"Grandpa?" The man surnamed Yang raised his eyebrows, turned his head, and looked at the woman next to him: "Confirm, what does Grandpa mean locally...?"
Before waiting for the woman in black uniform behind him to answer, Ji Huan took the lead in answering his question.
"Grandpa... Here we are... Grandpa means."
"At this moment... I was put in a cage by you... I was charged with trumped-up charges... The one who tried to drag it away... was my grandfather."
The sound shattered like a broken bellows, and continued Huan's words intermittently.
His voice was not loud, but the surroundings were quiet at the moment, and his voice could clearly reach the ears of everyone present.
Many people are only now realizing it with hindsight: I don't know when it started, the croissant that was tossing Zhenghuan before actually stopped making a fuss, its claws clawed on the metal railings of the cage, and it stood quietly behind the boy.
behind the boy.
"Raising me and my sister alone... My grandpa hasn't eaten meat for fifteen years. What you said... The monster that eats twenty people in a row can't be my grandpa." Huan's dark eyes looked directly at each other.
"I haven't eaten meat for fifteen years. I only eat vegetables and rice every day. After I leave, I spit out the vegetables and rice I ate. For fifteen years, my grandfather has been living this kind of life every day. Look at him. , take a good look at him, Grandpa is already skinny and blind... He is already an old man with a dying age!"
"You—" Ji Huan was about to continue, but the man surnamed Yang suddenly spoke up.
"I haven't eaten meat for 15 years and only eat vegetables and rice. Haha, what does this mean? It only means that your kid's meat is not delicious. Our old monsters don't like it and are too lazy to eat it." He said in a cold voice. The words are ironic.
"You—" With round eyes, Jihuan's dark eyes almost burned with anger. However, without giving him a chance to speak, the man surnamed Yang continued.
"However, for the old monster, although your meat is not delicious, but..." The corner of his mouth pulled upward in an upward arc, and the man surnamed Yang stared at Jihuan:
"Your parents—"
"Roar------" A huge roar exploded behind Jihuan, and with the muffled sound of his body hitting the metal cage, the horned monster who was standing quietly behind Jihuan suddenly shouted like a madman .
It hit so hard that the gray-white bone lin on its body even broke apart and peeled off from its body.
"Grandpa! Don't bump! Don't bump!" No longer ignoring the confrontation with others, Ji Huan turned around. The soldiers around him didn't have time to stop him. He stretched his arms into the cage, trying to use his own strength. Stop the fierce action of the horned monster.
Looking at this scene, the curvature of the mouth of the man surnamed Yang is getting bigger and bigger, ignoring the huge movement made by the monster in the cage, he slowly took a step forward, and he finished what he didn't say just now:
"For this monster, although your meat is not delicious, your parents' meat is delicious."
"Fifteen years ago, the third and fourth victims happened to be your parents."
The corners of his mouth rose to the extreme, and the man's ironic smile could almost be described as vicious!
Jihuan was stunned.
The horned monster in the cage was also stunned.
The movement just now seemed to be an illusion, and the courtyard became silent again in an instant.
"What... what did you say?" His hands fell on the gray-white bone scales, and Ji Huan slowly turned his head.
"Haha." The man surnamed Yang smiled and raised his left hand, revealing the white paper on it: "When I first saw you, my subordinates went to adjust your information to see what I found—"
"Two of the victims in the case fifteen years ago happened to be your parents~"
"Impossible, my parents died in a car accident." He clung to Grandpa's cold arm in the cage with both hands, and looked directly at the man surnamed Yang opposite, Ji Huan's face turned pale a little bit.
"It's true that he died in a car accident, but the culprit is the old monster whose arm is now being held by you. On the way to escape capture, it hit a car and caused a series of car accidents. It's unfortunate that your parents were in the car. The car was the one it hit, and by the time we got there, it had eaten half of your parents' bodies."
The car turned over, with the front up and the rear down. Two little children were strapped to the rear car seat, blood… dripping from above.
It was a warm tick tock at first.
Over time, the liquid becomes thick and icy ticks… tick… tick… Reply…
Eventually no more liquid dripped.
Blood clots.
It may also have been sucked dry.
The two couples in the front seat had lost half their bodies when police found the car that had been involved in the accident on a remote lane. That monster was a picky eater, only eating the parts he liked and not touching the parts he didn't like.
They came just in time, the children in the back seat had not been eaten yet. The two children were two years old and four years old. Their bodies were covered in coagulated blood. They could not tell whether it was from their father or their mother. There was a lot of stain on the clothes.
The policemen who saw that scene all had nightmares for at least a week.
"Calling the monster that ate your parents grandpa, you can be considered as a model of recognizing a thief as a father. But I don't blame you. You were too young to remember anything at that time."
At that time, he should have seen the child, but he soon went to work on the case. After many years, he remembered the appearance of all the victims, but he forgot the appearance of the child.
But it is useless to remember, fifteen years have passed, enough for a baby to grow into a half-sized boy.
Jihuan was stunned.
Big droplets of water suddenly fell from the sky, Jihuan looked up dumbly, and saw two long water marks slipped on the cheeks of the horned monster behind him.
The turbid ones are the tears of the old monster.
"Grandpa, why are you... crying?" Reflexively, Ji Huan gently touched the arm of the shofar monster: "Grandpa, your eyes are not good, so you can't cry..."
Reminding grandpa to pay attention to his body has become an instinct, and it is imprinted in Jihuan's heart all the time. Even if Grandpa suddenly turned into a monster, even if someone told him just now that Grandpa ate his parents' monster...
"Don't believe it? Do you want to look at the archives of that year? I still have photos here. Are you almost eighteen years old? Eighteen years old is an adult, and looking at these things shouldn't scare you. ?" The man surnamed Yang said, and took a few steps forward, as if to hand the paper in his hand to Ji Huan.
At this moment, Ji Huan felt the icy body under his palm suddenly tremble.
"Impossible, it can't be my grandpa..." Holding the old monster's arm tightly, Jihuan had to say something, but—
More tears rolled down the top of his head, and then they couldn't get out.
For too long without food and water, the old monster didn't have too many tears to shed.
The tall body slammed to the ground, and the next second, the horned monster knelt in front of Ji Huan.
Kneeling humblely in front of the thin boy, a shattering roar emanated from the chest of the horned monster.
The neighing of the monster was obviously a meaningless harsh sound when it reached human ears, but Ji Huan somehow felt that the sound was very familiar.
How can it be familiar
Obviously, today... was the first time he saw Grandpa as a monster.
Yes, why did I just think that today is the first time I see Grandpa as a monster? Likewise, today was also the day he touched Grandpa's scales for the first time.
Obviously this is the first time, why...
This kind of familiarity... Ji Huan always felt that such a grandfather made him very familiar.
The harsh guttural sound, the big horns, or the cold touch of this bone scale...
Ji Huan felt as if he had seen such a grandfather a long time ago.
"Roar-roar-roar!" Such a roar signifies anger.
"Hoohoho~~~~" The rapid roar means come quickly.
and also:
"Hooho~hoho~" This is Xiaohua~
At first, the grandfather who could not transform into a human form used this voice to speak to himself every day.
Jihuan could even roar twice.
Without first learning human language, the first sentence Jihuan learned was a strange roar.
"Ah~~ roar~" This is Xiaohua wanting to call Grandpa.
Fifteen years ago, Ji Huan, who was only 2 years old, captured the first monster in his life.
When the monster greedily gnawed at the remains of his parents in the front seat, Xiao Jihuan leaned forward, grabbed his hands, and disappeared in the air with such a simple action, a bloody monster appeared in this way. Jihuan sister and brother in front of.
That year, Xiaohua was 2 years old and Xiaohei was 4 years old.
Of course, Xiaohua was not called Xiaohua at that time, and also Xiaohei was not called Xiaohe at that time.
Blackie was terrified at that moment.
Instinctively, she wanted to grab her brother, but the bandage of the safety seat was too tight, and she couldn't touch her brother at all.
So, she could only watch the big monster that suddenly appeared in the air suddenly look at her younger brother, the slender face covered with scales came closer, the blood-soaked mouth was open, and there was still a gap between her teeth. With unfinished minced meat.
It was the face of a monster that adults described when they were scaring children.
Xiao Hei was so frightened that she didn't move, she watched the monster get closer and closer to her brother.
She was terrified.
However, her brother was not afraid at all.
The two-year-old child didn't understand anything, and was not afraid of seeing monsters. He was hungry when his little mouth opened and closed.
Then, the monster didn't know what to think, and actually handed a bloody palm to the little boy's mouth. There was a thin gold ring hanging on the ring finger that was about to be broken on the palm of the hand.
It was their mother's wedding ring.
The little girl already had an impression of this ring, but the little boy didn't understand anything.
He was very dissatisfied with the food that was brought to his mouth by the monster, and the child stretched out his small paw and pointed to the feeding bottle that was rolling below.
For a child who is only two years old, this is what he considers "food".
After a moment of hesitation, the monster actually handed him the bottle.
The little boy skillfully picked up the bottle and drank the milk "gulugulu".
While nibbling on that palm, the young horned monster ate while watching the little boy drink milk.
Until the little boy had had enough milk, the fleshy little palm held the small feeding bottle, and suddenly handed it to the bloody lips of the horned monster.
"Ah!" The voice of the milky cub.
After licking the remaining liquid on the pacifier, the horned monster spat twice, and then suddenly left.
Then, the little boy handed the bottle that the monsters disliked to his sister.
The frightened little girl no longer disliked the bottle, "Gu Lulu", she also drank milk.
Then, the rescuer came.
The poor couple in the front seat were taken away, the younger brother in the back seat was sent to the hospital, and they were sent back to their empty home. The police who brought the children over had a case to do, so they left quickly, before leaving. They asked the surrounding neighbors to help take a look at the child. It was fine at first, but it didn't take long for everything to change.
The police thought the neighbors would help take care of the children, and the neighbors thought the police would look after these two poor little fellows, and finally—
The two children were left alone in an empty room.
There is no "person", but there is a monster.
For some reason, the monster came back twice later.
When I came here for the third time, I happened to meet two robbers.
These were the last two victims of that case.
After that day, the two children disappeared from the room.
There was a young shofar monster on the mountain, plus two children.
That little black is wearing a small black skirt, so it is called little black;
Xiaohua is wearing colorful shorts, so she is called Xiaohuaer.
Grandpa... No one calls Grandpa's name! So just call me grandpa!
The days passed like this.
It seemed that a spiritual aperture had suddenly opened in his mind, and the memory fragments buried in the depths of the brain's memory cortex floated up in pieces, and slowly pieced together a story that was not complete.
"Roar——" The long, long roar was the grandfather saying sorry.
Ji Huan froze in place.
The low voice of the man surnamed Yang came from behind him word by word:
"I don't know why it hasn't eaten you for fifteen years, but—"
"Monsters are monsters after all, not the same kind of creatures as humans."
"Especially monsters that have eaten humans."
"Once you smell human blood, no matter how good-hearted monsters are usually disguised, they can't help it. The desire for blood in the blood will inevitably overwhelm everything, and they will immediately become what they are."
"so-"
"Get out of the way."
The man stretched out his left hand and flicked it gently, and Ji Huan fell into the middle of the two soldiers beside him.
The rest of the soldiers immediately re-fixed the cage holding the horned monster. This time, the monster with horned horns did not respond at all.
Putting its head on the edge of the gap in the cage's railing, it just stared at Ji Huan with big eyes.
The eyes are a very complex line of sight.
Regret, guilt, loving-kindness... Perhaps, there is a trace of relief
Not daring to continue watching, several soldiers pulled up the cage. However, before they pulled a few times, a strong force pulled the cage in the opposite direction. A few people looked up and saw that it was the boy just now who did this!
"Don't, move, me, Ah, lord!" Both hands firmly held the metal rod on the cage, using his entire body weight to prevent the opponent from taking the cage away, Ji Huan repeated word by word what he had said.
"You child, do you not understand people's words or forget your roots? This monster has admitted it to himself, but you still protect it?"
This time, the man surnamed Yang was almost annoyed by his reaction, and he didn't bother to talk nonsense with him anymore. Colonel Yang immediately ordered two subordinates to catch Jihuan, and the rest moved the horned monster into a special compartment as soon as possible.
At this moment, suddenly—
A streak of blood.
A streak of blood suddenly sprayed across the cage onto the horned monster in the cage.
The bone scales are white and the blood is red.
Outside the cage, blood was dripping on the right wrist of the young man named Jihuan.
At that moment, he actually cut his right wrist and spilled blood on the old monster in the cage!
I don't know how much effort he used to cut himself. The blood not only sprayed on the old monster with horns, but also sprayed a lot in the cage next door, and even the man surnamed Wang standing over there. It's all there!
"What are you doing? Xiao Xie, hurry up and stop the bleeding." The man surnamed Yang's lips were trembling when he saw someone who had never acted like this before.
After a while, he didn't ignore Jihuan after all, but planned to send someone to bandage Jihuan's wound.
However-
The female subordinate he sent to bandage Ji Huan's wound was suddenly avoided by Ji Huan. Just as everyone was stunned at this scene, Ji Huan suddenly spoke again:
"You said to me just now: monsters are monsters after all, and they are not the same kind of creatures as humans. Especially monsters that have eaten people—"
"You said that once they smell human blood, no matter how good-hearted monsters they usually pretend to be, they can't help it. The desire for blood in their blood will inevitably overwhelm everything, and they will immediately become their original appearance."
"so-"
Putting his bleeding right arm into the cage where the horned monster was imprisoned, the boy's expression was calm and terrifying.
The author has something to say: When "Jihuan" was carried by the shofar monster into the house to play with frogs, he was suddenly not afraid at all.
Looking at the shofar monster, Jihuan saw that he handed him a feeding bottle.
The invisible shofar monster didn't know why, and then Jihuan saw that he poked the monster's white beard with the pacifier of the feeding bottle again.
When the horned monster finally understood what was going on, a smile suddenly appeared on the ugly face.
Although it was ugly, Ji Huan was sure that it was a smile.
Then, together with the black egg in the dream, he heard the monster say happily:
"Heidan, you are really a filial child, as filial as your uncle Xiaohua! Grandpa is so happy—"
So Jihuan and the black egg in the dream laughed together.