Chapter 8 Amnesia

  I struggled to climb out of the dirty water, and saw Luo standing on the edge of the pool, staring at me like a monkey. I swam over in anger, anyway it was all dirty, so I wasn't afraid of these few steps. When I climbed out, there was still a snow cone packaging trash bag hanging from my head.

  "You detestable creature... How did you get back on your feet?!"

  Is your body all right? I didn't ask, just staring at him in shock.

  The skin on her face is smooth and white, her neck doesn't show any signs of poisoning, it's completely normal, the black wound has also disappeared.

  I'm stunned and don't know what to say anymore.

  "What happened?" he asked in confusion.

  I broke out in a cold sweat, my whole body was wet and I let out a sigh of relief as I sat down on the horizontal bar.

  The brain didn't know what to think, so it asked: "Have you already forgotten what happened? What's going on?"

  "What?" he asked.

  I took a deep breath and finally relaxed my tense nerves. I walked up to him, touched his face gently, but he awkwardly dodged away. I realized the action was quite rude, felt embarrassed, and smiled awkwardly.

  It was just... he suddenly said a sentence that made me think fate was playing a joke on me.

  "He asked: 'Don't be like this, who are you?'"

  "No way, stop joking around, how would I know... what are you talking about!" I thought he was just kidding, but I broke out in a cold sweat.

  Goosebumps all over his back.

  I asked again: "You won't forget who I am, will you?"

  He shook his head and said calmly: "What's my name?"

  My god... This is too dramatic, right? Came out of the basement and lost memory?

  Right after that, within a few seconds, the skin on both hands started itching.

  I suspiciously brought my hand in front of my eyes, and when I took a look, I was startled!

  Fingers, wrists and back of hands, these places bitten by black bugs are gradually healing... My body, it's recovering automatically!

  "Heavens, I've seen a ghost!" I jumped up, and quickly, the dense small wounds disappeared. Some black bugs that remained on my hand with the broken small teeth were also squeezed out!

  All I saw was a blackness in front of my eyes, and when I woke up again, it was already dusk. The cold wind was blowing strongly, and I was lying on a 'bed'. There was no one around me, and I panicked and called out for Chen Yan "Lu" several times. I hoped someone would respond to me, but my head was still dizzy, and I hadn't lost my memory. On the contrary, I remembered everything clearly, and it must have been Chen Yan "Lu" who dragged me to the abandoned girls' dormitory building.

  I calmed down and decided to take a walk around to see if I could find anything.

  Another gust of cold wind came, I turned back and looked at the window, which was a certain dormitory on the second floor.

  When he turned his head back, a white shadow flashed across the 'door' quickly!

  I was so scared that I sat down on the ground.

  What's going on? Is it haunted?

  Originally, I was a realist. But after experiencing so many terrifying and bizarre things, I found that my definition is gradually moving away from me, as if all the events are trying to twist this idea of mine.

  I rushed to the 'door', and the white shadow had disappeared without a trace.

  A loud clattering sound came from the end of the corridor, as if a bunch of pots and pans had fallen to the ground.

  I cleverly found a mop, and as soon as I picked it up, the head of the mop fell off. This stick helped me to defend myself, and I relied on the stick to muster my courage.

  Damn it, I cursed silently in my heart for a few sentences.

  Ran to the end of the corridor and found nothing.

  "What are you doing?"

  "Wow!"

  I turned around and swung my stick.

  "Why did you hit me!"

  In the heat of the moment, I almost hit Chen Yan 'Lu' who was just behind me.

  "I'm so annoyed! What are you doing here?! You scared me to death!"

  "You mean I don't have to take care of you anymore?"

  He finished speaking, handed me a bread and milk, and said: "Well, I'm off."

  "Don't go! Come back." I looked at him with pleading eyes.

  I just added a little energy, and then I asked him another sentence, do you know who I am? He actually laughed and said, how could I not know who you are, has your brain been kicked by a donkey?

  I gave a sigh, but I myself forgot my own name.

  What's my name?

  What's going on? How could I possibly forget my own name?

  Try hard to recall, but after all, I only remember the various experiences with Chen Yan 'Lu', and no matter how hard I try, I just can't think of what my name is!

  An explosion occurred on the playground, the instructor died, a strange underground storage room was found in the school library, the principal of the sports hall was smashed to death, we were trapped and escaped smoothly.

  All sorts of recent bloody things have happened one after another, but I just can't remember my own name.

  "Mimi, what's wrong?"

  It's as if I hadn't heard this name in a long time, I looked up, and tears streamed down my face.

  "I... I may have forgotten my own name."

  "You're called Homi," he said calmly. "Huo in Huozhou, Mi in Xiaomi."

  "......Thank you."

  "Do you remember me?" he asked.

  "Remember, Chen Yan 'Lu'. ... You didn't even recognize me just now." I smiled bitterly.

  "So can you explain why your hands are smooth as new while other places are actually poisoned?"

  "I'm giving you the antidote." I continued to smile wryly, "Has the effect of the antidote kicked in and you've recovered, but the side effect is temporary amnesia?"

  "He said, 'Maybe, have you had some?'"

  "I don't have."

  "So why did your hands automatically heal?" He lifted up my hands and examined them carefully.

  "While you were sleeping, I disinfected your wound so it won't spread for now. If you feel uncomfortable, tell me as soon as possible, we must escape this place before tomorrow!"

  Chen Yan took off her overcoat and helped me cover up, pointing to the upper and lower berths.

  "Although it's dirty here, you must rest well. It's already past 9 and this place is very strange, sleep for a while. I'll wake you up at dawn, we have to hurry back to the school district."

  His tone was firm and powerful.

  "Good."

  I lay down on the dusty mattress, sighing... how can I sleep in this situation?

  Forcing myself to close my eyes, in a half-asleep and half-awake state. I heard Chen Yan 'Lu' pick up the mop handle from the ground and sit at the entrance of the dormitory.

  It's good I have him, I think.

  I didn't sleep very soundly, but after two hours, it started pouring heavily outside.

  Lightning flashed and thunder rumbled, as if foretelling something even more terrifying was about to happen. I sat up and saw Yan 'Lu' still staring with her eyes wide open, guarding the door.

  Like this, with a sense of unease, until the next day, at 3 am, he shook me awake.

  I rubbed my eyes and followed him out of the girls' dormitory. The outside wind was biting, the rain had stopped, and the road surface was very slippery. Stepping on potholes and puddles always made my pants legs full of dirty water.

  We ran, desperately running. Finally leaving the old building district, he said, "Go back to your dormitory, tidy up, I'll take you somewhere. Bring some food and supplies, it's best to bring a self-defense tool."

  "I asked: 'Where are you taking me?'"

  He said: "At 4 o'clock, I'll wait for you at the library. We're going to go back to the basement again. Then we'll come out at 5 o'clock. It's still very cold now and it won't be light yet. We'll leave from the small school gate. I'll take you somewhere, but you can't tell anyone about it. That's all, see you at 4 o'clock!"

  He said he would, and ran towards the boys' dormitory.

  I carefully returned to the dormitory, took off my dirty and messy clothes, and took a good bath. I picked up a black backpack, packed compressed biscuits, spare clothes, and medical supplies such as gauze and disinfectant. My legs were numb, so I simply applied some medicinal wine to the wound, sprinkling everything that could be disinfected onto it. The black wound had stabilized and was no longer spreading. I let out a sigh, wrapped my legs in gauze, and they looked like a mummy's legs! I smiled dryly, put down my pants, shouldered my backpack, and left a note for my roommate: "Recently, something has come up at home, so I won't be coming to school for the time being. - Homi"

  It's strange that I can actually write down my own name smoothly. But thinking about it again, did I really remember my own name?

  As I thought, Chen Yan's 'Lu' was right. This place is too eerie, we only have two options, escape or investigate clearly.

  If we say that all our encounters are not accidental, then will there be more fellow students who will meet with harm in the future?!

  Thinking of this, I took a look at my sleeping roommate.

  I don't want to! We can't escape, we must investigate clearly and give our classmates an explanation. Give ourselves a peace of mind, this is the right thing to do.

  I took a look at my watch and it was almost four o'clock. I shouldered my backpack and ran out of the dormitory.

  After leaving the dormitory, on my way to meet with "Lu" from morning study group, I paid close attention to my surroundings. Since previously I couldn't even remember my own name, who knows what might happen and be forgotten along with it?

  Although my memory is not very reliable now, repeatedly strengthening my memory should still be beneficial because time is still on my side. I also walk slower than usual on the road.

  I arrived at the meeting spot with Lùo from morning study a little after 4 o'clock, he is always very punctual in this aspect. He saw my figure from afar and excitedly waved his hand at me.

  "Over here, quiet, over here!" His voice was also suppressed and particularly low.

  I quietly quickened my pace and walked to the side of Chen Yan's "Lu", the not very bright moonlight sprinkled on his face, facing this face that I should be very familiar with, for some reason, I suddenly felt a little strange.

  He's someone I grew up with, clearly familiar faces and smiles, why did I suddenly feel like he was a stranger?

  Chen Yan seemed to have not noticed anything unusual about me, and as usual, held my hand and started walking forward.

  My heart began to feel a little resistant to this intimate contact, "Why are you leaving in such a hurry?"

  "So many things have happened in this library, if we don't take the chance to go and see the situation while others still haven't discovered anything, heaven knows whether there will be such an opportunity again."

  Chen Yan's words about 'Luo' were quite convincing, and I couldn't think of any good rebuttals as I followed him. As for that dark, damp, and very dangerous basement, no one would have a good impression of it.

  It was just when I first started out that I had the same ambition as Morning Research's "Lu" now, but somehow I've become more and more timid over time.

  I rubbed my head hard, hoping to be a bit more awake. I must have been affected by the lack of sleep in the early hours of the morning.

  I followed Chen Yan 'Lu' to re-arrive at the entrance of that underground library along the route we had taken before, and it was already our second time here. We opened the door and slipped in with a familiar air.

  When I was going through the underground pipeline, that kind of indescribable nausea appeared again. A good girl like me, with a good college entrance examination score, and being spoiled at home, why do I have to do this? Even if I investigate those winding plots, what benefits can I get?

  With this resentment in mind, I started to dislike seeing Chen Yan's 'Luo' even more. This resentment had been accumulating all the way and finally erupted at a certain point in time.

  When we arrived at the underground room through the pipe, Chen Yan 'exposed' himself in front of me and went down first. Because of his height, he scolded me for jumping down from above, which was a bit more dangerous than him. In the past, it was always him who caught me underneath, but today, I don't know what happened, he actually didn't catch me.

  From such a high distance, I fell alive on the ground. Although there was no fracture or sprain, it still hurt me a lot.