An electric lamp suspended from the top of a low iron box emitted a faint yellow glow, illuminating the shocking bloodstains around it.

The dried brown blood stains congealed into sprays of stains on the closed iron box, and bits and pieces of corpses were scattered all over the floor like discarded garbage from a slaughterhouse.

Someone huddled in a repressed corner, crying helplessly.

One two three four five.

One two three four five.

Five living people.

Their eyes were filled with despair, and their mouths were pleading with sorrow.

"Don't kill me. ”

The dim light bulb above their heads flickered, illuminating the man standing in front of them.

Look at those people huddled in corners with desperate faces, timid and cowardly, and lo and behold, they are crying.

They were pleading.

"Please, I don't want to die. ”

The wailing is pleasant.

One two three four five.

Searching, searching, searching, and finding it again today.

Slowly walked towards them, the sticky blood under his feet was stained with the soles of his shoes, and the blood marks of his shoes were drawn one after another.

Suppressed dread pervaded the suffocating space, and the man with his back to the faint light walked up to the strongest man as if he were picking up an animal.

"Don't ...... Please, don't kill me!"

The corners of his mouth lifted a strange and sickly arc, and he grabbed the man's throat -

"I'm hungry today...... and you look delicious. ”

"Don't! don't kill me......!"

Blood splattered all over his face from his fragile neck, his tongue stuck out and licked it, his eyes rolling sickly, crazy and cruel.

The warmth of the flesh was comforting, digging open his stomach and pulling out the entrails and intestines, the slippery blood staining his hands a filthy red.

"I ate his hands, I ate his heart, I ate his flesh...... But I can't eat enough, what should I do...... I still want to eat, I'm so hungry..."

It was murmuring morbidly.

Wipe the blood from your face with your blood-stained hands.

In the dim light, the eyes of the innocent survivors widened in fear, and the face of the monster was printed in their pupils—

The face gradually became clearer.

Jasmine twisted her expression and smiled at them with a wicked smile.

"Ahh

Jasmine suddenly opened her eyes and sat up from the bed, gasping for breath in shock, her eyes staring at the white ceiling in distraction.

It's a nightmare.

I touched my clammy forehead, and sat on the bed for most of the time before I came to my senses.

How long has it been since she had nightmares?

It felt like she was chilling all over, and the lingering fear was running up her spine, and it was hellish that she dreamed that she was that monster.

The white sky turned clear, and there were bursts of birdsong outside the window, and her heart finally regained its peace when she saw that she was still lying in her own home.

It was a suffocating place, but thankfully it was just a dream.

Jasmine got out of bed and found herself up a little early, but her sleepiness had long been driven away by that terrible nightmare, and she went listlessly to the bathroom to brush her teeth and wash her face, and when she went downstairs, she still looked listless.

She unconsciously walked around the couch in the living room, like a white mouse bound in a maze and losing her instincts.

When Jasmine came back to her senses, she found her stepmother standing at the kitchen door with a bowl of hot noodle soup staring at her in surprise.

"Mom, good morning. Jasmine hurried over to help her stepmother, who was busy getting up early in the morning, carry breakfast.

The stepmother looked at the hour in the dining room with some surprise.

"Jasmine woke up so early today. ”

Jasmine didn't want to mention the unpleasant nightmare, but said vaguely, "Probably because of the hot weather, I can't sleep." ”

"Didn't Jasmine sleep at night with the air conditioner on? The stepmother asked with some concern.

"Mom, it's okay. Jasmine shook her head.

The morning news continued to broadcast the recent tracking of the population case, Jasmine's family was silently eating breakfast, after breakfast, she walked out of the door with her schoolbag, but was stopped by her stepmother behind her.

"Jasmine, didn't the weather forecast just now say that it will rain in the afternoon, bring an umbrella quickly. ”

"Oh, okay. Jasmine was still a little distracted, and after taking a transparent umbrella from her stepmother, she waved at her stepmother.

"Mom, I'm going to school, goodbye. ”

The young man outside the courtyard stood by the door of her house as always, and the appearance of the young man seemed to have a certain kind of light, and she slowly exhaled a breath of turbidity and followed quickly.

"Ah Chen!"

——

"Lao Lin, Jasmine seems to be in a bad state today. The stepmother who returned home was a little worried, and the moment Jasmine appeared in the living room just now, she saw that Jasmine's face was very wrong.

In a trance, I don't know what I'm looking for.

Jasmine's attending doctor once said that to avoid putting pressure on the child, her second personality is a male, and every time she has escapist thoughts, this personality will appear to replace her.

Recently, Jasmine has been taking her medication on time, and her second personality has not appeared for a long time.

But today's strange behavior of her today made her feel very uneasy.

"Are you thinking too much?" the father who was eating the morning soup noodles put down his chopsticks, "The child held the bear doll that Ah Chen gave her last night, and she still looked very happy, so it stands to reason that there should be nothing to do recently." ”

"I wish I was thinking too much. The stepmother picked up a few noodles in the bowl with chopsticks, looked at the greased noodles but lost her appetite, and finally did not eat them, and smashed them into the bowl with chopsticks.

"Do you remember Jasmine's previous episode...... unconsciously doing something over and over again, but she herself was completely uninteresting. Just now I saw that Jasmine's state was very wrong. The stepmother paused and added, "She's been circling around the couch in the living room...... But I don't seem to realize that. ”

"Could it be that we forced her to study too hard, although the kid didn't say it, but now that the college entrance examination is about to take place, it is estimated that the pressure is relatively high. ”

At the dinner table, my father and stepmother discussed Jasmine's illness word by word.

"You said that it is not a way to hide it from her like this, hey, I always trick her into taking medicine and saying that she is taking vitamin tablets, and I feel that it is not a way to go on like this. ”

"What if you tell that kid the truth...... I'm afraid she's going to break down. ”

Jasmine had no idea if her father and stepmother needed to discuss her illness in public, and she was so caught up in nightmares that she had forgotten something more serious this morning.

She forgot to take her medicine.

When she went to school, she remembered that she had forgotten all about taking medicine, probably related to not taking medicine, and she felt that her head began to ache suddenly, and she couldn't even concentrate in class.

Hey, it's really self-inflicted.

Jasmine thought sadly that when she returned home, she probably thought that the forgetting to take the medicine should have been discovered by her father and stepmother, and she would have to be told again.

I finally made it to the end of school.

After school, he went home with Chen Chen, but was carried by the teenager to the mobile phone store, and she watched him look around at the dazzling mobile phone counter without knowing it.

"Ah Chen, do you want to buy a mobile phone?"

Chen Chen nodded, "Well, it's better to buy a mobile phone, so that I can feel at ease." ”

Peace?

"This classmate, this is a very popular touchscreen phone, do you want to take a look?"

"Okay, trouble. ”

Jasmine watched the counter lady take out a sample machine from the counter, Chen Chen listened intently to the counter lady's explanation of the mobile phone function, and she stared at the price on the mobile phone label in the counter stupidly......

The throat moved.

Obediently, it's so expensive, this money can top her pocket money for a year plus the New Year's money, okay?!

"Well, that's going to be like this, two. ”

Chen Chen actually wants to buy such an expensive mobile phone?!

Jasmine glared at him with a shocked face, this guy is so rich, rub it! Why does he want two? Could it be that one is kept at home and one is on his body?

Belch.

When the boy solemnly shoved the phone into Jasmine's hand, Jasmine's mouth opened almost enough to fit an egg.

The dim horizon slowly descends, and the boy and girl sit in the bus stop shrouded in dusk, Chen Chen turns on his mobile phone and teaches Jasmine how to use it.

"Jasmine, I set my name to a 1 tag, you see, just press it and you can get through to my phone. ”

“……”【=_=】

"Ah Chen, I don't want it. She felt that the phone in her hand was simply heavy, and it was given to her for so much money, uh, very embarrassed.

If she wanted to buy one, she asked her father to buy one.

"Jasmine, don't refuse. The boy solemnly stuffed the phone back into her hand again, "In case something happens, and I'm not with you, if I don't have a mobile phone, I can't find you no matter how I want to find it, I can't think of this kind of thing." ”

"But it's so expensive...... "She doesn't want something so valuable!"

The boy was stunned and blinked.

"Is it expensive?"

Jasmine: Damn, it's almost 8,000 yuan a piece, don't you feel it at all?!

"Ah Chen, I really can't accept such a valuable item, I'll ask my dad to buy one for me!"

After saying this, the young man's face turned completely cold.

"Jasmine treated me like an outsider. ”

"No......" Before he finished speaking, he heard the young man continue, "If Jasmine feels embarrassed to accept it, then so be it...... To please me today as compensation?"

The boy said this patiently, and he squeezed her hand gently, as if to hint at something.

Jasmine was so embarrassed that she couldn't do it.

Chen Chen, can you not always say such irresponsible things casually, hey! Hmph! She doesn't want his mobile phone——

Originally, it was a ** atmosphere with strong affection, but when he saw a ridiculous watermelon-headed girl wearing a black school uniform walking across the street, Chen Chen's face became not very good.

"Jasmine is good. The girl tilted her head, took off her headphones, naturally raised her hand to greet her, and then nodded to Chen Chen. Seriously, "I'm sorry to disturb your time molesting Jasmine again...... Well, probably you won't have a chance to enjoy Jasmine's pleasure today......"

Nani!

She, she, she, she actually heard?!

Jasmine's blood suddenly surged into her head, and her face turned red so much that she almost wanted to find an underground tunnel to get into.

Woo woo, Yang Sang is hanging up again, and he will be heard talking across the street, is this scientific?

Chen Chen: That guy did it on purpose, right?!

"Why are you here again?" the boy's face was as black as a crow's, but the watermelon-headed girl opposite ignored him maliciously, walked up to Jasmine and patted her on the shoulder, as if nothing had happened.

"Jasmine, give me my phone. ”

【qaq】

The girl's reflex arc was long enough to circle the earth, and she stupidly handed over the mobile phone in her hand......

Yang Sang pressed and pressed on her mobile phone and raised her eyebrows, "No. 1...... Husband, ahem......"

Hey, tell me clearly!

The phone was shoved back into Jasmine's hand, and she looked down—

There are only two numbers on it.

Husband No. 1.

Little Jasmine's lover No. 1.

What the hell is this, hey!

Yang Sang spread his hands: [( ̄▽ ̄)] Anyway, there are two numbers on Jasmine, so don't care too much about the title or something.

Her villainous face was completely provocative in Chen Chen's opinion.

The boy was so angry that he almost stepped forward to strangle the hateful girl himself.

Well, it's still necessary to return to the main topic.

Yang Sang sat down beside Jasmine and looked at the streetscape, the dusk sun dyeing her pure black hair a faint warm orange.

Half of the girl's face was precipitated in a blurred shadow.

"Have you read today's news?"

Her words were asked endlessly, and an ominous premonition suddenly came up, and before anyone could speak, the girl touched her nose and said to herself: "Hey, primitive people who don't have mobile phones, you are really troublesome." ”

Jasmine asked cautiously, "Did something happen again?"

"Another one died. ”

After the police found the body that had been dumped under the abandoned railroad tracks near Mt. Takao, the mutilated body of another missing person was found today by a small river not far away, three kilometers away.

Is this a coincidence?

No, absolutely not.

The bus stopped in front of the station on time, but Chen Chen held Jasmine's hand.

"Jasmine, let's go home first. The boy didn't say anything, Jasmine was pulled into the car by him, and frequently looked back at Yang Sang, who was standing still.

The girl waved her hand at them, seemingly unconcerned about being left behind.

"Ah Chen, is this good!" Yang Sang was still outside the bus!

Chen Chen swept past Yang Sang outside the car window, turned his head and said lightly, "There's nothing bad about it, I'm not familiar with her." ”

The door of the bus gradually closed, Jasmine put her face on the window, and waved goodbye to Yang Sang, who was standing outside the window and watching them, Chen Chen's thoughts were completely incomprehensible, she felt guilty, and Yang Sang's figure slowly faded away behind the car.

"Ah Chen!" Jasmine sat back in her seat angrily, glanced at him a little angrily, but received no response, the young man closed his eyes and frowned very tightly, looking preoccupied.

Jasmine held the phone he gave in her hand, clicked on the phone book and looked at the only two numbers left in it, one of which said her husband......

She stretched out her index finger and lightly touched the two words, and suddenly entered a call state, and at the same time, the mobile phone in Chen Chen's trouser pocket rang.

The contemplation was interrupted.

Chen Chen took out his mobile phone and glanced at Jasmine with some surprise, the word wife was written on the phone screen.

As if she had been caught as a thief, Jasmine cut off the phone with a red face.

Husband, wife.

What the hell is he trying to make trouble!

"Jasmine, don't make a fuss. The boy reached out and rubbed her head.

Who the hell is making trouble!

Jasmine: [qaq] Chen Chen, you're really enough!

After returning home, Chen Chen told Jasmine not to run around at night, he was going out tonight, and he probably couldn't go to see her at night.

Jasmine knew that he was likely to find the monster's traces, and she was so worried that she couldn't do anything about it, so she could only stress that she must be safe, and if she felt in danger, she would remember to run away.

She was too afraid to see Chen Chen have an accident like before, and every time she saw him appear in front of her with injuries, her whole heart was about to break into pieces.

"Well, got it, Jasmine get in there. The boy stood in front of her house and watched her go home.

When Jasmine entered the house, Chen Chen also went home, but he just put his schoolbag home, changed into a T-shirt for easy movement, cropped black jeans with a slim cut, and walked out of the house after saying hello to his parents in simple low-top sneakers.

The boy stood under the pear tree in his yard, looked up at the gradually fading sky, and after a while, took out his mobile phone and pressed a line of numbers.

"Yang San, meet in front of Takao Mountain Station. ”

After he had said these two words briefly, his lips pursed tightly, and the short five-minute conversation ended there.

——

Jasmine came home, and after eating and taking a shower, she could barely sit at the desk in her room, and every half hour she ran out to the balcony to look at the neighbor's house next door, but the room on the second floor was still pitch black.

Seven, eight, nine.

Jasmine looked at her phone frequently, and several times her hand was about to touch the name, and then hesitantly moved away.

It's so late, why hasn't he come back yet.

When there is a person in my heart, I will think about him all the time, thinking about where he is now and whether he is okay or not.

Jasmine learned from Yang Sang and also carefully listed the timeline of the monster's killing, and there have been continuous deaths since half a year ago.

It took a relatively long time for Chen Chen to become a monster.

Listening to Chen Chen, after becoming a monster, there will be a strong desire to eat people, longing for the warm blood and flesh, and the desire to kill is almost irresistible.

Follow that crazy monster's approach......

It was only half a year after it became a monster, and it has been looking for prey ever since.

There are almost a few homicides every month.

The victims were scattered in various places.

However, there were two cases in their school......

Jasmine connected all the locations with a red pen and looked at the glaring red mark of her school for a long time.

Why are there only two cases in her school...... Why?

And two months apart, there are also cases of cannibalism in other places.

"What kind of person is it?"

Remember, the first time I heard that voice, it was saying:

Find, find, find, find, if you can't find it today, you will continue to look for it tomorrow.

Eat, eat, eat, eat, can't eat enough.

It's looking for toys.

Find a toy that will allow it to play with for a long time.

It also likes to publicize its insane and cruel crimes to the world, without concealing it at all, and feels as if it is a very lonely person......

You want others to pay attention to you.

Let others notice you.

This kind of personality is like the kind of dark and withdrawn person in the class, because he is cowardly and incompetent, and his sense of existence is particularly low, so he wants others to pay attention to it.

Jasmine felt an ungraspable thought slip through her head, fleeting.

I felt that the answer was very close to me, but I couldn't grasp it.

——

That night, she had a strange dream.

Jasmine has become what she was when she was a child.

At that time, her mother had just left, and K had not yet appeared in Jasmine's world.

She felt lonely.

I have no friends in the class, and I am alone.

"Jasmine is a picked up child hahaha, she has no mother, she is an orphan, let's not play with her hahahaha!"

The poor girl was bullied by the children so that she did not dare to cry, and the schoolbag in her desk was maliciously scribbled by the mischievous children with colored brushes, which was a birthday present from her father, but she did not dare to speak out to scold the bad boys.

The little bodies were blocked in the corner with chairs, and the men said—

Jasmine doesn't have a mom, she's picked up from the sewer by her dad, let's not play with her.

This place is where she is, we don't give her a table, she can only sit on the ground and study!

Hahahaha......

……

No.

Why do you do this to me?

Woo, why......

Why are you bullying me......

The little girl was crying sadly, and the shrill teasing of the children irritated her eardrums, but she could do nothing......

The screen suddenly turned.

In a silent and unoccupied room, a pale and silent picture.

The little child always sits alone in an empty room, lonely against the wall, with tears in the corners of his eyes, and shouts in his mouth, "Dad, Mommy, Jasmine is very lonely." ”

The walls are plastered with her paintings.

Each one is three smiling little people, big hands holding small hands, and they are smiling happily at her.

Jasmine's dad has been working.

Jasmine's mom is gone.

There were countless pieces of white paper scattered under her feet, some of which had strange graffiti painted on them.

A rough little man drawn in crayons, childish to words.

They all had knives stuck in them, and each of their faces was covered with twisted and hideous expressions, and in those paintings they all died miserably, bleeding from all seven orifices, staring at crooked eyes of different sizes.

The little girl looked lonely.

Her only usual amusement is drawing.

Drawing her parents, a family of three happily together.

And her classmates.

The classmates who were distorted and deformed in the painting and were killed. 166 Reading Network