Little Terrified Bun

Inside the flourishing grove, four sturdy men had their phones raised.
The ones who had a rear flashlight functionality on their phone used that while the ones who didn’t have it used their screens light to illuminate their surroundings, searching everywhere in the area.

Wei Jing cowered inside the foliage while covering Xu Jiahui’s mouth with his hand to prevent Xu Jiahui from getting overly excited and making any sounds.

Weak light shone from the bottom to the top, occasionally landing on the children’s clothes.
Luckily, they both wore dark sweaters today, or else they would be easy targets on this dark night.

“Found them?”

“No.” The man under the tree shouted, “What the heck, how can two brats whose body hair hasn’t even fully grown run off like this?”

“Why weren’t you both more careful? We’ll be finished if they escape.” The big boss who returned after destroying the old van yelled impatiently.

The other two people knew they had no excuse for this, so they didn’t reply, only putting in more effort into the search.

Pong Pong Pong!

Wei Jing could feel his violently thudding heartbeat.
He bit down hard on his lower lip to prevent himself from accidentally making any sounds.

“Mmmm!” Xu Jiahui became uncomfortable after having his mouth covered for a long time.
His tiny hand pulled on Wei Jing’s hand, signaling him to free his mouth.
Wei Jing slightly lessened the strength of his hold and leaned toward the child’s earlobe and said “Shh” as soft as a mosquito.

The man under the tree wandered around the area for a couple of rounds but still found no one.
After running his hand through his hair with annoyance, he proceeded forward.

Phew!

Wei Jing let out a soft ‘phew’.
No matter what, it was temporarily safe here.

He slowly removed the hand from Xu Jiahui’s mouth.
The evening breeze blew, producing a burst of chill, but Wei Jing’s back had been soaked with sweat for some time.
His hair hung in clumps due to the sweat, and his palm which was previously scraped by the coarse tree bark was occasionally painful, making the child’s original pale face appear even paler.

“What are we going to do now?” Xu Jiahui followed up with a lower voice.

Wei Jing peeked out secretly through the gap between the leaves.
All four men were holding onto their phones, the glowing white light extremely noticeable on this dark night; they were still close by at the moment.
Wei Jing reached for the phone in his jean pocket, very good, it’s still here.

“Don’t talk, wait till they walk farther away.”

After that group of people get further away from them, he could take out the phone to call home, or even text his big brother.
But the only thing that troubled him was that he didn’t know his current location, and he didn’t know if phones at this time had GPS.

Xu Jiahui was an adventure seeking child, whatever was happening at the moment stimulated his excitement.

He frequently stretched his neck outward to look at where the four men stood, his black and white eyes gleaming brightly in the dark night.
Wei Jing’s nerves relaxed for a couple of minutes and wasn’t paying attention, and the sturdy man who originally was prepared to leave suddenly returned within that short time span.

“What is happening? I keep feeling that someone is here.”

Humans are extremely sensitive to other people’s gazes.
Their bodies will react naturally even if they don’t directly see it.

Wei Jing’s tiny heart was on tenterhooks.
He pinched the child’s palm and held his breath, his body uptight and every strand of his hair was shivering.
Xu Jiahui, on the other hand, was very uncomfortable.
He had an active nature, and now that he was sitting still on the tree branch, he suffered internally.
He couldn’t help but move his wrist from left to right, which almost scared Wei Jing to death.

Luckily he didn’t make any noise, allowing their narrow escape.

“Really no one there!” The man moved his phone left and right to search while the other three group members had already proceeded forward.
His foul mouth spewed a few curse words and he prepared to leave.

Gu dong~