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A broken home is shrouded in a layer of black and gray.

The happy photos of the past also have a trace of blood.

There are still a few feathers in the cage, but the cheerful birdsong of the past is no longer inside.

The sky outside the window is particularly gloomy——

This is a home from a few years ago, no, a "home".

The door was pushed open, and a girl about thirteen or fourteen years old slowly walked in. She was in a mess, her hair was cut to pieces, burned and even stained with blood, so that her hair was stuck together.

"I'm back." Her voice was like a machine, and she said the same words every day.

but.

Got no response.

She walked to the bathroom, and after taking off her tattered school uniform, her body in front of the mirror was covered with bruises, scratches and even swelling after being beaten.

The girl ignored all this and buried her body in the hot bath water.

The burning pain caused by her skin reduced the pain in her heart a bit. She raised her head and silently stared at the mirror not far away with her empty and lustrous eyes.

[Want to die.]

The sudden thought that arose in her heart grew like a vine, wrapping around every inch of her body, but this was not the first time it had appeared.

She stood up from the bathtub and returned to her room naked.

This is a warmly decorated bedroom - with an area of ​​dozens of square meters, divided into various functional areas... a bed, a wardrobe, a computer and an idle easel. At this time, there is a pair of blood-stained scissors on the desk. She takes it

rise.

Her quiet eyes didn't seem to have any nostalgia for life. She pierced the sharp part of the scissors into the skin on her wrist. Blood beads slowly emerged, and the scarlet color was eye-catching.

but.

But I didn't have the courage to step in.

"I want to die." The girl repeated without any emotion in her tone, but the other hand holding the scissors still did not move.

There was a crisp metal collision sound, and the scissors fell to the ground.

The girl knelt and sat motionless on the ground, with only tears falling drop by drop on the floor.

Her fingers trembled, and the pain curled up into her heart and she sank deeper and deeper.

Finally...she picked up the scissors on the ground and pointed them at her neck.

Closed his eyes.

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"bite--"

The familiar message sound made the girl slowly open her eyes, and the mobile phone screen on the desktop lit up.

She picked it up and found it was a notification.

[Your friend Zhai Zhai Zhai...invites you to an event!]

The official game strategy assistant displays this message.

"Zhai..." The girl's chapped lips finally uttered a word. She slowly stood up and turned on the monitor. The game was also being logged in.

Look down.

A knight in armor is standing next to his character, turning on the team microphone.

"Coco-chan, you're online or AFK, let's go kill the Zombie King together. The bite of that thing is so painful, I need your milk urgently."

Fingers tapped crisply on the keyboard——

[Cocoa Jiang: Zhai Zhai, I want to die.]

The knight on the opposite side was stunned for a moment, then he smiled and said: "Hahaha, you won't die if you kill the Zombie King. If you really want to die, let's kill the Flame Witch."

[Cocoa-chan: I want to die.]

[Cocoa-chan: I want to die.]

"Coco-chan?" The knight named Otaku Otaku ID seemed to have noticed something was wrong, and even the voice in Mai's voice changed slightly:

"Are you okay?"

The girl listened to the other party's anxious voice. She didn't know why a trace of grievance emerged in her heart that shouldn't exist, and she kicked the computer host.

"Poof!" Along with a loud noise, the monitor screen went black.

Only her lifeless face was reflected on the monitor. The girl lay on the keyboard and cried silently.

Tired, tired.

As usual, he didn't fall into a deep sleep on the bed.

…

When I woke up again, it was already four o'clock in the morning.

The room was dim and the lights were not turned on. The girl sat quietly, as if she was not afraid of the dark environment...or maybe she was expecting something to happen.

It took about half an hour to sit.

She reached out and turned on the computer again, not knowing why she logged into the game again.

[Leave a message to apologize?]

This thought came to mind. After all, the other party was his only friend, and his attitude just now must have scared him.

No, he might be afraid of his weird behavior, and he might delete his friends.

Will definitely hide far away.

Opening the friend list, the girl wanted to confirm whether the other party had deleted her... but she found that not only was he not offline, but he was standing next to her.

Complaints also came one after another from the team members:

"Damn it, why is this another tauren pretending to be pure love? Are there not many neon painters these days who can draw pure love?!"

"..." There was a moment of silence.

"Hey, Coco-chan, are you online?!"

"Can you hear my voice?"

"Are you okay? Why did you say that suddenly? Did something happen in reality?"

"Don't ever have such thoughts, Coco-chan, can you hear me?!"

The other party's series of words made the girl sit blankly in the chair. This was the first time she had seen Zhai Zhai look so anxious. For some reason, except for the pain on her skin, it was the first time she felt no pain in her heart.

Already.

Trembling fingers gently landed on the keyboard.

[Cocoa-chan: I'm sorry, I'm fine...]

"As long as you're okay, I don't have your real-life contact information. You just worried me to death."

"Tell me if you are being bullied."

The girl hugged her knees and sat on the chair. Listening to Maili's voice, her empty eyes gathered a glimmer of light.

Then he asked softly:

"The book...what is it?"

Then she noticed that her microphone was not turned on, so she asked again in the chat channel.

"Ahem..." A violent cough suddenly came from the other end, and then he began to explain, "It's just a good-looking comic. If you, Coco-chan, can draw, you should probably understand it, right?"

Cocoa Sauce: Do you like this?

"I like it...it's just that the taste of the works of those painters has become more and more serious in recent years, and I can't stand it." A disappointed reply came from the other end of Mai.

However, the other party seemed to notice that Cocoa-chan's mood had calmed down, so he tentatively asked:

"Coco-chan, if you have anything unhappy, you can tell me. Don't worry, I won't talk nonsense... Well, after all, I don't know you either."

"It's true that I don't know him, but how can any idiot wait until four or five in the morning..." the girl said softly to the knight on the screen.

She also knew that the other party couldn't hear what she said.

Cocoa Jiang: Are you sleepy? Go to sleep.

"I'm not sleepy. I just drank two bottles of death-grade energy drinks. I'll probably be able to work hard on my writing when I go to school tomorrow."

Cocoa Sauce: Idiot...

Cocoa Jiang: Zhai Zhai, I want to play Zombie King.
Chapter completed!