Desperate Night

"Yi Yi."

"Yi Yi."

A faint call woke the little girl in the bed from her sleep.

It was Dark night,

In the small square bedroom, There lies a  cute little girl with long black hair who was sleeping on a wooden bed with a quilt covering her till her neck.

She only seems to be about seven or eight years old with a delicate face, a slightly high nose bridge and two cute pimples on her cheeks. She looks like she just started to understand things.

Hearing the sound, she slowly opened her eyes from her sleep, she straightened her body, and she looked around.

The room was dark, with only a little moonlight coming in from the window, dimly illuminating the end of the bed.

At the end of the bed, There stood a black figure.

The upper half of the figure was dark and the face was blurry. But you can feel that it is looking at the little girl quietly.

"Mommy?"

The little girl asked cautiously.

She clutched the quilt tightly with both hands, her expression was tense, and she vaguely felt that something was wrong.

The surroundings were silent, but her voice was particularly loud, echoing slightly in the room.

"Remember, YiYi, no matter what sound you hear, you must hide in the secret altar. Don't come out until the white stone turns black."

The figure said softly.

"Why." a little girl asked.

"Don't come out" but the blurry figure didn't answer her doubts and just said.

After saying that, she slowly turned around and walked towards the door step by step, silently.

The wooden door opened silently, and there was darkness outside, as if welcoming her, and soon swallowed her up completely.

"Mommy, mommy!" The little girl came back to her senses, and she suddenly threw off the quilt, she stood up and she wanted to chase her.

BANG!!!

A loud noise was accompanied by a huge vibration, suddenly rang in her ears.

The little girl suddenly opened her eyes, arched her chest from the bed, and took a deep breath.

It was just a dream.

Her eyes were filled with fear, her pupils were dilated, and her consciousness slowly woke up from her drowsy dream.

BANG!!

There was another loud noise.

The whole room seemed to be shaking.

The wooden door of the room was shaking violently, and there were banging sounds one after another, as if a giant beast was banging wildly outside.

Bang ! Bang ! Bang !!

The huge impact seemed to completely shatter the wooden door.

Tiny cracks are slowly appearing and spreading on the surface of the wooden door.

The little girl suddenly came to her senses and recalled the voice she had just heard in her dream.

"Mommy" She didn't know why, but tears suddenly filled her eyes and an indescribable pain rose in her heart.

But when she heard the loud noise and recalled what she had just said, she threw back the quilt, jumped off the bed, and looked at the movement of the wooden door.

Snap!

Suddenly, a hole was broken in the wooden door, and broken wood pieces flew inward and landed on the ground.

The little girl was covered in her sweat. her heart was beating violently. her face turned pale, and she quickly bent down and crawled under the bed.

She crawled under the bed a few times. She found a hidden black board. She grabbed the pull ring, and pulled it upwards with difficulty.

Under the black board, There was a small square space just big enough for her to curl up.

In the square space, the walls are inlaid with white stones of different sizes.

These stones have different shapes, but they all have one thing in common: a complex red symbol engraved on the surface.

The little girl quickly crawled in and covered her head with black board. The surroundings immediately fell into darkness, and she hid in the small space trembling all over, curled up tightly, listening to the noise outside.

Strangely, after she hid in, the banging noise outside completely disappeared.

It was as if what she had just heard was an illusion.

Quiet

Silence

The only sound around her was her own breathing.

The little girl covered her mouth tightly, fearing that her breathing would be too loud and she would be discovered by something outside.

The great fear and exhaustion brought by the tension slowly invaded her petite body.

As time goes by,

Slowly, the girl fell asleep.

She doesn't know how much time has passed.

One hour, or two hours.

"Yi Yi." A familiar voice woke the little girl from her sleep.

She moved her body, as if trying to curl up in a more comfortable Position.

"Yi Yi?"

"Yi Yi, where are you? Mommy is back."

The sound from outside was heard again.

It was very Gentle and familiar to the little girl.

The fear in the little girl's heart seemed to have decreased a lot after a good sleep.

Hearing the sound, she moved quickly and wanted to go out.

But suddenly she remembered something and looked at the white stones inlaid on the wall. she found that they had not turned black.

'According to my mother, only when the white stone turns black will it be completely safe.' the little girl thought in her mind.

The little girl's original intention to go out suddenly stopped.

"YiYi, it's daybreak outside. It's okay. You can come out now."

The voice sounded again.

"Don't worry, there's light, those things won't dare to come in. Mom is here, you can come out now."

The little girl calculated the time and thought that her mother should be back by about this time.

Every time she hid in this small space, she would take a nap and then come out to see her mother.

The time is about the same this time, so it should be no exception.

As for the white stones inlaid on the wall, it was probably just because too much time had passed that the stones were also white during the day. 

The little girl thought for a moment, then raised her head and looked out through the ventilation hole on the Black board.

She discovered that there was indeed a faint white light outside.

The sky is really bright.

Now, she finally felt at ease.

"coming!"

She responded.

"Mom, I'm here."

She began to move her body, raising her little hands to push the black board above her head.

Soon, she pushed open the black board and struggled to get her head out of the small space and returned to under the bed.

Then she looked outside.

"!!??"

But Outside, it was still dark.

'isn't it daybreak?' the little girl thought.

The little girl's scalp suddenly felt numb.

She knew something was wrong, so she gritted her teeth and squatted down quickly, trying to shrink back into the small space.

Click.

Click.

Suddenly, a pair of white feet wearing her mother's cloth shoes walked to the bottom of the bed and stopped.

"YiYi, my dear daughter, where are you?" The soft and familiar voice came again.

The little girl didn't dare to make a sound. She covered her mouth tightly. Tears suddenly flowed out and slid down her cheeks.

But she didn't dare move. At such a close distance, any movement from her would make a slight noise in the silent environment and she would be noticed by the other party.

She suddenly recalled that her mother must have known about the small space under the bed. So there was no way her mother could ask where she was.

Only then did she realize that she might have been deceived.

Click.

Click.

Soon, there was no response, or perhaps the girl in the small space just now responded too softly and the other party did not hear it.

The feet slowly left the bed. It calmly left, and went somewhere else.

The other person walked very slowly without making much noise, and soon, it disappeared with a slight sound of a door closing.

Again, Everything returned to silence.

The little girl kept enduring it.

She didn't know how much time had passed, but she didn't hear any movement, so she slowly exhaled, relaxed, and retracted herself downwards.

The long-term tension made her body weak, there was a faint buzzing in her ears, and her eyes were a little dizzy.

At this moment, she could no longer hold on and leaned against the inner wall of the small space, gasping for breath.

After finding that there was no danger, the little girl waited for a while and made sure that there was really no movement. Then she crawled out of the small space with difficulty and crawled out little by little along the bottom of the bed.

suddenly

Her shoulder hit something.

The little girl froze, a bad feeling coming over her.

She slowly raised her head and looked towards her right shoulder.

There she saw a long-haired woman in a tattered white dress was sitting quietly on her wooden bed, with her left leg hanging down and resting on little girl's right shoulder.

The woman's long hair covered her face, and she looked down at her. Through the refraction of the moonlight, the little girl could see the corners of the woman's pale mouth, which had traces of decay.

Suddenly,

The woman's rotting face instantly moved closer and it suddenly enlarged -----

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"He didn't die."

A vague voice was heard in the darkness.

It seems to be a woman.

"Well, he is just injured and he is very weak. I'm not saying anything bad about you helping others, but you always rescue people from the woods outside, and there's not much food here, and you have to support his food and drink by yourself," the woman said.

"Okay, sister. I will listen to you" At this time, another young female voice with a severe stuttering sounded.

"You never listen to me. I'm tired of saying anything to you. OK, I've sutured his wound. Be careful not to get it wet to avoid infection. I'm leaving first." The woman seemed to be packing up her things.

"Thank you very much." The stuttering girl gave a silly laugh.

"Don't thank me. After he gets well, remember to drag him out of the door." The woman said helplessly.

"Thanks for your help." The stuttering girl said gratefully.

"In this world, Everyone is having a hard time, and no one has the energy to take care of others and there is you. If it were someone else, he or she would have thrown him back into the wild long ago." said the woman.

Yu Hong slowly gathered his strength and tried to open his eyes in the darkness.

He saw a short little girl who was dirty and had messy black hair talking to a middle-aged woman.

The woman wore glasses and a greyish-white long-sleeved dress with many stains and marks on it.

He only remembered that he was tired from his work, so he went home and fell asleep immediately. Suddenly in the middle of the night he heard some noise, and then he felt a pain in his forehead, and then he knew nothing.

"Whe..re.. a..m.. " He opened his mouth to speak, but found that his throat felt like it was cut by a knife and he could not make any sound. Only bursts of wheezing sounds came out.

At the same time, he felt that his forehead was hot, his body was hot, and the corners of his eyes were full of dry and hard mucus. It is inflamed and must be somewhere on the body, possibly in the throat.

"Medicine" the girl's voice came at this time.

After the clear sound of a door closing, everything became quiet.

The dirty girl took difficult steps and took out a black metal box from the corner of the room.

"Take medicine and you'll get better." She walked to Yu Hong with the medicine.

The lid opened with a click, and inside the metal box was a lot of black charcoal. In the middle of the charcoal, there were three light yellow capsules wrapped in paper.

However, tiny mould spots have grown on the surface of these three pills, and green mould hairs can be seen on the light blue mould spots.

"I can't take this medicine." Yu Hong's face froze and he looked at the other person. Now that he was awake, his throat seemed to be much better and he could speak more fluently, but it still hurt.

"Besides, what kind of medicine is this? What's wrong with my body? You don't even know what disease I have, but you're giving this medicine to me. It won't cure me."

"Tell me first, who are you and where am I? What is going on now?"

The girl was a little confused holding the medicine. She opened her mouth and babbled something anxiously, but no sound came out.

Now that they were close, Yu Hong could see the other person's face clearly.

Her skin was black, with dark yellow stains all over it. Her clothes were a combination of summer, autumn and winter clothes, with greasy black collars and a strong smell of sweat.

She looks like a beggar.

Perhaps many beggars are cleaner than her.

From a distance, she looked like a moving black clothes cart. When he got closer, he realised that the girl's body was deformed, one leg was lame, and there was a large tumour behind her right shoulder, the outline of which could be clearly seen through her clothes.

She was less than 1.5 metres tall, short, dirty, and moved very slowly.

But those eyes were like clear gems, with very few impurities.