different world uncle

Chapter 2

After my uncle's physical condition stabilized, I followed the doctor's advice and decided to discharge him from the hospital.

The weather was fine that day, and when my uncle was able to walk, he refused the help of the medical staff.He rushed to the front like a child to see flowers, plants, insects and birds.If it wasn't for the fact that the wind has no shape, I'm afraid he wanted to grab the wind and take a look.

I threatened him: "Let's agree first, you can't catch moths after you go back... Although you majored in this before, I don't recommend you to continue. Of course, you don't have to continue to drive big trucks to make money. You can do something you like now. Moths aside."

Uncle looked back at me.His eyes are big and the sun is very bright. I actually feel that he is using all his strength to say a word: I am very happy now.

"Good," he said.

I was silent for a while, and asked him: "You said you went to another world... Ah, let's think of it as time travel. How was your life there?"

The uncle's movement of looking around stopped for a while: "It's okay."

"How long have you been there? Seventeen years?"

"It was quite long, I didn't pay attention. The time passed quickly. Then I came back."

He looked back at me, and after watching for a while, he ran over to hug me with open arms: "I, Jiaxuan, have grown up."

I wanted to push him away but didn't want to: "You're still so childish."

The uncle let go of his hand, still smiling: "You should be happy too."

"Why should I be happy?"

"Because I'm back."

All of a sudden, I wanted to ask him a lot of things.How did he live there, who did he meet, and was he still as kind-hearted as before.What did I eat, what did I wear, whether I was frozen... Maybe I just wanted to ask him if he would be as happy or happy as he is now in a world without me.

I hope he will be happy in another world, but at the same time I will be jealous of the happy and smiling uncle in the past ten years.

I am very contradictory, but in the final analysis of this contradiction, I still hope that my uncle can live well.But without my participation in the good, I will always feel incomplete.

As before, food is scarce, but memories are not always sombre.I may be hungry, I may be cold and aching, but I used to have him in my happy memories, and I was not ashamed of it, but often poured it out and chewed it in the hard days after losing him.So much so that the memories of those short years are as clear as yesterday, as if time has never moved forward a few steps.

I think I hope I can participate in his happiness, and I also hope that he can be happy or smile in my world in the future.That shouldn't be considered selfish.

I said, "Let's go."

"it is good."

But I'm actually still curious.Although the doctor told me many times not to stimulate the patient in a targeted manner.

I asked him, "Do you know magic?"

"Yes, yes. I will."

He looked very excited, as if he was waiting for me to ask this sentence, and there was a gust of wind behind him that seemed to be carried by the tail of a puppy.

"Then can you... show me one?"

I was ready.In the few days after I left the hospital, I arranged for someone to make arrangements at the entrance of the hospital.No matter what strange spells he utters, I believe that with the reaction speed of those professionals, he can always conjure decent "magic".

I'm going to keep my uncle happy, even though he may be a paranoid patient.That was my only thought at the time.

But reality always surprises me.

Su Qi said, "O wind, come here."

Simple enough, the blower is at the ready...but the wind is coming fast and coming from all directions.They are warm and comfortable, ready to move with new life, almost singing with their mouths open.

The wind moved the branches, and the wind chimes under the windows on the top floor of the hospital were jingled down.The water from the shallow sleep water pipe was brought out by holding hands, they entangled the wind, and shook the crisp sound of crushed ice hitting the bowl.The air is joyful, and they are dancing with the wind, as if celebrating someone's arrival.

It's not like the wind that can blow up in its natural state.

I think my facial expression doesn't change because I have a very good personality.The staff hiding in the dark waved wildly at me and signaled to me, to the effect that there was a problem with the performance, which was not done by us, and we hadn’t even pressed the switch of the blower!

I started to have a headache, and a crack appeared in the solid foundation of materialism.

But just cracks are fine.I can make it up.

My uncle was looking at me expectantly, but I couldn't put it off and didn't believe it, so I said, "Su Qi is amazing, you are the best. You did a great job."

"Ah, you still don't believe it."

I perfunctory him: "I believe. You are the best."

"You think it's a coincidence?"

It's a bit of a coincidence factor.But: "I don't believe it."

"You can't fool me. That's how you used to lie."

I touched my face, wondering what expression my uncle could see on my face?Damn, I should have straightened my face more.

I confessed to him: "I don't really believe it. But the doctor said that you are suspected of delusional disorder, and told me not to stimulate you as much as possible. No matter what the patient does, as long as it is not excessive, try to encourage it."

In other words, don't irritate him.

Su Qi looked at me incredulously: "Parana? Then you still ask me? I thought you believed me."

He looks hurt.

"...Because you look like you really want me to ask you."

"that's it?"

"I think you'd be happier if I asked."

Su Qi smiled, and he dragged his voice and asked slowly, "Jiaxuan, do you like flying?"

I got goosebumps all over my body.This is what my uncle would say when he had a bad idea.I've been tricked by him so many times before.

I said anxiously, "No, I don't want to."

Su Qi's tone was affirmative: "No, you want to."

Uncle came over and quickly grabbed my hand, looked into my eyes, but he didn't know who he was talking to.He said briskly, "...please lift me up."

"..."

3108年6月27号上午10分54时，我飞了。

A photo of my uncle Fei Tian and I appeared on the local news bulletins that night.The headline was big and eye-catching, and the reporter seemed to use all his strength to tell everyone: I got big news!

But I'm not entirely so unlucky.Maybe Su Qi was showing off in his heart at the time. His take-off speed was quite fast, and I saw the shaking clouds, the Buddha statue and the other shore in just a few seconds.

So in the end we were already at a high altitude when we stopped because the ascent was too fast, and the photo could not clearly identify whether the afterimage of the shuttle that soared into the sky was two people or two pigs—but if the reporter If I dare to write "Two Flying Pigs" as a news headline, I am afraid that I will give him some trouble.

But the matter was resolved smoothly, and it didn't take much effort for me to overwhelm the heat of this matter

But trouble was yet to come.

When I was having a headache about the news that night, the staff I invited came to my door very excitedly, and the magician was the most active among them.

He said: "That, at that time, that magic, what happened? It's amazing! It's never been seen before, it's unheard of, it's unbelievable! World-class...not super-class, no, unique level!"

I thought to myself: If I have that level, I don't need to spend money to hire you, and you should be unemployed.

But then I realized what he meant: "...you want me to teach you?"

The corner of the magician's mouth parted with joy and then fell down quickly.He reached out to hold my hand seriously, and made a shape with his fingers in my palm, with a seasoned expression like a seasoned businessman: "If it is possible, what is this number?"

I withdrew my hand, fell back on the chair, stared at him until he was sweating, and then slowly said: "You...you can't learn."

The magician retreats.

I sighed, couldn't hold back after finishing a few things, and ran home to find Su Qi.

When the door was opened, my uncle sat in the dark like a child who had done something wrong, with a panicked and helpless expression.

The TV was fluorescent, and the local news was almost rolling today's news.

I don't need to look to know I'm on camera again.

He knew that he had done something wrong, and desperately explained to me: "I, I don't know. I didn't know they could take pictures of us. The height is obvious... I have already flown very high. I apologize, Jiaxuan, please forgive me Am I okay?"

Also flies fast.

I saw him in pain, his puffy lungs shrank back like a puffer fish in water.I persuaded him contentedly: "You have slept for 17 years, the times are changing too fast, it is normal for you not to know... I will ask someone to teach you slowly later."

I comforted him, turned around and opened the refrigerator, thinking about whether to cook for myself or order some ready-made dishes back.

Su Qi stood behind him, seemingly hesitating for something.

Finally he made a decision and asked me: "Jiaxuan, the family seems to be... very rich?"

I thought: "Sure enough, he asked."

I quickly went through the reasons I made up before, and after making sure that I couldn't find any major problems for the time being, I picked up a can with a light alcoholic drink and gave him: "That's right."

"Did you do anything?"

"I sold myself."

Su Qi raised the corner of his mouth in embarrassment and then put it down quickly. I noticed that his fingers holding the drink began to tremble.The white frost gradually spread on the uncle's fingertips, and finally he kissed the can of drink like a miracle—it was completely covered with frost: "I don't believe it."

I think you really believe it.

I was about to explain to him, but Su Qi's voice trembled, as if he collapsed in front of a child whose nightmare suddenly came true.

He knelt down directly in front of me, and I tried to help him up, but I found that Su Xi's legs were so weak that I couldn't use my strength.He said to me in a tone like atonement: "I have been worrying about how you should live for the first few years since I went there. I have been for a long time... I can't sleep well every night, every day At night, I was blaming myself for why I had to help them deliver the goods, and why I was trying to persuade them to fight. If we have less money, we just starve for a few more days. It’s okay, I’m older than you, I’m hungry, We can survive. But I am gone, who will support you, where can you live, and how should you support yourself.

"I've been thinking about this all the time, and over time I've discovered that there are a lot of these kids in the old world. They're abandoned, they don't have a family or clan to protect them. They want to live, or they've been lied to. They I will, I will sell my body, and give my body to those dirty 'high class people' to play, just for food. In just one night, those children will be useless, with their hands gone, a hole in their stomach, or dragging They crawled towards me with two legs that were sticking out of bones, called my name, asked me to save them, said they wanted to live, they didn't want to die.

"In the beginning I couldn't save anyone, I just watched them die in front of me. The first child who died in front of me I could dig a hole for him to use as a grave, but in the end there were too many of them. A carcass crawled towards me and decayed. They stink and sour and crawl on worms, they can't even be buried in the ground."

I quietly gripped the phone tightly.I began to worry about my uncle's mental state.No matter whether he really traveled or not, or just imagined in his mind, his spirit has already suffered a certain degree of damage.

But I haven't done much research on the spiritual aspect, and I can't help him in this aspect because of my ignorance.I hadn't thought of this question before.I think his body may be atrophied, there may be complications, and he may never wake up.

I went to make money, to learn, to understand how to help a person who may sleep like this forever.I didn't expect him to really wake up, and I thought that if I had money, I could protect a person.

But it seems not quite.

I want to protect a person, just like he did before.

I still have a lot to do.

And tonight I'm going to let him finish.

"I'm so scared, even after I saved a lot of them, I'm still so scared. I wonder if you will become like them, with no hands or feet, and even the stomach and intestines have fallen out... ah, you know Well, I know that old world humans are not really the same as us. Their children's stomachs are smaller than ours, more purple and black. I hold the organs that fall out and stuff them back. Their hearts are so cold Ah, like a stone. How do you say their hearts fell out? Ah, there was a little girl over there, and a hole was cut in her tongue. The hole is so big, blood is coming out..."

When Su Xi spoke, her pupils dilated like a cat lurking in the dark.He gestured unconsciously with his hands beside him, and retched before he could speak.

I grabbed him and tried to keep him from falling to the ground.

I called his name, told him to rest, advised him not to think about it any more, and comforted him that I was fine, I lied to you, I did nothing, someone raised me, the person you saved adopted me.They've had a pretty successful business, and I've had a good life.Please don't think about it anymore, the past is the past.Wake up, I won't tease you anymore, I beg you, wake up quickly.

I called him for a long time before Su Xi finally raised his eyes to look at me.

I watched him, and vaguely felt that some kind of change should have taken place in his facial features or expression.But at that time, the lights in the room suddenly dimmed, and I didn't notice the difference immediately.

I continued trying to wake him up.But he suddenly changed his expression, and immediately pinched my face with his hands.

His voice was very cold, and he looked at me like a snake or those animals without emotion.

He asked me, "Who are you?"

I drew my attention to look at his face carefully, only to realize that Su Qi's hair had turned into long silver hair that was about to drag the ground at some point.His eyes had a kind of cold light in the darkness, and he seemed to be able to vaguely see the pointed horns of an elf in the ears half hidden in the hair.

Su Xi didn't seem to want to give me more time to think.He continued to pinch my face and gradually increased it.His fingers are strong but old, with dead calluses crawling, as if they could wrap around the roots of a boa constrictor.I feel like my face is about to be ripped off by him.

I knelt down on the ground, bent down, lowered my posture, and looked up at him.Just like when he opened the door when he was a child, he looked for me in the dark: "Gou Jiaxuan, are you here?"

When I was a child, I hid, watching a tall man with his waist bent, looking for me cautiously, so as not to scare me.

He said to me: "From now on, I will be your family."

"I raised you. You're not alone anymore."

fraud.

Now I am kneeling, looking at Su Xi who has stood up straight again.The distance between us is still so far away, but he looked at me so coldly that I suddenly trembled with fear.

"Gou Jiaxuan," I said, "Uncle, I am Gou Jiaxuan."

Su Xi's eyeballs moved, and I noticed that there was a tiny light like a firefly in his eyes.

He hesitated: "You... don't look like it."

"I grew up."

He squatted down and leaned over with his eyes squinted, his pupils dilated like a cat's in front of me.

He seemed to confirm it, and his voice became joyful: "You, have you grown up?"

"Correct."

"I am back?"

"Correct."

I put my hands under his armpit and hugged him gently.Su Xi didn't refuse, he leaned over completely, so soft that he lost his strength: "Welcome home."

Su Xi sighed in my ear.I watched his long hair and ears slowly recede, and finally everything returned to normal.

He fell asleep in my arms.

I picked him up and looked around the house.

All the fragile items in the house were blown apart, and even the large floor-to-ceiling windows, which were said to be resistant to strong winds of force ten, had a few cracks.The electric wire of the hidden light bulb that has lost its cover is dancing lonely, bringing a few words of code poetry that no one can understand to the darkness.

The room is too high, and the light slowly climbs up from the far downstairs or the street lights, and stops outside the room before it can lick the window.

But there was a thick layer of frost from the ground to the ceiling.

The fish I keep in the airtight cabinet are dying solidly, and the temperature panel on the fish tank shows an astonishing minus ten degrees Celsius.

But I don't feel so cold.

The glass shards and ice cubes are frozen together, and I estimate the height to be [-] centimeters.The ice and shattered glass formed dangerous shapes, but they were far away from me. With Su Xi and me as the center, there was no foreign object within a radius of two meters.

Danger filled the space, but I was safe.

I held Su Xi in my arms, and when I didn't know where to go, the ice began to shake.

Soon they start to melt.The water pushed the shattered glass across the floor, snakelike and purposeful, finding their way around the room.

I heard the sound of various debris piling up and colliding near the toilet, and the constant sound of water disappearing.

In the end, the room suddenly became clean again.Except for damaged electrical appliances, open cabinet doors, and fish struggling in the shallow water of the fish tank.

What happened today is too weird.Maybe Su Xi didn't lie to me, maybe he did go to another world.

But he seems to have been traumatized a lot, what the hell happened to him.

I put him back on the bed, reset the temperature of the air conditioner, and before leaving, I turned around and squeezed Su Xi's palm.

I need to know what happened to him.