"Ye Xiaojin, Ye Xiaoyu, if you hear anything, just answer it!"
"Popo, Popo, where are you? I'm here to find you!"
Qiao shouted and looked around.
Everyone didn't dare to disperse too far, in case someone accidentally got lost and they would have to go look for them again.
"Wow, wow, wow, what should I do? Someone come and save us!"
In the forest not far from the crowd, Popo sat in front of a pit, wiping away tears heartbrokenly.
"Popo, Popo, where are you?"
"Ye Xiaojin, Ye Xiaoyu——"
Suddenly, the voices of adults shouting reached his ears, and Popo was shocked, "This... this is..."
Mother's voice!
"Mom! Mom! Popo is here!"
Enduring the pain in his body, Popo forced himself to stand up and shout. The trembling voice of the child echoed in the empty mountain forest, spreading to the surroundings again and again.
Tears were already welling up in Qiao's eyes. Popo, where had her Popo gone?
"Mom, Popo is here!"
In the darkness, a familiar childish voice surrounded Qiao. The woman who was almost in despair suddenly had a bright vision before her eyes, and then she ran towards the source of the sound.
Behind him, the vast darkness swallowed up other light sources.
Qiao, who was only concerned about Popo, did not notice that the distance between her and Jiang Xueying and her group was gradually widening.
"Popo, where are you? Mom is looking for you!"
Qiao responded to his son, raising his voice in an attempt to attract Popo's attention.
Popo naturally heard his mother's call, and he cried and shouted, "Here! Mom, Popo is here..."
She staggered several times and her arms and clothes were torn by tree branches, but Qiao was still unaware of it and only wanted to find her son.
Finally, she followed the sound to a pit.
The torch in her hand emitted a faint light, and in the light, her Popo stood there in tattered clothes, with tears streaming down her face.
"Mother! Mother!"
The child seemed to be quite frightened. He just kept calling for his mother, and tears and snot flowed unconsciously.
Qiao was shocked, angry and distressed. She stuck the torch into the ground and hugged the child's thin body.
"You kid, why don't you go home so late?"
"Where have you been? Why are you covered in wounds?"
After a careful inspection, Qiao discovered the injuries on his son's body.
"Where are Xiaojin and Xiaoyu?"
Didn’t Madam’s children go into the mountains with Popo? Why can’t we see them?
Qiao looked around, but there was still no sign of Ye Xiaojin and Ye Xiaoyu. A bad thought emerged in his mind.
"They, they... wow!"
It would have been fine if I hadn't asked, but when I did, Popo cried even more sadly.
Qiao suppressed her anxiety and asked softly, "Tell me, where are they? What's going on?"
“There! Ye Xiaojin and Ye Xiaoyu are there! It’s Popo’s fault that he failed to protect them and caused them to fall into the cave!”
Qiao held the torch close to Popo and looked in the direction of his finger.
The dark cave entrance looked like a bloody mouth of a wild beast, opening wide to swallow everything.
Qiao's heart suddenly skipped a beat, "I'll be there right away!"
"Popo, wait here for me. I must find Ye Xiao and Xiao Yu!"
The lady's two children disappeared when they went into the mountains with her son. No matter what, she had to find the two children for the lady.
"Well! Be careful, mom! Popo is not going anywhere. He is waiting for you here."
On the other side, Jiang Xueying, holding a torch, gradually moved away from the crowd and walked alone in the deep mountains shrouded in darkness.
In her previous life, she was a gold medal killer who could protect herself when faced with danger and was fearless at all.
The light from the torch in her hand could only illuminate a small area in front. Thanks to Jiang Xueying's sharp eyesight, she soon found a piece of torn cloth under a stone in the firelight.
He walked over, picked up the clothes and identified them carefully. They were exactly the clothes Ye Xiaojin was wearing!
"Who is that? The fallen leaves on the ground have traces of being stepped on. There's no doubt about it. It must be Ye Xiaojin and Ye Xiaoyu!"
After searching the area where the clothes were found, Jiang Xueying quickly locked on a direction.
As I went deeper, a barely audible cry lingered in my ears.
The night wind brought Ye Xiaojin's faint cry for help, "Someone come and save us——"
"Xiao Jin, is that you?"
Jiang Xueying called out in response, the woman's clear and hearty voice drifted away with the wind and came to Ye Xiaojin's side.
In the pitch-dark pit, the terrified Ye Xiaojin and Ye Xiaoyu suddenly shuddered and cried hoarsely, "Mom, it's us! We are here!"
In a short while, Jiang Xueying followed the sound and came to the pit.
Looking at the darkness ahead, Jiang Xueying took out a rope with a hook from the space, fixed the hook on the tree, tied the other side around her waist, held the torch in one hand, and went down to the bottom of the pit with difficulty.
"Tsk, it's a bit inconvenient to move with one hand, but fortunately my body has gotten much better after training."
Jiang Xueying frowned, and the light of the torch in her hand fluctuated with her movements.
The pit was not very deep, about the height of a modern three-story building, but for two children, it would be impossible to climb out without the help of adults if they fell in.
Jiang Xueying quickly went down to the bottom of the pit. As soon as her shoes touched the dead branches and leaves at the bottom of the pit, Ye Xiaojin and Ye Xiaoyu pounced on her.
"Woo woo, mom you're finally here, we thought we'd never see you again!"
"My body hurts so much, I miss my mom so much!"
"Okay, it's okay. Mom will take you upstairs right away."
After spending some time together, Jiang Xueying became more and more adept at taking care of the two children. Who could have imagined that in her previous life she was a killer who knew nothing about children!
Jiang Xueying brought the brother and sister to the pit one after another. She wiped away their tears and checked their injuries. Fortunately, they were just scratches and no bones were broken.
"Okay, stop crying. Mom is here. Everything is fine."
"Tell mother, where is Popo?"
Ye Xiaojin sniffed hard, then he remembered that he hadn't seen Popo who came with them.
"I don't know. My sister and I accidentally fell into a pit. We were stuck on the top and couldn't get down. We asked him to go back and look for you..."
The child, still frightened, spoke intermittently. Jiang Xueying finally understood what he meant. Following their instructions, she led them to find the slope on the other side of the pit.
In the darkness, the child's thin body trembled.
Jiang Xueying came over with a torch and saw Popo sitting there at a glance.
"Why are you alone? Popo, didn't your mother find you?"
"Mom found me, but she went down there alone to look for... Hey? Ye Xiaojin and Ye Xiaoyu, why are you here?"
Popo quickly discovered the two small figures behind Jiang Xueying and his eyes widened in disbelief.
Jiang Xueying looked in the direction that Popo pointed. The darkness there was still quiet and eerie. It was the place they had just come up from. It seemed that Qiao should have listened to Popo and gone to look for the two children!
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