Chapter 148 Going Home
You want to go home, right? Okay, I'll take you home.
Guan Zhiwei opened her eyes. At the entrance of her building, the system's voice drifted into her ears.
The dilapidated stairwell was swarming with mosquitoes on the mottled walls. Various small advertisements were plastered on the walls like dog skin plasters, some pasted on, some printed on. The steps had been wiped clean, but there was still a strong smell of Lysol.
This place isn't great, but it's home.
Overjoyed, she rushed to the door and pounded on it.
"mom!"
"I'm home, Mom!"
The door was opened.
It wasn't my mother who opened the door, it was my second aunt.
Auntie's eyes widened, then her face contorted with rage as she shouted, "Guan Zhiwei! Where have you been! Why are you only just coming back!"
The noise startled the relatives inside the house.
The door was opened, and mosquitoes swarmed inside, drawn by the heat.
Guan Zhiwei waved her hand anxiously: "The mosquitoes will bite people at night, and my mom hates mosquitoes the most."
Her relative grabbed her hand and pulled her inside forcefully. She staggered a few steps and bumped into a cabinet.
He lifted his eyelids.
A black and white photograph.
Her legs went weak and she knelt down.
"mom?"
My throat is trembling.
The woman in that black and white photo has a gentle smile. It was taken before she got sick. Her face was still round, and she still had hair. She was very young then.
Upon closer inspection, this photo must have been cropped from a larger image.
In the original photo, the young mother was holding Guan Zhiwei, and they were both smiling, smiling happily.
Unlike later when he became skin and bones, with almost all the hair on his head falling out, and finally shaved his head bald and wore a pure cotton hat.
"mom!"
Guan Zhiwei let out a sharp cry, screaming like a boiling kettle, yelling and wailing, completely helpless, as if a huge rock was blocking her chest, making it hard to breathe.
She clutched her clothes tightly, shaking her head back and forth, finally managing to stammer, "How did my mother die? She was alive when I left!"
"Two years have passed in the real world," the system said cruelly.
"You still have the nerve to cry!" Her third aunt came over and started hitting her, "You're the one who killed your mother!"
"It's just a bone marrow transplant, it won't kill you, why did you run away!" Auntie's hands trembled as she gestured back and forth, as if she were drawing some kind of line in the air. She drew for a long time, but it was all in vain. She could no longer hold her eldest sister.
"Even if you're running away, you should at least leave the money behind! Why did you take the money with you!"
"That's all our savings. We can't raise any more money to treat her illness!"
"We're just going to watch your mother die!"
She never forgave you, even on her deathbed!
She hates you!
Guan Zhiwei trembled like a leaf in the wind, her chest heaving. She knelt on the ground, turning her head to look up at her relatives around her.
"No, I didn't run away. I did a tissue matching test, and the system captured me!"
"They took me to one world after another, and I really tried my best to come back!"
"I desperately want to come back, to save my mother. I'm willing to give up my humanity!"
"Smack!"
He slapped Guan Zhiwei across the face.
Auntie looked at him with disdain: "I don't think you're even human. Your mother is dying, and you're running away and hiding, making up such a ridiculous excuse!"
"Your mother had a hard life. She raised two children with great difficulty, and in the end, she died all alone!"
"You're not human! You're a beast! Your mother raised you for nothing!"
"She suffered so much, she should have raised a dog instead; at least a dog knows how to wag its tail."
They formed a circle around her, chattering and spitting all over her.
Guan Zhiwei lay on the ground, wailing, "I really... was kidnapped by the system... I really tried my best to come back... I miss my mom... System! Talk to me!"
[You disappeared in the modern world for two years. Your disappearance background needs to be automatically filled in. The background I've provided is that you took some money and went out to have fun, spent all the money, and then came back.]
"mom!"
She smiled silently in the black and white photo frame, the smile gradually twisting as if filled with contempt.
Even your mother thinks that you, Guan Zhiwei, are a terrible person!
Guan Zhiwei covered her face and eyes with her arms, hiding her head like an ostrich, as if this would allow her to escape the endless curses.
"It's scary here, isn't it?" The system's voice was very gentle.
"Come with me, I'll take you to a safe place, back to the past, to be the emperor. I can help you bring Gao Huan, Zhi Junyuan, and many others back to life. Do you want to go back to Gouya? Do you remember how he died? Everyone there loves and respects you."
Guan Zhiwei lifted her face from her arms, her face streaked with tears. She looked at her familiar home, now empty.
"I need to find something."
What is it?
Guan Zhiwei got up from the ground and stumbled towards the kitchen.
She picked up a knife from the kitchen shelf and then ran to the living room, where there was a full-length mirror.
She looked at herself in the mirror. It was a strange face, so unfamiliar. Was this really her?
She leaned closer to take a good look and memorized the face.
Then he raised the knife.
The knife was initially aimed at the forehead, and it was plunged in with force, tearing the skin and flesh, causing blood to gush out. The eyes were stained red with blood, and the black and red pupils stared intently at the reflection in the mirror.
【What are you doing!】The system was immediately startled.
Guan Zhiwei poked twice with force, but found that there was bone and she couldn't push it in. So she changed direction and continued to search, saying as she searched, "I want to dig you out."
[Please stop acting crazy, Guan Zhiwei! Please don't go insane!]
"I'm not crazy, I'm really not crazy. I clearly know that there's something in my head, and I want to get it out." Guan Zhiwei poked around her head with a knife, making blood flow, but she couldn't get the knife into her skull.
She realized she was holding the wrong knife; it was a fruit knife.
She's not really good at these things because when her mother was around, her mother would cook and even cut up the fruit and bring it to her.
Mom said, "Guan Zhiwei, you're such a lazybones, what are you going to do if you can't get married?"
I won't get married! I want to stay with my mother forever!
Guan Zhiwei ran to the kitchen to get a new cleaver, then returned to the living room and looked in the mirror.
She gripped the cleaver in her hand behind her back, pointed the sharp end at her forehead, and then chopped down hard.
One cut, two cuts, three cuts.
Crack.
A crack appeared in his head.
She was very happy, and quickly used both hands to pry open her head, breaking off half of it with a single effort.
She felt around inside her brain and found something, like a sinewy thread, densely packed and interconnected, coiled up in her head. When she pulled it out forcefully, she could hear it cracking and popping.
"Got you."
Volume 4: Intelligence Value 100
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