Chapter 3 I'll Take You Home
"Boss."
Seeing Li Ran's teasing mood, Lin Sangyu spoke again. Zhou Chen looked at him calmly and said, "Shut up."
This girl is not easy to mess with.
If he angered her again, he wasn't sure what the little girl could do.
"Second brother, over here."
Li Ran raised a crescent smile at the corner of her lips, and her eyes swept across Lin Sangyu, as if provoking, and as if deliberately showing off. Seeing that Lin Sangyu's face became more and more ugly, she turned around and walked away again.
The hem of her dress was too long, barely covering her hips, and it swayed slightly with every step she took.
At this time, the green grass in the dark night had all merged into the darkness. Zhou Chenshen followed her with a torch in his hand.
The light from the torch shone on her calves, which were thin but strong, neither white nor tender, but inexplicably made him look at them again and again.
A very powerful... little girl.
"arrive."
After walking a few dozen steps, Li Ran stopped. Zhou Chenshen stepped forward and handed her the torch, "Hold it for your brother."
"good."
The cold little girl became more well-behaved. Through the light of the torch, Zhou Chenshen saw the tenderness in her eyes.
His heart paused slightly, and he comforted her, "Don't be afraid, your brother is here."
Li Ran: ...
She was never afraid.
She was not afraid when she killed someone, and now that Grandpa Liu is buried in the grave, she is even less afraid.
"Come here, some of you, and dig up this mound of earth."
Under the light of the torch, there was a small raised mound of earth. It seemed that the burial was not very deep.
"Boss, let's do it."
Han Feng and Cheng Ye responded. They did not use any tools, but half-knelt in front of the raised grave mound and dug the soil bit by bit with their hands.
"Little girl, take the torch and stay away."
Zhou Chenshen said softly, he also half-knelt down and dug the soil with his hands.
Seeing this, the eyes of the others gradually turned red, and one after another, they gathered around... Seven people, seven pairs of hands, were digging the soil in front of them vigorously and carefully.
Except for Lin Sangyu, who did not step forward, Li Ran held a torch in his hand, and everyone went forward.
"elder brother……"
Seeing this scene, Li Ran was extremely shocked. Is this the belief and persistence that the people of country Z have engraved in their bones?
Even if the hostage they wanted to rescue had already become a corpse, they still wanted to bring him back with awe.
"I don't know your name yet. What's your name? Can you tell me, brother?"
Zhou Chenshen didn't look up. He was talking to Li Ran, but his movements had stopped quietly.
He dug up one of Professor Liu's hands.
The others also stopped.
Some of them dug up Professor Liu's body, and some dug up his face.
Everyone looked at Zhou Chenshen at the same time, quietly waiting for his next instruction.
"My name is Li Ran. Li means dawn, and Ran means burning everything. Brother, you can call me Ranran or my name."
Don’t call him second brother, call him elder brother.
My brother is more approachable.
"Okay, then let's call him Ranran. Ranran, you said that Grandpa Liu cared about you and loved you when he was alive... Look, he's going home now, and we can't leave him without any family around him. Come here and talk to Grandpa Liu. Tell him we're here to take him home."
Zhou Chenshen's voice was very soft, so soft that it could hardly be heard in the wind.
But it was also very heavy, so heavy that everyone bent over and their eyes were red.
They were all seven-foot-tall men. At this moment, their hearts were choked with sobs and they were so sad that they even stopped breathing.
"Boss, please invite Professor Liu first!"
Lin Sangyu whispered as she relit a torch in her hand to illuminate the world.
"I'll do it."
Li Ran handed the torch out and Zhou Chenshen reached out to take it. She squatted down with her small body, not minding the dirt, and cleaned the dirt off Professor Liu's face bit by bit.
"Grandpa Liu, I said I would take you home. I didn't break my promise. Here I am."
"Grandpa Liu, you told me that the country will not give up on you, nor will it give up on me, nor will it give up on any wanderer who wants to return home. I believe you."
"Grandpa, I'm here. I'm here to take you... home."
Despite his small body, he possessed great strength. It took him some time to wipe away all the sand and dirt on Professor Liu's face, finally revealing his kind face.
"Miss Li Ran, leave the rest to us."
Han Feng and the others' voices were hoarse. Professor Liu died for his country and was a figure who could be engraved on a monument.
"Then you better be careful. Grandpa Liu likes things to be clean."
Li Ran said, tears welling up in his eyes. Several people lowered their heads and swallowed back the sobs in their hearts. Zhou Chenshen shook Li Ran's hand and led him away. "Don't worry, we will take Professor Liu home."
His palms were warm. Li Ran pulled his wet clothes and silently moved closer to him.
The little girl is small and Zhou Chenshen is big. The two of them standing together look like a giant beast protecting its cub. It doesn't seem awkward, but rather particularly harmonious.
Lin Sangyu clenched the torch in her hand, with a chill in her drooping eyes.
At this time, she naturally would not seek trouble for herself. The most urgent thing was to take Professor Liu home.
"Brother, the bodies of those people were thrown in another direction. I'll take you there."
Li Ran turned around and walked away again, and Zhou Chenshen followed.
In the other direction opposite to Professor Liu, there were corpses scattered on the ground. A rough count showed that there were about forty or fifty of them.
They might have been dead for a few days. Many of the bodies had bite marks from wild beasts. Zhou Chenshen took a torch to explore and his face turned cold.
"How much is it in total?"
"Forty-eight."
"Are they all the Ace of Hearts people?"
"yes."
The torch swayed, and the rain hitting it did not extinguish it, but only made it sway slightly, and it seemed to be brighter.
Zhou Chenshen turned his head to look at the little girl beside him, Lin Fengsasa. She was so thin, but she was able to kill so many people.
"Can I ask, what is your role in the Ace of Hearts?"
Zhou Chenshen spoke in a very soft voice, fearing that he might ask the wrong question and startle her.
Her claws are very sharp, and if she has to deal with an emergency, he will have to put in some effort.
"They call me Young Master."
Li Ran said, "But I was picked up by my master. He raised me and then wanted to kill me."
Young... Master?!
A flash of lightning flashed through Zhou Chenshen’s mind, and he was struck by lightning in an instant.
Young Master!
He had always thought that the young master in the Ace of Hearts was a ruthless man. He might be very young, but he had killed people like crazy and his hands were stained with blood. He was an anti-human who deserved to die!
But now, what did he hear?
He heard Li Ran say the word "Young Master" with his own ears, and his first reaction was that he thought he was hallucinating.
How could the rumored demonic young master, a murderer with blood on his hands, be this skinny, starving girl with maggots crawling out of her foot wound?!
The contrast was so great that he was a little confused for a moment.
"Ranran, you're not some young master. You're just the only person who was kidnapped by the Ace of Hearts and luckily escaped. Remember this. No matter who you meet in the future, you must say this, okay?"
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