The Wound on His Face
"You want to dump him on me? Don't even think about it! This child is a minor; you have a duty to support him!"
As Lin Yi listened to their disgust and excuses, the physical and psychological pain gradually seeped into his mind. He dulled the feeling of discomfort and injustice, and wondered: Had he really done something wrong?
He shouldn't have fought back when he was hit in the toilet, he shouldn't have complained to the teacher, and he shouldn't have asked his Dad to buy him treats.
If it weren't for him, none of this would have happened.
Dad parents will love him just like they did this morning, preparing a room for him and new clothes for him.
It was his fault.
As Mi Chuchu felt the intense emotions emanating from within her body, her eyes gradually reddened.
This wasn't her emotion; it was Lin Yi's.
After arguing for several rounds, the drunken Lin Guang put his hands behind his back, suddenly forced a smile, and softened his voice. "You hate him, don't you? How about this, I'll send him away, give him to other relatives to raise, and we'll still live together as two people, okay?"
"Don't even think about it! I'm divorcing you today! I can't take this kind of life for another day!"
The smile on Lin Guang's face disappeared, and he slowly took out a cleaver from behind him.
The woman's face immediately changed. She stared at the kitchen knife, feeling a mix of fear, disbelief, and nervousness as she backed away.
But there was a wall behind her. She glanced at Lin Yi and slowly moved her body toward him.
"Don't scare me! What do you mean by holding a knife? Let me tell you, everyone saw our argument, everyone in the neighborhood saw it. If you kill me, you'll be a murderer!"
"Who said I was going to kill you?"
"Then what are you trying to do?" The woman kept backing away.
"If you insist on getting a divorce, I'll slash your face so you can't go anywhere. Then let's see which man will want you!" Lin Guang approached step by step, his face flushed with the smell of alcohol, but his expression was both calm and insane.
Mi Chuchu noticed the woman moving behind her and cautiously took a step to the side as well, but the next moment, a huge pop-up window appeared on her face again.
Faced with your mother's plea for help, you choose:
A: Help save Mom
B: Move aside to avoid being accidentally injured.
The moment the pop-up appeared, the man had already raised the kitchen knife high, and the woman screamed and grabbed Mi Chuchu's collar, hiding behind her.
In a flash, Mi Chuchu suppressed the urge to dodge, thinking of the deepest and longest scar on Lin Yi's face.
If we work backwards from the outcome, did Lin Yi choose to save his mother, which led to him being stabbed?
In that one second of hesitation, before she could even choose option A, the cleaver in front of her suddenly grew larger, its blade slicing through her head like a saw, splitting Mi Chuchu in two.
The corpse split open in the middle and fell to both sides, its blood soaking the woman behind it. The woman forgot to scream, staring blankly at the knife that had landed on her again.
Another corpse fell, broken in two. Lin Guang, who had killed two people, smiled and said coldly, "You two are so devoted to each other, then go to hell together."
When I opened my eyes again, the pop-up window appeared in front of me once more.
Mi Chuchu's heart pounded wildly, each beat louder than the last. She hadn't yet recovered from the shock of her recent death, and now another life had been taken from her head.
But the choice was already in front of her, and Lin Guang approached "Lin Yi" again with a knife in hand. She had no time to hesitate.
This time, facing the knife, Mi Chuchu resolutely chose to dodge.
Lin Yi ran to the side without hesitation when Lin Guang raised his knife to strike.
But at that moment, the woman hiding behind him suddenly reached out, grabbed the unsuspecting "Lin Yi" by the collar, forcefully pulled him back, and pushed him to stand in front of her.
The gleaming blade of the cleaver mercilessly slashed at "Lin Yi's" face, only to be pressed against the hard bone, preventing it from penetrating any further.
The cleaver got stuck in the wound, but Lin Guang, in his anger, forcefully pulled it out, causing a spray of blood to appear.
Lin Yi clutched his face and screamed as he fell to the ground. The knife had slashed across half of his face, from his nose to his forehead to the corner of his eye. Blood gushed out, blurring his vision, leaving only the woman's even more terrified screams.
Lin Yi curled up in pain, covering his face. The pain on his face made him want to cry out loud, but the tears mixed with blood and wounds would only bring deeper pain.
He tried to run out the door to ask for help, but he had no strength at all. The pain in his face and the blood clots in front of him made it impossible for him to see anything.
In the darkness, he stumbled and groped his way around, the screams and curses of men and women echoing around him.
He didn't know how much time had passed, but he felt his body growing colder and his eyelids growing heavier.
"Mi Chuchu, Mi Chuchu, wake up!"
Upon noticing that something was wrong with her teammates, the others quickly gathered around Mi Chuchu called out to her. Since they couldn't reach her, they could only call out to her through their voices. Fortunately, upon hearing her teammates' repeated calls, Mi Chuchu's Brain reflexively snapped back to reality.
She got up from the ground, wiped the blood from her eyes, and opened them.
In that instant, she experienced Lin Yi's intense emotions and hatred, mixed with pain, so intense that it was easy to lose one's mind.
Upon waking, she saw a pop-up window that had appeared in front of her without her noticing. Through her bloodshot vision, she could vaguely make out the words on it.
Faced with your Dad's violent act, what do you choose?
A: Stand by and watch, waiting for Lin Guang to end his evil deeds.
B: Teaming up with Mom to defeat Dad
C: Go outside and call for help, then call the police to arrest the person.
D: Help Dad kill Mom]
After reading these lines, Mi Chuchu felt a chill in her heart.
She turned her head and saw that Lin Guang's knife had already landed on the woman's arm and thigh, the wounds so deep that the bone was visible.
The woman also stabbed the man in the eye with a shard of glass. The man lay supine on the floor, covered in blood on his body and the walls. After stabbing him in the eye, the woman also lost most of her strength and trembled, shrinking against the wall.
After what happened that morning, Mi Chuchu wasn't naive enough to think that running out and shouting for help would get her assistance. More likely, they would simply avoid her once they saw her covered in blood.
Her physical strength was no longer sufficient to support her going out for an extended period; the couple had acted ruthlessly, and they couldn't afford to waste any more time.
She didn't know whether the two of them died or survived on Lin Yi's day, but judging from their subsequent interactions, Mi Chuchu was more inclined to believe they hadn't died.
If too much time is wasted and the two manage to kill each other, the Instance will still fail.
Given the current situation, these two people will die from excessive blood loss within two minutes at most. Choosing any of the four options above will now be a certain death.