The third teaching building, rooftop.
The roof of the third teaching building is the highest place in the entire Minghua Middle School. At dusk, when you open the heavy iron gate and climb up the stairs, you can see the huge, full, and slowly sinking, orange-red sunset behind the railing.
That is really a beautiful scenery, the big fire clouds dye the blue sky into the color of orange, it is not a small brush stroke, but a large stroke rendering. Under such a setting sun, people who look back will seem to be infected by the setting sun, glowing, and even trembling voices will have the aroma of oranges.
It didn't take him long to reach the rooftop. Take out the key that was stolen long ago, open the locked iron door, and walk the long stairs, step by step, with ease, as if you have done it countless times, and it seems that fate has arranged all this long ago.
Two months ago, on the same rainy night, Yan Xi died. He didn't see the torn corpses that were rumored, but he only saw the scarlet blood stains on the floor tiles that couldn't be washed off after returning to school.
Because he has never seen the truth, he always lacks a little real feeling about it, as if he can still see that person when he goes out of the class, goes to the bathroom or eats, with his head lowered and shoulders hunched, walking carefully on the road, for fear of bumping into others Like a person.
How can a person who dare not bump into strangers, even dare to say hello to his classmates, who is timid and afraid of the dark and ghosts, have the courage to die.
Wasn't he himself who had the guts to die? only…
'You... Do you want to read the novel I wrote? '
After arriving in Class C, Xu Chi was immersed in the great frustration of both his studies and his family. On the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, he faced a text message from his parents "I don't want him to disturb", packed up the last book, After the whole class left the classroom, he walked up to the rooftop alone.
However, at the moment before jumping off, I heard an anxious voice from behind: "Student Xu Chi!"
When I turned around, I saw a boy holding a broom, out of breath, with beads of sweat on his head, which was a bit funny.
He knew that this person, the well-known good old man in the class, took over the job of a friend today, so he stayed in the school after the whole class left.
He originally thought that this person would say something like "life is precious", but he only saw that the person stopped after calling out his name. Read my novel?"
Reading novels
This should have been a very funny scene. After all, although the two are in the same class, one is withdrawn and the other is introverted. Before today, the two had nothing to do with each other except knowing each other's names.
But he still followed him down in a strange way. The novel is written in a dark red notebook. It is a campus mystery novel. In the use of words and sentences, you can clearly see the traces of the author's influence from Japanese novels.
It tells the story of several murders at a school that turn out to be revenge for a bullied teenager. Yan Xi watched him turn the pages of the book, and said with some embarrassment: "I write this kind of novel...is it weird? Haha..."
The story is not finished, stay at Chapter 7: Volume of Pride. Xu Chi then asked him, "Who will be killed in this chapter?"
Yan Xi thought for a while and said, "It's that young man, after all, he killed someone, so he shouldn't escape the punishment of the law."
"If possible, I want to become China's Keigo Higashino in the future." Yan Xi said, "I will start writing after I go to university... You must be the first reader by then."
"When you get to college you don't want to write."
"How could it be? Isn't the purpose of being admitted to a good university is to go to a place other than high school and realize my dream. I won't give up easily until I achieve this goal." Yan Xi argued, "People are just Do you live because you have a purpose?"
The way he argues is really naive and idiotic, but he is so optimistic that he seems to be shining, which is completely different from the usual shy-headed him.
Xu Chi didn't know if the boy who was always silent sitting behind him had discovered his intentions just before he walked out of the classroom door that day, or if he felt that he was always staring at the blackboard in a daze at the back of the front desk , Bringing him a feeling of "won't come back again".
An idiot like him who writes novels in a mess, maybe just holding a premonition of danger that he doesn't know where it came from, and followed him to the rooftop without thinking, and then "introverted and not sociable" Under the constraints of my own personality, my head went crazy and I said something like "Do you want to read my novel?"
It's just that maybe he didn't even think about it, but at that moment, his idiotic words were like a ray of light, shining from the sky to the deep bottom of the water, and shining on the classmates who fell into the deep sea.
As for parting ways due to misunderstanding, hanging up the phone call he made late at night because of anger, and seeing the news of Yan Xi's death from jumping off the building last night on the phone the next day, these are all later.
Transferred from Class B back to Class C to investigate Yan Xi's death. Shen You, who questioned the rumors, found that she had accidentally fallen into the water and died after leaving. He used some tricks to scare Tang Feng, but he committed suicide due to excessive psychological pressure. , but also later.
After the first two deaths that could be called coincidences, Xu Chi held the only relic left to him by Yan Xi—the dark red notebook.
This is the last relic left in this world by the boy who dreamed of becoming "Keigo Higashino of China".
It is also his last work.
He has no way to do anything for him, death is like a lamp being extinguished, and all revenge is just a helpless roar, a wail that exists in reality but cannot be conveyed. But there is at least one thing he can do—that is, to perfect Yan Xi's novel, which is full of loopholes, and turn it into reality.
Vengeance against those people, all his irreversible past, and the future that the boy can no longer have. And when it's all over—the one who will be sanctioned in the end will be himself.
When he used the mechanism to knock down those rows of bookshelves, he could no longer turn his head back.
The last of the seven deadly sins is arrogance. In the name of "arrogance", he misunderstood Yan Xi and broke up with him; and in the name of "arrogance", he hung up the last call he made before his death.
He didn't know how desperate Yan Xi was at that time.
After everything is over, he will choose to die, he will jump off the stairs, just like Yan Xi's choice on the rooftop that day.
Now, Yu Xingjian has been executed. When he saw the horror on the flagpole, his head began to throb and his heart constricted.
It was as if... something unexpected happened.
It's like... something is coming out.
In the heavy rain, Xu Chi, who was wearing a blue and white school uniform, stood by the railing, looking at the floor tiles more than ten meters below.
It was the place where his only friend had ever lay.
I don't know how Yan Xi felt when he stood here and jumped down
Is he afraid of heights? Is he afraid of the dark? Does he feel... pain
It is said that people who jump off the building will die in an instant and break their necks, so they will not feel severe pain. When Xu Chi first saw this cold knowledge, he just scoffed.
But now he hopes that this knowledge has really worked on Yan Xi's body.
It is said that at the moment of falling from a height, people will think of many things in their lifetime. All kinds of past will come one after another like a revolving lantern. At the moment when he landed on the roof, Xu Chi thought of many things.
He thought of when he was promoted to class b, he said to Yan Xi who was still in class c: "I'll be waiting for you in class b."
He thought that he waited all night under the neon lights with gifts, and Yan Xi, who was shut up at home by his quarreling parents, did not come.
He thought of when he was in the office and saw Yu Xingjian being false to Yan Xi. With ridiculous pride and self-esteem, he didn't ask, and refused to listen to any explanation from him.
He thought Yan Xi would hate him, right? A person as cowardly as a mouse like him, even in the underworld, alone... would be afraid.
If a person becomes a ghost, will he still be afraid of other ghosts
If he becomes a ghost, will he be bullied by other ghosts
At the moment when he jumped over the rooftop, he didn't feel that it would be a pity for him to jump off. He just regrets that it is raining late at night, and he can't see the sunset.
And... He remembered the words that inexplicable young teacher said to him.
'If you have a chance in the future, go to places other than Yangshui City to have a look. '
But he has committed a lot of crimes and is beyond redemption. He has already lost the chance to leave this place.
what…
He wants to be punished, he needs to be punished.
What he wanted was that person's revenge.
Then.
The sound of light footsteps stopped beside him. Xu Chi turned his head, and what he saw was a blood-red color.
He stood there, his face pale and cold, with a malicious expression. He looked at him, like Wall-E, the god of vengeance in mythology, looked at his fatal enemy, Hodur.
Under such venomous eyes, Xu Chi suddenly felt...
It's easy.
"You're here." He said slowly, as if he was about to cry.
Come kill me, do whatever you want to me, take revenge on me, vent your anger on me—
Just like you do every time.
He walked towards the blood-red face step by step, not as if he was walking towards the execution platform, but as if he was walking towards his Taoyuan Township.
Finally, he stood in front of the blood-red color.
Then I closed my eyes.
The feeling of weightlessness is sudden. What followed was an endless fall.
With a blood-red color, he pushed him down.
And he has completed his revenge and atonement in another reincarnation!
He is about to fall into the abyss, and with his death, blood will burst out of his shell, and the evil ghost Xu Chi is about to wake up.
But at this very moment—
The arm was tightly grasped by something.
In the torrential rain, he raised his head, only to see a white figure tightly grasping his hand.
Pale face, rain-drenched face, introverted expression...
He wriggled his lips until he was dragged up to the roof, still unable to believe what he saw.
... Yan Xi!
He was lying on the side of the roof, trying his best to grab his arm. Where the skins of the two were in contact, Yan Xi's hand was constantly emitting a "hissing" white gas.
He was burned by Xu Chi's evil spirit.
Worse than this was Yan Xi, who was standing on the other side of the rooftop, wearing a red coat with a vicious expression on his face.
"Hurry up..." He heard Bai Yan's painful voice, "I'll be able to..."
Why
He squirmed his lips, but the blood-red breath came to the two of them at that moment!
He seemed very dissatisfied with the blending of white color. It was this person who made him lose the opportunity to gain more power from Xu Chi's death.
He kicked hard and stepped on Bai Yanxi's back!
At the moment when the two met, Yan Xi let out a painful sob. More white smoke rose from his back.
He is about to dissipate.
Then one kick, and another.
He was in pain, but he never let go. After his efforts again and again, Xu Chi was finally dragged to the rooftop by him!
At that moment, Hong Yanxi let out a howl of extreme dissatisfaction. He looked at the two of them resentfully, but he never dared to approach Xu Chi, so he could only make a vicious sound of being robbed.
Finally, he remembered a sentence, the killer's mace.
"Xu Chi! I want you dead!" he shouted, "You owe me!"
However, in previous reincarnations, Xu Chi, who would be shocked every time he heard this sentence, did not respond to him for the first time.
Xu Chi looked at Yan Xi in a daze, and tried his best to crawl to his side, but the closer he got, the weaker Yan Xi's figure became.
Yan Xi's figure was getting paler and almost translucent. He stood in front of Xu Chi, trying his best to match his lips.
Incarnation had used up the last of his energy, and he was about to dissipate.
"... Yan Xi!"
Xu Chi was crying and wanted to grab his hand, but his arm passed through his figure.
At the moment before Yan Qi was about to dissipate, he understood his lips.
'This time... finally caught you. '
what…
'To survive. '
Then, he managed to raise his right hand, trying to touch Xu Chi's tearful face.
However…
what-
The last thing he saw was a pure white figure that was about to disappear. Perhaps because of the excessive use of energy, the blood stains on his original white clothes are also fading, shrinking, and almost disappearing.
When the bloodstains completely disappeared, that was when he died.
Just because he no longer has any regrets in this world.
Before Xu Chi let out another powerless howl, another voice came from behind him.
That was the voice of the substitute teacher, Lin Huai.
"Want to save him?" said the man.
He nodded unconsciously, and the person behind him said, "Okay."
The next moment, he lowered his head and saw that his heart was pierced by a hand.
It was Lin Huai's hand.
"The wish of the last coin will come true here." Lin Huai smiled beautifully, "Xu Chi..."
"I want you to die."