Chapter 8
“That girl is truly fierce.”
“Do you believe me now?”
After lunch, Guan Guo and I continued our discussion about the Night Truth on the rooftop.
“Well, after experiencing it myself, I can’t possibly call it mere fiction… Her strength and reaction time, even athletes can’t match it.”
“Indeed, she’s no longer just a girl… She’s more than that, a superhuman.”
“Did that experience trouble you in any way?”
“Not really, just occasionally saying unsettling things.”
Guan Guo nodded, realizing there wasn’t much he could do in this situation.
“Yes, I’d like to apologize here.”
“What happened?”
This marked the first time Guan Guo had apologized to me since we became friends.
“When you made those remarks to me, I thought it was just your imagination, so I didn’t take it to heart.”
“It’s alright. There’s no such thing as a perfect childhood in this world. Even if I tell the truth, it’s reasonable for others to interpret it differently.”
Wait… Is that a good thing?
“I want to apologize for something else.”
“What?”
“Do you recall when I shared with you a story about my eyes as part of a secret exchange?”
“Ah, the story about how you were going to protect your sister from the bad guys. I’ve heard the original version from your sister.”
“No, my sister didn’t know the original story.” Guan Guo shook his head, abandoning his previous relaxed posture and speaking earnestly.
“The story she knew was a fabrication created by me and the doctor who treated us initially.”
“A fabrication?”
“Yes, did she tell you that I got stabbed in the eye by a gangster while trying to protect her, and then the gangster fled?”
“Your version has the gangster fleeing in the end, right?” So, in other words, they are pretty remarkable. A primary school student managing to scare away a wicked gangster.
“Actually, the gangsters didn’t run away.”
“They didn’t escape? Did they just hide at home and wait for the police to rescue them?”
Guan Guo shook his head.
“Promise me, don’t tell my sister what I’m about to reveal.”
It was the first time I had seen him so serious.
“I promise.”
He took a deep breath and then continued, “Actually, the reason we called the police that day had nothing to do with the gangster’s relationship. It was because of his condition, wasn’t it?”
“What are you talking about?” He suddenly became incoherent, leaving me to unconsciously question him.
“Don’t interrupt me!” He yelled at me abruptly.
“I’m sorry… I lost control of my emotions for a moment.”
“It’s fine, please continue.”
Does he even experience this state…
“That day was truly horrifying. In fact, I wanted to conceal this truth if I could, but Eruya said something to my sister that day, and I realized that continuing like this would only harm Guan Ting!”
Guan Guo actually cried…
[You really resemble me, and of course, that person too.]
That sentence…
He wiped away his tears and continued.
“That day, after the gangsters robbed us, we initially planned to escape through the window. However, Guan Ting was standing there at that moment, and one of the men slapped her. That’s when things took a terrible turn!”
Tears continued to flow, but he showed no signs of stopping.
“Guan Ting her! She seems to have become a different person! She rarely enters the kitchen, but is familiar with the position of all the kitchen knives! And! She doesn’t know where the strength comes! She stabbed the gangsters one by one, although she didn’t aim at the key , But the strength of each knife really inserted the knife into the extremely deep part! Even cut a few bones in a row! And even more frightening! She was laughing! As if playing some interesting game, I Although I was afraid at that time, my brother’s will defeated the fear, and I wanted to stop her! But she suddenly stabbed my left eye with a knife. If it wasn’t for the police who arrived and shot her and wounded her, the knife Would pierce my brain directly … oh wow … ”
After finishing his story, he vomited.
“However, did you and the doctor plan to keep it hidden since she also forgot about it after the injury?”
Guan Guo nodded.
“So… did the doctor eventually diagnose her?”
“The doctor said it was Dissociative Identity Disorder.”
Dissociative Identity Disorder? ☆
“It involves having two (or more) distinct identities or personality states. Each of these identities has its own way of thinking, and their thoughts and decision-making are not influenced by the others; they operate independently.”
“I feel like you know everything.”
“Just memorizing things from interesting websites.”
In the apartment rented by the Eleu Group, Ye Zhen and I discussed the problem over dinner.
“As you mentioned, the reason Guan Ting, that woman, might get up and run around after two o’clock in the middle of the night could be because the doctor arbitrarily assigned that time as when the gangsters invaded, thus triggering her subconscious fear.”
“That does sound plausible.”
“But my personal theory differs.” She paused her meal, setting down her utensils and gazing at me earnestly.
“Please share the details.”
“I’m thinking whether the time she wakes up at two in the middle of the night is when she kills the gangsters. It’s not a shadow pulling her up, but rather her second personality trying to take control.”
An eerie atmosphere suddenly engulfed me, especially with her ominous tone, forcing me to consider the possibility she presented.
“Dust, I don’t think your friend has divulged everything to you.”
“Are you suggesting that Guan Guo might actually know why his sister woke up in the middle of the night?”
“Exactly.”
Guan Guo’s helpless expression reappeared in my mind. Yes, the moment he told me their secret, I decided to help him.
The next day, just as I was about to ask Guan Guo for clarification, he was hospitalized…