The girl crawled out of the room, hid in a secluded place, and poked out her little head to carefully observe the surrounding situation.
At night, the villagers who had been on the move earlier began to move around more frequently. Fortunately, she had grown up here and was familiar with the terrain, so she was not discovered in the cover of darkness.
The girl looked at the courtyard that the village chief had deliberately vacated. In the past, outsiders were placed in this place by the village chief, so An An should be here too.
She didn't want to lose this new friend, nor did she want her to disappear.
She groped around and actually managed to climb in through the window.
The girl called out in a low voice, as if she was afraid of being discovered, "An An? An An, are you here?"
In the darkness, Tang Anan, lying beside Chi Yanhuai, slowly opened her dark eyes. Her call pricked up the ears of everyone still awake in the room, alertly observing the girl's movements with their hearing.
Tang Anan stopped Chi Yanhuai from getting up and whispered in his ear, "I know him. Lie down first."
Chi Yanhuai also responded in a low voice: "Is it really okay?"
"Um."
"Go ahead, then. Be careful."
Tang Anan put the doll on the ground, her footsteps light and without making a sound, she quickly pulled the girl to her side and immediately covered her mouth.
He whispered, "Shh, the older brothers are still resting." Then he let go.
The girl, who was frightened by being suddenly dragged, relaxed after hearing Tang Anan's voice.
She was delighted: "An An!"
Tang Anan: "Keep your voice down."
The girl quickly covered her mouth, blinked her eyelashes, and whispered in her ear: "An An, I like being friends with you too."
Tang Anan raised her eyebrows slightly, her tone filled with surprise: "You came here in the middle of the night just to tell me this?"
The girl hurriedly shook her head. "No, it's not. An'an, I was worried that you'd leave without saying a word, too." She muttered softly, "Every time Mommy wants to lock me in the room, she goes out by herself at night."
"Then the next day, all the strangers who stayed here disappeared, as if they had never been there."
Tang Anan: "So?..."
The girl grabbed her hand and said, "An An, will you disappear too? Just like them?"
Tang Anan looked back at her with dark eyes, and after a while, he answered seriously, "No."
Her original intention of making friends was just to gain her trust temporarily so that she could find out more useful information.
But what she didn't expect was that this girl would go against her mother's orders and sneak out to find her just for this friend she had just met.
This surprised her a little.
"Can you tell me why they disappeared? Why did your mother treat you like this?" Tang Anan put his hand on the girl's thin shoulders and asked in a low voice.
The girl shook her head and said, "I can't say it." She held her hand tightly and said to her, "An An, why don't you come home with me? I'll beg your mother to let you stay, so that you won't disappear."
"Qiqi, I can't leave." Tang Anan refused awkwardly.
"Why?" Qiqi obviously couldn't understand why she didn't want to stay, and said, "Didn't An An say she wanted to be friends with me? Wouldn't it be good for you to stay here with me?"
"Qiqi." Tang Anan's hand gently rested on the back of her hand, and he said helplessly, "I also want to stay with you, but my brother is my only relative, and I don't want to leave him."
"Is that so..." Qiqi hesitated, "But mom might not agree."
"So, is something bad going to happen tonight?" In the darkness, Tang Anan's eyesight was also excellent. She stared closely at Qiqi's eyes, not missing a single emotional fluctuation of hers.
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