They were walking to a small col, surrounded by lush trees, and it was nearly dusk, and the sound of insects was chirping one after another, and the small col was particularly quiet. The wizard and Ding Ning secretly tensed the muscles of their whole body, let go of their five senses, and guarded their surroundings. Only Tian Luo, who still couldn't feel the breath of mortals, was still unconscious.

"Babble." Suddenly there was a sound in the grass under the shade of the trees, and even the field basket found something abnormal. For the voice was not in more than one place, but from all sides, and it was not an animal.

The horse, infected by the sounds around him and the increasingly tense atmosphere, gradually slowed down, snorted, and refused to go any further.

Tian Luo put on a cloak that covered his appearance, and the three of them simply jumped out of the carriage and waited, and they immediately knew whether they were people or ghosts.

After a while, the little black heads suddenly rose one after another from the surrounding grass, and it was actually a group of children, about a dozen!

A child of the same age as Ning Weixiu walked out alone.

"I opened this road, I planted this tree, if you want to cross this road, leave the road to buy money!" The child's face was dirty, covered by mud, and his voice was very childish, but he tried his best to pretend to be serious and shouted loudly. "Eat and herbs." After that, I added another sentence.

He shouted very seriously, but Tian Luo couldn't help but snort. She seemed to see Ning Weixiu's pretending to be old.

"What are you laughing at?!" Although the child was only 6 years old, he was very sensitive, and when he heard Tian Luo's laughter, he immediately exploded his hair, and stared at Tian Luo with round black grape-like eyes, but he didn't know how cute he looked like this.

Tian Luo did not reply. She restrained her laughter, took a careful look at her surroundings as a wizard did, and then turned her head to look at the wizard.

There are really all children around, and the oldest is estimated to be about 8 years old, most of them are skinny, sallow, and dirty. At this time, they looked at the three of them solemnly, but their trembling hands holding on to the grass revealed their fear, what a strange combination of robbery.

The wizard and Ding Ning both frowned under their masks. Judging from the appearance of these children, they should be hungry and cold all the time, and looking at the unity posture of most of them holding hands, it should be possible to rule out the speculation that people with intentions deliberately arranged. But if someone didn't deliberately arrange it, then the question is even more serious, where did these children come from? Why rob in such a deserted place? How could they really succeed in the robbery? Even if there are a lot of them, they are all thin and weak, and they are so young, any adult can get rid of them all.

And then they acted. I saw that the two of them seemed to have made an appointment, and pounced on the youngest children respectively, and their movements were fast and disappeared, and after a while, the two of them carried two children in their hands, including the little leader who shouted.

"Ahh

"Bad guys!"

"Put... Let them go! ”

The rest of the children trembled at the sudden turn of events, but none of them fled, but took a few steps forward tremblingly, apparently caring for each other.

"Bastard, let me go, or don't blame me for being rude!" Although the little leader was also frightened, he was still much more mature and calm than the other three children who were caught, shaking his voice and threatening.

But Ding Ning didn't speak at all, and the wizard ignored his weak struggles and threats, and said directly to the rest of the children: "Lead the way to your lair, and I'll release him when I arrive." I will also give you food and herbs. ”

Tian Luo looked at everything blankly, and had to admit that it was despicable for wizards to bully children, but it was really direct and effective. The rest of the children didn't want to take a few of them to their lair, and rushed to lead the way.

The children's nest is very close, deep in the dense woods. The light was getting darker and darker, but their steps were still fast, and they were obviously very familiar with the terrain of the area, and they were there in a short time. But it can't be called a nest at all.

Tian Luo's eyes widened when he saw everything in front of him. In front of him was a clearing in the woods, and it was obvious that the land that had been burned by the fire was blackened, and there were charred tree residues everywhere, and among these residues were small mounds, each of which had a hole just enough for a small child to burrow, and Tian Luo understood at a glance that these children slept in these mounds, relying on the mounds to resist the merciless cold night of the mountains and forests. For, in the empty mound of earth, there was a child sleeping at this time, revealing his thin upper body, sickly and weak, or, perhaps, fainting.

As soon as the wizard and Ding Ning arrived at the place, they put down the boneless child they were carrying, and everything in front of them made them feel very uncomfortable, no matter why the children were robbing here, it was obvious that their situation was extremely bleak, and they were always facing a threat to their lives. They had nothing to keep them warm, and they slept in a mound like a grave, but their lives had not been long in coming. The wizard's brows furrowed even deeper, and Ding Ning's hand quietly clenched into a fist.

As soon as the children were free, they quickly squeezed together to block the only child sleeping in the mound, and the frightened deer-like eyes stared firmly at the every move of the three of them, for fear of being hurt.

The little leader, who was Xu'er, still showed his composure beyond ordinary people at this time, shook off his little friend's hand and dragged him, and walked out of the crowd alone.

"I... Oh, don't try to hurt us, we're not to be messed with. "It's pitiful.

"Where's your father? Why gather here? Tian Luo finally asked the question she had just wanted to ask.

But as soon as she finished speaking, the eyes of the children changed, no longer just frightened, but also mixed with vigilance, which was not the kind of vigilance that was afraid of being hurt just now, but a vigilance that seemed to be secretly watched. Tian Luo was very surprised that he could understand it.

"Let's go, we don't want your food and herbs, you go!" The simple children didn't think about Tian Luo, why they listened to him, the nest was exposed, and it was likely that it would be difficult for them to get out.

"It's getting dark, where can we go? I can only stay with you for one night. "The wizard was struck down, they were going to camp out in the neighborhood anyway. Although it is impossible for them to delay too much time here, they can see these children, how can they leave it alone.

"We will give the rent, food and herbs." Before the child named Su'er could object, the wizard added another bargaining chip, and the children immediately relented, their eyes revealing a desire for food and medicinal herbs.

So, Ding Ning went to catch the carriage that couldn't get in halfway just now, and the wizard opened the way for the carriage to come in, collecting a pile of firewood by the way, and Tian Luo stayed in the children's lair, watching the baggage of the three of them.