"If you can't help me, can you let me leave?"
Rei was a little impatient. Even if she was afraid, as long as Lulunaka didn't intend to harm her, she could still ask for help.
She couldn't understand Lulunaka's words at all. She could understand the words, but when they were connected, they became incomprehensible.
"Do you want to run away, or do you want to save your companions?"
Lulunaka laughed. "Since you asked for my help, it means that you care about your companions... If you just leave like this, you won't be so lucky in the future.
Come, let me touch your head, and I'll help you and your companions. "
Rei was really annoyed by Lulunaka's pestering, so she closed her eyes. "Touch me if you want." She moved her head slightly closer, as if she was completely at Lulunaka's mercy.
Lulunaka chuckled at Rei's attitude, but didn't say anything.
She finally put her hand on Rei's head and gently pressed it.
The feeling of her hair being squeezed was transmitted to Rei's scalp. At first, Rei had goosebumps, but after a while, she realized that nothing strange had happened.
Her head didn't fall off, her brain wasn't pulled out, and she didn't lose her mind or get controlled.
Lulunaka's hand didn't have any warmth. It was a little cold — after all, she came out of the water — but it wasn't cold to the point that it made Rei wonder if it was a dead person's hand.
It was just a very ordinary touch. None of the things that Rei had expected happened.
"You're really short. I know that malnourished children are all like you," Lulunaka said.
Rei closed her eyes and whispered, "I also want to grow up. If I grow up, I'll have strength, and I won't need to look for others for help..."
"Growing up doesn't mean you'll have strength. If there's such a good thing, then the adults in your eyes should be great people.
But in a place like Rat Path, have you ever seen such people?
Even if you have, it's rare. "
Lulunaka finally said something that Rei could understand, and she couldn't refute.
What Lurunaka said was probably the truth. Humans weren't creatures that could grow up just because they had grown up, especially after Rei had seen so many different kinds of people.
In a place like the Rat Dao, if an orphan wanted to survive, he had to mature early.
As for Lulunaka, she stroked Rei's head and recalled some things from the past.
"You have beautiful eyes. Has anyone ever told you that?" she asked Rei.
Rei shook her head. "What's so good about my eyes? They're just a pair of eyes."
To Lulunaka, it wasn't just a pair of ordinary eyes. But judging from Rei's answer, perhaps Rei herself didn't notice anything special about her eyes.
Rei wasn't in the mood to care about her eyes, but Lulunaka's words had been staring at her eyes since the beginning.
If Julius was here, he would probably be surprised to see Rei's eyes.
Children's eyes were always a little big, and there was no turbidity in their eyes, making them look especially beautiful.
Rei's eyes were the same, but there was something different.
Normal children's eyes wouldn't be so bright in the dark, and their pupils wouldn't be vertical, and there wouldn't be a vertical black line in the middle of each pupil.
Rei's pupils were made of black lines and gold, as beautiful as gemstones. And this pair of 'gemstones' was a living thing, perhaps even more beautiful than dead gemstones.
Lulunaka recalled something. Actually, she had seen something similar to this pair of eyes just now.
It was two green gemstones, taken from the snake's eye sockets.
"Do you feel your eyes burning?"
Lulunaka asked. Rei shook her head. She knew that she was still in a life and death situation, and there was still a wound on her face. Even if there was something wrong with her eyes, it was nothing compared to the burning pain on her face.
"Why do you care so much about my eyes?" Rei had just calmed down, but she suddenly became nervous again.
It was said that some weirdos and perverts especially liked children's eyes. If this weird girl in front of her was like that … But her head was already under someone's hand, and it seemed too late for her to resist.
"Because I'm curious." Lulunaka laughed. "I think you should be an orphan, right?
If you have parents, I think no matter how bad your parents are, they wouldn't let you come to this kind of place. "
"That's not necessarily true … But I really don't have a family."
Rei replied. Lulunaka's words made her more and more suspicious. Some people especially targeted orphans, because no one cared about orphans. Even if they disappeared, no one would care.
"Why do you care so much about other people's families?"
"Because I've taken care of many children like you."
Lulunaka said, narrowing her eyes, as if she was recalling something. "But I'm probably not good at teaching … When those children grew up, they all became things that I didn't like."
"Do you think it's best if the child becomes the way you want him to be?"
Hearing Rei's words, Lulunaka was stunned for a moment, and then laughed. "If that's the case, it seems that it's my problem, but I won't admit that I'm wrong."
"Is it difficult to admit that you're wrong?"
"Yes."
Lulunaka gave an answer that made Rei unable to react for a moment. "And I don't think I'm wrong. I'm different from those who know that they're wrong but still want to save face."
Rei didn't know what the difference was, but she felt that they were the same kind of people.
Lulunaka pressed Rei's head hard. "It's a long story. Anyway, you can't run away, so I'm not in a hurry to ask you now.
Where's your unlucky companion, and those who are unfriendly to you and want to kill you? "
"They must be nearby, and my companion … I don't know how he is now." Thinking of Julius, Rei's expression became worse.
"Then pray that your companion is still alive. It's better to have a little hope than despair."
Lulunaka straightened her back, stepped aside, and gestured for Rei to walk in front. "Lead the way. You can definitely take me to the place you want me to go."
Rei didn't say anything and walked in front.
Lulunaka was right. Her senses were very sharp now, and she could vaguely feel the activity of life in the distance. Other than Julius, only Black Robe was still active nearby.
But that was all she could feel. Whether or not Julius was still in those lives was the thing she was most worried about.