Ch91 - Blow It Up (2/2)
At noon the next day, Zhou Sheng didn’t wake Yu Hao up. It was not until 12 o’clock that Yu Hao was woken up by Zhou Sheng from his slumber.
“Get up!” Zhou Sheng said, “Something happened!”
Yu Hao was suddenly woken up, and his brain felt like exploding. He felt around for his phone; missed calls from Huang Ting and Xiao Yujun filled the screen.
“I’m going too!” Fu Liqun said, “Are you guys going to fight for justice? Don’t even think about leaving me behind this time!”
Ying City’s No.3 High School.
Ou Qihang was sitting on the railings of a concrete rooftop on the 11th floor, his face injured from getting beaten up by Zhou Sheng the previous night. He was quietly watching the students on the field.
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The police were obviously experienced in dealing with this kind of situation. Firemen were already preparing an air cushion at the bottom, yet Ou Qihang was extremely calm, “Don’t bother wasting all that effort, I really want to die, and I can die in a lot of different ways! Even if you catch me this time, I’ll still die the next time.”
“Qihang!” Ou Qihang’s mother was crying and shouting from the teaching building, “What are you doing? Get down from there!”
His form teacher shouted, “Your mother’s watching you! Qihang, what are you thinking? Get down and tell us!”
The form teacher, teaching director, course teacher, vice principal, and everyone from the school had come out.
“I have something to say!” Ou Qihang shouted, “Are the reporters here yet?”
Yu Hao, Zhou Sheng, and Fu Liqun rushed to the school gate. Huang Ting came over, showed his police ID to the security guard, and brought them in.
It has been a long time since a student wanted to jump off a building in No.3 High School, unlike the school next door that had a quota of one student jumping per year. The rooftop door had always been locked. Of all times, Ou Qihang had picked lunch break to do this, so all of the students had come out to watch.
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“I left a lot of messages on Weibo and forums!” Ou Qihang shouted, “And I even got my online friend to upload a tie for me. Once I’m dead, it will be published at a fixed time! By then, all of you will know why! Don’t even think about deleting it, you won’t be able to finish deleting them all!”
“What are you saying?!” Ou Qihang’s mother ran until her high heels broke. She was standing barefoot outside the air cushion, her face awash with tears as she shouted to her son, “I was wrong! Qihang! If you’re dissatisfied with anything, tell me, don’t do this! Mama’s heart is breaking! Mama carried you for 10 months and endured many hardships to give birth to you and raise you! Your Papa has already left us, could you really bear to leave Mama alone for the rest of her life?”
Yu Hao ran to the front of the teaching building, and when he heard this, his heart immediately felt sour.
“I’m sorry, Mum!” Ou Qihang shouted, “I have no other way!”
Ou Qihang looked at his watch, it was close to 1 o’clock.
Ou Qihang’s mother knelt on the ground and cried as she shouted, “Who can save my son……”
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The door to the rooftop opened. Ou Qihang’s back was facing the door, he raised his hand, “Take one more step, and I’ll jump.”
“It’s me.” Yu Hao suddenly said.
Ou Qihang, “……”
Ou Qihang suddenly turned around. Yu Hao stood amidst the wind and watched Ou Qihang.
“Aren’t you going to apologise for last night?” Yu Hao walked straight up, and Ou Qihang actually forgot to get him to leave for a moment, until Yu Hao walked to the rooftop railing five meters away from him and leaned on the cement railing to look down.
Huang Ting wore a safety rope and climbed out of the classroom on the 11th floor. He carefully stepped on an air conditioner, looking overhead; Fu Liqun climbed out from another classroom on the 10th floor to serve as a second buffer. Zhou Sheng climbed out of a classroom on the 9th floor to act as the third buffer.
Everyone’s hearts immediately reached their throats.
“Someone else provoked you, but I didn’t.” Yu Hao said.
“You wouldn’t mind.” Ou Qihang said, “You’re a very good person, Yu Hao, I can’t bear to tell you some things.”
“You’re afraid ba.” Yu Hao said, “You’re afraid that Zhou Sheng would discover your plan, and that you wouldn’t be able to make up your mind.”
Ou Qihang laughed at himself. Yu Hao said, “I’ve tried it before too.”
“Tried what before?” Ou Qihang said, “Don’t come closer, it’ll be useless even if you do. Someone who wants to die can die in any sort of way. You can pull me down today, but I’ll still jump down from the overpass tomorrow, I can jump into a river the day after, and the day after that I could burn charcoal. I’ve already prepared everything. You can’t watch me at all times.”
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“Tried to give up on life, and let death end all my problems.” Yu Hao looked down and shouted, “Everyone, go back to class! Don’t watch anymore! It’s all fine now! Go and work on your Five-Year Gaokao Three-Year Mock Tests, and study to get into PKU or THU!”
Ou Qihang, “……”
Yu Hao smiled, “When I remember it now, I really was pretty damn dumb.”
Huang Ting’s hand was close to Ou Qihang’s ankle, but it was still just not close enough.
Zhou Sheng stared closely at Yu Hao above, in fear that he would be dragged down by Ou Qihang as well.
“In this era,” Ou Qihang said, “Each and every one of us has a very, very soft voice, unless we use our life as a loudspeaker. No matter how loud we shout, no one would hear us, right?”
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Yu Hao frowned slightly.
Ou Qihang, “As long as I die, this matter will be blown up, and no one will be able to clean it up.”
“Is this the only way?” Yu Hao asked.
Ou Qihang said, “This is the most worthwhile way. A high-caliber student with good grades, a corrupt official’s son, suddenly jumping off a building to commit suicide, and left behind a pile of letters, doesn’t that sound very touching? But it’s a pity that I won’t be able to see that, so you pay attention to it then.”
Yu Hao smiled, “When I tried to commit suicide, I didn’t think that much about it.”
Ou Qihang said, “Once my head touches the ground, people will take pictures and upload it online; it’ll be a bloody and mangled mess. Everyone will then want to listen to what I want to say, and they will all start to condemn in my stead. That’ll be pretty good.”
Yu Hao said, “Is it? Then jump ba. I can help you too.”
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Ou Qihang was a little surprised, “Don’t you want to say anything else?”
Yu Hao said, “There’s nothing else to say, jump ba.”
Ou Qihang, “……”
Yu Hao turned around to leave, but Ou Qihang said, “Wait, why did you want to commit suicide?”
Yu Hao said, “Since you’re in a rush, I won’t hold you up. Let’s talk some other day.”
Ou Qihang suddenly laughed, “I’m not in a rush. There will always be a lot of chances to die.”
Yu Hao could only say, “Ok then. Actually it was nothing much, or at least it seems trivial now that I look back on it.”
“You got together with Zhou Sheng?” Ou Qihang asked.
“Yeah.” Yu Hao said, “And now my whole life has changed. When I think about the beginning, I just feel like I was really stupid.”
“That’s pretty good.” Ou Qihang, “Actually, I’m not tired of living. I just think that there are some matters even more important than living. I wanted to comfort you that day. When you said that everyone was lonely from birth, I knew that you must be someone with a story too.”
Yu Hao answered, “That same teacher once said to me ‘I don’t know how to comfort you; just like how you didn’t know how to comfort me today. Anything we say would be too feeble and futile, but our souls can produce a kind of weak resonance right here and now, from the hardships that we have suffered’. The reason you found me might have been due to the guidance of this type of resonance ba.”
Ou Qihang stared at Yu Hao blankly; the two of them looked at each other.
And in this instant, Huang Ting grabbed Ou Qihang’s ankle like a bolt of lightning and locked it, dragging him down from the rooftop!
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Cries of alarm sounded out instantly at the bottom of the teaching building.
Although Yu Hao had discussed with them beforehand, he still got a huge fright the instant he saw Ou Qihang being dragged down.
Huang Ting dragged Ou Qihang off the rooftop and fell straight down with him. Fu Liqun jumped up from the 10th floor, serving as a relay and held onto Ou Qihang’s waist, then threw him to Zhou Sheng. Zhou Sheng caught him, spun around, loosened his grip, lifted his feet, and kicked downwards——
Ou Qihang fell down and landed on the air cushion. The firefighters rushed forward one after another and held him down!
Ou Qihang’s mother fainted on the spot.
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Yu Hao pounced onto the rooftop railings and looked down. Zhou Sheng was still hanging mid air between the 10th and 9th floor. Yu Hao immediately turned around and rushed out of the rooftop through a small door and darted into the classroom.
“Zhou Sheng!”
Zhou Sheng was climbing in from outside the window. Yu Hao hugged him tightly. Zhou Sheng said, “I’m fine, just hurts a little from getting bound too tightly by the rope. Why did you talk about this and that with him for so long? Just kick him down to us and it would’ve all been over.”
The two of them looked down, Ou Qihang had already been taken away by the police.