I carried the old man down the hill, getting more and more tired, my brows wet with sweat, and I almost ran out of breath.

"Grandpa, I'm a little tired, I'll put you down and rest." I slowly bent down and was about to put the old man on my back to the ground as I spoke.

However, until I was completely crouched on the ground, he did not move, and held me tightly.

"Grandpa, let go and let me rest for a while." I thought he had bad ears and shouted again.

As a result, he just "um" and didn't let go.

"You, let go and let me rest?"

He snorted and replied to me, "Are you going to let me down, are you going to leave?" ”

"No, I can't carry it, I'm too tired." I felt like my body was going to collapse, I really couldn't hold on.

"Hmph, you're tired and you're leaving, what should I do? Hurry up and carry me down, don't rub it off. ”

I complained in my heart, wishing I really threw him on this barren mountain, but I also thought that if I really threw him down, I would probably die here.

I squatted for two minutes and then got up again and continued down the mountain.

The old man on my back put his arms around my neck, and his legs were tightly clamped around my waist, like a rope binding me, and my body was extremely uncomfortable.

"Old man, you loosen up, don't make so much effort."

However, he didn't listen to persuasion at all, and instead "giggled" in his mouth, as if he was deliberately bullying me.

"You ......" I was annoyed, but my grandmother taught me to respect the old and love the young since I was a child, and I still held back.

But I didn't expect him to go too far in the future, those hands almost turned into iron pincers, strangling my neck, this huge force, not like an old man in his old age at all.

"Ahh I couldn't take it anymore, screamed in pain, and stopped leaning against a tree trunk.

"You come down." I didn't have the temper to wait for him to agree, so I grabbed him by the leg to get him off my waist.

As a result, the legs did not move, and they were as hard as iron, and they were almost welded to my waist, and I couldn't pull them.

"You—Aren't you too weak to walk because your foot is broken, why, this has so much ......energy," I said, and I was shocked in my heart.

Because my hand was in the old man's trouser legs, and I was groping for the sprained place, and I felt a piece of fluff that pierced my hand!

"Ahh

The mouth opened slightly, revealing several sharp and slender teeth.

My heart was beating violently, and I couldn't imagine how that old man had become such a monster.

I screamed in panic and writhed to throw him off, but because of the unsteady center of gravity, I fell to the ground, my face clinging to the mud, and I was hurt by the stones on the ground. The old man-like monster sat on top of me, its claws around my neck, trying to strangle me in one go.

"Uhhh I couldn't breathe air, my face was pressed to the ground and I was suffocating and struggling, but all this resistance seemed futile in front of the monster's mighty limbs.

"High-high-high-"

A creepy scream came from behind me, my back broke out in a cold sweat, goosebumps erupted all over my body, and now there was no means of resistance, I could only shout for help.

"Master...... Master, Master—" I shouted, my face turning pale from being able to breathe fresh air for a long time. My heart is full of despair, regret, I shouldn't have carried this old man in the first place, this guy is definitely a mandrill trickster, is he really going to strangle me to death?

"Save ...... Life! ”

By the end, I couldn't speak, my mind was almost blank.

"Master, save my ......"

That was the last thought in my mind, and my head hit the ground with a sharp pain.

Mixed with the strange "squeak" sound, I smelled a foul smell of burnt.

"Ask the mountain!"

I heard Liu Ruxiang calling me, but I didn't have the strength to open my eyes, the tip of my nose was sore, and I almost cried.

"Are you alright?" I felt Master's slender hand press against my neck, and she was probing to see if I was still alive.

"I didn't ...... Dead ......" I moved my lips.

"It's Master, isn't it, I heard Meng Lao Er say that he was an acquaintance, so I was relieved to let you go, but I didn't expect it to be a mandrill pretending to be, damn it!" Liu Ruxiang muttered, and then I felt some kind of cold plaster applied to the wound on my head.

I was a little flustered at this time, and I opened my eyes despite the discomfort, and when I saw the appearance of the master, I asked, "Am I out of shape?" ”

"Well, it's okay, if you apply Master's plaster, you won't leave a scar." Liu Ruxiang looked at me with a hint of distress in her eyes, and gently wiped away my tears with her fingertips, telling me not to cry.

To be honest, I have had no mother since I was a child, and my grandmother is the only one who loves me.

Ever since the day my grandmother died, I have seen myself as an adult. I told myself that I don't have my parents, I don't have my grandmother to rely on, and I can only rely on myself in the future, even if I later recognized Liu Ruxiang as a master, I also had the same idea.

But now, I'm crying.

In my perception at the time, "crying" was a child's behavior. I also took the opportunity to switch my identity from "adult" to a half-grown child, and I snuggled up to Liu Ruxiang's side and sobbed, very pitiful.

At the same time, I seem to have an inexplicable feeling in my heart, which is different from the emotion I once had for my grandmother. This is an emotion that I have never had.

Liu Ruxiang then performed a massage, which was particularly magical, as if I rubbed and rubbed my back, and my body didn't hurt.

In less than half an hour, I walked up the mountain with the support of Liu Ruxiang.

"Thank you." I kept my head down, my face flushed.

"Huh?"

"Thank you, Master."

Liu Ruxiang quipped: "It's like a mosquito." Shout, louder, inaudible. ”

"Master...... Thank you for saving me! ”

The cold wind in the mountains and forests soon cooled my face, and with the sound of unknown birds, we returned to the top of the mountain.

Liu Ruxiang suddenly quickened her pace, and she couldn't say it well.

"What's going on?"

"Soon after you came down the mountain, we found out about it, so we came down to you at once. Before leaving, I told Meng Lao Er to keep replenishing firewood and not let the fire go out, but now ......"

I looked into the distance, and there was still a shadow of a fire, and it was pitch black.