nightmare exec

"Huh?" Song Yin gasped, "Broadcasting? What kind of show operation is this? Those kids are talking bad things about your parents!"

"Of course I know."

Alexander's face was calm, as if what they were talking about was just a weather: "The broadcast is about my parents' bad things, not mine. Besides, I'm not the one who said the bad things-everyone knows that the children are If you can't fabricate such bad things out of thin air, whose children have the dirtiest mouths, the adults of whose families will be even more useless."

"...But isn't this killing five hundred enemies and destroying one thousand? With such a broadcast, where will your parents lose face? How can they continue to hang out in the unit?"

"But I just want them not to be able to get along." Alexander smiled sweetly, "If they can't get along, I can jump out of the fire pit, right?"

Indeed, as he wished, Alexander's parents could no longer stay in this school.His mother quickly got a good seat in another city under the recommendation of her doctoral supervisor, but his father's life was not so easy.

A few months later, they moved with their family to the city where the mother's new job was located.The father who has not found a job for the time being has become a so-called "full-time househusband".Although all living expenses depend on his wife, this is obviously not the life he wants.

"In those years, to be honest, my life was very difficult."

Due to the "big mistake" he made, Alexander was strictly prohibited from contacting his peers.The mother entrusted a lot of relationships before spending a large sum of money to send him to a private elementary school.However, even in school, they will always be the focus of monitoring by teachers or small eyeliners.Not to mention that after school or during holidays, his parents kept him under strict supervision, basically locking him in a cage-like room.

"My dad's loser, who couldn't play with little girls, started gambling and drinking, and beat me and scolded me when he lost money and got drunk. Anyway, he lost his job because of me, no matter what I did, even if it was just walking in front of him However, I can throw a beer bottle directly on my back."

When he said this, Alexander reached out and touched his back, as if the scar was still on his body.

Song Yin's heart tightened when she heard this: "Then what did your mother say? She won't let your father torture you like this, will she?"

"My mother is very busy with work. She was already a successful psychologist at that time. She spent most of her time in the laboratory, or attending various academic conferences and flying around the world." Alexander smiled wryly, "To As I said, I should be the most unsuccessful experiment in her life. Anyway, if she doesn't come back to live, my dad will be a grumpy male nanny in her eyes. There are some things, I always feel that she is deliberately turning a blind eye. "

"...I understand why you are willing to stay in purgatory." Song Yin sighed, "I feel overwhelmed just by empathizing, and you must have been young at that time, right?"

"13 years and 11 months." Alexander suddenly reported an accurate number, "On the 12th of that month, around [-]:[-] p.m., I committed suicide by jumping into the lake."

Speaking of this, he stared at the coffee cup in his hand, his eyes were calm and even slightly smiling, as if he saw the scene of that night on the surface of the black liquid.

"In the evening, when I came home from school, there was no one at home. I cooked a pack of instant noodles by myself, and went back to my room to do my homework after eating. After seven o'clock in the evening, my dad came back, drunk and cursing, and I found out later that he bet When the police came, he almost escaped and bought beer with the last 20 yuan.”

During the period from 07:30 to 07:30, Alexander was beaten again because he ate the last packet of instant noodles at home. At around [-]:[-], his father fell asleep on the sofa in the living room with a broken feather duster in his arms.

"I went back to my room and saw the calendar on the desk. I suddenly realized that I would be 1 years old in just one month."

When he said this, a strange light suddenly appeared in Alexander's eyes.It was a look of hopelessness.

Before Song Yin had time to figure out what this look meant, she heard Alexander resume the understatement-like memory: "That night, I took the night bus to my mother's laboratory and wanted to see her for the last time. But she was in a meeting to discuss the experiment that just ended... Then I fell into the artificial lake, which was just outside the window of the meeting room. There was a lot of noise. For some reason, my mother ran out to rescue Me, the two of them drowned together." Having said that, Alexander shrugged his shoulders, "Gameover."

"Then you came to Purgatory?" Song Yin asked, "What about your mother?"

"No, my mother and I were rescued that time. But they said I was crazy and was imprisoned in a mental hospital for several years. As for coming to purgatory, it will be a long time later."

"My God..."

Song Yin was dumbfounded again. He never thought that the person sitting in front of him was a "former mental patient"; but after thinking about it, he could indeed understand Alexander's derangement under extreme conditions.

At this moment, Alexander sighed softly: "Then...do you still think that it was a good thing for me when they got married and gave birth to me?"

Indeed, it would be too insincere to say "this is a good thing" with your eyes closed at this time.But denying the significance of this matter is equivalent to denying the existence of Alexander, and Song Yin also does not think this is an appropriate choice.

"...Maybe this is the so-called 'everyone has his own life'."

He had to use cliche words that even he silently despised to avoid the core problem: "Perhaps in the dark, it is doomed that life in the world is not suitable for you, and you should find your own world in purgatory."

"Does everyone have their own destiny?" Alexander chewed on these four words, curling one corner of his mouth, "If that's the case, then I really want to get to know the big man who arranged this fate for me."

Having said that, he had had enough of playing with the coffee cup in his hand, and turned his head to look at the big window behind him.

Song Yin also looked out along his line of sight, the sea outside the window was illuminated by rotating lights from time to time, those waves blown by the wind reflected a little silver light, like the back of a legendary sea monster, there was a kind of Indescribable grandeur and horror.

Alexander suddenly spoke again: "Do you know what it feels like for a normal person to be locked up in a mental hospital?"

"...Desperate, helpless, inexplicable?" Song Yin thought about it seriously, "No matter how I explain myself, others will not believe that you are a normal person?"

"That's a problem, but it's not the worst problem."

The invariable smile on Alexander's face disappeared quietly.

"For me, the worst thing about a mental hospital is being controlled. Normal people can be angry and I can't, normal people can be ecstatic and I can't, normal people can do abnormal things and I can't... straitjackets, Pills, injections, wards, doctors and nurses—they imprisoned me in them, deprived me of free movement, controlled my free will. Even after lights out, in the moonless night, there is a pair of eyes every moment The invisible eye, from my appearance... has been looking into my heart."

Speaking of this, he laughed again: "Fortunately, that kind of life has not passed for a few years. It was about the time when my peers left home to go to college. I went to purgatory, and then I stayed for almost 30 years. Year."

The age of going to college, that is, 17 years old?So Alexander should have been imprisoned in a mental hospital for four years—Song Yin secretly calculated, a little sighing: "At least the days in purgatory should be freer than those in the world."

"Yeah, of course, it's like a never-ending college game here."

When it comes to the life in purgatory, Alexander's emotions are visibly lifted again: "And I also know a lot of friends, even the famous 'Legendary Executive Officer' Mu Hui and I have a little friendship."

Here comes the point.

Song Yin buried her face in the coffee cup silently to hide her expression, and asked casually, "Mu Hui? That legendary executive? How did you know such a powerful person? Have you teamed up with him?"

"Where do I have the opportunity to form a team with such a big man? Even if there is, I won't go. Those high-level dungeons are all terrible errands."

Alexander made a grimace: "But we have mutual friends, a young couple. I didn't have many sincere friends in Purgatory. They are the two closest to me. They usually take good care of me and often Lending me money and taking me in their safe house for the night, what a wonderful couple.”

All these details matched what Qi Zhengnan said before—Song Yin was sure that Alexander was talking about his parents.He suppressed his excitement and asked, "Do you like them very much?"

"I'm very interested in them." Alexander said about him, "Because of my parents, I always thought that there was no real harmonious family, no family affection, and no perfect love in this world. But in them, I saw a possibility, something that didn't exist in my world."

"So, you... think they are very novel?" Song Yin tried to understand Alexander's feeling, "Want to observe them?"

"It's not as exaggerated as you said, it's just a relationship like ordinary friends." Alexander continued, "But that was more than 20 years ago."

"What happened to them afterwards?" Song Yin asked, "Go back to the world?"

"Yeah. But the way of going back is a bit special..." Alexander suddenly leaned towards Song Yin, "What happens next, you must never tell anyone, not even your dear Foehn. You promised me, I just said."

"Yeah." Song Yin nodded, already guessing what he was going to say in his heart.

Sure enough, Alexander lowered his voice and said, "I used some special methods to help the young couple return to the human world. But in this way, they became stowaways in another sense, and they could only live in hiding. day."

Qi Zhengnan's previous speculation was confirmed. It was indeed Alexander who helped Song Yin's parents escape from purgatory——Song Yin couldn't hide his surprise: "How could you have that ability?"

"I can't go into too much detail about this. You just need to know that after staying in the amusement park for a long time, people will always have some weird ways."

Alexander blinked at Song Yin, then leaned back on the sofa and let out a long sigh: "But even if I helped them so much, in the end they couldn't live happily ever after. Still Remember the Twilight I mentioned just now? Just because I helped the two of them, the unfortunate fate fell on Twilight's head. After learning about this, they often regret and blame themselves. Not only that, The young couple later had a child. They began to worry about not being able to provide a normal living environment for the child... Although they still love each other, love can no longer make them stick to the life they want like before. "

"Is that so..."

Thinking back now, Song Yin found that Alexander did refer to some of the dark sides of her childhood life - dilapidated houses, occasional shortages of food, old clothes, hot and bushy summer... and occasionally whispering because of these things crying mother.

Alexander's soft voice interrupted his memory again.

"To be honest, I'm also quite disappointed. I thought I helped them regain their freedom. But who knows, I just drove them from the livestock pen to a larger pasture. They are still like livestock Chased, driven, and eventually overtaken and obliterated."

Song Yin's eyelids jumped when he heard it: "What kind of strange metaphor is this. How can humans and animals be the same?"

"Isn't it the same?" Alexander asked back, "What is it that watches us in the dark, controls our behavior, and determines our life and death?"

The author has something to say: Arkham: The famous lunatic asylum that has appeared in countless comics, games, and novels hahaha, it is synonymous with mental hospitals in my heart...