Chapter 11 Chapter 9

When consciousness came back, I was lying in a deep bush, lying in a log on the wet ground.It was dark all around, and nothing could be seen. Still resting my head on the throbbing bush, I took a deep breath.A scent of nocturnal plants.An earthy smell.The smell of dog shit is also in it.The night sky can be seen through the branches.There was no moon, no stars, and the sky was surprisingly bright.Clouds covering the sky reflected the light from the ground like a movie screen.There was the hiss of an ambulance, gradually approaching and then gradually moving away.If you listen carefully, you can also faintly hear the tires of passing cars.It seems that I am in a corner of the city.

I wanted to put myself back together as much as I could, and for this I had to run around collecting pieces of myself, like carefully picking up pieces of a jigsaw puzzle piece by piece.This experience seems not the first time, I think.I have tasted similar tastes before.When did it happen?I'm trying to sort out my memory.But the memory line is very fragile and breaks instantly.I closed my eyes to pass the time. Time is passing.I suddenly remembered the rucksack, and a mild panic hit me.The rucksack... where is the rucksack?It contains everything about me now.Can't let it go.But it was so dark all around that I couldn't see anything.I want to stand up, but my fingertips can't use force.

I raised my left hand with difficulty (why is my left wrist so heavy?), brought the watch closer to my eyes, and looked carefully. The number on the electronic dial showed 11:26.11:26 p.m., May 28.I turn the pages of my notebook in my head. May 28th... Never mind, I'm still in that day.Not here for days in a coma.Me and my perception are separated for hours at most.It's about four hours. May 28th - a day to do the usual business as usual.Nothing special happened.I still go to the gym that day, and then to the library.Do daily exercise with equipment, and watch the complete works of Soseki on the sofa on weekdays.Have dinner in the evening before the station.The food should be fish, fish set meal, salmon.I asked for an extra bowl of rice.I drank miso soup and ate salad.Going down... I can't think of going down.

Pain in left shoulder.Physical sensations are lost and regained, and pain follows.It's like the pain when you hit something hard.I touched that part with my right hand through the shirt, and there seemed to be no wound or swelling.Where did you get into a traffic accident?But the clothes were not torn, and the pain was only in the socket of the right shoulder.About just a bruise. Slowly moving his body in the bushes, he touched the range within reach of his hands.But my hands can only touch the branches of bushes.The shrub branches curled up hard like the hearts of tortured animals.No rucksack.Try to touch the trouser pocket, there is a wallet.The wallet contained a small amount of cash, hotel keys, and phone cards, as well as coin purses, handkerchiefs, and ballpoint pens.Nothing was missing, within the limits of groping for confirmation.He was wearing cream-colored coarse trousers and a V-neck white T-shirt, with a coarse blue shirt outside, and navy blue high-end Apple brand on his feet.The hat is gone.Baseball cap with the New York Yankees logo.I wore it when I walked out of the hotel, but I don’t wear it now.Or drop where, or put somewhere.Well, you can buy that kind of stuff anywhere.

After a while, I found the rucksack.It turned out to be leaning against the trunk of a pine tree.Why did I put things in such a place, and deliberately crawled into the bushes and lay down?Where is this place?The memory is frozen hard.Fortunately, I found it anyway.I took out a small flashlight from the pocket of my rucksack, and checked the contents of the rucksack in a flash.Nothing seemed to be missing, and the pouch for the cash was in good shape.I breathed a sigh of relief. Put your rucksack on your back and poke or step over the bushes to a slightly open place.There is a narrow road here, I walked a short distance along the road with a flashlight, found a little light, and walked into a place that looked like a shrine.It turned out that I lost consciousness in the grove behind the main hall of the shrine.

The shrine is quite large.There is only one tall mercury lamp in the courtyard, casting indifferent light on the main hall, incense box and painted horse plaque.My figure grew strangely on the gravel.I found the name of the shrine on the notice board to remember.There was no one around.After walking for a while, I ran into the bathroom and stepped in.The bathroom is fairly clean.I took the rucksack off my shoulders, washed my face with running water, and then looked at my face in front of the dim mirror on the sink.His face was blue, his cheeks were sunken, his neck was muddy, and his hair was in a mess.

I noticed something black on the chest of my white T-shirt.What does that look like a big butterfly with wings spread out.At first I wanted to pat it off with my hand, but couldn't.When I touched it, it was sticky.To calm my nerves, I took the extra time to take off the dungaree and pull the T-shirt off the top of my head.Looking through the flickering fluorescent lights, I knew that there was red and black blood stained there.The blood is new, not dry, and the amount is not small.I sniffed it close to my face, but there was no smell.There was also blood splattered on the rough blue shirt that was put on the T-shirt, but the amount was not very large. In addition, the cloth was originally dark blue, so the blood stains could not be seen clearly.But the blood stained on the white T-shirt was very vivid and vivid.

I washed the blood off at the sink.Blood and water mixed together, staining the white porcelain basin bright red.However, no matter how vigorously I washed it "crack-crack-crack", the blood stains refused to disappear.I was about to toss the T-shirt into the bin next to it when I changed my mind.Even if you throw it, you have to throw it somewhere else.I wrung out the T-shirt vigorously and put it into a plastic bag for laundry, stuffed it into the bottom of the rucksack, wet my hair with water for a few times, and washed my hands with soap from the wash bag.Hands are still shaking slightly.I slowly took the time to wash even my fingers.There was blood in the nails.The blood stained on the chest through the T-shirt was wiped off with a damp towel.Then he put on a rough blue shirt, buttoned up to the neck, and the bottom placket tucked into the belt of his trousers.In order not to attract attention, I had to restore an authentic image as much as possible.

But I was terrified.The teeth chattered incessantly and could not be stopped.I spread my hands and watched, and my hands trembled slightly.It didn't look like my own hands, but like a pair of independent alien living creatures, and the palms of the hands were burning with pain, as if they had just grasped a hot iron rod. I leaned on both ends of the sink to support my body with my hands, and pressed my head firmly against the mirror.I really want to cry out loud.But no one came to help even after crying.Just heard someone say: Hey, where the hell did you get all bloody?What the hell are you doing here?But you don't remember anything, and you're completely intact.Apart from the pain in the left shoulder, there is no decent pain.So the blood stained there is not your own blood, but someone else's blood.

Either way, you can't stay here forever.Standing in such a place covered in blood and being hit by a patrolling policeman, that would be the end of the song.But going back to the hotel directly is also a problem, maybe someone is waiting there.Be careful.Chances are you've unknowingly been involved in a crime.Or the possibility that you yourself are a criminal is not out of the question. Fortunately, everything is in hand.Out of prudence, you have to carry a heavy rucksack with all your belongings with you wherever you go.From the results point of view, it is beneficial, which is really a wise move.So don't worry, don't panic.You will always do it skillfully in the future.After all, you are the tenacious fifteen-year-old in the world.Be confident!To adjust your breathing and use your brain in an orderly manner!That way you can have both.It's just that you have to be more careful.Somebody's blood is flowing somewhere, and that's real blood, and it's a lot of blood.It is likely that someone is seriously looking for your whereabouts.

Well, act now!There is only one thing to do, and only one place to go.Where is it you should understand. I took a deep breath and exhaled steadily, then I picked up my backpack and walked out of the bathroom, stepping on the sand and walking under the mercury light, using my brain efficiently while walking.Press the power to turn the crank and start thinking.But failed.The battery power needed to start the engine is extremely weak.Need a warm and safe place.I'm going to flee there for a while and get ready to go.But where exactly is there?The only place I can think of is the library.A village library.But the library doesn't open until eleven o'clock tomorrow morning, and I have to find somewhere to kill the long hours before eleven o'clock. Apart from the Komura library, there is no other place I can think of.I sat down in an unobtrusive place and took out my phone from the pocket of my backpack.The phone is still alive.I took out the note with Sakura's cell phone number from my wallet and pressed the number.Fingers are still shaking.After trying several times, I managed to press the multi-digit number to the end.Thank goodness the phone wasn't on recorder.She answered the bell on the twelfth ring.I name. "Tamura Kafka-kun?" She said in a lazy tone, "What time do you think it is? It will be early tomorrow morning, I said." "I know I'm bothering you," I could hear my voice being very stiff, "but there's no other way. There's no way out, and there's no one to talk to but you." There was silence on the other end of the phone.She seemed to catch the end of my voice, measuring its weight. "So... the problem is serious?" "I don't know. It's probably serious. I need your help this time anyway. I'll try not to trouble you." She thought for a while, not hesitating, just thinking. "So, where are you now?" I tell you the name of the shrine.She didn't know the shrine. "Can it be in Takamatsu City?" "It's not accurate, but it should be in the city." "Well, you don't even know where you are now?" She said in a surprised voice. "It's a long story." She sighed. "Hail a taxi near there. There is a Lawson supermarket at the corner of 2-chome in XX town. Get off there. It is a small supermarket with a big signboard, so you can see it at a glance. There is some money for the taxi ?” "some." "Okay." She hung up the phone. I went through the gate of the shrine and looked for a taxi on the street.The taxi came and stopped quickly.I asked the driver if he knew there was a corner of Lawson in the 2-chome of XX Town, and the driver said it clearly.I asked if it was far, and he said it was not too far, probably not even a thousand yen. The taxi stopped in front of Lawson's gate. I paid the fare with my trembling hands, picked up my backpack and walked into the small supermarket.I arrived unexpectedly fast, and she hadn't arrived yet.I bought a small carton of soft-packed milk, warmed it up in the microwave, and drank it slowly.The warm milk passed through my throat and into my stomach, and that feeling calmed my heart somewhat.When I first entered the door, the clerk who was vigilant against theft glanced at the rucksack, and no one paid special attention to me after that.I looked in the mirror pretending to be picking out the magazines on the shelf. Although my hair was still messy, the blood stains on the blue denim shirt were basically invisible.Going down just try to stop the trembling on your body. About ten minutes later the cherry blossoms came.A little closer to the time, she was wearing a gray sweatshirt with no pattern, faded blue jeans, her hair tied back and a dark blue NEW BALANCE cap.Seeing her face, the "clacking" of my teeth finally stopped.She walked up to me, looked at me with the same eyes she used to examine a dog's teeth, and made a sound that sounded like a sigh.Then he patted me twice on the waist and said "come here". Her residence is quite a distance from Luosen.A two-story simple dormitory building.She climbed the stairs, took the key from her pocket, and opened the green-paneled door.Two rooms, a kitchenette and a bathroom.The walls are thin and the floors creak.The natural light that can enter during the day is probably limited to the sunset.When one room flushes the toilet, the ceiling in the other room vibrates.However, at least there are real people living here.Dishes piled in the sink, empty drink bottles, open magazines, out-of-bloom potted tulips, shopping notes stuck on the refrigerator with scotch tape, stockings on the backs of chairs, Newspaper TV bulletin boards, ashtrays and long, slim cigarette cases with Virginia extension filters, a few cigarette butts—it's incredible that such a sight gave me a moment of relief. "This is my friend's room," she explained, "a girl who used to work together in a beauty salon in Tokyo. Last year, she went back to Takamatsu's hometown for some reason. She said she wanted to travel to India for a month, and asked me to live in it during the trip. Housekeeping. I also do her work—by the way—as a beautician. It’s also good to leave Tokyo once in a while for a change of mood. That child is a bit of a “new human”, after all, she went to India .Whether I can really come back in a month is also a question mark." She sat me down in a chair at the dining table and handed me a can of Pepsi from the refrigerator.No cups.Generally I don't drink cola, it's too sweet and it's bad for teeth.But his throat was thirsty, so he drank it all in one gulp. "Hungry? But there are only instant bowls of noodles, if you want to make do with it..." I said not hungry. "But your face is too embarrassing, you know that?" I nod. "So, what happened?" "I also do not understand." "You don't understand what happened, and you don't know where you are. It's a long story." She said as if she was just confirming the facts, "In short, you have nowhere to go?" "Desperate," I said.I hope that I can successfully convey to the other party how desperate I am. The silence lasted for a long time.She kept frowning at me. "I said, Gao Song, you have no relatives at all, right? You actually ran away from home, right?" I nod. "I also ran away once at your age, so I can roughly guess it, based on my feeling. It is also because of this that I told you my mobile phone number when we broke up. I thought it might be useful." "Thank you." I said. "My family is in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture. I couldn't get along with my parents anyway, and I didn't bother to go to school, so I stole my parents' money and ran far, far away. When I was sixteen, I almost ran to Abashiri. I saw a ranch and walked away. I used to ask people for work. I would do whatever I wanted, and I would do it seriously, as long as I had a place with a roof to live in and food to eat. No wages were required. The other party was very enthusiastic and offered tea and water. My wife asked me to wait for a while, so I waited obediently.While waiting, the police arrived in a patrol car and were immediately sent home.The opponent has long been used to this move.At that time, I made up my mind: I can do whatever I want, in short, I must have a skill so that I can find something to do wherever I go.So, I dropped out of high school, went to trade school, and became a beautician. She stretched her lips equally from side to side and smiled, "Don't you think that's a pretty sound mind?" " I agree. "Hey, how about talking slowly from the beginning?" She took out one from Virginia's extended filter cigarette case and lit it with a match. "Anyway, I won't be able to sleep well tonight, so I just want to talk to you." I start from the beginning, when I left home.Of course the prophecy didn't say that.That's not something anyone can tell. ① A city in Hokkaido, Japan.