28 cages
Open your eyes and it was dark.
Ye Zi held up with some difficulty. His head was dizzy and the pulse in his ears was beating. Every time he beats, it hurts.
After a while, he realized that he was sitting on a small bed. It was too dark and he could not see anything. He got out of bed, stood on the cold concrete floor, and groped forward. He felt the hard and smooth porcelain products, like a bathtub. Next to it was the toilet.
Where is the wall? What about the switch of the light?
After walking a few more steps, Ye Zi encountered a cold, slender iron rod. What?
He subconsciously groped the length and quantity of the iron rods... Gradually, he remembered what happened before he fell into a coma, the strange words of the rabbit. He could imagine what these iron rods were, and his back felt cold.
He fumbled along the iron railing barefoot, and it was a cage.
Is this a dream? How could there be such a big cage?
Even if it is a real cage, there should be a door, right?
Ye Zi tried hard to find the intersection of iron rods, similar to the cage door. However, there were chains and two locks as big as two fists!
Ye Zi pulled the door hard, trying hard to stretch out his hand and pull the part of the lock, but it couldn't be unlocked at all. There was no sharp thing around him, and he was not the one on the TV who could unlock the lock with a needle!
What the hell is going on? Rabbit really wants to lock him up? What a joke?!
He began to shout: "Ye Chengxi, come out for me! What the hell do you want to do? Just lock me here? Come out for me!"
His shout worked.
Within a minute, the door was opened with a snarl.
Staying in a closed and dark room for a long time, even the candlelight became extremely dazzling.
Ye Zi covered his eyes with his fingers, and after a few seconds, he saw the rabbit walking in from outside the door.
The rabbit holds a classic-style jade white candlestick, with his fingers and jaw appearing quite pale under the candlelight. The white loose cuffs are not tied with buttons, and the folds of the clothes are gradually changing in the light and shadow, revealing the fine silver pattern.
The five candles on the candlestick shook slightly with his movements, reflecting the entire cage on the wall. Only then did Ye Zi see clearly—
The entire cage is about fifteen square meters and three meters high. The vault is semicircular. Whether it is the bottom ring or the top, it is carved with complex patterns. This is simply an enlarged black bird cage.
"What do you mean?" Ye Zi asked coldly.
The rabbit seemed to be in a good mood. He walked over and gently stroked the pure black wire pattern of the bird cage and said, "A Zi, do you know? It took me three years to make this cage. Burn, melt, pickle, pull... The paint I put on did not harm the body. After comparing thousands of photos, I made a Rococo-style pattern. Look, this is the roses in the thorn bushes. Some are already in full bloom, and some are still in bud..."
The rabbit's voice was interrupted by Ye Zi's helplessness: "I'll ask you what you mean? Are you planning to lock me in here? ... Where is my cell phone?"
"Ah, I threw it away accidentally. Besides, there is no signal here."
"Where the hell is this?!"
The rabbit's eyes narrowed slightly, and the light-colored eyes looked like a pool of water, slightly rippling.
He stared at Ye Zi standing in the cage, with a strange smile on his lips: "Where is it? A Zi, don't you feel it, shaking?"
Ye Zi frowned, he had no idea what the rabbit was talking about.
The rabbit looked at Ye Zi patiently, put his palm behind his ear, and whispered: "Didn't you hear it? The sound of the waves, rustling, and the cry of the seagulls."
"..." Ye Zi seemed to have heard it.
The rabbit put his right hand back into his pocket comfortably and said, "So, I know. We are wandering in a small boat, the vast ocean in the world. Today it is very windy, and the sails on the deck are almost blown. Maybe we will be swallowed by the waves tonight? Ah, or maybe we will still reach a deserted island in the future... A Zi, we will never go back again, and we will never see those annoying flies again. How great it is."
The rabbit's words made Ye Zi crazy.
He wanted to catch things and hit the rabbit, but he had nothing beside him. With his instinct, he punched through the gap in the railing and hit the rabbit.
The candlelight shook freely, and the rabbit easily dodged.
The railing completely prevented Ye Zi from acting. In fact, he pulled and hit too hard and added bruises to himself. But at this moment, he had completely ignored the pain and shouted: "Crazy! You are simply crazy! What am I sorry for you? How sorry did I do? Can I tolerate you kill my mother? Can I tolerate you lock me up? Does I have to sacrifice everything if I like you? In your eyes, am I still an individual?? Or is I still an individual?????”
Ye Zi became more and more unable to control himself, as if he had suppressed his anger for so long finally burst out. He kicked the door barefoot, smashed the iron rod with his fist, and pulled the wire, and the result was blood and scars.
The rabbit seemed to be shouting his name anxiously, but Ye Zi couldn't hear it.
His tinnitus suddenly became sharp and overwhelmed everything. He covered his ears with both hands and felt a splitting headache.
Then, his head darkened and he lost consciousness.
Afterwards, he was like dreaming.
He dreamed that he was lying in the bathtub, surrounded by shaking candlelights, either tall or short, like fireflies.
Someone was giving him a gentle bath, filled with fragrant foam. When the man leaned over to wipe his body, his light-colored hair slid down from behind his ears, and his eyelashes were quite slender.
After taking a shower, he carried himself to the bed and carefully applied medicine. From the palm of his hand, to the position of the back of his fingers, to the calves and toes, the medicine was gentle. The medicine was cold, but it would become warm during his massage.
Then, it is long-term feeding.
After everything was over, he covered himself with a quilt and left a kiss on his forehead like a child.
The person in the dream was talking beside the bed.
He said: "A Zi, I have loved you since I was a child."
"I started to remember things when I was very young, so I knew that my life was hell. My mother would bring different men back every day. She told them that I was her younger brother. But they didn't believe it, so she locked me up. I knew that she hated me and would only think of me when she was sad. Perhaps, if she gave her a choice, choose me, or her new skirt, she would choose a new skirt without hesitation."
"But one day, many people came to my house. I didn't know what they were going to do. I was taken on a plane for no reason and came to the mansion. At that time, no one talked to me. Those servants hated me and said that I was the son of a prostitute, 'illegitimate son', 'sloppy' and so on. Except for you, you talked to me."
He smiled: "I stood at the door and didn't dare to enter the door. The adults around were whispering, and no one helped me. But you came over and opened the door. At that time, I really thought you were so tall and dazzling, like a hero. Although the first thing you said to me was 'Don't dirty the door', I still think it's great to have such an older brother."
"Of course, I know. You hate me too. You never look at me directly, teach me to play the piano, play with me, or even want to have dinner with me."
"But, although you never look at me directly, you will clean up the maid who beat me. When I was crying, you will still walk towards me and pull me home without saying a word. When I was 6 years old, I ran into the forest alone, but suddenly storms were storms. That night, I really thought I was dead. But you came to save me, and only you came to save me!"
"At that time, you carried me into this room in the rain... Yes, it was this room. At that time, there was nothing in this room, and I was burning so hard. You went to pick up dry branches and set fire, and kept holding me. It was the happiest night for me."
"I've been in love with you since that night."
"I want to be with you every day, and I asked the maid to take me to your school to find you. But then I realized that you are not my own. You have many friends, you are armed with them, you go home with a sister, and that sister blushed and talks to you... I hate them, so much."
"Not only do I hate them, I hate everyone who comes into contact with you. I hate servants, housekeepers who always talk to you, and I hate always looking at your mother..."
"At that time, I was wondering, why are you not me alone? How can you become me alone?"
"Probably, it started from that time. I hoped to lock you up and hoped that you belonged only to me."
"...Ah, are you already asleep? Then go to bed, good night, brother."
...
When he woke up again, there was darkness around him again. Everything before was like a dream, and Ye Zi forgot where he was. He touched the iron cage like the first time, and then he remembered that he was locked in a bird cage.
But this time, he didn't make a fuss. His thinking gradually became clear.
He remembered the words that the rabbit said in his ear, and followed those words and recalled the past.
Thinking about where his relationship with rabbit started, it became distorted, and became what he looked like today.
What exactly does he do to save himself?
What exactly should be done so that the rabbit can release him.
What can he return to the real world?
Ahh, I have made an appointment, I have made an appointment to see the car, I have already decided to visit those well-known people, I have so many books to read, I have... I have such a bright future!
I'm afraid there are many people looking for themselves now, right? Mom may be worried about going crazy, right?
Is it all over like this?
Just like this, living like a beast?
How to do it and how to do it?
When he is awake, Ye Zi will think about these things.
In fact, it didn't take long before he knew what to do. He began to eagerly see the rabbit, and he wanted to talk to it, so he called the rabbit's name in the cage, time and time again.
However, this time, the rabbit did not appear.
Ye Zi stood in the cage and waited, but the rabbit did not show up.
Ye Zi shouted again, smashing the iron door with an iron mouthwash cup, but the rabbit did not appear.
Ye Zi lay down, half asleep and half awake.
Every time I dreamed that the rabbit came. At first I always dreamed of quarreling with him and fighting with him. But the dream afterwards became gentle. I dreamed of hugging him tightly in the bustling neighborhood, and dreamed that he kept saying happily, "You chose me" and "You chose me!"
However, every time I wake up, there is pure darkness in front of me, and the rabbit does not appear.
Darkness is probably the most terrifying thing. It blurs and extends the time. Darkness makes people unable to tell the difference between day or night. In the darkness, it seems to be blind or dead!
At such a moment, Ye Zi forgot everything.
Forgot his prospects for the future, his hatred for rabbits, and his plans.
He just felt very uncomfortable and lonely.
It doesn't matter!
Whether it's monster or devil...
No matter how crazy or hateful it is, it doesn’t matter...
At this moment, he only hopes that the rabbit will come to him, hopes that he will eliminate such terrifying darkness, and hopes that he can be by his side!
So, when the rabbit came to him with the candlestick again, Ye Zi did not make a fuss or scold him.
Sitting on the ground, he looked up at the light source, his eyes were confused, and his voice was extremely hoarse: "Ye Chengxi."
The rabbit asked, "What's wrong? Are you hungry?"
Ye Zi's Adam's apple moved and slowly moved towards the light source: "Come here."
The rabbit put the candlestick aside and squatted down against the cage.
Ye Zi half-kneeled in front of the rabbit and stretched out his hands out of the cage. His fingers were pale and there were various old wounds on it.
"A Zi?"
Ye Zi grabbed the rabbit's clothes and pulled them inside, and then surrounded him with difficulty.
The rabbit was quite surprised and even his body became stiff: "A Zi? What's wrong with you? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
Ye Zi tried hard to put the rabbit on it, as if he wanted to feel the little heat a little. However, the iron cage blocked him, and only his hands could feel the rabbit's temperature.
"Didn't you say you like me?"
“…Yes, I like you.”
"Then why, no matter how I call you, you won't come?" When Ye Zi said this, his voice became sore and his eyes became hazy.
"Sorry, I need to deal with some things last night..." The rabbit's pale face gradually became rosy, and his eyes were also bright, "A Zi? Have you finally understood me? You have changed your mind and finally feel that it's great to be with me like this, right?"
Ye Zi calmed down again when he heard the rabbit's words.
No, he just stayed in the dark for too long, so he unconditionally hoped that someone would accompany him.
But can we indulge rabbits in a crazy way just because we are too lonely? We understand him? We are willing to give up everything? How is it possible! How is it possible!!!
When the rabbit was ecstatic, Ye Zi sorted out his thoughts and said, "Open the door, rabbit. I can't stand being locked in a cage alone. It's so scary to be alone. Anyway, I'm drifting on the sea now, so I can't go anywhere, let me out."
The rabbit smiled a little embarrassedly: "Actually I lied to you. We are not on the sea, we are just in a... suburb."
"Is that true? That's the same. I won't leave you, believe me."
"Well, I believe in you."
The rabbit opens the door.
As soon as the door opened, the two of them hugged each other.
In the swaying candlelight, Ye Zi pressed the rabbit on the bed and lowered his head to kiss his jaw.
Such a romantic scene gives people a feeling of returning to the past.
Back to their passionate love, back to their sweet cohabitation.
Of course, this feeling is just an illusion.
The simplest evidence is probably Ye Zi's eyes and behavior.
Was he kissed the rabbit so calmly?
Will you be so calm about where the key is and observe the rabbit's reaction?
Chapter completed!