Chapter 155: The "abnormal" nights on St. Fagus Island have become the norm...
"When we first met, Chris mistook you for a demon because of your hair."
When talking about the devil, Fei Yi was very excited, but she did not forget to lower her voice.
Although the time before going to bed at night is their own, Clover still comes to patrol from time to time.
"Black is a symbol of the devil, not to mention..." She stared at Vifiya's hair, her eyes filled with uncontrollable admiration, "Your hair isn't the only thing that's black."
"The night is ominous." The little fat man suddenly interrupted, the gravel candy crunching in his mouth.
Fei Yi fanned his direction in dissatisfaction: "Don't interrupt me."
The little fat boy didn't say anything and just concentrated on biting the candy. I didn't know if he listened or not.
"Rumor has it," Fei Yi continued, "that demons appear at night on Saint Fagus Island. They lure humans into their territory and, under the pretext of granting them a wish, devour their souls."
Fei Yi described it vividly, as if she had really seen it.
"Has anyone seen it?" asked Vifiya.
Speaking of this, Fei Yi instantly became excited: "I heard that the old priest saw it."
"What a shame," she said with a look of regret. "I was so close to meeting him that day, but Maggie pulled me back."
"Mrs. Maggie is right, he's too dangerous." Eddie rarely showed a look of disapproval towards Fei Yi.
"Why do you say that too?" Fei Yi pouted.
"I say that all the time," Eddie said bluntly.
"Eddie is right." After finishing the candy in his mouth, the little fat boy savored the remaining taste in his mouth. Perhaps because the food had just entered his stomach, his voice became much stronger.
"I managed to sneak out once before, went to see the bearded man grilling fish, and met the old priest." He said it so lightly that everyone present, except Vifiya, couldn't help but be surprised.
Nerys, who had been silent the whole time, asked, "When did you go out?"
The little fat boy had a look on his face that said, "Don't make a fuss." He said, "Just before, the first time. After that, Madam Maggie caught me and told me not to tell anyone."
He lowered his eyes to look at Vifiya, and after some thought, he said, "Speaking of which, I want to learn your skills so that I can escape and avoid being caught by Madam Maggie."
As long as he could successfully predict Madam Maggie's movements, he could grill the fish a little longer.
"You really won't teach me?" the little fat man said as he sat down directly on the ground.
Vifiya looked down at him, and when he asked her again, she answered honestly, "I don't know how I did it."
In fact, she said similar words several times in seven days.
The little fat man's eyes were still as firm as before: "I know what you said is true, but it is also true that you can predict it."
Before Vifiya could ask for the reason, Fei Yi interrupted anxiously: "Okay, okay, tell me about the old priest. How is he?"
The little fat boy's eyebrows drooped, and he glanced at her: "He looks like he's sick."
Hearing this, Fei Yi smacked her lips: "Who here is not sick?"
After saying that, she looked at Vifiya skillfully and explained, “I didn’t say what you meant.”
The fat boy thought about it and felt that what he said was a bit ambiguous, so he changed his words: "He is sicker than sick."
"He kicked my grilled fish away." The little fat man's face showed not anger, but speechlessness. "I grilled the fish for a long time. The bearded man helped me beat him, but he didn't get close to the old priest."
"He was muttering something, nothing more than the one God, some world, some reality, and some dust monument."
"I don't understand." The little fat man gave his final comment.
Fei Yi was disappointed when she didn't hear anything about the devil. "Ah, is that all?"
"Why are you interested in the devil?" Vifiya, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly asked her unexpectedly.
"Of course it is..." Fei Yi stopped herself from blurting out the word "devil" after hearing it. She smiled with interest and said, "Of course I can't say that."
She stared at the girl who looked a few years younger than her and spoke frankly: "Anyway, the reason I want to be friends with you is because of the devil. I really like your black color."
As she said this, Vifia probably guessed what she had thought. She asked, "Do I fit your idea of a devil?"
Fei Yi shook her head with a half-smile. She crossed her legs and propped up her chin with her hands. "No, no, you look too normal."
So normal, it's unbelievable.
Eddie's eyes showed helplessness towards Fei Yi. He said, "It's too normal. In Sansongta..."
After a pause, as if realizing something was wrong, he changed his words, "It's sad on the entire St. Fagus Island, unless you can get used to it, accept St. Fagus Island, and make it your home."
"Hmm... I also want to eat gravel candy." The little fat man suddenly interrupted again, and this time Fei Yi was not dissatisfied with him.
"The rules of Sansongta." Nairis's clear voice sounded. She was listening to what Fei Yi, the little fat man and the other two said.
They had been in Samsonta longer than she had, so she certainly understood that if Xiao Hui could understand and do what they said tonight, she would be able to live a good life not only in Samsonta, but also in the entire St. Fagus Island.
Fei Yi has never paid so much attention to her old friends. It seems that this time, she really likes Xiao Hui.
Because of her hair, and the color of her eyes?
But……
"Nerys." Fei Yi tilted her head and stared at her. "How do you know? I haven't taught them."
Nerys's thoughts are the easiest to guess. She is the simplest of all normal people, and the most out of place of all "abnormal" people.
So Nerys is really boring.
Facing her question, Nerys lowered her head in astonishment and pursed her lips.
Fei Yi stared at her distressedly, and after thinking for a while, in order to make Weifeiya feel at ease as her friend, she said to Nerys, "You are not still blaming me, are you? Because of her?"
The atmosphere between the two of them suddenly became subtle. Eddie yawned again, and the fat boy scratched his arm out of boredom.
They all knew who the "she" Fei Yi was talking about was.
Nerys knew better.
The dormitory became quiet, and Vifiya stopped observing them from her eyes.
The night sea breeze was cool, and the only sound in the room was the sound of Dai'er flipping through the book.
"I didn't." Nerys turned her face away, "But..."
"No buts." Fei Yi interrupted her, "Naerys, you're still blaming me." She was also blaming herself.
She didn't say the last sentence. What Nerys thought and how she trapped herself had nothing to do with her. She had no interest in providing psychological counseling to others.
"Why should I be responsible for their deaths? They wanted to die themselves. What does it have to do with me?" This was the first time in a long time that Fei Yi expressed her thoughts about the children who jumped off the Samson Tower and her thoughts about them.
"Do you want me to cry for their choice?" Fei Yi didn't really want to say this, but she was really fed up.
Ever since "she" jumped off the Samson Tower, Nerys usually acted as if nothing had happened, but in fact, she could always feel her resentment towards her, and she had been unhappy for a long time.
"Whatever you want." Fei Yi didn't wait for her response, waved her hand, and said without any hesitation, "Don't impose your own ideas on me."
I am different from you.
There was a stagnant sense of disharmony in the dormitory. The little fat boy touched his stomach and said, "I... am... so... hungry..."
Vifiya acted as if she hadn't heard their quarrel. She took out another piece of gravel candy from the cupboard. Before the candy was handed to the fat boy, she reminded him, "This is the last one tonight."
"Okay." The little fat man stretched out his hands to take it.
"Why did they jump down?" As the little fat boy peeled off the paper wrapping the gravel candy, Vifia's somewhat childish voice also sounded.
The atmosphere, which should have been made worse by Vifiya's question, was strangely eased.
"Because of Samsonta's rules." Nerys looked up and met Vifiya's eyes. She blinked her sore eyes.
"You've been on St. Fagus Island for seven days now, living the same life every day, and getting along with us..." She paused and said hesitantly, "Getting along with us."
If a seemingly normal person gets along with a group of "abnormal" people and can't bear it anymore, there is a high possibility that he will be driven crazy.
"It's just a guess everyone knows." The little fat man stood up, eating something, and he was obviously in a good mood. "Every child who jumped off the tower was no different from usual the day before."
"Don't you remember what happened before?" The little fat man seemed to have just remembered.
"Yeah." Vifiya had no intention of hiding this matter from the beginning.
"That's really happiness." The envy in Fei Yi's eyes was genuine.
The little fat man nodded: "Yes, I'm so happy."
Nerys agreed, saying, "People who come to St. Fagus Island clearly remember that most of the past was not a good thing."
Vifiya was keenly aware that when she mentioned this, even the usually quiet Dai'er looked at her with envy, even though it was not obvious.
She silently kept in mind everything they mentioned tonight, as well as some of their reactions. She estimated that the bedtime set by Mrs. Maggie was approaching.
She asked the last question of the night: "Why do you feel that you are abnormal?"
As soon as she finished speaking, she received their strange looks.
Realizing she was serious, Fei Yi couldn't help but blink: "Why do you think we're normal?"
This is really new to them.
In the eyes of most people, they are different from the general normal. Their thoughts and actions are incomprehensible to people outside the island.
Because so-called normal people cannot understand, they are destined to be outliers.
Only on St. Fagus Island, only here, when "abnormal" becomes the norm, they become "normal".
Vifia's eyes swept over them, and to be honest, she didn't find their differences difficult to accept.
At most, they are just ordinary people with their own unique ideas or little quirks.
"We are all ordinary people." Vifiya replied.
The dormitory fell silent, and Eddie suddenly sneered.
The little fat boy scratched the back of his head: "Although your words do give me some comfort, I suggest you change your mind."
Fei Yi blinked and said exaggeratedly, "I almost thought you were as sick as we are."
"Bang—"
The night bells rang out on time throughout the entire island of St. Fagus.
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