Yin Hehe stood there dazed for a long time until she seemed to hear the sound of a child crying, and only then did she snap back to reality.
"Is that the woman's child?" She quickly grabbed the arm of the man in front of her and started pulling him towards the direction of the crying.
The man was caught off guard and stumbled as she dragged him along.
But he did not struggle.
Minutes later, indeed, Yin Hehe went a little further into the fork in the road and saw a little girl with disheveled hair and a dress stained with blood, standing there and bawling her eyes out.
"Mommy..."
She was calling for her mom, and in her tear-filled, little eyes was a look of terror.
Yin Hehe's heart ached immediately.
She rushed over and scooped up the child: "Xiaobao, where is your mom?"
"Mommy..." The little girl cried out again, but due to her young age, she could not express anything else.
Yin Hehe didn't ask any more questions and just charged ahead with the child in her arms.