History of Human Space Exploitation

Chapter 48
Arriving at the ward of the emergency area where Geng Sihan was, Yang Yi saw that his friend who had washed up looked much better than yesterday, but Geng Sihan, who said yesterday that he had lost [-] kilograms, still looked very weak.Yang Yi talked about Geng Sihan's situation with the doctor on duty. The doctor said that she was fine, but she was weak and malnourished, and she could be discharged home later to rest.

The doctor suggested some inexpensive nutritional supplements to Yang Yi, and prescribed some medicines that he needed to go home to continue taking, and asked Yang Yi to prescribe them as soon as possible.Looking at several common vitamins on the prescription and some medicines whose uses he didn't understand, Yang Yi could only shake his head with a wry smile, and then walked straight to the charge office.

When queuing at the checkout counter, a middle-aged man in front of Yang Yi put his right hand in his coat pocket, while his left hand was holding a book slightly bigger than his palm, reading it with relish, was he still nodding and shaking his head? one time.Although this didn't arouse Yang Yi's interest, she thought it was really interesting to read a paper book in this age when everyone was staring at their phones.

After paying the money and taking the payment receipt to the pharmacy to pick up the medicine, the middle-aged man who read the paper book was still in front of Yang Yi.At this time, he closed the book with one hand, and the cover caught Yang Yi's eyes: a pair of busts of a blond man and a woman, smiling at the reader and giving a thumbs up.

On the cover it reads:

"English for Dummies can be learned immediately"

"Just read it!"

"Hello!"

"Buy Naimyizi Xiaoli"

"Saury!"

"XXXX Publishing House"

Seeing this, Yang couldn't help but smile.When the middle-aged man in front finished taking her medicine and it was Yang Yi's turn, she handed the receipt to the counter and waited quietly for the doctor to take her medicine.She saw the hard-to-understand English and Chinese names on Geng Sihan's medicine box: chlorpromazine, perphenazine, thioridazine, pepothiazine...

At this time, Yang Yi's finger seemed to be pricked, and he almost cried out.

Suddenly she thought, could "Cesium Tingfang" be "35" in this kind of broken English?etc!etc!If it is thirty, why is it not "cesium antimony" but "cesium ting"? "[-]th Five-Year Plan"?Illogical?So... Could it be "Thirteen What"?

Excited and illogical, Yang Yi could only go back to the emergency ward. Geng Sihan, whose gaze was still dull but whose complexion was much better than yesterday, walked out of the hospital and took a taxi to the edge of the city where the two were warm but no longer the same. Xiaojia drove away.At this time, Yang Yi realized that yesterday he actually walked the distance with both feet. The taxi needs to drive for more than 20 minutes without traffic jams.Yang Yi touched his calf with his left hand. At this moment, his aching feet seemed to remind him that it was time to take a rest.That's right... I haven't slept well for almost two months because of Geng Sihan.

In the back row of the taxi, Geng Sihan was on the right and Yang Yi was on the left. Yang Yi clasped Geng Sihan's left hand with his right hand, hoping that this would give his old classmates and roommates a little extra warmth.

Geng Sihan was wearing the black hooded windbreaker that Yang Yi gave her two years ago, with large and small hollow and solid squares printed on the sleeves and top of the windbreaker.Yang Yi looked at Geng Sihan's left arm next to his right hand, and there was a gray and a red square on the sleeve.Then she thought of the "English Tutorial for Dummies". How do you say square?Scarlet?Hahaha!Square...SQUARE...SQUARE...square...square...square? ! ! ?
Now, Yang Yiquan understood...

When he got home, Yang Yi put Geng Sihan on the bed in the bedroom to sleep, and fetched water for her to take the medicine prescribed by the hospital and the extra health care products he bought later, and then gently returned to his room.Sitting at the desk, Yang Yi wrote in his notebook: "The square of thirteen is 160! This must be a geographical coordinate! North latitude is 37, east longitude is 160! But 'being bullied by III' is definitely not that simple. Why do I always sweat when I look at it? I must find out the answer!"

Yang Yi went on to write: "In this phrase, there is 'bullying', 'bullying', and the disgusting 'color', plus the word 'ting' next to the female character. , and the imaginative word 'Fang', there must be some terrible secret hidden on the surface of these words!"

Although Geng Sihan's question has not yet been answered, Yang Yi seemed to relax a little after knowing the coordinates. Following the momentum of this relaxation, she fell asleep.

In her sleep, Yang Yi was still sitting by the bed looking at the souvenirs Geng Sihan gave her on the cabinet.At this moment, boom, boom, boom, there were three knocks on the door, and Yang Yi opened the door but only saw the darkness.

It seemed that several hours later, Yang Yi, who was sleeping, heard a knock on the door again.Boom, boom, boom, it was still pitch black when I opened the door.

After getting up the next day, greeting and taking care of Geng Sihan after taking the medicine, Yang Yi hurried to work.When he came home from get off work and saw Geng Sihan sitting at the dining table eating macaroni, Yang Yi felt happier again.

After Geng Sihan settled down and took medicine to sleep, Yang Yi habitually sat by the bed and looked at the souvenirs on the cabinet for a while, then fell asleep.

I don't know if it was in reality or in a dream, but there were three more "boom, boom, boom", and it was pitch black again.

After a few hours, "Boom, boom, boom" sounded again, and it was pitch black again.

Just when Yang Yi thought it might be a nightmare like last night, the third "Boom, Boom, Boom" sounded today.An angry Yang Yi opened the door and found a person who looked very like Geng Sihan standing at his door.That "person"'s face was as pale as when he met Geng Sihan three days ago, his eyes were more hollow than Geng Sihan's that day, "it" had hair hanging down neatly on both sides, and he was wearing a black windbreaker all over.Yang Yishou didn't know if he was in the dream, closed the door heavily, ran back to the bed, and turned on all the lights in his room.

The trembling Yang Yi woke up completely, sitting on the bed with his legs crossed, not knowing what to do.A few minutes later, Yang Yi, who had calmed down a little, scanned the room with his eyes.At this time, she found that on the third table from top to bottom of the "Travel Souvenir Showcase", her favorite big red leather tiger had turned into the "white face and black robe" doll at the door just now!This doll is like painting the face of the "skull" in "The Scream" white, then putting on a shoulder-length black hair, and then wearing a black robe...

Yang Yi was even more afraid...

In this way, she stared at the white-faced doll on the cabinet and sat on the bed until dawn.

In the next few days, apart from going to work every morning and returning home in the afternoon, Yang could confirm that she was awake, and she felt that she would enter a strange trance state when she returned home.

Every night, I can always hear the two or three "boom, boom, boom".When it rang twice, it was always dark when the door was opened.But on the days when the sound rang three times, that "white face and black robe" would always appear at the door of Yang Yi's bedroom at the third "boom, boom, boom".

In addition, Yang also found that whenever the "white face and black robe" appeared, the third floor from top to bottom of his "travel souvenir display cabinet" would have one less souvenir from the past and one more "white face". "Black Robe" doll.

Just like that, Yang Yi, who was getting more and more in a trance and his body was getting worse, sat on the bed and hugged his legs, staring blankly at the seventh "white-faced black-robed" doll who appeared, and survived the pick-up from Geng Sihan. Home's No.14 early morning.

No. 15 nights when I took my friend Geng Sihan home...

"Boom, boom, boom," Yang Yi opened it as usual, and closed the bedroom door feebly in the darkness.

"Boom, boom, boom," she opened it again, but it was still pitch black, and then closed the door feebly again.

"Boom, boom, boom." For the third time today, Yang Yi opened the bedroom door and saw "it". Looking carefully, "it" seemed to be wearing the same pajamas as himself except that his face was not so white today.Taking a closer look, Yang Yi found that the door of his bedroom was a full-length mirror slightly taller than himself, and the self reflected in the mirror seemed to be the same as the "seven times" he had seen before, except that his face was not so white and his clothes were not black. "White face and black robe" makes no difference.

At this time, Geng Sihan, who had been eating and sleeping normally for more than ten days, but hardly communicated with Yang Yi, appeared next to the mirror.Geng Sihan's appearance is the same as those dolls on the display shelf, empty, pale, and ghostly. Her lower arms are stretched out, and a black robe is placed on top of her.

Geng Sihan squeezed out a cold and firm word from the black lips on his pale face: "Let's go."

After more than ten days of fatigue attacks, drug effects and conscious mental torture, Yang Yi finally collapsed.The word "go" in Geng Sihan's mouth may be a signal designed by "they" to give Yang Yi the final blow to his brain, and Yang Yi was undoubtedly defeated.

From the moment Yang Yi received Geng Sihan's call sixteen days ago, she became the prey of "them".

Fifteen days ago, when Yang Yi put his ear on Geng Sihan's hair and hugged him, Yang Yi was "drugged" for the first time.

"Alder Skin III Its Lack of Winter Qi and Colored Nvting Tufang" is a psychological maze carefully designed for Yang Yi, in order to make her gradually fall into this tortuous road of no return that ends in darkness.

In the hospital, the middle-aged man holding a "broken English book" is also one of "them", in order to give Yang Yi "critical" hints.Similarly, the black windbreaker with a square pattern that Geng Sihan wore in those two days was also carefully arranged by "they" for Yang Yi.

In the past [-] days, all the food in the two people's homes had been "medicated" in advance.Every night, "they" manipulated Geng Sihan to knock on Yang Yi's door, and such quick movements were "trained" repeatedly during the three months of Geng Sihan's disappearance. Those "dolls" on the display shelves The same is true.

Taking the black robe from Geng Sihan's hand, Yang Yi walked to his dressing table and sat down.Without turning on the light, the cold light of the full moon outside the window shone on Yang Yi's face and the makeup mirror opposite her.She mechanically applied thick foundation on her face, making her face as pale as Geng Sihan, or those dolls on the shelf.In Yang Yi's only consciousness that can be controlled by herself, she really wanted to hide the small pair of scissors on the dressing table next to her foundation box on her body, but she couldn't.Yang Yi's hands couldn't touch the scissors that were only a few centimeters away from the foundation box, or the eyebrow trimmer next to the scissors.

Yang Yi was crying deep in her heart, but her white face was expressionless like a plaster sculpture in the mirror.Yang Yi is desperate...

After taking off his pajamas and putting on his black robe, Yang Yi and Geng Sihan walked down the stairs of the bedroom on the second floor.Opening the door of the two people's independent house on the edge of the city, a bus with no lights on was waiting for the two in the open space.

The two walked on the bus side by side, and saw that there were two "white-faced black robes" like them sitting in each row of seats, and only the one closest to the driver who also wore the same "white-faced black robe" sat in the first row. The child is empty.The two didn't look at each other and didn't make any other movements, so they filed to the row of seats together and sat down.

Under the silent moonlight, the silent bus slowly left Yang Yi and Geng Sihan's beloved "house by the city" in the past.

On the screen at the front of the bus showing the next stop, a few white words clearly displayed "Being Bullied by III".

Two good classmates and good roommates who have no family and no other good friends just disappeared on the edge of the dark city...

Yang Yi, Geng Sihan, these two names may disappear forever in the vast crowd, under the cold night.

(End of this chapter)