[Comprehensive British and American] Safe Neighborhood

A few months later, the Massey branch of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

In the hospital corridor filled with disinfectant and white everywhere, a middle-aged brunette woman in a brown jacket and leggings was walking and talking on her mobile phone. She was holding a white plastic bag in one hand, and the creaking hole With a large blue folder in between, the slight sound of high-heeled shoes stepping on the ground echoed slightly in the empty corridor.

Because it was inconvenient for her to speak loudly in the hospital, she could only lower her voice and complain to the other end of the phone, "...Listen! Occam, you have to come to the hospital today...I know... Of course I know that you are very busy at work recently, but even so, you still have to come to the hospital and spend a little time with our daughter from your working hours."

A male voice seemed to say something on the phone, she stopped slowly, frowning slightly, "...Ashley will be discharged from the hospital recently, the doctor said, this is the most important time, she needs her family Meticulous care and companionship..."

"Of course, of course I know..."

"...Don't you think it's our negligence as parents?" Her eyes were slightly red, ignoring the eyes of the medical staff passing by, she leaned her back against the wall and looked out the window on the opposite side of the corridor. The sprouting branches murmured.

"If we really knew our daughter that well...would she still be waiting for a car on the road just to pounce on her and commit suicide?"

"I didn't believe it at first...but there are surveillance videos. To be honest, I have reflected on it for a long time in the past few months..."

"...Occam, Ashley has been a sensible child since she was a child. We have to admit that it is because of her understanding that we neglected to give her more care..."

As she spoke, she touched the teardrops oozing out of her eyes with her other hand, and said with a sob, "...God, I'm really thankful that she's still alive, otherwise, I wouldn't have the courage to live."

The man on the other end of the phone was silent for a long time. After a long while, he seemed to say some comforting words. The brow of the brunette woman relaxed slightly, and she hummed a few times, "...Okay, my daughter and I will wait you."

After that, she hung up the phone.

Patting her face, she soothed her facial expression, making sure that there was no trace of her sadness just now, she took another step, walked for a while, and stood at the door of a ward.

Through the glass window on the door panel, she saw the blond girl sitting on the hospital bed, she looked out of the window quietly, as if thinking about something.

Sighing slightly, she put a smile on her face, opened the door and walked in.

As soon as she entered, the blond girl turned her head to look at her, with a hint of surprise on her pretty face.

"...Ashley, how are you feeling today?" The brunette asked her with a smile as she put the bags and plastic bags in her hand on the cabinet.

Seeing her concerned expression, Sally hooked the corners of her lips, and replied with a smile, "It's much better...Mom."

Even though they have been together for several months, calling a strange woman mother still makes her feel awkward and awkward.

The woman in front of her is Berkeley, who is the biological mother of the original heroine.

"That's good," Berkeley smiled as he took out a few apples from the plastic bag and put them on a leaky fruit plate. "I bought apples today. What else do you want to eat?"

Sally shook her head, "...apples are enough."

So Berkeley turned and went to the bathroom to wash the apples. After washing, she came out, sat on the chair beside the hospital bed, took out a small knife and peeled the apples. "Your father will come over later."

Sally saw a bit of tiredness on her serious apple peeling face, and the deepened nasolabial folds at the corners of her eyes made her look much older than the first time they met. She pursed her lips and nodded.

"...Did you think of anything from the past today?"

"Well...not yet." Sally replied with a hint of guilt.

"It doesn't matter... The doctor said that you can be discharged from the hospital in a few days. When you come back to our home, you will remember something when you see something, my dear." The woman gave the peeled apple to her with a smile. she said comfortingly.

Sally nodded, took the apple and took a bite.

Alas, I can't remember it, I can't remember it in this life.

Anyway, she didn't dare to say this to the mother in front of her. If this mother knew that her real daughter was being occupied by another stranger at the moment, she might break down.

A few months ago, Sally didn't know exactly how long it had been. Anyway, she was in the hospital when she woke up, but she was lying on the hospital bed unable to move, with a ventilator plugged in. Although she was very conscious, she was Can't speak.

She knew then that she had failed again at home.

...Could it be that the way she died was not miserable enough, that she didn't die so she still has this world?she guessed.

She thought that she would die again when she was discharged from the hospital. She originally planned to do so, but when she saw the original heroine's parents rushing to her hospital bed with shocked and collapsed faces, it was her parents' fault. Liao Xin's heartbroken appearance made Sally see the shadows of her elderly parents in them, so she temporarily dismissed this idea.

But the Nalai couple never imagined that their daughter went to Leon's house to work as a babysitter for one night to earn pocket money on Christmas Eve, and then suddenly committed suicide on the road the next day.

At first they didn't believe it, but after watching the surveillance at the intersection, the facts were in front of them, so they couldn't help but not believe it.

Sally felt sad.

I don't know if this emotion belongs to her or the original heroine.

It was at that moment that she suddenly realized.

This world is said to be a movie, but it is not a movie.

The people in this world are also alive. Each of them has real flesh, body and soul, with emotions, sorrows and joys, life, old age, sickness and death. This girl named Ashley has parents who love her and a warm family. And friends who grew up together.

...She took the body of a girl named Ashley and used her body to die regardless of anything, which is very irresponsible.

Of course, there is more than one reason for Sally to give up the idea of ​​dying once, and there is also the feeling of being smashed to pieces after being hit by a car. Anyway, she has no courage to experience it again...

However, this "suicide" return home, although it failed to allow her to return home, it provided her with a brand new "identity".

With this car accident, she was able to fake her amnesia and was no longer afraid of being exposed by anyone.

In fact, she didn't expect the trick of amnesia for such a second. When she was lying half dead on the bed of a critically ill patient, an old man in a white coat checked her and said to the collapsed Nalai and his wife in an almost mechanical voice.

"Four ribs were broken, the internal organs were severely damaged, and there was a small amount of cerebral hemorrhage in the brain. The patient may lose short-term memory due to damage to the cranial nerves."

"..." So with this ride, Sally easily got a new skill that pretends to be amnesia.

Sally stayed in the Orlando Hospital in Florida for more than a month. After her life was out of danger, she was transferred to the Macy Branch in Pittsburgh by the Naleys.

During her time at the Orlando hospital, many people visited her.

Some were the former heroine's elementary school classmates, and some were her best friends. During that period, her ward was filled with flowers and fruits every day.

Not being the original owner but enjoying the treatment of the original owner and the care of people around her, Sally felt a little restrained and unable to let go, but fortunately she was lying on the hospital bed as a disabled person with a ventilator, so she didn’t need to respond to this, it’s true It was a great help to her.

Rich and Lucas also visited her during the period.

She was lying on the bed, with her consciousness wandering above her head, half-closed her eyes, and saw Rich, a big boy, standing in front of her hospital bed after the Naleys went out, and his eyes gradually turned red.

He was very clumsy. After learning that Ashley had lost her memory, he told her a lot of things that happened in the past, hoping to bring back the memory of the blonde girl. The words "May you get well soon" are gone.

Haven't been here since.

And Lucas, the little pervert, came to visit him with the Ryan couple. When the Ryan couple went out to eat with the original heroine's parents, he stood in front of her hospital bed, staring straight at her with a pair of green pupils. She, expressionless and silent.

...not to mention how infiltrating this scene is.

... Several times she felt that he wanted to take the opportunity to strangle her... But he didn't, maybe because this is a hospital where it is easy to be caught.

At first he came to see her with Diandra, and then, as if with Berkeley's tacit approval, he began to come alone. Several times Sally was asleep and woke up to see him standing there unknowingly. She watched her silently in front of her hospital bed... I don't know how long she watched, but Sally was so scared that her hairs stood on her head.

With a ventilator in her mouth, she couldn't speak, and she couldn't tell Berkeley.

But he is quite good at pretending, he has two faces, when the original heroine's parents are there, he is coquettish and asks for warmth, and when the original heroine's parents leave, he puts on that expression that seems to be murderous, which makes Sally I didn't sleep well, and spent the whole time in fear, and I could dream of him in my dreams at night.

Fortunately, it wasn't long before she was transferred to another city by the Nalais. Otherwise, if she was facing Lucas' grimace every day, even if she didn't die after the car accident, she would be scared to death by him sooner or later.

After the transfer, Sally ate delicious food and drank spicy food every day, and her body gradually recovered.

During this period of time, she was not idle. She watched TV in the ward every day, and occasionally chatted with the medical staff on duty to learn about the current situation in the United States.

...and then she made an amazing discovery.

The time of this world is synchronized with her original world.

When she crossed over, she was in the original world on Christmas Eve at the end of 2017, and it just so happened that the time in the world she is in now is May 2018, 5. She was hospitalized after "suicide" The time of recovery, calculated forward, the day she crossed over also happened to be Christmas Eve in this world in 8...

In other words, the timelines of these "two worlds" are consistent.

She thought about it for a few days and felt that there were two possibilities.

First, her soul crossed half the earth after waking up. Although it is a supernatural event that does not conform to science, it is not impossible. If this is the case, it means that she is still in the same place as the original world. The same space... In short, she just moved the location, but didn't move the space.

And the second is that she traveled through parallel worlds, both moving positions and traveling through space. In this world, she is a girl named Ashley, and in that world, another "she" is called Sally, who works and sleeps every day. Living in that rental cabin...

...But both of these conclusions have some logical loopholes, which cannot withstand scrutiny.

...Alas, the journey home is long and long, and I shall seek it up and down.

Sally decided to let nature take its course and wait and see what happened, no matter what, let's live first.

...I just don't know if the self in the parallel world has worked hard, and whether I have won all the attendance awards this month...

...Ah, now that things are going on, what does it matter to her?

After eating the last bite of the apple, Sally threw the core into the trash can next to the bed in frustration.

"Ah, I suddenly forgot," Berkeley, who was sitting on the side and answered emails without looking up, said as if remembering something, "I renewed your college notice for you a while ago, and I just brought it here for you today. have a look..."

As he spoke, he handed a blue information bag to Sally.

Sally took it, took the information bag, opened it, and found that there were several large characters written in Chinese characters on it: Chinese University of Pittsburgh.

"..."

Yes, her eyes have built-in scanning. Whether it's TV or any English books these days, as long as she meets her eyes for a second, the screen will be automatically translated from English to Chinese characters in an instant.

...in a way, is this also her cheating finger?

Berkeley saw the slightly twitching expression on her daughter's mouth in a daze, and said gently, "...Have you remembered anything? You have always wanted to apply for this university. Because of your hard work, you were admitted last year. ..."

She stood up, sat on the edge of the hospital bed, smiled kindly, and put her hands on her back comfortingly, "...you said that you are very curious about China and want to learn this language, and you also said that you want to Go here and see..."

Before she finished speaking, she felt the body of the blonde girl under her arm stiffen for a moment.

"I..." Sally looked at Berkeley in disbelief, "...I'm going to China?"

"Yeah, you said that was your dream." Berkeley smiled and scratched the tip of her nose with his index finger. "Now, you have taken the first step."

"Why...why didn't I think of it..." the blond girl murmured to herself, suddenly, she raised her head to look at Berkeley, her eyes sparkled, and she said firmly.

"Yes, I'm going to China."

The author has something to say:

The uncle was mentioned on the side, there is monitoring so the uncle will not take the blame...

(By the way, why do you care so much about the uncle! Shouldn’t you care about the poor, dying heroine in the last chapter?) Soul questioned.