Chapter 81 Welcome Home
The world swallowed her.
Ping Yingzi felt like she was walking in a dark tunnel.
There was no end in sight, and occasionally there would be echoes from the tunnel. Someone asked her to eat or drink water, and the things in her hands would turn into food or cups. She was so hungry that she couldn't help but look back at the way she came. The outside world was full of traps.
"I caught it! I caught you——"
"Eat something, please..."
"There's someone in the closet! It's a child! First aid, where's the first aid?!"
"Too much external stimulation can lead to palpitations, mental breakdown, and self-cognition disorder..."
"I am Investigator Kagami Keito. May I ask you a few words?"
……
She could hear and see, but she couldn't and didn't want to respond, as if her soul and body were separated.
The soul walks in the tunnel, driven by fear into the depths of darkness; the body is like a protective shell, numbly receiving messages from the outside world.
Once the stimulation is too great, the noise is too loud, or the object suddenly moves, the entire tunnel will begin to shake, shaking violently like an earthquake. She was so frightened that she huddled in the corner of the tunnel, crying and waiting for the disaster to subside.
She didn't want to go back.
She didn't have the courage to go back to that terrifying forest. There was no longer a habitat for her outside. She had no motivation to run anymore, and she had nothing to chase.
"Excuse me..."
The door opened, and she turned around. Through the end of the tunnel, she saw two unfamiliar faces, a man and a woman.
The girl was a little nervous and looked older than her. She put her hands behind her back and said seriously: "Hello, this is the first time we meet. I am Patrolman Minamoto Tamako in front of Sugamo Station. I'm sorry that I'm late... I'm really sorry!"< br>
The man looked at her, waved his hand in front of her eyes, and said indifferently: "They are already in a vegetative state. If there is anything else to ask, why not let her rest."
"I didn't plan to ask, I just hope she can cheer up again!" Yuan Yuzi turned her head, clenched her fist and said to her: "Come on! Don't be knocked down! Even if you grit your teeth, you must try your best to get up!"
The man looked impatient: "Do you feel your back hurts when you stand and talk? What if you find lying on the bottom of the valley quite comfortable?"
Yuan Yuzi pouted and said seriously: "No, I know what it feels like! Aunt Yukimura definitely doesn't want to see her become like this, just like Kawai doesn't want to see me sad! Although I'm not as eloquent as you , I don’t know how to describe this feeling, but the minds between people are connected.”
"Don't believe it, human beings' joys and sorrows are not the same. Maybe she just thinks we are noisy."
Gentamako asked: "Then why did you comfort me in the first place? Why did you say that Kawai's spirit was attached to Officer Rabbit?"
Seeing that she had refuted the other party, Yuan Yuzi hummed softly, lay on her bedside, and kept saying encouraging words to her.
Ping Yingzi felt that the tunnel began to shake again, her body trembled uneasily, her eyes were filled with tears, and she was about to collapse.
Yuan Yuzi quickly shut up, and Fushimi Shika also held his breath and concentrated. The two of them seemed to be playing with one, two, three wooden figures, their bodies stiff and motionless.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, Ping Yingzi gradually calmed down. She was lying on the hospital bed, her eyes unfocused, like a lifeless porcelain doll, with a few freckles on her face.
"Let me do it," Fushimi Shika said.
"Really or not, can you do it?" Yuan Yuzi lowered his voice: "I feel that you are not good at comforting people. Don't make them more serious."
Fushimi Shika said angrily: "Although I'm not good at comforting others, I know what others want to hear. It's not like you, who doesn't pick up the pot every day and stabs your partner's heart at every turn. You know how to be pierced by nails. Broken wooden stakes will leave holes. If an apology is useful, what else should the police do..."
Yuan Yuzi hears this every day, even a fool should practice magic resistance. She urged a few words impatiently, and Fushimi Lu clicked her tongue, thinking that she should change her words in the future.
"Go aside and stay out of the way."
Fushimi saw the deer picking up the tamako and half-crouching on the bedside of Taira Sakurako. He took out the video recorder from his pocket and pressed the power switch. A familiar electronic startup sound sounded, and Hira Sakurako's expression finally changed.
He clicked on the video file, turned the screen, and started playing it from the beginning.
Minamoto Tamako subconsciously exclaimed, "You actually hid physical evidence." Fushimi Shika turned around and glared at her. She shut up angrily, planning to settle the score with him later.
Ping Yingzi's eyes finally focused, and her eyes fell on the screen.
The video recorder was a cheap one. The picture was slightly blurry and the color was light blue, just like a dream in the past. She saw her side face and was concentrating on carving a mask.
……
...In the tunnel, she was mesmerized.
From a distance, Yukimura Aoihana asked, ‘Are you using magic? Why can these masks be exchanged for money? ’, she heard herself reply: ‘I am drawing with my heart. Through these masks, you can see my emotions, anger, sorrow and joy’... Her smiling face was frozen on the face, and the original peace and joy were still in her heart.
She subconsciously took a step back.
In an instant, vines grew wildly, thorns grew thickly, and ghostly shadows and phantoms rushed towards her face. Ping Yingzi screamed and staggered back.
Snap.
Someone gently supported her back.
At the end of the tunnel, there is a bright spot of light. As the screen shook, the smiling face of Yukimura Aoi finally appeared. Her voice seemed to come from the front, but also sounded from behind: "Hey, Sakurako, are you scared?"
The person behind pushed Ping Yingzi forward step by step. She burst into tears and couldn't help but follow the force towards the end of the light. Vines wrapped around her arms, thorns pierced the soles of her feet, and the ghosts kept screaming.
Her father's ferocious face was stuck in front of her, and he yelled, 'Why don't you die?', 'It's because of you that I got divorced', 'You are a burden to this family'... Nagashima Takeshi's twisted body caught Pulling her hair, it smiled ferociously and said, 'Weak people should act like weak people', 'People like you are born to please me'...
The person behind her covered her ears, and Ping Yingzi started running. She kept running with her little feet, and kept running towards the light spot. There are many terrible things in this world, but Xuecun Sunflower is still waiting for her, still waiting for her to go home...
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With a pop, she fell to the ground.
A shadow hung upside down in the tunnel, that was her own shadow.
"Don't go back anymore," she heard herself saying: "Sunflower is dead. You can't change anything. It will only increase the pain."
"No..." Ping Yingzi said with a cry.
"No one cares about you at all. Everything you do is in vain. It is better to turn back and walk along this dark tunnel to the deepest part... It is quiet there, there is no pain, and you will no longer be sad... ”
Endless darkness enveloped her, as if all her strength had been drained from her, and she could no longer stand up.
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"Didn't you tell me a story about evil spirits yesterday? Aren't you afraid of those things?"
"Not afraid."
"Why?"
"Only one person can be afraid, but two people are not afraid."
"What if I become a ghost? I'm hungry, I'll eat you!"
"I'm not afraid either."
"Why?"
"You will protect me. Right?"
"Yes, if I die, I will become your guardian spirit."
In the darkness, someone helped her up, and she heard the whisper of an old friend in her ear: "So, for me, run, Yingzi."
Ping Yingzi cried loudly, she staggered to her feet, gritted her teeth and ran as fast as she could, leaving a bloody footprint in the tunnel.
"Yingzi, Yingzi, run forward, don't look back."
The thorns could not stop her steps, and the vines could no longer hold her body. The ghostly shadow in front of her disappeared. The light spot in front of her eyes became bigger and bigger, and the dreamy warm light finally shone on her face.
……
Taira Sakurako's eyelashes trembled slightly, and she slowly raised her head. The video recorder showed Yukimura Kwaihua kneeling in the entrance hall.
"Welcome home, Sakurako."
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