Chapter 8: The Cry in the Jungle
When people were drunk, they were really unconscious, and they were suffering from hunger and cold, and the more Yu Yan thought about it, the more distressed she felt, she would actually agree to Yang Huanqiang's proposal, maybe she was talking to the one at the convenience store now. But soon, she became annoyed, and the breeze would blow away her drunkenness, and her whole mind gradually returned to normal. Walking on the mountain road in a daze, the coldness of the footboard had numbed her lower limbs, but it did not freeze her irritability. Hey, although he is careful and attractive, but he is always just a salesperson in a convenience store, do I want to eat steamed buns for the rest of my life? My beloved satchel, and the latest mobile phone, I want to ride a luxury car, I want to live a life like a person, these, these are only given to me by Huang Zhizhi, although I don't love him at all, but ...... Alas.
She sighed, her long messy hair fluttering in the wind, as if her melancholy was lingering. I admit that I like him, but I love myself more, I can't give up the life I want for him, huh! Yu Yan had an idea, she stopped, stroked the bangs on her forehead, and sighed: "Yes, I can have a relationship with the two of them at the same time, but I must not be discovered by him, when I have saved enough money, I will be with him wholeheartedly, and when the time comes, we can also open a store by ourselves and have a lovely child." This idea is very absurd, if it were not for the reason for drinking too much, I really can't find a basis for her to think about it in an instant.
Yes...... Yes...... There seemed to be some kind of noise in this night wind, Yu Yan frowned, her beautiful fantasy was temporarily shattered, she looked up at the empty and quiet valley on the edge of the road, like an endless abyss, rubbed her left ear, and wondered in her heart, did this strange sound come from the foot of the mountain? She turned to the fence on the outside of the road, took the torch around her neck in her hand, and searched down the mountain, a beam of light swaying in the darkness, but it did nothing, and the low temperature of the environment caused the fog to spread. She suddenly felt that the atmosphere around her was strange, and a bad omen condensed in her hazy consciousness, and fear gradually overwhelmed her body.
Wow wow...... Wow wow...... She looked around suddenly, her trembling hands and even the high heels she was carrying fell off, she was terrified, and secretly said in her heart, this, this is the cry of a baby? How can you hear such a voice? She was in disbelief, and her frightened expression instantly appeared, and her eyes glistened with tears. She gasped sharply, bothering to pick up her boots on the ground. Wow wow...... Wow, the baby's cry is still there, drifting with the night breeze, lingering in my head and outside my ears. There was no figure at either end of the mountain road, and she was hunched up, trembling violently and almost unable to stand. She then looked into the jungle on the inside of the road.
Wow wow...... Wow wow...... The cry became clearer and clearer, perhaps it was fear that woke up the drowsy brain nerves, so it was extra keen, Yu Yan's pupils dilated rapidly, she stared into the jungle, but in the dim light, she found nothing. Wow wow...... Wow wow...... The voice seemed to come from inside, and Yu Yan stared intently at the depths of the jungle, and she shivered and shone the flashlight into it. Could it be a lost child, lost? Her brain was spinning, speculating on all sorts of possible scenarios. Could it be that a girl in the school was pregnant with a child, and she didn't dare to reveal it, so she abandoned the baby inside? Such a plot is not imaginary, it happened at school a few years ago. It's just that the ruthless female student abandoned her newborn baby in the toilet, and the cry echoed in the campus late at night, if it weren't for the dormitory aunt who boldly discovered this and quickly notified the police, I'm afraid that the poor child, born and died on the same day. It is precisely because of this that the haunting of the girls' dormitory in the middle of the night was quelled.
Wow wow...... Wow wow...... The voice echoed in the jungle, and as the overflowing yin wind attacked her, Yu Yan swallowed her saliva, she was very sure that the voice came from inside. With stiff steps, she clenched the flashlight with both hands to prevent the beam from shaking violently, and gradually leaned towards the inner side of the road, and a hoarse and timid voice came out of her mouth: "Is anyone there?" Which adult and child are inside? She wondered if it might be a single mother with her child, and they were lost in the jungle.
Barefoot, the already numb legs, the moment they touched the pile of dead leaves, the biting coldness came to my heart. "Is anyone there? Hi kids? From the clear cry, it could be discerned that he should be a boy, and a child, about four or five years old, Yu Yan probably had an understanding in her heart. Whining...... Whining...... The cry gradually evolved into sobbing, although the voice was much quieter, but the direction became clearer and clearer, just in the jungle, not far away, maybe tens of meters, twenty meters, ten meters or so. "Hey, where are you?" The beam trembled in her hand, the same sound it sounded. It's okay, he's just a kid and should need help, Yu Yan soothed the fear in her heart like this.
The illumination of the street lamp gradually lost its effect, and the light could not penetrate into the dense jungle, if it weren't for the flashlight in her hand, I am afraid that she would have been deep in the darkness by now, the sobs were getting closer and closer, just ahead, she held the flashlight with one hand, and the other hand kept rubbing the bare arm, the wheezing sound proved that the environment was cold at this time, and she could even feel the water from the rotten leaves under her feet that had been frosted overflowing, penetrating her toes, itching and stinging. She struggled to suppress her fears, but still desperately hoped that it was just a lost child. Oh hell, how could I be stupid enough to walk in, I could have just walked away, it's none of my business. She vented in her heart that it must be the reason for drinking.
However, she stopped, for in the beam, the gray-white shadow stood out in the nightly grass. He squatted and sat with his back to himself, sobbing as his convulsive body spread. Yu Yan held her breath, it was a child, yes, but a panicked premonition emanated from her throat. "Hey, kid, you're alright?" The timid words did not attract the attention of the other party. "Are you okay? Why are you here? What about your family? She looked unnaturally from side to side, and by the light of the beam, there was nothing but weeds swaying in the wind and dense branches.
The child's sobbing stopped, Yu Yan's messy eyes were wary of him, and his mouth was still trembling: "You, are you okay?" "He was wearing an off-white long-sleeved shirt, with many stains on the corners of his clothes, like mud, and his short fluffy hair could catch the flesh and skin, and his complexion was fair, even whiter than himself." Kids, are you alright? With these words, the child shuddered and turned around. Yu Yan reflected the beam of light on his face, and although the pale and timid face was bloodless, it also instantly released the gloomy depression in her heart. She let out a long breath and said secretly in her heart, I was scared to death, just a child, a homeless child. "Are you alright, why are you here in the middle of the night? What about your family? Yu Yan didn't feel anything unusual, except that she felt colder, it was colder than ever, and she felt that her body was about to be frozen.
The child's frightened eyes kept staring at him, but I didn't expect him to be more timid than me. Yu Yan speculated in her heart, and seeing that he didn't speak, she continued to condole: "Are you okay?" ”
"Can't be caught by him." The child's voice was full of fear.
Yu Yan's relaxed nerves tensed again, and she glanced left and right, without any unusual movement. "Caught by whom? What about your parents? ”
"Don't be caught by him." The child's crying could not hide the despair in his heart at this time.
"Okay, it's okay, don't worry." Yu Yan lowered her voice and looked around vigilantly, and a profession instantly came to mind in her mind, kidnappers. The contents of the satchel are tumbling violently, lipstick, mobile phone, eyeliner, perfume...... With her flustered hands, they trembled. "It's okay, don't worry, I'll call the police right away, it's okay." She comforted the child, but she was out of proportion, even if she touched the phone, she couldn't sense it, and it took a long time to take the phone out.
"Come on, it's too late." The child's frightened expression, staring at himself, he kept stepping back.
Yu Yan pressed the dial button, and she had already called the police. "It's okay, the police station is not far from here, and they will be able to come over soon." The phone was close to her ear, and she waited anxiously for it to connect.
"He, he's coming!" The child exclaimed in surprise and plunged into the grass.
"Hey, don't, don't go in." Yu Yan shouted, her excited tears also soaked her eyes, and inexplicable fear poured into her fragile heart like a torrent, she wanted to scream out heartbreakingly, but her brain lost the basic execution order. The gray-white figure in the beam of light disappeared without a trace after scurrying into a haystack, leaving only the rustling sound that echoed through the jungle. Yu Yan's dull eyes, she looked at the endless darkness, the long hair behind her head was faintly itchy, it was a wisp of yin wind and like a person's breath, and the cold sweat overflowing from her back soaked her whole body, as if she was being touched by something unnecessary. Her pupils constricted in horror, and she suddenly opened her throat to scream wildly. Yet, the jungle remained dead silent, so still that not even a wisp of the breeze remained.
Dawn, as time slowly approaches, the first night shift work, Mu Tianyu has a headache, many of them encounter a little boring people, most of them come from the nightclub next to them, even at three or four o'clock in the morning, there is no tendency to stop. It seems that he is very popular with women, whether it is his appearance or words and deeds, but he has never had a real smile on his face again, and since half a year ago, he has been disheartened.
"Hey, you're the guy your boss mentioned yesterday who came to interview for the night shift?" A young man came in at the door, not tall, about twenty years old, like a student, and his shirt still had the oil stains from eating hot pot last night. greeted with a smile, and was very excited about the appearance of Mu Tianyu, perhaps the salespeople in the convenience store looked like this. "My name is Zhou Xiong." He gestured for friendliness, then placed his overalls on the front desk.
"Muyu."
He changed his work clothes very skillfully, but standing in the dining area, Mu Tianyu went to change his work clothes in the bathroom of the back warehouse last night. "I thought it would be a middle-aged man who came to work the night shift." He looked at Mu Tianyu.
"Almost, I'm almost thirty."
"Thirty?" Lao Li thirty-four, you are about the same age, but you look ...... The difference is significant. Zhou Xiong paused for a moment and explained: "Lao Li, you are the one who replaced him on the night shift, the child at home is sick, so he took two weeks off, by the way, do you have a child?" ”
Bang! A bottle of canned drink in Mu Tianyu's hand was instantly squeezed open by him, and he was just cleaning the display items, but Zhou Xiong touched the forbidden place in his heart. This sudden anger frightened Zhou Xiong into staring at Mu Tianyu's depressed face in amazement, and his hands that had not yet buttoned their clothes were trembling.
Ulla...... Ulla...... On the street outside, a frightening whistle suddenly sounded, and then several police cars sped by, including an execution vehicle of the forensic department, in the direction of Tiandu Peak.
"What's going on?" Mu Tianyu stared at the vehicles that gradually disappeared on Tianfeng Road, only the piercing whistle still echoed at the foot of the mountain, he changed the topic and asked, "Why are so many police cars suddenly going up the mountain?" ”
"Oh, they're slow." Zhou Xiong also came back to his senses, maybe the other party just accidentally broke the drink bottle, and his vigilant heart relaxed. "There was an accident on the mountain, and two students died, hey." Zhou Xiong filled out the handover form and sighed: "I am also a student of Xiahua University, I work part-time here every morning, and when I went down the mountain this morning, I found that there were many people gathered. ”
"What kind of accident was it?" Mu Tianyu frowned, inadvertently recalling last night's incident, the woman named Yu Yan.
"I don't know, listening to the onlookers, it should be more miserable, I don't dare to look at those bloody pictures." Zhou Xiong shuddered, feeling creepy when he thought about it. As soon as he finished filling out the handover form, he saw Mu Tianyu pushing the door and leaving, in the direction of Tiandu Peak. "It's strange, what is so beautiful about a dead man." He said to himself, starting his day.