Part 5
[What to do if I feel like I have persecution mania? Nowhere is safe.]
[Is there no hope for me if I don’t even have a friend to talk to?]
[Chinese New Year is coming soon. Anyone want to partner up? PS: No men.]
Wen Rong thought of the “holidays” Zhou Xie mentioned, and instantly felt the other person’s profound loneliness.
He exited the homepage and saw the latest message sent by the kitten avatar.
[That kid is very pitiful. He was always bullied in the orphanage. Later, he finally got adopted, but within a year, he was returned because the adoptive mother got pregnant.]
[I left in a hurry. I don’t know what his situation is now.]
[135xxxxxxx This is my mobile number. Is it convenient for you to call me? Some things aren’t convenient to say on Blue Book.]
Wen Rong: [Okay.]
Wen Rong keenly sensed a strangeness in the other party’s words, but making a phone call didn’t seem too difficult. He still took out his phone and dialed.
The other side picked up immediately. “Hello, is this Wen Rong? I’m the one who just messaged you.”
It was a woman. In the background, there were animal cries, sounding like chickens.
“Hello.”
“It’s really you. Thank you for calling me.”
Listening to her voice, the woman sounded like she was about to cry.
“I escaped from human traffickers back then. I can’t go back. If I go back and get caught, they’ll beat me to death. There was a child…”
The woman choked up completely. “There was a kid who helped me escape back then. I don’t know how he is. If he was discovered, it’s very likely…”
Speaking to this point, the woman was sobbing so hard she couldn’t articulate any more words.
Wen Rong frowned, harboring some doubts in his heart, but he suppressed them. “It’s okay, take your time speaking.”
“That child… that child was actually my younger brother. He was only 10 at the time.”
“How long have you been separated?”
“13 years.”
“…”
That would be someone five years older than himself.
Wen Rong: “Then he should have left the orphanage. I might not be able to find him.”
“If you see him, help me give the money to him. If you don’t see him then…” A pause, the woman’s voice choked with sobs. “Then… then forget it.”
Wen Rong was just about to say he probably wouldn’t go back, but could ask someone to check the orphanage registry to see if her brother was still there, when the woman spoke again. “Wen Rong, you’re really so amazing. You could leave that place openly and above board, and even… even…”
Wen Rong: “If you need other help from me, I can help you to the best of my ability.”
“I…”
“It’s okay, take your time. In the future, whenever you feel lonely, you can send messages directly to this number. I’ll reply when I see them.”
Wen Rong knew he shouldn’t treat a person of unknown origin like this, but seeing those notes on her homepage, he felt a sense of resonance and pity.
So he convinced himself. simply acting as a listener for a netizen shouldn’t lead to anything bad.
“You are really… too good. Just like they say online.”
The woman sobbed. “I… I have something here. I want to send it to you.”
“What is it?” Wen Rong was slightly alert.
“You’ll know when you look. I… help me keep it safe. Maybe it will be useful in the future.”
“Okay.”
Although Wen Rong said okay, he actually opened Lin Qizheng’s chat window.
[Senior, a netizen wants to send me something. Can you help me check if there’s a virus?]
The message went out and received an immediate reply.
Lin Qizheng: [Don’t even accept things sent by netizens. It’s definitely a virus to steal your phone information.]
Wen Rong felt it wasn’t good to trouble Lin Qizheng further.
Actually, he had a slightly strange feeling.
The woman mentioned many terrifying words: “human traffickers,” “escape,” “beat to death.” These words constructed a special history. Coupled with the woman’s vague speech, that file might very well be something important.
The only doubt now lay in not knowing if this woman really came from the orphanage, and if the thing she sent contained a virus.
He shouldn’t have asked Lin Qizheng.
He thought of another person—Li Ao.
Wen Rong messaged Zhou Xie: [Are you free right now?]
Zhou Xie: [Just say what it is.]
Wen Rong explained the matter of chatting with the woman to Zhou Xie in detail.
Zhou Xie: [Which dorm room do you live in? I’ll bring Li Ao over.]
Huh? Coming to my room?
Wen Rong quickly looked left and right, replying: [How about I go to your side?]
Zhou Xie: [Lin Jinghang lives next door to me.]
Wen Rong: […]
When Zhou Xie led Li Ao to knock on the door, Wen Rong had completely finished the call with the woman, and she had quickly sent over a compressed file.
Afraid of clicking it by mistake, Wen Rong put the phone on the table, not daring to move it, and opened the room door.
Click—
The sound of a door opening rang out simultaneously from the side. A tall figure quickly darted behind Zhou Xie and shoved him directly. “What are you doing coming to his room late at night?”
Alarm bells rang in Wen Rong’s mind. He immediately took a step back and whispered urgently, “Hurry up and come in. Shi Ye, you come in too.”
If they caused another big commotion, the Black Pigeon Forum would be lively again.
Wait, why did Shi Ye rush out as soon as he opened the door?
Was the soundproofing that bad?
Wen Rong recalled the sounds of movement from above, below, left, and right, and realized.
It seemed it really was quite bad.
“Keep it down, don’t be noisy.” So Wen Rong reminded the three of them, hoping not to disturb the three dorms above, below, and to the left with excessive noise.
Shi Ye lowered his voice and pressed Zhou Xie, “What did you come to find Wen Rong for?”
Zhou Xie rolled his eyes at him. “Came to kneel. Are you satisfied?”
Wen Rong: “…”
“Fuck! You—”
Wen Rong interrupted Shi Ye just in time. ” The situation is urgent right now. Shi Ye, you and Zhou Xie go to the side and explain to each other first.”
Wen Rong quickly pulled out a chair and gestured for Li Ao to sit. “Li Ao, she already sent the file. Trouble you to take a look.”
Li Ao: “Huh?”
Li Ao: “Me???”
Li Ao was actually bewildered too.
He experienced his cousin suddenly pounding on his door, being lifted out of bed by his cousin, getting dressed in ten seconds, hugging a heavy computer, braving the cold wind, and arriving at Wen Rong’s dorm door. When Shi Ye rushed out to “catch the cheaters,” for a split second, he had the terrifying thought, Holy shit, am I going to be Wen Rong’s scandalous boyfriend?
Finally, his blank brain saw the cracked phone screen, and he subconsciously asked:
“Why haven’t you replaced your phone yet?”
“Keeping it as a souvenir of kissing my cousin?”
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