Chapter 478 The traitor in the extra story
In a low shed in the slums of Linshi Base, a woman with messy hair and dirty body was squatting on the ground, carefully cleaning the body of a mutant rat. The mutant rat was more than 30 centimeters long, and although there was a lot of meat on its body, the woman was reluctant to peel off the skin, and even the internal organs were reluctant to throw away. Even the thin intestines were cut open and carefully cleaned.
The clean water used in the base is provided by water-based supernatural beings. It is expensive and people in the slums cannot afford it. They can only buy water that has been used by others and then settled. Disinfectants are added to this water, so it always smells like disinfectants. However, people living in the slums dare not dislike it. Even this kind of water is not available every day.
In order to save money, everyone would reuse the used water. At first, they would think it was dirty and feel uncomfortable, but as time went by, they gradually got used to it. These people worked hard every day, getting up early and working late, but they earned very few credit points. If they wanted to survive, they had to save as much as possible!
The small basin was half filled with filthy water. After the woman washed the mutant rat and its internal organs, she directly pierced the mutant rat with a thin iron rod, roasted the fur over the fire, and then put it into the pot to cook with the internal organs. Gradually, a fishy and unpleasant smell came from the pot.
If this smell had come out before the apocalypse, no one would have eaten it except the homeless people on the street. However, the people in the slums had already gotten used to it. When this smell came out, some people couldn't help but wrinkle their noses and inhale. Then, they looked greedily at the small shed and kept swallowing their saliva.
This scene happens almost every day in the slums. The small sheds are tightly packed together, and the aisles in the middle are pitifully narrow. The originally clean aisles have long become greasy and black, and all kinds of stench permeate the air, gradually blending into an indescribable weird smell that can make a normal person faint! People from outside don't want to come into such a dirty and messy place, and the people who live here don't feel anything after getting used to it because they have been exposed to such smells for a long time.
The woman seemed to hear the sound of sips of water outside, and her eyes looked out through the large and small gaps in the shed. While watching, she greedily sniffed the smell coming from the pot, picked up the soup spoon next to her and stirred it in the pot. Seeing that the meat had turned white, it was obviously cooked, so she quickly turned off the fire.
She didn't even take the bowl, but scooped a spoonful with the soup spoon and put it to her mouth, not even caring about the heat, and swallowed it directly into her stomach. At this time, a weak and urgent voice suddenly sounded behind her: "Quick...quickly give it to me!" Seeing that the woman didn't listen, he shouted again, "This is what I caught! Give it to me! Give it to me!"
The woman pretended not to hear and used chopsticks to pick up the meat from the pot and stuffed it into her mouth. The man looked at this scene and suddenly became more anxious. He couldn't help but cursed: "Damn... damn woman! I was injured in trying to catch this mutant rat, how could you eat it all by yourself!"
When the woman heard this, she turned around and glared at him impatiently. This was a thin old man, lying in the corner of the shed wrapped in a dirty quilt. The quilt was covered with all kinds of stains, and his hands and feet exposed outside the quilt were covered with scars. When he saw the woman turn her head, a little hope suddenly appeared in his cloudy eyes, and he stretched out his arms and begged: "Give me something to eat quickly, I'm starving to death."
The woman looked at him hesitantly, not knowing what to do, when the door was suddenly pushed open and a figure rushed in. The man was originally tall, but now he was slightly hunched, with sallow skin and a hideous scar on his face. After he rushed in, his eyes lit up when he saw the meat in the pot. He rushed over and pushed the woman away, snatched her chopsticks, picked up the meat and stuffed it into his mouth frantically, looking like a starving ghost reincarnated!
The woman tried to rush over to grab it, but he kicked her in the stomach. After staggering a few steps, she sat on the old man on the ground, crushing him and making him scream miserably, cursing, "You rebellious son, you shall not die well."
The man ate the meat in big mouthfuls, looked at him and the woman with disdain, and retorted: "Am I a rebellious son? If I hadn't gone out to work every day to support you two old guys, you would have starved to death outside! If you two old guys hadn't failed to keep an eye on my eldest sister and let her run away, how could I have ended up in this situation? Bah! Two old guys!" After saying that, he continued to eat the meat in big mouthfuls, and soon only a small pile of bones was left in the pot.
The woman was kicked so badly that she didn't recover for a long time. She didn't dare to fight him for the meat. She could only watch him eat all the meat and cried sadly on the ground. The old man lying on the ground was very angry, but his health was not good. He was injured in catching the mutant rat before. How could he have the strength to get up and teach this "unfilial son" a lesson? Listening to his son's words, he regretted it in his heart. If he hadn't failed to watch Li Qingyun and let her run away, how could their family fall into this situation?
As he regretted, he thought of the pile of supplies that Li Qingyun had bought. There were so many supplies. He was really blind at the time. He actually took in those "poor relatives" despite his daughter's dissuasion! These ungrateful wolves not only ate their supplies, but also took their supplies as gifts to exchange for good jobs. After Li Qingyun left, he directly occupied their supplies and houses and drove them out!
When he thought of this, he couldn't help but think, if Li Qingyun hadn't abandoned them and ran away with someone else, how could those heartless people dare to drive them out? Unfortunately, Li Qingyun had no news after he left, and no matter how much resentment he had in his heart, it was useless. Thinking of Li Qingyun, he thought of the unfilial son in front of him, and he couldn't help but regret it. Why didn't he see that this was a beast in human skin? If he had been nicer to Li Qingyun, would that girl not have abandoned them?
But the man didn't care what he was thinking. After he finished eating the meat, he drank the soup in the pot. Then he sighed comfortably and pointed at the small pile of bones he spit out and said, "Why are you crying? There are still some here. You can break them up later and cook a pot of soup. You can eat it together." After that, he ignored the man and woman in the corner, wiped his mouth and walked out.
After he left, the woman cried even harder, saying, "Qingyun, where are you? How can you be so cruel that you don't even care about your parents? Come back soon, come back."
Unfortunately, the Hope Base and the Lin City Base are separated by huge distances, so Li Qingyun could not possibly hear these words.
I wonder if you still remember Li Qingyun's weird family. I thought I should explain it, so I wrote this chapter to express my malicious criticism of the idea of "preferring sons over daughters".
(End of this chapter)
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