When he woke up the next day, Tianyang speechlessly took away the little foot that had kicked him in the face. He sat up on the bed and watched Xiao Xitong turn over restlessly.
When he went to bed last night, Tianyang clearly remembered that the little guy's head was resting on his arm. As a result, after one night, Xiao Xitong turned 180 degrees.
He gently pinched the little guy's chubby face: "Are you a spinning top? How can you spin so well..."
Tianyang jumped out of bed, stretched, and came out after washing up. He saw Xiao Xitong yawning, stretching his arms and legs, then opening his eyes, looking around in a daze, and calling "Daddy" vaguely.
After picking her up, Tianyang washed her face. Xiao Xitong woke up completely. She immediately covered her stomach and looked at Tianyang pitifully.
"Okay, I'll get you something to eat now."
Tianyang put her back on the bed, and then began to prepare water and milk powder. Seeing that Tianyang was going to make food for her, little Xitong happily crawled around on the bed. When she saw Tianyang coming over with the bottle, she giggled happily.
As soon as the bottle was handed to her, she immediately hugged the bottle, opened her little mouth, bit the nipple, and started drinking milk.
After feeding the little one two full bottles of milk, Tianyang carried her out of the car, let her pat his shoulders, and gently patted her back with his hands to let her exhale the air in her stomach into burps.
After eating and drinking, Tianyang put the little thing on a blanket on the ground and let her crawl around by herself. The little thing soon became interested in a butterfly.
She crawls wherever the butterflies fly.
Looking at Xiao Xitong chasing butterflies in the bright sunshine, Tianyang smiled and took his breakfast to eat.
After breakfast, he carried Xiao Xitong to Moonlight's magnetic car. Here, a dozen girls bought from the market were eating. When they saw Tianyang, they all stopped what they were doing, stood up, and called Tianren "Master" in unison.
Xiao Xitong looked at the girls curiously, but when she saw the moonlight, she happily opened her arms and called "Mom".
This made the girls speculate in their hearts about the relationship between Yue Guang and Tian Yang.
Yueguang took Xiao Xitong with a gloomy face and patted her on the butt gently a few times. The little thing didn't cry but laughed even more happily, hugged Yueguang's neck and looked around curiously.
Tian Yang called all the girls over and said, "Today I want to tell you a few things. I hope you can remember them and keep them in your heart. Don't forget them."
"First of all, although I bought you at the market, I never thought of being your master, so don't call me by those two words. My name is Tianyang, you can call me Mr. Tianyang, but don't call me 'Master' anymore."
"The second thing is that I will find some jobs for you in the caravan, and you need to support yourself through work. At the same time, you are completely free. We will pass by some fortresses on the way. If you want to leave, just tell me."
"Third, I will give you some protection in the caravan, so that what happened last night will not happen again. But if you leave the caravan, you will have to be self-reliant and protect yourself."
"That's all I want to say. Now, you can continue eating. After breakfast, I'll take you to see someone. He's the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce.
We can arrange some work for you that is within your capabilities.”
After hearing these words, some girls were happy, some were worried, but most of them felt relieved. They could see that Tianyang was different from the men they had met before.
They will not be harmed, on the contrary, they will be protected.
After letting the girls disperse, Tianyang saw Yueguang waving at him. He walked over and saw a girl with cherry-red hair wiping the table in Yueguang's car.
"Her name is Hongxiu."
Moonlight picked up Xiao Xitong and put her on the carpet at her feet, letting the little girl play by herself. "She originally came from a well-off family, and her father was a businessman. Unfortunately, her family fell into poverty and owed a large amount of debt. She was forcibly taken away by the creditor to pay off part of the debt, and then she was sold to the slave trader you met last night."
"She is literate and hardworking, so I plan to keep her here. I will observe her for a while. If there are no problems with her character, I will let her take care of Xiao Xitong. After all, neither you nor I can take care of a little thing all the time, and the little thing is still young, so someone needs to take care of it specifically."
"what do you think?"
Tian Yang certainly had no objection: "I'll listen to you."
At this time, Longdan poked his head out of the cabin and said, "The husband sings and the wife follows. This is probably what they mean in your situation, right? Oh no, it might be the other way around. Wait, I'm just joking. Moonlight, stop it, ah..."
Seeing Longdan getting a dark circle under his eye due to the beating from Yueguang, Tianyang shook his head and thought it was a miracle that Longdan could survive until now.
Two days passed like this.
On this day, heavy metal music was roaring wildly in the magnetic car of the White Moonlight Hunting Group. Sun Sun, who was driving the car, controlled the steering wheel while twisting his body to the beat of the music, screaming from time to time.
In the cabin, little Xitong, who was crawling on the ground, was twisting her little butt to the rhythm of the music and giggling from time to time, which made Tianyang next to him not know what to say.
Finally, the moonlight in the passenger seat couldn't stand the torture of Sun Sun's music anymore and turned it off. Sun Sun immediately wailed: "Boss, this is my spiritual food."
"If you keep listening to this, I'm going to go crazy!" Moonlight glared at her unhappily.
Hongxiu, who was flipping through a book and listening quietly, smiled gently when she heard the words. She was learning how to take care of a baby.
"Okay, okay, boss, don't be angry, have some tea." Fatty Fusheng brewed a cup of scented tea and brought it to the cab.
Suddenly, Fusheng said, "Look ahead."
Moonlight poked his head out of the window and saw people and vehicles coming towards him in the wilderness ahead. They looked very much like the refugees he would encounter when leaving Silvertree Castle.
Tian Yang also noticed this abnormality and couldn't help but ask, "Could it be that Chizhou Castle was attacked by a demon?"
At this time, the Ruby Chamber of Commerce's convoy slowed down and stopped completely after more than ten minutes. Tu Moshan informed everyone to stay where they were for the time being while he asked someone to inquire about the situation.
Tianyang and his companions couldn't sit still, so they asked Sun Sun and Hong Xiu to stay and look after Xiao Xitong, while the others got out of the car. After a while, they stopped a magnetic car.
There were clear bullet holes on this magnetic vehicle, and even traces of being hit by artillery shells. Fortunately, the damage was not to the important body of the vehicle, so it was able to drive normally.
The driver was a man with a bandage on his head and many wounds on his face and arms. His eyes were dull and his lips were chapped. He was no longer very responsive to the outside world, like a walking corpse.
There were seven or eight people in the cabin. When Tianyang opened the cabin, a foul smell came out. There were actually two corpses inside, covered with white cloth, which was crawling with green-headed flies.
Moonlight exchanged glances with him and immediately shouted, "There's already a dead person in your car. You have to get rid of the body quickly, otherwise it will cause a plague."
The man driving the car immediately burst into tears: "Those are my wife and my eldest son. I can't just bury them casually. I have to take them away."
Fusheng and Liu Ya took out several living people from the car, took out water and food to temporarily settle them. Tianyang found Qiu Xiong and asked him to take a few brothers to move the bodies out of the car and choose a place to bury them.
As for the man driving the car, he was almost at his limit both physically and mentally, and as soon as he relaxed, he fainted immediately.
After a while of busy work, Tian Yang finally came to the refugees, squatted down and asked, "What happened in front?"
A 15 or 16-year-old boy said with red eyes: "We are residents of Chizhou Fort, and our fortress has been attacked."
Yue Guang handed him a wet towel and asked, "Is it a divine evil?"
"No, it's human."
The boy covered his face with a wet towel and choked up as he said, "The attack came too fast and too suddenly. We didn't know what was happening. All of a sudden, the house collapsed. My parents were trapped in the rubble. My six-year-old brother begged me to save him. I dug my fingernails so hard that they fell off, but I couldn't save him. I couldn't save him."
The boy broke down and cried.
Tian Yang gently patted his shoulder, looked at the other woman in her thirties, and said, "Do you know who attacked you?"
The woman calmed down a little. She took a sip of water and said, "I don't know. Everything happened too quickly. Our city wall was blown up in an instant, and the artillery fire immediately bombarded those of us who lived on the edge of the fortress."
"Although the fortress quickly sent out troops, when we escaped, the army was defeated and had no choice but to retreat to the inner city to defend. I don't think they can hold out for long."
Moonlight squatted down and asked gently, "Can you describe the attackers to me? For example, what they look like, what their chariots look like, and if you can remember any markings or patterns, that would be even better."
The woman looked thoughtful, and after a moment she said, "Those people were wearing armor that I had never seen before, black with red patterns. They were also wearing helmets that covered their entire heads, so I couldn't see their faces."
"As for the chariots, they are quite special. Most of them are like shuttles, with a pointed front and tail, and a rounded shape in the middle..."
"As for the pattern, it should be a castle in flames. Yes, there was a chariot passing by me at the time, and I saw it clearly. Fortunately, they did not make things difficult for civilians. As long as we did not resist, they let us leave. Otherwise, we would not be able to escape..."
Moonlight was well-informed, but after listening to the woman's description, he frowned: "Full body armor with pure black background and red stripes, shuttle-shaped chariots, castles in flames, I have never heard of these, and I have never seen them..."