Strange story player

【My brother is very strange.

He looks nothing like me or my parents.

My mother died in childbirth when giving birth to me, and my father never remarried.

My impression of my mother comes from photos. She is a very gentle woman, always smiling from the corners of her eyes and eyebrows.

My father, Qin Linghan, is a taciturn man. According to people in the village, he went to the city to explore when he was young. When he came back, he brought back a girl from the city. That girl was my mother.

Before my father went to the city, he was a well-known thorn in the village. What he was good at was eating, drinking, having fun and doing nothing with his friends.

But after a trip to the city, he seemed to be a different person.

He talks less and has a calmer temper. After his mother passed away, he talks even less.

This is what the villagers said.

Xiajiang Village is just a small fishing village by the river. The school is in the town, so it's a long walk away.

When I was still in primary school, there were many friends in the same village who went to school together, but as I walked, there were fewer and fewer people in the village.

After the adults who came to work in the city found a place to stay, they took their children to the city.

I still remember that on the first day of elementary school six years ago, there were only five people in the class including me and the teacher.

There were no more students in the villages and towns, and the township primary school also stopped operating after that term.

I can only go to school in a larger town farther away.

There are no more friends on the road, but... I'm not the only one.

Next to me, there is a brother who is two years older than me - Qin Manjiang.

My father treats me better than my brother, and I can feel that since I was a child.

In fact, in the beginning, my father was as good to me as my brother, but my brother was always bland, like a robot, and his reactions were ordinary. Over time, everyone's feelings for him will be consumed.

He is a very boring person, really boring. Even if you tell him a funny joke, he will just "laugh" and then immediately regain his expression. His expression is as if it has been wound up. Although he appeared on time, he disappeared suddenly.

Over time, everyone in the village knew that I had a boring brother.

However, I know he is not like that.

Sometimes, I can feel that when I share the candy with him, although he politely says thank you, the joy in his eyes is beating uncontrollably.

The real him seems to be locked up.

When everyone spoke to him, he always responded with words such as "um", "ah", "ok" and "got it", as if he was afraid of making mistakes.

At that time, I was also afraid of him for a while. I was always worried that when he was eating, the skin on his face would accidentally fall off, exposing the metal bones.

Ha ha! I really thought about whether he was a programmed robot!

But such a brother actually has friends.

That was a guy named Li Xijiu.

Objectively speaking, Li Xi is sunny, active, brave, and kind. He even once jumped into a river to save a child!

However, that guy is really unpleasant!

Totally unpleasant!

He did weird things to my most precious childhood doll, including but not limited to wearing random clothes, putting pigtails on his head, and using them to play chess...

I always sneered at him, but he was not indifferent to me.

That guy pulled my hair out and broke my things, and then went to buy new ones to compensate. My brother said he was in puberty and told me to ignore him.

Humph, if I really cared about him, I would have thrown him into the river long ago!

Later, when my brother just entered high school, my father moved.

The house was built closer to the river.

Since I was a child, I have often gone to the riverside to call my dad home for dinner. The Xiajiang Village surrounded by the white river water and the small courtyard by the river seem to have been frozen in time, with little change year after year.

But...I can suddenly see...some strange people.

Sometimes they appear by the river, sometimes on the road, and sometimes on the paths of the village. They are really strange!

Although it looks like a human being, the position of the facial features and the expression are all wrong.

I once saw a child standing in the middle of the dark river at night, with his half-naked body exposed and waving to me.

I also saw a three-meter-tall "weirdo" walking around the village when I was out for a walk on a summer night.

Whether they are children or adults, the strangest thing about them is their eyes.

Some people's eyes are widely separated, and there is a large blank space between their eyebrows, which looks particularly weird.

Some people's eyes even grow weirdly vertically, standing straight up, stretching the facial proportions so strangely that it makes people's skin crawl.

Gradually, people with strange eyes appeared more and more frequently.

Moreover, I thought that everyone took it for granted, but later I learned that other people in the village, even my brother and father, were not aware of the presence of "outsiders" in the village at all.

No one can see them!

I still can’t figure out whether those people with strange eyes have really been here, or whether they are just an illusion...]

Qin Manjiang had just turned to the next page when he saw a hand pressing on the diary.

He raised his head and saw an angry Qin Yiyi.

"Hey! You peeked into my diary!"

Qin Manjiang smiled, with a rogue look on his face: "Yes, I peeked, what do you want?"

"You!" Qin Satisfied looked at him angrily, but suddenly realized, how could his brother say something so like Li Xijiu?

Before she could continue to wonder, Qin Manjiang stood up and asked, "I just came here. The nurse said that you were called by the doctor. Are you okay?"

"What can happen?" Qin Satisfied sat down on the bed, "Assess my mental state."

At this point, she suddenly asked: "Hey, do you know how to prove whether a person has a mental illness?"

"Doing a Mathematical Olympiad question in front of the doctor?" Qin Manjiang said casually.

"What? The people in the mental hospital are just crazy, not stupid," Qin said with dissatisfaction, "Listen, the best way is..."

"Give me money!"

She lay back and looked at the ceiling helplessly: "There are many ways to get in. If you want to get out, it basically depends on the doctor's words. For things like mental illness... who will listen to a patient?"

"Speaking of which," Qin Yiyi glared at Qin Manjiang, "I asked you to come to me within a month, and it's already October 7th."

"Something happened these days." Qin Manjiang rubbed his nose and said a little embarrassedly.

He was indeed a little embarrassed. A week ago, he exchanged a permanent prop, a doll named "I".

But since that day, his body has become exhausted, and it is extremely difficult to stand up and take two steps.

But there are also benefits. Now the fit between his body and soul has reached a perfect level, and finally things like his body acting on its own will no longer happen.

The cost was a week in bed.

When the squad leader woke up the next day, he left without even saying hello. Qin Manjiang was unable to stop him. He vaguely felt that the squad leader must have guessed something.

After all, he was not the only player, but he was the only one who knew that she was involved in the game and called her.

She most likely knew that it was because of Qin Manjiang that she was involved in an abnormal life, but she didn't know what attitude to use to face him at the moment.

After all...it was Qin Manjiang who saved her.

In the next week, Mi Qiao not only prepared dog food for Xiaobai, but also prepared human food for him. It was not until yesterday that Qin Manjiang's body was basically recovered.

"Let's not talk about this anymore. Get ready and be discharged from the hospital immediately."

Qin Manjiang said.

Qin Yiyi's eyes widened: "Discharged from hospital?! Temporarily or permanently?!"

"After I go out, can I still let the doctor have the final say?"

Qin Manjiang smiled evilly at her.