Abyss Notes [Unlimited]

Fu Yuncong thought about "what if" many times.

If he stops that night.

If he immediately agreed to Hong Shiyu's request, if he was in a better mood, if he didn't worry about the game he hadn't got yet.

If he had accompanied Hong Shiyu across the Jiangmian road, everything might not have happened.

Hong Shiyu is a member of the badminton team of Linjiang Middle School, and her position is in front of Fu Yuncong on the left.Fu Yuncong's deskmate was very annoyed by Hong Shiyu's ponytail, sweeping back and forth, always messing up his desk.After being told a few times by him, Hong Shiyu tied her hair into a ball in class.

Fu Yuncong's impression of Hong Shiyu was: a girl with a good temper.

Hong Shiyu has a habit of sitting on the windowsill and reading comics.This is something that is explicitly prohibited by the school: only books can be placed on the windowsill, and no one is allowed to sit on it.Hong Shiyu always likes to occupy the best position in the sun. When the teacher comes, she will quickly slip down and sit next to her friends.The class teacher called her name: Hong Shiyu, you don't follow the rules.

There were so many times that the homeroom teacher didn't bother to call her, and just entered the door with a solemn face, staring at Hong Shiyu who almost put his eyes on the comics.

Fu Yuncong once envied her: she read comics, novels, and played mobile games day and night, but she was not short-sighted.

Sixteen or seventeen-year-old students, with a good temper, can easily make friends with others.Hong Shiyu has a lot of friends, in classes, teams, junior high schools, and elementary schools.Once she met her kindergarten classmate at school, and the two hooked up shoulder to shoulder, laughing wildly all the way.

The head teacher said she made friends indiscriminately.Hong Shiyu opened her eyes wide, not knowing that she was talking about herself, she looked left and right.The teacher in charge patted the desk: It was you, Hong Shiyu, who was talking about you, pretending to be good.

She always purses her lips and smiles, she is indeed very good.

Fu Yuncong and Hong Shiyu don't have much contact with each other, and they rarely talk.Fu Yuncong had watched Hong Shiyu's game, the champion of the women's badminton competition in the city's middle school student sports meeting, and he applauded her.

Hong Shiyu asked Fu Yuncong if he wanted to play badminton.Fu Yuncong pointed to his glasses.

He didn't talk much, it was a rare complete communication between him and Hong Shiyu.He asked Hong Shiyu why he liked to play badminton and when he started practicing. Hong Shiyu asked him if it was true that he and the boys in his class jumped over the wall from the training camp to play games during military training.After chatting all over the world, Hong Shiyu finally said, you actually talk a lot.

Fu Yuncong adjusted his glasses: Let's see people.

The two sat under the sycamore tree beside the playground, and the leaves of the sycamore tree were golden and bright in autumn.

On the evening of April 2017, 4, Fu Yuncong detoured on his bicycle and passed by the intersection of Jiangmian Road.Hong Shiyu was standing under the street sign at that time, and the street lights illuminated her hesitant face. When she saw someone approaching, her eyes lit up.

During self-study that night, Hong Shiyu brought back the news that Fu Yuncong won the gold medal in the international competition.

She went to the head teacher's office to pick up the confiscated cartoons last semester, and overheard the teachers talking about it.This award will definitely add points to Fu Yuncong, and he can even apply for scholarship qualifications in foreign universities.The teachers speculated that Fu Yuncong would study further at home or abroad. Hong Shiyu put the two comics in his arms and happily returned to class to announce the good news.

Fu Yuncong knew about winning the award early in the morning, he was happy in his heart, but there was no emotion on his face.

Seeing that Hong Shiyu was so happy, the classmates teased her: Wow, are you interested in dealing with Yun Cong?

Fu Yuncong raised his eyes, and heard Hong Shiyu quickly deny: How is it possible!

The eyes of the two met. In order not to embarrass her, Fu Yuncong quickly lowered his head, pretending that he didn't hear anything.

When he saw the expression on Hong Shiyu's face, he felt a little puzzled: Am I bad?

Under the street sign on Jiangmian Road, Hong Shiyu first waved at Fu Yuncong: "Student!"

Fu Yuncong didn't recognize her until he got close to her, he immediately became embarrassed, and his smile was unnatural.

Fu Yuncong squeezed the brake and landed on one foot: "What's wrong?"

Both of them remembered being teased in class today.

"You...can you...accompany me on this journey?" Hong Shiyu was very embarrassed, and raised her finger to point to Jiangmian Road.

The road on the surface of the river was being repaired, there were very few people, half of the street lights were out, and it was pitch black.In the car repair shop, there was the sound of boxing games, and Hong Shiyu was wringing his fingers under the road sign.

"Just a few minutes," she added, "I'm going to take the bus."

Fu Yuncong was taller than Hong Shiyu, Hong Shiyu looked up at him when he spoke.

Yu Zhou also stared blankly at the girl in front of him.

Hong Shiyu stood in front of them, facing everyone with an attitude of looking up.

Fu Yuncong remembered all the details of Hong Shiyu very clearly.She combed her hair tightly to expose her forehead, with a fluffy hairline, a little acne marks on her face, and her canine teeth were exposed when she spoke.The restless and embarrassed Hong Shiyu muttered, her eyes wandering and nervous, as if she wanted to swallow back what she just said.

"Forget it, it's all right," Hong Shiyu scratched his temples and smiled, "I'll go by myself."

Fu Yuncong glanced at his watch.He ordered the game in a video game store, and made an appointment with the boss to pick it up at 10:30. It was already 10:[-], and the store would close in [-] minutes.

The video game store is just ahead, just pass a traffic light.Hong Shiyu's embarrassment infected Fu Yuncong, he looked away, looked at the road ahead and said, "Wait for me for 5 minutes."

While waiting for the traffic light, he turned his head and glanced at Hong Shiyu, who was still standing under the road sign at that time.

Once there, it was already 10:30.Fu Yuncong returned to the street sign, but Hong Shiyu was not there.

Fu Yuncong hesitated for a few seconds between "Cross the Jiangmian road to see if we can catch up with Hong Shiyu" and "Go home".He chose the latter.

It was almost eleven o'clock when I got home, Fu Yuncong was going to take a shower, the phone flickered, the head teacher in the class asked: Is Hong Shiyu still in school?

The monitor replied: I didn't see her when I closed the door.

The phone is dead and turned off.Fu Yuncong didn't take these conversations seriously.until arriving at school the next day.Early self-study started, Hong Shiyu didn't show up, he suddenly remembered the brief conversation in the class.

In just one morning, the news of Hong Shiyu's disappearance spread throughout the grade.

In front of Yu Zhou, Hong Shiyu was still standing.She is a phantom, a silent sculpture with expressions that are forever frozen but fresh.

She still appears to be alive.

Jiang Xiao rushed in front of Fu Yuncong, and her and Hong Shiyu's figures overlapped, as if the good-tempered girl was talking.

"You're not here to help her at all! You're atonement!" Jiang Xiao pushed Fu Yuncong, but Fu Yuncong bowed his head and did not refute.

Her eyes were red, and Liu Yingnian pulled her back.

"As long as you were...you were..." Jiang Xiao found himself repeating Fu Yuncong's "if".

If so, if that.If time could be turned back, if the choice could be made again, she knew that Fu Yuncong would not leave Jiangmian Road intersection, nor would he just go home like this.

Fu Yuncong looked up at her.The rain that hasn't stopped for a day since they entered this "birdcage" is still falling continuously.

"Many people helped me, and many adventurers were willing to find the murderer in exchange for the secret I said, or they just... simply wanted to free Hong Shiyu and let the truth come to light." Fu Yuncong said, "But I The truth about my own, my own secret... I'll just tell you, just this once."

The father who was in charge of investigating the case asked about Fu Yuncong's whereabouts that night.Because a waste picker at the intersection of Jiangmian Road saw Fu Yuncong and Hong Shiyu talking under the street sign.

Fu Yuncong confessed everything to his father.His father looked at him quietly, and he shed tears in the heavy eyes that were as sharp as a knife.

From then on, every day and night when he was free, he would linger on Jiangmian Road.He retook Hong Shiyu's path countless times that night, from the school gate to Jiangmian Road.He tried to look for traces that his classmates might have left on the noisy road that had resumed.

When Hong Shiyu's skeleton was found from the bottom of the river, Fu Yuncong was also at the ferry.He couldn't see the skeleton, but only saw people's rumors: the skeleton had the badge of Linjiang Middle School, and it was a girl.

Everyone remembered the girl who had disappeared.Rumors related to Hong Shiyu began to circulate on campus again, how she made friends promiscuously, and how she was attacked.

"I'm sorry." Fu Yuncong said, "Jiang Xiao, I'm sorry...if I..." He took a deep breath, "No accident will happen to Hong Shiyu, and maybe you will be fine too."

Everything in the "Birdcage" is just an illusion, an assumption.Jiang Xiao knew it in her heart, but she couldn't help but vent her anger on Fu Yuncong.

Fu Yuncong's frankness at the beginning now seems to be a conscious concealment.He kept his despicable secret tightly, intercepting an important piece of the puzzle to restore the truth.

"Don't call yourself so great!" Jiang Xiao yelled, "You and this 'birdcage' both make me sick!"

She shook off Liu Yingnian's hand and pointed at Fu Yuncong: "I won't stay here. You will never be forgiven. Hong Shiyu will always, always hate you. You are also an accomplice in killing her!"

She ran in big strides, crossing Jiangmian Road.

Liu Yingnian hesitated for a moment, and Yu Zhou chased Jiang Xiao away.

Watching Yugan and Liu Yingnian follow Yu Zhou all the way, Fan Xing and Xu Qingyuan stayed where they were and looked at each other.

"Why bother?" Xu Qingyuan said.

Fan Xing: "Yes."

It was rare for Xu Qingyuan to find a companion who had the same views as himself, so he nodded approvingly at Fan Xing: "It's a waste of his talent."

Fan Xing looked at Fu Yuncong.He wants to ask many questions.

Why create such a cage?This cage has no meaning other than trapping Fu Yuncong.For all the adventurers who come here, he has created a world that is enough for them to live in peace, and even meet their entertainment needs.Under the hands of his "mother", he tried his best to protect Yu Zhou and Fan Xing, who had never met before. Even if the adventurer died in the "bird cage", he would be reborn again. As the cage owner, he really didn't have any need to do so.

Fan Xing still remembered the pulsation he felt when he pressed his hand on Yu Zhou's chest.Do real people trap themselves like this?For confession, for redemption, or for other unnecessary emotions?

"...Is this also instinct?" Fan Xing asked himself in a low voice.

Xu Qingyuan smiled lightly: "It's human nature."

Fan Xing looked at him: "Is human nature good or evil?"

Xu Qingyuan put on his fisherman's hat: "Human nature is to be kind when it should be good, and to be evil when it should be evil."

There are many customers at the entrance of the fruit shop with the "Happy Fresh Fruit" signboard.Apples are freshly on the market, and activities are being held, and people are queuing up to buy them.

A person walked out of the shop and passed by Jiang Xiao who was running.

Jiang Xiao stood still immediately.

The faces of the staff and customers in the store were blurred, only the man who rubbed against her body and even passed through her body had a clear face.

"Brother One," the clerk ran out of the store, "I didn't take the apple."

He handed the man a cloth bag full of fist-sized apples.

"Oh yes, I forgot." The man smiled, "My mother is most greedy for this."

"Boss, is your mother better?" A familiar customer asked

"It's much better, bring more fruit to supplement nutrition." The man said, "I can't get out of bed yet, I'm bored at home, I'll go back and have a look."

The fruit bag was tied tightly and hung heavily on the front of the car, and the fruits inside were round and round.The man was riding the little black tram they saw at the Changsheng Auto Repair Shop that day.

The tram started and ran towards the frozen Jiang Xiao—then passed through Jiang Xiao's body and went away.

Yu Zhou caught up with Jiang Xiao, and he followed Jiang Xiao's gaze, leaving only the back of the man riding the tram.

"……It's him?"

Yu Zhou noticed that Jiang Xiao was clenched into fists, trembling slightly.He thought Jiang Xiao was afraid, so he hurriedly said, "It's just a phantom, he can't hurt you."

Jiang Xiao bit her lower lip: "I'm happy."

She was unbearably excited. "So he...he looks like this."

Hatred suddenly had a specific target.

"Are you sure it's him?" Liu Yingnian asked.

"...It's him." Jiang Xiao was resolute.She remembered the man's build, the way he breathed, and the sickening pressure on her.Hu Weiyi, the owner of Happy Fresh Fruit, Jiang Xiao confirmed without a doubt that he was the mysterious man who attacked him.

Jiang Xiao didn't want to stay in the "birdcage" for a quarter of an hour. She hated Fu Yuncong so much that she didn't like the whole "birdcage".

After packing up the things to take away, she urged Yu Zhou to set off.

Yu Zhou has now become the core of the team, but Fan Xing and Xu Qingyuan are not there.

After questioning, I found out that these two people went to the pier, saying that they wanted to take as many useful things as possible here before leaving.

"I'll go find them." Yu Zhou said, "The dried fish was also abducted by Fan Xing, really... I'll get the dried fish back."

Seeing him leave, Jiang Xiao and Liu Yingnian looked at each other in blank dismay.

"Does he know that Fan Xing is not his sister, let alone a child?" Jiang Xiao gritted his teeth and said, "He is too easy to deceive. Fan Xing seems to know that his stomach is bad, is Yu Zhou really innocent or just pretending?"

Liu Yingnian opened his notebook, thought for a while, and asked, "Do you know what that strange thing you saw last night is?"

He drew the appearance of the monster in his notebook.

Jiang Xiao let out a long sigh.Not a single normal person in the team.Yu Zhou, Fan Xing and Yu Gan have a lot of secrets, and they refuse to reveal the origin of the monster.Xu Qingyuan exudes a dangerous smell. Jiang Xiao still can't forget that this person, as a newcomer, did not hesitate to attack Teacher Gu in Wujiao Town, and the knife directly plunged into Teacher Gu's face.

Liu Yingnian didn't give up: As an investigator, even at this time when today doesn't know what will happen tomorrow, he still devoted himself to recording everything in the "birdcage".

Jiang Xiao thought about it again: I am not much better.

"What's the use of memorizing so much?" She asked Liu Yingnian, "You, like Yu Zhou, also imagine that you can go back?"

Liu Yingnian pushed his glasses, very surprised: "Fantasy? Of course not, as I said, some people have returned to reality from the 'trap'."

Jiang Xiao was taken aback: "It's not that you fooled Yu Zhou and tried to trick him into committing suicide. Would you like to observe the impact of death?"

Liu Yingnian blushed suddenly: "No!... Well, I just didn't finish all the elements."

Jiang Xiao knelt down, looked at him at the same level, and suddenly became serious: "...Liu Yingnian, don't lie to me, someone really came back from this ghost place to...reality?"

"It's absolutely true." Liu Yingnian replied, "Although I'm just an intern who just joined the job, this is a case clearly recorded in "Ash Notes". I have read it. There is only one case in China, and it is the adventurer. The many secrets of the traps' and 'gaps' have been told to us."

On the pier, Fan Xing was playing with Aunt Hua's daughter.

After the monster incident last night, many adventurers in the city who were still able to leave have already left the "birdcage" from the station.Those who did not leave, some died in an accident here, and some were like Aunt Hua, who would not leave even if there was danger.

"I don't know what will happen to the next 'birdcage'." Aunt Hua said, "Even if there are monsters here...but didn't the monsters be beaten away by Fu Yuncong?"

Those who remained spread rumors among themselves: the monster was a product of the "Birdcage", and Fu Yuncong was strong enough to drive away the monster and protect everyone.

Although I don't know where this rumor came from, it has strengthened people's determination to stay for a long time.

"Do you know what adults are best at?" Fan Xing asked the little girl with a smile, "It's self-deception."

Yugan yawned above his head, watching Xu Qingyuan rummaging through the pile of debris on the pier from a distance.Xu Qingyuan pulled out a backpack, put two small knives in it, and quickly found a meat cleaver, he observed it for a while, and put it into the backpack.

Yugan: "...The Yu family is afraid of that person."

It grabbed Fan Xing's hair and rolled over: "Fan Xing, you swallowed Yujia's heart, and Yujia will be your fish from now on."

Fan Xing grabbed it and threw it into the puddle.Yugan poked his head out of the shallow water: "Yujia will always be with you in the future, do you love Yujia?"

Fan Xing was very annoyed: "Get lost."

Yugan: "You have me, I love you."

Fan Xing: "...I'm not sad that my mother doesn't want me. Don't comfort me, it's really annoying to listen to you."

The dried fish was swimming in the water, and the little girl watched in amazement as the water splashed out of nowhere from the empty puddle. "Who doesn't bother you to listen to? Yu Zhou?" Yugan muttered, "You like him, but you don't confess to him. His ex-boyfriend and Jiujiu... are you going to fool him like this?"

Fan Xing: "Who said I like him?"

Yugan jumped up: "My mother, you heartless dog man! You still want to eat Yu Zhou?!"

Fan Xing: "Of course, if I don't eat him, how can I get back the Notes of the Abyss."

Yugan was stunned.

Fan Xing: "Playing hard to get, you don't understand. Now I'm going to hook Yu Zhou into my hands, and let him be devoted to me. Don't make trouble."

Yugan flicked his face with water: "How many times has he protected you? You ran out now, didn't you just wait for him to come to you! You are such a scumbag! I am so dry, you are even more scumbag than me!"

Fan Xing did not refute and continued to tease the little girl.He warmed up, his personality was very pleasing, and he was too beautiful. The children couldn't tell his gender, and they said "sister."

"I'm an older brother." Fan Xing paused, "Jiujiu, I'm an older brother."

The little girl argued with him: "My name is not Jiu Jiu."

Fan Xing hugged her tightly in his arms, leaning his head on top of her head.In the distance, he saw Yu Zhou's figure, trotting over from the drizzled road.

He immediately let go of the child in his arms and stood up.

Yugan: "...so far away, he can't see you."

Fan Xing: "Shut up."

But Yu Zhou turned into Jiangmian Road.

In this city that is always full of rain, he was surprised to find that the rain had stopped over the river and the road, and a layer of light blue was faintly shadowed through the gray and white clouds.

Under the street sign on Jiangmian Road, Fu Yuncong was still there.Hong Shiyu is also still there.

Fu Yuncong stared at Hong Shiyu for a long time, the girl's youthful face filled with a good-natured smile that he was used to.

"...what?" the girl asked.

"I'll walk this road with you." Fu Yuncong said, "Now. You don't need to wait for 5 minutes."

Hong Shiyu: "Okay."

Fu Yuncong: "...I'm sorry."

The glasses covered his expression, Yu Zhou could only hear him take a deep breath and suppress his nasal voice.

"I will never forgive you." Hong Shiyu said clearly, "If you stay in the 'birdcage' for one day, you will be punished for one day. You missed the chance to save me, and you also missed the chance to save other people. If you can stop Hu Weiwei from attacking me, nothing will happen later."

She was using Hong Shiyu's voice to say what Fu Yuncong wanted to say to herself.

Fu Yuncong just nodded: "Yes."

Hong Shiyu was silent for a moment, then suddenly became happy: "Then punish you to play badminton with me. I'm very good, and I can't release water."

Fu Yuncong: "Yes."

He covered his face and kept nodding, tears dripping from his fingers.

On the way back to his partner, Yu Zhou saw the gloomy sky brighten up.

Under the sun and the blue sky, the city is bright, clean and transparent.

The cage-like "birdcage", the cage owner who can never leave.Yu Zhou was walking on the road shining brightly in the sun, and a question that he couldn't answer came to mind:

Who is the first adventurer to enter the "Gap"?

In the station, the door to the "birdcage" is never closed.Jiang Xiao snatched the cigarette from Xu Qingyuan's bag, bit it, but didn't light it.

Under the blue sky, the prosperity and decay of the city can be seen at a glance, Liu Yingnian asked her: "Aren't you really going home to take a look?"

"Fu Yuncong can't restore my home." Jiang Xiao said, "Even if he has the best memory, he has never been there."

"You can describe it to him." Liu Yingnian suggested.

"I'm sick." Jiang replied with a smile, "I'm disgusted even if I look at him more than once. Why isn't it raining? After confessing to me, I feel relieved?" She sneered, "Trash."

Yu Zhou leaned against the railing, the blue sky made him feel happy.

"Maybe it's to show you Sunny's hometown," he said.

Jiang Xiao was taken aback, and couldn't help but look up.

Before her eyes were the scenery she was familiar with. The huge city was as quiet as no man's land, and the river wind passed through the buildings made of glass curtain walls, blowing the oily green plane trees all over the city.

Jiang Xiao was the last one to walk through the door.

Stepping into the station, she didn't look back.

All have passed through the door and arrived at the new "birdcage".

In the dark "gap", there is only one lighted door left for her.Fine snow fell from the crack, and when it landed on her slightly upturned face, it immediately turned into water.

Jiang Xiao stayed in the "gap" for a long time.

When she stepped into the entrance of the "birdcage", she was already shivering slightly from the cold.

A cold wind blows in front of me, and the snowflakes hit my face.Jiang Xiao's heart felt hot, and he immediately tightened his body subconsciously: It's snow!

She didn't see her companions around, and when she looked around, she suddenly heard a sharp and long whistling in the distance.

"A newcomer!" Someone came galloping on a horse, "Run!"

The man stretched out his hand towards her immediately, Jiang Xiao hesitated for a moment, and passed the man.

A deafening sound came from behind.

"Run! Run!" She heard Yugan's familiar voice, "Avalanche!!!"

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