Chapter 157 Feral Child (First update, please give me a monthly ticket)

The first second after entering the detention room, Sun Changkong suddenly regretted his decision.

She paused and looked sideways at the backs of Ji Minghuan and Kong Youling through the brim of her baseball cap.

As if she saw something extremely bright and dazzling, she tilted her head back and opened her mouth blankly, her little canine teeth refracting the cold light.

After a long while, she realized that neither of them noticed her.

Sun Changkong then slowly closed his mouth, and the surprise in his eyes slowly faded away.

She was neither disappointed nor unhappy. She just pursed her lips and quietly watched the backs of Kong Youling and Ji Minghuan as they got along well.

It took a long time for Sun Changkong to react. Her heart moved slightly and she suddenly realized something very important.

To him, Ji Minghuan was his only new friend.

But to Ji Minghuan...she was just one of his friends, and they had only known each other for a few days. No, no, they hadn't even spent half an hour together.

Of course...it doesn't matter, she can become good friends with them in the future.

But even if she went over now, what could she talk to them about?

Online games? Movies? Cartoons?

Sun Changkong didn’t understand any of this. Yes...she just didn’t understand anything and had nothing.

That's why other kids called him a "wild child".

She has been a homeless child since she was young, wandering around the mountains and villages. She doesn't even know how to use a mobile phone, let alone a computer, and she has no connection with a television.

The only time she saw TV was when she was tired of playing in the mountains, so she secretly ran to someone else's yard, looked inside curiously through the crack in the door, and saw the children sitting in front of the TV, talking and laughing about the plot on TV.

The setting sun was red at that time, and the slanting sunlight shone on Sun Changkong's face.

She stared at their backs expressionlessly. It was hard to tell whether her expression was melancholy or unwillingness. It was just...

Suddenly I envied them.

I envy them for having TV to watch and family to take care of them, but I can only run around in the mountains. It seems very free, as if the whole mountain belongs to me, but if there is no one to share these with, then no matter how much I have, I am just deceiving myself.

Sun Changkong still remembers that the cartoon the group of kids watched at that time was about a robot cat and a yellow man. Later she learned from her tutor that the cartoon was called "Doraemon".

She also learned the theme song of the animation from her tutor. She would hum it for a while every day, close her eyes, and imagine if she had clean clothes to wear and her parents to protect her, and could walk in with confidence...

Would they welcome him? Just thinking about it made Sun Changkong feel very happy.

But now...staring at the backs of Ji Minghuan and Kong Youling as they gathered around the TV, talking and laughing, Sun Changkong suddenly felt like he was back to that time.

She seemed to have turned back into that dirty wild child, and her heart grew colder and colder.

Yes, wild children are only worthy of sneaking a peek at other people's lives from outside the door, and then running away without looking back.

But in fact no one knows, and she doesn't want to be a wild child.

If there is no other choice, who would want to be a wild child?

If possible, Sun Changkong also wants to have a home.

She wanted to sit in front of the TV with her brothers and sisters, instead of hiding outside and secretly watching their backs, and then shrinking into a corner in the alley after being chased away with a broom, drawing circles on the ground with her fingers and muttering softly:

"Tsk, they don't have freedom at all, they have parents to control them... I can play in the mountains by myself until very late, and no one will scold me, or take me home and scold me. I am... much better than them!"

But even though she was so free and powerful, she still couldn't make friends. Adults told their children not to play with her, saying she was dirty and naughty, and might have some infectious disease.

Later on...

Finally, a kind-hearted person adopted her, finally she had a place that belonged to her, and finally someone stopped calling her a "wild child", but she killed all those people.

Later, when she opened her eyes, she found herself in this cold place.

Every day when she wakes up, there will be robot-like weirdos asking her questions and performing various examinations on her.

But Sun Changkong knew that he had lost everything, so he did not make a big fuss, nor was he heartbroken. He was just very quiet. He stayed here numbly like a corpse every day, eating, sleeping and waiting to die.

Life goes on day after day...it seems like you can see the end at a glance.

But since her instructor told her half a month ago: "You will be able to make friends soon."

Sun Changkong was stunned for a long while, then his eyes lit up and he suddenly felt as if life had light.

Every day she looked forward to the day when she could meet this friend. Sometimes she was so excited that she couldn't sleep, and she kept thinking about how to present herself in front of that person.

Making friends... She had never made any friends. But she was also worried, would she be disliked? Would that person really dislike her? Throwing stones at her like the kids in the village, calling her a wild child.

Finally, before going to meet her new friends, she asked her mentor for a baseball cap, saying that she wanted to appear more fashionable and less like a country bumpkin in front of her new friends.

The instructor smiled gently and agreed to her request.

The day to meet his "friend" finally arrived. Sun Changkong put on his baseball cap, plucked up his courage, and walked over in such a majestic and pretentious manner!

Although she was extremely nervous and afraid that she would be disliked, she still pretended to be calm and chatted with Ji Minghuan.

It seems as if he has a lot of friends and he is not missing any of them.

But Sun Changkong was not calm at all. In fact, she was very happy, so happy that she almost jumped up... She often secretly opened one eye and observed Ji Minghuan's expression with her peripheral vision.

Despite this, she still had to pretend to be a powerful person because she was afraid of being looked down upon, just like the children in the village who called her a "wild child".

She was very worried that Ji Minghuan would scold her and say that she was a country bumpkin who had never even watched cartoons.

But Ji Minghuan neither scolded her nor looked down on her. The two chatted very naturally, as if they had known each other for a long time.

Sun Changkong suddenly felt very stupid at that moment. Why was he so nervous?

So I said a lot to him at once, as if I had said out everything that had been held in my heart for so many years.

Even when she told him that she had accidentally killed so many people and was a big bad guy, Ji Minghuan didn't show any fear... nor did he hate her.

Instead, he said to her calmly: "What's the big deal? I will destroy the world in the future. You are just a little Karami."

At that moment, Sun Changkong sat cross-legged on the somersault cloud with his head lowered for a long time, and suddenly he felt that he didn't hate himself so much.

She thought to herself: It turns out there are many people like me in the world.

If possible, Sun Changkong also wanted to be an interesting and fashionable person and share more things with him. But she was empty-headed, a fool, a wild child, a jinx... Adults and children hated her, and those who tolerated her were killed by her.

The only thing she could share with others was her life in the mountains.

She ran around the mountain alone, shouting and yelling, and when she was tired, she sat on the top of the mountain to watch the grass grow and the birds fly. When the sun set, she returned to the village dejectedly, hugged her knees and sat on the mountainside, looking at the lights of thousands of houses in the distance.

There were lights on in many places in the village, but none of them belonged to her.

Sun Changkong felt that a fashionable kid like Ji Minghuan would definitely not be interested in life in the mountains.

So she thought about it left and right, and finally had to show her somersault cloud to Ji Minghuan.

She never let anyone else ride on her cloud because it was the most fashionable thing for a wild child like her!

She has no Gundam robot, no expensive cell phone, no parents, no friends. If even the Somersault Cloud is denied, then she will really have nothing left.

However, perhaps her most precious somersault cloud is not as attractive as those colorful cartoons on TV.

Thinking of this, Sun Changkong's nose suddenly turned red.

"Don't cry...don't cry...don't cry..."

She wrinkled her nose, stared at the backs of Kong Youling and Ji Minghuan, then watched the cartoons on TV which she couldn't understand at all. She leaned against the door, stood stupidly for a long time, hiding her red eyes under the brim of her baseball cap.

At this moment, Sun Changkong suddenly stopped being stubborn.

She suddenly wanted to run away and run back to the mountain.

In fact, being a wild child who is not loved by anyone is better than being stoned and isolated by other children... She only now remembered how embarrassed she was when she approached them with a playful smile but was pushed away by other children. Only she knew how sad she was at that time.

Kong Youling suddenly noticed Sun Changkong standing at the door out of the corner of his eye.

She glanced at Sun Changkong, then at Ji Minghuan, wrote quickly on the notebook, and then asked Ji Minghuan who was concentrating on watching TV:

"who is she?"

Ji Minghuan looked at the words on the notebook, then raised his eyebrows and turned half of his face to look at Sun Changkong.

Sun Changkong stood at the door with his cap pulled down, rubbing his eyes and turning his cheeks away. His ears were very red, as if he wanted to fly to the sky on a somersault cloud.

Ji Minghuan felt a little puzzled, thinking that this "big sister" who was a few months younger than him was not as outgoing as he had imagined.

"Her name is Sun Changkong." He turned and said to Kong Youling.

"Sun Wukong?" Kong Youling asked.

"Sun Wukong is also fine."

After saying that, Ji Minghuan suddenly picked up a White Rabbit candy from the plate next to his butt and threw it to Sun Changkong behind him without looking back.

Sun Changkong reached out and caught the White Rabbit candy.

"Big sister, what are you doing?" Ji Minghuan turned his head to look at her and urged loudly, "Come and watch a movie with us, otherwise the instructor will send us to bed later!"

Sun Changkong was stunned for a moment, rubbed his eyes hard, as if he had never cried, and pretended to be proud.

After hesitating for a moment, she strode towards the TV and sat down next to Ji Minghuan.

"What are you looking at?" she asked.

“Robot Dreams.”

"Oh, I've seen this too, I understand it very well!" Sun Changkong said casually.

Ji Minghuan chewed White Rabbit candy and said without turning his head: "Then don't spoil the story, we haven't seen it yet."

Kong Youling also wrote on the notebook, and then held it up to show her: "No spoilers, No spoilers."

The girl looked serious, her soft white hair swaying gently, scratching the words written in pencil.

Sun Changkong turned his head and looked at the words on the notebook.

In fact, she didn't understand what spoilers meant, nor did she know what "No" meant, but she nodded and said confidently:

"Of course."

The three of them watched TV quietly for a while. Sun Changkong stared at the movie screen, his heart beating fast. He felt like an undercover agent lurking in the enemy army.

After a moment, Sun Changkong secretly glanced at Kong Youling across Ji Minghuan, and then asked Ji Minghuan in a low voice:

"Ji Minghuan, who is she?"

"My good friend." Ji Minghuan said.

Sun Changkong realized belatedly and said, "Oh, I see. She is the 'white-haired friend' you mentioned?"

Ji Minghuan nodded: "Yes, but she can't hear you and can't speak."

"Really?" Sun Changkong raised his fiery red eyebrows.

"Really? Otherwise, why would we use notebooks to communicate?"

As if she noticed that the two were talking about her, Kong Youling tilted her head slightly and stared at them with her red eyes.

Sun Changkong seemed to be unconvinced. He suddenly turned his head and spoke a long string of words to her in a very fast voice:

"You are so beautiful, just like a porcelain doll. And this is the first time I have seen white hair, I really want to touch it. What is your name? My name is Sun Changkong, which is taken from Sun Wukong in Journey to the West."

Kong Youling was stunned for a while, then wrote something on the notebook and held it up for her to see:

"My name is Kong Youling."

Looking at the name on the notebook, Sun Changkong's ears and cheeks suddenly turned red.

She was silent for a while, then frowned her fiery red eyebrows, turned her head and said to Ji Minghuan: "You lied to me! Didn't you say she couldn't hear me?"

"She can't hear, but she can lip read." Ji Minghuan said lightly.

"Why didn't you say so earlier?"

"If you don't mind the trouble, you can communicate with her using a notebook like I do." Ji Minghuan shrugged, "We usually communicate this way."

"Who do you look down on?"

As she spoke, Sun Changkong's hospital gown suddenly flashed with a strange light, and the strange fragments in her heart burst into a fiery red light, flowing through her blood vessels, and finally spreading throughout her body.

Ji Minghuan and Kong Youling were stunned for a moment, and looked at the same time. Both of their faces were illuminated by the light, like red apples.

Then a cloud formed in the sky above the prison cell, like a white wave.

Sun Changkong raised a finger and controlled the clouds to change their shapes in the air. The white clouds sometimes turned into a line of words: "Awesome, right?" and sometimes turned into another line of words: "I can also write with my somersault cloud."

Kong Youling slightly widened her red eyes, clapped her hands vigorously, and wrote on the notebook for her to see: "Amazing!"

After opening half of his eyes and seeing the three words on the notebook, Sun Changkong immediately raised the corners of his mouth to reveal his little tiger teeth, and said complacently: "Of course I am powerful, even Ji Minghuan has to call me the big sister."

"……real?"

Kong Youling turned her head and looked at Ji Minghuan. She seemed to not believe that Ji Minghuan would recognize someone else as the boss.

Ji Minghuan was concentrating on watching the TV and was about to deny: "I didn't..."

After thinking for a while, he put a White Rabbit candy in his mouth and changed his words: "Okay, she is the big sister."

Kong Youling wrote on the notebook and showed it to Sun Changkong: "Then you are also my big sister."

Looking at the line of words on the notebook, Sun Changkong curled the corner of his mouth to reveal a fang, and stretched out his index finger to wipe his nose.

"Okay, I'll protect you from now on." She said confidently.

(End of this chapter)