Chapter 237: Scene 24 (Inverted V) Still young, should have…
"...Ah." The woman in the cloth sighed helplessly.
"Children, be careful in there. If you have any problems, tell the doll and she will help you!" Jiang Ruoshi said to the children walking in. Hearing this, he turned his head and looked at the woman, "Do you agree? Do you agree?!"
"What can I do if I don't agree?" said the woman.
"Disagree? Uh, if you don't agree..." Jiang Ruoshi thought for a moment, "It seems there's nothing I can do."
"So where's the thing you brought me? You didn't forget it, did you?"
"How is that possible! I have a great memory. Come, I'll give it to you right away!"
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"Hey, so the woman guarding this mass grave is Dean Jiang's daughter. She looks so powerful!" A girl, smelling of fruit, said with twinkling eyes, holding her companion's hand. "If I could become that powerful, wouldn't they be able to bully me?"
"Yes, yes." The girl she was holding had long arms and legs. She half-knelt, smiled, and gently touched the fruity girl's head. "So, Xiaoguo, you have to work hard."
"Yes! Sister Shu, Xiaoguo will work hard!" The girl called "Xiaoguo" nodded.
"Xiaoguo, Xiaoguo, look what this is?" At the side, another girl who looked normal opened her palm, and in the center of her palm, there was a rag doll.
"Yes, it's the doll!" Xiaoguo's eyes widened and she happily hugged the girl, "Lingling, I love you!"
"Hey, stop, stop, stop!" Lingling was almost thrown to the ground by her hug. Fortunately, Sister Shu supported her in time. "Xiaoguo, this is a reward for your hard work, so--"
"Oh, I know. I will work hard to train and try to get the reward as soon as possible!" Although Xiaoguo said this, his eyes kept drifting towards the rag doll involuntarily.
Sister Shu smiled and said, "That's because Lingling dotes on you."
"Sister Shu, Sister Shu, I, I also made one for you..."
“This one is so cute too!”
"I don't need it, Lingling, you keep it for yourself."
“Okay, okay…”
The rag doll made by Lingling is neither pretty nor cute. It has two creepy big eyes, a mouth that stretches from ear to ear, and extremely distorted body proportions.
But Xiaoguo likes it very much, very, very much.
When Jiang Ruoshi was in the car, he had already told He Yuezhe about several children who needed special attention, and Xiaoguo was one of them.
Xiaoguo's mutation is the smell of fruit. Her whole body will emit the smell of fruit. This smell is difficult for normal people to smell, but for some monsters, people with the same mutation, and these zombies, the smell of fruit is simply a fatal attraction.
According to Jiang Ruoshi, every time Xiaoguo came out of the mass grave, he would faint and be covered in wounds. After waking up, he would just smile and say that nothing was wrong with him. He kept silent about what happened in the mass grave.
Soon, Xiaoguo took He Yuezhe, Sister Shu and Lingling apart and walked deeper into the cave alone.
"La la la, la la la, la la, la la la la..." Xiaoguo jumped and hummed a song.
"...Xiaoguo," He Yuezhe called out, "Are you in a good mood?"
"Of course! Even though other friends say their guardians are really bad, Xiaoguo's guardian is very kind to Xiaoguo. Xiaoguo is most looking forward to meeting her!"
"I see."
"Yes! Xiaoguo loves guardians the most!"
“…”
"Xiaoguo's guardian always prepares delicious food for Xiaoguo, treats Xiaoguo warmly, and gently touches Xiaoguo's head and hugs Xiaoguo. Xiaoguo really, really likes her!"
“…”
"Hey, I found it."
Xiaoguo used her hands to carry a "sculpture" out of the pile of zombies. She was obviously struggling to hold the "sculpture" which was several heads taller than her, but she did not give up.
"Guardian, guardian," Xiaoguo said, "Xiaoguo is here to see you."
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The "sculpture" slowly opened its eyes.
"Xiaoguo, you did a great job." The "sculpture" didn't open its mouth, but the voice came into He Yuezhe's ears.
"Um!"
"Xiaoguo, come, come."
Xiaoguo went forward obediently.
Then……
“Crack!”
"Good boy, I believe in you, you will succeed."
Xiaoguo's neck was broken.
Blood gushed out.
Overly sweet fruity scent.
"Mmm, so sweet, so sweet."
"Xiaoguo," He Yuezhe said in disbelief. She held Xiaoguo's head and asked, "Is your guardian a sculpture?"
"No," Xiaoguo was still able to speak, "I turned her into a sculpture."
"What?"
"Puppet, I just discovered a while ago that my guardian is actually my sister."
Xiaoguo unexpectedly had a strange smile on her face: "Sister, sister, don't leave me, I won't let you die, Xiaoguo wants to be with you forever, we are family, we can't be separated..."
“So sweet, so sweet…”
"Xiao Guo, the dead cannot be resurrected. Even if you really resurrected her, she would only become a body without her own thoughts. She won't..."
"Xiaoguo knows." Xiaoguo's body was stained with blood, but she still stood there, blood dripping onto the soil and the "sculpture". "Xiaoguo knows, Xiaoguo has always known."
"But, but, Xiaoguo just wants to have a..."
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"family……"
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"elder sister……"
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"elder sister……"
In fact, the sculpture cannot speak, and the sculpture is not Xiaoguo's sister. It is Xiaoguo herself who speaks. Xiaoguo's sister is just another personality of hers.
But when she broke her own neck and watched the blood flow out, Xiaoguo, this child, her lifeless eyes told He Yuezhe again and again that she seemed to have lost hope in this world long ago.
I dragged Xiaoguo, who was covered in blood and fainted, to the fork in the road and handed him over to Sister Shu and Lingling. I watched them anxiously carry Xiaoguo back to the car.
Next, groups of children entered the mass grave.
The children, who are still young and should be growing vigorously, are walking among the living dead, killing their past again and again in the dim light.
In fact, most of them have long despaired of life, but perhaps it is the hatred from the past, or perhaps it is the company of friends that keeps them alive like the walking dead.
However, their spirit of collapse and reconstruction makes them abnormal.
According to He Yuezhe's observation, except for those who joined the nursery halfway, such as Chen Shu and Ban Weile, among the remaining 109 children from the nursery, there were four with autism, nine with mania, thirteen with split personality, twenty-five with schizophrenia, thirty-one with obsessive-compulsive disorder, fifty-six with anxiety disorder, and eighty-two with depression. Among them, some children suffered from multiple symptoms at the same time.
These mental illnesses are not uncommon in cities. People are bound to collapse in a high-pressure and high-risk environment, but they are clearly just children. They should have a happy childhood and grow up well.
It’s just that their past was too painful, so painful that perhaps they will need their entire lives to heal.
"Dean Jiang! We're back!"
“…” Following the last group of children out of the mass grave, He Yuezhe jumped off his shoulder in silence.
"Hey, the last group is back." Jiang Ruoshi was sitting on a small bamboo chair, leaning against the cloth-striped woman, taking a nap. When he heard the children's voices, he immediately stood up and said, "Okay, hey, get in the car."
"Get in the car! Yeah!"
"You three are so slow!"
"How could I be slow? It was really fast, and I even picked up a lot of fun things!"
"Hey, let me see!"
"Here, this robot, look, it's like this, like this, and then..."
"Wow! It turned into a car! How cool!"
"Yeah, yeah! Humph, call me boss and I'll let you play with me!"
"Boss, boss! You are my boss forever!"
"Then I'll let you play with it reluctantly."
"Thank you, Boss!"
"Okay, kids, sit tight, fasten your seat belts, we're going home!"
"good--"
Jiang Ruoshi drove very steadily, and soon the children all fell asleep.
"Hum, hum, hum..." There was a tape recorder in the car, which recorded children's singing. Jiang Ruoshi hummed the tune along with the somewhat unclear singing.
"Just take a nap. It's still some time to get home from here." She glanced at He Yuezhe who was sitting next to her and watching her drive without sleeping, and said casually.
He Yuezhe just stared at her without saying anything.
"Why are you looking at me?" Jiang Ruoshi scratched his face in embarrassment.
He Yuezhe wrapped the colorful silk scarf tightly around her body: "You..."
"If you have something to say, just say it."
"Why is your daughter working at a mass grave?"
"Uh, how do I put this..."
Jiang Ruoshi scratched his face again: "She had experienced some things before, and later she could only move around in the mass grave, so she just worked there."
"What is it?"
"To put it simply, she made a small mistake at work and was caught by them. She was then taken to the Enforcement Bureau. She finally got out, but was seriously injured again. I used tokens to buy medicine to keep her alive. Then one day, when I returned home, I saw a note she left. On it, she wrote that she didn't want me to suffer so much. Before I could finish reading it, blood oozed out of her room. I went in and saw that she had swallowed a razor blade and committed suicide."
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"I was stupid at the time. I was so scared that I just froze there until the fire started behind me and the firefighters rushed in and took us away."
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"If I hadn't stood there in shock, perhaps I would have realized that she wasn't dead yet. I might have been able to give her some relief, or even save her."
“…”
"Unfortunately, it had already happened. After that, she was thrown into a mass grave by the hospital."
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"She managed to survive by picking up garbage for food and wearing the people's rags, but because she had the marks of the mass grave on her body, she had no way to leave the mass grave."
"As for what happened later, they found her and made her guard the gate of the mass grave."
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"It was a long time before I discovered her. By then, she had almost forgotten me. She was terrifying, like a wild beast, not a normal person."
"I recognized her the moment I saw her. I couldn't believe I had left her to survive alone in this hellhole for so long."
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"After that, I came to see her every day until..."
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