After a while, before Lin An could ask softly, Anduin, who had just recovered, gave a wry smile and introduced him.
"Master Ling'an, she is Audrey"
"She's a friend of mine."
As if he was afraid that Lin An would misunderstand something, Anduin smoothed the broken hair on the girl's forehead and let out a long sigh.
"She is 13 years old and goes to the same school as me."
"Her parents are aerospace engineers, and my father is a truck driver who delivers supplies to the launch base, so the two of us have known each other since we were very young."
As if taking care of his sister, Anduin spoke bitterly while holding out the tin can.
I saw him suddenly squatting at the girl's feet and speaking seriously:
"Audrey, I bought milk powder. You feed it to him and he won't cry."
"There is something I want to tell you, your brother"
Anduin hesitated to speak, glanced at the baby, and seemed to have no words left in his mouth.
The tin can was opened and there was half a can of milk powder inside.
Lin An came back to his senses and looked at the slightly yellowed milk powder, then realized that what Anduin had bought was actually milk powder.
She glanced at the girl who was still dumb and as motionless as a puppet, and then noticed some smelly urine stains and feces on the bed.
Lin An sighed secretly, and immediately understood why Andu was so anxious.
The girl is skinny, and a group of children cannot find breast milk. To expect one child to take care of another is tantamount to waiting for death.
Brother? Is this child Audrey’s brother?
As if thinking of something, Lin An looked around.
"Why don't you take them back? It's not safe here."
His brows furrowed slightly.
Even if he stayed in the room, Lin An could hear what was going on next door.
Although the living conditions here are better than Anduin's, it is obvious that Audrey cannot take care of her brother at all. Instead of staying here, she might as well go back with Anduin and others. At least they can take care of each other.
Are you worried that Audrey is not mentally normal? If you take her back to the tin house, you won't be able to lock the girl up?
Facing Lin An's question, Anduin slowly stood up in silence.
I saw him patting the shoulders of several children, then turning to look at Lin An.
"Sir, let's go out and talk."
With sad eyes, Lin An nodded after hearing this, but for some reason, he always felt that something was wrong.
After going downstairs, Anduin glanced back at the building behind him, and after confirming that the children were busy making milk powder, he spoke bitterly.
"Sir, the reason why we keep Audrey here is because it is relatively safe."
"There are many women here. If Audrey goes back, she will not be able to accept it mentally."
Clenching his fists slightly, before Lin An realized anything, Anduin took a deep breath and spoke again:
"Audrey lived with us in the tin house at first, but later, she was raped by workers there."
"She can't go back to that place, or she will go crazy."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lin An's heartbeat stopped.
In the past few days since he lost his power, it has been difficult for him to control his emotions from a third-person perspective like before.
In particular, he suddenly realized what he felt was wrong.
Brother? That kid
as expected.
The next second, Anduin continued to speak with a trembling breath:
"Sir, that child is her child."
"After the doomsday broke out, Audrey and I fled here with the other children. It was okay at first, and there were kind-hearted adults who would take care of us."
"But as food became increasingly scarce, many people began to starve to death."
"One day Audrey was raped by a drunken worker. After the group did that to her, they left food for her."
"We were all outside at first and didn't know about it. Audrey didn't say anything, she just shared the food with us silently."
"That period was too difficult and we didn't know how to make bullets. Audrey was actually there during the most difficult time."
Sudden emotional breakdown.
As Anduin spoke, his whole body trembled and his mouth opened, and big tears seemed to flow out uncontrollably.
"She gave up on herself, she gave up"
"We are so hungry!"
"Did you know! When people are hungry, they don't actually think about anything. In fact, they can lie to themselves about anything! In fact, I guessed it. In fact, I guessed where the food comes from."
"But I can't help it, I'm a waste, I can't find anything to eat!"
"I pretended not to know, I thought it wasn't like that"
"Until one day, Audrey's belly slowly bulged, people were no longer interested in her, and they could no longer take the food back."
The words were incoherent, and Anduin seemed like he couldn't bear it anymore because of what happened today. He sat down on the ground and cried like a real teenager.
He actually knows that he is a coward.
Other children may not understand this, but he does.
Only when Audrey's "secret" could no longer be hidden, he could face it pretending to be sad and angry. But in fact, he would hide under the quilt every time after eating the food Audrey exchanged.
, clenching his fists and spitting on himself.
"I'm sorry, sir. I really don't want anything to happen to Audrey. She really can't hold on any longer."
"The child was crying every day, but there was nothing we could do. I just thought that as long as I got some milk powder, maybe Audrey would be better and she would feel better!"
It's like explaining again why you take the risk to buy something.
Anduin looked at Lin An with pleading eyes. He couldn't bear so many things and he felt like he was going crazy.
He regarded Lin An who descended from the sky as hope, and he did not dare to offend the mysterious Lin An.
Even though Lin An didn't seem to want to blame him, he was still afraid. He had no choice but to tell Lin An why he did what he did.
Looking at Anduin who was in pain and fear, Lin An felt a surge of extremely complex emotions in his head.
Only at this moment did he clearly realize how much hope the questions these children asked after rescuing him contained.
Lin An gave a wry smile, sighed, and squatted down.
Just seeing Anduin collapse at this moment, he wanted to tell Anduin that they might have done something wrong.
In Anduin's mind, they may have felt that Audrey was unable to feed the child, so they chose to kill the child.
But from Lin An's adult perspective, he could see that Audrey essentially used herself as a tool to save everyone. After that period of time, she no longer wanted to live.
That child is not so much her child as it is her most painful memory.
As long as she sees the child, Audrey will recall everything she has endured.
However, just when Lin An was hesitating and planning to let Anduin understand this, he was suddenly stunned and suddenly remembered another thing.
etc.
younger brother?
Anduin just wanted to say something about his younger brother, if it wasn't the baby.
"The child who was stoned to death was Audrey's brother!?"
"You wanted to say this just now, but you couldn't say it!? You asked those children to tell her!?"
Lin An's face changed slightly, and he suddenly felt a strong sense of uneasiness.
The next second, Anduin nodded subconsciously and wiped away his tears.
To be continued...