The first reaction was pain in his chest, and Shen Xing immediately realized that something must be wrong with his body in reality.
With this kind of pain, I'm afraid someone is really carving on my chest right now.
He threw the cold water bottle on the ground, unbuttoned his clothes and looked down at his chest. He saw a blood stain on the skin in the middle of his chest. There was blood flowing down his chest, and there was a feeling of splitting in the skin.
Yao Tong, who was sleeping on the bed, woke up immediately after he poured a pot of cold water on his head.
At this time, Yao Jie and Huang Guiping also followed Shen Xing into the bedroom. After discovering that Shen Xing poured all the cold water on Yao Tong's head, Yao Jie was furious and pushed Shen Xing away. Huang Guiping ran over and helped her quickly. Yao Tong woke up and was gasping for air.
However, the two of them were soon startled when they saw a bloodstain appear on Shen Xing's chest and it was still extending, as if there was an invisible blade cutting his skin.
Shen Xing groaned in pain and took a step back.
After seeing Yao Tong awake, he immediately shouted: "Are you hurting me in reality?"
After Hua Luo took two steps forward, he grabbed Yao Tong.
Yao Tong was terrified and hurriedly hid behind Huang Guiping.
Huang Guiping immediately opened her hands to protect her daughter. Shen Xing grabbed Huang Guiping's collar, and Yao Jie next to him immediately grabbed his arm and yanked.
Shen Xing now had black tendon protective film all over his body, but because of the difference in space, he still could not prevent a second blood mark from appearing on his chest.
He flipped Yao Jie over with his left hand, grabbed Huang Guiping's collar with his right hand, lifted her up, and punched Huang Guiping in the cheek.
"don't want!"
Yao Tong behind him suddenly screamed.
Crash--
The air in this bedroom shook, and all the items vibrated. Glass cups, vases, etc., all shattered and fell.
Shen Xing's fist paused in mid-air, and his eyes squinted at Yao Tong, who was originally hiding behind Huang Guiping. At this time, Huang Guiping seemed to have been immobilized, and she remained frightened and motionless.
Looking at Yao Jie, who had just been knocked over by him, he just landed on the ground, still maintaining the same falling posture, as if he was instantly frozen by this space.
The couple no longer had any consciousness or perception at this moment.
Shen Xing let go of Huang Guiping's collar and looked at Yao Tong coldly. The corners of his mouth twitched slightly, which was because of the pain that was still coming from his body.
At this moment, the second blood mark on the chest was still extending, and together with the first blood mark, it formed a cross pattern.
"Why don't you stop?" Shen Xing asked coldly.
Yao Tong shook his head, "I can't control it. After I fall asleep, she will come out and walk around on her own to protect me and my parents."
Shen Xing looked down at the blood marks on his chest. Although the wounds were not deep, it was true that his body was being hurt.
"Wake up, wake up now!" he said sternly.
"No!" Yao Tong shook his head quickly with a stubborn expression, "Can't wake up, I can't wake up!"
Before she finished speaking, tears were already rolling down her cheeks, she shook her head wildly, and her stubborn tone changed to pleading.
"I...can't wake up!"
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Achai had never thought that since following Shen Xing, this would be the first time his master invited him out to do something, but he never knew that it would be so dangerous!
Although Yao Tong, who was holding the kitchen knife, returned to the next room, he was slightly relieved, but the scene in the master bedroom still left Achai stunned.
On the bed in the master bedroom, two people were covered under a thick quilt, with only their heads exposed.
However, the cheeks of these two people were dry, as if they had lost body moisture, and their skin and muscles were sunken, making their lips slightly open. They had been dead for a long time.
Achai carefully lifted off the quilt. When the two men and women in pajamas were completely revealed in front of him, he finally dared to confirm their identities - Yao Jie and Huang Guiping!
Based on this appearance alone, it was impossible to judge the time of death of the two people. Their corpses did not rot, but were strangely transforming into mummies. Their bodies lost a lot of water and their bodies became skinny.
Achai also noticed that the skin of Huang Guiping's ankles had clear and darkened finger prints. It should be that she was tightly grasped by someone's hand before she died.
Looking at Yao Jie's neck again, there are also finger prints, and he must have been pinched.
However, this was not the cause of death, because the scratch marks were not very deep, but there was a pill bottle lying aside on the bedside table, with a few white pills next to the mouth of the bottle.
This is a sleeping pill!
Achai took a closer look and guessed that this might be the reason why Yao Jie and Huang Guiping died.
They should have committed suicide, and the pinch marks on their feet and necks should have been left by the vision created by Yao Tong's schizophrenia that attacked them before his death.
As for the reason for the suicide, it may be related to the fact that the couple could no longer bear the visions caused by their daughter, leading to a mental breakdown.
Of course, this is just Achai's own speculation. The actual situation may be that these two people experienced something more terrifying, or they died on the bed for some reasons that others didn't know at all.
Thinking of this, Achai suddenly froze for a moment, feeling a vague premonition of ominousness.
The scene of Yao Tong unbuttoning Shen Xing's chest suddenly appeared in his mind. Achai was startled and quickly slipped through two cracks in the wall and came to the room where Yao Tong was next door. He immediately floated towards the bedroom.
As soon as he got close to the door, he saw Yao Tong bent over, holding the kitchen knife in his hand, scratching the chest of Shen Xing who was lying on the bed.
The tip of this kitchen knife was sharp, but Yao Tong didn't use all his strength. He just closed his eyes and used the tip of the knife to cut Shen Xing's chest skin with precision, revealing blood marks and leaving a line of blood.
This scene made Achai tremble all over. Unable to scream, he immediately turned around, grabbed the broken music box on the square table, and threw it at Yao Tong's head.
With a bang, it hit Yao Tong on the back of the head.
Yao Tong immediately stopped moving, held the knife in his hand, and turned around. She didn't need to observe anything at all, but closed her eyes and rushed towards Ah Chai.
Achai immediately got into the crack in the door, and found a crack in the wall next to him. He immediately changed his hiding place and got into the crack in the wall.
The next second, the sharp knife arrived as expected and quickly inserted into the crack of the door. Then Yao Tong slashed hard, and the crack in the door was stretched, making a cracking sound.
As if she knew Achai's location, she pulled out the kitchen knife and stabbed it directly into the crack in the wall where Achai was.
At this moment, Achai had learned to be smart and had already gotten out from the other end of the crack in the wall, and then immediately got into the crack in the wall not far away.
It's just that this old building has been in disrepair for a long time, and many of the walls have been cracked. Cracks are inevitable, but it gives Achai an excellent hiding place.
Yao Tong tilted her head, as if she was listening or "observing". She slowly pulled out the kitchen knife stuck in the wall. The tip of the knife was glowing green, posing a strong threat to Achai at this moment.
Although Achai was hiding in the cracks in the wall, he had decided to stop Yao Tong from hurting Shen Xing no matter what.
Just now he saw clearly in his haste that a cross-like figure had been drawn on Shen Xing's chest. He didn't know what on earth this crazy woman was going to do.
Yao Tong walked out of the bedroom and felt along the wall, moving slowly, with the tip of the kitchen knife facing the wall.
As an anomaly in the sequence chain, she can also feel fear. Although the fear from Achai is different and very weak, Yao Tong still feels it.
In a dream.
Shen Xing found that the wound on his chest no longer extended, and that the vertical cross pattern had not been completed. Obviously, the real world should have been interrupted.
Time is running out at this moment, and Yao Tong in the dream is clearly showing signs of mental collapse, which is more beneficial to him.
He grabbed Yao Tong's arm, pulled her over, looked into her eyes and said, "Why can't you wake up?"
Yao Tong just kept shaking his head, tears streaming down his face, not daring to look into Shen Xing's eyes.
Shen Xing turned his head and looked at Yao Jie and Huang Guiping, who were motionless in this space.
Now it is almost certain that this couple was created by Yao Tong's consciousness. They belong to this dream, so Yao Tong's consciousness will easily fix them somewhere, cutting off thinking and behavior.
After a moment, Shen Xing withdrew his gaze and asked Yao Tong, "Are your parents already deceased?"
"No! They didn't! They are alive and well!" Yao Tong kept shaking his head, tears streaming down his face, and he looked up from time to time to look at the motionless couple.
"Since they are alive, why are they condensed there?" Shen Xing said: "Then let them go and let them stand beside you. I have something to say."
Yao Tong lowered his head and said nothing, but kept saying: "They are not dead, they are not dead, my parents are not dead..."
"You dare not release them because you are afraid that they will realize here that they are actually dead. All this... is just your dream?!" Shen Xing bent down, leaned close to Yao Tong's cheek, and stared into her eyes.
At this moment, the condensed Yao Jie and Huang Guiping suddenly relaxed, and they fell straight to the floor. Although they were no longer in a condensed state, they showed no signs of waking up.
Shen Xing said: "Although they were created by you in the dream, think about it, if they knew that they were actually dead long ago, would it be torture for them who have been in the dream?"
"They won't know." Yao Tong replied silently.
"Yes, if they accidentally discover the truth, you can directly erase their memories and let them live here again with a new look." Shen Xing nodded, "But, can you fool yourself? Using the fake bodies of your parents, Force yourself to believe that they are not dead and they will always be with you?"
Yao Tong's tears fell one by one and he began to sob softly, "I love them! I don't want them to be hurt anymore, but I can't control it. Those things will always appear around us, constantly frightening them and making them They are constantly in fear..."
Shen Xing nodded, ready to take a gamble, stretched out his hand and gently pressed her shoulder, and said tentatively: "I understand, but even at the moment of their death, they did not choose to leave you directly. I think there is nothing better than this." It means they can’t let you go.”
"They...were...scared to death by me!"
At this moment, Yao Tong burst into tears, his head buried between his arms, and his body twitched violently from crying.
Shen Xing was stunned and speechless for a moment.
Although he guessed that Yao Tong's parents might have died and did not give up on the girl before her death, he never expected that the couple would be frightened to death by the girl because she could not control them.
This pain for Yao Tong cannot be described in words, which makes her not believe this fact and that her parents have passed away. She unknowingly uses her consciousness to dominate the dream and recreate her parents in her own world.
In order to be afraid that they would disappear again, she subconsciously split again and darkened into another self to protect this space from harm. In reality, she, the real abnormality, also protected the area in the room from outside intrusion.
And because of her strong consciousness, the recreated parents were unable to know that they were actually in a dream, which allowed Yao Tong to feel the love from her parents again and reconnect with her previous life with her parents.
After a moment of silence, Shen Xing considered what to say and spoke slowly again, "I know you didn't mean it, but the matter has come to this, and we have to face it. We have to face this result that even now seems difficult to accept."
When he finished speaking, he found that Huang Guiping's body on the ground slowly flew up, suspended in the air, and slowly approached Yao Tong, who was crying. Yao Tong was obviously controlling all this.
After getting close to his mother, Yao Tong stretched out his hands and hugged her sleeping mother, letting her fall on his legs. Tears dripped down, and he said softly: "Mom, I'm sorry... I'm sorry. ...You, I'm sorry...Dad, I'm sorry...you..."
"Are you no longer taking medicine for schizophrenia during this period?" Shen Xing suddenly asked.
He still remembered the bottle of medicine he saw on the table in the living room. Since the dream was consistent with reality, this medicine would definitely have an inhibitory effect on Yao Tong's schizophrenia in reality.
Yao Tong nodded, looking at his mother with eyes full of love, regret, dependence and reluctance.
Her lips moved, she stared at her mother's face, and murmured to herself, "After taking the medicine, I will never see them again!"
As soon as these words came out, Shen Xing suddenly felt that his nose was sore and his eyes were a little red.
He slowly stood up and glanced at the room, passing over Huang Guiping and Yao Jie, and finally settled on Yao Tong.
After a pause, he spoke slowly: "Even if they died because of you, they never gave up on you."
Hearing Shen Xing's words, Yao Tong's body trembled slightly, his distracted eyes slowly focused, and he looked up at him.
After a moment, a wry smile appeared on her face, and she said in a weak voice: "Please... kill me."
Bang!
The entire scene in front of Shen Xing was shattered in an instant. The bedroom, Yao Tong sitting on the bed holding his mother, Yao Jie lying on the ground, etc., were all broken into countless pieces in front of his eyes at this moment.
His mind was in a violent trance, and the world was spinning.
He opened his eyes suddenly and found that he was lying on an unfamiliar bed. The clothes on his chest had been torn open, and his chest was bleeding. The cross made of blood marks was clearly visible.
Next to the bed, a kitchen knife fell to the ground. Yao Tong was standing in front of the bed, looking at him with tears on his face.
After seeing Shen Xing wake up, she turned around, quickly walked to the cabinet where the medicine bottles were placed, picked up the medicine bottle with "Otonumab Receptor" written on it, opened it suddenly, and poured out a handful, at least There were eleven or twelve, and they were all stuffed into the mouth.
By the time Shen Xing got up from the bed, Yao Tong was already slumped on the ground, chewing pills and swallowing them, while mumbling indistinctly.
"Dad, Mom, I will never see you again, never... again..."
While she was taking the medicine, there was a rustling sound of walking in the living room outside, and then a sinister laughter sounded. It seemed that some imaginary anomaly after Yao Tong's schizophrenia was still coming. .
It's just that this abnormality is within her control, and as Yao Tong has just taken the medicine, the medicine will take effect soon, making these abnormal symptoms less severe to varying degrees, but it is impossible to create another dream.
She turned to look at Shen Xing and said bitterly: "Kill me."
"You may not die, maybe you will just...live in another form." Shen Xing got out of bed and glanced out the window.
Although it was still early in the morning, there were cars passing by on the street from time to time.
"I'll be back soon. Wait for me in the house and I'll help you."
Shen Xing said something, and a protective membrane of black tendons appeared on his chest, completely covering the cross wound, and then walked out of the house.
Achai, the dark figure in the gap in the wall, immediately squeezed out half of his body, preparing to leave with him, but Shen Xing signaled with his eyes that he should stay here in order to take care of Yao Tong, who had completely collapsed at this time.
Although Achai was still a little scared, he did not disobey the order and immediately retracted his body back into the crack in the wall.
After Shen Xing went out, he discovered that the strange laughter coming from outside the living room just now was a fat, white, middle-aged man. This was the product of Yao Tong's schizophrenia. He was standing next to the TV cabinet, staring at Shen Xing motionlessly. .
However, Shen Xing ignored him, walked straight out of the room, came to the corridor, and quickly went downstairs along the stairs.
When he returned to the hotel room, he took out the engraving tool set he carried in his backpack. Except for larger things like electric dental machines that were difficult to carry, there were basically other manual engraving tools.
Although there was no wood at the moment, he did not hesitate and directly took out the wood carving of Zhong Po III that was basically completed earlier. Based on this wood carving, he made smaller, polished and deeply trimmed, and directly changed it into the appearance of Yao Tong.
This is the moment that tests Shen Xing's carving skills. However, since there is no need to re-sand the surface of the log, as long as the skill is up to standard, the speed is actually faster than carving from scratch with the original wood.
Because of his complete concentration and amazing hand speed, it took less than forty minutes and the work was almost completed.
After the original Zhong Po III wood carving was changed to Yao Tong's wood carving, the entire wood carving became smaller due to the completely changed appearance.
Shen Xing could hold it with one hand. After looking at it carefully for a moment, he felt that it was 97% similar to Yao Tong. He no longer hesitated and left the hotel again and returned to the old building opposite.
At this time, there was silence in the old building, and there was no abnormal sound.
Shen Xing walked up to the fourth floor and was about to enter the room where Yao Tong was. Unexpectedly, Acai was standing outside the door of Yao Tong's parents' room, surrounded by dark shadows.
After seeing Shen Xing coming over, he immediately squatted on the ground and wrote a line of words.
[She has entered her parents' bedroom. Her parents are dead. 】
Shen Xing nodded and walked in with the wooden sculpture.
Soon he stood at the door of the bedroom and saw two corpses lying on the bed. A thick quilt had been lifted. Yao Tong was lying on his parents' bodies, sobbing softly, and rubbing his cheek against his mother from time to time. That dry face.
The middle-aged fat man in the other room has disappeared, and other abnormal conditions have returned to normal. This is due to the inhibitory effect of the medicine she just took.
Shen Xing didn't speak or disturb her. He just stood at the door and waited quietly.
About half an hour later, footsteps suddenly came from behind.
Shen Xing looked back and found that a strange young woman had walked into the room, sat down on the sofa, raised her head, smiled strangely, and stared at herself.
The symptoms of schizophrenia from Yao Tong began to appear again.
Although she has been taking medicine, it is obvious that the effect of the medicine has become shorter and shorter, making the schizophrenia symptoms more and more uncontrollable.
"Kill me." Yao Tong's voice sounded.
After hearing her voice, Shen Xing turned around and found that Yao Tong had left the bodies of his parents. He glanced back with nostalgia, and then looked at himself again.
"Hold it in your arms and try it." Shen Xing handed over the wooden sculpture in his hand.
Yao Tong was slightly surprised because she found that the wooden sculpture looked like herself. She didn't know what it meant, but she took the wooden sculpture in her hands and hugged it with both hands, placing it close to her heart.
The next second, her face suddenly turned extremely pale, and she began to tremble violently. Visible to the naked eye, a dark figure was pulled out from the depths of her soul, and was then crazily sucked in by the wooden sculpture in her arms.
A shrill scream!
This is Yao Tong's unconscious struggle and the wail of the split black shadow.
As the black shadow was completely sucked into the wooden sculpture, Yao Tong, who was holding the wooden sculpture, seemed to have lost all support in an instant, and fell to the floor with a thud.
Shen Xing turned around and saw that the strange woman sitting on the sofa had disappeared.
He immediately walked into the bedroom and tried Yao Tong's nose, which was lying on the ground. He was still breathing, but very weakly.
But at this moment, the other Yao Tong after splitting has been sucked into the wood sculpture.
Picking up the wooden sculpture from Yao Tong's arms and looking at the girl who seemed to be sleeping soundly, Shen Xing knew that from now on, Yao Tong's memories of the first half of his life would never come back.
In other words, now her other half has left her forever.
But the price involved is very painful.
But one good thing is that what the split took away was the removal of Yao Tong's memories of the first half of his life. She would never remember the grief and hurt she had experienced before.
