gentle collapse

I didn't expect that it was so late, and my neighbor Xiao Xiaoyan was still waiting for us at the door of my house.Her melancholy and deep eyes are particularly charming in the dim light, like an elk that strayed into the city by mistake.

In fact, it was indeed a mistake. When my brother opened the door and invited her in, I followed her and thought that it was a miracle that she was alive.

The original owner of her body was a compensated sex worker. Every day, she stood at the intersection of the street with her thighs and chest exposed, smoking a long and thin cigarette.This also means that she does not have a serious job, nor a fixed income, she relies on luck and health for food.

I didn't talk to her before her body was inhabited by time-travelers.So when I found her, she was dying.Starving to death is a very miserable way to die, because the process of suffering is very slow, and anything that can last for a long time is torture.Perhaps out of survival instinct, she chose to collapse on my doorstep, seeking last-minute help.

As I said, I never help time travelers, but if they come to me, I'm not hard-hearted.I couldn't understand most of what she said, so I speculated that she should come from ancient times.She didn't know what happened, and there were no handsome and rich men who saw her beauty at a glance, so she could quickly find a support point to survive in this world.

I have been teaching her to speak for three years.And the more she learned, the more silent she became. She could not speak for ten days and a half months, which made people think that she had lost her language ability.She couldn't find a job in a short period of time with the skills she had in the original era, and she was even ashamed to deal with people, so she found a cleaning job, cleaning the company lobby and toilets, and her fingers were roughened.

"What happened?" After she sat on the sofa, I found a chair and sat down and asked her.

Her voice was soft and slow: "Today's news said that a convenience store cashier was kidnapped by kidnappers. I'm a little worried about you."

My brother came out of the kitchen and brought her a cup of hot water. He reminded: "Be careful, Lin An won't go to work in a while, and I will pick him up after school, don't worry."

I smiled embarrassingly, and felt that they seemed to regard me as a little kid.

She nodded, and then said to him, "You should also pay attention to safety."

"It's you who should pay attention to safety the most. Has anyone bullied you in the company?" I asked.

She raised her hand and pinned her bangs behind her ears, looking a little shy, and said softly, "Someone in the company proposed to me."

My brother and I looked at each other and smiled, then congratulated her.

After talking for a long time, I personally sent her out. Her body was a little weak and she looked too thin.I gloated and turned back to my brother and said: "My future sister-in-law will be snatched away by an unknown company employee. I feel so strange now."

"It's because you have always liked her." My brother put away the cup on the coffee table and replied.

How could he think so? "It's not that you don't know, I like lordosis and lordosis."

He thought for a while, and said, "No wonder you don't like textbooks, because you think they look too plain?"

He said these inconspicuous words in such a serious tone, which always hit my strange point of laughter.He looked at me and kept smiling, and also smiled: "It's late, go to bed."

I said, "Do your homework for a while."

He was typing and writing plans on the computer desk in the study room, and I opened the book next to him, watched quietly, and glanced at his state from time to time.Although he looks like he can handle everything and is full of energy, he obviously can't stand the current intensity of work. He will slowly close his eyes while typing, then his head will suddenly hang down, and he will struggle Lifted up, the breath was a little anxious and disordered.

I find it very strange that life is already difficult, why do system companies still think that people have the energy to play some games.

There was some movement behind the curtains, and the sound of knocking on the glass was crisp. I put some clothes on him who had fallen asleep briefly, and then got up to check.I know who that person outside is, and what purpose he came here with.

"How are you doing recently?" I sat on the window sill and talked to him.

"It's okay, the store is quite busy recently, but the system is urging me again..." He looked tired, and even his tone was a little frustrated, "Can't you just love me for a second? No, a tenth of a second It's okay, I know I'm stupid, but..."

When I met him for the first time, he told me that he came here out of nowhere, and there was an extra voice in his head, and that voice asked him to pursue me.After the initial shock, I was so used to the current situation that I was forced to accept it: "I don't have any extra love for you, if every traverser let me love them, then what is love? Isn't it just like a condom and throw it once?"

He threw the flower on the ground and said, "Don't make trouble!" I looked at him suspiciously, and he quickly raised his head and said to me, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean you, I was talking to the system just now."

"Then... good night, I'm sorry to disturb you again today."

He turned away.

I think he is quite pitiful. After all, he is limited by the system and has to pursue me, and he doesn't like me himself.Low-level system users are like this. They are pulled into the system for no reason and complete tasks. No one cares what the low-level traversers themselves think.

Suddenly there was a loud bang behind me. I looked back nervously and found that my brother dozed off and fell under the table. My own head, I went to help him up, feeling a pang of sadness.

He half-closed his eyes and smiled embarrassingly, and then said to me: "It's too late, go to bed early, I'm going to bed too."

I nodded obediently and cleaned up the homework on the table. He suddenly asked me, "Did someone talk to you outside the window just now?"

"No." I denied, not wanting to worry him.

"If you get entangled by a time traveler, tell me, don't worry about it alone."