Chapter 5: The Nightmare Returns
Sitting in the taxi, Wang Chengyu kept his head down, not knowing what he was thinking.
His mother sat next to him, I don't know if it was because she was in the car, so she didn't say anything to him, just looked out the window in a daze.
It wasn't until the two of them got out of the taxi that Wang Chengyu's mother stopped him:
"Son, what the hell is going on with you?
Mom will take you off tomorrow and take you to the hospital for a good check-up.
But you tell your mom, have you put too much pressure on yourself lately? Mom asked you to come home, just hoping that you can live a relatively easy life, although the big city is good, but the competition is too cruel, and with our family's economic conditions, it is true that we can't afford to buy you a house.
It's really better to come back and take the civil service exam, with a decent job and stability.
When the time comes, your father and I will buy you a new house, and when you get married, let's see if you let the woman's family accompany you with a car, and this life will be ......."
"Why don't you tell the truth?"
Wang Chengyu didn't listen to what his mother said at all, and turned his face at this time, his expression looked very angry.
"What's not to tell the truth?"
"What do you say?
I am your son, do you think I will harm you?
Why don't you listen to me, I'm the only child in the family, you've all been deceived by that impostor, do you understand! ”
"Tomorrow I'll find one of your father's classmates and take you to the hospital for a check-up."
"I'm not going! I'm not mentally ill, why should I go! ”
Wang Chengyu cried aggrievedly as he spoke.
"Let's go home first, and then we'll talk about it."
Following his mother to open the door and come in, Wang Chengyu wiped his eyes a little red and swollen, but as soon as he came in, he saw the impostor, sitting on the sofa and watching TV.
At the sight of the impostor, he felt some fear in his heart at first, but it was quickly replaced by anger.
So he pointed to the impostor, and scolded loudly:
"What the hell are you! What are you coming to my house for?
You can't target me, you have to take my family, don't think that if you can deceive my parents, you can deceive me! ”
The more Wang Chengyu spoke, the more excited he became, and after speaking, he rushed directly towards the impostor.
"Mom, you see my brother is going to beat me!"
The impostor was startled and hurriedly jumped away from the sofa, but Wang Chengyu didn't care so much and still rushed over.
"What are you doing! That's your brother! ”
Seeing the two scuffling together, Wang Chengyu's mother hurriedly ran over, then pushed Wang Chengyu away, and then slapped him in the mouth.
"Are you crazy! Do you want me to put you in a mental hospital! ”
Wang Chengyu's mother yelled at him with a trembling body, while Wang Chengyu looked at his mother blankly, tears kept crackling.
"Am I crazy? Haha, it's you who are crazy!
Do you have a son, don't want an imposter who doesn't know what it is?
Don't believe me, but stand with this impostor?
You still want to put me in a psychiatric hospital? Ah, I see, I finally understand, that's what you guys think, right?
Find an imposter to replace me, and then make people outside think I'm mentally ill, and you want to harm me with him! ”
"What nonsense are you talking about!"
"I didn't! That's what you guys think! You're all trying to hurt me! ”
After Wang Chengyu finished speaking, he directly shook his head and walked into his bedroom, and closed the door loudly.
Sticking headlong on the bed, Wang Chengyu cried uncomfortably in his heart, because he was really aggrieved, very concerned, and at the same time very afraid.
Everyone but him was blinded by the impostor, just as the impostor in his dream told him, and he became the most redundant person in the family.
The police didn't believe him and thought he was crazy.
His parents didn't believe him either, thinking he was talking gibberish.
But he had just seen it clearly, and while his mother was saying that, he noticed the impostor.
He was laughing.
A triumphant smile.
Yes, he must be stirring up, trying to make him a target at home.
But even if he knew this, what could he do?
No one believes in him, and no one will help him.
And what can he do on his own?
Running away from home?
That might have really been the imposter. But if it goes on like this, his parents will only be led by that imposter and target him more and more.
What the hell is he going to do?
He didn't know, he really didn't.
Lying on the bed and crying for a long time, so long that Wang Chengyu even ignored the time.
When he came back to his senses, it was completely dark outside.
He picked up his phone and glanced at the time, only to realize that it was past 1 o'clock in the morning.
I don't know who pulled the curtains, and the room was pitch black, not to the point where you couldn't see your fingers, but it was just as dark and terrible.
He got out of bed with some difficulty, trying to go to the door and turn on the light.
However, he tried to flip the switch, but the lights in the room didn't come on.
"Is there a power outage? Or is the light broken? ”
Just as he was thinking about this, he suddenly heard a small sound coming through the crack in the door.
At the same time, through the crack under the door, a slight red light seeped in.
"Brother? Have a power outage at home? ”
Hearing the sound of the impostor, Wang Chengyu suddenly became alert, and he was just about to see if the bedroom door was locked, when the door was suddenly pushed open from the outside.
Then he stretched out a hand holding a candle.
The hand was large, the fingers were very long, and the nails looked like they hadn't been trimmed in a long time. And with the flickering of the candle flame, a huge hand shadow was formed on the wall.
It looked like a spider was crawling on the wall.
"Brother? I came in. ”
Without Wang Chengyu's permission, the imposter had already walked into the room with a candle.
Wang Chengyu stared at the imposter who looked exactly like him, and the impostor was also staring at him with an indescribable weird smile on his face.
But it didn't take long for his gaze to turn to the side.
Because he suddenly noticed the shadow of the imposter on the wall.
The shadow was strange, not like a human shadow, but rather like a reptilian shadow magnified countless times.
Because the shadow has a lot of tentacles, dense tentacles like centipedes, constantly moving on the wall.
"What the hell are you!"
Wang Chengyu was frightened by the shadow on the wall and took a step back, and as for the impostor, he took the candle in his hand and took a step forward.
"What do you say again, brother, I'm your brother."
The impostor looked a little puzzled, and at this time he took two steps forward until he came to Wang Chengyu.
"Don't come near me!" Wang Chengyu screamed in panic, and then he found that his body did not obey the call at all.
I could only watch as the impostor's reddened face, illuminated by the candlelight, approached him little by little.