Chapter 1: Nightmares
"I should have killed her, I should have killed her. ”
"Yes, yes, but how to kill, kill like this. ”
"I'll find a way, there must be a way!"
"Oh, of course. ”
"You don't believe me? I could put poison in her Coke. ”
"What poison?"
"Ah, you know, arsenic or something. ”
On her way to work, Anna meets an acquaintance, who is the mother of her child's classmate, she no longer remembers her name, and she even wonders if the person is someone she knows, because she has no impression at all. But when the other party came over and greeted her warmly and kept shouting "Xiaoxi, Xiaoxi", she felt that they had known each other for a long time. They met at a bus stop. At the time, she was waiting to change to another bus 809 that would go directly to the office building. Just as she had finished greeting the woman, another car came, a little further than the direct one.
"This is 475 Road. The classmate's mother said.
"Uh, yes! Anna nodded and replied. She still wanted to wait for 809. At this time, the classmate's mother was almost 475, and she turned around and waved to Anna, signaling her to hurry over and the car was about to drive away.
Oh hell, I'm not going to ride a 475 with you, it's going to be a long climb. Anna thought to herself. But she had already run towards the 475 bus.
Anna got into the car, but instead of stopping at the station where it used to stop, it took a detour to another road. Anna had never been on this road. The car stopped at the edge of a curve, and all the people in the car got out of the car and walked in one direction, they were not surprised that the car did not stop at the platform where it should stop, she was the only one who felt that something was wrong. At this time she saw another colleague of hers, strangely, that colleague never sat in this car, but he was walking in front of her at the moment. She didn't care about the classmate's mother, so she walked straight to this colleague of hers, and God knows if she was going to be late for work.
"Hi Anna, go this way. The mother shouted at her.
Anna pretended not to hear and hurried to follow her colleague.
"I'm sorry, I don't know why this car is parked in this place today. Mother caught up with Anna and said.
"Haha, it's okay, did you see it, the short and fat man in front of me is a colleague in my department, let's follow him. Anna laughed as she pointed to the fat man in front of her in a white shirt and flannel pants.
"Oh, well. The mother said.
They hadn't gone far before they came across a short, uniformed man who looked like he was supposed to be a security guard, who was supposed to be the one downstairs in Anna's office. But at the moment he was on the same road they were taking, oh no, this road became a circular overfield (sports field), and Anna followed the colleague quickly despite the strange change, because she was about to lose it, and there was a strange curve in front of her.
"Hey, Anna. The short security guard saw Anna and shouted at her.
Anna didn't answer, just nodded at him and walked on.
"Hey, I just saw Chen Jun, how did you get here today. The security guard asked Anna from 3 meters away.
"Oh, I don't know, Mr. Chen, I have to go to work. Good bye. Anna smiled at the security guard and said.
The mother also looked at the security guard with a weird smile, and the security guard saw that the mother froze on her face, he wanted to say something to Anna, but he froze and couldn't say anything.
"Oh, you're Anna?!" the mother asked, frowning.
"Yes. The woman looked up at her mother suspiciously, wondering if it wasn't me Anna you just called.
"Oh, you're working here?" the mother asked.
"yes, I thought you knew. Anna said. An uneasy emotion slowly rose in her heart. She vaguely felt that something was wrong, but she didn't think much of it, and she looked back at her mother again. Otherwise, why would you let me sit with you in that damn 475, I should have been sitting in my office and drinking tea now. Anna thought this to herself, but she didn't say it.
"Oh oh oh yes honey, I want to ......"
"Hey, let's go inside. Anna followed her colleague to the back door of the company, but the janitor had already closed the door. Anna shouted at the janitor, interrupting the mother.
"No, I can't. The janitor shook his head and said.
"He went in, he was my colleague, we were in a department. Anna pointed to the stocky man in front of her, who was about to disappear.
The janitor looked in the direction Anna was pointing. Then he smiled back at her, still shaking his head. Because he saw nothing.
"I'm going to tell you about the leader of the door, I'm going to complain about you. Anna yelled.
But the janitor remained indifferent.
Anna looked up at her watch, oh my God, it's 8:50, I'm going to be late today. She frowned, a look of displeasure.
Finally Anna gave up the back door, and walked briskly down the winding road, the mother following her, and soon she was up the long slope. Then she looked at the office building, she smiled, looked at her watch again, 8:55. Oh, that's good, it should be in time, she smiled, and then she turned her head and saw the mother.
"Oh, you work here too?" Anna asked, feeling relaxed as she saw that she wouldn't be late.
"Oh yes, our company is still on there. Mother pointed to the office building.
"I've never seen you?"
"Ha, yes, none of the people in front of you know about us. ”
"You're working in this building, aren't you?"
"Oh no, dear. I'm at the back of this building. ”
"Back?"
"Yes. ”
By this time, they had already entered the office building where Anna worked, but the office building was not the same as before, the fountain in the lobby on the first floor was gone, and the escalator was gone. The original reception desk turned into a water-sprayed figure, well, that figure, that figure, oh my~ this is not my office building, I went to the wrong place. Anna's mouth opened in surprise, unable to believe that the office building she had seen had become a hotel lobby.
"Hey, you come with me. Mother pulled Anna through the side door and quickly slipped in.
After entering, the small space suddenly became open, and Anna saw the neatly paved stone road, lined with tall ginkgo trees, and cannas, ficus microphyllas, silver spider plants, etc., and even plants that she couldn't name. The wind was strong, and the plants were swinging wildly. Anna was a little worried, she had never been here before, everything here was unfamiliar. She turned to ask the mother who had brought her here, but when she turned her head, she didn't see her. The wind was blowing harder.
"Hey~" Anna shouted.
"Hey, anyone?" Anna shouted at a louder voice.
But there was no sound except the wind. Anna saw that the stone road in front of her was getting more and more blurry, and in the early winter morning, it was a thick fog. Her instincts told her there was something wrong, and she quickly turned around and tried to escape. But as soon as she turned around, she bumped into someone.
"I said we work behind you. The mother who followed her said, her eyes widening and looking straight at Anna.
"Ahh The person Anna bumped into was her mother, who had suddenly disappeared.
She looked at the mother, her apricot eyes widened, and her left hand unconsciously covered her mouth, she hadn't noticed that this woman actually looked exactly like her.
"Hey, you're working brightly ahead, and I'm only in this dark place. How unfair it is. Mother called, her face hideous, and she became the same face as Anna.
"Come on, look here. This is where we work, filthy, messy, and littered with corpses. As she spoke, her mother pulled Anna toward a grove in front of her. They walked through a thicket, a camphor forest, a canna, and came to a wall of vines, and an iron door hid in the vines.
Mother dragged Anna briskly, and with a wave of her hand, the vines on the iron gate spread out in both directions. It was a very old iron gate, and there was a big word "An" written on it. Before Anna could fully see the door, her mother pushed it hard and the iron door opened.
"Iron gate, iron gate, iron gate, open it, open it, ah~" The woman let out a heart-rending scream.
"Wake up, Anna, Anna, Anna"
Anna slowly opened her eyes, and a familiar face came into view. She sat up abruptly and threw herself into the man's arms.
"What? are you having nightmares again?" the man asked.
She shook her head, not wanting to answer, she closed her eyes and opened them again. Looking over the man's shoulder at the window, it was a black-framed window, no glass, only rusty iron rods separating the room from the world in the hollow window frame, she counted, about six. A thin curtain of sand kept beating the iron bar, and the petals on the curtain were scattered on both sides, and the large hole tore the petals. She turned her head to the left, and a large, dark red cabinet with no paint off was placed against the wall, and two earthen bowls were filled with flies. Oh my God, why am I still here!, she thought to herself, tears glistening in her eyes.
"Are you hungry?" asked the man who was holding her, his voice as soft as a pool of spring water.
She suddenly broke away from his embrace, her nose twitching slightly, and she couldn't help twitching her nose when she was nervous.
"I think I still need some medicine. She shook her head and looked at the man expectantly.
Anna suffers from severe hallucinations, also known as paranoia, and she often suffers from severe hallucinations. When she was 10 years old, she was taken to the Longmen Psychiatric Hospital by her family after putting arsenic in the drink her 5-year-old brother was drinking. It wasn't until 10 years later that a man named Hu Sheng took her out of the mental hospital. As for why Hu Sheng was able to take her out of the mental hospital, no one knows so far.
"Hu Sheng, I want medicine. Seeing that the man holding her did not react, Anna begged again.
Hu Sheng let go of the arm that was holding Anna, stood up, turned around, and walked to the big dark red wooden cabinet, he waved his hand, and the flies and insects on the two earthen bowls flew away quickly.
With a creak, Hu Sheng opened the wooden cabinet. Behind him, Anna swallowed as she stared intently at the large wooden cabinet.
She knew what Hu Sheng was going to give her, and that thing was what kept her dreaming, and Hu Sheng called that thing "Anfei". She didn't know where he got it, but he had been giving her it since he had taken her out of the asylum, and maybe the doctor had given her it when she was in the asylum, she didn't remember. However, Hu Sheng told her that this medicine could make her feel no pain, in fact, she did not feel pain, not only did she not feel pain, but even the perception of the human part was completely gone. She never understood why he had taken her out of the mental hospital, and her family had abandoned her because they believed she had deliberately killed her 5-year-old brother. In fact, whether she did it on purpose or not, I'm afraid no one knows what she really wants but herself. Anyway, her family agreed that she hated her brother very much. Because on her brother's birthday, her mother went to the street for her brother to buy a cup of piggy cake, and when she had dinner, her mother quietly took it out and put it in front of her brother, and the brother clapped his hands happily, and at this time someone in her house was calling her mother's name, it was a neighbor who came to borrow salt, and when her mother came out, her face was covered with pink cream, and the little pig on the cake was gone, and her brother was crying. Seeing this, her mother said nothing, picked up the mulberry strip next to the table, and waved it at her. The mulberry stick was specially folded for her brother in the field where her father worked, and there was a bright red blood mark on her knee that was injured by folding the mulberry stick. She was 10 years old that year, she didn't defend herself, she had tears in her eyes, she watched her mother stubbornly silent, and at night in bed, she took off her clothes and ran her fingers over the scars on her body, some of which had turned black, one, two, three, four...... She felt the latest wound that was wet and bloodied, and her mother's final stroke swept away the last warmth in her heart.
"Anna, tell me about the Iron Gate. Hu Sheng suddenly turned to look at Allah and gritted his teeth.
Anna looked at Hu Sheng suspiciously, trying to figure out what he was talking about!
"Xiaoxi is dead. ”
"Who is Xiaoxi?"
"My daughter. ”
"Ah, you're married?" Anna turned her head to look at the iron window, tilting her head, and a petal on the curtain was wrapped around the iron rod, and it tried to break free but wrapped more tightly. A woman's face suddenly flashed in her mind, the woman's face was covered with blood, desperately tugging at the corner of her clothes, and her mouth kept shouting "Xiaoxi, Xiaoxi, Xiaoxi......"
"Ex-wife. Hu Sheng turned the ring on the ring finger of his left hand, and his finger moved along the pattern on the ring. Oh, he drew the word "An". "I'm looking for her. ”
Anna tilted her head and looked at Hu Sheng, who in her heart was a heinous villain, and he forcibly took her away from the mental hospital, and that day he wore this somewhat yellowed shirt, one sleeve rolled up to his elbow, and the other covering his entire arm. His hair was shiny, as if he hadn't washed it in months. His face is covered with stubble, and snot will often hang on the tip of his nose. He looked very old, at least 40 years old. He was dirty but well-dressed (except for the sleeve he didn't roll up), and she remembered the Jinshi Fan Jin she had read about in the textbook.
"Did you find her?" Anna rubbed her eyes, she was a little sleepy.
"She sent me to prison. As if he hadn't heard Anna's words, Hu Sheng muttered to himself, his tone full of helplessness and sadness, and a certain anger that Allah could not describe.
Hu Sheng's ex-wife is called Li Zhen, and she married Hu Sheng when she was 19 years old. She smiled brightly on the day she got married, and she felt that she had simply found the best husband in the world. As she said to all her friends who came to the wedding, "Oh, my dear friend, I am so happy to come, he is a man of wisdom and wit and masculinity, and you will see him in a moment." Oh my god, I'm completely in love. ”
Unfortunately, Hu Sheng has a dark and evil side. He's hot-tempered, super controlling, and a jealous maniac. A week after their marriage, Li Zhen had a middle school classmate come to see her, this classmate wanted to invite her to the teahouse outside to catch up, Li Zhen happily told Hu Sheng that she was going to meet a classmate who came back from other places, in the teahouse 5 meters downstairs. "What classmates are you seeing? What classmates do you ****** can see? Isn't it enough to see Lao Tzu? Won't Lao Tzu satisfy you?" Hu Sheng yelled at Li Zhen with a gloomy face. Since their wedding, Li Zhen has never been out of the house, Hu Sheng has been locking her at home, locked in the marriage bed in the bedroom, day and night, and kept asking her over and over again. Li Zhen tried every means to ignore Hu Sheng's shortcomings so that the marriage could be maintained, after all, they had only been married for less than 1 year. She didn't want to see the pointing and ridicule of her relatives, friends, and friends. "Tell you this man is not going to do it. "Yes, you look at his wide chin, you look at his blue eyes, I've heard that such people have paranoia. "The lips are so thin, and the thin is grumpy. ”
A year later, they had a child, a beautiful little girl, whom they called Xiaoxi, and for a while, things seemed to be getting better. Li Zhen can take the child around, and she also got a job, a cashier in a supermarket. But the good times didn't last long, and when Xiaoxi was about a year old, those long sets of insults and jealousy began to flare up again. At first it was just verbal abuse, then it turned into violent beatings. Hu Sheng decided that there was someone outside Li Zhen, maybe it was the classmate who had come to see her.
Once Xiaoxi had a high fever, he took the child to the doctor, and on the way to the hospital, he passed by the Hello Everyone's supermarket, and he saw Li Zhen talking and laughing with a man at the door of the supermarket, and the man also patted Li Zhen on the shoulder from time to time. "****** dead mother-in-law, the baby has a high fever and you are seducing men outside. You're a fucking bitch. Hu Sheng scolded while holding the child and walked towards Li Zhen and the man.
Li Zhen became nervous when she saw Hu Sheng. "Sheng, this is my middle school classmate, he just came back from out of town, came to buy something, and happened to run into ......"
"You ****** a bitch. Before Li Zhen finished speaking, Hu Sheng slapped her hard.
Poor Li Zhen finally couldn't stand it anymore. She divorced this stupid man and won custody of her daughter Xiaoxi. Hu Sheng began to follow her. Ms. Lee's response was to apply for a restraining order, a piece of paper that, as many battered women have told you, was like holding a women's parasol to block a hurricane. In the end, Hu Sheng insulted and beat Li Zhen again at the door of the Hello Everyone's supermarket. Li Zhen's nose, mouth, and eyes were all bleeding, and he grabbed her hair and dragged her to a truck parked in front of the supermarket, and the blood rolled down from Li Zhen's forehead in an instant, and she fell in a pool of blood in an instant. The stupid Hu Sheng was arrested and imprisoned.
Anna looked at Hu Sheng, thinking about the scene of him being caught. "And then?" she asked.
"Have you ever heard of trench warfare in France and Belgium?"
"Nope. ”
"Millions of people died in that tug-of-war just to grab miles of mud land. Hu Sheng placed all the small medicine bottles on the wooden cabinet, shaking them as he put them back. "There is no medicine. He said suddenly. "I have to go to the hospital. ”
"You're not done yet. Anna stopped him.
"I'm a life, I'm worth more than mud. Li Zhen's said that I was not even as good as mud. Hu Sheng snapped the cabinet shut, turned around and rushed to Anna's face, looking straight at Anna, her bloodshot eyes covered by inexplicable hatred. Anna shrunk her neck unnaturally, looking at him in horror. "****** I should kill her. ”
Hu Sheng came out of the dilapidated room, locked the door, and a big yellow dog howled at him twice at the door, "Brute." Hu Sheng glanced at the dog viciously, and smacked at it, and the dog squatted down and made no more sound.
It was an old house, and there were no other buildings around, the only thing related to it was an earthen well not far from the door, the pressurized valve had been rusted, and the rust on the handle fell into the well when the wind blew.
Hu Sheng stepped over the well, through the weeds that grew above his knees, and walked towards Yan Shan. Oh, maybe it wasn't a wall, it was an earthen wall covered with vines. He walked around the vine, searched around, and finally found something behind an unknown red wildflower, and he tugged at it vigorously, and the vine spread out in both directions, revealing a rusted iron door. He opened the iron door and stepped out, and he looked back at the little dilapidated house inside the wall, which looked like Voldemort's abode, dark, dirty, and full of evil aura.
Bang bang dang dang
There was a sound of hitting chains in the house, and Hu Sheng looked at the room gloomily, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
Anna, who had not taken the medicine, was much more awake, and when Hu Sheng left the room, she tried to stand up, but found that her feet were tied by a large chain.