Chapter 16 Alone
The lame old man suddenly ran over like crazy, waving a rusty sickle in his hand that was used to cut weeds and was still stained with dark green grass juice, and let out a strange cry.
It turned out that there was a small room of less than two square meters hidden next to the haystack. A strong stench of rotting food came from the gap in the small room. Li Ziyue looked carefully and found that what grabbed him was not an old branch, but a skinny human hand.
There were layers of dark scars on the loose skin of her hands, and it seemed as if the bones were about to break through the dirty and festering skin. Although she was thin, she was surprisingly strong. Fortunately, there were several thick iron chains tied at the door, which just caught Li Ziyue's neck, preventing her from dragging Li Ziyue in.
“Puff…Puff…”
Her turbid breath hit Li Ziyue's neck.
What?
Li Ziyue frowned slightly. What was she talking about?
The lame old man ignored everything else and started slashing with the sickle. The hand immediately became timid, threw Li Ziyue down, and quickly retreated into the darkness.
"Mad man!" The old man suddenly dragged Li Ziyue to the other side. He kicked the door of the small room angrily and continued to curse, "Mad man!"
"No!" He turned around and threatened Li Ziyue fiercely, "There's a dog locked up in here, you can't do that!"
dog?
Li Ziyue is very sensitive to this word.
What does it mean? The person in the small room is obviously a woman. According to the clues, she should be the "mother". Why is she called a "dog"?
After being scolded by the old man, Li Ziyue felt nothing in his heart, but he had no choice but that the owner of this body was still a child. He had fallen hard before and was scolded again as soon as he got up. He had never seen such a scene before. His mouth instantly turned down and he cried loudly twice.
“Bang!”
“Pah!”
Several loud and heavy slaps landed on Li Ziyue's face. Li Ziyue lost consciousness instantly after being slapped. He felt dizzy and the scene in front of him became nothingness. He fell to the ground again.
"Cry again, cry again!"
The child was too weak to withstand the pushing and beating from the lame old man. Although Li Ziyue was unhappy, he could only endure it all silently.
There was no way, he was basically powerless to change any aspect of the plot experience.
Fortunately, he was beaten quite a lot in the past few years, so this little pain is nothing to him now.
Li Ziyue closed his eyes silently, but heard a few vicious dogs barking in the distance, and they seemed to be running wildly. The chaotic footsteps were getting closer and closer, and the barking became more and more shrill and terrifying, as if it was ringing in his ears...
The next moment.
A strong smell of blood that made him vomit hit his nose, and at the same time, one of his ears felt almost numb.
What……
Li Ziyue was stunned for half a second.
Scarlet blood spurted out, his brain was half buzzing, and his palm unconsciously reached out to that place...
My vision was blurring, the world was spinning, I couldn't feel anything in my palms, nor could I feel any temperature, but it was so bright red.
"Ah——" It seemed like someone was screaming around.
"A mad dog bites! A mad dog bites!"
Several vicious dogs were gnawing at his limbs like crazy. The lame old man had already run away somewhere unknown. Li Ziyue could not control the movements of this body and could only allow himself to be torn and devoured bit by bit.
The dirty and torn cloth tore into pieces one after another, and his palm stretched forward unconsciously. He saw the dazzling sun in the sky, the flying dust in the air fell on his palm, and a black bird flew by in the sky.
"Little Swallow...wearing flowery clothes...comes here every spring..."
The scholar's singing seemed to still be ringing in his ears, but he had lost one ear, so he couldn't hear clearly...
The sharp teeth spitting acid pierced his thigh, and the blackness attacked his fragile throat. Behind him was the hard yellow earth, and when he looked up, he saw a blur of blood red...
Then he heard an unusually sharp roar.
It's that woman.
A woman who was locked up in a small house and was said to be crazy.
She shook the chains frantically and smashed the half-broken porcelain bowl that she used to eat in the small house against the rusty edges of the chains.
Her split mouth opened wide, revealing her severed tongue. She was unable to speak fluently and could only babble as if she was crying.
Why is she crying?
Li Ziyue thought in a daze.
What is she crying about?
I don’t know if it was a miracle, pity, or fantasy, but she actually smashed the chain in half. The broken porcelain pieces scratched her palm, but no blood flowed.
She had been locked up there for so long that not only her tears but also her blood had dried up.
The woman, wearing a shoe that was half torn into pieces, limped over as if she couldn't see the mad dogs. Her arms, which were so thin that they were almost bony, were waving wildly in the air. Her hair was sparse, most of it white, and a broken earring hung from one of her dry and flat earlobes.
It must have been very beautiful before, shining with silver light, setting off her youthful and beautiful red dress.
She screamed in fear, trying to scare the dogs away. She was almost catching Li Ziyue. She was just a few steps away, just a few steps away from stepping over the hoe that Li Ziyue had placed in the corner.
But she made a wrong move.
She couldn't see clearly what was in front of her, and just walked aimlessly based on her feeling. Her foot, which had several layers of thick calluses on the soles, stepped on that sharp ground.
The top of the hoe instantly bounced in front of her and hit her forehead hard. She fainted and her body, like dry grass, fell uncontrollably to the other side.
On the other side, the ill-placed sickle flashed a sharp light——
“Crash!”
Her skin was so soft and thin that it could not withstand too much cutting by sharp objects. The tip of the knife cut straight across her abdomen, leaving a very long wound as she slid to the ground.
Her belly seemed very soft, and the wriggling large intestine rolled out from the cut.
The woman huddled on the ground in pain, her body trembling and rolling around uncontrollably, but her hand was still stretched out towards Li Ziyue.
“Come…come…”
She forced an ugly smile and raised her head with difficulty. Her forehead was full of long wrinkles, her eyes were red and crystal tears were welling up in them.
The internal organs in her stomach rushed out through the cut. She scratched on the ground for a long time but could only grab a ball of half-dried soil.
There are still traces of people's footprints on it.
Then she stuffed the yellow soil into the wound on her abdomen.
She kept looking at Li Ziyue, watching him being torn to pieces and eaten by the vicious dogs. Her eyes were filled with endless sadness and pain, and the kindest thing, guilt.
When the pain exceeds what the brain can bear, the brain will numb itself.
Li Ziyue didn't feel much pain. Dogs were howling and biting around him, villagers were screaming, and people were running.
He just stared at the bleeding woman on the ground, at the woman who was still trying to crawl towards her, and saw her pointing at her scarred abdomen, signaling to him - child, come into my womb, hide in my belly, come back to my arms.
"It was my mother who hid me."
"My mother gave birth to me."
"Mom, mom, good mom."
His throat was choked with sobs, and he vaguely felt someone behind him saying, "Why did these dogs suddenly go crazy? Who is responsible?"
Li Ziyue's gaze passed through the ferocious black dogs and fell on the child standing at the edge.
The child stood behind the adult, holding the hem of the adult's shirt with both hands. He looked scared but his eyes were extremely cold. When he noticed Li Ziyue's gaze, he slightly curled up a mocking smile.
In an instant, Li Ziyue understood everything.
The owner of the underground space is not "me" at all, but the child in front of me who released the vicious dog but has been playing an innocent role - the child of the human trafficker.
"I" and my mother are two supporting characters in his script and only serve as an ornamental role.
The body of the child possessed by Li Ziyue died, but his spirit floated in the air, and he could hear the villagers talking.
"Alas, this cripple has a bad fate. He saved up most of his life to buy a wife, but she couldn't have children after she had a miscarriage. What's the use of a woman who can't have children? The cripple is kind-hearted. He locked her up there and occasionally sent her some food."
"Alas, what a good ending for a kind-hearted person! This time, the lame man sold the cow that helped him plow the land, and saved some money to buy a baby, hoping to have a child to carry on the family line, but he didn't expect that the baby would be bitten to death by a dog again."
The scholar stood there in a daze. Half an hour ago, he had talked to me. I didn't expect that I would encounter such a disaster as soon as he left.
"Good, what's good about it!" The scholar suddenly cursed, "What a jerk! If he doesn't buy it, how can this happen? If he doesn't buy it, won't the girl get married and have children normally? Will the little kid live well?"
He looked at everyone with great contempt: "You are really crazy!"
Everyone looked at the scholar with an indescribable strange look: "You've read a little bit of books, but you've become a pedantic person, a psychopath."
Everyone just laughed at him.
The cripple picked up my broken body bit by bit and put it into a fertilizer sack. The cripple brought the still bleeding human flesh into the kitchen.
Then, the sound of "bang bang bang" of cutting bones rang out in the night.
In the kitchen with yellowed dead grass piled outside, flies and mosquitoes were flying under the dim light. The lame man stood in front of the moldy chopping board, holding a sharp butcher knife in his hand.
With one cut after another, tiny pieces of flesh splattered on his face and body, and his expression was drowned in the darkness where the light could not reach.
The air was filled with a heavy smell of death.
The lame man ignored the woman, but the corpse would easily rot and stink in this hot and humid summer.
The people around felt sorry for the lame man and helped him dig a half-meter-deep pit behind the house. They chopped the woman's stiff body into two halves and stuffed the halves into the pit.
And after a few days, what no one expected was——
Li Ziyue's consciousness floating nearby couldn't help but be startled.
He took out the note that the system had given him earlier and held it in front of him.
[A large oval is drawn at the bottom, and a standard small circle is drawn just above the oval. ]
The scene in front of him is similar to this: a woman with her belly opened is buried in the loess at the bottom, and a man with his head hanging is hanged by the beam at the top.
The wind blew and the man turned his head.
Half of the face is lame, and half of the face is.
Scholar.
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