt the authenticity of Chen Chichi's memory.
However, her own voice always told Li Huixi:
"Everything about yesterday was real."
I had no choice but to make the last resort: beat every classmate again.
However, the result was not surprising. All the answers from Classes 3 and 5 were “No… I don’t know…”
“Otherwise, this is it, it can’t go on anymore.
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"You didn't care about anything before."
"I just find it interesting."
"Well, it's not easy to arouse your interest."
"Shut up, you."
Li Huixi was talking to herself again, completely unaware that a person walked up to her, sat down across the chair, and looked at her face to face.
"Classmate, what are you doing?"
Li Huixi finally regained consciousness, her pupils shrank, her vision focused, and she immediately looked at the boy in front of her with vigilance:
His hairstyle is a bit sloppy, but he is the only one in this strict high school with long hair that does not meet the regulations. There is some aura between his eyebrows and eyes, his skin is fair, and his figure is slightly thin.
"nothing……"
Li Huixi seemed to be intentionally reducing contact with her male classmates. When she asked questions just now, she only found some female classmates who looked kind-faced. Facing the approach of the boy, she unconsciously stepped back.
"Have any of your friends disappeared inexplicably?"
"!"
Li Huixi's originally drooped head suddenly lifted up after hearing these words. Her clues had been cut off, and the boy in front of her clearly knew something.
"My name is Lin Qing. Come find me at Central Lake after class."
Lin Qing's decibel suddenly dropped, as if she was afraid that someone would hear it. It was similar to Chen Chichi's reaction when he covered his mouth. Then he patted Li Huixi's table, nodded and turned around to leave.
Only then did Li Huixi discover that on the honor list at the back of the classroom, Lin Qing was number one in all subjects, and his score was even more than 90 points higher than the second best in the school.
"No wonder he's the only one in the school with long hair."
"It seems that this school gives preferential treatment to outstanding people..."
The bell rang, indicating the end of the second period. Everyone else was stretching and discussing what to eat. Li Huixi looked at Lin Qing in the front row, and saw that the seats were empty.
Lin Qing had been standing beside the central lake outside the window for a long time.
"When did he arrive?!"
"how could I know……"
Li Huixi rushed downstairs, deliberately avoiding the crowd and met Lin Qing by the central lake.
"Tell me what you know."
"When did the Chen Chichi you asked about this morning disappear?"
"yesterday afternoon."
"Doesn't anyone remember her except you?"
"Gone."
Lin Qing's expression seemed a little surprised, and she tilted her head and asked:
"Aren't you afraid that I will harm you? Why don't you say anything?"
"It doesn't matter."
Li Huixi replied expressionlessly.
"I may have had a friend who disappeared like this. The reason why I say maybe is because I have no memory related to it. Everything is based on a diary fished out from the central lake."
"continue……"
"The first half is the daily life of me and him recorded by my disappeared friend, and the second half is..."
"what else?"
"Some records after his disappearance."
With that said, Lin Qing took out a few pages from the diary and handed them to Li Huixi covertly:
【May 25th.
On the first day I came to this ghost place, everything around me seemed weird from the moment I fell into the lake and choked on my saliva.
There is no sun, the air I breathe is very turbid, and there is snow mixed with dust all the time here. Everything is obviously the same as the school where I live, but there is nothing in common.
May 27th.
It's been three days without a drop of water and I'm dying of thirst. Lin Qing... Where are you? I miss you so much... The people here are so scary. Their bodies are covered with green water. They are very similar to the "ghost" we saw in the playground that time. I seem to see me. I'm alone, he seems to be looking for me...
May 28th.
I saw many people whose names I couldn’t name but felt very familiar, even though I obviously didn’t remember them. I was discovered by them, and the "other me" twisted its limbs, holding a knife and laughing wildly at me...
May 29th.
I no longer feel thirsty or hungry, but there is a sweet smell of blood in my throat... Lin Qing... why don't you come to save me! Lin Qing... take a drink of lake water...]
The diary ended abruptly. The handwriting in the following days became more and more distorted. In the end, only what was written could be vaguely discerned.
The scorching sun hung over the two of them, but when they looked at each other after reading the diary, they felt chills running down their spines and numbness in their scalps.
Lin Qing took back the diary, her voice trembling:
"Before you came, I kept telling myself this was all someone's prank."
"But why did you leave a diary?"
"Because... the handwriting in this diary does not belong to anyone I know, but it feels very familiar... and in my impression, there have always been four people living in our dormitory..."
Li Huixi was silent after hearing this, but after a moment she suddenly laughed, her eyes blurred and without any warning, just like in the after-dinner conversation about "someone went crazy because of something".
Lin Qing was obviously frightened by Li Huixi's appearance, and asked at a loss:
"what are you laughing at……"
"Hahahahaha... Whether it's a prank or not, you'll know after just one sip."
"You mean...the lake?"
"if not?"
Li Huixi smiled enough. She leaned down and formed a bowl with her hands, scooping up a handful of water. Without thinking, she drank all the water in the lake in an instant.
Lin Qing didn't even have time to stop him, the action was done in one go, almost in an instant.
"What a crazy woman... Believe this weird diary, believe what I, a stranger, said... Why, why doesn't she question the authenticity of the matter?"
Lin Qing on the side couldn't figure out a person's thoughts for the first time. Everyone was very logical in everything they did, so it was easy to guess their thoughts. But this crazy woman in front of her didn't seem to care about those bullshit logics.
Lin Qing gritted his teeth, made up his mind, and simply lay down and took a scoop of lake water and poured it into his throat.
A chill slipped from the esophagus into the stomach, and an inexplicable heavy weight fell on his body. When he opened his eyes again, Lin Qing found that the world he was in had really become a little different...
