It may be that a child's heart is more accessible, and the kindness of a child who is slightly older than oneself is easier to let people off guard than the hypocritical face of an adult. I asked again a question that I hadn't answered before: "And who are you?" ”

"Me?" There was a lot of loneliness in the boy's voice, "The old guy said that I am the master of this place, but he imprisons all my freedom, he is a madman, have you ever tried to be locked up with a dead person?" Have you ever tried to be left on an uninhabited island and ignored, so hungry that you live on insectivorous ants? These are still pediatrics, and it has to be when he is in a good mood, if he is in a bad mood, and when the strange thoughts are sad and sad and crying about the innocence of Chu State, that is when my skin has to be tightened. ”

Hearing this, I couldn't help but ask, "Have you been beaten by him?" ”

He sneered: "The old guy said that it is not called beating, but it is hard to work his heart and bones." "I was silent, in contrast to the commander was very harsh and unkind to me, but most of the corporal punishment was in the form of physical training, not beatings, as for starvation, I have often been punished for not having lunch or dinner because of substandard training, but because I have prepared food, I am basically not too hungry, and naturally it is impossible to live by eating insects.

For this, do I also want to thank the Superior for his kindness to me? Even I think it's funny to think about it.

After that, I talked to him without a match, and basically he was asking, and I answered in a wooden way. Later, I told him about the island where I was, and about the people and things I knew very little. I don't know if it was because I hadn't slept for nearly 20 hours straight, my eyelids began to fight, and I was sleepy. The boy sensed my state almost immediately, leaned closer, breathed on my face and asked softly, "Are you sleepy?" I wanted to shake my head, but he said, "If you're sleepy, close your eyes and sleep, come, sleep on me." I leaned over obediently, resting my head on his lap, and when I closed my eyes, I heard him whisper, "Good girl." ”

Inexplicable nerves twitched, why did he feel that when he said these three words, he was not as soft as before? My five-year-old consciousness was depressed, but the mind of the adult painting was still there, and I felt my body being nudged and pushed, and I heard the boy ask softly, "Have you slept?" Naturally, I couldn't answer him, but the next second I heard him laugh, and my nerves twitched again, because his smile was strange and malicious, and before I could think about it, I heard him say slowly: "Although the grass is tasteless, the effect of rosemary is indeed effective." ”

I didn't know what he meant by the grass, but I vaguely understood that I was sleeping because of him. However, his next sentence really shocked me, and I only heard him say: "Old fellow, don't pretend to be dead, if you don't see your wish come true, you won't be blind." "He means the old man isn't dead yet? The next moment confirmed his words, and the old man's weak voice came from the space: "Little wolf cub, what are you doing when you make that girl unconscious?" ”

The boy hugged me in front of him, stroked my head with his hand, his fingertips ran through his hair, and finally his palm stopped on the top of my head, and then asked: "You said that a five-year-old girl can describe the environment she is in, the experience in a year, the words and appearances of the people around her, this head should be considered good, right?" ”

The old man replied, "It's okay." ”

The boy said, "Okay, since I have your approval, let's do it." Don't say I'm ungrateful, but let you see your dreams come true before you die. The old man lost his voice and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

The boy laughed: "Isn't it a human brain?" Isn't this ready-made? He tapped me twice on the head, and if I hadn't understood what he meant, it would have been a wasted life. The old man had to drag him into this dark space in order to make him the brain here, no matter how incredible and ridiculous it was, but this boy had already decided to take me for him and replace him with me.

The old man was furious: "No, she is an ordinary man, not my Chu people." How can you ......?"

Before he finished speaking, the boy shouted angrily: "So what? The Chu State you have been thinking about has long since perished, and the so-called bloodline is just your fool's dream. Heh, Chu people? Who cares about you, doesn't you? Old guy, don't you always say that I am the last king of your Chu, today I will be the king once, and make an order to let this girl replace the deity, do you obey or not? ”

This kind of dialogue should have felt funny, what kind of Chu people and Chu country, and what the last king, but a boy called himself the deity, a bit like those scenes on the stage. But I didn't find it funny at all, and I felt sad for my fate next.

The old man began to cry bitterly, but while crying, he said, "The old man does not dare to disobey the king's order." ”

The boy indifferently ordered: "Since you don't dare, let's start." ”

With a hard twitch in his heart, what did he let the old man start? The quiet voice reached the eardrum at this time: "Good girl, borrow your head." Remember, go out with all your awareness. Before I could take in the meaning, I didn't know where the pain was taking over all the nerves. The mind flips, and I want to feel that the outside world is stronger than everything. Seeing the old and the young, as well as my little self, I actually wandered out of my own vision from the painting, and then looked back at the scene in front of me.

Is this called a picture-in-picture, a shadow-within-a-shadow?

No, if it's a picture within a picture, then whose perspective am I looking at all this now? A terrible thought was born, if there really is such a lifeless human monster, then what am I substituting at this moment...... Its horizon? And what surprised me even more was not only this, but in the video, I only saw myself convulsing all over my body, and the old man and boy were gone.

This is a process of witnessing one's own pain, looking at the girl curled up on the ground holding her head and moaning, I feel empty. It seems that something is slowly growing, and something is slowly losing.

The boy's voice came from outside: "I see. "It seemed near and far, I opened my empty eyes and saw the light and shadow, and in the light and shadow was the figure of the boy gradually walking out. There is an inexplicable force that drives me to chase after that back, and I seem to realize that once he is out of sight, then I will fall into darkness forever. But no matter how I used my hands and feet, or tried various ways, my body couldn't move forward an inch, and I watched the shadow grow smaller and smaller, and then smaller......

Just as it became a point, the sudden boy screamed angrily: "Damn, it was calculated by the old guy!" ”

Then the old man's voice sounded around: "Hahaha, I thought it would be difficult to complete this life, but I didn't expect that at this last moment, my heart and brain would merge." Eternal space was born, and the old man could finally ...... Eye...... Finish. At the last two words, the old man was silent.

The boy who had already stepped out of the light turned around, cursing in his mouth. Suddenly, he fell silent, lowered his head, and after a half-ring, he said, "Do you think this will trap me?" Old fellow, you underestimate me. Originally, I wanted to fulfill your dream as a reward for the past ten years, so I don't need to, I want you to experience the shattering of your dreams with your own eyes. ”

Speaking of this, he suddenly looked up, and I was startled, because of the light and shadow, I could only see his outline, and the place beyond him was still dark, but at this time, his eyes swept suddenly, and I saw that those eyes were bewitching red.

He said, "Have you seen enough?" It's your turn. ”

I don't understand what he means, how to behave? He added: "The old man's thoughts are not pure, and he has stored this thought since he first brought you here, you are the brain, and I am the heart, so I can escape into your mind and see what you are thinking." Listen, I'm going to take control of your mind now, you just have to get rid of all distractions and not interfere with me, and I promise to take you out. ”

This assurance sounded sarcastic, like a witch with a poisoned apple saying to the princess: Come and eat, there is no poison. But I knew it was poisonous, but I still couldn't refuse his request, because if I didn't count on him, I wouldn't have been able to get out on my own. And just seeing that I can't even stand up, but he can come and go freely, I also know that his ability is above me.

I closed my eyes and let go of my thoughts. The body seemed to float in the air, sometimes being thrown into the air, sometimes sinking down, after several degrees of weightlessness, I inevitably felt scared, I couldn't control the floating of my mind, and the image appeared immediately.

Seeing that the boy was walking towards the light and shadow with difficulty, and there was something dragging behind him, I reacted after a few seconds, he was dragging the old man out, and I, as expected, was really left behind. Angry, unwilling, and not as cold as the fear in my heart, a voice said: I can't be left here.

Walk? If you can't stand up, then climb. Limbs are used to move forward, even if it is gradually farther away from the boy's back, and crawl forward little by little. Survival is a human instinct, and even when I was only five years old, I knew that light was the hope of life. But as the boy's figure disappeared into the light, I found that the light and shadow were shrinking, and I was anxious and frightened, and I crawled forward desperately, and just when I was only an arm's length away, it had become a fist-sized circle of light.

Instinctively, reaching out, my fingers running through the circle of light, I grabbed the object and held it tightly. Whether it was a vision in my painting or not, I felt that my hands were tearing the circle of light alive, allowing it to break, and I shrank my bones and drilled out of the crack little by little.

"It's amazing how you can do this."

I slowly craned my neck, squinting at the white light from dark to bright, but I still recognized it as a boy. Because those red eyes are too unique. <