20 Stay X Regret X Avoid

On a sunny afternoon, the silence of a shabby street was broken by the sound of footsteps. A child stumbled and ran wildly, and the people hiding in the shadows did not even raise their eyes. Children are the best resources here. They are difficult to deal with when they are in a group, but very easy to deal with when they are alone.

The best quality goods, food and toys.

Hua followed closely behind the brown-haired child. She didn't understand why he reacted so strongly. Before, she felt that he was a very calm child, at least much calmer than she was at the same age.

If such a big change happens in a short period of time, it means that there has been a very big stimulus.

What could it be?

Hua couldn't help but think, she didn't think she should escape at this time, this is because we are not familiar with each other, Hua couldn't help but think, because we are not familiar with each other, we can face many things calmly, and not be afraid of whether there will be results and problems that we don't like.

But her thoughts flashed quickly, and the journey was not as long as she thought. She arrived before she could organize her thoughts.

The welfare home has become even worse than before. Hua walked in and vaguely remembered that the places where there were buildings have become ruins. The bricks that could be seen on the ground are no longer recognizable. Hua even thinks that those irregular stones are the bricks. The place that could be called the children's activity area is no longer recognizable. There is a blank ground there.

And she had never known about such a serious situation. It happened in a city and on all the streets, but she had never seen it in the media.

This made Hua feel a little uncomfortable. She looked at the brown-haired child standing there and didn't know how to start.

"Are you... okay?" Hua started to feel awkward after saying this. It was like a third-rate love story where the man had cheated on the woman for many years and then hesitantly asked about her current situation.

The other person turned his head with an expression of fear, despair and anger, which further deepened her sense of déjà vu.

"Get out of here!" His voice no longer had the clarity of a child's voice before. Now it carried a suppressed and tearing feeling, which made Hua Duo feel helpless.

Hua was silent for a while, preparing to say something to comfort the other person.

"Don't treat people who helped us like this, Dis."

The sudden sound startled Hua, but it didn't affect the brown-haired child at all. All the complicated emotions in his expression disappeared, and he just looked at Hua calmly.

"I think you should remember it more than my name, that it was you who made me so badly hurt."

The child who was talking walked up to Hua's side. Hua looked at her with some confusion and nodded.

"Let me introduce myself, my name is Sally." The other person stretched out her hand and looked straight at the flowers.

Hua didn't like the look in her eyes, always feeling something was wrong. She didn't hold her hand, but instead looked at Dis next to her. She was still more concerned about the other party's previous reaction.

Dis withdrew his gaze and turned to walk into the intact building.

"Don't look at me like that." Sally walked over to the flower. "We are not pathetic creatures."

Hua tilted her head slightly. She didn't think she was feeling sorry for them.

"Come on." Sally walked towards the small building on the other side. "You can see for yourself."

Hua followed her towards the house. When she stood at the door, she thought it was dark enough, but when she walked in, it was surprisingly clean.

Although there were no bricks or garbage on the ground, there were four or five beds in the room, and three or four children were lying on the small beds. The quilts looked worn out, but they were clean. The room was very quiet, and the children seemed to be sleeping.

Hua couldn't help but take a deep breath, and there was no strange smell.

"They are all unable to move now. Some are sick and some are injured." Sally walked in slowly.

"We're living well." Sally sat by a bed and gently stroked the side of a child's face. "What you saw last time was only one side of us."

"You think it is just what you think."

The scene here is too normal, just like an ordinary ward, neat and quiet.

At this point, Hua finally breathed a sigh of relief. She felt that her psychological burden had been reduced a lot. At least she no longer felt that she was really useless before. She saw the pain but could not change it.

It seems that she was really overthinking it at that time?

In fact, they don't need her help?

Hua didn't dare to draw any conclusions because the huge changes outside were still affecting her, but she couldn't help but assume that everything was actually developing in a good direction. The problems outside were caused by the gunfight, but it was precisely because of the impact caused by the gunfight that it attracted the help of many kind people.

Thinking of this, Hua felt ridiculous, but she kept saying to herself, what if?

Sally looked at Hua's seemingly moved face, and there was a bit of strangeness on her silent face.

"Would you like to stay overnight?" Sally's voice was sincere and serious, and her expression was just as sincere. "I haven't thanked you for the milk powder you gave to that little girl yet."

"Milk powder? No..." Hua felt that the other party seemed to have remembered it wrong, but she swallowed the second half of the sentence and did not respond.

Sally noticed that Hua did not reject her first proposal, and was very satisfied and did not say anything else. Although she did not agree, she did not refuse either, which means there is a probability.

"Ho, ho"

A child lying in bed suddenly made such a sound, hoarse and dry like a knife tip scratching across leather, with a hint of gloomy air.

Hua walked over with a little concern, but found no external injuries.

"His throat is swollen for some reason." Sally did not go over, her fingers lingered on the child beside her.

"We don't have any other options but to pray for a miracle." Her voice was slightly hoarse and sounded very pitiful.

"Is there no medicine?" Hua wondered why she always asked such stupid questions. She slowly closed her mouth and stopped talking.

Sally did not answer the question. She just sat there quietly with her head down. The sunlight shining in from the door looked pure and harmless, like a ball of soft light.

This calm did not last long. Soon, the children on the beds began to show different symptoms. Some vomited, some coughed, and some were incontinent. The smell quickly became strange.

Hua watched Sally start to work immediately, so she stood up to help, changing clothes, wiping the floor, and taking away the dirty bedding. These tasks were not small, and Hua originally thought that Sally would complain a little, just like her current mood. You know, the most painful thing about this kind of busyness is the impact of the smell and the burden brought by these children who cannot move.

But Sally moved quickly and handled these things very skillfully, as if these things could not affect her at all.

"You can rest with me tonight." Sally continued to move, speaking in a relaxed and gentle tone, "Dis is a boy after all."

“…Okay.” Hua thought about it and thought that if she had to face Xiaojie now, she should wait a little longer, tomorrow. It should be fine if she goes tomorrow.

What's more, the people here really need her, don't they?

Just escape a little bit more.

It's fine.

Hua had just finished agreeing when she heard a familiar voice coming from the door.

"Why keep such a 'young lady'?"

Dis emphasized the word "Miss", which sounded harsh and sarcastic.

"Dis." Sally's voice suddenly rose, her brows furrowed, looking angry and nervous.

Hua noticed that something was wrong with Sally, but she didn't take it to heart. Her eyes were focused on Dis, and Dis's expression seemed very interesting to her.

It was an expression of struggle and resistance, and seemed to contain a hint of pleading.

"What! Are you going to criticize me for this guy?!"

Dis's voice rose, and the child's voice pierced his ears like a sharp thorn.

"What's the use of her? The help she just gave wasn't as much as what you did alone."

"Let her go."

Hua De admitted that she was indeed irritated by Dis's words. She was not a tolerant person, and was even a childish, competitive, and stupid person.

For a moment, she even wanted to treat these children directly, mock them for not knowing who was the stronger one, and then leave here. However, her fragile mind held her back.

Such behavior will only cause her trouble.

"Dis, she's a guest."

Sally refused without any hesitation, she even walked up and held Hua's hand tightly.

Sally's palms were warm and rough, much rougher than the flower's. The flower felt Sally's warmth and also felt her past misfortune.

"Dis, you've been too tired recently, go and have a rest."

Hua didn't have the courage to interrupt the conversation, so the situation became deadlocked and no one wanted to speak.

As time went on, Dis was the first to feel angry. His chest rose and fell more and more exaggeratedly, and finally slowly calmed down.

"what ever."

He just walked away like that, his back tense. Hua didn't even have time to think before Sally hugged her tightly.

"Thank you for staying."

Hua smiled a little awkwardly and left the house on the pretext of going out for some fresh air.

"Brother, I probably won't go back today."

"Yes, it's still in the welfare home you came to before."

"I'll be back tomorrow."

Hua lowered her voice, speaking lightly and quickly. Xiaojie's voice was also very low. He had no objection to Hua not planning to come back.

"Hua is not coming back today?" Leorio asked Xiaojie a little surprised. He didn't expect that Hua would suddenly not come back. Leorio couldn't understand why Hua made such a decision.

Killua had a rough guess in his mind, but he didn't want to say it. It was useless to say it, and it would only cause a quarrel with Gon, so he just had to wait.

Killua glanced at the silent Gon and thought that things would get better when Gon finally couldn't stand his sister's messing around anymore.

"Well, Hana isn't coming back today, so it's just right for us to arrange what's next." Gon's voice was calm, with basically no ups and downs. However, Leorio and Killua still understood that he was in a bad mood. Compared to Hana, whom they had just known for a short time, they would be more inclined to Gon, and naturally they would be a little unhappy about Hana's inexplicable decision not to come back.

Hua, who hung up the phone on the other side, was actually not in a good mood. She felt that Xiaojie had seen through her avoidance, but she didn't say it and he didn't ask.

This made Hua feel even more guilty and regretful. She felt that if she apologized directly now, it would be a bit embarrassing.

After Hua thought about it, she felt that she was so stupid. In fact, what she hated most back then was people who couldn't have a frank conversation. So the communication between her and Xiaojie might have been influenced by her subconscious mind, and it had always been frank and straightforward.

It turns out that she is now the first person to avoid talking about her feelings.

Tomorrow, I will definitely explain my feelings to Xiaojie tomorrow.

Hua thought so, comforted herself, and let out a long sigh.

"What are you doing!" Sally's voice aroused Hua's reaction, and she rushed towards the source of the sound, the door that no longer served its purpose.

There was a man standing in front of Sally. He didn't look strong, but he had obvious muscle lines on his body. There were deep sunken cheeks, dark circles under his eyes, and there seemed to be traces of saliva at the corners of his mouth.

He grabbed Sally's arm and looked at her with a sinister grin.

Hua looked at the scene, her pupils shrank, and she felt like she was exploding from head to toe.