Mr Killer Next Door

The outstretched five fingers are attached to the curved glass, which seems to attract the curiosity of a turtle.

The school of idol fish saw this big guy, and fled recklessly to both sides.

This turtle, who probably has no interest in the brightly colored critters, slides slightly on its hooked forelimbs and touches the glass tentatively with its snout.

The slender fingers chased after the opponent's carapace, where there were schools of fish and coral reefs of various colors.

Immediately afterwards, the surrounding light was enveloped by a giant shadow.

Qiu Shihuan raised his head.

The cone-tooth shark swayed, and its dorsal fin was like a stunning giant ship breaking through the waves.

The towering shadow like a mountain quickly covered the only light in the aquarium.

In front of the curved glass, the boy's figure seemed to disappear in the darkness again.

The fine water waves slowly gathered into a blond boy with a big hand on his shoulder, which seemed to be intimate but actually controlled.

"Dad, why don't you let everyone in?" The child looked at the fleeing clownfish and the people who were separated a few meters away by the bodyguards in black suits, and asked in puzzlement, "They won't do bad things."

"You and these people are not 'everyone', Se-hwan. Don't waste time on nonsense." The man stroked his head and thought, "Maybe it's time for a seven-year-old to make friends. Don't worry , I will choose the right candidate for you."

The child's expression looked full of anticipation.

"Can I go to their house to play?"

"No." The man refused, "You can only invite them to your home."

"why?"

His light brown eyes narrowed in relief.

"You are much more lively than when we first met, Shihuan. It is a good thing to learn to ask why. However, you have to remember well. You can't make some friends that Dad doesn't know, understand?"

"I want to go out and play."

"Little fool, we are outside now."

The boy lowered his head hesitantly, his fingers tugging at the corner of his clothes back and forth.

"Dad, can you promise me one thing?"

"I can do anything you can imagine, but it depends on what you want is realistic. Would you like a shark, my boy?"

"I don't want it. The shark's mouth is so big and scary."

The child almost hid in the man's arms.

The man pondered for a moment and said, "Maybe you like dolphins. But I don't want you to have contact with the breeder. If it dies, Dad will replace it with a new one for you. Until you gradually learn how to get along with them."

The blond boy shook his head and curled up next to the man uneasily.

"I don't want to keep small animals, they will die."

"There's no need to be sympathetic to this kind of thing. It's the same with rats chattering outside or fish in a tank. But you're only seven, I think, and we've got to take it slow. "The man's thumb caressed the child's wet cheek affectionately. This cold-blooded and slaughtered stag was too patient with his adopted son. "Since Shihuan doesn't like it, tell me what you want."

"Dad, can I take my sister out to play next time? I miss her so much." The little boy hugged his arm with tears in his eyes, "Don't reject me, Dad? You said you would never reject me .”

The pupils of the man's eyes shrink, which is a very dangerous signal.

Often after this, the stag's crowned horns may impale someone's body, holding them aloft as if to show off a trophy.

"unnecessary."

"Father." The child used a pleading tone.He sniffed, looking as pitiful as a kitten that hadn't snatched milk, "I promised my sister, and my sister promised me. We will be together forever."

"Would you like a sister? Well... how about the lady that Dad brought home last time? Her daughter is older than you, and might be able to play the role well."

"I do not want."

The child choked and grabbed the man's fingers, and the sight of tears falling down his cheeks was heartbreaking.

The sad and stubborn pretty face did win a certain degree of sympathy from the man.

"Are you losing your temper with Dad, Shihuan?"

"But you promised me."

"Okay, don't cry. Dad won't blame you. That person, well, your sister. She has other things to do." The man gently patted his back and comforted him softly, "Perhaps she will come to see you after a while."

The child pouted, this was obviously not the answer he wanted.

At this time, another black shadow joined the blue waves, it was an employee in a diving suit.

His presence seemed to wake up small schools of fish in the reef, and they chased him with their tail fins, leaving kisses on him.

When the flippers kick forward, the diver's body draws a spiral trajectory, and the foam floats and breaks.

He noticed the boy under the curved glass.

Look at the tears that haven't been wiped away, look at the child's overwhelmed look.

Who could be cruel enough to let such a boy with an angelic face cry sadly?So were the miracles he had read about in religious pamphlets.

The diver couldn't help but raised his hand and greeted the adorable boy.

The boy sniffed and looked curiously at the figure among the silver fish.

No one noticed that the man behind the child had a cold face.The bodyguard next to him immediately understood and stepped forward to offer a cigarette.

As the smoke curled up, he frowned, and the fire almost burned into everyone's heart.

The man beckoned to the duty manager in the corner.

A middle-aged man in a white shirt stepped forward tremblingly.

The indifferent questioning is like a trial.

"Who let him in."

The duty manager's head almost dropped to the ground.

"We did not notify in advance that all activities in the museum will be canceled today, but we just explained the situation to tourists. I thought you would like it..."

"Did I ask you to make up your own mind?" The light brown eyes gouged out the other party unceremoniously, and said coldly, "Don't you think? Rats are really dirty, because they are everywhere, because they are hard to guard against. Because of one touch , may be infected with some germs. Fathers must understand this and eliminate the hazards themselves in order to ensure that their children grow up vigorously."

"President Qiu..."

"Well, I remember you said that you have a daughter."

The duty manager's expression became extremely frightened.

"What can I, what can I do for you?"

"You don't want her to live in an environment full of rats, do you?" The man tilted his head and raised the corners of his lips with a half-smile, "Get rid of the rats. Children always need a healthy environment .”

***

The warm paper cup landed on his cheek like a butterfly.

Qiu Shihuan let out an "ah", revealing a shy and shy look at his age which was rare.

Jiang Yu turned his back, pressed the plastic cover with his index finger, and leaned his back against the glass.

"What are you thinking about?"

Qiu Shihuan anxiously blew on the cooling air, his lips touched the rim of the cup, but he was scalded by the unabated heat, and his brows were furrowed.

The freshly brewed coffee was held against his chest by pianist-like fingers.

He grabbed Jiang Yu's hand, interlocked his fingers, and walked in the direction of the subsea tunnel without any explanation.

The crawler elevator seemed to send them down the throat of a giant beast.

The deep blue underwater world collapsed overhead, and the sky light rippled in the distance.

The direction of the rocks is occasionally arched, occasionally the holes are connected, and occasionally a large number of barnacles are attached to allow schools of fish to float and dance together.

Feeling dizzy and oppressive from head to toe.

Countless reflections meet in the darkness, swimming towards those distant man-made ruins.

He turned around.

In the vast light and mist that almost covered the bottom of the sea, the boy's pupils seemed to be lodging a lonely giant in the deep space, which was a huge, icy celestial body wrapped in a storm.

A rhombus-shaped ruby ​​ring touches her lips, and the corners of her eyes are slightly raised.

The seductive voice wrapped around Jiang Yu's ankle like a python.

"Well, I won't tell uncle. This is my secret."

"Ask a question, kid, have you ever seen a psychiatrist?"

"Why go to the doctor? I'm not sick."

"Well, it seems that there is something wrong with my way of asking." Jiang Yu lowered his head, thinking about how to proceed with the topic, "Well, let's not talk about this..."

"Uncle, why do you have to make me a good boy?"

His train of thought was suddenly interrupted, and Jiang Yu looked at the speaker in surprise.

He saw a lot of things in this child's eyes, bewilderment, puzzlement, perplexity, and perhaps a little concern, but the only thing that lacked a sense of guilt in those clear eyes.

Why would I stand here, face to face with a child with a serious personality defect, and talk about the topic of "good boy"?

Why is this child always obedient and obedient in front of him.

It doesn't look like it's fake, and it doesn't look like it's acting, but just inadvertently, the boy will show his bloody fangs.

why?

Jiang Yu opened his mouth and said in a low voice.

"Because it's wrong."

"Did I do something wrong?"

Qiu Shihuan lowered his head in bewilderment, it was his usual trick, and it was his way to win people's sympathy.

"You always say this—you always put on that appearance to confuse me, but Shihuan, you have never reflected on this issue. What I have said, what is my expectation for you, in your opinion? what?"

The young man seemed to hear Jiang Yu's frustration, and he grabbed Jiang Yu's sleeve.

The smile on the face is both flattering and harmless.

"I've been listening to what uncle said? But, even if I listened, I didn't promise to change, did I?"

All of a sudden, Jiang Yu seemed to be defeated by something. He was like a knight whose sword was taken from his hand and his horse was shot by a musket. Even his joints collapsed under the heavy armor.He gritted his teeth angrily.

"...Have you thought about it, what would happen to you if I was the one who was killed? Maybe nothing would happen to you, because you..."

"No." Qiu Shihuan looked at him, his eyes were as cold as sticky swamps, but deep in the pupils were hidden emotions that could not be swallowed, "I will not let that happen."

"why."

"Because I like Uncle." His eyes were extremely pitiful, like a little cub that was left behind and could only wait to die in a snowstorm, "Uncle, please forgive me. It's because of my sincere apology. "

Jiang Yu couldn't bear to turn his head away.

"Is that any different than liking a stuffed animal?"

With more contact, as I get closer and closer to the mystery entangled in Qiu Shihuan.

Jiang Yu had to speculate on Qiu Shihuan's feelings for him.

He has always been curious about whether he is a qualified playmate for a child with this personality disorder, or whether he really "likes" him as the other party said.

This child is always so delicate and charming on the surface, but inside he is so sick that it makes people feel cold physically and mentally.

A leopard is a leopard, and its nature will not change because of anything.

Qiu Shihuan's eyes were a little hurt.

"Uncle, why are you attacking me?"

"Listen well. I won't say this sentence a second time. If any similar situation happens again, I..." Jiang Yu bit his lip irritably. talk.

"We're done, aren't we?"

Jiang Yu didn't look at him, no one can bear that look.

That victim-like look, as if all the faults were done by someone else.

"Everyone is the same."

Jiang Yu lit a cigarette near his mouth, and the melancholy light of the fire gathered into a hazy shadow under his feet.

He lowered his head, and the smoke floating at his fingertips was like tears, like silence: "They also have family members, and they also like delicious snacks, and they will also be overwhelmed by a small cold, and they will need company when they are lonely. For happy things To be happy, to be sad and to cry apart—how can there be a difference between life and life? Just like me and you, we are all human beings. We are all human beings who are loved by the things in front of us."

"Is it a bad thing to kill them?"

"It's a very bad thing. Let me ask you, would you be sad if someone killed me?"

"meeting."

"so what."

"……sorry."

Jiang Yu suddenly turned his head away.

He didn't hear clearly, he didn't dare to hear clearly, he didn't believe his ears.

But one step away, he could see a cluster of flames.

That cluster made his heart beat again, rekindled the flame of hope.

——"Uncle, I'm sorry. I did something very bad."

When Jiang Yu came to his senses, his nose had already sunk into the platinum hair, wrapped in a particularly pleasant fragrance.

It was difficult for him to describe what the smell was, and his sense of smell lost his sense of direction.

He couldn't help reaching out and touching the other person's head.

"You've grown up at last, kid."

At this moment, black shadows also swam from all directions, or gathered above the head, or swayed against the glass on both sides.

Jiang Yu didn't care at first.

But when he looked up, his breathing almost stopped.

I saw the group of dolphins that gathered around at some point were stretching their bodies, each with their eyes wide open, staring at them curiously.

The beak sticks to the glass surface and moves forward continuously with the movement of the tracks.The hugging gesture was indeed too intimate, like leaning over for a kiss.

Fortunately, at this moment, the cell phone in Qiu Shihuan's pocket rang.

Jiang Yu hastily let go of him and moved back a distance.The dolphins knocked each other's beaks in a similar manner, and saw that the human beings did not make any further movements, so they wagged their tails and left regretfully.

Jiang Yu turned his back, took the coffee from Qiu Shihuan's hand, and took a sip leisurely.

The latter looked down at the string of numbers that popped up on the phone screen, and raised his hand to touch his ear.

The phone was picked up quickly.

"Hey, Dad."

[...Turn on the speakerphone. 】