I returned to Lucas’s side.
Very tacitly, he didn’t say much, and I didn’t ask much.
But I could feel that around me, Lucas’s state clearly improved.
In front of Olivia and the caretakers she sent, he had to pretend to be normal, listen to normal music,
watch normal movies.
But in front of me, Lucas could be himself without restraint.
He used the projector to play those videos he bought from the dark web for lots of money.
They contained all kinds of unimaginably bloody and horrifying scenes.
Even the most experienced doctors were too scared to come near.
Only I sat beside him with a bag of chips, watching along with him.
Countless nights passed like this. Through this subtle companionship, Lucas seemed to gradually grow close to me.
He would steal my chips to eat.
Ask for my opinion when choosing videos.
Discuss his thoughts with me after watching.
Finally, on a very ordinary night, Lucas suddenly said: “These are all boring. Want to see one where I’m the star?”
He looked at me like a child wanting to show off his favorite toy.
But I gripped the remote uninterestedly: “You as the star? Yeah right…here, I want to watch this one, The Chainsaw Freak.“”
3:26 pm DDDD
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Lucas snatched the remote from me.
He said: “Just wait.”
A tiny USB drive was taken out from the jade pendant hanging at his chest. Lucas plugged it into the
computer.
The next second, Ethan’s face appeared on the huge projector screen.
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