kvmb Chapter 122 The Little Boy Who Escaped
Chapter 122 The Little Boy Who Escaped
Qin Yangming was startled to see his grandmother standing up silently at some point.
Her wrinkled face was hidden in the shadows. After sighing, she said to Qin Yangming faintly:
"I am the Pig..."
"An escaped [Pig]..."
Her kind eyes fell on the sleeping Hong, and she slowly told the origins of the two of them.
"Hong is the baby girl I took out of the [pigsty]."
"That year, a big thing happened in the [pigsty] where I worked."
Grandma's eyes showed reminiscence and she said:
"That year, a man escaped from our [pigsty]."
"It's nothing. Although every [pigsty] is guarded very strictly, there have been examples of successful escapes in history."
"But that time was different..."
Grandma spoke in a deep voice as she recounted word by word the great event that had rocked the entire Egg City that year.
"He actually escaped with everyone in that [pigsty], including me..."
"This has never happened before in Egg City's history."
"He liberated the entire [pigsty] by himself, and he was just a pig in that [pigsty]..."
"What's more serious is that he seems to have stolen something extremely precious from those nobles. As a result, he has been on the wanted list of Egg City for a long time, and he has always been the wanted criminal with the highest bounty in the entire Egg City."
Qin Yangming asked:
"What did he steal?"
Grandma shook her head and said:
"I don't know about that."
She looked into Qin Yangming's eyes and said:
"You know, I was already over 50 years old at the time, and that person was just a boy of eight or nine years old!"
An eight or nine-year-old boy? A child could liberate a strictly guarded "pigsty" that was considered a forbidden delicacy by the nobles?
Grandma recalled: "He was different from other children since he was young. He always liked to sit on the high roof and look out of the high wall of the pigsty. His eyes were always so deep, as if he was always thinking about something..."
Qin Yangming asked curiously:
"what is his name?"
Grandma said in a hoarse voice, very softly:
"No one knows his real name. What everyone is familiar with now is his code name, the code name on the wanted list."
"what?"
"Dawn."
Dawn? This code name is quite hopeful.
Grandma lay back down on the bed, but she didn't fall asleep. Instead, she kept her cloudy eyes open, recalling the past that had been forgotten for a long time.
Qin Yangming suddenly thought of something illogical and asked:
"What's up with that portrait? Didn't you say it was circulated in your family?"
Can a person who lives in a pigsty from birth to age fifty have a home?
Grandma said:
"I brought that portrait out from the pigsty. At that time, we called the pigsty where we were home."
"A pig raised in a pigsty would know that the small place where it lives, where it has enough food and clothing, is called a pigsty? The people in it call it home."
"Although we were confined within high walls, we had enough food and clothing, no worries, no troubles, and lived happily every day."
"Everyone is very nice, from the little kids to the adults, they all take care of each other and warm each other."
"It's such a warm place that we all think of it as our home."
"The only bad thing is that there are always some people who go out, saying they are going to work and live in the outside world, but once they leave, there is no news from them anymore."
"But later we found out that they were chosen by those nobles to serve them."
"Maybe the little boy noticed this."
Qin Yangming nodded and said:
"That portrait and the legend related to it, was it actually you who heard and brought it out from the [Pigsty]?"
Grandma nodded and said:
"Everyone in our [Pigsty] knows about this."
She looked at Qin Yangming deeply and said:
"You are the one mentioned in the prophecy."
The light coming in from the window suddenly became stronger, illuminating the furnishings in the house and grandma's silver hair.
The huge furnace hanging in the sky switched to daytime mode.
Before I knew it, it was already dawn.
Yun Shang had to go back immediately, otherwise when the noble girl woke up and talked to her, no one would respond to her.
Before leaving, Qin Yangming asked Yun Shang to pay more attention to the wanted criminals, especially to see if there was any gossip about the wanted criminal named Shuguang.
Yun Shang agreed, and the black shadow quickly slipped away along the corner of the wall.
Hong turned over and opened her eyes with trembling eyelashes.
"Huh? You all woke up so early..."
……
Today is the last day of the test for the followers. After the last group of awakeners have finished competing, the old woman will announce the list of the top 40. At that time, nobles will come to take these people away and officially become [dogs].
After a while, Hong and Qin Yangming appeared in the church on time.
Today, Hong's opponent still surrendered the moment the old woman announced the start of the game. Between glory and life, they wisely chose the latter.
This time, Qin Yangming and Hong did not leave early, but watched all the games patiently, because after today's games, the old woman would directly announce the results based on the results of the games.
The competition lasted until the afternoon, and Hong waited nervously until the afternoon. Qin Yangming didn't think much of it. If Hong could become a [dog] naturally, it would just mean that he would be closer to those nobles and it would be easier for him to get information.
His ultimate goal is to find a way to leave the third floor and go to the fourth floor.
The fourth layer will be a truly vast world, not an artificially created world like the first three layers.
The two of them waited like this until the last fight came to an end. The old woman quickly prepared a list in her hand. She walked to the high platform of the church leisurely, glanced down with a majestic gaze, and said majestically:
"Everyone... all the survivors who are still alive, this year's Favored One test has ended!"
Some of the awakened ones below cheered. The results of the competition were all there. Some people knew very well that they had entered the top 40, so they were extremely excited.
But some people are so depressed that they cannot become the most noble [dog]. Then they may only be able to be a [cow] or a useless person.
The old woman took in the different expressions of the people in the audience. She held the list in her hand that determined the future and fate of these people and said:
"The list of the top 40 awakeners is now announced!"
"Lu, Xiao, Yi..."
As the names were read out from her mouth one by one, excited cheers rang out one after another.
Forty names were not long, and each name consisted of a single word, so the old woman finished reading them quickly.
"Awakened ones whose names are called, please stay. The adults will come and take you away soon."
"Everyone else, please go back!"
After the old woman finished speaking, those awakened ones whose names were not called out were all dispirited, and some even had despair on their faces, as if their lives were over.
Qin Yangming looked at Hong worriedly, and sure enough, her face was full of despair and disbelief.
Because Hong’s name was not among those forty names.