Chapter 3

After leaving the train station, Li Banfeng got on the subway.

Taking a taxi from school to the station only takes half an hour.

Taking the subway from the station back to school takes more than an hour.

Li Banfeng lived in Dormitory 6, which wasn't close to the school gate. When he walked downstairs to the dormitory, the gatekeeper looked at Li Banfeng, raised his eyebrows, and asked: "You haven't left yet?"

Li Banfeng turned up the corners of his mouth, gave the old man a wooden smile, and went straight up the stairs.

The school hasn't issued a notice to kick people out yet; is it any of your business whether I leave or not?

Graduates live on this floor, and the building is silent; it's estimated that most people have left.

Li Banfeng went to the sixth floor and entered the dormitory; the room was pitch black.

According to the rules, the lights-out time for the dormitory is 11:00, and it's not even 9:00 yet, but the old man turned off the lights.

The dormitory manager is quite good at saving electricity for the school.

Everyone in the dormitory has left; those who found jobs went to report, and those who didn't went home to squat.

He Yuxiu didn't find a job, so he took his girlfriend home to squat.

Now only Li Banfeng is left in the dormitory.

Li Banfeng couldn't find a job because he had a history of mental illness.

He was also homeless; it was impossible to move back to the orphanage.

How will life go on from now on?

Should I go back to the construction site to move bricks?

Thinking of his bright future, Li Banfeng's brows relaxed, the corners of his mouth turned up, and he smiled.

This time it was emotional instability; no one could be stable in this situation.

There's a job fair tomorrow; let's go try our luck again.

Tonight, I'm the only one in the dormitory; at least I can have a good sleep.

Li Banfeng went to the public restroom to take a cold shower and was about to get into bed to play with his phone when he suddenly remembered something: he had to call He Yuxiu.

What if he really peed his pants?

What if he caught a cold because of peeing his pants and then got sick? That would be terrible.

The call went through, rang for a long time, but no one answered.

He really fell asleep.

Li Banfeng called again, it rang for a long time, and finally, the call was answered.

"Banfeng..." He Yuxiu's low, hoarse voice came from the phone; it looked like he hadn't woken up yet.

"Jiaqing, get up and pee!"

He Yuxiu's voice was very confused: "Pee? Pee where? Where is this..."

Where is this?

You really sleep soundly!

Li Banfeng didn't say much, hung up the phone, and in the pitch-black dormitory, fumbled to climb the ladder to get into bed.

Just as he climbed to the bedside, Li Banfeng discovered that his quilt was bulging, as if someone was wrapped inside.

Someone is wrapped in my quilt?

Is it really a person?

Li Banfeng lifted the quilt.

It really is a person!

That person was lying with his face toward the wall, back to Li Banfeng, without a sound.

Who is sleeping in my bed?

A smell of alcohol hit his nose; this person seemed to have drunk too much.

Even if you drink too much, you can't just find a bed and sleep!

"Get up! Who are you? Get up for me!" Li Banfeng pushed the person, but the person didn't react at all.

The curtains weren't drawn, and the moonlight shone on the bed, dimly revealing the person's blurry figure.

Li Banfeng suddenly felt that this figure was somewhat familiar.

He grabbed the person's shoulder and turned him over. When he saw the person's face, Li Banfeng almost fell off the ladder.

It's He Yuxiu!

An hour and a half ago, Li Banfeng had just seen He Yuxiu off at the station.

And now he is actually sleeping in my bed!

"Jiaqing, what's wrong with you? Jiaqing, wake up..."

Pushing He Yuxiu and shaking him a few times, Li Banfeng suddenly pulled his hand back.

No!

I just called He Yuxiu; isn't he on the train? Shouldn't he be going to pee?

He Yuxiu is sleeping here, so who answered the phone just now?

The hair on his body stood up one by one, and the stuffy dormitory suddenly became much cooler.

Is this really Jiaqing?

Li Banfeng turned on the flashlight on his phone and shone it on the person's face on the bed for a long time.

It really is He Yuxiu!

This is his best brother in university; Li Banfeng would never recognize him wrong.

Thump!

Li Banfeng fell off the ladder and knocked over the wastebasket on the floor.

He stood up calmly, picked up the wastebasket, and quickly left the dormitory.

Closing the door, leaning against the corridor wall, Li Banfeng stood silently.

The voltage was unstable, and the dim yellow lights in the corridor kept flickering.

Li Banfeng forced himself to calm down, took out his phone, and called He Yuxiu again.

The receiver was suffocatingly quiet. After more than ten seconds, a woman's voice came:

"Hello, the number you dialed is temporarily unavailable."

After dialing several times in a row, the call still couldn't get through.

Call Lu Xiaolan?

Li Banfeng didn't have Lu Xiaolan's phone number; he didn't have much contact with Lu Xiaolan usually.

There was no sound in the corridor; it seemed that everyone on this floor had left.

Li Banfeng looked back at the dormitory door, wondering what to do next.

Is the person lying on the bed really He Yuxiu?

Just now he was convinced he hadn't seen it wrong, but now he was a little unsure.

Go back and check again?

Are you crazy? If you want to go back, you have to find a helper on another floor first!

Where can I find a helper now?

If it really doesn't work, call the dormitory manager up.

What's the use of calling him up? He won't be able to help and will only make things worse.

Might as well go back and check myself!

Li Banfeng was arguing with himself.

According to a normal person's way of thinking, you definitely can't go back to the dormitory alone now.

But Li Banfeng is not normal.

He went to the hospital to check; he wasn't crazy, but his mental state wasn't quite normal.

He slightly turned up the corners of his mouth, revealing a smile.

He was emotionally unstable, but he was in a very good mood.

He used a special method to stabilize himself.

For the situation that just happened, he gave himself a reasonable explanation.

Hallucination, it must be a hallucination!

I have a mental illness, and occasionally seeing hallucinations is a very reasonable thing.

I'll just walk back to the dormitory like this; as long as I keep a clear consciousness, I will definitely not see He Yuxiu again.

Li Banfeng opened the door with a smile and walked back.

Hallucination, it's all a hallucination.

The closer he got to the bed, the stronger the smell of alcohol became, as if warning Li Banfeng that this was not a hallucination.

Li Banfeng climbed the ladder again, raised his phone, and looked at his bed.

He Yuxiu was lying on the bed, eyes closed, face pale.

Li Banfeng patted He Yuxiu's face; it was hot.

He tried He Yuxiu's breathing again; there was still breathing, but it was very weak and intermittent.

Getting off the ladder, Li Banfeng decisively called the emergency number.

After clarifying the location and situation, Li Banfeng hung up the phone and waited quietly for the ambulance to arrive.

He stood under the bed, with He Yuxiu, who didn't know where he came from, lying on the bed.

The two of them kept silent in the same dormitory.

Click-clack~

The notification sound broke the silence in the dormitory.

It was sent by He Yuxiu.

He was sure that the He Yuxiu in front of him couldn't send a message.

But he did receive a message from He Yuxiu.

The message only had four words.

"Banfeng, save me!"

PS: The doctor said that after finishing this chapter, I can be discharged.

I think he's lying to me, so I decided to write another chapter.

(End of chapter)