Opening: Minato became my brother

"Hey! You little brat over there, come here, kneel on the ground, and bark like a dog for me. If I am happy, then this half of the bun will be yours."

"Hahahahahahaha, Heidao, you still have such a bad taste!"

"This is so boring, kid, do you hear me? Do you want it or not? If you don't want it..."

The thin man known as Black Knife looked at the teenager, who was huddled in the corner with wounds all over his body like a beggar, with a gleam of amusement in his eyes. He gently shook the bitten bun in his hand towards the teenager.

The young man raised his head somewhat stiffly, revealing his dirty, skinny and hungry face. His eyes, which should have been full of youthful ambition, seemed to have lost their luster, and he stared stupidly at the two men who were laughing and calling him not far away.

At this time, the boy's body was covered with bruises and wounds, and he had not eaten for two days.

As if he didn't react, he stood there in a daze for a moment. After a moment, Yue Le silently lay on the ground, supporting himself with his hands.

boom--

His hand lost its balance and he fell to the ground.

Trembling slightly and struggling, he knelt on the ground again. This simple action caused the wounds on the boy's body to open again.

The pink flesh inside the scabbed scar blossomed, and blood oozed out along the scar, soaking the tattered clothes that were stained with blood, dirt and rust.

“Woof…Woof woof…Woof woof woof…”

The boy was like a walking corpse, his eyes were empty and lifeless, he was just a walking corpse...

Humiliation?

Painful?

The young man had lost consciousness. The pain everywhere made him numb. At this moment, he only had one thought in his mind.

Go home...He wants to go home...

Go home...I want to go home...

"Tsk, how boring."

Seeing the young man in such an embarrassed state, Heidao suddenly felt bored and lost interest in an instant. He gently let go of his fingers.

puff--

Looking at the steamed bun that fell to the ground and was covered with a thick layer of dust, he seemed to have found something that could make him happy. A wicked smile appeared on the corners of his mouth and he raised his feet that were covered in mud and dust.

pat-

After being trampled and crushed, the originally plump white flour buns suddenly became a shapeless gray cake covered with dust, with footprints of the black knife on it.

The boy still knelt on the ground with a vicious look in his eyes. Heidao raised a smile full of evil taste and scratched his head a little embarrassedly.

"Oops, how could I accidentally drop it on the ground? I'm so sorry. But it should still be edible, don't you think? After all, you haven't eaten for two days..."

"Hahahaha, hahahahahaha..."

Heidao and the man next to him laughed and left the room filled with a foul smell.

bang-

The iron door was closed, and only a faint light came into the room from the small window of the iron door, as if it was the only light left in the darkness.

The boy's eyes were numb. He slowly raised his head and walked forward. With the help of the light, he groped for the ash cake in the darkness. Tears welled up in his eyes, but they could not moisten his dry lips.

Behind him, on the wall, there were two characters carved in blood:

In the darkness, Yue Le only had one spiritual support in his heart: I want to go home...

...go home...

..........

boom--!

"Hiss...uh..."

Heidao was kicked to the ground like a sandbag. The severe pain made him curl up involuntarily, like a cooked river shrimp.

"Idiot! I asked you to teach that kid a lesson, not to kill him! Damn it, I'm counting on that kid to make money! What else can you do to me now? Fuck!"

"hiss--!"

Heidao struggled to stand up. The boss didn't hold back the kick, and it hit him hard, making him almost vomit his lunch.

Just like a wounded hyena, he only dared to be violent and cruel to the weak. Heidao's eyes were vicious as he glanced at the young man who had died at some point in time.

Cursing in my heart,

"Damn bastard!"

However, when he raised his head and looked at the man, a fawning smile immediately appeared on his face. That expression was so flattering and ugly that there was not a trace of ferocity at all.

"Boss, I didn't expect this little thing to be so fragile. I didn't do much to it... This is all my fault. I am willing to be punished! Please forgive me this time..."

He was just about to find an excuse to defend himself, but when he met the icy eyes of the man in front of him, he felt like he was falling into an ice cellar. The chill instantly ran through his spine. He was so scared that he immediately changed his words and admitted his mistake.

At this time, Heidao was sweating profusely. He knelt on the ground like a stray dog, begging for the man's forgiveness.

The skinny monkey who was smoking nearby turned his attention from the corpse on the ground and began to speak for Heidao. After all, he was an old man who had followed the boss for such a long time, but this time he made such a big mistake. Even if the boss wanted to forgive him, he had to find a way out for him.

He knows everything about this matter~

"Boss, calm down. The most urgent thing is to get the kid's family to send the money over before they find out he's dead. Besides, he's dead, so what's the big deal? We can still get money from quack doctors. I took a look and found that Heidao was quite capable. At least his internal organs were not damaged..."

After saying that, the skinny monkey took a deep puff, and the cigarette burned rapidly, leaving only a cigarette butt in an instant. He threw the cigarette butt in his hand on the ground, blew out a smoke ring, and showed a sly smile to the man.

These words seemed to ease the expression of the man they called the boss a little. After thinking for a moment, he raised his head and glared at Heidao fiercely, the anger in his eyes still not subsided.

"If you mess this up again, you'll be in trouble!"

"Yes, yes, Boss. Don't worry. I'll go and urge them right away. With the parrot here, I guarantee that the boy's family won't be able to hear any clues!"

Hei Dao nodded repeatedly, with a little anxiety. He knew his boss's temper best. If this matter was messed up, it was estimated that more than just the kid would appear on the quack doctor's operating table...

Thinking of this, Heidao felt a little shudder. No, this time I must keep a close eye on the parrot.

…………

Wow, wow, wow, wow,

The cold touch spread quickly from the cheek like an electric current, sweeping across the whole body in an instant.

Yue Le felt her whole body go limp and her eyelids felt as if they weighed a thousand pounds.

I struggled to open my eyes. The dark abandoned factory was no longer in front of me, and the air was no longer filled with the stench of excrement and waste.

The sky was gloomy and the dark clouds seemed like they would fall to the ground at any time. The dripping rain was like a bead curtain, making it difficult for him to see the scenery in the distance.

"I'm alive?"

Yue Le seemed to have thought of something and couldn't help shivering.

He opened his mouth, his voice was hoarse like sandpaper, and the raindrops running down his face soaked his lips.

Yue Le couldn't help but look up, looking at the rain that had been falling for who knows how long. His heavy body made him exhausted, and the stinging feeling of raindrops dripping into his eyes made him close his eyes involuntarily.

Still alive...

Yue Le still didn't understand why she was still alive.

His memory still stayed at the moment when he lost consciousness. The two devil-like men dropped half a crushed bun and left the room filled with a foul smell.

At that time, I was moving with difficulty, using the light to search for the dust-covered steamed buns in the darkness.

Before this, he hadn't eaten for two days. If they hadn't been afraid that he would starve to death, he probably wouldn't have even been able to drink a sip of water.

Unfortunately, he had been in poor health since childhood. Although his family took him to see many doctors, he was diagnosed with congenital muscular dystrophy and could only recover slowly.

For this reason, as the only son in the family and the only child of this generation, he can be said to be loved by the whole family and is the apple of everyone's eye.

He was trying so hard to live...

No matter what...

As a result, he died in the abandoned factory due to his weak body.

Enduring the pain all over his body as if being tortured, Yue Le struggled to raise his arms as heavy as lead, trying to stop the cold rain that was pouring down on the earth.

He blinked his eyes and finally opened them again, but the moment he saw his arm, Yue Le stood there in a daze as if struck by lightning.

The arm was as pale as paper and so thin that it seemed like it would break at the touch. There were no bruises or wounds from being beaten, and there was no pain in the lungs when breathing.

This, this is not his body at all!

Yue Le's eyes widened, and he was unable to react for a moment. He ignored the pain all over his body and struggled to stand up in the drizzling rain.

With his eyes wide open, he carefully examined his body, as if confirming something, over and over again, with panic and doubt, refusing to give up.

For a long time, he stood in the rain like a fool, letting the cold rain mercilessly hit his cheeks and letting the biting chill penetrate into his bones.

Slowly, even the last bit of warmth in his heart disappeared.

This body really isn't his.

This was a child even younger than him, a child who had been malnourished for a long time and was even thinner than him, as if he could be blown down by a gust of wind.

It’s hard to tell his exact age, but long-term malnutrition made Yue Le feel dizzy after just standing for a while.

This not only shocked Yue Le, he felt that his long-standing outlook on life had been hit unprecedentedly at this moment. A name flashed through Yue Le's mind, and it seemed that it was the original owner of this body.

"Le Yue?"

......

"So... where is this...?"

Confusion flashed in his eyes, and Yue Le stood in the rain blankly, muttering to himself. His mind seemed to be filled with a large lump of West Lake vinegar fish and durian sauce mixed with No. 42 concrete and pasta, which made him feel stinging for a moment.

But the aches all over his body and the cold feeling of the rain hitting his body kept reminding him that this was not a dream, but the real world.

He, Yue Le, woke up and became a different person.

......

The sky was as gloomy as a block of lead, as if it was about to collapse. It was cloudy and rainy, and the dense rain threads intertwined into a dull net. The damp and cold wind roared like a demon, carrying with it the thick moisture, which lashed him fiercely like a whip, causing him to shiver uncontrollably.

It can be predicted that the rain will not stop in the short term.

Judging from Yue Le’s current physical condition, he might breathe his last in the rain within a day.

"No! I want to live! I want to go home! I want to go back alive!"

Yue Le screamed wildly in her heart.

The strong desire to survive was like a burning flame, making him suddenly realize that he was in an extremely dangerous situation.

Having experienced death once, the fear of death surged into his heart like a raging tide and reached its peak.

Those who say that people who have died once will not care about life and death are simply nonsense! The shadow of death is chasing him like a ghost, constantly urging him to find a place to hide.

He was in a village that looked dilapidated, with houses scattered around like abandoned toys and far apart from each other.

He was lost in this strange land and couldn't tell where he was.

However, at this moment, seeing these traces of humanity finally brought a sense of relief to his heart.

However, this place had obviously been ravaged by robbers or wars, with broken walls everywhere, like a ruin. Although the dozen or so houses here and there still barely maintained their general shape, they were also full of traces of being smashed and destroyed.

The charred buildings fell to the ground helplessly like defeated soldiers, washed mercilessly by the rain. Strands of water stains with black marks meandered across the ground like poisonous snakes.

The village was deserted. Perhaps the villagers had already received the news in advance and fled from this disaster area.

Looking up at the gloomy sky, Yue Le dragged his heavy feet and staggered towards the nearest thatched house which was relatively well preserved.

The eaves of the thatched house extended outward like a mother's arm, providing him with a temporary shelter from the freezing cold rain.

Leaning against the cold wall, Yue Le felt confused.

Only then did he begin to look around.

As far as the eye can see, the eaves of all the houses extend outward like a guard's shield, and the ground is paved with a layer of stone bricks that are higher than the surrounding ones, as if telling the history of this place being invaded by rain all year round.

However, this place does not seem peaceful...

Yue Le silently observed the surroundings. The sound of the rain, the sound of the thatch being hit by raindrops, and the rustling of leaves. In this deathly silent atmosphere, there was a lack of a trace of human fireworks.

This is actually a lifeless village!

Yue Le’s face was as pale as paper and she felt extremely confused about the future.

Suddenly, a dazzling white light flashed in the sky, accompanied by a deafening thunder.

Rumbling--

Gollum-

Yue Le's lips were as dry as the desert. The lips that had just been moistened became extremely dry again in an instant.

Hunger, dryness, cold, fear...all kinds of feelings flooded into his mind like a flood breaking through a dam.

This completely looted village was covered in traces of burning, smashing and looting, and the villagers who had fled early were nowhere to be found...

This small, haphazard village became eerily quiet as the sky gradually grew gloomy, without even a single light on.

There was no moon or stars in the sky. All the light was ruthlessly blocked by thick dark clouds, and the sky was gray and gloomy.

The freezing wind pierced through his wet, dripping, tattered clothes like countless swords, stinging his paper-thin bones.

Yue Le looked at the gradually darkening world, as if endless darkness was once again covering him.

He curled up in the corner, his body shaking constantly, and endless fear swept over him again like a surging wave.