"What happened to them, why they all got down on their knees?"Ye Fei asked.
"They"re all here because they didn"t steal money today."
Whispered the little girl.
"Stand up, all of you. I will get you out."
Ye Fei was angry, saw these children were thin, made him distressed. Every child had a terrible fear in his eyes. When they were young, they didn"t know what security was.
Ye Fei stretched out his hand toward them, trying to get the children to pick up.
Though the chances of getting out with these little children seemed remote, he could not care less.
But Ye Fei did not think that when he held out his hand, inside the eyes of these children were not liberation, but fear. They were afraid to stand up to seize the hand of Ye Fei, but stepped back.
Two of the children fell to the ground because they were kneeling on the cold floor for a long time and their legs were numb.
"What"s the matter with you? I"m here to save you!"
Cried Ye Fei, full of consternation.
"Uncle, you do not blame them, they are also frightened, and they do not believe in adults."
Whispered the little girl.
In fact, this little girl was also afraid of adults, but she saw Ye Fei beat the usual bad guys, so she knew Ye Fei was a good person.
Otherwise, the little girl would not dare to go with Ye Fei.
"What should we do now? Tell them to come with me. The guards will be back in a minute."
Ye Fei knew, now his words had no use, these children did not believe the adults, could only rely on this little girl"s persuasion.
The little girl nodded, "This uncle is a good man, and he comes here to save us. Let"s run along with him."
Hearing the little girl"s words, the children"s original desperate eyes, just flashed a little light of hope.
A little boy said in a low voice, "Sister, is it true? Is he really not a bad person?"
Looking at the children"s eyes, Ye Fei was a little grieved. He put the little girl aside, said, "Nothing, nothing, as long as I am here, no one can bully you."
The children"s eyes were still suspicious, and they were still kneeling on the ground, dared not stand up.
Ye Fei walked over and picked the children up one by one.
They were very thin and had no weight of the same age.
"Are there only a few of you here?" Ye Fei asked.
Those children still did not dare to speak, but the little girl was a little bolder, answered, "There are a few people down here, and they were closed in the small black house, and they have not eaten anything for two days, just now I was also locked in there."
This bas.e.m.e.nt, which also had a floor below, was a cellar, which was covered with an iron manhole cover, and a stone was pressed above.
As Ye Fei lifted the stone away and opened the iron manhole cover, he saw that the cellar was dark.
"Is this a place where people stay?"
Ye Fei took out his cell phone, turned on his torch and jumped into the cellar, then the whole person was stunned.
The cellar was not very big and it was dug out later, so there was mud all around. The ground was so wet and cold that it was no place for human habitation.
But six or seven children curled up inside the cellar, the oldest of which was no more than 12 years old, and the youngest was only four or five years old.
Every child was frightened, and the light of the cell phone was not bright, especially in this dark cellar, where the light seemed to be swallowed by darkness. However, the children"s first reaction was to hurry to turn around, and they felt this faint light was dazzling.
In the corner of the cellar, there were two children holding the mud in their mouths. It seemed that they could not bear to be hungry, so they were eating mud and chewing hard.
Ye Fei could not help any more, then tears welled up.
Ye Fei did not think, in today"s society, such a small child, incredibly was so hungry to eat dirt.
How cruel was Nine Fingers Old Joe to do such an insane thing?
Ye Fei"s heart seemed to be mercilessly seized. He suppressed his anger and whispered, "Children, come out, come out!"
No one dared to move, because they never had not seen Ye Fei, so they did not know if they should listen to Ye Fei"s words.
"Go out with me, I"ll get you out." Ye Fei softly comforted.
At last, one of the older children got up gingerly, but he was so weak that he knelt down again.
So they just got on all fours and crawled over.
Ye Fei held him, the child was about eleven years old, but the weight was absolutely no more than 30 pounds. He was skinny, and even the cheeks were deep in, and he looked like a skeleton.
For a moment, Ye Fei understood why the child called Skeleton gave himself that terrible nickname. Once he was also a victim, but now he had become an accomplice.
Ye Fei rescued that boy out of the cellar, and other children saw such a situation, also followed out.
Ye Fei helped all the children out of the cellar, and he heard the little girl was counting, "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven."
The little girl counted it, found something wrong, and counted it again, and she found one child was missing, and shouted to Ye Fei, "Uncle, one child is missing."
The child who had just come out said, "Uncle, he"s in the corner."
Ye Fei walked to the corner of the cellar, and saw a small b.u.mp in the corner. He clawed a layer of topsoil and saw a child"s pale face.
Ye Fei just understood this child already died, and his friends dug a shallow grave with two hands, buried him here.
Ye Fei dug out the dead child"s body, holding it out of the cellar, said to the children, "Let"s go. I"ll take you home."
At this time, a cold voice suddenly sounded on the top, a group of people had come out, standing in the bas.e.m.e.nt door, "Want to go? You can not go anywhere!"