The revival of humanity

One evening on New Year's Eve, the thief Spencer was closely followed by a woman named Emily, who he saw had just withdrawn $20,000 in cash from the bank. Spencer watched as she walked to a wooden house on the outskirts. At night, Spencer felt to the window and listened to the movement in the room, and he heard Emily's crisp voice, as well as the pleasant voice of a child.

"Mom, I hear the sound of snow." "Yes, kid, it's snowing." "How's the cute little creatures?" "They're all lying warmly in their mother's arms just like you." "Mom, what color is the wind in winter?" "Now it dresses the woods and streams in white gauze, and it is naturally white." "Do I have a color, Mom?" "Of course there is, your color is like your smile, it's golden." After a while, the lights went out, and Spencer waited another 30 minutes, gently opening the door.

With the faint light of the flashlight, Spencer searched around and finally found the coat Emily wore during the day, which was hanging on a hanger in the bedroom, and the mother and daughter were sleeping next to them. Spencer was ecstatic, but just as he reached for his clothes, the lights came on. Emily glared angrily at him as an uninvited guest.

"Ma'am, you still want your life or money—I mean you and your child have two lives." Spencer said as he was about to turn over the coat hanging by the bed, when Emily suddenly pounced. The money is definitely in the coat! Spencer lifted his foot and kicked at Emily, who let out a scream and fell to the ground. The scream woke the child up. "Mother Emily, what's wrong with you?" A beautiful little girl crawled out of the bed.

The little girl touched Emily's side and giggled, "Emily's mother, are you dreaming?" Emily stopped moaning at the child's words, and she got up and carried the child to the bed, saying, "Annie, there is a guest at home, and mother is playing with him the game of 'Officers and Robbers'!" ”

As soon as Anne heard that she was playing a game, she looked around the house with big eyes. Spencer yelled, "Stop pretending to be garlic, get the money out." He rushed over and lifted the child aloft. Anne, who was held up in the air, laughed excitedly: "Mom, this game is so fun. Emily was at a loss, she grabbed the pen and paper on the bedside table, quickly wrote a line on it and handed it to Spencer: "Please don't hurt the child, please don't expose this game, we have something to say." ”

Spencer put the child down and said, "Okay, now you tell me where the money is?" Anne said, "Mother Emily, why does 'Uncle Robber' want money?" Emily said gently, "He's probably hungry." "Mom, he's so pitiful, can you give him a little more money?" Give him the money from my piggy bank. "Kid, it's just a game, Uncle won't really ask us for money." Emily backtracked, and Spencer was enraged, and he grabbed Emily by the hair: "Tell me, where is the money......" Emily trembled, but didn't say a word.

Spencer, who has lost his mind, pulls out a knife that is shining, and he wants the child to watch his mother bleed, to break Emily, and to make her not to fantasize that it is just a game.

Spencer raised the knife under Emily's nose, hoping that Emily would give up resistance before he could do so. But Emily's eyes were full of anger and unyielding, and such a look made the frustrated Spencer not hesitate to plunge the sharp knife deep into Emily's thigh, and at the same time yelled: "Emily, if you don't hand over the money, you know who my knife is going to stab next!" ”

"Mom, why don't you give money to your uncle?"

Emily, who was in a cold sweat, said in a softer voice, "Annie, you have to stay the course in everything you do, even if it's a game." ”

Spencer was surprised that such a tender voice could be made by such a painful person. While Spencer was stunned, Emily quickly wrote down the following line: "I promised to take Anne to get her eyes cured after the New Year, I shouldn't have let her come into this world." Her father had an accident five years ago while logging trees, and the doctor advised me not to keep her because of my excessive grief that the fetus was harmed, but I couldn't lose my daughter after losing my husband. God forbid, she's beautiful, just invisible to the eye. ”

Emily went on to write, "Anne has always lived in the world I described. She didn't know that there was sin in the world, and she was looking forward to seeing what her calves looked like, and what the birds that chirped in the mountains behind her. If you take that money, the child's hopes will be dashed. Please don't wake up my child in this way. What the hell is going on in this world, please give her a chance to observe it with her own eyes. ”

Spencer's eyes turned to the child again, and there was not a trace of shadow or impurity in that eye. It was this glance that Spencer suddenly felt that the murderous aura just now receded like a tide, and the soul full of desire instantly turned into a pile of ashes. He suddenly leaned down and took out his handkerchief to bandage Emily's wound as if he had changed, and then he turned and slowly approached Anne, lifting her high into the air, and the child giggled. In the laughter of the child, Spencer, holding the child, seemed to be a phoenix flying out of the ashes.

Putting the child down, Spencer pretended to be brisk and said, "Madam, it's time for me to go back and disturb you and the child's rest." ”