Chapter 239: The Brain Collapses and Gradually Enters Madness

Yin Xiu stared at the woman's sad face in silence and walked in expressionlessly.

On both sides of the orphanage corridor stood several children who usually bullied him. Normally, they would come up to him with a smile and pick a fight, but today for some reason they just stood there in silence, which was unusual.

Yin Xiu ignored them and walked along the corridor, step by step towards the living room where they usually played and gathered.

"Yin Xiu." The crying woman behind him couldn't help but call out to him before Yin Xiu went in. Her face was full of hesitation. "Why don't you go find her later?"

Yin Xiu glanced at the woman out of the corner of his eye, said nothing, and stepped in.

The first thing he saw when he entered the room was a small human figure lying on the ground, covered with a white cloth that completely obscured the entire body. From the corner of the white cloth, the edge of a skirt that Yin Xiu was familiar with was revealed.

Yin Xiu stood there blankly, staring at the white cloth. "Is Xiaoxiao sleeping?"

The woman hesitated and did not respond.

Yin Xiu walked forward and lifted the white cloth.

Under the white cloth was a face he was extremely familiar with. At this moment, he wanted to see a smiling face the most, but this face had become gray and bloodless, with his eyebrows and eyes tightly closed and no trace of life.

Yin Xiu slowly reached out and touched her face, wiped the dirt off her face, and stared at her silently for a long time.

The whole room was silent, and the people at the door didn't dare to make a sound. Yin Xiu's silence was like the calm before the storm. The more suppressed it was, the more terrifying it was. No one knew how turbulent his emotions were beneath his silent appearance.

After staying there for a moment, he slowly reached out and picked up Xiaoxiao from the ground. He turned around and muttered, "How can you sleep on the ground? You must be exhausted. Brother will take you back to the house."

His eyes were lifeless and his voice was light and weightless, as if this body was still alive, but just an empty shell.

The woman quickly stopped him and choked up, saying, "She...she went to work today at a place that specializes in experiments on children...There are certain risks there, but these risks haven't appeared yet. No one expected her to have a rejection reaction...

“Among the children, she was the only one who got into trouble.

"So Yin Xiu... Xiaoxiao has already..."

The woman's throat choked with sobs, and she spoke with difficulty, "She is gone."

It was very difficult to say out these few short sentences of explanation. She held her breath and observed Yin Xiu's reaction, fearing that this silent man would collapse in the next second.

Everyone in the orphanage can see how hard Yin Xiu works for his sister. They have come this far because of their mutual dependence.

And now that Xiaoxiao is dead, Yin Xiu has not shown much reaction from beginning to end. He has been calm, silent, and even a little scary in his quietness.

He held Xiaoxiao in his arms and walked out silently past the woman, crossed the corridor, and returned to the shabby little room where they lived.

Once the door was closed, the sound of the woman crying outside was blocked out, leaving only silence in the room.

The person who had smiled at him, waved to him, and waited for his return this morning, could no longer smile at all.

Yin Xiu's mind was blank and he couldn't think of anything. He sat in front of the bed with his head down, staring at the person on the bed. He tentatively pushed Xiaoxiao's mouth corner with his finger, making a smile appear on this pale face.

The brief arc made her look like she had come alive, transported back to the past in an instant.

But as soon as his fingers loosened, the pale little face returned to deathly silence.

Yin Xiu couldn't tell what emotion he was feeling at the moment. He just felt a lot of noise in his head, as if something was breaking and collapsing, as if his life could never be put back together again.

He didn't know what to do, so he could only sit in front of the bed expectantly, hoping that his sister was just sleeping for a while, and when she woke up she would open her eyes and act coquettishly to him like before.

The woman outside the window kept crying. She kept pulling and tugging at the director. She was the one who took care of almost all the children in the orphanage. Among all the children, Xiaoxiao was the most obedient and well-behaved.

On that freezing day, she was the one who welcomed the two shivering little ones into the door, taught them how to read and grow, and was considered a relatively gentle person to Yin Xiu and the others.

Now that Xiaoxiao is gone, she is also devastated.

But in the entire orphanage, she was the only one who broke down. There were only her cries and noises. The rest of the children were quiet or laughing. Apart from the woman's crying, it was as if Xiaoxiao's incident had never happened. Even the director was only uneasy for a while before calming down.

"It doesn't matter whether he's burned or buried. He's just a child. Why make so much trouble? He has no parents and no one knows where he came from. He doesn't even have a household registration. Just let him die." The director's voice sounded more terrifying than the murderous cold wind.

The children playing in the corner of the yard began to murmur in low voices, "Why did she die? Is everyone else okay?"

"She's dead, so what? Without her, there's no one to snatch the candy from me."

"But her brother became so scary, he didn't even cry."

"Her brother was already a monster, and now that his sister is dead, he's even more of a monster."

"He won't go crazy and beat us up, will he?"

"If you're going to fight, then fight that guy... Didn't he say before that he wanted his sister dead? Let's teach him a lesson. Do you think it could be him..."

"Shh, stop talking, don't let anyone hear you."

"I didn't expect that he would remember it so much after having his teeth pulled that he actually did it."

"If we don't talk about this, no one will know."

The sound of small discussions drifted in through the shabby glass windows. The sound insulation in every room was indeed good, but only the room where Yin Xiu lived was very shabby and could hardly block out any sounds from outside. This was something they had never known.

Because they were the last children to arrive and the most excluded, they had to live in the dilapidated house that no one else wanted to live in. It leaked rain, was drafty, and could not keep out the cold or the heat. The other children were unaware of this.

Even so, Xiaoxiao never complained and was as enthusiastic as the rising sun every day.

Yin Xiu, who was sitting quietly in front of the bed, slowly raised his eyes and looked out the window, meeting the eyes of those frightened children.

Several children were frightened by the dead look and hurriedly dispersed from the yard.

Half an hour later, the woman stopped crying. She probably realized that crying was useless, so she packed up and went to cook. The entire orphanage depended on her and could not do without her.

When all the sounds gradually faded away, it seemed as if no one remembered Xiaoxiao's affairs except Yin Xiu.

Only he lost the most important thing, only he could no longer live, but they, the culprits, were all fine.

The dean received a high compensation, and the children's lives became better. Everyone was heading towards a better life, but his sister was the only one who would rot in the soil and never see the flowers of spring again.

Yin Xiu's eyes were as gloomy as the sky outside the window that was gradually darkening.

There was constant laughter in the kitchen, and the house was silent.

His confused and unable to think was gradually leading to madness as his brain collapsed.