[Phantom of the Opera] Devil's Beauty

Bai Lanzhi's voice was soft and hoarse: "When did you know?"

"The last half month."

She thought about her performance carefully: "Did I say something wrong?"

"You shouldn't trust me that much."

"Really..." she murmured, "Then we are still husband and wife?"

But he didn't answer the question, and pointed down with his black-gloved finger: "Don't ask me how I will deal with them."

"Okay." She asked obediently, "What will you do with them?"

"I didn't intentionally guide them to the Palace of Mirrors, they broke in by mistake." He walked to the edge of the stone railing, leaned slightly, put his elbows on it, and looked down at the crowd on the ground indifferently.Someone discovered the horror of the Palace of Mirrors, and was beating the mirror crying for help. Suddenly, there were screams, quarrels, and stampedes, and some people took advantage of the chaos to grab the burdens of other people.

He smiled slightly, but his eyes were emotionless: "You see, instead of asking me how to deal with them, it's better to ask why they deal with themselves like this."

I don't know if it's her illusion, but his pupils at this moment are like the eve of a wild beast hunting, filled with some kind of fanatical, excited, and cold emotion.

Bai Lanzhi clenched her fingers tightly, like approaching a vigilant beast, stood on tiptoe, quietly approached him, and carefully put her hand on his shoulder: "You are right, their life or death has nothing to do with you. "She hugged his broad shoulders with difficulty, feeling his tense muscles slowly relax, "They broke into your territory and disturbed our peaceful life..."

Although his body has relaxed, his tone is still cold: "What do you want to say."

"I know that they came with bad intentions. Someone smashed your collection, someone stole your things, and someone wants to chop off your hand in exchange for a bounty..."

"You want me to let them go?"

Bai Lanzhi patted him on the back lightly: "Listen to me, okay? I always remember what you said to me... You said, your past was very bad, dirty, despicable, bloody , I don't even remember the order of the words."

He glanced at her, and the pupils had returned to normal size: "So."

Blanche thought for a while, and betrayed Odell without hesitation: "Odell told me the story of the theater ghost, and said that you are the theater ghost. She said that you have a cold personality, and if you don't like it, you will kill me." hand or kill, she also said that you look like a dried skeleton..."

Eric suddenly grabbed her wrist with his backhand, pulled her under him, stared at her coldly, his golden eyes were horribly bright: "You want to leave me?"

"That's not what I meant!" Bai Lanzhi said helplessly, with a thin layer of sweat on his back, racking his brains to think of how to appease him quickly, "I don't want you to leave me... remember why you always Reject me, don't you want me to know your past? I don't want what happened today to become a barrier between us one day in the future... Even if there is only a little possibility, I don't want to." She held his cheek , printed a kiss on his lips, "Let them go, forget the past, what is dirty, despicable, bloody. It has nothing to do with you...Start a new life with me, can you?"

The voice fell, and what responded to her was silence.

She heard his rapid and heavy heartbeat, and also heard the deafening cries for help from the ground, and even the faint "cracking" sound of burning fire - someone was pushing and trampling, and couldn't hold the torch firmly.

Then, the sound of falling water sounded.In the center of the underground labyrinth is a large lake. It seems that the people on the shore jumped into the water in a panic, but soon, they discovered that this was an extremely wrong choice. There was a barbed cage hidden under the water.

In the chaos, someone yelled: "The monster has killed... The monster is going to trap us here!"

If there is one, there are two, and many people began to cry about the terrible behavior of the "monster".

After a while, he finally opened his mouth, but instead of answering her words, he said: "...I didn't want to kill them."

"I know."

He closed his eyes, and the Adam's apple in his neck trembled slightly: "I'm not a monster."

"I know." Bai Lanzhi clasped his fingers one by one, her voice was very soft, "Although you always lie to me, in front of me is Mr. OG for a while, and the ghost of the theater for a while, but since that day you walked with me Go all over Paris, take me to watch the sunrise, tell me to be grateful for my fate...I knew you were kind." She kissed the back of his hand, "You know, I never complained about my fate again, No matter what it did to me, because at least, it brought me to you. I don't care what other people think of you, you are my Eric, you are my own treasure, I will love you , take care of you, and never leave you."

She raised her eyes and looked at him, remembering that when she kissed him for the first time before, there seemed to be a flicker of fragility in his eyes.At that time, she thought it was an illusion, but now she realized that it was not. His eyes were really suppressed with helplessness and fragility.

The flame climbed up to the dome, black smoke filled the air, more and more people jumped into the underground lake, and the crowd ran around like ants disturbed by boiling water.

Blanche tried her best not to listen to those cries for help.Although these people are self-inflicted, if they die here, their sins will definitely be imposed on Eric.She didn't want him to bear such a heavy sin.

People have thousands of shapes, but there is only one kind of life.

There should be a special channel for ventilation around it, otherwise it is impossible to support the burning of so many candles.Still, the Blanche smelled burnt.

After an unknown amount of time, he finally moved his lips slightly and whispered, "I'll let them go."

After the words fell, he turned his head sideways, fiddled with the mechanism embedded in the stone wall in a strange way.Almost at the same moment, the iron tree in the Palace of Mirrors ceased to shine, the entrance opened, and the people inside stumbled out; the tapestries in the Palace of the Underground slipped to the ground, revealing a ventilated stone passage.Everyone ran towards the new stone road in a scrambling manner, fearing that they would be trapped and die in the underground palace one step later, only a few people were still yearning for the belongings in the baggage.

Looking at the fleeing crowd, inexplicably, the tip of Bai Lanzhi's nose felt a little sour.

At this moment, she felt that what she was facing was not a mature and rational man, but a beast trying to build trust with humans.I heard that when stroking wild animals, you should put your hands where they can see, let them get used to the smell first, and then slowly touch their hair.So, she wiped away her tears, and put her hands where Eric could see, as if trying to pet an animal, without directly touching his mask: "Let me see your face, okay? No matter what you look like , I will not change my attitude towards you."

"it is good."

His unconditional connivance made her cry again.

Taking a deep breath, Bai Lanzhi reached the back of his head and touched the silver buckle of the mask.

With a soft sound, the silver buckle was undone, and she slowly took off his mask.

this face...

Indeed, quite scary.

His bones are sharp and stern, his nose bridge is high, but his eye sockets are as deep and terrifying as the eye holes of a skull. Because the brow bone is too high, at a glance, it seems that there is no lower eyelid, and the pupils are as dazzling as golden will-o'-the-wisps people.The most frightening thing is the skin on his face, there is almost no complete area, with ravines and scars intertwined, as if the god of death had scratched his skin with a sickle.If one encounters this face in the middle of the night, it is indeed easy to regard him as a ghost seeking death.

It was as if her heart had been cut by a knife, and she touched his scar carefully: "These... don't seem to be born with it."

"It's a burn." His voice was extremely low and hoarse. "I was born in a carpenter's family. When I was able to walk, I helped the family. When I was eight years old, my mother was pregnant again. Then One year, a circus came to the town, and their 'son of the devil' died of illness, and they took a fancy to me."

"and then?"

"Then, my mother sold me to them for forty sous." He said flatly, "That day, it happened to be my birthday, and I also received my first birthday present, a wooden mask."

Forty sous, two francs, the price of a cab in Paris.

"The circus is a mixed place. There are villains and talented people. Some of them can speak ventriloquism, some can do magic tricks, and some can play the rope as flexibly as a snake. I thought that if I learned these, I would be able to Become an acrobat like them and get rid of the life of the 'child of the devil', so I spent a year learning their skills secretly, and that day, the circus arrived in Florence."

"Florence, Emerald, the City of Flowers, there are too many capable people in this city, the 'Devil's Son' can no longer attract the attention of the audience, and it happens that there is a circus in the same city, they also have a 'Devil's Son', and their The 'son of the devil' looked even more terrifying, his face was scalded with hot oil, his tongue was cut in half by pliers, and he was covered in maggots and flies all over his body. They made him lie in a cage like an animal, and let people watch him." Here, his tone became quite indifferent, "The leader told me that if I was willing to give up my health, he would give me an extra twenty francs a day."

"then you……"

"I refused him and hanged the man who came to pour the oil, but was still splashed in the face with boiling oil. Thanks to ventriloquism and ropes, I escaped into the sewers of an opera house. I wanted to end my life there. But I heard someone singing the "Ave Maria." He curled the corners of his lips mockingly, "At that time, I didn't know what the "Ave Maria" was, and I thought it was the voice of God, so I gave up the idea of ​​committing suicide."

"Don't you want to know where I have been? After Florence, it was Persia, Sudan, India... In order to control my destiny, I must learn something every time I go, otherwise I will feel uncontrollable panic. I rarely walk around in the daytime, if you want to walk the way I walked, you can only live like a rat in the sewer."

Tears blurred his vision, Bai Lanzhi sniffed, put her arms around his neck, and wiped her tears on his collar: "Eric..."

"You said, I let you see a wider, more spectacular, and freer world," he lowered his eyes, lifted her chin, and looked into her light blue eyes filled with tears, "but in fact, you If you stay with me, you will only be surrounded by dark, twisted, and cramped darkness. Bai Lanzhi, I have given you many chances, and now, I will give you the last one. If you want to leave, there is still time."