Absolute Zone Zero: I survive in Liufen Street

Chapter 127 Character PV White FeatherCaged Bird

“I have been in poor health for as long as I can remember.

So the place I spend most of my time and am most familiar with is not my home, but the hospital ward.

I have a room all to myself.

When I was very young, I even thought that the hospital was my home..."

As the background narration tells the story, a warm and lovely children's room appears on the screen.

The wallpaper is light yellow and the ceiling is painted with star patterns.

A soft carpet covered most of the room. The children's bookcase against the wall was filled with beautifully printed picture books and various toys, some expensive, some interesting.

The windows in the room were covered with heavy blackout curtains printed with cute little bears.

Every detail in this room reflects the cherishment and love that the decorator has for the owner of the room.

If it weren't for the cold and tall medical equipment piled up next to the soft little bed, even though it was decorated with cute cartoon magnetic badges, it would not look like a hospital ward at all.

"Haha, don't look at me like that.

Although I lived in the hospital all the time, I actually had a pretty happy childhood.

After all, in the eyes of children who cannot yet distinguish the concept of "home", the hospital, this "big family", is very "lively".

And I was really too young at that time, so everyone took good care of me.

Besides the pain of the injections and the bitterness of the medicine, I always feel uncomfortable.

I had a good childhood."

The camera turned to the small hospital bed, and the thin and pale Xiao Xiaobai wearing a breathing mask appeared in the camera.

“When I’m in good shape, most of my energy goes into adventures.”

In the camera, Xiao Xiaobai, who was still fast asleep a second ago, immediately opened his eyes when he heard the sound of the door closing as the nurse checked outside. Even his frail and tired expression could not hide the child's naturally curious eyes.

All I saw was that beautiful pair of big light pink eyes, which were particularly obvious on her thin face, curved into a pair of beautiful crescents.

Xiao Xiaobai pushed away the breathing mask, took out a mask from under the pillow and put it on, then slowly slipped out of bed and put on his shoes and coat.

Then he dragged out a small backpack full of things from the toy box and put it on his back.

Then he stuffed a teddy bear into the bed with great effort, covered himself with the quilt and pretended that he was still asleep.

This set of operations went smoothly. Except for the fact that Xiao Xiaobai occasionally lost time due to coughing and shortness of breath due to exhaustion, it was obvious that all of this was premeditated.

"It's called an adventure, but in reality, it's just sneaking out of your room and visiting someone else's ward.

At that time, I thought I was taking a great risk to deceive the world, but now I think it was just a game with the tacit consent of adults. "

Xiao Xiaobai quietly opened the door, poked his head out, and nervously looked around. After thinking that no one noticed him, he immediately ran to another area with his backpack on his back.

“In the general ward, people are always coming and going.

I was very young at that time, and now I can’t remember who played with me.

As far as I can remember, there are only a few patients who have been hospitalized for a longer time and are willing to play with me. ”

Xiao Xiaobai knocked gently on the door of a ward. After receiving a response, he pushed the door open and went in. He ran to the bedside and stood on tiptoe to look at the person lying on the bed.

The face of the gray-haired lady in the picture is blurry, but one can still feel the kindness in every wrinkle of her smile.

When the old lady faces the little guy, she will prop herself up and gently stroke the little white one's head.

“I remember a grandmother who was a music teacher. She would hold my hand and say that my fingers were beautiful and that I would be suitable for playing the piano when I grew up.

Then she would take me to play songs on the toy electronic keyboard that her granddaughter had left behind. ”

In the picture, little Bai is leaning in an adult's arms. His little hands are as thin as dead branches and bruised with needle marks. He is being held by another hand with loose skin and a needle. His slightly trembling hand is holding the keys and learning the positions of "do, la, mi, fa..." little by little on the toy piano keys with a non-standard scale.

“…Unfortunately, due to my and my grandmother’s health problems, I was never able to learn to play a complete piece of music.

Now I only remember a few lines of how to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."

I don’t know how long it was before Xiao Xiaobai slipped out again. Holding his toy piano, he pushed open the door of the ward and saw an empty bed with bedding neatly folded.

Xiao Xiaobai, who was originally full of expectations, stood stupidly in the ward, as if he didn't understand why his grandmother, who had always been there, suddenly disappeared.

Until the sound of adult footsteps was heard behind him, and a lady whose face could not be seen clearly gently took Xiao Xiaobai's hand and left the empty ward with Xiaobai, who kept looking back at every step.

“…There are many children in the hospital, but most of them rarely stay in the hospital for a long time.

But for a while, a kid about my age came to live next door to me.

That was the first friend of my age I made.

I call her Lamb.

Because she always wears a furry little hat with fabric sheep horns. ”

The little girl in this image has a brilliant smile, eyes as bright as black grapes, and is filled with childlike vigor and joy. Even her pale complexion can't dampen her radiance. Like a small roadside poplar, she strives to grow.

“The little lamb talks a lot, but she doesn’t mind that I don’t like to talk.

Although she always cries and makes a fuss when getting injections or taking medicine, and needs her parents and grandparents to take turns to comfort her, if I take the medicine with her, she will act like an older sister and stop making a fuss.

So her family welcomed us to play together. ”

Two little children, holding hands, hid behind the curtains, listening to the adults who pretended not to see, calling their names and then covering their mouths and laughing.

Unlike Xiao Xiaobai's silent laughter, the lamb always makes a giggling sound.

"Until one day, the little lamb secretly shared her snacks with me, who had always been eating special food...

After I finished eating... I was rescued for a long time."

In the picture, Xiao Xiaobai is seen falling down with his hands covering his stomach, looking very painful. Then there are the sounds of adults frantically calling for a doctor, and the sound of the lamb crying in panic while hiding in its mother's arms.

“When I woke up, my mother, who was crying silently in front of me, just comforted me and said that after I recovered from the illness, I could eat whatever I wanted.

She didn't blame me, nor did she resent Xiaoyang. However, Xiaoyang gradually became estranged from me due to the interference of her family's adults.

We didn't have time to say goodbye properly until she was discharged from the hospital.

But at my door, the little sheep gave me the little hat she always wore and a children's drawing of two children holding hands. It also said, "I hope I can get better soon."

On the carpet in the room, little Bai Xiao was sitting in his mother's arms, pouting. He grabbed his little hat unhappily and buried his head in his mother's arms crying.

"Also, there's the weird grandpa who has a bad temper and loves to curse, but always gives me candy; the older sister who sits in a wheelchair and doesn't talk much, but always holds me and looks at the moon; the brother who has a broken arm but keeps complaining to his friends on the phone; the policeman who smokes secretly and whose wife confiscates his pocket money...

Many people told me, a little kid, stories that I couldn't tell anyone else.

In the video, an old man's children were arguing in front of his bed. The old man angrily picked up the water cup beside him and threw it on the ground, yelling at them, and then started coughing violently.

After everyone has left, he sighs again and again. When he sees Xiaobai, he waves him over, touches his face, and says nothing. After giving him candy, he drives him away.

In the quiet hospital corridor, a beautiful woman sitting in a wheelchair pointed at the stars outside the window with her white jade-like hands and told the story of the stars to Xiao Xiaobai, who was also awake.

The wrists beneath the cuffs were wrapped in gauze, but the old scars were still intertwined, reflected in Xiao Xiaobai's clear and pure eyes.

A rose finally withered in the vase, and the empty ward was filled with mournful cries.

Xiao Xiaobai, standing at the door of the ward, looked at the uncle sitting on the hospital bed whose ears were pulled by his wife. He gritted his teeth and begged for mercy in a low voice, while his child lay on the uncle and laughed at him loudly.

So Xiao Xiaobai also laughed silently.

Countless figures walked past Xiao Xiaobai. Xiao Xiaobai grew up year by year, and the colors around him became dimmer as he grew older.

Only his mother, wearing green clothes behind him, has not changed and is as bright as before.

At a certain moment, the green clothes behind Xiaobai in the picture suddenly disappeared, and he turned into a black-haired man who held the frightened Xiaobai in his arms.

The picture turned completely black and white.

“People we know will eventually leave, whether sooner or later.

As I grew older, I realized that the hospital wasn't home. People came here because they were sick, and when they recovered, they left, never to return.

So I, who had been living here all the time, suddenly had the urge to leave.

But, it's difficult...

I asked my mother, and she comforted me by saying that I should listen to the doctor and that I would get better one day and then be able to leave the hospital.

……

Then, I really left. It was, hahaha~ quite sudden. ”

Xiaobai, who was sitting alone on the carpet in the dim ward, looked very close to his current age, but was still thin.

Xiaobai raised his head and quietly watched the birds flying through the curtains that were not drawn tight.

There was a hint of desire.

Then, the video heard the sounds of crying and knocking on the door.

"Please save me, brother!!"

A little girl's voice reached Xiao Baiyu's ears. Then Xiao Baiyu walked out of the picture, and a blood-red light projection appeared on the reflection of the floor.

The roars and screams were clearly heard by everyone.

The next second, the [Absolute] icon appeared.

The video ends.