47. Half 04
Ai Ye made a full day of preparation before falling asleep, and prepared several sets of plans, among which Ai Ye's favorite plan was that he threw a flying sword on Xia Ma's face, so that he could leave his house Baby Linlin - in fact, the flying sword was exchanged for a check, and Ai Ye's acceptance was also very high, but considering that Xia Ma had an older brother who was a British government, the check was too intimidating - after thinking about it again, Ai Ye still reluctantly gave up this plan, and it was more refreshing to throw the flying sword face or the physical version, isn't it?
But Ai Ye thought of another brilliant plan, he was so witty that he almost didn't know himself. It's just that this wonderful plan, when it was implemented, it was very smooth at the beginning: Ai Ye fell into a dream with Sherlock, and introduced himself to Sherlock by Shun, that is, he was Irene's boyfriend in the real world, and he said such a sentence in total, and then the development of events was not so... Shun lì -
Sherlock stared at Gu Panyeran's Ai Ye expressionlessly for a full ten seconds, and then spoke: "On the surface, the elite who is engaged in very professional work such as appreciating antiques is actually an otaku who is addicted to film and television dramas, loves to play games, and loves to drink Coke, and has a strict to pathological lover plot, it is recommended that you go to a psychiatrist as soon as possible." β
Ai Ye: "...... It's not scientific! You ghost guy speaks so well in Chinese, it's not scientific! Ai Ye is so unreasonable, he changed from noble and cold to funny in a second, this special logic made Sherlock speechless for a second, and then rolled his eyes: "Goldfish." β
Ai Yefeng's eyes glared: "What did you say with Xia Ma's face?" β
When Sherlock heard this again, his face was dark, but as soon as he thought about it, he showed a sincere and false smile to Ai Ye, and took the initiative to stretch out his hand to Ai Ye: "It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Ai, I am the boyfriend of your daughter Erin." β
"Boyfriend, your sister!" Ai Ye, who didn't catch the point again, jumped to his feet, and he didn't want to be cold at the moment, and raised his chin directly towards Sherlock, "I'm here to sue you, don't be pestering my family Linlin with your dead horse face." Speaking of this, Ai Ye became proud, and he sighed fakely, "I advise you to stop thinking that Linlin will travel to your world again, because, as long as I am here, she will definitely not go back and go back again, and important things have to be said three times." β
Sherlock's pupils contracted suddenly, and soon relaxed again, and the smug Aiye said in a determined tone, "You can't be Erin's master. β
Ai Ye, who received a heart-to-heart blow, did not lose the battle, and he said loudly: "GAY! β
Sherlock sneered, "Sissy." β
Ai Ye was so angry that she screamed and began to speak incoherently: "The surname is Xia, I sue you, don't want to enter the door of my Ai family in your life!" Hmph, I'd rather be your brother with a tragic hairline and a slightly bulging belly than you, so go with your ex-military doctor! After saying that, Aiye, who was not looking for abuse, forced Sherlock to go offline, no, it was he who ended his dream, and after stomping his feet in anger, he turned his mind and went to Erin to complain.
Unbeknownst to everyone, he also succeeded in making Sherlock so angry that the consulting detective wrapped himself in a dressing gown and looked gloomy, and at one o'clock in the middle of the night he began to disturb the people on Baker Street again, using his valuable violin.
For a time, the non-human inhabitants of Baker Street, whose work and rest were reversed day and night, were like birds and beasts.
One o'clock in the middle of the night in London, nine o'clock in the morning Beijing time.
Ai Ye hasn't gotten up yet because he has an irregular schedule, and Erin has just woken up because she was busy digesting the content on the jade slip, and was actually woken up by Ai Ye's lingering "duh": "Daddy, what's wrong with you?" β
Ai Ye hugged the baby girl and put her forehead on her shoulder: "Linlin, you have to call the shots for Baba, the dead horse face surnamed Xia said that Baba is a sissy!" β
Erin: "...... Did you dream of Sherlock? β
Ai Ye: "...... What a sharp question! But that's not the point, the point is that he actually scolded the baba sissy, Linlin, shouldn't you feel angry? Shouldn't you break up in anger? How did you react so blandly? Could it be that this is the legendary 'having a daughter-in-law and forgetting her mother'? β
Erin reached out and pinched the sudden center of her eyebrows: "Daddy! β
Ai Ye reflexively stood up straight, and after realizing that her precious girl's face was really bad, she immediately became empty: "Linlin, it's good if you are happy, even if you drive Baba to the thatched house at that time, let Baba eat bran and drink thin baba, you still love you." β
Erin couldn't cry or laugh, and the corner of her eye twitched: "So you don't interfere with me and Sherlock anymore?" β
"How is that possible!" Ai Ye immediately retorted, and after retorting, he became even more empty: "What, baba to make breakfast." β
Erin has no intention of going back to sleep now, not to mention that she received a text message from her boyfriend a moment later, and after learning what her father had done, she inexplicably had the feeling that she was a splinted son sandwiched between her daughter-in-law and her mother, it must be an illusion!
Whether it's an illusion or not, let time tell.
Erin was very busy in the next few days, on the one hand, she was studying the non-scientific version of the parallel universe theory, in addition to the jade slip that Ai Ye gave her, there was also the well that settled in her yard - the popular science of the senior otaku, plus Erin learned and deduced from the owner of the well, and also followed the Sadako who settled in her house, Erin's understanding of the well and the origin of the owner of the well.
On the other hand, Comrade Xiao Ai also consulted detective Sherlock Holmes across the parallel universe with her boyfriend about the case, the serial sniper murder case, and used the mobile phone.
Sherlock sat at his desk in 221B, fiddling with his computer while on a video call with his girlfriend: "The real target is obviously the first deceased, Dave Brown, a plumber." According to my homeless network, he has been eating dinner at the park on a regular basis lately, and the fact that he was the first to be hit ensures that he doesn't escape in the ensuing chaos. What an obvious fact, and why is Scotland Yard so easily ignoring it? β
"Indeed," Erin said, flipping through the information Sherlock had sent her, glancing at the screen and casually saying, "Sherlock, you're using my computer." She used declarative sentences.
Sherlock replied similarly declaratively: "Mine is in the bedroom." He paused to fiddle with the computer and looked at the phone's built-in camera, "No?" β
Erin looked subtle: "I didn't say no, and I'm glad you would rather take fifty-three steps than seven." The two were to Sherlock's own bedroom, and Erin's on the third floor of the bedroom.
"Hmph." Sherlock let out a slimy grunt from his nose, which sounded sarcastic but also annoyingly cute... bar.
"Linlin, Baba takes you out to play, are you happy?" With this childlike tone, Ai Ye suddenly appeared in Erin's room, saw the enemy of fate at a glance, and said something to mock: "Hahaha, Xia Ma face, why is your face so long, so long!" β
Sherlock said without blinking, "Young age." β
Ai Ye was not to be outdone: "Pleats monster." β
Sherlock looked at Ai Ye, who was grimacing at the screen, and shot back with a straight voice: "**." β
Ai Ye seemed to be shocked all of a sudden, and he trembled and said, "The pleats are weird." β
Erin: "...... Sherlock: I'm glad your Chinese has made great progress, don't you still have to find out how Dave Brown, a plumber, got into trouble? Go ahead, I won't bother you, goodbye. The words were completed in one go, and then she cut off the call without hesitation.
Before Ai Ye had time to smile proudly, his baby girl threw him two words "boring" and left, and Ai Ye was immediately dissatisfied: "Why do you and Xia Ma face say so many words, and there are only two words when it is your turn?" It's not fair, Linlin! Why are you going? β
Erin replied expressionlessly, "I'll go to a nearby kindergarten and register you." "If she could, she would also like to register her boyfriend, and the small class would be good.
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In the non-scientific version of parallel universe theory, the timing of the time travel is unpredictable, just like the first time Erin traveled, she was eating Sadako's Japanese food before the space shifted, and this time she said that she went to register her father for kindergarten, and she noticed the fluctuations in the space around her, and the next moment she sucked into the distorted space, and when she opened her eyes again, the space had already changed.
Erin held her forehead, her father's hoarse "no" seemed to still linger in her ears, is it really good to be so dramatic? Erin didn't have to think about her dad anymore, just because she was brought back to the world she was in now because of the screams of supreme anger and bitter hatred that had been heard in her ears.
Erin raised her eyes to look at the scene in front of her, the first glance was a quiet and peaceful town, now it was evening, the sun was setting, it was level with the spire of the tallest building in the town, a church, but Erin would not ignore the constant stream of painful screams, unwilling voices and cries that came to her ears, she opened her eyes again, and the town that had seemed quiet and peaceful had completely changed:
The whole town was covered with an impenetrable gray and even black fog in some places, and the fog was not light, but suspended under the air, as if it was about to form a liquid, and it was flowing, as if it were twisting something. The heaviest color, and the most oppressive and distorted, was the church, around which there was a solid, solid, floating debris that had condensed, and dust was constantly falling from above, like burnt ash.
Erin looked closely, it was not the like, but the ashes that had been burned, and the source of the ashesβthe blackness of Erin's eyes condensed, and she saw the source of the voices that wept and hated in pain, and they were entrenched above the church, still in the same way as before, charred and black, and the fiery red inside could be seen from the cracked skin. They were tied up and burned alive, and Erin made a judgment right away.
What kind of town is this?
The blackness in Irene's eyes did not dissipate, she put her phone in her coat pocket, and cautiously walked into this town that revealed weirdness everywhere. After meeting the first townsfolk living in the town, Erin deduces a lot of information, first of all, her current state is between humans and ghosts, and the townspeople can't see her; Secondly, she has traveled not only through space but also through time, judging by the dress and accent of the townspeople, she is now in Pennsylvania, USA, and it is now the eighties; Something happy was going to happen in the town at last, judging by the look of anticipation on the face of the townsman.
Erin wasn't sure if the 'happy event' that the townspeople were expecting was the same as the traditional happy event.
As Erin walked all the way to the church, she found that none of the inhabitants of this treacherous town were white, they were all gray, like the color of the mist suspended above the town.
Intervening between humans and ghosts is not uncomfortable for Erin, and she is even at ease when it comes to gathering information. In less than half an hour, Erin had figured out the treacherousness of the town, and now she knew the town's name, Silent Hill.
Silent Hill is a very closed town, there are no outsiders all year round, and the only channel of communication with the outside world is also controlled, very few residents go outside, and the residents don't think there is anything wrong with this, they think that the God they believe in will not abandon them because they are biased, but their so-called faith has been distorted to a terrible degree!
The ghosts entrenched above the church, those who were burned alive, were also residents of the town before their deaths, but they were considered demonically possessed, and were tied up in the church to be "purified" by a group of more fanatical cultists in the town.
And the "happy event" they are looking forward to is that they are going to hold a purification ceremony again, and when it comes to the purified person, a little girl named Alesa, the faces of the residents have a strange expectation and joy, "It is long overdue to purify her, she has been an unclean person since birth." β
"She's a witch, and only by purifying her can we make Silent Hill more peaceful."
"The demons should be driven away, I don't understand how we can still endure it until now."
The more she learned, the darker the blackness in Erin's eyes grew, especially after she met Aretha.
"Are you from outside town? I haven't seen you before. The little girl looked timid, but with a clarity in her eyes that the other townsfolk did not have, and she was the only white Irene had ever seen, though the white was so faint and crumbling.
"I'm Erin, a traveler, and it's a pleasure to meet you, Alesa." Erin stretched out her hand and shook the little girl's hand solemnly, not surprisingly seeing the bruises on Alesa's wrists, according to Erin's judgment, the owner of the bruises was also a child. Erin sneered in her heart, this was not surprising to her, the distorted beliefs in Silent Hill were not formed overnight, it was transmitted from parents to children, children were learning, they rejected Alaisa and bullied Aresa, this is no longer something that can be explained by simple school violence.
Aletha was very happy, because she felt the kindness from this stranger, in Silent Hill, only Mommy would be good to her, the rest of the people, her classmates always bullied her, the teachers wouldn't care, Mommy just hugged her and cried, telling her to be strong, and the other adults in Silent Hill always felt like pins and needles in their eyes when they looked at her, she didn't know what it was, but she always felt very uncomfortable. Thinking of this, Alaisa broke free of Erin's hand and said to her anxiously, "You go quickly, it's not good here." β
"Alesa, Alesa, who are you talking to?" At this moment, a low, trembling voice was heard, and when Alaisa heard it, she straightened her sleeves and tried to cover all the bruises as much as she could, and said to Erin, "It's Mommy." β
Dalia couldn't see Erin, she covered Aretha's mouth in a panic, looked left and right and saw that no one else saw this scene before she breathed a sigh of relief, the perennial bullying and pressure on her back almost crushed this already introverted and cowardly middle-aged woman, she let go of the hand covering Alesa's mouth: "Who were you talking to just now?" β
Erin raised her index finger at Araissa, and Alaisa lowered her head, "Nobody, Mommy, I'm reciting the text." β
Daria half-believed and led Alaisa home, Erin's eyes fell on their mother and daughter, until they disappeared from view, Erin lowered her eyes, looked at the hand that had shaken Alesa's hand, and there was a small black handprint with red silk in the palm of her hand.
Erin pursed her lips, and the little handprint disappeared immediately.
A demon?
As it gets dark, Erin arrives at Aleitha's house, where she is asleep, but her shadow is awake, as if waiting for Erin. After seeing Irene, she showed her appearance, it was exactly the same appearance as Alesa, but her temperament was completely different, Aleisha was bullied and ostracized all year round, plus Dalia did not give her the protection she deserved, she looked very cowardly and gloomy, and this Alesa, she smiled weirdly: "It was Alesha's pain, anger and hatred that attracted me, you can call me the evil Alesa." You're strong, are you here to stop me? β
"Why do you think so? Because you're a demon? I've seen purgatory on earth in Silent Hill. "The ghosts above the church who have been killed in the name of purification have told Erin that the whole of Silent Hill has long since become a living purgatory, by the hands of the town's distorted inhabitants.
The evil Alaisa smiled coldly when she heard this: "Heh, they say that they want to purify Alaissa, who is the incarnation of the demon, but in fact, they themselves are doing something more terrible than the demon. What is even more ridiculous is that they are still praying to their Lord in the church, praying for peace from their merciful Lord. β
At this moment, there was a noisy sound outside, and the evil Alesa looked at the sleeping Alesa with pity, and turned to Erin and said, "They are going to take Aletha to the church for purification." β
Outside, a group of fanatics held torches, led by a woman with a strange look of contentment.
"That's Christbella, the once purified inhabitants were either jealous of her, or wanted to leave Silent Hill, or rather, they weren't... Twist. The evil Alesa chose such a word, and when she said it, it was extremely sarcastic.
It was then that a lewd man stepped forward and proved to everyone that Aretha was an unclean person.
"That's the janitor at Aresa's school, he raped her at school just three days ago, and Aresa's classmates are outside, and he's been instructed by Kristbella, who was looking forward to the day when Alaisa was born to find a "good reason" to purify her. The evil Aletha sneered lowly after speaking, and Erin never spoke, she quietly listened to the voices coming from all directions in the whole Silent Hill, and the "criticism" outside was not over, and someone stood up to say that he saw that Aletha was talking to the witch this evening, and there was more than one who stood up.
The evil Aletha looked at the calm Erin, "The humans alive in Silent Hill are really interesting, aren't they?" β
Erin turned to look back at the evil Aretha, "Do you want hatred?" β
Evil Aletha blinked, "Hatred is incomparably delicious to me, but now my strength is not enough. As she spoke, she looked at Aleisa, and it was obvious that she still had the last trace of kindness in her heart, so she could see Erin.
Erin looked at the fanatically looking fanatical cultists outside the room and said in a calm tone, "I think Silent Hill needs to be purified. She pulled out a talisman, and the talisman caused a lightning strike that shattered the churches that had imprisoned the "purified" humans, and the hatred for the mad cultists and the insensitive residents who watched them burned alive was unleashed.
Evil Aletha licked her lips and laughed innocently.
Silent Hill is a place rich in coal resources, and suddenly one day, the coal in the ground began to burn violently, burning the whole town to ashes overnight, and I don't know what happened, after the fire was extinguished, there was an endless gray fog around Silent Hill, which lingered, and the ashes of the incineration kept falling from the sky, just like snow.
It is said that only a handful of people in the entire town have escaped, and after the rest of their lives, they will start a new life in a new place, where there is sunshine, no lingering shadows, and no believers with twisted beliefs.
Well, maybe there's a demon who was forced to become a 'guardian angel' full-time.
Evil Alesa - no matter what her name was before, male or female, she is now the evil Alesa - how can she, as a demon, not understand the truth that if you want to gain power, you have to give something? Of course she knew, but it was a little late when she did.
As a 'guardian angel', she is going to guard Araisa who forgets some bad things to grow up, where is this what the devil will do, if other demons know, she will be laughed to death, the evil Alaisa looked at Alaisa who gradually became cheerful because of her new life, her heart was extremely disgusted, but the corners of her mouth quietly curled.
As for Comrade Ai, who gave wings to the evil Alesa, she climbed out of the well again, not knowing that the sky was about to change, and maybe there was an accident?