Chapter 62 Falling into the Abyss
Afternoon, Alley Cafe, second floor.
As soon as An Yunlin entered the door, she saw the white-haired boy sitting on a chair near the floor-to-ceiling window, staring at the busy traffic and people coming and going downstairs, dazed.
Ke Yue turned her head and smiled softly at An Yunlin.
An Yunlin put a CD in an old-fashioned record player, and she adjusted the volume to a suitable level. The melancholy piano music of four or three beats slowly flowed, and every corner of the house seemed to resonate.
"This is Chopin's Waltz." She sat down in front of the boy.
The main melody at the beginning is soft and elegant with a hint of melancholy, disorderly and implying a beautiful longing for the future. It is worthy of being a romantic piano poet in the 19th century.
Her peach blossom eyes narrowed slightly.
An Yunlin carefully observed Ke Yue's expression, and after she relaxed completely, she asked:
"Now, is 'she' here?"
Ke Yue shook her head, "Before you came in, 'she' was here."
She pointed to the empty floor-to-ceiling window, "'She' is leaning here, looking at the people below."
"After you came in, 'she' disappeared."
As before, it would only appear when the boy was alone. An Yunlin wrote this down in her notebook.
This is a good thing, at least others will not notice that Ke Yue has schizophrenia. After all, it is too weird for a person to talk to himself in the air.
"Did 'she' say something to you just now?"
"No." The young man laughed softly, "'She' is very quiet, as if she just wants to accompany me."
Seemingly subconsciously trying to alleviate that terrible feeling of loneliness, An Yunlin recorded it in her notebook and asked the next question.
"How many times did 'she' appear in this week?"
"Four times, maybe five times?"
Comparing this to the previous week's data, she penciled in the increase in the "Frequency of Occurrence" column.
"Has 'she' shown any anti-social tendencies?"
"No." The young man thought, "At most, he will show a strong desire for possession and control."
For example, last time, 'she' asked her to gouge out Lin Chen's eyes.
Paranoid personality... This was Shen Yue's situation back then, but now, this emotion has been transferred to Ke Yue's fantasy personality.
The young man and 'her' are like two ends of a scale, one controls absolute sanity, while the other is completely crazy.
Ke Yue seemed calm now, but she knew that the truest side of the boy was reflected in her.
But at least it seems to be safe for now, and there is no desire to kill or set fire to anything.
An Yunlin put a cross on "dangerous" and wrote down today's date.
"Arlin, I need you to do something for me." Ke Yue took out a transparent glass tube and placed it on the coffee table. The dark blue transparent liquid inside was gently shaking. "Help me test the ingredients in it. .”
An Yunlin picked up the glass tube and looked at it, "Blue Orange Peel Champagne? It looks good."
"Maybe when you analyze the ingredients inside, you won't think it's good." The young man smiled.
"You seemed to have had a good rest last night." She noticed that the green color in the young man's peach blossom eyes had become much lighter.
"Yeah, it's rare that I don't have insomnia."
When she said this, Ke Yue's brows wrinkled slightly.
"Arlene, I seem to be dreaming about what happened when I was a child."
An Yunlin's hand holding the pen paused.
"When did it happen?"
"Last night, it seemed like there was another one a month ago."
"What did you dream about?"
"Wisteria flowers, piano..." the boy recalled the elements that appeared in the dream, "and... a piece of music, it should be... a violin?"
She carefully observed the boy's pupils and breathed a sigh of relief when she found that there was no sign of pain.
"A piece of music? Is it the one you usually play?"
"No." Peach Blossom Eyes dimmed, "I don't know what it is, but as soon as I hear that piece of music, I seem to become very calm."
The two rare dreams I had were both related to my childhood, and I heard this song both times.
What exactly is it?
"Arlene." The young man raised his fingers slightly and clasped them lightly, as if he had made a major decision.
"I want to recall what happened when I was a child."
An Yunlin suddenly became nervous.
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah."
"But, that's not a good memory." She was a little worried.
"I know." The young man smiled.
Of course she knew that it would not be a good memory, otherwise she would not ask An Yunlin to hypnotize herself and lock that memory.
"I'll need to remember it someday, won't I?"
She always has to think of the truth about her mother's death.
Moreover, in these two dreams, she discovered that her childhood might still have such a beautiful existence.
This was completely different from what she remembered.
She vaguely felt that she seemed to have overlooked something most important.
What exactly is missing?
She once thought that her childhood was completely dark, but those two dreams truly told her that there was a ray of light in that dark past.
She forgot about that light too.
And now, she wanted to try to remember.
She wanted to catch that light again.
An Yunlin looked at the young man steadily.
After a long time, she sighed, feeling helpless, "I said when I was hypnotizing you, I locked that memory of yours, and when you want to recall it, you can take the key back from me at any time. ”
"However, you have to promise me that if there is any danger, you must stop it immediately, okay?"
"I will."
So An Yunlin stopped talking.
She took out a pocket watch and swung it left and right in front of the boy's eyes.
At this time, the music that had been playing on the record player also reached its climax, and the gorgeous tone of the piano echoed in the room.
"Look at this watch."
"You heard the sound of the second hand turning."
"Look at it, don't blink, you will feel that time is going backwards."
"Now, please listen to me..."
"3..."
"2..."
"Bang!" A crisp sound sounded, and the two turned their heads to look. It turned out that when the pocket watch was swinging, it knocked over the glass on the coffee table, and water spilled all over the floor.
An Yunlin looked at the boy a little apologetically.
"It's okay, I'll go to the bathroom and wipe off the water stains on my clothes." The young man smiled and stood up.
However, as soon as she stood up, the music that had been flowing in the room suddenly stopped at the climax.
"Why did the music stop?" Ke Yue asked with some confusion, subconsciously wanting to look back at An Yunlin.
At the moment when the music stopped, An Yunlin held up her pocket watch, opened her red lips, and softly spat out the last syllable.
"1."
The boy turned around.
The scenery in sight has undergone earth-shaking changes.
The familiar apartment was gone, and everything around it was gone.
When I looked up, I saw endless emptiness, which was so disconcerting.
She took a few tentative steps.
The smooth and flat mirror under her feet clearly reflected the boy's appearance, and as she took steps, ripples appeared on the mirror.
She is the only one in this world.
……
An Yunlin supported Ke Yue, who had lost consciousness, and asked her to sit on a chair.
She gently opened the boy's upper eyelids and checked the degree of closure of the pupils. After ensuring that the boy had entered a hypnotic state, she breathed a sigh of relief.
"What did you see?" she asked aloud.
"...a space...very empty, without boundaries..."
"Can I move around freely?"
"...can."
"Very good. Now, pick a direction at will and keep going forward." An Yunlin continued to give instructions.
"Then, suddenly a door appears in front of you."
"Push it away."
"You can go back in time and find that memory."
……
The young man pushed open the rusty door.
A piano?
The surroundings were dark, and only a beam of light from the top illuminated the piano.
Apart from that, there is nothing else.
She walked over and tried to play a note.
The ethereal and clear tone echoed in the air.
Suddenly, there was a low sound of water falling.
"Tick tock..."
In such an environment, the sound of water drops is particularly clear.
The young man lowered his head and found something faintly seeping out of the originally black and white keyboard.
"Tick tock..."
When you touch it lightly with your fingers, it has a sticky texture.
This is...blood!
The crimson color kept pouring out and soon covered the entire keyboard. The piano began to play automatically, with the black and white keys jumping crazily. The strong notes almost shook the boy's mind.
This song... Her eyes widened, this is...
My head hurts...
"Tick tock..."
The red blood drops hit the ground hard, and the smooth mirror shattered the moment it touched the ground.
Time seemed to stop at this moment, the fragments floated up, reflecting colorful light.
No, the debris wasn't flying upward.
But...
I am falling.
In order to forget her childhood, An Yunlin built a bridge in her mind so that the young man could cross the darkness.
And now, the bridge collapsed.
She fell into the abyss of memory!
Each section of the surrounding fragments reflected a different picture. She felt as if she had fallen into a montage-style painting, or as if she were looking out from a kaleidoscope. Every angle showed a different and bizarre scenery.
"Yue'er...Yue'er..."
The long-haired woman had a gentle voice. Although he couldn't see the person's face clearly, the boy still felt that her smile was so beautiful and warm.
"Yue'er, you are the person I love most in this world."
"Listen, this song is written for you."
"Yue'er, without you, I will die."
"Yue'er." The woman's tone suddenly turned cold, "Why don't you die..."
Blood, all blood.
Why is there so much blood?
What he saw was a dazzling red color, covering his whole body.
It's so cold...
The boy continued to fall, and these vague memory fragments were like cold water, drowning her.
She was out of breath.
……
"Ke Yue! Can you hear what I say?"
"I order you, come out of that door!"
The white-haired boy curled up on the chair and struggled in vain. No matter how much An Yunlin shouted, she closed her eyes tightly and could not wake up.
"Breathe! Ke Yue, try to breathe!"
Suddenly, the young man opened his eyes, but he just stared blankly at something, as if his soul had been pulled away.
My heart seemed to stop beating.
"Ke Yue, look at me!" An Yunlin gently pressed the boy's chest, "Breathe, 1...2...3..."
She didn't know how long it took, but when the boy was finally able to take his first breath of air on his own, she relaxed and wiped the sweat from her forehead due to nervousness.
It was so dangerous just now.
Psychological asphyxia, if she hadn't discovered it early, the consequences would have been really...
"How do you feel now?" She poured a glass of water for Ke Yue.
Ke Yue seemed to have come back to her senses at this time. She waved her hand to indicate that she was fine.
An Yunlin was still a little worried, "Did you remember anything?"
The young man was silent.
She pushed open the door, took a peek, and was choked by the repressed emotions.
When she thought she was going to die, someone pulled her out of the water.
"Xiao Yue'er." The man called.
Who is it...?
……
"Let's stop here today." An Yunlin sighed.
"You are not ready yet." (End of Chapter)