late Qing Dynasty

Chapter 30
"What is this sound? It sounds scary." Lan'er stood up and looked towards the entrance of the cave.

"You wait here, I'll go out and have a look."

I walked a few steps, and then slowed down, approaching the entrance of the cave bit by bit. In fact, I was also a little scared in my heart, for fear that it might be some ferocious beast.

It's just that I could already see what that 'thing' looked like when I was five meters away from the entrance of the cave.

To my surprise, the person standing at the entrance of the cave turned out to be a little boy of fourteen or fifteen years old, and, judging by his appearance, he was probably a wolf boy.

"Can you understand me?" I asked tentatively.

After hearing what I said, the little boy immediately drove towards me, pointed into the cave, and stammered, "My...home, you, bad guy..."

I immediately waved my hand to signal him not to be afraid, "We are not bad people, we are just passing by, don't worry, we will not hurt you."

I was really glad that this little boy could talk. It seemed that he was not completely divorced from human society.

"Really?" He looked at me half-believingly, but still refused to step forward.

I nodded, and took out the only dry food left on my body from my pocket, "Look, I'll give you something delicious, let's be friends."

In a panic, I casually took it down from the carriage. It seems that it really came in handy.

The little boy immediately ran towards me happily when there was something to eat, and snatched the thing from my hand, "Friend, eat."

"Can you tell me why you live here?" I watched the little boy gobble up something and asked softly.

I never took any action, for fear of shocking this child. I think this child is a microcosm of modern society, and the Chinese people are in dire straits.

"Bad guy." The little boy whimpered and uttered a few sounds as he wolfed down the food.

I guessed that something happened to the family and the child fled here by himself.

"Eat slowly, don't rush."

I watched the child swallow the jujube wholeheartedly, and I was really afraid that he would choke on me.

"What's going on? Who is it?"

At this time, Lan'er came out from inside, looking at our direction curiously.

"Bad man!"

The little boy yelled, and quickly ran towards Lan'er, as if he wanted to attack her.

"careful!"

I yelled in a hurry, and immediately threw Lan'er to the ground. We rolled around on the ground before stopping.

"Are you okay?" I stared at Lan'er, my heart almost jumped out of my throat.

Lan'er shook her head in a daze, then pointed at me who was on top of her, "You just pushed me down."

It was only then that I reacted belatedly, and hurriedly got up from Lan'er, "Sorry, I just happened to follow the authority."

I pulled Lan'er up, then turned and walked towards the little boy, who still stared at Lan'er with hostility on his face.

"Don't be afraid, she is not a bad person, she is with my brother, we will not hurt you." I tried to stabilize the little boy's emotions, and then tried to find a way to draw our relationship closer.

I want to make him trust me in a short time, so that I can take him out of here and live a normal life.

"Are you hungry, I still have something to eat here."

Lan'er took out some snacks from her cloth bag and handed them to the little boy.

The little boy glanced at me hesitantly, and when he saw me nodding, he took it and started to gobble it up. It seemed that he still had a certain amount of trust in me.

"It's getting late, should we go down the mountain and have a look first?" I suggested.

Lan'er walked to the entrance of the cave, looked at the sun outside, and then came back, "Let's wait a little longer, I'll leave a few numbers along the way, Ling'er and Mei Shuang will find them."

"That's fine, maybe we'll meet those killers when we go out now." I responded to Lan'er, then looked at the little boy again, "You live here, right?"

The little boy nodded and looked at me timidly.

"It's okay, we won't hurt you." I comforted him, and then asked tentatively, "Would you like to leave here with us?"

The little boy shook his head immediately, as if he was afraid of something, he kept shrinking back.

"Don't worry, with me here, no one will dare to bully you, and after we get out, we will have a lot of delicious food." I continued to lead.

After hearing my words, the little boy seemed to be a little moved, and there was a look of eagerness in his eyes.

"Zhongzheng, I just saw that this kid is agile, he should be a martial artist." Lan'er speculated.

I waved my hand and said, "It doesn't matter if you practice martial arts or not, you should first find a way to get him out of here and let him live a normal life."

"That's right, it's just that, judging by the child's appearance, he is extremely wary of strangers, as if he has encountered some major accident."

"I guess it's the same. Now that the current situation is turbulent, ordinary people don't have a stable life." I said with a sigh.

Lan'er stood aside silently and didn't say anything more.

"Inside, inside." The little boy pointed to the inside of the cave, then took my arm and walked towards it, as if there was something he wanted to show me.

(End of this chapter)