The Pentium Era - South to North

It was after eight o'clock, but Jin Lili hadn't come yet, nor had she called back. Zhang Chen asked her again, but there was still no reply. Zhang Chen thought about it, closed the door of the office and walked out. He went to the parking lot to ride a motorcycle. , go to the Financial Garden.

When he arrived at the gate of the Financial Garden, Zhang Chen did not go in. Instead, he parked his motorcycle on the opposite side of the road and sat on the seat to wait.

Zhang Chen didn't want to go upstairs. He didn't know why. Zhang Chen didn't like to go to Jin Lili's company when there were people in their company. He felt that doing so would make people feel stingy. Would others have such thoughts? I was worried about Jin Lili and needed to keep an eye on her.

Am I, Zhang Chen, a stingy person? Do I, Zhang Chen, need to stare at my girlfriend all day long? Is there any mistake? Ever since I was little, it has always been my female classmates who have been courting me, including Jin Lili. She was the one who chased me so hard back then, okay?

Zhang Chen took out the BB camera from his waist and took a look. If Jin Lili passed by when he came and couldn't find him, Jin Lili would detain him.

There was a new message on the BB phone. Zhang Chen quickly opened it, but it was from Liu Ligan: "Where the hell have you been? I'm going back."

Zhang Chen sighed, feeling a little anxious. He really wanted to go upstairs and take a look. Half of his anxiety was because he missed Jin Lili, and the other half was because he wanted to give her a treasure and tell her that from today on, we will live in Wanghai Building every weekend. You don’t have to. After seeing the old witch, Zhang Chen never told Jin Lili about this, just because he wanted to give her a surprise today.

Zhang Chen tried his best to control his urge to rush upstairs. He took out his cigarette and started smoking.

From a distance, he caught a glimpse of a security guard coming out of the duty booth, looking around, and then walking back. It seemed like a "wild boar vehicle", so Zhang Chen quickly turned his head away.

Zhang Chen smoked one cigarette after another. After finishing one pack of cigarettes, Zhang Chen took out another pack from the storage box of the motorcycle, opened it, lit it, and looked longingly at the barrier gate coming out. Jin Lili never showed up.

Zhang Chen looked at the time. It was already nine o'clock. He looked at the BB camera again, but there was still no movement.

The "Wild Boar's Vehicle" came out of the guard box and looked this way. Zhang Chen turned his head away. The "Wild Boar's Vehicle" came over, walked closer and shouted: "Sure enough, I look familiar. It's really you."

Zhang Chen had no choice but to take out a cigarette and ask the other party to smoke it.

"Wild Boar's Vehicle" lit up his cigarette and stood side by side with Zhang Chen, both of them looking at the gate.

"Coming to pick up my girlfriend again?" "Wild Boar's Vehicle" asked.

Zhang Chen said "hmm". He didn't want to talk too much about waiting for his girlfriend, so he changed the subject: "When did you return to the island after the New Year?"

"I didn't go back." "Wild Boar's Vehicle" said, "Double salary during the Spring Festival and two hundred red envelopes. Why go back? What a pity."

Zhang Chen nodded.

"It's past nine o'clock, why don't you go up and take a look? I haven't seen your girlfriend's company's car coming in or out today." "Wild Boar's Vehicle" said to Zhang Chen.

"What time did you get to work?"

"Seven o'clock."

I haven’t seen anyone coming in or out until seven o’clock. So Jin Lili is still in the company? Why did he detain her so many times in the company and she didn't respond?

Zhang Chen felt anxious. "Wild Boar's Vehicle" said to Zhang Chen: "Go up and have a look. Stop the car here and I will watch it for you."

Zhang Chen went upstairs, arrived at the door of Jin Lili's company, and knocked on the door. There was no movement inside. Zhang Chen knocked again after a while, but there was still no movement. Zhang Chen put his ear against the door and listened. It was quiet inside.

Zhang Chen was about to knock again when the BB player in his waist rang. Zhang Chen picked it up and saw that it was from Jin Lili:

"Dear, I have something to do at the company today and I can't leave. I can't come over."

Zhang Chen stood blankly in the corridor. The door of the company next to him suddenly opened. A girl exclaimed "Ah". She was frightened by Zhang Chen standing in the corridor. Zhang Chen hurriedly left there.

Zhang Chen entered the elevator, and the girl followed. Zhang Chen entered the elevator, but she did not follow him. She stood outside the elevator and looked at Zhang Chen. When the elevator door was about to close, Zhang Chen quickly pressed the door open button. , asked her: "Can you move down?"

The girl hesitated for a moment, her face turned crimson, and finally she shook her head.

"Mom." Zhang Chen cursed lightly and slammed the door button.

"What's wrong, no one is there?" "Wild Boar's Vehicle" asked, "I just said I didn't see their car coming back."

Zhang Chen shook his head and said to him, "Wild Boar's Vehicle": "They must have gone to socialize. This weekend, most of the people here have gone to socialize, and they won't come back until dawn."

Zhang Chen said nothing.

"Wild Boar's Vehicle" asked strangely: "Why, your girlfriend didn't tell you?"

Zhang Chen smiled and said, "I went to socialize. She sent me a message, but I forgot about it. I didn't remember it until I got upstairs."

Zhang Chen stuffed most of the pack of cigarettes in his pocket into the "wild boar vehicle", got on the motorcycle and left.

Zhang Chen arrived at the intersection of Guomao Road and Longkun North Road, but he didn't know where he was going and felt at a loss.

He stepped on the accelerator, turned left onto Longkun North Road, and drove in the opposite direction toward Binhai Avenue. Along the way, people kept yelling at him as "fool" and "idiot."

At the three-way intersection, the light was red. Zhang Chen stepped on the accelerator and passed through the traffic, turning left onto Binhai Avenue. Someone rolled down the window and cursed at him: "Fuck you!"

Zhang Chen held the handlebar with his right hand, and stretched out his middle finger with his left hand. The wind blew against his arm, and he felt that his fingers were like a flag in the wind, fluttering stubbornly.

Zhang Chen kept accelerating, and the motorcycle was like a wild horse, galloping forward. Zhang Chen soon passed Xiuying Pier and walked forward. There were no cars or street lights on the road. The road in the headlights was still new, and there were no trees or houses on both sides of the road. It was completely desolate.

Zhang Chen felt like a bright nail, piercing into the boundless darkness around him, piercing deeper and deeper, so deep that he could not extricate himself.

After passing the Holiday Beach, the road ahead was interrupted. In the middle of the road, there was a no-travel sign. Zhang Chen quickly slowed down and passed by the wooden sign. After ten meters, the entire road was blocked by yellow and white signs. Zhang Chen almost hit the roadblock.

Zhang Chen got out of the car, covered in cold sweat. He turned off the car lights. The shiny nail disappeared. He stood there, melting into the boundless night.

Zhang Chen turned and faced the right side of the road. Not far away was the sea. He could hear the gentle waves being carried by the night wind. Zhang Chen took a deep breath, and then shouted at the top of his lungs:

"I-fuck-you-mom-!"

The sound spread far in the darkness, and he felt that he might have woken up the entire island and Qiongzhou Strait.

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Liu Ligan turned off the lights, opened the door, and lay in bed in a daze.

After Zhang Chen moved away, he slept on Zhang Chen's bed. His original wire bed was full of debris.

He heard a rustling sound outside and felt strange that neither Wenwen, Qianqian, Jianqiang, or Jiajia could come back so early, and they would all come back in pairs, so they could all come back on the stairs. Hearing their voices, Yilin and Yilin's mother went to bed early. Even if they didn't sleep, they would not go upstairs.

Liu Ligan thought to himself that it must be a wild cat somewhere, but he saw a black shadow suddenly appear in front of his door. Liu Ligan was startled, sat up, bent down, grabbed it and put it on the The hot water bottle on the bedside shouted loudly: "Who?"

The visitor turned on the switch next to the door, and the room lit up. Liu Li let out a sigh of relief and cursed: "Damn, I thought it was a thief, and I almost threw a hot water bottle at him."

Zhang Chen stood at the door with a lonely look on his face. Liu Ligan hurriedly walked over, pushed Zhang Chen away, walked outside the door, and looked in the corridor but there was no one there.

"Where's Jin Lili?" Liu Ligan asked.

Zhang Chen sat down on the stool. Liu Lipole turned around and saw that Zhang Chen's expression was wrong and asked, "What, did you have a quarrel?"

Zhang Chen shook his head: "No one saw the quarrel."

"Ah." Liu Ligan was surprised and asked, "Not here?"

"I said there is something going on at the company, so I won't come today. Damn it, I haven't even had dinner yet."

Zhang Chen was embarrassed to tell Liu Ligan that he had gone to the Financial Garden and knocked on their door upstairs. He was even more embarrassed to say that he was like a madman just now, riding the Binhai Avenue to the end and almost hitting a roadblock. .

Liu Ligan said: "Let's go, it's still water spinach."

The two of them went downstairs. Liu Ligan saw that the courtyard door was closed and was surprised: "How did you get in?"

"Climb the wall." Zhang Chen said.

Liu Ligan opened the courtyard door and saw Zhang Chen's motorcycle parked at the door. He asked Zhang Chen to push the car in, and then the two of them closed the courtyard door and left.

Before he reached the small street, Zhang Chen heard the ghost howling: "Will you come tonight? Is your love still there? If I lose you, who wants a future, who wants to leave his heart..."

"Damn, you really deserve the occasion." Zhang Chen cursed in his heart.