Abnormal

The house is very hot, and the heating makes people's faces red.Gao Tong let out a long sigh of relief, and lay down on the kang directly.Although I haven't been back for more than a year, the house is not stuffy, and it can be seen that it is often cleaned.There is a small window in the room, Gao Tong turned his head to look over it, staring at the tiny dust particles in the beam of light that came in, slightly lost in thought.

This small room accompanied him through his long teenage years. The slightly moldy walls were covered with various awards and handwritten newspapers, ranging from elementary school to junior high school.Gao Tong saw the certificate at a glance, which stated that he had won the first place in the overall list when he first entered high school, and he was given a [-] scholarship at that time.

I really miss it.He stroked the paper with his fingertips, but he didn't expect that the certificate would fall down just by touching it.It fell to the ground lightly, and Gao Tong reached out to reach it, and it took a lot of effort to get it up.

The time is too long, and the edges of the certificate of merit are curled up in a yellowish way, and they will make a crisp sound when you touch them.Gao Tong lowered his eyes, looked at it thoughtfully, suddenly rolled it into a ball, and threw it out with all his might!

Then he got under the covers and sighed heavily.

After tossing and tossing for so long, it was probably already afternoon, and the angle of the sunlight changed a lot accordingly, but at this moment, it happened to be cast on the crumpled paper ball in the trash can.However, just for a moment, the light shifted a little, and then there was no more light.

——It seems to be implying something.

After the hot day, the faint light finally disappeared.Time will never return, and the young man who once became the light gradually disappeared into the ordinary crowd after spending a warm and grand juvenile period.

The young man lying on the kang had already fallen asleep, breathing lightly.

……

When he opened his eyes again, it was already dark. Gao Tong went to get a glass of water to drink, his forehead and body were covered with sweat, and he sat on the stool for a while before he calmed down.

He had a dream, in which he returned to his high school class.The room was full of people, but he couldn't see their appearance clearly. There was a black and hideous mass suppressed on everyone's face, and he didn't know what it was.

As soon as he entered the class door, the classroom was silent, everyone's eyes were on him, and the students stood up one by one.He ran out of the classroom in horror, panting heavily, and ran to the toilet. Just as he closed the door at the back, he heard ambiguous and erotic moans from the next door, and the door suddenly opened!

There was the sound of splashing water behind him, and when he looked back, he saw the back of a tall boy.The man was washing his hands slowly, then flicked the drops of water casually, turned around to look at him, and said something softly——

"You don't have to worry about it, I don't care."

Then Gao Tong woke up.

He picks up his phone irritably, the screen is empty and there is no message.I called my mother first, and got on the chat software after learning that there was nothing wrong.

After hesitating for a while, he turned off Tartarus's information blocking settings, and sent a friend request again.I didn't know what to write for the reason for the application, so I just wrote two words casually, Gao Tong.

I have nothing to do, so I plan to pack up and go back to the hospital.While waiting for the other party's friend to pass, Gao Tong went to cook the noodles, but he didn't get a reply after eating.

"I used to reply very quickly..." After thinking about it for a while, he laughed at himself a little embarrassedly, how could he be looking at his phone all the time when he was so busy.

Because the dream just now was still lingering, he decided to wash his face to wake up, but just as the water brushed his face, the phone suddenly rang.

Gao Tong opened it and found that it was the news from the landlord who was renting a house in Nanjing at that time.

"Did you go on vacation? No one has lived in the house for a month! I just moved the flower bed away and found that the key is still buried there, layer by layer of dust. [Doubtful]"

He froze for a moment before he remembered it.But he clearly rented the house to a person who was in urgent need of housing, and the other party paid the rent for two years until the end of his contract.

How is this going?

He didn't go back to the landlord, he opened the rental website, and called the other person's contact person, but before the beep sounded, he heard a cold female voice say, sorry, the number you dialed is an empty number.

Gao Tong was taken aback. It was obvious that he could get through at the beginning?

This incident made people feel that something was wrong. He immediately opened WeChat, scrolled down for a while, and found that the communication records were all gone after changing his mobile phone. When he searched for the person's phone number, the result was blank.

Actually deleted him.

I was anxious when I left, Gao Tong and the other party directly packed up their things and moved away after trading directly on the website.That person was in the same company as her, but he was just recruited. Gao Tong asked Lin Jingyue if there was such a person in a certain department. She said that there was indeed such a newcomer, who was recruited just after graduating from the 985 master's degree.

In this case, Gao Tong didn't think too much about it. The two parties have complete information and are trading on a regular website. No matter what, the other party should be the one who is afraid of being breached.

This fact doesn’t make sense, Gao Tong thought about it, and then typed back: “Auntie, isn’t it two days earlier this year’s Chinese New Year, so I’ll go home and put the keys there first. Don’t worry, my water and electricity are all cut off. Did you go in and see?"

After waiting for a few minutes, the landlord replied with four words, which was strange.

"..."

He was the only one in the room, and the cold wind outside the window made a whirring sound as it passed over the window edge.For no reason, Gao Tong's palms began to sweat.He was hesitating what to say, but unexpectedly a voice message came directly from the other party's phone.

"Gao Tong, when are you planning to come back?"

Gao Tong couldn't help: "I... I might be late, something happened at home. What's wrong?"

A few seconds later, the other party sent him a video with a sentence attached: It seems that the downstairs has pulled your switch, and the lights cannot be turned on.

Before opening it, Gao Tong felt something was wrong.However, when he turned it on, he took a deep breath—this was probably taken with the phone's built-in flash.In the room that was crowded and full of furniture before, there was only a bare bed board, covered with a thin layer of plastic film.

Under the dark and oppressive light, the small room seemed even more strangely empty.

...Is it a new resident who wants to redecorate the house?

Gao Tong frowned and thought, thinking it's better to explain clearly to the landlord directly.However, he suddenly saw a faint red light on the upper edge of the photo.His heart suddenly skipped a beat.

This is……

Gao Tong stood up all of a sudden, his hand holding the phone was not steady.Just feel the scalp tingling.

Before he had time to reply to the landlord, Gao Tong immediately opened the search engine and entered the question. He was trembling all the time while typing, and couldn't type a complete sentence at all.

—he couldn't believe it!

The internet wasn't very good, and he had a bursting headache. After the circle showing the internet speed turned around for a while, the answer finally appeared.

"Hello, you just need to turn off all the light sources after entering the room. Pull the curtains to keep the room dark, and turn on the phone camera to scan every corner of the room one by one. When a red dot appears on the phone screen, it means that there may be infrared light at the target location. Camera."

After reading this paragraph word by word, Gao Tong couldn't even keep calm.He panicked, his legs were too weak to support his body, so he had to lean on the wall.He is not an idiot, and it certainly could not have been done by the new residents, it must have happened when he was still living in Nanjing.

Unable to think at all for a while, Gao Tong was about to go crazy, he directly found the phone number he dialed in the morning, gritted his teeth and called!However, the only thing conveyed to him over there was a cold voice, please leave a message after beeping.

Gao Tong swallowed several mouthfuls of saliva, and tremblingly left a message: What are you going to do...Bai Zhiyuan, are you...

He couldn't go on.I also feel that I can't stay in this home alone, it's too scary.He quickly packed up his things and left the house. When he reached the slope, he accidentally fell down and hit a stone with his leg. At that moment, he almost couldn't move in pain.

The phone suddenly vibrated, Gao Tong took it out to check, but the landlord sent him two more messages.

"Oh, I saw the furniture. I didn't see it just now because the corridor was too dark. I only saw it when I came out. Are you going to redecorate?"

"Gao Tong, Auntie told you that the rent is going to increase. If you don't plan to live here again, don't spend a lot of time on the decoration. No matter how beautiful the decoration is, you don't want to stay here in the end. The young man works hard. , don't waste your money..."

Gao Tong closed the page and covered his face.He had to force himself to calm down.

He supported his body and barely got up, his body was covered with a pile of filth mixed with mud and snow.The north wind was a cold knife, howling and scratching his cheek.He walked forward step by step, and suddenly remembered a person.

His hands were a little numb, but he still managed to type.

"Li Xin, are you there? Sorry, but I have something to trouble you."

After getting on the bus, Gao Tong received the reply from the other party.

"? What's the matter? I just drank and didn't watch."

"...I, I want to ask about Mr. Bai." He breathed out and typed out a few words slowly. "Do you have the time?"

"Oh! I can, is it convenient for you to call?"

Gao Tong called him directly, and the other party picked it up quickly.

"Long time no see! But Brother Bai seems to have called you on my WeChat yesterday, hehe."

"Ah..." Gao Tong grabbed the phone and asked in a low voice: "I just want to ask, do you know Mr. Bai... Where did he go to high school?"

"Ah? Why are you asking this?" Deng Lixin was stunned: "Should it be Beijing? Or England? But I don't know about it. I was in Haidian back then...why, you two haven't had a fight yet. good?"

"We didn't quarrel." Gao Tong was quiet, and replied: "... If that's the case, then there's nothing wrong with it. I'll call you when I'm free. I'm going to the hospital now."

"Okay, goodbye! Have time to get together!"

Gao Tong said goodbye with a faint smile, and was about to put down the phone when he suddenly heard the other party muttering: "But his family is mainly in Hebei, I remember..."

"Hebei?" Gao Tong was taken aback.

"It may also be Tianjin. Well, it's the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region anyway. We knew each other when we were young, but we're not familiar at all. Brother Bai doesn't talk about him, so I don't know at all."

"...Oh, yes. Thank you very much."

Gao Tong hung up the phone.At this time, when he arrived at the hospital site, he got out of the car, his feet were cold, and his mind was empty.