Chapter 21 Chapter 20: A Brain Major

Xu Youyou asked Gao Xuan to meet. They came to the Feiou coffee shop where they met for the first time.Xu Youyou was wearing a long white dress, with short hair cut, looking as innocent as a lamb. She arrived first, sat in a window seat, resting her cheeks on her hands, staring at the busy traffic outside in a daze.The glass of the cafe is a bit like a distorting mirror, and the world she sees is distorted. About half an hour later, Gao Xuan staggered in. He happened to be wearing the black vest he had worn when we met for the first time. Xu Youyou realized that today might be the last time she and Gao Xuan met, and she felt a little sad and wanted to cry.

To be honest, Xu Youyou had a hard time connecting Gao Xuan with the trash picker—Gao Xuan was so tall, but the trash picker was so short, and his head was so big, could it be that Gao Xuan was an illegitimate child? Gao Xuan and Xu Youyou have been together for a long time, and they are obviously more talkative than before.As soon as he sat down, he said, "Youyou, you are different today." Xu Youyou: "What's the difference?" Gao Xuan looked at Xu Youyou carefully and said, "It seems very happy." Xu Youyou: "No, I'm pretty much the same as before."

While ordering a drink, Gao Xuan looked at Xu Youyou's long skirt: "I noticed that you like white very much. Generally, people who like white like black, but people who like black usually don't like white." Xu Youyou: "Really?" Gao Xuan asked back: "It must be. Do you know why?" Xu Youyou shook his head. Gao Xuan: "This should belong to the category of psychology." Xu Youyou: "Which type do you belong to?" Gao Xuan tugged at his vest and said, "I like black." Xu Youyou: "If I ask you what black is, what is your intuitive answer?"

Gao Xuan: "Secret." Xu Youyou repeated thoughtfully: "Secret..." Gao Xuan: "So I chose to study the brain. The capacity of a brain is equivalent to 10,000 libraries, and there are so many brains in the world, how many secrets should there be?" Xu Youyou suddenly said: "Do you have a secret?" Gao Xuan: "There must be." Xu Youyou: "I think there should be no secrets between you and me." Gao Xuan smiled: "You made me into a glass? In fact, the glass also has a secret, under the coaster." Xu Youyou seems to have discovered on the first day that Gao Xuan's smile is actually extremely profound.She said: "I don't like detours, I asked you to come today, just want to ask you one thing..."

Gao Xuan: "Tell me." Xu Youyou: "Why are you... so tight-lipped that you don't admit that he is your father?" Gao Xuan was stunned: "Who are you talking about?" Xu Youyou: "The uncle who picked up the trash." Gao Xuan turned his head out of the window, and said after a while, "I never said he wasn't my father." Xu Youyou: "Gao Xuan, you know, my heart is as clear as a lake, and I never tolerate lies." Gao Xuan took a sip of coffee: "The conflict between me and him is frozen, and I can't explain it clearly in a few words. No matter where the hero comes from, I am Gao Xuan. Just think of me as jumping out of a rock."

Xu Youyou: "Do you think he is poor?" Gao Xuan: "When I first came to the United States, I talked about a girlfriend named Ashley. She was a child from a poor family and liked to explore. I loved her very much, but she dumped me. I don't even have a problem with choosing a spouse. Love between the poor and the rich is even more impossible for the biological parents. I have a conceptual conflict with him and cannot be reconciled. I also thought about easing the relationship with him, but it almost turned into a hand-to-hand fight." Xu Youyou: "Why?" Gao Xuan: "Let me tell you something, you may understand - he is my grandfather's biological son, but my grandfather has always wanted to kill him! People think my grandfather is mentally abnormal, but I think, He is more normal than anyone else. This time when I returned to China, it was just in time for my grandfather’s 70th birthday. I went to visit him, but he was still looking for his son’s whereabouts, so I didn’t dare to tell him.”

Xu Youyou: "Maybe I shouldn't bring up these family matters that make you heartbroken..." Gao Xuan: "Once, the father of a Japanese classmate went to the United States to visit him. The father and son drank together. It seemed that their relationship was so harmonious, which made me very sad." Speaking of this, Gao Xuan lowered his head and passed After a while, he said: "That was the first time I cried after I came to the United States." Xu Youyou said softly: "I will never be a worldly girl, I don't care what your father does, I just don't want you to lie to me."

Gao Xuan: "Then you can treat my father as a trash picker." Xu Youyou was indeed innocent, with a few vague explanations, she had already dispelled all her suspicions about Gao Xuan. She lightly touched Gao Xuan's hand, and whispered: "Okay, let's change the course and stop talking about this." Gao Xuan nodded, and retracted his hand. Xu Youyou once thought that Gao Xuan specialized in studying the brain, should he tell him all about what happened to him?Maybe, he can find the scientific source of the disease... So, she said: "Gao Xuan, I also have a secret, but I don't know how to tell you. But I promise, this secret has nothing to do with deception."

Gao Xuan smiled brightly: "As I said just now, the capacity of the human brain is equivalent to 10,000 libraries. I guess you only have secrets as thick as one book." Xu Youyou: "It's really like a book. I once commissioned a writer and hoped that he would write it with a brilliant pen." Gao Xuan: "What's the title of the book?" Xu Youyou: "I think it's most appropriate to call it 'Ghostly and haunted'." Gao Xuan: "Come on, let's talk about the first chapter." At this moment, Xu Youyou's cell phone rang.She picked up the phone and looked, it turned out to be Gao Xuan's phone number, she was stunned, and asked Gao Xuan: "Have you brought your phone?"

Gao Xuan fished in his pocket and took out the phone: "I brought it, what's the matter?" Xu Youyou asked again: "Have you changed your phone number?" Gao Xuan: "Didn't we talk on the phone just now? How could I change my number!" Xu Youyou suddenly understood something: "I'm sorry, wait a little bit." Then she picked up the phone. Gao Xuan's voice came from the phone: "Vu, why did you answer the phone?" Xu Youyou was not so surprised, she looked at Gao Xuan opposite and waited quietly for the next sentence. Gao Xuan on the phone said, "Why don't you speak?... Oh, I see, is he in front of you?"

Xu Youyou still didn't speak. Gao Xuan on the phone continued: "You don't need to talk, just listen to me. Don't trust the person in front of you, he is not me, he is very dangerous, understand?" Xu Youyou continued to listen. Gao Xuan on the phone said again: "The person sitting opposite you is actually as tall as you. His head is hidden in his body, and nothing above his neck is real." Xu Youyou looked at Gao Xuan's face again.He was stirring coffee with his head down, Xu Youyou only saw a mess of curly yellow hair. Gao Xuan on the phone continued: "He is not human, if you don't leave him now, then you will never leave him!" Xu Youyou finally spoke: "Thank you, I know what I should do." Putting down the phone, Xu Youyou said to Gao Xuan, "The first chapter has already begun." Gao Xuan: "What do you mean?" Xu Youyou: "What was I doing just now?" Gao Xuan: "You're on the phone." Xu Youyou: "Did you hear the ringtone?" Gao Xuan: "No, didn't you call someone else?" Xu Youyou: "Check the records and see who I'm talking to on the phone." Gao Xuan: "I don't understand." Xu Youyou handed him the phone and said, "You have to be mentally prepared, this is a dreamlike horror novel." Gao Xuan took her mobile phone and looked at it: "The last call was half an hour ago, my number..." Xu Youyou: "That is to say, I didn't talk to anyone on the phone!" Gao Xuan asked suspiciously: "What's going on? You changed to acting?" Xu Youyou: "Just now, I really heard the phone ring, the phone number is yours, after I picked up, I did hear your voice, you warned me that Gao Xuan sitting opposite me is fake, Let me leave you immediately..." Gao Xuan blinked his eyes, as if he didn't understand what Xu Youyou was saying. Xu Youyou: "This is my secret." Gao Xuan: "Illusion?" Xu Youyou: "I feel that the content of every book in my brain has been tampered with, becoming gibberish and incomprehensible. Occasionally, there are some logical connections between these messy words, just like the seemingly genuine ones. The virus of the symbol. From the time I was born to the present, this thing that invaded my brain has been jumping up and down and doing whatever it wants. I have faced collapse many times, but this thing always fixes me, makes me stop from the precipice, and stay teetering on the edge of madness. I There is no third party between me and it, I can only fight against it alone..." Speaking of this, Xu Youyou's eyes were wet. Gao Xuan didn't say anything, walked over silently from the opposite side, sat beside her, and hugged her shoulders. Xu Youyou wiped away tears and said, "Gao Xuan, am I too fragile?" Gao Xuan: "No, Youyou, you are very strong, your strength is rare!" Xu Youyou hugged Gao Xuan tightly and cried out. Gao Xuan: "Youyou, no matter what you hear or see in the future, you must be like today, believe me. Even if the whole world becomes fake, I am still real." Xu Youyou nodded vigorously. The piano in the cafe sounded slowly and solemnly. The mysterious thing controlling Xu Youyou has been hiding out of the sky, never showing its true face, but it appeared on the night when Xu Youyou told Gao Xuan the truth. The eyelids are small, but after they fall, what we see is a world similar to the night sky, like a vast universe far away from the earth, empty and boundless. Xu Youyou lay on the bed with her eyes closed, unable to sleep no matter what, she recalled Gao Xuan's words over and over again, and felt the power to fight sprouted in her body again. Suddenly, a shadow appeared in the dark inner world, seeming to be moving towards her... Xu Youyou was startled, and opened his eyes suddenly.That image disappeared immediately, and she saw the walls, floor lamps, and hangers of the house in the moonlight. Xu Youyou thought for a while, then carefully closed his eyes again, and the shadow appeared again.Much closer this time. Xu Youyou's heart beat wildly. She gritted her teeth and kept her eyes open. She wanted to see what it was! The shadow moved very slowly, but it got closer and closer, and finally the shadowy figure appeared as a human being! Xu Youyou frowned and stared at him hard. This person's face was blurred, and his facial features could not be seen clearly. He could only feel that it was a man. He was smiling slightly, with very white teeth, and his mouth opened and closed, as if he was talking to Xu Youyou. Xu Youyou tried hard, but couldn't hear what he was saying. The man didn't seem to be in a hurry, he kept smiling like that, and kept talking slowly.Judging from the shape of his mouth, he was repeating the same sentence. Xu Youyou was about to die of fright, and suddenly opened his eyes.The man disappeared immediately. She thought, this man must be the thing that tampered with her brain!He is manifested! what to do!Even if she calls her parents, it won't help, they can't get into her inner world, only she can see him!Moreover, she couldn't take pictures, couldn't record videos, and there was nothing when she opened her eyes, that is to say, no matter whether it was her parents, Gao Xuan, or Wan Sui'er, no one could see this person with her! She has to face it alone. Xu Youyou closed his eyes again. The man has not left, his expression is still smiling, repeating that sentence tirelessly. The more Xu Youyou couldn't hear clearly, the more anxious he became, and the more anxious he became, the more he couldn't hear clearly. She was so nervous that her eyelids popped open again.When people are afraid, they tend to close their eyes tightly so that they cannot see anything.And if something appeared in the dark world after closing the eyes, it would be called real horror. She didn't dare to go back, she was afraid to see that man. She squinted hard. Time flows minute by minute. Mom and Dad are asleep, they don't know what kind of suffering their daughter is going through. However, she is not a fish, and finally she couldn't stand it any longer, her eyelids fell like jack gates, blocking out the whole world, so that man appeared lightly immediately, he smiled and shook his head, as if telling her, It was futile to try to drive him away, and then, he made exaggerated mouth shapes word by word, and continued to repeat that sentence...