gentle collapse

The handsome receptionist spread his right palm and asked me to go out.I walked a few steps in the hall, and when I got to the elevator, I raised my eyes slightly to look at the ceiling diagonally in front of me calmly. There is surveillance here.

I pressed the up button of the elevator, and a screen below lit up, showing a fingerprint area. I tentatively touched it with my index finger, and it showed that the identity could not be recognized and could not enter.

I controlled my breathing nervously, trying to pretend to be calm, but a hand climbed onto my shoulder, I turned around, looked at the work badge on his chest, and asked first: "Excuse me, where is the toilet? "

He withdrew his hand and said to me with a serious expression: "The toilets here are only for employees to use. When you go out and walk straight along the street on the left for about 500 meters, there is a public toilet. You can go there."

"But my stomach is already very uncomfortable..." I covered my stomach, grabbed my clothes hard, and bent slightly.

"No."

I ignored his words, pretended to be anxious, and walked aside: "If you don't tell me, I will find it myself."

He didn't continue to stop, but kept following behind me.My original plan was to sneak into other floors and look for clues when they weren't paying attention, but I didn't expect to need identification even to take the elevator here, and the elevator is the only lifting tool here. When the building was just built, Just because the staircase was not designed, it was reported that the designer had no safety awareness.

I'm so stupid... Since this plan failed, I should turn around and go out immediately, and then look for another opportunity to come in.Obviously someone has already found out that something is wrong, but I still want to take the risk and go to the toilet that should not be monitored. I want to control the employee who enters the toilet and ask him to clear the way for me.But this is not in line with common sense, and it can easily arouse suspicion. Since I want to go to the toilet urgently, why do I need to press the elevator?Now, the people following me must have looked me up and down countless times, preparing to keep my body shape in their minds and prevent me from escaping.

I stood in front of the toilet sink, looked in the mirror, and thought about the countermeasures. It should not be too long, otherwise the employee standing outside the door might come in to check my situation just in case.And when I searched all over my body, I could only find a few hundred dollars, keys and a gel pen. I have been reading books all year round and lacked exercise. Even if someone comes in to go to the bathroom, what are the chances that I can control him?Moreover, there is another person waiting for me outside the door, maybe there are more than one.

Why don't you go out first?Even if they suspect me, I have done nothing, and they can't do anything to me.It's just that, in this case, it won't be so easy for me to enter here next time.

From the mirror, I saw that the door of the toilet was pushed open, and I hurriedly retreated to the corner.A dozen people came in one after another outside, but there were only ten toilet cubicles.A small group of people who came late gathered together and chatted, and what they wore on their chests was not a blue employee tag, but a red tag with a photo and a few lines of identity information.

"Old Zhang, you are so awesome, you really take this as a career. Don't they usually only use it once? You said that this is the fourth time you have come here, so you can brag about you, anyway. It’s your mouth, touch it up and down, it’s full of jokes.” One of them pushed a fat man in a blue padded coat, and the fat man took out a crooked cigarette from his pocket, walked to the sink and muttered : "Who would do this if they have money? They still want to draw my blood."

A few people came out of the toilet cubicle one after another, and almost everyone else went in. The fat man smoked and looked at me.

I walked up to him and asked him in a low voice, "How much do they pay you once?"

He stretched out his index finger and made a gesture: "At the beginning of the publicity, it said [-], but in fact it can't be so much, he asked you to do various tasks, it takes about three or four days, and after you finish it, the total is [-]. Now...you don't even give me so much, it's all done. Damn it's all for the time traveler, and the experienced ones are worthless."

I looked at the information on his tag and asked him: "I have 300 yuan here, is it enough to buy the red tag on your chest?"

He said twice: "If you have a photo, it's useless for you to take it. The person who took us will have to check it. If you want to do this, go fill out the form and apply." Hiding in the toilet? That person outside is waiting for you."

The person who came out of the toilet cubicle yelled at him: "Old Zhang, you can't get in, the time is almost over... I'm leaving first."

The old Zhangtou greeted him, and then turned to look at me.

"I don't want your hanging tag. I will pay you 300 yuan to take it off. You don't go to work today, and you will come out of the toilet in an hour. I can give you the 300 yuan now." I put Take out the whole money and hand it to him.He grabbed the money, pulled off the hang tag, turned around and entered the toilet cubicle.

I lowered my eyelids and walked out calmly.At the moment when he was holding the doorknob, he used his other hand to tightly hold the clothes in front of his stomach. "Hey, are you waiting for me here?" I looked at the staff member with a puzzled expression on my face, "I just had a sudden cramping in my stomach, and I couldn't take it anymore. I'm sorry for running around and causing you trouble."

He looked at me with a frosty face and asked me: "It's okay, is there anything else I can help you with?" The implication is that if not, you can go.

I said, "I want to go upstairs, but why do you still need fingerprints to take the elevator here?"

"What do you want to do upstairs?"

"I came here for the crossing service. When I came here today, I found that the tag was missing. I thought someone would take me up, but I came late and couldn't find anyone. After wandering around for a while, I thought I would go up first. No I can't think of going up..."

"What's your name?" He pulled out a walkie-talkie from the back of his waist and said to it, "Where are you? Is everyone connected?"

I said, "My name is Zhang Dawei."

The voice on the intercom was loud and loud: "I'm on the third floor. I just came up. This time there is one person missing, named Zhang Dawei. They said he is still in the toilet. I'll go down and look later."

He glanced at me, his body relaxed, and said to the other side: "No need to come down, he lost his tag."

"Make a new one, come back tomorrow." He instructed me, straightened his suit, and walked to the other side with the walkie-talkie.After I walked out the door, I let go of my fist, and my palms were sweaty.

And when I got home, I found the door wide open.The pile of shoes at the door couldn't fit.I looked into the house, and for the first time saw so many people gathering in this room.And all of them looked at me, I took off my shoes, but there were not enough slippers, so I walked in with my socks on.

My father and my mother were sitting on the sofa, Zheng Yi, Chen Wei, Xie Yu and Ke Ke were standing in front of the window, while Zhang Ran... was standing by himself.

My dad stood up on his thighs, and his voice could not detect any emotion: "Your class teacher called me, and he said that you want to drop out of school, but the school doesn't allow it, so you just skipped class?"

"Yeah." I nodded, took off the scarf and put it on the shoe cabinet.

"Come back with me." My dad came up and pulled my arm directly, "Don't be silly."

"I'm not going anywhere." The floor was so icy, I raised my feet slightly, and said to the people around me, "I forgot to buy vegetables, do you want to stay for lunch at noon?" I touched my pocket , decided to go into the bedroom to get some money.

I said to Zhang Ran: "Come in with me."

"Lin An, you want to drive a little..." "I only have you as a child now, if something happens to you..."

They talked ramblingly, their arms moved, their voices were earnest, but I couldn't hear them.I stopped Zhang Ran who was standing aside and walked towards the bedroom.Coco walked up to me, raised her hand, and gave me a slap.

She asked me: "Are you awake? If you are not awake, I will give you a few more slaps. You will not be sad if you are upset with your parents? If you are sad, we will look at you so that you will not be sad? Are you living like this now, thinking about your future? ?”

"I think about my future. I will buy a house with complete furniture, air conditioner, refrigerator and computer. I will pull grape vines on the balcony, I will raise a glass tank of fish, and I will live with my brother together."

Ke Ke wanted to say something else, but my dad stomped his feet and said to me: "Then I'll move in and live with you."

"I still have that dream. In front of the waterfall, both of our clothes were wet." Zheng Yi said, "I am very happy every time I dream about this."

I can't deal with this situation at all, I can't even say what to respond to them.I only know that my mind is indeed not clear as Coco said, my head is full of black water swinging around, almost on the verge of bursting.And subconsciously, I grabbed Zhang Ran's wrist and asked him to follow me.

All I had in mind was grabbing my brother's hand, something I wasn't willing to give up hope to get back.

The door slammed shut with a bang, and I wasn't even sure if it was me who closed the door.I looked back and saw Chen Wei.

"I said, one day you will understand me. But don't treat the straw as driftwood." He stared at Zhang Ran's hand that I held, and shook his head, "He's not your brother."

Zhang Ran focused on Chen Wei's face, Chen Wei looked at me, I let go of Zhang Ran's hand.

I pressed my nails against the palm of my hand, feeling repulsed by the act of pulling Zhang Ran's hand just now.I don't like being in contact with people, let alone someone I don't know well.I silently took a few steps back to distance myself from Zhang Ran.But I don't think Zhang Ran could notice it anymore. His gaze was unabashed, ignoring everything around him, and only looked at Chen Wei alone.

Chen Wei greeted this look suspiciously, and said, "You've been looking at me since I entered the door, do you know me?"

Zhang Ran didn't answer.Chen Wei turned to me and asked, "What's his name?"