Chapter 506 Fish
Hot water was poured into the glass, and the man couldn't wait to take off his gloves, hold up the glass, and feel the warmth.
"You are so brave. I have warned you so many times, but you still dare to run around." The man's room has been remodeled many times. It not only has a fireplace, but also a stove and a hot bed. Even if the door is not installed, It was still warm inside.
"I'm quite curious." Gao Ming also picked up the water glass, but he had no intention of drinking it.
"Curiosity killed the cat. Isn't it good to live in confusion?" The man wanted to remind Gao Ming of something. He raised his head and found that Gao Ming had already started walking around the room, still holding his photo hanging on the wall. : "It's not a good habit to mess with other people's things."
In the photo, there is a family of five, with three children standing in the front and parents standing in the back. It is worth noting that the face of the child in the center of the photo has been cut off, leaving a dark hole. The remaining four people stared at the camera with expressionless faces. If it weren't for the words of family happiness and other blessings written on the photo frame, Gao Ming would probably think that these were five strangers standing together.
There was no eye contact, verbal communication, or physical contact between them, and everyone was separated by a distance.
"Are they your family?"
"Well." The man held the water glass, as if he was lost in memories: "The middle-aged man who looked wild and rude was my father. He was a mixed race and a handsome bastard. He was different from my romantic grandfather. He was old-fashioned and serious. He also advocates violence at his core. About two years ago, he hunted a bear in the deep forest of the snowy mountains.”
The man's emotions towards his father were a bit complicated, ranging from admiration to helplessness.
"The middle-aged woman standing behind me is the biological mother of my younger brother and younger sister. She seems to never age. Her face has never changed in my impression."
After hearing the man's words, Gao Ming couldn't help but glance at the middle-aged woman. In the photo, she was wearing a red dress with strange patterns. She looked noble, mysterious and a little bloody.
"Aren't the mothers of your three brothers the same person?" Gao Ming raised the photo: "And why was the face of the child in the middle taken down?"
"The one whose face was cut off was my brother. I don't know why this happened. Since he disappeared, all the photos related to him in the manor have become like this." The man noticed Gao Ming's suspicious eyes: "I know you don't believe it, but it really has nothing to do with me. Although he and I were not born from the same mother, we have a very good relationship. I have been accompanying him since he was a child. If you really want to say it, My relationship with him is closer than that with his parents.”
"Where's the last sister? Where did she go?" Gao Ming put the photo back in its place. He had memorized all the details in the photo.
"This brings me to another very strange thing." The man's gaze slowly focused on his sister's face in the photo: "Sometimes I wonder, do I have this sister?"
"What do you mean?"
"She is in the photo, she is in the diary, she is in the accounts, consumption, etc., but I can't remember her." The man's troubled look didn't look like he was pretending: "What does she look like? I I have no idea what happened with her and how she disappeared.”
"From a certain day, did you slowly forget about your sister?"
"It was not a slow process, but a very sudden thing. In other words, although the girl was in the photo at my house, I didn't know her at all."
The men's family are all strange, and no one seems normal. "Don't force yourself if you can't remember." Gao Ming clinked glasses with the man: "By the way, you just said that your parents were imprisoned on the fourth floor. What happened to them?"
Sighing softly, the man seemed much older. He sat next to the fireplace with a shotgun on his back, his eyes blending with the firelight: "My stepmother fell ill last winter. My father has been taking good care of her, but my stepmother is getting worse day by day." Weight loss, the condition did not improve at all. One day by chance, my father discovered that his stepmother loved to eat freshly caught live fish from the East Lake. From then on, he would go out to fish for his stepmother no matter what the weather was like outside, but..."
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"But what?"
"Dad always goes out at night and comes back before dawn carrying an opaque black bag."
"Are you sure that the bag contains fish?" Gao Ming didn't believe that the fish in East Lake had such miraculous effects.
"They were always tossing around in the bag, and my father had to work hard to hold them down. I actually never opened the bag to look at it. My younger brother did get close to the bag because he was naughty, but he was driven away by his father before he could open it. ”
"What did my brother see? What does the fish look like?" Gao Ming became more and more curious.
"He didn't see the fish, he saw the hair." The man's hand gently fiddled in the darkness: "strands of hair stuck together, smelling fishy and earthy."
The fire in the fireplace dimmed a little, and the temperature in room 3003 seemed to be dropping.
"Dad only cooks for my mother at night. There is always a wooden lid on the soup bowl he stews, and he won't open it until he enters the fourth floor. As for the leftovers from stepmother's meal, my father will not waste it. He often hides in I ate by myself in the kitchen cellar, and I once heard the sound of digging. I wondered what my father was burying after eating." The man also revealed to Gao Ming that there might be something hidden in the cellar where food is stored in the kitchen. Some clues.
"Probably when winter came this year, my father built the windows on the fourth floor with bricks in advance, and installed iron guardrails in the corridor, but at that time there was still a door on the guardrail." The man's eyes were a little dim: "He He told me personally that after he entered the fourth floor, he would remove the door and seal the way to the fourth floor.”
"But you didn't do it."
"I thought they would come back, so I just replaced the door with a stronger guardrail. I also saw what my father and stepmother look like now. They turned into monsters and only appeared at night." The man tightened his grip. Shotgun: "All the misfortunes in my family may be related to my stepmother, but I don't have the courage to hurt her, nor the ability to find out the truth. I can only stay here day after day, hoping to survive the long winter night. Maybe , wait until summer, everything will be fine.”
"What if there is only cold winter in your world?" Gao Ming didn't completely believe what the man said, and the whole family was surprised.
"No." The man shook his head: "If you really want to help me, you can go to East Lake and have a look. Maybe you can find the 'fish' that your stepmother has eaten."
Bai Huang had been to East Lake when it was not dark. She did not mention any relevant information, and Gao Ming was not sure whether the other party was deliberately concealing it.
"Okay, I'll go at dawn."
"No." The man shook his head: "I have been there many times during the day and found nothing. The 'fish' should only appear at night."
(End of chapter)