"I haven't told anyone this secret. This may be the worst thing I have ever done in my life."
Meng Shi unlocked the bedroom door and led Han Fei inside.
The bedroom is not large in size, with a single bed placed on it, and on the other side of the bed is a huge freezer covered with a thick black cloth.
The lighting was very dim and the curtains in the bedroom were nailed to the wall, making it impossible to see what was inside the room from the outside.
"I told you a story before. There was a woman who adopted three children. In fact, that woman was me." Guilt and uneasy conscience have been tormenting the old man. It was not until she experienced a life and death crisis that she decided to tell the truth.
: "That day I secretly followed them to the outskirts. I watched the three brothers grappling next to the corpse and listened to them insulting each other. Only then did I realize that the harmony between them was just for me to see."
The old man's skinny hands grabbed the black cloth on the freezer: "The third child started to become abnormal very early. He started from burning ants and catching earthworms, and gradually developed into torturing stray cats and stray dogs. He seemed unable to
To vent your emotions like a normal person, you can only rely on certain behaviors to stimulate yourself."
"Both the eldest brother and the second child know about the abnormality of the third child. In order not to worry me, they have visited the third child many times in private."
"The eldest brother is looking for a psychiatrist for the third child who is still in school, and the second child is helping the third child to deal with the aftermath. The two brothers have been giving the third child a chance, but blindly preaching has no way to change the third child."
"Until that day, tragedy happened. The third child killed a homeless man living in an abandoned villa."
"The first person to notice that something was wrong was the second child. He was used to taking care of his brother's aftermath, but when he found out that it was a human body, he was completely stunned."
"The second child angrily called his younger brother a devil, saying that people like him shouldn't live in the world at all."
"Kneeling in front of the corpse, the younger brother didn't show much remorse. He even told the younger brother excitedly that he would soon be able to prove that he was not sick. He had already found the butterfly that fell deep in his mind. As long as
If he could find that butterfly, he felt that his death was worth it."
The old man's voice began to tremble when she talked about what happened in the past, and she silently lifted the black cloth on the freezer.
"The butterfly in the back of my mind? Does the third child have a mental illness? Does he have hallucinations?" Han Fei vaguely felt that things were not that simple.
"Lao San always said that there was a butterfly in his head. He could feel it but couldn't find it. The butterfly led him forward. Every time the butterfly's wings flapped, he would have uncontrollable killing intent. Then he would have uncontrollable killing intent.
As his murderous intention continued to grow, he got closer and closer to the butterfly. He said that the butterfly had the most beautiful color in the world." The old man opened the freezer with difficulty, and air-conditioning came out.
Han Fei looked into the freezer. There were rotten books in the freezer.
"Grandma, why did you put the book in the refrigerator?"
The old man didn't answer. She reached out and took out a book from the refrigerator, revealing the frozen face under the book: "These books belong to Lao San, and the person under the book was also killed by him."
Putting the book in his hand next to him, the old man knelt down on the side of the freezer: "That day I watched the three brothers fighting and hurting each other. My heart hurt, it hurt. I felt that everything was my fault."
Guilt, self-blame, and pain, the old man's voice gradually weakened: "I rushed up to stop them. When they saw me appearing, the three children were surprised. The third child, who had been talking back to his brother, also lowered his head."
"I persuaded the third child to surrender. The eldest brother and the second child also decided to call the police. The third child did not say a word during the whole process. It was not until the end that he told us something. There was someone else who induced him to commit the crime."
"He couldn't tell us who that person was. He said that knowing that name would put everyone's lives in danger. He also said that there would be a serial murder case in the old city soon. All this was to find the butterfly in his mind.
"
"As a family, we want to believe the third child, but the murder cannot be forgiven in any case. Finally, the eldest brother and the second child decided to give the third child a week to prove the existence of that person.
"
"The abandoned villas in the suburbs are home to many vagrants and scavengers, as well as many fugitives and gangsters. Bodies hidden here can be easily discovered, so we transported them to the freezer through refrigerated trucks."
"I can't remember what happened after that. It seems like there is a missing section in my memory. I only remember that all three children left me, and I was guarding this body, waiting for the third child to surrender."
The old man still doesn't remember her death. This situation may be caused by the game.
"The third brother said that someone induced him to kill someone, and that there would be serial murders in the old city soon. He seemed to predict the human body puzzle pattern!" Han Fei knew that the three brothers were still alive, and something must have happened to them.
"I feel that all three brothers are in danger now." Han Fei moved his eyes and inadvertently saw the book that had been covered on the face of the deceased. The book was called "Butterflies of the Soul", and the author was the founder of neurological research in the last century.
One, there is this sentence written on the cover of the book.
"Like an entomologist who is constantly chasing colorful and beautiful butterflies, I am deeply attracted by the back garden of the neural gray matter. There are cells with exquisite and elegant shapes, and butterflies with mysterious souls. Who knows? Maybe one day
With a flutter of its wings, it can reveal the mystery of the spiritual world. - Ramon Cajal"
"The butterfly of the soul? After I log in to the game, will my mind and soul step on that butterfly? And then fly into the underworld?"
Han Fei knew nothing about the game. He only existed in the most basic stage of survival. It was useless to think so much now. The top priority was to keep upgrading.
"Grandma, if the third child kills someone, he will be punished. If you protect him, you will only turn him into a monster that is neither human nor ghost. More people will suffer from his poisonous hands in the future." Han Fei closed the door.
Freezer, he has decided to bring the third child to justice in reality. Perhaps this is also a relief for the old man.
"The deceased lost his life, but the murderer escaped punishment. No matter what the reason was, this seems unfair to me." The friendship between Han Fei and Meng Shi has reached a very high value, so Han Fei is not worried about Meng Shi.
Will lower the friendliness level because of his own words: "This freezer looks like it's hiding a corpse, but in fact it's hiding all the happiness and beauty of your generations. I think you should let it go."
Looking at the old man kneeling on the side of the freezer, Han Fei thought of the tenants in the haunted house again, and his eyes gradually drifted away.
"In this game called Perfect Life, it seems that no life is perfect."