The kid next door looked at me on the window sill again

"The other party's mobile phone may not be with you, it is recommended to try again later"

"No reply from the other party"

The last message from Jiang Jinxing was at 06:30 in the afternoon, which was supposed to be the time when he got on the train to go home.

"There is something wrong with the lab, I may have to come back later."

How late is it to be back late?

Cen Yue was sitting by the window sill, holding a math exercise book in one hand and his cell phone in the other. He stared blankly at the time that popped up on the screen—11:19.

He has already made three video calls to Jiang Jinxing, starting at 10 o'clock, every 20 minutes, not too frequent.But anything more than three times seems to have a certain heavy color, so Cen Yue hesitated whether to dial the fourth one.

Why didn't Jiang Jinxing answer the phone?

Cen Yue's liberal arts student's thinking in doing the questions began to operate without obeying instructions. He immediately listed one, two, and three reasons in his mind, among which the top three were: [-]. Jiang Jinxing couldn't use his mobile phone because of something; [-], Jiang Jinxing didn't want to answer his call; [-], something happened to Jiang Jinxing.

The first point is the most likely, because Jiang Jinxing also said that there was a problem in the laboratory. He must be very busy now, so busy that he can’t look at his phone, and he is too busy to tell Cen Yue that he won’t be back tonight. .

Cen Yue felt as if a stone was blocked in his chest, it was so heavy that his heart would have to beat a few times more than usual, otherwise he would not be able to pump blood, and when he thought of the second point, Cen Yue felt even more out of breath.

Jiang Jinxing didn't want to answer his call.

Regarding this possibility, Cen Yue himself can provide many supporting reasons. For example, Cen Yue is very annoying and pesters Jiang Jinxing every day. Being gentle, he would not directly tell Cen Yue "don't come to me in the future", so he hinted at this by not answering the phone.

Cen Yue began to reflect on his behavior during this period: every morning he was stuck going out, just to catch a glimpse of Jiang Jinxing who came back from his morning jog on the road; he didn't tell Jiang Jinxing when his bicycle was repaired, and deliberately let him drive more Every night he dragged Jiang Jinxing to ask meaningless questions, wasting a lot of Jiang Jinxing's time, and even ate a lot of snacks and ice cream at Jiang's house...

In the end, Cen Yue came to the conclusion that he was an annoying person who didn't know what to do.

Cen Yue wanted to apologize to Jiang Jinxing immediately, and then disappear in place.

Wait, there is a third point.

Cen Yue panicked, he turned on the phone, but because his fingerprints were sweaty, he failed to unlock the phone several times, and finally had to enter the password to unlock the screen.

He quickly opened the browser, and searched for several keywords in Baidu: the high-speed rail accident from city A to city L, the death of a college student in A, the latest news in city A...

He quickly scrolled through the news, and finally stopped on a news photo of a truck collision accident. He felt that the back of one of the injured drivers was a bit familiar, as if it was Jiang Jinxing.

"Yueyue, it's already twelve o'clock, remember to go to bed early, mother went to bed first?" Cen's mother's voice came from outside the door.

"Okay." Cen Yue replied, subconsciously spreading out the math workbook in his hand.

Before he knew it, it was already twelve o'clock, Cen Yue stared at the dialog box with Jiang Jinxing on WeChat on his mobile phone, and pressed the video call again, but still no one answered after 1 minute.

He looked down at the crumpled exercise book in his hand, and suddenly felt his nose sore.

Whenever he is in a bad mood, Cen Yue will take out the math problem and do it, because there is no more pure and clear thing in this world than mathematics.The process may be tortuous and complicated, but it must be clear and seamless. Countless algorithms will eventually come down to a unique answer, which can be obtained only by thinking and calculation.

Unlike Jiang Jinxing, whose answers seemed endless, Cen Yue was doomed to fail Jiang Jinxing's subject.

Cen Yue was in a daze for a while, put away the exercise booklet, and looked at the phone again. Although he knew that he would not get a reply if he sent a message at this time, he still sent a sentence:

Why are you back?

He took one last look at the pitch-black Jiang family yard, got up and turned off the desk lamp, climbed into bed, turned off his cell phone, and let the darkness swallow him silently.

Gradually, the eyes adapted to the darkness, and the surroundings were no longer invisible.Cen Yue didn't draw the curtains, so he only needed to turn his head to see the sky lit by stars and moon outside the window.

Cen Yue stared wide-eyed and played a small game without blinking for 1 minute. He didn't know the exact time, so he could only make a rough estimate based on the number of heartbeats. When he played No. 16 times, a voice suddenly came from outside the window. There was a rustling movement.

Cen Yue didn't hesitate, he was thrown from the cold and washed to the window sill.

The voice came from the next door, and two seconds later, the lights in the next yard turned on, and a tall figure stayed in the yard for a moment, as if looking up at the direction of Cen Yue's window, and then walked into the house.

Three minutes later, Cen Yue's cell phone received a WeChat message.

"The phone suddenly ran out of power and turned off halfway, sorry for worrying you, go to bed early, see you tomorrow, Yue Yue good night."

Cen Yue always thought he couldn't fall asleep, but after seeing the news, a wave of drowsiness hit his brain, and he fell asleep almost immediately.