C27 Twins

Opening the small door, there was a stench, and behind the door was the living room of Room 607.

And Room 607's bedroom was also connected to Room 605 and Room 604 in the same way.

The interior of these apartments had been opened up.

I couldn't help walking inside--the broken ceiling, the rotting carpet, the broken furniture.

"It hurts... So painful... "My head …"

Maria's voice came out intermittently, and at the same time, there was the sound of fingers scratching on the carpet.

I looked around. There were scratches on the walls, on the floor, and on the abandoned dining table. Some were long, some were short, some were shallow.

The day Maria was scalded to the back of her hand by the boiling water, I saw that there were no fingernails on her hand.

Every time I hear an animal scratching at the wall, it's raining outside.

I thought of the time I opened the door to the stray cat and found it open and the scratching on the wall continuing.

Maria was the source of the sound. She was in this abandoned suite every stormy night, scratching at the walls with a splitting headache.

In the corner was a small, rusted bed with a mattress that had long since been eaten out of shape by rats, stained with urine and feces. The scratches on the wall beside the bed were even more intense, and the scraped walls were stained with dried blood.

The only big bed in Room 608 was Alpha's.

This was where Maria lived.

The smell of blood.

"Lina!"

I called a few times, but still no one answered.

A flash of lightning. I saw the body of the security guard downstairs — his head had been smashed through by a blunt object, and his eyes were staring in confusion. The wound had begun to rot, and there were two letters in his hand.

He was killed while delivering the message.

Something flashed at the far end of the room, and then there was light.

There was a light.

"Lina!" I hurried over.

The innermost room was supposed to be the bedroom of 604, and the light came through the crack in the door.

I twisted the door. It wasn't locked.

From a man-sized teddy bear to a merry-go-round, from a plastic gun to a castle model, toys fill the room. A pane of glass shone on the far wall of the bedroom.

There was a chair in front of the glass.

Opposite the glass is the washroom for 603, where Lina and I live.

So my family's mirror is a one-way visual glass.

A one-way glass is a thin layer of silver or aluminum on the surface of the glass. Such a glass does not reflect all the incoming light, but only the light on one side of the glass can pass through. In other words, it looked like an ordinary mirror from one side of the light, but it was transparent from the other side.

In the afternoon, while I was washing my face in the bathroom, I fell asleep without warning. Maybe Alpha was sitting here watching me at that time.

Maybe every night, he would sit here and observe Lina and I.

He observed my every move and Lina's, and watched me until late at night, when he found a gap to slip into my dreams.

I saw Lina holding onto a spear, leaning on the door with a face full of fear, and Alpha standing beside her.

"Lina! Lina! " I shouted through the glass.

Damn it! I screamed, but she couldn't hear me.

"I killed someone …" Lina's voice trembled.

I don't know why, but I could vaguely hear Lina's voice. Perhaps not only this glass, but also the walls.

BOOM!

The thunder outside the window exploded without warning.

I remember the first time I saw Alpha, he said that he was afraid of thunder.

Maria also said just now that he was afraid of thunder.

But now, lightning flashed and thunder rumbled. He didn't react at all.

Lina's arm was also injured, she did not care too much about Alpha's actions, but kept rubbing her face with her left hand — — Every time Lina was extremely nervous, she would rub her face with her hand.

"Call the police... Right, call the police first... "

Lina picked up the phone, realising that the power had been cut, she couldn't dial.

"Stop hitting me, you won't want to go to jail."

Different from Lina's panic, Alpha was terrifyingly calm:

"It's a felony to trespass on a private property in the United States. Not only are you not allowed to enter a private apartment, you're also armed. You'll go to jail. "

"No …" "I only went to save you because I saw Maria dragging you into the room," Lina shook her head with all her might: "Maria suddenly went crazy, she used his blade to attack me, that's why I …"

"Even if the police came, he would have asked you why you didn't call the police then. You barged into the house with a gun in your hand. You are now the owner of the house — and you are not a citizen of the United States, but a student with a visa. Even if you are sentenced to be on guard, you will be sentenced to at least five years in prison for murder. Do you have bail? Do you have the money to go to court? " Alpha said.

"No …" "You are a witness. You can testify for me!" Lina said, "You can tell the judge because Maria mistreated you …"

"Even if I were to testify against my grandmother, your sentence has nothing to do with it. I could accuse her of mistreatment, but that wouldn't be enough to counteract your killing, and federal law forbids a child under the age of eight to be a witness in criminal cases. If I go, will the judge listen to me? " Alpha looked at Lina. "There's only one way — —"

"— Let's run."

"What did you say?" Lina opened her eyes wide.

"Lina, let's go. Fine, I beg you." Alpha changed back to the child who was acting coquettishly with Lina, pulling her hand and said softly.

"No, impossible …" "Shin still hasn't returned, I need to wait for my husband …"

"Why wait for him? Did he love you? Didn't he lie to you? I know you're fighting, and although I don't understand Chinese — I can feel your disappointment in him, so why don't you leave him? Aren't you happy with Alpha? "

"..." "What do you mean?"

Lina slowly let go of Alpha's hand.

"Why are you with the people who hurt you? Shin hurt you. Don't you hate him? How can you love someone you hate? " Alpha looked at Lina with his innocent blue eyes.

"Alpha will never hurt you."

"You don't understand. You are still a child, you will understand when you grow up," Lina shook her head. It was obvious that she did not want to talk about adult matters with a child.

"I'm old enough."

Alpha turned around and just happened to face me in the direction of the mirror.

Lina did not notice anything abnormal about Alpha and continued to sigh.

"— the antithesis of love is not hate." Lina rubbed her stomach with a complicated expression: "Yes, I forgive. — — Moreover, I have a baby."

"You won't give birth to his child."

As Alpha said this, the expression on his face grew colder and colder.

"What did you say?"

"I'll go back and get my passport. We can go to England or France. No one knew that Maria and I were staying here. We destroyed the guns and directly went abroad. Honestly speaking, perhaps no one would know that Maria had rotted away for ten to eight years here. Even if we did, we wouldn't be held responsible. Do you know the security guards downstairs? Maria killed him two days ago and he's currently lying in a room on this floor — "Alpha said with a smile.

"Let's put the gun in his hands, he is also holding Maria's cheque and letter. Even if he said that he wanted to rob the lonely old man, he could still do it."

Puzzled and fear gradually surfaced on Lina's face, and he slowly retreated. "— You're not Alpha, how could a child like you know about this? "Who are you?"

Alpha suddenly stopped smiling and turned to look at Lina, but his eyes were like a god from high above:

"I'll give you one more chance. Are you willing to be my brother's mother?"

"Lina!" I lifted the stool and threw it at the mirror!

"Lina! "Run!"

The thick concrete walls finally started to react, and the glass started to vibrate slightly.

Lina and Alpha looked towards me at the same time. Alpha's gaze pierced the glass and met my gaze.

He used his mouth to make a few shapes, but no sound came out from his throat.

But his words exploded in my head like a thunderclap:

"Go, die." Go, die.

Maria emotionlessly pounced over from behind me!

She jumped up from the ground in a matter of seconds and flew right in front of me — as fast as she could burn down the last of her life.

Something was controlling her!

Before I could react, a knife stabbed straight down my shoulder.

It hurts.

The last thing I saw before I fainted was a picture hanging by the mirror.

Black and white.

An officer wearing a military uniform proudly smiled while standing under the Nazi flag.

That was the figure of the family officer that Vadoma gave me before she died.

He put his hand on the children's shoulders.

Same hair, same height, same eyes.

Two identical faces.

My vision went black.