Xu Xin's eyes trembled. Looking at his sister's dazed eyes, his mind began to become a little confused, and he didn't even know what to say.
"What brother?" The mother looked in the direction Xu Ying was looking, which was where Xu Xin was.
Of course, his mother couldn't see him and had forgotten him.
"Brother! It's really you!" Xu Ying was stunned for just two seconds, then her face was filled with ecstasy, and she was about to pounce on him, but was stopped by her mother.
"Are you crazy?!" The mother looked at Xu Ying with great sorrow, "Where did your brother come from?"
Xu Ying turned around and looked at her mother in disbelief: "… What are you talking about? My brother is standing right there! Why don't you recognize him when he's standing in front of you!"
She pointed toward the door.
"Yingying you..." The mother really didn't know what to say. Even the hand holding Xu Ying became weak. She showed a forced smile, "Are you kidding, Yingying?"
At the door, the two old men even looked around to see if there were other people around, and then looked at each other.
Then they all showed expressions of sympathy and pity.
In the eyes of the two men, there might really be something wrong with the girl's mental state.
Otherwise, why would you call me brother to the air
What a beautiful girl, she used to be so cheerful, studied very hard, and was at the top of the class, how come she has become like this now...
"Yingying..." Xu Xin really didn't know what to say.
The world erased his existence and forgot him, even his mother forgot him.
But only my own sister still remembers it.
He didn't know whether he should be happy or sad.
"Who are you kidding me! Brother!" Xu Ying immediately broke free from her mother's weak hands and rushed over, "Brother! You are finally back! I knew..."
Before she could finish her words, her hands went straight through Xu Xin's body. Because she pounced on him, she couldn't control her center of gravity at all and fell directly to the ground.
Xu Xin wanted to reach out and catch her, but even though his hand was out, he couldn't reach her at all. He could only watch his sister pass through his body and fall to the ground behind him, letting out a cry of pain.
“Yingying!”
"Are you okay?"
The mother and two elderly people quickly walked over to Xu Ying and tried to help her up.
But Xu Ying didn't move.
She just propped herself up from the ground and looked at the ground with trembling eyes.
"well… ?"
She turned around suddenly, and fortunately, her brother did not disappear. He was standing behind her, looking at his own hands, and then looking at herself lying on the ground.
Xu Xin gave a helpless, somewhat ugly smile: "Yingying, I... the current situation is a bit complicated..."
Hearing Xu Xin's words, Xu Ying trembled and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Brother...you...you bastard! Why did you dodge just now?" Xu Ying immediately thought that it must be Xu Xin who had just dodged her.
The fact that she just passed through him was her body, it must be her own illusion.
How could such an outrageous thing happen
However, she immediately lost her temper: "What on earth did you do? Did you kill someone? Why don't people around you recognize you? Also, what kind of clothes are you wearing? Are you cosplaying as an ancient warrior? It's so ugly!"
kill…
Yingying was right, he really killed someone.
Not in this world though.
"Xu Ying!
"At this time, Xu Xin's mother finally couldn't stand it anymore and exploded. She grabbed Xu Ying's arm and lifted her up, holding her tightly and screaming, "You are really crazy! Come with me now! Otherwise, I will die in front of you!"
It was the first time that Xu Xin saw his mother behave so out of control, and even he was a little scared.
Come to think of it, if he were in the mother's shoes and saw his daughter going crazy at the air and talking about a brother who never existed, the scene could even be described as horrifying!
But Xu Ying did not give in at all. She immediately shook off her mother's hand and shouted, "Your son is right in front of you and you don't recognize him! You are crazy!"
As she said that, she reached out to Xu Xin.
Xu Xin also wanted to grab her hand, but both of them failed.
"... Oh?" Xu Xin looked at his hands, then looked at Xu.
Then she took two steps forward in disbelief and grabbed Xu Xin's clothes.
As a result, her two hands passed through Xu Xin's body right under her gaze.
“Ah…?” Xu Ying was completely stunned.
She stared blankly at her brother who seemed to have passed away, and then subconsciously grabbed a few more times with her hands.
Nothing was caught.
"Girl, you..." The two elderly people around couldn't bear to watch any longer, "Ah... you should go with your mother to take a look, there isn't anyone there."
In their eyes, Xu Ying was just flying at the air, talking to the air, and grabbing at the air.
If this isn’t mental illness, what is
“I… I…” Xu Ying’s hands slowly dropped down, and then, after staggering two steps, she was about to sit down on the ground.
But he was held back by his mother.
The mother also calmed down. She knew that facing a mentally ill daughter, she should not stimulate her too much.
She whispered, "Yingying, come with me."
"Yingying." Xu Xin finally spoke, and he had finally sorted out his thoughts. "The situation is very complicated now. You don't have to doubt yourself. I am indeed your biological brother, and your memories are all true."
“Brother…” Xu Ying didn’t know whether she heard clearly what he said or not. She just slowly raised her head to look at him and reached out to touch him again.
Still didn't touch anything.
Her eyes dimmed completely.
… So, is it really her who is crazy
Did she really never have a brother
Was all of this just something she imagined
But... But...
"Yingying!" Xu Xin shouted.
Suddenly, Xu Ying trembled all over.
"With your ability as a little girl, you'll never be able to get into the same university as mine in your lifetime! Just drop out of high school and find an honest man to marry!" Xu Xin shouted directly.
Xu Ying's eyes suddenly widened.
This was something he used to argue about with Xu Ying often.
During that time, he failed the postgraduate entrance examination and continued to study and prepare for the exam at home.
And that damn girl Xu Ying always finds trouble, and the two of them always have a quarrel.
Although Xu Xin didn't want to argue with her, some of her words were really unpleasant to hear.
During the summer vacation of Xu Ying's freshman year in high school, it was usually just the two of them at home. He had forgotten what they had been arguing about, but he didn't really want to argue and just kept giving a perfunctory "Yeah, right, right" attitude.
As a result, Xu Ying got excited and started firing in various directions.
"You are a loser who failed the postgraduate entrance exam and had to take the second try. You made me embarrassed in front of my classmates!"
This really touched Xu Xin's sore spot at the time.
Failing the postgraduate entrance examination is not an easy thing, especially for someone like him, who has attended the best local schools since childhood, has always had good academic performance, and finally performed normally in the college entrance examination and got a 985 undergraduate degree. Basically everyone is very confident in him.
Everyone had the impression that he was absolutely impossible to fail.
Even he thought so.
I'm afraid Yingying had boasted to her friends in advance that her brother was about to go to some very good university for postgraduate studies.
However, the scores of the school he chose that year were so high that it was almost forty points higher than the previous year!
And it is impossible for him to choose to transfer to a school that is not as good as his undergraduate school for graduate studies.
In short, it's cold.
So after hearing what Xu Ying said, he also got angry and started arguing immediately.
Then he said what he just said.
Xu Ying's original academic performance was not particularly good, and she did not attend the best high school in the area, but it was not bad either, just a little ordinary.
So when Xu Xin said that just now, she couldn't refute it and was so angry that she burst into tears.
After that, she began to study hard.
As a result, her grades improved rapidly. In less than half a year, she became one of the top ten students in her grade.
At that time, she came back and shoved her report card in Xu Xin's face, and brought up what she had said before.
At that time, Xu Xin laughed at her for being so stubborn and taking a single sentence so seriously. However, she was eventually beaten up by her own sister.
Until he left, Yingying's grades remained at a very high level. The influence of this sentence was undoubtedly great.
As soon as these words caused such a huge impact, Xu Ying felt as if a basin of boiling water had been poured over her. Her eyes widened, and she pointed at Xu Xin, her face slowly turning red with anger.
"And your hair is all messy, what do you look like? You don't wash your face, and you probably don't brush your teeth? Your mouth stinks, can you be more like a girl? Look at your best friend xx..."
Xu Xin deliberately picked words that would make Xu Ying angry, and he kept saying them.
"I'll beat you to death!" Xu Ying finally couldn't bear it anymore. She didn't care whether Xu Xin in front of her was her imagination or not. She jumped up and pounced on Xu Xin.
Then he missed again and fell to the ground, screaming in pain. He then became even angrier and raised his head to glare at Xu Xin.
"Yingying!" The mother's heart sank to the bottom when she saw Xu Ying's crazy look.
Seeing that Xu Ying's mental state had recovered, Xu Xin immediately said, "Yingying, maybe you don't believe what you see now, but I do exist. This matter is a long story, so please send mom away first and let's talk alone."
There was no other way. If he didn't send his mother away, even if his mother didn't take Yingying to see a doctor, he wouldn't be able to communicate normally with Yingying, otherwise she would be mistaken for a mental patient again.
Xu Ying's eyes twitched.
She is a smart girl with a quick mind, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to rank among the top ten in the school without working so hard.
She didn't speak to Xu Xin anymore, but lowered her head silently.
Probably brewing an expression.
"Yingying..."
"Mom... can you let me be alone for a while..." When Xu Ying raised her head again, she already had a distraught expression. She stood up and said softly, "My head is a little confused, I don't want to go out now..."
She acted as if she knew she had a problem but needed some time to calm down.
The mother's eyes lit up, and she covered her mouth with some joy: "Yingying, you... you admit that what you saw was an illusion?"
"Mom!" Xu Ying made a pleading expression, "Let me think about it carefully."
"Okay, Mom will accompany you!" Her mother no longer forced her to go out.
But she still wanted to stay at home. After all, Xu Ying's condition was unstable now, and who knew if she would do something stupid.
"No, I just want to be alone." Xu Ying shook her head.
Having said that, she walked into the house.
Xu Xin followed in immediately.
Seeing that Xu Ying's condition was stable, her mother breathed a sigh of relief.
Xu Xin followed Xu Ying, but did not enter Xu Ying's bedroom, but walked into his original room.
"Um?"
Then he was stunned.
The room was now filled with little girls' decorations and was completely different from how it was when he left.
Is this room now Xu Ying's bedroom
Oh, by the way, when he came just now, she locked herself in this room.
After Xu Xin entered, Xu Ying immediately closed and locked the door.
"Why are you moving into my room?" Xu Xin was a little puzzled.
Xu Xin's family moved here when he was about to go to college.
Because he rented a house near the school during high school, and basically only went home during the winter and summer vacations and specific family reunion holidays during college, and usually did not stay at home for more than a few days, so his room was actually just a small study with a bed stuffed in it.
Even at that time, this room could not be considered his room because there was a shared bookcase and desktop computer here.
But now, this original study room has become Xu Ying's bedroom.
There was no bookcase, but a wardrobe instead. The computer was also moved away, leaving only Yingying's study desk.
The bed has also become a big bed, and the sheets and decorations on it are all very girly in style.
"What do you care about me?" Xu Ying turned around and retorted subconsciously, then sat down on the bed, "I am willing to live here!"
"Yingying?" The mother's worried voice came from outside the door again, "Who are you talking to?"
"Ah... I was just talking to myself!" Xu Ying shrank her neck and rushed out the door.
Outside the door, the mother's heart, which had originally relaxed a little, became tense again.
Yingying was definitely talking to someone just now!
… Could it be that her condition wasn’t getting better, but… was getting worse? !
She wanted to knock on the door, but felt that Xu Ying would never let her in. Moreover, she couldn't provoke her, otherwise she would do something impulsive. The door was locked, and she couldn't get in at all.
There was nothing she could do outside the house, so she planned to go out and invite the doctor to her home.
Don’t let the symptoms get worse!
"It's bad. Now mom thinks your mental illness has gotten worse. You've started to see your favorite brother in your imagination and have started to talk to the air." Xu Xin spread his hands.
"...Aren't you disgusting?" Xu Ying angrily said to him in a low voice, "And it's all because of you! If it weren't for you... So what's wrong with you?"
Xu Ying looked at Xu Xin somewhat unconfidently and reached out to grab him again, but still passed through.
She couldn't touch it and others couldn't see it, which directly overturned her previous understanding.
She herself even suspected that she was a conscious psychopath.
"You can't... really be imagining this, right?" Xu Ying looked at him suspiciously, stroking her smooth chin, "Is my imagination so strong? Can I imagine a brother? Then can I imagine a handsome guy?"
"I'm handsome too, okay?"
"You...?" Xu Ying glanced at him and waved her hand in disdain. "Even if you are a figment of my imagination, I have seen your face for more than ten years in my memory. I am tired of it!"
This girl...
"About this matter..."
"Yingying, I have to go out for a while. There is a patient in the hospital who needs my help." At this time, my mother's voice came from outside the door. She found an excuse and was about to go out. "Let's talk when I come back."
Xu Ying's eyes suddenly lit up, and she hurriedly said to the outside, "Go ahead, work is more important."
Outside the door, there were sounds of doors opening and closing, and then there was no sound.
Xu Ying immediately ran to the bedroom door, opened it and looked outside. She breathed a sigh of relief, closed the door again, and turned around and said, "Finally they left. Now we can chat freely. Tell me everything you know and don't know!"
I don't know how to say...
Xu Xin shook his head, sat down on the chair in front of her desk, and began to tell about his bizarre experiences during this period.
Although he narrated calmly, the story was full of ups and downs and extremely strange.
As a result, the expression on Xu Ying's face became increasingly strange as she sat on the bed listening to his story.
Finally, she couldn't help but interrupt Xu Xin.
"Do I look like a fool?" She stared straight into Xu Xin's eyes, her eyes full of anger.
It seems that she didn't believe it at all.
“… He dropped out of school, so he’s really stupid.” Xu Xin choked.
"That's because...!" Xu Ying held back the extra words and continued to look at him straight, "So you're lying to me?"
"... Everything I said is true." Xu Xin shook his head.
"Survival? Tree house? But... how could there be such a..."
"The fact that I can appear in front of you like this has already broken your cognition, right?" Xu Xin asked back.
"But... you might just be my hallucination." Although Xu Ying gets angry easily in front of Xu Xin, she is still very clear-headed.
Even after talking with him for such a long time, she was still considering in her heart whether this brother really existed.
After all, even though she had always firmly believed that her brother existed, the current situation was that no one else could see her brother, only she could see him, and she couldn't touch him.
This is really hard to believe.
Anyone would think it is an illusion.
"Hallucination?" Xu Xin picked up a pen on the desk and threw it to her.
Xu Ying took it subconsciously, then opened her eyes and looked at Xu Xin.
"Can hallucinations make you throw a pen? You don't think you have any telekinesis, do you?" Xu Xin said with a smile.
However, he frowned slightly.
Why does this small pen feel so heavy
Heavier than a piece of metal.
And Xu Ying opened her lips slightly.
real…
It’s true!
"…Brother! It's really you!" She stood up suddenly and wanted to hug Xu Xin, but she had no idea where to start. She could only stand in front of him and look at him excitedly, "You really do exist! I knew that my persistence was not wrong!"
"Yeah." Xu Xin nodded and smiled bitterly, "I'm afraid you're the only one in this world who can prove my existence."
"Humph, there's no way I can forget you! You bastard brother!" Xu Ying sat back on the bed, her eyes slightly red again, but with a happy smile on her face, "So, what happened after that? Tell me quickly!"
"Where was I just now?"
"That's right, you caught a wolf as a mount and named it Silver King! What an ugly name..."
Oh yeah.
Xu Xin subconsciously glanced at the bracelet on his wrist.
Although the bracelet is still there, it is no longer of any use. It cannot hold anything, nor can it take anything out.
"After that, I..."
Xu Xin continued to tell his sister about his experience.
Xu Ying listened with great interest.