I'm also one of the puppets

I bumped into another puppet

I screamed at each other with another puppet

"Puppets! Puppet! ”

- Rock Eagle

When I woke up from a state of panic, it happened that the subway was driving from the dark underground to the absolute light. My pupils dilated and narrowed, and I finally breathed a long sigh of relief after confirming that the sunlight in front of me was not an illusion.

In the dreams that were a little too real, there were a lot of things that scared me. It's just a reaction to my current state, whether I can tell what I'm doing now is the result, and whether I can understand the final truth of the matter. But in any case, it is a path chosen by yourself.

The small lights on the subway door that were about to turn off had already begun to flicker, and I didn't have time to think about it, so I staggered through the crack in the door. From the moment the train stepped onto the platform, I still seemed to be able to see the desperate and ** eyes of the group of zombies between the black cracks.

It was a really nice feeling to walk on land. I took a taxi and went straight to the Xining District Psychiatric Treatment and Research Center.

The doctors and nurses there had long regarded me as their own, and after greeting me one by one, I stood in front of the VIP7 bed again. Sister Xue made some changes in her room because she accidentally attacked someone last time, and the hospital was afraid that she would do something drastic again.

For example, if all sharp objects are removed, the electrical appliances that may cause an electric shock are gone. At this moment, she is protected like a child. So when I looked at her through the window, she looked at me with a helpless and sad look in her eyes, though I don't know if she really had that kind of awareness.

"Sister Xue," I called out to her softly, "remember me?" ”

She didn't speak, but watched quietly as I pushed the door open and entered. After the little nurse left, I sat down next to her. I couldn't figure out what was going on in her mind, but I always felt like she knew what I was here for.

Without too much pleasantries, I pulled the old photo out of my bag. looked at Sister Xue. Although the people in the photo looked very different from the sluggish patients in front of me, a closer comparison of their faces did reveal a slight similarity.

After decades of vicissitudes, this poor woman's body and mind were forced to separate. Just because of a wrong love, I lost the good life that originally belonged to me. And the man who led the qiē to happen didn't know which corner to hide, and he didn't want to come out to face this qiē. I believe that Zhao Cheng still loves her, otherwise he would not be willing to sacrifice his life to atone for his sins.

"Are you ready?" I asked her.

I'm actually asking myself.

She was still looking at me indifferently. Blinked his eyelids slightly.

I put the picture between my index and middle fingers, put my hands together on my chest, and held my breath. The photo in his hand was beating like a heartbeat, and it sensed it.

"Sister Xue, it will hurt a little bit next, you bear with it." With that, I took out the Swiss Army knife I had with me and slashed between the fingers of her outstretched middle finger of her right hand.

Dark red blood flowed out instantly, but she didn't react, as if it wasn't her who had been pierced just now. It's a piece of wood.

With Sister Xue's blood, there is a passage connecting the two worlds. I still held the photo in my hand and silently recited the mantra about the dream exorcism in Xu Jiakong's dream notebook.

…… The Netherworld is filthy, the three corpses are drunk, the Huang Lang Taiyuan is Huang, and the four lives are enchanted......

…… The two rays are clear, the three elements are one, the demon is dead, and all the ghosts are sealed......

…… Qiulan. Come out......

"Heh......" A delicate sigh suddenly echoed in the room, which sounded endless, with a hint of coolness, as if it was gently spouting from between the lips through the gauze tent. With a little sadness, it gradually flowed out of the photo in his hand.

I felt the photo in my hand begin to tremble slightly, and Sister Xue, who was facing me, looked at the direction of the photo in front of me in a daze.

The feeling gradually changed from cold to warm, as if a hand stretched out in the ice, sticking to the warmth of this life, slowly warming. Then. This arm, which has passed through more than 40 years, stretches out through a thin photograph.

I was shocked to see that this arm was indeed the arm of the woman in the cave. It slowly stretched forward as if it had grown out of a photo. Then her head, her body, and her legs all emerge from the photograph, emitting a faint white light.

"Is this my body?" She asked.

The voice sounded ethereal, like a dream.

She stood on tiptoe on the middle finger of Sister Xue's right hand, and she was already fully humanoid.

The photo began to spontaneously combust at the last moment, the bright warm yellow light swallowed the two lovers snuggled together in the photo, and the happy and sweet smile gradually became distorted and blackened in the process of burning, until it finally became ashes on the ground, announcing the final result of this love.

The blood-colored passage opened by the soul and consciousness standing on Sister Xue's fingertips slowly flowed into Sister Xue's body. Like parched soil, she continued to suck the nourishment of the rain until all the qiē was reduced to one, and finally the three bodies became one.

The one who slowly opened her eyes in front of me was no longer the sluggish old woman, but a newborn Qiu Xia, the Song Qiulan who had waited for decades and finally reappeared in the world.

Before I could call her, I suddenly noticed that her wrinkled skin, which was over sixty years old, began to peel off, like a snake molting, gradually drying and shrinking, until finally falling off. Before she could utter her first cry of joy from the joy of her newbirth, something like this happened to her, staring at me with terrified eyes.

The stripping eventually stopped, and time is fair after all. Song Qiulan's body recovered more than forty years ago, she finally breathed a breath of fresh air, ripped off all the dead skin on her body, and the corners of her mouth curved slightly:

"I'm back."

Neither the hospital nor the family would believe that such a supernatural thing had happened, and they would definitely think that Sister Xue was missing, and that this newborn woman was a monster. The two of us finally decided to sneak out of here, and she followed me back. She didn't have anyone to visit in the psychiatric hospital, and even if she disappeared, the hospital didn't have much to lose.

Originally, she was a woman who had evaporated from the world, and had been pronounced dead more than forty years ago.

She took off her hospital gown and changed into the clothes I had brought. I didn't expect her to become younger, so I brought all the clothes of my grandmother and grandmother, but when she changed into them, the whole person looked more temperamental, and the retro flavor became more and more intense. I stared blankly at her. No wonder people of that era were fascinated by her.

"Qiuxia, oh no, Qiulan. What are you going to do now? I asked.

She didn't seem to have adapted to this new world, and sat in the taxi in a bit of a panic. Holding my hand tightly. For her now, I am the closest person to her in this world.

"Me? I don't know what to do either. Do you want to find Zhao Cheng? Go home? None of this is realistic. Everyone I know will see me like a ghost, and I need a new identity. And my memory hasn't fully recovered yet, I need time. ”

"Qiulan, I don't know if the Zhao Cheng you mentioned is the same person as the Zhao Cheng I know. He told me that your name is Qiuxia. ”

"Qiuxia? That must be him. After a pause, he continued, "The picture he used to seal me was taken by the two of us during a mission. The order for that mission was kept secret, and all of us had code names in our names. They are Spring Rain, Xia Mang, Qiu Xia and Dong Bai, plus the group leader Moy, a total of five people. Xia Mang is Zhao Cheng's code name. ”

"Wait, Moy? Why didn't your team leader use a code name? I asked.

"His identity is fake, he is a person from above who is in charge of top-secret missions, and he has been sent to preside over our work. He knows a lot more than we do. We were only in charge of the exploration and digging, and he knew the qiē behind that operation. ”

Things are getting complicated again, it is very likely that this mysterious person named Mo Yi is the one who witnessed Zhao Cheng's murder in the first place, I don't know if he started it, but he definitely has something to do with it.

I immediately sent a message to Qin Chuyi, telling him about the process on my side. As soon as I finished pressing the send button, the taxi driver slammed on the brakes, and Qiulan and I immediately crashed into the back seat of the car. Fortunately, it was just a sudden braking, and there was no car accident, and the driver's scolding sound immediately exploded.

"He's ×! Whose child! I'm going to die! He put his head out of the window and howled. Then he turned his head and said to us, "I'm sorry, but a child in adult clothes suddenly came out. I'm scared of you. ”

"Kids?" I looked out the window, and I immediately recognized the thin figure, which was the guy who had stolen the soft face in my office the other day. However, this figure looks a little smaller than the last time, and it may be the younger brother of the child last time.

I turned around and tried to tell Qiulan what I had found, but the seat was empty, and the side doors had been opened. Dangling in the air. Through the window, Qiulan had already run out more than ten meters, rampage on the whistling road, and was about to chase the suspicious child.

"Hey! Qiulan, it's dangerous! I yelled and ran out after her.

"Wu Chao! Zhao Cheng is over there! She yelled at me and immediately chased after me.

When the driver saw me get out of the car, he immediately grabbed me, and I hurriedly took out a large bill for him before he let go. I didn't have time to wait for him to find money for me, so I threw the door shut and ran out.

"Really, people are so desperate now...... "The driver behind him muttered and drove away.

I dodged left and right in the middle of the road, and finally came to the side of the road. By this time, there was no sign of her, and I gasped for breath, my heart full of worry. What should I do if she doesn't know her well, and she can't find me?

The phone rang at an inopportune time, and I answered the call with some impatience.

"Hello?"

"Xiaoxiao, do you have time?" It's Qin Chuyi.

"What's wrong? I was in the city, and Song Qiulan went to chase a child, but I lost it. ”

"Lost? I'll go, how long has it been since I found it, and she's an old lady who still has the heart to chase the child? ”

"Don't talk nonsense, get down to business, what are you looking for me?"

"Yes," he said, "you remember our advertisement, no, someone is looking for us again." ”

I'm really angry, what else do I have to worry about other people's affairs at this time, and I'm already in a mess here: "Sue him, we won't take it, the master is settled now." ”

"But ......"

"But what is it, but, if you don't answer, you don't answer."

"The other party's signature is Moy." (To be continued.) )

PS: It's Monday again tomorrow, tears