"Steamed bun, steamed bun..." the woman said, trembling as she handed the already soiled steamed bun in her hand to Lin Shuyu.
"Thank you, thank you."
But I don't need it anymore.
The woman didn't say the second half of her sentence, but her expression didn't escape Lin Shuyu's notice.
At the same time, Su Luo also noticed the current situation of the child in her arms and looked at Lin Shuyu.
"The captain just gave this to her," Zhang Miaomiao whispered to Su Luo, "but she only gave it to her child, and her child..."
Her child's current condition is obvious, so the steamed bun is no longer of any use. Is this a way of returning it to Lin Shuyu?
"No need, you can keep it for yourself."
As she spoke, Lin Shuyu raised her voice and looked around, as if to remind someone of something.
Following Lin Shuyu's gaze, they indeed found that some disheveled and ragged people around them were staring at the woman, or more precisely, at the steamed bun in her hand.
If Lin Shuyu and the others hadn't been there, these people would probably have rushed up without any restraint and started fighting over it.
Although she received Lin Shuyu's approval, the woman still didn't eat it. Instead, she continued to offer it to Lin Shuyu, as if she really wanted to... give it back to him.
Seeing this, Lin Shuyu had no choice but to pick up the dusty steamed bun, then smiled contentedly at the woman, thanked her again, and stepped aside with the child in her arms.
"etc!"
The woman's actions piqued Su Luo's curiosity. In this apocalyptic world, after half a year, there were still such "naive and kind" people.
Because her child had died and she no longer needed the steamed buns, she preferred to return them to Lin Shuyu, making it seem as if she wasn't hungry or as if she wouldn't die.
If Nangong Liuli were here, she would surely notice that the woman's aura was different, and that something resembling characters would appear on her.
"Would you like to leave with me?"
Upon hearing Su Luo's words, the woman simply shook her head, leaned against the wall, and squatted down in the position closest to the base gate, her expression blank, holding her already dead child in her arms, motionless.
There's no reaction at all?
They didn't even find a place to bury her child. Was she... just an ordinary person?
Can you hear me?
Undeterred, Su Luo asked again, but the other party still did not respond, as if it were a breathing, walking puppet.
"My lords, stop asking! She's a madwoman, a fool!"
"Madman, idiot?" Su Luo turned to look at an old man who suddenly stood up and spoke. He looked to be in his forties, with a lewd expression and shifty eyes. He was walking up with a fawning look on his face, but his eyes were fixed on the steamed bun in Lin Shuyu's hand.
"Yes." Although Su Luo seemed to be new to the base, the two behind her were prominent figures in the base, both possessing high-level talent skills. Even if Su Luo knew nothing, with these two powerful figures backing her up, she naturally wouldn't live on the outermost edge of the base.
But if we can help out, we might be able to get what Captain Lin has.
For these people, a steamed bun is a delicacy they haven't eaten in a long time.
"To be honest, the child that woman is holding isn't hers either; her child died long ago!"
Su Luo frowned and looked at the woman again. This behavior did sound crazy. After all, no one would hold someone else's dead child in their arms and treat it as their own. What else could it be but sickness?
However, in the post-apocalyptic world, this disease actually sounds more plausible.
How do you know this child isn't hers?
Upon hearing Su Luo's words, the old man turned his gaze to Lin Shuyu, or more precisely, to the steamed bun in Lin Shuyu's hand, and chuckled twice.
Seeing this, Lin Shuyu threw the steamed bun in her hand over. The old man caught it with great hunger and, while Lin and the others were still there, quickly stuffed it into his mouth. Su Luo was afraid that the man would choke to death on the steamed bun before he could finish speaking.
"Because her child died the day her man's awakened talent left the outermost layer!"
This is an unexpected bombshell. Who would have thought that the woman and her husband were both at the base? After the husband awakened his talent, he simply abandoned his wife and children!
Lin Shuyu was also taken aback, her expression changed slightly, and she seemed somewhat ashamed.
"How can someone who abandons his wife and children receive talent?! That's so unfair!"
Su Luo could accept it to some extent. That's just how the world is. Good people don't live long, while turtles live for a thousand years!
"If that's the case, then the child in her arms..."
"I found it."
The old man licked his fingers, seemingly still savoring the memory, "Every day there are homeless children who have lost their parents around this base. Not to mention the area around the base, you can find some even outside the base."
Su Luo nodded, then looked at the old man and asked, "One last question: do you remember what talent her man awakened, and what level it was?"
"This..." The old man's eyes darted around, but he didn't answer immediately. He just touched his emaciated belly and gestured to Lin Shuyu and Zhang Miaomiao.
Lin Shuyu was taken aback and turned to look at Miaomiao. He had rushed out and hadn't eaten anything, let alone had anything to eat. How could he possibly give this old man any food?
Seeing this, Miao Miao was about to take out a small bag of potato chips he had secretly kept in his mutated space when Su Luo preemptively threw him a bag of compressed biscuits.
Since it's her problem, her business, how could she let Miaomiao get involved? She didn't want to owe anyone a favor over such a trivial matter.
Although he ate compressed biscuits for a long time when he first arrived at the base, the old man is willing to accept anything offered, as long as it's edible, given the current situation.
What's more, this stuff can be preserved. As long as he escapes this area later, a pack of compressed biscuits will be enough to last him for several days.
"It's a D-rank talent, elemental, and it seems to allow me to manipulate earth. That's all I know!"
Now that they had the useful information, Su Luo glanced at the motionless woman and continued, "How about I take you to find your husband?"
"Husband?" Upon hearing these two words, a glimmer of light flashed in the woman's eyes. She slowly raised her head and looked at Su Luo. "Husband? Husband!"
"Yes, honey, that scumbag!"
Unlike the previous state of chaos, women today are more vibrant, more like individuals, living beings with souls.
Just as I expected.
Su Luo raised an eyebrow, looked at Lin Shuyu, and chuckled, "Your base's testers are no good. This is clearly a talent awakener, how come no one noticed?"
Moreover, this ability is somewhat strange, and no one knows exactly what it is. In any case, this woman has been added to Su Luo's list of those to be taken away.
Lin Shuyu and Zhang Miaomiao were also surprised, not expecting that there was a gifted person right under their noses, and with such a strange skill at that.
"By the way, where do D-rank talent skill users live?"
"I'll go and meet this 'big shot' later."
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