Chapter 91: Escape and Redemption
It was a completely unexpected encounter with the ghost girl.,But it gave me valuable information.。 Unlike what I imagined, the ghost girl was a very honest woman. She told me that there was a secret passage to enter the abandoned factory.
The Ghost Girl pulled out a hand-drawn map from her trouser pocket, on which she drew a small map of the neighborhood with a light blue ballpoint pen. I asked the ghost girl if she had drawn the map herself, and the ghost girl nodded honestly, but shook her head again.
"Actually, the reason why I was able to become a cartoonist is thanks to the blessing of white yarn." On the way to the secret passage following the signs drawn on the map, the ghost girl said this to me.
The ghost girl said that she met Shirasha about ten years ago. And at that time, she also knew for the first time that there were "ghosts" in this world. At that time, after the ghost girl escaped from the house to escape her stepfather's violence, she was imprisoned by a man who looked gentle and elegant.
"Imprisoned ......?" I was stunned for a moment, and then looked at the ghost girl, who just nodded slightly, and her face looked very flat. I had a hunch that there was a deep tragedy in what the ghost girl was going to tell me, but she downplayed it as if she were describing someone else's story.
The ghost girl said that I chose to leave with him in the first place to ask for help like that man. On the street where she lives, her stepfather can find her wherever she hides, then drag her home and continue to abuse her.
At that time, her biological mother had fled to the cult because she couldn't stand her father's cruel domestic violence. Day and night, her mouth is full of ideas instilled from the cult, and this kind of mother is as terrible to the ghost girl as her father.
So in order to escape the hellish family completely, in order to avoid the police search, she decided to take the risk and leave the man in front of her who seemed to be trustworthy. What she thought was that at most, she would be robbed of her body by this man.
If he asks for compensation in this regard, he will give it to him, anyway, by now, because of his stepfather's long-term violence, there is nothing to lose. I was a little choked when I listened, and the more flat her tone was, the more uncomfortable I felt.
I couldn't help but ask the ghost girl, why did she hide from the police? The ghost girl's answer is simple, because she is an underage girl. When an underage girl runs away from home, the police won't ask you what the reason is, and the fault will always be on the runaway child.
And this is something that cannot be helped, because if the police do not think from the perspective of parents, who will raise this minor child? It's like a dead end, and there are no answers at all.
The ghost girl smiled when she said this, and she said that at that time, she understood for the first time that ninety percent of the underage girls who ran away from home were because of domestic violence. And these children who have run away from home because of domestic violence have nowhere to go.
It only takes two or three days for a friend to board a friend, and the other party's parents will definitely secretly contact the police after the days go by. When the police were contacted, the police would call the parents over and give them a few symbolic criticisms, and then when they arrived at home, they were abused again.
The ghost girl said that the thing that impressed her the most was that in the later period, it was not being beaten or raped by her stepfather, but starvation. Man is an animal of habit, and no matter how difficult and cruel the environment is, he will eventually get used to it.
We walked along the road, but gradually the number of neon signs on the road decreased, and we didn't see scantily clad escorts everywhere like we did just now. When we entered the alley, we were greeted by large green-skinned garbage cans and stray cats with green eyes.
When she said this, the ghost girl seemed a little excited, not happy, just simply emotional, her voice was trembling slightly, like the wail of a cold and hungry puppy and kitten in the cold winter.
"So, when we say that mentally ill people are not normal and need to be treated, I think that's a mistake in itself. Yes, medically speaking, there is an organic lesion in the human brain, and this situation is beyond cure.
But why not wonder if this is also about adaptation? In this era, there are more and more mentally ill people, even if they are not judged by doctors to be hospitalized immediately, but more and more people are suffering from underlying mental illness...... Actually, I think it's all about adapting to the environment, not a mistake. ”
I smiled and said it was an interesting point. The ghost girl smiled a little sheepishly and looked down to say that this was also because she wanted to become a horror manga writer. In her opinion, the real horror is not acquired pain, but the most primitive pain.
"Is there a thing called pain, which is still innate and primitive?" I looked at the ghost girl with some curiosity. She nodded excitedly, saying that this was from her own personal experience, and I didn't know how to answer when she said this, after all, she was a person who had experienced a cruel childhood.
The ghost girl said that it is very simple to understand the difference, and you only need to experience both forms of pain once. For example, being beaten is very painful, and being scolded is also painful, but it is not enough to really endanger your life. But primitive suffering is different, and this kind of suffering is for the name of man.
Under the torment of primitive pain, people have no choice at all, such as hunger. The ghost girl said that after she went to high school, the heaviest abuse her stepfather used was actually starving her and not giving her food.
So when she was still a minor, she already remembered the feeling of dying because of hunger. And when she said this, I suddenly remembered that there seemed to be a lot of similar, impressive images in the comic of spoken words.
For example, in the first six stories of the spoken language, almost all of them have a scene of eating, and there must be a hideous person who eats and eats. The ghost girl said that the most important reason why she ran away from her family at that time was to get rid of the most primitive pain.
"It's terrible, really, there is no more death-inducing torture in this world than the most primitive pain, and I still feel sick when I think about the memories of that time."
I pondered for a moment and said, "That is, you left the house to avoid starvation?" The ghost girl said and nodded, yes. But her choice still seems to be wrong, because the man she met is a pervert who wants to be above her stepfather.
She was also brought to her home by him at the time, and only after she realized that this person was a psychopathic murderer, and she didn't know how many dismembered corpses were in the refrigerator. There are five refrigerators in the luxurious apartment, and all five refrigerators are stuffed with blue and purple human flesh.
"Then you're going to be like this now......" I glanced at the ghost girl's dark eyes, which had obviously been gouged out by life, and I couldn't help but feel a little pity and distress in my heart. Man's eyes are much bigger than he thinks.
So if you really dig the whole eyeball out of the eye socket, a hole the size of a ping-pong ball will be formed. If you think about it, you will understand that characters with this kind of image generally only appear in horror movies, and you can imagine how sensitive people are to the eye organ.
The ghost girl nodded silently, and said softly that it was all dug up in the process of being abused by that perverted murderer, although it was no longer visible, but the ghost girl said that the people around her said that she had become much more beautiful than before.
I asked her if the people around you were kind to you, and the ghost girl said yes, very good, although she had suffered countless bad things in the first half of her life, but at least now she was favored by a group of kind people, and she has been thanking them in her heart.
And I am more or less relieved to hear the ghost girl say this, but it can also be seen that although the ghost girl is dressed plainly, her clothes are neat, which is the best proof of good living habits.
I asked again, then how did you escape from the hands of that perverted murderer, the ghost girl said that strictly speaking she didn't escape by her own strength, because she was blind at the time, so she basically didn't have the ability to escape.
However, the reason why she was able to avoid the same tragic ending as the corpse in the refrigerator was because of a girl named White Yarn. According to the ghost girl, when Shirasha first appeared, she explained that she was a ghost and not a human.
But for the ghost girl, since she can't see it at all, it doesn't matter if it's a human or a ghost. And it was at that time that Bai Sha, as the price of saving her from leaving and fulfilling her dream of becoming a cartoonist, required her to complete one thing for herself.
"Wait, that is, Hakusha rescued you and helped you achieve your dream of becoming a cartoonist...... Actually, she's doing it for her own purposes, right? ”
The ghost girl lowered her head slightly, and after a while, she whispered that this was objectively the case, but even so she was very grateful to Bai Sha. Because, if it weren't for Bai Sha appearing in her life, she would no longer be in this world now.
I asked her, what does the white yarn ask of you?
"The ability to listen." The ghost girl said softly. I was stunned for a moment, not understanding what it meant.
"In order to help me achieve my dream of becoming a cartoonist, Shirasha will temporarily lend me her eyes while I am drawing manga. But...... Since she is a ghost herself, when I regain my eyesight, I can always see a lot of things that I can't see. ”
I asked her if she meant that she could actually see ghosts when she was drawing comics. The ghost girl said so, but Bai Sha's request to her was to let her inherit her "hearing" and listen to the ghosts instead of herself.
Bai Sha seems to be an outlier among the ghosts, and the ghost girl said that according to Bai Sha's own statement, she herself is a living dead, so ...... Those who have died will misunderstand Bai Sha and treat her as a living person who can be channeled, and tell her the last wish in their hearts.
Bai Sha said that because there are always countless ghosts coming to her to confide in her last wishes, she has not been able to sleep well for many years, and there is always the sound of someone talking in her ears, which is that no one can stand it.
And Bai Sha still seems to want to come back to life again, so she must sleep well - this is also Bai Sha's original words. But for me, it's not a bad thing to inherit this ability. ”
I rubbed my chin and pondered for a moment, and then asked the ghost girl curiously, does this mean that Bai Sha may be in a vegetative state? Because he became a vegetative person, his soul was temporarily separated from his body?