Chapter 356 Emperor

It’s another full-moon night, and the Arctic poppies are bathed in the moonlight. The falling white snow is like a letter written by the Arctic to the Black Swan Port. It falls on the ground one stroke at a time, spreading and compacting it, with a cool feeling. , you can feel some warmth again when it’s freezing to the bone.

The moonlight and snowflakes floated from the window into the corridor with peeling white chalk. The white light lamps made a hissing sound and hung on the wall one after another, like the moon in the underworld, one after another, two lamps. You can't see your fingers between the lamps. Every time you walk into the darkness, it's a challenge to your courage. It's like Orpheus walking blindfolded in hell. He doesn't dare to be timid in his heart. Once he looks back, he will fall into darkness.

Renata was walking on this road wearing white cotton pajamas and holding her little bear Zorro. She was not afraid of the alternating black and white shadows in the corridor, because she had been walking this road for almost five or six years, every night. Go because she wakes up every night or she wets the bed. Once she wets the bed, she will be detained by the head nurse, and the worst thing is that she will be forced to wear a small yellow flower, so that every child will know that she wet the bed again last night, and will spare no effort to laugh at her and make her cry.

Renata has always felt that she is special. This feeling of pretentiousness should not appear in any child, but she is an exception because she is the only girl in Black Swan Port who has not had surgery. Only 'Arab' (meaning gauze is wrapped around the head after surgery) children can stay awake at night, so among the 38 children in Black Swan Harbor, only Renata wets the bed! She also occasionally had fun. Other children laughed at her for wetting the quilt at such an old age, but they couldn't even wet the bed if they wanted to.

Every time Renata wet the bed, the head nurse would get furious and have to clean up the smelly bed herself. After a long time, when she found that confinement and wearing little yellow flowers could not prevent the paper doll from wetting the bed, she simply stopped locking Room 38 at night. The door was closed, and Renata, who lived inside, was allowed to get up and come out at night to solve her own internal problems.

It's a great privilege. This is why Renata thinks she is special. The 38 rooms are arranged from left to right. 38 children from Black Swan Harbor live in them. No one can be special. Time As soon as you arrive, you have to go to bed. The head nurse will ring the bell along the corridor at eleven o'clock every night. Every child in the room will be drowsy by the bell and fall into sleep. In the morning, the head nurse's bell would wake them up, and they would have no dreams or disturbances.

Only Renata had not undergone surgery, so the bells had no effect on her. The same was true for the doctor's banging sound. Other children would sound like epileptic tremors, but she only found the sound monotonous and boring and not interesting. At night, she used the reason to get up late to patrol the entire corridor like a queen patrolling her territory. It was her greatest pleasure to visit every part of her territory. This allowed her to truly feel her uniqueness and extraordinaryness.

Renata stopped in the corridor. She stood in front of room 12 in the corridor and looked inside. Sleeping on the bed inside was Zhurova, the third most beautiful girl in the Golden Triangle. Like Khorkina, she can dance ballet and has the best singing voice among the children. She starts every Christmas chorus.

Looking past Zhurova, Renata scanned Room 12 carefully. Except for the blind spots that she couldn't see, she even squinted carefully in the shadows. After not finding what he wanted, he left the room and walked to the next room, No. 13.

Yes, she has repeated this behavior 12 times, and now it is the 13th time. There are 38 children and 38 rooms in Black Swan Harbor. She will have to repeat this behavior for the 38th time tonight (including her own room) ), she tried to find someone, a girl who should not exist in Black Swan Port, and this girl's name is "Yelena".

"You ask me if I know Yelena? Are you kidding me? Is there anyone in Black Swan Port who doesn't know Yelena? Even the soldiers guarding the gate know her!" In the daytime, this is Renata telling An The answer Dong received after asking questions about this "Yelena".

She also asked many people, and when they answered her, they all raised their eyebrows and looked at her like a fool or a madman.

"Is this a trick? Are you having a conflict with Yelena? Hey, it's not what I said. I advise you to apologize to Yelena as soon as possible. She is the most popular among boys, so there will inevitably be a lot of Idiots with mental problems will come to trouble you just to make Yelena happy."

"My impression of Yelena? Why do you suddenly ask this? I thought you didn't care about anyone, Renata. Yelena is a very good and charming girl. She is the most beautiful girl in our Black Swan Port. There is no one popular kid! Everyone likes her! No one dislikes her!"

"She plays the piano, she plays the balalaika, and she plays the accompaniment to the Christmas chorus."

"She can dance, especially ballet. Khorkina often asks her for tips on how to use force when dancing and how to expand her expressive power. She was the center of the dance floor at Christmas! Even the doctor praised her for being younger. At ten years old, I will definitely ask her for a dance.”

"Her grades are very good. She is the smartest among all the children. She ranks among the best in every test. The doctor praised her and said that if there is a chance to send any child to study in Moscow in the future, she will be chosen first!"

"She is very beautiful, the prettiest of the girls."

"She is very good at sports and can compete with boys."

"She never wets the bed"

"Don't ask me why I know that her breasts are the most developed. It was judged by the boys!"

Renata asked almost everyone, pieced together the pieces of information she got about Yelena, and got a shining, perfect, sweet girl of the sky who was like the darling of the spotlight. If the black swan hides There is a pearl, it must be Yelena!

She simply made a profound contribution to the lives of the children in Black Swan Harbor, teaching all the boys what love and secret love are, and teaching all the girls what sexiness and beauty are. This kind of person is born in the eye of typhoons everywhere and attracts everyone's attention. However, Renata didn't even know who she was before today!

If it were another person, under the impact of this information, she would probably have thought that there must be something wrong with her brain and she had selectively forgotten some memories. But Renata was different. She was a stubborn child. After the head nurse spanked her, she You can tell by the fact that she can hold back even a drop of tears. She has never compromised under the physical injuries, and she never considers the mental injuries to be her own problem.

Moreover, before going to bed tonight, Renata also thought of one of the most critical points that could overturn the possibility that she was crazy in one fell swoop, that is, there are 38 children in Black Swan Port, each of whom has his or her own independent personality. Rooms, and each child has a number, just like Renata is number 38 so she lives in room 38 at the end of the corridor - but what about Yelena? What is Yelena's number? If Elena is No. 39, then Black Swan Port should have an extra room No. 39! But the last room in this corridor is still No. 38, which belongs to Renata!

It's just a pity that Renata only remembered this huge key loophole at night. She was lying in bed staring at the ceiling and couldn't sleep. Suddenly her brain was overpowered and she realized the problem. Finally she couldn't sleep anymore and put it on. Shoes hugged the stuffed bear and ran into the corridor, ready to check whether there was an extra room in the corridor, or whether there was an extra person sleeping in any room!

It's about three o'clock in the morning now. The head nurse has already taken a rest. The nurses who are keeping watch should also be gathering in the restaurant to play cards and chat. They patrol every hour and just walked by ten minutes ago. At that time, Renata She was pretending to be asleep, so that meant she now had plenty of time to check all the rooms in the entire corridor before the next patrol arrived.

If there is really no trace of Yelena's existence, then she will call all the children to talk about it tomorrow morning. After what happened at noon yesterday, some people were already whispering about whether there was something wrong with her head, and even considered talking to the doctor. Reporting this matter, the worst case scenario is that she might really be dragged into surgery, just because she doesn't know this fictitious Yelena!

It took Renata half an hour to look through the 38 rooms from beginning to end. She remembered every child in her heart. Except for the empty rooms of the three deceased children, there was not one more of the other 34 children. No less, so there is no situation where Yelena suddenly replaced a certain child. After checking the last room No. 1 of Akko, she retracted her head and let out a long sigh of relief.

Sure enough, it wasn't her who was crazy, but the entire Black Swan Port children who were crazy! There has never been a person like Yelena here, this girl has no

"Nothing?" Behind Renata, the girl asked coldly, her voice as cold as snow, licking the roots of Renata's ears and drilling down her neck to the back of her collar, causing goosebumps to appear.

Renata almost jumped up and covered her mouth immediately to avoid screaming and calling the nurse. She suddenly jumped to the side, and her feet suddenly slipped and fell to the ground, rolling on the spot. After two laps, she crawled backwards on her hands and knees to stand up. She looked up in horror at the blond girl standing behind her in front of Room 1.

"Good evening, Renata." Yelena stood up slowly with her hands on her waist, turned to look at the paper doll on the ground, and when her eyes came into contact with the other party, the little bear named 'Zorro' I was immediately lifted up to cover her eyes.

"Can you explain why you are here?" Elena tilted her head and looked at Renata on the ground.

"Who are you? I've seen it, and none of the 38 rooms belong to you! Who the hell are you!" Renata's heart actually felt cold. At this time, she met this unidentified person. Guys, if the other party is really a man-eating monster in some horror story, wouldn't she have to be swallowed till her bones are left today?

"You stayed up late at night and sneaked into the corridor just to investigate this matter?" Elena burst into laughter.

"Don't make excuses." Renata looked up at the blond girl. The moonlight outside the window shone on the girl's white cotton coat, showing her good figure that was still curvy despite the age limit. She was stunned at first glance. But he came back to his senses under the interesting gaze of the other party, and couldn't help but say, "There is no place for you here at all. Who are you, and what have you done to everyone?"

"What gave you the wrong judgment that if you live in Black Swan Port, you must have your own room in this corridor?" Elena scratched her silky blond hair and asked, "The new one today looks like A little boy who is not very smart never has a room of his own? He has lived in Black Swan Harbor since he was a child."

".?" Renata was stunned for a moment by this rhetorical question and didn't know how to refute.

"And who said I don't have my own room? Where else would I sleep? Do you really think I'm a snow girl? I can just build an igloo out of snow and live in it. I'm not an Eskimo and I can't make an igloo. ." Elena spread her hands and looked at Renata on the ground, "Also, the ground is very cold. If you don't want to catch a cold, get up quickly. Forget it, just to be on the safe side, why don't you go to my room and have something to drink?"

"Want to go to your room for a drink?" Renata's face stiffened, thinking that this was a lie by the Big Bad Wolf to trick Little Red Riding Hood into entering the wolf's den.

"My room is quite big, much better than your little shabby room. Do you want to come?" Yelena ignored Renata's reaction and walked directly past her, walking into the darkness alternated with white lights.

Renata climbed up and glanced at her back. She was a little hesitant, but she vaguely realized that if she wanted to find out Yelena's true identity, this might be the best opportunity. Although the other party is mysterious and uncertain, whether it is good or bad, at least she appeared from behind her just now and did not harm her. If it were a horror story, she should have been killed by the other party just now, right?

But now Yelena didn't show any scary look at all. She was as gentle and beautiful as the children described her during the day. She even invited her to the room for a drink.

Wait, want a drink? Is there anything to drink in the children's room?

With so many doubts crammed into her mind, Renata hesitated for a few seconds, listening to the footsteps in front of her gradually disappearing. Finally, she couldn't help it any longer, and she hugged Zorro, gritted her teeth, and ran up with courage. Before running a few steps, she found Elena in front of her, who seemed to have guessed that she would come and stood there waiting for her.

"Let's go." Elena withdrew her gaze from the room next to her, smiled lightly, turned and walked forward.

As Renata followed, she turned her head and glanced at the place where Yelena had just been looking. This was also a room on this floor, but Renata had never counted it among the 38 children's rooms, because she I'm still not sure what this room is for, there is only a lone iron door with a huge 'Zero' written in red paint.

Room zero.

"Aren't you going to go in and see what's hidden inside? You peeked into 38 rooms, but you didn't look at this one. Maybe there is an answer about me hidden in it." Elena, who was walking in front, didn't even look at her head. He smiled back.

"No, if you say so, the things inside must have nothing to do with you. The head nurse said we are not allowed to go near this place, otherwise we will be detained or operated on." Renata subconsciously rejected Yelena's instigation, and she didn't know. Why does she have a subconscious feeling of rejection towards Room Zero and always feels that she should not be close to it? There must be nothing related to this blond girl.

Even if Yelena doesn't show up tonight, after seeing Room 1, she will obediently go to the toilet and go back to sleep, and will never have any expectations for Room Zero.

"Is that so?"

Renata couldn't see Yelena's expression, and she didn't know why the other party was interested in Room Zero, but her interest didn't seem very big. After she refused, she never mentioned it again. Then she turned around the corridor and penetrated into other areas of the floor.

The heating pipe blew hot air and echoed in the corridor. Renata swallowed her saliva and followed Elena as she walked in this huge building. She had never been so deep inside. They walked through the tool room and passed the equipment. Suddenly, she walked past the door that the night watch nurse had not closed, and she could still see figures gathered inside playing cards. Renata was so shocked that she didn't dare to speak out, so she tiptoed past the door.

"Aren't you here yet?" After walking past the nurse's room, Renata dared to ask in a low voice.

"Almost there." Yelena said casually. Compared to Renata, she seemed more like the real queen of Black Swan Port at night. She walked casually in the corridor and never lowered her steps, as if she was not afraid at all. Was she caught by a nurse? Is she a ghost? Can you selectively let the people you want to see see? That's why Renata was the only one who noticed her during the funeral yesterday morning.

While Renata was thinking wildly, she suddenly bumped into the back of Yelena who had stopped in front of her. They came to the most remote corner of the floor. The heater box was whirring and fans were blowing in the ventilation ducts high on the wall. The leaves rotated and made a clicking sound. There was no white light to provide illumination here. The only light source was the red emergency light on a huge iron door at the end.

"Are you scared?" Elena asked with a smile as if she felt Renata's flinch behind her.

"." Renata didn't answer because she was really scared. She knew where this was - this was the freezer!

There are many freezers in Black Swan Port, which contain a lot of frozen meat. Every year, these warehouses are transported across the Arctic Ocean by the Lenin, and are moved to each freezer by nurses and soldiers, becoming Black Swan. A whole year of consumption for all Hong Kong staff. Many cold storages have been abandoned due to old age and disrepair. The cold storage in front of you is one of them. It should be dark inside with iron hooks and meat racks hanging on it. The ground is covered with frozen brown blood marks, and the air is full of It smells like rust and fishy.

"You live here?" Renata felt her voice trembling.

"Yeah, I live here. Now I'm going to drag you in and hang you on the hook to become my emergency food tomorrow." Elena guessed what Renata was thinking again and turned around. With a beautiful eye roll, he reached out and pressed on the red wheel of the iron door, and opened the door with a little force.

Renata was about to turn around and run away and shout for help. It was not far from the nurse's room. If she spoke loud enough, she might be able to attract rescue. Rather than being hung like frozen beef in the freezer, she would rather be surrounded by the big-bodied nurses. After being rescued, he faced the punishment of surgery and confinement.

But just when Elena opened the iron door, the gentle light overshadowed the red light in the corridor and shone on Renata's face. Beautiful singing voice and sweet smell floated out from behind the door. Passing by her ears and the tip of her nose, she was stunned and subconsciously shook her ears and swallowed.

Elena opened the door completely, revealing the pink room behind the door. No, this is not a room, this is simply the princess's bedroom!

The pink kingdom was reflected in Renata's eyes in disbelief.

In the fantasy of the girls in Black Swan Port, the princess's bedroom should be paved with clouds, with stars and the moon clustered in the room with twinkling eyes. The surrounding walls were a beautiful pink, and the bed was softer than the clouds, with sprinkles sprinkled on it. There are chocolates and candies, and every morning birds sing to wake up the sleeping princess.

And now, this fantasy has come true. In the room behind the iron door, pink wallpaper covers the entire wall. Handmade paper stars hang from thin silk threads on the ceiling. The moon hangs in the center and is painted bright yellow. . There's even a brand new dresser in the corner! There were various cosmetics and gadgets placed on it, and the most exaggerated thing was that there was even a record player running slowly, with the vinyl record slowly rotating under the firing pin and playing "Moscow's Evening".

There is a round bed in the center of the pink 'bedroom'. It is stuffed with a lot of cotton wool, so the whole bed looks bulging. If you jump on it, it will be so deep that you can't even find anyone! The white gauze curtains made from curtains fell down like a waterfall and covered the bed. There were many star stickers on them. I thought that when I lay on the bed and looked up at the gauze curtains, I would feel like I was in the starry sky.

"What are you doing standing still?" Yelena walked in the door and looked back at Renata, "Are you still afraid that I will hang you on a meat hook?"

Renata stood at the door for a long time. It wasn't until she reached out and pinched her cheek that she almost shed tears from the pain. Then she believed what she saw. She took trembling steps and crossed the iron door, stepping on it. On the pink floor, I felt like I had stepped into a fairy tale world. But the hot air blowing from the air inlet on the ceiling in the corner of the room reminded her all the time that this was not a dream. This place used to be a cold storage, but it was transformed into the pink kingdom by the girl in front of her!

"Do you still think I'm a ghost without a room?" Elena walked to the dressing table, picked up the two iron cups next to the record player, walked back to Renata and handed her a cup, which contained hot water. There is actually something to drink from the milk!

Not only drinks, Renata also saw a variety of snacks in the half-open drawer of the dresser, including chocolate beans, fruit-flavored candy jars, wafer biscuits, and ham sausages! You can only get a few of these rare things from the head nurse at Christmas time, but there are so many stored here!

Not only snacks, Renata also saw a lot of contraband on the dressing table, such as unopened stockings, metal tube lipstick, silver necklaces and earrings, and a box of playing cards that reflected the modern girl in this room. It is not only the queen's palace, but also a treasure house. If you take out anything here, the children will go crazy! I'm afraid even the head nurse can't have such an extremely luxurious room, right?

"Snow girl can't drink hot things, so are you Snow girl or am I?" Elena sat on the soft bed in the room, looking at Renata who continued to be in a daze, raising her cup and teasing.

"Who are you?" Renata is now in an incomprehensible confusion. In the past, she could explain that Yelena is a ghost, a snow girl, or even a monster, but now it seems that monsters and ghosts There is no need to eat, at least those things will not have such a fairy tale room! This completely made Renata unable to determine what Yelena was.

"Renata, you know, you are the first person to come to my room in so many years." Yelena looked at Renata and said with a smile, "So you must be special, and you probably know this too. a little."

Renata paused and did not respond to Yelena's words, but in her heart she vaguely believed that what the other party said was right. She was indeed special, at least she had always thought so before.

"Everyone remembers me, but you don't. There must be a so-called reason. I also hope you can find this reason and get rid of him." Yelena said.

"I don't understand what you mean." Renata held the milk glass and didn't understand what Yelena was talking about.

"I have nowhere else to go," Yelena said, "so I want to live here."

This is a showdown.

Renata stared at the blond girl. Did she admit that she was an outsider? As expected, it was she who had tampered with everyone in the port, and everyone inexplicably remembered the girl.

But why don't I remember? Why can't Yelena affect herself?

"Yeah. I'm thinking about this too." Yelena glanced at Renata and smiled.

Here we go again, she seems to know what she is thinking! Renata took a half step back without daring to look at Yelena, fearing that what she was thinking would be read by the other party.

"I observed that you don't hate having new friends join the Black Swan Port family, right? Just like today at noon, I saw you teaching Matvey how to eat with a spoon. You are a very compassionate person, Renata, since you can accept Matvey, why can't you accept me?" Elena asked with a smile.

"Accept you?" Renata didn't understand what Yelena meant. Does the other party want to be friends with her?

"Starting from tomorrow, give up the idea of ​​​​investigating me, just like other people, accept everything about me. We can become friends and live together happily." Elena tilted her head and said, "This way you will be treated accordingly. There are some rewards, such as being able to come to my room and play for a while every night.”

"What is your purpose?" Renata was not stunned by the temptation. She glanced at Yelena alertly, feeling that the other party had evil intentions.

"My purpose? Actually, I'm telling you quietly, I'm just a refugee." Elena pursed her lips cutely, "Someone is chasing me. I have fled to many places and been found by Him. Finally, I found out Here, as long as I hide here, the people who are chasing me will not be able to find me for the time being!"

"Who is chasing you?" Renata seemed stunned by this reason.

Elena tilted her head and thought for a while and said: "Well, I don't know exactly, but he said he is the emperor?"

ps: two in one. none.

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