2. Another me
Sure enough, the ceremony was successful, and I died. There was a noise outside, but I didn't pay attention to it, just half-squatting beside myself, looking at myself on the ground as if I was asleep, her eyebrows were picturesque, her cheeks were slightly red, she was wearing a carefully selected pink bridesmaid dress, the sunset plated her with a layer of warmth, the blood on her hands had dried up, and the glass bracelet had become smooth and turned into a very ordinary transparent bracelet, which was slightly bloody, and she lay peacefully on the ground, like an angel, but like a stranger. Is she, or me?
The footsteps approached until the bamboo curtain was lifted again, and it was hot. He picked up "me" on the ground, put it on the kang, and said, "It's not dark yet, I can't see you, if you can hear it, make some noise, let me know you're there." ”
I picked up a glass ballast and let go, and the ballast jumped a few times and fell silent.
"You're doing a great job, I'm late."
"What's going on?" I couldn't help but ask, but I thought that if he could hear it, he wouldn't do more.
"You must have a lot to ask me, but it's nothing to do right now, so I'll tell you that yesterday I received a text message, 'Find Atso by noon tomorrow.'" I thought it was weird, but I was still worried that something would happen to you, so I called you yesterday and was relieved to hear that you were fine. In the middle of the night, I suddenly woke up, I dreamed, dreamed that your eyes were scarlet, looking at me, and at first laughing, laughing and laughing and shedding bloody tears. I thought about the text message carefully, bought the earliest flight and rushed over, got off the plane at noon, took a taxi because it was too troublesome to transfer, and kept calling you and couldn't get through, knowing that you should really have an accident, and then I received a text message, 'Call this number 139******** and tell her to drink the contents of the third layer of glass bottles in the red lacquered wooden cabinet behind her, break the bottle and wear it on your hands. I can only believe it now, and then you will know it. Hot backlight pointed at where I was standing, looking at nothingness, and said.
The glow faded, the division between darkness and light in the room gradually blurred, and through the window lattice to the west, Grandma Li was almost transparent, and she shook her head desperately at me, the meaning was unknown, and I looked at her suspiciously.
He suddenly looked up and saw that Grandma Li had retreated and was nowhere to be seen.
Then there was a long silence, I didn't know how much to trust him, I didn't know how to face him in my current situation, we were separated by nothingness, silence. I could only see his eyes, those beautiful eyes, and every time he looked at me gently, I could see the light flickering like scattered stars in the sky, and he was at a loss at the moment, and those clear eyes were a little dim.
Twilight is getting darker.
He went to the door and pressed the switch of the light, and the incandescent light flickered a few times and went out. "It should be an aging circuit, don't be afraid." He began rummaging through the room again, looking for candles and matches, and lit the candles, which were lit by a dim glow.
His eyes were blazing, and he walked towards me with a red candle, and the scene was indescribably weird.
He stretched out his hand to caress my cheek, his palm was warm, his finger bones were gentle, and I still trembled slightly, not knowing whether to be afraid or suspicious.
"Am I dead?"
"No, you're not going to die."
"Then I'm ......"
"You were supposed to die when the ritual was done, and I don't know what that medicine does, but you're still in front of me now."
"Then how are you...", accepting all this absurdity, and standing so calmly in front of something that I don't know if it's human, I couldn't ask this sentence after all, so I paused, and added, "How did you find me." ”
"I don't know, I just feel like you're supposed to be here."
"Hmm." Since someone has prepared medicine, prepared a mobile phone, and even called Re Hot here, there must be other useful information in this room. "I think there should be other information here, you can accompany me to find it."
He took my hand, holding a red candle in his hand to look around the room, I suddenly remembered a word, "candle night tour", life is short, should be happy in time, or cherish time, cherish the people in front of you?
There are very few furnishings in the room, except for the two sides of the window clay kang is facing the door of the two Ming-style Nanguan hat chairs, armrests and the head does not go out and bends down to buckle its straight square, which is not a common style here, because my father is a carpenter, familiar with various standards, I also know some. This kind of chair and the small table in the middle are unobstructed, very ordinary, a little empty, too empty.
Skip the chair for the time being, and then search the cabinet, before because of urgency, I went to the cabinet to look directly at the third floor and found the medicine bottle, and didn't pay too much attention to the other grids, now I searched carefully, only to find that something is wrong, it is too wrong.
Grandma Li has been living alone for a long time, and I haven't heard anything about her children, but there is a long-lived silver lock worn by a newborn in the cabinet, and judging from the gloss, it should be the most recent. There were also some clothes, and after I flipped through them for a while, I suddenly remembered something, "Isn't it ......good for me to flip through other people's things like this?"
"Well, it's not good, or not," he chuckled, "I'll come?" ”
I laughed too.
"It's snowing!" Next door, there was the excited shouts of children.
"Is it snowing? It's winter, after all. ”
The vibration sound of the "buzzing" mobile phone came, Re took out the mobile phone, looked at it, his face froze instantly, and the hand holding the mobile phone clenched unconsciously.
When he looked at his phone, I subconsciously tilted my head, and I didn't see the content, but I could see that his face became very ugly.
"What's wrong?"
His head was slightly lowered, and the broken hair on his forehead was a little longer, and I lifted the soft strands of my hair and looked him straight into the eyes, "Tell me, what's wrong." My tone was unusually firm.
"Another text message came, this time with the content: Burn Atso's body."
I subconsciously looked up at the body on the kang, the candlelight was faint, she was sleeping peacefully in the uncertain yellow light, and the awake person was facing an unknown choice.
"I think I should listen to it, I listened to it before, and now I can see you."
"But don't you think we're too passive?"
"It's a bit passive, but we don't have a clue right now."
"I now think of a possibility, if dreams are just dreams, if all this is directed and acted by itself, then are we following its script, and what the future will be like, we don't know, we don't know anything, I hate this feeling of being at the mercy of nothing."
What is the effect of that medicine, will it all be just too much of a thought, and I unconsciously entered a certain layout, like a mechanical doll doing what it said, as for the status quo, there are two of my current situation, is it because of the ritual, or because of the medicine. And the sudden heat that appeared at this time was a thought that accepted everything calmly and even sided with me.