until the last minute

The class bell rescued Zhou Yin, and he said to Li Qing, let's talk later, and went back to the classroom.Still holding the tube of ointment in his palm, he stuffed it into his trouser pocket as if it was hot, and then opened the textbook, trying to focus on the densely packed text.

The deskmate bumped him with an elbow, and leaned over curiously, "Do you know the one who got demerited in the next class?"

"I know, I just met." Zhou Yin turned a page of the book without raising his head.

"Hey, you're lying, you guys have known each other for a long time. Tell me the truth, is he new to you?" The deskmate looked at him teasingly, with a playful smile on his face.

"Who did you listen to?" Zhou Yin asked calmly, this tablemate was the one who sat with him the longest, and they usually get along well, which is why he has been calm until now.

The deskmate opened the book and stood on the table. While being wary of the teacher coming down to patrol, he lowered his voice and said, "My friend Ruan Wei, Qiuyou, you go back early, she said she saw that you have so-and-so WeChat."

"Is he really not your new boyfriend?" The sharp eyes of the deskmate swept over, as if to see through the flaws on his face.

"No."

Zhou Yin flatly denied it. He turned to the next page of the book and heard his deskmate muttering in a low voice: "It's fine if it's not, Ruan Wei has a crush on that one and said she wants to chase him."

The fingers rubbing the pages of the book paused, Zhou Yin followed the handwriting drawn by his fingertips, but his gaze that should have been browsing this line diverged to the next line.

There is a two-hour break at noon, and Zhou Yin usually delays eating until the canteen is about to close.He usually doesn't stay in the cafeteria to eat, but leaves after eating.He has many places to go, the roof of the teaching building that no one visits, the abandoned pavilion at the southwest gate of the school, and an idle classroom in the laboratory building are all his secret bases.

This day, he left after eating as usual, passing the dining area, he immediately saw Li Qing sitting in the middle surrounded by several girls.

Li Qing buried his head in cooking, there were several lunch boxes in front of him, and Ruan Wei sat next to him, and Ruan Wei graciously picked up the food for him.But Li Qing lowered his head, his face was almost buried in the lunch box.

Zhou Yin was about to leave, but the sharp-eyed Ruan Wei saw him and called his name.

This voice made Li Qing also raise his head, his eyes stared straight at him, and there was a rare request for help and desire in his eyes.After receiving the distress signal from Li Qing, Zhou Yin walked over mercifully, first greeted Ruan Wei and other girls he knew, and finally asked Li Qing casually: "Have you finished eating? You said you want to wipe it for me?" Medicine."

Li Qing immediately packed up the tableware, Ruan Wei asked with her chin resting, "What medicine?"

"Did you forget? In the hospital we went together, you should also remember to take the medicine prescribed by the doctor, so you can get better sooner." Zhou Yin explained to her in a harmonious voice.

Ruan Wei pouted, and said coquettishly, "Well, I understand."

Li Qing stood up without saying a word, the movement of holding the lunch box indicated that he could go.

Zhou Yin waved to Ruan Wei, and made a joke before leaving, in exchange for which Ruan Wei smiled, "I'll lend it to him, and I'll return it to you soon."

The first laboratory on the fifth floor of the laboratory building has been idle for a long time, and Zhou Yin has the key here.After helping Li Qing out of the siege, he wanted to say goodbye to him at the entrance of the cafeteria, but Li Qing was taken by what he said casually, and insisted on helping him to apply the medicine.

Zhou Yin had no choice but to bring the person here, closed the doors and windows, and pulled down all the curtains.The whole room was airtight, before Li Qing turned on the light, it was dark enough, hidden and inconspicuous.

The light turned on with a "pop", revealing the original appearance of the laboratory.Zhou Yin moved a chair familiarly, sat in front of the laboratory bench, broke off the disposable chopsticks and started to eat lunch.

Without him asking, Li Qing pulled a chair and sat down beside him, with his back leaning on his long legs and stretching out, in a posture ready to take a nap.

Zhou Yin bit his chopsticks and looked at him sideways.

Li Qing smiled: "I'm a little sleepy, just squint, I won't fall asleep, call me when you're good."

"You can go back to sleep, I don't need to apply medicine." Zhou Yin muttered, Li Qing closed his eyes and answered him: "It was you who asked me to help, how could I not help."

Zhou Yin choked back: "I also said that I will send you back soon, shouldn't I keep my word?"

Li Qing opened his eyes, his expression was relaxed, but his tone was uncharacteristically tough: "You can't joke around, don't pay back anything, I don't know them well."

"You are not afraid that I will block your luck, don't tell me that you didn't see that some of them have taken a fancy to you." Zhou Yin took a few mouthfuls of plain rice, feeling more and more unable to eat, and simply put on the lid of the lunch box to end the incident hastily meal.

Li Qing said seriously: "Don't talk nonsense, spreading it is not good for girls."

He glanced at Zhou Yin's lunch box, shook his head and lamented that he ate so little, suddenly took out a tissue from his pocket, leaned forward, and wiped the corners of Zhou Yin's mouth with his hand.

Zhou Yin thought his lips were oily, so he roughly rubbed the back of his hand a few times.Li Qing said: "It's nothing I misread, it's just dead skin, and my lips are too dry."

Zhou Yin pushed the lunch box to the side, lay down with his head buried in his folded arms, and made a gesture of indifference.Li Qing stood up and took Zhou Yin's lunch box, then his own, and walked out of the laboratory quietly.

He was washing their lunch boxes in the bathroom, his face was reflected in the huge mirror, and his lower eyelids were black and blue.Li Qing put the cleaned lunch box aside, splashed a handful of water on his face with his hands, and pressed his eyelids with his cool fingertips.

"Did you sleep well last night?" Zhou Yin's voice sounded suddenly, Li Qing opened his eyes and looked at himself and Zhou Yin in the mirror.

It is inevitable to think of last night, rainy night, forced to stay overnight, sudden accidents and unexpected conversations.Li Qing tried his best to recall his sleep last night, only remembering that his consciousness dived into the deep sea, so he must have slept well.

"No, I slept pretty well." He gave an affirmative answer, then turned to look at Zhou Yin: "Can you apply the medicine here for you, did you bring the ointment?"

Zhou Yin hesitated, took out a tube of Voltaren ointment from his trouser pocket, Li Qing wiped his wet hands, took the ointment and unscrewed the tube.Zhou Yin watched his movements, swallowed unconsciously, and grabbed the hem of the school uniform that was too long with his right hand.

He tried his best to straighten his back, not daring to let Li Qing find out that he was actually a little nervous.

Li Qing approached him with the ointment, pointed to the sink casually, and instructed: "Go and stand there, with your back to me."

Zhou Yin stood in front of the sink, put his hands on the cold brick surface, and the mirror reflected Li Qing's silent face.They failed to look at each other in the mirror, Li Qing's eyes were downcast, Zhou Yin felt it almost immediately without looking for his gaze.

Li Qing lifted the hem of his school uniform with his hands, put his palm on the skin of his back, and massaged it familiarly, whispering in his ear from time to time: "Does it still hurt? Where else does it hurt?"

Zhou Yin bit his lip, lowered his head, and stopped looking at them in the mirror——Li Qing was behind him, his chin seemed to be leaning forward, the two bodies overlapped, his hands and lower body could not be seen in the mirror, This gesture is so ambiguous as a hug, it can't help but arouse people's imagination.

Li Qing was completely unaware of his predicament, and didn't even look up at him.In the mirror, I could only see his slightly frowning brows, with an upright expression as if all this had nothing to do with him, and he could immediately draw a clear line with himself.

"Are you ready?" Zhou Yin asked.

"Well, okay, wipe it again after taking a shower at night." Li Qing finally raised his face, and looked straight at Zhou Yin who was a little dazed in the mirror. Zhou Yin had no other reaction when his eyes were caught, until It felt like something had fallen into a trouser pocket.

He reached into his trouser pocket and found a tube of ointment and a hard-edged candy.

Li Qing took away the two washed lunch boxes, laughed and walked away.

Zhou Yin didn't eat this candy that day, he took it home with him, he had a good appetite and ate two bowls of rice for the first time in the evening.After dinner, his mother watched TV in the living room, and he watched it a few times with him.

The local news reported that a man fell from a building in a certain place. The camera scanned the scene of the accident, and the familiar old building came into view. Zhou Yin was immediately stunned.That was the place he had been to yesterday morning. He remembered that the building was dilapidated, the door lock downstairs was broken, the elevator was in disrepair, and the strange man who pretended to be an intermediary was still unclear.

Mother brought a plate of cut fruits and asked him why he looked so ugly.

Zhou Yin responded indiscriminately, he jumped up from the sofa, took a few steps up the stairs, rushed into the bedroom and slammed the door shut.The mobile phone was charging on the desk, and when I ran to unplug the mobile phone, my knee hit the stool.Not caring about turning on the light, he reluctantly clicked on the call log, just wanting to call Li Qing right away.

After the bell rang several times, he calmed down and hung up the phone.Searching for that place on the Internet, the related words that pop up are sensational, there are different opinions about suicide by jumping off a building, love and vendetta, and unmarked bloody photos are blatantly hung on the homepage.

Zhou Yin stared at the thumbnails on the webpage. The man who fell from the building hit the ground with blood spreading from his body. The white shirt and the maroon blood stains were the strongest intertextuality for death.

Zhou Yin remembered what the man was wearing yesterday, and it gradually overlapped with the one in the horrific photo.He shuddered violently, only feeling horrified.

Li Qing called back, Zhou Yin pressed answer, he cut off Li Qing's words and said first: "Do you remember what I told you yesterday? Someone pretended to be an agent and took me to see a house. I was watching the news just now, and that person fell into the house." Down, dead."

"Did you say he committed suicide by jumping off a building? Then why did he take me there?"

Li Qing called his name repeatedly, and he said Zhou Yin, Zhou Yin, please stop and listen to me.

"What do you want to say." Zhou Yin's throat choked, he stopped, and waited for Li Qing to speak.

Li Qing asked: "Are you sure it's that person?"

Zhou Yin hummed, "I remember his clothes and figure."

"Did you call the police? If there is surveillance nearby, the police may ask you for questioning if they find out. Don't be afraid, I will accompany you to talk."

"What did you say that person took me to that building? He also wanted to take me to the rooftop. If I went with him, wouldn't he not die?" Zhou Yin clenched his phone tightly, trying to discern the truth in the dark. of every object.It's a pity that the darkness is too thick, and he can't see anything clearly, just as he can never prove his conjecture.

"Could it be that he wants to die, so he wants to find someone to accompany him to die."

"Zhou Yin, Zhou Yin, listen to me, don't think wildly, don't scare yourself." Li Qing's voice was steady and powerful, and he calmly comforted him, "Are you at home? Does Auntie know about this? She doesn't know Don't tell her the words, do you want me to come to you?"

But what can you do here.

Zhou Yin didn't ask, but Li Qing answered what was on his mind, "I'll accompany you."

During the ten minutes of waiting for Li Qing to come to him, Zhou Yin took out the uneaten candy in his pocket, peeled off the colorful candy wrapper, and carefully put the candy into his mouth.

It was very sweet and hard, and it took him more than ten minutes or even longer to melt the sugar.