Chapter 1: Rainy Night(1/2)
In the early 1980s, deep in an alley in Repulse Bay, Hong Kong, there was a simple shed built with wooden sticks and debris. There were all kinds of debris piled up in the shed, and among the debris lay a young woman!
The woman was about twenty years old, her hair was tangled up in strands, her face was covered with oil, and her appearance could not be seen clearly. She was randomly wrapped in a black dress, but under the dress, she weighed less than 100 kilograms and
The frail body can clearly be seen with a big belly.
Long-term malnutrition and the harsh environment have made a woman's body extremely weak!
But the woman didn't seem to feel anything. She opened her blank eyes and watched a cockroach crawling gracefully in front of her. Her face wanted to express a certain emotion, but nothing came out!
If someone walks up and takes a closer look, they will find that the woman's eyes are distracted and her expression is sluggish, which seems to be symptoms of some kind of mental illness or mental retardation. Of course, how could a slightly normal person live in such a place?
More than ten meters away is a place where residents dump domestic garbage. Waves of stench rise up and float around. The oil seeping from the garbage flows along the ground to the sewer outlet next to it. Under the illumination of the street lamp, the ground is printed into strange patterns.
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Pedestrians passing by here all stayed away, and even the residents who dumped garbage walked here and threw the garbage away from their mouths and noses, not wanting to come near this place at all.
However, the food street a few hundred meters away is a different scene. The aroma of various delicacies is wafting everywhere, and the bustling night market is bustling with people. It seems that Hong Kong citizens who spend the night are having a carnival!
Farther away are high-rise buildings and villas. Pedestrians in suits and ties greet each other elegantly with friendly expressions. After having had a good meal and wine, the well-dressed people hold children's hands and walk under the bright neon lights, talking.
A beautiful fairy tale!
The bustling streets and garbage dumps form two worlds, one is heaven and the other is hell.
How far is heaven from hell? It’s about six hundred meters!
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As the night gets darker and darker, a layer of dark clouds accumulates in the sky, and the lights of thousands of houses gradually go out. Pedestrians who are full of wine and food begin to leave the market and rush home in a hurry!
There was a muffled thunder explosion, and the lying woman suddenly screamed, covering her abdomen with both hands, with a painful expression on her face, but there was a trace of clarity in her eyes!
Then the woman let out a low cry again, and her thin body twisted unnaturally. It looked like she was about to give birth.
As the thunder continued to explode, heavy rain poured down. The rainwater dripped from the roof of the simple shed, soaking the woman's clothes and forming a shallow puddle in front of her!
The woman's painful expression appeared from time to time, and she rolled on the ground holding her belly, and the sound of screams pierced the silent night sky.
But his eyes are getting clearer and clearer, as if he is recalling his past and current situation...
The screams lasted for more than half an hour. The woman, who was already extremely weak, reached the last moment of her life. Blood slowly flowed out from her lower body and merged into the rainwater beneath her body!
As the pain continued and stimulated her spirit, the woman woke up completely, with a trace of sadness on her face. She took a dirty coat from her side and put it under her body, holding her abdomen with both hands.
Screaming while pushing down.
But there was gentleness and holiness in her eyes!
"Ah...ah...ah..."
The screams were particularly thrilling in the rainy night!
"Ah..." After a heartbreaking scream, the woman gave birth to a tiny baby boy.
However, the baby's whole body was blue-grey, and its hands and feet were cold and motionless. It looked like a dead baby.
The woman came back to her senses from the severe pain. When she saw that the baby was not breathing or moving at all, tears fell from her eyes!
But at this moment, a bolt of lightning slanted across the sky, like a god coming down from the earth to ride on thunder, and with a whoosh, the loud cry of a baby pierced the night sky.
A living life falls from the sky, which also represents the beginning of a legend...
"Holy shit...what is going on?" Qu Ran could sense the first thought of the outside world, but he cursed in his heart, and then he felt the pouring rain, the moaning and crying women and the waves.
The stench came.
At this time, Qu Ran could not open his eyes, and his soul had not merged with his new body!
But I also knew from the vague feeling that my soul seemed to be reborn in a baby. I couldn't help but secretly sigh in my heart that rebirth really existed! And I was so lucky!
However, if Qu Ran could open his eyes and look at the scene around him, he probably wouldn't feel so lucky.
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At this time, a behemoth flew across the rain curtain at an extremely fast speed, stopped on a low wall, folded a pair of three-meter-long wings, and turned out to be a black eagle half as tall as a man!
The eagle's body was pitch black, but its head was covered with white hair. Its cold eagle eyes glanced at the woman and baby not far away, showing a hint of anthropomorphic joy. But when he saw the weak woman and the crying baby, he couldn't help but feel...
Startled slightly.
Seeing the baby crying, the weak woman showed a trace of tenderness and reached out with difficulty to fumble around. After searching for a long time, she found a piece of broken glass. She picked up the glass with her blood-stained right hand and cut the child's umbilical cord.
Struggling to hold the baby in her arms, tears slowly fell from her eyes.
"My child, mother, I'm sorry for you..." The woman had already thought of her life experience, but she didn't know that her child's body contained the soul of an eighteen-year-old youth. She cried and held the baby in her arms.
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Then, with a look of doting and despair mixed in the woman's eyes, she slowly stretched out her hands to strangle the child's neck, and at the same time using both hands hard, she cried, "My child, mother can't bear to leave you alone in the world. Let's work together."
Go to heaven to meet your dad, okay?"
"Uh? What's going on? This crazy woman wants to strangle her child? I've just been reborn and am about to die?" Qu Ran vaguely felt his neck being tightened, and couldn't help but cursed in his heart, "You crazy woman is here?"
What are you doing? This is your biological child...Ah, of course, it’s not quite your biological child!"
Naturally, the woman couldn't hear Qu Ran's inner narration. The strength in her hands became stronger and stronger, and the hand holding the baby's neck became tighter and tighter!
But Qu Ran couldn't make any resistance. He could only feel his breathing getting tighter and tighter, and the instinctive cry of a baby sounded in his ears...
The life of a newly born child is extremely fragile, how can it withstand such a strong pinch from an adult?
Although the woman is weak and has limited strength, she is an adult after all. Under the woman's fierce pinch, the baby's struggle becomes weaker and weaker, and its cry becomes smaller and smaller!
The eagle on the low wall also saw the woman strangling the baby's neck, with a trace of pity and helplessness in its eyes. Its wings spread out but then retracted in an instant, and it stared blankly at the sewer opening next to the woman.
It turned out that as the child's cry faded, a mouse crawled up from the sewer mouth not far away. Its big eyes glanced around in confusion, ignoring the pouring rain, and hurriedly crawled towards the child and woman!
Behind the mice, mice climbed out of the sewer opening one after another, and followed the first mouse towards the child!
Behind the mouse are small snakes of different colors that are as thick as a finger. The snakes are like mice, swimming towards the child with a blank expression...
The leader of the rats rushed to the woman's side, squeaking strangely, and bit the woman's arm without fear but with a dazed expression!
Then, the rats behind them also arrived, and they gathered around the woman one after another, screaming at her and biting her arms.
The little snake behind the mouse swam to the woman faster, wrapped its slender body around the woman's arm, and snatched the baby from the woman's hand!
Then he pulled the baby out of the reach of the woman and surrounded the child making hissing sounds. The mice stopped entangled with the woman and flew to the child, forming a circle to protect the child.
Naturally, Qu Ran couldn't see any of this. He could only hear the strange sounds of snakes and rats, and then felt the strength on his neck loosen...
Snakes and rats, who were originally natural enemies, seemed to have not noticed each other at this time, and they were entangled together and living together peacefully. It really felt like a nest of snakes and rats!
"Give me back my baby, give back my baby..." The woman was naturally afraid of snakes and rats, and struggled to snatch the baby back, but her body was too weak to move, so she could only stretch out her hands and growl eagerly!
But the baby is still crying instinctively. I don’t know if it’s hunger or fear?
At this time, the woman became even weaker. Seeing that she could not reach the child, the tears that had dried up from crying welled up again. She murmured something in her mouth and drew crooked Chinese characters on the ground with her bloody fingers...
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At this moment, a van for both passenger and cargo appeared in the rain. The eagle on the low wall glanced at the van, thought for two seconds, and then fluttered its wings!
At the same time, the van came to an abrupt stop, as if it had hit something. The sound of yelling and cursing instantly sounded in the car!
"Damn it, you old guy, you suddenly stopped the car without even saying hello?"
"Uncle Kun, I didn't stop the car," a slightly older voice said, "I think I hit something!"
"What the hell, you old guy?" A man in his thirties who looked like a boss cursed as he got out of the passenger seat and came to the van and said angrily, "What else is there besides heavy rain?"
Then a lean man in his forties got out of the driver's seat. He held up an umbrella but did not use it for himself. He put it over the boss's head as if to please. He took a flashlight and shined it in front of the van. He saw a sign of being hit in front of the van.
, but didn’t see anything, and couldn’t help but hesitate, “Uncle Kun, I bumped into something just now. Look here...hey, it seems like there is a child crying?”
"Well, I heard it too, let's go over and take a look..." The boss-looking man gave a casual order, suddenly turned around and said to the van, "You all stay in the car!"
After hearing the boss's words, the heads of four seven or eight-year-old children popped out of the car window. They rubbed their heads and looked into the dark distance with blank and innocent eyes, but they didn't see anything.
"Holy shit..." The lean man held an umbrella for the boss and walked quickly to the shed deep in the alley. The flashlight shone on the child surrounded by snakes and rats and the curled up unconscious woman, and he cursed instantly.
With a sound, the flashlight almost dropped to the ground!
Even Uncle Kun, who looked like a boss, stepped back unconsciously, muttering curses to himself.
The dirty and messy simple wooden shed, the huddled weak woman, snakes and rats scurrying around, the delicate baby contrasts with the pouring rain...
These two people have been in the world for many years and can be regarded as ruthless people, but when have they ever seen such a scene before them!
However, the boss calmed down first, glanced at the child and the woman, and said, "Old Ding, go over and see how the child is doing?"
The lean man known as Lao Ding swallowed hard, but he did not dare to refuse. He handed the umbrella to Uncle Kun and stepped forward with a flashlight!
He chased the snakes and rats away with a whoosh, took a closer look at the baby and the woman, and turned around and shouted to the boss, "Uncle Kun, this woman has passed out from weakness. I'm afraid she won't survive the night. The child is fine and looks very delicate."
, should be able to sell for a good price... Hey, what is this? Yangzhou wood?"
Qu Ran felt it from the moment the car stopped and the two men came over. But now he couldn't even open his eyes and was too distracted to care about himself. What could he do? Then he heard the man named Lao Ding say that he wanted to sell himself.
I went out and cursed in my heart instantly...
"Ignore that woman, bring the child over here!" Uncle Kun looked at Old Ding, who was half-crouching down to look at the woman a few meters away, growled impatiently, and turned around to walk towards the van!
To be continued...