eighth story

March [-]rd is a Thursday.

It was rare for Tan Yi to go to self-study. He came back with two eggplant rice bowls from the cafeteria. He used his skull lunch box. On the way back to the dormitory, the rate of turning heads was high all the time. The one that Yang brought was a disposable paper lunch box from the cafeteria, which was very shabby in comparison.

Wu Qinyang had a full class in the afternoon, a modern history outline and a physical education class. The physical education was table tennis. In the first class, he fell asleep in the dark, and in the second class, his partner was screaming and screaming.Just after class, Tan Yi called and asked him if he wanted to bring a meal. Wu Qinyang lamented that his roommate was really a considerate little padded jacket. He asked for eggplant rice and went back to the dormitory to take a shower.

After taking a bath, the whole body is comfortable, and the steaming eggplant rice bowl in front of me looks very delicious.Wu Qinyang turned on the computer and heard Tan Yi calling him, "Wu Qinyang?"

Wu Qinyang let out a "huh", logged on to the school's gateway, and replied, "What's wrong?"

Tan Yi said: "Isn't there a lot of rumors on the Internet two days ago, saying that someone disappeared on the subway."

Wu Qinyang said: "You just know, it is said that you haven't found it yet."

Tan Yi said: "What do you mean by 'I just found out'? Another one is missing."

Wu Qinyang let out an "ah" and hurriedly said, "What's going on? Another one is missing?"

Tan Yi said: "I'll send you an address...you can see for yourself." He said and sent a series of URLs to Wu Qinyang.

Eleven days have passed since the incident of Pan Xiaoxin, and Wu Qinyang originally thought that this incident would settle down with the passage of time—at least from the public level, it is indeed the case, so far few people have We're discussing this.Now there is another case of disappearance, which made Wu Qinyang immediately think of the word "serial", which is a bit scary.

Wu Qinyang thought that the group had really taken on a big case this time, so he clicked on the website that Tan Yi had sent him—it was the sequence of events that had already been sorted out, and even included a detailed comparison with the first incident.The time of the incident should have been in the early hours of this morning. After spreading throughout the day, the heat had already been fired up. Coupled with the chain reaction caused by the first incident, Wu Qinyang once again lamented the horror of the Internet.

The person who went missing this time is Han Youjia, an editor of a magazine called "Looking Online" in this city. He is 29 years old this year and lives alone. His parents are in other places. point or so.According to the editor-in-chief of the editorial department, she called Han Youjia at around 07:30 on the evening of the [-]nd to inform the latter to come back to work overtime. The magazine crashed, so it had to be edited urgently for fear of affecting sales, and that section happened to be in charge of Han Youjia.

Han Youjia should have come out of the editorial office at around 35:47 p.m., just in time for the last subway train at 13:23 p.m. The Dongyingmen Station of Line No. [-] she got on had a record of her entering the station, but the entire subway system There is no record of her leaving the station, and this is the same as Pan Xiaoxin.Then came the first Weibo post she sent at [-]:[-], complaining about overtime work and the desertedness of the subway. The most intriguing thing was her position at that time. It was not anywhere else, but the Tanghetai station of the subway where Pan Xiaoxin had disappeared before. .

Interested people also sorted out the comments she replied to others at that time. The statement that "everyone except me is dozing off" seems to confirm what Pan Xiaoxin said before that "all are sleeping". It seems that the two have encountered the same situation. situation.Another similarity is the subway that can’t stop, but it’s a little different here. Pan Xiaoxin discovered that the subway hadn’t stopped for more than ten minutes while she was awake, but Han Youjia dozed off for nearly four or ten minutes and woke up. It was only later that I realized something was wrong, and I sent two Weibo to explain my situation, but there was no detailed explanation like Pan Xiaoxin.

Then came the station named "Xuejun". When the speed of the train slowed down, both of them saw the lights. Here, Han Youjia's description of the situation in the subway is more detailed than Pan Xiaoxin's. For example, no passengers in the subway are missing. up.But the most important breakthrough in Han Youjia's Weibo is the photo of the legendary "Xuejun Station". Pan Xiaoxin failed to post it online before, but Han Youjia did.

Wu Qinyang slid the scroll wheel of the mouse, and finally saw the photo taken by Han Youjia.

The ground is gray square bricks staggered horizontally and vertically. The station sign is made of iron. On the top is the three characters "Xuejun Station" rubbed in red paint. A horizontal line marks the direction of travel, and the station below is vertical. Arranged, and also marked the fare and the time of the morning and last trains, but from the photos, I can't see what is written on it, because it is too vague, and it doesn't have much effect if someone does technical processing.

When Wu Qinyang saw this photo, his heart was shocked. He felt that the scene in the photo seemed very familiar, as if he had been to that place before.Wu Qinyang frowned, double-clicked the mouse to enlarge the picture, and felt that it was similar to the style of the bus station at the end of the last century or the beginning of this century - there were similar pictures in middle school history textbooks, but as early as twenty years ago the city Special renovations have been carried out on the bus station. This kind of stop sign should have disappeared as early as when I was in elementary school.

I have no reason to go there... no, maybe in the history museum?Maybe I saw a similar exhibition when I was a child?

Wu Qinyang was not sure whether his idea was correct, so he temporarily put aside the weird feeling and looked at the photo carefully again.

There seems to be nothing special about it - except for the sense of the times that does not match reality, but if you think about it from another angle, this in itself is also a very serious problem.

time Tunnel?Is Tanghe Station a space-time transfer station?The two missing people took the subway back to the past?Most supernatural novels like to write like this, no wonder they are discussed so enthusiastically.

Wu Qinyang himself is not a firm materialist. After seeing that his uncle can turn a small person into a small piece of paper, he always feels that there is nothing impossible in this world.

Is it certain characteristics of Pan Xiaoxin and Han Youjia that trigger the conditions for the opening of the space-time tunnel?Others may accept this reason, and supernatural lovers may still be very envious, but the family members of the missing person obviously don't think so.Wu Qinyang could almost imagine Uncle Qiao's expression of bitterness. Pingfan must have been furious long ago, right?

Han Youjia's disappearance was reported by her college best friend from another place - it seems that it is not quite accurate to say so.Han Youjia’s college best friend is called Wen Lingdang (it should be a pretty cute name for girls), and Han Youjia once talked about this with Wen Lingdang when she was working on the topic of "Missing Girls in the Subway", so the latter still has a lot to say about this matter. With a certain understanding, I felt something was wrong when I saw Weibo, and immediately called the police when I couldn't get through to Han Youjia.However, Pan Xiaoxin's incident was aroused on the Internet before, and there were not a few people who used it as a gimmick to post a mysterious Weibo first and then report to the fake police blog. What's more, Wen Lingdang reported to A in the middle of the night. It was already the next morning in the city, one step behind Han Youjia's colleagues who found out that something was wrong.

The first person in the editorial department to discover something was wrong was Li Yuetong who had communicated with Han Youjia on Weibo last night.Li Yuetong went to bed at 11:30 yesterday, and saw Han Youjia's Weibo posts early the next morning, and couldn't get through on the phone. Knowing that Han Youjia was not a person who would make such jokes, he immediately called the police, and Han Youjia did as expected. Did not come to work in the editorial department.

Li Yuetong also seems to have posted a short statement on the Internet about this matter. Wu Qinyang followed the link on the webpage and clicked on Li Yuetong's Weibo. There were no important clues in the [-]-[-]-word statement, but a police receipt. Shan said that this matter is true, and it happened at noon today.As for how the story of Han Youjia was spread on the Internet, it was probably because "A City Public Security Online" reposted Han Youjia's Weibo.

Wu Qinyang Wuxin cosplays as a super detective who saves the poor with a flash of inspiration. A science student who can solve the learning problems in advanced mathematics may not necessarily have excellent logical reasoning ability. Besides, he has no specific clues. It's just imagination, if you want to know the specific situation, it's more reliable to go to the police station and ask him Uncle Qiao.

Although Wu Qinyang was curious about this matter, in the final analysis, it was just the words "willful and powerless".Wu Qinyang closed the webpage, and said to Tan Yi, "Hey, Jerry..."

This time it was Tan Yi who asked, "What's wrong?"

Wu Qinyang said: "My mother didn't respond after the last time, why don't you come to my house again this week, let's..."

Tan Yi interjected with great interest, "What?"

Wu Qinyang said: "Go further? Think about it. I think my mother is used to seeing me and my brother..." I was very confused whether to use "intimate" or "shoulder to shoulder" or "ear to ear" and simply skipped it. , continued, "There will be no response."

Tan Yi was originally a seemingly cold gossip person, and at the same time he was a little bit afraid of chaos, so he nodded very caringly and said, "Okay, but when Tom is back, I won't be staying at your house."

"That's fine." Wu Qinyang didn't want Tang Yu to know about his "private deal" with Tan Yi, "Which day do you have no class? Let me think about it... Go back in the morning, have a meal at noon, and tell me in the afternoon that you will help I learn English? Leave the rest to chance."

Tan Yi crossed his arms and thought for a while: "Okay, let's go on Saturday, I still have experiments on Sunday afternoon."

So a deal was made.Wu Qinyang prepared a tone and called Qin Yao, saying that he invited Tan Yi to go home on Saturday to tutor him in English, and he might have lunch at home or something.

When Tan Yi went there last time, he took the initiative to explain his educational background to Wu Chunxing and Qin Yao. He is a Chinese-American mixed race, born and bred, and returned to China two years ago. All in all, his English level is top-notch.Qin Yao has always been troubled by her son's sleepiness when reading English textbooks, and she is quite dissatisfied and brooding about the fact that he flew back from the United States by himself by plane. Qin Yao first proposed the idea of ​​learning English.

Listening to what Wu Qinyang said, Qin Yao was absorbed in the excitement of "the son is finally willing to make progress", and completely ignored the question of why he had to go home when he was not in the dormitory or in the school library since he was tutoring English one-on-one. The land agreed.

So on Saturday morning, Wu Qinyang took Tan Yi back home in an open and honest manner.

Wu Chunxing and Qin Yao were still very enthusiastic, and Tan Yi couldn't help touching his nose - he really didn't come to teach Wu Qinyang how to learn English.

The two pretended to pass the two hours before lunch, and when the food was served on the table and the five flavors were coming to an end, Wu Qinyang thought about how to implement his plan.

Skin-to-skin relationship is definitely unrealistic, and it's not meant to be a fake show. Hugging beyond the scope of friends is still acceptable.After the meal, Wu Chunxing went to wash the dishes, Qin Yao continued to describe the poor black goldfish, Wu Qinyang went to the refrigerator to get two boxes of yogurt, took Tan Yi back to the room, locked the door, and began to seriously study Qin Yao's room. How to borrow a position from the perspective of the door is smooth and natural-doesn't there often be a borrowed kiss in TV dramas?

The two of them held their positions for almost four or ten minutes and still felt that something was wrong.Wu Qinyang felt hot, so he tore open the yogurt box casually, raised his head and took a sip, and wanted to go to the bathroom to wash his face before coming back.Before I could move, I heard Qin Yao's voice, saying, "Yangyang, I washed strawberries for you two".Wu Qinyang was thinking about going to open the door, but when he got up, he accidentally tripped over the laptop's power cord, and landed on one knee with a plop, in a position where his head was facing Tan Yi's knee.As a result, at this moment, the door opened with a "squeak"——

Then this scene changed in Qin Yao's eyes - her precious son's face was flushed, his forehead was covered with a thin layer of sweat, and he knelt on one knee between his roommate's knees, with suspicious white marks on his mouth , Qin Yao suddenly became messy in the wind.

Wu Qinyang is also very messy, his wild horse-like imagination is completely inherited from his mother, and Qin Yao must have misunderstood by looking at his expression.He wanted to make his mother think wrong, but it was definitely not in this direction. He stood up and wanted to explain, but unfortunately, he tripped over the power cord again and fell on Tan Yi all at once. .

Qin Yao: "..."

Wu Qinyang: "..."

Tan Yi: "..."

Wu Qinyang knew that his "step-by-step" plan was completely over, so he leaned on Tan Yi's body and whispered, "You go first." He had a tragic temperament of sacrificing one's life for benevolence.

Tan Yi said: "Take care." Knowing that this is Wu Qinyang's family matter, only the mother and son can solve it by themselves.Pushing away Wu Qinyang for a while, with a natural and superb acting skill, he picked up his schoolbag on the chair and said politely: "Auntie, I'll go back first."

Qin Yao's expression was stiff, and she squeezed the strawberry basin until it creaked, and nodded slowly.

Tan Yi said, "Goodbye, Auntie." Walking out of the bedroom, he said to Wu Chunxing as he passed the living room, "Goodbye, Uncle."

Wu Chunxing asked suspiciously, "Let's go now?"

Tan Yi's expression was very strange. He nodded and said, "The tutoring is over." Indeed, the tutoring is over.

Wu Chunxing couldn't figure it out for a while, but he heard Qin Yao say: "Old Wu, come here for me."

Wu Chunxing looked at Tan Yi with some embarrassment, thinking that he should give it to someone else anyway, Tan Yi signaled that it was okay, and the door opened and closed after a while.Wu Chun walked to the door of the bedroom, seeing his wife and son all had horrible expressions on their faces, he was even more inexplicable: "What's wrong?"

Qin Yao sneered wickedly, raised her eyebrows, and said to Wu Qin: "Just in time, while your father and I are here, let's talk?"