On a night without moonlight, children and men pedal small bicycles around the yard, and when the wind blows, the flowers sway from side to side, and the leaves of the ginkgo tree in front of the house fall one after another.

He looked up, and in the midst of the fallen leaves, he saw a pair of red eyes on the tree, large, silently staring at him.

"Xiaobao, what are you doing outside, come inside, it's time to take a shower. ”

Mom called out from inside the house, and he dropped his bicycle and walked into the hall through the open glass door.

He ran to the bathroom, hugged his mother's legs and said, "Mom, there's a big monster in the tree." ”

Mom smiled, gently pinched his little face and asked, "Is it a big spider or a gecko?"

He shook his head, "It's bigger than a human, with red eyes and big claws. ”

Of course, she didn't believe that there was anything strange in the yard, but her son was true, and it had been rumored some time ago that there was a monster called Metal Inhuman who often appeared in the city, and it should not be taken lightly.

She left her son in the bathroom and went to the living room alone, looking out through the glass door that the courtyard was quiet and a children's bicycle was parked on the turf. Pulling open the door, a cold breeze blew in, and she stepped out of the door carefully, and as the eaves moved back, the tall ginkgo trees were all in sight.

A shaking object startled her, and she calmed down, only to find that the curtains on the second floor were blown outside by the wind, "Xiaobao, how many times has my mother said that the windows should be closed at night." ”

Until she turned to close the door, she didn't notice a pair of red eyes peeking through the roof.

He sat motionless in the corner of the roof, and it would have been hard to spot a monster crouching above the villa had it not been for the occasional headlights that shone through him, revealing the shiny scales on his body.

After seeing the hostess enter the house, he jumped back to the tree, the woman in the house has short hair that reaches the ears, her hands and feet are round, and she has the charm of a housewife, definitely not the wife in her impression, and the furnishings of the house have also changed, and the fabric sofa in the living room has been replaced with a leather black sofa.

The villa where I lived has become someone else's home, what has happened to my family in the past year?

He jumped onto another tree, jumped on the roof of the villa area, ran up a barren mountain at night, and near the top of the mountain, he found a pine tree with paw prints and a red plastic bag tied to the top.

Untie it and there is a bunch of keys, a phone and a wallet.

Inside the mezzanine of the wallet is a copy of Kaiming's physical card.

He carefully picked up the phone, and gently pressed the power button with his paw, but the screen remained black.

At the bus stop on the outskirts of the city, a middle-aged security guard on night duty came out of the toilet and found that only the mobile phone was on the desk. ”

"Damn, who took your broken charger, I used an Apple phone. Xiao Guo, who was standing guard outside the door of the security room, replied.

"Fuck your apple, who took Lao Tzu's charger?" The security guard uncle lay on the bottom of the table and saw a rotten apple and a cockroach in the crack, and there was nothing else.

"Maybe it's the feral cats, they've been making a lot of noise lately. Xiao Guo said.

"Oh!"

Xiao Guo heard a wail from the security room, "What are you doing?"

"It's okay, Lao Tzu's head accidentally hit the window frame, grandma's. ”

Xiao Guo rolled his eyes.

The security guard touched the swollen bag on his forehead and leaned out the window to see the sound of wild cats barking in the grass.

He tossed the rotten apple over, and his ears finally calmed down, and he looked left and right for a moment, but he couldn't spot the metal alien on the roof of the security room.

The sharp claws scraped the rubber of the wire, revealing the copper heart, and when the charger was connected, the security room suddenly went black, "Grandma's, there was a power outage." The uncle's scolding came again.

The icon of charging is displayed on the phone screen, and after five minutes, the screen will automatically light up.

Metal Inhuman sat on the roof of the building and clicked on the phone's inbox, which contained more than a hundred unread messages.

Angel sent about 30 messages, all of which were to persuade Kaiming to go home, and the remaining more than 70 were sent by his wife. He read them one by one, and the initial messages were very short, similar to Anqi's, all of them were the same as persuading him to come back. In the days that followed, the information became longer and longer, and from these contents, he probably learned about his wife's situation for the year.

On November 20th, it was raining heavily outside, and I was sitting alone on the sofa in the living room, and before I knew it, you had been gone for a month. I began to reflect on the fact that I was busy with work in the past and did not fulfill my responsibilities as a wife, although you never complained, but now that I think about it, I actually regarded your tolerance as my own reckless capital, causing today's situation, and I am responsible for the unshirkable responsibility. Kaiming, I'm sorry!

On December 31, you still haven't heard from you. The flowers in the yard have been adjusted, the fallen leaves on the ground, the cold air condensed into frost on the window, I began to worry about your safety, what to eat outside, can the metal iron armor keep warm? I hope to get your reply after the message is sent. Love your wife, Anyi.

On January 27th, two days later is the Lunar New Year, my mother asked me to move back, I have been hesitating, but the end of the month is the date to pay the rent, I have not worked for three months, I can no longer pay the rent of this villa, the reality has to make people bow their heads. I'm sorry, Kaiming, I couldn't keep this home for you.

On April 5, because I had been absent from work for many months, my superiors sent a fire on the phone this morning, and when I hung up the phone, he said that he would not have to go to work in the future. I knew that he had been eyeing the position of the head of the institute for a long time, and that I was his rival, so he was finally relieved. You don't have to worry about me, Angel helped me find a job as a clerk, so you have to take care of yourself too, and you must look white and chubby when you come back.

On August 13th, at noon today, I saw the news on the Internet that the metal alien appeared in a small town in another province, I rushed out of the company, took the bus to the other town, and when the wheels began to spin rapidly, do you know how excited I was? I really hope that it is you, and when you see this news, you should also guess that it is a prank. I pounced, it was already evening when I returned to the company, and the bad news came one after another, and the company's bid for today failed. This originally had nothing to do with me as an ordinary clerk, but the reason for the failure was that the bid price was written as five million, which was one million more than the competitor, which was obviously a human error, and the person in charge of printing the bid was me, and the responsibility was on me as a small clerk. How can I be willing to carry this black cauldron, I asked him to theorize, he pulled me into the method room, knelt and bowed, crying that he had elderly parents to support, his wife had no job, his son was young, and so on. I was absent from work in the afternoon, and I couldn't stay in the company anyway, so I simply helped him cover up the matter. As a result, I lost my job, and when I was packing up, the manager took advantage of the security guard in charge of supervising me and handed me 1,000 yuan, but I didn't take it. God, I'm so stupid.

A lot of things happened today, I hope you don't think I'm trembling, the bus is about to arrive, I have to think about how to explain to the two of my family, you know my mother's temper, it's indispensable to be criticized, and there is Angel, the work was introduced by her, I messed up. Alas, I hope to get a reply from you, please say a word to me, even if it's just a word.

On September 20th, I looked up at the bright moon tonight, wondering if you were also looking at it in a different place at this time, there were constantly Kong Ming lanterns floating into the night sky, and I also released one, if you picked it up, you will find that I wrote a sentence in the lampshade, the reason why it is so hidden, is that I don't want to recognize my mother and An Yi to see, you know that I have never been good at saying something that makes people blush, even in the text message, I dare not tell you, if you really want to know, I can only whisper to you in the bed. In the past, although we communicated too little, we had no doubt that the other person loved us, and it was not until the moment you ran away from home that I realized that ideas and reality are two different things. Cumming, where are you tonight? I miss you.

On September 30th, it is unimaginable that I survived 365 days without you. Some people say that time is a ruthless pig-killing knife, Kaiming, I'm really afraid, afraid that I will gradually get used to the days without you. The day before yesterday, I heard that someone had found a monster in the Golden Triangle, and when I took the ticket home, my mother cried, and Angel said I was crazy. They were all trying to persuade me to live that normal life, and even Angel, who had been silently supporting me, was saying that I was so annoyed that sometimes I couldn't breathe, and I could only relieve myself by drinking a glass or two, did you know that there was a bar in our villa? I hadn't really paid attention to it before, the environment was clean, and the bartender was very gentlemanly. I didn't dare to go to other bars, first, for fear of running into hooligans, and second, for fear that Angel would not be found if she was drunk. I'm not afraid to joke about it, I used to think vodka was a soda drink, and when I took a sip, I was impressed by this strong "soda", and now I can recognize every wine on the wine cabinet, what brandy, pig Huashi, and the unique taste of tequila, God, I hope I made a mistake.

Although I don't live in that area now, every time I pass by the villa where we lived, I can't help but stop to see if the flowers in the yard are blooming, and whether the two apricot trees in front of the door are growing. I heard from the landlord that a single mother and son moved in last month, but don't worry, she repeatedly assured me that if we moved back, she would definitely vacate the house. It's just that...... Will you come back? Will you go back to that warm home with me?

I'm sorry, I can't tell you, the tequila is burning in my head, it looks like Angel is stuck in traffic, I'm going to find the bar and lie down comfortably for a while.

The phone prompted that the battery was low again, and the metal alien couldn't look at it anymore, and the paw clicked the reply button, and a reply box appeared on the screen, and briefly typed: Anyi, I'm sorry.

His fingers froze there until the screen went into the shutdown screen and the message was sent.

Since he is no longer human, he will no longer intervene in Kaiming's life.

"Oh. ”

Xiao Guo heard movement in the dark security room, so he asked, "What's wrong?"

I heard the security guard reply, "I was hit by something." ”

"What?"

"Damn, it turned out to be my charger. ”

Xiao Guo rolled his eyes.