Ten Days End

Two days later, my deskmate's punishment of standing was finally over, and he could sit in class like other students.

I thought I would feel better when I saw him sitting in class, but it didn't happen.

It's really strange to do a bad thing. You're not happy before you do it, you're not happy when you do it, and you're not happy after you finish it.

If that's the case, why are there so many bad people in the world?

I was very afraid that they would find out that I did it, and I was afraid that I would go to jail in the future.

I endured the anxiety for a long time, and in the second class in the afternoon, the whole room suddenly shook.

The head teacher who was giving a lecture screamed heartbreakingly when the room began to shake, and her cheeks turned red. A few seconds later, she left us and ran out of the classroom as if she was escaping.

She fell every three steps, running and crawling, as if she was being chased by a man-eating tiger.

Seeing her panicked back, the classmates sitting in the shaking room looked at each other.

The teacher said that if you walked out of the classroom without her permission during class, everyone would get zero marks on the pinyin questions in the exam.

But what should we do now?

I put my hands behind my back and sat motionless on the chair, maybe until the room stopped shaking, until the teacher came back and saw that I sat straighter than other children, and praised me as a "good child".

But until cracks began to appear on the walls of the room, until the electric fan on the roof began to fall, the teacher did not come back.

The rotating electric fans began to hit the students one after another. I saw with my own eyes that the people in the first row were pressed underneath, they screamed loudly, and a lot of blood came out of their bodies.

At this time, some people finally started to stand up, and everyone realized that something was wrong.

"Zheng Yingxiong!" My deskmate pulled me, "Run! The classroom is going to collapse!"

"No... No..." I put my hands behind my back, "The teacher said..."

"Damn it! The teacher is nothing!" My deskmate pulled me up, "Zheng Yingxiong! This is called an earthquake. If you don't run, you will die!"

But I felt that I couldn't trust him. He was a bad boy. My classmates said that he came from somewhere else, and the clothes he wore every day were dirty...

While I was hesitating, the electric fan above our heads finally couldn't hold up. After a loud bang, it fell down. It was spinning and falling, which looked very scary.

My deskmate pushed me hard at the critical moment and pushed me to the ground. I just felt a heat on my face, as if something splashed over me.

I was stunned for a few seconds, and immediately stood up to check on my deskmate's situation. I found that a fan blade of the electric fan was stuck in his chest.

He sat on his back in the chair and kept twitching, and blood kept spurting out of his mouth.

"Xu Jiahua..." I walked forward with a choked voice and kept shaking him, "Xu Jiahua..."

But I didn't know what to say.

"Zheng Yingxiong... run... run..." He kept pushing me out with his dirty hands, but every time he said a word, blood spurted out of his mouth, "Damn... cough... it hurts so much..."

"I'm sorry... Xu Jiahua... I'm sorry..."

"Don't apologize... run..." He kept pushing me, "I said I would protect you... run..."

But I really wanted to apologize to him. If I didn't apologize at this time, I'm afraid I would never have another chance.

"I stole my meal ticket, Xu Jiahua, I wronged you..." I cried, "Don't die..."

"I know... I know..." He reached out and patted me, but he was sweating all over his head in pain, "It's okay, Zheng Yingxiong... run..."

But until the next second the ceiling collapsed completely, until the entire teaching building buried everyone together, I didn't understand what Xu Jiahua meant by "I know" and "It's okay".

Was he in so much pain that he couldn't hear me clearly?

Was he confused because he was about to die?

I framed him. I put the meal ticket in his desk hole.

I made him stand for two days.

But he wasn't angry. He just kept asking me to run.

But where should I run to...?

I really had nowhere to go... I didn't want to run to the street, I didn't want to do my homework under the street light, and I didn't want to go back to my house full of debris.

If I had to run... could I run back to my childhood?

I had done many things that made my parents angry. I wanted to run back to my childhood and start all over again. This time I wanted to be a good kid.

Later I realized that it was impossible for anyone to run away from this thing called an "earthquake".

Whether I ran to the street, ran back under the street light, or entered a room full of debris, I would never be able to run away

When I woke up again, I was hanging on the ceiling of a dark room with the other eight people. Our hands were tied with rubber bands and we were hanging on the ceiling like roast ducks.

What's going on?

There were three strange people standing in the room, one wearing a rabbit head mask, one wearing a tiger head mask, and one wearing a dog head mask.

There was a big machine behind the three of them, and the screen of the machine stopped at the ten-minute countdown.

"Good morning, nine of you." The rabbit-headed man spoke, "I'm glad to meet you here. You have been sleeping in front of us for twelve hours."

Is this prison?

Because I lied, I stole things, and I hurt people, so I was caught and put in prison!

If I am caught in prison... will my parents be notified?

I will be beaten.

The smell in the prison is really strong... I have been smelling a strange stench since I opened my eyes.

I have never smelled this kind of stench before, no... I should say that my nose was not so useful before.

The remaining adults seemed to say a lot, but I was so scared at the time that I don't remember anything.

"Now I need to play a game with you." The rabbit-headed man continued, "Now your arms are tied with a special rope. As long as you are strong enough or rub a little with your nails, you can break free from the bondage of the special rope. Once someone successfully escapes, the countdown behind me will start moving, and the total time is ten minutes. You need to find a way to get the key to this room within ten minutes."

After speaking, he pointed to the wooden door in the corner of the room: "If someone tries to knock on the door, we will impose "sanctions" on the door knocker here."

"Where is the key?" A middle-aged uncle asked.

At this time, I looked at the few people who were hanging in the air with me, and found that except for a young sister, the rest seemed to be very old, either uncles or aunts.

"The key is in the well. "The bunny man walked to a corner of the room and pointed. I then discovered that there was a round hole there.

"You can send someone down to bring up the key." The bunny man continued, "If you descend five meters, you can get five gas masks, and if you descend ten meters, you can get the key to escape. How you want to survive depends on your ability."