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The quilt on Du Qi's bed fell to the floor, and there was only one pillow lying on the bed sheet.

After being shaken awake, Chen Zhifei first glanced at the window. The window was still there, and there was no sign of it being opened except for some small scratches.He checked again if the door was still locked. He locked it himself last night, and the door was still in a cumbersome state at this time.

In other words, the door has never been opened.

How did Du Qi disappear?

After one night, the temperature in the room had dropped below freezing. Ding Bai shivered while putting on his clothes. Outside the window was foggy, and he let out a breath and quickly sublimated into a cloud. mist.

Chen Zhifei was already fully dressed and was studying Du Qi's empty bed. He reached out and touched the bed sheet. His tentacles were cold and damp, which meant that Du Qi had been gone for a long time.

A person disappeared from the two of them without a trace, and the lock of the door was not tampered with. Chen Zhifei couldn't help wondering if there was any other place in the room that could lead to the outside.

Ding Bai jumped off the bed, the old-fashioned canopy bed made a creaking sound, he reached out to shake the quilt that was about to fall to the floor, and saw a ball of hair leaking from the upper bunk.

......

Du Qi didn't know when he ran to Chen Zhifei's bed and slept soundly.

"You don't need to look for it, someone is sleeping soundly on your bed." Ding Bai called out to Chen Zhifei.

It was not yet six o'clock, and it was still dark outside.Du Qi on the upper bunk turned over to confirm his existence. Ding Bai and Chen Zhifei couldn't laugh or cry, but they also breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, this guy is still staying in the house.

Chen Zhifei took out the lighter and lit the candle that Du Qi brought over, a small flame made the whole room a little more warm.

After a while, Du Qi, who was sleeping on the upper bunk, woke up and stared sleepily at the two people who were warming themselves around candles.

Ding Bai glanced at Du Qi, who obviously didn't sleep well and asked, "Why did you run to the upper bunk?"

Du Qi scratched his head with two dark circles under his eyes, and said with a straight face: "Scared."

Scared?

"I slept well last night, but for some reason I heard a beating sound all the time." Du Qi said, watching Ding Bai and Chen Zhifei look at each other, "I have always slept well, and I didn't take it seriously, but gradually I heard someone talking next to my ear."

"I woke up in a daze and saw a face on the window beating on the window, and that voice was calling my mother in my ear," Du Qi said.

call mom?Ding Bai felt that this was outrageous.

Then Du Qi said again: "I thought I heard it wrong, so I turned over, but I found that the sound seemed to be coming from under the bed."

"So you ran to the upper bunk to sleep?" Ding Bai said.

"I wanted to wake you up, but who knew that the two of you were hugging and sleeping together, and I ran over when I saw that your upper bunk was empty."

This.......

Ding Bai thought to himself, did he sleep so deadly?

But since Du Qi mentioned this, he and Chen Zhifei lay down on the ground and checked the bottoms of the two beds, and it turned out that the bottoms of the two beds were empty.

"Do you think that thing ran in last night?" Ding Bai pointed to the window outside.

"It's unlikely, and didn't he just say that when he woke up, he saw someone knocking on the window outside." Chen Zhifei said.

And that thing may not be the kind that comes in but is just scary. Chen Zhifei suspects that Du Qi heard the movement in the next room, or the sound downstairs.

Just after six o'clock, they heard footsteps outside, followed by a person shouting and knocking on the door, knocking from the outermost room to the innermost room one by one.

Soon there were some sounds outside, buzzing like a swarm of bees that had gathered suddenly.Ding Bai opened the door and took a look, only to find that there are quite a lot of people living on this floor.

Since they arrived very late last night, they didn't pay attention to how many rooms there are on this floor. According to the current situation, there are probably more than forty people living in this floor.

And they are all children of Qing Yishui.

It's like the déjà vu of a kindergarten plunged headlong...

And still as an older child.

It's not just Ding Bai who feels this way, they all feel this way.A bunch of people are obviously at the age of entering the society and pretending to be children...

Oh, and one person is not.

Chen Zhifei was surrounded by a group of children, and was asked various questions in a hurry.

"Are you the new teacher?"

"What do you know? Will you teach us?"

"Do you have toys behind your ears?"

Chen Zhifei was so annoyed by the twittering all morning that he wanted to take off his hearing aids for a quieter time.

Fortunately, this situation did not last for too long. As soon as it was past seven o'clock, the group of chattering children lined up downstairs in a very qualified manner, and a group of dealers followed them downstairs.

It turned out that there was another building next to the building they lived in last night, but this building was not on the side of Ding Bai's room, and their room faced the back mountain.

There is only a small playground between the two buildings. In the middle is a small football field made of artificial turf. On both sides of the football field are a row of small bungalows, which are classrooms and the collective activity area of ​​the cafeteria.

A group of them lined up and walked into the cafeteria. The size of this orphanage is relatively large, but most of them are children under the age of eight. Only Ding Bai and the few older children are slightly older. bigger.

When they entered the cafeteria, they found that the activities here were divided according to their age, including the food they ate.

Ding Bai stared at a bowl of soup or porridge in front of him, wondering for a moment, and then glanced at the items on Du Qi's plate not far away. They were all 'orphans'. Why can there be rice in the porridge in Du Qi's bowl?

Not only that, he found that the things in the bowls of the older children in the orphanage seemed to have been mixed with water.

The attitude of these children is very different. They seem to cherish the things in front of them, and stuff them into their mouths without saying a word.

Looking at the slender backs of these children when eating, Ding Bai couldn't help but handed over half of the steamed buns in his bowl, but he didn't expect that his kind gesture would bring serious consequences to this child .

The steamed bun, half the size of a fist, just landed on the child's plate, and a hand next to him quickly slapped his plate away. The soup in the flying bowl spilled all over the floor, and the child raised his head in horror. Those angry faces.

"I'm sorry." The child was terrified, but he began to apologize in an instant as if habitual.

"Get out!" The middle-aged man yelled, this sound made Ding Bai a little upset, and what made him even more upset was that the child walked out of the restaurant without saying a word.

"I want to give it to him." Ding Bai couldn't help standing up and said.

And what he greeted was also a rebuke: "You go out too!"

Ding Bai held back his anger, and by the way, held down Chen Zhifei who was beside him. Before leaving, he whispered to Chen Zhifei: "I'll go and have a look."

Following the child out of the dining room, Ding Bai saw that he did not stop but went to a storage room next to the small bungalow, and he skillfully picked up the broom and began to sweep the floor.

Ding Bai wanted to go up and apologize to the child, but the child ignored him and focused on the fallen leaves on the ground.

After thinking for a long time, he returned to the storage room and took the broom and followed the child to sweep the floor.In any case, Ding Bai's kindness caused the child to be scolded, and he felt a little sorry.What's more, he only drank less than half of the bowl of soup, which didn't look like porridge.

Ding Bai followed the child like a follower and cleaned the entire playground. When he put the broom back in the storage room, the child said to him: "You don't have to do this, because you will be like me in the end."

Ding Bai didn't understand what he meant, so he followed him and asked, "What is it like?"

The child stopped on both sides of the walk and looked at him and said: "People who are worthless will be abandoned here."

What do you mean?

At this time, Ding Bai still didn't understand what the child meant, and it was not until the group of them were reassigned that they gradually became different.

Originally, the number of dealers participating in this game was twelve, but because Ding Bai brought Chen Zhifei in, the number of dealers became thirteen.Two dealers were not found last night, reducing the number to 11.

At this time, a banker was divided into three shares.One is three people who are eight years old and below, and the other is seven people who look like older children like Ding Bai.

The other one is Chen Zhifei... His one is a bit unclear.

At this time, the one under the age of eight went to the classroom next to the playground, while Ding Bai and the others had a broom and their task was to clean the dormitory.

As for Chen Zhifei, his current identity seems to be a casual person?

Ding Bai kicked the broom in his hand, and he couldn't help wondering if he came to this orphanage as a cleaner?

There are also a few children in their group who were originally orphanages. Like the child just now, the smiles on the faces of these children are obviously missing. Compared with the children sitting in the classroom, they are really a bit behind.

Fortunately, this grouping also gave them some time to start analyzing the situation. After some exchanges, everyone found that their current age was 12 years younger than their original age.

That is to say, in this game, the banker's age is controlled under 16 years old.

What is the purpose of this distinction in this game?Or what is the purpose of being in this orphanage?

Ding Bai looked at the child's back arched when he bent over to clean the stairs with the broom in his hands. In the sub-zero temperature, his clothes were pitifully thin, and his fingers holding the broom were flushed from the cold, but he still had to pick up the blanket of water. Wipe dust off the armrest with a damp rag.

In the end, he still couldn't bear it, so Ding Bai stepped forward and snatched the rag from the child's hand and began to wipe the dust off the armrest. Perhaps Ding Bai's action was a little sudden, the child was stunned for a moment, and picked up another rag instead of saying anything.

They rubbed all the way from the third floor to the first floor, and bursts of singing came from the classrooms on both sides of the playground next to them. The children stopped their hands and stood in place to look at the sound.

"Very envious?" Ding Bai leaned over and said with a face about the same age as a child.

The child didn't speak. After being interrupted by Ding Bai, he continued to pick up the rag and started working. Ding Bai stared at him and asked, "What does it mean that a worthless person will be abandoned here?"

The movement of the child's hands paused, his eyes seemed to glance at the classroom not far away, and finally stared at Ding Bai and said: "Come here with me and my brother."

"Before we were ten years old, we sang in the classroom like them." He pointed to the classroom not far away, "The children who came together were adopted one after another, and my brother and I stayed until the end."

"At first, the dean's mother often talked to my brother, but every time my brother came back from the conversation, he was not very happy. Then one day my brother disappeared, and the dean's mother said that my brother had run away."

"I waited for a long time but didn't find him, but one day when I woke up in the middle of the night, I saw my brother calling me outside the window. I wanted to open the window to let him in, but I found that I lived on the third floor."

"The dean's mother said that my brother was worthless, so he was abandoned."

"And we were also kicked out of the classroom, and she said that our value now is to do these chores."

"If one day we have no value, we will be abandoned."

Ding Bai stood where he was, and folded the rags in his hands into one piece. He looked at the children who were still working in a pile of dealers not far away, and suddenly felt that their appearance might make these children lose their sense of belonging soon. the value of.