7. Monsters
Zhuo Qian woke up.
After emergency rescue by the doctors, she was relieved from the crisis of excessive blood loss, but before the effect of the anesthetic had passed, the child woke up from his sleep.
She didn't cry out of pain when she woke up, knowing that there were several hideous wounds hanging from her body, and the layers of bandages almost tied her like a mummy.
She had been in the hospital for self-harm before, and the girl would wake up crying every time, rolling on the bed in pain, asking her father or mother to hug her, and the hugs from loved ones would give her a little comfort. But not this time, she calmly opened her eyes and stared at her parents with a strange gaze.
Wen Shan and her husband Zhuo Mingyu had just quarreled, but at this moment, they couldn't help but reconcile because they were worried about their daughter's safety.
Wen Shan asked if she was hungry, and Zhuo Mingyu asked if it hurt, but her daughter didn't answer a word about their questions.
At this moment, this cheerful, lively and lovely little girl was expressionless, just stared at her parents on the bed, her eyes were extremely wide, her pupils were black and white, and when she looked carefully, she even felt that her eyes were faintly glowing with a seeping green light, and people were inexplicably cold on her back, and goosebumps rose all over her body.
Zhuo Mingyu, who noticed this look, suddenly stood up, this man had a strange premonition in his heart, this feeling made him feel difficult to breathe for a while, and even his thoughts seemed to freeze.
So Zhuo Mingyu walked to his wife Wen Shan's side, and pretended to say to his wife: "My dear, the child must be hungry when she wakes up, let's go and prepare some food for her." ”
Wen Shan thought this was very good, but she turned her head to look at her daughter on the hospital bed: "Someone has to guard her." ”
"Then you go buy food, I'll guard her, how about it?" Zhuo Mingyu lowered his voice, he subconsciously reached out to shake his wife's hand, this woman he chased for two years before he got it, her hand was as slender and soft as in his memory, and when she held it in her palm, it would make Zhuo Mingyu feel his heart trembling.
Even when he married Wen Shan, they stood in the hall of the church, and Zhuo Mingyu did not have such a strong sense of responsibility to protect her at this moment.
Zhuo Mingyu held her hand too hard, making Wen Shan feel a little painful, Wen Shan frowned slightly, but she didn't doubt it, as a mother, she would know more about her daughter's appetite preferences, so let her buy food, Wen Shan had no objection.
She just gently told her husband: "You take good care of the children, and I will come back when I go." ”
After speaking, Wen Shan gently broke away from her husband's hand, opened the door of the ward and went out, and after she left, only Zhuo Mingyu and Zhuo Qianqian were left in the ward.
Zhuo Mingyu looked at his wife's back until she completely disappeared from his sight, and heard Wen Shan's footsteps fading away, Zhuo Mingyu turned his head stiffly and stared at his daughter on the hospital bed. Zhuo Qianqian was a little frighteningly quiet, and she lay there in a stiff motion, motionless.
At this time, Zhuo Qianqian may seem to outsiders to be a little girl, a girl who is sick and lying on the bed with no face, even if her face is expressionless, it can be understood that her behavior is abnormal when she is sick. But in Zhuo Mingyu's opinion, he clearly saw that his daughter's eyes were exactly the same as the eyes of the monster he saw in the mirror at night.
Something must have gone wrong.
Zhuo Mingyu thought like this, he pretended to be close to his daughter as usual, he sat on the edge of the hospital bed, and showed a gentle smile forcefully: "Is it painful for Sissi? ”
Zhuo Qianqian was silent for a while, then suddenly laughed at Zhuo Mingyu and shouted, "Dad!"
After she shouted this, she stretched out her hand towards Zhuo Mingyu, her arms were also wrapped in bandages, even on her fingers, the bandages were bloodstained, but there was a weird smile on her face, and her eyes glowed green.
Her movements bluntly told Zhuo Mingyu that she was begging for a hug, but Zhuo Mingyu did not hug her as usual, the man was worried at this moment, and the inexplicable fear made him stand up in vain, and took a step back, a little farther away from Zhuo Qianqian.
The man's backward action seemed to ignite some kind of trigger/fire/cord of Zhuo Qianqian, the girl changed her face at once, and the haze of hideousness and anger crept up her smiling face, which should have been sunny, she put down her hands, and her tone suddenly became low, and said, "Why doesn't Dad hug me?"
Zhuo Mingyu didn't speak, he took a step back again, and it wasn't until he felt that he had retreated to a safe distance, then he trembled and spoke to his daughter, but he said something like this: "...... You...... Who are you?"
That's not his daughter.
Zhuo Mingyu has never been able to feel this so clearly, the person in front of him and his daughter have the same appearance, the same age, and the same body type...... Or that the little girl with the exact same body was not his daughter Zhuo Qianqian, it was something else, he knew.
"You're not my daughter. When Zhuo Mingyu said this, he became calm, panicking would not bring him any good, he knew that he had to be calm, he had to find a way, find a way to drive this monster out of his daughter's body.
But the monster just smiled at Zhuo Mingyu: "Of course I'm not your daughter, but you are very keen...... But anyway, I don't mean to let you go. ”
After the monster finished speaking, he actually got up from the hospital bed neatly, its movements were so agile, it didn't look like a patient who had just undergone surgery, Zhuo Mingyu always felt that this monster's body was filled with a black aura, a heavy and oppressive aura. It walked towards Zhuo Mingyu, very slowly, step by step, and Zhuo Mingyu found that his body was completely immobile as if it had been immobilized.
Zhuo Mingyu felt that he was suffocating, although no one was pinching his neck, but he just felt that it was difficult to breathe, he kept increasing the rate of breathing, and his chest rose and fell, but this was useless, his suffocation was even stricter, making his eyes gray for a while, no matter how many times he meditated in his heart to calm down.
"Y-What are you?" Zhuo Mingyu opened his mouth to ask reluctantly, but he quickly shook his head: "No, whatever you are...... Get out of here with my daughter!"
"Why should I listen to you?" The monster looked at Zhuo Mingyu's gaze as if it was watching a joke: "It's really a ridiculous and terrible thing to listen to a weak and incompetent human, isn't it?"
Saying that, the monster was almost standing in front of Zhuo Mingyu, perhaps because Zhuo Mingyu's adult height made it only look up and was dissatisfied, the monster hooked his finger at Zhuo Mingyu slightly, Zhuo Mingyu felt that his knees were weak, and he couldn't use his strength at all, he couldn't even stand still, and knelt directly on the ground.
"I'm not going to kill you. Seeing the fear in Zhuo Mingyu's eyes, the monster seemed to be very proud, and his tone became sharp, "I need a guardian, I need someone to work to earn money to support this body, so I will let you live well, but if you are not obedient, I will not be polite to you." ”
Zhuo Mingyu may have known that this situation is very unfavorable to him, and the scene in front of him obviously tells him that this monster is a complete monster, and he doesn't know where the demons and monsters came out, and they are unscientific in this obviously very scientific world.
But Zhuo Mingyu didn't want to delve into it anymore, he had to think of a way, in this situation where no one could help or save him, he had to try his best to save himself, his wife, and his precious daughter.
So Zhuo Mingyu lowered his head, and he spoke in a hoarse voice: "You...... What exactly do you want...... Whatever you want, I'll try to give it to you, let it go...... Spare my daughter, please ......"
The monster was very happy, as if someone was begging it to make it feel pleasant, and it showed an increasingly hideous smile, which lay across the familiar face of Zhuo Mingyu, so that Zhuo Mingyu looked down and almost dared not look.
"It's no use begging me. "I just want this body, and she suits me well, and there's nothing more perfect than her, so ...... I won't let her go!"
"No!" Zhuo Mingyu became anxious, he reached out and grabbed the monster's clothes, "She's just a child, she's still young...... You come to me, I can give you my body, let her go!
"You?" the monster looked Zhuo Mingyu up and down, with a look of disgust, "It's too dirty, I need a body that retains both virginity and innocence, the body of a child meets my requirements, and you are just a defective product." ”
The monster's words made Zhuo Mingyu's heart chill, knowing that he might not be able to save this qiē, but Zhuo Mingyu was very unwilling.
Unwilling and mixed with anger, Zhuo Mingyu suddenly burst out, reached out and grabbed the monster's neck, pressing it to the ground, he roared loudly: "Get out of her! You damn monster! Get out!"
At this time, Wen Shan, who happened to come back from buying food from the hospital cafeteria, happened to push open the door of the ward, and immediately saw this scene, she immediately came back to her senses after a short pause, she couldn't hold the bag in her hand, and threw it on the ground casually, and rushed towards Zhuo Mingyu.
"Are you crazy!?" Wen Shan pushed Zhuo Mingyu away, and immediately reached out to stuff her daughter into her arms, and the frightened Zhuo Qianqian seemed to instinctively hug her mother's waist and called her mother in a crying voice.
Wen Shan was distressed when she heard her daughter's voice, and glared at Zhuo Mingyu angrily: "You crazy person!
Zhuo Mingyu glanced at Zhuo Qianqian in Wen Shan's arms unwillingly, he opened his mouth tremblingly, as if he wanted to explain something to his wife, but Wen Shan had already yelled at him: "Zhuo Mingyu, I don't want to see you again! Get out of here!"
Zhuo Mingyu clenched his fists, glared at Zhuo Qianqian fiercely, then got up and left the ward.