Rent me for three coppers

Before Qi Qi was eight years old, he often had a dream.

The dream is blurry and can't be seen clearly.But Qi Qi seemed to be able to see a person, wrapped in tight linen clothes, walking through the desert.

The desert is always unfriendly to outsiders.

Hot sun, drought, deep sand traps.

With no end in sight, there is no hope.

The man fell down again and again, and stood up again and again until he lost all his strength and fell on the ground and couldn't get up again.

The night's strong wind quietly moved the sand dunes, and the soft sand gradually completely covered the man.

Qi Qi watched anxiously from the side, trying to pull her out of the sand, but she couldn't move.I can only stand on one side like a bystander, watching her being submerged and losing all vitality.

'What happened to her? '

'Is she really dead? '

This is a question that Qi Qi often thought about before.

But the dream always ends here, and she can't go back to that dream even after she was eight years old.

She wasn't doing well during that time.In a strange environment, important things disappeared in my life one by one, just like a child who was robbed of his favorite toy, standing there crying or not.

I kept saying 'I'm fine, it's okay' over and over again, but I kept looking forward to someone to comfort me.

But no.

So Qi Qi has been arguing with the person in the dream all the time, thinking that she can't let him go.

It's just too much.

But just after the dizziness was over, she appeared in that desert again.

The skin exposed to the sun was already red and peeling, but she didn't seem to feel it, and kept digging the sand in front of her eyes with her hands.

The blood mixed with the yellow sand, congealed into small balls, was dug open, and slid down along the yellow sand again.

After an unknown amount of time, Qi Qi finally saw that familiar dress.

"Wake up!"

Qi Qi frantically dug away all the sand around him, and turned the man out.

'Great... her skin is still warm. '

'Is she still alive? '

Turning her over to face him, Qi Qi carefully cleaned off the yellow sand on her face, filled some water with the cap, and applied it on her chapped lips.

"..."

"what?"

Qi Qi leaned closer to hear what the man said, but only heard a breathless voice.

The annual precipitation in the desert area is less than 100 millimeters, and there are not a few drops of rain throughout the year, let alone seeing patches of dark clouds in the sky.

Therefore, when the surrounding brightness suddenly weakened, Qi Qi thought it was dark.

But soon, the torrential rain came, like a monster opening its bloody mouth towards them.In an instant, the two came from the desert to the bottom of an even more desperate abyss.

As far as the line of sight is concerned, there is darkness.

There is viscous liquid under the feet, and the sound of dripping, dripping, dripping into the ears makes people more and more anxious.

"Hey, wake up."

Qi Qi shook the person who had fainted in his arms, wanting her to talk to him, to drive away the uneasiness and helplessness that almost made her breathless.

"Please, wake up."

The darkness finally heard the wishes of the people within, and a pinch of turquoise flames lit up in the distance.

Like two small lanterns, they floated over without any haste.

More and more, little lanterns like will-o'-the-wisps lit up around, and Qi Qi realized belatedly—this seemed to be a pack of wolves.

The wolves moved very slowly, but Qi Qi knew that if he acted rashly, his neck would be torn apart by the sharp teeth of wolves.

But what to do?

The pack of wolves gradually approached, Qi Qi hugged the person in his arms tightly at a loss, and buried his head on her neck.

Between breaths, Qi Qi could already smell the bloody breath from the wolf's mouth. She trembled uneasy, but her heart was strangely calm...

'She will save me. '

"With her here, I, Qi, must have nothing to do!" '

--'who is she? '

'Um? '

—'Why did she save you? '

'...'

——'Look at you, I can't even remember her name, how heartless. '

'...'

A voice from nowhere questioned Qi Qi, obviously in an extremely cold tone, but Qi Qi could hear a bit of sadness and loneliness from it.

I can't remember... I, I like it very much...

like very much……

……Who?

"..."

The person in the arms opened his eyes at some point, and pushed away Qi Qi who was holding him tightly.

Following her force, she let go of her hand, and when Qi Qi looked up, he saw a pair of icy eyes that didn't seem to be alive!

The frightened Qi Qi sat up straight suddenly, bumping his head into something.

Qi Qi: Sorry for my brain, you have worked hard recently.

Qi Qi suddenly opened his eyes and looked at the surrounding trees and jungles, wondering how his script jumped from the desert to the rainforest, it was like traveling around the world in 24 hours.

Thrilling and exciting, I am weak and helpless.

"woke up?"

A baby's voice sounded behind him, Qi Qi turned his head to look at her, and suddenly stretched out his hand to pinch her face.

"I woke up?"

"...It hurts me when you hit me."

"……Excuse me."

Qi Qi quietly stretched out his hand and pinched his thigh, grinning his teeth in pain, only then did he truly believe that he really woke up.

After moving his buttocks, Qi Qi sat stiffly on the spot.

So just now, did I just... bump my head into the baby's face?

……

My brain, I didn't expect that your second chance to have intimate contact with the brain mother would be to bump into someone's face.

Just can't be proud!On the front!

"Have a nightmare?"

"Ok?"

Qi Qi moved slowly, wanting to get out of Zhiying's arms, but was dumbfounded to find that they seemed to be sitting on a tree branch.

Hmm... sitting pretty high.

Qi Qi, who was about to go out, stretched out his arms tremblingly and hugged the baby's neck.

"We, why do we climb so high? Can this thin branch support us? The main thing is 800 catties!"

The implication: I'm sorry, I, Qi, am not afraid of anything, but I am afraid of heights! !

"Don't be afraid." Zhiying hugged Qi Qi's waist tightly, put his right hand in front of his lips and made a silent movement: "Hold down, look below."

Brain, do you have another dog behind my back!You actually let me see the following!

Hey, what can I do?The brain mother said just look at it.

Qi Qi looked in the direction Zhiying pointed, but only saw a piece of darkness. She carefully identified it for a long time, and was about to carry forward the spirit of asking if she didn't understand, when she saw a dark object with a strange shape coming out of it.

The figure of that thing is thin and long, and it is roughly estimated to be about three meters from head to tail.It walks on all fours, with its head constantly swinging from side to side, as if detecting its surroundings.

When he was walking under the tree where Qi Qi and the others were, he suddenly raised his head, as if he had noticed something, and glanced up.

Qi Qi grabbed Zhiying's hand with some fear, she turned her head and wanted to ask Qi Qi what was going on, but who knew, the moment she turned her head, a woman with long hair in white clothes suddenly appeared in front of them hanging upside down side.

The woman's facial skin was severely rotten, and eyeballs dripping with red pus fell out of the eye sockets, and white soft worms crawled densely on the exposed white bones.

Those soft worms should be living by sucking her flesh and blood, and a faint red color can be seen in the bulging body.The thin outer skin seems to be broken at any time.

The woman grinned after noticing the baby's gaze at her.

Qi Qi took a deep breath and covered his mouth with his left hand.Even though he had already bit his lips, he still let out a short exclamation.

Mainly because the scene in front of me is really too...

Disgusted.

She frowned and looked at the worms falling from the female ghost's mouth, as well as the sticky red and white liquid, and felt her throat convulsed.

Hmm, the feeling before throwing up.

No, I can't stand it anymore.

Qi Qi's face was about to turn green, but just when she couldn't help but respect her physiology|physiological|reaction, the strange object that was moving slowly underneath suddenly stood up.

It was a little disgusting to say it, Qi Qi felt that his vomiting was frightened back.

The thing's body was condensed into one by one muscles, the eye sockets were completely black, and the fine and sharp teeth were neatly arranged in the mouth.

It really made Qi Qi want to sigh: This tooth is not bad.

It slowly raised its arm, and just before the female ghost was about to smash her rotten face on the tip of Qi Qi's nose, it grabbed the female ghost's body and ate her without thinking. inside the stomach.

The howling of the female ghost before she died startled the hidden creatures in the forest, the rustling sound in the bushes, the flashing white shadow, Qi Qi felt as if he had entered some strange and absurd monster park.

After devouring the female ghost, the thing's movements became sluggish again. He slowly shrunk his body down, and he was about to return to the ground.

The branch above Qi Qi's head was broken by something.

A small branch hit that thing on the head with no temper.

It turned its head, and its arms quickly grabbed Qi Qi and the others at an impossible angle!

At the very moment, Zhiying hugged Qi Qi's waist, jumped up and grabbed the dry vine that fell from the branch.

Although both of them were very thin, the vines obviously couldn't support their weight.

Therefore, Zhiying just let go of his hand after borrowing strength, and firmly protected Qi Qi in his arms.

"Ouch!!"

There was a roar of a tiger not far away, and Qi Qi could only see a pair of huge golden pupils amidst the bumps.

Before they had time to figure out what this situation was, the two fell into a soft pit of fur together.

Zhiying hugged Qi Qi and quickly turned around, protected Qi Qi under her body, grabbed the giant tiger's fur with one hand, lowered her body, and disappeared into the bushes before the thing was about to catch up with them .

The two of them headed north together, and finally stopped when they reached a slightly empty stone village.

Qi Qi was taken off the tiger's back with a dazed expression, and looked at the mighty and majestic big cat in front of him, which was kicking its ears with its hind paws.

Silence fell.

I can't tell that my mother-in-law is a wildlife lover... huh?

The author has something to say: Tiger (holds up the banner): After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, we can’t become masters. We have no choice but to work for unscrupulous celestial masters at a low price!She still owes us wages!Unscrupulous Heavenly Master, you pay me back my hard-earned money!

Zhiying: Oh?

Tiger (coaxing into a fur ball and kicking his ears): We are actually free, voluntary QAQ! !