I don't know if the word "Loser" is appropriate to describe myself: middle-aged, deformed body, abandoned by his wife, and only accompanied by a dog that my brother turned into (so he is a real single dog).
Because I lost my partner, I just sat quietly at home, waiting for the government to lock me up in a hotel in the city, which is populated by single people.
Singles are not allowed in the city, and even when you go shopping alone, you have to be checked by the police. Once you find that you are single, you will be sent here immediately.
The hotel manager is a cold woman, she told me that I can only stay in the hotel for 45 days, if I don't find a partner during this time, I will become an animal.
What do you want to become? she asked me.
I thought about it, I don't want to become a common animal like cats and dogs, let's become a lobster. The blue blood of the lobster symbolizes nobility, it can live to 100 years old, and it can also have sexual ability for life.
The manager agreed with my ingenious choice, but she didn't say how to change it. I heard another single, John, that when the date came, people would be sent to the shapeshifting room, where all the flesh would be stripped, and then the surgery would be done on the animal of choice. He didn't quite understand what he said, because all those who understood became animals that couldn't speak.
02 Staying
in this hotel will have three consequences. One is that they fail to find a mate and become an animal, but some people choose to commit suicide in the last few days; the other is to find a partner and then move from a single room to a double room to a yacht life, and return to the city after being tested; Another is to extend the number of days in the hotel by regularly hunting lone people hiding in the forest on a regular basis.
The condition for finding a partner is a good match, that is, two people have something in common, which is the standard for mate selection in this society.
I met a girl with beautiful hair, unfortunately she didn't think my hair was equally beautiful. Finally her date came and turned into a horse. There was also a neurotic woman who kept talking about jumping off the building if the time came. I was really tired of her nagging. I didn't expect to see her lying in a pool of blood one afternoon after playing golf.
John chose the second fate. He picked a girl whose nose was bleeding a lot, so he slammed her nose against the wall while she wasn't paying attention, and then told her with blood that we have something in common, and we must really love each other. So in the applause of the crowd, they got the key to the double room. Later, the hotel assigned them a child, because children tend to solve most of the problems of married life.
The third life in the hotel is an indifferent short-haired woman who has hunted down 129 lonely people, so she was able to stay in the hotel for an extended 129 days. Perhaps because of my preference for short hair, I always wanted to get close to her, trying my best to pretend to be as indifferent as her. It really worked, we lived together indifferently, I couldn't show a trace of kindness, sadness and joy, otherwise I was seen through, and the end was to enter the transformation room and become a lobster.
03
But unfortunately, I was still found disguised by a woman with short hair. That morning, she said blankly, she killed my brother who turned into a dog. I pretended to be ruthless and responded, but when I saw the dog's body in the bathroom, I couldn't help shedding a tear.
The short-haired woman wanted me to be handed over to the hotel staff. I couldn't hold my hands and escaped on the way. Inexplicably, with the help of a hotel waitress, I managed to bring her down with a sedative gun. It was only later that I learned that this waitress was an insider arranged by the Lonely People's Organization.
I can't forgive her for killing my brother, dragging her into the shapeshifting room, don't ask me what animal I turned her into, I won't tell.
That night I escaped from the hotel and was taken in by the Lonely Organization in the forest. The leader is an indifferent woman. Men and women in the organization are not allowed to flirt, have physical contact, and of course not have intimate relationships, otherwise they will be severely punished.
Unexpectedly, I, who have always failed in relationships, and a woman in the organization gradually developed a good feeling for each other. The rare thing is that she and I are both short-sighted, and this commonality makes each other a good match. She and I invented a set of body code to pass the message in front of everyone, and understand it close at hand. This has become a little secret between us, and we never get tired of it.
04
The Lonely's group launched an attack on the hotel, specifically targeting the paired couples, and neither of them survived the test. The hotel manager's husband was willing to shoot her to save his life, and I came to the yacht and told the Johns the truth about what John called a nosebleed. It feels really good to break up a fake couple.
But the crisis also came to my head, and my relationship with the woman was detected by the leader. We would regularly dress up as a couple to go shopping in the city, and visit the leader’s parents’ house as colleagues. In a relaxed environment, we lost our vigilance and acted lovingly, ignoring the leader’s sinister eyes.
The leader took the woman to the hospital and said that she would be treated for myopia, but he paid the doctor to blind her. The thing we had in common as a good match was gone, and I was terrified, so there was no reason to be with her.
That night, while the chief was sleeping, I bound her and took the woman back to the city. We sat in the restaurant and looked at each other.
She asked me if I was really ready.
I nodded, went to the back kitchen, found a knife, and aimed the tip at my eyeball.
If I become blind like her, I can be with her.
I stared at the tip of the knife, and the tip of the knife stared at me.
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