Chapter 2
The certificate was pressed under the happy photo, and no name could be seen, but from Zhou Yuli's expression, it was not difficult to tell its owner.
"My younger brother." Zhou Yuli pursed his lips and changed his words, "My parents' child, born two years ago."
Pei Zhao twisted a corner of the certificate. Years of weathering had made the paper brittle and it fell to the ground with a rustling sound. .
"Then what?"
"My parents stopped working and spent all their time with him. Friends and relatives congratulated me on having a child in their old age, pointing at me and saying, 'You've raised me for so many years and I finally have a child for the family.' That's when I realized I wasn't their child. Everyone knew it."
When Zhou Yuli spoke these words, his tone was calm, as if he was telling someone else's story.
Pei Zhao wondered, maybe he had thought about it too many times, and his heart was no longer stirred.
"But as you said, it doesn't matter whether we are related or not. The grace of upbringing is enough to blur all the reasons why I came to this family." Zhou Yuli shook his head, "I don't care."
Pei Zhao twisted his fingers that were stained with certificate crumbs, feeling indescribably heavy in his heart.
"I was admitted to university and was supposed to go out to study this year. In fact, there are not many opportunities to see each other again. They are happy, and I don't care at all." Zhou Yuli looked at the three happy faces in the photo, turned his head suddenly to look at Pei Zhao, frowning, "But,"
"But what?" Pei Zhao felt uneasy after being stared at, thinking that he could actually see a stern look on the face of a "young man".
"He's a bad seed." Zhou Yuli said awkwardly, "He has super male genes."
Super male? Can such a loving family environment breed a born bad person?
There was a sound from the iron door.
"Come with me!" Zhou Yuli pulled him and hid in the kitchen, "They won't come here."
Pei Zhao wanted to ask why, but Zhou Yuli had already pushed him into the cupboard.
The strong musty smell filled Pei Zhao's nasal cavity, and his nose wrinkled.
"Are you really not taking revenge on me for pulling you?" Pei Zhao asked.
"Really not." Zhou Yuli said without even turning his head.
Clang.
The iron gate opened.
Pei Zhao put away his abusive look and looked out through the gap in the cupboard.
What caught my eye was a pair of thin feet wearing a pair of bound cloth shoes.
What was shocking was that there was a thick iron chain wrapped around the ankle, and the other end was tied to an equally thin foot.
"That is..." Pei Zhao asked in a low voice.
"My mom." Zhou Yuli mouthed, "The other end is my dad."
Two people tied tightly with iron chains came into view. They were two rather thin elderly men.
With sunken cheeks and greying hair, he did not look happy.
Pei Zhao really couldn't connect them with the two people in the photo frame.
"What on earth happened to them?"
While he was thinking, a loud child's voice rang out.
"Mom and Dad, you've worked hard. I want to eat meat today."
Pei Zhao felt that Zhou Yuli's whole body stiffened when he heard this voice.
This must be Zhou Yuli’s younger brother.
Judging from the sound, it looks quite sunny, right?
Is it necessary to be so nervous?
Pei Zhao felt a little puzzled and poked Zhou Yuli, "Your brother..."
The next second, the scene before him left him speechless.
The child with an innocent face bit his father's nipple.
The man screamed, and a hand reached out from the side and stuffed into his mouth to block his shouting.
It's a woman's hand.
The woman let out a sharp scream.
"Baby, what's wrong with eating some meat? Can't you bear this little bitterness?"
The child held on to the thing tightly and refused to let go until blood oozed from his red mouth and the flesh and tissue were pulled off.
The blood thorn began to chew.
"Thank you, Dad." The child said vaguely.
The woman then withdrew her hand, which was also bleeding from being bitten by the man. The man was lying on his side, breathing weakly and rapidly.
In just a few tens of seconds, the scene turned bloody.
Pei Zhao swallowed, poked Zhou Yuli, and asked him: "Really don't we need to stop it? This isn't right."
Zhou Yuli's body was visibly stiff, and he slowly turned his head, which was extremely terrifying in the dark cupboard illuminated only by the light from the overhead sign, giving Pei Zhao goose bumps.
"Don't...don't scare me."
"No need." Zhou Yuli said, "No need to stop them, they are used to it."
Pei Zhao held his breath and said, "I think your brother might be over-indulged by your mother..."
Zhou Yuli was silent for a moment, "He was like this when he was born."
Zhou Yuli gestured at his chest and said, "It's his mother's. He bit it off when he was born."
Pei Zhao:……?
Big socks, is this Chinese?
New born baby?
Do you have teeth?
I couldn't help but check on my phone.
Zhou Yuli: "The problem was detected during the genetic screening, but they were determined to give birth to him."
Pei Zhao tried hard to find his voice: "...At this level, he will harm society if he goes out, right?"
"If you have a child in old age, you will risk your life to raise him or her." Zhou Yuli sighed.
Pei Zhao was in a complicated mood, which was very shocking even in today's world.
"Pei Zhao, what would you do if one day you found out that your beloved brother was born a bad guy?"
"I will leave this house..."
Also, kill him.
*
Ten o'clock at night.
The family had just gone to bed.
Zhou Yuli pushed open the cabinet door and two people came out of the cabinet.
Pei Zhao's legs were numb from squatting, and when he moved out, he bumped into the cabinet, making a little noise. Pei Zhao immediately looked in the direction of the children's room.
After witnessing the tyranny of Zhou Yuli's brother, Pei Zhao was really afraid of being caught by him.
Who can guarantee that they can defeat a demon?
Zhou Yuli returned to the living room and made the sound of opening the door. After staying in front of the children's room for a moment, Pei Zhao slipped into the small door next to the kitchen - Zhou Yuli's room.
Zhou Yuli turned around quickly, and the moment the door closed, the two of them sat down on the ground together.
"You know what...if you don't consider life and death, it's really exciting." Pei Zhao said, panting.
The room is not big and simply decorated, but clean and tidy.
"I can see that your parents have a preference. Your room and the living room have completely different styles." Pei Zhao said as he looked around.
"You're poking my lungs like that. Are people in your world so bad at talking?" Zhou Yuli raised his eyelids to glance at him and pointed at the top of his head.
Oh, I almost forgot there are three big glittering words “Puppeteer” on it.
"You're about to become a puppet, so stop feeling sentimental, okay?" Pei Zhao patted him on the shoulder, but his hand felt completely hard. "Why do I feel like you're a little shorter than before..."
"It's probably because of my transformation." Zhou Yuli didn't care much. He lifted up his trouser leg and took a look. Sure enough, the entire area below his trouser leg had turned into wood.
As the dollization became more and more serious, Zhou Yuli's body was slowly shrinking.
"What will happen if you don't volunteer to be a doll? Will you become a dwarf?" Pei Zhao asked for no reason.
"..." Zhou Yuli was speechless and had to explain again, "They will completely turn into puppets, without consciousness or thoughts, just like being dead."
"And then?" Pei Zhao asked again.
"Then," Zhou Yuli thought for a moment and said, "I don't know. The person who became a puppet was never seen again. Maybe he really died."
Killing someone requires a lot of preparation in advance.
From the perspective of criminal investigation, it is necessary to consider the motive, weapon, location, and time of the crime. In addition, if you want to evade legal sanctions, you must also consider how to deal with the aftermath.
"After I take you away, will we come back here?" Pei Zhao asked.
"I don't know." Zhou Yuli replied, "You may need to ask your system. I know nothing."
Pei Zhao followed suit and lowered his voice to the ceiling and shouted: "Xiao Rui——"
How can we help you? 】
"If I take the puppet and leave here, will I ever come back?"
[Congratulations on asking the key question. Rui has checked for you and it is not possible. 】
Pei Zhao asked, then turned to look at Zhou Yuli: "So that's it."
Zhou Yuli looked confused: "What? I didn't hear anything."
"How come?" Pei Zhao was surprised, "Why could I hear it before but not now?"
Zhou Yuli didn’t know even more, but he guessed that it might be because he didn’t want to die anymore.
As for the reason why he didn't want to die, he thought it might be related to Pei Zhao.
"The system says that if you take the puppet away, you will never return to this world. There may be only one puppet that needs to be taken away in each world." Pei Zhao, who couldn't understand Zhou Yuli's intermittent "hearing", decided to do his business first and convey the contents of the system to Zhou Yuli in a concise manner.
"So am I the only one in this world who wants to be a puppet?" Zhou Yuli asked.
"Maybe you are the only one who happened to meet me," Pei Zhao thought for a while, "and you didn't refuse to become my puppet."
Zhou Yuli said in his heart: Of course I won’t refuse.
He said, "So how do you want to kill someone?"
"Let's get straight to the point without having to worry about the aftermath." Pei Zhao walked around the room, searched through things, and finally picked out a few things.
Examination supplies, admission letter.
"Is there a Hua University in another world?" Pei Zhao looked at the cover page of the admission letter in surprise.
Zhou Yuli nodded and turned the page to show Pei Zhao, "Hua University Law School."
"Then we are actually alumni." Speaking of alumni, Pei Zhao finally felt that the dark little man in front of him was the same age as him, and muttered, "It's a small world."
“Maybe it’s not that the world is small, but it’s just how it was originally designed.” Zhou Yuli said casually.
"Well, maybe." Pei Zhao didn't take it seriously. He tore off the inner page of the admission letter, folded it and put it in his pocket, then picked up the examination supplies beside him and disassembled them.
"What are you doing?" Zhou Yuli was puzzled.
"Make a weapon!" Pei Zhao's fingers flew as he disassembled and reassembled it. "You were a good student in high school, right? Don't you know that the exam tools of poor students can be disassembled into armed props?"
Zhou Yuli was silent. What he wanted to ask was why Pei Zhao received his notice. Anyway, he had already made up his mind to be Pei Zhao's puppet. Do you still expect the puppet to go to college?
But the murder weapon is more attractive in the present.
A pocket knife lay in the palm of his hand.
The thought of using this tiny knife to end a child's life...they all fell silent.
"Have you thought it through?" Pei Zhao asked.
Zhou Yuli was silent for a long time.
The memories of these years came flooding back, the love that was taken away, the home that was destroyed, even though these had never belonged to him in the first place.
Losing something is not the hardest thing, but watching this demon gradually devour this family and tearing apart the flesh and blood of my parents...
Zhou Yuli closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
"Let's do it."
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