Attack is successful, the name is [traversing]

"Brother, where did this come from?" The cornmeal in his mouth was tight, but it was life-saving food, the more it was like this, the harder it was to come by, Xiao Yanwei ate it with trepidation.

"Just eat yours." Xiaoyantang replied absent-mindedly.

He obviously had something on his mind, but he had no intention of telling her, Xiao Yanwei chewed on the hard dry food, and sighed in her heart, she would be fine if she was older.

This piece of cornmeal caused the siblings to suffer for two more days, but there was no such good luck in the following days.No one can deny that hunger is a terrible disease, whether it is physical or psychological.The two ate all the things that could enter the mouth around the ruined temple, and finally, even the snakes, rats, and ants were extinct here.

He watched his sister get weaker and weaker like this every day, but he returned disappointed every day.Every time he came back, he saw her in a coma, and the panic in his heart piled up, almost completely overshadowing his daily dizziness. When he opened his eyes every morning, he felt that it was inconceivable that he could still be alive.

Then seeing his sister who was struggling to breathe like him, he had to bite the bullet and embark on the almost hopeless journey again.The gates of the city had been locked long ago, no one was allowed to enter and no one was allowed to go out, and those capable people had already disappeared. This was the imperial government's method of blocking the refugees. They wanted to starve the people of this city to death.

One of the plagues brought by hunger is an emotion called despair, despair to numbness, numbness to life, numbness to death, Xiao Yantang only feels that he is not completely numb when he sees his sister's smiling face every day.

When he went back that day, he also scooped up a bowl of water with empty hands. Although he couldn't satisfy his hunger, he could at least fill his stomach.His sister was actually awake, and she seemed to be in good spirits. Suddenly, a terrifying guess came to her mind.His hands trembled, and most of the water in the bowl was spilled.

"Brother!" His sister shouted softly, actually holding in her hands——Xiao Yantang's eyes lit up, his sister was holding a puppy in her hands!

He took two steps, and heard his sister say again:

"Thanks to Mao Mao who ran out suddenly, it was the one who woke me up by licking me, otherwise I wouldn't even know you were back." Xiao Yanwei's eyes were full of smiles, and she combed the fur of the puppy in her arms with her thin fingers.

Xiaoyantang suddenly stopped, and immediately forgot what he wanted to say.

"Maomao's mother is dead," Xiao Yanwei moved slowly, revealing a slightly larger bitch behind her, her eyes fixed on the puppy in her hand, listening to it whine, she teased it , with a smile:

"But it doesn't matter, everything that lives will die, I told it that its mother went to a place where she would never be hungry or beaten, where she would have food, drink and a warm nest...... "

"Wei'er..." Xiao Yantang squatted on the ground, hugging his younger sister whose eyes were gradually dull, he had never hated himself like this for a moment.

"Brother, it's all right, don't cry..." Xiao Yanwei put her arms on his back, as if she wanted to pat him, but she didn't even have the strength to move.

She curled the corner of her mouth and smiled sweetly, maybe she realized that she finally didn't have to drag her brother down anymore.

"Maomao saved me, let's bury his mother, shall we?"

Xiaoyantang fixedly looked into her expectant eyes, struggled for an unknown amount of time, and finally pulled out a smile:

"it is good...."

The brother and sister helped each other to the courtyard, dug a shallow hole, and sprinkled it with soil. He watched his sister put her hands together, muttering something vaguely in front of the hole, and then showed a satisfied smile.

"Brother, where do people go when they fall asleep?" Xiao Yanwei asked softly while lying in his arms.

"Not going anywhere, just by my side."

"Then can I continue to be your sister when I wake up?"

"You can be as long as you want." Xiao Yantang sobbed, and then heard his sister sigh in satisfaction:

"Be sure to live longer than the stars..."

Then she fell silent, Xiao Yantang suffocated for breath, put his trembling fingers under her nose, although weak, he still had breath, Xiao Yantang put his heart back.

He looked at the little milk dog beside him, it was born at the wrong time, its mother had no milk, it was stunted, and it was only the size of a fist after a few days.He pressed his fingers on the puppy's neck, and the dog whimpered and stared at him with wet eyes. He forced himself to be hard-hearted, but he didn't move his fingers back and forth several times.

He twitched the corners of his mouth, picked up his sister and walked into the house without saying a word.

He didn't know what he was thinking, maybe it wasn't the completely useless rationality and thoughts that dominated him at that time, he found a piece of iron, and without saying a word, scratched a blood vessel on his wrist, the blood beaded The moment he got through the skin he pressed the wound to his sister's mouth.

He seemed to want to let his sister drink all the blood in his body, and he seemed to have completely forgotten how his sister could survive in this cruel world alone if he was gone.

But he can't take care of these anymore, Xiao Yanwei is right, to live is to die, but he can't let his sister die even if the whole world dies.

The darkness spread before his eyes, unexpectedly gentle, he dragged his only relative in the world with one hand, and slowly closed his heavy eyelids.

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When Xiao Yanwei woke up, she was surprised and pleasantly surprised. If she hadn't reached the last step, she would never have been willing to leave her brother.There was a strange smell of salt in her mouth, she wrinkled her nose, subconsciously looked around for her brother.

The sight made her freeze.

"Brother?" She pursed her lips, her expression blank.

She crawled over on both hands and feet, and saw the dried blood on his wrist. She held her breath like this, completely unaware that tears were streaming down her face.She patted his face with her dirty hands, and tears splashed on his face. To her, that scene was no different from the world falling.

She was stunned for a while, then suddenly let out a sob, and ran to the courtyard.The puppy was still curled up where it was, and thank goodness the city was dying so no one noticed the rare rations in this remote place.

Xiaoyan Weimu hugged the paparazzi's warm body with a straight face, watched its wet eyeballs facing her, and then stuck out her tongue to lick her fingers.She picked it up and rushed back. After the impact was too strong, she knelt down next to her brother, pinched her fingers on the puppy's neck, and the paparazzi made an inexplicable whining sound.

Xiao Yanwei gritted her teeth, exerted force on her fingers, and the struggling little thing in her hand fell silent.

That world is good, neither hungry nor cold, neither bitter nor tired... Xiao Yanwei wiped the tears off her face expressionlessly, picked up the piece of iron next to Xiaoyantang, and stabbed the pup on the neck .

After the puppy's blood was drained, she lay on her brother's chest and listened for a while, then ran back to the yard to dig out the shallow grave she had just dug, and dragged the mother dog's body out.

Use well water to wash the dirt off the bitch, then the puppies.

She washed and shed tears again, and raised her hand to wipe away the dirty clothes, the corners of her eyes were burning and painful.

She didn't utter a sound during the whole process, and she didn't even utter a scream when she ripped open the dog mother and child with an iron sheet. Her expression was as numb as an executioner accustomed to slaughtering dogs.

She has never been more aware of how hypocritical and contrived her previous innocence and kindness were than at this moment. If she talks about virtue when she is too kind, if she is not a foolish sage, she is a hypocrite.

Xiao Yantang was awakened by the choking smell of smoke and fire in the room, the flames crackled a few times, the smoke contained the smell of meat, and Xiao Yanwei occasionally coughed.He opened his eyes and saw a big smile on his sister's smoked face. His eyes moved to the fire, and he pursed his lips without saying a word.

"Brother! Cough cough...you wake up, this is baked, eat it quickly, or the smell of fireworks will attract others later." Xiao Yanwei handed over a piece of forked meat with still hair on it. It wasn't picked clean, but the shape could tell what kind of animal it was.

Xiaoyantang's throat rolled, and he took the branch with slightly trembling hands.

"Wei'er..." Xiao Yantang called out suddenly, his sister hummed, but he couldn't say anything.

The two of them dealt with the two roast dogs in such a silent and quick manner, without mentioning what happened before.

It seems that the seeds germinated silently, spit out the buds, and bloomed scarlet and tragic flowers.

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Life is still going on, and finding food has become the most important and difficult thing every day.

A lunatic in ragged clothes came to the city, like a muddy cow entering the sea without causing any waves.The lunatic opened a door and called out a group of skinny kids, and he gave each of them a big steamed bun.

That afternoon, the place where the madman lived was filled with living people.But the reason why a lunatic is a lunatic is because he only feeds children, and they must be strong children, and secondly, he kills everyone who wants to grab food without blinking.

That afternoon, the front of his house was crowded with people, and it cleared up in about an hour, leaving bloodstains that could not be washed in front of the door flowing around the house like a stream.The terrible thing is that the bodies of the dead people soon disappeared in front of the madman's door.

It was the next day that Xiaoyantang knocked on the madman's door.

He swallowed his saliva and looked up at him, the lunatic saw a kid smiling blindly, and asked kindly:

"How old are you?"

"Ten years old."

"It's a bit big... But it doesn't matter, are you hungry?" It is estimated that the biggest kind person in the world laughs like this.

Xiaoyantang frowned, and looked straight back:

"What do I have to do so that you can give me four big steamed buns every day?"

"Four? You are more greedy than all the children here." The lunatic stroked his beard in embarrassment.

"So I asked what I want to do." Xiao Yantang didn't back down.

The lunatic laughed, and patted Xiaoyantang on the head in a very approachable way:

"Four is four," then he bent down and said softly:

"Nothing special, just live well."

When he grows up, Xiao Yantang must feel that these words sound like the love words of deceiving ghosts, but now he does not have this awareness. nod.

The lunatic kept his promise, and he would give four when he said he would give it to four. Xiao Yantang was about to take it back, but he was stopped by the lunatic.

"Son, haven't you told me your name yet?"

Xiaoyantang clutched the hot steamed bun in his hand, turned sideways, and paused:

"Qi Yantang." He replied.

It’s not easy to have a name these days, it sounds like someone who has read the book, the lunatic was a little surprised, it was much better than the shit he expected, he smiled:

"You just take it and go, what if you don't come back?"

"I won't." Xiao Yantang frowned.

"It's hard to say, it's not that Uncle doesn't believe you, or else, you eat this." He handed him a black ball,

"If you don't come back, then your intestines will rot and explode from your stomach. Of course, you'll be fine when you come back. Do you dare?" The madman stared at him with burning eyes.

"When will it happen?" Xiao Yantang took the pill.

"Three hours."

"I'll definitely be back." He swallowed the pill and ran away.

He walked in a hurry, and he had no idea that the faster blood flow would speed up the poisoning.It only took him a quarter of an hour to get back to the temple, and Xiao Yanwei only had time to burst into a big smile, and a greased paper bag was stuffed into her arms, with steamed buns inside still warm.

Before she could utter a word, her brother dragged her into the house, giving a bunch of orders while walking.Xiao Yanwei was flustered when he heard that, and interrupted him loudly:

"elder brother!"

Xiao Yantang stopped, turned his head to look at her, then smiled gently, rubbed her yellow hair and said:

"Wei'er, can we be named Qi from now on?"

"Why and why..." Xiao Yanwei stuttered a little, she didn't know what the surname was useful for, whether it was Qi or Qi, Zhang Wang and Li Chu, there was no difference, but why did her brother suddenly mention this.

"With a surname, we have a family, and with a family, we can tie you down."

"Where is it tied?"

"Of course it's by your brother's side."

"Oh...why Shi Qi?" Xiao Yanwei asked curiously after she was relieved.

"...It sounds good." Xiao Yantang struggled for a moment, and replied two words.

Xiao Yanwei was silent for a while:

"I think 'rice' sounds better."

"Fan?" Xiao Yantang looked at her suspiciously, "Which 'Fan'?"

"Just...Qi is fine too." Xiao Yanwei blushed.

"Brother, you haven't said where you got your food." Xiao Yanwei suddenly changed the subject.

"Don't worry, I found a job and the boss gave it to me. From now on, we will have four big steamed buns every day."

Xiao Yanwei forced a smile:

"Tell the boss to let me go too, I don't want to be separated from you."

"Don't make trouble! Girls are not accepted there!" Xiao Yantang snapped.

"Then you put some mud on me, my hair is twisted, I'll pretend to be dumb, no one will be able to tell that I'm a girl!" Xiao Yanwei shouted loudly, tugging at his sleeves and stomping her feet.

Xiao Yantang was helpless, turned around and patted his silly girl's face:

"How can I do it? My sister is so beautiful, no matter how much mud she puts on, she doesn't look like a boy."

"...Brother, don't you want me anymore?" Dou Da's tears pooled in her eyes, Xiao Yanwei bit her lower lip tightly and choked up.

"Nonsense! How is it possible!" Xiao Yantang hurriedly wiped away her tears.

Xiao Yanwei patted his hand away, swallowed sobbingly:

"It's okay, really, brother, you take me with you, and sell me when you can't support me, and kill me if no one buys it, so I can eat it." She opened her eyes and looked at him, her round eyes were black and white, and he was caught. Tears washed more thoroughly, she said so seriously, I don't know how long she had planned.

Xiao Yantang suddenly slapped her face from the top of his head to his feet, the force was not heavy, but the sound was loud.

"You say one more word... I will, I will..." He was trembling all over, his eyes were red,

"I will die in front of you." The two men said the most vicious threat to each other without thinking.

Xiao Yanwei was stunned by him, choked up, then held her breath and didn't dare to speak again, until Xiao Yantang reached out to hug her and patted her back, and finally saved her from being suffocated to death by herself.

"Brother, don't go..." Xiao Yanwei choked and whispered: "I'm not hungry, I don't need to eat, I can go out and help you find something to eat."

Xiaoyantang chuckled lightly:

"Young girl, you think of yourself as a fairy." Completely ignoring the second half of her sentence, he promised with a sigh:

"Brother will never leave you alone, not now, nor in the future."

She wanted to say that he lied to others, but she couldn't find an example to refute it. The time they came into this world was too short, Qi Yantang didn't even have time to lie to her once.

He pulled out the cuffs that she was holding on to, but in the end he didn't tell her where he was going or what he was doing.

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Qi Yantang came back an hour earlier than agreed, the lunatic was very satisfied, and simply threw another pill to him, saying it was the antidote to the one just now, and then led him into the place where so many were hidden for some reason. food place.

"You can't leave this place after that. I'll send you the steamed buns you want. As long as you're still alive, you'll have steamed buns. Is there anyone else at home?" The madman bent down and asked him with a smile.

"I have a younger sister." Qi Yantang's heart skipped a beat, but he asked without changing his face.

"How old is she, why don't you ask her to come together, how lonely it is to let her be a little girl."

"She's not in good health. She had a serious illness two days ago, and she hasn't recovered yet. I'm worried that she will only add to the chaos here." He frowned slightly, with a worried look on his face.

"You're not in good health..." The lunatic clicked his tongue, his expression a little dejected, he lazily shook his sleeves, and pushed his back into a cellar:

"You take a dose of medicine at Chenshi every day, and tell me how you react at Xushi. Don't worry, I don't have any other advantages besides being trustworthy. Once Xushi passes, the agreed steamed buns will be in your sister's hands. Besides, I Regardless of your meal here, you don't have to do anything, why, do you think you have found a huge bargain?" The lunatic looked at him with a smile.

Qi Yantang's heart turned cold, but his face was overjoyed, he nodded hurriedly, and obediently entered the underground room.

I used to go to the pharmacy in the village, and I know that some medicinal materials, especially new medicinal materials, have uncertain properties and need to find something to test the medicine. Sometimes it is a person, but most of the time it is a squirrel or a rabbit.

This lunatic may also be a doctor, but he is definitely not the kind of person who hangs the pot to help the world.

There were already some people in the cellar, most of them were children around his age, Qi Yantang carefully observed the situation, and then sat down in an inconspicuous place in the corner.When he came in, there were also a bunch of people watching him, but they saw that he was thin, short, dirty and ugly. Although basically everyone inside was like this, but like him, he couldn't even hear his breath. A child who has no communication* at first glance, everyone loses interest in a short while.

There was another adult in the corner, Qi Yantang noticed that his hands and feet were shackled by iron chains, the man was unkempt, his beard almost covered his facial features, and he was closing his eyes, apparently expressing his disinterest in sharing a room with a bunch of brats .

"Uncle Han said that after three days, there will be oily chicken legs to eat."

"Chicken legs are just chicken legs. It's not oily." The two children were talking, drooling as loudly as they were talking.

"You know what a fart, this kind of chicken legs need to be soaked in the best Huadiao for a day, then fried in the best lard, and finally steamed in a steamer. The whole steamed chicken legs are golden, fat and fat. Tender, take a bite of the juice and the oil squeaks out, the taste..."

There were more slurping sounds in the cellar.

But the man's voice stopped, and others were about to urge him to continue, but they saw him suddenly fell to the ground and screamed.

When he yelled, the cellar was like a pot of dumplings boiling, and half of the children fell down.

Qi Yantang pinched his five fingers into the center of the fist, stepped back carefully, and completely hid himself in the shadow of the corner.

The lunatic will arrive soon, because it is already Xu time.He bounced from one child to another, chanting words, he stopped beside the child who was chanting chicken legs just now, and stretched out his hands to press his stomach, where it should be.

"Does it hurt?"

"It hurts, it hurts!" the child hissed, with tears and snot all over his face.

The lunatic frowned impatiently, and moved his finger down three inches:

"What about this?"

"It hurts, it hurts!" The child quickly couldn't bear it and rolled around.

"It hurts!" The lunatic quickly lost his patience, violently held the child down, and shouted:

"Don't move, speak well!"

"Here, what does it feel like, sour? Itchy? Numb? Say it!"

"It's all there, but it hurts." The child replied tremblingly.

The lunatic raised his hand and slapped him, shouting angrily:

"Think clearly before talking!"

The child was so frightened that he knew he was crying.

The lunatic lowered his face, stretched out his hand and crushed his neck bone, and finally silenced the annoying crying.

The room was eerily quiet, and all the children looked at the "Uncle Han" who kindly gave them food with terrified eyes.Of course, except for those little devils who have never woken up and screamed.

Every second that followed was horrific. Half of the children died in the cellar the first day Qi Yantang came.

The next day, he also drank the bowl of life-threatening medicine. He had no choice. He didn't feel that his life was much more noble than others, but he had reasons to live.

Six hours later, a sharp pain erupted from his chest and abdomen, and he gritted his teeth so as not to let himself roll all over the floor like yesterday's kid.The lunatic came on time with a sullen face. Obviously, the failure of the experiment yesterday made him in a bad mood.

He was so absorbed in feeling what was going on in his body that it multiplied the pain, but he had to live, so when the madman came to him and asked him, he gave the most accurate answer of all the kids.

The lunatic was obviously surprised, but also very satisfied. He patted his head and asked:

"Educated medicine?"

"Sold... sold medicinal materials." Qi Yantang replied intermittently, the pain gradually faded away, and with the strength of his whole body, his whole body seemed to be fished out of the water.

"Hmm... literate?" the lunatic asked.

Qi Yantang nodded.

After the lunatic left, he discovered that two-thirds of the children in the cellar were dead, and the two or three who were still alive didn't even have the strength to open their eyes.

When the lunatic brought the medicine the next day, he also brought a picture. It was a meridian map. He once saw the shopkeeper put it on the table foot in the pharmacy.The madman ordered:

"Today, follow the instructions above."

Qi Yantang took the medicine bowl and the picture, grabbed the lunatic and asked:

"Have you delivered yesterday's steamed buns?"

The lunatic smiled amusedly. It was obvious that he hadn't encountered such an interesting thing for a long time. He replied in a good-tempered manner:

"Don't worry, the person who came back told me that your sister is alive and kicking." The half-smile in his eyes made Qi Yantang's heart tighten, and he downed the medicine without saying a word.

Today's medicine seems to be different, because the location of the pain is different.With terrible willpower, he clearly felt the severe pain of his limbs falling apart, and then described the location of the meridian diagram to the more excited lunatic.He also brought in some new little ghosts today, and there was no Qi Yanwei in them, which made him feel at ease.

Maybe it was because of his overly restrained reaction that the newcomers misunderstood the danger they were about to face. On the second day, which was the third day after Qi Yantang came, all the newcomers died.

He watched numbly as someone came in to clean up the corpses. In the past few days, only the two children and the locked-up man remained in the cellar.

Two days passed, and finally there were only two living people left in the cellar. Qi Yantang felt that even if the lunatic took out the chicken legs he promised at this time, he might not have the energy to eat them. He used all his strength to maintain his breathing. , that becomes an unprecedented challenge.

"Boy, the bones are hard enough." The chained man spoke for the first time in so many days.

Qi Yantang's eyeballs were aimed at his bared white teeth.

He didn't answer, and the man asked himself:

"What did the lunatic allow you to come in and suffer this?"

Maybe it was because he didn't answer, which annoyed him. He stretched out his leg and kicked him. His eyes were staring with pain, and he gasped and said in a low voice:

"Four steamed buns."

The man paused, then burst out laughing:

"Boy, it's better for you to die. Anyway, your life is worth the price of four steamed buns. What's the point of living? If you continue to suffer, you will suffer."

"I can't die." Qi Yantang replied panting.

The man sneered:

"Arrogance, people with two legs in this world can claim that they can't die again."

Qi Yantang pursed his lips and ignored him.

Maybe it was because he didn't want to chat with a group of children before, but now this person has opened up a chatterbox, even if Qi Yantang is determined to ignore him, he can't stop him from talking to himself.

Qi Yantang could hear him talking about the rivers and lakes with his eyes open and closed his eyes. He was supposed to hear his blood surging, but in the end he was only full of coldness. Those things were too far away. Now he only cares about whether that lunatic will give him back on time every day. My sister sent food.

It's like the only reason he lives every day.

Another person in the cellar laughed at him at first, and then fell silent. That day he kicked his shin and asked him:

"Boy, what's your name?"

Qi Yantang tried his best to open his eyes, glanced at him, and said softly:

"Qi Yantang."

"Surname Qi?" The man squinted his eyes, but he knew a few people surnamed Qi, and they were all unlovable guys, at least not as likable as this kid.

"What's your father's name Qi?"

"do not know."

"You don't know?" The man seemed extremely surprised.

"Is my father's surname Qi related to my surname Qi?"

These words blocked the man, he seemed to have asked something that shouldn't be asked, and couldn't shame himself to apologize, he hesitated and said:

"Boy, after you drink the medicine tomorrow, you hold your breath near the Tianshu acupoint, do you know where it is?" He may feel that he needs to make some compensation.

"I know." Qi Yantang glanced at him and said not very interested.

"This is to save you, you little white-eyed wolf." The man angrily kicked him again.

"I have." Qi Yantang whispered.

"Who told you?!" The man was startled.

"No one, just like this will make you feel better." Qi Yantang shrank his body, as if preparing to sleep.

The man's face suddenly became complicated, he stared at him for a while, and finally sighed heavily.

If this baby grows up in his Changgan faction, how promising will he be in the future.