"To save... the me when I was a child?"
Lin Huai was silent.
Vague memories and fragments of images flooded in from the depths of my mind. He once again saw the scene from the beginning of his life that he had captured after using the dream ability for the first time and falling into a coma.
In the dimly lit room, the slender little boy sat on a pile of torn newspapers, turning a pencil expressionlessly.
Outside the room, there are parents arguing.
He sat there, turning the pencil like this, one stroke, another stroke, and another stroke...
He refuses to accept the world, refuses to acknowledge the world, and this world, this family, this room...
out of place.
Lin Huai: "...Actually."
"Ok?"
"Actually, I didn't need to be saved when I was a child." Lin Huai said, "I seem to be born with an abnormal brain, and the feelings I can feel and the emotions I have are also abnormal."
"I don't feel, nor have I felt the sadness of being belittled and abandoned by my parents. I also don't have the feeling that 'you have to work hard to please them in order to get love and recognition'. I seem to be born with a lack of such empathy. Emotional ability, only focus on myself. Never introspective, only adhere to my own ideas to attack others, has always been my specialty." He said, "So you don't have to..."
"But I'd still like to go."
"It doesn't make sense."
"I've read a few papers before, which said that a person's past experience determines his future character, and any change in past experience will lead to thousands of changes in the person you meet later. Different choices in different parallel time and space The next person will be a different person in essence. It’s like—if I can really change your traumatic past, the you I meet at this moment may not be the you I meet now. but-"
"If a person loves you now, he will not want you to suffer any harm in the past, even if it is not harm to you, but a plausible possibility. Even if the consequence of preventing you from being hurt is to change the current time If you don’t love him anymore, that person will resolutely choose not to let you suffer.”
"Of course, this is just a hypothesis, and it has nothing to do with the problems we are facing now." Chu Tianshu seemed to be ready to leave, "Even if you say you don't need to be rescued, the person who really loves you will Wanting to save you is not rational, but instinct."
"Because he has no empathy, he will even use the greatest guess to feel all the pain you may suffer, even if you have not experienced it. He will also hug every child who has a similar experience to you because of you. This is not out of To please your lover is to fall in love with a certain corner of the world because of the person you love, the so-called small love becomes big love... ok, no more nonsense, I'm ready."
Lin Huai squatted down to look at him, his eyelashes trembling: "If you are a human being now, you should be quite handsome when you talk nonsense?"
"If I were a human being now, I would want to kiss you. Unfortunately, not now." Chu Tianshu whistled, "That's fine."
"Forget it." Lin Huai said, "You can choose to save it."
Chu Tianshu gave him a final smile before his consciousness left.
"Really?" He blinked his right eye, "If you save up every time you want to kiss you from the moment you enter this dungeon, it will be a huge savings."
The dog's body fell limply into Lin Huai's arms. Lin Huai knew that Chu Tianshu's consciousness had sneaked into that building 202.
He hugged each other, fell silent for a moment, and poked the dog's face.
"Stupid," he said, "do you think I don't know?"
After Chu Tianshu left, the time became very long. After the second hand passed "1" for the 32nd time, Lin Huai finally saw "202" slowly floating on the wall.
The dark door replaced the door of the power distribution room and appeared on the wall. Lin Huai stood up holding the dog.
"I've never thought this hell door looked so good." He shrugged his shoulders.
The apartment door was slowly pushed open, and a little girl covered in bruises appeared outside the door. "She" yawned, looking completely tired.
Lin Huai bent down: "Who are you?"
"A kind-hearted man named Chu who does not want to be named." The "little girl" yawned again.
"Her consciousness is injured and she is sleeping." "She" rubbed her eyes.
"Traces on the body..."
"She was tied up and stuffed into the freezer, and she was seriously injured before that." The "little girl" said, "It must have been murdered. The 'dog chain' in the bedroom was loose, it should be her My pet ran away. I persuaded her to get rid of that 'dog' early... What kind of pet do you have at a young age... "
"Does it hurt?"
"Fortunately, it's just that the wrist is a bit blocked..."
"I mean you, does it hurt?"
"Huh?" The "little girl" froze for a moment.
"Your spirit is injured, right?" Lin Huai picked up "her", "Human consciousness will be continuously burned by the evil spirit in the body of the ghost. Come out, it's fine."
"Little girl": "Oh."
The little girl's body limply lay down. The next moment, the husky, which had been obediently lying in Lin Huai's other hand, shook its tail.
Lin Huai originally wanted to put it down, but Chu Tianshu howled in pain as soon as he got back into his body: "My feet are numb, I can't walk..."
Lin Huai: "..."
Chu Tianshu: "I want a hug."
Lin Huai went down the first floor with a person in his left hand and a dog in his right hand. Chu Tianshu wagged his tail triumphantly in his arms.
When he arrived at the property management room, Lin Huai threw the little girl aside—the latter was still in a coma and would not wake up for a while. When he was about to put Chu Tianshu on the sofa, Chu Tianshu lay on his lap and refused to move.
Lin Huai: "Go down and rest?"
Chu Tianshu: "It's soft here."
Lin Huai: ...
"Actually, it's much better than I expected. I was a little tired when I struggled out of the closet. Now it seems that it should be a physical experience from a little girl's body. As for my own spirit, there is no negative reaction at all. "Chu Tianshu pan explained on him, "Du Chongshan said before that when he used this prop, it hurt so bad, every step was like stepping on broken glass, which caused me to do a little psychological construction... cut, this weak chicken. "
Lin Huai asked him, "Is it really all right?"
"It's really fine." Chu Tianshu seemed a little puzzled, "Maybe it's because my soul is stronger?"
"That's good." Lin Huai finally felt relieved, "Next time you meet Du Chongshan, remember to laugh at him."
Chu Tianshu: "Don't worry, even if there is no such thing, I will laugh at him every time I meet him."
The two of them gained happiness in the joyful co-existence. The little girl hadn't woken up yet, so Lin Huai checked her condition. She would have to wait at least three days before she woke up.
"There were two black shadows who came to the property management room last night. One was the dog on the fourth floor, guarding in front of the closet door, and the other sneaked into the property management room, and ran away after hearing the noise..." Lin Huai pondered, "This second shadow should be the little girl's 'father'. No one knows the location of the little girl's body better than him. He probably hid the little girl's body in the storage room while fleeing. Frozen inside, and then went out to get the tools needed for the ritual to eliminate the ghosts, but I didn't expect to be captured by the little girl before I got enough tools... "
"He has been dormant in 202 for many years, and finally found a chance to escape. The first thing he will do after escaping is to burn the little girl's body and kill the ghost completely, so that he can be free. In the storage room The newspapers and cardboard boxes are all flammable... Could it be that he caused the fire in Chunyu's apartment?"
"The man who strangled his daughter to death with his own hands will personally destroy her last soul after her death...a chilling malice." Lin Huai bit his finger, "It's just that I don't understand that dog... it Standing in front of the closet, is it aware of the murderer's intentions and wants to protect the little master's body? Those newspapers and cardboard boxes should have been brought in by him... The bedroom on the fourth floor... Cardboard boxes, piles of paper... That's right, it should be him. But a How could a dog…”
"Perhaps it was because of his strong obsession to protect his master during his lifetime, so that his soul did not dissipate for a long time after death, and thus became an evil spirit. And the previous fourth floor should also be formed by his obsession. different space."
"what?"
Lin Huai raised his head.
"Like the little girl's 202, that dog, after his own death, became an evil spirit due to his strong obsession, and created its unique different space—the fourth floor."
"A dog's eyes can only see three colors of gray, yellow and blue, so there are only three colors of gray, yellow and blue on the fourth floor. For humans, there is a lot of world available for activities. But for a dog, it can reach The only places where it can live are the owner's house and Chunyu Apartment. Therefore, in its view, the stairs are endless and can never leave."
"In addition," Lin Huai also gave more analysis and supporting evidence, "The silt and the spider are the parents of the little girl in its understanding, and the silt appears from the elevator at regular intervals, which is 'commuting' in its understanding The state in the middle. There are things in the form of books in the room, but the words inside are all garbled characters, and it is also because the dog cannot understand the meaning of these words. The voice of the silt is 'grumbling', and it is also because it cannot understand humans. words of…”
"In the eyes of this big dead dog... this world is dangerous and frightening. Horrible monsters live in the house, and they will come in to hurt them at any time... And the doll in the room, which is the incarnation of the little girl, is what it wants to protect It is also the reason why it wants to build a 'home' to protect her." Lin Huai stopped, "It wants to build her a family, a beautiful family that will not be harmed. .”
The big dog was the little girl's best playmate during her lifetime. After the little girl died, it guarded the door of the toilet where the little girl's body was hidden until it was starved to death.
And after knowing that it is also dead... Its residual and loyal guarding will also make it an evil spirit, continuing its "guarding" behavior in the "world" it created and in its cognition and understanding...
Even if its owner is dead.
The little girl stayed in 202, and the dog existed in another different space. They are next to each other, but they don't know each other's existence at all.
In sharp contrast to the behavior of the big dog, it was the father who strangled the little girl. After his death, because he resented the revenge of his daughter who turned into a ghost, he even did not hesitate to kill her again...
"Sometimes it's really hard to tell which one is more like a livestock, an animal or a human." Lin Huai tapped the table with his fingers and said expressionlessly, "We're waiting in the property management room."
"He'll be here."