Desperate Night

"Yiyi."

"Yiyi."

A faint call woke the little girl on the bed from her sleep.

Dark night.

In a small square bedroom, a little girl with long black hair was sleeping on a yellow wooden bed.

The gray quilt covered her shoulders, vaguely revealing the lotus root lace of her nightdress that had been washed white.

The little girl was only seven or eight years old, with a delicate face, a slightly high nose bridge, and two red pimples on her chin. He seems to be at the age when he is just starting to become sensible.

Hearing the sound, she slowly opened her eyes from her sleep, straightened her upper body, and looked around.

The room was dark, with only a little moonlight coming in from the window, dimly illuminating the end of the bed.

At the end of the bed.

There.

A black figure stood there.

The figure's upper body was dark, and his face was blurry.

But I could feel that she was watching the little girl quietly.

"Mother?"

The little girl asked cautiously.

She held the quilt tightly with both hands, her expression was tense, and she vaguely felt something was wrong.

There was silence all around, except for her voice, which was particularly harsh and eye-catching, echoing slightly in the room.

"Remember, Yiyi, no matter what sound you hear, you must hide in the secret altar. Don't come out until the white stone turns black."

The figure whispered.

"Ten million."

"Don't come out"

After saying that, she slowly turned around and silently walked towards the door step by step.

The wooden door opened silently, and the darkness outside seemed to welcome her, and soon swallowed her completely.

"Mom!!" The little girl seemed to have a premonition of something. She suddenly opened the quilt and stood up to chase after her.

Bang! ! !

A loud noise, accompanied by a huge vibration, rang in her ears.

Hiss! ! !

The little girl opened her eyes suddenly, raised her chest from the bed, and took a deep breath.

It just turned out to be a dream.

Her eyes were frightened, her pupils dilated, and her consciousness slowly woke up from her groggy dream.

Bang! !

There was another loud noise.

The whole room seemed to be shaking and shaking.

The wooden door of the room shook violently, and there were knocking sounds one after another, as if there was a giant beast crashing wildly outside.

Bang! Bang! Bang! !

The huge impact seemed to shatter the wooden door completely.

Small cracks are slowly appearing and spreading on the surface of the wooden door.

The little girl suddenly came back to her senses and recalled the voice she had just heard in her dream.

"Mom." She didn't know why, tears suddenly filled her eyes, and an indescribable pain arose in her heart.

But when she heard the loud noise and recalled what she had just said, she lifted the quilt, jumped out of bed, and glanced at the movement of the wooden door.

Click!

The wooden door was suddenly broken open, and broken wood shards flew inward and landed on the brown muddy ground.

The little girl was covered in hair, her heart was beating violently, her face was pale, she quickly bent over and got under the bed.

She crawled under the bed a few times, found a hidden black mud board, grabbed the ring, and pulled it upwards with difficulty.

Under the mud slab was a small square space just big enough for her to curl up.

In the space, the four walls are inlaid with white stones of different sizes.

These stones have different shapes, but they all have one thing in common, that is, a complex red symbol is engraved on the surface.

The little girl quickly got in, covered her head with a mud board, and the surrounding area fell into darkness. Then she hid in the small space tremblingly, huddled tightly, and listened to what was going on outside.

The strange thing is that after she hid in, the crashing sound outside completely disappeared.

It was as if what she had just heard was an illusion.

Quiet.

No sound.

The only sound around was her own breathing.

The little girl covered her mouth tightly, fearing that her breathing would be too loud and something outside would notice her.

The great fear and fatigue caused by tension slowly invaded her petite body.

As the time goes.

Slowly, the girl fell asleep.

I don’t know how much time has passed.

An hour, maybe two hours.

"Yiyi." A familiar call woke the little girl from her sleep.

She moved her body, as if she wanted to make herself more comfortable.

"Yiyi?"

"Yiyi, where are you? Mom is back."

The faint sound from outside came again.

Gentle and familiar.

The fear in the little girl's heart seemed to be alleviated a lot after sleeping.

Hearing the sound, she moved quickly and wanted to get out.

But suddenly she remembered something and looked at the white stones inlaid on the wall. Through the subtle light coming in from the ventilation holes in the mud slabs, she found that they had not turned black.

According to what my mother said, only when the white stone turns black will it be completely safe.

The girl's original intention to go out suddenly stopped.

"Yiyi, it's dawn outside. It's okay. You can come out."

The voice sounded again.

"Don't worry, there is light, those things won't dare to come in. Mom is here, you can come out."

The little girl calculated the time. Normally, her mother would be back around this time.

Every time she hides in this small space, after taking a nap, she can see her mother when she comes out.

This time is about the same time, so it should be no exception.

As for the white stones inlaid on the wall, it should just be that too much time has passed and the white stones are also white during the day.

The little girl thought for a moment. He raised his head again and looked out through the vent hole in the mud board.

I discovered that there was really a subtle white light outside.

Innocence is bright.

This time, she finally felt at ease.

"I'm coming!"

She responded.

"Mom, I'm coming."

She began to move her body, with her little hands raised, to push the mud board above her head.

Soon, she pushed the mud board away, and with difficulty, she got her head out of the small space and returned to the bottom of the bed.

Then she looked outside.

"! !?"

Outside.

It was still dark.

Isn't it daybreak?

The little girl's scalp was numb.

She knew something was wrong, gritted her teeth and squatted quickly, trying to shrink back into the small space.

Click.

Click.

Suddenly, a pair of white feet wearing her mother's cloth shoes came to the bottom of the bed and stopped.

"Yiyi. My good daughter, where are you?" The soft and familiar voice came again.

The little girl didn't dare to make a sound, she covered her mouth tightly, tears flowed out all of a sudden, and slid down her cheeks.

But she didn't dare to move. At such a close distance, any movement she made would make a slight sound in the silent environment, and would be discovered by the other party.

She suddenly recalled that her mother would not be unaware of the small space under the bed.

So her mother would never ask her where she was.

Only then did she realize that she might have been deceived.

Click.

Click.

Soon, there was no response, or perhaps the girl in the small space just now responded too softly, and the other party did not hear it.

The feet slowly left the bedside, left calmly, and went somewhere else.

The other party walked very slowly, without making much noise, and soon, with a slight sound of closing the door, disappeared.

Everything returned to silence.

The little girl kept holding back.

She didn't know how long it had been, and she didn't hear any movement, so she slowly exhaled, relaxed, and retracted.

The long-term tension made her body soft, her ears faintly buzzed, and her eyes were a little blurry.

At this time, she could no longer hold on, leaning against the inner wall of the small space, gasping for breath.

After finding that there was no danger, the little girl waited for a while to make sure that there was really no movement. Then she struggled to climb out of the small space and crawled out little by little along the bottom of the bed.

Puff.

Suddenly.

Her shoulder hit something.

The little girl froze, and a bad feeling came over her.

She slowly raised her head and looked to the upper right.

A long-haired woman in a tattered white dress was sitting quietly on her wooden bed, with her left leg hanging down and resting on her right shoulder.

The woman's long hair covered her face and she looked down at her. Through the refraction of the moonlight, you can see the pale corners of her mouth, with traces of decay.

Huh!!

The woman's rotten face instantly approached and enlarged.

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"I didn't die this time."

A vague voice came from the darkness.

It seemed to be a woman.

"He's still alive, well, he's just injured and very weak. I'm not saying anything bad about you, but you always come back from the forest to save people. There's not much food here, and you have to take care of a patient's food and drink alone," the woman said.

"It's okay. Mom. Tell me." At this time, another young female voice with a severe stuttering sounded.

"Don't talk about your mother. It's tiring to listen to you talk. Okay, I've sutured your wound. Be careful not to get it wet or infected. I'm leaving first." The woman seemed to be packing up.

"Thank you very much." The stuttering girl gave a silly laugh like she was breathing in.

"Don't thank me. If it doesn't work, remember to drag him out and throw him out the door. He should be gone in one night." The woman said helplessly.

"Thank you only for your help." The stuttering girl said gratefully.

"This is the way the world is. I'm having a hard time, and no one has the energy to take care of others. It's you. If it were someone else, I'd have thrown him back into the wild long ago." The woman said.

Yu Hong slowly gathered his strength and tried to open his eyes in the dark.

He saw a short girl with a dirty body and messy black hair, talking to a middle-aged yellow-skinned woman.

The yellow-skinned woman wore glasses and a gray-white long-sleeved long dress with many stains and marks on it.

He only remembered that he was tired from work, so he went home and fell asleep. As a result, he suddenly heard some noisy noises in the middle of the night, and then his forehead hurt, and he knew nothing.

"Here. It is." He opened his mouth to speak, but found that his throat was like a knife cutting, and he couldn't make any sound at all, only bursts of breathing came out.

At the same time, he could also feel that his forehead was very hot, his body was hot, and the corners of his eyes were full of dry and hard eye mucus.

It's inflamed, it must be that some part of the body is inflamed, it may be the throat.

"Medicine" The girl's voice came at this time.

After a clear sound of closing the door, everything quieted down.

The dirty girl moved with difficulty and took out a black metal box from the corner of the room.

"Take medicine. It will be fine." She walked to Yu Hong with the medicine.

With a click, the lid was opened. There was a lot of black charcoal in the metal box. In the middle of the charcoal, three light yellow capsules were wrapped in paper.

However, fine mold spots had grown on the surface of these three pills, and green mold hairs could be seen on the light blue mold spots.

"This medicine can't be taken." Yu Hong's face froze and he looked at the other party. Now that he was awake, his throat seemed to be much better and he could speak more fluently, but it still hurt.

"Besides, what kind of medicine is this? What's wrong with my body? I don't know what disease I have, but you give it to me. It can't be cured."

"Tell me first, who are you and where am I? What's going on now?"

The girl was a little confused holding the medicine. She opened her mouth and babbled, a little anxious, but she couldn't make any sound.

At this time, Yu Hong got closer and saw the other person's appearance clearly.

The skin was black, with dark yellow stains everywhere. The clothes on her body were piled together from many seasons of summer, autumn and winter. The collar was black and greasy, and you could smell a strong smell of sweat.

This is a beggar.

Maybe many beggars are cleaner than her.

From a distance before, it looked like a moving black clothes cart.

Only when I got closer did I find that the girl's body was a little deformed, one leg was lame, and there was a big tumor behind her right shoulder. The clear outline could be seen through the clothes.

She was less than 1.5 meters tall, short, dirty, and moved very slowly.

But those eyes were like clear gems, with very few impurities.

Finally I'm going to start writing. As usual, I'll start writing around 5pm. If there's any delay, it's none of my business~~ lol.

This time it's a thriller and cruel world, I hope you like it.