In the courtyard of the villa, a group of children gathered together.
The sound from the third floor window was too loud, so it was naturally heard by these children with sharp ears.
When Lu Xin walked out, the worried eyes of the group of children immediately turned to him. Some were angry, some were scared, and some were both angry and scared. Of course, some of them were both angry and scared, with a bit of resentment in their eyes.
Lu Xin lowered his head, not even wanting to meet the eyes of these children, and walked quickly past.
He got on the motorcycle and walked slowly outside the villa.
When we arrived at the gate, Lu Xin slowed down.
Turning around, I saw the door of the villa, which was a three- to four-square-meter security booth that was very clean and equipped with a small carbon stove. The old security guard was standing inside, quietly raising his head and looking at himself through a brand-new glass window.
Lu Xin also looked at him quietly, and the two did not speak for a long time.
Similarly, it seems that no strange emotions can be seen in each other's eyes.
After three or four seconds, Lu Xin gently nodded to him and said softly, "Why don't you plant flowers recently?"
The old security guard was stunned and didn't know how to answer for a moment.
Lu Xin said, "Keep raising it, I have left a flower pond just for you."
After saying these words, he slowly turned the accelerator and drove out of the villa. He gave fifty yuan to the two minibus drivers waiting outside. Then without saying a word, the speed of the motorcycle gradually increased and drove far away towards the end of the road.
In the security booth, after a long time, the old security guard suddenly felt a cold feeling on his back.
It turned out that my back was wet with cold sweat.
"Not good..."
Suddenly, he remembered something and strode towards the villa.
His old body seemed to be very fast.
Taking three steps at a time, he quickly ran to the largest room on the third floor of the villa. He pushed open the door and saw Teacher Lu sitting silently in front of the window, looking out without saying a word, not reacting at all to the movement he rushed in.
In winter, it gets dark very quickly, and the night outside is about to fall, and the dim light shines on her body.
The old security guard was relieved to see that she was fine.
But looking at her back facing the window, for a moment, I didn't know how to speak.
After a while, he whispered, "Are you okay?"
Teacher Lu didn't look back, he still just looked outside quietly and said, "Now, you should be worried about him, right?"
The old security guard paused and said worriedly, "How much does he know?"
Teacher Lu replied softly and said, "He has already remembered what happened in the orphanage. Although I didn't ask in detail, I can tell that he must have remembered everything, including the sound when he broke my spine with his own hands..."
There was deep fear welling up in the old security guard's eyes.
This made him subconsciously breathe a little heavier. "Then... what about the others?"
Teacher Lu After a while, he shook his head gently.
The old security guard seemed slightly relieved, but he still had many questions to ask.
Just looking at Teacher Lu's silent look, he couldn't bear it.
So, as if to comfort him, a smile appeared on his face, and he said slowly, "This is... quite good..."
"He remembered what happened before, but he didn't lose control..."
"Maybe, maybe this means that he is really... well?"
"..."
"I hope he gets better."
Teacher Lu slowly lowered his head, with a bit of annoyance in his voice. "Maybe, he has really gotten better, but I... I still feel afraid of him. I really don't understand. Could it be that... it's me who can't let go of the past?"
"You can't say that."
The old security guard suddenly raised his head, his expression more serious than ever before. "In this whole thing, the only one who cannot be blamed is you."
"Of all the people, you are the only one who is innocent."
"You had nothing to do with these things in the first place. It was just because since we set up an orphanage, it had to look like an orphanage, so I took you in... When outsiders came in, who could have imagined that so many things would happen?"
"What's more, I didn't expect that it was you who left, dispersed, and died in the end, and who finally came to bear all these things..."
"..."
"Stop talking..."
Teacher Lu seemed to be greatly hit by the old security guard's words, and his emotions became a little intense.
"You know..."
There was a hint of crying in her voice, "I am not innocent."
"After all, it was me... who proposed this escape plan..."
"..."
The old security guard said nothing, as if he regretted raising this question.
After being silent for a long time, he slowly shook his head and said, "It's not your fault. You were thinking about those children at the time. Moreover, if it weren't for someone's informant, your escape plan... maybe it wouldn't have failed..."
"What's the use of saying all this?"
Teacher Lu's face was filled with tears. She clenched her hands so hard that her nails almost pierced her flesh. Her voice seemed strangely depressed and restrained. "I will never be able to shirk this fault. The person who informed the dean is also dead. The disaster has been caused. Things have become like this. How can I say that I am innocent again?"
"How can I say it's none of my business anymore?"
"Perhaps if it weren't for me, they wouldn't have died. At least they would still be alive..."
"..."
The old security guard could hear the deep self-blame in her words, but he felt powerless.
It seemed that he was also engraved in his heart, hesitating whether to speak out some things.
However, he himself was not sure, so he could only speak slowly and softly, "Do you still remember after that disaster?"
"Some of the bodies have disappeared inexplicably, and among them..."
He paused and then said softly, "Including the child who snitched..."
Teacher Lu lowered his head and did not listen to his words.
Perhaps for her, such words would not help. After all, when a person dies, he or she is dead...
Seeing that she couldn't understand this, the old security guard sighed softly.
After a while, he took the initiative to change the topic and said, "So, what did he say when he left?"
Outside the window, the last ray of sunset shone on Teacher Lu's face.
A sad smile slowly appeared on her lips, and she whispered, "He said he would cure himself."
The expression on the old security guard's face also changed slightly.
After a while, he shook his head slightly and said, "But who knows which one will be cured?"
"I don't know..."
Teacher Lu After a long time, he said without confidence, "But I know that he used all his strength to bring everyone out of that hell. He did everything a child could do to fight against those adults..."
"What I hate most right now is my own fear..."
"Half of me, when I think about what happened that night, I feel scared, and I'm afraid of him..."
"The other half of me, when I think of him who tried his best but couldn't save the person..."
"It's actually very pitiful..."
Driving on the road where night slowly fell and lights gradually came into view, Lu Xin felt that the world around him was distorting.
As he drove forward, he felt as if something strange enveloped him.
The lights of the street lights and car lights ahead formed strange lines.
Like a strange snake that is suddenly long and sometimes short, twisted and grotesque, sometimes connected and sometimes disconnected.
In the dark corner next to him, there seemed to be something mysterious, secretly watching him.
When I didn't look at them, they became bolder and bolder, and even walked out of the corner, showing cold smiles to me one by one, and deliberately provoking me, but when I looked over, it seemed like there was nothing.
I am clearly driving on the road, but I feel like this city is alienating me.
The roads, car lights, surrounding buildings and people all seemed to be getting further away, creating some kind of distance from themselves.
The Crimson Moon above his head became bigger and bigger and landed in front of him.
It's as if you can rush into Crimson Moon just by twisting the accelerator.
Teacher Lu The sound of crying, the sound of questioning oneself, the smiling faces of the children in the orphanage, the boy who smiled and handed the bread in his hand to the little girl, the chirping of cicadas in the summer, the sound of the scalpel cutting the skin, the beating sound of the instrument, the face of the dead child, the twisted building and the constantly vibrating furniture, and then the crisp click sound of the spine being twisted...
Lu Xin's head seemed to be filled with something, so full that it left no room for breathing.
There were countless lights in all directions, which made him distracted.
The heart was beating violently, faster and faster, and the blood seemed to burst the blood vessels due to invisible pressure and rush out of the body.
"Didi..."
Suddenly, a loud whistle woke Lu Xin up.
All auditory hallucinations and visual hallucinations disappeared at the same time.
Lu Xin found that he had stopped at an intersection without knowing when.
There were crowded vehicles all around, blocked by him on the front, back, left and right. Countless bright lights shone on his face. The angry driver was slapping the horn hard. Someone stuck his head out of the car window and yelled at himself angrily, "Are you stupid?"
"Are you looking for death by parking in the middle of the road? You have a good motorcycle, aren't you?"
"..."
Lu Xin It took a long time to regain a clear mind.
His hand slightly reached towards the black bag hanging on the handlebar, but halfway through, he changed his mind.
He just raised his hand, like it was a gun, and tapped the person whose head was sticking out of the car window.
The opponent suddenly became furious, stretched out most of his body, gestured like holding a submachine gun, and thrust towards Lu Xin.
Lu Xin suddenly felt very funny, tightened the accelerator, and quickly drove away from the intersection.
"Isn't it time for a family meeting?"
When the cold wind of early spring blew on his face again, he breathed a sigh of relief and whispered.
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