After the salted fish excavator became popular

The blinding darkness can completely engulf a person.

There is no time or light here, the only sound that can be heard is the sound of her own breathing, Zhou Runqing does not know how long it has passed.

This familiar yet suffocating feeling gradually ate away all his sanity, and the more time went by, the more panic he felt in his heart.

Zhou Runqing struggled to stand up in the darkness, swung his fists and punched the self-righteous wall, and finally fell into a piece of air, and the inertia of his body brought him forward and fell to the ground.

His breathing became more and more rapid, bean-sized beads of sweat emerged and slipped from his forehead, every breath was as difficult as if he had exhausted all the air, the position of his heart was tight, and there was pain between each breath. pain.

He tried to find the exit, but couldn't get up.

His legs were shaking and he couldn't exert any strength.

The strong sense of familiarity and the feeling of being so depressing that it can drive people crazy are so unfamiliar that Zhou Runqing has already begun to be unable to distinguish whether the fragmentary images in front of him are reality or fantasy.

His own voice sounded in his ears, but it was as green as a middle school student in his teens.

"What's your name?"

The little boy in front of him looked about thirteen or fourteen years old. Although the clothes he was wearing were a little dirty, they could be seen to be of a good brand.

He stayed alone in the corner quietly and palely. Unlike most of the people who came here, there was no trace of panic on his immature face, and his sharp eyes revealed a bit of indifference and extreme that did not match his age.

He looked at Zhou Runqing, who was a few years older than himself, but did not answer.

Zhou Runqing walked up to him, touched his arm lightly with his hand, and he asked cautiously, "Hey, are you...can't talk?"

The boy still didn't answer, and didn't even look at him.

Little Zhou Runqing had no choice but to put her hand back in disappointment.

He hasn't washed his hair for more than half a month, it's dirty and looks like a child just picked up from outside.

And this thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy came a while later than him, and he looked much cleaner than him, but after all, he hadn't showered for almost a week.

It was still winter at that time, and although there was occasional sunshine, the temperature was not high.

They live in the same room with a group of people. This suite has three rooms in total. There is a bed in the inner room, where the boss sleeps, and the next room is used to lock up disobedient people. Zhou Runqing has not entered it yet. .

The rest of them sleep in the outer room, without beds, where they work during the day, and at night, they put down the mats rolled up and erected against the wall, and then sleep on the spot.

There is no air conditioning here, but there are many people, so even in winter, sleeping will not be very cold.

The hardest part is taking a shower.

There is a bathroom in their house, but the boss and the proprietress will lock it directly after using it, and no one can use it without their consent.

There are men and women in this room, and there are people of all ages. Zhou Runqing will draw a curtain for himself every time he takes a bath. So far, the bathing process has been relatively smooth.

This time he had half a jug of water left after taking a shower.

"Do you want to take a bath?" This boy is the only one among dozens of people who is about his age. He boiled water with a thermos and poured it into the basin. The amount is limited, if you want to wash, I will leave some for you."

The boy didn't speak.

Zhou Runqing firmly believed that he was dumb.

He simply walked over, grabbed the boy's hand, and led him behind the curtain.

The boy's body was already very dirty, and he could even smell an unpleasant smell when he got closer.

Zhou Runqing started to help him undress, but the boy suddenly grabbed his wrist, and when he lowered his head, he met a pair of cold eyes.

"You are too dirty, I'll help you take a bath." Zhou Runqing had no choice but to explain, "If we don't hurry up and take a bath, and someone else uses the water, we can only take a bath next week."

He looked at the stubborn boy in front of him, and thought it was a bit funny, if he was vigilant, others were already here, if he was not vigilant, he seemed to be quite able to defend himself.

"But if you don't want to wash, I won't force you."

The boy stared at Zhou Runqing closely, as if he wanted to find something he needed from his eyes.

After a long time, he let go of Zhou Runqing's hand and stopped resisting.

Zhou Runqing helped him take off his shirt, only then did he discover that there was a burn on the boy's back, which looked hideous and bright red, like a fresh wound.

He asked the boy how he was injured, but of course he didn't get an answer.

Zhou Runqing asked him to lift his feet, and helped him take off his pants.

When the wet towel was attached to the skin of his back, Zhou Runqing noticed that the boy frowned unconsciously.

It still looks like it hurts.

He relaxed the movements of his hands even more, and while helping him take a bath, he tested whether he could speak, "Do you remember your name?"

Zhou Runqing emphasized, "Don't worry, I won't hurt you."

The boy still didn't answer him, neither nodded nor shook his head, as if he didn't understand what he said at all.

At this point, Zhou Runqing was completely sure that the boy in front of him was dumb.

After taking a shower, there was not much hot water left, so Zhou Runqing asked the boy to stay obediently behind the curtain, went out quietly and boiled some water in, and washed his hair for him by the way.

There are too many people in this room, and everyone has a fixed task to complete every day, and there are many types of punishments for failing to complete, the lightest being not being able to eat, and everything else they cannot bear, so most of them All the attention was on himself, and the 17-year-old boy quietly boiled two pots of water without anyone noticing.

After helping him take a bath, Zhou Runqing found a set of her own clothes and put them on for him.

Because of age and height, the clothes are a bit loose for boys.

This set of clothes is old. It was thrown to Zhou Runqing by the boss when he proposed to go out to buy clothes after he came here for a while.

Because the amount of water was limited every day, Zhou Runqing folded the dirty clothes that the two of them had changed and put them in the same basket, planning to wash them off together the next day.

During this process, the boy sat on a small stool beside him, staring at him intently.

Sometimes Zhou Runqing would talk to him, but the boy still wouldn't answer.

But at this time, Zhou Runqing didn't mind asking and answering, as long as someone could listen to him.

There are too many people here, it is inevitable that they will have a headache, so some commonly used medicines are prepared in the cabinet.

Zhou Runqing found some medicine for burns and scalds, and returned to the boy, "The injury on your back needs to be treated, can I rub the medicine on you?"

The boy stared at the medicine in his hand without saying a word, but when Zhou Runqing lifted his shirt from underneath, he didn't resist either.

When the medicine was applied, it should have hurt, but the boy still didn't say a word.

After doing this, it's time to go to bed.

Some adults who completed their tasks ahead of schedule had already put down the big mat.

Zhou Runqing picked up the side seat and patted it, looked at the boy standing aside with indifference and said, "You can sleep next to me, I will sleep next to you, so that others will not bump into you."

Because there are men and women, this group of people is not honest when they sleep. Some people sleep in this position at night, and when they wake up in the morning, they have already reached the other side. Zhou Runqing doesn't want the wound on the boy's body that has just been treated to be touched by others, which will make it more serious. .

The boy was silent for a while, then lay down on the spot he designated.

When Zhou Runqing was drowsy, she asked the boy's name again. She didn't expect any reply, but she heard a voice full of childishness and no warmth.

"Pei Pei."

"You can actually talk!" Zhou Runqing woke up from a drowsy moment. He turned over, faced the boy, and asked in surprise, "Which two words are they? Peipei or Peipei?"

The boy shook his head, not sure if he didn't remember, or he didn't want to say it.

"Then I'll call you Pei Pei from now on, okay?" Zhou Runqing thought that boys should not be named "Pei Pei".

The boy nodded.

Because of this episode, Zhou Runqing couldn't sleep.

"Do you want to read?" he asked Pei Pei.

Peipei looked at him silently, his eyes seemed to say: Just look at me.

The lights were still on in the room, and some adults were busy with their work. Some of them were already crying when they thought of the punishment for not completing their work.

In such a chaotic environment, sleep is extremely difficult.

There is everything in this room that I dare not have. There is a TV set on the TV cabinet as a display, and some discs with exposed pictures are scattered around, and there is a mess of pornographic books.

Zhou Runqing was no stranger to this, he rummaged through a pile of books, and finally found a book whose title looked relatively normal.

He walked back to the mat with the book in his hand, propped his elbows on the mat, and read on his stomach.

Suddenly a warm body approached, and Pei Pei's eyes fell on the page with him.

After reading only a few pages, Zhou Runqing felt surprised and awkward.

"This man's name is the same as mine," he said.

Pei Pei directly took the book from his hand.

He read and re-read those three words carefully, as if he had memorized them before returning the book to Zhou Runqing.

The night passed without incident.

Of course, the amount of water needed to wash two people's clothes at the same time is different from washing one person's clothes. Zhou Runqing used more water when doing the laundry the next day.

The boss who had just paid the water bill came over with a sullen face.

"Zhou Runqing, you eat and live in mine, and you don't have any income. You can't be like this, can you?"

This man is about 40 to [-] years old, with a thick face, he doesn't look like a good person.

He said: "I have given you enough time, but you still haven't remembered the contact information of your family?"

Zhou Runqing shook his head.

Three weeks ago, his mother paid him his living expenses, weeping and laughing on the phone, and told him in reverse words to save him money at school, because the family had no money.

He was still in middle school and couldn't bear the burden of his family at all. He left school and decided not to study anymore, but to find a job to lighten the burden on his family.

Just a few steps out of the school gate, someone touched his phone on the street.

He was quickly met with "recruiters".

Then he was brought here.

Looking at the people in the room who were busy making calls and sending messages, Zhou Runqing knew that he had been cheated.

The "manager" introduced him to their "project" and promised to make a lot of money. However, the current initial capital investment and contacts are not enough, and they need their help to invest.

Zhou Runqing is just young, not stupid.

He soon realized he had been duped.

"I have no family," he said.

"Okay, then go to that room and think about it slowly!"

Zhou Runqing was locked in a room he had never been in before.

There is nothing in it, no light, no sound, it seems to be completely separated from the world.

He didn't feel the horror here at first, he even slept peacefully in it, and when he woke up again, what he saw when he opened his eyes was still boundless darkness.

He didn't know how long it had passed, he couldn't distinguish between night and day, and he didn't know if the people outside had already left.

There is a good chance that he will be trapped here to death!

Zhou Runqing began to grope for an exit, and he beat hard as far as he could reach, but there was no movement outside, and he finally broke down and cried.

No one can hear.

No one will come to his rescue.

Suddenly, the door that had been closed opened.

Light squeezed in through the crack of the door.

He saw a tall body.

Zhou Runqing looked over blankly, the person running towards her against the light seemed to overlap with the thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy in her mind.

No, this person is not Pei Pei, he is Shen Yu.

He was held in the arms of the man.

Shen Yu hugged him tightly, her voice was completely out of control.

His voice was trembling badly, with salty warm liquid, "Baby, it's okay, it's okay."

The author has something to say:

coming!I feel that my teeth are much better, because the face is thin, the swelling is really obvious

Thanks to the little angels who voted for me or irrigated the nutrient solution~

Thank you very much Clover Baby for supporting me, I will continue to work hard! ［Fist.jpg］