Desperate Night.

Chapter 1 001 Shadow
"Yiyi."

"Yiyi."

A faint call woke the little girl in the bed from her sleep.

Dark night.

In the small square bedroom, a little girl with long black hair was sleeping on a yellow wooden bed.

The gray quilt covered her shoulders, revealing the lotus root lace of her nightgown that had been washed so much that it looked bleached.

The little girl was only about seven or eight years old, with a delicate face, a slightly high nose bridge, and two red pimples on her chin. She looked like she was just beginning to understand things.

Hearing the sound, she slowly opened her eyes from her sleep, straightened her body, and looked around.

The room was dark, with only a little moonlight coming in from the window, dimly illuminating the end of the bed.

At the end of the bed.

There.

There stood a black figure.

The upper half of the figure was dark and the face was blurry.

But you can feel that she is looking at the little girl quietly.

"Mother?"

The little girl asked cautiously.

She clutched the quilt tightly with both hands, her expression tense, and vaguely felt that something was wrong.

The surroundings were silent, but her voice was particularly harsh and eye-catching, echoing slightly in the room.

"Remember, Yiyi, no matter what sound you hear, you must hide in the secret altar. Don't come out before the white stone turns black."

The figure said softly.

“Ten million.”

"Don't come out"

After saying that, she slowly turned around and walked towards the door step by step, silently.

The wooden door opened silently, and there was darkness outside, as if welcoming her, and soon swallowed her up completely.

"Mom, mommy!" The little girl seemed to have sensed something, and she suddenly threw off the quilt, stood up and wanted to chase.

Bang! ! !
A loud bang, accompanied by a huge vibration, suddenly rang in her ears.

Hiss! ! !
The little girl's eyes snapped open, and she arched her chest off the bed, taking a deep breath.

It was just a dream.

Her eyes were filled with fear, her pupils dilated, and her consciousness slowly woke up from her drowsy dream.

Bang! !

There was another loud noise.

The whole room seemed to be shaking.

The wooden door of the room was shaking violently, and there were banging sounds one after another, as if a giant beast was banging wildly outside.

Bang! Bang! Bang! !

The huge impact seemed to completely shatter the wooden door.

Tiny cracks are slowly appearing and spreading on the surface of the wooden door.

The little girl suddenly came to her senses and recalled the voice she had just heard in her dream.

"Mom." She didn't know why, but tears suddenly filled her eyes and an indescribable pain rose in her heart.

But when she heard the loud noise and recalled what she had just said, she threw back the quilt, jumped off the bed, and looked at the movement of the wooden door.

Click!

Suddenly, a hole was broken in the wooden door, and broken wood chips flew inward and landed on the brown mud ground.

The little girl was covered in hair, her heart was beating violently, her face turned pale, and she quickly bent down and crawled under the bed.

She crawled under the bed a few times, found a hidden black mud board, grabbed the pull ring, and pulled it upwards with difficulty.

Under the clay slab was a small square space just big enough for her to curl up.

In the space, the walls are inlaid with white stones of different sizes.

These stones have different shapes, but they all have one thing in common: a complex red symbol engraved on the surface.

The little girl quickly crawled in and covered her head with a mud board. The surroundings fell into darkness, and she hid in the small space trembling all over, curled up tightly, listening to the noise outside.

Strangely, after she hid in, the banging noise outside completely disappeared.

It was as if what she had just heard was an illusion.

Quiet.

No sound.

The only sound around her was her own breathing.

The little girl covered her mouth tightly, fearing that her breathing would be too loud and would be discovered by something outside.

The great fear and exhaustion brought by the tension slowly invaded her petite body.

As the time goes.

Slowly, the girl fell asleep.

I don’t know how much time has passed.

One hour, or two hours.

"Yiyi." A familiar voice woke the little girl from her sleep.

She moved her body, as if trying to curl up more comfortably.

"Yiyi?"

"Yiyi, where are you? Mommy is back."

The sound outside could be heard faintly again.

Gentle and familiar.

The fear in the little girl's heart seemed to be alleviated a lot after a good sleep.

Hearing the sound, she moved quickly and wanted to go out.

But suddenly she remembered something and looked at the white stones inlaid on the wall. With the faint light coming in through the air holes in the mud slabs, she found that they had not turned black.

According to my mother, only when the white stone turns black will it be completely safe.

The girl's original intention to go out suddenly stopped.

"Yiyi, it's daybreak outside. It's okay. You can come out now."

The voice sounded again.

"Don't worry, there's light, those things won't dare to come in. Mom is here, you can come out now."

The little girl calculated the time and thought that her mother should be back by about this time.

Every time she hid in this small space, she would take a nap and then come out to see her mother.

The time is about the same this time, so it should be no exception.

As for the white stones inlaid on the wall, it was probably just because too much time had passed that the stones were also white during the day.

The little girl thought for a moment, then raised her head and looked out through the ventilation hole on the mud slab.

I discovered that there was indeed a faint white light outside.

Innocence is bright.

Now, she finally felt relieved. "Here it comes!"

She responded.

"Mom, I'm here."

She began to move her body, raising her little hands to push the clay slab above her head.

Soon, she pushed open the mud board, struggled to get her head out of the small space, and returned to under the bed.

Then he looked outside.

"!!??"

outside.

It was still dark.

Isn't it daybreak?

The little girl's scalp suddenly felt numb.

She knew something was wrong, so she gritted her teeth and squatted down quickly, trying to shrink back into the small space.

pat.

pat.

Suddenly, a pair of white feet wearing mother's cloth shoes walked to the bottom of the bed and stopped.

"Yiyi, my dear daughter, where are you?" The soft and familiar voice came again.

The little girl didn't dare to make a sound. She covered her mouth tightly. Tears suddenly flowed out and slid down her cheeks.

But she didn't dare move. At such a close distance, any movement on her part would make a slight noise in the silent environment and would be noticed by the other party.

She suddenly recalled that her mother must have known about the small space under the bed.

So there was no way her mother could ask where she was.

Only then did she realize that she might have been deceived.
pat.

pat.

Soon, there was no response, or perhaps the girl in the small space just now responded too softly and the other party did not hear it.

The feet slowly left the bed, calmly left, and went somewhere else.

The other person walked very slowly without making much noise, and soon disappeared with a slight sound of a door closing.

Everything returns to silence.

The little girl kept enduring it.

She didn't know how much time had passed, but she didn't hear any movement, so she slowly exhaled, relaxed, and retracted herself downwards.

The long-term tension made his body weak, there was a faint buzzing in his ears, and his eyes were a little dizzy.

At this moment, she could no longer hold on and leaned against the inner wall of the small space, gasping for breath.

After finding that there was no danger, the little girl waited for a while and made sure that there was really no movement. Then she crawled out of the small space with difficulty and crawled out little by little along the bottom of the bed.

puff.

suddenly.

Her shoulder hit something.

The little girl froze, a bad feeling coming over her.

She slowly raised her head and looked towards the upper right.

A long-haired woman in a tattered white dress was sitting quietly on her wooden bed, with her left leg hanging down and resting on her right shoulder.

The woman's long hair covered her face, and she looked down at him. Through the refraction of the moonlight, she could see the corners of her pale mouth, which had traces of decay.

call! !

The woman's rotting face instantly moved closer and enlarged.

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“I didn’t die this time.”

A vague voice was heard in the darkness.

Seems to be a woman.

"He's still alive, well, just injured and very weak. I'm not saying anything bad about you, but you always rescue people from the woods outside. There's not much food here, and you have to support a patient's food and drink by yourself," the woman said.

"It's okay. Mom. Mom. Tell me." At this time, another young female voice with a severe stuttering sounded.

"Let's not talk about your mother. I'm tired just listening to you talk. OK, I've sutured your wound. Be careful not to get it wet to avoid infection. I'm leaving first." The woman seemed to be packing up her things.

"Thank you very much." The stuttering girl gave a silly laugh that sounded like a breath.

"Don't thank me. If it doesn't work, remember to drag him out and throw him out the door. He should be gone in one night." The woman said helplessly.

"Thanks for your help." The stuttering girl said gratefully.

"This is the way the world is. Everyone is having a hard time, and no one has the energy to take care of others. That's you. If it were someone else, you would have thrown him back into the wild long ago." said the woman.

Yu Hong slowly gathered his strength and tried to open his eyes in the darkness.

I saw a short little girl who was dirty and had messy black hair talking to a middle-aged yellow-skinned woman.

The yellow-skinned woman wore glasses and a gray-white long-sleeved dress with many stains and marks on it.

He only remembered that he was tired from work, so he went home and fell asleep immediately. Suddenly in the middle of the night he heard some noisy noise, and then he felt a pain in his forehead, and then he knew nothing.

"Here. Is." He opened his mouth to speak, but found that his throat felt like it was cut by a knife and he could not make any sound. Only bursts of wheezing sounds came out.

At the same time, he could feel his forehead was hot, his body was hot, and the corners of his eyes were filled with dry and hard eye boogers.

It's inflamed, and it must be somewhere in the body that's inflamed, possibly the throat.

"Medicine" the girl's voice came at this time.

After the clear sound of a door closing, everything became quiet.

The dirty girl took difficult steps and took out a black metal box from the corner of the room.

"Take medicine and you'll get better." She walked to Yu Hong with the medicine.

The lid opened with a click, and inside the metal box was a lot of black charcoal. In the middle of the charcoal, there were three light yellow capsules wrapped in paper.

However, tiny mold spots have grown on the surface of these three pills, and green mold hairs can be seen on the light blue mold spots.

"You can't take this medicine anymore." Yu Hong's face froze and he looked at the other person. Now that he was awake, his throat seemed to be much better and he could speak more fluently, but it still hurt.

"Besides, what kind of medicine is this? What's wrong with my body? You don't even know what disease I have, but you're giving it to me. It won't cure me."

"Tell me first, who are you and where am I? What is going on now?"

The girl was a little confused holding the medicine. She opened her mouth and babbled something anxiously, but no sound came out.

Now that they were close, Yu Hong could see the other person's face clearly.

His skin was black, with dark yellow stains all over it. His clothes were a combination of summer, autumn and winter clothes, with greasy black collars and a strong smell of sweat.

This is a beggar.

Perhaps many beggars are cleaner than her.

From a distance, it looked like a moving black clothes cart.

When I got closer, I realized that the girl's body was deformed, one leg was lame, and there was a large tumor behind her right shoulder, the outline of which could be clearly seen through her clothes.

She was less than 1.5 meters tall, short, dirty, and moved very slowly.

But those eyes were like clear gems, with very few impurities.

The book is finally published. As usual, it will be published around 5pm. If there is any delay, it has nothing to do with me~~haha.

This time it is a thrilling and cruel world, I hope you like it.

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(End of this chapter)