Walking from the laboratory building to the south gate of the school, the two of them walked together, and the gentlemanly student who was very considerate slightly tilted the umbrella to her side.
It was raining heavily, and the two should have been closer together, but he was extraordinarily modest, and gave her a more central position, and he was on the side of the corner—
Even if my sleeves are about to get wet from the rain.
"Senior sister, I heard that you are going to continue your PhD?"
Instead of silence between the two, he started trying to talk to her.
Yun Si looked at him, smiled slightly, and nodded, "How do you know?"
He was a little embarrassed, "It's just that I accidentally heard the chat between you and Ning Xuan, senior sister, and I overheard the doctor you were talking about...but I didn't mean to—"
As if afraid that she might misunderstand, he quickly added an explanation, "I just happened to pass by accidentally, and then heard it."
"..." Yun Si raised her brows, looked at his obviously nervous face, smiled, and her tone became gentle and friendly, "Don't be nervous, I don't know how to eat people."
Probably because she was used to being cold and alone in the laboratory on weekdays, and rarely had contact with these juniors, so they were afraid of her and spoke cautiously.
It was raining heavily, she glanced at him who was about to withdraw from the umbrella, stretched out her hand, and gently pulled him in.
Just touched it, and he felt as if he was burned in an instant, "School—Sister—"
But at this moment, it seems that the senior sister's attention is not on him anymore.
Just a polite tug, she withdrew her hand, and originally wanted to say something, but suddenly, her eyes passed him and fixed on somewhere in the distance.
"Sister?" The innocent boy under the same umbrella with her whispered.
Follow her gaze—and see nothing.
It was raining heavily, and there was no one else on the school road except them.
Senior is looking at...
"It's okay." Her calm and gentle voice drew his gaze back, as if the moment just now was just her distraction.
"What did you just say?" She didn't listen carefully.
The two walked towards the direction outside the south gate together, one tall and one short, walking slowly.
"..." She laughed, "Are you still stuttering when you're not nervous?"
"...Ah... Is there... Is there? Just... I don't stutter now..."
Soon, the figures of the two disappeared outside the south gate.
Under the hazy heavy rain, the rain washed the ginkgo trees on the side of the road, and the low shrubs were drenched and their heads bowed, "Patta Pata—" with heavy branches and leaves.
It was white and misty, and the rain was cold, like fog but not fog.
The sky flashed, and the thunder shook the ground.
In the unknown place just now, amidst the hidden sound of the heavy rain, a shadow appeared faintly.
Humanoid, vaguely humanoid.
With a strong sense of alienation that makes people want to scream and fear, it is cold, quiet and suffocating.
It exists there, like an abyss, like darkness, like a void, a universe that is constantly collapsing and compressing.
Here it comes, again.
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"Senior, see you tomorrow—"
Walking to the door of the convenience store, before Yun Si could react, an umbrella was stuffed in her hand.
The schoolboy who smiled shyly along the way gave her the umbrella and ran away. Drenched in heavy rain, he ran to the bus stop not far away.
"Sister can return the umbrella to me tomorrow, I'll leave first, bye-"
Yun Si: "Hey you—"
She was dumbfounded.
It’s not that it’s okay to send her to the convenience store as agreed, but she can just buy an umbrella herself, why does he still—