Chapter 23 Are you afraid?

When the two are wandering around the lake, Yang and his colleagues also arrive here. Looking at the desolate scene, Yang also doesn't know why Alex brought Alice here, especially now that are alone together, he couldn't help but worry.

Now it is obvious that if Yang follows, the distance is too close and it would be easy to be exposed. If he doesn't follow, he feels that Alice would be in danger.

Just as Yang is hesitating, his mobile phone suddenly vibrates. He takes it out and sees that it is a message from Alice, indicating that they should not come directly and she is not in danger now.

After receiving the accurate information, Yang is kind of relieved and stays not far away.

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Alex lowers his head and walks forward as if he is looking for something. Alice sees this scene and asks in confusion, "What are you looking for?"

Alex does not turn his head back and continues to look,

"Stone, a handy stone, don't be idle, come and help me find it."

"What are you looking for a stone for?"

Alice frowns, feeling a little nervous, and quietly places her hand on the phone button. As long as the situation is slightly wrong, she would directly send a message to let Yang come over.

Alex looks back at her and says playfully, "Well, you 'll know when you find it."

At this time, Alex suddenly quickens his pace, then bends down to pick up a stone, and weighs it in his hand for a few times.

Alice watches his action and unconsciously steps back a bit to distance herself from Alex, and this scene is also seen by Alex.

Alex shows her an ambiguous smile while holding the stone, and slowly says,

"Are you afraid? Didn't you say you weren't afraid?"

Alice holds the phone tightly, looks at Alex vigilantly, and says solemnly, "What are you going to do?"

Alex looks at her with a puzzled look on his face and asks,

"What am I going to do?"

He slowly approaches Alice and explains as he gets close,

"Come closer, don't be so far away from me, come over and I'll tell you what I'm going to do."

Facing this strange scene, how could Alice go over? She couldn't help but take two steps back.

Alex sees this scene, his face darkens, and he says sternly,

"You are retreating again! How dare you not come over? Are you afraid of me? Afraid that I will hurt you?"

Alice looks at Alex who suddenly becomes irritable, and instinctively presses the button of the mobile phone.

Yang waiting outside immediately receives the message, he stands up and rushes in with his colleagues, shouting loudly,

"Alice! Alice!"

Alex hears the noise, looks at Alice and shakes his head,

"This is so regrettable."

Perhaps because of the colleagues' arrival, Alice feels more confident and asks, "What's the regret?"

Alex throws the stone into the lake, points around and says,

"I just wanted to find a stone to skip on the water. Boys, sometimes they like to do some childish things."

As Alex says this, he bends down again, picks up another flat stone from the place where he has just picked up the last one, and stretches out his hand to signal her to have a look.

"Look at the shape of this stone, it's just right for skipping stones."

At this time, Yang and the others also rush over. Alex waves at him and smiles, "Oh, Officer Yang, what a coincidence? You are here too?"

Yang frowns and looks at Alice whose face is very terrible at this time. No one would look good if they were fooled, Alice feels that she is too cowardly.

Alex ignores them, picks up the third stone in his hand and throws it into the lake. Seeing the stone jumping on the lake, Alex is very happy, "One, two, three... perfect!"

Yang couldn't stand Alex's neurotic behavior and plans to take Alice away.

Alex suddenly poses a question when he sees this scene, "Aren't you curious why I brought you guys here?"

Yang and others pause, turn around and look at Alex , "Why?"

Alex does not speak immediately, but finds a relatively flat place to sit down, and then he talks to himself,

"There was a little girl in the past. Her father was an alcoholic and violent and she lived in fear every day. The sound of motorcycles in the middle of the night had become her nightmare, because she knew that only her father had come back so late, and she would probably be beaten again. What could she do? She could only pretend to sleep and hope that this night would pass quickly.

One night, her father still did not come back. She knew that her father went out to drink again. She was very scared and couldn't sleep at all. The sound of motorcycles in the middle of the night made her even more scared. She closed her eyes tightly and wanted to tell her father that she was asleep, but unfortunately, her father was in a very bad mood that night.

Listening to her mother's wailing, she covered her mouth tightly to prevent herself from making any noise. She thought that her father might not notice her in this way, but the opposite happened. She was dragged up, which startled her totally. She couldn't help crying, but it was her crying that completely angered her father. He stretched out his hand to hit her. She was afraid and tried her best to avoid it and ran outside, but her father chased her out.

The dark night scared her, but she kept running because her father chasing behind her made her even more frightened. She ran and ran until she ran to a pond in the village. She remembered that the old people in the village said that there was a man-eating monster in the pond. Of course, we all know that this is just a lie, just to keep children away from the pond to protect them.

But she was too young at the time and really believed it.

Seeing that her father behind her was about to catch up with her, she had a normal but terrible idea in her mind, which was to let the monster eat her father so that he could never beat her again.