[APH Mega Bu Ying Lu Zhong] Fools' Carnival

Matthew's eyes gleamed in the bathroom light, a sign of distraction.Alfred subconsciously felt dissatisfied, and tried to draw his attention back: "Did you take any good photos this time?" Matthew's soul came back a little bit, and a warm smile naturally came out: " Of course, I’ll show you later.” However, just after saying this, he seemed to recall something else, his cheeks flushed slightly, and others might think it was from a bath, but Alfred It can be seen that only things about women can make Matthew show such an expression, so he intentionally annoyed Matthew: "Fortunately, you take care of it, otherwise it will be with your Polaroid." Six years The drowning of Matthew was a major incident. Alfred has been trying to find out the truth of that incident. The accident seems to have caused Matthew to reject his abilities even more, so it was also a pain point for Matthew. Sure enough, he was revenged by Matthew He violently wiped his lower back with a brush: "Oh!"

"Hey what are you thinking?" Matthew must have met someone weird, he was disturbed, and Alfred had to find out what was going on.Matthew looked confused and unable to speak: "It's not that... Alf, why do you think girls liked you before?" Look, it really is a woman.Unlike Alfred, Matthew has never been popular with women. He can't deal with women at all. Who did he meet?Some girl you hung out with that night?He pretended to be thoughtful but replied casually: "Because I'm handsome?" Matthew got angry: "You better shut up."

"What's the matter with being so angry?" Every abnormality of Matthew is enough to ring the alarm in Alfred's heart. He is the only one who has noticed Matthew's danger for so many years.Matthew was unwilling to answer directly: "I'm fine, don't ask."

"You don't look like you're okay. Did you meet someone?" Alfred suddenly caught a glimpse of a mirror behind Matthew, and blurted out the words before he could regret it, "Tell me what happened, Shi Steve." Matthew's face froze, his eyes gradually dimmed, reminding Alfred of a drowned person, and when he raised his head again, the person sitting there was already Steve, and Both of them are naked at this time.Alfred made up his mind: he should find a better time next time.

"I'm not a monitor." Steve turned his back to Alfred, faced the mirror, and said to his reflection in the mirror.He was angry, but Alfred had no time to comfort him: "Just say what you want."

"He's about to remember. When he knows everything..." Steve's tone was mixed with threats and sarcasm.Alfred cursed in a low voice: "You are dreaming! I will never let him fulfill his wish, I will never let him die! I promised him to keep the status quo, I swore...you fake Why don't you understand? Death is not his wish at all, but the manipulation of supernatural powers!" Steve covered his face and laughed: "Hahaha...'fake'——Alfred, yes, I am Fake, all the mistakes were caused by the dereliction of duty of a damn deity. Have you forgotten? You are not the only one who has an agreement with Matthew, how can you be so selfish..."

"If it weren't for me, Matthew wouldn't be alive today." Alfred confronted.Steve retorted: "If it weren't for you, Matthew wouldn't be in pain to this day." The conversation between them always turned into a quarrel like this, and finally broke up.Alfred finally realized that he was fighting alone, obviously Steve was designed by him, but that bastard was a runaway wild horse, maybe one day Matthew would be pushed into the abyss, but Matthew couldn't do without he.

After meeting Wang Yao, Arthur and Francis were forced to formally face their alien identity and Matthew's abnormality from beginning to end for the first time.Together, the three of them and Alfred made a pact: to accompany and mentor Matthew until he returned to normal.In fact, Alfred never imagined what Matthew would be like without Steve. If he leads the way before Steve appeared, Matthew will undoubtedly fall into a boundless sleep.Even so, he's taking a risk to deal with the mistakes he's made, and he needs to negotiate for that.

"I have something to tell you, can you guarantee that you won't get angry after listening?" Alfred said to Arthur, Francis and Wang Yao who were gathered together.Arthur looked puzzled: "What do you want to say?" Francis said: "Let's listen to it first." Seeing Wang Yao's solemn expression, he suddenly felt bad.

"It's about Matthew—I'm sorry, I actually concealed a lot of things." Alfred's apology was not sincere. There is more than one power. I know his mental state is very bad, he tried to commit suicide since he was a child, and I know how 'that' came from. Matthew named 'that' 'Steve', it was made by me Designed and made by Matthew." Arthur almost spilled black tea on the table: "What did you say?" Francis' heart sank suddenly, and his ability told him that Alfred was not lying.

"I didn't expect it to become like that at first." Alfred made a distressed look, "At first, when we played house, I played the father and Matthew played the mother, and then we found that there was one child missing. , we made up our imaginary friend——Steve. At that time, it had no entity and no self, and was completely dominated by us, but Matthew gave it a real body unconsciously, and it also produced My own consciousness, but it is not the same as a real human being, it is still a puppet with supernatural powers. I found that something was wrong, so I put it in a cage. Now he has no body, only me and Matthew can see it " After he finished speaking, the audience fell silent for a few seconds.

"You mean... you created a person with supernatural abilities? How could there be such abilities in the world?!" Arthur quickly realized, "Why don't you ever say this?!" Alfred spread his hands : "At that time, you were all 'ordinary people' without self-awareness. Wouldn't it be tantamount to making fun of yourself by telling you this kind of thing? Besides, he never wanted anyone to know that he was an alien, including me." Francis frowned deeply : "What happened later? What did you do later?"

"It was right for me to lock up Steve." Alfred concluded as if to calm himself down, "I don't need to say more about the burden of being an Inhuman, right? The stronger the ability, the stronger the spirit." The greater the pressure, Matthew is like this, he is actually the most powerful Inhuman among us, but he hides it well, including his own suicidal tendencies. I saw him standing on the edge of the balcony for 10 minutes when I was six years old. I was stunned, he lived until now because he was afraid that we would be sad. However, he wanted to commit suicide not out of his own will, but his ability was controlling his mind. As a product of the ability, Steve would also instigate him to commit suicide , I couldn’t get rid of it, so I had to lock it up, but it still affects Matthew’s thinking today.” Arthur’s back shivered: “Indeed, when he was a child, he always stood in a dangerous place and was alone in a daze. There will be some strange scars, and I never cry or ask for help when I am bullied. I think it is because our living environment is too bad, as long as I get ahead and take you away..."

"It's useless." Francis replied instead of Alfred, "So, what is Matthew's ability..." Alfred shook his head: "I can't say." "If you want to protect him, you must first protect his secrets. If his abilities are released to the world, they will definitely be coveted by all kinds of bad guys, including the Alien Association." Wang Yao smiled and made a Even the action of zipping his mouth did not dispel Alfred's guard.

"I tell these things, you must help me figure out how to control that guy! If I'm not wrong, he must know where Matthew is!" Alfred slapped the table.Wang Yao raised his eyebrows: "Can you contact him?"

"I have the key to the cage." Alfred's tone suddenly weakened a lot.Arthur seems to have a lot of words on his lips, but everyone understands that this is not the time to quarrel. As for Wang Yao, this person always has a hole card, so he can be a sober bystander with ease and notice that Al The story Fred wove was full of holes.

"It is concealment that is both a lie and the truth." After Arthur and Francis left, Wang Yao said leisurely, arousing Alfred's astute gaze, "Alfred, there is an old story in China called 'Southern Contradictions', said It is a traveler who clearly wants to go to the north but starts to the south. Modern people know that the earth is round. If you keep going south, you will be able to reach the north one day, but it will take longer. I want to bring this to the set Is it feasible for Matthew? According to my experience, if his powers are as powerful as you said, he will not live to be an adult, but if you turn his steering wheel in the opposite direction, his life span will be extended by you— —although in the end it was impossible to escape the fate of suicide.”

"The part you're hiding is the fact that Steve has extended Matthew's life, you're distorting his impression. If he's really a vermin like you say, Matthew can't possibly love him." Wang Yao blurted out the word "love", and the protective desire he sensed from the conversation with Matthew, it was indeed love, "Why? Because of jealousy."

"That guy is superfluous." Alfred propped his chin and said in a muffled voice, his blue eyes stared straight at Wang Yao, like a dejected child who couldn't get the attention of adults.Wang Yao said: "You are more self-willed than everyone imagined, but you still regret the mistakes you made when you were young." Alfred said slowly: "I didn't like him because I attracted Steve Husband, I lost him, it was like this from the very beginning. I knew he was lonely, but I didn't want to become like him in order to accompany him, I thought I could take care of both ends, but in the end I lost my job. "

"His life is his own responsibility, and you can only help him a little." "No, you don't understand, we are not the same as ordinary people, and we are not the same as other aliens," Alfred shook his head, "just Like a person split in two, no one can do without the other, you won't understand our respective missions."

At this time, even Wang Yao began to feel confused. It seemed that what frightened Alfred was not his own character, but a more absolute force similar to fate.Alfred turned his head to look out the window, the winter day was floating in the foamy clouds, and a gray bird on the roof of the bungalow swept to the sky in an instant, and the heavy bell sounded late:

"Would you like to hear a story? About twin brothers and the sheep in church."

Light, omnipresent light passed through Matthew's body, and people opposite the mirror could see every part of his body clearly from all angles. He curled up with his limbs and buried his face in his knees, still feeling that the sight from all directions was burning him internal organs.Up, down, left, and right, front and back are covered with mirrored space, looking far away, there are all trapped young men sitting in the dazzling white light, no matter which direction you run, you will see the same scenery, a hell you can never escape.If there is a crack in the ground, even little Matthew will try to squeeze himself in, as long as he can hide in a safe place from being seen——

How long has it been?An hour, a day, a year?He doesn't feel hunger, thirst or sleepiness, only boundless despair, and now he is no different from a vegetable.In order to maintain his sanity, he tried to walk around, run and jump, but his own faces in the mirror turned into distorted shapes. He dodged away in fear, but slammed into the mirror, the red blood was like a warning The cards kept him from going near any of the walls.In the end, he lay on the ground like a dead man and began to recall the past, silently reciting the names of the people he knew and loved: "... Meg, Gilbert, Ludwig, Honda, Feliciano, Wang Yao, Ivan, Francis, Arthur, Alf..."

"Alfo...Alfo...Steve...Matthew Williams..." Warm memories kept coming, and tears choked Matthew's eyes. He had never felt the tearing of missing him so much all the time. Lung, "Alfred."

"We can swap," Steve said.Matthew said: "Then they will abuse you." Steve seemed to want to stretch out his arms through the gap in the mirror: "I was born for this." Matthew said: "You will protect my body Betray me." Steve fell silent, pacing back and forth in the mirrored space with his hands drawn back.Matthew suspects that all of this is a dream. There is no such person as Matthew Williams in the world. Alf imagined a twin brother when he was bored.Ah, wouldn't it be easier to die now?If this was the real world and Matthew suddenly cut the videotape of his life and his life came to an abrupt end, everyone would love him forever.

The germination of an idea often turns into crazy growth, and when Matthew comes back to his senses, it is out of control.In the mirror, countless selves fell down one after another. The blood pooled into a scarlet ocean from a small puddle, and the waves of blood hit the sky and covered the sky. Matthew sat paralyzed on the ground waiting for the judge of fate.However, the transparent barrier blocked the blood, the red liquid faded away quickly, and the smooth mirror surface was exposed again, as if nothing happened just now, except that the reflection of Matthew in the mirror disappeared, and a stranger stood there.

Wearing a black skirt, the figure of a little girl, and white gauze from head to toe, she is a little nun who seems to have traveled through the Middle Ages, standing upright dignifiedly, with long light golden hair hanging down to her waist, Matthew stared blankly Looking at that figure, the feeling of strangeness was gradually replaced by intimacy: "Who are you...?"

look at me.you remember me.Matthew's eardrums tingled, but he immediately remembered that he had heard this voice in the glass box of the van: "You, you are..." He walked to the mirror and put his hands on the girl. She took off her veil, and Matthew looked Enter a pair of almost purple pupils.Another hand came out too, the hand of the young woman, and Matthew tried to touch it, and looking up the arm, he saw Meg's bitter but forgiving smile—Meg was on the other side of the mirror— Matthew suddenly remembered a certain moment before, and the loudspeaker suddenly played a woman's scream, and finally announced Meg's sad news.The doctor told him that this is just the beginning, and there will be many, many people in the future...

"You can go there if you want," Steve said, and Matthew struggled a little, and then he said, "You still have an unfulfilled agreement." As soon as he finished speaking, Matthew was struck by lightning: the agreement ?Promise...promise!He remembered it in a flash, and he remembered everything, or why did he forget it?How could he forget such an important thing? !

"A...An..." He opened his mouth with a pale face, and a name was about to come out, "—Anna!" The nun smiled, bowed deeply, and took Meg's hand as if she was satisfied, and turned around to leave. Go, Matthew rushed forward and slammed into the mirror, "No, don't go! I was wrong, I shouldn't have forgotten you! I will get you out, you will come back to life, please wait for me... ..." While crying, his voice changed from a hoarse male voice to a soft child's voice, and his body continued to shorten into the appearance of a nine-year-old boy. The nun stopped and looked back at the boy with mixed feelings in her eyes.Nine-year-old Matthew gradually came to his senses: "Aren't you willing to come back? Do you want... me to come over?" Without waiting for the other party to answer, he said to himself: "Okay, I will. I did it ten years ago I promise you."

The boy wiped away his tears and went into the mirror.The moment he entered another world, a mutation appeared on the boy. His body shrank and became smaller, and two petal-like things protruded from his back. Finally, he transformed into a butterfly and landed on the girl's incarnate sheep. On the horns.They walked further and further away, leaving Steve alone holding Matthew's unconscious body, tears streaming down his face, the only thing Matthew left him.

"When Matthew was nine years old, he often left school early to go home to work. Every time he took the bus, he passed a church in the suburbs, where he made his first friend. The girl was Anna, one year older than him. She is a trainee nun in the church, but the real reason is that she is a different person, her voice can cause high-intensity vibrations, and her parents thought she was parasitized by demons before sending her to the church, which caused her to lose her voice." Alfred De said to Wang Yao.

"She was our first friend and my first love. She was the only one who could see me except the twins." Steve told the doctor through two layers of bulletproof glass in the alien isolation room, "She's as lonely as we are, and weak."

"The priest of that church has been suspected of child abuse. Anna is one of the victims. The priest had molested her in the confessional. Because she dared not speak, she could not seek help from adults, and her state of mind Like Matthew, they yearned for death, so they became best friends," Alfred said.

"Actually, we didn't feel sorry for her, we just touched each other in the dark and warmed up. It's like we never turned to others, and she didn't turn to us." Steve said.

"They made an agreement later. I don't know the specific circumstances. I only know that they will run away together at Christmas and find a place to commit suicide. It was November, and time was running out. Naturally, I couldn't bear it, so I went to find that girl." Alfred said, "Huh? You ask me why I know this? Please, I'm Matthew's brother, and of course I can understand the marks he made on the calendar."

"She said her birthday was Christmas and all she wanted for her birthday and Christmas was to run away with us and play as long as she wanted. We all knew what she meant, but we said yes , because that’s what he wanted too,” Steve said.

"He decided to die with her! I'm so mad, okay?! When I went to the church to find that girl, she immediately recognized that I was not Matthew, and they were really close - and then I did It was the meanest and most regrettable thing in my life, and I told her to stay away from Matthew like a bitch, Matthew is not alone, he has many, many people who love him, such as me." Alfred said "She cried, and I regretted it. Later, I don't know what she did. Matthew never went to church again. During that time, he always lay in bed and cried, as if he was broken in love, and it may be true. "

"She told us that her parents were coming to pick her up. If the priest saw her disobeying the religious rules and socializing with outsiders privately, her parents would not want her. She would hate us for the rest of her life because we ruined her chance to get out of the quagmire. , we'd make her as hopeless as we were," Steve said, "and then I realized that those words were totally the opposite."

"Maybe it was my fault, maybe it was Matthew's fault, maybe it was her own fault, anyway, her powers got out of control. It was a serious disaster, and the whole church collapsed at the sound of her voice, No one survived the church, including herself, and you can still find newspapers at the time in the Chicago library. Because the incident was so weird, the police attributed it to a local earthquake, which is nonsense." Alfred said.

"Originally, the news should have reported this incident, but it is estimated that someone has suppressed this incident. Even so, we have learned part of the situation. The autopsy report shows that Anna was sexually assaulted before her death." Steve said, " In fact, I have encountered similar things, but I was not him at that time, I will protect him, and I will not let him remember this disgusting memory."

"He started to lose control, restrained at first, and then he wanted to let every knife in the kitchen fly up and stab him. What I saw was a battered deer, madly smashing into a tree." Alfred De said, "I have no choice but to erase that memory with Steve, whether it is sad or happy. Steve is very sad because he loves Anna, and from now on he is the only one who will remember her Existed, he won't take the initiative to remind Matthew, but I think he hopes Matthew will remember, and then go back to their damn suicide road."

"The other person of me and the twins covered up all the memories of Anna, but that disguise was very poor, and he could retrieve that memory whenever he wanted. He was hurt so badly that he didn't remember it until now." Steve sneered, "Oh, just thinking about Alfred's frightened look makes me laugh."

"As long as he remembers that memory, he will undoubtedly die! I promised him before that to maintain our relationship, if he dies, or lives in pain and hates me..." Alfred said desperately , "I love him, I can't lose him."

"He's thought of everything and won't be coming back. I'll take over all his work." Steve closed the microphone and ended the conversation.