[Zhongyingmei] Hello stranger

Obviously the other party has severe post-traumatic disorder.It's just that Morgan can't think of other connections except that she can be associated with her back injury from the tattoo on her back, and speculate that she has been controlled by someone inspired by a recent case.

He put his hands on his chest and looked at her worriedly.Without saying anything, he shifted his gaze to the lake, thinking carefully with his eyes loose.

Judging from the time when the form of the tattoo on her back was introduced, it is not difficult to infer that she belongs to the individual type who has maintained the disease for several years.Judging from her calm attitude towards the stressor, I am afraid that she not only chose to avoid passively, but also gradually accepted her abnormal state.

Thinking of her attitude towards her incomplete blood sister, Morgan can basically rule out the factors of family disharmony.And thinking about it, her sister who was close to her couldn't help her out of the shadows. If she asked rashly, she would only be furious.

Morgan came back to his senses and watched her shake the fishing rod with a calm but weak face.She looked away and looked at the lake, as if she could see her at this moment clearly from her unconscious movements, struggling hard but knowing that there was nowhere to escape.

He looked up into the distance, silently nailing a note related to her firmly in his heart.Shirley, on the other hand, felt very embarrassed by this weird and quiet atmosphere, and was tired of opening her mouth to pretend.Dragging the fishing rod absentmindedly, turning the handle of the fishing reel boringly, it was amused to think that the fish he was manipulating was floating alone but remained in place all the time.

She swings the fishing rod up and down absently, imagining that this desperate fish is mocking the big fish that regards itself as its prey.Just when she thought it was a bit ridiculous, she suddenly felt the fishing rod sinking down suddenly, which made her forget about it for a moment, happily jumped a few times on the spot, and looked at Morgan eagerly, "Quick, quick! There is a big fish taking the bait Already!"

Morgan looked away when he heard the movement beside him, subconsciously lowered his head and saw the degree of bending of the fishing rod, and realized that it must be a big fish.After hearing her cheerful call, he quickly put down the series of previous deliberations, leaned close to her, and together with her, quickly lifted the fishing rod and turned the handle of the fishing reel, "Oh my god! This one must weigh more than ten catties! "

"Really?" Shirley asked with a smile in disbelief. After several struggles, she finally saw the fish out of the water. She was so excited that she couldn't restrain herself. "I think you're right! But this fishing rod can hold up." huh? Well, I'm starting to get a little worried!"

"Of course I can bear it!" Morgan smiled at her affirmatively, quickly took the fish out of the water and shook her hand with force, "Hold tight, I'll get the fishing net!"

"Okay, hurry up!" Shirley agreed with a smile. After he ran away, she felt her hands sinking, and quickly pulled the fishing rod towards her direction.After a while, Morgan held the fishing rod in one hand and the fishing net in the other to retrieve the fish. The two cooperated to make the fish reach the boat board. "Okay, let's see this big aggressive fish..."

"Oh... I can't believe I can catch such a big fish," Shirley put the fishing rod aside, bent down with him, and watched him take the bait from the fish's mouth with a silly smile, " Does it bite?"

Morgan took back the bait and put it aside, took the fish out of the net and put it on the boat, and glanced at her with a smile, "Well done, Shirley!"

Xue Lile raised her eyebrows tremblingly, frowned slightly and asked anxiously: "Will it bite? You haven't told me yet!"

Morgan frowned solemnly, and after a while, he suggested with a malicious smile, "You'll know if you try it?"

Shirley smiled and glared at him, and when he wasn't paying attention, she stretched out her hand and grabbed his hand to approach the fish's mouth, "Okay, let's try!"

"Don't, don't! Shirley... I still need to hold a gun in this hand!" Morgan resisted with a smile, and when the two were laughing and fighting, Lucas, who was awakened by their movements, moved closer to her in surprise. forward.Just when he curiously raised his paws towards the fish's head, the two lowered their hands to stop him at the same time, "Be careful, Lucas!"

Lucas groaned and stepped back a few steps, and the two smiled and patted his head to comfort him a few times.Shirley looked at the big fish she had caught again with some reluctance, and then looked back at Morgan, "Okay, let's let it go."

"Okay," said Morgan holding the head of the fish and Shirley holding the tail.The two lifted the fish up together, Morgan turned his head and smiled and said, "Why don't you give it a farewell kiss?"

Shirley nodded happily, "Good idea."

Withdrawing their staring eyes, they kissed the head and tail of the fish respectively, looked up and smiled at each other, and sent the fish back to the lake.

Seeing Shirley waving her hands forward in a happy mood, Morgan couldn't help but feel very relieved. Seeing her lazily moving her arms and turning around to face herself, "Okay, I feel like I've learned something under your guidance. tricky stuff..."

She bent over and picked up the fishing rod and handed it to him, "That fish took me a lot of effort, and I'm a little tired. And it's enough for me as a beginner. Now go on fishing."

"What about you? You want to continue to watch my demonstration..." Morgan didn't take the fishing rod, shook his body to indicate the lake water, and joked: "Or do you want to jump down to find your reluctant fish?"

"Haha," Xue Li smiled happily, took his hand and put the fishing rod into his hand, and stepped back in small steps, "No, I actually have other things to do."

Morgan smiled questioningly at her who had turned around and sat down, and watched her take out a notebook and a pen from her bag and put them on her lap, "You know how to draw?"

Shirley nodded and raised her hand to signal him to move, "Don't just talk, keep fishing."

Morgan smiled, threw the fishing rod into the lake, and turned to look at her, "You really are hiding something."

Shirley lowered her head to make a layout in the sketchbook, "Why do you say that?"

Morgan dragged the fake bait and dangled in the water, and soon felt that a fish was hooked. After lifting it three or two times, he took the fish off and returned it to the lake. There seems to be a feeling that... uh, birds that migrate south can stay in the north to hibernate."

"Is there such a contradiction?" Shirley smiled, looked up at him a few times, and lowered her head to write again, "Actually, a friend wanted me to learn painting, and I learned it for him."

Morgan retracted the fishing rod and cast it again, "Lucky guy."

Shirley stopped holding the pen, pursed her lips and smiled, "No, I'm lucky."

Sensing the sigh between her words, Morgan dragged the fishing rod absently, turned his head and glanced at her, "Are you interested in telling his story?"

Shirley was silent, but the paintbrush was still rustling on the paper.Morgan turned his head and didn't ask any more questions, and heard her voice when he felt the fishing rod sinking, "He used to be my neighbor, like a big brother, guiding me the way forward when I was lost. He told me He has lived many interesting things and told me that a brush can record many beautiful things. I believe in him.”

Listening to her general description, Morgan frowned and licked his lips, and put the fishing line underwater to deal with the fish, "Sounds like a nice person."

Shirley smiled and looked up at his movements, "Yes, it's a pity that I haven't seen him for many years."

Morgan looked at her in confusion, "Why?"

"I moved." Shirley had already traced the outline on the paper. "When I went back to find it, I found that the place where we used to live was on fire. He just couldn't escape."

Frowning, Morgan turned the reel and pulled the fish out of the water. "I'm sorry for what you lost."

"Well," Shirley had just trimmed his eyebrows, raised the brush and traced in the air, "me too."

A stroke never fell, and another person seemed to appear in the empty space, and time went round and round, as if returning to the year when I was 11 years old.

At the end of the routine activities four times a week, she was sent back to the cold basement, quietly leaning against the wall on the right side in a daze.After waiting for a while, Nate's small voice from the next room came from next door, "Are you there?"

She quickly bent down and lay on the concrete floor, and asked through a small hole at the bottom of the corner, "Are you back?"

He lay sideways on the floor of his secret room, "Well, are you okay?"

She rests her arms on her pillow, the smell of curry still remains in her mouth, and it seems that Beethoven's "Symphony of Destiny" is still playing in her ears, "I'm thinking, we live like this day after day. , and what's the point?"

Hearing the confusion and anxiety in her words, he couldn't help frowning, but said in a soft but firm voice: "Life is more important. As long as we are alive, there will always be hope. But if we die, there is nothing left. "

She argued with disapproval every word, "But you also know very well that hope is just a miracle for us. And this is life, not a fairy tale, and there will never be miracles!"

"Hush...shh, don't get excited," her tone was indeed low, but after feeling her emotional ups and downs, he was still very nervous, "I told you that there must be a monitor in this secret room, you Be careful."

She curled her lips and buried her face in her arms, "I'm sorry."

"It's okay, you're still young." He answered in embarrassment, and after a long silence, he asked hesitantly, "If there is a chance, are you willing to fight hard?"

When she heard this question, it was as if she had really grasped a chance, and every cell in her body was eager to try, "I can even die for that chance."

And he also became more motivated after hearing her answer without hesitation, "I have a way, maybe it can help you escape."

Although she trusted him very much who had a similar experience, after staying in this environment for a long time, she had already become quite vigilant, "...then why are you still here?"

He smiled wryly, as if feeling helpless and sympathetic to her reaction, "After I figured out this method, I have lost my chance. I have been in this secret room for six years, and it took me three full years to drill through this secret room." The mouth of the cave and protecting it. Just for one belief, and it's the only motivation I haven't been crushed after eight years of disappearance."

His words were like needles piercing her heart, and she had to wake up from despair, and suddenly remembered that the reason why she could endure for a year was not because she still had a belief in her heart——There are people outside this cage Waiting, "What?"

"I..." He squatted on the ground, raised his hand to cover his face, choked up a bit, and quickly calmed down, "I just want to help one person escape."

In the next two years, she chose the latter between violin and painting according to Nate's plan.At the age of 13, when he was sitting on the passenger seat with paralyzed legs again and was about to go out to sketch, after Nate didn’t know how to make a commotion and the man in the driver’s seat left, he raced against time to avoid the guard’s sight. Li bent over and started the car with only his hands.

Desperately, she drove forward at full speed, smashed open one after another iron gates, and knocked over anyone who dared to rush forward to stop her.After driving for an unknown amount of time, she didn't even dare to raise her head to look at the road ahead, and she didn't care whether there was a road ahead or not.

Completely relying on intuition and rampaging, finally dared to put down the speed of the car and look up after hearing the siren from ahead.Seeing Beth walking out of the police car that was about to hit her with a gun, she finally cried without any scruples...

It's just that when she rushed to the fleeing place with Beth and the police to rescue others, all she was left with was a spreading fire and the charred body of Nate...

Only then did she realize that she had taken away his faith and consumed all his hope in the long years.He even broke his original promise and brought unbearable pain to his parents who thought he had given up but had been waiting.

What's even more tragic is that she tried her best and even borrowed other people's lives, but what awaited her was even more bleak and cold than the secret room.