Chapter 21: Tube Building (Twenty-one) I’ll wait for you to grow up
[Did Shen Sinian go out early today?]
Wen Yin suddenly spoke.
[Yes, I left before daybreak, and only ran into a middle-aged man going to the bathroom on my way out.]
What is that man doing now?
[Host, he is sleeping in the room.]
Wen Yin stood up, put on a coat, and opened the door: "Let's go to the hospital."
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In the early morning, the streets are still dotted with countless small stalls and vendors, and the constant sounds of conversation and shouting make this old residential area extremely lively.
Wen Yin walked through the crowd alone, her gentle and beautiful appearance was out of place with the surrounding environment.
Along the way, it naturally attracted a lot of people's attention.
There were two women eating fried dough sticks at a stall in front of her, and their eyes fell on her.
"I heard she got married?"
It was an older woman who spoke first.
028 saw Wen Yin slowing down, and suddenly had an idea, so he took the initiative to increase the volume of the two people's conversation.
"Yes, Old Lady Zhang had already made inquiries. She's married, and her husband works nearby. They're just staying here temporarily."
The voice was slightly sharper, and the owner of the voice was slightly younger.
"I guess she's still trying to find a partner for her stupid son?"
"Don't you think about the fact that her son is stupid and old, how can he be worthy of such a beautiful girl?"
"Hey, I heard that old lady Zhang, seeing Song Wan single and raising her child, wanted to find a partner for her son."
"snort."
A sharp voice snorted coldly.
"You old bastard, you look kind and benevolent, but who knows how evil your heart is."
"Oh, how could Song Wan, so young, die in the wilderness..."
The older woman sighed.
"Luckily we moved out early. I think the atmosphere in that building is not right..."
"Should we remind this girl not to..."
After she finished speaking, the younger woman stuffed the remaining dough stick into her mouth.
"I'll secretly remind her someday. It's hard to tell her now because there are so many people around."
"Yeah, that's right."
After Wen Yin pretended to know nothing and walked past the two people's table, 028 immediately took credit for it.
[Host, am I smart?]
Wen Yin nodded softly.
[Host, it seems that they were also residents of this building before.]
[But they had moved away long ago.]
028 was a little confused: [But I remember that when the host asked the gambling neighbor last night why she didn't move out, she said...]
[She can't leave.]
Wen Yin's thoughts calmed down a little.
[People who have done bad things cannot be separated.]
[Even if... it's just a slander.]
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The outline of the health center appeared in Wen Yin's sight. Wen Yin did not go in, but found a shady place to sit down.
[028, you go in and find Shen Sinian first, I want to share your perspective.]
[Good host.]
028 had already cooperated very well with Wen Yin, and without asking any extra questions, he flew out immediately.
After finding Shen Sinian, 028 was fixed and connected to Wen Yin's perspective.
[Host, it's OK.]
Wen Yin nodded, and a neat treatment room appeared in her sight.
There were several beds in the treatment room, and Xiaotuan was sleeping on one of them.
Xiaotuan closed his eyes, breathing evenly, and his complexion looked much better than the pitiful look he had last night.
A young man in a white coat was sitting in front of the bed. From 028's hovering perspective, Wen Yin could see the sharp lines of the young man's profile.
The gentleness that he usually pretended to have was gone, and there was a sense of coldness, alienation and oppression.
It’s Shen Sinian.
He sat quietly in front of the bed, his eyes fixed on Xiaotuan's much thinner face.
I don’t know what he is thinking.
In the silence of the room, only the light blue curtains swayed slightly in the wind, indicating that this was not a frozen picture.
After a few minutes of silence, a nurse cautiously pushed open the door.
She was holding a nutritious breakfast in her hand: “Doctor Shen, do you think these are okay? There are porridge and noodles.”
Shen Sinian turned around, his cold expression instantly became gentle, with a smile in his eyes, he raised his hand to take the breakfast.
"Yes, thank you for your hard work."
The young nurse suddenly felt a little embarrassed. After all, Dr. Shen's appearance was too lethal.
"You're welcome, Dr. Shen."
The young nurse looked at the little ball on the bed, trying to change the subject while also feeling a little curious.
"Doctor Shen, whose child is this? Why aren't his parents here to accompany him?"
Shen Sinian still kept smiling and placed the breakfast in his hand on Xiaotuan's bedside.
"He...is the child of a relative of mine."
"My parents are gone."
"ah……"
The young nurse showed a slightly surprised expression and spoke with regret.
"He's still so young...how could he..."
"Wouldn't that make me an orphan..."
Shen Sinian paused while tucking the quilt for Xiaotuan, then turned around and looked at the nurse again.
The smile remained: "Okay, go and get busy, thank you for your hard work."
The young nurse exclaimed, then realized that she had said something wrong. She nodded quickly and retreated with her cheeks flushed.
Only Shen Sinian was left standing in front of the bed.
After a long while, the young man's still soft voice came, as if he was talking to himself.
"Without parents, I become an orphan."
"Tell me, is it better to be an orphan... or to go to heaven and become a star with her?"
Through 028's perspective, Wen Yin seemed to see a flash of confusion and helplessness in Shen Sinian's gentle eyes at that moment.
The expression on Xiaotuan's face was exactly the same as the one he had in her arms on the day he lost his mother.
Wen Yin was staring at Shen Sinian in a daze, and the young man in her perspective suddenly turned his head and looked directly at where 028 was.
Wen Yin, who was completely unprepared, met Shen Sinian's eyes, which had suddenly become sharp.
"Um?"
The young man tilted his head, and his dark eyes behind the lenses locked onto Wen Yin at that moment.
Wen Yin was startled, only to hear the other party speak softly and slowly.
"Who's there?"
[028, disconnect sharing and leave immediately.]
Wen Yin immediately gave the order, her eyes flickering for a while, and finally fixed on the movement of Shen Sinian reaching out.
[Host, we...were almost discovered?]
028 was still in shock at being caught red-handed by Shen Sinian.
[But I've sneaked a peek at him so many times before, and he never noticed me.]
[Since Ah Wu’s “weird” power can be strengthened, why can’t Shen Sinian’s…]
Wen Yin murmured.
[Ah, host, what should I do? As the strange power grows stronger, the difficulty of correction will increase exponentially.]
[And now we still don’t know which one is the true “weird” one…]
028's speech rate slowed down...
[They are all entities.]
Wen Yin suddenly said something.
[They are all based on the small ball, and are transformed into "weird" things.]
028Some people fail to understand the deep meaning of this.
[Then, host, are you going to correct these three one by one?]
[No, I just need to be there for the most important person.]
[who? ]
"Little group."
Wen Yin whispered the name.
"In this strangely contrived loop, they narrowly escaped certain death, representing their childhood... Little Group."
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When Wen Yin pushed open the door of the clinic, Shen Sinian disappeared.
Only the small group was left in the room.
Xiaotuan fell asleep peacefully. The dirt from last night had disappeared, and his face became clean and white again.
Looks like it's been carefully cleaned.
Wen Yin touched Xiaotuan's forehead and found that the temperature was normal and the scratches on his little hands had healed.
[Chen Sinian really kept his promise. He was able to save anyone who was given a bottle of sleeping pills.]
028 paused and spoke with some doubt.
[Then why didn't he rescue his mother.]
Wen Yin tidied up Xiaotuan's hair.
[Perhaps it is to gain more evil thoughts...]
[Only when Xiaotuan is trapped in helplessness, pain, and despair, can those who are transformed from Xiaotuan gain more and stronger strange powers in the same pain.]
Wen Yin spoke softly.
[Didn't you say that without outside interference, this small world would eventually become a slaughterhouse for weird creatures?]
This is their revenge.
[It started in the tube-shaped building and ended up completely destroying the world.]
[But... the speed at which this strange power is accumulating...]
028 thought of the corpses buried in the backyard and the newspapers piled up in the landlord's room.
[How many times must this same scene be repeated before I have the power to destroy everything...]
[How pitiful...]
"It's really pitiful," Wen Yin slid her fingers across Xiao Tuan's sleeping eyes, "Then let's help him, okay?"
[Change the endings of Xiaotuan and Song Wan in this cycle, even if they are already dead.]
[Um! ]
028 If there was a physical entity, it would definitely nod vigorously.
[besides……]
[what else? ]
The little girl's eyelids moved in her sleep, as if she was about to wake up.
[Also, to clear Song Wan's name.]
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The door of the clinic was pushed open, and Xiaotuan, who was sleeping, opened his eyes at the same time.
"Wen Yin."
"elder sister?"
The gentle voice of a young man overlaps with the tender voice of a child, and in a strange balance, they both flow into Wen Yin's eardrum.
Wen Yin ignored the young man behind her for the time being. She took the lead in holding Xiaotuan's hand that was stretched out to her, and carefully held Xiaotuan in her arms.
Xiao Tuanyuan stared at Wen Yin for a long time with her round eyes, without making a sound, but tears silently slid down her face, like beads with broken strings, and hit the back of Wen Yin's hand hard.
Until Wen Yin patted his little back soothingly.
"Cry, little Tuan. Little men can cry too."
Xiaotuan clutched Wen Yin's clothes tightly with her little hands, and finally, under Wen Yin's slow and gentle comfort, she burst into tears.
The tender and hoarse voice of a child immediately filled the entire treatment room.
Wen Yin didn't say anything more. She just patted Xiaotuan's back gently, letting the little boy's hot tears soak her clothes completely.
Until the boy's crying gradually became weaker and stopped, and he looked at her with his red eyes blinking.
"Sister, was it you who saved me?"
Wen Yin wiped the tears from Xiaotuan's face with her sleeve, and slightly turned sideways, revealing her slender figure that had been standing by the door since she entered.
"No, sister, sister is not that powerful."
She pointed to Shen Sinian at the door: “Xiao Tuan, look, he saved you.”
Xiaotuan looked towards the door with eyes red from crying.
A breeze blew by, blowing up Shen Sinian's pure white robe.
“Shen, Uncle Shen…?”
"Yes, if it weren't for Uncle Shen's amazing medical skills, Xiaotuan would really be in danger."
Wen Yin touched Xiaotuan’s soft black hair and picked him up.
"Uncle Shen took care of you all night and made Xiaotuan recover as before. Xiaotuan, go and thank Uncle Shen, okay?"
Xiaotuan hugged Wen Yin's shoulders blankly and nodded while sobbing.
"Sister...put me down, I'll go by myself."
"My mom taught me... that when you say thank you, you have to be sincere."
"Okay, then go by yourself."
The small ball was placed on the ground.
His small body was still trembling slightly from crying so hard, but after landing he walked forward like a real man.
Wen Yin watched Xiao Tuan walk in front of Shen Sinian, and her thin little body bent down and bowed deeply to the young man.
When he raised his body again, he gently pulled the young man's hand that was hanging by his side.
“Uncle Shen, thank you.”
Xiaotuan looked up at the young man who was looking down at him. His voice was still childish, but with a sincerity that no one could match.
"Thank you for saving me. When I grow up, I will definitely repay you..."
The young man didn't move, just let the little hand pull him. His dark and deep eyes hidden behind the lenses stared at the little boy who looked up at him without blinking.
The two, one big and one small, have completely different figures, but in Wen Yin's eyes, they reflect the same soul background.
After a long period of staring at each other, the narrow eyes behind the lenses finally blinked. He slowly squatted down and held the pair of tender little hands in return.
"Okay, I'll wait until you grow up."
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Xiaotuan was much stronger than Wen Yin had imagined. After she stopped crying, she took the initiative to eat breakfast.
He ate the food bite by bite and finished it all in no time.
After filling his stomach, Xiaotuan spoke to Wen Yin with his eyelids swollen like walnuts.
"Sister, I'm going to report the case."
His tone was firm, without a trace of hesitation, as if he had grown into a real boy overnight.
"Yesterday evening, I saw my mother's wallet in the hands of a mother-in-law."
"I followed her secretly, but she found me. She tied me up and took me to a strange place, and fed me a lot of pills."
"Then I passed out, but I remember her face."
"Sister, I'm going to report it to the police. That mother-in-law is the mother of the uncle who gambles in the building."
"She must have had something to do with my mother's death."
Xiaotuan barely managed to suppress the sob in his voice.
"Sister, I want to catch the bad guys and avenge my mother."
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