One meter high

Zhu Qi, who had just woken up, was in a daze. When he listened carefully, there was a burst of intermittent sobbing in the faint night wind.

The sound was very strange, like coming from a tuned radio.But at night, what radio station will broadcast this kind of program that only has crying and screaming?

At any rate, Zhu Qi has experienced the battles of the Zhanjiang Baizi Formation, so he has a little more experience. He quickly got into the bed with a fish leap, grabbed his phone and frantically sent a message: "Yuan Xiaodai, what amulet did you give me?" Is it still useful now?"

Now that the night is dark, Zhu Qi thought that he would have to wait for a while, but he didn't know if it was something about Yuan Yue's side, or he had been paying attention to his phone, and he replied very quickly: "Yes." After a while, he returned Explained: "If you are in danger, I will sense it. But I don't feel anything now. Did you encounter something?"

Since there is no danger, it is probably not a supernatural event, so I wish you to give up and rest assured.He didn't want Yuan Yue to know that he was so timid, so he said, "It's okay, I'll just ask casually."

The two talked a few more sticky words before coming to an end.However, when he put down the phone, the intermittent sobbing did not disappear.After careful identification, Zhu Qi found that the voice came from the opposite door.

The residents across the door went to "work" not long ago, so they should not call it quits so soon.Zhu Qi thought for a while, bravely pushed the door out, and knocked on the door opposite.

The doors of this old community are divided into two layers, the inner layer is made of wood, and the outer layer is an anti-theft door in the shape of an iron fence. It is just because of the age that the anti-theft door is full of rust. The creaking sound even made him worry that he would knock the door down.

"Is anyone there?" he asked.

The sobbing stopped for a moment, then there was the sound of rattling footsteps, and the door of the inner room was opened immediately.When Zhu Qi looked at it, he couldn't help being shocked.

There is no one inside the door.

The door was still creaking, but the footsteps had disappeared.Zhu Qi can already imagine how a scary ghost with a ferocious face would cry at night, and then how those people who were attracted by the crying would disappear into the empty room and become a new weird story...

"Ahem." A thin cough came, interrupting Zhu Qi's increasingly frantic brainstorming.He lowered his head stiffly and paused, and then heaved a long sigh of relief.

It turned out that there was no one, but that people were too short.

I saw a six or seven-year-old boy trying to stand on tiptoe, holding on to the iron bars of the anti-theft door and looking out.Because he is really not tall, he was blocked by the door just now, Zhu Qi didn't notice it after a rough look.

After finding the "culprit" who caused him to worry and fear, and the other party was a kid who could beat him with one hand, Zhu Qi's courage immediately swelled up, and he taught in a rough voice: "Crying at night What? Let no one sleep!"

The little boy flinched from the yelling, retracted the little hand that was outside, and shook his head vigorously behind the door.

"What's the matter with you?" Zhu Qi realized that something was wrong. Through the dim light in the room, he could not clearly see that the little boy's face had a circle of bruises, and his arms were red, as if bleeding. "injured?"

The little boy just shook his head.

Zhu Qi frowned: "You can't speak?"

The little boy pointed to his throat and shook his head; he pointed to his ears and nodded.

Can understand voices, but can't speak?

Zhu Qi scratched his chin and crouched on the bed.The child hid in fear, Zhu Qi spread his hands and took a step back.

"I'm not going." Zhu Qi asked, "What's wrong with your arm?" Afraid that the other party would not understand, he patted his arm specially: "Are you bleeding here?"

The child was still shaking his head, Zhu Qi was worrying about how to explain, when he raised his arm.It turned out that those red marks on it were red and swollen marks, but the wrist that Zhu Qi didn't see just now was more serious, with dense strangulation marks on it, almost bloody.

Zhu Qi took a deep breath and took a closer look. Some traces were already very old. This child has been abused for more than a day or two.It used to be that there were many such things in the old city. When the adults went to work, they were afraid that the children at home would run around, so they just tied them to a random place.But I've never seen one tied so tightly, and I don't know how the child broke free. It must have taken a lot of effort.

"You wait." Zhu Qi dropped a sentence, turned his head and walked back home quickly.He himself is often injured, and he has to take care of him, so no matter where he goes, he always has a common medicine box at home.There are not many things inside, just some bandages, gauze and band-aids, which are also useful at this time.

The child was in a daze, seeing that Zhu Qi left without closing the door, he really obediently guarded the door, silently watching the rust on the door with his eyes open.

Not long after, Zhu Qi came back with the medicine box, sat down on the ground, and asked the child to stretch out his hand.

The child looked at his suitcase, tilted his head and thought for a while, before hesitatingly stretched out his hand from between the iron bars of the anti-theft door.The anti-mosquito screen was originally pasted on the anti-theft door, but now it is broken, and it is more than enough to stretch out a child's arm.

Zhu Qi grabbed his hand and took a picture with his mobile phone, and found that the situation was worse than he thought before.There are some thin plastic strands in the child's wound, which are mixed with the flesh and blood, and must be picked out first.

No wonder he cries at night.Zhu Qi looked at the child's eyes and found that they were not very red and swollen, maybe he was used to crying.

I found a pair of tweezers from the medicine box, wiped it with an alcohol swab, and then put the phone in my mouth, and grabbed the opponent's hand with more strength.

"It might hurt a bit later, bear with it." After finishing speaking, Zhu abandoned one of the plastic wires with tweezers, and pulled it lightly and quickly.

The little boy shook his hands in pain, but he didn't struggle.He seemed to know that Zhu Qi was helping him, but he just looked at his wound quietly, with long and dense eyelashes covering his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.

Finally picked out the foreign object in the wound, Zhu Qilei was sweating all over.After finally bandaging one hand, remembering that there was another one, I couldn't help but my eyes went dark.

"Hey, I said you are tied up well, why do you have to struggle to get out." His subordinates remained patient, but his mouth began to get annoyed.

The little boy covered his stomach with the other hand.

"Go to the toilet?" Zhu Qi guessed.

The little boy touched his mouth again.

"Oh, so I'm hungry." Zhu Qi asked, "The one who lives with you is your mother? Didn't she cook for you when she left?"

The little boy lowered his head——Zhu Qi discovered that from this angle, the top of his head seemed to be full.But Manman always eats well, holds his head up happily, and rarely shows such a shy and pitiful expression.

"Coincidentally, I don't have anything to eat."

While speaking, Zhu Qi had already bandaged the wound for the little boy.He stretched his wrist, reached into his pocket and touched the crumpled twenty.

"Let me think about how to use the 20 yuan to fill the stomachs of the two of us."