4373 The Other Side 342
The boy took the sketch pad and picked up the charcoal pencil. First, he sketched a few random lines on the sketch pad. To Romanka’s amazement, he realized that even though the boy had casually drawn just a few lines, they were masterful strokes.
“Some say that people with multiple personality disorder are born mad artists. Many such patients like to paint, maybe that has something to do with their emotional sensitivity?”
Alice agreed. “How do you become an artist without a delicate heart? A lot of times people associate artists with lunatics.”
“Ha. It’s not that they’re crazy. It’s just that they have greater willpower and are more persistent than most people, plus an active imagination.”
“Yeah.”
After that, the people fell silent, giving the boy some quiet space.
Youyou gripped his charcoal pencil and drew quietly.
Because it was a sketch, it didn’t take long for him to produce an image of Shanshan. Both Gong Jie and Alice were momentarily surprised when they saw it.
Romanka might not have recognized the resemblance of this image to Yun Shishi since he had never seen her, but Alice and Gong Jie knew it very well. This was probably how she had looked as a young girl.
“My sister must have looked like that when she was a teenager.”
Alice nodded.
“Why, do you know this person?” Romanka asked when he noticed their strange expressions.
“What exactly is going on?”
Alice was puzzled. “Not only the features of this girl, but her expression, is very much like Youyou’s mother.”
“Mmm…” Romanka nodded and picked up the sketchpad from the boy’s hands. “I’ve seen the ancestral scroll,” he said bluntly. “According to my analysis, it must have been in his youth, when the scenes of his mother being bullied remained entrenched in his mind. Therefore, he would conceive such a personality. In fact, the archetype was probably created when his mother was young. That is, when he was young. Those nightmarish experiences lingered. That’s why this happened.”
After a pause, he turned around and asked, “Apart from Gong Fan and this girl, did you see anyone else?”
Alice clenched her fists nervously. She was hoping that the boy would answer in the negative.
However, Youyou said calmly. “I also saw a man.”
“A man?”
“Yes. Tall. Six feet tall. He was trying to hunt me down.”
“Hunt you down…”
“I remember when I was conscious and wandering around the hospital, this man began to follow me silently. At first, I saw a dark figure and thought it was Gong Fan. When I got closer, I realized that this man was very tall and slender… Gong Fan had also met him before. On the rooftop, he said that this man seemed to have a murderous aura.”
“Murderous aura?”
“I don’t think this man is that simple. Dangerous or not, I can’t say, but he didn’t strike me as a good person. He seemed to have been looking for us.’
“You think he’s looking for you? What do you think he’s after, chasing you down like that?”
Youyou seemed at a loss. “How could I pry into his thoughts? But it felt strange. I couldn’t tell if he was being kind or malicious. Anyway, we were trying to hide from him.”
“Do you remember where you were before you woke up?”
“As I recall, we had escaped from the hospital.”
