16 Apologize X Go back X Call

Hua followed the child to a place surrounded by houses made of tin sheets. In the dim light, Hua could even see the stains on the tin sheets.

This was something Hua really didn't expect. She thought that this was a big city after all, and it didn't make sense for there to be such a place in the city. Hua looked around and suddenly realized that this was of course reasonable.

Not to mention that the situation in Youkexin itself is very serious, and she has seen the slums in big cities in developed countries before. Those videos and photos still exist in her memory, but Hua still can't imagine that there would be such a situation in Youkexin.

"Are you stupid?" The child gasped as he let go of her hand and looked at the girl in front of him. "That person rushed towards you, and you didn't even run?"

"Why should I run?" Hua didn't quite understand the child's thoughts. In her opinion, there was no possibility of her being misunderstood. After all, she had just arrived in this city.

"Do you think they won't bother you just because you have nothing to do with us?" The child swallowed, trying to soothe his dry throat. "He'll definitely beat you up."

"Now he's going to beat me up too."

Hua looked at the child and seemed to want to say something, feeling very resistant.

No matter what difficulties this child had, as a stranger she had been implicated. Xiao Jie must have gone there to look for her, but she was not there and now she had lost contact.

Hua felt very unhappy, and this unhappiness was clearly caused by being innocently implicated.

"I mean well!" the child stamped his feet in anger.

"Kind man, please take me back to the place where you saw me." Hua nodded and made a request that seemed very reasonable to her.

As a result, the child reacted even more strongly. He shouted and jumped around, but didn't answer the flower.

Hua was a little impatient. She didn't want to keep watching this stranger making trouble in front of her. She wanted to find Xiaojie as soon as possible. Thinking of this, she grabbed the child's arm.

"Take me back to where we were before." Hua felt annoyed. From her previous location to her current location, she had walked through countless alleys and climbed over countless walls. If she hadn't been worried that she wouldn't be able to find the right way, she would have left long ago. Who would bother with him here?

The child tried to struggle a few times, but when he saw that Hua had no intention of letting go, he shouted even louder. Although he was small, he had a very large lung capacity and a loud voice, which hurt people's ears.

Hua Ba pulled her hand back, clenched it tightly, and raised the other hand to punch him.

The child was not to be outdone. After being punched, he immediately raised his leg to kick. Hua raised his leg to block him, grabbed his hand and pulled hard in the opposite direction. The pain made him tears well up in his eyes.

"I'm not in a hurry. Let's take our time."

Hua felt a little helpless as she watched the child gritting his teeth in pain. She actually didn't want to waste time like this, but she really didn't know where she was. If she really had no other choice, she might as well find a phone booth and ask for the location this time.

"I'll take you home, let her go." A childish voice sounded from the side. Hua turned her head to look and saw a brown-haired boy, younger than her, about seven or eight years old, but his expression looked more mature than she did.

Hua was a little dazed, but she thought it was okay. Who cares if it's her turn to lead her? But a creepy feeling at the back of her head made her squat quickly, without letting go of the person she had been holding.

Hua had just squatted down when she saw a fist swung over her head. It seemed that because she was young, only one person was attacking her, but she seized the opportunity and immediately sent a gust of wind to the owner of the fist. Then she rolled on the ground and changed direction to ensure that she could see the brown-haired child and the other child who was waving the fist at the same time. The child she was pulling was dragged and rolled around because of her movements.

She stood up and looked over there. Sure enough, the child who was swinging his fist was knocked to the ground by a gust of wind and rolled several times. When he got up, his face was covered in dirt.

The child in Hua's arms was cursing angrily, and the words he used were very unfriendly. Hua felt that the noise gave her a headache.

It seemed that her irritability and pain were noticed, and Hua helplessly grabbed the child and hid to the side. The child took a kick from her, and the pain made him scream even louder.

This gave Hua a sudden bad idea. She used the child to take on most of the punches and kicks from his companions, while also counterattacking unexpectedly. Hua didn't even use the previous kick in the crotch. By the time both sides stopped fighting, it was already pitch dark.

"Are you coming again?" Hua felt that she still had strength left and looked at them happily. She had only exercised in the forest and had not really fought against others. She originally thought that she was a super noob, but she did not expect that she could still have strength left to end the joint attack of more than 20 children.

Although it wasn't a huge success, she couldn't help but feel happy.

And she can handle the free sparring.

"S-Sorry." The brown-haired kid said breathlessly, "If you let my friend go, one of us will take you back."

"Hey, but I don't believe you." Hua blinked. She really didn't believe it. What could she do if she was taken to some strange place?

"How about this, it's so late today, you take me to your place to stay for one night and send me off tomorrow, is that okay?" Hua suddenly thought of this idea. Knowing where they were, if she was taken somewhere else, she could go back and settle the score with them.

Especially since there are so many of them, it would probably be difficult to find a place that can accommodate them all. Hua felt that she was being mean, but so what.

The group of children around began to fall silent, and finally nodded slowly.

Hua followed them in one direction. She had let go of the bruised child in her hand. The road was not far, but very winding. Hua didn't know how many times she had followed them around. Even though she had developed a strong ability to distinguish east, south, west and north from the forest, she could not withstand this very confusing and winding path.

When they arrived at their residence, Hua was stunned.

She never imagined that the place where these children, who were around 12 years old and even seven or eight years old, lived would be like this. It could be seen that this was an orphanage because the word "Orphanage" could still be seen above the door, but it seemed to have stopped operating. Some parts of the brick and stone walls even looked like they were being used from the inside out. There were very few intact windows, and it looked like a dangerous building. The bricks on the ground were also broken, and weeds could be seen growing in some places.

Hua couldn't believe it. This was a big city, a very well-run big city. Why did these children live in such an environment?

This is hard to believe and cannot be explained by her previous self-consolation.

After we walked in, a group of children who looked younger came out. They were pale and thin, and they didn't look very healthy. Some of them were obviously mentally retarded, while others had physical defects and some even had sunken eyes.

The childish voice called out to the group of children who brought her here. They walked over, rubbed their bodies for a long time, and took out a piece of dry bread and some dirty plastic bags containing a few bites of food.

The group of children began to eat happily. Hua had a very sensitive sense of smell and she even smelled a little bit of rot.

It’s over. I have to get up in the middle of the night and slap myself.

Hua thought a little desperately that after seeing this scene, she simply couldn't harden her heart to really hurt these people.

"This one is too small to eat bread." Hua even saw them carrying out a baby less than one year old. The baby was missing an ear. The child with a bruised face and nose carefully took out the bread hidden on his body. Another child took out a chipped bowl. Hua even saw some impurities in the water in the bowl.

If you look closely, you can see the corpses of small flying insects in the bowl. The child picks out the insects without batting an eyelid, then soaks the bread in it and pokes it with his fingers until it becomes a paste.

"What does a kid like you, a kid like you who lives in a honey pot, know?" One of the children said indignantly, and he even stuttered.

"He must eat, he can survive if he eats." The child with a bruised face and nose was a little depressed. He looked at the little baby with a complicated expression.

Hua opened her package and found a bottle of clean water and the milk tablets she brought with her.

"Give me some water." Hua said to the child. The child pointed to the water pipe on the other side. She walked over and turned it on. The pipe made a gurgling sound, and then a small trickle of water slowly flowed out. The water was visibly yellow.

Hua waited for a while, but seeing that the water was not clean, she quickly washed her hands.

She crushed the milk tablets, put them in her water bottle, shook it well, and handed it to the child holding the baby.

"Let him drink this." Hua said helplessly, "Although there might be some residue because this is made with milk flakes, it should be slightly better than that one.

"…Thanks."

Along with this subtle thank you, the bottle in Hua's hand was taken away. She sighed, looked around again, and felt like she was not a human being.

She scratched her head and found the child with a bruised face and nose.

"Is there a phone booth nearby?" Hua said a little distressedly, "I was waiting for someone, I need to call."

He was obviously stunned, then turned around nervously.

"Is there nothing nearby?" Hua seemed to see his embarrassment and asked helplessly.

"There was one at the director's grandmother's house before, but I don't know if it can still be used." The child said hesitantly. Hua nodded, and the two walked into the building.

Hua picked up the receiver of the old landline phone and started dialing. Fortunately, the phone had enough credit, so she was able to dial the number.

"Brother, it's me. I'm fine." Hua held the microphone and lowered her head, thinking, "Tell me the location of the hotel. I'll come to find you tomorrow."

"How about I come to find you now, Hua." Xiao Jie's voice was a little tired. He was a little worried about his sister spending the night alone in a strange place. He really couldn't bear it if something happened to her.

"It's okay. I'm in an orphanage right now. There are a lot of children there." Hua told Xiaojie her approximate location seriously. "It's late today, brother. You should have a good rest. Give me the address."

"Hua, I'm worried." Xiaojie refused to give in. "I can only feel at ease after seeing you."

"It's not that I don't want to tell you." Hua felt a little helpless. "Apart from knowing that this place I'm in is an orphanage, I don't know anything else."

"Okay." Xiaojie reluctantly told Hua his location, and Hua quickly wrote it down.

"See you tomorrow, bro."