Xu Qing stood at the base of the wall of the abandoned warehouse.

The metal frame of the exhaust fan was already rusted.

It was covered with dark red rust and sharp burrs.

Xu Qing held her breath.

He placed both hands on the rough cement opening.

Push upwards with both arms.

The cold wind rushed back in through the gaps in the exhaust vent.

He crawled straight into his large, old cotton-padded coat.

It was bitterly cold.

Xu Qing is too thin.

Severe malnutrition left him with no excess fat to cushion his condition.

The ribs in his chest were pressing directly against the metal frame.

It emitted an extremely faint muffled sound.

That was the sound of bone clashing against cast iron.

A sharp pain instantly spread throughout my body.

Xu Qing was in so much pain that she broke out in a cold sweat.

The sweat on my forehead was blown into ice crystals by the cold wind before it could even roll down.

Erlei was waiting impatiently outside.

The back hill is overgrown with weeds.

The wind howled through the broken window.

Er Lei also felt uneasy.

He picked up the half brick in his hand.

Tap gently on the wall.

thump.

dong dong.

The sound was particularly jarring in the quiet night.

"Hurry up!"

Er Lei urged in a low voice.

Are you a tortoise?

"What are you dawdling for!"

"If we don't go in soon, it'll be dawn!"

Er Lei was so anxious that he stomped his feet on the spot.

The tall, thin guy next to him also joined in the commotion.

"Are you even capable of being mute?"

"If you're too scared to go in, you might as well get lost."

"Don't keep us from eating beef jerky."

Xu Qing completely ignored the noise outside.

He gritted his teeth and continued to squeeze in.

His head went in first.

Next are the thin shoulders.

The exhaust fan opening is very narrow.

He had to pull his shoulders in as much as possible to barely get through.

The tattered cotton-padded coat was ripped open by iron spikes.

The shoddy cotton wool inside floated out.

When Xu Qing had half his body inside the warehouse.

An extremely strong odor assaulted my senses.

That was the damp, rotten smell of something that never sees the sun.

It smelled of a mixture of rat droppings and moldy wood.

This smell is too strong.

Xu Qing nearly suffocated.

He quickly held his breath.

He forcefully dragged the remaining half of his body inside as well.

The person lost their balance.

He fell headfirst.

puff.

Xu Qing's toes finally touched the ground.

He stepped onto a pile of cold, soft things.

The feel underfoot is strange.

Xu Qing squatted down and touched it.

It was a few tattered burlap sacks.

The sack was filled with some kind of rotten grain.

It had long since become moldy and hard.

Xu Qing's heart was pounding wildly in her chest.

Thump thump.

It could be heard clearly in this deathly silent space.

He slowly straightened up.

There was no light inside the warehouse.

Absolute darkness instantly engulfed him.

This touched a nerve with Xu Qing.

His post-traumatic stress disorder flared up without warning.

My breathing started to become rapid and irregular.

The pitch-black void before my eyes began to distort.

The outlines of the clutter piled up in the corner.

In his eyes, it became the collapsed roof beams in the fire.

The crackling sound of burning and breaking wood seemed to echo in my ears again.

And the desperate cries of parents amidst the flames.

Xu Qing covered her head with both hands.

My body is trembling violently and uncontrollably.

He wanted to scream.

But no sound came out of his throat.

Just when he was about to completely break down.

Er Lei's low roar came from the exhaust fan opening.

"Dumb!"

"You died in there?"

"Did you find the box or not?!"

"The dean just moved in this afternoon."

"The beef jerky and biscuits are right there in front of you!"

Er Lei's voice was filled with impatience and greed.

The rude shouts and curses actually served as a shot in the arm.

They forcefully pulled Xu Qing back from her terrifying hallucinations.

Xu Qing was panting heavily.

The cold air rushed into my lungs.

It cooled his feverish brain down a little.

He lowered his hands.

Feeling around in the dark by instinct.

Take two steps forward.

I tripped over something hard.

Xu Qing squatted down.

He groped around on the ground with both hands.

My fingertips touched a rough layer of cardboard.

Feel upwards along the cardboard.

He touched the smooth packing tape.

The feel of this is absolutely amazing.

These are the freshly packed supply boxes.

Xu Qing's heart tightened.

That bastard Erlei actually wasn't lying.

There really are supplies that the dean brought to this abandoned warehouse.

Xu Qing looked back.

A faint moonlight shone through the square opening of the exhaust fan.

Er Lei's large face was stuck firmly outside the cave entrance.

He peered desperately inside.

The face looked extremely ferocious in the moonlight.

His facial features were twisted together with greed.

His eyes gleamed with a thieving light.

"Did you find it yet?!"

Er Lei saw Xu Qing's silhouette.

"Hurry up and hand over the box!"

"I'll catch it here!"

Xu Qing withdrew her gaze.

He groped for the edge of the box in the dark.

This box is quite large.

Xu Qing held the box tightly with both hands.

Lift it up forcefully.

The box remained completely still.

It's too heavy.

It must weigh at least thirty pounds.

For a seven-year-old child who has been chronically hungry.

This weight is simply astronomical.

Xu Qing cursed inwardly.

Is this container filled with compressed biscuits or a metal block?

He changed his strategy.

Since we can't lift him up.

Then we can only delay.

Xu Qing gripped the seam at the bottom of the cardboard box with both hands.

Push off with both legs on the ground for leverage.

Suddenly exert force from the waist.

stab.

The cardboard box rubbed against the rough cement floor.

Made a dull sound.

Xu Qing endured the extreme fear brought by the darkness.

They began to move the first heavy box of biscuits little by little toward the cave entrance.

This job is inhuman.

Every step Xu Qing took required a great deal of physical exertion.

He could even hear his own heavy breathing.

Er Lei, who was outside the cave, was so anxious that he kept rubbing his hands together.

"Hurry, hurry!"

"You haven't eaten!"

"Push harder!"

Xu Qing really wanted to smash this box right into Er Lei's foul mouth.

He really didn't eat.

The half-eaten steamed bun from last night had long been digested.

Right now, I'm just holding on by sheer willpower.

His mind was filled with images of Jiang Yue's hands covered in chilblains.

There's also the image of Jiang Yue scrubbing that pile of black pots for half a steamed bun.

As long as we get this box of stuff out of here.

Jiang Yue will no longer have to put up with Wang Po's temper.

Xu Qing bit her lip until it bled.

The taste of blood spread in my mouth.

He exerted his strength again.

The cardboard box was finally dragged to the spot directly under the exhaust fan.

"Well done!"

Er Lei was so excited outside that he almost jumped up.

"Lift it up quickly!"

"Stuff it out of the hole!"

Xu Qing stood next to the box.

I looked up at the hole, which was more than a meter above the ground.

Lift it up?

These two are really talking without any sense of the pain they're in.

Even moving it horizontally was difficult for Xu Qinglian.

How could anyone possibly lift something weighing thirty pounds above their head?

Xu Qing ignored Er Lei's nonsensical commands.

He looked around.

They found a stack of old wooden pallets.

He moved the wooden pallet over.

Place it under the exhaust fan vent.

Then move the cardboard box onto the wooden pallet.

This height is sufficient.

Xu Qing stood on the wooden tray.

Hold the bottom of the cardboard box with both hands.

Push it little by little into the hole of the exhaust fan.

The edge of the cardboard box got stuck on the rusty metal frame.

Xu Qing braced herself with all her might.

"Caught it!"

Xu Qing silently recited in his heart.

Of course, he wouldn't say a word.

Er Lei, who was outside the cave entrance, had already stretched out his arms.

He grabbed the edge of the cardboard box.

"Give it to me!"

Erlei suddenly pulled it outwards.

The cardboard box instantly slipped from Xu Qing's hands.

Xu Qing stumbled forward due to inertia.

I almost fell off the wooden pallet.

Erlei was holding the heavy cardboard box.

He plopped down in a pile of weeds.

"Holy crap!"

"It's damn heavy!"

Although Er Lei fell down.

But his mouth was practically stretched to the back of his head.

The tall, thin guy quickly moved closer.

"Brother Erlei!"

"Open it and take a look!"

"Is it beef flavored?"

Er Lei slapped the tall, thin man's hand.

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