Gu Chen ate with his mouth full of oil and smacked his lips, feeling the aftertaste was endless, and the fire of hunger no longer burned his intestines, which made him feel vaguely satisfied that his life was so convenient. Then he found that the girl stopped talking, and he remembered the girl's chirping during the day. question, thinking that this girl is really a weird person. Sometimes she talks so much, and sometimes she is so silent. Then he turned to look curiously, met the girl's eyes full of surprise, and then looked from her I saw a somewhat stunned look in my eyes, and for some reason I thought he was a weirdo.
The girl's silence was only for a short time, and then she could no longer suppress her curiosity and asked: "You are really strange. You have no money, no one around you, you are homeless, and you have never eaten anything." Chicken legs, where did you come from?”
Gu Chen's eyes returned to the half-eaten chicken leg in his hand, and he thought that it was a chicken leg. Then he thought of animals like chickens, and thought that the two should be related. After thinking about it, he didn't forget to answer. The girl asked the question, "I come from the mountains."
"From the mountain?" The girl's eyes flashed with surprise, and she felt a little strange, "How could it be possible that the person from the mountain has never eaten chicken legs?"
Gu Chen explained: "There are people raising chickens on the mountain, but my master is lazy and doesn't like cooking. He thinks it is a waste of time, so he gives me Bigu Pills."
"Bigu Pill?"
"You may not have taken it before. That kind of pill is very convenient. Just take one pill and you won't need to eat for ten days."
The girl's eyes widened in surprise and she exclaimed: "You don't have to eat for ten days! So aren't you hungry?"
"Just because I'm not hungry, I don't need to eat."
Gu Chen's face was somewhat deliberately full of surprise, and he replied in a tone as if he was saying something that everyone in the world understood. Then he finally felt more comfortable in his heart. He felt that the girl's words "Of course" were born in the afternoon. The depression was finally gone.
The girl was not as sensitive as Gu Chen. Instead, she nodded as if she suddenly understood, then looked around and asked curiously: "What about your master?"
Gu Chen's somewhat high mood fell again, he lowered his head and said, "He left and will not come back again."
The girl was stunned and pursed her lips, but she comforted him and said, "It's okay. My parents are gone and will not come back. Look at me, I'm not living a very good life."
Gu Chen disagreed and said, "Don't you still have a master?"
The girl's eyes widened again and she said, "Don't you still have me?"
Gu Chen looked at the girl in astonishment. The girl stared at Gu Chen with confusion on her face. Gu Chen looked away and asked, "What's your name?"
The girl said: "My name is Yang Chan, what's yours?"
Gu Chen said: "My name is Gu Chen."
The girl nodded and said, "Oh."
Gu Chen turned to look at Yang Chan again and said, "Can I ask you a question?"
Yang Chan nodded and waited for Gu Chen to ask her. Gu Chen moved his lips with a serious look on his face.
"What is money?"
"..."
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In the cloudless night sky, the bright moon hangs high, and the moonlight falls like a silver waterfall, lengthening the shadows of pedestrians.
The pedestrians on the road have become sparse, but each one of them looked at the young girl in the corner with concern, their expressions becoming more and more pitiful. As they walked by, their pace slowed down due to hesitation, but no one came up to ask and care.
Gu Chen felt strange for a long time, so he looked at Yang Chan in confusion. Just when he was about to ask, Yang Chan shook his head and said, "They won't come to help us."
Instead of saying "you", he said "we", which made Gu Chen's heart warm slightly, but he still couldn't help but ask: "Why?"
Yang Chan's face looked a little strange, as if she was sad, and said: "Because he doesn't want to kill us."
Gu Chen was still puzzled.
"A lot has happened in the town these days. First, many adults died, and then children began to disappear. Some disappeared from the streets, and some disappeared from their homes, but no one knew how they disappeared."
Gu Chen thought of the Chunjun Fairy Sword that had disappeared inexplicably. He couldn't help but become more concerned about this matter and asked, "Have you found it again?"
Yang Chan shook his head and said: "None of the missing people has come back."
Thinking of a group of people walking out of the woods to the west of the town at dusk, and their expressions were different, Gu Chen couldn't help but look in the direction of the west of the town.
"I don't know who I heard from, but those missing children all ran into the woods, so the adults started to look inside, but every time at night, someone would die inside, so now that the sun goes down, they They all hurriedly came out, and even after searching for several days, no one was found."
Such a thing happened in a small town. It stands to reason that adults should pay more attention to and care about children, but when they saw children wandering on the roadside, homeless, no one came forward to ask or help. This behavior is a bit too strange. Could it be that everyone in this small town is so heartless?
"Children continue to disappear, and people in the town protect them. But new problems arise again. Children who were originally living on the streets, whoever is brought back, will definitely have an accident that night, and will not die. Even though they disappeared, nothing happened to the children who were still on the street. But that doesn't mean they were fine on the street. It was just that no one cared about them, but they kept them safe for a day or two. After that, accidents happened one after another, but with this precedent , and when they see children on the street, adults don’t dare to do anything, for fear that they will harm them out of their good intentions.”
Gu Chen frowned and said, "In other words, they are actually protecting us?"
Yang Chan nodded, but Gu Chen found it difficult to accept it. He felt that the people in the town seemed to be afraid, and then accepted their fate, just hoping not to make mistakes.
Yang Chan added: "My parents disappeared because of this."
Gu Chen was slightly startled and full of confusion. Isn't it just the children who are missing?
"My parents took in a homeless child at that time. Because they were afraid that something would happen to him at night, they stayed up all night and just stared at him. I woke up in the middle of the night and saw my parents running after the child. I ran into...the woods and never came back. I waited for a few days and originally wanted to go into the woods to look for her, but I met my master at that time and she brought me back."
Gu Chen basically understood that this kind of thing is really weird. Why did the child run into the woods in the middle of the night? And why the adults who went in at night couldn't come out. These are all unsolved mysteries, but they can't come out. It is a fact, and it is also a fact that we do not know whether we will live or die. Because it cannot be explained, it makes people scared.
Yang Chan seemed to have thought of something and suddenly said: "But there was something strange that night."
Gu Chen immediately asked: "What's so strange?"
"moon……"
Yang Chan was about to say something, but her words stopped abruptly. On the west side of the long street, in the direction of the woods, there were several people watching. Although they did not go in, they were very close. Suddenly, a person attacked his companions like crazy. When he got up, his companion was caught off guard and screamed, but the crazy man kept attacking. Others around him rushed to stop him, but it was noisy and chaotic, and there were faint voices, as if someone was dead.
People who were still on the street rushed out one after another, all looking panicked. Some of them staggered and fell on the road. They were all frightened, feeling that the devil hiding in the dark woods was getting more and more terrifying. It's clear.
Yang Chan clasped her hands and put her fingers together, her body trembling slightly. Gu Chen patted her shoulder and found that his hands were greasy after eating the chicken legs and were stained on her clothes. He retracted his hands with some guilt, but next to Yang Chan Sit closer.
"Many people in the town are already planning to leave. It's very scary here. I have to leave tomorrow too and leave here."
Gu Chen didn't know where else he could go. Master Dongyang sent him here far away, but he didn't know what was happening here. It was difficult for him to live here, so what could he do if he went to other places? Survive? He couldn't forget one thing. He had no money now, and he also understood one thing. To survive in the world, money is very important.
