When Lin Qiye saw Yurina point at the door, he roughly understood what she meant and reached out to close the container door.
The container had no windows to begin with. The moment the door shut, the entire container fell into darkness. Then, a point of light flickered on, illuminating half the container.
Beside Yurina, a tiny light bulb was connected to a battery pack. Warm light spilled from its filament, forming a soft halo.
Standing by the door, Lin Qiye was somewhat surprised.
Judging from her clothes, he could already tell that the girl's family was not well-off. But he had never imagined that she did not even have a place to live, forced to share this abandoned container with an elderly woman.
A slightly chilly wind seeped through the cracks in the container, making the old woman sitting on the wooden chair shiver. Yurina immediately picked up a blanket from the mattress and gently draped it over her.
"Grandma Crane, are you cold?" she asked softly.
Grandma Crane smiled. "It's fine, I'm not cold... Go entertain our guest."
After tucking the blanket around her, Yurina nodded. She turned toward Lin Qiye, seeming as though she wanted to say something, but after hesitating for a moment, she walked to the corner of the container and dug a pen and a sheet of paper out of a pile of cardboard boxes.
Lin Qiye's eyelid twitched at the sight.
He had vaguely guessed what the girl intended to do...
But even if she wrote it down, he would not be able to understand it. He could still pretend to be deaf for now, but once she wrote something for him to read, he could not exactly pretend to be an idiot too, could he?
Lin Qiye's mind raced.
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