On a low hardwood bed, the young man Andu looked at the choking, musty-smelling futon on his body and didn't know what to think.

His eyes were blank, and he looked out the window for a long time without responding.

It wasn't until the girl next to him frowned again that he came back to his senses slightly, and asked a little blankly, "Elizabeth, what did you just say?"

Elizabeth's brow furrowed even deeper.

At the age of thirteen or fourteen, she should have been the age of development, but she looked unusually thin.

Even the thick, shabby brown cotton jacket could not hide her thin figure, her delicate facial features were very delicate, but there was no blood, and under the long golden hair as warm as the sun was a face that did not match her age, with sorrow and anxiety.

The girl who was already thin and weak, at this time, her voice trembled slightly under the rendering of her inner emotions: "Brother, you haven't eaten for a day......"

Andu delayed for half a minute before he came to his senses, and said in a hoarse, weak voice: "I can't eat, you can eat." ”

After speaking, he seemed to remember something, and squeezed out a difficult, ugly smile more ugly than crying at Elizabeth on the side.

But it was such a simple act, but it seemed to touch his pain nerves.

Under Elizabeth's panicked cry, Andu suddenly pulled her hair hard with both hands, and her whole face twitched violently!

He thrust his head into the musty bedding, and his hoarse voice let out a nightowl-like roar, and his face twisted and rolled on the bed.

The choking smell coming from the tip of her nose and Elizabeth's panicked cry contrasted sharply with the terrifying tearing sensation that rushed through her mind.

This feeling of walking on the edge of a cliff made Andu feel like he was going to collapse at any moment!

Suddenly, the unprovoked, inexplicable, unknown information in his mind appeared again, without any reason, and it was so slammed into his ocean of consciousness.

Like a waterfall falling from the sky plunging into the lake, Andu's mind splashed wave after wave of violent waves.

At the same time, this information from nowhere is so deeply engraved in his former memory, as if he had experienced it himself not long ago, real and familiar.

The filling of the brain with information made Andu more and more painful, and this feeling was like installing a piledriver in his brain, hammering every nerve in him.

The tearing and penetrating sensation from his soul made Andu completely collapse, and he roared and trembled silently.

Under the great pain and torture, Andu's consciousness gradually blurred, feeling that everything in the world was slowly moving away, and he finally saw black in front of him and passed out.

I don't know how long it has been, but when Andu opened his eyes again, it was already late at night.

He looked out the window in confusion at the pitch-black night, not daring to think about what had just happened, what he had "known" today, and not even daring to have any thoughts of thinking.

In a daze, he noticed Elizabeth, who was lying asleep beside the bed.

The few strands of messy blonde hair were scattered around his hands.

Andu endured the huge heaviness of mercury in his head, and reached out his left hand to gently stroke her long golden hair.

Feeling the warm touch in his hands, and the cold in the air, Andu couldn't help but sigh.

The cold wind howling outside the house was plundering wantonly, and the old glass windows were creaking with blowing.

Even if it tried its best to stop it, it still couldn't stop the cold from invading the house little by little.

This makes the temperature in the room always maintain only three or four degrees, which is quite deadly on a winter night in Akmund.

Elizabeth's worn-out padded jacket, which was about her age, would never have withstood such a night.

Andu could not have imagined that he would see a sick Elizabeth early tomorrow morning.

This kind of thing is simply a catastrophe for the current family.

If Elizabeth hadn't gone to receive the relief allowance every two days in the seven or eight days he had woken up, he would have starved to bed long ago!

The physical pain prevented him from making much movement, even a simple push, which became quite strenuous at this point.

After being gently nudged by Andu for a long time, Elizabeth finally felt something.

She sat up with a yawn leisurely, after all, she was a girl who had just turned fourteen, and she had just woken up and did not immediately remember what had happened during the day.

He looked around in a daze, and found that Andu had woken up at some point, and his delicate little face immediately showed a happy smile.

"Brother, you're awake!"

Elizabeth paused for joy, and then, as if remembering something, quickly took out something wrapped in oiled paper from her bosom.

Andu watched Elizabeth's strange movements, and remained silent in curiosity, until the oil paper was fully opened, and he realized that it was a small piece of rye bread.

Elizabeth held the palm-sized piece of rye bread in both hands, as if holding some treasure, and carefully handed it to Andu.

"Hurry up, you haven't eaten all day. ”

Andu looked at Elizabeth in front of him, and took the bread with trembling hands.

Feeling Elizabeth's body temperature, which was still on the oiled paper, his body inexplicably stopped moving.

After a few seconds, Andu lowered his head slightly, pursed his dry lips and said, "Can Elizabeth pour me a glass of water?"

Elizabeth immediately stood up excitedly.

For so many days, this is the first time that Andu has taken the initiative to ask for water!

Elizabeth's heart was full of joy that Andu had finally improved, she nodded vigorously, and said happily: "I'll pour it for you!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she immediately got up and went out to look for hot water, not wanting to delay for a second.

Seeing the thin figure who went out to pour water for himself, gradually disappeared from sight, Andu fell his gaze back on his hand.

The black loaf of bread looked so ordinary and shabby.

......

The first rays of the morning sun are always exceptionally bright, and although the road is free of the noise and barking of dogs due to the season, Elizabeth is in a particularly good mood.

Because Andu, who has not taken the initiative to talk to her for many days, not only agreed to the unreasonable request to sleep with him last night, but also talked to himself a lot in the morning!

Although it was only a short period of more than ten minutes, this phenomenon made her firmly believe that Andu had taken a big step on the road to recovery!

There are a lot of things going on today, so I have to go to the relief center and line up first, so that I can get the relief bread in the morning.

That way, you won't have to go hungry for the middle of the day, and if you have enough time in the afternoon, you can go to Mrs. Goethe's house to help as a domestic servant.

In this way, if you count the money you saved before, you should be able to reluctantly prescribe him some recovery medicine.

But that Tonali guy hasn't come back yet, otherwise things would be much simpler, and it's really unreliable when it comes to a critical time......

Walking on the sparsely populated streets, Elizabeth's thoughts gradually diverged.

......

Andu lay on the bed, just like the previous time, the difference is that the eyes that were originally dull have gradually regained focus, and the focus has shifted from the window to the house.

"It should have been seven or eight days, although it hasn't been counted, but it should be about the same. ”

"But today we were clearly better than we were before, and I was able to start thinking a little bit, albeit incoherently. ”

"But I'm really scared now, if this tearing sensation that hits the spirit and soul a few more times, I'm afraid I'm going to become schizophrenic. ”

Andu complained in his heart, and at the same time began to consciously organize his thoughts.

Through some brief conversations with Elizabeth in the morning, as well as the few words and thoughts he had in the previous few days, Andu was pleasantly surprised to find that his mental state was much better than at the beginning.

However, Andu didn't dare to go too deep, for fear of stimulating his brain and causing a similar schizophrenic situation that happened yesterday and a few days ago.

It may be that the transmission of information has come to an end, and Andu finds that he is no longer as passive as he was at the beginning, completely unable to think for himself.

Andu's inner world moved slowly, and his gaze subconsciously swept over the few old pieces of furniture in the room.

This was the first time Andu had taken a serious look at the room, and before this he had no way to make normal observations and thoughts.

Even most of the time Elizabeth was talking to him, he didn't know what the other person was talking about.

Even if the ears hear it, the feeling that the brain can't function makes Andu always feel like he was in a vegetative state the other day.

It only took a few minutes for Andu to memorize the situation in the house.

Then he found that in the ocean of consciousness in the depths of his mind, the two scrolls slowly overlapped, and finally merged into one picture.

One of the two scrolls was the one he had just seen and remembered.

One is a memory picture that was forcibly instilled before, engraved in his memory, and he doesn't know where it came from.

But at this moment, they finally met, coincided, and merged into one.

Andu felt the fusion of the images in his mind, hesitated for a moment, and then subconsciously began to think about what had happened these days.

At the same time, he tried to change his focus to Elizabeth and the people and things related to this world.

The originally heavy brain, under this slow, rhythmic, and obviously subjective thinking, began to gradually become active.

Elizabeth and the people and things she said slowly began to organize and merge with the inexplicable memory pictures that appeared in Andu's mind during this time.

As the two memories slowly merged, Andu's thoughts gradually became clear and clear.

This feeling is like a person who is 500 degrees short-sighted, and suddenly puts on glasses when measuring his eyesight, and the original blurry picture suddenly becomes clear!

At the same time, Andu also found that in the process, the heaviness in his brain was gradually reduced.

It was like peeling off the mercury that had been poured into his mind little by little, and this discovery made him feel a burst of ecstasy in his heart.

"At this rate, you can return to normal thinking today......

Andu was addicted to this mercury-like feeling of withdrawal, and completely forgot the time for a while.

This continued until noon, when Elizabeth returned home with the relief rye bread, and Andu reluctantly stopped.

Looking at Elizabeth, who was rubbing her hands to keep warm, Andu's originally depressed mood brightened a lot.

"It seems that it is not a matter of waiting to solve the current problem, but rather proper thinking and integration is the best way to solve it. ”

Andu said silently to himself in his heart.