He lowered his head, muttering something unknown in his mouth. The blood dripping from his nails fell on the blue and white striped hospital gown, as if he was unwilling and venting his fate.
Gradually, he raised his head.
Through the messy hair gap like a chicken nest, the empty eye sockets are also exposed.
But Jiang Qinian knew that the other party was looking at him.
There was obviously darkness in his eyes, but he felt like a light was on his back, as if he was being stared into by an abyss.
What's in the abyss?
Jiang Qinian didn't know.
But looking at the deep black hole, his whole body seemed to be sucked into it, like a whirlpool, tightly sucking him into it.
He felt as if there were stars flashing before his eyes, and he couldn't help but fall backwards, so he began to struggle desperately, trying to scatter the stars in front of his eyes.
Are stars necessarily synonymous with beauty?
They hang in the sky, covering the misty night clouds and the eyes of the bright moon, adding a sense of mistiness and mystery to the night sky, and bringing people infinite reverie and fascination.
But when he swayed the stars in front of his eyes, he only saw a crazy evil ghost. The evil ghost screamed and came towards him, raising the butcher knife in his hand high. New
The tip of the knife glowed red under the reflection of the glass, like a bloodthirsty snake, hissing and spitting at him!
Are you going to die?
Suddenly, his eyes lit up, followed by a strong feeling of weightlessness...
"thump!"
He fell down on the hospital bed.
The lights turned on, the evil ghost disappeared, and the man standing behind him also disappeared.
Jiang Qinian didn't know who turned on the light, but this action undoubtedly saved him.
He stroked his chest, feeling the beating of his heart, and felt an unprecedented sense of peace of mind.
Is this what fear feels like?
Or... is it an instinctive reaction when facing death?
But anyway, this at least proves that he is still alive.
And that lingering feeling of fear kept reminding him of his identity.
He is a person.
Rather than an emotionless monster.
He looked at himself reflected in the glass and fell into a daze for a moment.
He was haggard and embarrassed, and his eyes were bloodshot.
Coupled with the loud gasping sound, it was like a drowning person.
But what puzzled Jiang Qinian was that he could even count every bloodshot in his eyes, but he couldn't see his own appearance clearly.
He was facing the window, but at such a close distance, it seemed as if there was a layer of mist lingering between them.
He is a person who has lost his identity.
But now, the blood in his body has been replaced by the Styx, which seems to make him farther and farther away from the human path...
Just when he was confused about this, a cold touch suddenly came from his fingertips.
So he turned his head.
That is...a fairy tale book hidden under the pillow.
The action just now shook the pillow, so a corner of it was exposed.
After thinking for a while, he took it in his hand and looked at it seriously.
Anyway, this should be considered a clue.
The fairy tale book tells the story of a pair of brothers.
The younger brother in the story lives in a small house, and outside the door is his invisible older brother.
The room looked very strange, with intricate blood vessels forming the walls, and with the peristalsis of those blood vessels, the room would tremble from time to time, like a beating heart.
He just wandered around in this strange room, repeating his life day after day, and never seemed to have the idea of going out.
Suddenly one day, he discovered that he was living
The house began to slowly shrink.
At first, he thought it was just his illusion, so he didn't pay much attention to it, but continued to wander in the room, like a forgotten ghost.
But until he woke up one day, he was horrified to find that the room had shrunk to the size of a coffin.
So he started to cry and struggle, but the invisible brother did not reach out to help, but kept talking to him outside the door.
Perhaps the younger brother in the book was so frightened that even his words were printed indistinctly, and it could only be vaguely seen that he was telling his younger brother what he needed to find before he could go out.
The conversation ends here.
The end of the story is just a scribbled picture.
The younger brother in the painting is holding a mirror. He is sitting on the bed in fear, with tears still hanging from the corners of his eyes.
The wooden door not far from him opened a gap...
Seeing this, Jiang Qinian slowly closed the fairy tale book, then sat on the hospital bed and thought about something.
He didn't know why, but he always felt that the younger brother in the story was somewhat similar to himself, at least in terms of the degree of danger in the room.
But the only thing that Jiang Qinian didn't understand was that there was no shadow of his brother in the paintings on the first few pages, but his shadow was dragged out very long on the last page.
It's like it suddenly came to life.
The house in the story should represent the heart of the younger brother. He locked himself in his inner world and wanted to avoid the hustle and bustle outside.
But some things can't be avoided.
He thought that by locking himself up he could stay away from things he didn't like.
But they are like hounds with a keen sense of smell.
No matter where you hide, they will come looking for you by smelling the scent, and will destroy even the little space you have left.
But unlike the story, the room Jiang Qinian is currently in has not shrunk, but an invisible evil ghost has appeared.
The most important thing was... that evil ghost felt inexplicably familiar to him...
"What should I do? Do you want to go out and take a look?"
He couldn't help but said to himself.
This ward is so weird that the invisible evil ghost cannot be touched at all, and even the invincible Styx body has lost its effect.
The other party can touch you, but all your methods are ineffective against it, so this is not a happy thing.
He has found enough clues, and if he wants to think, he can go out and think. If he continues to stay here, the evil ghost will suddenly appear behind him, and then his situation will be very bad.
Admittedly, what I just experienced was more like a nightmare.
So much so that even he was doubting whether the demon, who was obviously mentally abnormal, was real or a figment of his imagination.
While staying in the house, he always felt that his mind was constantly disturbed, making it difficult for him to concentrate on thinking about problems.
At the same time, the flaw in his heart seemed to be infinitely magnified, and the uneasy premonition became stronger and stronger, almost swallowing him whole.
Jiang Qinian has forgotten how long it has been since he felt fear.
It seems that when he escaped from Chun City, he began to slowly become like this.
If Ying Chumei and others hadn't been accompanying him all the time, he would have even felt that the human part of him was slowly disappearing, until in the end, he turned into a monster without any emotions.
Fear, uneasiness, this familiar but unfamiliar feeling made Jiang Qinian feel like he was back when the nightmare attacked the city.
At that time, I couldn't do anything.
He hated that feeling of powerlessness so much that he tried his best to stay away from it and get rid of it.
But everyone knows that these negative emotions are precisely part of ourselves.
Compared to feeling powerless, he was more afraid that he was obviously alive, but like a walking corpse without any emotions...
Think of this
, he suddenly turned his head and looked over his shoulder.
The clothes there had been crumpled into a ball.
He carefully unfolded it, and the blood stains on it were very dazzling.
Jiang Qinian thought that his guess must be correct.
Even though this ward gives people a feeling of insanity, the invisible evil ghost is real. If the other party can touch him, he can also kill him...
That evil spirit was hiding in a corner of the room, staring at me with its penetrating eyes, always trying to take away his life.
Going out is inevitable.
Jiang Qinian is slowly accepting the negative emotions of fear and anxiety.
He is trying to accept his weakness, but that doesn't mean he wants to die.
At least until he still has hope in his life, he will not easily seek death and survival.
So he took a deep breath, then stood up and walked towards the door.
But just when he stood up, he suddenly found that the wooden door in front of him had been closed at some point...
Locked?
Who can lock the door?
That evil ghost?
Jiang Qinian thought so in his heart.
But if the door is locked, how should he get out?
Jiang Qinian tried to pull, but the door didn't move at all, so he didn't exert any more effort.
Since the other party is restricting him by closing the door, it means that the door is difficult to destroy through force.
He couldn't figure out what the other party's purpose was.
Could it be that he wanted to kill himself?
But in front of the evil ghost, I can say that I am completely defenseless. If the other party really wants to kill me, why is it still holding off?
Are there any restrictions or are there other reasons?
There were blood-soaked restraints under the hospital bed, and the wooden door leading to the outside was locked. Even the screws on the windows had been replaced with iron nails, which had been soaked in blood and rainwater and were completely rusted there.
Suddenly, Jiang Qinian thought of that fairy tale book...
The younger brother in the story, like himself, did not walk out of the room.
The difference is that one is unwilling to go out, while the other's door is locked.
But the key lies in what my brother said in the fairy tale book.
You need to find something before you can go out.
But what is the problem?
Most people will subconsciously look for the key when they see the door is locked.
But he felt it wasn't that simple.
The story ends with the younger brother holding a mirror, and a gap opens in the dusty wooden door.
What's outside the wooden door?
Also...could it be that the key to opening the door is something related to the mirror?