Qiu Ming had no choice but to leave some food behind. After thinking it over, he added two bottles of water. "They're all struggling to get by."
They had only borrowed a cool route to travel along. They hadn't expected the boy to come back so soon, pelting them with stones from a slingshot. "You wrecked all our traps! Who wants your stuff?"
The stones couldn't hurt them, but the boy aimed for their faces every time, which got irritating. Cao Qinglin flicked out a tool and captured him, then said sternly, "We should hang him here."
"Don't be so brutal." Qiu Ming picked the boy up. "Let's just give him a beating. Here, you hold his legs while I pull down his pants."
The boy's face flushed red as he struggled, and he shouted, "My big brother won't let you get away with this!"
"Oh? And who's your big brother?" Qiu Ming pinched the boy's cheeks and tugged hard. "Call him out. Let's see."
"You've got guts? Then come with me!" the boy snarled. "My big brother will beat you until you're crawling... Let go of me..."
"Enough. You can scare a kid a little, but that's all." Seeing that Qiu Ming wasn't holding back, Cao Qinglin had to stop him. "If his big brother were really that powerful, the things he set up in the passage wouldn't be so trivial. This kid was deliberately laying a trap, probably trying to lure us in. Just leave him here."
Qiu Ming looked puzzled. "The Player who set the traps shouldn't be very strong, right?"
"Hard to say. Maybe those little tools were just meant to throw us off." Cao Qinglin looked at Xu Huo.
Xu Huo had no objections. There were other children nearby. Whether they were trying to lure