For several nights, he fell to the ground bleeding, holding this handful of light in his arms, and managed to survive until dawn.
Tuo's figure disappeared into the forest. Ten minutes later, he appeared in front of Su Wanqing again, dragging a female leopard and carrying a fat rabbit.
"Tuo, you are getting better and better." She couldn't help but admire.
Su Wanqing took the ingredients and walked towards the kitchen, while Tuo helped with the cooking and Ming was looked after by an old woman.
"Sister Wanqing, do you remember that the last time you roasted rabbit for me was in the old forest in the countryside behind the slums." Tuo skinned the rabbit neatly with his hands and feet while chatting and reminiscing.
"Of course I remember, but the rabbit needs to be braised to taste delicious." Su Wanqing smiled, her heart filled with warmth, "I'll make it for you to try today."
"Okay." Tuo's voice was extremely hoarse with joy.
The two of them were cooking together and laughing constantly. It had been a long time since they had experienced this kind of family warmth.
More than half an hour later, the table was covered with food, and the two of them were facing each other, chatting and eating, just like a family reunion.
Ming hasn't had teeth yet and can't eat. He can only hold the bottle and stare, making "beep" sounds in protest from time to time.
"Tuo, is your instructor a guy named Tong?" Su Wanqing asked, remembering Hoshino Huangliu's words that day.
Tuo nodded and said, "Tong is a very arrogant guy."
"Hoshino Huang asked me to recognize him as my instructor."
"I don't support it!" Tuo Ning frowned, a stern look flashed in his dark red eyes, "Tong is cruel and ruthless, and all his disciples have been tortured to the point of death."
Su Wanqing paused with her chopsticks.
"Yes, Hoshino Huang did ask Tong to take care of me, but that kind of care really makes people -" Deep disgust flashed across Tuo's face, "He knows how to make a person live a life worse than death and surrender obediently."
Su Wanqing's lips curled up slightly and her voice was gentle: "Then have you surrendered?"
"Of course not." Tuo's eyes flashed with surliness and unruliness.
Su Wanqing nodded and said, "Then I'll find another instructor then."
"Sister Wanqing, I will protect you." Tuo said with determination, his dark red eyes full of serious emotions, "I won't let those dehumanized mad dogs have the opportunity to hurt you."
Su Wanqing's eyes passed over Tuo and then Ming, calm and gentle.
"I want to try to protect myself, become truly strong, and protect Ming from harm."
Tuo's eyes fell on Ming's angelic face, and there was a hint of warmth: "I will protect Ming, just like I protect Sister Wan Qing."
These two people are the only sunshine in my fourteen years of life.
Creatures crawling and struggling in the darkness always have an inexplicable yearning for sunlight.
Tuo stayed overnight in Su Wanqing's hut, and the next day, she followed him through the forest.
Arriving at the other side of the closed island, Su Wanqing saw many people, to be precise, many children. Some of them were running hard, some were fighting with each other in the waves, and some were crawling in the hail of bullets.
Many of them were killed on the spot during this brutal militarized training process. Whenever this happened, there would be a few men in black holding guns and wearing military boots, carrying the bodies and throwing them away.
Into the sea.
And because of the whirlpools of the ocean currents, these corpses will always float down the river to the other side of the island.