I braked the car.

Liu Jinger said again: "Why did a child appear in such a place?"

Wei Zao said: "Is that a child?"

I didn't speak, staring at the little thing. It was around 10 o'clock in the morning, and the heat was uncontrollable, and the ground was trembling. Through it, the child swayed slightly, which seemed a little unreal.

Four eyes finally stopped calling and stared ahead with a fierce look.

He looked at us for a while, withdrew his gaze, walked a few steps toward the side, looked around, then turned around and took a few steps in the opposite direction, and continued to look around.

I said, "Mirage."

Liu Juer said, "Phantom?"

I started in the gear and continued to walk forward slowly.

We are getting closer and closer to the living creature, and he has not disappeared, becoming clearer and clearer. It is indeed a child!

We stopped a few dozen meters away from him, and I said to Liu Xueer: "You and Siyan stay in the car, Wei Zao and I will go over and take a look."

Liu Juer said, "Okay..."

Wei Zao and I got out of the car and slowly approached the child.

He walked staggeringly in the empty desert, seemingly not sure where to go.

Finally, we came to him, and he blinked at us in the scorching sun.

I suddenly remembered a novel I wrote, "Three minus one equals a few". Many readers said that the media also said that the Hollywood movie "Orphan Resentment" plagiarized "Three minus one equals a few". The story is probably like this: There was a small town, and one suddenly broke down one day, so a baby appeared in the outskirts of the town. Several kind-hearted people took him home, gave him a name temporarily - "Fork", and then took turns to raise him, waiting for his parents to claim it. Unexpectedly, from then on, horror enveloped the town, some died, some were crazy, and some were disabled...

It's reality now!

We met a child in Lop Nur where no grass grows!

Could it be that in the novels I have written, the protagonists will appear one after another? Oh my God, don’t do this.

He is a boy, about two or three years old, naked. He is quite straight and has a very good face. His only disadvantage is that his two big round eyes are too close to each other. His hair is brown, his skin is quite white, and his fingernails and toenails are neatly tidy.

I yelled tentatively: "Baby..."

He blinked at me.

I said, "Why are you here? Where are your parents?"

He seemed annoyed and walked to the side with an unsteady center of gravity.

I walked around in front of him and blocked him: "What's your name? Tell uncle."

He still ignored me and looked around while walking tilted forward.

Wei Zao said: "Boss Zhou, look behind him!"

I walked behind the kid and looked, and was startled. There was a flesh-colored tail on his butt, as thick and thin as half an adult's finger.

At this time, he tripped on a larger stone, fell down, and burst into tears.

I trusted him at once and picked him up. Compared to his body, he was too light.

He didn't struggle and continued to cry.

Wei Zao said: "What should I do?"

I said, "Take it back to the camp."

Wei Zao stood far away and said hesitantly: "...is it appropriate?"

I said, "What do you want? Throw him here?"

The reason I dared to take him back is because I had a reason that this child had a piece of tail, which might have been brought into Lop Nur by his parents and abandoned. Maybe this happened yesterday, and happened to be discovered by us.

Lop Nur is so vast, why did we meet him?

There were only a few fixed routes that his parents chose, probably the route that Pawan took. After the child was left behind, he looked for his mother and deviated from one kilometer.

Why did his parents risk their lives to come to Lop Nur and abandon this child?

The root cause may be that piece of tail.

We can imagine what happened before - his family was in a remote countryside, and there was a fortune teller who said that this child was a monster in the lower world and had to be killed, otherwise it would cause trouble to the entire family.

His parents knew that no matter what method was used to kill the child, the police would investigate it. They could only take him to Lop Nur, throw him away, and then make up a lie, such as the child being run away by a sandstorm... Maybe he would be safe.

Lop Nur seems to be a place to cleanse sins.

The reason I made the above inference is because of the video recorder.

I doubt that this kid is related to that video recorder.

I recall the people in the video. The more I think about it, the more suspicious they become. The atmosphere is very dull. It is not like someone who comes to explore, but someone who comes to accomplish something.

Maybe, I think it was wrong for the three people in the video to kill another person. At that time, the other person was probably driving another car behind. They were afraid of the police, and they actually meant abandoning the child.

Perhaps, the woman was the one named Midou, who was the child's biological mother, and one of the other three was Midou's husband. The remaining two were friends of the couple. The couple did not dare to come to Lop Nur, so the two friends accompanied them to help them complete the abandonment...

These inferences seem a bit far-fetched, but if this is not the case, how can I explain this child?

I plan to go back and watch the video again.

The child stopped crying and sat quietly in my arms.

I hugged him and walked to the front of the car. Four eyes seemed to smell something unusual, and hummed "Wuwuyiyi" and shrank in a corner of the back seat.

I opened the passenger car door and said to Liu Xueer, "Hold it."

Liu Jinger looked at the child and was a little repulsive: "Where did he come from..."

I said, "Let's talk about it back to the camp."

She said, "Put him in the back seat."

I said, "There are dogs in the back seat."

She said: "Wei Zao, can I change it with you?"

Wei Zao said: "I don't want to touch him either."

The child is very quiet and listens to every conversation we have.

Juye jumped out of the car and said to me, "Or, hold me and I drive..."

I said, "You go to the back seat."

Liu Xueer suddenly said, "Look at his feet!"

I was stunned for a moment. What's wrong with his feet? Could it be that in addition to having a piece of tail, he also has problems with his feet?

I don't know how to hold a child very well. I hold his butt with one hand and the other around his waist, and his two small feet facing the juice.

I raised his little feet and looked at it, and I was stunned - there was a layer of hard calluses below!

Only by walking on sand and stones all year round can you get such thick calluses!

I slowly put him down.

There is a problem.

If he has been abandoned for a long time, what will he eat and drink on Lop Nur?

If he had just been abandoned, then how did the calluses on his little feet come from?

I put my hands on my knees and looked at him.

He looked at me, too.

I said, "Tell me, who are you?"

He blinked his round eyes and didn't speak.

I looked at Wei Zao, and he was still holding the stone in his hand. I stood up, opened the tool box in the car, grabbed a rusty screwdriver from it, and approached the child's neck.

This scene is too cruel. The child's neck is so delicate and the screwdriver is so cold and hard.

I said, "If you don't say who you are, I'll slap you."

The child looked down at the screwdriver and reached out his hand to grab it.

I hid to the side without letting him catch it, and continued, "Don't pretend anymore!"

He didn't grab the screwdriver, and cried again, walking towards the side in a crooked manner.

Liu Yuer said, "He has a tail!"

I said, "I saw it a long time ago. Maybe it was because of this that his parents left him here."

I sat down on the spot and observed the child's behavior.

He walked while crying, and walked about ten meters away. He stopped crying, squatted down, picked up a stone, and started playing.

I said, "What do you think you should do?"

Wei Zao said: "If he was really abandoned by someone, we don't care about him and just leave like that. It's too inhumane."

Liu Jinger said, "What if he hadn't been abandoned?"
To be continued...