Stop taking medicine, eat candy

Fu Huai's treatment notes:

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Disease number: C-III

World number: 25

Main symptoms: Observing a thing for a long time, the thing will suddenly become larger or smaller.

Hazard class: III

The cure: a jar of sugar.

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Lu Yan felt that it was snowing on his body.He rarely saw snow, only once when he stepped on a rocking chair from the window when he was six years old, but he was quickly hugged down.

They didn't know he had put his hand against the window and it felt like he was being burned.

Now that he is eight years old, he wipes his wet forehead and feels like a hot snowflake.

The door was locked from the outside, and he was alone in the house.Before going out, the aunt told him to be obedient, so he lay obediently on the bed and pulled the quilt to get ready to sleep.She spoke to him in a gentle voice, and left while on the phone, but she slammed the door loudly, which scared Lu Yan.Even though it was only morning, he had nothing to do but sleep.

And if he doesn't sleep, something terrible will happen.

He blinked and watched the wardrobe that was three meters away from him quietly approaching. The oak red cabinet surface was so smooth that it looked like looking in a mirror, but Lu Yan couldn't find his own shadow inside.The exquisite crystal chandelier made a dull and loud sound, and fell down to hang on top of Lu Yan's head. The sound caused a ringing in his ears.He trembled and buried his head in the quilt, but saw the pattern on the bedside table gradually blurred.After a long time, he realized that it was because it was slowly getting bigger and out of his field of vision, making it impossible for him to see clearly.

The originally smooth arc-shaped edge began to distort, turning into a shape that he couldn't see clearly. It and the surrounding objects adhered to each other like water droplets falling on the glass plastic film, and finally turned into a huge scarlet block Leaping towards him, the chandelier made a tooth-piercing sound.The bed under him gradually rose, and the ceiling chased the chandelier and fell down, bringing out a sharp and ear-piercing whistling.All the surrounding objects are slowly expanding, becoming huge objects that are too large to describe in words.They seemed to have spotted him, and slowly approached Lu Yan with cryptic whispers.The space he can curl up in is getting smaller and smaller, and finally there is nowhere to hide.

There was the rustling sound of the furniture growing, mixed with the triumphant shrill laughter of birds from nowhere, and the sound of leaves and plastic jars rolling by.

Lu Yan didn't dare to make a sound, and didn't even dare to move his body.He could even feel the coldness coming from the narrow wall under his feet, and the quilt silently wrapped around his ankles.

He shuddered, trembling in the darkness under his eyelids.Something fell on him through the quilt, one drop, one drop, and another drop.

"Hello." A boy's voice suddenly sounded.

What he said next seemed to be fast-forwarded, but Lu Yan still made out what he said.

"Do you want candy?" the boy asked him. "I saw you there, come out."

Lu Yan quietly lifted the quilt a little, and saw an orange glass candy rolling down in front of his eyes.He carefully surveyed his surroundings. ·

The wardrobe stood quietly in his original position, stiff and silent.The ceiling was high, and there were still chandeliers hanging straight.

He let out a long breath.

The window on the side was opened a small gap by a wooden stick. Last fall, a lost sparrow flew in through the window, flapping its gray wings in panic, jumping around on the top of the cabinet, kicking up dust along the way. Until she was driven out from the open door by her aunt with a broom.Afterwards, they insisted on sealing up the window. Lu Yan felt a little regretful, because then he would never see the sparrow again.He had expected it to remember its way back.But compared to the treetops outside, his room was small and dirty.

At this time, a boy's head poked out from that window.

"What are you doing?" the boy asked, his voice back to normal now.

"Hide and seek." Lu Yan said slowly, he picked up the candy and looked carefully in his palm.He found a green one and a pink one on the quilt, and only then did he know that it wasn't blood that fell on him just now.

Lu Yan had never eaten this kind of candy before. He looked at the light, and the translucent candy grains were wrapped in colored glass candy paper, like a butterfly corpse sealed in amber.A little bit of sugar juice came out of the crack and stuck to his fingers sticky.

"There's only you here." The boy's hair gleamed in the light, and he stood on tiptoe, his head appearing to be floating there.

Lu Yan lightly raised his finger and hissed, pointing to the cabinet in front of him.

"There will be no one in the closet," said the boy. "Only man-eating monsters and winged goblins hide in closets."

"A cabinet is a cabinet, and there is nothing in the cabinet except clothes." Lu Yan felt that this new partner was a bit silly.

He doesn't want candies now, he wants to keep them.Put it next to the pillow in the morning, so it can be sweet for a long time.

"What's your name? I've never seen you."

"My name is Fu Huai, and I moved here from a far, far away place. You know, it took me a lot of effort to come here."

"My name is Lu Yan. Were there any goblins in the place before you came?"

"The goblins in the closet? I've never seen them. Are you afraid of goblins?"

"No, I'm just afraid of cabinets." Lu Yan climbed out of the bed, and now he knew why Fu Huai could only stand there and talk to him, because although he pushed open the slanted window with a wooden stick, it was still open. Too short, just long enough for him to poke his head in.

"I can step on a chair to help you open the window." Lu Yan suggested. "Then you can come in."

They did that.When Fu Huai finally got in, his whole body was covered with dust from the glass, only his eyes and the corners of his lips still exuded the sweet color of candy.

The chair was obviously a bit small for the two boys. When Fu Huai stepped down, he stepped on the ground, and the two of them rolled onto the floor mat together, so Lu Yan also became dirty.

Fu Huai rubbed Lu Yanxue's white collar with his chin, propped his arms on his trousers, and stood up.

"This window is a bit small." Fu Huai concluded, and he stepped on a stool and brought in a glass jar from outside the window. The jar was full of the kind of glass candies he just threw in, shining like little stars. Glittering inside.

Lu Yan looked at the jar in Fu Huai's hand with some envy. Except in the supermarket, he had never seen so much sugar.Auntie rarely even let him eat sugar. She said that children should not eat sugar at all, it will make them grow bad.

"I can give you half of the sugar." Fu Huai said generously. "Just tell me why you're afraid of lockers."

"It's like this." Lu Yan once told his aunt the story of the cabinet, but she left without finishing listening.Maybe Fu Huai could hear him finish.

"If your arm is eaten by a wild animal." Lu Yan carefully considered his words, "then they will retrieve your arm in the stomach and take it back for you. But if you are eaten by a cabinet or a wall If it is gone, there will be nothing left. You will just merge with them, you will not even find the body, you will become a coffee table, or a sofa cushion."

"That's so pitiful. But they don't have mouths, how can they eat people?" Fu Huai questioned.

"Those really scary things never need a mouth when they eat you." Lu Yan lowered his head, his voice was like a bee buzzing.

"They crawled slowly in front of you, getting closer and closer, and the hanging lamps were their tongues, the protruding tables were their limbs, and the soft bed was their belly. They stick around you Wriggling, swelling on everything. Finally, swallowing you whole. They feed off your body and grow bigger themselves. You know what they're eating when you notice those horrible things getting bigger and bigger. There are more and more people."

Fu Huai dumped his entire sugar bowl on Lu Yan's bed sheet.

"Can you shoot? Why don't you shoot them?"

Lu Yan looked at the small cluster of shiny candy rivers and shook his head.

"They're not afraid of guns, they're soft, like jelly. It's no use shooting jelly."

"Then they must have something to be afraid of. If it is more powerful, then it will be more afraid of that thing."

"I don't know what they are afraid of." Lu Yan said dejectedly.

"Did you play hide-and-seek with them just now?" Fu Huai generously distributed about two-thirds of the candy and pushed it to Lu Yan's side.

"Yes, as long as I hide, they won't find me. But it's getting harder and harder because I'm getting bigger." Lu Yan tugged at his shirt in distress.

"I was almost discovered by them today. If you hadn't appeared suddenly, I would have been eaten."

Fu Huai patted the bed sheet suddenly, the candy bounced up and down, and two wavy rainbows flashed out.

"I know what they're afraid of," he grinned. "Remember what I threw at you before?"

Lu Yan suddenly realized.

"sugar?"

"Of course." Fu Huai clenched his fist. "We've found their weakness! They're afraid of sugar like a human is afraid of bullets. If they get hit by sugar, they die."

"Then what should I do? Throw candy at them?" Lu Yan was a little reluctant.

"You have to do this." Fu Huai waved at Lu Yan, and whispered against his face.

Lu Yan nodded repeatedly. "You are amazing! I just wanted to hide myself before, but I never thought that I could do this."

"When will they come out?"

"I can't say that. It's probably when they are hungry."

"Then what are you doing the rest of the time?" Fu Huai threw himself on the bed, his messy hair was covered with brown threads from nowhere.

"There is nothing to do. Auntie will come back at night." Lu Yan glanced at the clock.

"I have another suggestion." Fu Huai pulled the quilt, "We can hide in the quilt and eat candies while waiting for them to come out."

Lu Yan thought it was a good idea, but he couldn't bear it long ago.

They hid in the quilt and ate candy. Lu Yan liked to eat orange and red ones the most. He guessed that they were orange and strawberry flavored; Fu Huai ate up all the purple ones.Lu Yan told him the story of the sparrows that flew in from the window, and Fu Huai said that he also liked that kind of gray bird, and he raised a flock in front of the window before.

"How did you raise them?" Lu Yan was curious, he had never raised birds before.

"I free them and let them go wherever they want, but every meal time they have to fly to my windowsill to eat."

"Maybe I've seen your sparrow."

"They always don't listen to me and fly around." Fu Huai complained loudly.

In the end, before Fu Huai could read all the names of his birds to Lu Yan, the two of them fell asleep under the quilt.

It was Lu Yan who woke up first. He listened to the movement around him, moved carefully, and woke up Fu Huai who was sleeping soundly with his arm in his arms.

Around him, the furniture began to swell again, rustling and stretching out its claws towards the two boys.

Fu Huai woke up, Lu Yan could see his mouth opening and closing, but his voice seemed to come from far away.Lu Yan had to listen carefully to hear it.

"Sugar!" he yelled.

correct!He deliberately left a few flavors that he didn't like.

Lu Yan fumbled in the bed in a hurry, finally found one under Fu Huai's arm, and threw it towards the huge cabinet.But the smooth surface of the cabinet easily bounced the piece of candy away, and continued to expand indifferently, even faster and faster.The chandelier distorted its shape and fell down, almost reaching the top of their heads.

They threw a few pieces of candy outside again and again, or they bounced back or smashed crookedly.

"This won't work!" Lu Yan was about to cry, he was trembling, he felt Fu Huai holding his arm tightly, his palm was wet.

He had never been so frightened, not even the closest he'd been to those things.Maybe it's because he's not alone this time.

A cold thing was blocked in front of his eyes. It was Fu Huai's round jar of sugar, and the sugar inside had been poured out.Only the empty glass jar was left, held by Fu Huai's hand.Blocking his eyes, he covered Lu Yan's ear with his other hand, and covered the other with his arm.

"Close your eyes." He heard Fu Huai say. "do not look."

At that moment, it seemed as if countless variegated color blocks flashed past Lu Yan's eyes, gliding across at irregular speed, colliding with dazzling light, Fu Huai's body was covered with the smell of candy, and his body was limp.

Lu Yan closed his eyes.

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Eighteen years after Lu Yan and Fu Huai were together, Lu Yan never saw "they" again.

His psychiatrist said it was because of his increasing age, but Fu Huai insisted that it was because he put all those horrible things in his sugar bowl when they first met.

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World No. 25, the treatment is complete.