Everyone was stunned on the spot.
The butler thoughtfully talked with the old lady in his native language for a while, then raised his head to look at the crowd and said, "Sorry, our lady is used to expressing the scenery she sees in obscure metaphors, which often makes people confused. If you dislike it, you can sit at home and my wife will draw down what she sees, so that the two of you can understand."
The old lady directly sent an invitation to Chi Nan: "I am also very interested in the form this gentleman presents, so I hope he can be my model. I wonder if he is interested?"
Chi Nan hardly needed to think, and responded sincerely: "Thank you, it's my pleasure."
After the agreement, the two came to the third floor of the apartment with the old lady and the butler.
The old lady said that although her eyes were almost completely blind, she could see clearly when she was creating, and she even got a blessing in disguise, and could draw magnificent things that ordinary people could not see.
Chi Nan happens to be a very cooperative model. He is very adaptable to sitting still for a long time, and he won't get bored. He just stays quietly beside a bunch of small white flowers, staring at a bunch of sunlight not far away in a daze.
The sunlight in the background of this story is much warmer than elsewhere, like clusters of flowing flames, which can evaporate and melt everything in the afternoon.
"Little guy, don't move." The old lady suddenly stopped writing and warned in a voice that could not be called severe.
Chi Nan raised his eyes innocently and asked, because he hadn't moved from beginning to end.
The old lady pouted at him: "I'm not talking about you, it's the other one on your body."
Chi Nan: "...Oh."
About an hour later, the old lady finally finished her creation.
When the fresh paintings were displayed in front of everyone, Tang Yu couldn't help but let out a low voice, because the scenery presented by the brightly colored canvas was too strange...
There is a two-headed conjoined man sitting in the picture. The facial features of the two are almost identical, except that one of them wears glasses and has dark black eyes, which is the appearance of 'Chi Nan' in the character; the other has cold green eyes , There are two tear moles at the corners of his eyes, which is Chi Nan's original appearance.
They share the same body, just like two flowers of different colors blooming on a bunch of branches, which has a strange and curious beauty.
Because both faces are pleasing to the eye, they don't make people feel like monsters, but they have the attraction of breaking the rules and common sense.
Tang Yu was surprised and murmured, "But this is too beautiful..."
This symmetrical and distinctive beauty made him unable to look away for a while.
Chi Nan's face still didn't have too many emotional ups and downs. The old lady looked at him with eyes like gray glass beads: "This is what you look like in my eyes."
"Thank you for letting me see... the truth," Chi Nan looked at the painting in a trance, "could you give me this painting?"
The old lady smiled: "Of course, this belongs to you in the first place."
The moment Chi Nan picked up the painting, the system finally moved—
[Congratulations to the two classmates who discovered the important character identities, the favorability level is +5, and the accumulated favorability points are now 60 points. ]
The truth has been revealed, and they will be able to successfully complete the task of the acting class with 40 points of goodwill.
[Now that the performance of the theme of 'Sorrow' has reached the passing line, in order to reward the two students for their wonderful performances, the school has decided to reward an important clearance item: a head of the younger brother. ]
After receiving the system information, Tang Yu was stunned for a moment, his brother's head... What kind of weird and bloody prop is this
[And an important clue item: a lost memory. ]
As soon as the female teacher finished speaking, the space Chi Nan was in immediately became static.
The old lady and the butler kept their original postures as if they had pressed the pause button. The window with the warm sunlight was covered by curtains at some point, and a large white wall in the living room was projected onto it, as if a movie were being played.
In front of the picture is an aquarium, with countless green-eyed paradise fish frolicking in the water.
These flowing colors are just the background, and the silhouettes of two-headed conjoined children are reflected in the blue glass.
The entire memory projection screen is unfolded from the perspective of the character 'Chi Nan'.
"Brother, they say that I am a parasitic demon in your body, greedy and evil. Of course, I take everything you have for myself."
"Who are they referring to?"
The screen turned almost 60 degrees to the left, and Chi Nan's familiar green eyes came into view.
They are still children at the moment.
"Teachers, classmates, your friends, and...our mothers, all think so. They hate me and say that only evil spirits have these weird green eyes."
In the picture, 'Chi Nan' paused: "their words don't matter, mine is yours."
Green eyes smiled, with a kind of cheerfulness unique to Ye Chang: "Well, if you say it's not important, then it's not important."
"They are jealous of your good-looking eyes." Chi Nan in the picture said firmly.
"They're also jealous that I'll never be separated from you," Green Eyes blinked happily. "We're one, and they can't help it, right?"
"Well, we won't part."
Green eyes stretched out his left hand: "pull the hook."
Xiao 'Chi Nan' hooked his left hand with his right hand: "hang yourself."
"No change in a hundred years."
The light in the picture gradually dimmed, and black filled the entire projection wall.
Only a ray of light in the middle slowly became clear.
Chi Nan, who had experienced this last night, quickly guessed that the protagonist of the story was locked in the closet.
"What about those two children? Why didn't I see them today?" It was the voice of a strange lady who came from outside the cabinet.
The hostess's tone was contemptuous and helpless: "I asked them to live at a relative's house for a while, and when I saw those two heads dangling in front of my eyes, I was upset. I couldn't live in peace day and night, and I didn't know when the end would be."
The two heads in the cabinet glanced at each other in the dark, green eyes clenched their fists uncooperatively and knocked on the cabinet door, making a 'bang bang bang' sound, attracting the attention of the visitors.
Looking through the light 'Chi Nan' through the crack of the door, the green-eyed mouth was taped like a hostage and could only make a whimpering sound.
"Madam, did you hear that? What was that sound?" the lady asked in confusion.
The hostess smiled stiffly: "Don't mind, a wild cat came to the house some time ago, and it often burrows into the cabinet and makes strange noises."
"The lady is sincere and kind, and now there are not many people willing to adopt stray cats." The lady believed her nonsense.
The hostess sighed: "But the good-hearted can't end well. I can't believe it until now. How can I give birth to such a monster, it's really... shameful."
"Madam, you don't need to blame yourself. There must be a metaphor for their birth. Those two children may be lives where good and evil coexist. They balance and restrain each other, which is not a bad thing." The lady comforted.
After being silent for a long time, the hostess suddenly raised her voice and said, "Yes! I didn't expect...good and evil coexist...If the evil side disappears forever, then good will triumphs over evil, and all pain and shame will be gone. Can be completely over, clean!"
The lady was a little worried: "Madam, what do you mean by that?"
The hostess's voice carried a smile: "It's nothing, I just suddenly made an important and correct decision."
The sound of the two pairs of high-heeled shoes gradually faded away, and after seeing off the guests, the hostess rustled to open the iron chains of the cabinet.
The sudden light made the sight in the dark unable to adapt, and a crisp slap suddenly came from the bright picture.
The hostess slapped her brother's face with a slap: "Why did you deliberately make a noise just now? Do you just want me to make a fool of yourself?"
The mouths of the two children were covered with tape, and they could only protest, but those green eyes looked directly at the hostess, and there was explicit playfulness in their eyes.
The hostess is always stared at by these green eyes that belong to the devil, and she is accustomed to using violence to cover up her fear and cowardice. She slaps her brother in the face one after another, until the pale face is crisscrossed with crisscross. Red finger marks.
But no matter how violent she was, Green Eyes would never show her a pitiful and submissive gesture to her, and would always be high above and full of contempt, as if she could read the deepest shame and fear in her heart.
These are not the eyes of an ordinary child, the devil lives in this child's body!
"Apologize to me!" The hostess tore off the tape stuck to the mouths of the two of them and pinched her brother's neck with both hands, "If you don't apologize properly, I will strangle you to death."
Her hands were very well maintained, slender and white, and were tightening little by little... Whether it was a threat or sincerity, a dreadful killing intent flashed across her eyes at this moment.
"Mom, we are not monsters, and my brother is not a demon," Chi Nan tried to calmly explain to the hostess, "We were only in your belly and failed to separate successfully. Although it is rare, it is natural..."
"Nonsense!" The hostess angrily interrupted Chi Nan's explanation, "You are different from other children, and you are guilty if you are different!"
Because it is different, it makes people afraid, and it is defined as wrong or even guilty. This logic has long existed in human common sense.
Humans are forever prisoners of common sense and self-righteousness.
The green-eyed brother suddenly laughed: "Brother, mom is afraid of us..."
It's a pity that before he finished speaking, he was pinched by the hostess and coughed, and he couldn't say a complete sentence.
"I'm not afraid of you! You shouldn't exist in this world. It was a mistake for me to bring you. You have to figure it out. If I can bring you, of course I can send you away...!"
"Cough cough..."
"I also know what you're afraid of, anyway... I'll make you double the repayment, and you wait for me."
The image faded away in the maddened laughter of the hostess, and the sight was filled with not bright white.
The hospital bed, the surgical curtain, the false door, and the medical record book without a word on the table reminded people of the cold smell of disinfectant in the air.
"Ma'am, no hospital is willing to perform separation operations on these two children. The risk we have to take is too great." The unfamiliar man's tone was a little heavy.
Hostess: "Don't worry, the surgery fee we can pay is definitely ten times the risk you need to take."
"But…"
"I don't want it, but risk is the reason why I choose you. After all, I know that you are willing to take on a lot of shameful jobs, aren't you?" The hostess smiled and snuffed out the cigarette in her hand, "I am willing to take all risks, include…"
She leaned forward: "The death of two children."
The male doctor in the black hospital froze, dodged his eyes for a moment and said, "But even if they succeed in separation, they will face serious disabilities in their future lives, and it's not necessarily..."
"I don't want to succeed in separation," the hostess interrupted him, "I want you to fail in separation, that's why I choose you."
"what?!"
"Cut off the green-eyed head and try to save the other one."
"I'm sorry ma'am, we can't do it..."
"No? Why not? Do you think you are a serious hospital? Or do you really think it's a crime to kill a freak child in the operating room?" He calmed down a little and sat back down: "Okay, I can only cut off the devil's head myself. You are responsible for stopping the bleeding and preventing the scandal from flowing out."
"… "
"Don't worry, the treatment fee will definitely not treat you badly."
At this moment, the twins who gave birth to two heads were lying outside the door and could hear the conversation in the house clearly.
'Chi Nan''s first reaction was to run away from the demon mother and this hell that was going to take his brother away.
"Brother, are you running away from home for me? Where are you going?"
"I don't know... it's better to leave anyway..."
"It's useless, the two of us are so special, we will become the focus of people's attention wherever we go. It's useless to escape wherever we go, and we will be caught back in less than 24 hours."
"Then go where no one is."
Green eyes smiled: "But how can we live then?"
"There will always be a way." Chi Nan, who is still a child, is not sure.
"Brother, humans are gregarious creatures. It would be very hard for us to be separated from the crowd, right?"
"There will always be a way...there will always be..."
In the footsteps and panting of 'Chi Nan', the picture turned sharply, and the scene in front of him seemed to have a scarlet filter.
The hostess looked at him condescendingly, and the corners of her lips raised: "Nannan, it will be over after you sleep, soon."
"When everything is over, our family walks far away to the tropics, where there is a small city called Gongcheng, very lively, and no one knows us, no one knows this shameful past..."
She stretched out her hand to cover 'Chi Nan''s eyelids, and a miserable white light leaked from the gap between her fingers, causing 'Chi Nan''s eyes to hurt.
"Mom, we don't want to separate."
"Be obedient, he is a parasitic demon in your body. You are still young and don't know good and evil. When you grow up, you will know that with him, you can't enjoy all the happiness that a normal person has, and you can't socialize. , falling in love, getting married, and having children of their own, no girl would be willing to marry such a monster."
"But now I have happiness that normal people can't enjoy."
"This is not happiness, this is deformity, that devil deceived you, don't be bewitched by him."
"Mom, I know how I feel."
"Nonsense! You don't know!" The hostess has lost her patience. "You are fooled by a silly child. It is wrong to be different from others. Mom must help you correct your mistakes and make you the same as normal people."
"No..." The leaked light became more and more confused, and 'Chi Nan' knew that the anesthetic in his body was working.
"Have a good night's sleep. When you wake up, the nightmare will be over, and the devil who has been shamelessly pestering you will also leave forever."
"Mom, I won't leave brother, you remember," Green Eyes raised his lips on the operating table, "I will be back."
Darkness fills the entire scene again, all speech is cut off, replaced by the rumbling sound of the generator, just like the huge freezer in the living room with the host's body frozen, the generator is always rumbling non-stop .
It was followed by the harsh sound of a saw cutting flesh and bones, chattering in Chi Nan's ears like a curse, although the screen is now all black and nothing can be seen...
Half a minute later, the projection of the prop [Lost Memories] ended, the world re-flowed, and the dark projection wall was replaced by sunlight.
The old lady and the butler gave the painting to Chi Nan and watched the two young people leave.
After reading the image of [Lost Memories], Tang Yu never came out of his sad mood, and at this moment followed Chi Nan upstairs without saying a word.
As a transgender, he understands the pain of being regarded as 'alternative' better than the average person. In people's cognition, being different is a sin in itself. He has never been able to control his own choices and judgments.
He suddenly understood that the theme of this story, 'sorrow', was not just the grief at the funeral of a loved one, but a deeper grief.
"Then... what are we going to do now?"
Tang Yu took a deep breath and temporarily pulled away from the emotional swamp. Instead of being sad because of the similar experiences of the protagonists of the story, they should now think rationally to push for a break.
Chi Nan seemed to be in a trance, and said for a moment, "Find the important item that was just unlocked, my brother's head."