Chapter 265 Weird Kid

"Hello, fellow villager. I'm from Qinggang. I'll stay here for one night and leave tomorrow."

Looking at the people in the village, Lu Xin explained to them in a friendly manner.

When you go out, courtesy is not a problem.

Although the people in this village look a little strange, they all have slumped shoulders, crooked waists, one leg supporting the body, and one leg dragging behind them, and their bodies are a little hunched. Even when looking at people, they tilt their heads and tilt their faces back slightly.

But Lu Xin didn't show them strange eyes because of their appearance.

Living in the wilderness, they may just be malnourished.

While saying these words, he also smelled the aroma of meat coming from somewhere deep in the village, so his smile became more sincere.

The difference between stewed meat and canned food couldn't be more obvious.

...

Facing Lu Xin's kind smile, the people in this village looked at him silently.

Lu Xin still smiled at them, his smile unchanged.

It was the silent and somewhat dull people in this village who gradually felt a little uncomfortable.

Many people turned their heads subconsciously.

"Are you alone?"

An old man slowly walked out of the crowd. He was wearing a tattered down jacket with dark and deep wrinkles.

"Yes."

Lu Xin looked at him sincerely and said, "Don't be nervous, I'm just asking for a place to stay."

As he spoke, he could smell the meat aroma coming from not far away, and his stomach was obviously hungry.

He said, "It would be better if you could prepare some dinner. I'll pay for it."

The old man looked at Lu Xin silently, then shook his head slowly: "Then come with me."

"Agree now?"

Lu Xin relaxed.

It was indeed the gathering point with the lowest risk factor after the previous exploration by the caravan and scouts.

Similar gathering points are generally very popular with caravans and pioneering teams.

Although they would camp in the wilderness most of the time, they would often exchange food and salt at the gathering points of ordinary people. After a while, they had already figured out the habits of these gathering points scattered in the wilderness.

The military map with a huge amount of information was made by summarizing so much information.

When Lu Xin pushed his motorcycle and followed the old man forward, the people on both sides slowly separated a path, but their eyes were still a little dull and slow, and they kept looking at Lu Xin without any emotion in their eyes.

Lu Xin was a little uncomfortable with their gazes, and looked back at them in a friendly way.

If the other party didn't blink, he wouldn't blink either.

Generally, under his gaze that tried to express goodwill, the other party would take the initiative to look away.

…

"You can live in Old Lady Meng's house. She has an empty room here."

The old man took Lu Xin to the middle of the village, pointed to a dark house on the roadside, and said hoarsely:

"People in the village go to bed early. If you don't have anything to do, go to bed early and don't run out casually..."

"Okay."

Lu Xin agreed very readily, and then said: "Dinner..."

But before he finished speaking, the old man had waved his hand and said hoarsely: "Go back!"

Whether it was the people who followed Lu Xin around, or those who watched him from afar, or those who hid behind the dark windows and peeked, they suddenly dispersed after hearing the old man's words.

Some people went into the room next door, some people suddenly pulled down the window, and some people squatted in the shadows on the side of the road, staring at Lu Xin for a while, a wooden and weird smile appeared on their faces, and then they backed up and slowly crawled into the alley.

… He did crawl into the alley on all fours.

…

"He may have been injured, and there are not many good treatment conditions in the village..."

Lu Xin sighed for him, pushed the car to the designated house, and then carefully locked the car.

"Squeak..."

He pushed open the half-closed door, and was greeted by pitch-black darkness.

There was a musty smell in the room, a mixed smell of old furniture, moisture, old clothes, and fishy smells.

Lu Xin stood quietly at the door for a while, and waited for his eyes to adapt to the darkness in the room before looking around.

With the dim light coming in from outside, he saw that there seemed to be a big kang near the window.

There were black things piled on the kang, which was the main source of the musty smell in the room.

There seemed to be an old lady sitting by the head of the bed. She had been looking at him silently, and her eyes in the dark seemed very gloomy.

If it weren't for seeing her, Lu Xin wouldn't have known that there was such a person looking at him.

What was even more strange was that Lu Xin felt that it seemed that the old lady was not the only one looking at him in the room.

"Hello, Auntie..."

Lu Xin was silent for a while, and his voice became more enthusiastic: "Is there a light in the room?"

The old man at the head of the bed looked at Lu Xin silently without saying a word.

Lu Xin smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, fortunately I have one."

As he said that, he closed the door with his backhand, then squatted on the ground, took out a black tube of more than ten centimeters from the bag, and gently twisted a ring on it. Suddenly, a dazzling light radiated from the head end, illuminating a bright spot in the room.

"Hua La..."

Lu Xin heard the sound of something running in panic in the room.

"Don't be afraid, I'll adjust it."

Lu Xin explained with a smile, and then turned a ring under the ring.

The bright and dazzling light began to soften slowly, and finally turned into a warm light yellow.

Then Lu Xin slowly pulled down a button on the long tube, and the light began to spread evenly instead of gathering in one place. After placing the flashlight flat on the ground, it looked like a table lamp without a lampshade.

This was one of the supplies Han Bing prepared for himself, a multifunctional flashlight developed by the Special Cleanup Department.

It has batteries and a solar charging ring. After being fully charged, it can maintain high-intensity power for more than three hours.

There is a card slot at the head. After pushing it up, the light is refracted and condensed, and it becomes a flashlight.

Put it down, and the light radiates, and it becomes a table lamp.

…

The room was filled with soft light, and all the arrangements were clearly illuminated.

Lu Xin saw that there was indeed a big kang on the right side of the window when he entered the door.

On the kang were some thick and damp quilts that were originally black or changed from other colors.

An old lady with messy hair and wearing a heavy cotton jacket leaned against the window and looked at him indifferently.

Looking at her, Lu Xin was also a little surprised.

Only then did he know where the other look he felt just now came from.

The old lady was holding a child in her arms.

It was hard to tell how old the child was, as he huddled in the old lady's arms.

Judging from his head that was exposed, his face was obviously deformed.

The left cheek and forehead were bulging out of the ordinary, and his eyes seemed to be shrinking into a pinhole-like dot because they were not used to the light. His eyes were very strangely focused, and his lips turned up, revealing the upper row of black and uneven teeth.

One of his hands was also exposed outside the quilt, curled up unnaturally, as if in a spasm.

Lu Xin thought about it and felt that he looked a bit like Down syndrome, which he had read in the library.

In order to figure out whether he was split, he once made up for a period of knowledge on mental and strange diseases.

…

Under the gaze of the old lady and the strange child, Lu Xin smiled at them in a friendly manner.

Facing Lu Xin's smiling face, the old lady turned her head and closed her eyes, while the strange child was still staring at him straight.

Lu Xin pulled a small stool from under the table, sat down, and asked, "Is there anything to eat at home?"

The old lady was silent, as if she couldn't hear him at all.

The strange child was still staring at him straight.

Lu Xin smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, fortunately I have it."

As he said that, he came to the door and took out a large bag of instant noodles and the leftover canned beef from the box.

The can had been opened, and the smell inside floated out.

On the bed, the strange child curled up in the arms of the old lady, his nose moved, and suddenly jumped off the bed with a "whoosh".

His speed was surprisingly fast. The small stool Lu Xin was sitting on was at least two meters away from the bed, but he was also lifting the quilt and getting out of bed. But he came to Lu Xin in an instant and grabbed the can.

"Swish!"

Lu Xin stretched out his hand and grabbed the air.

When he stretched out his hand, the strange child had already run back to the bed with the can.

"It's okay."

Lu Xin's hand was still grasping the air, his palm was empty, as if he was holding something, and he shook his head slightly while speaking.

He was talking to his sister.

Seeing that the strange child was actually grabbing her things, the sister was about to rush up, but fortunately she was stopped by Lu Xin.

...

There was a sound of wolfing down on the bed.

Lu Xin sat on the stool and watched. He saw the strange child directly tore the half-opened iron sheet of the can and pulled it aside, then reached out to eat the beef inside. The juice flowed out from under his turned-out lips and wet his chin.

He quickly ate most of the half can of food, which was not much to begin with. When there was only a small bite left, he stopped.

He grabbed the last small piece and handed it to the old lady.

Lu Xin then retracted his gaze, smiled gently, and said, "It's okay, I still have some, and this can of beef is a bit salty. It tastes good when cooked with instant noodles. I brought several packs of instant noodles, and there are five pieces in each pack."

As she said that, she looked to the side and said, "Is there any water?"

This time, the old lady did not remain silent. While chewing the beef in her mouth, she looked at Lu Xin a little dully.

As if moved by the warm smile on Lu Xin's face, she slowly raised her hand and pointed behind the door.

Lu Xin became happy: "Great."