Chapter Twenty-Nine: Naoer

I braked the car.

"How can there be a child in such a place!" ”

Wei Zao said, "Is that a child?" ”

I didn't speak, I stared at the little thing. It was about 10 o'clock in the morning, and it was already uncontrollably hot, and the earth was trembling and rising, and through it, the child shook slightly, and it seemed a little unreal.

The four eyes finally stopped screaming and stared ahead.

He looked at us for a moment, withdrew his gaze, took a few crooked steps to the side, looked around, turned around and took a few steps in the opposite direction, and continued to look around.

I said, "Mirage." ”

Pulp said, "Phantom? ”

I started in gear and continued to walk slowly.

We got closer and closer to the living creature, and it never disappeared, it became clearer and clearer. Sure enough, it's a child!

We stopped a few dozen meters away from him, and I said to Pulp, "You and Four Eyes stay in the car, and Wei and I will go over and have a look." ”

"Okay......"

Wei and I got out of the car and slowly approached the child.

He staggered across the empty desert, not knowing where to go.

Finally, we came to him, and he winked at us in the scorching sun.

I suddenly remembered a novel I had written, "Three minus one equals many". Many readers said, and the media also said, that the Hollywood movie "Orphan's Resentment" plagiarized "Three minus one equals few". The story goes something like this: There was a small town where there was a sudden power outage one day, and a baby appeared on the outskirts of the town. A few well-wishers took him home, gave him a temporary name - "fork", and then took turns raising him, waiting for his parents to claim it. Unexpectedly, terror has enveloped this town since then, some people are dead, some people are crazy, and some people are crippled......

Now it's reality!

We met a child in Lop Nur, where there was no grass!

Could it be that in the novels I've written, the protagonists will appear one after another? Oh my God, don't do that.

It was a boy, about two or three years old, full body**. He is quite thoughtful, and the only drawback is that the two big round eyes are too close. His hair was brown, his skin was quite white, and his fingernails and toenails were neatly trimmed.

I tentatively screamed, "Baby......"

He looked at me with a wink.

I said, "Why are you here?" What about Mom and Dad? ”

He seemed annoyed, and walked to the side with an unsteady center of gravity.

I walked around in front of him and blocked him: "What's your name?" Tell uncle. ”

He ignored me, looking around as he staggered forward.

Wei Zao said: "Boss Zhou, look behind him!" ”

I walked up to the back of the kid and looked at it, and to his surprise, he had a small, flesh-colored tail on his ass, as thick and thin as half a finger of an adult.

At this time, he tripped on a large rock, fell, and cried "Wow".

I trusted him and picked him up. He was too light compared to his body.

He didn't struggle and continued to cry.

Wei Zao said, "What should I do? ”

I said, "Take it back to camp." ”

Wei Zao stood far away and said with some hesitation: "...... Is it appropriate? ”

I said, "So what do you want?" Throw him here? ”

The reason why I dared to take him back was because I had an inference that the child had a tail and may have been taken into Lop Nur by his parents and then abandoned. Maybe it happened yesterday and we just happened to find out.

Lop Nur is so vast, why did we meet him?

There are only a few fixed routes through Lop Nur, and the route his parents chose is probably also the one taken by Pavan. After the child was left behind, he looked for his mother everywhere and deviated by a kilometer.

Why did his parents risk their lives to come to Lop Nur and abandon the child?

The root may be the tail.

We can imagine at will what happened before - his family is in the remote countryside, and there is a fortune teller who says that this child is some kind of spirit in the nether realm, and he must be killed, otherwise the whole family will be harmed.

His parents knew that no matter how they killed the child, the police would open a case for investigation. Only take him to Lop Nur, throw it away, and then make up a lie casually, such as a child being swept away by a sandstorm...... Maybe it'll be safe.

Lop Nur seems to be a place to wash away sins.

The reason why I have this assumption is because of the video recorder.

I suspect that this kid has something to do with the VCR.

When I think back to the people in the video, the more suspicious I become, the more they feel suspicious, their atmosphere is very dull, not like they are here to explore, but to accomplish something.

Perhaps, I think that the three people in the video killed another person, but it was actually wrong, when the other person was probably driving behind in another car, and they were afraid of the police, in fact, they were abandoning the child.

Perhaps, the woman named Midou is the biological mother of this child, and one of the other three men is Midou's husband. The remaining two people are friends of the couple. The couple did not dare to come to Lop Nur alone, so the two friends accompanied them and helped them complete the abandonment......

These inferences seem far-fetched, but if they are not, how can this child be explained?

I'm going to go back and watch the footage again.

The child stopped crying and sat quietly in my arms.

I walked to the front of the car with him in my arms, and my eyes seemed to smell something unusual, and I hummed and babbled in the corner of the back seat.

I opened the passenger door and said to Pulp, "You hold it." ”

Juice looked at the child, a little repulsed: "Where did he come from......"

I said, "Go back to camp." ”

She said, "Put him in the back seat." ”

I said, "There's a dog in the back seat." ”

She said, "Wei Zao, can I exchange with you?" ”

Wei Zao said: "I don't want to touch him either." ”

The child was quiet and listened to every conversation we had.

Pulp jumped out of the car and said to me, "Otherwise, you hold it, and I'll drive ......"

I said, "Go in the back seat." ”

Pulp suddenly said, "Look at his feet! ”

I was stunned for a moment, what happened to his feet? Could it be that in addition to having a tail, he also has problems with his feet?

I'm not very good at holding a child, with one hand on his ass, one hand around his waist, and his two little soles against the pulp.

I lifted the ball of his little foot up and looked at it, and I was stunned - there was a hard callus underneath!

Only by walking on the sand and gravel all year round can it be possible to grind such thick calluses!

I slowly put him down.

There is a problem.

If he has been abandoned for a long time, then, what does he eat and drink on Lop Nur?

If he had just been abandoned, how did the calluses on his little feet come about?

I put my hands on my knees and looked at him.

He looked at me too.

I said, "Tell me, who are you?" ”

He blinked his round eyes and didn't speak.

I looked at Wei Zao, who was still clutching the stone in his hand. I straightened up, opened the toolbox in the car, and pulled out a rusty screwdriver from it and approached the child's neck.

This scene is so cruel, the neck of a toddler is so delicate, and the screwdriver is so cold and hard.

I said, "If you don't say who you are, I'll stab you." ”

The child looked down at the screwdriver and reached out to grab it.

I ducked to the side, didn't let him catch me, and continued, "Don't disguise it anymore!" ”

He didn't grasp the screwdriver, he cried again, and walked crookedly to the side.

"He's got a tail!" ”

I said, "I saw it." It may be because of this that his parents left him in this place. ”

I sat down and watched the kid move.

He walked while crying, and after walking about ten meters, he stopped crying, squatted down, picked up a pebble, and played.

I said, "What do you say?" ”

Wei Zao said: "If he is really just abandoned, we don't care about him, just leave, it's too inhuman." ”

"What if he hadn't been abandoned?" ”

The three were silent.

I said, "Take him with you." We quickened up, left Lop Nur early, and handed him over to the police. That's all there is to it. ”

"Evening...... Who does he sleep with? ”

I said, "Not everyone is as child-repulsive as you are. I asked Bubu if she had experience with children. ”

"What if Aunt Boo is afraid?" ”

I said, "Then I'll sleep with him." Then I looked up at her and said, "By the way, you're my roommate, and I need to ask for your opinion." ”

"I'm moving." ”

I continued to look at the child, who was sitting on the ground, still playing with the stones.

I said, "I'll give him a name." ”

Neither Pulp Juice nor Wei Zao spoke.

I said, "He picked it up in Lop Nur, so let's call it Naoer." ”

Then, I stood up, put the screwdriver back in the toolbox, and walked over to the child: "Naoer, Naoer!" ”

"Think again! ”

I turned around and asked her calmly, "Don't think about it. ”

Pulp said: "Such a big sandstorm in the morning, the size of 1.72 meters outside the number is gone, he is so small, why hasn't he been scraped away?" ”

I said, "Maybe he got to this place by a sandstorm." ”

"But, why is he not hurt at all?" ”

I said, "If we find him, chances are he wasn't hurt." ”

"Uncle, how do I feel that you and this kid are in the same group......"

I whispered, "Tell you, if this kid is okay, we've saved a life." If he really has a problem, even if we don't bring him back, we can't get rid of him. ”

Pulp's eyes widened suddenly.

I staggered to the back of the child and picked him up: "Nao'er, let's go, I'll take you to eat something delicious." ”

He looked up at me, not sure if he understood.

I got back to the car, put him in the passenger seat, and closed the door.

Pulp, Wei Zao, and Four Eyes were all crammed into the back seat.

I got the car out of the way and headed towards the camp.

The car swayed left and right, and yellow dust rose from behind. Nao'er was too small to see out the window, so he sat obediently like that, staring at the closed toolbox.

It was almost time to reach the camp, and everyone was standing on a high vantage point looking at us.

I drove the car up to everyone, and Bubu ran over, pulled the door and said, "Something is wrong!" ”

I said, "What's wrong?" Take your time. ”

"Everything that communicates with the outside world is out of order!" she said. ”