Chapter 8 chapter eight

She bent down with her eyes fixed, and slowly stretched out her hand, just touching the little girl's shoulder—but suddenly there was a sound like a chainsaw cutting behind her, which stopped her.She seemed to wake up from a dream, breaking out in a cold sweat. Wu Bingbing spent the whole morning in the bookstore.When it was almost noon, she was still there, leaning on the bookshelf and flipping through a novel called .She was attracted by the exciting plot in the book and read more than ten chapters in one go.Was seeing Dr. Lecter ask Sergeant Starling, "Do you still wake up in the middle of the night, in iron darkness, to hear lambs screaming?"

Starling didn't deny it.Lecter asked again, "If you caught Buffalo Bill yourself . . . do you think you could stop that lamb from screaming?" Starling said yes.Wu Bingbing raised her head from the book, and said to herself thoughtfully: "Yes. I think...it should be." After that, she couldn't watch it any longer, her mind suddenly buzzed, as if countless pulse waves came in, distracting and interfering with her attention, messy sounds and images interlaced and flashed before her eyes, even The words on the book are also superimposed with grotesque patterns and human faces - white gates with red letters, elementary school students swarming out, naked construction sites, girls with short hair, muddy yellow puddles, floating human bodies...

She put down the book and walked out unconsciously.There were many people on the street, and she was walking among the crowd. It looks like a fish swimming blindly, but without looking left and right, it keeps walking straight forward.She turned a deaf ear to the commotion around her, and even seemed unable to see the endless stream of people in front of her. When passing by people, those eyes never blinked, but looked straight into the distance over the heads of everyone. Her eyes became duller than ever before, fixed on her expressionless face, like glass false eyes embedded in a doll's face.Her walking posture also became stiff, like a puppet on a string.And her steps were heavy, as if she was carrying something on her back.

After walking through the streets and alleys for a while, she didn't even expect that, when she raised her head, she came to the gate of an elementary school.She has never been to this school before. She unconsciously felt confused, what am I doing here? I stood there blankly for a while, squinted my eyes and thought about it, and finally seemed to remember it.She looked into the campus and saw groups of students walking out, talking, laughing, and bouncing.She hid her body behind the hollow wall next to the gate, and watched every student who came out of it with cold eyes. Most of the students walked out, and the campus seemed empty.She found her among the last few batches of students.Although she had never seen her before, she didn't know why, but she was able to focus on her among the many children, and when she saw her for the first time, there was a voice in her heart saying: It's her!

Another female classmate walked side by side with her.They came out of the gate. She has big eyes, an upturned nose, and a pointed chin. She is wearing a blue school uniform, and her thin body looks particularly flexible.When she inadvertently looked this way, she actually saw her who was peeping. Those antelope-like eyes stopped for a moment, and quickly avoided them timidly. She felt that she was very familiar, as if they had known each other for a long time.She doubts herself, where have I seen her? ——Remember, I saw it in a dream, in a dream.The girl who was chased by wild beasts, the girl who ran away in panic, the girl who was brutally eaten and left with only a piece of flesh and blood... She wanted to recall the dream carefully, but her mind was full of chaos, like smoke, and she couldn't remember. It's so clear, I only think of that face, which is the pure and innocent face of the girl in front of me.

She and her classmates walked in front, and she followed closely behind, neither far nor near. A voice rang in my ears like the wind: Follow closely, follow closely, don't let her go. After walking two blocks and turning to a T-junction, the female classmate separated from her.She walked alone, looking around without caring. At the end of the road, there is a construction site that is suspended.After excavating the foundation, the underground work has not yet been completed, and a large pit is surrounded by many slope protection piles.The girl really stopped there, holding her schoolbag in her arms, squatting on the edge of the pit and looking into something.Because it was noon and there were no frogs croaking, she seemed to be very lost. She kept throwing clods into the water, stood up for a while, and squatted down again for a while.

"Come on, go on, push her off!—" She clearly heard the voice urging her, so she moved her steps involuntarily and tiptoed forward, her eyes fixed on the petite back. By the time the girl giggled, she was already standing behind her.The girl obviously didn't notice anything, and was still intoxicated in the fun of playing with the tadpoles. She bent down, stretched out her hand slowly, and put it on her shoulder—at this moment, a chainsaw-like cry suddenly sounded behind her: "Miao Miao, Miao Miao! What are you doing?— —” This shout also calmed Wu Bingbing, she seemed to have just woken up from a dream, standing there stupidly, not knowing what she had done just now, what she wanted to do - watching the girl in front of her and herself shrinking slowly. She couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat, biting her lip in fear and pain.

It was Xu Miaomiao's mother who came, she was a middle-aged woman with a short body and a red face.As soon as she pulled her daughter away, she saw a large piece of the place where her daughter was squatting just now collapsed, and the earth slope rolled and rolled into the pit, creating a deep vortex in the water, splashing countless bull's-eyes. bubbles. She screamed in panic: "Oh, look, how dangerous, are you squatting here looking for death?" Then, she glanced at Wu Bingbing and nodded with a complicated expression, unable to tell what was on her mind. Wu Bingbing has a strong ability to adapt, she immediately stabilized her emotions, and said flatteringly: "I was afraid that she would be in danger, so I wanted to come and give her a hand. Thank you for coming in time."

The woman smiled immediately, and said to her, "Thank you, you are such a kind person. My child is not sensible, and he plays a lot when he walks, and he talks about things, which makes people feel at ease. I didn't pick her up at first. , I came here to do some business, let me see, otherwise it’s not sure what will happen. It’s not worrying.” Next, Wu Bingbing walked with their mother and daughter on the same road, heading for their home. "I didn't expect that you are a dance teacher." Miao Miao's mother was pleasantly surprised. "I think this child is in good shape, and I have been looking at her unconsciously for a long time." Wu Bingbing said.

At the same time, she thought, I'm going to visit her house this time.I also wanted to come to her house at first. "Our Children's Palace has recruited many girls her age." Wu Bingbing added. "I really hope that Miao Miao can learn to dance with you. Her body is too weak, and she pants when she runs. Sometimes... well, she doesn't seem very confident anyway." They lived on the fourth floor of an old building. The two-bedroom house was not big, and it was full of worn-out furniture.Xu Miaomiao has an elder brother at home, thin, with long hair and acne on his face. He obviously has nothing to do, and he is squatting on a chair like a monkey playing tarot cards.Seeing Wu Bingbing, he opened his eyes wide, raised his head and opened his mouth, unable to remember what to say.Her mother said disdainfully, this is the eldest son, a loafer, no one can control his father after his death, he can blow up the stomach of the dead.

From then on, wherever Wu Bingbing and Xu Miaomiao went, they would find her brother's sneaky eyes following her.Once Wu Bingbing simply tilted his head to examine him, and finally he blushed and turned his head away. Xu Miaomiao lives in a place connected to her mother's bedroom, which is actually a balcony. After it is built, it can fit a bed, and there is a small table beside the bed.At this moment, my mother is busy looking for photos of Miao Miao when she was a child.And Miao Miao led Wu Bingbing into her small world. Wu Bingbing wanted to ask about Miao Miao's physical condition, but she didn't know where to ask. Miao Miao opened a window and said, "From here, you can see the road outside, trees, flowers, and the moon and stars at night!" Wu Bingbing put her hand on her back and said, "It's so good, watching the moon and stars sleeping every day, surely you will have many interesting dreams?" Miao Miao said, "Is that so, I like to dream." "What did you dream about, except what happened in school?" "It's so strange. Every time I dream, I go to a place where there is a gate and a yard. My mother has become an old woman with gray hair. There is no brother like me. There are a group of little girls the same age as me. They were running and playing together. When I wake up from the dream, I don’t know any of those children. Do you think it’s strange?” "The environment in the dream, you are not familiar with it? They are all places you have never seen before?" "We are always running in the fields, and there are green wheat seedlings everywhere." "Mai Miao? Have you seen Mai Miao in the past?" "No, I've only seen it in textbooks." "Then how do you know it's a wheat seedling?" "They told me in a dream. They said 'let's play in the rye'." Wu Bingbing thought, I should have come to see Xu Miaomiao and came to see her earlier.The one who gave her heart was a 65-year-old old lady who lived in a rural village in a mountainous area. Xu Miaomiao's dreams must be related to the old man's past experiences and memories. Although so many heart transplant patients have died one after another, so far only Xu Miaomiao has provided the information she suspected and wanted to judge whether the memory is possible to be transplanted, but Wu Bingbing is still surprised by this accident. Excited about the harvest. Instead, I thought of the woman in white, and felt that all this didn't need to be proved, and it didn't matter anymore. At this time, Miaomiao's mother brought over the photo, and they looked at Xu Miaomiao's childhood together.Wu Bingbing couldn't stop praising Miao Miao.Miao Miao also quickly fell in love with this young dance teacher.She asked Bingbing, can I call you sister instead of teacher?Bingbing said yes, I just want to have a younger sister.Miao Miao also said, can you give me your phone number, can I contact you later?Bingbing readily agreed to her again, and wrote her her mobile phone number. When he was about to leave, Wu Bingbing hesitated, looking thoughtful. She asked Xu Miaomiao: "Do you like tarot cards?" Miao Miao said: "I like it, but my brother rarely lets me play. Many people in the class play." Wu Bingbing said: "Go and ask your brother for cards, shall we play together?" "Okay!" Miao Miao said happily, "I didn't expect Teacher to like Tarot too." Then, she took a few steps and shouted like an order: "Brother, bring your cards here!" After Wu Bingbing took the cards in his hand, he shuffled the cards with a serious expression, cut the cards solemnly, and asked Yu Miaomiao to draw three cards at will.Miao Miao's mother came over curiously and stood by to watch. Wu Bingbing held the three drawn cards in front of her face in an inverted triangle shape, and said, "I use the major arcana holy triangle divination method, and I will calculate your past, present and future." She opened the Next card.This is a tower, right in place. She looked up at them and said, "Look over here first. Look, there is a tower in this picture, dark clouds and lightning, and the tower is on fire, apparently struck by lightning, and someone inside jumped out. This is a manifestation of the state of life. The body of the tower represents The body, with fire from the window, testifies to a serious disease within the body, and the dark clouds represent melancholy, which is fatal to a man." Xu Miaomiao blurted out, "It's a heart attack. I've had heart surgery." Her mother almost cried out, "You can even figure this out, what a god!" Wu Bingbing uncovered the card on the left in front, which is a wheel of fortune, right in place. "Now——it's nothing. Look at the above, the angel is holding a book and reading. The cloud is light and the wind is light, even the birds on the cloud and the snakes in the water are very comfortable. The wheel of fortune is turning normally, and the health is improving." As she spoke, she uncovered the card on the front right and said, "This is a moon, reversed. In the future? This card is not very good." She took a breath, raised her head and glanced at Miao Miao's mother , went on to say: "The moon card is a card that represents treachery and uneasiness. Some people think that it has more ominous omens in the Tarot than death and demons." Miao Miao's mother looked a little nervous.Wu Bingbing put the cards in front of her eyes, and said: "Let's look at this moon first. There is a woman in the moon above, with her eyes closed, showing a very sad look. On the ground below, there are two ugly The tengu howls upwards with hungry eyes, there is a dangerous giant scorpion in the bushes... and there is the shadow of the tombstone in the distance." Miao Miao's mother trembled as if her heart was being pulled.Wu Bingbing asked Miao Miao to go to another room first, and she wanted to talk to her mother alone.After Miao Miao left, Wu Bingbing said bluntly: "Miao Miao is in great difficulty, I have figured it out. It is better to believe it than to believe it. From now on, you have to take good care of her... If you don't go at noon today, she will You will die if you fall. You have to send her to school every day and pick her up after school, otherwise something will happen to her. Within a year, you have to avoid everything and watch her—” Wu Bingbing left after speaking, leaving Miao Miao's mother standing at the door and watching her. Walking outside on the road, Wu Bingbing stood in a daze for a moment, looking up at the sun above her head, and then felt a certain reality; thinking about everything she experienced in the morning, she couldn't help feeling confused, anxious and painful.She thought, what's wrong with me?What am I trying to do?Without thinking about it, she felt her eyes wet. That afternoon, Wu Bingbing came to the hospital again.She wanted to find Dr. Meng, and wanted to have a thorough talk with him about the deaths that had happened, and about the accidents that many people might face.She hoped that these things could attract Dr. Meng's attention, and she also hoped that she could get his help when she was in trouble. When she walked to a place not far from the hospital, she saw a white figure flashing in front of her, and then disappeared.She searched in the crowd, but saw that the figure had already come to the front in the blink of an eye, and she could still see it through the crowd of people.It was Jiang Lan, the woman in white.Are you looking for me? Wu Bingbing followed to see where she was going, but she didn't expect her to turn her head suddenly, as if she found someone following her, and stared behind her for a while.Bingbing hurriedly hid behind a nearby tree. She finally turned around, walked forward flutteringly, and landed at the hospital gate like a kite. Wu Bingbing didn't understand what this ghost was doing in the hospital, but after thinking about it, she didn't dare to go any further into the hospital.She hid behind a flower bed, quietly observing the gate she entered just now, her nose was so nervous that she was sweating. It was almost time to get off work, and many people in the hospital came out.About half an hour later, she saw the white figure come out of it, shuttled among the swarming vehicles on the left side of the gate for a while, and then disappeared quietly.Wu Bingbing came out, but after searching for a long time, she was nowhere to be seen. Wu Bingbing walked towards the hospital, almost running, she was afraid that the figure would appear again. When she took the elevator to the cardiothoracic surgery department on the fifth floor, unexpectedly it was already in chaos. The doctors and nurses' offices were all running downstairs in twos and threes. One nurse almost knocked Bingbing down.Bingbing knew her, so she asked what's wrong?While walking, the nurse said that Dr. Meng fell down in the office, fell very hard, was unconscious, and was being rescued. Wu Bingbing stood there in astonishment, she had no doubt that it was Jiang Lan who did it. Wu Bingbing called his father.Her father also came to the hospital soon.They could only stand outside the emergency room and wait.The rescuers came out and said that Dr. Meng may have fallen while stepping on a stool to pick up something.He wanted to hold on to the door of the cabinet, but he also pulled down the iron cabinet. Several hundred kilograms of equipment fell on his body, which resulted in a fracture of the lumbar spine and a severe concussion.He has been rescued out of danger, but continues to be observed. Dr. Qi, Dr. Meng's assistant, was the last to leave.Bingbing and her father also went out with her. When they got to the parking lot outside, Dr. Qi was still saying: "He has had too many surgeries these days, and he hasn't had a good rest. He must have had another heart attack... such a high iron cabinet, will kill him." Bingbing wanted to tell them about Jiang Lan, but hesitated for a while or didn't say anything.They said goodbye to each other, Dad started the car, Bingbing sat in front, she glanced at Dad, and said courageously, "Dad——" Before she could finish speaking, she was interrupted by a piercing scream. They stopped the car quickly and came down to ask what was going on.In the corner of the parking lot, Dr. Qi jumped out of his car, yelling like he was on fire.When they approached the car, they saw bloodstains on the window glass, and piles of bloody cotton gauze rolled from the door to the ground.What was even more frightening was that there was a bloody dead baby on the steering wheel, as if it had just been picked up from the delivery room of a hospital...