[I couldn't believe what I was seeing, but I had to admit that it happened.] The strange sky reversed, gathered on the surface of the lake, and suddenly the wind was blowing, like the end of the world. On both sides of the riverbank, heavy snow fell from the dense forest, burying my grief. "No, Mom." I wailed urgently, "Quick, quick, get ashore, Mom." "I was holding on to the fence on the perimeter of the dock, and my whole body was hanging in the air.

She noticed something unusual, the wooden boat was spinning on the surface of the lake, and then she noticed the horror of the sky behind her, which was much more than just the approaching storm. "Mom, quick, come back, it's, it's at the bottom of the lake, right under the boat." I saw the shadowy shadow again, lurking beneath the surface of the lake, converging on her boat.

Clang, loud muffled noise, I was stunned, too frightened to squeak, and watched numbly as the lone sail shook violently in the deep pool. The adoptive mother lowered herself and lay prone on the wooden boat, almost falling, and I guessed that she must have seen something at the bottom of the lake, so she didn't care about everything, and paddled desperately towards the pier. "Tianyu, go back quickly, the storm is coming soon, go back quickly." It was dark and her vision was blurred, and she shouted to me in the shadows, "It's dangerous here, get out of here." ”

The strange thing at the bottom of the lake did not disappear, it actually pursued behind the wooden boat, and the huge shadow gradually swallowed the entire lakeside. "Mom, quick, come up." I was so anxious that tears welled up in my eyes, for some reason, although she was getting closer and closer to me, I felt that she was moving away from me, going to an unknown world, and that she would never return.

The dark tide splashed on her cheeks, cloudy with sweat, and I didn't know if she was scared too, and I was overwhelmed with grief when I looked at her red and swollen eyes. Near, everything was near, and I saw the boat sail into the shallows, the waves of the rapids rushing into my blurred vision. I tugged at the rope on the dock barrier with my right hand and stretched out my left arm, trying to hold her closer.

"Alright, alright, it's okay, honey, don't cry, mom is okay, my poor little liver." The wooden boat slowly floated towards the pier, and the adoptive mother also stretched out her hand, and the tears in her eyes could no longer help but slide down her cheeks.

Comforting eyes stared at me, but just as I was about to touch her fingertips, I was shocked to find a dark figure emerge from behind her, like a human figure, revealing a hideous face that I had never seen before. My eyes were clouded as I watched the ghost appear behind her head.

"Okay, it's okay, Tianyu, don't worry, I'm ......" She tried to reassure my nervousness, but before I could finish speaking, I saw the ghost figure stretch out an arm that was gathered by black breath, strangled her neck, and strangled her soul. Oh my God, I saw an ethereal image taken away from my adoptive mother, and it was the same image as her.

I didn't know it at the time, it was the soul of a man, and when she reached out and tried to grab me, I realized that the image passed by my limb and never appeared again. "Tianyu, Tianyu?" She called my name out of her mouth and was dragged to the bottom of the lake by the shadows. Sluggish, my whole body stiffened, staring into her eyes, her ruddy skin instantly turned pale, she closed her eyes weakly, and with the collapse, she collapsed in the wooden boat, never to open her eyes again.

The vision on the lake dissipated in an instant, and the turbulent waves gradually subsided, and the wooden boat drifted with the waves to the sand and gravel layer of the pier. Numb, I came back to my senses and jumped, the cold water of the lake soaking my legs, but I didn't care about the sting compared to her safety. Climbing into the wooden boat, I fell to my knees in front of her. "Mom...... Mom? "I didn't dare touch her with my hand, her eyes still closed, not knowing if I could hear my call, until my voice grew hoarse." You, can you open your eyes? Mom? Please, open your eyes, okay? "With trembling hands, I stroked her haggard cheeks, and the cold and piercing sensation made my brain ache for a while." Mom, don't do this, please, it's not fair, Mom...... Mother! I cried out, a darkness filled my eyes, my brain went dizzy, and I collapsed into her cold arms.

In the mist, I watched her go away, pleading, sad eyes disappeared into my world, I tried to follow her footsteps, in the endless darkness, the light dissipated, I lost her after all, this merciless fate will eventually change my life.

When I opened my eyes weakly, I knew that all that had changed, that my adoptive mother was buried somewhere in the back mountains, and that the people of the village had come to mourn when they heard of her misfortune, even though they had rarely interacted with each other in the past. I watched as the tall and handsome man of yesteryear faded into a decadent drunkard, and I could smell the disappointing and strong smell of alcohol hundreds of meters from the bottom of the mountain. Listening to the local residents who tried to comfort me, I was very happy to have my adoptive father and adoptive mother incapable of children, but now that the two people who love each other are separated by yin and yang, I have become a poor orphan again. Perhaps they thought I didn't understand the vitriolism in the words, and they talked about it without caring about my feelings, and after the first seven, they never came again.

That night, I ate the only sandwich in the fridge, and in the silence of the night, it suddenly rained, and the wind howled against the curtains in front of the window, as if someone was pulling desperately. I heard the thunder roaring outside, the papaya vines in the front yard rattling in the rain, and the shadows dancing in the dense forest startled, and the crackling of branches made me tremble.

Suddenly, boom! The door of the house was broken open by the strong wind, and the cold snap blew away my lost emotions, and the figure that followed me became distorted in the torrential rain. I had never seen his horrified face, and I had always thought he loved me as much as my adoptive mother, but it wasn't until he dropped the bottle in front of me that I understood it.

Drunk, he rushed in, grabbed me by the collar, and lifted my whole body up. He dragged me up the hallway to a storage room in the attic, where he left me crying and pleading...... But it didn't change the ending. "You, you demon! Yes, you killed her, you were the one! He vented his irrepressible grief and pulled out the belt around his waist to spur me on. Blood soaked all over my body, neck, body, back, ankles, thighs...... The pain paralyzed me, and I huddled in a corner, even my breath turned into a feeble moan.

If you no longer have the fear of the dark, then you have prayed to survive in the darkness. That storage room became a place of abuse for him, and how I longed for all the bottles in the fridge to disappear, and the wine cooler to be blown down by the wind, and only when he was sober up did I have a respite. Later he took this illusion for granted, and I was dying under the shattering of the glass, the insults, the spurs, and the endless torment. (To be continued.) )