Chapter 5 Chapter 5 At first glance, I just ran from the ancestral hall...
At first glance, the young man who had just run out of the ancestral hall looked more like a ghost than the seriously injured person who smelled of medicine. It was hard to tell who the person who stayed in the mountains last night was.
"I thought you would never come back." The young man sobbed and wiped his tears as he cried to the injured person who was walking towards him.
The injured man smiled at him and said, "I'm back safe and sound, right?"
The boy took a step forward and wanted to hug him, but suddenly stopped, thinking of what happened last night, and cried, "I'm sorry, I couldn't bring anyone to save you, and I couldn't even go there myself.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that. I shouldn't have left if I had known. Are you injured? Have you bandaged yourself? Have you applied medicine? Have you eaten?"
The injured man carefully pulled out a handkerchief and handed it to him: "Wipe your tears, don't worry."
The injured man's stomach suddenly growled.
The young man took the handkerchief and couldn't help laughing for a moment, but tears were still on his face. He wiped the tears from his face casually and said, "Come to my house. There is still some food. It's enough to get by."
"Okay." The injured man nodded.
The two of them supported each other and walked towards the boy's home.
The boy got some food and put it on the table. While eating, he asked, "How did you escape? What happened last night? Did you walk back alone? Did anyone find you? What else is on it?"
The injured man hesitated for a moment and whispered, "Someone saved me. I slept for a while and then came back. It was the person who saved me who brought me back. I only know that he was wearing white clothes and holding a sword. He killed the bear as soon as he saw it. I don't know anything else. Don't ask me anymore."
He paused, took a bite of bread, drank a sip of water and said, "Let's just pretend nothing happened. I will never go there again."
"But," the boy agreed with him to just pretend nothing happened, but hesitantly said, "When I came back yesterday, I really asked them to come with me to rescue you. I told them where you were."
The two of them may not say anything, but there is no guarantee that others will not say anything.
"Then let's move to another place as soon as possible, maybe we can escape." The injured man thought for a moment and said firmly.
The young man frowned and thought for a while: "Well, I'll go wherever you go. I can't stay here alone anyway. Otherwise, if something goes wrong, I will definitely implicate you. It's better to leave early."
"Two people are safer than one." The injured man nodded with a smile.
"Then we'll leave right after we finish eating." The boy nodded and put food into his mouth in big mouthfuls.
The injured man nodded and said, "That's exactly what we should do. There's no time to lose."
They cleaned up immediately after eating.
When they were about to leave, the villagers were very happy and secretly followed them to see them off, fearing that they would change their minds.
After all, no one can tell what will happen when a person who looks like a ghost and a person who looks like a madman get together.
It’s better to leave early.
If there is one or two ghosts among them, it would be better to leave.
But the villager with the bleeding neck wiped the blood from his neck, suddenly became ruthless, rushed to the village chief, grabbed him and said: "We can't let them go like this."
The village chief was stunned for a moment, staggered a few steps, frowned in confusion and asked: "What are you talking about?"
The villagers shouted, "We can't let them go. If they leave, what if the people above know they have entered the mountain and ask us about it? We can't find them, and we can't call them back.
In the end, we are the only ones responsible. But how can we be responsible? It's nothing more than death. How can you just let them go?
What will we do if we let them go? Will we take the blame for them? Will we die for them? Are you willing to do that? Don’t you have any thoughts?
Do you think that with so many people here today, the matter will not be discovered?"
The two people in front immediately started running.
The village chief hadn't made up his mind yet, but when he saw the two men trying to run away, he felt that things were not going well and there was no turning back, so he immediately shouted to the other villagers, "Hurry up and hold them down! Don't let them run away!"
One of the two men had just woken up from an injury, and the other had been running and kneeling for most of the night and had just eaten a little. One was injured from running, and the other had a stomachache from running. They had not run far before they were pinned to the ground by the strong and well-fed villagers.
The young man sighed, and the injured man turned around and said to him, "What a pity. I should have left secretly and not let them know."
The young man chuckled and said, "We'll talk about it next time. I'll be sneaky next time."
"Stop chattering here and be quiet. You've been caught. Don't even think about running away, or we'll be rude to you." A strong villager kicked them and said.
The two people shut up and stopped talking.
The village chief, supported by a villager with blood on his neck, came over slowly on crutches. Seeing that things had come to this, he couldn't help but sigh: "What a sin, what a sin."
He couldn't help shaking his head, but the villagers couldn't wait any longer and urged him, "Hurry up and find a solution. It's not a good idea to keep suppressing it like this. If outsiders find out, we'll be in even more trouble."
The village chief had no choice but to lean on his cane and sigh deeply, frowning as he said, "Get them first and lock them up in the cellar. Send them food every day, and have four people watch them when they go in and out. Replace them every two hours. Don't tell anyone outside, and don't let them run away. Do you hear me?"
When he said the last sentence, he straightened his back slightly and looked at the people around him. Although he was old, his eyes were still as sharp as a torch. When he gave orders at this time, there was a sense of intimidation as if he was a respected person.
Everyone nodded.
The young man and the injured were tied up and thrown into a large cellar hidden near the village chief's house.
When only the two of them were locked in the cellar, there was no need for four people to guard them. As long as the cellar door was locked and the ladder was taken away, they would not be able to fly out even if they grew wings.
There is no need to worry too much.
After everyone settled them down, they felt relieved that a worry had been resolved.
After that, they went their separate ways.
But now that their business was settled, Li Baili suddenly felt uneasy.
"Something happened again." The system relayed to Li Baili.
"What happened again?" Li Baili was bored and made herself some tea in the yard. She asked as she poured the tea from the pot into the cup.
"The person who left your place returned to the village and was about to leave with his friends, but he was caught and locked up by the villagers." The system said hurriedly.
"That's all." Li Qiangwei commented.
When he said this, it was as if he was commenting on a boring drama.
After saying that, he picked up the teacup, blew on it, took a sip and put it back. It was too hot and he couldn't drink it yet.
The system kept spinning in his mind, saying, "They are different from you. You live alone in such a big villa halfway up the mountain, but the two of them can only squeeze into a slightly larger cellar in the village. There is a huge difference between a cellar and this place, right? It's even worse than a basement. It's dark, there's no light, and there's no wind. People will suffocate to death."
"Why do you care about them so much?" Li Baili was puzzled.
"I don't care about them, I care about you," the system was spinning, "According to the program you set for me, if you want your future life to be like now, safe and undisturbed, you must save them.
Otherwise, based on my ability to calculate the future, the most likely future for you is that you will be forced to leave here, get involved in disputes, and die from exhaustion."
Li Baili sighed: "What a hassle."
"It's like this. I spent a long time calculating the result. I also measured it many times to avoid errors. No matter how I calculate it, if you don't save them, you will be forced to leave here. I almost calculated myself to death." The system chirped and nodded.
Li Baili sighed again: "I'm not talking about you."
The system was stunned for a moment, and then it turned red: "I've been working so hard to help you, but you don't understand me at all. I'm going to get angry. You don't really need to do anything!
Just let the vest go. You can work and rest at the same time, and you still think it's troublesome? What about me? I work all the time.
If you don’t apologize properly this time, I won’t forgive you.”
The system snorted and turned its head away.
Li Baili sighed, poured another cup of tea, handed it to the system and said, "Don't be angry, I'll give you this cup of tea as an apology gift, okay? You know I can't live without you."
The system drank the whole cup of tea in one breath. The whole system turned green, exuding a strong tea fragrance, and muttered, "How can you borrow flowers to offer to Buddha like this?
You wanted tea anyway, so that doesn't count, and unless you're willing to give me the whole pot, I don't believe you really want to apologize."
Li Baili did not argue with the system about this, so she smiled and pushed the whole pot to the system: "Drink it, it's all yours."
The system gulped down all the water, soaked it in the teapot, looked up at Li Baili and said, "I forgive you."
While saying this, the system was still cooing and burping, sounding like a pigeon begging for food.
Li Baili couldn't help but slightly curved her eyes and said with a smile: "Thank you very much."
"Is it really okay for you to talk to me so casually? Although you are the only one here, there are more than one people outside. They monitor you every day and write a report on the content of the monitoring and surveillance and submit it to the current emperor." The system asked with some concern.
"It's not the first day I've lived here. How could the world not know that I have this problem?" Li Baili smiled nonchalantly.
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