Chapter 30 29. Progress

August 2nd. I was woken up by the siren of a police car. "what happens……" I sat up. Mr. S replied under the bed: "Not one car, but two or three cars. Maybe more." I hurried down the ladder and ran to the window.But when I opened the curtains and looked out, I didn't see a single police car.There was only a mist of morning. "It's my house—Mr. Dao, the siren is coming in the direction of my house." "Did something happen to your house?" "No way! My mother couldn't be hurt..." Mr. S's voice was full of uneasiness. "No. If it's an injury, the police car won't come,"

"That, that is to say..." Mr. S seemed to have started some extreme conjectures, so I immediately denied it first. "Mr. S, your mother will be fine. It's fine. Let's go and have a look." I hurriedly changed my clothes.The hands of the wall clock showed that it was not yet seven o'clock. "Brother. What are you doing?" Mei Xiang asked in a daze.I just said "get out for a while" and left the room immediately.Mom and Dad seem to be still sleeping. It was all white outside.The surroundings are like a dream, everything is blurred, and we walked to Mr. S's house in such a scene.From time to time, some black figures would appear on both sides of the road, looking around, turning their heads to look, and sure enough they were still looking in the direction of the siren.

After a while, red police lights could be seen flashing in the white mist ahead. "Mr. S, there is a police car parked in front of the bamboo bushes." "Sure enough, something must have happened to my house..." There were three police cars parked.Uniformed policemen are busy shuttling.There are also policemen speaking into the intercom in the driver's seat.Many adults still in pajamas gathered around the police car. (It's so pitiful.) (Why in the yard.) (Too miserable...) I walked through the crowd to the entrance of the path leading to Mr. S's house, and Daji barked in the morning mist.A timid and angry voice.

"Hey, kid, don't come here." The policeman standing next to me held out his hand in front of me. "You are not allowed to come in here now." "I was called by Officers Guwei and Zhuli." When I said this on a whim, the policeman first looked puzzled, then raised his eyebrows, and lowered his arms.I quickly ran to Mr. S's door.The corners of Daji's mouth were covered with foam, and he barked frantically. "Someone seems to be talking in the yard." When I walked along the wall to go to the yard, my whole body suddenly became stiff. "Mom is crying..."

A voice seemed to tear the white morning mist.That was the cry of Mr. S's mother.Weeping heartbroken.She seemed to be crying and talking desperately, but due to the chaos of the scene, she couldn't hear what she said clearly. I quietly craned my neck and looked into the yard.Four or five policemen in uniform formed a semicircle and stood in the middle of the courtyard. Mr. S's mother slumped on the ground.Officer Zhuli gently supported her by the shoulder.Officer Guwei turned his back to the two of them, talking quickly into the walkie-talkie. An unpleasant stench hit. "I found it..." Mr. S muttered to himself as if a stone had fallen to the ground.I didn't say anything, just nodded. Mr. S's mother sat paralyzed in the center of the semicircle surrounded by the police.In front of her, surrounded by all the weeds and mottled ground, was Mr. S's body.

Gray T-shirt, dark brown shorts.It is the appearance of Mr. S that I saw that day.The corpse was on its back, in the shape of a "big" character, and its hands and feet had turned black.There was still a rope around his neck. Mr. S's body just stared at the white morning mist with its eyes wide open and its mouth open. ——No, not right.The black eyes and mouth were not because they were opened wide, but because they had turned into three black holes. Mr. S's body has slowly turned into a pile of bones.It was no longer a human face.The face had become like a bowling ball, or a haniwa.

"Why is it in the yard - tell me, why is my body in the yard..." Mr. S's voice trembled. I couldn't answer for a moment, my breathing became short of breath.As I inhaled, the foul stench flowed deep into my lungs.There seemed to be needles pricking on the left and right, which made me start to ring in the ears. I feel a figure approaching a little bit.It was Officer Tani-o with his ear still attached to the walkie-talkie.He kept staring at me while talking hurriedly.After the call was over, Officer Tanio stuffed the walkie-talkie into the pocket of his suit and strode towards me.

"Mr. Dao, what are you doing here? You are not allowed to enter here, did no one tell you?" I raised my face and looked at Gu Wei and the other officials.Then he turned his gaze to Mr. S's body, really didn't know how to answer. Following my gaze, Officer Tanio let out a sigh of relief. "Forget it, that's what happened. We found Mr. S's body this morning. Well, Mr. Dao, you'd better go home now. Mr. S is not what he should be seen by his good friends." I left without a word, my legs limp, as if walking on water.On the path through the bamboo bushes, the adults in their pajamas kept staring at me.Those people looked like they were going to ask me something, but no one came up to talk to me.We walked all the way to the left of Tsukiki Avenue, none of us spoke.

We were about to turn left from the corner leading to my house when a familiar face on the side of the road came towards us. "It's the mother-in-law..." Mr. S said.But the mother-in-law didn't seem to notice us at all.She walked over in a daze, and then walked straight in the direction of Mr. S's house.I wanted to call her to stop, but at this time I had no strength at all, and I felt tired even to speak out.So, I just watched the back of the mother-in-law disappear into the morning mist.