It was late at night, and the stars were shining in the sky, very quiet. There were many shadows on the wasteland, either hills or dry grass, and the shrill sound of wind was sweeping by the sand and dust, and there were many messy grass branches rolling.

The moonlight is bright and everything is peaceful.

It was a little girl in ragged clothes with a bun at the age of five or six. She was gritting her teeth and pulling the body of an adult man staggering on the sand. A streak of inexplicable determination burst out from her thin body, leaving small footprints on the sand step by step. Her shoes had already worn out, revealing her two feet, with new and old scars intertwined.

The little girl dragged the body for a long time, stopped beside a small hill, leaned the body against the hill with all her strength, and then gasped heavily. Through the moonlight, she looked at the corpse. Under the messy hair and dirt, it can be seen that this was a young man in his twenties and had no breathing.

However, the little girl did not seem to understand the difference between life and death, nor did she understand the meaning of losing her breath. Her eyes were full of stubbornness. She took off the worn bamboo tube from her waist and poured the water inside into the mouth of the young man's corpse.

However, the corpse is a corpse after all.

The little water left flowed to the ground.

This may be the last bit of water for the little girl.

Watching the water dripping from the corner of the corpse's mouth into the yellow sand, the little girl's eyes were filled with heartache, a trace of hesitation flashed, and her hands stopped.

Staring at the corpse that had not been moved, the little girl suddenly drank a sip of water into her mouth, and her dry lips were moisturized.

But the little girl did not swallow the water, but lay on the body, put her little mouth on the corpse's pale lips, and passed all the water in her mouth into the corpse's mouth.

When she raised her head, the little girl looked at the corpse carefully, her eyes full of surprise, but the surprise did not last long, because water flowed out of the corpse's mouth again, all flowing to the ground, without a drop left.

The little girl may have understood the meaning of death in her heart, but she was unwilling to admit it. Her inner stubbornness finally broke at this last moment, and she cried loudly in her arms with the body!

"elder brother……"

The little girl wrapped her hands around the head of the corpse and her voice was hoarse.

"They all said you were eaten. It wasn't. They lied to me. You were obviously here... Brother, can you talk well... If you don't talk, Maruko will be eaten..."

The shrill sound of the wind slowly covered the little girl's crying.

I don't know how long it took,

The wind stopped, the fields were silent,

Only the little girl sat on the ground leaning against the body, muttering in her mouth...

"Brother, Brother Liu San said you were eaten by a wolf, so I don't believe it!"

"It's all because of Maruko's bad. If you didn't help Maruko find something to eat, you wouldn't have been buried in the sand, brother..."

"Brother, I'm so scared. Yaya is gone. I saw her yesterday, but today she is gone, and her parents didn't look for her..."

"They are going to rob my dry food and cook me... Brother, I'm so scared..."

“…”

Suddenly, the nagging little girl was stunned for a moment, and a blush flashed across her pale face, jumped up from the ground, looked at the hand of the corpse, staring at her tightly!

"Brother, brother, have you woken up?"

She just felt the corpse's fingers move.

The little girl wiped her nose hard, opened the bamboo tube, put it to the mouth of the corpse, and shouted with anticipation: "Brother, brother, drink water..."

At that moment, the corpse suddenly opened its eyes and burst out with cold eyes that did not match the dirt-filled and powerless face. The skinny finger suddenly grabbed the little girl's neck.

"elder brother……"

The bamboo tube in the little girl's hand fell to the ground, her face turned red, her face full of panic, and she let out a last shrill cry with force.

It was the panicked cry that made the young man's thin hand dull, as if the big hand of the iron clamp was unable to cut off the little girl's neck in an instant because of this retardation.

The young man's eyes instantly looked at the surrounding environment. The fatigue in his body made him feel a little relaxed, giving the little girl some room to breathe, but he did not let go of the little girl and asked coldly: "Who are you?"

The little girl sobbed slightly, her nose was running a lot, and she said, "Brother, I am Xiao Maruko, don't you remember me? Here... here... I don't know where it is. There are many people, and many people starved to death..."

The young man frowned, and an irresistible weakness came from his body. A buzzing sound suddenly came from his head, as if an electric current passed through and fell to the ground in an instant.

"elder brother!"

Before I went to the last trace of consciousness, I heard the little girl’s nervous cry!

…………

"Brother, can you wake up? I will definitely listen to you in the future!"

"I'm sorry... it must be Maruko who scared her brother..."

Under the cold moonlight, Xiaomao gently wiped the dirt on the young man's face, slowly revealing a pretty face, but she never woke up.

Maruko was very guilty. She felt that it was because of her own reasons that made her brother wake up and die again. She didn't understand that it was death without intentional sleeping, and sleeping with breathing was called coma!

"Hurry, that little girl has been hiding here!"

At this moment, waves of rapid and mottled footsteps disturbed the silence of the night, and a surprise sound scared Xiaomao's face turned pale.

"Catch her and don't let her run away!"

A group of refugees, holding some sharp branches as weapons, instantly surrounded from all directions, and the small hills were surrounded by a group of equally skinny adults.

A sluggish aura came out, and everyone's eyes were as cold as a hungry wolf with inhumanity.

Maruko was trembling all over, but she kept the unconscious young man behind her. She was very scared. She saw with her own eyes a little older than her beaten to death by this group of people. The blood dyed the sand red, just because the little brother stole some food from them.

This is an inhuman era, and these people are all strange and terrifying!

Maruko shrank and looked at the people like a bird with broken wings. Finally, she saw two people she knew in the crowd. She stuttered in fear but with expectation: "Brother Liu San... Uncle Li Si... you... you... want to beat Maruko too? You used to love Maruko..."

Perhaps it was the last struggle of human nature, and a hint of loneliness appeared in the eyes of the two people who were called by Maruko. They looked at each other, lowered their heads deeply, and sighed.
Chapter completed!