The last time I saw Teacher Lu at close range was two hours ago.
The countdown in her eyes at that time was three hours, seven minutes and 42 seconds, and now there was just over an hour left.
So after sitting quietly in the security booth for about two hours, Lu Xin walked out of the security booth, silently finished a cigarette outside the school's large iron gate, then threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stamped it out, moved his body slightly, and turned around to come in.
He walked straight to the teaching building.
The countdown is about to reach zero, and the executor of Teacher Lu is about to appear.
Of course, I have to stay by Teacher Lu's side at this time.
Even for me now, I feel that there is not much difference between staying at the security booth and staying next to Teacher Lu.
The teaching building was very quiet. The children were all arranged by Teacher Lu to a dormitory on the first floor near the west auditorium, and they were told not to come out no matter what they heard.
She herself stayed in the east office on the third floor.
It seems that subconsciously, he keeps these children as far away from him as possible, so that if anything happens, it will not affect them.
If it weren't for the fact that Qinggang is now under the gaze of those eyes and is under great pressure, chaos may arise at any time, and it would be even more unsafe to stay outside the elementary school. Teacher Lu might have arranged for them to leave the school.
Lu Xin quietly went upstairs to the office door on the third floor and knocked gently.
No one answered inside, so Lu Xin opened the door automatically, taking the key from the old security guard.
The office is dark.
This elementary school was originally converted from a villa, and Teacher Lu's office was the study room of a wealthy person.
The space is very large, with many different forms of light sources installed left and right.
But now Teacher Lu only turned on the lamp on the desk.
So much of the space in the office was submerged in gloomy darkness, with only a little bright spot in front of me.
She sat in the wheelchair, changed into clean clothes, lowered her head, and put a blanket on her legs.
The room seemed a little cold.
When she heard Lu Xin come in, she didn't raise her head, and still just sat quietly next to the desk.
Lu Xin stood at the door for a while, then walked in slowly, pulled up a chair, and sat in the center of the office.
It's neither too close nor too far from Teacher Lu.
Then neither of them spoke, just sitting quietly while maintaining this distance.
Lu Xin couldn't get close enough to see the countdown in Teacher Lu's eyes, but he had already calculated it before, and now there should be one hour left before the countdown reaches zero. In other words, the time for the law enforcer's arrival should be just one hour later.
But every time she got close to Teacher Lu, the countdown in her eyes would speed up.
Based on this calculation, the arrival time of the law enforcers may also be advanced.
But it doesn't matter, since they are coming anyway, I don't mind meeting them some time in advance.
"Lu Xin..."
I didn't know how long I sat there in silence. It was so quiet that it felt like the atmosphere in the office was a bit depressing.
Teacher Lu seemed to be unable to bear the pressure. After being silent for a long time, he gently raised his head and shouted.
"I'm here."
Lu Xin, who was sitting on the chair, smiled and agreed softly.
"You really..."
Teacher Lu hesitated for a moment and said, "Do you really want to guard me here?"
"Aren't you worried that there will be danger?"
"..."
Lu Xin quietly smiled at Teacher Lu and said, "I'm not afraid of danger."
Teacher Lu looked up at him and seemed to see a familiar shadow on his calm smiling face.
This made her body tremble and she hugged her body slightly.
After a while, he raised his head, seeming to be trying hard to control his emotions, and said in a trembling voice:
"I know you are trying to protect me..."
"But have you ever thought about it, actually I deserve this?"
"..."
"Deserves it..."
Lu Xin felt a strong sense of guilt from Teacher Lu's tone.
This made him feel a little strange.
After a while, he said softly, "Then why don't you tell me why you have such an idea?"
"Because..."
Teacher Lu's lips trembled slightly, and his expression looked a little desperate. "Some things may not be as you think, and some people may not be as good as you think. You are a truly kind person, because you always think others are so kind, but there may be people who are not worthy of this kindness at all. No matter how good they are, there are always dead ghosts staring at her in the corner..."
Her tone of voice was so strange.
I don't know why, but Lu Xin actually felt like the hair on my hair stood on end.
He raised his head suddenly and looked into Teacher Lu's eyes.
At such a close distance, Lu Xin saw that the countdown in her eyes was decreasing at a crazy speed.
He waited to hear Teacher Lu continue talking, but found that she fell silent.
Her face was full of tangled expressions, as if she was stuck in a painful choice. The words were stuck in her throat, but she couldn't say them out.
This is an extremely unbearable ordeal for those waiting for an answer.
But Lu Xin was not in a hurry.
After receiving advanced training on Mental Pollution and mutation, he has learned a lot of detailed knowledge that he had never mastered before.
For those who have been Mental Pollution, they should get used to and respect their silence.
When faced with people who have been Mental Pollution, people who don't understand will always wonder why they are in so much pain and so entangled, why they refuse to speak out when something is on their mind, why they must not allow others to sit on their bed, and why they cannot help but make things worse when they are just trying to endure it.
It's like Teacher Lu can clearly solve his doubts in one sentence.
But Lu Xin understands that for people who are affected by Mental Pollution and have abnormal emotions, this is normal.
It's not why, it's just that it can't be done.
Every action a person takes is supported by logic and motivation behind it.
They seem to be unable to do this simple behavior, but in fact there is something wrong with the logic and motivation behind the behavior.
Defective mechanical parts and insufficient fuel can lead to malfunctioning.
Unfortunately, many people can understand machines, but not their own kind.
Professor Bai mentioned during the training that Qinggang is now vigorously cultivating mental and psychological doctors and urgently needs such talents. However, in the assessment, professional skills are not even ranked first. The first thing ranked is patience...
Lu Xin, who has already obtained a college diploma, has thought about whether he should take a certificate exam.
Not to mention, what he is facing now is Teacher Lu.
While Lu Xin waited quietly and gently, Teacher Lu also waited for a long time before slowly shaking her head as if she was discouraged. She finally did not say the words that had just surged into her throat, but her emotions gradually calmed down.
"Just wait for me for a while."
After a while, she slowly pushed the wheelchair and walked towards the corner.
Lu Xin also stood up silently and followed her quietly.
Teacher Lu stopped with a forced smile on his face, "Do you want to follow me all the time?"
"Yes."
Lu Xin looked at the countdown in her eyes that was about to return to zero, and nodded lightly.
"But..."
Teacher Lu felt slightly embarrassed. He looked at the interior door in front of him and whispered, "I have to go to the bathroom..."
"Huh?"
Lu Xin was slightly surprised, then reacted and nodded lightly. "Oh."
With that said, he turned around, sat back on the chair, and still waited quietly.
Teacher Lu turned around with a red face, pushed the wheelchair, walked into the indoor door, and turned on the light.
The bright lights temporarily relieved the dark and depressing atmosphere in the office.
But as the door closed, all the light was cut off.
Lu Xin sat quietly in the half-dark living room, half of his body illuminated by the lamp on the desk in the distance.
In silence, quietly listening to the movement around you.
In the bathroom, there was a slight shaking sound of the wheelchair, and after a long time, the sound of water being discharged from the faucet was heard.
Then the sound kept coming.
Lu Xin waited quietly for a while, then got up and went straight to the bathroom door.
He went to push the door, but found that it was locked, so he paused for a moment, took a step back, and kicked out.
With a "bang", the door was kicked open, and he saw a horrific scene in the bathroom.
Opposite the mirror, Teacher Lu was sitting in a wheelchair and had cut his wrist with a paper knife.
She turned around when she heard Lu Xin forcefully open the door.
Lu Xin saw that her face was actually covered with traces of black lines.
She tried her best to smile, like a strange black flower.
The lips were sewn together with a kind of black silk thread, and the wound on the wrist seemed to have its own vitality, opening forcefully to both sides, as if a person was grinning with his mouth wide open, and blood spurted out while he was smiling forcefully.
Wherever the blood splashed, the air seemed extremely blurry.
Hee hee hee...
In Lu Xin's ears, he suddenly heard the sound of children playing.
The voice sounded as familiar as coming from deep within my memory.
It was the laughter of everyone playing games in the sunshine in the orphanage when I was a child. This kind of laughter passed through layers of time and resounded in this blurred air refracted by blood. Lu Xin You can even see the vague figures of children beating vaguely in this blurred air.
His heart couldn't help but beat faster.
My heart felt as sad as being pinched by little hands.
He could only try his best not to listen to such voices or chase these illusions, but just looked down at Teacher Lu.
Teacher Lu's entire body has been penetrated by this black thread and is riddled with holes.
These weird threads grew out of her blood like plant buds, filling the entire bathroom.
It penetrated her skin, came out, and then crawled back into her body.
Her eyes, nose, and ears were all sewn together layer by layer, like a tattered piece of cloth Kid.
Squirming and tense.
As if to hang her in mid-air like a sinner.
Beside her, Lu Xin saw familiar faces, those were the smiling faces of children from the former orphanage.
"Alas..."
Lu Xin stood silently at the door for a while, then slowly moved forward.
He ignored these black threads, but his expression looked a little sad.
Tangled in countless black threads, he gently leaned down, took the paper knife in Teacher Lu's hand, and threw it aside.
Then he grabbed her waist and picked her up.
Teacher Lu's face was covered with tears, and his mind seemed to be a little unclear. He suddenly struggled hard in Lu Xin's arms, screamed loudly, and beat hard. Countless black threads on Lu Xin's shoulders and arms seemed to be going crazy, surging around Lu Xin's body and climbing around the entire office, filling the office with the fresh smell of blood.
Teacher Lu's eyes, nose, and mouth have all been sewn together with black silk thread.
But the entire office was filled with crazy laughter and painful cries, appearing and disappearing in confusion.
The happy laughter of the children playing games around him intertwined into a strange atmosphere, filling this spacious office. At this moment, Lu Xin even felt as if he had entered a weird and twisted memory, and his mood was extremely depressed.
But he still ignored all the weirdness and madness around him, and just put Teacher Lu on the sofa.
From the office, I found the medicine box used to treat children's scratches, cleaned her wound, and wrapped it with gauze.
It wasn't until he finished all this that he straightened up slightly.
After sweeping through the scenes of madness that could not be explained in words, he took a deep breath and suddenly shouted loudly:
"No. 8, come out and see me!"