Chapter 13 Chapter Thirteen

Peace, peace. The face of Jo Nagashima appeared on the big screen of the movie theater. His facial features were deep, but with a little childishness, he looked like a handsome male star.He stretched out his right index finger and middle finger, and said softly: "Peace. Peace." I sat in the audience and thought, What a nice word.The long [pi] sound is followed by a refreshing [s] like a breeze, which really reminds people of a peaceful world. "Extending two fingers like this, I heard that it was called a peace gesture a long time ago, but unfortunately no one compares this gesture when I was a child, only the thumbs up gesture is still passed down." Standing alone with his head down, the appearance does indeed resemble that of a hero or actor talking about his first half of life.

On the screen, Jo Nagashima has strong shoulders and chest, but looks like a young man.He is not a articulate person, he speaks slowly and in a low voice, as if he is uncovering important memories in his heart with very gentle movements, this temperament is not at all like a current member of the House of Representatives. "When I rushed towards the gangsters: I kept thinking about this sentence in my heart-Peace. Peace. I have to restore peace to this place. It's not based on any sense of mission, it's just..." Takeo Nagashima paused, shy She shyly looked away, "I didn't think too much about it, so I just went all out."

Then a row of concise and powerful titles appeared on the screen - "Harimasaki". In the autumn of five years ago, the private Harimazaki Junior High School in Tokyo greeted the morning as usual.This is a school that has not been established for a year. All the students are in the first grade, and there are only two classes. Most of the classrooms are unused, full of the youthful feeling of a new school. The school's educational philosophy is to focus on personal expertise and train students to live uniquely. Therefore, the school has a free spirit and no school rules. Students don't even need to wear uniforms to go to school.

"At that time, our school's education policy was to let students learn to think for themselves and know how to restrain themselves. Unexpectedly, such an approach became a malpractice." A man with a wrinkled oval face murmured.A line of words was marked next to the screen, which read "the dean of the first grade at the time of the incident". Because there is no uniform, students sometimes come to school in exotic clothes. Some people wear clown clothes on purpose. There are even female students who go to school with sky-high blonde hair, a one-piece leather jacket, and a strap on their backs. They beg some middle-aged uncle to buy it for her. Ricken backer guitar.

"So that morning, when I saw a group of masked people rushing into the school, I thought it was another prank by my classmates," said a young girl.She looked to be about sixteen or seventeen, and the subtitles read "Survivor of Year Two." The scene then shifts to another young boy. "The wind has been very strong since the early morning. I heard that the Meteorological Agency has issued a strong wind warning. I was walking on the road and there was even a strong wind blowing from the side. So when I saw those masked people, I thought they were for You need to block the wind or sand to cover your face."

correct.I in the auditorium also remembered that there was indeed a strong wind that day. On the way to visit a customer, I saw a strong wind blowing the window glass of an old house. I was quite surprised , Later, I searched the Internet to see if there was any news about the strong wind, but I saw the news about the accident at Harimazaki Middle School.Therefore, my impression of this detail that day was unexpectedly clear. A total of nine gangsters masked into the campus, six men and three women, five of them were armed with rifles with a burst function, and eight of them were armed with sharp knives.In other words, four people had both guns and knives.In addition, each had a small bomb strapped to his belt.

These people are divided into three groups, three people in each group. The first two groups occupy one class, and the remaining group is responsible for occupying the staff lounge. After each of the three groups enters the responsible area, one person stands in front, and At the rear end on the window side, another person stood at the rear end on the corridor side, forming three vertices like a triangle.At that time, not long after the morning class meeting ended, all the students were in the classroom. They looked at the group of intruders with smiles on their faces, not knowing what happened.

After all the masked gangsters were located, they launched their actions simultaneously.First, the gangsters by the window opened fire without warning. One person was shot in each of Class 1, Class 2, and the faculty lounge, and the relative positions of the three shot victims were exactly the same in each space. "If you don't want to be like him, just be obedient!" shouted a gangster in each of the two classrooms and the faculty lounge.Then there was a scream, and it soon became clear that the students and teachers who were in trouble were crying.Everyone could only be obedient, and pushed the tables and chairs to the wall according to the gangster's instructions, and everyone sat in the center of the space.And in order to prevent outsiders from seeing what happened in the school, the criminals even drew the heavy curtains by the windows.

"They told us to hand over our phones," said a bespectacled young man onscreen.He is also one of the surviving students. Soon after, one of the gangsters who occupied the staff room went to the radio room and broadcast to the whole school through the microphone: "This school has been occupied by us, and three people have died so far. If you don't cooperate obediently, more people may die." The student recalled the situation at that time and said: "That broadcast was sharp and harsh. Can't forget." The man in the radio room continued in a high-pitched voice: "We're doing this to stop the continued destruction of the environment."

Regarding the seriousness of environmental problems, many experts warned as early as the 20th century. However, the global warming effect is still getting worse and worse. Now it has fallen into an unstoppable state. Polar bears have become extinct, germs are multiplying, and terrible fevers Contagion keeps spreading.But even so, human beings are still unwilling to abandon air conditioners and do a good job of sorting garbage. "We know that truth and justice are useless to make human beings take action. Only fear and profit and loss can manipulate human beings. Therefore, we will use you as hostages to negotiate with the government." The man in the radio room finished. After these words, there was silence.

"It's really inexplicable remarks." The face of the school year director appeared on the screen again, and he said with a frown, "It's really nice to talk about protecting the environment. What they did, to put it bluntly, was to shoot and kill a group of middle school students." "Those people are a bunch of lunatics. The greenhouse effect has long been proven to be a lie." A tall young girl said with a frown.She was also one of the students at that time. "To be honest, I'm most afraid of the kind of people who use the banner of justice or conscience." While watching the documentary, I remembered the famous quote of Akutagawa Ryunosuke said by Gotanda Masaoomi: "The so-called dangerous thinking is thinking that tries to put common sense into action." The behavior of these people just confirms this sentence.Protecting the environment and defending nature is a valid proposition, but reckless action can have dire consequences.It's just that I hesitate to admit that those who ridicule "justice and conscience" are right. The plan of this group of intruders seems to be meticulous, but in fact they are quite reckless. They took middle school students and teachers as hostages, just to express their group's proposition to the then Prime Minister Akio Sudo.Although the news media received a gag order, the entire school has been surrounded by the police, just like a cube of sugar dropped on the ground will attract ants. The crowd and TV cameras naturally swarmed in, and the situation of Harimasaki Middle School was also covered Instant broadcast to TV screens across the country. I still remember that day, although I was busy with work in the client company, I still saw this news being reported on TV, and the supervisor who was idle was staring at the TV and said something like "This is a good show." ” or “someone just got shot” or something like that. "I have no idea why they would choose our school," said a man with white hair and a double chin.He was the teacher at the time. After the incident, he was hospitalized due to physical and mental exhaustion. Unexpectedly, he was found to have a tumor. After surgery, his health has gradually improved. "What does environmental damage have to do with our school? It's really inexplicable." The behavior of this group of intruders is indeed not in line with common sense.When they negotiated with the police, or talked with Prime Minister Sudou, they just kept repeating some unintelligible propositions.But just two hours after they invaded the middle school, something horrible happened. On the screen of the documentary, all those involved showed painful expressions, as if they were looking at the terrible old wounds left on their bodies. "It happened in the next class, I don't know the details..." "I heard the male students shouting loudly from the classroom next door..." "At first it was a girl's scream, and then someone roared..." "I also heard it in the staff room, the gunfire has not stopped..." Then a group of male students playing football appeared on the screen.This is a video taken with a home camera, and the students are in a practice match against another school. "The members of the football club are almost all in the same class, because there are only first graders in our school, and there are not many members. Sato is also one of the members. He is serious and very popular." A young girl said. In fact, no one can clearly explain what happened in the classroom of the first year class at that time, because everyone in their classroom was dead, and none of the twenty students was alive.It took less than three minutes from the start of the commotion to the death of all. "Several football club members rushed towards the gangster, and the gangster opened fire on the spot. The gangster who was in a state of excitement fired continuously with the rifle in his hand, killing all the students in the classroom." After the incident, the police announced so. "They planned to kill us all from the very beginning." One of the survivors talked about the terrible experience at that time. She was a student in the second class of the first year. "The gangsters guarding our class were not surprised when they heard the screams from the group. Although they covered their faces, I could tell they were laughing." "All I can think about is that I'm going to die." The faces of the interviewees on the screen are constantly switching, and each person only speaks one sentence, and the editing is quite rhythmic. "I couldn't help crying at the thought of everyone dying." "Teachers in the staff room have mostly given up hope as well." "To be honest, I completely forgot that the school also has a servant's room." "It's almost like the plot of the old movie "Ultimate Cop." "If it's a movie, someone will come out to save everyone." "I was literally terrified at that moment and my mind went blank." "When he recovered, he had already jumped from the ceiling." "There's a vent up there, that's where he came out." Then it seems to enter the climax of the film, and several lines are completed in one go. "He came to rescue us." "The man in the clerk's room." "Who is he, you ask? Do you need to say?" At this point in the documentary, there was a short pause, as if to whet the appetite of the audience, followed by the voices of all the interviewees: "It's him." "Mr. Yongdao." "Mr. Yongdao." "It's Mr. Zhang." "Mr. Yongdao." "Yongdao." "Our savior." When the criminals first broke into the campus, Mizushima Zhang was sorting things in the office of the general staff.Since there were too many sundries and cardboard boxes that were not used normally, he worked hard to sort them out.Then he started the vacuum cleaner to clean the floor, and found that the condition of the vacuum cleaner was not right, so he opened the cover of the vacuum cleaner to remove the clogged dust inside. "It's a large professional vacuum cleaner. I turned the power on and off, and I didn't hear the noise outside at all." Yongshima Zhang said regretfully. There was a reason why the gangsters hadn't noticed the general servant's room.Although they had the school's floor plan in their hands, due to the negligence of the engineering industry, the position of the servant's room was marked as an ordinary wall on the map. "They think they have a well-planned plan, but because they believe too much in the information they have, they don't do on-site surveys in advance. I think this is the main reason why I can get the opportunity." Nagashima Jo said. "Just as I turned off the power of the vacuum cleaner, I suddenly heard screams. The servant's room is on the first floor, and the first-grade classroom is on the third floor. Then there was a gunshot. Even if I am slow, I can guess it Something must have happened." Yong Dao Zhang shrugged his shoulders, the pain in his heart was written all over his face. Then, the documentary began to tell the life of Jo Nagashima.He was born in Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture, and his hometown is a watch shop on a shopping street.The second child, he has a strong physique since he was a child. He played football in elementary and middle school, rugby in high school, and was keen on American football in college. He has rich experience in sports.In addition, according to his teammates and teachers in his student days, Takeshi Nagashima is not only keen on sports, but also reads a lot of books. Whenever he has time, he will open the library and immerse himself in the world of books.Whether it is overseas classical literature, Japanese literature of the 20th century, or even Chinese literature of the 21st century, they are all covered by him.Later, he became interested in political science and social issues. When he was in college, he joined the International Political Science Symposium and actively participated in activities. "I've always guessed that he will either become an athlete, a politician or a lawyer in the future." Several of his friends said so. However, after graduating from university, Jo Nagashima fell through everyone's glasses and became a part-time worker. Later, through the introduction of relatives, he entered Harimasaki Middle School as a general servant. "You ask me why I do this job? There is no particular reason. What matters to a person is not where he works or what title he holds, but how he uses his time. For me, as long as I have time to read books and think about things , is enough. How do you feel about being a general servant? It’s not bad, I feel fresh and nostalgic in contact with students, and I have learned a lot.” Takeshi Nagashima knew that something happened on the third floor.He put down the vacuum cleaner and looked out the window first. The campus was already full of media and onlookers.Then he turned on the TV in the clerk's room and watched the real-time broadcast of the TV news for a while.Then, he made a decision. "I knew I was the only one who could take action, so I took action. There was only one word in my head at the time - Peace, peace." From the very beginning, Nagashima decided to use the wiring ducts on the ceiling to move.He first went up to the third floor via the escape ladder, climbed up the ceiling of the stairwell, drilled into the wiring pipe inside, and headed towards the classroom. "My only weapons are the fire extinguisher I took from the corridor, my own body," said Nagashima with a wry smile, "and courage." "Do you have the courage?" - I remembered this sentence that I was often asked recently. Takeshi Nagashima opened the ceiling vent cover of the second class of the first year, and jumped down. "The gangsters are all masked, but they are easy to recognize. If any of them are mixed with the students, I will definitely not be able to tell them apart. Then I will have to wait for death." Takeshi Nagashima threw the fire extinguisher at the back of the head of the male gangster on the podium, took the rifle from his hand, and then shot at the two gangsters, a man and a woman standing in the corner of the classroom. "About how to use a gun, I have practiced countless times when I was a soldier, not to mention the situation at that time did not have time for me to hesitate." After killing the gangsters in the classroom, Yongshima Zhang calmed down the students' emotions, and immediately walked towards the next classroom.At this time, the three gangsters who shot and killed the whole class of students also just walked out of the classroom of the first class, intending to come to check the situation of the second class. Takeshi Nagashima unhurriedly shot and killed two of them, scuffled with a third, and stuffed the man's head into the gap in the broken glass window, shards of glass inserted into the man's neck, ending his murder. life. "I looked into a classroom and saw the students were all on the ground, out of breath. Sadness and anger made my head barely able to think." Takeshi Nagashima escorted the surviving second-class students outside the school building, then entered the staff lounge, shot and killed the three criminals guarding inside with a rifle, and rescued the teachers as well. "No matter what the starting point is, it is an indisputable fact that I killed someone. So after the incident, I fell into a serious depression for a while." Nagashima Zhang slightly lowered his head, and glanced at the interviewer next to the camera, "No Thinking of me like this, I will become a member of the council in the future... a murderer will become a member of the council. However, maybe there is a reason for God's arrangement." The documentary then introduces the origins of the gangsters and the secret meeting place where the police later found out. At the end of the film: Mizushima Takeshi said this: "I am not a hero. Most of the students died because of my lack of ability. However, because I know that I am not capable, I know that I must use my own Dedicate all the meager efforts to the country and society. Uh, isn’t it a bit too hypocritical to say that?” The lights came on in the cinema, and the audience stretched their waists, stretched their shoulders and necks, chatted with friends, and stood up in twos and threes. "There's nothing new," said Oishikura Nosuke, who was sitting next to me. "Yeah." The content was so boring that I almost forgot why I wanted to watch this movie.I turned my head to look at Kudo who was sitting on the left, and was about to apologize to him for dragging them to see him, but I saw him bursting into tears and busy taking out a handkerchief. "Well, it's really touching." Kudo choked up. "Huh? What touched you?" I couldn't help asking when I heard it. "Huh? How do you feel touched?" Oishikura Nosuke also asked him. "Where is what? Of course it's all. Aren't you moved?" I have to admit that everyone's sensibility seems to be different. Just as we were walking along the aisle towards the rear exit of the cinema, someone suddenly shouted "Husband!" I was startled, stopped and turned to look in the direction of the sound. "You're here too!" The person waving at me was Kayoko in a leather jacket and narrow trousers. The sudden appearance of my wife made me stunned on the spot, and my mind went blank.After a while, I finally stretched out two fingers and squeezed out a sentence: "Peace." Peace, peace.What a nice word.