C30 (1/2)
Pain.
”Do you like this dream?”
The pain in my shoulder stimulated my nerves, and I opened my eyes in a daze.
A pair of feet, a child's feet, wearing fine leather shoes with blood on the toes of one shoe.
”Are you awake? Hee hee. Or do you want to do it again? ”
The shoe jerked and kicked me hard on the shoulder.
”Err …”
I broke out in a cold sweat from the pain, before Alpha turned his head to look at Maria, who was on the ground.
”Is he dead?”
Alpha kicked Maria. Her body weakly turned over, his pupils already enlarged.
”Sigh, he's completely dead.” Alpha said a little regretfully.
”Her body is too old to take such a beating. ”It's broken.” Alpha looked at the mountain of toys in the house and sighed:
”I can't fix it.”
”Where's Lina?!” I gritted my teeth and propped myself up from the ground.
”She's sleeping.” Alpha smiled at me and pointed behind me.
”Lina! Lina! ” I crawled over and shook Lina with all my might, but no matter how I shouted, she didn't react at all.
”What did you do to her?!”
”Don't be afraid, she's having a beautiful dream.” Alpha squatted down and caressed Lina's hair: ”She's playing a game with my brother. If it wasn't for you, and she wasn't hurt, she would be very happy — — She'll forget about you when she wakes up.”
”Do you like my dreams? — Look, you're dead to me.” The blond boy said softly.
I suddenly saw that although Lina has fainted, her hand still has a gun! I used my body to block in front of Lina and slowly moved towards the direction of the spear.
”Where is Alpha? What exactly do you want?! ” I decided to say something to distract him.
”Alpha? Who is Alpha? Who is Alpha? ” Alpha burst out laughing:
”I'm already sick of the name Alpha.”
I don't have a name, and neither does my brother. The name is just a code name. You can call me Jack if you want, or Tom, Michael, Paul, Richard … ”A man is stupid enough to think that knowing a man's name is the same as knowing who he is.
”The cat has its name, the puppy has his name, even a house has its name — it seems that the most primitive way of human expression, 'love' and 'importance,' is to name the name — but what's the point of the name itself? Does the absence of a name mean that it has never existed? ” Alpha returned to the chair, and said while playing with his fingers, as if he didn't notice in the slightest that I was moving towards Lina's side.
”I don't like names. I hate being defined. But my brother always wanted a name, and when he didn't have a name of his own, he stole other people's names — his first name was Kevin, and he liked it, and he used it for eleven years, but Kevin's' father 'still broke down; and then he became Tate again, and Tate's' mother 'broke down too... I don't remember how many names he stole. He was always naive enough to think that he could become that person just by stealing someone else's name. ”
”Alpha” — No, it's 43, smile apologetically at me as if apologizing for his naughty brother.
”You see there are so many toys in this room. I'm tired of them, and so are you.”
43 Looking at me: ”Actually, if you didn't escape the Fusion, we would be a happy family of three now — you become my toy, and my brother would have a new mother. Sigh, such a pity, I am already unable to fuse with you, my brother likes Lina, you can only die. ”
”'Fusion'!” Looking at Maria's body on the ground, I suddenly understood something.
”Haha, you are very smart. You seem to have guessed it.” 43 clapped his hands happily.
”While you're sleeping, I'll open a door for your subconscious mind, sneak around the self-defense in your brain, and then I'll put that dirty little monster in your heart. I'm quite familiar with this little trick, but no matter how good I am at it, I can only control you in your dreams at first, and I can't help it when you wake up. To your brain, when I first met you, I was like a stranger meeting a stranger for the first time. It would reject me. As Number 43 spoke, he seemed to recall something bad and shuddered:
”But the more times I go, the more your mind will let down its guard, just like how a guard dog doesn't hurt an acquaintance. Slowly, slowly, it will listen to me and wag its tail at me, and finally, I will become its owner — after three rounds of practice, you will become my puppet!”
I suddenly understood why Vadoma kept warning me again and again: Wipe your eyes, child, you've lost three chances, you'll never wake up again!
Three chances, it was precisely because the two consciousnesses needed at least three times of 'tempering' to no longer reject merging into one!
”So you have to enter my dream three times before you can 'fuse' with my brain! You are manipulating Johnson the same way! ”
”You are very smart, but I do not want to 'fuse' with Johnson. When I want to merge with someone, I make them have beautiful dreams — when I want to kill someone, I make them have nightmares. ”
”I've been in a lot of people's dreams. When they were in a good mood, he would let them die quickly and cleanly – jumping off a building was also good for killing. When they were in a bad mood, he would slowly torture them – just like Johnson. He married this damned woman, this slut who fled to America after the war to change her face and become a member of the upper class, but I still recognized her — how many years I could have recognized her! All the people around her should suffer a thousand times more than death. ”