Water Ghosts
Waterman.
“Ha, ha, ha, ha…”
I closed my eyes and let Tangzawa push my head into the water again and again. He used to be full of laughter like a jade, as if he had been crushed by something. There was a moment when there was a red red in my head, and there was only one goldfish swimming around in the red, and the bubble eyes of the goldfish drums were shaking, as if they would explode at any moment.
Whoo-hoo-hoo! “I struggled to come out of the water, and Tangzawa’s laughter drifted further and further away, and gradually disappeared at the end of my hearing, and I felt my body was as light as nothing, as if there was only one head running around.
I’m going to turn around and yell at Tangsawa this time, but I can’t believe I’m in the water again. Until then, I realized that I was locked up in an ancient water cell, surrounded by water all over my chest, and that the air was filled with toilet plugs that smelled like a stench. I climbed up on the board of wood that had just settled in, squeezed my eyebrow, and my memory was pulled back.
Tangzawa has tortured me for half the summer. Why? Just because I refused to help him cheat on the exam, he got first in the whole class. So, at the beginning of the summer vacation, he knocked on my house with his father’s face in humility and asked me to help him with his studies during the holiday.
“You have to learn at home, but now you’re just learning together. “Mom says she’s got 30 bucks a day in the drawer under the dresser.”
But in fact, Tangzawa bought my self-esteem in the name of “skilling” at a price of $30 a day. The summer vacation became my nightmare, and although I knew that the only thing I could do to go to his house every day was to be humiliated, I had to go, because the “compensation fee” had been included in the next term’s living expenses.
Tangzawa’s favorite game was to drag me to the reservoir near the school, to press me in the water for the first time, he called it “brainwashing” and he thought my head was dirty.
He knows I fear the water most. And when we were friends, We told him that when I was seven years old, I was dragged to the bottom by a pair of deep green hands, and almost became a double of a water ghost.
Oh right, ghost.
In the afternoon, Tangsawa got tired of the old “brainwashing” trick and came up with new ideas. He pulled me all the way to school and locked me in the abandoned lab behind the school building.
“Hey, aren’t you afraid of ghosts? It’s July 15th. Shut the door and you can talk to the ghost here. “Come on, Tang Ze learned a few things outside the door and left laughing.
Yes, this is the lab!
At this point, I am fully conscious of the fact that the labs were originally piled up in a wall of broken tables and chairs floating all over the water. The windows had been broken long ago, and all three windows had been sealed in the “m” position in order to prevent thieves or naughty students from sneaking in. From the suture of iron bars, it is hidden that there is also an ocean outside the windows, with a yellow sky and a yellow mud, and a dead cat drifting through the windows.
I remember two days ago, on TV, it was said that there might be heavy rain due to the typhoon…
I’m hurt, I’m supposed to have a broken bone on my left ankle, and I can’t do it with my hands on my ankle; at the same time, my back of my head is sore, my hands are all dirty. Maybe I just lost consciousness when I was hurt in the back of my head, and if it hadn’t happened to be on a broken table, I’d have drowned.
I don’t know how long I’ve been in a coma, but it’s probably the morning or noon of the next day, in terms of water levels and water trends.
The one-person table was used in the school, so it wasn’t big. And I took off my shoes, and took out two shoelaces together, and tied the tableboard to myself, and then tried to swim towards the door.
The window was sealed, and the lock in the lab was the old-fashioned lock, and I remember when Tangsawa pushed a little hard, the broken lock broke. There was no one at the summer school, and this house was more biased, and he didn’t expect anyone to help me, so he left with a barbed wire and a lock. At this moment, the door is covered in water, and it must be under a strong wind or water pressure, and the wire is loose.
My water is very poor, and I have never been in water since the accident when I was seven, so I swim very slowly, and whenever my calves touch a waste plastic bag or something else, I can’t help but cry, and then stop and figure out what’s underneath my feet. A snake bites for ten years, and when he was a child, his green and dark hands were rooted in my nightmare and never left.
Just as I could barely swim to the door, people’s voices came out of nowhere.
“Have you looked this way? I’m sorry.
“I looked, no!”
“What about over there? I’m sorry.
Neither!
“Tangsawa, go to the waste lab! I’m sorry.
“Yes! I’m on my way!”
The sound of water prowling out of the window came closer, and through the cracks of the iron bar, I saw a small inflating boat floating on the surface of the water, with a colourful, cartoon clown pattern. The clown’s bloodbath was on the bar by the window, and Tangzawa was down and he blinked on my face.
“Dangsawa, help me!” I hit the surface hard.
Tangsawa noded his head and shouted, “There’s no one at the lab! I’m sorry.
The people from afar said, ‘How can there be anyone in the school after summer vacation? I’m sorry.
“Tomzawa, you’re such an asshole! You’re not a human!” I thought he was just a naughty man. I didn’t know his heart was so vicious.
The Joker inflatable ship slowly drifted away, and Tangzawa said to the others, “Don’t look for it, the storm is coming again!” I’m sorry.
“Tangzawa, wait! When I get out, I’ll definitely show you! “I swam to the door and pulled the door, but I couldn’t, as if something was stuck behind the door. It is also not clear what it is because of the insufficiency of water and the dimness of light. So I shook the door back and forth, and by the floating force of the water, it was finally loosed, and a piece of meat came up, and it was in front of the door.
It’s a corpse!
The clouds were crushing, and the wind was slamming on the roof with rain beads, and the whole world fell into a storm. I was facing the corpse at the door, and he was wearing only a four-angle underpants with a green and flower pattern, with his head lying down on the surface of the water, and when he went up and down in the water, he could have seen the blood of the forehead, and it was probably in his sleep that the house fell down, and the body came down.
This is the last chance. If this rain rains one more night, the water will rise to the roof and I’ll die.
I’m sorry, I’ll burn you some more money “I put my hands together and bowed to him, and then I closed my eyes and pulled the body away, and went to the outside.
Who knows what I hit when I walked out the door.
Shit! The giant tablet, which had been raised on the roof of the school building, fell at some point and stood in the door. The tablet is heavy metal, and it cannot be moved.
The tablet was originally marked with the words “second school building” and, at the moment, the dark red word “second” was right in front of the door, like two pieces of blood lips of a monster, eating away my hopes.
Suddenly, someone shot me in the back.
I turned my back and saw when the body was turned over, as he was slamming on his face, slamming at water and hitting me gently.
“Aah–” I’m hysterically screaming, desperate, helpless, and the world is in darkness.
I feel like a butterflies with their wings on them, and I can’t shake my feet out of my destiny.
“Come on, come on, come on.” There’s a voice coming out of the dark.
I ran so hard I wanted to stay away from that voice. All of a sudden, a pair of ink green hands were stretched out under the water, a strong finger pierced into my leg, strangling the muscles on my leg and pulling down.
I was dragged into the water by those hands, even though I saw people moving on the water, but I was unable to make a sound for help.
“Ahem! Ahem! * I swayed my head out of my sleep, forced myself to stay awake, and the sting of my calves continued. I looked down with a tap of water and said to myself, * It was not a water ghost, it was a leg cramp, it was not a ghost * * I took a deep breath and tried to keep my body * * I was trying to keep my body * * I was trying to keep my head * I was pulling it in the direction of my toes, and the pain was finally eased.
Heavy rains continued and the water level had risen to the shoulder.
And We took off the tableboards on my body, and then we found one of the same sizes, folded them up and down, and tied them together with the two shoelaces, so that I could barely leave the water and sit on it for a moment.
The body floated to the window, up and down, and hit the rice bar, as if it was looking for a way out.
I fear him, but it is only because I fear him that I should stare at him without blinking, so that I may remain as far away from him as I can at any time.
I do not know how long I have been asleep, and I wake up late at night and the rain stops, but the night sky is still unknown. The water level has grown again, the doors of the lab have been completely flooded, and I cannot sit like I did before, but I can only bow to the table.
It’s too dark around, I don’t know where the body was floating, maybe by the window, or by the door, or right next to me, behind me …
“Are you hungry? In the dark, there’s a low voice.
♪ La la la la la ♪ I’m a newspaper salesman, running in the streets in a storm… . . . . . . . . . . . I’ve been singing all the time with a groaning voice in an attempt to crush that terrible voice.
“Stop singing, will you? It’s like it’s in my ear.
“It’s been raining, it’s not nice…” And I’m covering my ears and singing.
“You really pick songs. * The sound went right into my head, and instead of driving away fear, it made me more afraid *
All right, I’m done. I’m scolding. Scolded him for being cold, he for being idle, he for being unfaithful! Then I started to curse him with all my foul words, curse him, curse him to death, die in hell, and never be more alive!
There was a good time between me and Tangzawa. We used to hang out every day, play girls together, bully kids together, go to the game hall after school and beat zombies, and then get yelled at the next day for failing to finish our homework. As long as we’re together and we’re happy, even if we’re standing together, we can laugh and watch our classmates spit.
Later, perhaps because of my father’s sudden death, I lost my temper of deviance, and my relationship with Tangsai became increasingly distant. But before this summer, there was nothing between us that made each other hate, but fate, and we embarked on a different life, and nature reduced it.
I became a good child in everyone’s eyes, trying hard, understanding and piety, while Tangzawa was still so unpainted, his grades were so bad and his character was getting worse. In addition to squeezing a girl’s breast, he was bullying a boy with good grades. In any case, he became more and more distasteful, even the teacher had abandoned him, so long as he did not disturb the order of the classroom, even if he was sleeping or reading yellow comics during school.
And when the sky was bright, We cried at it with dry tongues and ears, and We were exhausted.
With a gray light, I looked around — the body was gone!
This cannot be thought of, seeing is more alarming than seeing. I worked so hard to scratch the table under my head, looking for his tracks in a stinking water full of junk as if he was my lover who had been missing for years.
And yet, the table board dipped slightly, and a white, swollen arm came out of the table, and the middle finger of the hand seemed to have been crushed by something, and only one skin outside was attached to the palm of the hand, perhaps at first because his middle finger was caught in the door stitch, so his body was stuck to the water of the door.
Damn, I don’t know how he got under the table!
I screamed and pressed the table, trying to shake him out of his body, and in a violent shaking, the middle finger of the “split wire line” fell down, and the drums swollen on the water, like a full sausage.
Sausage! Oh no! This metaphor is disgusting.
At last, he fell reluctantly from the table where I was living, staring at me with swollen eyes.
Get out! I grabbed a broken leg, stabbed him, pushed him far away. But for a little while, he came to me with the wind leaking through the windows, with a little bit of water, so slowly and pretended that I couldn’t take a nap.
“Are you thirsty?”
“Growth. I’m sorry.
“Then drink. “Tangsai pours a light yellow liquid into my mouth, and a stinky stench goes straight into my head, and Tangsai’s face fades away, and I find myself crawling on the table and drinking the sewage underneath.
What am I doing? I’m snorting, I’m snorting, I’m squirting.
What happened to the body? In no time will I become a juicy corpse like him, and I’m not so afraid of him when I think about it.
It doesn’t matter when the water rises again, and now I have to crawl on the table without moving, and his broken underpants somehow tie the nail under the table, so I have to let him snort with his stinking mouth.
In a situation where the rain is still raining and there is only one wide-finger gap between the water and the top of the window, hope becomes something worse than hell. I turned over and said to the body, “I can’t believe I spent the last minute of my life with a stinking, rotten corpse. I’m sorry.
The body shuddered twice, smugly and smiled at me.
I can’t climb on the table anymore.
As the water level climbed, I had to re-immerse myself in the water, grab the table board and barely put my head on the water. The water has flooded the windows and there is not much air left in the laboratory.
The body’s face was close to the roof, and every time it moved, it scratched off some rotting flesh.
It’s just that I didn’t do it, I confessed. I said to him, “Let’s be company. I’m sorry.
When I was about to let go of my hand and give up my struggle for death, there was a sudden noise coming out.
“Big Road Head, Big Road Head, Are you alive?” The guy called me Tangzawa’s voice.
“Live! I’m alive! * I shouted out loud, but I was not sure he could hear.*
“The Road Head”? “The water will soon flood the roof and be dead.” I’m sorry.
What does he mean? Did he come here just to make sure I wasn’t dead?
Tangzawa! You’re not fucking human! Didn’t I ask you to copy it? And you’re going to kill me?” I swam to the window, grab a rice bar, and try to lean on my head.
It seems like Tangzawa did not hear me. He took a breath and said, “Oh, how great are you?” All these years of friends have been unhelpful. You know what? The class director spoke to me, saying that if this final exam doesn’t work, the school won’t let me take it next year because I’m afraid I’m going to slow down. I’m sorry.
“I’ll give you a copy. Can I give you a hundred? You’ve got the guts! I’m sorry.
“Hey, Road Head, how can you pretend to be?” To be a good child, I’m afraid you’ll remember me and you. You’re so dirty! Don’t think I don’t know. You used to say bad things to my classmates and put all the bad things we did together on my own. I’m sorry.
“What do you mean you’re on your own? It was all your idea! I’m sorry.
“That’s just it, I admit it. I’m so thick and ugly! But are you kidding me? I didn’t do anything to be sorry for you. Why did you frame me for ruining her? Don’t you know she’s my goddess? If it weren’t for you, maybe we’d be together by now! I’m sorry.
“How can Liu Mei-jun like you? You’re a gangster! How can you deserve Liu Mei-soon? I’m sorry.
“Hello? Do you like Liu Mi-ryu too? I’m sorry.
“What do you care if I like it or not? And I say: Is it because of this you are going to kill me? Tomzawa, you are a murderer!
“What would I do if I killed you? How dare you sue me? No one saw me put you in a lab, and everyone would think you died in this disaster! So what if you learn well? All your life means is to add a death to the news of Typhoon. I’m sorry.
“Tomzawa, I’ll never let you go! I grabbed the iron bars of the window so hard I couldn’t control it.
“Don’t wait, I’ll kill you! * I’m pulling through the sheets, opening my eyes, and I find myself lying in a hospital, and my mother is sitting around in red eyes. *
“Tangzawa is dead. “Mom takes my hand.
Dead? I’m sorry.
“Poor child…” Mother caressed my forehead. “When rescue teams rescued you from the school lab, they found a rotting body there. I’m sorry.
“How? I’m sorry.
Mom groaned and said: “When the storm came that night, he was seen running all the way to the school, and he must have rushed to save you. He was said to have only a pair of underwear and not even clothes. I’m sorry.
Yeah, and the body was wearing only a pair of underwear, a white, tan-tied cartoon.
“Good death! He’s the one who got me locked in there! ”I say that, but I can’t say it.
“Forgive him,” Mama whispered, “Didn’t the boy go after you?” And for saving you, he was hit in the head by a tablet, unconscious in the water and drowned. You know what? The rescue team was able to find you because they saw a finger floating in the water near the lab, which was from Tangzawa. When they infiltrated the lab, they found that you were holding the bars on the window with your last will, facing your face. And the body floats around you, floats up and down the water wave, gently leans over your back of your head, so that your face closes to the only gap between the water and the roof, or else you will die. I’m sorry.
“No! Impossible! When I was trapped in the water, the rescue team was here. I’m sorry.
“The storm washed down all the roads, the reservoirs near the school broke down, and there was no way for the rescue team to get there until yesterday when you were rescued…” Mother held me in her arms and whispered, “Poor child… poor child…”
I guess Mom thought I was out of my mind.
When the water fell, I found those two straps in the lab. I want to take them home as a memorial table. I swam the mud on the surface, but I see a line on one of the tables, and it’s crooked, it’s shallow, it’s like it’s on a nail, and it’s probably impossible to find it without a close look.
“Forgive me, Zee. The dog’s crawling font is definitely Tangzawa’s.
I suddenly realized… why I was so lucky to fall on a broken table after I lost consciousness with my head wound.
I close my eyes and remember, one by one, what happened when I was trapped, every coma, every waking up, every mental discomfort, every loss of will, every conversation that was true and false…
Others said that it was a miracle of life that I could survive six days and six nights in that situation.
But I know that it wasn’t me who made the miracle, it was Tangzawa.
After all, we used to be stenching best friends, what I am, what I fear most, what I hate the most, how I inspire my fight… he knew best.
Maybe you can go back to the first page and see what Tangzawa did for me, and then you’ll understand that he did everything he could.
I couldn’t have survived without Tangzawa’s body.
[END]
I don’t know.
Keep your eyes on the road.
