Master Sculptor

Chapter 2

Li Hanlin was finally led into the hut. With the afterglow of the setting sun, he glanced around, but there was no furniture in the room.There was a pile of dark things in the corner, and he couldn't see them clearly with the backlight, but it didn't feel like something dangerous.After the child brought him into the house, he found a place to curl up and didn't say anything.

Maybe this is a wild child abandoned by his parents, so he lives alone in this wilderness.Li Hanlin thought about it, and felt a little relieved.At this time, he dared to look at the child's appearance directly. The other party's eyes were closed, which made Li Hanlin a little puzzled.Could it be that there is an eye disease?

"Can I ask you a question?" Li Hanlin squatted down and said softly, "Why are you closing your eyes? Are you...not seeing?" He suddenly felt that he was too offensive. The usual love of children makes him unwilling to ignore the other party's emotions.

"Because it's not completely dark yet." The child replied softly.

Hearing this answer, Li Hanlin's whole body trembled again, what do you mean? ?Do you have to get dark to open your eyes?

He subconsciously wanted to ask, but swallowed it back.Curiosity killed the cat, he still understands this truth.

"I can open my eyes when it's dark." The child explained cautiously, but he didn't know how to say it clearly, and said intermittently, "No, it's not dangerous. It's not good to open your eyes during the day."

Li Hanlin almost blurted out a question of "why", if the other party's small body didn't seem to be intimidating and his actions and words were not malicious, he would have run away.It took him a long time to hold back the word "oh" to show that he knew.

I know shit!He just can't figure out what's going on now!

It got dark quickly, and when the last ray of light was swallowed by the night, the child keenly felt that the night had come completely, and slowly opened his eyes.Li Hanlin's night vision is good, so when the child opened his eyes, he was fascinated by those eyes!

Black and bright, clear and clean, without any impurities at all, the glass-like black pupils overflowed with beautiful light in the dark night.When those big eyes locked on him, Li Hanlin unconsciously held his breath.Only at this moment did he believe that this child was not a bad person, and it was impossible for a malicious person to have such beautiful and clean eyes.

"What is this place?" He finally dared to communicate with the other party.

"It's a restricted area." The child said, thinking about it and trying to comfort him, "I'll get used to it, it's fine."

There were thousands of ripples in Li Hanlin's heart, and he hurriedly asked the other party about the specific situation.After communicating for a long time, he managed to sort out the clues from the child's stuttering explanation.

The so-called forbidden zone is for people who have been abandoned by gods.Their birth is doomed to bring misfortune. After being driven out of the city, they can only survive alone in the wilderness, without food, clothing, and tools. In the absence of everything, death is the only destination.Apparently the kid regarded him as a "newcomer".

"Who is God?"

"Huh?" The child was confused by the question.

Li Hanlin looked at the child's bewildered expression, and laughed out loud.The so-called god is almost always an excuse for the ruler to implement his own cruel decision-making. He actually raised such a question to make things difficult for a child.

"Then why drive you away?"

The child gave him a serious look, and said, "It's us, they said we have the blood of dirty beasts on our bodies." Speaking of this, the child's always bright eyes dimmed.

Li Hanlin was stunned.The blood of the beast?Is that what he understands?Human-animal hybrid?Can it really be born?Isn't there reproductive isolation?Feeling that his ideas were too wild, he threw his ridiculous ideas aside.Seeing the child's dejected look instead, Li Hanlin couldn't help reaching out, wanting to touch the other's head to comfort him, but he stopped in midair.This top hair, I really can't get rid of it!Tomorrow, I must let this black baby take a bath!

Li Hanlin learned a lot from communicating with the children.But it is still very limited. It may be due to the age of the child, and because he is excluded by others, he knows even less.As for the things in the city, he basically didn't know anything about it. It was said that he was thrown here when he was a baby, and he survived only after being raised by an old man who was also expelled.This rough log cabin was left by the deceased old man.

The child's name is Big Eye, and the name is straightforward and perfunctory.What surprised Li Hanlin was that the little baby was already ten years old this year, and his height was barely over one meter, and he was so thin that only a small skeleton remained.Li Hanlin looked at his abrupt spine and ribs, and felt very distressed.I thought that if he had the ability, he would definitely take good care of this child.

What he saw and heard that day was so unbelievable that Li Hanlin slowly fell asleep in the midst of hunger while digesting.

Li Hanlin's biological clock is very accurate, at 07:30, he opened his eyes on time.The white ceiling occupies the field of vision, and the sideways are elegant curtains.The morning birds sang joyfully, flapped their wings and flew to the window, rested for a while, and flapped away to another place.Li Hanlin sat on the bed in a daze for half an hour, motionless as if in a trance.Suddenly, as if a switch on his body was turned on, Li Hanlin suddenly jumped up from the bed, screaming and jumping.

Damn it was a dream!He actually thinks like an idiot whether he has really time-traveled, he is so stupid!

Outside the door, Comrade Li Jianguo was passing by his door in big underpants, just in time to hear his maniacal laughter, opened the door and cursed angrily: "Are you looking for cigarettes early in the morning? What are you going crazy for!"

For the first time, Li Hanlin felt that his father's old face was so kind and friendly, and excitedly talked about his dream.

"...You haven't seen that ebony forest, it's amazing! I really don't believe that a whole ebony forest can grow like that, how many years does it take! But the most terrifying thing is that there is not a single bird , How can there be no birds in a normal forest? I knew it was a dream!" Li Hanlin was eloquent.

"Wait, son." Li Jianguo interrupted him suddenly, "What did you just say? A whole ebony forest?"

"Hey, you don't believe it, right? I was surprised in my dream. Let me tell you..."

"Stop, stop, stop! Are there... a lot of chickens?"

The muscles on Li Hanlin's face suddenly froze, and it happened to be stuck on a fluttering expression, which looked very funny.He eased his dry throat: "No... how did you know, Dad?"

Li Jianguo knew that this was the case when he saw Li Hanlin's expression, and his breath became short of breath for a while, and he hurriedly ran to his room, shouting as he ran, "Son, wait, I'll look for it."

What are you looking for?Li Hanlin was completely dazed, and it took him a long time to jump out of bed and hurriedly follow his father.

Inside the living room.

"Hmm...Hanlin, let's take a look at the suicide note left by your grandfather." Li Jianguo shook out a piece of paper from a cowhide envelope, "You were only ten years old, so I didn't show you this thing. The bank balance is three One hundred thousand yuan is invested for your brother, the house is for your father and me, the sculptures are donated to the museum, and then..." Speaking of this, Li Jianguo broke into a cold sweat, "The ebony forest covers a total of 25 acres and belongs to you."

"At that time, when your mother and your eldest brother saw this, we thought your grandfather was demented. Our family never contracted any land. Besides, how can such a precious tree as ebony be casually available. Just thinking about you It's not unfair, I plan to let you forget about this house when you marry a wife..."

"No, Dad," Li Hanlin broke into a cold sweat, "I was clearly dreaming! I didn't go anywhere last night, so I just lay on the bed!"

"Are those chickens in your dream abnormal? Wait a minute," Li Jianguo shook the cowhide envelope upside down, and then shook out a piece of letter paper, "Your grandfather gave it to you."

Li Hanlin took the thin piece of paper with densely packed words written on it.

Li Jianguo wiped off his cold sweat and said, "Dad doesn't know what's going on. Just watch it first. I'll call your brother to come back. We have to hold a family meeting quickly. Don't worry, what's the matter?" Let's do it together as a family!"

Li Hanlin's hands couldn't help shaking, his eyes stared straight at the words on the letter paper, and his body tensed up every time he read a line.

It turns out that the world in the dream is real!

The author has something to say: Today (24th) there is still a chapter.