Today is the twelfth year since Gao Yang traveled through time.
Before traveling through time, Gao Yang was an orphan who had just spent his 6th birthday in an orphanage. That night, he ate the cupcakes that the dormitory manager bought for him and went to bed contentedly. Before going to bed, he made a wish that he could find his parents, and then fell into a dream in a daze.
When he woke up, Gao Yang found himself sitting at a dining table with a bowl of steaming noodles on the table. He was biting the noodles in his mouth, and half of them were still hanging outside.
In the hall of the old house, the light of the early morning was soft. A strange young man and woman sat opposite the dining table. The old lady with a kind face sitting on the seat with her back against the door, and next to him sat a big-eyed little girl, about four or five years old.
"Don't stand there, eat quickly, don't be late for school later." The young woman urged. She was in her thirties. Although she was wearing simple pajamas and no makeup, she was very beautiful.
"Son, do you want dad to take you home?" The young man asked with a toothpick in his mouth. He was tall and strong, with a slightly bulging belly and a slightly high hairline. His eyes and eyebrows still vaguely showed his handsomeness when he was young.
"No! Dad wants to take me to kindergarten!" The little girl shouted angrily, lying on the table and picking a bowl of millet porridge.
"Haha, then take your brother home first, then your sister, okay?" The old lady smiled kindly and reached out to touch the little girl's head.
Gao Yang opened his mouth wide, and the noodles fell on the table with a "click".
He was six years old that year, and he couldn't understand what "travel through time" meant, nor did he know what "parallel world" meant.
He thought he was still dreaming, but he didn't expect that he would dream for twelve years.
...
Now, Gao Yang has long adapted to this new world and has long been integrated with the host. He is Gao Yang, 18 years old, a senior high school student, living in a warm family of five, with a kind grandmother, loving and harmonious parents who occasionally quarrel, and a quirky sister.
He lives a good life. Like most of his peers, he studies hard for the college entrance examination, and occasionally imagines what university to go to, what job to find, who to marry, and how many children to have in the future...
In short, Gao Yang's 6-year-old wish came true. He "found" his parents, and also his grandmother and sister.
He lives a happy life and has nothing else to ask for.
Until his 18th birthday, everything changed.
After the evening self-study, Gao Yang rode his bicycle home. When passing a night road, a black shadow suddenly rushed out from the alley and knocked Gao Yang and his bicycle over.
Gao Yang fell, but it was not serious. He stood up with a grin and saw the person who hit him. Under the dim street light, there stood a short middle-aged man. He was emaciated, pale, and terrified. He was wearing a tattered hospital gown and covered in blood.
"Uncle, are you okay..."
"Run!" The man grabbed Gao Yang's shoulders with great force. "Monster! Monsters are everywhere! Run! Get out of here!"
The man's voice was filled with a desperate smell of blood. "Don't trust anyone..."
"Bang!"
The man wanted to say something, but a bullet shot into his temple, penetrated his skull, and shot out from the other temple, instantly blooming a bloody rose.
"Magnetic--" A thick blood mist mixed with a pungent smell came to his nose.
The hands that pinched Gao Yang's shoulders slowly loosened, and the man's terrified look was forever frozen. His overly protruding eyeballs no longer moved, and they were engraved with despair, hesitation, and unwillingness.
Two seconds later, the body fell heavily.
Gao Yang was stunned.
He stood there, his feet were quickly soaked by the spreading blood, and they felt sticky and wet. The slight tinnitus caused by the bullet piercing the man's head was gradually covered by the sound of the heartbeat in his chest, thump, thump, thump, thump...
"Kid, you are not hurt!"
"Don't be afraid, you are safe now!"
"Close your eyes, don't look down...
…"
Several policemen rushed over, one of them took Gao Yang into his arms and covered his eyes.
…
The next day, Gao Yang made the headlines of the local news "Severely mentally ill patient killed two nurses and fled at night, then took a high school student hostage and was shot dead on the spot".
Gao Yang took a day off from school and rested at home.
He was indeed a little shocked. He witnessed a life being brutally shot at close range, which was unbearable for any ordinary person. Moreover, there were many doubts about the mental patient, which made him feel very strange. He couldn't tell what was strange for a while.
That night, Gao Yang took a sleeping pill.
After falling asleep, he had a dream.
The host's memories before the age of 6 had long been digested by Gao Yang, who had traveled through time, but some vague memories seemed to have been forgotten.
In the dream, Gao Yang returned to the late night of the summer when he was 4 years old.
He ate too much watermelon, his bladder was swollen, and he got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. When he passed by his grandparents' room, he heard a rustling sound.
Gao Yang was a little better He pricked up his ears and pressed them against the cold door. The sound became more real and more strange.
He had never heard such a sound before. It sounded like the whimper of a wild beast or the wail of a deep-sea whale. It sounded painful and mixed with a twisted excitement. If he listened carefully, he could hear a rough and dull biting sound underneath the sound.
Gao Yang felt creepy.
At that time, he had just finished listening to the fairy tale of "Little Red Riding Hood" told by the kindergarten teacher. He thought, could the big bad wolf sneak into his home? Did they eat grandpa and grandma?
Gao Yang's heart was beating fast, but he still plucked up the courage to gently push open the door.
What did he see through the crack of the door!
He was so scared that he turned around and ran back to his room, buried his head in the quilt, and even forgot to solve his physiological problems.
The next morning, Gao Yang wet the bed, and he thought it was just a nightmare. At this time, his mother pushed the door open and hugged Gao Yang sadly. She cried and said, "Gao Yang, your grandfather is gone. "
When Gao Yang followed his mother out of the room, his grandfather's body was just being carried away by medical staff on a stretcher, covered with a white cloth. By the time the funeral was held, his grandfather had become an urn.
From beginning to end, Gao Yang and his sister were unable to see their grandfather for the last time.
Now that I think about it, there are many doubts.
Grandpa loved Gao Yang and his sister the most when he was alive. They were close relatives, so why couldn't they see his grandfather for the last time?
If my memory is correct, the shape of the upper body of the grandfather's body covered by the white cloth was very strange, as if one of his hands was missing.
Didn't grandpa die of a heart attack? Why is there one hand missing?
In his dream, Gao Yang looked at the body on the white stretcher, puzzled.
Suddenly, the body on the white stretcher sat up!
Under the white cloth, it turned out to be the psychopathic man. His eyes were hollowed out, leaving only two deep blood holes, and sticky black blood spurted out of his seven orifices. He stretched out his bloody hands and pinched Gao Yang's shoulders hard.
——Monster! Monsters are everywhere! Run! Get out of here!
——Don't trust anyone!
...
"Ah!"
Gao Yang woke up from his dream.
It was ten o'clock in the morning, the sun was shining, the April breeze blew the curtains, and outside the window was the hustle and bustle of the city.
"Brother, are you having a nightmare?" The sister sat at the head of Gao Yang's bed, tilted her head and looked at her, blinking her big eyes.
Gao Yang was stunned "Why are you in my room? "
The younger sister looked at him with disdain, "The sun is shining on your butt, and my mother asked me to wake you up!"
"Okay, I got it."
The younger sister walked out of the room.
Gao Yang was still a little dazed, he turned over and got out of bed, and drank a big mouthful of water.
At this time, the phone rang, and Gao Yang casually opened WeChat.
"Puff——" He spit out a mouthful of water