For some reason, Zhang Ke's footsteps suddenly started to move on their own, and he arrived in front of a yellow willow wood table soaked in blood, with many shocking corpses placed on it - no, it was no longer possible to tell where they originally came from.
Wherever it is, whether it is a pig, a cow, a sheep or a human, it has long lost its original characteristics.
These things are just pieces of meat that can be used as food to relieve hunger, so they must not be wasted. As for their origin, it seems to have become unimportant.
Zhang Ke slowly raised the dagger and cut into a piece of meat that was still dripping with blood.
——Are these my past?
——Where is this place, and why did such a tragedy happen?
——After experiencing all this, how do I return to a civilized society, go to college, find a job, and fall in love like every normal young person?
He didn't become a pervert who went around hunting and stealing human flesh from then on. Could it be that some miracle happened later?
Zhang Ke thought this while carefully cutting the meat in his hand.
Suddenly, a full ball of blood splashed onto Zhang Ke's face without him paying attention, blinding his eyes.
"The water is in the backyard. You know it. Go and wash your face." Seeing this, the man just said lightly.
Like a walking zombie, Zhang Ke came to the well water, put down the tube step by step, filled it with water, and then slowly turned it up again - he didn't understand that he had never been exposed to a rural well in his memory.
, how can you use it so skillfully?
However, just after he brought up the bucket full of water, something unexpected happened.
Looking at the slowly stirring sparkling water in the barrel, a very familiar face was reflected - however, that was not Zhang Ke himself, but...
"Murder? No, what's going on?"
The face that emerged from the water was clearly that of a murderer who had been in close contact several times and could not be forgotten.
Of course, he looks much younger and immature, or in other words, he looks much less animalistic, more like a normal person who is confused and desperate.
"Am I... the murderer?" Zhang Ke said to himself in disbelief, "No... I'm not him, but why do I seem to be dreaming about him?"
This dream was so real that Zhang Ke immediately ruled out the possibility that he was just thinking wildly - he was almost certain that this must be a projection of a past event that already existed and had already happened.
But in that case, how could he go into the murderer's memory? Why was he dreaming about the murderer's dream when he was young?
Is it possible that he is really a schizophrenic patient? Or is there some strange entanglement between the murderer and his past?
"Why did it take so long to wash? I've cut the meat. You can get some bamboo tubes of water to drink on the way. We'll go to the next village to collect the goods." An impatient voice came from the house, which made Zhang Ke stop from the chaos.
I woke up a little from my thoughts.
This shout made Zhang Ke calm down and think about the situation in front of him.
Obviously, either this is a messy, meaningless dream, or, for some unknown reason, he actually ran into the murderer's dream, or shared the same dream with him and experienced him repeatedly.
of the past.
Since it is a dream, there is no need to feel too nervous, and there is no need to take the initiative to change anything. Anyway, everything is illusory, and the direction of future development is also fixed, because the past cannot be changed.
So, just let yourself settle down and quietly observe the progress of everything like a mobile camera - after all, this is the only way to understand the murderer's past, and it may also reveal the relationship between you and him.
relationship between.
Thinking of this, Zhang Ke finally understood the origin of the feeling of being a puppet on strings - after all, he was experiencing other people's lives, and nothing he did would change what was about to happen, so he would naturally feel trapped.
The sense of déjà vu as fate drags its nose.
So, Zhang Ke allowed his body to move on its own, filled up the water as instructed, and then took the bamboo tube back to the hall where the ceiling had collapsed.
Zhang Ke could feel that the body was shaking all the time. He didn't know whether it was because of fear, anger, or just excessive hunger, but he knew that it would be difficult for the murderer who was still a normal person at this time to accept the scene in front of him.
Remember that man seemed to have said before that these people lying on the ground should be the murderer's family members? And the piece of meat that I just ate was not known to be cut from a family member.
This man can arrogantly sit in a room full of dead people and cut off the usable flesh from the corpses with one knife, which proves that he has already confirmed that everyone in the family except the murderer has been killed.
But, are the deaths of those people directly related to this man?
It was because of a natural or man-made disaster that the originally happy family suddenly died on the spot, leaving only one survivor, and this man only came in to eat the corpses.
Or...did this man deliberately plan and attack this place, personally causing the appearance of corpses here, just so that he could collect more rations?
If it is the latter, then this person is undoubtedly an extremely evil pervert - no, it should even be said that he is a person who has no correct sense of right and wrong, and has an extremely terrifying mental structure - it can even be said that he is not even a "human" creature.
None of the qualifications.
Seeing the messy wreckage in the living room, Zhang Ke couldn't bear to stop and look at it even though he knew it was a dream.
Now, he probably understands a little bit why the murderer usually seems so crazy. After all, he encountered such an incident when he was a teenager, and it can no longer be summed up simply as a "mental trauma".
Even if he really goes crazy right now, it doesn't seem to be a violation.
However, at that time, the murderer himself did not realize that as time went by, his mental breakdown would be so severe that he would eventually turn into a perverted murderer who traveled across the country and was wanted, which was actually a bit ironic.
After they got their things, the man pulled him out of the village without saying a word. Zhang Ke took the opportunity to ask a question that he had been wondering about for a long time.
"Why don't you kill me?" Zhang Ke borrowed the words of the murderer and asked: "I will only share food with you while I am alive, but there will be no visible benefit if you keep me, and if I die -
Didn’t you save more food?”
"Only you are special." The man showed a mysterious but greedy smile, "I can't let you die so quickly, because you are the best jade I am pursuing. It was only after I searched for a long time that I found out that there is no one among them.
The most suitable material for one.”
"I will slowly watch you grow up and slowly become what I expect. But before that, I will find a way to save your life."