Xiaokui and Bai Liu shook their hooks. She raised her hand to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes, and asked softly: "... Then Bai Liu, what is your wish?"
Bai Liu leaned on the table with one hand, lowered his eyes, and repeatedly tapped the table with his knuckles: "I want to sacrifice to the evil god."
Xiao Kui was startled: "Sacrifice to the evil god?!"
"Yes." Bai Liu's lips curled up. "It is because of his existence that makes you all so painful, right? Will everything be over soon after he is sacrificed?"
Xiao Kui always felt something was wrong, but she couldn't tell. She frowned and asked, "... Why is this your wish?"
"...Why is this wish..." Bai Liu turned his head, he tilted his head lazily, his broad hunting clothes slid off his shoulders, revealing the bruised black skin inside. He blinked, "Of course it's because I hate the evil god. "
Xiaokui asked suspiciously: "I hate the evil god...?"
Although all the sacrifices hate the evil god, some intuition tells Xiao Kui that the reason why Bai Liu hates the evil god is definitely different from their ordinary sacrifices.
"Yes." Bai Liu's eyes half closed, "When I was in the orphanage, my personality and brain circuits may be different from ordinary people. No one likes me, is rejected by everyone, and the teacher dislikes me very much and thinks me. I am a poorly taught child, so I have always been outside the group."
"But it's the same with another child, he is called Sheta."
"I am very curious about Sieta. I often observe him and find that he likes to read the same books and play the same type of horror games as I do, and is even hated by the same teachers and children. I think he is very interesting and I want to know more about what he is thinking. what."
Hearing this, Xiao Kui felt funny and relaxed again: "You want to be friends with him."
Bai Liu paused thoughtfully: "In common sense, it is indeed possible to infer this way."
"But he rejected me."
Xiaokui was startled: "Why?"
Bai Liutan shrugged his shoulders: "I don’t know. Anyway, no matter what kind of game invitation I give him, he doesn’t seem to have seen him. Even if he stands directly in front of him, he will ignore me and walk coldly beside me. pass."
"So then I hated him very much."
Xiao Kui frowned: "Why, even if you refuse, you should say it well, what is ignorance?"
"Later." Bai Liu dragged his right face and lowered his eyes, "Xieta disappeared. Some people say he is dead."
Xiao Kui looked up in shock: "Dead?!"
"Yeah." Bai Liuzhang sighed with regret, "Because I was a child who had clearly expressed disgust and hostility to him, and when I went back late that night, I was framed that I killed him."
Looking at Bai Liu's expression, Xiaokui felt a strange feeling in her heart. She inexplicably remembered that she was on the boat when she saw Bailiu casually admit that she killed Sheta and divided the other party with a smile. Careful lazy expression.
… That's not the attitude that a person who is framed can have.
But before Xiao Kui could think about it, Bai Liu went on casually.
"Later, there were more and more children who hated me, hated me, and wanted to drive me out of the orphanage. My teacher began to torture me in various ways, such as constantly drowning me in the baptismal pool and forcing me to admit it. In general, the method of his crime is similar to the method used by the Beiyuan family."
"The only thing I can do is to escape to the church where Sieta disappeared and pray to the idols there every day. I can't find anyone who can help me, so I can only place my hope in the gods and hope that he can Take me out of the sea of suffering."
"However, my teacher and other children in the orphanage said that after evading all prayers as a perverted murderer, he returned to the crime scene to relive the evil act of murderous pleasure after dismembering his victims. "
"—The reason for all these rumors is just because I smiled when I prayed to God in church."
Bai Liu raised his eyes and looked directly at Xiao Kui with those dark eyes that seemed to suck in all the light. Xiao Kui was so horrified and unable to move, he could only watch Bai Liu slowly holding on to the table. Go up close to her, rest your head lightly on her shoulder, and whisper with your eyes down:
"Sister Xiaokui thinks so too?"
"I just have no way to suffer, I just feel that praying to God for relief should be pious, is this also my fault?"
… Jiro, isn’t this her Jiro
Xiaokui felt a pain in her heart, she subconsciously stroked Bai Liu's head, and she denied it in a daze, "It's not your fault!"
"This is the fault of those who tortured you!"
Bai Liu, who was leaning on Xiaokui's shoulder, curled up the corners of his mouth calmly, his tone becoming more dependent: "Really?"
Xiao Kui took a deep breath: "Yes!"
Bai Liu continued speaking softly:
"After I didn't know how long I prayed to the gods, I had a dream. In the dream, I felt like a resident of Luming County, and sensed the call of the evil god."
"Cthulhu brought me into a game with many people. He said that as long as I win this game, I can get a lot of things."
"Such as money, such as props."
"Then I woke up and was on the boat. The Cthulhu told me that the name of this game was "Cthulhu Sacrifice·Houseboat", and the only way I could win this game was to sacrifice the Cthulhu in the shrine."
Bai Liu slowly raised his head, he looked at Xiaokui: "When I walked into the shrine the first night, Xiaokui sister, guess what I found?"
Xiao Kui suddenly shook her head, she gradually couldn't understand what Bai Liu was talking about.
Bai Liu smiled: "—I found that the sleeping body of the evil god in the shrine was the one that was rumored to be killed by me."
Xiaokui's pupils shrank to a point.
With almost a blank mind, she walked out of the Japanese room where Bai Liu taught her. When she walked out, Xiao Kui turned her head unsteadily, and looked at each other in a dazed manner with Bai Liu who was skilled in receiving the next sacrifice. .
"Master Xiaokui." Bai Liu smiled faintly, leaning against the door with his chest folded, "Don't forget our agreement."
As the days passed, she began to get closer and closer to Bai Liu. When Bai Liu was in class, he would intentionally or unconsciously remind her how to avoid torture, and occasionally pester her to play horror and gomoku games boringly. At that time, the two of them didn't do anything. They lay on the tatami mats and fished for fish during class, staring at the ceiling in a daze, and said some endless words.
"It would be great if I could meet you earlier, Master Xiaokui." Bai Liu said, lying on the ground, "If there was someone around me who was willing to play games with me, maybe I wouldn't be here."
"It would be great if... I also had a sister." He whispered very lightly, "Some people are born who will not abandon me, and some people will always miss me when they die."
"Because there are people who expect him to exist, even if they die, they are all valuable..."
Xiaokui sometimes said: "Bai Liu is also very valuable."
"Really?" Bai Liu sneered, "Who is it worth to?"
The more she touched, the more she felt that Bai Liu looked like a child.
—Especially like Jiro.
She gradually relaxed her guard against Bai Liu.
One day, Bai Liu looked at Xiaokui and suddenly said, "Little Kwai Beiyuan, do you want to leave here?"
It took a long, long time for Xiao Kui Leng to answer: "Yes."
"I have a way to get you out of here." Bai Liu raised his eyes, and quickly said without any emotion on his face, "After a while, there will be a big conflict between the Mifune family and the Kitahara family. During the conflict, each family will guard the houseboat. Will become weaker."
"If you want to run, you can run at this time."
Xiao Kui bit her lower lip and opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't say anything.
Bai Liu accepted the words indifferently as if he knew it: "If you want other sacrifices to run together, then spread the news. If you run out, don't come back."
Xiao Kui suddenly raised her head: "What about you!"
Bai Liuman smiled casually: "My goal is here, I won't run."
Xiao Kui wanted to say something, but Bai Liu was interrupted: "I contacted your sister, and she will take you directly to the county where she is now living."
"Run out, stay where you live, forget everything that happened here, and start over."
Bai Liu looked at Xiao Kui with countless emotions in his eyes. He said softly: "Including me, Xiao Kui sister."
Xiao Kui eagerly stepped forward: "You also run with us!"
Bai Liu turned around and interrupted Xiao Kui in a flat tone: "Master Xiao Kui, this is the end of your class for today, go back."
"Don't come again."
Xiao Kui gritted his teeth and wanted to persuade him again, but Bai Liu's back paused: "If I have a chance, I will come to see you in half a year."
On the day of the conflict, Mifune’s family set off a big fire at Kitahara’s home. Half of Luming County was enveloped in the raging fire. Xiaokui tore off her skirt and ran barefoot on the hot ground, crying loudly. Shouting: "White Six!"
"White Six!"
"Where are you?!"
After all, Xiaokui did not find Bailiu in the fire. She was dragged by Sota and ran out of Kitahara's house, and met Kyoko who had been waiting somewhere on the path leading to the shrine.
Kyoko hugged Xiaokui and cried: "Finally, I finally found you!"
Xiaokui turned her head blankly. She saw a man in a white hunting suit standing next to a shrine that was not contaminated by sparks on the high shrine mountain and amidst the fire. He seemed to be smiling and beckoning to her. Congratulations on leaving here.
—It's Bai Liu.
Xiaokui's tears came up in an instant, and she murmured to herself unconsciously: "...Thank you."
"Thank you, Bai Liu."
She finally escaped from this hell, and went to a place full of spring flowers with her sister.
After the early panic, fear and surprise, Xiaokui found that no people from Luming County were chasing her and arrested her. Finally, she relaxed, adapted to the environment, and lived with Kyoko and her kind husband. To lead a happy and normal life.
Good things seemed to come one after another. Soon, Kyoko received good news that she was pregnant.
The husband resignedly accused: "Looking at the day, you got pregnant within a few days when you went to save Xiaokui. I told me to let me go, but you didn't let it. Fortunately, the child and you were fine."
Kyoko stroked her belly and looked at Xiao Kui in her eyes tenderly: "Even if I know I'm pregnant with a child, I will pick Xiao Kui by myself."
"She is a sister who is as important as my child."
"When Teacher Bai Liu contacted me, she said that she had been tortured a lot and she probably didn't trust strangers. She must let me pick it up in person."
"That's really a good person." Kyoko sighed, "willing to help us Xiaokui."
The expression on Xiaokui's face was very surprised. She carefully touched Xingzi's belly. When she talked about Bailiu, she seemed to be in the last century, and her tone was a little dazed: "I don't know if he has left Luming County."
Xingzi smiled and slapped Xiao Kui's face: "Don't worry, Teacher Bai Liu is smart and nice. He must have left that dog place in Luming County a long time ago."
"Didn't he say that he will see you in half a year? It will be half a year in one month, and you might see Teacher Bai Liu as soon as the door opens!"
Xiao Kui smiled, she took a deep breath, and hummed.
But what Xiaokui did not expect was that it was like Xingzi was so accurate. As soon as half a year came, in a gloomy afternoon when Xingzi and her husband went out for a prenatal check-up, Xiaokui heard a knock on the door, and she pushed the door. When I opened, I saw Bai Liu, who was pale and wet, standing in front of her.
Xiao Kui stunned and asked: "Teacher Bai Liu?!"
There was no expression on Bai Liu's face. He reached out and grabbed Xiao Kui's wrist and dragged her away: "Come on, I want to show you something."
Xiao Kui was dragged away by Bai Liu in the heavy rain. While she wanted to break free, she was full of doubts. The long and happy life made her unexpected for a while what terrible things would happen to her: "... What happened to Teacher Bai Liu?"
"Are you here to see me?"
"Yes." Bai Liu walked quickly in the heavy rain, his tone was so cold that he could almost freeze, "but I also came to tell you bad news."
"We were all deceived."
Xiaokui asked in confusion, "What was deceived?"
"Tell you, you can't believe me, I'll take you directly to see it." Bailiutiao explained clearly, "Except for you, seventy-three sacrifices came out of the fire, of which four In the county near you."
"One of them is Mrs. Cang, don't you know?"
Xiaokui slowly began to feel uneasy: "I know."
Mrs. Cang fled here with her, and was soon adopted by a kind couple. Now she is having a good time. With the encouragement of the couple, she is studying hard to prepare for the exam, preparing for the entrance to the nearby school.
In addition, the other three sacrifices who fled here also had a very good time. Xiaokui and them will have contact from time to time. Talking about the days in Luming County seems to be reminiscing about their previous lives.
"Don't you think it is weird?" Bai Liu said calmly, "Why are the sacrifices that escaped so well?"
Xiao Kui asked hesitantly: "The outside world is so beautiful."
—That's how the teachers from the Kitahara family taught them.
Except that Luming County is a hell, the outside is heaven. There will be all beautiful things and feelings waiting for them to explore. As long as they escape from Luming County, they will be able to live a fairytale-like life as described in the book. .
"No." Bai Liu kept dripping from the end of his hair, his tone was light, "From these teachings, to the fire, to your escape, it's all a long-planned scam."
Xiaokui gradually began to chill in her back: "...what do you mean?"
Bai Liu's tone was calm: "Let's see for yourself."
Bai Liu took Xiaokui for two rides, and first came to Cangtai downstairs.
Mrs. Cang's house was relatively remote, and there were no people nearby, so they walked a long way to arrive.
Far away from the door, Xiao Kui heard Cang Tai crying and begging for mercy: "No, Dad, Mom, are you lying to me? It can't be that way, right!?"
Bai Liuyuguang glanced at Xiao Kui, whose expression was beginning to be dull, and took her wrist to lead her to the back: "There are windows here, so you can peek at what's going on inside."
Through the window with a warm orange halo, Cang Tai could be seen kneeling on the ground, holding an A+ transcript, collapsed and cried incredibly: "I was admitted to that school!"
"I'm fine! Please, don't send me back, okay?!"
Opposite Cangtai was the couple who adopted him. The couple who had always been distressed by Cangtai didn't even look at the Cangma who was kneeling in front of them. They craned their necks and looked at the two who were standing in black clothes. People.
The moment he saw these two people, Xiaokui's pupils completely shrank.
-These two people are servants of the Kitahara family.
The two servants took out a stack of money from their arms and handed them to the couple: "For the past six months, you have worked hard."
The couple nodded and bowed, and took the money with joy: "Where and where, this is what we should do."
The two servants glanced at Sota who was sitting on the ground with tears in his face: "In order to make the person more painful, I bother them to escort him to the shrine with us and watch him be sacrificed."
"Good, good." The couple who received the money spoke very freely. "These are all agreed six months ago, and we will definitely follow it!"
The servant nodded quite satisfied.
The couple handed cigarettes to the servants in a flattering manner: "Next time there is a good thing that raises a child like this and can get money for half a year, please remember to come to us again, adults."
The servants opened their mouths and took the cigarettes, but arrogantly hummed.
Cangtai, who was kneeling on the ground, had dizzy eyes and couldn't see through any light.
Outside the window, it was pouring rain.
"I believe you can see it too. This is a deliberate plan they designed to make the sacrifices more painful." Bai Liu looked coldly, "Even I was used by them as a chess piece to send you letters."
"No, it won't." Xiaokui retorted in a daze, "My sister is here to pick me up, not a stranger."
"She treats me best since I was young. When I was sold, she stopped my parents like crazy. She would not treat me like this. We are biological sisters..."
"Really?" Bai Liu asked indifferently, "It was your biological parents who sold you, didn't they?"
"Your sister was pregnant when she came to pick you up, and her financial condition is not that wealthy. When she came to pick you up, it happened when she was short of money."
"She hasn't come to pick you up for so many years. She came to pick you up just two months after she was pregnant."
"Are you sure she won't sell you?"
Xiaokui turned around with a blank expression. She looked down at the watch on her wrist and muttered to herself: "My sister is coming back from the checkup. I have to go home to cook, otherwise she won't have anything when she comes back from the rain. Eat, she and the baby will be hungry..."
"That won't work..."
Xiao Kui staggered forward, and fell to the ground after a few steps. She got up again and went on walking unconsciously. She fell to the ground again. The palm of her hand was cut by a small stone, and a lot of blood was shed. Talking to himself softly:
"That won't work..."
The heavy rain fell on Xiaokui's face, who was swaying forward, and couldn't tell whether it was rain or tears.
Bai Liu slowly walked to the side of Xiao Kui who was kneeling on the ground again, and stretched out his hand to her: "There are three more sacrifices."
He lifted up a bit of light without black eyes, and looked at Xiao Kui: "Are you going to see them?"
Xiaokui raised her head with loose eyes: "... Okay."
"Yangtai, please, don't leave me behind, I am willing to do anything!"
Xiaokui numbly watched Yuanzi holding her boyfriend's knees, crying hoarsely: "I love you, don't send me back, please!"
"I can help you earn a lot of money, more money than they give you, don't send me back!"
"Brother Kawano...?" A boy looked incredulously at the big brother who had provided him with work, board and lodging, and took good care of him. He looked ugly at the Beiyuan domestic servant who was giving Kawano money, and tried to squeeze him. A smile came out, "Is it a customer, Brother Kawano?"
"So much money, it feels like a big list!" The boy tried his best to hold back the tears that were falling in his eyes, and shouted loudly, "Wait, wait, I won't eat lunch, I will help Brother Chuanyo make this list!"
Kawano turned his head, the big brother's smile was still on his face: "Yes, of course it is a big order, and only you can make this order."
He proudly slapped the money he had just received: "I sold you."
The boy was still struggling frantically at first, and kept asking Brother Chuanye to save him, but when Chuanyo raised his sleeves and slapped him severely, the boy was slapped with his teeth and blood flying out, and finally stopped struggling. The last light in his eyes went out.
While counting the money, Kawano cursed and pointed at the tip of the boy's nose: "Honestly, I will raise you for half a year. I just want to make such a sum of money. It is not for this money, who raises your rice bucket."
Xiao Kui stood motionless in the rain, and Bai Liu next to her was holding a black umbrella for her.
After a long, long time, until the boy was like a dead body and was escorted away by the people of Beiyuan family without any movement, Xiaokui's eyes rolled and she looked at the blood on the ground that was being washed away by the heavy rain. .
The sacrifice was shot out by Kawano just now.
Bai Liu said calmly: "I can send you away to a place where people from Beiyuan’s family will never find you, but your sister’s family already knows all your information, in order to prevent her from finding you, and to You can escape completely this time, I have only one way."
He placed a black dagger in the trembling palm of Xiao Kui's trembling hand with no wave of expression.
"Whether you choose to live forever and be trapped by them abusing your feelings for them, trap yourself in a cage of pain, and become a sacrifice that can only be sacrificed, or choose to completely cut off the connection, go far and fly, and gain freedom."
"—It's up to you."
Xiao Kui can’t remember how she got home, how she took a shower, changed clothes, washed clothes, and cooked a table of good dishes as if nothing happened, her eyes were empty, she sat at the table with a proper posture, waiting for them go home.
The only difference from the happy life before was the addition of a black dagger on her chair.
"Ding Dong—"
After the doorbell rang twice, the door was opened.
Kyoko complained slightly reproachfully: "Xiaokui, that's true, and I won't open the door."
"If you bring the key, you can open it yourself." The husband next to him is a good husband and muddy. "You have bad habits. You have to be greedy = you are lazy."
Kyoko refused: "Today I bought a lot of things and didn't have time to press it!"
The husband nodded funny: "It's mainly because you are too excited. You bought a lot of baby products before your baby was born."
Kyoko sat on the opposite side of Xiaokui excitedly: "The baby is very healthy! You should be born in one or two months!"
Xiaokui looked at Kyoko with out-of-focus eyes: "Really?"
Kyoko finally realized what was wrong, she frowned: "What's wrong with you, Xiaokui?"
Xiao Kui lowered his eyes: "A little tired..."
"I'll tell you one thing, you won't be tired soon." Kyoko circled Xiaokui's arm and became excited again, "Guess who I met on the road?!"
"Teacher Bai Liu!"
"Teacher Bailiu saw that I gave me a big red envelope, saying that it was their custom that they should give red envelopes to newborn babies." Kyoko scratched her head, a little shy, "I was embarrassed to ask for it, but he I said that the money is also for you, so I have to ask you if I want to."
The husband turned his head and took out a stack of money from his briefcase: "This is it."
Xiaokui paused when he saw the stack of money.
The paper, thick bottom, and markings on this stack of money are almost exactly the same as the money given to those people by the Beiyuan domestic servants before.
"Lying." Xiao Kui lowered her head, and she said in a very soft voice, "How could Teacher Bai Liu give you money... He stayed with me all afternoon."
"It's clear, it's clearly..."
Xiao Kui lifted up her tear-stained face with red eyes, and she held the knife behind her: "It's the money those people gave you!!"
"Liar! You are all liars!"
"What is the difference between you and my slut parents!! Both get happiness by betraying my pain!!"
"You are not worthy of being parents at all!"
Kyoko looked at the knife held high by Xiaokui. She backed away in horror and subconsciously protected her stomach. Her husband ran forward with a pale face in panic, and her extended arms blocked Kyoko's front.
The icy knife smoothed, and the screams and crying were made by the murderer or the victim.
Bai Liu leaned outside the door, he hugged his chest and looked down at his watch, waiting patiently, and when the screams almost ceased, he opened the door unhurriedly.
There were blood stains everywhere in the door. Her husband fell on the ground motionless. Xiaokui was holding a knife, covered in blood, kneeling on the ground with a loss of focus, and apricots that could barely move were lying in front of her.
Kyoko covered her belly while trying to reach out her hand to reach Xiaokui's face.
Her hand left a shocking blood fingerprint on Xiao Kui's face. Kyoko hoarsely said with tears: "I... poor Xiao Kui."
"Sister... Don't blame you."
"Sister knows you were cheated."
Bai Liu briskly jumped over her husband's body, hummed a song and walked towards Xiao Kui.
"If my sister really wants to sacrifice Xiaokui to make a wish..." The light in Kyoko's eyes gradually disappeared, and she touched Xiaokui's hand and fell weakly, "Then, then make a wish that someone can help me. Sister, Xiaokui, escape from all this terrible."
"Then live happily."
Kyoko turned her head to the side, her pupils dilated, her hands protecting her stomach and hands touching Xiaokui both fell to the ground, and the pool of blood spread on the ground.
Bai Liu walked to this pool of blood. He lowered his head and fiddled with Xiaokui who was motionless as if checking the goods, then squatted down and smiled:
"Sister Xiaokui, you are finally perfect."
"You are now the most painful sacrifice in the entire copy."
After Xiao Kui paused, she slowly raised her head, the expression on her face faded in an instant, her pupils shrank and her mouth opened, but she couldn't say a word.
"Yes, that's right." Bai Liu laughed, "All this is a game I made for you."
"I can't produce pain myself, so I need a top sacrifice that is painful enough to awaken the evil god, and Xu Desi can even offer sacrifices to the evil god."
"The other sacrifices are indeed made by the Beiyuan family. They are indeed in the [escape plan] of the Beiyuan family. I really did not lie to Sister Xiaokui on this point."
Xiaokui's hand slowly loosened, and the knife fell into the pool of blood under Xingzi, her pupils dilated.
Bai Liu smiled: "But Xingzi is an exception."
"She was indeed contacted specially by me. She came here to save you. She didn't take anybody's money. She is indeed a good sister."
"So you are an exception."
"You really escaped from hell and got a happy sacrifice."
Bai Liu leaned forward, tilted his head and looked at Xiao Kui as if his face had disappeared from breathing. He curled up the corners of his mouth and laughed extremely happily:
"Sister Xiaokui, I got happiness with my own hands, how does it feel to destroy it?"
Xiaokui can’t remember how she was taken back to Luming County by Bailiu and dragged to the shrine again. There was nothing in her mind, and she seemed to have everything. She was muddled along the way, crying and laughing, several times. Even suddenly wanted to snatch the knife and commit suicide.
But in order to prevent her death, Bai Liu broke her wrist when Xiaokui snatched it for the third time.
She was dragged by Shiroku's hair, as if she was beating a cargo, and she was thrown under the shrine in the shrine.
The door of the shrine that never opened to Bailiu finally opened slowly when Xiao Kui stepped in.
A pair of bloodless barefoot points in front of Xiaokui, countless translucent silk threads flew out, and the long silver-blue hair was washed away in the air as if in water, and the surface was covered with fluorescent light.
Xiao Kui raised her head blankly, she looked at those holy and unhappy silver-blue eyes, and her tears fell unconsciously, drop by drop.
Is this... Cthulhu
Xiaokui heard Bai Liu's happy wishing sound echoing in her ears: "I offer sacrifices to the supreme Cthulhu [North Plains Xiaokui]."
"The wish is." Bai Liu smiled, "I want to sacrifice this evil god body [Sheta] and clear the game."
Xiaokui saw the body at Bai Liu's moment, the light was restrained, and the limbs began to look like wood carvings. Only those silver-blue eyes that seemed to be human and gods were still looking at her, as if in Wait for her—a sacrifice who has truly sacrificed his pain opens his mouth to make a wish.
"I hope..." Xiaokui's tears fell in large drops, her voice was so soft that it was inaudible.
[If you let me make a wish, then make a wish that someone can help my sister, Xiaokui, escape from this terrible thing. 】
She cried madly, hoarsely, and shouted with all her strength: "God, please, let the one who can save everyone appear!"
"Let's escape from this terrible thing!!"
[System prompt: npc (Xiaokui Beiyuan) World Line memory fusion is complete]
[The fusion copy opens. 】