"you……"
Cheng Lin felt that meeting these two people at this time was an extremely low probability event.
The careful Luo Minghao noticed that his expression was not right, and quickly asked: "What's wrong with you? You look very bad."
"No...you read it wrong."
How could Cheng Lin's defense convince Luo Minghao?
"No? Then why do you hold this box and look like someone is going to steal your money?"
"..."
Cheng Lin didn't answer his question, but hugged the box even tighter.
"Is this thing important to you?" Xu Jiawen pointed curiously at the box he was holding and asked in doubt.
"..." Cheng Lin still didn't speak.
"Looking at him like this, you can guess it. Even his family members don't necessarily know what's in it, let alone let them find out." Luo Minghao said to Xu Jiawen.
The things inside are indeed as important as life to Cheng Lin.Now, he can't even protect his life.
"Let's go, since he won't tell us what happened, there's no need for us to waste time here."
After all, Luo Minghao pulled Xu Jiawen around Cheng Lin, intending to leave here.
At this critical moment, Cheng Lin involuntarily stopped them.
"Huh? What else do you want to do?"
"..." Cheng Lin realized that if he didn't speak, he would miss the best opportunity.
"Please help me keep this thing."
After he finished speaking tremblingly, he turned around and stretched out his hands holding the box tremblingly, intending to give the box to them for safekeeping.
He also thought a lot about making this decision.
First of all, if he doesn't dispose of the box properly, he may really be confiscated after he returns.Although he is very afraid of his mother, he has always abided by the rule that he must be at home before ten o'clock in the evening when he is not in class, not from his mother, but from the constraints he has set for himself.
Secondly, he knew that the two in front of him were ahead of him in this mid-term exam, and he had reason to believe in their self-control. Even if Luo Minghao was an opponent, he also knew that they were only opponents in terms of study.Generally speaking, a person who can maintain excellent grades and is not proud or arrogant is not a bad person, and he can trust such a person to keep things.
"You're not familiar with us, are you? Are you serious about entrusting this thing to us?" Luo Minghao persuaded.
"Please, keep this thing for me! Just for a while."
He said this sentence in a very firm tone, and at the same time bowed deeply to them.
"Now... I can't find anyone I can trust."
This is a fact. Because of the pressure of intense study and what he considers to be a bleak family background, he was easily isolated. The main reason why he has developed into the current situation is his inactivity.After all, he didn't want others to know that his father had made a family scandal like Xiaosan.
In order to preserve his "life", he has now broken the deadlock.
"There's nothing wrong with you saying that, but..."
"Can you tell us what's in it?"
"It's nothing special, it's just some paintings, but what they represent is almost everything I have except my studies."
"Painting?" Luo Minghao was stunned for a moment, "Why did you put it in a box with a lock?"
"Because... my ideal is hidden in it." Cheng Lin replied hesitantly, "I was afraid that one day, I would forget it, so I drew it down."
"How could ideals be forgotten so easily?" Now it was Xu Jiawen's turn to be surprised.
"Things that make you forget your ideals are reality."
Cheng Lin suddenly felt that he seemed to have said something wrong, and shook his head.
"In short, if one day I forget, please help me remember it, thank you."
After finishing speaking, he walked around Luo Minghao and Xu Jiawen, and ran away without looking back, leaving the two of them messed up in the evening wind.
Chapter 22 Missing
Cheng Lin ran all the way home, and when he arrived at the door, it was a quarter of an hour before 08:30 in the evening.
He habitually took off the keychain from his waist, skillfully reached for the key that opened the door of his house, and inserted it into the keyhole without hindrance.
However, after one turn, he felt unable to turn.
He was sure he didn't take the wrong key, which means that there is only one possibility for this situation——
His mother locked the door behind her.
In the past, the door was only locked around eleven o'clock, but now it is only after eight o'clock, and the meaning is already obvious.
It's impossible to say that the lock will be unlocked at a later time, because when his mother is angry, she doesn't pay attention to such details at all.In other words, there was no way for him to go back until the next morning.
"What are you doing?"
Although I know that my mother is probably just being angry, this kind of behavior is really hurtful.And her behavior is unprecedented.
Now, Cheng Lin is in an extremely embarrassing situation.
One is that because he ran in a hurry, he didn't bring his ID card, cash, or mobile phone, so he couldn't stay in the hotel, and he didn't know any friends who could take him in.
The second is that he is wearing a little thin, which is prone to problems in this warming weather.
Only these two points are enough to make him feel very uncomfortable.The only thing I can be thankful for is that the next day is Saturday, and it is also a Saturday of the monthly holiday, so I don’t go to school.
He could only drag his slippers to walk around the neighborhood.
As luck would have it, he walked for less than half an hour, and the weather changed as soon as he said it, without any human touch. Suddenly, there was a heavy downpour, which blurred the vision, and made people who were still walking on the road or by the river hurry back. footsteps of home.Cheng Lin, who had no way to go home at this time, could only run around in order to find a place where he could shelter from the rain and rest.
At this time, if you only talk about taking shelter from the rain and resting for a long time, the best place to go right now is probably an Internet cafe.
It's a pity that he is a dead-headed person, and he stipulates that he can't go to Internet cafes if he can't, let alone he has no possessions now.Going to other places is afraid of causing trouble to others, so I am very entangled.
In fact, he knows that there is a place that meets the conditions he needs now. The disadvantage is that if this weather condition lasts until the next day, if he stays there all night, he is very likely to catch a cold, and if it is severe, he may have a fever.
But it's better than being in the rain all the time.
He went there resolutely.
It's under the big slide in the Central Park Children's Zone.Since it is an open park, it is easy to get in, but in this weather, the park is empty and has an eerie feel.
The upper part of the slide is impermeable, but the lower part is easy to be blown by wind. It is uncomfortable to stay below in this kind of weather, just imagining it, but even so, it is better than being outside in the rain.
Because the clothes on his body were already soaked, he had to take them off, wiped his hair and body with them, and then spread him out on the ground, because there was plastic on the ground, so he was not afraid of getting dirty.
But staying here is not comfortable.Soon he felt a chill, the wind blowing outside even sucked in some water, piercing his body like a needle, forcing him to curl up, trying to minimize the damage.
"hateful……"
He said through gritted teeth.
On the other side, it was no longer appropriate for Luo Minghao and Xu Jiawen to walk outside because they held Cheng Lin's "life".So after Cheng Lin left, they also set foot on the way home.Coincidentally, as soon as he entered the building, there was an increasing sound of rain outside the building.
"This weather is really weird..." Back home, Luo Minghao looked at everything covered by rain through the bedroom window, and said to himself.
Cheng Lin's box, he had carefully placed it in his bookcase before, and even made a small space for it.Of course, he couldn't restrain his curiosity about the content of the painting inside, but it was also impossible to open it forcibly.
"Let's play with the computer for a while."
In order to divert his attention, he turned on his desktop computer and started playing games.
About two hours later, he had just finished playing the game and was about to take a break when he heard a "click" sound from the bookcase, as if some kind of lock was being opened.
"what's the situation?"
He rushed to the bookcase and checked the box he had put in before, only to find that the lock of the box had been opened for some reason.
He had an ominous feeling.
I checked the box carefully and found that there was no trace of being opened violently at all. In other words, the box opened by itself.
"This kind of strange thing happened, is that 'ability' going to activate again?"
He thought so, but after all, he hadn't received any information, so he couldn't be sure what would happen.Now that the box that made him very entangled has been unblocked, he can't restrain his curiosity at all.
"I'm sorry." He opened the box while muttering these words silently.
He was surprised to see so many paintings of such high quality, because he had never heard that Cheng Lin had such skills, and what was even more surprising was that he had painted these paintings to the point where he was almost a professional painter. s level.
One of the paintings attracted Luo Minghao.This painting is exactly the one that Cheng Lin drew on the day he got his high school entrance examination results. In the painting, he became a girl, and he always looked like a little girl selling matches.
"This……"
Before Luo Minghao had time to complain, he was too scared to speak.
In the blink of an eye, the position of the imaginary girl sitting in front of the desk in this painting emits a soft light that is very similar to that of a firefly, flashing and flashing, and this rhythm is very similar to a heartbeat.After a few seconds, the dots of light began to move out of the painting, floating in the air.Before Luo Minghao had time to react, the spot of light suddenly became a little dim, and then rushed outside at high speed.
Unfortunately, Luo Minghao didn't see where it flew.
"This... Could it be that he is going to transform too?"
Luo Minghao began to become panicked, this time there was no sign of his transformation.
He felt that Cheng Lin's situation had to be determined first.
The embarrassing thing is that he neither has Cheng Lin's contact information nor does he know where Cheng Lin lives.
At this time, there is only one way. If you are lucky, you may be able to contact Cheng Lin. If you are unlucky, you can only know whether Cheng Lin is at home now.
He quickly picked up the mobile phone that was still on the bed casually, and dialed the number of the head teacher.
"Hello?" After only two or three seconds, the call was connected on the other side.
"Mr. Wang, it's me, Luo Minghao." Luo Minghao said quickly when he heard the connection, "Now I have an urgent matter that I would like to ask you to confirm."
"Luo Minghao? I was just about to call you to ask how things are going with Gu Ruxi. I called his parents just now but no one answered the phone." The head teacher on the other end of the phone said.
"Gu Ruxi will come to class normally next Monday, but he has successfully undergone sex reassignment surgery and turned into a girl." Luo Minghao replied quickly, but now is not the time to care about this, "Teacher, can you contact me?" How about Teacher Qi, let him confirm whether Cheng Lin is at home."
Teacher Qi is the class teacher of the third class.
"What's wrong? What happened to Cheng Lin?"
"Anyway, make sure first, so I can be sure that nothing happened."
"wait for me a while."
The teacher in charge quickly hung up the phone, and then called Teacher Qi to inquire about the situation.
Then Mr. Qi called Cheng Lin first, but no one answered, so he called Cheng Lin's mother, and his mother answered quickly.
Teacher Qi was shocked by the result, so he quickly called Luo Minghao's head teacher.
"Cheng Lin has been missing for almost four hours?"
After hearing what the head teacher said, Luo Minghao didn't believe it.The current time is almost eleven o'clock, and the last time they met Cheng Lin was about eight o'clock in the evening.Saying four hours can only prove that Cheng Lin left home at about seven o'clock in the evening.
To be precise, in this situation, it is not sure whether Cheng Lin is in danger, and because the case cannot be filed within 24 hours of his disappearance, so he cannot rush to call the police.
But Luo Minghao couldn't think so.Because the strange thing that happened just now gave him reason to believe that something happened to Cheng Lin, and something really happened. Apart from him, these people would definitely not be able to find Cheng Lin.
what to do?Are you going out to find him now?
This is very irrational behavior.Because the rain outside has been at its maximum level since an hour ago, and the wind is also unusually strong. Finding someone in this weather condition is simply looking for a needle in a haystack.
Luo Minghao's heart became more and more uneasy. He didn't know if he could find Cheng Lin in the end, and he didn't know how to explain to him the strange things that would happen in all likelihood.
Chapter 23 Finding
Luo Minghao didn't sleep well all night, and the matter of Cheng Lin couldn't get rid of it in his mind, so that he tossed and turned on the bed.
Cheng Lin, on the other hand, has been trying to find ways to keep himself from falling asleep.Although he thought that his mother should have relented and unlocked the door at this time, but in this bad weather, he couldn't guarantee that he could walk back safely.
His soaked clothes couldn't dry at all in this kind of weather, that is to say, he was now standing in a place where the wind was always blowing with his upper body naked.
After a while, he caught a cold.
There was no shelter to shield him from the wind and rain, so he could only shrink his body as much as possible to reduce the damage to himself from the cold wind.
"Why? Why should I suffer such pain? Why should I work hard for her?"
He had a fever, and his consciousness was becoming increasingly blurred.
Just as he was about to lose consciousness, that dim, twinkling spot of light appeared in front of his eyes.
"what is this?"
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