Chapter 43: Even You Lied to Me, After Escaping from the Woods,...
Similarly, when he escaped from the woods and saw the small hill standing outside the woods, he did not think about why there was suddenly a mountain here. He only knew that after climbing over the mountain, he would be free.
He had nowhere to retreat and could only move forward.
Li Ci climbed the mountain despite her fear. When she tripped over a rock and her wrist was scratched by a branch, she didn't feel any pain, but just thought that she must be very angry.
She trusted him so much, and she agreed to let him out for a walk to reward him, but he actually ran away. Not only would she be angry, she would also be very disappointed in him.
This thought made Li Ci's chest feel so tight that he could hardly breathe. His head started to ache again. On the one hand, he hated her and felt that he should run away. Not only that, he would also take revenge on her and torture her later. On the other hand, he was forced into a fierce self-condemnation and self-loathing. She had been so good to him. She had finally been so good to him. She used to not even look him in the eye, but now she would talk to him, go to the movies with him, buy him books, and even take him out...
They had finally come this far, how could he betray her? Even if he locked her up later, she would probably still hate him and would never treat him the same way she did now.
Li Ci suddenly felt a little regretful. He regretted why he ran away and why he was so ungrateful.
At one moment he even wanted to turn back, but he had been out for too long. Would she still be waiting for him there? How should he explain when he saw her? Would she forgive him? Would they go back to their previous relationship? Would she still accompany him to the movies, talk to him, and bring him food?
Li Ci's mind was in a state of confusion, and he suddenly felt angry and embarrassed. Regret? Why did he have such a terrible thought? Why did he regret it? And that bitch, it was all her fault that he became like this, so why was he begging her for forgiveness?
Li Ci stumbled and climbed up, his hands and feet were scraped by the rocks, and his knees were also bruised. He didn't know how long it took, but in the agony of life and death, he finally looked up and saw the top of the mountain.
Li Ci took a few quick steps and staggered to the top of the mountain. He had no way to retreat. Once he fell down from here and ran to the road, he could really leave.
But he took a few steps forward and looked down, and suddenly he froze in place - the back of the mountain turned out to be a cliff, which was completely...
There is no road at all.
There is a sheer cliff and a deep abyss below.
Li Ci was in a daze for a moment. When he climbed up, was the mountain really so high?
It was clearly night, but he stared down blankly. As far as the eye could see, large patches of clouds surrounded the mountainside, their whiteness was eerie and frightening.
The black of the night and the white of the clouds coexisted incomparably, like contrasting black and white dyes on a canvas. Rough, strange, terrifying...
Li Ci's mind went blank and his ears began to buzz. The real scene and the bizarre dream overlapped together, making it difficult for him to tell whether this was reality or a dream.
His head hurts, he has a headache again.
Suddenly, there was a sound of light footsteps behind him, followed by a scent that belonged to someone that was not unfamiliar to him. Li Ci opened his eyes wide and turned around suddenly, only to see a person standing less than a foot behind him, holding his arm and looking at him, his eyes calm and sad.
Her clothes were neat and clean, in stark contrast to his, who were covered in wounds and his clothes were torn and dirty.
He looked at her in horror, his breath stagnating. He opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but the man shook his head slightly at him, looking very sad: "You said you wouldn't run away, liar."
Then she grabbed the clothes on his chest, took half a step forward, and then pushed hard. His body fell backward and fell from the bottomless cliff he had just seen.
A terrifying and immense feeling of weightlessness came over Li Ci, who screamed and nearly fainted. His body and soul were simultaneously transported to the place between life and death.
After a strong and brief feeling of weightlessness, his body suddenly hurt. He opened his eyes and found himself lying on the floor. There was no sunshine, grass, stream or woods around him. It was not the familiar living room or the sturdy cage.
The feeling of dying had not completely dissipated. Li Ci's head and body were covered in sweat, his clothes were torn and dirty, and he looked in a miserable state.
This situation made him extremely frightened. He was trembling, both body and soul were shaking violently. He wanted to shout, but his vocal cords seemed not to be his own, and he almost forgot how to make a sound.
Lin Xicai stood there, looking down at him, her face filled with resentment and condescension, as if she had broken his heart. "Even you lied to me."
Li Ci should have been angry for being teased, but when he met those beautiful and calm eyes, his first reaction was guilt, remorse, and self-loathing.
He opened his mouth as if he had made a big mistake, "I..."
"I should have known better. No one in this world can be trusted, let alone a rotten person like you."
Lin Xicai tilted her head slightly, thinking of something, "Why not smash it down?"
Li Ci understood what she said almost instantly, and his pupils shrank slightly. It turned out that she knew that all this was a test, even the stone was part of the test.
Lin Xicai examined the handsome, fair face, as if seeing through his thoughts, and shook her head gently at him, "No, that stone can really hurt people."
That pure and delicate face suddenly revealed a strange and charming look, her eyes moved, and her voice became a little gentler, "Why, after hearing what I said, do you regret it?"
"No!" Li Ci shook his head, "I can't do it..."
"Can't do what?"
"I can't..." Li Ci's throat was dry, as if every word was difficult, "I can't hurt you."
Lin Xicai smiled and said coldly, "Can I still trust you?"
Li Ci suddenly looked up at her. In those eyes that were once filled with hypocrisy and cynicism, there was now only panic and a self-deprecating wish to commit suicide: "Believe me, believe me again, I won't do it again, I really won't do it..."
Lin Xicai didn't say anything, and neither of them moved, but the scene around them changed in an instant. They were back in the forest filled with the cries of wild beasts. The leaves rustled, and it was pitch black all around, with even the moonlight pitifully thin.
Li Ci's body froze, as if he realized what she was about to do, and subconsciously reached out to grab the corner of her clothes.
Lin Xicai remained indifferent, her expression as calm as the moonlight: "Since you like this place so much, just stay here."
Is she going to leave him here alone?
No, no, she couldn't do that. It was more terrifying than locking him in a room alone.
Snake... He seemed to hear the sound of a snake crawling on the tree trunk. No, she couldn't do this to him.
He felt an unprecedented fear. He climbed up from the ground, kneeled on the ground, and grabbed the corner of her pants tightly, almost without any image. "I really... I really know I was wrong. Don't do this to me, please, don't do this to me."
He was begging her, but she disappeared without a trace before he could even finish his words.
His hands were empty, and his heart was empty as well, but it was quickly filled with fear, and his whole body was a little convulsive.
In a trance, he seemed to suddenly see many snakes, some crawling on the ground, some hanging on the trees. They twisted their disgusting bodies and spit out their tongues as they wrapped around him, as if they wanted to strangle him and then eat him... He screamed and scratched his skin desperately with his fingers, trying to drive away those creatures, which he didn't know whether they were real or not.
It hurts, it hurts so much... Go away, stay away from him...
Extreme fear is a weapon of self-destruction from within, first destroying the soul and then the body.
Only the next day, he collapsed, first falling into a coma and then developing a high fever.
.......
He seemed to have had a very long dream. At first, it was his mother's kind smile, and the rare warm moments he had with his mother in his childhood. Later, when he was only six years old, he woke up from his lunch break and went to find his mother. However, the moment he opened the door, he saw his mother's body and his favorite piano teacher pressed together on his parents' big bed, naked and tightly fitted.
He didn't know what it was at first, he only knew that from that day on his mother no longer smiled at him, and the look in her eyes when she looked at him was no longer gentle, but as if she was looking at a horrible thing that had dragged her into hell at some point in time.
Even if he came close to her, even if he felt wronged, even if he cried loudly, she refused to hug him again.
What did he do wrong? What did he do wrong?
Later, the truth was revealed. It was a heart-wrenching quarrel between the mother and father, and then the mother took the young piano teacher away and never returned. When she left, she didn't even look at him.
His father thought his mother was dirty, and as a result, he also thought he might be dirty. Paternity tests were done again and again. Even though it was proven in black and white whose blood was flowing in his body, his father still had a barrier against him in his heart.
Why? Why did he do this to him? What had he done wrong?
Yes, he did do something wrong. He drugged his father's lover and new wife. Those little bastards didn't deserve to be in this world, and they didn't deserve to come and steal his things...
No, he is not wrong, what is wrong with him...
Damn it all, damn it all. She refused to contact him for all these years. She must have had a new child with that cheap, gigolo? No wonder she never came to see him once. He cursed her, cursed them all...
Then the scene changed and he returned to the grove, surrounded by snakes, all of which were coming to take his life.
Don't... don't come over here...
He was almost swallowed by the nightmare and could never wake up again. He was almost sinking into this endless nightmare when a hand suddenly grabbed him. That familiar feeling supported his soul, supported his falling soul.
He suddenly wanted to grab something. After a while, his somewhat red and swollen eyes finally opened. Then he saw himself lying on a bed. Beside the bed was a quiet and gentle face, and the person was looking at him with concern.
Li Ci stared at the fair and delicate face, and his heart seemed to be grabbed by something.
He probably hasn't woken up yet, otherwise why would he see such an expression on her face.
But the cool touch of the wet towel on his forehead was so real that Li Ci's Adam's apple moved. He stared at the person beside the bed, and his dry eyes suddenly felt a little sore.
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