A slight "click" sound, like that of a broken branch, quickly cut through the morning air. Before the sound dissipated, Lin Sanjiu had suddenly opened his eyes and sat up quietly.

... even if she didn't get out of the cabin, she could still feel the forest wrapping this camping area. When leaves blow, branches break, and birds fly by, they all make a silent sound that belongs to the forest alone.

The night dragged a long iron gray skirt behind him, and the thick fog was caged in the sky, making the sky outside the window look chaotic. The sun had not yet fully emerged, and the cold air condensed into a layer of mist and dew on the glass.

Lin Sanjiu gently rolled out of bed, stared at the glass window, and slowly approached.

Last night, the gift bag lit a fire in the fireplace for a while. Compared with the forest park, which was soaked cold at night, the cabin was warm enough to be said.

She stretched out her hand and gently wiped the fog off the window with a few fingertips - with the "squeak" sound, the glass became clear bit by bit, revealing the real color of the outside world.

Dark red hair, yellow flesh color, a pair of round eyes are motionless black - a stiff strange face is staring directly at the house outside the window, opposite Lin Sanjiu's four eyes.

Lin Sanjiu took a breath, suddenly stood up, stretched out his hand and went to pull the window - the people outside seemed to be startled by her, so he turned around and ran. While running, he shouted, "they're awake! They're awake! Get ready, they're coming out!"

It turned out to be another psychosis - Lin Sanjiu patted the window lattice and breathed out; The gift bag behind him was also startled to wake up by this call sign. Only qingjiuliu, who had a good drink last night, still slept like nobody knew.

Standing up and opening the wooden door, the wet cold outside suddenly rolled in with the morning air; Before he stepped out, Lin Sanjiu's eyes blinked, and his consciousness suddenly sprang out in front of him. A small dark figure flying towards her was thrown out from a distance and disappeared into the forest.

"Puppy, what are you doing!" Last night, the thin old man held a basin and showed his head from his wooden house. "Put the stone down for me!"

The man, who was just pasted on the window glass and was also called a puppy at this time, bent down to pick up stones on the ground while throwing all the stones in his hand at Lin Sanjiu; His mouth still kept shouting: "if you want to cheat me, you are not human, I know you are not human... You killed the people of the earth... It is you..."

Lin Sanjiu frowned, and as soon as his consciousness hit the flying stone, the stone flew out in all directions; The puppy seemed to see a ghost for two seconds, and shouted, "aliens!" as if he had got a big evidence

"You go back!" The old man put down his basin, moved two thin, hemp like legs, came panting, and finally drove him away; He also apologized to Lin San Jiu and said, "my old man got up early, so they got up early, too, and it bothered you..."

He was short of nutrition for a long time, and looked like a skeleton with a piece of skin under the gray sky.

Lin Sanjiu naturally wouldn't lose his temper with him, but nodded; Turning his eyes, he saw two faces on the window of another wooden house. As soon as I touched her eyes, the two faces immediately retracted.

"I'll burn some hot water in the morning," the old man pointed to his cabin and said to Lin San wine and gift bag, "go and wash your face and drink some hot water before you go on the road?"

Mingming didn't say anything, so he changed his way to remind himself to leave - Lin Sanjiu couldn't help being a little funny, and didn't want to embarrass him, so he nodded; The gift bag was even more happy and asked if I could wash my hair by the way.

Like himself, the old man's cabin also exudes a faint smell of decay and aging. The old man introduced himself as Ke, and laughed at himself. This surname really blocked many people around him - when he said this, his crazy son was in the corner of the room, staring at Lin Sanjiu and his two people with a wary face.

"It's not easy to take care of them alone, is it?" Lin Sanjiu looked in the room and asked.

"It's not difficult," said old man Ke, laboriously carrying a pot of hot water. His thin, dry and black arm was covered with green veins due to force; He poured a glass of water for each of them. He said, "if it weren't for thinking about them, I wouldn't be able to support them."

Relying on a little injection to maintain, the body has long been unable to know what it should look like; And old man Ke relied on such a thin body to maintain the lives of several mental patients in the camping area - such a burden is unimaginable even before the end.

Glancing at the hot steam curling up from the top of the plastic cup, Lin Sanjiu suddenly found that she couldn't help him at all - she couldn't make old man Ke eat or his son get better.

"Little girl, do you want to wash your hair?" Old man Ke didn't forget the requirements of the gift bag. He put down the kettle and asked him, "my pot of water may not be enough. You wait for me to boil some..."

The shoulder of the gift bag shook, and I didn't know where to take back my eyes - I immediately loosened my eyebrows.

"No, I won't wash it," he smiled. "Don't bother you."

Old man Ke was not too polite. I think he was too energetic; He sat down on the chair opposite them: "OK, ok... Then drink water, drink water."

Even the evolutionist, I'm afraid, will be scalded by this water; Lin Sanjiu just held the cup and didn't move. He was just about to ask something more. Suddenly, there was a burst of miscellaneous shouting outside - old Ke just sighed. Before he stood up, the wooden house door was opened.

A small man, as thin as old man Ke, was standing at the door with a gloomy face and vigilance; As soon as his eyes fell on old man Ke, he lowered his voice like a spy making a report: "I just found the two aliens who were left behind, one unconscious, the other being caught by a puppy..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw Lin Sanjiu and them in a flash, and immediately opened his mouth and couldn't speak anymore.

Lin San Jiu rubbed his eyebrows, and he had heard Qing Jiuliu's grunt, very unhappy voice; Old man Ke looked embarrassed, hurriedly said "I'll solve this", stood up and walked out of the door.

Listening to the noise outside the door, Lin Sanjiu was still not at ease, so he simply walked to the window and looked out.

The location of the old man's cabin can just bring most of the camping area into the eye; The window on the other side is facing the wooden house of several other mental patients, and you can look into their house at a glance - the curtain that originally separated the line of sight has also been removed, probably in order to detect abnormalities in time.

At this time, qingjiuliu was standing between the dog and old man Ke, frowning and rubbing his temples, with a face of pain - before he woke up from a hangover, he was caught and shouted in his ear, which obviously made his headache worse; After a while, I didn't know what old man Ke said. Qing Jiuliu nodded and walked towards the wooden house.

Old man Ke sighed in situ, and after giving a few instructions to another mental patient, he walked tremblingly to the wooden house of Lin Sanjiu and closed the door - in this way, at least for the time being, he didn't have to worry about the big witch inside.

Lin Sanjiu put down a snack.

As soon as she returned and sat down, Qing Jiuliu just pushed the door and walked in. He was so surprised that the crazy son in the corner suddenly shivered all over, shaking his square face - he looked up lazily, and Qing Jiuliu threw himself into the chair that old man Ke had sat and put up his legs.

"Is the great witch all right?" Lin San Jiu asked.

"Why don't you ask me? She's much more comfortable than me." Qing Jiuliu looked as if he was about to melt down the tables and chairs, and gently put his head on the table: "I have a bad headache now, and it would be great if I could have a glass of whisky..."

Lin Sanjiu ignored him and didn't call out the wine cabinet. He knocked on the glass: "only water."

Qing Jiuliu suddenly moaned.

"It's strange to say..." The gift bag looked at his water cup, held his chin and said, "the mental patients here have a common delusion - what's wrong, it's aliens."

Hearing this word, the man in the corner suddenly shrank.

He was left by his father to share a room with the "aliens" alone, and his square face had long been scared white - qingjiuliu glanced at him and smiled, "the father and son are really quite different."

Listening to the sound outside the wooden house, it seemed that old man Ke was trying to coax those mental patients back to the house; As an "alien", Lin Sanjiu couldn't go out to help, so he had to sit still and look at old man Ke's cabin in boredom.

In addition to two beds and a set of tables and chairs, old man Ke had very little property, and he didn't know what days he was living: the only two sets of clothes for washing were hung on the clothes rack with towels; Besides, there is only a basin and a pair of slippers——

With a "squeak", the door of the wooden house was pushed open, and old man Ke came in with an embarrassed face.

In his hand, he held an old tea cup in front of qingjiuliu, like a gift to apologize: "... No way, they will do this when they see outsiders. They feel that except for the people in our camping area, the rest of the aliens are covered in human skin... Alas, when no one comes, they are very easy to manage, and they can't do it when someone comes."

Lin Sanjiu immediately understood why old man Ke always wanted them to leave - she couldn't help but felt a little embarrassed when she thought that she had not helped him, but had caused him trouble; Holding up the water glass, Lin Sanjiu smiled apologetically, "thank you for your hot water. We'll leave right after drinking it."

As she spoke, she raised the cup and put it to her lips. The water is not as hot as it was just now. A mouthful of warm water is contained between the lips and teeth, and I feel even quite comfortable - until Lin San wine tastes the sweetness of the water.

Old man Ke's eyes narrowed into two curved crescent moons, and the corners of his mouth picked up high.

"Drink," he whispered, "you aliens."

(happy birthday to zazazai and lanran Zi! How do you feel that your 18th birthday is coming so soon? By the way, the thank-you list is in the speech as usual, and those who want to see it can use the computer...)