First encounter with wind and waves

  Lurking blackness is about to burst through the screen and engulf them.

  I read yesterday's newspaper and there was a report that caught my attention.

  According to reports, on the rooftop of a villa in Huayi Village, XinTai City, three men and three women died tragically. The report was very vague, only saying that the deaths were brutal. However, looking at the photos from the scene, the entire rooftop was stained with blood-red color, with some blurry substances on top, giving off an eerie feeling like minced meat in a butcher's shop.

  Generally, news is exaggerated as much as possible. If a family loses an onion, it can be written into a story about a gang of thieves stealing billions of dollars' worth of goods. These days, if the news isn't sensationalized, who will read it? My cousin Lao Ya, who's also a journalist, often says this, and their newspaper has always followed this principle. But this report is strange - such a big event happened, yet they only gave it a small space to write about, and even then, they were vague and couldn't find the focus, very strange.

  "Herons, what are you thinking about?" Lili waited for the stool to come over and said, "Looks pretty deep."

  "Nothing, just spacing out while reading the newspaper." He said, handing over the paper.

  Li Li was indeed just a little girl, and when she saw it, she couldn't help but furrow her brow. "How scary, I don't want to look at it anymore." She handed the newspaper back to me.

  "Are you interested in this matter?" Liri's eyes were very beautiful, big and shining as she looked at me.

  "I just feel a bit curious, but it's none of my business. Hanging high is my principle in doing things." As I said that, I took a look around and saw that no one else had returned. They're all bookworms, I should work hard too. No scholarship means I'll have to go find a part-time job. Forget it, tomorrow I'll just apply for a part-time job on campus first, so I can at least earn some money in case I don't get the scholarship and won't have anything to eat."

  I stubbornly refused my parents' living expenses and declared that a university student should be self-sufficient. During the summer vacation, I did two months of tutoring and saved some money, which could last for another two months if spent carefully.

  "I just like people who mind their own business and stay out of the way." Lǐ Lǐ said to me very seriously, then retreated back into her own little nest. Everyone had surrounded the three-sided bed curtains, encircling their own small space, especially those on the lower bunks.

  Took out teaching materials for preview, thinking about what kind of part-time job to apply for, and suddenly put that report at the back of my mind.

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  The next day, Student Work Office.

  "Are you sure?" The literature teacher in front of me looked at me with a surprised face, asking me more than ten times in one minute.

  I nodded firmly and replied "confirmed" again.

  He finally came out of his shock and silently handed me the form.

  I ticked the box for "Dissection Room Administrator" and signed my name.

  Several colleagues from the Student Work Department saw me off with whispers and gazes as if they were watching the eleventh wonder of the world.

  Actually, the work of an anatomy lab administrator is quite easy, just tidying up equipment and specimens before or after classes, or when new volunteer bodies arrive. The main thing is that the pay is high, three times that of a normal position! Plus the pay I get from helping my cousin Laura with her manuscripts, it's barely enough to cover living expenses.

  Lao Ya said before coming to school, it's impossible not to take parents' living expenses.

  She picked up the phone with a pleasant tone, but on the other end of the line was a slightly irritable voice.

  "Hey, what's wrong?"

  "Old mother duck, I've got some good news for you, my living expenses are taken care of. Haha."

  "Oh? Are you selling yourself off? Which blind person bought you?"

  "I knew you weren't going to say anything nice. I've been diligent in my studies and work, so from now on, if there's any urgent manuscript that you can't handle, just send it to me."

  "Got it, from now on any low-intelligence and physically demanding tasks will be assigned to you, this brainless animal. I'm out of here, bye."

  Lao Ya is eight years older than me, she speaks very sharply, but she is the closest to me among all my siblings.

  The dark clouds at night blocked the moon, and the starless night sky made it even harder for the already oppressive school to breathe.

  While many people are fast asleep, some unseen things are quietly taking place.

  Still can't sleep well, those noisy sounds seem to be right next to my ears, it's like a dream but not a dream, sleeping very drowsily.

  Suddenly a shrill cry rang out, directly startling me awake. Outside had already grown light, and things could be vaguely made out.

  Everyone in the dormitory came out from behind the bed curtains, and I took the opportunity to take a look around. This was the first time I had seen all my roommates together. At this moment, the screaming stopped suddenly, and there was a lot of noise outside the door, which should be the sound of everyone rushing out of the dormitory. We also followed the sound, and Li Li and I ran at the back, while the roommates in front had already formed their own small groups of two or three.

  The empty space in front of the dormitory was surrounded by classmates, and the noisy voices suddenly stopped. They were all trembling with fear, their hands tightly clenched together. The dorm aunt had fainted on one side, her face pale as a ghost.

  We six struggled to squeeze out a narrow path, a bloody scene entered our eyes, in the blood pool lay a student, all over the body was blurred with blood and flesh, no intact skin, could only be identified by that Minnie's nightgown, she might have been a girl.

  There are some white things in the blood pool, which should be brain splashes, distributed among some dark red substances in the blood pool, possibly coagulated blood clots, but in my opinion, it should be her fallen flesh and internal organs.

  Even the senior sisters who had dissected corpses couldn't accept the scene in front of them, their faces were deathly pale, and many of them ran to the corner of the wall and vomited loudly.

  "Hello? Okay, good. A body was found in front of the Medical University's 15th floor square."

  Following the heavy and calm voice, I turned my head to see a short-haired girl with black-framed glasses, her face unchanged, who surprisingly thought of calling the police, something that everyone else had overlooked. She seemed to be my roommate as well, and the other girls who rushed out of the dormitory with her were far inferior to her, their lips already pale.

  She saw me staring at her and calmly nodded slightly, then pulled another girl and turned around to leave.

  It seems like I need to make a good self-introduction among roommates.

  Li Li didn't know when she ran away. When the police came over, there was no surprise on her face, only a tightly furrowed brow, very heavy.

  Returned to the dormitory and slept for a while, when I woke up, it was already daylight.

  The entrance to the dormitory had obviously been swept, and the bloodstains were very faint, but they were still so eye-catching that all the students deliberately avoided it, as if that place was already a terrible curse, and once you got close, you would have the same fate.

  On the same day, an emergency notice was posted on the school's campus network, stating that students must travel in pairs, cannot go out of their dormitories at night, and the curfew time for dormitories has been adjusted to 9:30 every evening.

  The terrible thing has become a taboo, and no one dares to mention it again. But is deliberately forgetting it really useful? The lurking blackness is about to break through the barrier and engulf them.