In the dark and narrow utility room, only the light from the mobile phone screen illuminates a small area.
After the surrounding debris was covered with white soft light, the vague outline was revealed, like a beast lurking in the dark, waiting for an opportunity to move.
Under the hazy light, Huan Xiao was concentrating on picking out debris from the blood-red wound.
The small fragments stuck to the wound can be removed with a few wipes with a cotton swab. The fragments that pierce the flesh are often larger fragments and can be easily separated from the flesh.
Pick out the debris, clean the wound, apply some iodine, and then it can be bandaged...
Huanxiao was concentrating on the matter in front of him, while the short-haired woman was thinking about something, so the two of them remained silent in tacit agreement.
After a moment of silence, the short-haired girl felt her eyes moistened and she was extremely moved.
This wasn't the first time she'd been cared about, but it was the most profound one.
Maybe it's because the environment is too dark now and the danger she faces is too bizarre and terrifying, so she feels amplified in her heart.
At this moment, she only felt that Huan Xiao, who was helping her treat her wounds, was the person she trusted the most. Even if she was killed by a ghost in the next second, she would not feel scared anymore.
After a long time, the short-haired woman was the first to break the silence.
Perhaps because of the great mood swings in her heart, or perhaps because she thought that she would not survive tonight, the short-haired woman seemed to be talking to herself, or to Huanxiao:
"Do you know why I know there is a downward passage here?...Actually, I have been here before, with my classmates from Class 5."
She didn't get an answer from Huanxiao, so she spoke quietly to herself. Although the voice was not loud, it was clear enough.
"Before, people from Class 5 took Zhou Xingyan to the rooftop. Because almost no one went to the rooftop, they planned to bully people on the rooftop so that they could not be discovered by the teacher.
Some of them covered Zhou Xingyan's mouth to prevent Zhou Xingyan from yelling for the teacher, while others pressed down Zhou Xingyan's hand that was missing a finger and scrawled signatures on it, using the same signs as tourists who go to tourist attractions to engrave "I'm here to visit." Mood. "
Feeling the slight pain when the wound was swept with a cotton swab, the short-haired woman's memory of Zhou Xingyan became clearer in her mind, as if it happened yesterday.
Darkness is not only scary but also distracting.
She didn't know why, but now she really wanted to tell Huan Xiao the little story she knew.
"It was the first month after she transferred to another school."
Needless to say, this woman refers to Zhou Xingyan, the student who jumped into the lake.
"On the first day she transferred, the people in Class 5 were just curious about her, and one or two of them ran up to her to make friends with the two transfer students.
However, since she discovered that she didn't like to talk and had a weird personality, a few mischievous people started to make some little jokes.
Passing notes, drawing simple sketches with pencil in her books, telling bad jokes to make her laugh, deliberately saying her name when the teacher asked questions, etc.
Because she would not resist, the people in Class 5 became more and more excessive.
But the excess at that time did not affect her life, because it was not really targeted, but a 'little joke' between classmates, and no one took it to heart.
The turning point of the matter was that during a class break, a classmate's watch disappeared.
Because it was a birthday gift, the classmate who lost her watch was very anxious. And because she was the first person to arrive in the classroom, she was naturally questioned.
At that time, she solemnly said that she did not know. The classmates who had lost their watches were eager to find the watches, so they asked the students to prove themselves and search them seat by seat.
As a result, the watch was found in her place, and she began to be despised, hated, and despised by everyone. She became a thief who was always lying.
Therefore, there is the matter of the rooftop. "
"The stolen watch was the point when the people in Class 5 became unscrupulous and bullied her.
Many people surrounded her and walked up to the rooftop. She was very ostentatious on the way. Classmates of other ages were also attracted and followed her to the rooftop to watch.
After knowing the whole story, no one sympathized with her. For students, stealing is no less serious than killing, especially since she lied.
Everyone on the rooftop watched the scene of her being bullied in silence. Everyone looked at it with smiles, and no one made any noise.
This is rare. Students never like silence, but she made all the students on the rooftop reach a tacit understanding.
She was dragged to the ground like a dog and kowtowed to the owner of the watch to apologize. However, she did not admit her crime even if she got the stolen goods, which angered the people in Class 5.
They said that her missing fingers were due to her love of stealing other people's things in her previous life. This was all retribution.
Later, no matter what they tried, they couldn't get her to apologize.
The teacher who discovered that the students were all mysteriously missing went to the rooftop to put an end to the matter temporarily.
It was also at that time that I discovered that there was a ladder leading up to the rooftop. "
While the short-haired woman was telling the story, Huanxiao had already treated more than half of the wound.
She didn't move any slower or faster, and seemed unaffected by the story told by the short-haired woman.
When she discovered that Huan Xiao didn't react at all even after hearing this story, the short-haired girl's already suppressed desire to talk surged again.
She continued:
"The teachers who knew what happened started to dislike her. People in Class 5 said that whether she was handing in homework or attending class, the teacher treated her like nothing.
But the class teacher in Class 5 is different. He thinks that she lacks education and has no parents to teach her, so he keeps targeting her and belittling her character. He also deliberately held a class meeting to criticize her by name, so that the students should not learn from her and want to borrow from her. This taught her the principles of life.
She became less and less talkative. Sometimes she would be slandered when she entered the door. People in Class 5 said she was evil and that approaching her would bring misfortune.
The teacher turned a blind eye and pretended not to know.
With the teacher's connivance, the people in Class 5 became more and more aggressive, and they kept making trouble for her even outside the class.
He deliberately threw rotten eggs at her in the cafeteria, put beaten meals on her head, put glue on her seat, drew on her face, and pasted notes with many vicious curses on her back... Other grades When her classmates see her, they will also give her pointers. "
"Later, she finally couldn't bear it anymore and stood by the lake, hesitating.
Because she had a lot of attention on campus, I was pulled over by a friend from Class 5 who loved going to the theater. As soon as I arrived, I saw her jumping into the lake surrounded by a crowd.
The water splashed so high that everyone present was shocked. No one expected that she actually jumped into the lake..."
The short-haired woman's voice stopped suddenly, as if she was still frightened, and she stopped talking.
Huan Xiao put gauze on the wound and asked casually:
"Why are you telling me this? I thought you wouldn't tell me."
She had asked the short-haired woman and the man at the same table before, but their answers were as perfunctory as they could be, and they didn't tell her any important news.
Now it sounds like everyone in the school should know about such a big thing.
As a member of Class 4, Huan Xiao said at the time that she didn't pay attention, which didn't sound too fake.
When she asked the two people who died after jumping into the lake, she should have exposed the information that she was not a student in Class 4.
