Chapter 2 Chapter 2 The Eye of Horus

When Mei Li bid farewell to Mary Sue and returned to the dormitory, everyone else was there.Jiang Min and Xia Jie sat chatting together, and when they saw her push the door in, they all stopped talking. Mei Li forced a smile at them, but didn't dare to glance at their faces, walked back to her bed with a stiff neck, and put down her backpack. The dormitory was suddenly quiet, only rustling music leaking from the headphones.Meili looked up pretending not to care, and saw Chen Zhiwei lying on the upper bunk, flipping through a magazine while listening to the IPOD. But he didn't even look at her.

"A newly bought mobile phone chain? So cute." As if a suffocated person wanted to come up to the surface to take a breath, Meri mustered up his courage and wanted to break the awkward silence with a smile. "Yeah." Xia Jie grabbed the mobile phone on the table tightly in her hand, and responded with a snort. No matter how thick-skinned Meili was, he was hacked to pieces by the sharp eye knife at this moment.She lowered her eyes in embarrassment, sat at her computer desk and turned on the computer. There was a sound of metal clashing in my ears, it was Jiang Min and Xia Jie locking drawers and wardrobes.These days, every time they leave the dormitory, they will repeat this action.

The originally subtle sound of locking the lock was infinitely amplified in Meili's ears, making her wish she could raise her hands to cover her ears, and bury her head into the computer screen like an ostrich.At this moment, no matter how proud, philistine, or brainless Mary Sue was, Meili missed her immensely. At least, she won't wear tinted glasses and judge her every look and movement as "guilty". Staring motionlessly at the Windows desktop displayed on the computer screen, it wasn't until the door of the dormitory was closed for a long time that Meri realized that his neck was almost so stiff that he lost consciousness.

She turned her head, looked at Chen Zhiwei who was still lying on the upper bunk, and stood up pretending to be relaxed: "Going to eat?" "Go by yourself." Chen Zhiwei replied flatly, without taking her eyes off the magazine. In the past, Meili would have laid down on Chen Zhiwei's bed with a stern face, grabbing the hem of her clothes and twisting it while yelling, "You are already so slender, if you don't eat, you will turn into a boner" or something like that.But now, she could only take advantage of the fact that the smile on her face was not completely frozen, and quickly turned to face the computer screen, muttering: "Then I will lose weight too."

Opening Renfang.com, Meili found the post asking for rent that she had sent, but there was no new reply except for Mrs. Yin's message. After staying for a while, Meili typed the word "top" and closed the webpage. The dormitory is as desolate as a sea of ​​ice and snow, and Meili feels that she is a frigid bird, hoping to have a nest of her own, and then sleep with her head tucked under her wings. But when there really was such a nest, and it was a luxuriously decorated golden nest and silver nest, I voluntarily gave it up.Is it really like what Marysu said, the single rich woman just wants to find a companion to comfort her loneliness, is it because she has delusions of being persecuted?

Just like the frigid bird that forgets to build its nest when there is sunlight, shouting "just let it go, let it go, let it go", and finally miss all the opportunities, and can only freeze to death in the winter night. Suddenly wanting to see the appearance of this absurd animal, Meili typed the three words "hanhaoniao" in Baidu Encyclopedia. What came into view was a bat-like weird animal, without the streamlined wings of a bird that Meri took for granted, but appeared in the picture like a mouse with membranes attached to its limbs. "The Han Haoniao is a compound-toothed flying squirrel, with a body shape similar to a squirrel, with wide and hairy flying membranes between the front and rear limbs..." Baidu Encyclopedia said.

It turns out that Han Haoniao is not a cute little chubby bird, and even looks disgusting.Meili felt cheated, and subconsciously clicked the red cross in the upper right corner of the webpage with the mouse. She turned out the newspaper she picked up in her schoolbag.The birdman in the photo still stretches its broad wings, as vigorous and proud as a falcon. It turned out that even in her imagination, she could only be as wretched as a frigid bird.This discovery made Merry even more sad. "What is this?" A voice suddenly sounded from behind, and it was Chen Zhiwei who spoke. Meili handed the newspaper to Chen Zhiwei, and put on a grinning expression again: "Look, it's a weird photo, but that guy seems pretty handsome."

Chen Zhiwei didn't answer, her eyes fell on the blurry photo, and she frowned slightly. "He's here." She said silently in her heart. If it is said that her daughter's house is made of water, then Chen Zhiwei is made of ice. This sentence was said by Jiang Min, the self-proclaimed eldest sister in the dormitory, but Meili once disagreed. As a cold beauty at the school flower level in Lincheng University, Chen Zhiwei's facial features are actually nothing special, and they are not all-powerful when put together, but she has a special temperament that makes everyone who meets her unforgettable.

"You, the frozen plum blossom wrapped in the sun, the sound of the violin in the middle of the water, the cold mist lingering on the island under the snow-capped mountains..." This is a poem dedicated to Chen Zhiwei by an admirer, but after reading it, Meili thinks it can be done in one sentence Summary: beautiful, but chilly. Heart-beating and heart-freezing - this is the secret code for Chen Zhiwei's Lincheng University fan group "Differentiation".Not to mention boys who were frozen into popsicles, even girls who were able to talk to Chen Zhiwei were as comfortable as blowing air-conditioning in the dog days.

Chen Zhiwei is such a powerful ice maker, knowing her is nothing, but being known by her is a supreme honor. Meili often encounters such a scene: when get out of class is over, the boys sitting next to them accost Chen Zhiwei familiarly, and they glance at other boys with such complacency, and Chen Zhiwei often waits for him to finish blabla happily, then don't Asked with emotion: "Who are you?" No matter how big the balloon is blown, it only takes a needle to pierce it.Looking at the boy's face that suddenly shriveled, Meri often had to struggle to hold back his smile at the beginning.

However, there are still other boys who come to strike up a conversation.It was as if Ah Q had to be superior to others after being bitten by Ju’s dog, and it was an honor to be rejected by Chen Zhiwei, which proved his courage comparable to that of a revolutionary martyr. "If Zhiwei is the lover of the masses, then you are the enemy of the masses." Jiang Min once commented on Meili. Jiang Min has always spoken harshly, not to mention that as roommates in a dormitory, she and Xia Jie have always been a little disgusted with the duo of Meili and Chen Zhiwei, who are "keep close to strangers".Therefore, the four words "public rival" became Meili's label, and she even felt that when she and Chen Zhiwei walked in the campus, these four words would automatically appear on her forehead. Chen Zhiwei is the focus of public attention, and this status has been deeply established since she performed a solo dance "Daughter of the Nile" at the welcome party.Chen Zhiwei on the stage was like a fairy floating from a distant time and space, and she captured the vicious-eyed and picky Lincheng University teachers and students in the audience with just one move of her hand and foot.Just as Chen Zhiwei's ethereal gaze slowly swept across the auditorium, Meili felt that if he was a boy, he would fall in love with her desperately. With noble taste, elegant temperament, and versatility, with the almost perfect Chen Zhiwei, the sense of existence of anyone around her will infinitely approach zero. As a result, Meili, who was originally considered Xiaojiabiyu, became completely transparent. Meili is not stupid, of course she knows that when a boy comes to show her affection, she will automatically and consciously dodge Chen Zhiwei.But every time she wanted to sneak away, Chen Zhiwei always grabbed her with a sharp eye like catching a thief, and threw the freshly received flowers into the trash can with the other hand. "They are too vulgar." Chen Zhiwei didn't speak much, but sometimes she was very harsh, just like when she commented on Su Lili, who was also a beauty, there was only one word - "poison". The implication of this sentence is that the only person who is not vulgar is Meili, so Chen Zhiwei is only willing to associate with Meili.This comment at least satisfied part of Merry's vanity, and even put aside the mourning for the roses buried in the trash can. Chen Zhiwei is indeed Meili's true friend, sincere and unambiguous.They lived in the same dormitory, went to class together, went to cook together, and went to evening self-study together. They were so good that they stuck together almost all the time.Only in front of Meili, Chen Zhiwei will not be as indifferent as she is to others. She always smiles and listens to Meili's words, and gives gifts to Meili on New Years and holidays. She lies side by side with Meili on the grass, and the two share a headset to listen to MP3.If Meili had to make an analogy for this feeling, it would be like Xiaoqing is to the white lady, and the matchmaker is to Cui Yingying.She consciously stood on the side of the stage, watching her friend become the heroine under the spotlight, willingly turning into a soy sauce party that blended with the background. "A rival in love is a rival in love with the masses." Mary Su once "comforted" Meili in this way, "Based on your conditions, it is not easy to be a "popular" without relying on fighting. No wonder you don't play with others. With Chen Zhiwei's ability." Ok.Meili supported the wall, swallowing her grief and indignation towards Marysu.In heaven, she is really more wronged than Dou E. It is obvious that Chen Zhiwei is clinging to her, but no one will believe her if she says it out. These days, if she is not a beautiful woman, even her credit rating has to be discounted. Of course, there are occasional discords between popular lovers and popular rivals. For example, Chen Zhiwei insisted on Lameri joining the school's Egyptian cultural club, and borrowed a lot of Egyptian archeology books for Meri to read, but Meili either escaped club activities with excuses or fell asleep in front of the books. Even if Chen Zhiwei was angry, she would never change. "I'm really not interested..." muttered to a vulgar material girl who had no love in ancient times, "It's not suitable for food or clothing..." Another example is that recently a boy from the class next door came to strike up a conversation with Meili in public class and asked for her mobile phone number.When Meili was blushing and heartbeating because of this, Chen Zhiwei poured cold water on Meili with one sentence: "What kind of vision do you have?" Then she drew a few strokes on the back of the note that the boy handed over. "Frog?" Merry's eyes widened. "Toad." Chen Zhiwei added a lot of circles on the frog, like dense pimples, even the four poor short legs, and then passed the note back to the boy. Seeing the boy's distorted face, Meri felt a little sorry.That boy was indeed not handsome enough, but he was the first person to see the existence of "Merry" through Chen Zhiwei's halo.Even if he were a pimple-ridden toad, Merry didn't think he was a white swan with a long, elegant neck. "My good friend, how can I marry off casually?" Chen Zhiwei explained. While Mei Li was criticizing herself for her low anti-seduction index, Mary Su, who had been watching coldly, showed the wisdom that coexisted with beauty: "Chen Zhiwei is not for herself." Seeing that Mei Li was puzzled, Mary Su earnestly Teaching, "It's like a dog guarding a beautiful woman. If a thief wants to get the beauty, he must throw a meaty bone to lure the dog away... I think that kid may be a meaty bone, in order to help a certain brother Chasing Chen Zhiwei to clear the scene." Meili vomited three liters of blood again. Although she was indeed a dog, couldn't Mary Sue make a better analogy?What's more, Mary Su has always been very envious and jealous of Chen Zhiwei... Meili immediately made a firm stand in her heart, resolutely resisting any external forces to sow discord between her and Chen Zhiwei. And she believed that Chen Zhiwei should also be like this. If it hadn't happened. A month ago, Chen Zhiwei received a necklace with a strange shape.When the brightly colored necklace was hung outside Chen Zhiwei's retro long dress, it immediately caused a group of girls to scream. As Chen Zhiwei's good friend, Meili was able to take a closer look at this alluring jewelry.In the center of the pendant is a huge eye with blue eyeballs and white pupils. There are blue stripes hanging below the eyes, like two lines of tears.On both sides of the eyes are an eagle and a snake, and their outlines are outlined by filigree gold threads. Similar to cloisonne craftsmanship, the gold threads are filled with brightly colored lapis lazuli and chalcedony.On the top of the eagle's and the snake's heads, respectively, are wearing high golden crowns of different shapes. "It's called the 'Eye of Horus'. It was brought back from Egypt by a relative of mine." Chen Zhiwei introduced. "Egypt!" The petite and exquisite Xia Jie immediately expressed envy, "Is this real gold? I thought that eye was scary at first—you see, Meili's face turned pale." "How can I be so timid?" Meili touched her face, her eyes flickered, and she smiled like a cover-up and pulled Xia Jie, "If we have the ability, let's go to the midnight horror movie tonight and see who will shrink in the movie theater at the end Are you afraid to go home?" "That's because last time you put your hair on your face to pretend to be a virgin, and you deliberately shone a flashlight into your mouth!" Xia Jie recalled Meili's disheveled hair and bloody mouth in the dark night, so she pulled Jiang Min's arm and complained in tears, "Sister Let the younger sister decide, we will also think of a way to see if Meili is afraid?" "Merry is not being bold, but trying to be brave." Jiang Min commented solemnly.As one of the few angry young women in Lincheng University, Jiang Min was known for her concise and to the point. Meili shrank her neck and stuck out her tongue at Chen Zhiwei to make a face. The comment of "struggling" is so appropriate that even she herself dare not refute it. Chen Zhiwei hung the necklace around her neck again, and the huge blue eyes on the pendant were facing the laughing girls without blinking. That uncomfortable feeling flooded Merry again.It's like going out for an outing in autumn, with a few slender burrs stuck in the sweater, rubbing against the skin from time to time, and searching carefully but can't find it. Meili resisted not telling Chen Zhiwei about this feeling. In fact, from the moment the necklace appeared, Meili knew that she had a secret. That blue and white eye stared at Meili all day, and she was slightly relieved when she saw Chen Zhiwei take it off and put it next to the pillow when she was sleeping. However, in the dream, she saw that eye again, and it kept enlarging and enlarging in front of her until it occupied her entire vision. "You don't recognize me?" It smiled arrogantly, "How could you not recognize me?" Merry opened her mouth wide in horror, but couldn't utter a word. "Are you still so stubborn?" The eye continued, "Actually, you also know that you can't escape." "No!" Merry yelled, turned and ran, trying to leave that eye far behind, but that eye rose into the sky like the sun, and no matter how much she ran, she couldn't escape its envelope.Suddenly, Meili's feet were empty, and she fell into a deep trap. "Merry, my daughter, you are still back." A pair of hands stretched out from the mud at the bottom of the trap, and firmly grasped Meili's ankle... "Help——" Mei Li opened his eyes suddenly, and heard the sound of his heart beating like a drumbeat, and cold sweat slipped from the corner of his forehead into the pillow. "What's wrong?" Chen Zhiwei's voice sounded in the dark night. "It's nothing, I dreamed of home." Mei Li replied, she couldn't remember which horror movie the plot just came from. The next day, Chen Zhiwei put on the necklace as usual. Everyone said that the strange shape of the necklace further brought out Chen Zhiwei's unique temperament.As for Meili, she still felt like a thorn in her back. Just like the magical feeling of love at first sight, sometimes I hate a certain person, a certain sound, or a certain metaphor inexplicably. Even if the whole world likes it, I am just the opposite.For example, Li Shangyin's poems, Jay Chou's songs, and this necklace from Egypt. Finally, after enduring several nights of nightmares, Mei Li said to Chen Zhiwei: "Don't wear that necklace in the future, okay?" "why?" "Because... I'm jealous." Meili concealed her coquetry, "Besides, what if such precious jewelry is lost?" "Okay." Chen Zhiwei reluctantly took off the necklace and put it in her jewelry box.Afterwards, Merry really regained a peaceful sleep. It would be great if that eye could disappear forever.Merry thought to himself. As if to fulfill her prayer, Chen Zhiwei never took out that necklace again.Until one day someone from the dormitory next door came to borrow it from Chen Zhiwei, and Chen Zhiwei turned the bed inside and out in the closet before wiping off the sweat and saying angrily, "It's strange, why did it disappear?" "No way, it's gold and precious stones, and it's worth a lot of money!" Upon hearing this, several roommates enthusiastically helped Chen Zhiwei search, but they still found nothing. "Forget it." Chen Zhiwei finally said flatly. "Maybe it will come out at some point." Meri comforted casually, "Anyway, you are a beautiful woman, and only you can set off the jewelry. How can there be jewelry to set you off?" Meili is not a little witch, and she never thought that she would become a prophecy.However, only two days later, when she came back from the water room with the boiled water bottle, she saw the necklace again. The necklace was lying on her computer desk, and the eyes in the middle of the pendant looked at her piercingly, as if full of sarcasm.Meili turned her head in confusion, and met Chen Zhiwei's disappointed gaze. "Just now the class monitor came to collect the student ID card, and you didn't lock the drawer, so we..." Chen Zhiwei looked at the necklace from a distance, and said calmly, "It's in the innermost place, maybe you accidentally put it away by mistake." Meili opened her mouth, and the blood all over her body rushed to the top of her head, making her dizzy for a moment.She stared at Chen Zhiwei's back, then turned her head to look at Jiang Min and Xia Jie who were watching coldly in the dormitory, and found that her voice became hoarse in an instant: "I, I didn't..." It really hasn't been done.But Meili could clearly imagine how she would open Chen Zhiwei's jewelry box when no one was around, how to lock this precious gold jewelry into her drawer, and how to hide it under layers of sundries.Yes, she did have the idea to bury this hateful eye in a dark corner forever, so as not to let it show in broad daylight. She hated the looking eyes, she couldn't escape from them. However, if she had done this, she would not just hide the necklace in a drawer, but throw it far away into the depths of the river outside the school.After being stunned for a long time, Mei Li forced an awkward smile on his face: "If I really took it, I'm too stupid, right?" "I still don't admit it! Do you remember her expression at the beginning? The eyes are full of desire to stretch out a hand..." "Maybe it's a mistake, let's not wrong the good guy..." "If there was no clue in the past, Zhiwei can be so sure? No wonder she used to only revolve around Zhiwei, because she was fancy that he was rich..." "I don't have a good relationship with my family. I'm afraid I have a problem with petty theft..." The simple bed curtains couldn't cut off whispers, and Meili gripped the quilt tightly, tears slipped from the corners of her eyes into the pillow silently.If someone else encountered such a thing, Jiang Min would argue fiercely, Xia Jie would cry, Chen Zhiwei would go her own way, but Meili would put on a nonchalant smile in front of others after crying secretly. Smile against everything and pretend nothing ever happened.Mei Li is a master at this trick, because she doesn't have the eloquence to defend herself, she doesn't have the courage to go her own way, but she also knows that crying can't clear her suspicions. Mediocre, cowardly, but with self-esteem.Merry sometimes hated her nonchalant smile. Chen Zhiwei didn't mean to pursue this matter, but she no longer sat with Meili in class, and didn't call her when she went to the cafeteria.When other girls in the class asked the reason in surprise, Meili could only shrug her shoulders and say, "I'm tired of aesthetics." Meili has tried many times to talk to Chen Zhiwei, and the loach has to jump on the cutting board a few times, not to mention that she doesn't want to be a modern Dou'e.But Chen Zhiwei's gaze at her at this moment is no different from that of other people, distant and indifferent: "Actually, it's nothing." "Nothing" doesn't mean nothing is wrong, it means there is nothing to save. The only thornless rose in the world is friendship, but when friendship dies, the rose itself will become a thorn, which will always sting in my heart. Although this incident was over, Chen Zhiwei's indifference obviously infected the others, and the temperature in the dormitory plummeted. Wardrobe and drawers are all hung with yellow and cold locks, and no one in the dormitory wants to talk to Meili anymore. It wasn't until this time that Meili realized how much he had failed in his nineteen years of life.Although classmate Marysu would joke with Meili from time to time, Meili never told her about the Eye of Horus, and the reason for moving out was only insomnia.Sometimes, even though the house is full of dignitaries, you don't have anyone you can trust with all your heart. ——Maybe except Teacher Li Ping. But Merry didn't want to call the teacher.Many times, many people are like sugar-coated pills, accustomed to sharing the sweetness with others, but hiding the bitter taste alone. At this moment, the phone in the dormitory rang suddenly. Meili glanced at Chen Zhiwei, seeing that she didn't intend to get out of bed to answer the phone, so she had to pick up the receiver slowly—— "Hey, please find Meili, I'm her father..." A middle-aged man's voice came from the other end of the phone with a little panic. Merry shut her mouth tightly, even stopping to breathe, and suddenly hung the microphone back on the base.However, her hands were shaking so much that the microphone slipped off the base, swinging on the telephone line, and a voice from the other end of the phone came faintly: "Meili, are you Meili? Are you?" listen to me……" Meili picked up the microphone hanging in mid-air, gritted her teeth and hung up the phone with a "snap", thankful that she had already changed her phone number. "He's here..." On the other end of the phone, the middle-aged man listened to the blind voice coming from the receiver, and desperately uttered the last three words. A black shadow gradually covered him...