"I knew it would be like this......"

The old lady's voice revealed exhaustion.

"No way!"

The little boy she was holding in her arms suddenly blurted out, "You can't do this! At the beginning, you yourself said that you could cure us and would not give up on us! Why backtrack now, you liars! ”

"That's it!"

The young man also seemed a little annoyed, "You should know what disease you are contaminated, we did not abandon you at the beginning, you should be content, now Altai wants to complete the big plan, can no longer leave you behind, for the sake of everyone's future, what is not to sacrifice." ”

"Anyway, you're going to die."

His words poured on them like biting cold water, and the patients bowed their heads and greeted their fate with despair.

The young man calmed down and said, "These meals are Altai's last mercy to you, and if you really want to be grateful to him for helping you in your desperate moment, you should know what to do, and when I go out, I will completely seal the entrance to the cave, and I will not let you be exposed to the wilderness." ”

After saying that, he stopped looking at them, and turned to go back to the ground, but as soon as he turned around, he saw a young girl standing behind him at some point, dressed in tatters, and most of her face was covered by a flower scarf, she looked at him, and stretched out her hand to say hello.

"Hey."

"Hi...... Belch! ”

The young man also subconsciously waved at her, but was knocked out by a punch in the next second. Xia Lingge shook his hand twice, stepped over the young man's body, and stood in front of them without any worries.

"It's you."

The little boy in the old lady's arms saw her eyes slightly wide, Xia Lingge looked at his face carefully, and found that he was the child who had been rescued from the apple stall earlier.

The old lady hugged the boy and asked, "Tár, do you know her?" ”

The boy nodded hesitantly: "Before...... I sneaked out to find apples for my grandmother, but I was almost killed, and she saved me. ”

The old lady shuddered as she put her arm around Tal, and raised her eyes tremblingly to look at the girl, but she didn't know what to say.

Xia Lingge didn't care about her thanks, but just asked, "Why did Altai bury you alive?" ”

No one answered her, the old lady shook her head and sighed, full of despair and helplessness: "Kind girl, you are a good person and should not come here, go back quickly, don't be dragged down by us." ”

Xia Lingge didn't move: "I came here to know what happened, if you really thank me, let me know the truth." ”

The old lady trembled and untied the strips of cloth wrapped around her limbs, and soon revealed her left hand that was wrinkled like the bark of an old tree, and mottled white spots clearly appeared on her skin, and the old lady raised her cloudy eyes and said word by word: "Vitiligo, a terminal disease that infects very quickly." ”

……

When the young man awoke, he found himself lying flat on the ground, rubbing his aching head and sitting up, and seeing that the hole not far away was blocked by something, he hesitantly walked over and kicked it, which did not look like it could leak air.

"What's going on......"

He remembered going down to bring food to the gang and sealing them in the hole, but it seemed as if someone had punched him and fainted.

But why are you lying here now......

Could it be that he remembered wrong?

The young man rubbed his head and shook away.

But the hidden girl was not found.

……

Xia Lingge returned to the construction site the same way, still busy and no one noticed that she had left, picked up the awl and pretended to beat it to blend into the crowd, Si Cheng saw her come back, and came to her quietly and asked, "Senior sister, did you find anything?" ”

"The discovery is huge."

Xia Lingge whispered: "Altai plans to bury a group of people with day shift disease alive, I contacted them and thought they might know something inside, but they didn't want to say it, I was thinking of a way." ”

"What vitiligo?"

Xia Lingge shook his head: "I don't know very well, it's just that white spots appear on their skin, which is said to be a terminal disease that spreads very quickly." ”

"Terminally ill ......" Si Cheng was a little shocked, his eyes swept around and found that no one had noticed them, so he said in a low voice, "If it is a disease that spreads quickly, no matter life or death, there should have been a decision long ago, and it should not be delayed until now, but if Altai insists on saving their lives, why do they have to bury them alive in the end?" ”

"I'm confused, too." Xia Lingge said.

"Or ...... I'm going to check it out? Bai Xi, who had not spoken beside him, suddenly spoke, "I have studied medicine, so I may be able to help." ”

Xia Lingge nodded: "Yes, I'll take you to see it tonight." ”

Night soon fell again, perhaps because the day's work was too much, or maybe another day was the day of prayer for the gods to recuperate, in short, the cave was unusually quiet now.

Xia Lingge and Bai Xi came to the ground again in the dark, holding torches to the entrance of the hole with carved patterns, those things blocking the ventilation holes were just camouflage to cover people's ears, in fact, it was useless, she pulled up the iron chain and took Bai Xi to climb down the rope ladder.

The fire was scorching, Bai Xi carefully observed the patient's eyes, mouth, heartbeat and pulse, looking at her skillful pulse movements, Xia Lingge was a little curious: "It turns out that you are studying Chinese medicine." ”

"Yes, my dream when I was a child was to be a medical scientist, but ......" Bai Xi's eyes were a little dim, and he omitted the content behind to change the topic, "Their pulse is indeed very chaotic, the heart rhythm is irregular, and the qi and blood are insufficient, but unfortunately the conditions here are limited, and they can't diagnose more comprehensively." But ......"

Bai Xi thought for a while and asked the old lady, "Do you remember what the white spots on your body appeared?" ”

The old lady shook her head: "I don't remember......"

"I know." Tal suddenly said, "I see, once when Grandma brought food to Altai, Altai put something in the food and water, and he didn't eat it, but gave it to Grandma and the others, and after they ate it, they got white spots all over their bodies and became sick. ”

"I said it, but Grandma didn't believe it."

"Tár!"

The old lady's voice suddenly took on a bit of seriousness: "Altai is a great man, he is helping us to suffer and break free from the shackles of slavery, we should not question him, let alone doubt him!" ”

Xia Lingge and Bai Xi glanced at each other after hearing this, Xia Lingge led Tal farther away, and asked, "What else do you know?" ”

"I also know that people panicked when vitiligo first appeared, but Altai was very firm that as long as he was there, he would not give up on anyone, and no one would be sacrificed," Tal said. ”

"Later, it was true that the vitiligo did not spread very much, but once during the work, an uncle with vitiligo was discovered by the people of the temple, and they said that it was the mark of the devil, and they burned not only him, but also all those who had come into contact with vitiligo, and Altaili protected us and sent us here."