June is our farewell song

Chapter 9 Do Bionics Dream of Electric Sheep?

With the help of the janitor and chemistry teacher Qi Yu recruited, the yellow-green gas permeating the entire classroom was finally cleaned up before the end of the lunch break.

The moment he sat down again in the second-to-last seat by the window in the back row, Gu Yuan couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief. This noon was really a toss-up, and luckily he could go home after finishing the math weekly practice in the afternoon.

The location behind him is the student storage room, and that boy named Li Ran produced a lot of chlorine gas in this narrow space of only ten square meters filled with iron shelves full of books and sundries.

Obviously, it was only taught in class a few days ago, but Li Ran did not expect to "apply what he learned" so quickly.

Gu Yuan closed his eyes and silently recalled the scene at that time. The chemistry teacher, Mr. Hua, pointed at the experimental device on the projection screen with a pointer and repeatedly emphasized that this is a dangerous experiment. If a large amount of chlorine gas is inhaled during the experiment, it may can be life-threatening.

Therefore, although there are materials in the laboratory of the school, students have never been allowed to do this experiment.

"Life-threatening..." Gu Yuan felt as if he had grasped some important key information, "Is this the reason why he did this..."

"What did you say?" Qi Yu turned to look at him and asked, "What reason?"

"I was thinking, why on earth did Li Ran do this? It can't be just for fun." Gu Yuan's eyes fell on Li Ran's seat in the corner of the front row. The owner of that chair has now been taken by Chen Ge. The teacher took him to the office of the school's moral education department, and he didn't know when he would be back.

"I heard from them that when Li Ran was discovered, she was smirking with a test tube with nothing left in her hand. It looked quite creepy." Qi Yu flicked his bangs on his forehead, "Yesterday After that, I asked other people about Li Ran's situation and heard some rumors."

"Rumor? For example?" Gu Yuan folded his hands behind his head and leaned against the window sill, looked at Qi Yu and raised his eyebrows, beckoning her to continue talking.

"Li Ran seems to have always been a rather strange guy. Some guys who claimed to be in the same junior high school as him told me a lot of his 'great achievements', but it sounds like they are all edited versions." Qi Yu While talking, he took out a notebook with a blue elephant on the cover from the belly of the table, "I wrote down some, you can take a look."

"One-vs-three on the North Street of Huancheng West Road; throwing firecrackers into the septic tank; on the way home from school, to the girls in the same class... Wait, wait, what are these?" Gu Yuan wrote the notebook. He closed it and returned it to Qi Yu, then sighed, "Based on these random fragments, it is impossible to guess why Li Ran did this."

"There is no way, there is no one who really knows Li Ran himself." Qi Yu shrugged.

"Don't you think it's strange? If Li Ran has always been a strange guy, then there should be many people who know him. Just like the incidents recorded in your notebook, if you have done any one, it is enough It went crazy in student circles all over the city."

"That's why I keep saying, it's better to ask him directly, and you won't listen to me..." Qi Yu pursed his lips, looking like an angry lamb.

"Oh, let's talk about it later." Gu Yuan looked at the math teacher Zou Ming who walked in with a large stack of white test papers, "It's time for the test."

After handing in the test papers, Gu Yuan didn't pack up his things and go home as usual, but went straight to Teacher Chen Ge's office.Regarding Li Ran, he still had some things to ask, but just outside the office on the stairs, Gu Yuan met an unexpected person.

Chi Yu.

Small red leather shoes, white socks showing perfect ankles, a plaid skirt just below the knees, and a white shirt with three buttons tightly buttoned on the chest. state.

Chi Yu was holding a large stack of math test papers in her hand. It seemed that she was the representative of the math class and came here to hand in the papers.

After all, the upstairs of the language office is the mathematics office, so it is very reasonable for her to appear here.

But in the face of this perfectly normal encounter, Gu Yuan's feet became stiff as if hit by a steel plate, and his whole body stopped in place like a robot with power cut off, his head slightly raised, his eyes wide open. Looking at the air beside Chi Yu.

Chi Yu also stopped, and just looked at him so quietly, with a sweet smile on the corner of his mouth.

"You... hello." Gu Yuan forced a smile from his face. Although he didn't have a mirror to see his current expression, he could imagine that smile like grandma wolf.

"Puchi..." As if amused by his expression, Chi Yu suddenly laughed, and then trotted up to the third floor with the paper in his arms, leaving Gu Yuan alone.

"Hiss—" Gu Yuan gritted his teeth and took a deep breath. Thinking of his performance just now, he really wanted to dig a hole for himself and bury him directly.

After knocking on the half-closed door of the office and then pushing it open, Gu Yuan saw that Feng Ziqiu was already standing in front of Teacher Chen Ge's desk, holding the blood-stained self-portrait in his hand, talking about something.

"Gu Yuan, you're here." Seeing him coming in, Chen Ge immediately waved to him, "I just finished explaining to Ziqiu, I happen to have something to ask you to do."

"What's the matter?" Gu Yuan asked in surprise.

"I need you guys to have a good chat with Li Ran." Chen Ge's expression on his face was rare and serious, "There is a generation gap between me and him in age, and, after all, there are some differences in identity, if it is me Talking to him, I'm afraid it will bring him some unnecessary pressure."

"Us? With Li Ran?" Gu Yuan glanced at Feng Ziqiu, and the latter nodded slightly to him, as if he had already agreed.

"Is there any problem? Gu Yuan."

"That's not true. But before that, Mr. Chen, I want to know how the school is going to deal with Li Ran regarding the chlorine gas incident?" Gu Yuan looked at Chen Ge's bright eyes behind the lens, "After all, it didn't hurt anyone, it should be There shouldn't be serious punishment."

"This...it's hard to say. Li Ran's behavior not only endangered public safety in a dangerous way, but also involved some other aspects." Chen Ge frowned, picked up his mug and took a sip of coffee, "School Chemistry The door of the laboratory is usually locked. I just received feedback from the laboratory teacher that a broken wire was found in the door lock. Li Ran must have used a similar tool to pry open the lock of the laboratory to get those hazardous material."

"Pick the lock?" Gu Yuan and Feng Ziqiu were surprised at the same time.

"I don't want to believe it either, but there is a high probability that I can't be wrong. After a while, the surveillance video will be retrieved, and I can really confirm it." The heat of the coffee condensed into a layer of white mist on Teacher Chen Ge's glasses , "After understanding the situation with his mother, the school is also a little embarrassed now. The specific punishment result will not be decided until the principal's office has a meeting."

"Mother... By the way, this painting..." Gu Yuan pointed to the picture of bloodstains in Feng Ziqiu's hand, "Mr. Liu Chang said that Li Ran should have seen such a pool of real bloodstains before he could draw such a picture." A painting. Could it be that there is any connection between this and his behavior today?"

"..." Chen Ge didn't speak, but quietly took another sip of coffee.

"Teacher Chen?"

"I must respect the wishes of Li Ran and his mother, and it is not convenient to reveal too much for the time being." Chen Ge put the mug back on the brown porcelain plate on the desk, "If you want to know, just ask Li Ran Ran himself. He's in the small conference room next door."

Seeing that Chen Ge didn't want to say anything more, Gu Yuan and Feng Ziqiu left the language office and came to the small meeting room next to them.

When Gu Yuan opened the door and walked in, Li Ran was sitting alone at one end of the long oval table, quietly reading a book under the not-so-bright sunlight.

"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"..." Gently closing the door, Gu Yuan pulled the chair beside Li Ran and sat down, "Philip Dick's masterpiece, do you like science fiction?"

Li Ran didn't speak, but turned his head to look at Gu Yuan, and then turned his gaze back to the book.

"The movie "Blade Runner" adapted from this book is also very good. Have you seen it?"

Gu Yuan tried to talk to him again, but still didn't get any response.He exchanged glances with Feng Ziqiu, who sat down across from him, both of them felt a little awkward, refusing to talk was the highest form of cold violence, and no method could effectively resolve the current embarrassment.

Fortunately, after about half a minute of silence, Li Ran took the initiative to break the silence.

"Do androids dream of electric sheep?"

Unexpectedly, Li Ran's voice was exceptionally clear, like a natural spring.

"What? Are you talking about this book?" Gu Yuan didn't realize it was a question at first.

"Do androids dream of electric sheep? Do they?"

Li Ran's gaze did not leave the book, but he was indeed asking Gu Yuan and Feng Ziqiu a question.

Gu Yuan was stunned for a moment. He had read this novel, and in this science fiction work full of wonderful and magnificent imaginations, no one actually asked this question. Naturally, no one answered it.

Even the author himself has not given a standard answer.

"Probably. If they really know how to dream." Feng Ziqiu replied.

"Is that so..." Li Ran murmured.

At this time, Gu Yuan saw that his gaze was not focused, which meant that Li Ran was not really reading the book, his mind was traveling, and he was thinking about other things.

"We are members of the Literature Club, and we are currently preparing a new column that will be launched soon." Gu Yuan did not directly ask about the production of chlorine gas, but chose an irrelevant topic first, "Are you interested in contributing?"

"Literary Society?" Li Ran's eyes lighted up slightly, but quickly dimmed again. He shook his head and said, "Forget it."

"Don't you want to try?" Feng Ziqiu asked.

"No need." Li Ran stood up the book to cover his face, and because of the cover, his voice suddenly became husky, "It should be the end of school time now, aren't you going home?"

(End of this chapter)