[Douluo] Xue Ji Chuchen

At night, everyone in the room had fallen asleep. In the darkness, a small figure moved silently, and then came to the edge of the huge room. There was a small semi-enclosed platform there for free movement. Although It's small, but for a cage-like room, it's barely a place where you can relax.

"Xiaobai, you are here."

Beside the high wall, a white shadow fell silently on the iron pole. It was an animal with blood-red eyes. It looked very similar to a pigeon, only its body was slightly larger, and there was a little dark blue at the tail of its wings. Color, and there are a few small light red feathers on the head, and the rest of the place is extremely pure white.

After gently patting the little pigeon, the coldness in Lan Chu's eyes faded away, and even the corners of his mouth twitched into a smile. Compared to the quiet girl, the flying pigeon was obviously more excited. It kept flapping its wings and leaning outwards, as if calling its little master.

"You finally found me," Lan Chu shook his head gently as if he understood what the little white pigeon meant, "I can't get out yet, I have to wait. Don't worry, I will definitely leave."

Quietly blowing the night wind, the girl held up the little dove in her hands and whispered, "I'm going back." The little white dove was very smart, rubbed it in her hands, and then flew up, but kept hovering in the air. , refused to fly away.

"I'll look for you, Xiaobai, if anything happens," Lan Chu waved his hand and grinned.

Watching the flying white shadow gradually disappear into the night, Lan Chu's expression became cold and calm again, and he walked quickly back to the room.

Walking back to the room, Lan Chu felt a series of glances coming towards him. Lan Chu raised his eyebrows and moved aside neatly.

"Did you see it?" Lan Chu cast his eyes suspiciously on the small figure in the darkness, "Are you, Xiaoxi?"

Xiaoxi nodded hurriedly, then shook his head, "I, I just woke up and saw you going out."

"Oh," Lan Chu was about to leave, but found that Xiao Xi in the darkness seemed to be hesitant to speak, and then turned back to where he was, "What do you want to say?"

"I may still have to trouble you tomorrow," Xiaoxi requested in a low voice.

"Of course, since I'm helping, I will help to the end."

Over the next two days, the performance went very smoothly. From the appearance, Lan Chu looks like five years old at most. She is incompatible with other girls who are generally fourteen or fifteen years old, but she attracts most of the attention. After all, watching a short girl shuttle on the tightrope is exciting. abnormal.

People in the theater naturally seized such an opportunity and used Lan Chu's age as the biggest gimmick, attracting many audiences.

Three days later, Xiao Xi has fully recovered, but the steward, who has earned huge income from Lan Chu, is no longer willing to replace Lan Chu.

"Go up," the steward roared at Lan Chu, who was motionless on the high platform.

"Her illness is cured," Lan Chu stood with his hands behind his hands, his petite body looking even more stubborn in the cold wind.

"It has nothing to do with you whether her illness is good or not. Now you have to go up and perform."

"No," Lan Chu raised his head without fear and stared at the whip in the steward's hand, "If you don't believe it, just give it a try."

The steward rolled his eyes, took three steps at a time, pulled Xiao Xi over and kicked him to the ground, "Are you going?"

"Don't go."

The whips were struck one after another, all falling on Xiao Xi. Xiao Xi burst into tears and curled up in pain.

"I said I won't go, I just won't go." After a moment of pause, Lan Chu turned around indifferently, "If I were you, let her get on quickly. If the people below are waiting in a hurry, you can't bear to walk around. .”

The hard whip stained with blood whizzed down, and blood dripped from behind Lan Chu's ears. Another whip fell, and Lan Chu's back, clothes and scalp were immediately split open, and the whip was broken directly.

“After all this time, don’t you realize that this is useless to me?”

The steward was so angry that he turned his attention to the other girls standing aside, and in just a moment, he swung the whip at them. The girls screamed in fear and hid in all directions. On the high platform, there was chaos. In the stands, a few of the spectators who had been waiting for a long time had left. The ones left behind had dissatisfied expressions on their faces, and some arrogant people shouted loudly.

The furious steward picked up Lan Chu's collar with one hand and waved it outward. Lan Chu's body hit the wall like a kite with a broken string.

Lan Chu's face suddenly turned pale, but he still stood up without saying a word, swallowing the blood foam in his mouth without moving at all. There was a cool breeze blowing on the high platform, but Lan Chu felt that his chest was as stagnant as fire, mixed with the pain of a knife on his back, which made him dizzy.

No one noticed that Lan Chu's left hand, the bracelet hidden under the wide sleeves, swayed slightly, emitting a faint golden light, and disappeared in an instant. Taking a deep breath, Lan Chu felt a warm current rising up in his left arm, and felt a little happy in his heart.

Injury was a common occurrence for Lan Chu before he entered the theater. He was injured, healed, injured again, and healed again. During the countless back and forth, Lan Chu could feel a warm current surge in his body occasionally. , and every time, her body on the verge of collapse would recover a little.

A sense of familiarity surged, and the stagnation in his breath suddenly eased a lot. Lan Chu straightened up with difficulty, and glanced at the steward with his cold eyes that had not changed at all, "I won't go."

At the very back of the theater, in a room behind transparent glass, a man wearing a luxurious mink coat was looking at the small figure who had been beaten repeatedly on the high platform.

"Stupid," the man sneered.

Lan Chu, who was already weak and lying on the ground, was like a stupid and tenacious shell. The not-so-hard shell had been broken into pieces, but it still refused to reveal the sparkling pearls.

After pondering for a moment, the man with a calm face waved his hand and summoned the attendants, "Tell those idiots that it's almost done, don't beat them to death, it will be a big loss."

At night, Lan Chu, who had disappeared for a long time, finally returned to his residence silently. Putting down his sleeves, Lan Chu carefully covered his blood-stained right arm and walked straight to the room.

As soon as she entered the door, more than a dozen girls looked at her in unison, with confusion and a bit of complaint.

Lan Chu didn't say anything. He went straight to Xiao Xi, who had been beaten the most, and took out a delicate small bottle. "This is specially designed to treat trauma. Apply it on."

The medicine bottle was found by Lan Chu's pigeon Xiaobai. During the day, when Lan Chu was beaten, Xiaobai was not far away, but he could do nothing. Finding some medicine for his little master was the only thing he could do.

"Did you use it yourself?" Xiaoxi asked softly.

Lan Chu was startled, then smiled nonchalantly, "It's just a minor injury. I'm in good health, so I don't need it."

Xiao Xi didn't speak and took the ointment silently. The beating she received in the afternoon was still vivid in her mind, as well as Lan Chu's cold eyes and back, which made her instinctively fear Lan Chu.

Lan Chu sighed and spoke, her voice still a little cold, but mixed with a bit of helplessness: "This is not the first time I have offended them, and it is not the last time. If I compromise today, then you, And you, it means you are connected with me, then you will always be punished because of me in the future, so I must do that in the afternoon, and all my actions will be borne by me."

"It was my decision to play that day, that's all. No one can make me do what I don't want to do," Lan Chu's voice gradually became firmer, "I must let them know that no one can threaten me, and don't try to force me to do it." I."

After Lan Chu's words, the older girls already understood, while the younger ones also seemed to understand, but they already understood Lan Chu's intention.

"Are you really going to resist?" After a moment of silence, the oldest girl spoke up, "You are very powerful. If you listen to them, not only will you not suffer much, but you will live a very comfortable life."

"Of course, I was living alone, but this group of people tricked me into coming in, used me to make money, and wanted to force me to submit and dream," Lan Chu's voice suddenly rose a lot, and after a moment, it dropped again, "You guys will Please stay as far away from me as possible, I don’t want to drag you down.”

"But you can only stay here, they can't let you go," another girl said.

"I will leave here, one day," Lan Chu tilted his head casually, "It's just time, I have plenty of it."

"Leave, it's impossible, no one ever goes out, unless it's sold at auction."

"I will definitely leave," Lan Chu clenched his fists.

"Are you really only six years old?" Xiaoxi asked silently, "It feels like you are older than us."

"Pfft," Lan Chu chuckled, "Look at my head, how old I am. To be more precise, I should be six and a half years old."

"Age is just a number to me, it means nothing." After a simple conversation, Lan Chu rolled on the bed, "Go to sleep, there is always a way, and so do you. In this cannibalistic scene, you must first let yourself go. Somewhat capable.”

The girls could not hide their surprise. They all entered the theater for various reasons when they were young, were sold, or were arrested. They have even stayed in the theater as long as they can remember.

Their lives were only training and performances, monotonous and numb, and they never thought about resisting, let alone leaving.

Lan Chu broke into their world with the unruliness of a beast, bringing a wave of waves and a beam of light to their life which was like a pool of stagnant water. Although the girls didn't say it and didn't dare to try, deep down in their hearts, they felt a little bit envious of Lan Chu and a little longing for the outside world.

"Where are your parents?" After a while, Xiaoxi asked cautiously.

Lan Chu didn't answer, but smiled, "What about you?"

"I don't know, I've been here since I can remember."

"Almost," Lan Chu said casually, "but I was tricked into it."

"cheat?"

"It doesn't sound long or short, so I don't want to talk about it."

"What about before coming here?"

Lan Chu frowned slightly, then relaxed, "Just like that, eating, sleeping and wandering around."

"Alone?" Xiaoxi asked in surprise.

"What else?" Lan Chu said with a calm expression, "I originally lived in a large forest nearby, but then I got bored and went out for a walk."

"Staying alone in the forest?" Xiaoxi couldn't believe it.

"Yes," Lan Chu replied strangely, "Is there any problem?"

"How can people live in that forest?"

There is only one nearby forest, which is the Star Forest. Although Xiaoxi doesn't know its name, she knows that it is definitely not a place where she can live permanently.

"Just like that," Lan Chu's voice still didn't waver at all, and he wrote lightly, "It's a bit dangerous, so I went out for a walk, but I was tricked."