Chapter 269 is here.

Jiang Che held the girl in his arms. She was very light.

"What's your name? My daughter's name is Tuantuan." Jiang Che looked at her legs and frowned.

I reached out and pinched the weak calf. The muscles were very loose and the skin hardly bounced back when pressed.

After losing both legs and suffering from nutritional loss, the legs looked even more skinny.

Jiang Che felt like he would break her legs if he just touched her.

The sound of bones rubbing against each other is also very noticeable.

"My name is Cao Xiaoai, my brother's name is Cao Yong, and you can just call me Xiaoai, uncle." Xiaoai leaned on Jiang Che's shoulder. After the strangeness came, this was the first person other than her brother to pick her up and care about her legs.

"Let's go. I'll take you back." Jiang Che held Xiao Ai in one hand and the box in the other.

Cao Yong was a little at a loss, but as time went by, his hands were able to move back to normal.

I had only seen Jiang Che on live broadcasts before.

He did not watch Jiang Che's first live broadcast, but he had heard that a human had successfully escaped from an SSS-level copy in Hongzhu Mental Hospital.

He didn't watch the live broadcast, and after hearing the news, he just thought it might be another disaster.

He had never come into contact with a mentally ill patient, but he had heard in the past that someone had deliberately obtained a certificate of mental problems after killing someone in order to escape trial for the crime.

Or maybe he killed so many people because he had mental problems.

In his view, a mentally ill person is no different from an evil lunatic.

But now, in order to survive better, he asked this mentally ill person to take him away from this place.

Look at what Jiang Che said?

Should children have a happy childhood?

Even if nothing strange had happened, he couldn't say that he could have had a happy childhood.

He looked at Jiang Che closely. In the dark night, with light shining from the side, half of Jiang Che's face was hidden in the shadow. Under the orange-yellow light, the half of his face was smiling as he looked at his sister. It was a very gentle smile.

Is this kind of person really mentally ill?

Or is it that mental illness is just this kind of mood swings?
Seeing that Jiang Che had both hands full, Cao Yong was at a loss. Duoduo looked at the box in Jiang Che's hand and said, "Uncle, how about I help you get this?"

Jiang Che looked down at the box in his hand, weighed it and found it was not heavy, so he handed it to Cao Yong.

Cao Yong regretted what he said. Jiang Che came empty-handed and only took away a box like this, which was enough to show how precious the box was.

Would what I said make Jiang Che misunderstand that I am plotting against his box?
But he didn't expect that Jiang Che just weighed it and handed it to him.

He was slightly stunned when he took the box. He thought that the box that Jiang Che was holding carefully in his hand must be very heavy.

I didn't expect it to be so light in my hands.

It’s very light, much lighter than the stones on the roadside.

He held it carefully in both hands; just because it was light didn't mean the things inside weren't precious.

"Don't be so careful, there's just a bunch of dried flowers in it." Jiang Che saw his cautious look and spoke quickly.

He didn't know why he agreed to take the two children away.

Perhaps it was when Cao Yong stood in front of him that he felt like he saw himself.

If he had had a chance to escape from Hongzhu Mental Hospital, he would have done the same as Cao Yong.

dried flower?

Cao Yong looked at the metal box in his hand.

There was only a bunch of dried flowers in such a box.

He didn't understand why, but still held it in his palm seriously.

He followed Jiang Che until they reached the edge of the city. Night fell, and the sky was filled with a layer of dark blue mist, lit up by tiny stars.

The moonlight is gentle, but the dark forest under the moonlight is not gentle.

The city lights behind me were dim, and the dark forest in front of me was shrouded in a layer of white mist.

Cao Yong watched Jiang Che walk towards the dark forest, and his steps following Jiang Che paused.

He had heard too many rumors about the Dark Forest, and couldn't help but feel afraid.

But seeing that Jiang Che did not stop, he just paused for a second and followed Jiang Che into the dark forest.

As soon as he stepped into the dark forest, he felt that all the sounds in his ears disappeared.

All the noisy sounds disappeared, leaving only the squeaking sound of Jiang Che walking in the front and crushing the falling objects.

He followed Jiang Che, and the dark forest did not move at all.

The tree trunk had a ferocious look on its face. There was no creaking from swaying in the wind, but it just lay there in an eerie and quiet state.

"As long as you don't touch them, nothing will happen."

There are still many spaces between the trees, so there is no problem walking normally.

"Is it like this normally?" Cao Yong was stunned. If it was okay as long as they didn't touch each other normally, then there would be no need for everyone to be so afraid.

"Of course not."

Cao Yong immediately realized that he had said something wrong and thought that his idea was ridiculous.

If this secret really exists, I will not discover it.

Jiang Che was walking in front, and of course he wouldn't be stupid enough to walk back step by step.

With every step you take, the ground beneath your feet rolls on its own.

It seems like just one step, but it can actually take you a thousand miles.

Cao Yong just felt weird. He felt that in this forest, with every step he took, the surrounding scenery was changing.

Although the surroundings are all covered in darkness and the forest looks no different, if you look closely, you can still feel something different.

He took a step forward, but he felt that the strange face on the tree trunk was still staring at him, and he turned his back the next second.

"My lord, are we in danger? The forest is changing..." Cao Yong felt anxious.

"Very good observation." Jiang Che took a step forward, and the scene in front of them had changed.

"We're here." Jiang Che looked at the long cement road in front of the entrance of Hongzhu Psychiatric Hospital.

He had been desperate to escape this way before, but now was the first time he came back the right way.

This time, it's like going home.

"Are we there yet?" Cao Yong and Xiao Ai were stunned and saw that the scene in front of them had changed.

Unlike the Leng Feng copy where the lights were on all night, Jiang Che could only see the white lights of the mental hospital not far away.

The light is not very bright, but it makes people feel warmer than the weird and dense light in the Lengfeng copy.

Cao Yong looked back at the forest, and felt that everything was very far away.

There was no more constant pain on the soles of my feet, no more sharp thorns, and no more thick blood.

This was the first time he had his feet firmly planted on the ground.

As soon as he walked in, he saw that on the other side of the gate was a very desolate open space. Unlike Jiang Che's side, it was full of black soil and there were many brown clay pots on the surface of the land.

There is only a cement road in the middle, which separates the two areas.

(End of this chapter)