[Comprehensive] City of White Night

After hearing the news, Tian Liuyin wanted to follow Beichuan to find clues, but it happened that Grandpa Watanabe came, and he wanted to take Tian Liuyin to Yejian Mountain to visit Tianliu's mother-in-law's grave.

Tian Liuyin can ignore other things, except this one.

Bei Chuan also understood very well and asked her to visit the grave and go to school by herself.

Maybe it's because he's getting older, but Grandpa Watanabe's memory is getting worse and worse. He thought for a long time, but he couldn't remember where Granny Tianliu's tombstone was. The two of them searched on the mountain for a long time and finally found it.

The tombstone was a bit old, so Tian Liuyin brought tools to clean it up, then placed offerings and burned a stick of incense.

She stood in front of the tombstone with folded hands, praying that her mother-in-law could hear her heart.

She can't die, she still has what her mother-in-law said to her when she was dying in her mind, although the memory is a little fuzzy, but she clearly remembers that her mother-in-law wants her to live well.

When going down the mountain, Grandpa Watanabe was unsteady and almost tripped. Fortunately, Tian Liuyin held him up. Grandpa Watanabe shook his head and said sadly, "I'm getting old, I'm going to see Lu."

It was almost dusk when I returned home, and the sky was swept by a large cloud of fire, and the edge of the sky seemed to roll up a burning coastline, stretching endlessly.

Beichuan appeared at this time, holding a tape in his hand, and excitedly said to Tianliuyin: "Tianliu! I found it! This is something left to us by former students!"

This image was deeply imprinted in Tian Liuyin's mind, and she would never forget that moment, the light in the boy's eyes was a bit brighter than the light in the sky.

The two sneaked into Tian Liuyin's room, closed the door, drew the curtains, Tian Liuyin took out the player, and put the slightly worn-out videotape into it.

After the machine was running, there was a lot of noise at first, and then there was an indistinct male voice, probably because the video tape was too old, and they could only hear a few clips clearly.

The boy who recorded the recording was a former student. At that time, a disaster happened in his class. During a class outing, this boy accidentally caused the death of another classmate. Then he found that everyone seemed to be indifferent. As if remembering this classmate, there has never been an accident in their class since then.

After the recording was over, Bei Chuan was about to turn off the tape, but a clearer voice came from the tape recorder, "I am Koichi Sakakibara, a student in the class of [-], and this tape will be reserved for the third and third graders in the future." Classmates, find it and put it back where it belongs."

As soon as the words fell, the player began to emit high-frequency noise. The sharp sound seemed to pierce their eardrums, and Beichuan quickly pressed the switch.

"These are the voices of two people." Tian Liuyin said: "The voices behind should be recorded later, and they are much clearer."

"Well, this should be what Sakakibara-senpai wants us to find, right?"

"Find it and let it go back to where it should go." If you heard this alone, you would not understand it, but with the explanation of the previous senior, the answer seems obvious.

"To find it..." Tian Liuyin whispered, "How many people are there in our class?"

"If Oshima is the last one, there are 26 more."

26 people, how difficult it is to find the dead.

"Does the dead have no features?"

Bei Chuan shook his head: "The deceased didn't even know their identity. They were awakened, imbued with appropriate memories, and then lived with us. They didn't know it themselves. How can we find him?"

Tian Liuyin raised her head, "You... think you are?"

"I'm not! I'm sure!" Bei Chuan looked at her firmly: "everything, including my parents, friends and neighbors, existed since I was a child. I don't believe that all of them are fake, even if they are Calamity wants to fabricate it, but it is impossible to create it so rigorously and realistically!"

After Tian Liuyin lowered her eyes, her eyelashes trembled slightly, concealing the emotion in her eyes. "Then... could it be me?"

"No! You also exist!" Beichuan grabbed Tian Liuyin's hand in desperation: "I still remember seeing you a few months ago. I don't believe that the deceased would show such an expression. You It's a person, a real living person."

"Thank you……"

"You don't need to thank me." Bei Chuan came to his senses, and hastily let go of Tian Liuyin's hand again: "It's decided. I'll go to school tomorrow."

"go to school?"

"Well, I'm going to the school to observe and find out the dead!"

"Then I'll go too..."

"No need." Bei Chuan realized that his reaction was too hasty, and he said in a disguised way: "You are in such poor health, you should rest for a few days, besides, you just transferred here and you don't know much about the class. The school knows a lot of people, you know the monitor of our class, Ryota Nanli, he is my good friend, I will find the deceased together with him!"

"Student Beichuan, are you... caring about me?"

Suspicious blush instantly covered Beichuan's cheeks, "You...you just need to rest well, I will protect you!"

"Thank you……"

"You're welcome." Beichuan hesitated for a while, and when he was about to leave, he mustered up the courage to say to Tian Liuyin: "Well... you can call me Rinichi from now on, aren't we friends?"

Tian Liuyin was stunned for a while, then nodded: "Well, good..."

Granny Lunzi was surprised to find that Tian Liuyin's appetite was much better than before. She suppressed her excitement and asked her, "Is that classmate Beichuan your good friend?"

"Um……"

"That's great. I was worried that you were alone all the time and had no one to chat with. If you had Beichuan, you would be happier."

Grandma Lunzi patted her with relief, wanting to pass on her support to her in this way: "Ayin, I know you have gone through a lot, but Alu entrusted you to me, and I will take good care of you You, otherwise, how could you feel sorry for Ah Lu."

"Thank you...Grandma Lunzi." Living here for so long, Tian Liuyin and Granny Lunzi have never had such a good chat. He is always trapped in his own world, thus ignoring the people who care about him .

She looked at Granny Lunzi's concerned gaze, and suddenly her nose felt a little sore.

After eating, she went to Grandma Lunzi's room for the first time, wanting to chat with her about recent events.

As soon as she entered the room, she was attracted by the realistic dolls of different sizes and shapes on the shelf.

Each doll is made very much like a real person. They wear all kinds of clothes. If the size is not too small, they are really no different from living people from a distance.

"I bought these dolls when I was young." Seeing that Tianliuyin was so interested in it, Grandma Lunzi introduced, "Ah Lu and I both liked this kind of dolls when we were young, but the price is too expensive. It’s been a long time before I can buy one, I remember you also liked this kind of doll when you were a child, every time you came to my house you always hugged it and refused to let go.”

Although she doesn't remember much, Tian Liuyin touched these dolls nostalgicly, hoping to find the breath of living with her mother-in-law back then.

After resting at home for a few days, Beichuan never came to her.

Tian Liuyin couldn't sit still anymore, so she decided to go to school.

As soon as she entered the classroom, she found that most of the classmates had returned, but their expressions were very dignified.

Beichuan has not come yet.

After she sat down, a classmate behind her asked her, "Student Tianliu, are you okay?"

"It's alright, thank you."

"Have you heard?"

"what?"

"Student Beichuan's elder brother passed away, just yesterday when they went swimming."