Gu Yi closed his eyes tightly and lay on the bed, trying to regulate his breathing.
"Gu Yi? Gu Yi?"
His mother called his na a few tis and then left the bedroom.
Once his mother was completely gone, Gu Yi finally relaxed. He lay still on the bed, afraid that his parents would discover that he wasn't asleep.
The sound of the door opening outside ca.
At this ti, the cat bride and the mouse groom were probably engaged in so kind of transaction with his parents.
What kind of transaction would they need to do when the children were asleep at night?
Was the "lamb at" his parents talked about really referring to lamb at?
Gu Yi closed his eyes and waited for half an hour before he heard the sound of the cat bride and the mouse groom leaving, and his parents finally went upstairs.
Gu Yi's mind was in a ss, and he didn't fall asleep until the early hours of the morning.
The next morning.
Gu Yi woke up from his sleep and imdiately grabbed his phone to check his ssages.
Sure enough, the anonymous user had sent him another text ssage.
[May 13, 2021, sunny.]
[The clown hasn't co to see again. I think it's because my brother drove him away.]
[Last night, I overheard my parents talking to strangers. I couldn't understand what they were saying.]
[My mother subjected to so special training, but I have no idea what the purpose of this training is.]
[She made soak in hot water until my skin turned red, and then she made jump into an ice bucket. She said it would strengthen my willpower.]
[I couldn't stand the stimulation. It gave a terrible headache.]
[It would be so much better if you were here, big brother.]
Gu Yi frowned.
Making soone soak in hot water and then jump into an ice bucket, seed like torture and abuse no matter how you looked at it.
Wouldn't that make them sick?
And his mother called it training willpower?
This corroborated his grandmother's words - "Your parents are no longer your parents."
"What about my diary?"
Gu Yi took out his diary from his backpack, and the entry for May 13 was already unlocked.
[May 13, 2021, sunny.]
[Lately, my parents have been getting stranger and stranger.]
[Last night, as I passed by my mom's bedroom, I saw her shedding tears of blood in front of the mirror. She used her nails to scratch her own face, leaving deep bloody marks, splattering blood on her dressing table.]
[My dad saw standing at the door and quickly rushed over to pull aside.]
[I told him there was sothing wrong with Mom, but he insisted that she was in great health. I felt extrely horrified, but after a while, my mother walked out of the room without any scars on her face.]
[Tonight, my parents made braised lamb. It had been three or four years since I last had lamb.]
[There was a strange taste to the lamb, and I thought it might have gone bad, but my parents were still enjoying it.]
[What is going on with them?]
Gu Yi compared the two diary entries repeatedly, deep in thought.
Whether it was his sister's diary or the diary of "I", starting from May 13, their parents' behavior beca bizarre.
In his sister's diary, although their parents' behavior was strange, they were still in a realistic state.
In the diary of "I", the mother has already transford into sothing weird. Does this an that "I" entered the inner world a year ago?
However, there doesn't seem to be any imdiate danger in these two diary entries. Today is the weekend, and it's a perfect opportunity for to explore outside.
Gu Yi left the bedroom and had breakfast with his family.
His mother held her bowl and chopsticks, calmly looking at her children.
"Do you have any plans for today?"
His sister looked up. "I'm going to a classmate's house to play."
"Have you finished your howork?"
"Yes, it's done."
Mother nodded and turned to Gu Yi. "And what about you?"
"I'm going to hang out with friends."
"Hang out? Forget it, you better stay at ho and review your schoolwork. The college entrance exam is coming up."
Gu Yi cursed inwardly, but unexpectedly, his father spoke up.
"Too much studying every day will make our son dull. It's okay to relax for a day. Don't be so strict."
Mother frowned and thought for a mont. "Well, where are you going to hang out?"
"Just in town, not far."
"Well, that's good. Just make sure you don't leave the town, okay?"
"I know."
Gu Yi quickly finished his breakfast, grabbed his bag, and ran out of the house.
[4 days, 23 hours, 18 minutes]
There's no class today, and his parents didn't assign any extra tasks. The next twenty-four hours are completely free for him to do as he pleases.
At this point, the ti in the small town has finally synchronized with the countdown.
However, the residents of the small town still had blank, lifeless eyes. If they were too far away from him, they would turn into pixelated blocks.
Gu Yi walked to the neighboring house and knocked on the door of his deskmate, Chen Dong.
After so negotiation, Gu Yi successfully borrowed a bicycle.
He rode the bicycle around the small town.
The town was not large in size, and it only took about two hours to circle around its periter.
So far, Gu Yi had explored the high school, the elentary school, and the clinic.
There was nothing worth exploring in high school and elentary school.
The clinic, like the old house, was a special place that could directly connect to the surface world under certain circumstances.
Gu Yi thought that if there was only one exit in the town, it would either be the clinic or the old house.
So, Gu Yi rode his bicycle to the clinic.
Suddenly, sothing crossed Gu Yi's mind.
His mother had always been taking dication for cancer treatnt. Could it be prescribed from this clinic?
Gu Yi walked into the pharmacy of clinic.
This was a small town, and the residents almost all knew each other. As soon as Gu Yi appeared, the doctor at the pharmacy imdiately recognized him.
"Oh? Aren't you the eldest in the Gu family?"
Gu Yi glanced at the doctor's na badge and smiled. "Hello, Dr. Li."
"Why did you co to the clinic? Are you feeling unwell?"
"No, I just ca to help my mom get her prescription."
"Didn't your mom co to get her dication just last week? Why does she need another prescription?"
"Oh, really?" Gu Yi smiled innocently. "Maybe my mom made a mistake. She hasn't been looking quite well lately."
"It's alright. As long as your mom rests well, the condition can be controlled. She's still young and will recover quickly."
"My mom... when did she get sick?"
"Don't you know?"
"They've been refusing to tell all along. It was only a few days ago that she couldn't hide it from anymore, and she told ."
"Parents' hearts are full of concern... They're probably worried about it affecting your college entrance exam, right?" Dr. Li sighed. "Actually, I'm not quite sure when she got sick. Probably last year?"
"Last year?"
"Well... maybe even earlier?"
"Can you give a specific date?"
"How can I give you a specific date?"
"Don't you have dication records or dical reports here? Can't you help check?"
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