Vega City. Vertex 23S. Fastest update
A very ordinary day, with a very ordinary beginning. For the citizens of Vega City, the beginning of every day during this period is somewhat similar to checking the mailbox.
The New Year is coming soon. For a city like Vega with a large immigrant population, receiving New Year blessings and gifts from relatives and friends in other places is a good way to start the day.
But there are exceptions, for some special families
The woman found the girl lying at the window looking out. While calmly handing over the toothbrush filled with toothpaste, he said without a tone, "Are you still dreaming? You are no better than mommy and daddy."
"No!" The girl turned her head and stared at the woman. We should all know common sense that children are not good at controlling facial expressions, or in other words, they are too good at making overly exaggerated expressions. So, this girl who looked only four or five years old was like a broken doll, with a twisted face, "I have a mommy! I have a daddy! They just went to a very far place!!"
"And that far away place is called death." The woman was still expressionless. Since the girl didn't pick up the toothbrush, she put the toothbrush aside and ignored it. "Then people who die will not come back or give you gifts. So, stop Dream on, you won’t get any gifts from them this year.”
The woman turned and went to the kitchen to make breakfast.
breakfast. It's a bloody piece of meat. This was for the woman herself. She licked her bright red fingers and curled her lips unsatisfied. Then wash your hands and prepare the girl's breakfast. Much more normal, milk, pancakes, eggs, vegetables...
"I don't like vegetables." The girl complained at the door of the kitchen with a toothbrush in her mouth.
The woman looked back and said, "You don't like going to kindergarten either. Choose one, I can only tolerate one." Uh...
"Then I will eat vegetables and not go to kindergarten."
"Deal." The woman tilted her head, "Then call Pippi later and ask him to take care of you."
"I don't like Pippi!! He stinks!"
The woman pouted, "You know the rules, choose one."
The girl was stunned for a moment, with the toothbrush hanging in her mouth and her head tilted, "I... don't want Pippi, I'm going to kindergarten?"
"Deal." The woman shrugged and smiled, but quickly put it away. She put the breakfast with eggs and vegetables on a plate and put it on the dining table. "Gift, what do you want." She also sat at the dining table, cutting the pieces just now Not very satisfied with the meat.
"Mommy and daddy."
"No." The woman replied simply.
"Why?!" The child's expression failed again.
"Because when people die, they cease to exist. They cease to exist." The woman seemed a little speechless. It seemed that this conversation had happened many times, and she was impatient to explain.
"no no!!"
"Uh, stop screaming." The woman frowned. Do you know how sharp the voice of a four or five year old girl is, so...
"no no"
"Okay, okay!" The woman gave up, glanced at the girl, left the dining table, went to the bedroom to get something, then came out, and then handed several lists filled with names and contact information to the girl, "Here is Do you want your mom and dad to compare the contact information of all the alien souls still alive in Vega City? Find them one by one! Can you?"
The girl blinked, threw away the toothbrush, and rushed to the living room with the papers in her hands. The phone was in the living room.
The woman shook her head helplessly and continued to cut the food that she was not very satisfied with.
A girl's voice came from the living room, "Are you my mommy?"
“…”
"Then are you my dad?"
“…”
Don't complain about the way girls are, are humans at this age literate? No, just numbers.
Therefore, this kind of thing will not come to fruition. The woman listened for a while, showing no emotion other than the occasional shake of her head.
After finishing her breakfast, the woman went to the study room, stuffed some unknown documents into her briefcase, came out, looked at the girl who was still on the phone, packed the vegetable breakfast on the table, "You want You’re late. Get dressed quickly and you can continue looking when you come back.”
The girl looked back at the woman and complied aggrievedly.
The woman seemed to be a very normal working woman. She had prepared everything before waiting for the girl to finish dressing up. She was holding her briefcase in one hand and the girl's backpack in the other. "Tick tock, if you are late, I will give it to Pippi." Make the call!" the woman urged.
no effect. At least not one where the results are immediately visible. The woman curled her lips and walked out of the door first, heading to the garage...
The silver light, different from natural sunlight, enveloped the woman the moment the garage opened.
The woman only had time to complete the movement of raising her hand before she completely lost her center of gravity. Her whole body was tightly clasped and restrained by spikes, and then she was pulled into the garage under the irresistible pull.
boom!
The garage door is closed.
The girl finished dressing up and returned to the restaurant. Looking at the empty dining table, she felt a moment of joy on her face, but it disappeared~
But immediately, the girl's face became aggrieved, because she saw the open front door, and she knew that the woman must be waiting for her outside, and her breakfast must be in the other person's hand.
The girl walked out the front door, "Lily?" That must have been the woman's name. The girl saw the backpack in front of the garage and moved it over suspiciously. There is a subtle red color scattered around, and a faint mark extending into the garage.
The girl picked up her schoolbag and stood in front of the garage, "Lily? I'm going to be late."
The girl blinked, "If I hadn't missed the time, I wouldn't have asked Pippi to come."
The girl pursed her lips and tried to pull the rolling shutter door of the garage. Not moving at all.
"Lily. Lily."
The door opened.
In the girl's eyes, the two men, who looked like giants, walked out and wiped their hands, "Lily is dead."
The girl wanted to enter the garage, but was pushed away, "Who are you?"
The two men didn't seem ready to answer, so they closed the garage door, looked around, and left the driveway.
"Where is Lily?!" He lost control of his facial expression, "You are strangers! Lily said that if a stranger comes to our house, call the police! Tell me where Lily is, or I will call the police!"
A man turned around, his expression seemed to be about to laugh, "Heh, you can try, little girl."
Another man pulled the man who spoke, "Stop talking nonsense and let's go!"
"Lily!!" A little girl of this age screamed sharply.
The two men quickened their pace to leave.
"Lily!!!" The screams continued, continued, continued...
"Okay! Stop screaming!" The woman appeared, and after opening the garage door, she was enveloped in blood, "I'm here!"
"Lily!" The girl ran towards the person she was calling, but... stopped when she was a step away, covering her nose, "You stink so much! You look like Pippi!"
"Uh, because Pippi and I are the same thing..." The woman raised her hand, and one of her ribs... fell off. "Uh, I need food and a change of clothes." Dragging her crooked legs, she walked home.
The girl hung behind the woman, keeping her nose covered, "I'm going to be late!"
"I know." The woman waved her hand.
"It's not my fault! So you have to apologize to the teacher, I don't want Pippi to come!"
"I know." The woman waved her hand again.
Entered the house. The girl was quiet for a while, watching the woman dragging blood into the kitchen and into the bathroom...
"Those two strangers said you were dead, but you came back."
The woman's helpless voice, accompanied by the sound of water, "I don't..."
"You lied to me! If you die, you can come back!"
"Well."