disaster strikes

Chapter 1 The Disappearing Chen Mo

Six years out of college.

As a member of the city's migrant workers, Wang Cong is immersed in busy work all day long, and even if he has occasional free time, he spends it in games.

One day, a strange call came to his mobile phone.

"Hey?"

"Wang Cong! You clearly know that Chen Mo is real, but he just disappeared suddenly. I'm not crazy, why didn't you tell them about Chen Mo! Why!"

Hearing the angry voice on the other end of the phone, Wang Cong's face was very ugly.

"I……"

A hint of guilt and apology appeared in his eyes, and Wang Cong hesitated, not knowing what to do.

"Chen Mo is real! I'm not crazy! You bastard!"

Before Wang Cong could respond, he hung up the phone conveniently.

Because of this phone call, Wang Cong was in a trance for the next day.

night.

Wang Cong returned to the apartment alone, and the room alone was extremely quiet.

He took off his coat, turned on the desk lamp, and sat quietly in front of the desk with his chin propped on his hands. With the increasingly guilty eyes, his expression gradually became painful.

"It's been ten years, because I don't want to be like you and become a lunatic in the eyes of everyone. I keep telling others about Chen Mo who doesn't exist in their eyes. I just want to live a normal life."

The beginning of the incident happened in a full-time art vocational school in a provincial capital city around the capital.

The time was March 2011, 3, 12 days before the college entrance examination, and that day was Chen Mo's birthday.

The reason why Wang Cong remembers it so clearly is that on March 3 of that year, a magnitude 11 earthquake occurred in the waters around an island country, triggering a tsunami, and the students in the class celebrated enthusiastically out of patriotism.

Since the school is closed and managed on a full-time basis, and the college entrance examination is about to begin, everyone is under a lot of pressure. I remember that Chen Mo also said that day that tomorrow is his birthday, so he should celebrate it well.

Then came the nuclear radiation leak and the salt grab.

With the memory, Wang Cong's thoughts became more and more distant, as if he had returned to the winter of that year, the day when Chen Mo disappeared.

……

At that time, I was very introverted, and I didn't have many friends in school. I only interacted with two classmates often.

One is Wu Huiteng, who is at the same table, and the other is Chen Mo, who has been living with his grandmother in the neighbor's house.

Chen Mo lived with his grandmother and became neighbors with me because his parents divorced and remarried separately. We have been in the same class since junior high school, and we entered high school together, and we were still assigned to the same class. Of course there is no need to say much.

In order to celebrate Chen Mo's birthday, I called and asked my cousin to order a cake from outside and deliver it.

There is a low wall in the backyard of the school, outside is a dirt road under the railway, and there is a farm behind it, which is relatively remote, so people often climb over the wall here, and the teacher often comes here to check on duty, which made me pick up cakes. I was frightened for a long time.

Chen Mo doesn't have many friends either, but he is not withdrawn. It's just because of his family that he doesn't want to take the initiative to communicate with him. But because he is handsome, fair-skinned, and good at studying, he scored 148 in mathematics in the final exam of the second year of high school. His subjects are the first in the whole grade, and the total score is the eighth in the school, so I know that many female students like him.

At noon that day, the three of us met in the abandoned dormitory behind the school to celebrate Chen Mo's birthday in private.

This dormitory building was not abandoned before, but was leased to another railway vocational school. However, because of poor school discipline, the lease was not renewed and it became vacant.

The brick building looks very dilapidated, the red bricks are starting to darken and smell musty, but it has become a favorite place for some couples in the school.

In the evening, there will be people playing badminton here, usually students from the first year of high school.

Wu Huiteng and I both took presents.

Needless to say about my cake, Wu Huiteng sent a pair of Yonex badminton rackets, which cost about a few hundred yuan, which was a huge sum of money for us at the time.

Chen Mo also gave us a gift in return.

Wu Huiteng was given the entire "Slam Dunk" comic book, and I was given a Winnie the Pooh keychain, which was bought from abroad before his parents divorced.

After eating the cake, there was still some time before class. Wu Huiteng suggested playing badminton, saying that he wanted to experience his Yonex racket again. Each had six balls, and he would lose.

Although the weather in March in the north is very cold, the sun is a bit dazzling, and there is wind, which is not suitable for playing badminton. Therefore, when we were playing, we began to approach the abandoned dormitory building unknowingly, so as to avoid the wind, until Wu Huiteng exerted too much force and threw The badminton hit the window on the second floor of the abandoned dormitory building.

All the windows of this building were closed with broken wooden boards. Many of the glass behind the wooden boards were broken, and the badmintons fell through the gaps in the broken wooden boards.

Because there was only one ball, Wu Huiteng proposed to go in and pick it up.

Some people say that before the school was established, there was a cemetery here, and some strange things happened. I was a little scared, but Chen Mo said it was his gift, so he and Wu Huiteng climbed in through the window.

I was responsible for letting the wind out to prevent teachers on duty from coming.

I remember very clearly that at least 10 minutes passed, and the two of them remained silent inside. I looked around and couldn't help it, so I crawled in.

The corridor was very dark, with only a little light from the windows sealed by broken wooden boards, dust everywhere, and some rotten musty smell.

With courage, I lowered my voice and called Wu Huiteng and Chen Mo a few times, because I was afraid of being heard by passers-by, but I didn't get a response.

Since the badminton fell to the second floor, I tried to go up the stairs to have a look. The sound of the wind blowing in through the gap in the window was like the cry of many people. It was less than 3 meters away. I walked almost Two to three minutes, during which they called several times and neither of them responded.

"what!!"

In the gloomy corridor, there was a sudden scream.

I got goosebumps, and almost without thinking, I turned around and ran towards the window I came from, even crawled out of the window, and then gasped in shock and saw Wu Huiteng also climbed out of the window.

"Where's Chen Mo?"

I asked Wu Huiteng.

At that time, I still felt that the two of them partnered to scare me.

"I do not know!"

Wu Huiteng panted: "He said he gave you the keychain. His key seemed to have fallen to the place where he picked up the ball just now, so he went back to look for the key. I was waiting for him, but the ghostly scream startled me. I heard someone I ran after him, thinking it was Chen Mo."

Only then did I realize that he regarded me as Chen Mo.

"How did you go in for so long?"

"Shouldn't we go in for less than a minute?"

Wu Huiteng's words made me a little dazed, I had obviously been waiting here for at least 10 minutes.

Then the two of us gasped and waited outside for a long time, but we didn't see Chen Mo coming out. We stuck our heads into the corridor several times and called Chen Mo's name, but we didn't get any response.

It wasn't until the class bell rang that Wu Huiteng noticed that the "Slam Dunk" comic book that Chen Mo gave him was gone, and it was clearly placed on the concrete floor before.

Without caring too much, we hurried towards the classroom.

After we ran to the classroom, the math teacher had arrived for a while and was giving a lecture. Seeing us panting, we didn't say much, so we let in.

We are at the same table, sitting in the opposite back row, so we will naturally pass by Chen Mo's seat, but we find that his seat is actually occupied by Rong Yeye, the math class representative.

After the two of us sat down, we searched the class for a while, but we didn't see Chen Mo.

"See Chen Mo?"

I quietly patted Zhu Yidan's shoulder at the front desk and asked in a low voice.

"Who is Chen Mo?"

Zhu Yidan's rhetorical question stunned me for a moment.

She has been secretly in love with Chen Mo since the first year of high school.

Wu Huiteng seemed a little impatient, and repeated: "Chen Mo!"

The math teacher threw a piece of chalk and asked Wu Huiteng to stand up and listen to the class. We could only suppress our doubts and wait until the end of get out of class.

As soon as the get out of class was over, Wu Huiteng began to ask about Chen Mo's news one by one in the class, but everyone showed confusion without exception. Who is Chen Mo?
Even Chen Mo's previous tablemates looked puzzled, as if no one remembered Chen Mo, or this person had never appeared.

Wu Huiteng once thought that the whole class united to lie to him.

Then he started to ask the students in other classes, even the teacher, but they all got the same result, Chen Mo seemed to disappear out of thin air, everyone forgot his existence, including the report card on the wall, and Chen Mo disappeared name.

This feeling is like some kind of power that brought Chen Mo to another dimension. There is some mysterious power in this universe that repairs the negligible impact of Chen Mo's disappearance.

Wu Huiteng later became a little dazed, and told everyone that Chen Mo had disappeared.

The head teacher noticed Wu Huiteng's abnormality, and called his parents, saying that because of the high pressure of the college entrance examination, he was looking for students who did not exist all day long, and suggested psychological counseling and treatment.

At the beginning, Wu Huiteng told everyone about Chen Mo's past in the QQ class group, including Chen Mo's previous grades, who he had a good relationship with in the class, and then he was kicked out of the class group by the unbearable monitor.

During the college entrance examination, Wu Huiteng came to the school once, and he asked me in public why I didn't tell others about Chen Mo.

I was very scared at the time, because I didn't want to be a lunatic in the eyes of others, so I never spoke.

"Chen Mo misjudged you! I'm not crazy! I made friends like you!"

I still remember Wu Huiteng, who was surrounded by people with strange eyes. He tried to make excuses over and over again, trying to pull me out to testify. However, my silence finally made him look at me with anger.

He hates me for not defending him for Chen Mo who disappeared mysteriously, he is not a madman.

(End of this chapter)