Yama Reborn-Chapter 384 - 381: Eating and Sleeping

Chapter 381: Eating and Sleeping

Little Candy’s expression was cold and stern as she suddenly pulled the curtains shut. She slammed a button on the table with force!

CLANG! CLANG!

Iron bars dropped from the frames of the living room and bedroom windows, as well as the apartment’s front door!

Each iron bar was as thick as an adult’s thumb.

Then, the little one began to move quickly.

She opened a closet, pulled out a large roll of blanket taller than herself, tossed it on the floor, and unfolded it. She then ran to the window, grabbed the bedsheet with both hands, and gave it a hard shake, rolling the person lying on the bed onto the blanket on the floor.

Then Yu Naitang hurriedly rolled up the person with the blanket.

Similarly, she bundled up the child in the crib almost like a package, took a backpack down from the wall, placed the child directly inside, head up, left the top of the backpack loose, and slung it onto her back.

Behind the door, a folding wheelchair was taken out, and Lu Xixi, wrapped in the blanket, was placed in it.

All these actions were completed in less than half a minute.

Yu Naitang immediately pushed the wheelchair out of the bedroom.

After listening at the door, Yu Naitang heard noises from the hallway and stairs outside. She quickly retreated into the kitchen, took a pot from a cabinet, placed it on the stove, and turned on the gas!

Then, Yu Naitang, pushing the wheelchair, went to touch a wall in the room, as if she had found a special switch.

The wall suddenly flipped over!

In the adjacent apartment, a young couple sitting on the sofa watching TV stared in disbelief as a section of their wall flipped open. A white-haired little girl with a backpack pushed a wheelchair in, and then the wall flipped back into place.

"Shh!" Yu Naitang gestured to the young man on the sofa, who had tattoos on his arm, to keep quiet.

At the same time, the little girl’s other hand fished something out of her pocket.

The young couple dared not move.

The dark, ominous muzzle of a gun pointed at them. Yu Naitang sighed lightly and said quickly in broken Dutch, "Don’t cause trouble. I won’t hurt you."

With that, she took out a roll of banknotes from her pocket and threw it at them.

The young couple’s eyes lit up. Looking at the roll of banknotes in their arms, they both shut their mouths.

「」

Two men dressed in gray and black hemp clothes charged up to the third floor, heading straight for Yu Naitang’s door.

After exchanging glances, one of the men slammed forcefully against the door.

BANG! The door splintered, but the man was thrown back by the metal bars inside, clutching his arm in pain.

"They’re inside! Break in!"

Two minutes later, they managed to bend one of the bars enough for someone to squeeze through. Several men took turns struggling through the gap and burst into the apartment, filling the cramped living room.

The men rushed into the kitchen and bedroom, frantically searching, opening closets, wardrobes, and even looking under the bed.

Just then...

BANG!!

The pot on the stove, licked by flames, exploded!

Instantly, thick smoke billowed out, filling the entire apartment in seconds.

The apartment was suddenly filled with yelling and cursing. People panicked, trying to get out, but several men were crowded at the gap in the bars at the door. They had only managed to bend one bar to get in, lining up to squeeze through, but now several were jammed together trying to escape.

Thick smoke billowed out, filling the corridor through the bars, and then the smoke detectors were quickly set off.

As the fire alarms in the building sounded, many families rushed out of their homes to see what was happening. Some, reacting quickly, ran towards the stairwell.

「」

The two men waiting by the roadside looked at the thick smoke rolling from the upstairs windows, then watched the residents frantically running out of the ground-floor entrance. Both looked very displeased. They glanced at each other, and one of them immediately squeezed through the crowd, going against the flow and entering the building.

「」

On the other side of the street, on the building’s opposite facade, a fire escape was lowered, and a window-washing cradle, normally used for painting, slowly descended to the ground.

Yu Naitang pushed the wheelchair off the cradle, pulled her baseball cap down a bit, then quickly pushed the wheelchair more than ten meters down the street before taking out a key to open the door of an old minivan parked on the road.

She lifted Lu Xixi into the car and strapped her into a seat, then placed her little junior brother from the backpack into the already secured baby car seat. Finally, she stuffed the folded wheelchair into the car.

Yu Naitang jumped into the driver’s seat and started the car.

By now, the street was descending into chaos, with more and more people, alarmed by the fire alarms, running out. Yu Naitang started the car and drove away slowly.

As she left, she drove the van past her own building. She glanced at the car parked by the road and the person with whom she had made eye contact, then immediately lowered her head.

「」

After driving down one street, Yu Naitang sighed with relief and looked through the rearview mirror at the increasingly distant, chaotic street.

A bunch of fools, Little Candy snorted, but her eyes grew darker.

「」

"My men have failed. The target is smart and has escaped the contact area."

Atop the tallest building in the block, a man with binoculars was watching the street. Through his binoculars, he saw the old minivan driving unhurriedly.

The man with the binoculars sighed. "Such a cunning fellow, to resist the urge to hit the gas pedal at a time like this..."

Behind him, a man in a Black Windbreaker laughed. "It doesn’t matter. We never counted on your people catching the target. Your task was to drive the rabbit out of its hole.

Now that the rabbit has run out, it’s time for the hounds to step in."

"I hope your hounds are up to the mark." The man with the binoculars put down his equipment and turned to look coldly at the Black Windbreaker. "Next time you deceive me and use my people for such tasks, I will report it!

Such cooperation is too unfair."

"Get this straight, our cooperation was never meant to be fair. You are cooperating with us... To put it bluntly, you work for us."

The Black Windbreaker laughed unscrupulously.

The man in the hemp robe took a deep breath, suppressing his anger, and pinched the hem of his robe. "Watch your language! What you said is an offense to the great Cultivator Association!!"

"An offense, you say?" The Black Windbreaker said with a cold laugh. "The Cultivator Association of the past was great.

But the Cultivator Association without the Wizard has nothing to do with greatness anymore."

The man in the hemp robe, holding back his anger, exhaled deeply and pulled out his phone to make a call. "...It’s me. Alright, you guys can pull back now. What comes next has nothing to do with us."

「」

The minivan drove slowly on the road leading out of the city, the scenery on both sides gradually changing from urban sprawl to woods.

A fork in the road appeared. Yu Naitang didn’t hesitate to turn the wheel, driving the car onto a small path that led into a shaded lane between the trees.

At the end of the road, two wooden cabins stood in the forest.

The place clearly hadn’t seen any visitors for a long time. The "Private Property" sign outside one of the cabins had fallen to the side.

It looked like a hunting estate prepared for wealthy individuals, possibly visited annually during hunting season. The wealthy would come to hunt, and the cabins served as their resting place.

The minivan stopped in the clearing. Yu Naitang got out, set up the wheelchair, and helped her teacher and little junior brother into the cabin.

Then, she turned and dashed into the woods.

A moment later, Yu Naitang ran back from the woods. Her once fair face was now smeared with dirt, her baseball cap was gone, and her hair was strewn with twigs and leaves.

However, in her hand, she held a plump wild rabbit.

The weather in Belgium in September was still decent, nearing twenty degrees Celsius during the day and becoming cooler at night.

But that wasn’t the case in the woods.

The cabin had a damp smell. After entering, Yu Naitang settled her teacher and little junior brother, sniffed the air inside, and frowned.

At night, the temperature in the woods was much lower than in the city, and the dampness was especially pronounced.

Little Candy gathered some firewood and threw it into the stove, lighting a fire. As warmth gradually filled the room, she ran out to get some supplies from the car trunk.

A moment later, the white-haired loli boiled water over the fire, prepared milk for her little junior brother, and then began to heat a can of sardines over the flames.

"Teacher, it’s ridiculous that a ten-year-old child like me has to take care of both you and your son,"

Sitting before the fire, looking at Lu Xixi wrapped in a blanket under the flickering light, Yu Naitang couldn’t help but complain in a low voice, as if speaking to Lu Xixi, or perhaps to herself.

"I’m only ten years old! Burdening a child with such heavy responsibility is child abuse!

Teacher, if you hadn’t run into trouble, we would never have fled our home... We would’ve buried all those troublesome fellows who dared to bother us in the estate, to serve as fertilizer for the Scottish thistles!

I’m so tired... I never get enough sleep lately... I’m just ten years old! I’m still growing!!

Oh... how I yearn for cream of mushroom soup, how I crave tiramisu..."

With resentment, the little girl tasted the heated canned sardines and took a bite.

"YUCK!"

She glanced at the wild rabbit lying next to the fire. Its legs were tied with rope, though its body still occasionally struggled.

Don’t worry, even though I really want to eat you... but... I won’t,

Yu Naitang stuck out her tongue but still forced herself to finish the can of food.

Just then, the electronic watch on the little girl’s wrist suddenly beeped!

The little girl’s face changed instantly, and a hint of fear appeared in her eyes.

She sprang up from the ground, grabbed her little junior brother, hugged him tightly, then turned and ran to the corner. She crouched there, her body curled up tensely, hiding in the shadows.

One minute later...

"BEEP BEEP BEEP... BEEP BEEP BEEP..."

The electronic watch beeped twice more.

Yu Naitang pressed her lips tightly. From the corner, she eyed the figure wrapped in the blanket beside the fire.

The dim firelight cast reflections of everything in the cabin onto the walls.

The reflections on the wall began to change... The figure wrapped in the blanket by the fire slowly rose!

The figure seemed to stand there woodenly for a moment, then appeared to turn its head and survey its surroundings.

Yu Naitang, crouched in the corner, started to tremble, her eyes wide with fear.

Finally, the figure lowered its head, as if noticing the plump wild rabbit at its feet.

In the reflection on the wall, the plump rabbit suddenly floated up, and then...

In the reflection, the plump rabbit suddenly began to struggle. After a few moments, its legs stiffened, and it lay still. But its plump shadow began to rapidly wither away.

A few seconds later.

THUD!

A shriveled, skeletal rabbit fell to the floor.

Yu Naitang’s body continued to shake.

Then, the moment she dreaded arrived.

The figure seemed to take a few shallow breaths before slowly turning around, as if searching for something.

When its gaze fell upon the corner of the room...

Tears were already streaming from Yu Naitang’s eyes as she whispered shakily and hurriedly,

"Master... Master... you’ve already eaten, please go to sleep... please go to sleep...

After eating, you should go to sleep obediently... that’s how you always taught me...

One rabbit is enough for you to eat! That’s always been enough for you!

Why isn’t it enough today... WAHH!"

The figure moved closer, step by step.

"No! This can’t be happening!" Yu Naitang burst into tears, crying out, "I’m your disciple! Your favorite, your smartest disciple! This is your son! My little junior brother! You can’t eat us! You can’t eat us!!"

As the figure drew nearer, Yu Naitang mustered her courage and suddenly jumped up from the corner, cradling the infant. "No, no! If you eat us, you’ll be full of regrets when you wake up!!" 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

With that, the little loli ran towards the door, holding the infant tightly in her arms.

Alas, her short legs had only taken a couple of steps when the collar of her dress was suddenly seized from behind.

Yu Naitang’s body went limp with fright. She was immediately pulled up and then dropped to the ground, her arms emptying as the figure snatched the infant she was cradling.

"NO!!!"

Yu Naitang screamed and sprang up from the ground, attempting to rescue her little junior brother.

But she was quickly pushed away by a hand!

"You can’t do this! You can’t! That’s your son!"

She watched in horror as the figure embraced the infant.

By the fire, long, seaweed-like hair fluttered as the figure stood there, one hand holding the baby’s clothes, lifting him aloft.

Those eyes, like autumn pools, were devoid of any emotion as they gazed at the small life in her hand.

Yu Naitang was crying so hard her body had gone weak, but...

Suddenly, the little loli’s eyes widened in shock.

A slender finger gently approached the baby’s mouth. Instinctively, the baby sucked on it a few times then, seemingly dissatisfied at getting nothing, twisted its neck in frustration.

Then, the finger was retracted, bitten just enough to draw a fine line of blood.

Reinserted into the baby’s mouth, this time the baby latched on and sucked contentedly.

The figure slowly sat down, settling into the blanket with the baby in her arms, letting him suck on her bloodied finger.

At last, her eyes slowly closed, and she fell into a deep sleep.