Chapter 14: Sudden Death

  I feel the air in the living room is very cool and chilly, goosebumps involuntarily appear.

  "What do you want me to do? What about my sister?" Suddenly, I remembered that Old Shao had also said something similar. That postal book was the target, perhaps what he said wasn't nonsense.

  "Don't let him get that letter, I'll protect your sister."

  "How to protect? She's like a wooden person now, can you make her speak?"

  Suddenly, my older sister hugged me from behind, "Xiao Yu, wu wu wu..."

  I was stunned speechless, the elder sister in front of me, who seemed like a wooden sculpture just now, suddenly came back to life. Who is this person? What did he do to my sister? What should I do? Should I listen to him or try to rescue my sister? In that one second, countless questions flashed through my mind, but I couldn't think of a solution and couldn't find an answer. What to do, what to do, I kept asking myself, but couldn't come up with a perfect plan.

  That's it, kill him! No matter who he is, I'll take action now, and then big sister will be safe.

  Just as I was about to pounce on him, I found that my older sister's arms were hugging me tighter and tighter, so tight that it was a bit hard to breathe.

  "Older sister......" Is this really my older sister? My older sister used to be unable to even carry a bag of rice, how did she become so strong all of a sudden?

  At this moment, Wen Shu pushed the door and came in. She stared at Li Xiao Su without blinking and said: "Visiting time is over, please go back, the patient needs to rest."

  Li Xiaoshu furrowed her brow. However, she still spoke calmly: "Alright then, that's it for today. I'll take good care of your sister, and you focus on recovering from your illness."

  As soon as she finished speaking, her elder sister let go of her hand.

  I tidied up my clothes, looking at my elder sister in front of me with a mixture of understanding and confusion. She had returned to her usual dull self. Memories flashed before my eyes, just over half a year ago, we were still sitting on the balcony, sharing an ice cream. Now, everything has changed. Our parents are nowhere to be found, my elder sister has become someone else's puppet, what is left for me in this world?

  Unconsciously, tears filled my cheeks. Wen Shu touched my hand, "Let's go, it's time."

  I couldn't bear to look at my older sister again. I gritted my teeth and turned my head to leave the living room.

  Back in the ward, I immediately went to find Lao Shao. I changed my mind, no matter what he wanted, I would give it to him, as long as he had a way to get me and my sister out of danger.

  Lao Shao is not in the ward. I walked through the corridor to the hall and continued to look for him, but he was not even at his usual chess spot. At the entrance of the garden, a group of people were crowded together. I asked someone on the side, and it seemed that someone had drowned in the fountain. When I pushed open the crowd and took a look, I gasped - lying on the ground was indeed Lao Shao.

  The police soon arrived. The forensic doctor judged that it was a drowning death, possibly due to sudden epilepsy while passing by the fountain, falling into the water pool of the fountain and suffocating to death.

  This sudden change made me feel more helpless than ever before. I crouched in the corner, buried my head in my hands and burst into loud sobs. The scenes of playing chess with Old Shao, and the scenes of laughing and joking with my older sister, all appeared before my eyes, one by one. Every time I thought of a scene, it was like a steel needle piercing deep into my heart. If there was a medicine that could turn people into zombies, I would swallow it without hesitation.

  A streak of lightning flashed across the sky, and a few muffled thunderclaps brought down big raindrops. I still crouched there, letting the rainwater flow from my forehead all over my body. Those happy and unhappy past events lingered in my mind for a long time, refusing to disperse. If someone told me that my life could be exchanged for my older sister's freedom, I would immediately cut off my own head.

  "Lao Shao has been freed." A gentle voice appeared above my head, and the rainwater retreated. I lifted it up, and was blinded by the water droplets dripping down my hair. I wiped away the water droplets with a fierce swipe, blinked hard several times, before I could see clearly that the person standing beside me holding an umbrella for me was Wen Shu.

  She squatted down to support me, and I rushed into her arms, sobbing loudly like a child. The umbrella fell to the ground, and we sat together in the heavy rain, leaning against each other.