Entertainment: A song that brought his deceased wife back to life.

The sound of the cardboard box hitting the ground was muffled in the pile of weeds.

Erlei pounced on it without hesitation.

He used his muddy hands to peel off the tape from the cardboard box.

The tape is very strong.

Since Erlei couldn't pry it open, he simply bit it with his mouth.

"Pooh!"

Erlei spat out the bits of tape from his mouth.

Tear it apart forcefully with both hands.

The cardboard box was forcibly torn open.

It was full of compressed biscuits in green packaging.

The tall, thin guy standing next to him stared wide-eyed.

"Brother Erlei, there really are cookies!"

"nonsense!"

Erlei grabbed two bags of biscuits and stuffed them into his tattered cotton-padded coat.

The speed of their movements was astonishing.

He was afraid someone would take it from him.

The tall, thin man and his little follower quickly reached out to grab it as well.

"Get out of the way!"

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

"I'll install it first!"

"Wait until I've filled it up before you take any!"

Several people were scrambling for it outside.

The packaging bags rubbed against each other, making a rustling sound.

Xu Qing, who was inside the exhaust fan vent, heard everything clearly.

He stood on that discarded wooden pallet.

He gripped the rusty metal frame with both hands.

He poked half his head out.

Looking at Er Lei's face, which looked like a starving ghost reincarnated.

Xu Qing stretched out a hand.

He swayed in mid-air.

Then he made a gesture of touching his stomach.

That was the gesture he and Jiang Yue had agreed upon.

But the meaning behind his action is very clear.

Save me a copy.

I want to give this to Jiang Yue.

Er Lei was stuffing biscuits into his crotch.

Out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of Xu Qing's outstretched hand.

He stopped what he was doing.

The greed on his face instantly turned into disgust.

"Want some food?"

Er Lei sneered.

He approached the exhaust fan vent.

Looking down at Xu Qing's hand.

Xu Qing nodded.

There were still bloodstains on the back of his hand from where he had been cut by the rust.

Erlei suddenly raised his foot.

The tattered cloth shoes were kicked down without any mercy.

boom.

The sole of the shoe slammed into the back of Xu Qing's hand.

Xu Qing felt pain.

He abruptly pulled his hand back.

He lost his footing on the wooden pallet and fell straight to the ground.

A large lump quickly swelled up on the back of my hand.

It hurts like fire.

"You think you're so great, huh?"

Er Lei was cursing and swearing outside.

"I've brought you here to make a fortune, and you dare to haggle with me?"

"This box of cookies isn't even enough to fill a few of our teeth."

"There's no share for you!"

Xu Qing sat on the ground.

He rubbed his red and swollen hand.

He didn't say anything.

He had known all along that Er Lei was this kind of person.

This person can't produce anything worthwhile.

"Dumb."

Erlei's face was close to the cave entrance again.

"Go in and bring out two more boxes."

"This box is full of dry biscuits, not even a single piece of meat."

"The canned beef must be further inside."

"Go quickly!"

Er Lei spoke in a commanding tone.

Xu Qing stood up.

He patted the dust off his clothes.

No immediate action was taken.

He stared coldly at the ugly face outside the cave entrance.

"What are you looking at!"

Er Lei felt a little uneasy under his gaze.

"You're not going, are you?"

"Okay, then you can stay inside."

"When Old Zhang comes to check on the patients tomorrow, let's see how you explain that."

Er Lei made a move to leave.

Xu Qing turned around.

He had no choice.

He has to get something.

If we don't take some food back...

Jiang Yue still has to clean up that pile of black pots tomorrow.

Those hands covered in chilblains would absolutely not be able to stand it.

Xu Qing dragged her tired body.

They walked step by step deeper into the warehouse.

It was so dark inside.

It was pitch black.

The air was filled with a nauseating musty smell.

Xu Qing could only rely on her hands to feel her way forward.

I kept stepping on something soft and squishy.

I don't know if it's a dead rat or a rotten sack.

He walked very slowly.

Every step had to be taken tentatively for a long time.

Sudden.

Xu Qing's toe bumped into something hard.

He hadn't had time to pull his foot back.

The hard object was kicked and slid forward a distance.

stab-

A piercing metallic scraping sound echoed through the warehouse.

The sound was too loud.

The echoes even reverberated in the empty, abandoned warehouse.

Xu Qing was startled.

He quickly squatted down.

He reached out with both hands.

It was a rusty tin box.

It was filled with old, discarded screws.

That kick just now left a long scratch on the cement floor.

The commotion was louder than banging gongs and drums.

Xu Qing's heart rate soared instantly.

broken.

Only those two words flashed through his mind.

as predicted.

The piercing sound penetrated the broken windows of the warehouse.

It was transmitted directly to the open space outside the back mountain.

Woof! Woof woof woof!

The direction of the boiler room in the distance.

Old Zhang's big black dog suddenly started barking wildly.

Dogs have extremely sensitive hearing.

The cry sounded incredibly mournful in the quiet winter night.

It instantly shattered the deathly silence of the back mountain.

"Woof woof woof!"

The dog's barking grew louder and louder.

And judging from the sound, the black dog is running this way.

Along with it came the beam of Old Zhang's flashlight.

The beam of light swayed wildly in the night.

"Who's over there!"

Old Zhang's rough voice came through.

Outside the exhaust fan opening.

Er Lei and the others were terrified.

The biscuit in the tall, thin man's hand fell directly to the ground.

"Brother Erlei!"

The tall, thin man's voice was trembling.

"Old Zhang is here!"

"That black dog is here too!"

"If we get caught, we're dead!"

That black dog was the tyrant of the orphanage.

Even Er Lei wouldn't dare to provoke it normally.

If it bites you, you'll definitely lose a chunk of flesh.

The tall, thin man turned and tried to run away.

Er Lei is quick-witted and agile.

He grabbed the tall, thin man by the back of his collar.

"Run my ass!"

Erlei roared in a low voice.

"We haven't collected everything yet!"

"How can such a small amount of biscuits be enough for anyone?"

Er Lei is also someone who values ​​money over life.

He couldn't bear to part with the canned beef that hadn't even been shipped yet.

"But the dog is coming!"

The little follower was almost in tears.

"If we don't leave now, it will be too late!"

Er Lei gritted his teeth.

He glanced at the flashlight beam that was getting closer and closer in the distance.

I looked again at that dark exhaust fan vent.

"Oh shit!"

Er Lei cursed.

"I'm not waiting any longer!"

"Pick up the cookies on the ground!"

"Let's retreat!"

In the warehouse.

Xu Qing also heard the dog barking and Old Zhang shouting.

He knew he couldn't look for any more canned beef.

If we don't get out soon, we'll really be trapped like turtles in a jar.

He didn't care about the metal box on the ground.

He turned around and ran towards the exhaust fan.

I ran a couple of steps.

He touched a slightly smaller cardboard box.

There was a hole in the cardboard box.

It feels soft to the touch.

It's a cotton-padded jacket.

Xu Qing picked up the box of cotton-padded coats without hesitation.

Although it's not for eating.

But it would be good if it could warm Jiang Yue a little.

He was holding the cardboard box.

Stumbling and staggering, I rushed toward the exhaust fan vent that was gleaming in the moonlight.

There are still three meters to the cave entrance.

Two meters.

one meter.

Xu Qing placed the cardboard box on the wooden tray.

He stepped on it himself.

He was preparing to push the cardboard box out.

But he discovered something that sent chills down his spine.

Moonlight filtering through the exhaust fan vents.

It's getting narrower little by little.

Xu Qing raised her head.

Er Lei did not leave.

He was standing outside the cave entrance.

He was holding a rusty, broken iron plate in his hand.

The metal plate was originally meant to block the exhaust fan.

It fell to the side because it had been in disrepair for many years.

just now.

Er Lei was forcefully pushing the iron plate towards the hole.

He wanted to seal off this only exit.

"Brother Erlei, what are you doing?"

A tall, thin man's panicked voice came from outside.

"nonsense!"

Er Lei's voice was ruthless.

"Old Zhang will be here soon!"

"If we run away with cookies, we'll definitely arouse suspicion."

"Block this hole."

"Let that mute guy take the blame inside!"

"Tomorrow we'll say he sneaked in!"

"It has absolutely nothing to do with us!"

Er Lei's plan was extremely shrewd.