"But you didn't. I remembered the photo in Shi Xia's arms, "Your brother is also on that group photo." ”

"That was later, and I did think that way," Shi Xia said, "and I did." ”

“......”

"My brother was very young when he was born, and I have never seen such a young child, as if he had no bones, and he could not do anything but cry and sleep," Shi Xia said. I thought to myself, and on the surface I treated him like all the rest of the family, and my mother thought I loved this brother, and she didn't know what was going on in my heart at the time. ”

"Your brother must have gone to college, too. ”

"Well, so to speak. Shi Xia replied, "That little guy without bones grew up at an astonishing rate, I didn't expect that human beings could learn very complex skills such as walking, talking, and writing in just a few years, and when my younger brother went to school, that is, when he was five or six years old, I felt that the time had come." ”

"That's your brother," I said, "and even if you are not related by blood, you are a family living under one roof." ”

"Family..."Shi Xia muttered, "Yes, of course it's family, it's Mom's family, everything the best must be given to him first, whether it's food, toys or family smiles, it's always given to him first, what am I?"

“... What did you do?"

Shi Xia laughed, "Don't worry, that's what I thought before, not now." On my brother's first day of school, my mother asked me to wait for him to pick him up from school, and on the way home, I absorbed my brother's vitality for the first time, before this I had not absorbed the power of human beings for a long time, and only the annual Mid-Autumn Moon could only keep me in human form, and my demonic power had not increased since I entered this home. ”

I looked at Shi Xia, and it didn't look like I was recalling something to be proud of.

"I have to sigh, the child who is growing up has immeasurable vitality, after the first absorption, my demon power has been significantly improved, imitating humans can hardly see flaws, including the young demon killer can not find my secret, I am very proud, and soon found an opportunity to absorb my brother's vitality for the second time. Shi Xia said, "That time I didn't control it well, my brother soon fell ill, he had a fever for several days, and the attention of the whole family was quickly focused on him." ”

"It's just a child, why bother. ”

"It was unexpected, I was doing it to get everyone's attention to me, but now it seems to be counterproductive. Shi Xia took out the photo again, and the photo in the moonlight clearly showed the smile of the family, "My resentment is even stronger, so after everyone went to sleep in the evening, I quietly approached my brother's room, since the doctor can't tell my brother's condition, even if he disappears into the world today, it is not unusual." ”

"I'm glad you didn't," I looked at my brother in the picture, "and the loss of a family is the end of the sky for a family." ”

"It's like you've been through it," Shi Xia said, "where did I know this at that time, and my only thought was to get rid of this nasty little guy as soon as possible." When I quietly walked over to my brother who had a fever and looked at him blushing, I was a little happy, oops, I was finally the only child in this family. At this time, my brother suddenly opened his eyes, and he looked at me. ”

Shi Xia's next words made him cry silently.

He stretched out his hand to grab me, but I refused him, and then he asked me, "Brother, why are you unhappy?" Is it because I'm sick? I didn't answer him, he then said, "Brother, when I get better, I can give you more 'light'," and after saying that, he whispered that this is my secret, and my mother doesn't know. ”

The so-called light is the life force of the boy.

"I froze in place, obviously I have been hurting him, but he is still worried about whether I am happy or not? Shi Xia stabilized his emotions and said, "Human beings are really stupid. ”

"He treats you like family, that's why that's it. I said, "He wouldn't have thought that you would hurt him, and he would treat you with all his heart, just like your mother." ”

"I couldn't do it anymore, the eyes in front of me were so clean, full of belief and dependence, 'This kid in front of me trusts me, I'm his brother. I told myself so. ”

Demons say people are stupid, and people laugh at demons.

"It stands to reason that life should be on the right track in the future, my younger brother is growing up day by day, and I am becoming more and more like a human being," Shi Xia said, "but the world is fair, everything you get because of greed will have a day to pay, in a Mid-Autumn Festival a few years later, I absorbed the power of the moon as every year, but after the end, I found that everything had changed." ”

"Changed?"

"The growth of demonic power also has its own laws, similar to a saying of you humans - quantitative change produces qualitative change. ”

"What do you mean?"

"Because I have absorbed my brother's life force, my demonic power grows much faster than ordinary monsters, and soon I will find that I no longer need to consume power when I become a human, in other words, I am almost a human, and it is not easy for a demon to become a human. Shi Xia said, "However, before I had time to be happy, I discovered another terrifying fact, I have almost become a human, and the attributes of Jinhua cats are almost perfect, I no longer need to confuse humans to absorb the life force, as long as I am around the human being, I will automatically absorb the vitality of the weakest person among them." ”

"Your mother..."

"Well, the weakest person is my mother. No matter what method I adopted, I couldn't control my absorption of her life force, and watching her body weaken day by day, I finally decided to leave the house. ”

"But... If you go to college, it will still affect the people around you. I asked.

"It was natural, so I didn't go to school. It said, "I summed up my changes as nature's punishment for my despicable treatment of my family, because my mother's illness cost a lot of money, and the family soon became poor, I left them a letter explaining that I was going to work in other places to earn money, in order not to affect others I had to keep moving from place to place, constantly changing jobs, and looking for jobs with less contact with people as much as possible." ”

"A job with little contact with people?"

"Probably all the jobs that no one wants to do and have a decent income," Shi Xia said, "There is nothing to talk about, I am a monster, and those jobs that are dangerous in the eyes of humans are not worth mentioning to me, and soon I saved a lot of money to send home, and the family can be regarded as worry-free, during this period I have been in contact with my mother by letter, because she does not use mobile phones and anything like that, until one day, my brother called me and told me that he should go to university." ”

"That's a good thing. ”

"Well, I was very happy to hear it and encouraged him to go, which is what my mother meant, but he said that he wanted to come out and work like me. ”

“... Why?"

"He's always wanted to learn to paint, but it's a very expensive major, so he wants to give up," Shi Xia said, "but how can this be allowed? He's just a child, and he shouldn't think about these things, after all, I'm the elder brother." ”

Shi Xia didn't seem to be talking to me, as if he was really talking to his brother.

(End of chapter)