"Really?"

She asked.

Jiang Shuo, who was only twelve years old, lay on a simple bed, staring at the woman who was blindfolded with a white bandage.

The woman appeared out of nowhere. He didn't know when she came in or how she got in.

He didn't know her either, not at all.

"I won't find someone who dies because of my own selfish desires, so it's better for you to think about it again. ”

She continued.

He didn't know what to answer.

He knew that outside his room, there were four sleeping people.

They will never wake up again.

Each room here is not big, and five people are crammed into a small home. Even so, the house can at least shelter from the wind and rain, and the family can live happily.

This small but warm home was destroyed by a mistake.

At noon that day, they took a lunch break in the house. The weather gradually turned cooler, and even though all the doors and windows were closed, Jiang Shuo was still a little cold. He ran and lit the brazier.

Before the warmth filled the room, Jiang Shuo still felt extremely cold. He remembered that there was still a lot of work to be done in the yard, so he planned to set out to warm himself up.

When they returned to the house, the family was still asleep.

No matter how much you call them, there is no way to wake up.

The howling wind tried in vain to burrow into the house, creaking between the closed doors and windows.

It's like laughing at something.

In the end, instead of opening the doors and windows, he added more charcoal and lay back quietly on his bed.

"Did you really kill yourself because of guilt?"

The woman asked again.

Jiang Shuo shook his head.

When he realizes that he made this choice not because of deep guilt, but because of an escape from reality and guilt, he understands that there is something about himself that is different from everyone else.

It's like a puzzle with missing corners, a vase with a broken piece, or a painting with a hole burned.

In terms of emotional perception, he doesn't seem to be able to react like an ordinary person.

Negligence causes the next of kin to bear bad consequences...... For such an act, the person concerned should first have incomparable grief and remorse, right?

Jiang Shuo originally thought so.

It wasn't until it actually happened that he realized it wasn't like that.

Fear is more pronounced than sadness.

Fear of the future that may be revealed of this act.

"The misanthropic people of lately have always been young children. ”

Frost Que said coldly.

"But if you make a choice to live......"

Shuangque untied the bandage in front of him, revealing Bai Sensen's pupils.

It was like a needle in the eye, and it hurt terribly. Jiang Shuo wanted to scream, but he couldn't make a sound.

After a series of terrible physiological reactions, the scene in front of him turned pale. It was as if there had been a flash of bright light just now, accompanied by severe pain, and the brief blindness had finally ended.

"Well, you can now run away from everything you want to escape. Ah, your friend is coming for you. ”

He turned his head to look at her, the bandage unwound back into her eyes at some point.

Frost Que took a few steps back, melting into the flat walls, as unbelievable as she had appeared.

At the moment when the guide disappeared, Jiang Shuo felt that all his muscles were like broken strings, and he lost all his strength at once, and his whole body collapsed on the hard bed board.

The physiological reactions of dizziness, fatigue, and nausea are much more intense than just now.

This is probably a sign of carbon monoxide poisoning.

He wanted to scream, but he couldn't, he wanted to get out of bed, but he couldn't move.

Outside, there was the sound of a boy banging on the door, and a girl screaming.

Help me—

He thought so.

It's really hopeless, such a self. There is no intention of repentance, and there is no consciousness of burial.

It's just a selfish desire to live.

So...... Help me!

There was a silent cry in his heart.

The sound outside the door continued for a while, and the two vaguely felt that something was wrong. Soon, Anjiu ran out of his window and banged on the glass.

No, I still can't move.

Eventually, they called out to the village adults.

The corpses were transported out one by one in the midst of people's astonishment and lamentation.

"It's so pitiful, the kids are scared silly. ”

The villagers chattered, and all cast sympathetic glances at his numb face.

Jiang Shuo lived a life of eating hundreds of meals.

After junior high school, the road to school became much longer. The school is in the corner of the mountain, and it is a long mountain road to walk. Only when I get up at 5 o'clock in the morning can I catch up with the time for class.

The three of them always walk together, like every day in the past.

They grew up playing, and An's parents treated him as their own. A large part of the tuition fees for school are paid by their families.

In order to survive, Jiang Shuo worked hard to help the people in the village work and do odd jobs.

The days passed uneventfully.

Until one night, Jiang Shuo cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and there was a sudden knock on the door.

The frequency and strength not only reminded him of a certain day a year ago...... The day the second life begins.

He opened the door.

"It's gone. ”

Anseong's face was very bad.

The girl of the three was missing.

It is said that school was out that day, and it was Yasuku's turn to be on duty. In late autumn, the family was very busy, so An Cheng and Jiang Shuo went home early to help with the work.

Until it was completely dark, Anjiu didn't go home.

The whole village carried torches and lamps, and searched all over the hills, shouting her name. In this battle, even the wild wolves did not dare to approach them.

Getting lost is unlikely. Could it be that a girl came home and let the wolf take it away?

Or did you encounter human traffickers?

For a time, bad rumors spread in the village.

For several days, there was no news.

A living person, just like that, the world evaporated.

Jiang Shuo was in pain.

This pair of brothers and sisters once gave him the strength and courage to live. It's much more expensive than simply saving a life.

Even more painful was her brother.

Within three days, Anseong had a serious illness, a high fever, delirium, and only his sister's name was open to open his mouth.

The fever lasted for a whole week, and it was not until the eighth day that there was some sign of improvement.

During the week, the people of the village almost gave up the search.

And An's parents made an amazing choice.

"We have only one child in our family. ”

Even if they treat Jiang Shuo like a reborn parent. However, he still refused the invitation to live in their home.

Because he felt terrible.

Gratitude will not disappear because of this, but such an act is quite outrageous.

What's even more terrifying is that the whole village is cooperating with their lies.

Unreasonable.

Because it's a girl who is missing, does it matter?

Even if some people in the village felt that such behavior seemed inappropriate, it would not be impossible to explain that his parents were severely traumatized by the great stimulation.

The original benefactors have become evildoers who threaten him to become accomplices.

What kind of creatures are humans?

When Anseong's illness rehabilitated, his memories became shattered and broken. It took him more than half a day to remember that the two people who had been taking care of him were his family.

Even when he saw Jiang Shuo, he thought about it for a long time.

Under the pleading and pressure of the adults, Jiang Shuo never said anything about An Jiu.

Eating people with a soft mouth and taking people with short hands is such a reason.

Ancheng recuperated at home for another half a month. A large part of it is because the An family is afraid that the remaining children will have another accident.

However, Jiang Shuo still goes to school on time every day and helps the villagers work after school. I'm done, and I'll go to Anjo's house to give him a lecture.

When he was making up lessons for Ancheng, Jiang Shuo often saw his parents wandering around the door, as if trying to make sure he didn't leak anything he shouldn't have said.

Half a month passed quickly. On this day, Jiang Shuo went down the mountain with the adults to deliver goods. Although he was much worse than a sturdy adult who carried two loads of fruit, he was already able to carry a full basket.

The way down the hill is different from the way to the school, which has a wide stream.

However, it was almost winter.

The water level dropped dramatically in a short period of time.

The body was found.

She lay quietly on the riverbed as the water level receded.

Clothes were stripped and entrails were emptied. Judging by the neat incisions in the stomach, it is an artificially inflicted wound — perhaps the work of an organ trafficker.

Perhaps it was because it had just appeared on the shore, and there were no traces of wild beasts gnawing on it, but only a small part of it was eaten by fish and shrimp, and its eyes were pecked away by some bird of prey.

It can be concluded that the corpse was soaked in water for at least half a month.

What's more, there is also a noticeable grayish-yellow wax condensation on it.

Many years later, Jiang Shuo learned that it was corpse saponification, which is commonly known as corpse wax.

At that time, he only felt a wave of nausea, and the world was spinning.

At first, the An family refused to claim the body, insisting that they had only one son. But the old people in the village said that if they can't be buried properly, it will not be good for the living to be a lonely ghost.

Jiang Shuo felt that he shouldn't hide it.

Taking advantage of the fact that An's parents came to take away the body, he rushed into Anseong's house and told him all the facts.

As he recounted these events, he carefully observed Anjo's reaction.

From the initial suspicion, to the shock, to the panic that I tried to suppress.

In the end, Anjo said that he was not without doubts.

Even if all the girls' photos, clothes and supplies are burned, it is difficult to completely erase the traces of a person's perennial life.

"And you have no reason to lie to me. ”

He believed in him.

He couldn't see Anjo's final mood. After telling all the truth, Anseong's face showed an unusually calm.

He said he wanted to be alone for a while.

Jiang Shuo nodded and left.

The moment he learned the truth, Anseong had already made up his mind.

In fact, when Jiang Shuo left, An Cheng also walked out of the house.

That night, he did not return home. The hoarse cries of the parents resounded throughout the mountain again.

Fortunately, he was still found - the child was asleep on the edge of the cliff.

Until he died, Jiang Shuo didn't know what choice Ancheng had made in front of the bottomless mountain abyss.

Jumped?

Or not?

Is he an ordinary human?

Or misanthropy?

It's just that after that day, Jiang Shuo finally understood - sometimes, lies are necessary.

Good or evil, a lie is true when the facts become irrelevant.

- To be continued -