Time at rest

The apothecary fumbled in the till and pulled out a bundle of notes, which he threw into his bushy face.

"This is the last time, from now on no more in front of me."

Thick eyebrows hey hey smile, bent down to pick up those notes, clap clap, into the arms. After blowing a kiss at the drugstore owner, he strode to the door to leave.

Hua -

The door, it opened. A child, with a baby in his arms, appeared before the coarse eyebrows and the grocer. Did he come to see the doctor? But why, so close behind him in the blizzard, is so strong, so cold?

Thick eyebrows did not pay attention to the beggar child, just a grunted step aside, do not disturb the pharmacy owner's business. The little beggar rushed to the medicine cabinet without stopping, it seemed that he really came to see a doctor.

"Are you here to see the doctor, kid?"

How much money can a child have? But the apothecary still counted the turnover in his hand, and glanced at the little beggar out of the corner of his eye.

The little beggar did not answer. He was not standing outside the counter, unlike most patients. Instead, he ran straight inside the counter, reached out his hand, and grabbed the drugstore owner by the scruff of his coat.

This behavior of the little beggar is puzzling. The drugstore owner was more worried about whether the boy had come to steal money, so he secured the open till. Just as he was about to open his mouth, there came a fierce roar from the door. Meanwhile, a man dressed as a servant with three dogs and a squad of four soldiers stormed in.

"Big eyebrows! Big boss! Not good! I gave away what you did! This is your reward money, I do not want!"

The little beggar groped out of his arms a sura, which had been prepared long ago, and stuffed it into the hands of the shopkeeper. Before the store owner could react, the beggar turned around with the baby girl in his arms and ran to the side door inside the counter.

What's going on here?

Thick eyebrows and the drugstore owner were bewildered by these changes. But when the soldiers saw this, they had already drawn their swords and attacked, Shouting.

"So you are behind it! Even the king's daughter of the stag empire dares to lay a hand on him. Suffer death!"

Already can't ignore what, thick eyebrow is not what good kind originally, see the other party draw a sword, also conveniently draw out the short knife in the waist to meet an attack. The pharmacy boss is more because of the devil in the heart, hurriedly packed up the money and want to escape, but was a soldier's bow shot through the heart, the sudden death.

There was a sound of fighting in the pharmacy under the blizzard. Thick eyebrow is a man of means, under the siege of a few soldiers or fight all over the wound to escape, to the gathering of his Allies to escape. After a few cries, the soldiers followed suit, and in the morning paper the next day, the garrison climbed out to wipe out an organization of hired assassins.

This pharmacy has a back door. Think of the pharmacy boss and thick eyebrow "friendship", you can come to that he must have installed the back door. The little beggar opened the back door and saw another alley. After a few moments of observation, he knew at once where he was, and set off again.

"Heh heh heh, very interesting. Human boy, follow you as expected is breathtaking, extremely exciting ah! At some point, however, animals are smarter than humans. Can you avoid this last test?"

The dimmed blood pupil emits a glow of excitement. There was a banging on the door behind him. The little beggar was so exhausted that he could not catch his breath and went on running.

The door burst open and the door burst open with a loud roar. The three Wolf dogs looked down and sniffed as soon as they came out. Soon they found the way the little beggar was running away, and shouted and ran after him. And their cries, of course, also attracted their cruel master, the hands of a cutlass servant.

Call... Call... Call...

Breathing, starting to get heavy.

The little beggar's feet were shaking. He had been running in the snowstorm for more than an hour. But he was still supporting himself to escape the chase.

Sweat, just the moment the overflow was frozen. The back was hard and cold. Frozen sweat clogs the capillaries, making it impossible for the little beggar to drain his sweat. His legs felt leaden, and each step was painful.

He is only ten years old.

A ten - year - old child, no matter how strong the will to live, can not break the age limit of physical strength.

Pa...

After running down another street, he finally broke down and fell to the ground.

...

............

...............

Snow, ethereal under. Fell on the little beggar, as if to cover him with the last of the Styx. The beggar's hands were raised high and he picked up the baby girl at the moment she was about to fall, preventing her from being pinned down.

Eating the snow in his mouth, feeling the coldness of nature, the little beggar's breath became heavier. His legs had cramp and he could not stand up. Now he could only turn over and sit up. The first thing you do when you sit up is take the baby girl in your arms and check on her.

She was sleeping...

See this scene, the little beggar that cold eyes, finally revealed a color of peace of mind.

"Boy, at last -- to -- find -- to -- you --"

Raise your head and move away from your delicate face. A dirtier face than a gutter rat with three Wolf dogs appeared in front of the little beggar.

Snow and ice drifted, rolling up the pain of cutting human skin. Night had settled over the place, and there were no pedestrians on the streets and no lights on either side. All the people in the house seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep, leaving only the world outside, blowing and snowing, waiting for the next fate of the little beggar.

The gap-mouthed dog encircled the little beggar, sticking out his tongue, showing his teeth, and pouring out greedy saliva. Their master toyed with his scimitar, laughed, and scorned the little beggar who could not move. Looking at the hunted plaything, he raised his hand and chopped off the scimitar.

Blade, cut snow, cut a crack in the little beggar's cheek. This is not a little beggar dodge, but the man is wanton in front of the thing, want to see his panic.

The red liquid flowed from the wound and smeared on the cold face, quickly turning to ice and freezing the wound. The expression of the little beggar did not change, he just looked at the person in front of him, cold, staring at each other.

"Ha ha ha, garbage, are you calm enough? It doesn't seem to scare you anymore, does it? In that case, how about I cut off your limbs and chop them up again for you to eat? Anyway our that princess big young lady already to you hate to the bone, calculate again how play you, should also have no relation?"

The little beggar drew himself up and held the baby closer. He moved back, trying to cover the baby girl and protect her.

"Well, boy, the look on your face really makes me sick! I don't believe it. You're not scared at all! On! Tear him to pieces! Give it all to me!"

The dog receives the signal and immediately releases the suppressed impulse. They rushed forward, rushed at the little beggar who was completely surrounded, showed their teeth, and gnawed at the small body...

No one can save him. This moment, the little beggar baby girl, hold more tightly...

The time,

Stop.

...

The little beggar hugged the baby girl and looked at the dog in front of him. The open mouth was close to his nose, and he could smell the stench coming out of it.

The snow stopped, and the saliva from the dog's mouth froze in midair. At that moment, everything stopped.

The little beggar could not move. He could only see and smell and feel the weight of the baby girl in his arms, but he could not move. The claws of the Wolf dogs in his back were on his shoulders, so real that he could not move. Even the pupil rotation is not allowed, can only stare at the Wolf, looking at the two rows of sharp teeth.

"Hey, hey, boy, isn't that funny?"

The sound of darkness, echoes in my mind. After everything had stopped, even the little beggar himself, the blood pupil in the handle was again opened, staring at the little beggar.

"..."

"First, I'll tell you. I didn't pause. Now, I've just improved your thinking a thousand times. It is thanks to your instinct to think calmly when your life is in danger."

"..."

"Ha ha, don't understand? Let me explain briefly. The concept of time is only relative to human brain perception. The more things the brain perceives to happen over time, the slower it is relative to time. On the contrary, the less things happen in a period of time, the faster the relative time will be. What you can think about in a second is magnified a thousand times, and what you can think about in a second is only a thousandth of a second."

"So now you get this illusion that time has stopped. In fact, the time around you is slowing down a thousand times faster than you, which is a little more than sixteen minutes. That's why we have this time to talk to each other. Understand?"

"............... What do you want from me?"

"Ha ha ha, is this interesting. You always surprise me! Human boy!"