escape from the world

box.He is lying in the box.

It was dark all around, and the blood dried on the eyes.The arm was completely numb, shone with shattered light, covered with broken glass, and could not feel pain.

He fell in the cramped space, covered in blood.There is no air.

He also doesn't need to breathe.

……

Fang Chen stood up staggeringly, and the wound healed faster than he thought.

Xie Ying shook her head slowly, not knowing where to put her hands.It shouldn't be like this, Fang Chen shouldn't think of it this way.She seemed to know the person in front of her for the first time, her eyes mixed with unbearable and other more complicated things, and she took a step back slowly.

She looked at Fang Chen's wrist, there was still a twisted seam there, they were healing, like an ugly eye, from opening to closing, the skin would break open again if one didn't pay attention, dripping with blood.

"If things don't turn out as you guessed, you're going to die."

"But I guessed it right." Fang Chen's arm swayed on the side of his leg, and the other hand pinched his neck and twisted twice. He raised his head to look at Xie Ying, "...and I'm already dead."

madman.

Xie Ying inevitably thought of Nie Shi, a man who was obedient like a dog in front of Fang Chen. This description was somewhat insulting, but...he only recognized Fang Chen as his master.Anyone else is just a partner, a mission, a goal, something to kill and something to keep alive.

Xie Ying thought that Fang Chen and Nie Shi were completely opposite, at least on the surface, but now it seems that these two people are really similar.

They are all lunatics, and they are all desperate, with paranoia engraved in their bones.

"We can't escape at all." Fang Chen said, with a hint of bewilderment in his tone, his head tilted to one side, "Where can dead people escape to?"

"It's fair, isn't it?" Xie Ying looked out the window. The red moon was hanging high in the sky, and the branches split it in two. "If you commit a crime in life, you will pay back double after death." She suddenly laughed, her red lips parted to reveal her whiteness the teeth of.

They all have to go back to the beginning of their guilt and be punished—to experience the sin they committed.

"Human World" exists for this purpose.

"But Fang Chen, you are different, you are different from them." Xie Ying said again, "From the moment you opened your eyes, you carried the original sin." She stretched her fingers slightly in the air, stroking Over Fang Shen's cheeks.

Fang Chen's mind went blank for a moment, as if he had just received the message, his pupils constricted, "What did you say?"

Xie Ying paused for a moment, compared her fingers to the center of her lips, and deliberately glanced at the cat on the windowsill.

fourth floor.Fang Chen saw the gray sky, the rolling dark clouds, the cat stood firmly on the stage, and softly barked at him.

How did it jump up?

Xie Ying: "You will know sooner or later."

"Will I also die because of sin?" Fang Chen asked, strangely, his body was shaking, and there was no fear in his words, "Dead forever?"

Xie Ying raised the corners of her lips and smiled charmingly. Instead of directly answering Fang Chen's question, she said: "The filthy things left behind by those people will turn into evil thoughts, and the rest will enter reincarnation. And You, Fang Chen, you can't die anymore."

"why?"

Xie Ying laughed, as if Fang Chen was asking the question knowingly, "Fang Chen, you have asked me so many questions, and I want to ask you some too." The cat meowed very weakly.Xie Ying asked, "Why did you knock on Zhang Rui and Wang Huiwen's door just now?"

Fang Chen half opened his mouth but didn't know how to answer, he just wanted to make sure they were asleep.

The meowing sounded again, layer upon layer, wave after wave.

"Qiao Ran gave you a reminder, but you didn't tell anyone." Xie Ying said, "The night Fan Yingying died," she suddenly mentioned a dead person, "She dragged you out, but why did you Follow her out? You can obviously stop her..."

When Xie Ying said the last few words, the cat suddenly elongated its voice, like calling Chun, lingering, greasy and disgusting.

Fang Chen turned his head, and the cat's fur all over Xie Ying's body was blown up, its sharp teeth were exposed, as if it was a demonstration or... a warning.

"Fang Chen, you discovered and uncovered many things." Xie Ying walked towards Fang Chen, "Have you ever wondered why?" Picking up the dagger, holding the tip of the knife, the hilt pointed at Fang Chen.

Fang Chen hesitated to take it, and raised his head again. Under the moonlight, the woman's face was pale but still too good-looking. The nails were round and dyed red, which was the color of nail polish and blood, Fang Chen's blood.

"Okay, I won't say any more." Xie Ying spoke to Fang Chen, but Fang Chen felt that the words were not addressed to him.

The dense cry stopped and quickly disappeared.

Fang Chen wanted to look at it again, but his eyes had already turned his head halfway, when Xie Ying stopped him.

"Don't look, what's so good about a broken cat." Xie Ying glanced at the puddle of blood on the floor, they haven't disappeared, and they won't disappear, "You'd better think about how to explain to Nie when you see him later. , He will definitely go crazy seeing you like this." She thought of something, bit her nails, and a faint trace of fear flashed in her eyes, "He's crazier than you...a monster."

"Will he come tonight?" Fang Chen flinched, his memory still stuck in Nie Shi's words "Are you going to abandon me", and he didn't know how to face Nie Shi.

Xie Ying looked at the window, there was nothing there, and looking further into the distance was a desolate mountain, also in a dull color.The cat disappeared, making one wonder if it had been there.

"He doesn't believe me." Xie Ying swiped her finger, put her hand on her chin, rubbed her smooth face, thinking something in her heart, "If he doesn't worry, I will definitely come."

Fang Chen suddenly felt tired, waves of exhaustion swept over him, and he could hardly stand up.The blood on his hands had dried up, sticking to his hands with sweat.He should break down, cry or scream, expressing fear and anger.But he didn't do anything, his eyes moved around, wandering in the dark and empty corridor, there were more holes in those light-colored pupils.

A black cane crawled up from the bottom of his feet, clung to his legs, tied his arms, and wrapped around his neck, strangling him so that he couldn't breathe, and finally covered his eyes, preventing him from seeing.

Death welcomed him so eagerly.He can only accept.

He will accept the final punishment like those people, leaving the filth turned into evil thoughts, and then die.

This time it will be gone forever.

But before that, he had to wait.

"The last question." Fang Chen asked almost without any hope, "How on earth did Nie Shi... die?" He asked more than once, but never got a definite answer.

Xie Ying: "When you remember everything, you will naturally think of Nie Shi's death."

It's the same this time.

He asked again, in a different way: "Did he die because of me?"

Xie Ying smiled, "It's okay if you insist on thinking that way, his death is indeed related to you."

Fang Chen pursed his lips, he was afraid of such an ambiguous answer.

After a stalemate for a while, seeing that Xie Ying had no intention of leaving, Fang Chen sat down, the floor was cold, he leaned against the wall and looked aimlessly into the distance.

Xie Ying rested her arms on the window sill, fiddling with her hair from time to time.

"Before you said you were a policeman..." Fang Chen hesitated, "Is it a lie?"

"No." Xie Ying slid her fingers across the window, "I was indeed a policeman for a while before I was alive." Her eyes flickered, as if she was really remembering, but she soon turned her head to look at Fang Chen, "So curious baby, you If there is anything else you want to ask, it’s best to finish it all while it’s not here.”

Fang Shen was silent for a moment, he wanted to ask too many questions, but now he didn't want to speak, his throat hurt and his eyes were dry, and a single word could kill him.

He didn't wonder who the "it" was, and ignored the doubt naturally.

Xie Ying exhaled, "Are you sleepy?"

"...It's okay." Why is he talking calmly here with the person who will eventually take his soul away? At this moment, he doesn't have the slightest fear. The woman's gentle way of speaking even makes him feel comfortable, and the drowsiness entangles him even more tightly. he.

Xie Ying: "Sleep when you're sleepy, there are still things waiting for you."

Fang Chen heard Xie Ying speak while half asleep and half awake, forced his eyelids open and only saw the bright red outline by the window.

Xie Ying: "After all... this is the last."

As soon as the woman finished speaking, Fang Chen's eyes were completely closed, he cowered in the corner, hugged himself, the corners of his mouth were slightly hooked, and a peaceful smile made him look more like an insecure child.

Xie Ying just looked over and moved away, feeling a chill down her spine.

……

He curled up in the box, warm and hot.

The consciousness is already awake, but the eyes cannot be opened.

He heard the rain, crackling against the window.His whole body was burning hot, but his fingertips were cold. There was rain, and the coolness hit his eyelids.

He is about to wake up.

Someone is calling him.

"Fang Chen..."

The voice was familiar.

"Fang Chen..."

Must be someone he knew.

"Fang Chen."

who is it?

He will open his eyes, he will see the rainy sky, the rained glass, the lily on his lap, and he will realize that he is not dead, but a nightmare.

He's about to wake up.

"Fang Chen."

When Fang Chen woke up, he was blinded by the light of the sky and immediately closed his eyes.

Is it all over?

There was an extra figure in the field of vision, Fang Chen raised his head, leaned against the cold wall, and looked left and right.The endless corridor is still deep and terrifying, and the sky is inlaid with gray and white, like faded old photos, extending from the other side of the mountain to the bottom of the eyes.

I can't wake up from the dream.

He couldn't tell the truth from the truth.

Fang Chen gently read the name of the person standing in front of him.

"Nie Shi."

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