Mutated Tao Chapter 10: Steamed bread

Li Huowang curled up into a ball, like an unborn baby, huddled in a corner of the material room motionless and autistic.

The other Yaoyin didn't dare and didn't want to disturb him, they were all doing their own work quietly.

Night fell unconsciously, the oil lamps on the wall were all extinguished, and darkness covered Li Huowang like a quilt.

He was lying there like a dead body, without any response to changes from the outside world.

In the middle of the night, a faint candle light lit up from the door, illuminating the shelf next to it, and dispelling the darkness on Li Huowang.

The timid Bai Lingmiao walked up to Li Huowang with a bundle of dry grass, and carefully spread the dry grass on his body.

Then she took out another piece of multigrain steamed bun from her bosom and put it near his mouth.

Seeing that Li Huowang was still motionless, she pursed her lips and pushed him gently. "Brother, eat something, you haven't eaten all day today."

Li Huowang's eyes were open. His eyes, which had not blinked for several hours, were numbly looking at the cold ground, and did not move towards Bai Lingmiao.

Bai Lingmiao wanted to leave, but after hesitating for a moment, she finally took out a jade pendant from her bosom and placed it by Li Huowang's hand.

"Brother, this is your thing, take it back."

This time Li Huowang finally reacted. He looked at the thing and found that it was the round jade pendant he had stolen from Xuan Yang.

Li Huowang still remembered that he gave this thing to Yang Na and exchanged it for money. Thinking of Yang Na, his wounded heart began to bleed again, "Why is this thing here with you?"

"Yes... Brother Li, you gave it to me. I said no, but you insisted on giving it to me."

Li Huowang sat up slowly, and carefully looked at the round jade pendant with cloud patterns by the dim light of the candle.

At this moment, he has never felt that everything is so real. But there is only real despair and real pain in this reality.

If he could choose, how much he wanted to be trapped in that beautiful illusion.

Seeing Li Huowang's response, Bai Lingmiao asked softly: "Brother Li, where did you get caught by the master? I'm from Liang Guo, where are you from?"

Li Huowang was stunned for a while, then shook his head decadently, "I don't know."

He really doesn't know anymore, he does have memories of the past, but after what happened during the day, Li Huowang himself can't tell how many of those memories are real and how many are illusory.

Even here, I am still a lunatic, a lunatic who can't distinguish between reality and illusion.

While shaking his head, Li Huowang suddenly felt something strange about his head. He touched it with his hand and found that his hair was congealed by some blood scabs, and he had been injured before.

Seeing Li Huowang touching his head, Bai Lingmiao explained, "That's what Brother Wang did."

Li Huowang knew that Senior Brother Wang was the fat man with the harelip who wanted to do something to Bai Lingmiao earlier. "Where is the person surnamed Wang?"

"Kicked to death by you...by you..."

Hearing this, Li Huowang's mind flashed the old Liu's head who was kicked away by him in a hallucination, he lowered his head and smiled silently, he was really crazy enough.

Li Huowang reached out and took out a gold anklet wrapped with a red thread from his pocket, and brought it to Bai Lingmiao. "This is your thing, take it back."

Bai Lingmiao looked at his ankle ring, and pushed it back with palms, "Senior Brother Li, you are right, this thing is useless here, you can take it."

Li Huowang looked at the golden ring in a daze, but this thing was of no use to him now, everything he cared about disappeared.

"Well, Senior Brother Li, I can use this thing as a reward, can you do me a favor?" Bai Lingmiao's words made Li Huowang look at her.

"If you can get out of here alive, can you give me a message for my parents? They live at the foot of Niuxin Mountain in Liang State, so tell them that your daughter is not filial, and you can't give them a pension." Said the sad place , Bai Lingmiao's voice became choked up.

"Brother Li, I really don't want to bother you, but I really have no other way, I guess they will take me to the alchemy room soon, I..."

When Li Huowang, whose face was full of decadence and numbness, heard this, his heart froze, and his silent eyes lit up again.

He looked at the withered grass covering his body, then at the steamed buns beside him, pulled his hand, and stuffed the red thread gold ring into his arms again.

"I keep my word. Since I took your things before, I will help you."

Bai Lingmiao's sad eyes lit up instantly, but soon dimmed again. "Senior Brother Li, if this doesn't work, it will get you into trouble too."

"Hehe... Do you think I'm still afraid of this now?" Li Huowang had already looked away at this moment. He has already given up everything, since everything he cares about is gone, what is there to be afraid of?

"Okay, Senior Brother Li is mighty!" A male voice suddenly sounded from outside the material room door, startling the two people in the room.

As the candlelight illuminated the man, he saw a hippie smiling face with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks. His face was yellow and white, and he looked like he was suffering from a skin disease like vitiligo.

The man took out two miscellaneous grain steamed buns and placed them beside Li Huowang.

"Hehehe, Senior Brother Li eats steamed buns. When I was having dinner, I thought that Senior Brother Li hadn't eaten yet, so I specially reserved two for you."

"You may not know my junior brother. I was born to raise a kid. I don't have a big name. You can call me Gouwa. Hehehe, just yesterday, I honored you with seventeen cents."

The way Gouwa rubbed his hands restlessly, he almost showed flattery on his face, obviously he wanted to use Li Huowang as a backer, so as not to be sent as a drug guide, smart people are everywhere.

Li Huowang didn't say anything, he grabbed the three steamed buns that were a bit hard and devoured them. He had been hungry for a day.

Because he choked on eating too fast, Gou Wa immediately ran out to bring Li Huowang a glass of water.

When the cold groundwater washed away, Li Huowang stuffed three grain buns into his stomach,

He staggered and struggled to stand up, lying on the ground for so long, his legs were numb.

Bai Lingmiao reached out to help, but Li Huowang pushed her away.

He stared fixedly at the exit of the dark material room in the distance, and walked out staggeringly.

At this time, his enemy is no longer his mutated disease, but Dan Yangzi, the lame-headed Taoist priest who used people to make alchemy.

When Dan Yangzi's ugly and disgusting face appeared in his mind, Li Huowang's eyes gradually showed a strong anger, and his teeth began to gnash.

He who was still alive and unlovable just now is full of motivation, the only thing to do now is to find a way to kill him!