When I came back to my senses, I found that my body was also wrapped around a transparent ribbon of air, it is difficult to say what it is made of, but its specific gravity seems to be far lighter than air, and when wrapped around my body, it is like a soft parachute, fully eliminating the force of falling.

It took me nearly half a minute to fall from about fifty or sixty meters into the air, like a fallen leaf, and then I landed on the frozen paddy field with my feet intact.

Then, the yarn slowly fell, and when it hit the ground, the cobweb-like ribbon of air I had just seen was gone. I looked at her sideways, but she didn't pay attention to my gaze, just stared straight at the knoll not far away, which looked like it had been turned back and forth by an excavator, and there was still a cherry tree trunk at the bare top.

I followed her line of sight, and took the tattered hill into my eyes, and I didn't feel sorry for it, but I didn't pay too much attention to it, but immediately focused on searching for the figure of Jing and Liren.

With a keen eyesight far beyond ordinary people, after only a few moments of searching, I found a lonely figure under the half of the cherry tree, short, slender, wrapped in a thick cotton coat that did not fit, and shivered in the cold air, which made people's hearts soften.

I recognized the figure as Rito Yokoyama, who was once thought to be dead.

He didn't notice me and Sa's arrival, he just sat there quietly, as if waiting for something.

Subconsciously, I took a step forward and wanted to walk towards him, but I thought of the description of the "evil ghost", and I couldn't help but hesitate to look back at the yarn, and I realized that she was also looking at me, and there was no emotion on her face stained by the moonlight, and there was no intention of stopping or approving it.

"I ...... I used to talk to him a few words, maybe something was wrong, and I reasoned with people...... Not the cruel kid, he won't be the devil of the rumors - I want to clear up the misunderstanding. ”

The hesitation lasted only a moment, and my heart was replaced by firmness, whether it was guilt or pity, I could not sit idly by and watch such a child fall into a desperate situation, abandoned by his relatives, feared by his own kind, killed by others - I wanted to redeem this, to redeem the regret that I had not been able to lend a helping hand to him before.

"And then? In the town, there will be no more shelter for him, and even if he is not a demon, he will not be allowed to continue to live. These are things that the average child does not understand, but ...... I think you should know. ”

"Why? Even if you are not a demon, you can't be allowed to live? ”

I didn't think about the reasons for this, and I also thought about the purpose of the Board of Education's monitoring and punishment of the children in the town, until I learned the true face of the "evil spirit" from the mouth of "Yarn", and it suddenly became clear that this was a way for adults to prevent the appearance of "evil spirits".

But even if I understand this, I wonder about the strict precautions of adults, if the "evil ghost" is just an ordinary child who has not been put on the golden hoop of the "shame death mechanism", then it is not impossible to make the "evil ghost" become docile through education or hypnosis, so that the "evil ghost" can become an ordinary person.

Of course, it may also be due to the fear of aliens and the idea that wolves cannot sit idly by and stay in the flock. But even so, we should try to identify the "evil spirits" in a more accurate way, and weed them out, rather than discarding the good fruit just because of suspicion.

Such an approach is nothing more than a reversal of oneself from the perspective of persecution to the perpetrator of persecution, which is understandable but unacceptable.

At least, if you are not an individual with "evil spirits", you should not continue to suffer such persecution.

I'm not a person who agrees with the idea that it's better to let a thousand go than to kill the wrong person, but it's never the right thing to do to kill a thousand by mistake and not to let one go.

"Because no one can bear the consequences of the appearance of evil spirits, even if there is only one, it is enough to bring a devastating blow to the town."

Sasha shook her head slightly and looked at me with a meaningful gaze: "And the evil ghost is not as simple as you think, and some people in the town will never sit idly by. Besides, you're not much better off than he is now. ”

"I know...... However, I still want to give it a try. ”

I know that I have done many high-profile things in the past few years, such as the death of Rito, the affairs of Mamura, the death of Mr. Kawakami, and the disappearance of my heart, all of which have happened around me, and strictly speaking, they can even be related to me. With the strict attitude of the Board of Education towards children, I must have already had an idea about me, not to mention that I had already behaved in front of two members of the Board of Education, Takashi Takeda and Takeuchi.

"Oh, then let it be."

She seemed to have lost interest in persuasion, and stood with her hands folded, her voice revealing a gloomy aura: "Finally, I remind you that if he is really a demon, if you walk over like this, you will definitely be killed by him." Because demons are special constitutions, killing people is a way to get pleasure for them, and killing friends or relatives seems to be far more enjoyable than killing other people. ”

"Original...... Is that so? ”

I finally got the last piece of information about the "evil ghost" and completed the puzzle. The so-called "evil ghost", presumably refers to people who have neither a "shame death mechanism", but also have a special disease, combined with the legends about evil ghosts that have been heard, then its symptoms should be very aggressive, and even be able to get pleasure from the act of attacking others, that is, abnormal dopamine secretion in the brain - dopamine is a neurotransmitter secreted by the brain, which is used to transmit information and feelings such as excitement and happiness, and the happiness felt by living beings basically comes from this substance.

Moreover, when combined with psychology, when attacking those related to oneself, one will get more pleasure out of a sense of betrayal or rebellion - its essence may coincide with the aggressive antisocial personality disorder.

That is to say, compared to ordinary people who can communicate, "evil ghosts" are closer to what seems to be brutal beasts, and their aggressive behavior is to satisfy their own desires, and not just appetite or ** this degree of desire, but further like a poison X attack-like dependence, addiction** desire, whether it is physical or mental will produce a strong reaction.

"I'm over."

Although reason told me that it was not advisable to walk like this, my sensibility prevailed, and I was eager to talk to the child of Reason, to understand his suffering, to help him get out of his current predicament.

Driven by this sense of responsibility, I walked forward. On the way, I deliberately turned in one direction and made a half-circle around the center of the hill to avoid revealing where the veil was.

In this way, I reached the undulation of the knoll, and the unconcealed footsteps seemed to attract the attention of the people above.

"Who is it? Don't come here......"

He didn't move, just sat there and warned me in a weak-sounding voice - just this sentence reassured me, although I was not sure if he was really a "demon", but at least he was undoubtedly sensible now.

"It's me...... White stone fold. ”

I paused for a moment, and the idea of activating the power of faith.

"Fold?"

He seemed a little surprised, and his weak voice carried a heavy vigilance and uneasiness: "You...... Are you here to kill me too? ”

"Also? Someone attacked you just now? Who is it? ”

The situation of the hill has long shown that there was a battle here just now, but now there is only the figure of Rito here, so I am naturally a little worried in my heart, after all, the person who led Rito to the hill is very likely to be Jing.

"I ...... I don't know, he kept attacking me, but I didn't see his front, and in the end he didn't seem to be able to kill me...... Ran away...... Hey, I hurt him...... He must have been injured too. ”

He suddenly gasped violently, his voice undeveloped revealing a hatred and tyranny.

"You're hurt?"

I subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief when I heard Rito say that the man had run away, but when he said that the man was injured, my heart lifted again. I suppressed the worries in my heart for a moment and took a step forward: "Liren, believe me, I will not hurt you." You seem to be injured now, don't you? Do you want me to show you this? ”

"Well...... Fold, I believe you, you come here. ”

With his approval, I found an angle that didn't get affected and climbed the hill and came to Rito. He still sat there, but he didn't know why he grabbed the placket of the thick cotton coat with both hands, and put most of his face, hands and feet in the cotton coat, only revealing a jet-black left eye staring at me, while his right eye, including his forehead, was covered by the scrawled Liuhai, and he couldn't see the specific situation clearly.

On top of that, there was a strong smell of rust in the air around them, lingering even in the snow and ice. I understand that it tastes like blood, and ...... In such cold weather and air circulation, it is clear that the injuries and bleeding are not light.

By the bright moonlight in the sky, which was not obscured by clouds, I searched for the wounded part of him, and soon saw a dark red mark like an ink blot at the bottom of the thick gray cotton coat, the outline of which was distinctly different from the rest of the fabric.

Is the wound on the leg?

I judged this, slowly squatted down, and stretched out my hand to Liren: "Liren, come, let me take a look at the wound on my foot." ”

"It hurts."

Because his mouth and nose were covered, his voice was a little dull.

"Then it is even more necessary to treat the wound as soon as possible, otherwise the weather is so cold, and when the blood turns to ice, the wound and the clothes will freeze together. At that time, you won't even be able to move, and if you do, the wound will tear again, and maybe even the skin and flesh will be torn off together. ”

I knew that he was probably afraid of cold in addition to pain, so while exaggerating the seriousness of the matter a little, I took off my fluffy coat and wrapped it around him: "Come, show me the wound." ”

Perhaps it was my coat that worked, he slowly lifted the cotton coat, revealing the same ill-fitting woolen sweater and trousers inside, and the trousers showed nearly nine tears on the front and outside alone, each of which could see the bloody wounds inside, one of which even ran out from the inner thigh to the left, revealing a penetrating blood hole - fortunately, it seemed that none of these wounds had broken the arteriovenous vessels, and the temperature of minus ten degrees Celsius made the blood clotted into ice ballast, It played a certain role in stopping bleeding, so although the amount of bleeding in the early stage was large, it did not reach the level of death.

But even so, so many wounds still look extremely hideous, and it is shocking to look at.

I stared at the wounds, unable to do anything about them—too many wounds and scabbed blood, and no tools or bandages, gauze and alcohol at hand, not even warm water, and the fact that I hadn't treated them for years, and for a moment I was helpless.

"Fold, how's that? Can you get it right? ”

Such a wound was placed on the other children, and they must have been crying and crying, crying and fussing, but Daniel seemed to be extraordinarily calm, and did not have any tendency to cry.

"I can't do it now, I have to find some tools. You should cover your clothes first. ”

I shook my head slightly, stood up, and saw that he covered his abdomen and thighs with a cotton coat, and then pointed to a house two or three hundred meters away: "Let's go there first, warm water, alcohol, gauze...... Each of these is available, and if you find them, you will be able to help you heal your wounds. Come, I'll help you over. ”

When I stretched out my hand, Lito didn't move, he looked at my hand, his eyes flashed: "That's it, fold...... I was lying. ”

It was hard for me to keep up with my train of thought for a while, my mind was going back and forth, and I couldn't figure out what I had said that he thought he was lying.

"Why is it so ......?"

In the case of confusion, I decided to ask him directly about the reason, but before I could speak, I was interrupted by the pain of the explosion in my abdomen, the vision in my eyes quickly flipped, and a strong sense of weightlessness, pain, and dizziness rushed to my brain at the same time, and finally I felt my body hit something hard, and the flipped world stopped and froze on the brown soil mixed with pure white snow.

"Ahem......"

The pain interfered with my brain's thinking like a tidal wave, and I couldn't figure out what was going on, so I covered my mouth and nose with my left hand and coughed violently, a trace of warm liquid trickling out of my mouth and nose, and a fishy sweet smell from the dampness.

What's going on?

With the strength that seemed to be able to cough out my heart and lungs together, I was able to clear the strange sensation in my throat, and my brain finally recovered from a state of "confusion" to the point where I could think normally, and then I tried to support my body with my right hand, sat up sideways, and looked around.

With just one glance, I could tell that I was in a depression under the knoll, nearly twenty meters from where I was, which meant that the force of the blow to the abdomen was at least equivalent to being hit head-on by a car traveling at forty or fifty kilometers per hour—and it was a good thing that he did not die immediately.

I tried to move my body, and found that there was no obvious severe pain in my feet and hands, except for the hot pain from some abrasions rubbing against my clothes, I could basically rule out the possibility of broken limbs or broken bones. In terms of internal organs, there is a strong throbbing sensation in the lungs when breathing, and the pain in the abdomen and stomach is very obvious, and the possibility of rupture or serious injury to the internal organs cannot be ruled out.

But at least, alive.

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