I paid too much for Feiwuluo

Between living in pain and dying happily, Alice finally chose to descend.

But before putting on [Song of Larva], she glimpsed a small icon on the side of the game interface, which looked like a gallery door, called [Path of Pain].

When she entered it, the ticking quartz clock that had been placed beside the bed, the roaring air conditioner, and the wind and snow that had not stopped outside the window—everything that was moving in this world seemed to be pressed the pause button by one hand. — quieted down.

A gap between the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle suddenly appeared in the air, and the pattern embedded on the pieces suddenly peeled off like a wall, revealing the pure white inside.

The long and sad music is like a stream flowing out of the pure white corridor, and the silver-gray plants, like the flowers protruding from the leaves protruding from the mercury, sway gently with the music.

[PathOfPain]

[Path of Pain]

How to name something in the game is so mysterious...

Alice stepped into it, and a book suddenly appeared in her hand.After opening it, it contained the game characters, props, and map scenes she had come into contact with so far, but there was no background introduction of the game, not a single word.

Is this broken game really going to let her explore the world by herself? !

Like a newborn baby? !

Deep immersion Get out of the game world! ! !

Alice finished the provocative speech in her heart, and while taking a deep breath, her eyes wandered from the pure white on both sides of the corridor to the dazzling walls.

There are large and small exquisite picture frames hanging here and there, but most of them are empty.There is only one hanging near the door.

In the painting, a little girl curled herself up weakly in front of a red-lit door, and the snowflakes swirled around her body, wrapping her in the very center of the painting like a cocoon.

The name plate under the frame is engraved with the name of the painting [Snowy Night]

Good.

Alice thought, seeing a CG is like visiting an art exhibition, with style and taste.

But whether it's the gun just now, or this promenade full of outdated artistic atmosphere.Are these really the handwriting of Kusuo Amen?

In Alice's mind, another person with a lollipop sticking out of his head popped up, who really deserved a beating.

...Forget it, wait until the game is over.

She withdrew from the [Path of Pain], the jigsaw puzzle that was peeled off was restored again, and the gap in the world that should not exist was filled back to its original state.

Alice put on [The Larva Song], put the kicked-off quilt back on her body, and decided to go through "Das Kapital", "The Monarch", and "Social Contract" in order in her mind, and at the same time tried to make a progress in the process. Discover the changes in your body and mind in time.

After a while, she tilted her head and fell asleep.

At the same time, barbara on the first floor.

"Let Hatta and the others ask nearby with the photo, but no one has seen the child."

"I have asked the youth group to check it with the knowledge-only system. There is no information. The child should be a black family." Izumo Kusanagi brushed his fingertips, and a cluster of flames flickered the cigarette in his hand, "Blizzard last night, The surveillance camera either freezes or doesn’t capture anything.”

"Where's the amusement park? Is there no news over there?" Ten bunches of Tatara fanned the smoke that floated in front of him.

"No. The amusement park was closed in the first half of this year because of the company's bankruptcy and reorganization. All facilities are no longer open to the public. The only remaining value now is that the surrounding children will run to occupy the open space and play dodge ball."

"What should we do now? Your Majesty." Kusanagi took a puff of cigarette and let it out leisurely, looking at Zhou Fangzun who was half-lying on the sofa.

Kusanagi Izumo prefers to find a couple who are closer and know each other well, and send the child there temporarily.

As for why orphanages are not considered... Orphanages in capitalist countries are not good places.

The adoption process is too long, there are too many procedures, the cost is too high, the hospital asks for the price of the child as a commodity, and the obscenity scandals that are exposed from time to time... It sounds like a headache.

The atmosphere was a bit dignified. At this moment, Anna who had been silent all this time suddenly asked, "Can't Alice stay?"

The three adults were stunned for a moment and looked at her.

"Why do you want Alice to stay? Anna." Tokuta Tara asked softly, "Speaking of which, you seem to be able to sense Alice's existence from the very beginning. Is it because of this?"

Anna nodded vigorously, looking at them earnestly.For her expressionless, it was quite an expression of excitement.

Wu Wuluo was really the one who was talking, Zhou Fangzun was smoking a cigarette, shaking it up and down, his eyes seemed to be out of focus, thinking about something.

Finally, he replied vaguely: "Let her choose. If she wants to stay, she can stay."

"Thank you, respect!" Anna rushed over and hugged him.

He picked up Anna by the back collar, carried her a little further away, and looked at her face: "Are you so happy?"

"I want to be friends with Alice."

Anna spoke every word very seriously.

When she woke up again, Alice felt that the world seemed slightly different.

Where exactly, what is the difference, Alice can't say.But if someone asks her now, "How old are you, little friend", she can immediately raise her head and tell the other party proudly that she is five years old this year, and she is already a big child.

Alice, the older child, rolled over and got out of bed, and the doorknob required her to raise her arms to reach it.

She took a step outside, then quickly retreated into the room and put on her down jacket.There is no air conditioning in the corridor, and the cold wind is blowing.

There was no air conditioner on the first floor, so she walked down the stairs lightly, and there was no one in sight.

Didn't a few people come to see her just now?Alice wandered around the first floor twice, and soon lost interest in looking for people. The assortment of wine bottles of different colors caught her attention.

The wine cabinet is locked, so you can only look through the glass, which is boring.

Alice turned around in a daze like a puppy, and finally found the TV remote control on the bar, and tuned to a channel that was playing cartoons before finally stopping.

The only thing you can sit on here is a very heavy high chair, and a very, very heavy sofa.Alice couldn't move any of them, so she could only sit down on the floor in the end.

Kusanagi Izumo came back from shopping and stood outside the door holding two paper bags in his arms. Before he could find the key, he heard a vigorous cry of "Destroy you on behalf of the moon!" from Barbara. .

His movements stopped abruptly, and the paper bag almost fell to the ground—it contained two dozen sterile eggs, which Shishu bought because he said he wanted to eat beef pot tonight.

However, whether they can come back today is still unknown.

Hatta went all the way to Yokohama in order to help Alice find her irresponsible parents—ah, of course the purpose was to find out such scumbags and beat them up.

As a result, there was an accident in the middle, and he got involved with Mafia, the local snake port over there, and offended the military and police.

It's a good thing for local snakes, they run around well.The little idiots on their side were not so smart and were detained.

Originally, this kind of matter should be settled by Kusanagi, and he is also a second-in-command, but Zun didn't know why he took the initiative to take the job today, and directly stepped on the accelerator with Anna and Shishu.

Leave Kusanagi alone to take care of the newly picked-up child.

She must have woken up.

While calmly analyzing the situation, Kusanagi took out the key to the front door from his coat pocket.

Before going out, he went upstairs to have a look. The little girl whose fever subsided started to have a low-grade fever again. Her cheeks were unhealthy red, but she was very cute. It was many times more pleasing to the eye than the scary purple face she picked up last night. .

Kusanagi refilled a pot of warm water for her and put it on the bedside table, and replaced it with a fever-reducing sticker, then drove to the nearest supermarket, and completed today's purchases in a whirlwind.

But who knew that during the half hour when he went out for half an hour, she woke up.

The opened door rang a brass bell, and he saw Sailor Moon on TV, as well as a child twisting his head and paying attention to him.

"Good afternoon, Alice." He closed the door, and it was still snowing outside. "Did you sleep well? Would you like some water?"

The little girl held up to him the children's water bottle in her arms. This water bottle was chosen by Anna for her. It was printed with the Anpanman, which is loved by countless big friends and children.

Pretty clever.

Kusanagi laughed, put the paper bag on the side bar, and turned on the heating mode of the air conditioner that had never been used before.He put the coat, scarf and gloves that he had taken off on the arm of the sofa, and rolled up the sleeves of his shirt.

It's not open to the public anyway, so feel free to do so.

During this period, Alice stared at him non-stop, she didn't seem to be afraid of him, it was just out of curiosity.

Kusanagi found out, and temporarily ignored her, busy stuffing the bought things into the refrigerator.After everything was settled, he walked towards the little girl who was sitting less than two meters away from the TV.

Don't get too close to the TV, be careful not to damage your eyes.This truth has been mentioned by parents from all walks of life probably since the invention of television.

But beside Kusanagi Izumo, there was only one child of proper size and age, Anna, she was an exception, because she was very obedient herself, and she rarely and never quarreled.

And Anna wasn't interested in TV programs, or rather, she couldn't be interested because she couldn't see what was playing on the TV screen.

So Izumo Kusanagi never had the chance to say "don't get too close to the TV, and be careful not to damage your eyes".

But now he has.

He approached and found that the little girl was sitting directly on the cold floor.

Kusanagi Izumo decided to take back what he had just praised for her cleverness.He squatted down beside Alice, and warned her very carefully: "You can't sit on the ground, Alice. You won't get better if you're sick like this."

"Also, you can't stay away from the TV—"

Before the conversation was finished, Alice stood up by herself, and she ran to the sofa with the kettle in her arms, and sat down obediently.

Kusanagi Izumo: "..."

It turns out that you knowingly committed the crime?

He was a little dumbfounded, and felt that if the child was willing to stay, he would definitely be more difficult to deal with than Anna in the future.

But the most urgent task right now is to talk to her about "the future".

There are infinite possibilities in this word, both good and bad.

But for a five-year-old girl, what does it mean to be without parents?

Kusanagi Izumo didn't know, and didn't want to know, he couldn't help but worry when he thought of this question, and wanted to smoke a cigarette to relieve his worries.

But second-hand smoke is very bad for children, he held back, and sat down on the sofa opposite Alice, thinking about how to speak to her; and how to let her understand that it is the parents who are at fault, not being abandoned child.

...Shouldn't this difficult communication work be entrusted to Shi Shu?

Kusanagi Izumo covered his face, no matter what, he couldn't tell the little girl in front of him that you are cute but your parents abandoned you.

Before parents became parents, why didn't anyone arrange study and exams for them?

Kusanagi hesitated to speak several times, but it was Alice who finally broke the deadlock.

"Mr. Kusanagi?"

She actually remembered his name, and her voice was not as hoarse as when she just woke up.

Drinking plenty of hot water is indeed a true saying.Kusanagi felt relieved.But besides that, the heavy pressure still made him unhappy.

He kept pulling his hair, which made Alice feel that she could no longer sit still.

Although I don't know where the firm idea of ​​"the precarious Barbara must be managed well" came from, but it would be a pity for a handsome guy like Izumo Kusanagi to go bald at an early age!

The sofa was so low that even Alice's short legs could easily touch the ground.

She went around the coffee table placed between the two sofas, walked up to Kusanagi Izumo, and opened her hands to him.

The meaning of this action is very simple and easy to understand.

Kusanagi quickly understood.Well, give it a hug.

Having just been abandoned by her parents, she should really need the security of a hug.

Kusanagi gently hugged the little girl into his arms.

He was very unfamiliar with this movement, but in fact Kusanagi had hugged many people, but among those who had hugged before, he couldn't find anyone as fragile as Alice.

He folded his arms slightly—Alice was wearing a down jacket with a white front and a black back, she was chubby like a little penguin, but even so, her back was only a little wider than Kusanagi's palm.

Parents who abandon their children in amusement parks should be burned to death.

Kusanagi patted Alice on the back lightly.

Alice patted him on the back imitating the example.

Huh?

Kusanagi took her out of his arms and placed her on his lap.There were no tears on the little girl's clean face.

"You can cry if you are sad." He suggested sincerely.

"But Mr. Kusanagi seems to be a little more sad than me."

"Ah, so Alice is comforting me now?" Kusanagi reacted belatedly.

"It doesn't count." The child tried hard to imitate the calmness of the adult, "because emotions are contagious!"

"Huh? How to say?" He cooperated with great interest.

"In kindergarten, if a child cried, the other children would cry when they saw him cry." Alice gave an example.

Kusanagi nodded approvingly: "That's really a disaster."

"But it's also the same in reverse. If you're happy, I'm happy too." It's really important not to be bald.

Alice smiled at him.

Thinking of this passage later, Kusanagi Izumo said that he wished that she was crying and annoying.

"It was because she seemed too sensible at the time that she softened her heart—although Anna wanted Liz to stay, but we were the ones who took care of the children."

He extinguished the sparks between his fingers, and the corners of his upturned mouth were hidden behind the lingering smoke.

"That smile is the beginning of my longevity."