Water lanterns and dreams in 1 nights

My feet are sore and my senses are dull, as if I woke up after being buried in the soil for 100 years. I opened my eyes but couldn’t see anything. At first I thought it was because I opened my eyes too quickly. After waiting for a long time, I didn’t see recovery. I couldn't see anything because I tied a piece of cloth in front of my eyes.Then consciousness came back, and I was convinced that I had been kidnapped.The whole person was astonishingly weak and almost unable to control himself. Occasionally, I could hear the rustling sound of the wheels rolling over the road, and the car body occasionally rolled over gravel and shook a few times. I pretended not to wake up during the intermittent bumps, and wanted to see the Will Luo leak some information?

If I were to guess the relationship between Ello and Liu Zhiyuan, their identities, ages, and social status have almost no intersection, and the only thing in common is the Golden Dream Orphanage.Doesn't that happen often in stories?The protagonist was raped when he was a child, and went away to hide his identity, only waiting for a good time to come back and kill his enemies. It's just that this plot is strangely applied to Elo. Liu Zhiyuan may not be a good person, and Elo is not like a decent character.

It's just a pity that the two of them had a festival, but I was unlucky for nothing.

Every sway of the car made my body sway slightly, and once I ran over a stone, my head jerked sideways and unexpectedly hit something much softer than glass.Elo caught me with his hand in front of the glass.

"I think you should wake up."

I continue to pretend.

"I know you're awake."

The car stopped slowly, and the narrow compartment became instantly quiet.

I hesitated to sit up, Elo seemed sure that I was awake, squeaked down the window, let the wind pour in, his words were diluted and empty, "Listen," he said to me.

I tried to concentrate on catching any discordant movement in the breath of the wilderness. First, the sound of insects, high-pitched and loud, because it was right next to us, which hindered the hearing of other small sounds, but I still heard it. , from far away, the slight sound of music that one doubts whether one has really heard, mixed with some cheerful and mute instrument, whether it is an organ or a harmonica, I can't tell.

"The show is on," Elo said to himself.

I didn't answer, he seemed to have something to tell, and he could continue without me catering to him. "There's a circus in town, and I'd love to take you to a circus these days, you're always too busy doing the unimportant stuff and missing out on the real good stuff. But now we're sitting here, just like that It's good to hear."

"I can hardly hear anything here," I said honestly.

"Perhaps, but although the show is not visible here, there is no surveillance."

Elo rummaged around in the trunk, found two unopened packs of chewing gum and asked me if I wanted them. I shook my head, and he tore off the silver wrappers, popped both in his mouth and started chewing. "Hey, my dear, have you figured out the courier that was sent to you?"

"I saw the picture of Wu Ji's death." I don't know if that counts as information.

"Remember that riddle?" Probably afraid that I would lose the memory, he repeated the boring riddle again, "Up and down, roll around, but climb to the top."

"I guess 'stairs.'"

Elo laughed big as if he was happy, and grabbed my fingers to touch the lines behind the corners of his mouth. "correct."

"The reason for killing him?"

"In fact, this should have been your job. I only did this for you because I love you." Seeing that I was just staring at him, he sighed and explained to me patiently, "You can't Too much time wasted on him."

"Tell me what waste means."

"You clearly know."

I don't know, I just guess.If I knew everything he was thinking, I should be lying in my own bed by now instead of the cab of this old truck.

"Because of him, you make yourself so busy that you don't even have time to go out."

All the "work busy" moments I mentioned to Elo come to mind. "You killed a guy," I said, "because he kept making me work overtime? Just because of something like that?"

"Why put on a show," Elo said with a bored look on his face. "We both know that no one really cares."

Fuck, kill someone because of this kind of crap.How could I believe it.

"I care."

Elo looked at me and sneered slightly. "Keep making it up. The chubby little bee is busy collecting honey for the bear. My dear, if you try it out, you might become an owl."

Elo's palm was very hot, and he kept holding my fingers, and soon I was sweating thinly, "Is Liu Zhiyuan dead?"

"Nobody's ever going to see him again," Elo said. "There are certain questions you haven't asked me."

I know what he's talking about, some steps I never really took.It should have been clear that indecision would lead to no good results.

"You are afraid." Elo said faintly, "No matter how I push you forward, you always insist on keeping a distance. In fact, all you have to do is ask. I never said I would not tell you. Jinmeng Welfare Institute, Liu Zhiyuan, even the murders you always encounter, people dying, maybe you could have prevented it, but you didn't. Then how can I tell you? Look, you obviously don't care about them, so don't try to blend in, or hope Let them come closer."

Nonsense.Who am I, what status do I ask him to stop killing, and he won't listen.

"Fortunate to be approached by you, I'm so lucky." I meant to be sarcastic, but thinking about who is unable to move now, the joke is finally on me.

"Haha, that's funny." Ello said, "Well, I lied a little bit, so it wouldn't ruin my credibility completely." Seeing that I didn't believe it, he was finally willing to reveal some truth. "Then let's start with the Golden Dream Welfare Institute."

"In short, lived there, not a good place. I spent my childhood there. Then there was an accident that you and I both know, I escaped, spent a few years in the circus to learn something, and then Wandering again, and settle some old debts by the way. It's a clichéd plot."

"Jin Meng, what exactly did you do back then? I know it's definitely not as simple as it appears."

"Golden dreams, golden dreams," Elo said with a playful smile, "do you know what else is golden besides so-called dreams? Gold, overripe ears of wheat, and shit. Golden dreams are all three of them." ...all the abandoned, disabled, mentally handicapped kids who are leftover garbage and feces of the city, nobody wants them, so at least contribute a little bit to this society before they are thrown into the shredder, Even being harvested obediently. As long as the fruit is ripe and sweet, it doesn’t matter even if it grows on rags.”

"You mean...organs?"

"Think more, dear." Elo casually combed his hair with his fingers, "The cut hair is cleaned and made into high-end wigs, and the price is doubled dozens of times when sold on the other side of the ocean; a complete human skeleton There are never too many, especially for young children. Universities, hospitals, museums, human bones always have good places to go. Even the broken parts have buyers. Some people like things made of pure natural bones and flesh of the same kind; clean ones Blood, bone marrow, cornea, the whole living person... Do you want to earn a fortune? Open an orphanage. I promise, breeding humans is the most profitable."

"So you killed those people with poisonous mushrooms so you can escape."

"No no, dear, I was just a kid in confinement, pretty innocent. It wasn't a nice place, but it wasn't too bad for a guy like me. I guess I was smarter than those fools, no As for really treating it as a home. After all, there are not many fools like that. If you lived there-I really want to live with you, think about it, we grew up together... ...we'll be each other's best friends, and neither will be alone."

"That's really a pity, I have a pair of parents." I said dryly, "There is still a normal world." Elo didn't object.

"In short, life in the orphanage is not too bad, as long as you don't grow up. When the pig grows fat, the butcher's knife is not far away. This is actually the same thing. As soon as I run away from Jinmeng, I get some money I bought a ticket and ran to the farthest place I could, and I haven’t been back for many years.”

"Where did you get the money?"

"Robbery?" Ello shrugged. "Don't look at me like that, my dear. Don't you already know that I'm a bad guy?"

"It's a pity you haven't been caught yet."

"I'm probably stronger," Arlo said. "Speaking of which, my life wasn't bad, nor was it good. The old woman in charge of discipline didn't like me. She liked one of his big men, and he didn't like her very much. After all, she... ..." Elo clasped her hands up in front of her chest, "wrinkled and shriveled, no one can hold her back when looking at her, the old woman fed the dog with lovesickness. The big one grows tall, Bottom □□ doesn’t work, I’m aggrieved to the point of perversion, thinking that the knife can’t be used, I might as well use a real knife as a proxy, anyway, there will be bloodshed and screams in both ways. I don’t care about that, except for the big man It was me then, and I loved me so much that I risked coming to me all night with a blade. The first time he let me see some blood, and the second time I cut his windpipe." Elo's nails on my neck Slowly slashed, the wind blew his fingertips cold, and for a moment I really had the illusion that the blade had slashed past.

"Aren't you afraid?"

"The situation at the time was not too risky. As the property owned by the orphanage, he didn't dare to kill me, nor did he dare to make me lack arms and legs.