Do you know?

In the dry city, there are no flowers.

Because all the flowers that come here can't survive the next sunset.

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Dirty muddy water stuck to the ill-fitting robes, and he heard the malicious voices of those who looked glamorous, gentle, and friendly on the outside.

"It's a child."

"Allah, you look pathetic."

"Really, what the people outside think, I was embarrassed to eat him."

"It's just right that you don't eat, there's one less competitor!"

"A child's heart is delicious."

"How do you know, you haven't eaten again."

"Delicious? Will it crunch when you bite into it hahaha!! ”

He wrapped his arms around himself and listened to the "people" assigning his limbs and internal organs to the "way" with great fanfare.

After a long time......

"Is this kid a mute, he hasn't spoken."

"You scared him."

"Really, actually bullying a child, hmm, that, little sister, are you okay?"

Slightly avoiding the hand that reached over to touch him, his voice was soft and low, "What is this place?" There seemed to be a voice in my heart that was vaguely saying something, but I couldn't hear it clearly......

"What, it's a boy!"

"I feel cheated!"

No one answered his words.

"Why do boys want such long hair, cut it off and cut it off!"

As he spoke, there was a real click of scissors opening and closing, and he seemed to shrink back in horror, but his head was still buried in his knees.

"Get out of here!"

A very unceremonious scolding sounded, and there was a sudden silence around him, and after a long time, he raised his head, and the strange people were gone, leaving only a person wrapped in bandages, looking at him with a pair of calm eyes.

Seeing that he finally raised his head, a bright smile flashed in his eyes: "I thought you were going to curl up here for the rest of your life."

He didn't speak, carefully looking at the strange-looking man.

The hand that was also wrapped in a white bandage stretched out, and the mouth covered by the bandage moved: "Hmm, hello, let me introduce myself first, I am a bone binding, perhaps, your teacher for the next period of time."

He looked at it for a long time before he stretched out his dirty hand and touched his bone-bound hand, the white bandage was visibly dirty, and his face was black behind the bone-bound bandage.

I don't know why, but when he saw this scene, he laughed.

Seeing his smiling face, his eyes flashed: "I hope you can smile like you do now in the future."

……

"Because you're sent from the inner city, you can have a seven-day adaptation period unlike newcomers from the outer city," Bone Bound explained as he looked at his child scrubbing vigorously in the barrel, "All you need to do in these seven days is to keep getting stronger, stronger, stronger and stronger than anyone who wants to hurt you, or you will be 'eaten' by them as they say." ”

His hand paused, and after a few seconds of staring blankly at the bone binding, the "black water" in the wooden barrel, which had already become turbid, spilled out one by one and splashed onto the snow-white bandage of the bone binding.

Bonebind's face changed, and he glared at the child.

He gave the Bone Bound a clean and innocent smile.

……

The child who had changed his clothes was thrown into the mire: "First lesson, learn to survive in a harsh environment, I will pick you up tomorrow morning."

His eyes widened as he watched the man walk away, the mire devouring his body.

What to do, what to do......

Something swam over......

His dark eyes widened......

……

The next morning, Bone Bound came to pick up the child with a lunch box in his hand.

He heard the noise, and raised his blue and black eyes, and beside him was the corpse of a huge unknown monster, and the smell of blood was extremely strong, in addition to the blood of the monster, there was also his own.

To kill the monster and use its power to get out of the mire, he paid the price of an arm and a leg.

Bone Binding raised an eyebrow, though he didn't know how to see it. Gu Tie walked to him with the lunch box, did not squat, and stretched out the hand holding the lunch box: "Eat?"

His eyes were open, and his injured hands were not able to lift at all.

Gu Tie looked at him for a few seconds, took the lead in defeat, sighed, squatted down with some disgust, opened the lunch box, and sandwiched a chopstick rice: "Open your mouth!"

He watched the bones in silence for a long time before he opened his mouth, blood rushing out of his mouth, but he had no time to care, and swallowed the rice to fill his hunger.

"Don't worry, there are a lot of these things," Bone Binding seemed to have some pity, but also a little pity, "Eat slowly, enjoy the taste of this moment, and you will never eat these things again in a few days." ”

He chewed intently on the food in his mouth, oblivious to the subconscious meaning of the bones' words.

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"Hasn't the city lord had enough of it?" A voice asked.

"Don't make it!" The child guarding the door of the city lord's house hugged the rabbit doll in his arms tightly, and said to the person covered in dirty bandages, "Little binding, Tutu is so boring, can you play with Tutu~"

"Little Bondage" turned around, and walked away step by step: "I still have something to do, you find someone else, the city lord will sue me when he comes back."

The short-haired child pursed his mouth, looked at the rabbit doll's red eyes, and said unhappily: "Tutu, why do you say that everyone has something to do and doesn't play with Tutu?"

Suddenly remembered something, the child's eyes lit up: "By the way, I heard that there is a child among the people from the inner city this time, let's go to him to play, do you say it's okay Tutu~"

The rabbit doll nodded.

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Bone Bound took the child to the doctor.

The doctor is a special kind of person in the middle city, and it is also a group of people who have a little respect for everyone except the city lord.

He watched in amazement as the doctor had sutured his wound with a few stitches, and what was even more shocking was that his right leg, which he thought had been useless, was actually reviving and healing at a speed that was visible to the naked eye.

It can be seen that the doctors in the dry city are not ordinary people. Of course, the bone binding said that the peculiarity of this dry city is also related.

"Ahhhh

It's just a little painful......

……

That same afternoon, the Bone Binding kicked him into a wormhole.

"Lesson 2, learn to make the bugs scared of you, I'll pick you up in two days."

Turning around with the same crisp and neat, he looked at the man's back and realized that the man was really nothing more than that.

The only thing he can rely on is himself.

……

"Learn to make the bugs fear you" was just a casual remark, but he didn't expect that kid to actually do it.

Looking at the child who was standing in the insect tide and smiling at him, his lips moved, and his bones were very uncomfortable, and sure enough, the next second, for some reason, the sea of insects came overwhelmingly.

Bone Tie decisively turns around and runs!

……

"Lesson 3, learn how to disguise."

"Give you half a day to fool the man-eating birds' sense of smell and hearing," Bone Tie pointed to the eerily green forest not far away, and then snapped his fingers, "In the second half of the day, find any storefront in Midtown and let them believe that you are the god sent by God to save them!" ”

"Come on, boy!"

The child looked at the bones with a caring eye for a brain-dead child.

"By the way, if you meet someone with a bad temper, you will be killed if you fail to deceive."

“……”