Eisen woke up from his dream in a cold sweat. All the senses in the dream were almost real. The piercing pain and desperate helplessness were deeply imprinted in Eisen's heart.
In the dream, my stomach and lungs were filled with water. The feeling that my stomach and internal organs were about to be stretched by a large amount of water made me feel like I was about to explode. At the same time, my blood continued to gush out of the iron pipe, forming a strange and uncomfortable cycle.
Eisen even thought that he would soon be gutted like he always slaughtered livestock, and then cut into pieces and hung on meat hooks to drip blood and ferment.
The previous nightmare made him doubt his work, "Has my behavior been disrespectful of life?"
This thought came into Eisen's mind.
The personal experience shattered his self-perceived numbness and empathy, and he actually felt a trace of guilt.
"I must be crazy." Eisen thought, covering his face.
He got up and prepared to go to the kitchen to get a glass of water to ease his mood.
He poured out half a cup of boiled water that he had prepared this morning from the kettle. He stared blankly at the water in the glass and actually felt a sense of fear.
He hesitated about whether to drink the glass of water. The feeling of being filled with water was still in Eisen's memory.
After some hesitation and mental struggle, Eisen silently poured the glass of water and went to the bathroom to wash his face with a towel.
Eisen casually turned on the faucet in the bathroom. He looked at himself in the mirror and found that he looked very haggard and pale, like a dying old man.
Aisen returned to his room and lay down on the soft big bed.
He was lying flat on his back with his eyes open, in a daze, when he accidentally discovered that there seemed to be a strange mark on the ceiling.
This mark was left by Yudkao when Eisen was sleeping. It was part of his plan.
Yudekao did not choose too many spells. He wanted to let Eisen go crazy slowly and naturally. This would achieve Yudekao's goal - torture.
With Yudkao's current knowledge, he could have used some mysterious spells to deal with Eisen, but Yudkao chose this method to retaliate.
This would satisfy his already twisted mind and allow him to feel the joy of revenge from the bottom of his heart; being able to see Eisen's pain was Yudkao's greatest enjoyment now.
The insidious Yudkau also put a certain amount of potion powder in the salt and sugar boxes in Eisen's kitchen;
Whenever Eisen cooked or made coffee at home, he would inevitably ingest the powder unknowingly, which would make Eisen's mental state more unstable, which was exactly what Yudkao wanted.
Eisen looked at the mark on the ceiling and suddenly felt dizzy. The whole world seemed to be spinning. A feeling of weightlessness made Eisen feel as if he was placed in a wooden barrel and rolled down from the top of a hill.
Eisen closed his eyes in pain and supported his temples with both hands. He rolled helplessly on the bed.
Aisen kicked the pillow and quilt to the ground and curled up sobbing.
The faucet in the bathroom was not tightened, and drops of water dripped from the outlet, which sounded like blood falling on the ground.
The sound of dripping water was so clear in the silent night, stimulating Eisen's tense nerves one after another; he felt those iron pipes inserted into his body again, and his blood dripped on the ground and turned into strange flowers decorating the dark space.
The pain spread endlessly in the dark night, and Eisen didn't know when this torture would end.
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The little rascal looked at his sleeping brothers and sisters in the crowded little room, revealing a happy smile and two big buck teeth.
In these peaceful days, being able to live peacefully is happiness for the little rascal.
For him, he would not pursue the dreams that others talked about, because his dream was so simple - to spend his entire life just to make his family live a slightly better life.
The little rascal has been thinking about when he could move out of this small apartment. The drunkard living next door would lose his temper every day after drinking. The living environment here is really too bad.
He did not seek to be rich, but only to have enough food for his family. The two gold marks he obtained today could provide his family with a few days of full food.
During the most difficult days at home, the little rascal would give his food to his younger brothers and sisters, and he would have to run to the trash can to find unrotten food to fill his stomach.
But the little rascal understands that reality is cruel. It is easy to want to change, but it is difficult to make the change.
He thought of the gentleman he met today. He was so mysterious. Such a person must be extraordinary.
"I wonder where that young gentleman is now?"
The little rascal leaned against the window, staring at the bright wolf-tooth moon and shining stars in the sky, and suddenly he remembered the starry sky in the eyes of that gentleman.
Although the starry sky was far away, it was so dazzling. Although the little rascal couldn't remember clearly what he saw, he remembered that there was a malicious look.
This sight aroused his interest in the starry sky.
There are so many unknowns about the universe and the starry sky.
"Maybe that gaze came from a creature unknown to humans?" thought the little rascal.
His eyes swept across the constellations and nebulae that he knew.
"Orion. No. Sagittarius. No. Andromeda. No."
He tried hard to find the fleeting star field in the starry sky, but the sea of stars was so vast that it was impossible to find it with the naked eye.
"I should get a pair of telescopes!" thought the little rascal.
Sly's father was once an unknown astronomer before he became a thief.
When Little Sly was a child, his father had always tried to instill astronomical knowledge in him, but at that time he was more concerned about whether the dessert for dinner was a fruit tart.
The little rascal's mother was originally the daughter of a wealthy businessman. According to her family's original plan, she needed to be sacrificed in a family marriage and marry a businessman who was as fat as a pig and had a greasy face.
At that time, Xiaohuatou's mother was attracted by the literary and artistic atmosphere of Xiaohuatou's father. She especially admired Xiaohuatou's father's love for the starry sky, so she resolutely abandoned her family identity and followed Xiaohuatou's father incognito.
Although they had hard times at the beginning, they lived quite happily.
The family moved from the heavily industrialized city of Erfurt in the Saxon province to the scenic city of Umlur.
Ever since his father published a paper titled "Are there unknown creatures in the universe?", he has received attention from many sides.
Many organizations invited him to give speeches, and he received a lot of gold marks as compensation for each speech, but unfortunately the good times did not last long.
Most of the content in this paper was speculation, and there was no way to prove its authenticity with the means at that time. The father of the little fox was slandered as a liar by some jealous opponents, and some even said that he stole the paper.
The rumor spread among the crowd, and soon the little rascal's father was regarded as an academic thief who was hated by everyone.
It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but it's easy to destroy it.
The little rascal's father was a man of steel. He constantly refuted those who deliberately caused trouble at academic seminars, but rumors were scary.
The unemployment rate was extremely high at that time. Little Slippery's father spent his entire life on astronomy. He didn't have any other skills. Moreover, he was thin and weak and couldn't do physical work, which led to him being unemployed all the time.
The family's financial situation plummeted. Everything that could be sold had been sold for food. Everything had reached the point of collapse.
Seeing that there was no food left at home, the little rascal's father stole a loaf of bread, but was caught on the spot and beaten to death by the drunken boss.
From then on, the little rascal's father never had the chance to wash away his stigma and ended his life with regret.