13 Mink Street

Chapter 6 Sit Up

Here is the translation of the text into English:

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Next,

There are dense chewing and sucking sounds,

Those sounds, those streams,

Continuously entering Karen's ears.

You are being eaten, you are being torn apart, you are being swallowed...

You are dying... you are dying... you are dying... you... are dead!

Karen understood that if he didn't wake up soon, his fate would be dire.

Someone who has died once tends not to take life and death lightly... instead, cherishing the beauty of being alive even more. Karen is like this.

He doesn't want to die!

In this environment, he must muster enough belief and courage to help break through the barriers of this "dream," to return his consciousness to his body, to reality.

Due to work reasons and her own interests in the past, Karen has encountered similar situations, though not as eerie and terrifying as this. However, he has a practical and effective plan.

Fality must be pierced with truth;

Weakness must be reshaped with ideals;

Evil must be shattered with truth!

When you are powerless, you can try to borrow strength.

So,

Karen starts to sing,

Wholeheartedly shouting loudly:

"Arise, slaves in want and cold, arise, all those who suffer in the world;

My hot blood is already boiling, ready to fight for the truth..."

At this moment, faith and belief need to burst forth as the most vigorous will, allowing him to break free from this spiritual quagmire. Besides, in his previous life, Karen was a staunch materialist.

In the midst of his song,

The sound of his body being chewed slowly diminishes. Karen feels his body rising, continuing to sing, slowly lowering his head.

He sees the woman's teeth, the woman's tongue,

He sees the woman's mouth,

The woman's entire face,

Finally,

He sees between the two legs, seeming to be growing or tangled together... a very discordant image.

At that moment,

The snowflake noise ceases,

Immediately after,

The voice of the man who spoke before came with a hint of confusion:

"Huh... who are you?"

Then,

"Where is this...?"

Karen raises her head,

Starts to activate all his bodily senses,

Opens his eyes,

Opens his eyes,

Opens his eyes!

...

"Buzz!"

Karen opens her eyes,

She saw Aunt Mary squatting in front of him, looking at him anxiously.

"Hoo... hoo... hoo..."

Seeing Karen wake up, Aunt Mary sits down on the ground, repeatedly patting her chest:

"You scared me to death, Karen... do you know how frightening it was when you suddenly fell unconscious..."

This nephew had just recovered from a serious illness recently and almost lost his life.

If something else happened now, Aunt Mary really wouldn't know how to explain to her father-in-law, because he had helped her bring the body down.

Karen took a deep breath,

Forced a smile,

Said:

"It's okay, Auntie, maybe my body is still weak."

Karen raised her head and saw Geoff's face on the stretcher in front of him, now back to normal.

"Meow..."

A cat's cry came from outside Aunt Mary's studio. The black cat "Pol" stuck its head out, seemingly curious about the situation inside.

Karen propped him up with both hands, intending to stand up, but suddenly felt a pain in her face. Then a warm flow surged in his nasal cavity, and blood dripped out.

"I... I just patted you to wake you up." Aunt Mary explained.

This is called... patting?

But what can Karen say? He could only continue:

"Thank you, Auntie."

"Go upstairs and rest. Call Mina to tidy you up. You're not needed here." Aunt Mary dared not let her eldest nephew stay here any longer.

Karen nodded, stood up, and looked at Geoff lying on the stretcher. He instinctively felt a connection between his sudden dream and this corpse. If Aunt Mary was left here alone to work, would she be in danger too?

At that moment,

From the direction of the basement's revolving door, Trent's shout came:

"Mom, Grandpa is back."

Grandpa is the absolute head of the Inmolese family. Normally, when he returns home, everyone in the family, especially the women, must come to greet him, even if... they are working.

Trent ran over. He also saw the body on the stretcher, but wasn't very scared.

When something scary often comes and goes in your home, you don't feel much about it.

"Trent, take your brother to find your sister and use the medicine box to stop the bleeding." Mary instructed.

She was very worried that she might have hit Karen's nose too hard just now, and if this nosebleed wasn't treated, it might not stop.

"Oh, okay, Mom, brother, come on."

Karen raised his head, one hand covering his nose, the other hand held by Trent walking outside. Passing through the revolving door, he felt someone standing in front of him.

The figure of that person isn't very grand, but standing there, it gives people a very "stable" feeling, as if they could easily handle anything.

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Karen's restless and anxious mood suddenly eased a lot at that moment.

"Grandpa," Trent called out.

"Grandpa," Karen also called.

In his memory, Grandpa Dis Inmolese was a very serious person, but he often showed a tender side to his "eldest grandson".

"Hmm."

This nodded, walked down, said nothing, and made no comment about Karen's nose.

Trent seemed somewhat afraid of Grandpas and quickly led his brother's hand upstairs to find their sister.

The basement lights were dim.

As this descended, he happened to see the black cat "Pol" walking elegantly towards him.

Dis stopped,

The black cat also stopped.

"Are you idle today?" This spoke.

"Meow..."

Pol the black cat flicked its tail, tilted its head, seeming unsure of Dis's question.

He waved his hand, seeming uninterested in continuing to talk to a cat, and went straight to his daughter-in-law Mary's studio.

Mary was sitting there lighting a cigarette. She had been somewhat unsettled earlier due to her nephew's situation, but she hadn't expected her father-in-law to come so quickly, immediately putting out the just lit cigarette;

The smoke that was supposed to come out of her nostrils just leaked out a little, then reversed and swallowed it.

"Cough... cough..."

Mary coughed tears.

This didn't pay much attention to his daughter-in-law but instead focused on Geoff. He reached out, opened Geoff's eyelids, and placed his palm on Geoff's chest;

Then, this gaze slightly condensed.

Immediately after,

He took a step back, seemingly assessing the environment in the studio, and sniffed.

Mary quickly said:

"I won't smoke in the studio again next time, never again..."

Mary was really afraid of this father-in-law, not just because they were now "living under someone else's roof," but simply because her father-in-law was someone who... inexplicably scared her, even though he was a kind priest in the Minck Street Church.

He waved his hand.

Asked:

"What just happened?"

"I... Karen suddenly passed out. I broke his nose to wake him up..."

"Karen passed out?"

"Yes..."

"Then, Pol came in, didn't he?"

"Pol?" Mary was stunned for a moment before realizing it was the name of the black cat in their house. She had always wondered why her father-in-law gave the cat such an unpleasant name.

"It seems... I... Karen woke up by herself. Pol, Pol didn't come in."

Mary didn't notice whether the black cat had appeared outside the studio earlier, but she was certain that the black cat hadn't appeared in front of her. At least, it didn't come in.

"No?" This seemed to wonder, "Karen, woken up by him?"

"Yes, father."

"Where did he die?"

"This is a welfare list, father. He should have frozen to death on the roadside last night."

"Welfare list? Call your man back."

"Mason went to the Flower Bay Sanatorium..."

"Call him back."

"Yes, understand, father."

Even though she had been living in this house for quite a while, Mary still felt pressure when facing her father-in-law. Many daughters-in-law in other families often called their in-laws by their names directly, but she dared not.

The title "father" already had some religious significance for her.

The daughter-in-law left the studio in a panic,

This reached out and closed the door,

Then they walked to the stretcher, sat down on the chair where Mary had been sitting, and looked at Geoff lying in front of him.

The studio quieted down, leaving only the occasional slight change in brightness of the light bulb due to the voltage.

This reached out,

In front of him, a void grasp,

From under his feet,

Black shadows began to spread out like crazy growing vines, immediately spreading over the tiles and surrounding walls, "enveloping" everything here;

At that moment,

Dis spoke:

"Tell me, how did you die?"

A ridiculous scene, he actually asked a dead person a question.

But what happened next was even more ridiculous:

Geoff, who had long been dead on the stretcher, actually slowly sat up by himself...