Chapter 5 Lotus Leaf Dragonfly
If God gave me another chance, I would definitely choose to eat all the breakfast Lu Yao made this morning.
"It's really in the way!" She took off her skin and moved her limbs, and when she was fully stretched, her body was more than a head taller than a normal adult. After the monster completed her metamorphosis, she stared viciously at me who had injured her in the hospital bed. I finally recovered from my fright, grabbed the glass vase on the bedside table with both hands, and threw it at the monster.
"Dying and struggling has always been something you people love to do!" Effortlessly, she grabbed the vase I had thrown over with her bare hands and crushed it stiffly.
I listened to the sound of the glass bottle shattering, and I felt that the next thing she would crush would be my heart.
"That's better than you, too!" I don't know why, at this tense moment, I jumped out of this sentence, probably both horizontally and vertically, it is better to die a heroic death.
The monster was annoyed by me, and let out an angry gurgling sound, and before the skin on my hand could heal, she immediately raised her claw-like hand and slashed at my head.
"Xiao Yu ......" Suddenly, a weak call came from my side, it was Uncle Ye who was in a coma and gradually regained his senses. Seeing me and the monster arguing beside him, he suddenly shouted in horror: "What about He Yu! What about my wife! Suddenly, he seemed to realize that his wife was the terrible-looking monster in front of him, and when he saw the human skin falling off the ground, he instantly understood what was happening, and he cried out in pain.
The monster's attention was immediately attracted by Uncle Ye, she bent her hind legs and kicked hard, crossed my bed, and stretched the nails in her hands straight towards Uncle Ye on the hospital bed.
"No!" The speed of that monster is extremely fast, let alone stopping, before I could react, she had already jumped in front of Uncle Ye. I couldn't imagine what kind of scene I was about to face, and subconsciously covered my eyes.
In an instant, the monster stopped attacking. The nails on one of her hands were already deeply embedded in the mottled wall at the head of the bed, and the nails on her other hand stopped twenty centimeters away from Uncle Ye's throat.
“…… Xiao Yu ......" He called hoarsely, repeating the name almost like a whimper, and the monster actually paused because of the name. Uncle Ye opened his bloodshot eyes, staring at the eyes of the monster in front of him with tears in his eyes, and the monster also seemed to understand what the other party meant, put away his original grin, and responded with fluorescent green eyes.
“…… It's all my fault...... I was the one who made you like this......" Uncle Ye said word by word. From their eyes, I seemed to be able to feel that the originally kind He Yu still had remnants in the evil body of Zài.
Suddenly, I noticed that something was glowing on the monster's hands.
It's a ring, and I always think I've seen it somewhere. With every call from Uncle Ye, the ring seemed to be induced, emitting a faint silver light.
I don't know where I got the courage to think this is a good opportunity to be anti-customer-oriented. I looked at my right hand, which had hurt her. I don't know if it will work if I try again, but it's better than sitting back and waiting. I sneaked around the monster's back and held out my right hand to her back, close to the monster's black-green pus-skin.
I was so nervous that I couldn't breathe, and I retracted my hand in fear several times. No matter! I gritted my teeth and pressed her back.
Sure enough, the place I was holding down began to take on a dark red burning imprint. The monster that had been standing still was stimulated all of a sudden, shaking its body frantically, screaming loudly in its mouth, and its thin red tongue kept spitting out from its jagged teeth. I almost retracted my hand as she shook violently. In order not to let go of my hand, I grabbed the monster's hair, and the whole person rode on the monster's back like a horse.
She kept screaming, jumping up and down trying to fall off me on her back. And I clutched her hair tightly, trying to keep my balance. When she tried to no avail, she swung her two claws again, trying to reach behind me and attack me. Probably also aroused the fighting spirit by this scene, and successfully dodged her attacks again and again. At the same time, I had already burned a circular wound twenty centimeters in diameter on her back, and the wound was spreading rapidly to other places.
Then, as if sensing her disadvantage, she turned around and ran towards the human skin that had been taken off the ground, spreading her limbs to fit into the human skin. One of her feet had already been drilled in, and the part of the human skin immediately stuck to her leg, as if it had grown from her. I was clutching her hair in one hand, and the other continued to corrode her skin, and I couldn't hold her back anymore.
In a hurry, I suddenly saw Uncle Ye running over from the hospital bed, although he was old, but perhaps prompted by this extraordinary situation, he quickly tore off the human skin from the monster and threw it out of the window. The human skin fluttered in the wind and rain outside the window for a moment, and then disappeared into the air.
Now she had lost the last of her defenses, and the skin of her whole body had been melted by me, and she gradually lost her strength and fell to the ground. I tried to withdraw my hand, but found that it was already connected to her back, and to my horror, my hand was like a whirlpool, sucking her entire body into my palm. I was too scared to act rashly. The center of the vortex shone with a dark green light, constantly sucking the monster's body. The monster's heels and half of its body were already in my palms, and the rest of my hands and head were still struggling outside. She clenched her fingernails tightly to the ground, trying to resist the huge suction behind her. She had carved out several large pits in the ground, but it could not slow down the process of her being sucked in at all.
Eventually, her whole body disappeared into the palm of my hand, and her screams echoed through the room.
Uncle Ye spent a lot of body due to the gallop just now, and lay on the ground panting hard. I was also exhausted and sat limply in place. The ground was littered with the juice left over from the monster's body, and a ring that shimmered with silver. The ring is rounded throughout, with lotus leaf ornaments painted on the ring surface, and a strand of silver-white hair wrapped around the ring.
He reached for the ring, reached for his chest, held it tightly to his heart with both hands, and sobbed silently, and after a while, it turned into a muffled cry.
"Xiao Yu! It's all my fault! It's all my fault! He sobbed uncontrollably in a hoarse throat, his fingers rubbing the ring on his chest, tears wetting the clothes on his chest.
I was just about to go over and comfort him, when I suddenly noticed that the ring was glowing white. Uncle Ye also discovered this situation, let go of his clenched fist, and quietly looked at the ring lying in his palm with a silver-white light.
At this time, a white and almost transparent body gradually rose out of the ring, it was He Yu, the former He Yu who was dressed plainly but elegantly, with a warm smile on his face.
Uncle Ye stopped crying, raised his head and looked at the transparent body in front of him stupidly.
"Little ...... Xiao Yu! He called, reaching out to grab the body in front of him, but he couldn't catch anything. With great curiosity, I reached out to touch her, but my hand went from her back to her chest, and she was like air.
The He Yu in front of him looked at Uncle Ye and nodded, gently stretched out his hand, wiped the tears from his face, and stroked his old cheeks.
"Deting, hard work." An old, ethereal voice came from within her body. The sound was clean and distant, making it feel like it was coming from afar, echoing in the room.
"Take care of yourself." The voice said.
Uncle Ye knew that the other party was untouchable, but he tried to stand up and lean on her legs, hugging her tightly, although it was air, he seemed to be holding the entity, and refused to let go.
He Yu stroked Uncle Ye's head with his hand, inch by inch, eyebrows, eyes, nose, and mouth inch by inch, stroking the face of this man who had accompanied him for most of his life, recognizing this face that he was so familiar that he could not be more familiar. Gradually, He Yu's body lost its light, as if it was about to evaporate.
"In the next life, please advise."
In the end, she still disappeared and disappeared into Uncle Ye's arms.
I quietly watched what happened in front of me, what an inseparable emotion. I don't know when my eyes got wet.
Outside the window, the pouring rain gradually stopped, and the dark clouds in the sky probably dispersed, and I could feel the moon reappearing in the sky, and the bright moonlight shone through the window, and it was already late at night.
I stood up and picked up Uncle Ye, who had fallen to the ground, and let him lie on the hospital bed to rest. I think someone will find us in the hospital by dawn. Just as I was getting up to close the door of the ward, the building suddenly began to shake violently, and the paint on the ceiling and walls began to peel off one by one, upwards to be exact. Everything on the ground and walls floated into the air like pieces of paper, shaking and then burned by something like a cold smoot.
With the vibration and burning, I clung to the bed frame in front of me. There was so much smoke and dust in front of my eyes that I couldn't see what was happening, but I felt that the shaking was so strong that I felt like I was about to choke to death by the smoke and dust.
……
"Wake up!" I was startled by a shout, followed by another. "Mr. Ye is awake! Call Ms. Ye over! A nurse shouted.
What's going on, I opened my eyes and looked around. Xiao Li in front of me was dangling the coffee in his hand towards me, seeing that my expression was still a little sluggish, he gently patted me on the shoulder: "Xiao Wu! Wake up! ”
It's still the same premium suite, furnished exactly as it was in the morning. The sun outside the window has risen overhead, and it is shining energetically on the entire Xiaoyao Mountain Scenic Area. The artificial lake looks sparkling in the sun, and the old people basking in the sun by the lake talk happily. The peaks of Xiaoyao Mountain can be faintly seen in the distance, and a few kites flutter in the clear blue sky on the top of the peak, flying in the wind.
It's like nothing has happened.
"Back to ...... Coming back? I grunted and found that there were many doctors and nurses around Uncle Ye's hospital bed, and Ms. Ye and Sister Zui were running into the house from the door.
"What nonsense, I just went out for ten minutes and poured a coffee. Don't be in a daze, come and help! Xiao Li put the coffee in his hand on the glass coffee table in front of me, and immediately gathered around Uncle Ye's bedside.
Ten minutes? I felt like hours had passed. Fortunately, it seems that it was really just a vivid dream. Seeing that everyone was so busy, I hurriedly stepped forward to watch. Uncle Ye's lips, who were lying on the hospital bed before, kept trembling, as if he was saying something, but he couldn't hear clearly, and his limbs kept shaking. Doctors and nurses nervously observed various instruments and performed various examinations, and the results were all normal. After a while, Uncle Ye stopped shaking, his mouth stopped talking, and two tears flowed down his cheeks from the corners of his eyes.
He slowly opened his eyes.
Ms. Ye didn't care about the doctors and nurses doing the examination, and rushed to the hospital bed with an arrow, shouting excitedly: "Dad! Father! Do you see me? I'm Jiahe! Can you hear me? ”
Uncle Ye's eyes blinked slowly and nodded slightly. Ye Jiahe immediately jumped and jumped happily, like a little girl, constantly calling her father.
"Jiahe, I have something to tell you." Uncle Ye said to her weakly. So, a large group of people went out consciously. I picked up the coffee on the coffee table and followed Xiao Wu to the door. Uncle Ye turned his head in my direction and said to Jiahe, "Let her stay too." ”
"Me?" I'm a little confused, why me? Sister Zui and Xiao Li were also a little incredulous, but they still followed the crowd out of the room. I saw Sister Zui wincing at me as she closed the door of the ward, meaning don't mess up!
I suddenly felt that this qiē was so good, and it was so good to be able to see Sister Zui again.
Ye Jiahe and I sat on both sides of Uncle Ye's bed, although I was puzzled, but I experienced a dream myself, and I was somewhat familiar with the old man in front of me, but it was different for Ye Jiahe. Her father finally woke up after being in a coma for more than a year, but he called an unfamiliar girl to join in the conversation between their father and daughter, which made her constantly look me up and down. Ye Jiahe's eyebrows and eyes are very similar to He Yu in a dream, and her behavior suddenly reminded me of the scene when He Yu looked at me, and I couldn't help but get goosebumps again.
"Girl, what's your name?" Uncle Ye asked me softly on the hospital bed.
Finally relieved from the embarrassment, I quickly replied: "My name is Wu Chao." ”
He nodded, and then said to Ye Jiahe on the other side: "This Miss Wu saved my life!" I was a little overwhelmed by that. Isn't what happened just now a dream? Of course, Ye Jiahe was also inexplicable. Looking at the puzzled expressions of the two of us, Uncle Ye pulled out his right hand from the quilt, and from the hand he held tightly, I saw a rose petal and a silver ring.
"It's ......!" I immediately exclaimed, that dream had indeed happened, and I really woke up this unconscious old man inexplicably!
"Isn't this a damn ring? Dad, I haven't been looking for a long time but can't find it, so it's you! Ye Jiahe exclaimed at the same time. I found out that she was wearing the same silver sparkling lotus leaf ring on her hand, which I had noticed during the morning interview, so it felt familiar.
It turned out that this ring was a pair with the ring in Uncle Ye's hand, and it was custom-made by Uncle Ye when they were young. The inside of the two rings is engraved with their names: Ye Deting, He Yu. The ring depicts a lotus leaf growing luxuriantly, and between the lotus leaves, there is a pair of small and delicate dragonflies.
Lotus leaf dragonfly, what leaves are determined.
They have been wearing this pair of rings since they fell in love when they were young, until He Yu suddenly passed away one day.
"Then these rose petals ......" Ye Jiahe picked up the rose in Ye Deting's hand and looked at it himself. No one brought roses to this room from beginning to end, and the hospital also forbade doctors and nurses to bring flowers to work for fear of causing allergies to patients. Therefore, the existence of this rose petal clearly shows that the qiē we have just experienced is real.
In the next few minutes, Uncle Ye told us everything he had experienced in his dream. It turned out that when he lay in bed 11-15 of encephalopathy in the old North Building Hospital on the first day, almost all his previous memories of reality were gone. Therefore, when the "He Yu" in that dream appeared in front of his eyes, he was not surprised at all. That He Yu told him that he was hospitalized due to a sudden cerebral infarction, and he would take care of him every day and feed him his favorite lotus seed and lily porridge. Uncle Ye, who drank the porridge, would pick up the book brought by He Yu on the table, and he would be sleepy after reading it for a while. Every time he woke up again, it was almost night, and at this time, He Yu would come back and repeat what he had done yesterday.
There were five beds in the room, but he was the only one who lived in it, the whole building was darkened all the time, and the doctors and nurses were never seen. The strange thing is that Uncle Ye didn't feel anything wrong in such a strange environment, but was very happy to accept He Yu's care. The only thing that made him feel uneasy was that his daughter Ye Jiahe didn't come to see him for a long time. He remembered that he had been in that room for almost five years, and now he realized that he had actually been in a coma for just over a year. Then he met me, an uninvited guest, and what happened next. It wasn't until he had just woken up from his hospital bed that he had regained all his memories from the past to the future.
Ye Jiahe was dumbfounded when he heard this, and he couldn't believe it was true at all. Indeed, anyone else would think that this is an old man talking nonsense. But the ring and rose petals he held in his hand kept telling us that it was a fact.
In the end, Ye Jiahe chose to believe in his father and expressed his gratitude to me. We all agreed with each other not to reveal too many details to the outside world, for fear that others would think that all three of us were suffering from paranoia. I was a little embarrassed, but something suddenly occurred to me.
"Uncle Ye, I remember you said that it was all your fault, what's going on?"
Hearing my question, Uncle Ye frowned and looked out the window for a long time without speaking. The room suddenly fell silent.
I felt like I had said the wrong thing right now, until he broke the silence and opened his mouth.
"It all started with the letter I received."