11. Blame the doctor
After eating morning and evening, I went back to the room where I had rested and looked from the window at the next house behind the weeds. Originally, I wanted to go over and have a look, but Qiao Wei persuaded me, after all, our current situation is not secondary, in case someone calls the police, we really don't even have a place to hide, so I can only stay at the window and wait to see if there is anything new happening.
The girl's shouts would come from the house from time to time, and the girl's mother would shout at the girl to shut up.
After the same procedure had been circulating for almost a morning, a strange guy appeared outside the yard. It was a skinny middle-aged man, and it was already very hot outside, but the man wrapped himself tightly with a trench coat, and even the collar had to stand up to cover his face.
He has been standing there motionless since he came to the outside of the courtyard, and I can't see his eyes from here, but from the direction he is facing, it seems that he has been staring at the window of the Lin family.
I thought this man was a little weird, so I quickly called Qiao Wei to the window.
As soon as Qiao Wei came over, the man also took action immediately, but it was not because of Qiao Wei, but the back door of the Lin family's house opened, and a middle-aged woman in a rustic dress stood at the door and waved to the man outside: "Hello, I'm really sorry to trouble you every week." ”
The thin man didn't reply, but nodded to the woman, then pushed the door open and stepped into the courtyard through the small door on the fence.
His steps were very light, and he barely made much noise when he walked on the weeds in the yard, and as he approached the back door of the Lin family, the man suddenly turned his head and glanced at me. The sudden turn of his head startled me, but instead of dodging, I kept staring at the man's face.
Luckily, the thin man wasn't wearing a mask or anything like that, and I could see his face clearly when he turned his head.
He was really, really thin, he felt like a skeleton covered in skin, his eyes were dull, his sockets were deeply sunken inward, he had very heavy dark circles, and it felt like he hadn't slept in days.
I saw him, he saw me, and he didn't avoid my gaze, just stared into my eyes all the time. He didn't show any expression, no hatred, no disdain, no disgust, etc., he stood there like a puppet, feeling gloomy.
The middle-aged woman of the Lin family quickly turned her head and looked at me.
Her reaction was obviously much stronger, and she immediately frowned when she found me and Qiao Wei standing at the window, and then retreated into the room in a panic, and beckoned to the thin man: "Doctor, come in first, Xiaolin's hallucinations are getting worse and worse." ”
The thin man immediately turned his face and nodded to the middle-aged woman, then walked into the Lin family's house and closed the door.
"This should be the doctor who goes to the Lin family every week that the old lady said, right?" I looked at Qiao Wei and said.
"Definitely. But that guy doesn't look like a doctor at all. Qiao Wei said.
"When he comes out, let's go talk to him?"
"Can you take out the Ten Fists Sword now?"
"I really haven't tried, but ......" I said as I tried to get the sword out, in fact, I kept silently saying "come out, come out, come out ......" in my mind, and then imagined Susanoo's ten-fist sword coming out of my palm, but this meditation and imagination obviously didn't have any effect, and the ten-fist sword didn't appear as I thought.
I shook my head at Qiao Wei, and Qiao Wei also shook his head at me and responded, "Then it's better for the two of us not to look for trouble." It's daytime, I don't need a mud arhat, the pistol and the knife have been taken by the police, and the goggles that saved your life before are gone, in case that guy is a god or something, then we will definitely throw ourselves into the net. ”
"Then leave him alone?"
"Anyway, he will come over once a week, it's a big deal, let's just wait a week, and besides, the god of fortune will come over tomorrow at the latest, with her help, at least it's no problem to get back our equipment, wait for her to help you deal with your physical condition before thinking about anything else."
Although I've been doing some risk-taking behaviors lately that even I find a little incredible, those actions are based on situations where I feel I can control the situation, and the current situation is like Qiao Wei said, we don't have anything in our hands that can be used as a killer weapon, and this is not the right time to take risks.
So I chose to listen to Qiao Wei, we stayed in the house honestly and didn't go anywhere until the god of good fortune came, and we even left the window for safety, trying to avoid any more contact with the thin man, even if it was just a simple eye contact.
The thin man left the Lin family at noon, and I leaned my back against the wall next to the window and heard the conversation between the middle-aged woman and the thin man. The woman once again thanked the doctor very solemnly for his visit, and the thin man finally spoke.
"Nothing, that's all I can do, I'll be back next week."
His voice sounded kind, friendly, and much more normal, and if I hadn't seen him before, I might have imagined him as an announcer working at the radio station.
In the afternoon, the Lin family was completely quiet, the girl didn't shout anything like "bugs" anymore, and the middle-aged woman didn't roar anymore.
Staying in the house all day and not going out is a common thing for an otaku like me, but the situation of no internet, no computer and no mobile phone is a different story, this boring feeling almost drives me crazy, and I can only go to the window again to see the house of the Lin family next door.
In the evening, the back window that had been closed by the Lin family was suddenly pushed open from the inside with a creak, and then a girl with short ear-length hair poked her head out of the room.
The girl was about seven or eight years old, and she was very cute, but like the eccentric skinny doctor before, the girl wore a long-sleeved sweater on her body, and even a pair of gloves on her hands, and she didn't seem to want to show any part of her body except her face.
The girl held on to the windowsill with both hands and inhaled the air deeply, then looked excitedly from side to side.
Soon, the girl saw me, and I thought she would choose to hide back in the house because she was scared, but surprisingly she didn't be afraid, but smiled at me, then rolled up her sleeves to show her arms, and smiled at me, "Look, is it fun?" I have holes in my arms. ”