Chapter 10 third quarter

Philosophers deny the existence of chance.Even if it seems like something happened by accident, it is only because people don't get to the root of why things happen.Painter Gao Yuan will find out that there are strange stains on the roof of the train, not to mention the people around him, even the local newspapers describe this as his accidental discovery.But if you think about it carefully, there are still some factors behind the occurrence of this incident. In the morning, Gao reasoned that he went to bed too late last night and did not get enough sleep, which caused him to doze off while painting.The reason why he went to bed late was because the date with his lover last night was so pleasant that he accidentally forgot the time.The reason why their date is so sweet is because his girlfriend is so gentle and beautiful, and loves him deeply.

Gao Yuan and his colleagues were responsible for the painting work on the outside of the flyover bridge at Baishi Station.Before arriving at his area of ​​responsibility, the assistant warned him countless times to be careful not to cause accidents, because if he was concentrating on his work and accidentally stepped off the scaffold and fell on the rails, if a train came by at this time, the consequences would be Unbelievable.Although painters are already used to working at heights, the more they are accustomed to things, the easier it is to make big mistakes due to negligence. Generally, when painting station buildings, the colors used are mostly gray, black, and yellow, which are simple colors, and the buildings are larger than usual, so the area that needs to be painted is not as wide as usual, and naturally the more work is done, the more monotonous and boring it becomes. up.The plateau also wants to keep vigilant, but the tense state cannot last forever.Just when he couldn't help but was about to doze off, he suddenly woke up. At this time, the paintbrush fell from his hand and fell on the train that was stopping at this station directly below him.

Oops!He hurriedly turned his upper body, grabbed the rope with his hands and looked down at the roof of the car.But it wasn't the fallen paintbrush that caught his eye, but the red and black spots that covered about one-fifth of the roof of the passenger car next door.These spots are dry now, maybe they have withstood the wind pressure of the train when the spots were still wet, and each stain extends to the rear, turning into a tail like "!".It looked like blood, he thought, something must have happened to this car. Suddenly, the starting bell rang, and two or three passengers rushed past him, stumbling down the steps and jumping up the nearest door step.The station master was wearing white kapok gloves and was counting the seconds with a pocket watch in his hand.The painter looked angrily at the paintbrushes on the roof.During such a short downtime, there was simply no time to retrieve the brushes.He will definitely be scolded by the worker later, he thought to himself: Nothing good happened early this morning... But what is that blood-like trace?

And he recalled the stain on the roof of the bus again when he was resting with his colleagues.At that time, a station attendant who was familiar with them came over and told them that a body had been found falling to the ground near Jiuxi Station. "There is a notice from Tokyo. If you find blood on the roof of the train, you must report it to them." "This request is really strange, has something happened?" "The corpse I just mentioned was once thrown on the roof of the car and driven away by a passenger train, so there should be blood stains." "What are you going to do to find that car?"

"I don't know, it seems that the police are looking for it." Gao Yuan was feeling annoyed that he had lost his paintbrush as a painter. He was not as cheerful and noisy as usual. He was just smoking a cigarette in silence, but when he heard what the station clerk said, he immediately remembered What happened to that train just now. "I have seen the train you mentioned. It is the one that departs around 9:20. Because of an accident or something, the train was delayed by nearly 20 minutes." He pondered for a moment, recalling the sound of the platform loudspeaker.

"By the way, I remember that the car stops at the stations of the second and third class cars in Aomori." "It's 9:01, train No. 117 from Baishi, right? Are you sure there's blood on the roof?" (Please refer to the train schedule⑴) The station attendant stopped standing up for a while, and asked in a half-squatting position. "I don't know if it was blood or not. But I saw a black stain on part of the roof that looked like rabbits had been boiled there," he said.

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