Human desires are unrestrained, what you want, what you want to do, money, power, women, or status, I have them, correspondingly, what do you want to exchange with me? It's the fairest trade in the world, an equivalent exchange, so tell me, what do you want?

Lin Yi remembered in a trance that it was an afternoon, the warmest time of the day, and the afternoon sun shone through the window into some old rental houses, although they were old, the house was very tidy.

The sunlight climbed up the bedside table and shone on the yellowed family photo, and the little boy in the photo looked a little angry, looking at the middle-aged man lying on the ground riding a big horse for the child, and behind him was a busy young housewife in the kitchen, as if he was slightly angry at the middle-aged man not to be too used to the child.

It was supposed to be a harmonious and warm scene, but it looked very weird, the little boy looked at his father's back sulking, as if his father did not meet his own requirements and let the other children ride the horse, but the middle-aged man did not have a child on his back, everything seemed very discordant, something was missing.

"Dad, do I have a little sister?" Lin Yi took the family photo and asked a little strangely, he always felt that this photo was very strange, but he felt that there was an indescribable sense of disobedience in it.

"What do you say, it's not enough for me to toss with you, stinky boy, you don't know how naughty you were when you were a child, every time I want to beat you, your mother will stop you, and always say that I am too used to children, in fact, she herself is the most spoiled for you." The middle-aged man put down the newspaper in his hand and took the photo in Lin Yi's hand.

He looked at the woman in the photo with some nostalgia, that is, Lin Yi's mother, she died unexpectedly in an accident a few years ago, Lin Yi's father seemed to remember what happened before and fell silent, Lin Yi knew that his father had not come out of the shadow of the accident many years ago, in the initial period, he would lock himself in the house every day and talk to his mother's photo, except for buying alcohol, never stepping out of the door, during that time Lin Yi took care of himself.

If natural and man-made disasters brought his father despair, then what brought Lin Yi was premature maturity, Lin Yi's father sank for a long time, and it was only in the last few years that he stepped out of the door and slowly changed back to his original appearance, he said that his mother told him that it was time to come out.

At this time, he was also in the same deep thought as his father, but not thinking about one thing: "You guys? Who do you mean by that? Is there anyone else but me? Dad, you don't have illegitimate children, do you? He looked at his father half-jokingly.

found that his father's expression was also puzzled: "Yes, why are you guys?" I only have one son, but it seems ... My father also noticed that something was wrong, but no one could tell the sense of disobedience, as if it was a dusty history, just like Pandora's box, an experience that no one dared to touch, and this Pandora's box was opened just now.

The weather that was obviously sunny just now suddenly became gloomy, it seemed that it was about to rain, and there was a fishy smell in the air, it was supposed to be a dream about hell, but it really happened in front of Lin Yi's eyes, his body began to tremble uncontrollably, and the whispering voice in his ears made his brain feel like it was stirred by a red-hot iron rod: "You broke the rules, I'm here to punish you, Lin Yi." ”

The world in front of Lin Yi's eyes began to distort, he saw huge eyes, piles of flesh, red, black, white, blood vessels, a disgusting fishy smell, and he saw his father looking at him strangely, as if only he could see this picture scroll of hell.

Lin Yi wanted to tell his father loudly to run away, but his throat seemed to be choked, and he couldn't even make a sound, so he could only watch the distortion of the scene in front of him and the disappearance of his father.

"You must be wondering, what promises, what punishments, and who I really am, all of these are for yourself, because these are part of the equivalent exchange."

The monster's voice changed from a whisper to a scream: "It was you who killed your sister, of course you won't remember, you murderer, even asked me to erase your memory, and now is the time for you to pay, Lin Yi." ”

Lin Yi covered his ears tightly, only then did he realize that its sound was not transmitted to the brain through the eardrum, but more like the roar of a beast that appeared directly from the brain.

"No, it's not me, I don't remember anything, I didn't do anything, it must be you, it's you who lied to me." Lin Yi's eyes were bloodshot, he knelt on the ground with his head in his hands, just the sound of the monster had already seriously hurt his spirit, but what really frightened him was that with the guidance of the monster's voice, he seemed to remember, that promise, that deal.

"No, that's you, greedy for life and afraid of death, and even sacrificed your loved ones to me for fear of your own death, human beings are so ridiculous, they don't even dare to admit what they have done, they deceive themselves, and finally even believe themselves."

The monster began to sneer: "Whether you want to get up or not, I will take the rest of your father's life." It paused for a moment and began to squirm at me: "Now, I want your eyes, Boom." It walked towards Lin Yi, stretched out an organ similar to a hand and touched his eyeball, grabbed it and pulled it out.

Lin Yi's painful expression was distorted, he reached out to touch the eye socket that should have been a hole, strangely, he touched it, his eyes were still there, the monster dragged his father's body, slowly disappeared into his field of vision, time seemed to flow again, everything seemed to have never happened, but on that family photo, there were only two people left, the little boy who was a little angry and awkward, and the woman who was cooking in the kitchen...

"Damn, it's this dream again." I opened my eyes suddenly, and I saw the ceiling of the room, and my body was sticky, as if it had been soaked in water, although the nightmare was very real, but I still couldn't remember what happened to the nightmare, I picked up my phone, it was already 8:21 in the morning.

The harmony outside the window made me feel unreal, it should be just a nightmare, Freud said that he thinks about it day and dreams at night, it seems that he has to watch less horror movies recently, I smiled, such a big person can be scared like this by nightmares.

Walking out of the room, my sister has gone to school, since my parents died in that accidental car accident, my sister and I depend on each other, although I am only a high school student, in order to make a living, I used my parents' savings to open a detective agency, but at present, the main thing to deal with is the small things on campus, such as the girl in the next class asked me to find evidence of my boyfriend's cheating, or lost something.

I picked up the milk left by my sister and found the note pressed under the cup: "Stupid Lin Yi, you must be late when you get up so late, I'll go first--- Lin Meng" I saw my sister's message, and that somewhat childish grimace, and decided to forget the emotions that the nightmare brought to me and prepare to go to school.

The family portrait of just two people in the corner has fallen to the dust, as if to tell me that it might not just be a nightmare.