Rebirth Counterattack with Space
Chapter 416 - 400 Rescue

Chapter 416: Chapter 400 Rescue

Seeing Duoduo come running over, Lu Yun reached out her other hand to gently embrace her. The little girl shrank for a moment, but ultimately, her eyes were glued to the chocolate in Pei Yi’s hand, and she licked her lips without struggling.

Lu Yun nudged Pei Yi, and he frowned as he passed over the chocolate with a look of disdain, "Duoduo, don’t be so timid in the future. You’re already so big, how can you be crying and whining when going to kindergarten? What does that look like? If anyone dares to bully you, just slap them. If you come across someone you can’t beat, then we’ll go tell the teacher. What use is crying?"

"You talk too much. Is that how you teach your sister?" Lu Yun glared at Pei Yi, who pursed his lips and replied, "Xinxin told me that’s how Uncle teaches her."

"Call her sister, not Xinxin. Your uncle’s teaching is wrong. Girls should still be a bit delicate and cute," said Lu Yun.

"So they should just let others bully them while being cute?" Pei Yi looked at Lu Yun with an expression of disbelief.

"Er--that’s not what I meant. My point is that girls don’t need to get their hands dirty; they can totally order around their brothers at home," Lu Yun stumbled a bit and then came up with this explanation.

"So it’s not much different. It’s much more satisfying to handle it yourself, and if you can’t beat them, it’s still time to call for help," Pei Yi said matter-of-factly.

Lu Yun: "..."

Duoduo paid no attention to what the two were saying; as soon as she received the chocolate, she devoured it ravenously, stuffing all of it into her mouth, and after chewing swiftly, swallowed it, as if afraid the food that had reached her would be snatched away again.

After she finished the chocolate, she licked her lips and even licked her fingers, then raised her shiny, hopeful eyes to Lu Yun.

"Are you still very hungry?" Lu Yun asked softly, her heart softening.

Duoduo instinctively nodded, then quickly shook her head.

"Here, take this." Sighing, Lu Yun reached into the bag that Shitou was holding, rummaged for a wrapped drumstick, and handed it to her after tearing open the wrapper.

Duoduo’s eyes immediately moistened, and she bit fiercely into the drumstick.

"Eat slowly; no one will take it from you," Lu Yun said tenderly.

"Oh, Duoduo, why did you eat Auntie’s drumstick again? That’s so embarrassing. You should bring your brother over here. Mommy has tasty food for you too. We can’t just eat Auntie’s things, right?"

The woman’s eyes flashed with irritation when she saw Duoduo taking more food from Lu Yun, but she quickly regained her composure. She took out two lollipops and waved them at Duoduo.

"Duoduo, your mom is calling you. Should we go over?"

Pei Yi glanced at the lollipops in the woman’s hand, kicked the pebbles on the ground beneath his feet with lackluster interest, and wondered why his father had sent him a message to accompany this new girl called Duoduo he had just met.

His father also wanted him to stay alert and be responsible for holding onto the girl tightly, ready to pull her away to the side upon his command.

Could that woman be a bad person?

Pei Yi, puzzled, glanced at the woman again, thinking he had understood the truth: she was so ugly and didn’t resemble Duoduo at all...

Instantly excited, Pei Yi didn’t mind that the little girl in front of him was a "crybaby" and reached out to take Duoduo’s left hand.

As Pei Yi took her hand, Duoduo looked involuntarily toward the woman, saw her full smile, and shivered. The drumstick fell from her hand to the ground. Paying no attention to the drumstick, she reached out with her right hand to grab onto Pei Yi’s clothes instinctively, tugging tightly while keeping her head down, a look of anguish on her face.

Shitou and Lu Yun watched her without making a sound.

Pei Yi, eager to go "adventuring," finally lost his patience, and urged, "Let’s go."

"Brother, don’t go."

Duoduo clung desperately to Pei Yi’s clothes, trembling all over, "She’s not my mom, she’s a bad person."

"What are you doing, Duoduo? Let’s go, come back with me." The woman had already sensed that something was amiss and started cursing as she charged over—

However, the man by her side didn’t follow; instead, he moved towards an old person with a young child at their side.

The two guards, pretending to be a couple, were also quick to act. In a flash, they intercepted the man as he tried to grab the child. Seeing the situation turned against him, the man pulled out a dagger and swung it around, but he was no match against their combined strength and was quickly subdued.

Meanwhile, the woman was brought down by a kick from Shitou, her joints dislocated, rendering her motionless on the ground.

People in the small park were initially stunned by the sudden turn of events.

"How did you find out?"

She had used this trick many times before, and each time it helped to lower people’s guard. She would let the children play together to get familiar with one another. Later, she would take the initiative to leave, then create a distraction to divert the attention of the adults accompanying the children and abduct the child subtly.

Because the children had eaten what she gave and had played with the child she brought with her, they often didn’t struggle or cry when she carried them away. Most of the parents didn’t even suspect that it was she who had taken their children.

"The Emperor isn’t short of hungry soldiers, your story is indeed quite captivating. But if a child’s stomach isn’t growling, if they don’t look at you with fear in their eyes, and if they can warm up to you, that’s truly capable of deceiving people," Lu Yun said contemptuously as she glanced at the woman sprawled on the ground, then looked away. She despised the thought of wasting another glance on her.

She took out a large chicken drumstick, tore the wrapper, squatted down, and handed it to the little girl who had been eyeing the drumstick on the ground and attempting to pick it up and eat it, "Good child, that one’s dirty now. Let’s eat this one."

"Thank you, pretty auntie."

The young girl let go of Pei Yi with a disgusted look as soon as the man was captured and the woman was kicked down. She took her longing gaze off the ground, accepted the drumstick from Lu Yun, shyly smiled at her, and started to eat heartily.

"Eat slowly, don’t choke, auntie has more for you," Lu Yun said, her heart blooming with joy at being called a pretty auntie by the young girl. Indeed, little girls were adorable and easy to dote on. Her voice softened considerably, "Once you finish eating, come back with auntie, and then I’ll help you find your mommy and daddy, okay?"

"Mhm."

The young girl nodded vigorously, her face filled with trust as she looked at the beautiful auntie in front of her and forgot to eat the drumstick, tears streaming down her cheeks.

"Do you remember what your name is, where you live?" Lu Yun asked, sighing softly as she wiped the girl’s tears with a handkerchief.

"Daddy and mommy both call me Yinyin." The young girl looked at Lu Yun with a dazed expression, blinking her eyes in confusion.

"Yinyin, do you remember how old you are, how long it’s been since you left your mommy and daddy?" Lu Yun asked softly, sigh by sigh.

"..." Yinyin stared blankly at Lu Yun and shook her head.