C14 Sleepwalking

It was not the look of a normal child.

There was no warmth in his eyes.

"Haha, that was a joke." Alpha suddenly laughed, and then became the same as before: "Did you scare him?"

"Do you think that's funny?" I suddenly felt that I had been fooled. Angry, I shouted, "Next time, don't go through my things."

"What's wrong?" When Lina heard my voice, she walked out of the kitchen.

I quickly took a few pages to cover up the book about deformed children. "I …"

"Olina, I'm sorry, Alpha messed up Shin's book just now." Alpha rushed ahead of me and said, "I don't know what this research is really important for."

"What research materials?" Lina asked as she walked over.

"I don't understand Chinese." Alpha said.

He was lying.

"Oh." Lina did not mind, she knew that the direction of my research had always been eastern history. "Next time you want to read something, you have to first talk to Shin, okay?"

"Alright. "I'm sorry." After Alpha finished speaking, he held Lina's hand and walked out.

"It's a failure." When Alpha was walking out of the door, he said this out of the blue.

I was stunned for a moment before suddenly reacting. The page that Alpha had just read had been unearthed in 1930, and the oldest deformed bone that I had found thus far was labeled "Starchild".

The Star-Child was discovered in a cave south of Chihuahua, Mexico, at least 900 years ago. The stellar child's skull is twice the size of a normal human skull, and has at least 25 anomalies compared to a normal human skull, such as the absence of the frontal sinus and the absence of masticatory muscles.

It was said that the star-child had eight hand bones and two coccyx, but was lost in the process. If such a child existed in this world, he would probably be no different from a crawling bug.

After the starchild's skeleton was unearthed, it attracted the attention of a doctor from the California Genetics Laboratory and several other experts in cranial cavity physiology, who believed that the skull was the result of a mixture of a human mother and an unknown race father. However, it was later classified as a teratogen and included in the teaching book on the history of genetic diseases.

But why did Alpha say that it was a failure?

20 February 1988

When I got home from work, the book about genetics that was locked in the drawer was gone.

Lina never looks through my things, we all respect each other's privacy. My first thought was that the kid had taken my book.

He was the only one who knew about this book.

"Lina, has Alpha been here before today?" I asked Lina.

"Yes, he came over to sit with his grandmother this afternoon." Lina casually said as she read the magazine.

"You … Always with them in the middle? Have you ever left? " I asked as gently as I could.

"No, I was at home the whole time. I didn't go out." Lina thought for a while: "I made a pot of coffee in the kitchen, does that count?"

"How long have you been making coffee?"

"What's the matter with you again, Great Detective? How long can a pot of coffee last, two minutes? " Lina thought that I was joking with her. "It should be shorter than you going to the toilet."

"I suspect that Alpha took my things." I was silent for a while and still decided to tell Lina.

"What do you mean? What did he take from you? "

"A book. I locked it in a drawer when I went out in the morning. It's gone now." "No," I said.

Lina put down the magazine: "Alpha stole your book? Have you found out? "

"Yes."

"Where did you put it?"

"Ugh …" I'm locked in a drawer. " Actually, I am not a person who would lie. After being married for such a long time, I have almost never lied to Lina before.

"... Alpha knows where your drawer key is? "

I shook my head. "I have the key in the map of the age of great navigation on the shelf."

Lina looked towards the bookshelf and very quickly, she turned around to look at me and said. "Have I gone mad, or have you?"

It took me a few seconds to realise what Lina was saying. The bookshelf was almost two and a half meters tall, and the top row was only possible if I reached out my hand. A 1.23 meter child, even if he tiptoed, would not be able to get the books on the shelves.

"Perhaps …" Maybe Maria helped him get it? " For a moment I was speechless.

"So now you want me to believe that two minutes after I went to make coffee, Alpha let her grandmother go to the bookshelf and accurately found the place to hide the key. After opening the drawer to take away your book, he put the key back, then returned to the sofa to hide the book?" Lina looked at me with doubt in her eyes. "Do you think that an old man with the side effects of a stroke and difficulty in moving would be able to complete a complex operation that even I found hard to accomplish within 2 minutes?"

"Lei, what happened to you?" Lina lifted her head, and slowly, a tear flowed down the corner of her eye: "Ever since I moved here, I feel that you have been moving further and further away from me. I don't know what you're thinking, I feel that I never understood you."

"Suppose what you say is true, then what is his motive? Why did he steal your book? " Lina looked into my eyes: "What exactly is that book? Why did you lock it up? "

I was speechless.

"Genetics... But … Curiosity... Its content may be related to my later research. " I can't even convince myself.

"Lei, you won't lie."

Lina walked into the bedroom and turned off the light.

I couldn't sleep, so when I finished writing my last two nights report, I glanced at the clock on my desk. It was almost three o'clock.

When night fell, the temperature dropped. Feeling a bit of coldness, he was just about to get up and put on his clothes. Suddenly, Lina's voice came out from the bedroom.

"Ugh …" Lei … "Howl, howl."

I rushed into the bedroom. "What's wrong, Lina, what's wrong?"

Lina is lying on the bed. I can't see her clearly, but by borrowing the moonlight, I can vaguely see her body twitching in pain.

"Lina, where are you feeling unwell?"

Her clothes were already drenched in sweat, her hair was hanging down wet. I used a pillow to wipe her sweat, Lina bit her lips and her face did not have a single trace of blood.

"Lei, my stomach hurts …" "So painful..."

"Hold on, don't be afraid, I'll take you to the hospital now."

I lifted the quilt away. With one hand, I supported Lina's upper body while the other hand reached into the quilt.

Lina's lower abdomen bulged upwards. I pressed on the small intestine and Lina let out a blood-curdling scream.

"It hurts!" "Ugh …"

Suddenly, I felt something moving inside Lina's stomach.

I put a coat on her, picked her up, and headed out.

"I can't take it anymore, put me down. It hurts, I can't hold on any longer." Just as we reached the living room, Lina suddenly started to struggle. I couldn't hold her properly and the two of us fell onto the carpet.

Lina's stomach started to bulge at a speed that could be seen with the naked eye. Using the light of the lamp, I could see that the skin on her abdomen was already covered by a thin film, as if something was squirming underneath the film.

"I'll call an ambulance!" I was also taken aback. This was already beyond my knowledge of medicine.

"Don't, throw it down, I, he's going to come out, come, it's …" "Help me, deliver the baby..."

Lina's wails turned into heavy breaths, and she grabbed onto my arm tightly, her nails digging into my flesh.

I didn't have enough time to think, so I pulled out two cushions from the sofa and placed it around Lina's waist, and then used Lina's clothes to raise her head. Then she took off her pants.

"Phew!" Absorb! Exhale! "Pull!" I opened up Lina's legs and rubbed her stomach with my other hand.

Ah!

I saw the head of a baby.

His eyes were still half open, his skin red, his black hair stuck to his forehead with amniotic fluid.

Then the baby's hand, and then he saw his body.

"Our child?" Lina gasped for breath and asked me.

Yes, it is our child. He is really adorable, he isn't a monster, he only has a head, a pair of hands, a body …

"?!"

Wait, what is this?

The child's head came out, hands came out, and then the body... But he had no feet!

Under his abdomen, which should have been his feet, was a symmetrical body!

Symmetric body, symmetrical navel, then hand, neck, and another head!

This was a monster!

It was a monster with a belly that was connected to a stomach, but had two hands and two heads on its head and tail. He was covered in amniotic fluid and blood.

"Yes …" Our child? Let me see... "Child …" Lina said weakly.

"Yi..." The baby-like head suddenly raised and opened its mouth to emit a high-pitched cry.

This was a monster, if Lina saw it, she would go crazy.

"Lei …"

When I came back to my senses, I heard Lina's faint voice coming from behind me.

She stood by the window. There was a large stain of blood on her nightgown, like a blooming flower.

"This is our child …" Lina lovingly lowered his head and stroked the worm-like monster in his arms.

The monster was laughing.

Lina suddenly turned around and jumped down from the window!

"No!" I rushed over, but I was too late. Her pajamas were a few millimeters short of my hand.

"NO!" "No way!"

I hold my head in my hands, and my emotions collapse, my tears like a dam burst.

"Lina, I've harmed you, I've harmed you."

Lina is dead, the only thing I can do is to go to the underworld with her.

"Lina, wait for me …" I closed my eyes and let go of the window sill.

"The door you see is a wall, the wall you see is a window, the window you see leads to death, not to where it came from …"

An aged voice came from a far distance away.