novelsite Chapter 65 No such person found
Chapter 65 No such person found
To be honest, Xu Niannian never really felt anything about Ji Shanqing's death.
Although she heard many rumors about Ji Shanqing at school, about the living Ji Shanqing and the dead Ji Shanqing.
However, perhaps because she was in school, Xu Niannian didn't really feel anything about Ji Shanqing's past life.
More often than not, this matter was just a concept in Xu Niannian's mind, a vague concept.
Even now, Xu Niannian has seen the chat history between the girl and the driver on the driver's phone.
Although it's called a chat log, the conversation was actually quite simple, just things like "I'll be at such and such a time" and "I'll be at such and such a place" and "I'll transfer money."
Until a few days ago, Ji Shanqing sent him such a long message for the first time.
She said she wanted to stop in a small town along the way to buy some medicine.
The driver readily agreed, but little did anyone know that Ji Shanqing would rush to the pesticide shop after getting out of the car and buy herself a dose of paraquat.
The driver sighed, seemingly exhausted.
"I heard that another child jumped off a building at your school, but I didn't think it was her."
"Then I saw on that child's WeChat Moments that her parents had posted an obituary."
"Why do you kids have to be so suicidal? What problem can only be solved by jumping off a building?"
"Tell me, how heartbroken must her parents be after this child's death? They raised her to be a good child, all the way to high school, just a year or two more until she was ready to be free, and then she jumped off a building. How devastated must her parents be?"
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Throughout the journey, the driver kept rambling on and on with Xu Niannian.
Xu Niannian didn't know how to answer the driver's questions.
In fact, Xu Niannian had also had this idea, but unlike Ji Shanqing, she did not choose to put it into practice.
It wasn't until they arrived at their destination that Xu Niannian took out her phone to pay.
Suddenly, I heard the driver sigh very softly.
"Girl, try to be happier. Think about your parents sometimes; it wasn't easy for them to raise you..."
Xu Niannian simply nodded haphazardly, neither agreeing nor disagreeing.
She couldn't argue, since the driver didn't have any bad intentions; he was just offering advice based on his experience.
However, Xu Niannian couldn't agree to his request. To be honest, she was also a high school girl with a terrible, but not fatal, family relationship.
The thought of her parents made Xu Niannian feel even more suicidal.
But when Xu Niannian got out of the car and breathed in the cool air outside, the kind of air that could instantly sober you up, she suddenly realized what had happened.
—Ji Shanqing truly lived. Perhaps a few days ago, she too had stood at the school gate, taking a deep breath and complaining about why this winter was so cold.
But now, she can no longer feel the cold.
Thus, the weight of death pressed down on Xu Niannian like never before.
"So this is death...?" The little girl murmured to herself involuntarily as she stepped into the school gate, silently asking herself.
So this is death, Xu Niannian thought to herself.
She blinked, and that's when the strange phenomenon began.
On her way to the teaching building, Xu Niannian saw a girl wearing their school uniform. Her hair was neatly combed. Noticing Xu Niannian's gaze, she turned around and gave Xu Niannian a light and gentle smile.
It looks vaguely familiar...?
Xu Niannian looked in the direction the girl left with some confusion, and suddenly fell into deep thought.
She wore two red striped bands on her arms.
However, Xu Niannian was unsure whether her school uniform had any relevant regulations.
Or perhaps it's just that a girl loves to look pretty, so she made these little touches on her school uniform? This isn't an uncommon thing.
However, Xu Niannian couldn't help but mutter to herself, "Isn't this kind of small design a bit too bad?"
Otherwise, classmate, you should go back and retake your aesthetics course.
It wasn't until her friend patted her on the shoulder that Xu Niannian realized she had been daydreaming for far too long.
"What are you staring at?" Her friend followed her gaze curiously, but saw nothing.
Xu Niannian shook her head to clear her mind. Knowing the chances were slim, she couldn't help but look in the direction the girl had just left.
Just as she had expected, the bustling crowd had completely overwhelmed the girl in the school uniform, as if everything that had just happened was nothing but her illusion.
"I wasn't looking at anything." Xu Niannian shook her head, denying her friend's guess, even though her friend was right. "I was just spacing out."
He was just spacing out.
Her friend followed her gaze and looked over, only to find an empty space with nothing there.
With a mixture of confusion and regret, her friend withdrew her gaze.
But it didn't end there. Xu Niannian suddenly discovered that the strange things happening around her were getting worse, to the point that she had no idea what she was seeing, and what was real and what was fake.
Upon entering the school, she saw a golden seal on the auditorium door, splattered with dried, brownish-red blood.
In class after lunch break, Xu Niannian yawned wearily, suppressing the sleepiness rising from the bottom of her heart, and turned her head to bury her head under the curtains to look out the window.
Just as the teacher's lecture suddenly stopped and then exploded sharply in front of Xu Niannian, Xu Niannian saw the scenery outside the window.
The familiar girl—the one who smiled at Xu Niannian when she returned to school—fell from the fifth floor across the street, her open eyes meeting Xu Niannian's through the glass.
Xu Niannian was so frightened that she immediately pulled her head back, and then listened to the teacher's scolding absentmindedly, letting it go in one ear and out the other.
This kind of thing is quite rare for Xu Niannian.
Most of the time, she was a very traditional good student, rarely daydreaming in class, drinking Tiger Balm to avoid falling asleep in class, and would be brought to tears by the teacher's not-so-stern criticism.
But this time, Xu Niannian's mind was filled with only those eyes.
Through the glass, one could see dark, deep eyes, but when they met Xu Niannian's gaze, a smile appeared on their faces.
Xu Niannian hadn't had a chance to see her face clearly yet, but she could clearly feel that the other person had smiled at her.
After class, she asked her most active friend who had jumped off a building.
Her friend stared at her in confusion, "Are you crazy?"
She said, "No one jumped off the building except for Ji Shanqing."