Author: A line of egrets ascending to the blue sky
Chapter 1 The disappeared Chen Mo
Six years after graduating from college.
As a member of the migrant workers in this city, Wang Cong is immersed in busy work all day long. Even his occasional leisure time is wasted in games.
That day, a strange call came to his mobile phone.
"Hello?"
"Wang Cong! You clearly know that Chen Mo is real, but he just disappeared suddenly. I'm not a madman. Why didn't you tell them about Chen Mo! Why!"
Hearing the angry voice on the other end of the phone, Wang Cong looked very ugly.
"I……"
With a hint of guilt and apology in his eyes, Wang Cong hesitated, not knowing what to do.
"Chen Mo is real! I'm not a madman! You bastard!"
Without waiting for Wang Cong to respond, the other party hung up the phone.
Because of this phone call, Wang Cong was in a trance for the whole next day.
night.
Wang Cong returned to the apartment alone, and his room was extremely quiet.
He took off his coat, turned on the desk lamp, and sat quietly in front of the desk, supporting his chin with his hands. As his eyes became more guilty, his expression gradually became painful.
"It's been ten years because I don't want to be like you and become a lunatic in everyone's eyes. I've been telling others about Chen Mo who doesn't exist in their eyes. I just want to live a normal life."
The incident began in a full-time art vocational school in a provincial capital city near the capital.
The time was March 12, 2011, 56 days before the college entrance examination, and that day was Chen Mo’s birthday.
The reason why Wang Cong remembers it so clearly is because on March 11 of that year, a magnitude 9 earthquake occurred in the waters surrounding an island country, triggering a tsunami. The classmates in the class celebrated enthusiastically out of patriotism.
Since the school is under full-time closed management and the college entrance examination is about to take place, everyone is under great pressure. I remember that Chen Mo also said that day that tomorrow is his birthday and he should celebrate it well.
Then there were the nuclear radiation leaks and the salt grabbing incident.
As he recalled, Wang Cong's thoughts became more and more distant, as if he had returned to the winter of that year, the day Chen Mo disappeared.
…
At that time, I was very introverted and didn't have many friends in school. I only interacted with two classmates on a regular basis.
One is my deskmate Wu Huiteng, and the other is Chen Mo, who lives next door with her grandma.
Chen Mo lived with my grandma and became neighbors because her parents divorced and remarried separately. We were in the same class since junior high school, and later we were promoted to high school together, and we were still assigned to the same class.
Of course there is no need to say more.
In order to celebrate Chen Mo's birthday, I called my cousin and asked my cousin to order a cake from outside.
There is a low wall in the backyard of the school. Outside is a dirt road under the railway. There is a breeding farm behind it. It is relatively remote, so people often climb over the wall here. Teachers often come here to perform inspections, which made me pick up cakes.
I was frightened for a long time.
Chen Mo also doesn't have many friends, but he is not withdrawn. It's just because of family reasons that he doesn't want to take the initiative to communicate. But because he is handsome, fair-skinned, and studies very well, he scored 148 in mathematics on the high school final exam, and scored 148 in math in singles.
He ranked first in the grade in the subject and eighth in the school overall, so I knew that many female classmates liked him.
At noon that day, the three of us met in the abandoned dormitory building behind the school to celebrate Chen Mo's birthday privately.
This dormitory building was not abandoned before, but was rented to another railway vocational school. However, due to poor discipline at the school, the lease was not renewed and it became vacant.
The brick building looks very dilapidated, the red bricks are starting to darken, and it smells musty, but it has become a favorite place for some couples in the school.
In the evening, there will be people playing badminton here, usually freshmen in high school.
Wu Huiteng and I both got gifts.
Needless to say about my cake, what Wu Huiteng gave me was a pair of Yonex badminton rackets, which cost about a few hundred yuan, which was a huge sum of money for us at the time.
Chen Mo also gave us gifts in return.
What was given to Wu Huiteng was the entire "Slam Dunk" comic book, and what was given to me was a Winnie the Pooh keychain, which his parents bought from abroad before they divorced.
After eating the cake, there was still some time before class. Wu Huiteng suggested playing badminton, saying that he wanted to feel his Yonex racket again. Each player had six balls and would end up losing.
Although the weather in the north is very cold in March, the sunshine is a bit dazzling and windy, which is not suitable for playing badminton. So when we were playing, we unknowingly started to approach the abandoned dormitory building to take shelter from the wind, until Wu Huiteng exerted too much force and broke the
The badminton ball hit the second-floor window of the abandoned dormitory building.
All the windows in this building were sealed with broken boards. Many of the glass behind the boards were broken, and the badminton fell in through the gaps in the broken boards.
Since there was only one ball, Wu Huiteng suggested going in to pick it up.
Some people said that before the school was established, there was a cemetery here and some strange things happened. I was a little scared, but Chen Mo said it was his gift, so he and Wu Huiteng climbed in through the window.
I am responsible for keeping watch outside to prevent teachers on duty from coming over.
I remember clearly that it had been at least twenty minutes, and there was no movement between the two of them inside. I couldn't stand looking around, so I climbed in too.
The corridor was very dark, with only a little light coming from the windows sealed with broken boards. There was dust everywhere, and there was also a rotten musty smell.
I plucked up the courage, lowered my voice, and called out to Wu Huiteng and Chen Mo several times because I was afraid of being heard by people passing by outside, but I got no response.
Since the badminton fell to the second floor, I tried to walk up the stairs to take a look. The sound of the wind blowing in through the cracks in the window was like the cry of many people. It was only less than a hundred meters away, and I was almost gone.
For two or three minutes, I called several times but neither of them responded.
"ah!!"
A scream suddenly came from the gloomy corridor.
I got goosebumps, and almost without thinking, I turned around and ran towards the window I came from, rolled and climbed out of the window, and then I gasped in shock and saw Wu Huiteng also climbed out of the window.
"Where's Chen Mo?"
I asked Wu Huiteng.
At that time, I thought it was two people working together to scare me.
"I don't know!"
Wu Huiteng gasped: "He said he gave you the keychain. He seemed to have dropped his key where he just picked up the ball, so he went back to look for it. I was waiting for him, but the ghostly scream scared me. I heard someone
I ran with him, thinking it was Chen Mo."
Only then did I realize that he mistook me for Chen Mo.
"What took you so long to get in?"
"Shouldn't we go in for less than a minute?"
Wu Huiteng's words made me a little confused. I had obviously been waiting here for at least twenty minutes.
The two of us panted and waited outside for a long time, but we didn't see Chen Mo come out. We stuck our heads in the corridor several times and called Chen Mo's name, but we didn't get a response.
It wasn't until the school bell rang that Wu Huiteng noticed that the "Slam Dunk" comic book given to him by Chen Mo was gone. He had clearly placed it on the cement floor before.
Without thinking too much, we hurriedly ran towards the classroom.
When we ran to the classroom, the math teacher had already arrived for a while and was giving a lecture. Looking at us who were out of breath, he didn't say much and let us in.
We were sitting at the same table, sitting in the opposite row, so we would naturally pass by Chen Mo's seat, but found that his seat was occupied by Rong Yeye, the math class representative.
After the two of us sat down, we searched the class for a while, but we didn't see Chen Mo.
"Have you seen Chen Mo?"
I quietly patted Zhu Yidan's shoulder at the front table and asked in a low voice.
"Who is Chen Mo?"
Zhu Yidan's rhetorical question made me stunned for a moment.
She has had a crush on Chen Mo since her freshman year of high school.
Wu Huiteng seemed a little impatient and repeated: "Chen Mo!"
The math teacher threw a piece of chalk and asked Wu Huiteng to stand up and listen to the lesson. We could only suppress our doubts and wait until the end of get out of class.
As soon as get out of class ended, Wu Huiteng began to ask about Chen Mo one after another in the class, but everyone looked confused without exception. Who is Chen Mo?
Even Chen Mo's former deskmates looked confused. It seemed that no one remembered Chen Mo, or that this person had never appeared.
Wu Huiteng once thought that the whole class had banded together to deceive him.
Then he started asking classmates in other classes and even the teacher, but he got the same result. Chen Mo seemed to have disappeared out of thin air. Everyone had forgotten his existence, including the report card on the wall, and Chen Mo was gone.
name.
This feeling was like there was some kind of force that brought Chen Mo to another dimension. There was some mysterious force in this universe that was repairing the minimal impact caused by Chen Mo's disappearance.
Wu Huiteng later became a little confused and told people that Chen Mo had disappeared.
The head teacher noticed Wu Huiteng's abnormality and called his parents. He said that he was under too much pressure in the college entrance examination and was looking for non-existent classmates all day long. He suggested psychological counseling.
At the beginning, Wu Huiteng told everyone about Chen Mo's past in the QQ class group again and again, including Chen Mo's previous grades, who he had good relations with in the class, and so on. Later, he was kicked out of the class group by the class monitor who was unbearable.
During the college entrance examination, Wu Huiteng came to school once and asked me in public why I didn't tell others about Chen Mo.
I was very scared at the time because I didn't want to be seen as crazy in the eyes of others, so I never spoke.
"Chen Mo got you wrong! I'm not crazy! I made the wrong friend like you!"
I still remember Wu Huiteng being looked at with strange looks by everyone. He made painful and feeble excuses over and over again, trying to pull me out to testify. However, my silence finally made him look at me with anger.
He hated me for not defending Chen Mo, who disappeared mysteriously. He was not a madman.