I walked to the back of Longshan. There is Longshan Military Camp and a school over there.
The snow is very thick. I wanted to see if there were any traces of our arrival in the snow, but reality made me quickly give up this idea. Because of the sudden appearance of the Longshan Barracks, there are occasional patrols in the barracks. I dare not return directly through the Longshan Barracks. I can only bypass him.
I am alone, carrying a small satchel, which is Qianjiang's satchel, and the satchel hung around my neck when I was carrying him. Open the bag, inside is a small blanket and some food prepared by Qianjiang.
It was too cold, my lower body was stuck in the snow nest, and the white hair wind was blowing on my face. I took out the small blanket and wrapped it around my head, and then took out the food. It was a small bag of bread. In the depths of the Great Khingan Mountains, bread is a rare thing, even the Japanese don't eat much.
I ate Qianjiang's bread, put on his blanket, and walked back. My mind is almost lost. Whether I can walk back to school alive is a problem, because I want to bypass the Longshan barracks and cross a huge forest area on this snowy night.
But I didn't think too much, I just told myself, go forward, towards the hillside with lights patrolling.
I can't feel the passage of time, or even feel that I am moving. I only know that when the day has been darkened, I saw the sewer entrance.
I suddenly came to my senses, it turned out that I had already returned, back to the sewer entrance where Qianjiang and I climbed out of the school. I looked back, there was nothing behind me, "Qianjiang, I'm here." I said.
I took off his little blanket from his head, and the Japanese student cotton coat stained with blood on my body, and buried it in the snowdrift with the small satchel. The snow season in Daxinganling is very long, and this blanket will not be discovered until a long time later.
Then I rubbed the blood on my hands and face with snow again, and when everything was cleaned up, I crawled down the sewer and back to school.
It was a little bit brighter, but the school was still very quiet, and everyone hadn't gotten up yet. I braved the cold and returned to Qianjiang's room, put on the clothes I left in his room, and carefully closed the door for him, so that all traces disappeared.
When I returned to the Chinese student dormitory, the roommates were still asleep, quietly. I took off my clothes, my whole body was blue with cold, and I shivered and shrank into the bed, the coldness was always enveloping me, and my limbs started to tingle.
But I was so tired, in a daze, I just fell asleep like that, and I will talk about other things later.
When I woke up, the rare sun was hanging in the sky, and everyone else was drying the quilt. Zhao Tiezhu watched me wake up, and said, "Xiang Shui, why did you wake up so late? It's rare to be in the sun. Get the quilt out to dry! It will get moldy quickly."
Zhao Tiezhu was the first bird to catch a rabbit. I forcibly supported my body and got up from the **, followed them to take the quilt out to dry. When passing by Zhao Tiezhu, I asked him, "Did you see the purple light in the sky last night?"
"Purple light?" Zhao Tiezhu laughed loudly: "You are still purple light, I think you are still dreaming of purple light, where is the light at night?"
I was upset and said: "I should have read it wrong."
Recalling the details of last night, it was like a dream, the Longshan mountain shrouded in purple light, the disappeared Longshan barracks, figures, deep pits, dead bodies, and the disorder of location.
Everything is weird from the appearance of the purple light. Is that a dream? I doubted myself that that memory was too illusory, it seemed that the ubiquitous purple light filled the whole picture of memories.
I don't know when they will find that Qian Jiang is missing, or when they will find Qian Jiang's body. This tension that might happen at any time engulfed me, and I almost didn't want to go anywhere.
There is no habit of counting people in the school, and the classes in the snow school are also suspended. It is very likely that they will find the missing Qianjiang in a few days. By that time, the heavy snow had already erased the traces of our night.
All traces of that illusory night will be erased.
I took a break and went to Ichiro Saogan, the surgeon, the elderly Christian, and in a sense, my teacher.
I went to find him. He was drying the quilt outside the room and heard footsteps. He looked up at me and quickly lowered his head to carefully sort out the folds on the edge of the quilt. "This is a good weather, facing the water."
"Yes." I said, "a rare sun."
"But your face is very bad." After finishing the quilt on one side, he slowly paced to the other side. This old Japanese is an excellent surgeon, rigorous and meticulous, able to spot anything abnormal. Such as messy quilts, or other things.
"I didn't sleep well last night." I replied, I don't believe this left bank can tell from me what I have experienced.
"Come with me, today I caught another rabbit that was driven out of the mountain by heavy snow. It will be your good partner today."
I nodded and followed behind him to enter the door. After entering, Left Bank hunched over and opened the inner door, suddenly looked back at me and said, "You are weird today."
I took a strange look at my dress, and it was the same as usual. My complexion might indeed be a bit worse, but the weirdness of the left bank certainly did not refer to my complexion. I said: "Where is it weird?"
The left bank thoughtfully said: "You will find out soon."
He didn't tell me where the problem was, which made me more cautious, but I still don't believe that the Left Bank will see what happened last night.
Inside, there was a small clean operating room. The rabbit prepared for me on the left bank was dead and lying on the operating table. He slowly drew out a bright lancet and stared at the sharp blade. I noticed that the left bank's eyes were looking at me in the blade.
"Go ahead." I said.
Zuo Bank looked away silently, he nodded, wiped the lancet in his hand, and handed it to me. I took the knife and pushed the fur on the rabbit's chest with the other hand, intending to start from its heart. I quickly touched the rabbit's heart, and the hand holding the knife was about to pierce that place.
Suddenly, I froze, holding the lancet as if I was still there.
The Left Bank stared at my face, my heart numb, and I raised my head almost in horror and looked at him.
Left bank said: "You also found out, Xiang Shui."
I also found out, yes, I was weird today.
This is a horrifying discovery. When I was about to carry out a routine dissection of the rabbit with a knife as usual, I suddenly found that my hand holding the knife turned out to be my left hand. (End of this chapter)