As late autumn approaches, the weather in Beijing is getting colder and cooler.
It also started to rain lightly today, fluttering on the streets late at night, adding a bit of melancholy.
An Internet cafe on Xueyuan Road is still a lively place. The first and second generations of netizens are squandering their youth and are full of passion, as if they are cut off from the outside world and do not know the sun and the moon.
This is another all-nighter.
Since Jiang Chao became addicted to "Legend", he has stayed up all night more and more often. He can't help it, this thing is so fun. Just cutting venison in Novice Village makes him astonished.
Hey, hey, he can actually cut meat!
You can still sell it! You can also make scarecrows!
Damn it!
That's the feeling.
He had been surfing for four hours since he sat down, and finally temporarily logged off, bought a bottle of soda to take a breather, and went to the Love Club as a habit.
Looking at the empty message board, I felt a little disappointed.
Last time, he acted impulsively, crossed the boundaries of friendship, and said some sincere words to the goddess. As a result, they had no contact with each other for many days.
Take a look at BBS, there are also many people saying:
"The smiling girl hasn't appeared for several days, has she?"
"I didn't feel anything strange the last time we talked. It made me feel panicked."
"Hey, will something happen?"
"Everyone, please rest. I just don't want to play with you anymore. Do you understand if I leave?"
"..."
Jiang Chao did not participate in the discussion, but he shouted in his heart: Don't be so sentimental! It has anything to do with you, it's all my fault! My fault!
I watched it with mixed emotions for a while, and was about to go back to "Legend" to fight again, when I suddenly saw a message flashing.
"Is it her?"
Jiang Chao's heart skipped a beat and he opened it nervously.
"is her!"
"She didn't leave!"
A hint of excitement surged into my heart, and I looked at the content again: "Huh? Why did you pronounce so many words?"
He moved his chair, adjusted his posture, and almost touched the screen, which read:
"I'm sorry for disappearing for several days. I'm not angry, I'm just hesitant to tell you something.
First of all, I want to say sorry to you. I lied to you before. In fact, my hometown is also in the south. I am a very ordinary girl. My parents passed away very early. It was all thanks to my grandpa who raised me up, provided me with education, and helped me with my studies.
Admitted to a school in Beijing.
When I first came to this strange city, I didn’t adapt to anything and had no friends. Maybe it was fate that allowed me to meet you. It’s really nice to chat with you. You understand what I say every time.
As an introvert, I never thought I would talk to someone I didn't know about so many things.
Maybe it's the unique charm of the Internet, maybe it's this little website that slowly opened my heart to you.
Last time you asked me if I considered you a friend, I wanted to say that you are my friend, but I am not ready to meet you in a real way, but I have been working hard...
Maybe this is fate. Just when I was about to make up my mind...my grandfather's health has been in poor health, and recently it suddenly became serious. My grandfather is a tea farmer and usually works very hard..."
There was a lot of noise in the Internet cafe.
A broken light bulb flickered on and off, and the smell of tobacco, alcohol, and barbecue filled Jiang Chao's nostrils. He was unaware of it. He looked at each word, as if he had a premonition of what it meant.
"Actually, it's okay. At least it gave me this experience in my life and allowed me to meet you. It's not a bad thing that I chose to return to my hometown. At least I can stay with my grandfather, who is my only relative.
So I’m here to say goodbye to you today, I can’t just sneak away, hehe~”
After a long text, there is a second message below. This one is shorter and reads: "By the way, your application has been approved!"
"Apply?"
This term popped up in Jiang Chao's almost blank head, and he subconsciously clicked on the information. Sure enough, the smiling girl's close friends were no longer 0, but became 1.
This was what he had been pursuing, but he felt nothing at the moment. He looked down again and saw that the cell phone number column was blank.
"..."
Jiang Chao continued to look through her information and her photo album, and found that the photos that made all the netizens on the site excited were empty and had been deleted.
His heart twitched suddenly, as if he had lost something, but then he said to himself: "The photo just disappeared, she is online, she is online!"
He immediately sent a message: "Reply me!"
"reply me!"
"reply me!"
After sending countless messages, the message box finally flashed, but it was blank.
"You can't do this, I feel like we've just begun!!!"
"..."
The other party was silent again. Jiang Chao pursed his lips and stared at the screen. After an unknown amount of time, it finally flashed again and a line of words appeared: "I originally wanted to say goodbye quietly, but you caught me."
"Is your mobile phone number real?" she asked again.
"yes!"
Jiang Chao didn't understand, but the other party didn't respond. After about a few minutes, he only heard the dinging sound, and his cell phone actually rang.
He was stunned, clutched his phone and ran out of the Internet cafe.
It's raining heavily outside, the streets are empty, and one streetlight is dim.
"Hello?"
"Hello?"
He spoke hoarsely, then fell silent.
The girl paused, then chuckled a few times. Her voice was soft and intoxicating, just as he imagined, and said: "You see, if I really want to call, I won't know what to say."
"You, you really want to go back?"
"Well, I'm leaving! Since you caught me, I'm going to say goodbye to you formally. Thank you for staying with me for so long. Although I don't know your name or your appearance, I will remember you."
The humid air soaked by rain seemed to penetrate into the microphone, turning two people in a city into a blur.
The girl paused again and said with a smile: "Don't make it so sad. Okay, goodbye!"
Snap!
beep……
Jiang Chao stood under the street lamp for a long time, with his heart broken and mixed emotions, and he suddenly remembered a sentence:
"Perhaps, this is youth!"
He slowly returned to the Internet cafe. The noise and chaos seemed to be two different worlds. He sat in front of the computer and looked at the club page again. The ID of the smiling girl hung there alone. There was nothing left, only one close friend was left.
1.
There has been a huge quarrel on BBS:
"All the photos are gone. I don't know what happened. I just saw them and there are still them!"
"Did you delete it yourself? Or did the administrator delete it? If it was the administrator, then there is something inside."
"I'll just tell you, I'll tell you, there must be something fishy about her, maybe she's a salesperson, she came up here pretending to be innocent, and ran away when someone found her out!"
Jiang Chao suppressed his sadness and felt angry. He wanted to scold the man back, but stopped and simply opened a document.
He is not a person who writes well, but at this moment, his writing thoughts are flowing, his feelings are sincere, and it makes people cry. He quickly finished coding an article and posted it to BBS with the name:
"The Story of Me and That Girl".
This article later caused quite a stir. Netizens spontaneously forwarded it to major forums and attracted some netizens to check in. It became an online memory that many people have retained.
What is online memory?
for example:
"Jia Junpeng, your mother called you home for dinner!"
"What we are following is not posts, but loneliness."
………………
At the same time, somewhere in the city.
Liu Weiwei hung up the public phone and glanced at a certain guy with an expression of extreme contempt and disbelief.