Volume 1 Dawn Chapter 23 Butterflies
It was late at night, and the sky was full of dark clouds, a faint orange glow in the reflection of the lights, as if the whole city was covered in a quilt, and people were overwhelmed. In Eros's mansion, he wore a hood and roared in his apartment like last time, throwing things wildly.
"Ah!! Yes!!! β
Instead of simply venting and shouting, he is more like a howler monkey in the forest, full of hostility, roaring angrily at the intruder.
"You goddamn idiot!!"
Elos picked up the ashtray and threw it at the wall, the glass shattering with the force of the impact. He pinched his waist and paced back and forth in the room, muttering something incessantly.
"No, no, no, no... Come out, come out, come out...."
After a while, a demonic male voice came to his head again.
[Poor fellow, they've stepped up the police, you can't catch that girl anymore, you'll never see your lovely wife again.] ]
"Nope! We have the chips and we still have a chance! β
[Even if you can catch that girl, if you run into that ghost again, will you still be able to make sure you get out of it?] ]
He clutched his hood and wailed angrily,
"That damn it! I'm going to kill him! We're going to have to get rid of him! β
Eros sat on the ground slumped against the wall, his scalp itching like maggots, and he scratched his hands back and forth on his hood as if he were about to tear off a layer of skin. The scene is like a faceless zombie in Silent Hill, which is extremely weird.
After a while, something suddenly occurred to him, his scalp stopped itching, and his hand stopped in mid-air, like a marionette with a stuck gear.
[You've got a solution?] ]
"That reagent! Take that thing you created! β
[You're such a genius my Elos, I don't know what horrible things that person will see if you use it, oh~]
"Uh-huh-hmm..... Hahahaha......"
Eros stood up against the wall and staggered towards the bedside table, opening the cabinet and pulling out a small steel box inside, flicking the combination lock on it.
With a click, the lock was opened, and Eros pulled out a small test tube filled with a green glow.
[Our Secret Weapon Hey, Hey, Hey......]
"None of them can run hahahaha......"
Eros looked at the test tube in his hand, glanced at the watch next to the bed, and suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to do something.
"Oops!"
Eros buttoned up his clothes and hurried down the stairs to the kitchen. He took out the food that had been kept warm from the microwave, and on the plate was fragrant rice, sausages, broccoli.......
[I don't think you're quite focused on nutritional balance.] ]
"Shut up, don't talk when I go down in a while! ]
Eros picked up his plate, went to the fridge and pulled out a box of strawberry-flavored yogurt, and headed for the basement stairs.
He went to the basement, pressed the combination lock on the wall behind the bookshelf, opened the door to the dark room, and walked in.
The space in the darkroom is not large, about ten square meters, and there is an energy-saving lamp on the central ceiling, which sprinkles a dark yellow on the concrete floor. On the side of the darkroom was a single bed, on which sat a little girl.
The girl was about six or seven years old, wearing a pink dress and a double ponytail, curled up in the corner of the bed and hugging her legs. It's a bit like Little Red Riding Hood being tricked into a wooden house.
Eros placed the meal on the table next to the bed and walked towards the little girl.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, my uncle was too busy today, he forgot about you, you must be hungry."
Eros inserted the straw into the yogurt box and handed it to the little girl. The girl looked at Eros for a moment, then stretched out her right hand, took the yogurt and drank it.
[You're so sympathetic, I don't remember you being so hypocritical.] ]
"Shut up!"
The girl was startled when she heard this, and stepped back in some fear.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean you, don't be afraid."
Eros apologized to the little girl, and spooned a little minced meat and rice and handed it to the little girl's mouth.
"Ah~~"
The girl didn't seem wary of Eros, and opened her mouth to eat her dinner, and she smashed her little mouth, her face fleshy.
"Uncle, when will I see my father?"
Eros took another spoonful of food, blew the heat from the food through his mouth through the hood, fed the food into the girl's mouth, and said calmly, "Come on, you can go with him when your father has settled the matter." β
[Liar]
The voice in Elos's head mocked himself.
The dark room is not bright, the man has changed his crazy style in the past, now he is more like an ordinary uncle, even very gentle, even the black hood is not so terrifying, and now it seems a little funny.
How does he see things clearly? γ
In this way, Eros sat in the basement with the little girl and finished his dinner. The girl was sitting on the edge of the bed drinking yogurt, while Eross was cleaning with a broom, she looked at Eros's back and asked,
"Uncle, why do you always wear that hood?"
Eros was stunned for a moment, then turned to her and said,
"My uncle's eyes are sick, and if you don't wear this, you will see a lot of terrible things."
The little girl said 'oh', and Eros continued to clean,
"My uncle originally had a daughter, and if she was still alive, she would be ..... I should be as old as you, and you'll be good friends. β
The little girl looked at him suspiciously, and said, "Doesn't her family live here?" β
Elos nodded.
"Is she coming back?"
"Yes." Eros poured the swept ash into the bucket, "When Uncle and Dad are done, she'll be back with her mother." β
Eros looked at the girl, a smile tugging under her hood.
"Duh... Honk... Feed? β
Gu Chenxi's lazy voice came from the phone.
"Hey, old bones, Wang He and I are hanging out in the food court." Li Mu put his arm on Wang He's shoulder, "If you want anything to eat, I'll bring it back for you." β
"Ahh No need .... I'm back to the rooftop cabin. After speaking, Gu Chenxi yawned on the phone.
"What ??!!" Li Mu was very surprised, and his arm strangled Wang Hezhi to cough, "Wow, you are an old tyrant, you have a house in the city, and you can watch a small movie in a different place, right?" β
"Ahh Hmm..."Gu Chenxi on the phone hesitated for two seconds, and then said in a very provocative tone, "Do I look like a lonely person~~~"
The word 'Mo' is used in a very heavy second voice, and the nasal sound is deliberately prolonged, which sounds very funny.
"Then I don't care, if you don't want it, I'll hang up the phone."
"Oh."
After hanging up the phone, Li Mu and the two walked to the meat sandwich shop they frequented before, only to find that the store had closed, and the boss was pulling the roller shutter door at the door.
"Oops! Boss Boss! Li Mu left Wang He and hurriedly ran over, "Why did you close so early today?" β
The boss turned his head to look at him and said, "Hey, guy, there's a heavy rainstorm tonight, I have to go back to cover the quilt with my wife, or it's too late." β
Li Mu looked up at the sky, it was already a pale orange color of black pressure, and the dark clouds were wavy, like sticky lactose stirring together, and the people who were pressed couldn't breathe.
I didn't pay attention when I walked just now, and I thought it was because there were too many people in the food court to feel stuffy, but now it seems that it is the pot of this cumulonimbus cloud.
"Ahh All right. β
"Hey, let's come back tomorrow!"
"Hey, let's go, boss."
Li Mu sighed and walked behind him, and Wang He was stunned not far in front of him, looking at him with a stunned expression.
"Wori, why didn't you drag me around for so long, saying that you were taking me to eat heirloom level food, but you ended up drinking a northwest wind?!" Wang He glared at him, his face full of grievances, like an angry little widow.
"Hey, it's okay, it's okay, just exercise, go for a walk, and go back to eat the food in the cafeteria."
After speaking, Li Mu took Wang He's arm and walked back, and smiled evilly, looking at Wang He's face, he should have wanted to kick his ass and give him a dog shit.
After pulling him away for a while, a light flashed in the air.
"Huh? Did it just flash? β
Wang He nodded, and within a few seconds, there was a rumbling sound, and the cars on the street that shook were alarmed.
"I'm relying on me! It's raining!! Wang He shouted in panic.
"Holy! Why are you stunned? Run! β
"Li Mu, your uncle!!"
On the other side, Gu Chenxi had just settled Er, and after putting his bags back in the cave, he came to this house in the old city in the east of the city.
The house is built independently on the roof of the building, which belongs to the sixth floor, and you can reach the roof from the staircase. The space here is large, the floor is made of concrete, covered with a layer of fine earth, and surrounded by a grid of wooden fences.
There was a gazebo on one side in front of the house, and there were many potted plants beside it, all of which were non-flowering plants, which grew even if no one took care of them, and among those potted plants, one pot was out of place with the others, and on a thick branch there were a few small pink flowers.
γKapokγ
When Gu Chenxi passed by the pavilion, he deliberately looked at the pot of kapok for a while, and a faint smile flashed on his face. He walked to the opposite side of the pavilion and stood behind the wooden fence looking at the night view of the city.
He twisted his head twice and stretched again. The clouds in the sky were a little too low to make people feel uncomfortable, and a cool breeze blew in the distance, opening a breath of relief for this depression.
Gu Chenxi put his hand on the railing, thinking about the next step.
"Psyk....." Gu Chenxi recalled the conversation between Zhang Jiajia and Kane, he had installed a bugging device in the bracelet he sent before, and he listened to the conversation between the two word for word.
"Greek Mythology..... The wife of Eros, the goddess of love? β
[Legend has it that in order to save Eros's wounded heart, Psyk went through hardships to achieve a positive result with him, and it was widely spread by the world as a good story.....]
Gu Chenxi frowned, he suddenly remembered the image of Cupid in the oil painting of the gods. Javelin, bow and arrow, wings, blindfolded ..... Blindfolded!
[Did he use the image of Eros on himself, so he covered his face and didn't even show his eyes?] Legend has it that Eros blindfolded is a symbol of blind love, so is the reason for his murder to be because of his lover? ]
Gu Chenxi closed his eyes and tried to paint a picture of Elos in his mind.
[It's pitch black, and no facial features are revealed]
Gu Chenxi walked to his side in his mind, looked at his head closely, and the imaginary Eros also rotated with Gu Chenxi's movement, although he couldn't see the appearance under the hood, he could feel the eyes under it.
[Did you wear the hood because of a hallucination?] What kind of hallucination? Dead wife? Pusyk ......]
He approached Eros, staring at Eros's hood, Gu Chenxi took a deep breath, relying on his empathy ability to try to feel Eros's soul.
Pain, anger, guilt, redemption, punishment, endless darkness.....
Suddenly, something flickered in the boundless darkness, as if it was flapping its wings, Gu Chenxi looked at it carefully for a while, and finally recognized the outline of the thing.
γButterflyγ