I traveled through time and space and found a mute boy: That’s enough, I feel sorry for him

The night is long and the autumn moon is high in the sky.

Taking advantage of the night and the dim moonlight, Xu Shu walked towards the wild mountain behind Shiqiao Village.

He chose this time specifically so that he could take back his belongings secretly while everyone in the village was asleep.

Thinking of his backpack, Xu Shu couldn't help but sigh.

It has been a month since he traveled to this world at the end of the world.

If he was not unfamiliar with the place, he would not have bought a house at the village chief's house and thrown the backpack containing all his belongings into the deep mountains and forests.

But this month's stay was not in vain, as he already had a general understanding of this world.

The country where Xu Shu is currently located is called Jing. Judging from its land area, it can barely be called a "great country". But looking at the current situation, it will be divided up by the surrounding small countries in a few years.

It’s hard to say whether it was luck or something else, but he traveled from the end of the world to the troubled times.

However, Xu Shu has always been optimistic. When he learned that Yuzhou, where he was now, had not been invaded by war, he calmly found a job as an accountant in a restaurant and settled down there temporarily.

But right now, the most important thing is to get his belongings back.

Xu Shu hid the backpack in a rabbit hole he found on the edge of a wild mountain. He was not afraid of encountering any ferocious beasts when he went up the mountain at night.

There is a bamboo forest next to the wild mountain. Following the route he remembered, Xu Shu quickly got the backpack he had been longing for.

It looks like an ordinary black backpack, similar in appearance to a computer bag, and is round and bulky, and its capacity does not seem to be very large.

But in the end times, the space folding technology developed by their research institute has basically matured, and this backpack can be said to have a different world. As for the inside, medicine, food, daily necessities, books to relieve boredom, and weapons necessary for self-defense... everything is available.

Xu Shu actually didn't know exactly what was in the backpack. Due to the harsh environment in the end times, it was common to move positions. Xu Shu had long since developed the habit of stuffing everything into his backpack.

He could probably imagine that the things in the backpack were dazzling and chaotic. But he was not in a hurry and would go back and think about it slowly.

Xu Shu put on his bag and was about to go back, but just as he took a step, he heard the sound of branches breaking behind him.

It is late autumn now. Although this place is a bamboo forest, it is in chaos. There are many dead branches and leaves on the ground. When living things step on them, there will inevitably be the sound of branches breaking.

Xu Shu had good hearing, and from the sound of branches breaking, he could vaguely tell that it was a big one.

He didn't expect that he would be so unlucky, but once he entered the mountain, he ran into something.

Xu Shu stopped his action helplessly, trying to determine the source of the sound carefully, but then he heard the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground behind him.

The bang was so loud that it was hard to ignore. Xu Shu couldn't help but turn around and look in confusion.

Then I saw a thin young man with messy clothes fainted on a pile of dead branches and leaves.

The moonlight cast a hazy layer on him, making the boy look like an elf who had fallen into the human world. He was ethereal in every way, as if he would leave this world without knowing when.

But Xu Shu knew that this was impossible.

These were troubled times, and there were many starving people on the streets. It would not be an exaggeration to say that those places where the war was severe were littered with corpses.

Xu Shu came from the end of the world, and he didn't think he was a person with excessive sympathy and compassion, but the person in front of him was obviously still a minor... This was the flower of the motherland. Xu Shu sighed, walked forward, and called a few people first.

Not getting a response from the boy, Xu Shu couldn't help but sigh again. He touched the boy's forehead and found it was very hot, so he took out the antipyretic medicine from his bag and fed it to the boy.

After thinking for a while, he took out a thick blanket, wrapped the light-as-boneless boy in it, and then covered the boy with a thick layer of fallen leaves.

After this operation, only the boy's head was left exposed. It was so small and looked extremely pitiful.

Xu Shu glanced at the face that was so thin that it was almost unrecognizable, and quickly looked away. However, he still couldn't bear it, so he took out some mosquito and animal repellent from his backpack and helped spray it a few times.

After saying this, he turned and left.

He was now unable to take care of himself, so naturally he was unwilling to rescue a burden. Helping the young man do these things was already a special privilege given by Xu Shu because he was a minor.

The return journey was easy and comfortable, and Xu Shu soon arrived at his shabby thatched cottage.

He had just received his monthly salary today, so he asked for three days' leave from the restaurant and returned to the village to find the village chief to rent this thatched house.

Although this shabby thatched house only has a main house, a kitchen and a toilet, it is his first property here, so Xu Shu does not despise it.

He stayed up all night in his own shabby thatched hut with great interest, using a flashlight to sort out the things in his backpack before going to bed contentedly.

The next day he got up very early, ate a compressed biscuit, took out a few small things from his backpack, and walked towards Qingshui Town.

Qingshui Town is located on the border of Yuzhou, which is surrounded by mountains on all sides and is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It is considered a relatively peaceful place in this chaotic world.

But this peace was only on the surface. As soon as Xu Shugang arrived in the town, he saw a group of beggars huddled together timidly.

These were refugees who had fled here from several neighboring states. They were all skinny and would kneel down and beg for food when they saw anyone with a little money.

Those who still have some energy and good luck can barely find a part-time job to support themselves.

Those who are unlucky can only become beggars, with no food to eat, and when heavy snow falls, they will freeze to death.

Xu Shu only glanced at it a few times and then stopped looking.

He traveled to this world a month ago. It was with the help of his eloquence and a jade bracelet he found in his backpack that he sought help from the village chief and temporarily found a place to stay.

Also, because he traveled through time from the future, standing on the shoulders of countless giants, and had excellent arithmetic skills, he was able to stand out from a crowd of scholars and barely got a job as an accountant, and only then did he settle down.

But standing out is not that easy. Xu Shu still remembers the day of the interview. The people who were not selected looked at him with eyes full of disbelief, frustration, and jealousy.

But what can Xu Shu do? He can't take care of himself, he just wants to survive. If possible, he also hopes to live a better life.

Xu Shu walked towards the pawnshop.

As he had just arrived, the situation was urgent, so he sold the jade bracelet in his backpack and only got five taels of silver and the opportunity to stay in the village chief's house for a month.

However, the village chief's family was also honest and told Xu Shu clearly that the bracelet would definitely cost more than that if it was sold in town.

Xu Shu rummaged through his backpack again last night and found two.

Things like gold and silver jewelry and jade are the least valuable in the end times. Xu Shu is a grown man and doesn't have these things.

But last time he had his birthday, a female colleague from the research institute stuffed a bunch of them into his hands, saying that even if he didn't like them and they were not worth the money, he could keep them for marrying a wife in the future.

Although Xu Shu had no vision for love, he would not lose face. He thanked him immediately and stuffed the bag into his backpack.

But now it is used.

Xu Shu handed over the two jade bracelets expressionlessly, and said in a low voice, "My family has been in trouble. Boss, please give me a price."

The boss understood as soon as he heard this, and didn't ask any more questions. He just carefully looked at the bracelet that Xu Shu handed over.

The quality was naturally good, and the final auction price for the two bracelets was fifty taels in total.

Xu Shu silently calculated that in this place one tael of silver was approximately equivalent to five hundred yuan in the last days, and fifty taels was twenty-five thousand yuan.

Xu Shu accepted it without bargaining. He nodded immediately and left with the fifty taels of silver.

He came to the cloth shop again.

The clothes he was wearing now were old clothes given to him by the village chief. The quality was acceptable, but they were a bit small, and there were only two pieces.

So as soon as he settled down, Xu Shu went to the cloth shop in the town to buy a few pieces of cloth, added some labor costs, and made an appointment to pick it up in a few days.

He was tall, so he made two sets of autumn clothes, two sets of winter clothes, and two quilts. He chose strong and comfortable cotton cloth. Including the cotton and labor costs, the total cost was one or two taels.

Xu Shu felt distressed at the time, but now that he has money in his pocket, he feels a little more balanced. After all, these are necessities.

He quickly took his clothes, went out and headed for the bookstore again, but when he passed by a tall building, he saw a crowd of people gathering on the street.

Xu Shu was tall, about 1.9 meters tall. Even though he was standing on the outskirts of the crowd, he could see what was happening in the center at a glance.

A disheveled man was standing at the entrance of the building. As the ancients said, he was only wearing his underwear.

The man was furious, pointing at a middle-aged woman dressed in fancy clothes and yelling, "If you don't bring the person here tomorrow morning, you'll be in court."

All characters in this world are simplified characters. Xu Shu took a look at the plaque hanging on the building, which had three big characters "Yichun Building" written on it.

There were many girls standing in front of the windows on the second floor... and even men, all dressed in red and green, leaning against the windows to watch the fun. As they watched, they called out to the crowd, "Sir, would you be so kind as to come and play?"

Now Xu Shu understood that this place was actually a brothel.

He lost interest and no longer cared about the trouble-making man, and walked quickly towards the bookstore.

Shen Zhuo, the youngest son of the village chief, was a well-read man. Xu Shu also bought his book and took a look at it, only then did he confirm that all the characters in this world are simplified.

This made it easier for Xu Shu to understand the world. After all, there were many things that could not be learned from other people.

He picked and chose in the bookstore and found many things. What surprised Xu Shu the most was that the bookstore sold maps.

Xu Shu had no use for writing brushes, inkstones, paper, and inkstones, but he bought a lot of books. Stories, miscellaneous notes, travelogues, scriptures, history books... Xu Shu tried his best to pick out and buy all the books that were unique to this era.

If Xu Shu hadn't been unable to take it all, there would probably have been more. This trip cost a total of two taels of silver.

He was very satisfied, so he bought a bamboo backpack to put his books and clothes in, and then carried them home.

When we got near the village entrance, we heard shouting and cursing.

He was a person who had no interest in crowds, but considering his poor understanding of this world, he pondered for a moment and finally walked up.

There were quite a few people gathered in that noisy place, and luckily Xu Shu was tall, so he could see clearly even if he stood on the outer circle.

But as soon as Fang saw it, he couldn't help but frown.

Surrounded by a big man and a young boy.

The boy's clothes were disheveled and he had fainted, but he was curled up on the ground like a shrimp, holding something tightly in his arms.

The big man was still cursing: "Where did you come from, you bitch? How dare you steal my things? I will beat you to death, you bitch."

The big man was fat and had dark skin. Even though it was late autumn, he was still shirtless.

The big man picked up a big stone on the side of the road. The stone was sharp, but the big man raised it high, with the sharp end facing the boy's head, preparing to smash it down.

But the onlookers seemed to be enjoying the fun and even shouted, "Beat him to death, beat him to death..."

Xu Shu couldn't help but frown. He really couldn't bear to watch it. Even in the end times, he had never seen such a scene.

In broad daylight, when they saw someone trying to kill someone, the onlookers actually started to make a fuss, as if they were watching some kind of monkey show.

This is a chaotic world. Not only does the smoke of war kill people, but people also eat each other.

Seeing that the stone was about to fall, Xu Shu said coldly: "Stop."

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The author says:

In the first chapter, I will also tell the new baby about giving gifts and adding more chapters~

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For example, if 20 gifts are received on the same day and the total value of the gifts reaches 20 yuan, then an additional 4000 will be added.

Additional chapters will be calculated based on two chapters updated per day, which is 4000 words. If the amount of additional chapters is not much, I will try to finish it the next day.

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