This page looks best with JavaScript enabled
Chapter 1 The Journey
Urgent notice: This site has replaced the new domain name m.dmwx.org. Please re-add to the collection, the original cached page needs to be refreshed repeatedly!
This day should have been the same as the past seven thousand days.
A rain a few days ago pushed the already low temperature down a bit again. The morning fog that pervaded the airport was illuminated by the lights in a grayish-white halo.
The sky is not yet clear, and on the cold gray sky, there is no starlight, nor the dawn.
Qin Wenyu, dressed in black casual clothes and dragging a suitcase, stood outside the airport, almost blending in with the surrounding black environment.
"Huh...you're crazy," Zhang Lu shrank his neck and gasped, "I thought you were joking when you said you were going to Japan, but you're actually here!"
Qin Wenyu looked at him - his only friend and best friend, Zhang Lu.
He was neither tall nor short, neither fat nor thin, wearing a gray down jacket, shaved to a slender inch, unlike himself, his hair was long and messy, and he looked gloomy.
Zhang Lu is positive, likes sports, loves life, and everything is good except for bad grades.
"You don't need to follow." Qin Wenyu glanced behind Zhang Lu.
"Oh, do you speak Japanese?" Zhang Lu glanced at him and asked proudly.
"meeting."
Qin Wenyu replied calmly.
Zhang Lu was stunned for a while, he knew the character of his friend, this person never joked, as long as he said it, it was usually true.
But where did this kid learn Japanese? He can't be the same as me, right?
Zhang Lu muttered to himself.
"Street!"
The call from behind made Zhang Xiaolu agitated, "Hey!"
Zhang Lu turned around with a smile, a girl in white who was half a head shorter than him was standing under the gray light across the road, he pulled the girl across the road and talked for a while, when the two came over, he said to Qin Wenyu: " Don't get me wrong, I'm not worried about you, Lingling wants to see the snow, and the two of us plan to go to Hokkaido to see the snow."
Qin Wenyu gave Li Ling a slight nod as a greeting.
This girl is Zhang Lu's girlfriend and his classmate.
"Hey, where are you going?"
Zhang Lu asked Qin Wenyu aloud when he saw Qin Wenyu was dragging the box to go.
"Toilet."
Qin Wenyu glanced back at him: "Also, this plane is for Tokyo."
Zhang Lu stiffened his neck: "First go to Tokyo to see the Eiffel Tower, and then go to Hokkaido to see the snow, can't you?"
Qin Wenyu left without looking back.
Li Ling pulled Zhang Lu's sleeve and whispered, "Xiao Lu, the Eiffel Tower is in Paris, and the Sky Tree in Tokyo..."
"It's all the same, as long as you understand what I mean."
While talking, Zhang Lu dragged his luggage and entered the airport.
Li Ling glanced in Qin Wenyu's direction, followed Zhang Lu, and asked in a low voice, "Xiao Lu, actually, I've always wanted to ask...how did you make friends? Classmate Qin...has such a strange personality."
Zhang Lu held Li Ling's shoulders with one hand, and said enthusiastically, "You think he's weird too, don't you? Once I asked him, if I fell into the river and almost drowned, and he couldn't swim, what would he do?" How to save me. Guess how he answered?"
"How did you answer?" Li Ling looked at him suspiciously.
"He said... he would use everything around him to rescue him, and if it didn't work, he would watch me drown, and use it to warn people who can't swim not to play around in the water... Interesting! "Zhang Lu said more and more vigorously.
"Didn't he say he went into the water to save you?" Li Ling asked.
"I asked the same question!" Zhang Lu glanced in the direction of Qin Wenyu, who was no longer visible, "But he said that if a person who can't swim goes into the water to save others, the probability of two people dying together is infinitely close to 100%. I thought about it , seems to be the truth.”
"But... in order to maintain the friendship between friends, even if it is a fact, it doesn't need to be so naked..." Li Ling became more and more incomprehensible, "Student Qin was very popular when he first entered the school, but gradually, everyone found that he was very popular. Strange, he... is too rational..."
"Have it?"
Zhang Lu muttered.
"Also... why do you ask classmate Qin such a question? Shouldn't I ask you this kind of question?"
Li Ling's eyes became sharper.
"what?"
...
It was very cold today, although it was raining, but at this moment, Qin Wenyu felt extraordinarily cold.
He washed his face and looked at himself in the mirror.
Fine hair, gray-black pupils, high nose bridge, drooping corners of the mouth, combined with pale complexion, constituted a slightly gloomy face.
He just looked at the mirror like this, and he in the mirror looked at Qin Wenyu like this.
"Sir, don't look too long at yourself in the mirror."
A strange sound broke the silence of the bathroom.
Qin Wenyu didn't look back, he saw the man behind him through the mirror.
This man was about forty years old, wrapped in a black down jacket, and carried a big gray backpack on his shoulders. From his eyebrows to his temples, he could see a strong sense of fatigue.
"The old man said that the person in the mirror will take away the soul of the person. The longer you look at it, the more unfamiliar you will feel to yourself in the mirror, and even... fear."
He spoke strange Chinese, speaking to Qin Wenyu.
"This is the dual effect of Gestalt collapse and uncanny valley effect." Qin Wenyu turned around and said, "Looking at a Chinese character for a long time, it will become unfamiliar, and the same is true for looking at the face in the mirror for a long time."
"A humanoid, strange, identical face is the best choice to trigger the uncanny valley effect."
The middle-aged man was startled and shook his head: "I really hope... everything can be explained by science..."
He leaves the bathroom.
This is a Japanese.
Qin Wenyu watched his back, and suddenly noticed something.
No wonder...it feels extraordinarily cold today.
Since arriving at the airport, the colors in the surroundings are all black, white, and gray.
Clothes, suitcases, floors, compartments... Even the lights in the airport seemed to be covered with a faint gray.
Dark, low, depressed, like the world in a silent film.
Is it a coincidence?
Qin Wenyu glanced down at her black casual clothes and pants.
He pulled the suitcase and left the bathroom, the plane was about to take off.
Contrary to what Zhang Lu thought, going to Japan was not a temporary intention.
His father, Qin Ye, the man who made his life a mess, has not sent postcards to China for half a year.
In other words, Qin was also missing.
Moreover, such a disappearance seems to have been expected by the irresponsible person.
"If you don't receive a postcard from Japan for more than half a year, go to Japan immediately."
Qin also said the same.
When Qin Wenyu asked why, Qin also hung up the phone.
This was the last call between father and son.
Qin Wenyu dragged her suitcase and came to the terminal when she saw Zhang Lu pulling Li Ling and waving to herself at the boarding gate.
Behind the two was the Japanese man in his forties just now.
He was walking slowly in the direction of the plane, his pale face reflected on the black glass.
He walked slowly, the thick down jacket didn't seem to keep him warm - he was shivering slightly.
Is there something terrible waiting for him ahead?
Maybe... fear of heights.
Qin Wenyu looked back and walked over.