Chapter 229 You Are So Old

Chapter 229 You Are So Old

The boy screamed shrilly, "Mom!"

Then he spread his legs and ran forward.

He rushed out more than ten meters regardless of anything, then braked suddenly and turned back to look at Ai Wanxin.

He wanted to come back to pull Ai Wanxin, but he also wanted to run home quickly. He was completely panicked.

Just from the few words she heard and the boy's behavior, Ai Wanxin had vaguely guessed why he brought her into the city.

Such a young child walked through the dark corridor alone and searched for an unknown amount of time in the ruins that looked like a ghost town before he found himself.

Although he didn't have any good ideas, it must be said that for a kid of eleven or twelve years old, he was brave and resourceful.

Ai Wanxin pretended not to notice and nodded: "I'll be right there."

The boy turned around and ran towards a shack not far away.

Ai Wanxin also walked over holding her adopted "grandson".

The boy, Xiao Pu, pushed aside the three men surrounding the shack like a whirlwind, spread his thin arms to block the shack, and said anxiously: "Pan Shu, it's not our turn today, you can't do anything stupid!"

Pan Yongfu sighed and said, "Xiao Pu, Uncle Pan has no other choice. Your sister Xue's whole family is missing. Uncle Pan has been looking for them all night but couldn't find them. It's almost dawn. If we don't hand them over, something bad will happen."

"Ah, I don't know who leaked the list. This dedication to the resurrection goddess is to let our loved ones return to everyone. The separation is only temporary. So we can't just enjoy the blessings bestowed by the goddess without offering sacrifices, right?"

Xiao Pu shook his head vigorously: "I don't care, whoever's turn it is, it's their turn. It's your business if you can't find someone, why should we take over?"

The man beside Pan Yongfu was cold and hungry, and had been looking for someone all night. He had long lost his patience. He grabbed Xiao Pu Lingding's wrist bone and tried to pull him away from the shack, shouting, "I told you there's no time, why are you so ignorant?"

"Besides, look at your mother. She is so seriously ill. What difference does it make if you donate one day earlier or later?"

Xiao Pu struggled frantically like a puppy whose hind legs were grabbed. In the quarantine area, any wound could be fatal, so the man did not dare to confront him forcefully. He quickly let go of his hand and retreated behind Pan Yongfu.

"Xiao Pu's mother, your brother Pan has no other choice. Can I ask you for help, please?" Pan Yongfu knew that he couldn't convince the child, so he asked Xiao Pu's mother directly.

Xiao Pu screamed, "That list, why did that list put us at the front? Why don't you go? Why don't you put yourselves at the front!"

Pan Yongfu's face froze when he asked this question.

In fact, no one knows whether the dead can really be resurrected, or whether those who failed to mutate can really return to their side.

But they still hold a glimmer of hope in their hearts, but this hope cannot be exchanged at the cost of their own lives.

The city lord's people only said that one person had to be sent out every day, but did not specify who it would be. With so many people coming to him for help, shouldn't they all be taken care of, including those who are his relatives or have some indirect relationship with his subordinates?

Xiao Pu's family, with its orphans and widowed mother, is pitiful, but who wouldn't be pitiful in the end times?

They live in such a difficult situation, and they don't know when they will starve to death. So they might as well dedicate themselves to the goddess of resurrection as soon as possible. Then they can live again when the day comes for the dead to be resurrected, right?

The more Pan Yongfu thought about it, the more it made sense. He glanced at the sky and knew that he couldn't delay any longer, so his voice became stern: "Xiao Pu, now is not the time for you to act silly. If you care about your mother, go for her."

"Brother Pan, Brother Pan, I'll go. Xiao Pu is too young. I'll go with you guys—"

The woman's voice was weak and faint. Through the gap between the three people blocking the front of the shack, Ai Wanxin saw a middle-aged woman who looked haggard, staggering and trying to stand up holding on to the several wooden boards supporting the shack.

Xiao Pu shook her head frantically: "No, Mom, you can't go. If you go, you can't come back, Mom!"

The woman shook her head. She looked at Xiao Pu with eyes full of love and reluctance, then turned her gaze to a tightly tied swaddling cloth inside the shack: "You and your sister wait for mom. If...if it really doesn't work, you can bury your sister and live well on your own."

"Blame mom, blame mom for saving my sister..."

The woman's voice was choked at the end, and Xiao Pu couldn't help but burst into tears. He hugged the woman who was not much heavier than a leaf and refused to let go.

Seeing Pan Yongfu was about to bring people up to separate them, he pointed at Ai Wanxin who was standing not far away with tears on his face and cried, "She is my grandma, you take her away!"

Pan Yongfu and the others turned around and saw Ai Wanxin standing half in the shadows. He asked suspiciously, "Who are you? Why haven't I seen you before?"

Before Ai Wanxin could say anything, Xiao Pu knelt on the ground with a plop and kowtowed to Ai Wanxin: "Grandma, grandma, please save us! You are so old, please help us!"

He turned to Pan Yongfu and shouted, "She is very old and has lived long enough. You can take her away!"

Xiao Pu's mother covered her son's mouth in shock: "We don't know her, son, what are you talking about? How could you do this?"

Ai Wan said coldly, "Do you have to die when you are very old? If you say that again, I will not care about you anymore."

Xiao Pu was crying and hiccuping. He could only shake his head mechanically: "No... No..."

Pan Yongfu was confused: "Where are you from?"

Ai Wanxin then turned to him and said, "I found it from somewhere else. Okay, I'll go with you."

Xiao Pu's mother was shocked: "No, you know what will happen if you go? No! Xiao Pu, what's going on? How did you tell others?"

She was already out of breath after saying these few words.

Pan Yongfu doesn't care about all this, time waits for no one.

He stopped Xiao Pu's mother from telling him everything: "Stop talking. Do you want your son to starve to death here alone?"

Xiao Pu's mother shook her head vigorously: "No, if you go there you will die and you won't be able to come back. I can't let you die for me."

The man who had just grabbed Xiao Pu cursed, "What nonsense! That is a sacrifice. The resurrected goddess will give us more in return!"

Ai Wanxin's face, which was covered by the cloak, wrinkled slightly: "Okay, I'll go to make the offering, let's go, aren't you in a hurry?"

Pan Yongfu was afraid that she would regret it and cause more trouble, so he hurriedly said, "Let's go, let's go now."

He walked in front, and the other two men walked behind Ai Wanxin to prevent her from escaping.

Before turning around, Ai Wanxin glanced at Xiao Pu and his mother, and said meaningfully, "Then let's go."