Chapter 234: Waiting

Since City B accepts homeless survivors from several cities, the population here is several times larger than that of urban shelters in other areas.

The barbed wire fence that used to surround City B has been removed, and in the yellow sand, the survivors are busy working in full swing.

These homeless survivors who had just arrived in City B had no place to live, so they built a simple mud house in the yellow sand with their own hands.

There is a place to shelter from the sun and wind.

But there were also many lazy survivors, wearing dark and ragged clothes, just squatting on the roadside.

Not far ahead is a busy construction team.

Xiang Yu mingled among them, dressed exactly the same as them, and there was no sense of incongruity at all.

She was the only one sitting in this shady spot, eating the bun in her hand and lowering her head to Yu from time to time.

He bit the piece of straw sticking out of his collar. The weather was too hot, and the sour smell of the homeless survivors nearby wafted into his nostrils from time to time.

In the alley right in front of Xiang Yu, a little girl of eight or nine years old was staring at the steamed bun in her hand.

The little girl was so thin that only a layer of skin was left on her body, covering her bones.

She stared at Xiang Yu with her eyes fixed, her throat rolling, and she used her hands and feet to crawl towards Xiang Yu.

Her dry throat prevented her from making any sound, but her desire for food still drove her towards Yu.

Xiang Yu stuffed the last bite of bun in his hand into his mouth, but the little girl still did not give up.

After eating the buns, Xiang Yu leaned against the mud wall, put his hands on his knees, and looked around.

The little girl crawled to Xiang Yu and sniffed the hand that Xiang Yu had just held the bun with. She sniffed it hard.

A pair of eyes looked at Xiang Yu longingly.

When he got closer, Xiang Yu couldn't help but be stunned when he looked at the little girl's face. She was too thin.

His eye sockets were deeply sunken, his eyes were lifeless, and his hair was stained with some dirt, all of it tangled into strands.

She was so thin that the outline of her skull was clearly visible. The little girl sniffed hard at the hand that was holding the buns from Xiang Yu.

"Hungry..." Due to not having water for a long time, her throat was damaged. The dry syllables came out of her mouth, and Xiang Yu could barely hear them clearly.

"Hungry..." She looked at Xiang Yu with pleading eyes, and just as she reached out to grab the corner of Xiang Yu's clothes.

Xiang Yu suddenly stood up and walked towards the other end of the alley.

The other wandering survivors who were paying attention to the two of them at this time also withdrew their gazes after seeing Xiang Yu get up and leave.

There was a hint of disappointment in their eyes, but they quickly returned to normal.

City B was far more complicated than she had imagined. After arriving here, she could only be more low-key than before.

She was wearing tattered clothes, had dark skin and messy hair, and no one noticed her as she moved among the survivors.

Xiang Yu walked all the way towards the shelter in City B. After passing through the construction complex, the familiar building appeared before his eyes.

A tall black wall made entirely of mineral material. Xiang Yu suddenly felt itchy and really wanted to pry the wall apart and take it away.

How many good things can be produced by this? He is indeed a capitalist. If he doesn't make a move, it's fine, but once he does, it's a big one.

It was impossible to get inside, but this was not her purpose, so she just found a place outside the high wall and squatted down.

Xiang Yu sat on the ground with his back against the city wall. Mercenaries could be seen everywhere, holding weapons in their hands, walking by in groups of three or four, talking and laughing.

After a while, two wandering survivors came to Xiang Yu and sat down not far from him.

After the two leaned against the wall, they closed their eyes and rested. Soon, snoring sounds began to rise one after another.

As evening approached, the homeless survivors sitting next to me had woken up. They reached out to scratch the scars on their bodies, and some of them they just stuffed into their mouths.

A woman with a child also pulled apart her daughter's hair and looked for lice on her head. Once she found any, she immediately put them into her mouth and chewed them.

The little girl sat quietly and let her play with it.

They had nothing to do the whole day so they just slept. Now it was evening and they were no longer sleepy, and it was time for dinner but they had nothing to eat.

They looked around, as if they had gotten used to such days, and their bodies were extremely itchy from not having taken a bath for a long time.

Even when they were sitting there, everyone's movements were very unified, and they would scratch their bodies from time to time.

As the sky gradually darkened, everyone saw darkness in front of them, and Xiang Yu silently took out the rice ball from the space.

Chewing quietly.

No one knew each other, and everyone found a quiet place to stay.

No one will take the initiative to talk to others because it would be a waste of words.

The patrolling mercenaries did not drive them away, but simply shone flashlights on them in the second half of the night.

Xiang Yu lay in the sand, looking at the dark night sky with an ice cube in his mouth.