Chapter 58 Fifty-eight. Flower of Evil

  【Belfast has only light rain all day today, and the meteorological professor expects the rain to continue until the rainy season. 】

  Whoa——

  Lu Li left today's newspaper.

   The gloomy sky does not see any sunlight, and the rain streaks on the windows mean that the rain is still falling.

   In the slightly dim living room, silence flows quietly.

   Maybe because it rained for the third day in a row, there was a hint of moisture in the air. Ana is cleaning and dehumidifying.

   The movements are clumsy, but the pretty face is full of seriousness.

   This kind of warmth lasted for a while, and was broken by a sudden knock on the door.

   knock knock --

   In the bedroom, Anna, who was about to open the window for ventilation, instantly pricked up her ears.

  …

   Michelia fell over the bed and floated into the living room.

   She didn't seem to see the noisy door, turned her head numbly, and said emotionlessly to the empty dining table: (Mom and Dad, I'm going for an interview.)

   She paused for a few seconds, as if listening to something, a smile appeared on her expressionless cheeks, and nodded in response: (Well, I'll be back before noon.)

   She drifted through the noisy, crowded doorway, drifted down the dark corridor, and onto the street.

   The sky was overcast and the drizzle fell, and Michelia followed the route she had traveled countless times during her lifetime, and drifted to the side of the bustling road with pedestrians.

  A carriage stopped on the side of the road, and the groom asked, "Where are you going?"

   (please go to Tulip Street)

   "Go to Sailor Street," replied the woman in front of the car.

   "Come on up." The driver lifted the curtain and pulled the woman into the carriage.

  Michelia also sat up.

   "It's really cold outside..." Feeling a cold wind blowing into the car, the driver shuddered.

   "That's better than a few days ago, I feel like I'm about to suffer from asthma." The woman complained, wrapping her woolen coat tightly around her.

   Twenty minutes later, the taxi stopped at Sailor Street.

  While the woman and the driver were negotiating the fare, the girl floated out of the carriage and wandered aimlessly on the street.

   She avoided pedestrians unconsciously, as if she was still alive. But no one could see her, and the residents who passed by her only felt a chill seep from their surface and shivered.

  When Michelia drifted to a certain place, she seemed to be attracted by some kind of aura and drifted into the door of a long house.

  …

   Lu Li's face was indifferent, the girl from yesterday was sitting across from the table, her expression still numb.

  Anna is not as calm as one person and one ghost, with disgust on her pretty face, and a trace of intolerance.

   "Do you want to continue telling the story?" Lu Li asked.

"Um."

"Please."

   There are still two hours until 12 o'clock, enough for her to tell a long, long, long story.

  …

  Girl, or Michelia picks up yesterday's story: The origin of the catastrophe.

   A female classmate told Michelia that she saw her father entering and leaving the noble mansion. Michelia didn't answer because her father was just going to fix the roof.

   So this is taken as the default.

   On the second day, two classmates had a conflict in the college due to personal affairs, and they beat up. The righteous Michelia stepped forward to stop

   was knocked to the ground without paying attention and broke his knee.

  The two students temporarily stopped, when a shout came from the onlookers.

   "Her father is a city official, you don't listen to people and let your father punish you directly!"

  The students whispered, and the teacher appeared in time to drive away the gathered students, and everything was over.

temporary.

   But a few days later, a rumor spread from the next classroom.

   There was a rumor that a girl in the college was accidentally hit and broke her knee, so she asked the student who hit her to compensate her a thousand shillings, or let her father who worked in the municipality put pressure on the college.

  The student's family is not good, and he was beaten several times because of this incident.

  Although Price Academy is an aristocratic school, 70% to 80% of the students are civilians, which leads to a predictable situation - the rumors spread quickly and unstoppably throughout the school.

   And soon, "Party Michelia" was dug up.

  The vitriol ensues. For example, "The nobles of the official family are noble, and the broken skin is so valuable" "I know this person, she just entered this year" "I heard that she is not good at studying, it was the college professor who secretly changed her grades because of her official father. ." "Who knows if the knee was broken in the bedroom of some nobleman" and so on.

   Michelia at that time didn’t know anything about it, of course she knew that the news had already spread throughout the school, and she was even outraged by it.

   She did not know that the client was herself.

  The rumors are gradually fermenting. Take root, sprout, grow, bear fruit. The fruit falls to the ground, continues to take root, germinates...

Perhaps because the life of the academy could not fill the boring lives of these teenagers, some new rumors emerged - some people claimed to be Michelia's former classmates, saying that she had children at the age of fourteen, and her The father moved to Belfast in shame and brought Michelia with him. In order to highlight the authenticity, the rumors also depict the hair color and age of her child

   Underage students of course cannot tell the truth of the matter, such as why the rumor writer remembers the time so clearly.

   These people are more willing to follow the crowd than to think independently.

   "Black sheep effect." Lu Li spoke at this time.

  When a person is in a group, his individual consciousness is replaced by the group consciousness.

   The girl's faint breath is changing.

In the    detective agency, a new cold atmosphere is being conceived.

   "The flower of evil blooms in the darkest corner."

she says.

   Michelia, who knew nothing about her, gradually discovered the changes her classmates had towards her. New friends alienated her, classmates in the college always looked at her and whispered, and occasionally a boy gave her an uncomfortable look.

   Later, a classmate from Alpha Block told her the truth.

  The naive Michelia thought she could solve these problems by herself. She tried to explain to the friends around her and argued that she had no lover and had never given birth to children.

   But no one cared what she said.

  The rumors have gradually spread to the point where not only the academy knows about it.

  A large number of outsiders poured into the discussion. While they made the scene chaotic, they brought more and more troubles and rumors.

   Michelia's "everything" has been revealed by growing rumors. Her father was "discovered" and was an official of the Municipal Education Department. And someone claimed to be Michelia's ex-boyfriend, but the child is not his - because he has brown hair and his son is red.

   Michelia at that time was extremely painful and helpless, but not the most painful and helpless.

   Because that is further back.

   (end of this chapter)