amazing stories

Chapter 57 Alien Beast (3)

While hesitating, there was a sudden noise from the direction of the bedroom. I was startled and walked over cautiously.As the distance approached, the stench became stronger and stronger.The door was ajar, I stretched out my hand and pushed it open gently.

An old man was lying quietly on the bed, with a sickly face, dying.

Looking carefully, it was that weird and mysterious old man, although he hadn't seen him for a month, but he seemed to be ten years older than before.

He looked at me, then at the cage in my hand, struggling to stand up, but his body was no longer in control. After several efforts, he smiled wryly and said, "I'm still worried that I won't be able to wait for you!"

I lowered the cage, opened the window, and helped the old man up.

Fresh air rushed in, and the old man took a deep breath and let it out slowly.

I pointed to the cage and said, "I wonder what this is."

The old man turned his gaze to the cage, and his expression suddenly became very strange, as if it was hatred, but also seemed to be full of admiration.After a long time, he slowly uttered: "It is both an angel and a devil!"

I don't understand this sentence.

The old man seemed to be lost in memory, he let out a long breath, and then said: "Five years ago, I got a disease. When I got sick, my whole body hurt unbearably, and I took a lot of medicines, but it didn't work. I collapsed, I couldn't bear it, so I thought of suicide. But every time I made up my mind to die, I thought about the beauty of life, and thought that dying like this is really not worth it. I live in these two thoughts every day, People are going crazy. Fortunately, there is no unparalleled road. Once, when I went to the hospital to get medicine, I met an old man who said he could cure my disease. At first I didn’t believe it, but he said I had to swear, so I was moved and decided to give it a try. In the end, the medicine really cured my illness. In his room, I saw this thing for the first time."

The old man pointed to the cage and coughed violently.

I got chills down my spine, this story is almost exactly the same as mine.

The old man recovered from his breath and continued: "After tasting the sweetness, I would go to him every time I got sick. After many times, I discovered his secret—everything was related to this thing. I had an evil heart and thought that It was a priceless treasure, so I took it away secretly while he was unaware. But it didn't take long for me to discover strange changes in my body. As a last resort, I had to go back to find the old man. Under my repeated questioning, he Finally revealed the truth and told me his story..."

I asked, "What story?"

The old man suddenly smiled sadly, and said slowly: "It's almost exactly the same as my story."

I didn't know what to say, cold sweat dripped out from my whole body.

The old man stared at the cage and said for a long time: "At first I thought this thing could cure diseases, but then I realized that what it sucks away is not the disease, but the time you were sick."

I didn't understand and asked, "Time?"

The old man raised his head and said, "That's its food."

The more I listened, the more confused I became.

The old man continued to explain: "It sucks your time and brings the future you who is not sick to the present, but the existence of the future you in reality is not stable, it will age several times faster than before, and The more you absorb, the faster you age..."

I stared wide-eyed and interrupted him: "You mean, you and I now...are our future selves?"

An indescribable pain suddenly appeared on the face of the old man. He tremblingly stretched out a finger and pointed to the living room. Following his direction, I saw the photo on the wine cabinet. Zhengmao.

The old man's tears were already streaming down: "The person in the photo...is me!"

I took a deep breath, forced myself to calm down, and asked, "How did this thing come about? Are there any creatures like this on Earth?"

The old man smiled wryly: "No one knows what it is, and no one knows how long it has lived. Since I took over until now, it is still the same as when I first saw it, without any change."

I don't know what to say, the whole thing is out of this world as I know it.

After a long time, the old man regained his composure and said, "Actually, although I hate it, I can't do without it. It speeds up my death, but it relieves me from the pain. In order to live a few more years, I have to... I have to let it suck other people's time as food. I... I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry for many people, it's me who harmed you!"

I don't know who to blame, is it the old man's ulterior motives, or am I to blame?
After a long while, I stood up, stared at the cage and said, "No matter what it is, I killed this monster today!"

The old man was shocked suddenly, and stopped him: "You must not!"

I didn't know why, so I asked, "Why?"

The old man showed pain on his face: "Once it dies, all the people who have been sucked by it will disappear immediately. Its existence will maintain our future existence in this world."

I widened my eyes and asked for a while, "You mean, not only can I not kill it, but I have to protect it, feed it, and not let it die?"

The old man nodded.

I stood speechless, and suddenly felt that this was really a huge irony.

The old man said to himself: "It stares at your eyes, sucks your time away, and transforms it into the energy it needs to maintain its own life. During this process, you will have a brief dizziness, and your brain will also Temporarily lose consciousness, but as long as someone wakes you up in the middle, it can be stopped."

I recalled the experiences of the past few days, and finally understood those strange phenomena.The old man was silent for a while, took the cage with both hands, and put it in front of him.I looked at him in surprise, not understanding what he was going to do.

A sad smile slid across the corner of the old man's mouth: "Actually, it's fair to think about it. It helped me relieve the pain. I used time to feed it. I just made a mistake in not involving more people... Now, I'm almost It's no good, just give it the remaining time, it can be regarded as a small compensation for you, and it can be regarded as a relief from pain..."

After finishing speaking, the old man took off the towel and patted the cage a few times.The little monster woke up startled, took a few steps forward, and stared into the old man's eyes.I stood where I was, not knowing whether I should stop it, hesitated for a moment, and finally turned my face away.

After a while, the old man had stopped breathing.The little monster's body was shrouded in a faint light, it licked its mouth contentedly, and lay down again.

When I got home, it was already late at night, and my parents had already gone to bed.I lay in bed and stayed up all night.

The next morning, I quit my job, rented an apartment outside my parents' knowledge, and put my little things in the center of the living room.

In the afternoon, I came to the gate of the Municipal Hospital.

It was late autumn at this time, the weather was getting cooler, and people were reluctant to go out.There are few pedestrians on the street, but the entrance of the hospital is still lively.The hospital is an embarrassing existence. It relieves people's pain. People can't do without it, but at the same time they hate it.

Among the endless crowd, a young man walked out of the hospital with a look of pain on his face.

I quickly went forward and asked in a low voice, "Dude, what disease are you suffering from?"

(End of this chapter)