Chapter 97: This is her life, she has the right to make a choice...
"It's so dark, it's so dark in there! Mom is still here, right? Let Lili go out. Lili knows she's wrong and is so scared..."
Lili cried helplessly and kept knocking on the closet door, making the chain on it make a slight sound, but Ms. Wen remained indifferent.
As if she didn't hear Lili's fear, she looked gentle and slowly squatted down, trying to stay at the same height as Lili. She put her cheek against the wardrobe, feeling Lili's presence.
"Lili, mommy loves you and can't leave you..."
Ms. Wen murmured to herself, her voice filled with strange love, "So, don't lie to mom, don't disobey mom, stay with me forever..."
Ten minutes later, the wardrobe stopped vibrating.
After a long period of torture, Lili had long lost her strength. She collapsed in the closet, her voice hoarse and weak.
"Let me out...let me out, mom..."
Hearing the child's cry for help, Ms. Wen's face became gentle, and she whispered to comfort him:
"Don't be afraid, Mom will let you out... Mom will turn you into a beautiful little box, so that Lili can stay with Mom forever."
Since Lili was locked up, Ms. Wen's condition has obviously stabilized a lot.
She was in a good mood, humming an unknown lullaby, standing on tiptoe, and making a dance gesture. She turned around twice and took down a sturdy wooden box from the top of the wardrobe.
"let me see……"
Ms. Wen opened the wooden box and rummaged through it, her movements gentle as if she was treating some treasure.
There are many small boxes stored in the wooden box. Each box has a different color and has different patterns and decorations on it. It looks small and exquisite.
"Ah, I found it. This is Xiao Tao, mom's favorite Xiao Tao."
Taking one of them out with her fingertips, Ms. Wen placed the box against her cheek and rubbed it lovingly - the box was pink with a picture of a peach on it, and it looked very cute.
Putting the wooden box aside, she took the pink box and moved closer to the wardrobe again.
"Mom brought Xiaotao here. You must have a lot to say to her. You have always had a good relationship."
Ms. Wen looked at the box with gentle eyes, stroking it repeatedly with her fingertips. Her extremely gentle attitude was as if she was treating her most beloved little daughter.
"When Lili comes out, Mom will make you a better-looking box. Can I choose blue as the color? Mom remembers that you like the color of the sky."
"Your favorite seagull will be painted on the box, and you can be as free as a bird..."
Just listening to the tone of imagining the future, it seems like a warm interaction between mother and daughter. Unfortunately, the "child" in it has already died in the closet.
"Lili? Lili, are you listening?"
As there was no response for a long time, Ms. Wen frowned in distress.
"Is it because it's too narrow in there? Lili is in pain, right? It's mom's fault. Mom chose the wrong way. Mom will let Lili be free now, and she will be with everyone forever and ever..."
As she spoke, she stood up nervously and rummaged around frantically, turning the originally tidy room into a mess.
"Lili, my Lili...wait for mommy...mom will find it, mommy will find it soon——"
"Got it! This is it!"
Her eyes lit up, and she took out a bone-chopping knife from the pile of debris in the corner. There were many red marks on the bone-chopping knife, and she didn't know whether it was blood or rust.
"I'm coming. Mom is coming. Mom will take you home right now. You will never feel pain again. Never..."
She spoke affectionate words, but in her hand she was dragging the heavy boning knife, gradually approaching the wardrobe, making a harsh friction sound.
With one hand, she slowly untied the chains layer by layer, with a sick smile on her face. When the last layer of chains was loosened, she raised the bone-chopping knife high up.
Pop.
Just as the cabinet door opened, the light in the room suddenly came on. She couldn't help but close her eyes and stopped moving her hands.
“Who is it?!”
Her eyes, which had been in the dark for a long time, could not adapt to such glaring light. She squinted her eyes and looked towards the switch vigilantly, but there was nothing there.
At the same time, she felt a sudden pain in her wrist, and she subconsciously loosened her grip, causing the bone-chopping knife to fall.
"Damn it! Who is it that doesn't listen to mom again and runs here in the middle of the night... Don't let me catch you. Mom hates disobedient bad kids the most. I hate them the most..."
"Mother……"
A childish voice suddenly rang out in the room, so ethereal that it echoed in her ears.
Ms. Wen looked around, but no matter how hard she searched, she couldn't find the source of the sound. She bent down to pick up the bone-chopping knife, but the knife slid forward by itself, as if something invisible was playing a trick on her.
"Come out! Stop playing tricks!"
Ms. Wen's voice trembled as she mustered up her courage and went to pick up the bone-chopping knife again. This time, as expected, the knife returned to her hand.
"I hate it so much...I hate it so much..."
The childish voice sounded again, and just when she was suspicious, the voice suddenly came close and rang right beside her ear -
"Mom, why did you kill me?"
Ms. Wen let out a scream and raised the boning knife, chopping at the air in fear.
"Xiao Tao? Is it Xiao Tao? Didn't you say you loved your mother the most? Could it be... the sea? Or Hua Hua?"
She said a lot of different names in one breath, turned around the room nervously, and even started to destroy the furniture, but it was of no use except to tire herself out.
"…It seems like she killed quite a few children."
The teddy bear hid in Cecilia's pocket and spoke angrily in a low voice.
They had been observing Ms. Wen's every move. It was Cecilia who turned on the light and knocked down the knife. The teddy bear was hidden in Cecilia's pocket, so Ms. Wen couldn't see it.
As long as Cecia moved quickly around the room and the teddy bear deliberately pinched his throat to pretend to be a child, the effect of sound coming from all directions could be achieved.
The fact that she scared people like this also shows that Ms. Wen has done a lot of bad things.
"Xia, go check on Lili."
The teddy bear urged, his thick eyebrows knitted together.
At this time, the other party was still shouting and venting his panic on the furniture, and had no energy to pay attention to Lili.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Cecilia dodged his meaningless slash and walked to the front of the wardrobe.
The door of the closet was wide open, and Lili was curled up unconsciously inside, looking extremely pale. Under the strong light, the situation inside the closet was clearly visible.
The inner wall was covered in blood, with many carved marks and words written in blood.
[Mom], [I’m sorry], [It hurts so much]…
The handwritings above are all different. The only thing they have in common is that they are all crooked and even have typos, as if they were written by different children.
"Is this the child she just mentioned? I'm afraid they are all..."
Teddy Bear couldn't bear to continue.
In the closet, Lili was breathing weakly, with purple marks on her neck. Her hair was pulled loose, and blood was oozing from her scalp. There were also scars on her exposed arms and legs, which should have been left by the dragging.
There is not a single intact part on the young child's body.
"I'll take her away first."
Cecilia said softly, she wrapped Lili in her coat, picked her up, completely shielded the child with her body, and left the bedroom with Lili in broad daylight.
"……elder sister?"
Maybe it was because she felt the bumps or because she heard Ms. Wen’s increasingly frantic shouting, but as soon as she got down the stairs, Lili opened her eyes weakly.
"Don't talk."
Cecilia stopped him and was about to walk out of the villa holding Lili.
"Where are you taking me, sister?"
Lili asked softly, looking up with difficulty at the surrounding environment, "Let me go back, I can't leave my mother, my mother is in pain, I want to stay with her..."
"She treated you like that! And you still speak up for her!"
The teddy bear got angrier and angrier as he listened, and couldn't help but jump out, "You'll die if you go back!!"
"It's okay... You don't have to worry about me, sis. The same goes for Little Bear."
Seeing the talking teddy bear, Lili didn't have the energy to react too much. She just smiled and said, "Don't worry, Mom is just sick. She will be fine soon. Sister, put me back to my room..."
"My room is in ..."
"I know, so stop talking."
Decisively interrupting Lili's words, Cecilia changed direction and went back to the second floor.
"Xia, why do you really listen to her?"
The teddy bear was in a panic, but there was nothing it could do to change the situation.
"This is her life and she has the right to make her own choice."
Cecilia said coldly. She pushed the door open roughly, but no child in the room was woken up.
They did not move, breathed evenly, and even slept in the same position. They did not grind their teeth, kick off the quilt, or talk in their sleep. They were just like the "good children" that Ms. Wen described.
"Thank you, sister."
Back in the familiar room, Lili thanked her politely, but Cecilia was reluctant to let go.
She looked at the little girl in her arms and said softly, "I can keep you here, but you have to try your best to survive."
"As long as you survive, I will cure your mother - and turn her back into the gentle mother who is not sick."
Hearing this, Lili looked at her blankly for a few seconds, then nodded heavily.
…
After taking care of Lili, the man and the bear returned to Ms. Wen's bedroom.
"Child...my child...where are you? Come out and see your mother..."
Ms. Wen still hadn't returned to normal, or rather, this was her "normal" state. She dragged her bone-chopping knife and walked back and forth in the room.
Great, now I can look for tickets with peace of mind.
Cecilia avoided the messy items and searched on the desk. During this time, she had to pay attention to Ms. Wen's movements to avoid being hurt by her random knife swings.
Not here... nor this...
As she was rummaging around, her right hand suddenly touched a wooden box. It was the wooden box that Ms. Wen had taken down from the closet specifically.
The other party seems to call the pink box Xiaotao?
According to the previous conversation, Xiaotao should be a child.
Almost subconsciously, she took out a white box from the wooden box, which was carved with a wind chime pattern.
What's In It?
The box was a push-pull type. She pushed it gently and opened it, revealing brown-gray powder mixed with a few pieces of broken bones.
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