Tarta wanted to ask some questions, but then her mother came up from the kitchen and said, "Tata, my darling! Dinner is ready. ”

Thorn had been thinking about what the elk had said, and after dinner, they gathered in the banquet hall to play games. Thorn Ta paid special attention to the elk hanging on the fireplace, where it hung without blinking, and did not look like it could talk at all.

With all her mind filled with what the elk had said to her, and the thing she couldn't remember, she lost all interest in playing the game.

"I want to go to sleep!" Tsunta said to his parents in this world.

"Oh, go to sleep, my dear darling, you're so tired today." Mom smiled and looked at Dad. "But, before you go, ask your mom to pour you a glass of delicious milk to make you sleep more soundly."

Remembering what the elk had told her, she pretended to take the drink and poured it into the pot while they weren't looking.

Mom and Dad kissed her on the forehead again, like last time, and said goodnight to her before leaving.

Thorn was in the cot, pretending to be asleep, until she looked out the window and the moon hung high overhead, and then she crept out of bed.

Sensing the movement of the tower, Snowball followed. Tartar carried it to the bed and kissed it gently. "My good snowball, you are obedient here, don't make a sound!"

The room was pitch black, and it looked completely different from daytime. As he passed by the study, he suddenly found his father sitting at the piano with a wine bottle in his arms.

"Leave him alone, he does it every night, he's too drunk to hear us." The head of the elk said to her.

"What's going on?" Tartar asked it.

"It's too late to explain so much, only then will they turn off the machine and I can talk to you." The elk said to her.

"Machines?"

"They lure the cute little ones here, fulfill all your requests, and then take pictures of the so-called perfect parents and children happy together, and put them in a black box."

"So what?" Tarta didn't understand what Mr. Elk was talking about.

"Alas, you little fool. You just need to know one thing, everything here is fake. If you don't believe me, you can go outside and have a look in a moment. But first, you'll have to listen to me. ”

Thorn Pagoda nodded.

"There have been a lot of lovely kids here before you. They are immersed in the doting of their parents in this world. They don't eat every day, only candy, don't sleep, and play all night long. Then, when they start forgetting their original names, their parents and partners in their original world, they have no way to go back. ”

"Oh my God, I almost forgot what I was called." Tara said in a panic.

"They can only be in this world, repeating what seems to be a perfect life, day after day. Children will gradually feel lost, because everything here is false, the perfect parents are just a role, and they don't get real love here. And, they will grow up one day..."

Dad in the study suddenly moved, and the bottle rolled out of his hand. Elk's words were interrupted.

"Anyway, you have to hurry back to your own world. If you stay in this world for a long time, you will never go back. Remember, to come back to your own world, you have to remember your own name, but also the name of the person you love and the people who love you. Because this person is equal to your position in that world, and when you leave, you have to pronounce his name and say, let me go back to the world where he is..."

Hearing this, Jing Ta was suddenly at a loss, the person I love, the person who loves me? Tsarta's mind was in turmoil, and the shadow of the crying dream suddenly appeared in her mind.

"Hey, little girl! You'd better concentrate while I'm talking. The elk's voice didn't sound very happy.

"No, Mr. Elk, I... I... I've forgotten about that person. Tsuta covered her face and began to cry.

"Put away your tears, now is not the time to hold tears and snot like a fool." The elk seemed to realize that his attitude towards a little girl was a little too rough, so he tried to say to her as softly as possible: "Listen to me, if you really love someone, you will not forget him." He is only temporarily hidden in your heart, the key is always in your hands, you have to believe in yourself. ”

Listening to the elk's words, Tsuta wiped away her tears, and decided that she must remember the person she had forgotten.

"Also, it's not easy. In this world, there is only one thing that belongs to the world outside the mirror, and you have to find it. When you're ready to go, you just have to go through that mirror where you came, and that's it. After Mr. Elk said this, he reverted to his previous form.

Jing Pagoda looked up at the surroundings, what belonged to that world? Jing Ta looked out the window, and Mr. Elk said that as long as he walked outside, he would understand that everything was fake, and what that meant.

The tower pushed open the door to the garden, and the garden at night was completely devoid of the vitality of the day. The trumpet flowers no longer played, the Ferris wheel no longer turned, and even the bowl lilies floated there motionless.

Tarta came to the roses where she and her father had caught a chocolate beetle, and Tarta looked closely and found that there were two beetles listening to the leaves, but they were motionless. The tower turned them over and placed them on the ground, but they were still motionless. The tower gently broke open the body of a beetle, and it turned out that it was not a beetle that tasted like chocolate, but a real chocolate that looked like a beetle.

The tower came to the pond again, and the little golden fish was still hidden under the bowl lotus, and it looked like it was asleep. Jing Ta put his hand into the water and stirred it gently, and suddenly, the stomach of a fish turned over, and Jing Ta quickly scooped it up to take a look.

Its body flows out of a liquid like engine oil, and the small fish here are actually mechanical.

Needless to say, all the magic in this garden is fake. It's all about tricking her into staying here.

"Click."

Behind the tower, someone suddenly approached. It turned out to be the father of this world, and the real one was that he would use alcohol to anesthetize himself every day after work, living like a puddle of mud.

"Clever girl! I found out the first day you came. "Dad threw her another chocolate beetle." Anyway, it tastes pretty good. ”

Dad took the mechanical goldfish from Thornta's hand and examined it carefully.

"It's leaking." "This garden used to be my favorite place, and when I realized I could never go back, I renovated it myself." ”

Dad led the tower to the banquet hall, and he pointed to the portrait of one of the children with a sailboat in his hand and said, "This is me." Before I entered this world, I used to dream of being a mechanic. It's the only thing I remember about myself. ”

Dad lowered his head, "Do you know what's the scariest thing?" ”

Thorn Pagoda shook her head.

"It's when you become the person you ever hated the most."

"Why don't you get out of here?" Tartar asked him.

"I can't go back for a long time, I forgot my name and the people I love. The world out there has long been without me, and I have been forgotten. Dad wiped his eyes, and the thick powder on his face was rubbed off, revealing a rough and pimpled patch of skin. Oh, I hope it doesn't scare you, you know, eating sugar every day is what it will be. ”

"Please, I want to go back!" Thorn Ta whispered to him.

"I don't care. I have to tell you, though, that since I came in, I haven't seen a child get out of here. Also, if you are found trying to escape..."Dad looked around warily, "then you can't be a happy child anymore, you can only be forced to grow up to be the 'perfect parent' like me, or..."

Dad didn't say any more, he looked out the window in fear. "You've got to go back to your bed, they're going to wake up."

"Mr. Elk told me that I had to find something that belonged to that world! Can you tell me what that is? ”

"I don't think I can't, but you can sleep in your bed and think about the difference between this world and the world outside the mirror. Also, if it's something from that world, then it's going to pass through that mirror, but you have to be careful that when it opens the passage, you have to get through it very quickly. "The father of this world looked out the window again, and the sky outside lit up little by little." Okay, now hurry back. Be careful not to be discovered by them. ”

Jingta was about to leave, but her father stopped her again, "One more thing, promise me, when I go out, I will break the mirror, I don't want any more children to come to this false world." ”

She hid under the covers and began to cry, but she did not dare to make a sound, so she could only silently keep her tears. The little snowball also got into the quilt, and it came to the side of the tower, licking the little tearful face of the tower, as if to comfort her.

Tarta closed her eyes and searched her mind for the person she had forgotten, but her mind went blank until the sky was completely bright.

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"My little boy is hiding here." The mother of this world lifted the quilt of the tower, "Honey, come down and see what Mommy has prepared for you." ”

She was dragged to the banquet hall by her mother, and a huge cake that almost touched the roof appeared in front of her eyes, with birthday candles lit on it.

"Happy birthday to you, dear baby!"

"But it's not my birthday!"

"No, you can celebrate your birthday every day as long as you like!"

The dad of this world pushes a small cart full of gifts for Shota, a singing doll, a bear that can turn its heels, and a little plane that allows Shota to sit on it and fly.

Mom and Dad kept handing over one gift after another to the tower, almost drowning it. But Watta was not happy at all, her heart was still empty.

She threw down the gift and her mom and dad, and slipped out into the garden alone, and the garden was magical again during the day, but Tara knew the truth, and she didn't find it interesting anymore.

The little snowball was playing in the grass, and as if it had noticed something, it suddenly screamed. Following the cry of a snowball, the tower burrowed into a lily that grew taller than a man. These flowers give off a creamy aroma, and if you bite into it, you will find that even the petals are creamy.

The snowball stopped in front of a small plant and wagged its tail. It was a very weak seedling with a small yellow flower bone on top of it.

"What is this?" Watta walked over to himself, crouching down and taking a closer look.

"It turned out to be a dandelion seedling. Dandelion, do you know what it is? Tartar said to Snowball.

Snowball tilted her head and looked innocently at the tower.

"When you grow up, you will grow a small fluffy ball, and when the wind blows, it will float away with the wind like a small umbrella." Thornta pouted and puffed, and Snowball's head tilted to the other side.

"I don't think you'll get it." Thorn clapped her little hands and got up to leave.

Snowball screamed again.

"What's up, Snowball." Thorn Tower looked at the little snowball in bewilderment, and then looked at the ordinary plant, it was so ordinary, we could see it anywhere. On the side of the road, in the fields, on the rooftops, or occasionally sneaking into someone else's pot to take root, it will take root and sprout as soon as a small seed follows you here.

Ordinary?

The tower straightened up and looked at the scenery around her, water lilies as big as boats, pumpkins as big as horse-drawn carriages, and bell and trumpet flowers that played music. Everything that belongs to this world is extraordinary, even flawless.

Maybe this dandelion is because the tower brought it here!

"Oh, little snowball, you're amazing!" Jing Ta picked up the snowball and kissed it constantly. From the house, Jing Ta found a hollow plastic ball, and put this ordinary little flower, along with the soil, into the ball.

Now all that's left... The tower looked at the small yellow flower contained in the ball, its petals stretched a little, revealing a cute appearance. In Tarta's mind, another small flower suddenly appeared, and she watered and fertilized it every day. Because, she wants to make...

Tsuta's mind kept flashing images of what had happened, the beautiful marigold, the forest with pink and blue ribbons, and...

[Goodbye, Horn Tower!] 】

Watta suddenly burst into tears, how could she forget the little prince. She hid the ball in her pocket and ran into the house as fast as she could.

Moms of this world are busy in the kitchen. Dad was sitting on the windowsill with a paintbrush and drawing, and when he saw the tower, he opened his mouth slightly, and did not make a sound, but he could read from the shape of his mouth that he was saying "goodbye" again. The elk winked at her on the wall.

Now, she was going to go back to that world right away, and she was going to find her little prince. She remembered the words of the elk, and silently repeated in her heart, let me come to the world where the little prince is, let me come to the world where the little prince is.

She took out the flower from the ball and threw it in the mirror, and sure enough, the flower passed through the mirror and disappeared. Jing Ta happily walked to the mirror, she cautiously stretched out her hand, and sure enough, as she thought, the palm of her hand passed through the mirror, and just as she was about to hurry through, another pair of big hands hugged her from behind.

"Let me down, let me go!" The tower was in the air, struggling, and when she turned around, she was caught by a man who was completely black, with no facial features or expression, like a shadow.

Horta began to cry. The father of that world couldn't help but want to come over to help the tower, but he hung in the air like a puppet. It turned out that his hands and feet with the mother of this world were bound by countless invisible threads, and they could only be at the mercy of others.

The makeup on Dad's face was gone, and the disguise fell off piece by piece, and hiding behind the disguise was an ugly and sad face.

It's the same with the mother of this world, her face is cracked and the back of her clothes is starting to swell. After a while, a fat woman appeared in front of the tower.

At this time, the brave little snowball suddenly rushed over and bit the big hand that grabbed the tower. At the moment when the big hand stretched out, Jingta immediately picked up the snowball and ran hard.

Her parents, who were being manipulated, were forced to chase after her, and the shadow man with big hands.

Dad chased after the tower uncontrollably, and shouted loudly, "There's one thing in this house that belongs to that world..."

In order to grasp the tower, the whole house spun like a hamster cage, and the father of this world tripped over the rope tied to his body, and his limbs were twisted and hung in the air. After a while, my mother also tripped and was also hung in mid-air.

Seeing that the shadow man's big hand was about to touch him, the tower jumped onto the big chandelier. The tower is small enough to move nimbly through the chandelier, but the shadow man can only sit underneath, waiting for the room to rotate and bring the chandelier closer to him.

When the chandelier spun again, the tower suddenly slipped and she hung from the chandelier, and if she let go of her hands, she would fall into the hands of the shadow man.

The shadow man couldn't fully reach the tower below, but at this moment, the shadow man suddenly elongated his body like a shadow, and his big hand turned into sharp claws, and he was about to grab the tower.

The tower looked up at the crystal lamp. Suddenly, she noticed that there was a bead hanging in the middle of the crystal lamp, and unlike the other shiny crystal beads, it was not only dirty, but also broken.

Everything in this world is perfect. The tower finally discovers something else that belongs to another world. The tower regained his strength, swayed from side to side, and with the turn of the house, threw himself back onto the crystal lamp, and quickly climbed to the highest point of the crystal lamp, and took off the bead.

The Shadow Man suddenly let out a roar of rage, and it crawled on all fours, looking no longer like a human being, but a monster.

Tartar hurriedly jumped off the crystal lamp and ran towards the mirror, Snowball following her closely. The mirror was in front of him, but the monster crawled faster than the tower, and the tower could even feel the monster's claws touching his long hair.

At this time, a miracle occurred, and suddenly there was a loud "bang", and the monster fell to the ground. It turned out to be the parents of this world, struggling to pull the monster's two hind legs.

With tears in her eyes, Tara turned back to say goodbye to them.

"Goodbye, fathers and mothers of this world, I hope you don't need to disguise yourself from now on!"

The father of this world, pulling the sealed mouth, smiled at the tower with all his might.

Thorn Tower threw the crystal ball at the mirror, and the passage to that world was opened, and this time, Thorn Tower jumped in without hesitation.

Seeing that the tower disappeared into the mirror, Snowball was also anxious here, and when the point of light on the mirror was about to disappear, it also jumped into it.

Thorn Tower returns to her original world, and to her surprise, Snowball also comes to her side, and she happily kisses Snowball. She hadn't forgotten what her father had said in that world and smashed the mirror with a chair.

With the sound of glass cracking, the story of the perfect parents in that world finally came to an end, the lights came on, and the shadow man disappeared.

The parents of that world were restored to their perfect image, and they bowed to the audience, and there was loud applause outside the house.