Chapter 235: Scene 22 (Inverted V) Fortunately, we never...
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"Little doll—"
"Hey, here I come!"
"You're so slow, be careful or I won't care about you anymore."
"Jiang Ruoshi, Dean Jiang, you are the best. How could you leave a little one like me in a place like this?" He Yuezhe put away Yuan Yang's petri dish, hugged Jiang Ruoshi's arm, climbed onto her shoulder, sat down, and said coquettishly with a smile.
"Enough, enough! It's so sticky and disgusting!" Jiang Ruoshi showed a disgusted expression, but the corners of her mouth couldn't hide the upward curve. She asked, "Did you come down here just to see that little boy?"
"Yeah." He Yuezhe nodded. "Don't you think he's quite pitiful? He's so young, and he's already delivering food all by himself. Oh, how pitiful."
She propped up her face, looking at the boy who had repaired his bicycle into a weird shape and couldn't get off. She poked Jiang Ruoshi's face and said, "Jiang Ruoshi, you can build a bicycle, so you should be able to repair it, right?"
"Why, you want me to help him fix his car? I don't have time."
"No, I just want to ask you, how good is this kid's car repair skills?"
"What do you think of being able to repair a bicycle into a dinosaur?"
“…Oh, I see. Haha.”
"He's certainly interesting, though." Jiang Ruoshi changed the subject, walked over and lifted the squirming boy down from the car. "Little boy, why are you working alone? It's very dangerous here."
"Jiang Ruoshi, don't be impulsive."
"Don't worry, I don't have that idea. They don't look down on such a 'happy' child. I just want to help him."
"Uh, ah, I..." The boy was carried down and stood on the ground, a little at a loss for a moment.
"Hard on the outside but soft on the inside." He Yuezhe said, "Hehe" when he heard that.
Jiang Ruoshi loosened his shoulders and gave He Yuezhe a hard push, causing He Yuezhe to almost fall down.
"Hey, Jiang Ruoshi, you——"
"Little boy, your car won't be repaired for a while. Do you want to come with us? We can take you there after we're done."
The boy gave a polite smile and said, "No, er, Auntie, I have something else to give you."
Jiang Ruoshi raised an eyebrow. "Since you have other things to deliver, why did you choose this one to Mass Grave? My friend, the delivery to Mass Grave doesn't pay much and the journey is long. It takes a lot of time to get to and from the city. If you really want to support yourself with this job, you should think twice before accepting a job that's not worth it and loses money."
"……No."
"Um?"
"No, Auntie, I'm not here just to deliver food," the boy pulled the hem of his clothes with both hands, pinching it until the hem of his clothes was wrinkled, and his little face was wrinkled too, "I, I want to come to the mass grave to take a look."
"What do you want to see? Little boy, this place is full of living dead."
"Well, I can't say any more."
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"Aunt?"
"Nothing. Since you don't want to talk about it, then forget it. Auntie has other things to do, so I have to go now."
"Goodbye, little friend." He Yuezhe then waved to the boy.
"Goodbye..." The boy also waved.
"Goodbye." After the two finished talking, Jiang Ruoshi stood up, smiled at the boy, and walked towards the car.
Next to the car, children were queuing up with bags of things in their hands. Jiang Ruoshi walked over, stood in front of the children, and cleared his throat.
"Ahem, kids," she pulled three small shield-shaped objects from her pocket and handed them to the three children standing in the front row. "The rules are the same as before. Go in three by three. Each group will have ten minutes. I'll be waiting for you outside. This doll will accompany you in. If you have any problems, tell her and she'll help you."
"Okay, Dean Jiang—" the children answered in unison.
"Well, then the three of you go in first and find someone first. Don't stay too long and be careful."
"Okay, Dean Jiang," Li Han was standing at the front. She was still wearing her cloak and said in a sweet tone, "We will protect ourselves!"
"Hey, Hanhan, just don't cause trouble." Standing behind her was Yue Jie, and he was still harsh in his words.
The third one was a girl He Yuezhe didn’t know. She looked like glass, with skin so clear that one could even see the blood vessels and bones inside.
She sighed, looked at the two of them and shook her head: "I just hope that what happened before won't happen again."
Jiang Ruoshi smiled when he heard this and led the three of them to the mass grave.
In front of the mass grave, a woman covered in colorful strips of cloth saw the group approaching and said coldly, "This is a mass grave. No one except the living dead is allowed to enter."
"Oh, hey, why are you wearing so little? Aren't you cold? Here, put this on yourself." Jiang Ruoshi took out a colorful scarf from his pocket and draped it over the woman, patting her worriedly. "It's cold out here. People are different as they get older. They need to wear more clothes, otherwise they'll easily catch a cold or a fever, and then..."
"Alright, hurry in." The woman waved her hand impatiently, pointing at the three children. "If you don't come out within five minutes, you'll end up like the people inside."
"Hey, hey, it's still ten minutes. I'll wait for you at the door!"
"Only five minutes!"
"Ten minutes, remember!"
"I told you it would only take five minutes!!!"
"Ten minutes, ten minutes, really ten—"
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As Jiang Ruoshi and the woman's voices gradually faded away, Yue Jie cautiously touched the glass girl's shoulder and asked softly, "Hey, Li Zi, what's the relationship between that woman and the dean? They always quarrel every time we come here. Are they enemies?"
"Not an enemy." The girl called "Chestnut" shook her head.
"What is that?" Yue Jie asked.
"I can't tell you." said Chestnut.
"Why!" Yue Jie was sad.
"Because she said if I told her she would use my body to drink the drink." Chestnut said calmly.
"Fill it with drinks?!" Yue Jie's eyes widened in shock. "Isn't this too interesting?!"
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"Yuejie, haven't you taken your medicine? Why do you keep talking like that lately?!" Li Han glared at Yuejie fiercely. "If I were Li Zi, I'd slap you in the face right now! It's only because Li Zi has a good temper!"
"Wow, whose hand is this on my face?"
"chestnut?!"
"It's just a hand. If it's broken, it's broken."
Li Zi looked at his severed right hand indifferently and smiled at Li Han: "Hanhan, I'm going to the right. Let's meet up here later."
In her other hand she held a basket filled with food, water, and some strange things.
"Oh, oh, okay." Li Han waved his hand, "See you later."
"See you later!" Yue Jie covered his face and waved.
"Okay, see you later." Li Zi walked towards the fork in the road on the right.
He Yuezhe sat on Li Han's shoulders, watching Li Zi walk away. She could feel the strangeness of the girl's bones beneath her, but, well, the weird thing was, she actually felt that sitting like this would be more comfortable...
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The sky had completely darkened. With the help of the small lanterns held by Li Han and Yue Jie, He Yuezhe could barely see the living dead piled up like small hills in the mass grave. The stench was overwhelming, and all kinds of rotten organs fell to the ground. Occasionally, when they were stepped on, they made "puffing" sounds and screams, and blood spurted out, but they were still moving.
Li Han and Yue Jie both seemed a little scared. They held the badges on their clothes tightly and didn't say anything.
"Hey," He Yuezhe then brought up the topic, "How did you find the person you were looking for among so many people?"
"Yes, it's Telepathy," Yue Jie replied. "Did Dean Jiang ever tell you that we were all child employees at the 'Nursery'? The manager gave us the ability to find our guardians anytime, anywhere. It's this Telepathy that allows us to find our guardians no matter how far away they are. It's also because of this ability that we can share our lives, so they didn't die immediately."
"'Not died directly'...have they all been near death before?" He Yuezhe was a little confused.
Yue Jie nodded. "Of course, they didn't take good care of us, so they were killed immediately by the steward. But Dean Jiang happened to come at that time, and our [Telepathy] hadn't been released in time, so they didn't die."
"..." After a moment's silence, He Yuezhe continued, "Dean Jiang told me that you came looking for them because you felt guilty that they died because of you. Is this true?"
"It's fake," Yue Jie replied. "Although we are just children, we know what is good and what is bad. We can sense who is truly kind to us, like Dean Jiang. We can also sense who is afraid of us and even wants to escape from us or kill us, like most of our guardians."
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"And if it weren't for those guardians, the steward wouldn't have lost money, and we wouldn't have been in this situation."
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"Using a needle, they injected that disgusting, sticky drug into my bloodstream, one tube at a time. Then, I was locked up in a dark place, slowly turning into a monster. I felt the pain and wanted to die, but I couldn't commit suicide because of [telepathy]."
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"Every day we ate leftovers, low-quality, poisonous food picked up from the garbage, drank bitter potions, and slept on a single wooden bed. The slightest movement would cause the bedmaster to creak and the guard would get angry. Then we would be beaten more and more, and given less and less food."
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"But fortunately, we are never alone."
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“Unity is strength!”
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"Oh! Unity is strength!"
"This is a variation of Yue Jie's. He's foul-mouthed and will uncontrollably say things that are offensive or that make you think he's mentally ill." Li Han covered Yue Jie's mouth and explained, "He probably didn't take his medicine these past few days, so don't bother with him."
"oh oh."
"As for my mutation, you should have felt it too. It's bone hyperplasia. But maybe it's because I'm quite powerful. I can control the location and extent of the bone hyperplasia, just like now. How about it? Pretty comfortable, isn't it?"
"So that's how it is," He Yuezhe nodded, "Very comfortable, thank you."
"You're welcome. This is what I should do!" Li Han was so praised that the corners of his mouth curled up to the sky.
"Hey, Xiaohan Xiaohan, I think I found it!"
Before the others could take a few more steps, Yue Jie stopped in front of a hill of the living dead.
He dragged a man out of the hill with a "hey whoosh hey whoosh" sound.
He Yuezhe saw at a glance the countless wounds on the man's body, cut by knives, burned by fire, and torn apart, as if he had been abused countless times.
——The wounds on his body clearly came from the kitchen knife that Yue Jie brought.
“…” He Yuezhe looked at Yue Jie.
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