It's just at this moment.

Not far away, there was a sudden sound of soft footsteps in the depths of the woods, which made the already vigilant boy instantly raise his head and grit his teeth to look over there.

The fear is that the robbers will go and return.

Now I am at the end of my crossbow.

But unexpectedly, what came out of the woods was not the usual victims, but an old man wearing a strange cloak.

"Little doll." The old man lowered his head slightly, and the brim of the cloak covered the upper half of his face, which made it difficult to see, but his voice was very vicissitudes and hoarse, as if he had been through vicissitudes and was full of mystery.

"Since you dare to cut your own flesh to feed your sister, why don't you dare to fight to the death with those robbers?"

The boy didn't know why he could hear his own talk so clearly from so far away, but what the other party asked was his own sore spot.

He immediately retorted angrily, but in order not to wake his sister, he moved away from her a little.

"You know what! If I could have beaten me, I would have beaten it a long time ago! But if I lose, my sister will be captured by them and sold to Ya Po, and life is worse than death, I can't lose! ”

"If only I were one of those warriors! Strong strength, and can not worry about food and clothing......"

"What do you old man know......"

The old man smiled: "It's kind of interesting." Let's play a game. ”

"Games?" The boy frowned.

"yes, what would you do if you had great power?" The old man slowly approached him, and said lightly, "Murder and revenge? Or do you want to earn a lot of money without worrying about food and clothing? Or, to become a greedy ruler? ”

"Will you still be able to stick to your heart then? Do you still feel that your sister is your only one and worth your life? ”

"You're crazy, aren't you?! Get out of here! We don't have anything to eat here and nothing you want! The boy was stunned, then looked at him with disgust, and at the same time subconsciously approached his sister, so as not to protect the person in front of him if he went crazy.

"You think I'm lying to you?" The old man was not angry, but stopped, and just took out a palm-sized wooden carving from his bosom and put it on the ground.

"It doesn't matter, believe it or not. But if you want to try it, pick up this wood carving and drip a drop of your blood on it. ”

"When the time comes, you will naturally understand whether what I said is true or false."

"Perhaps...... Maybe your life will change because of this? ”

The boy looked suspiciously at the wooden carving on the ground, but remained vigilant.

The old man suddenly asked, "What's your name?" ”

"Xi Shuangcheng ......" he said subconsciously, but immediately reacted and covered his mouth, not knowing why he would reveal his information so easily.

But suddenly, his eyes instantly widened, and he looked at the scene in front of him in disbelief.

I saw that the old man's figure slowly faded away, as if it was slowly blown away by the wind like smoke.

"Ghosts? Is it a ghost?! ”

He was a little frightened and subconsciously took a step back.

But thinking that his sister was behind him, he stopped being scared and tried to stop his body from shaking.

Even if it's a ghost, no matter how terrible it is, it's not as good as being starved to death.

He remembered what the old man had just said, and a glimmer of hope suddenly rose in his heart.

After glancing left and right to make sure that there was no one around, he touched the well-behaved sleeping face of his sister behind him, and mustered up the courage to walk slowly towards the wooden carving on the ground.

Cautiously, as if approaching a terrible poisonous snake.

It wasn't until the wood carving was at his feet that he reached out and picked it up that he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Like...... Nothing special. He clutched the wood carving tightly in his hand and looked behind him in doubt.

The workmanship of this wood carving is very rough, like a half-finished product made by someone who does not know carpentry at all.

I could barely tell that it should be a human figure.

"That old man isn't really lying to me......" he muttered to himself, gritting his teeth, "Forget it, try anyway......"

Anyway, the two who depend on each other for their lives can't find a better way to live.

Even if he really deliberately played himself, if he could make the people behind the scenes happy, and willing to enjoy a little food so that he could see a more interesting monkey show, he would be satisfied.

He bit his finger with a ruthless heart, but because of malnutrition and slow blood flow, he simply ignored the pain, and smeared his fingers on the wood carving, almost half of the wood carving's body was stained with blood, which looked more and more strange in this dark night.

"That's it?"

He shoved his bloody fingers into his mouth and licked the wound, holding his breath as he looked at the wood carving.

However, after a long time, there was no movement.

He sighed and was about to turn away, when he suddenly noticed that the shadow around him began to squirm.

It's not normal to move with people, it's more like a mass of dense black tiny insects gathered together, making people's scalp tingle for a while.

Where had Xi Shuangcheng seen such a strange scene, his face turned pale with fright, and he didn't forget to hurriedly run to his sister to protect her.

But the shadow was with him.

Until a strange girl's voice came to his ear.

"I can grant you a wish, but you also have to pay a price."

"Who?" Xi Shuangcheng was taken aback.

However, he quickly reacted, looking at the bloodstained wood carving in his hand in disbelief.

"Is that you?"

"Say what you want." This time he heard it clearly, and it was indeed the sound coming from inside the wood carving.

But it wasn't in his ears that it came to his ears, but the sound came directly in his head.

"It's true...... his eyes were full of ecstasy in an instant, "I want to have a ...... to eat"

He was halfway through his sentence when his voice suddenly stopped.

He hesitated.

He wanted to make a wish for a lot of food, but he thought that even if he had it, he wouldn't have the strength to keep it.

The worst he could think of was to be targeted by the same hungry victims, and then frantically swarmed with food, and even his own and his sister's lives might be lost.

I'm really hungry, and the other party doesn't care about these lives.

And now outside the city, the boundaries between morality and law are similarly almost negligible.

"I want to ...... Become invincible in the world and be able to protect your sister! ”

The wood carving was silent for a moment.

Han You, who was behind the scenes, was a little speechless.

It's so difficult to come up.

It took a moment to reply.

"You can't afford to pay the price of this wish."

Xi Chengshuang was not too disappointed, after all, he also knew that there was no such good thing in the world.

He tried to make a more practical little wish.

"I want to get a ...... No, ten meat buns! ”