Carefully tearing open the package, Shen Lanzhou handed the bread to the old man: "Tell me more, Am."
The old man looked at her, took the bread and started eating it greedily.
As he ate, he mumbled, "Amu is a great deity worshipped by the mountain folk in our area. He's responsible for their reincarnation. I've heard from the elders in the village that every pregnant woman gives birth under Amu's watchful eye, and every elderly person is personally taken away by Amu."
"When I was little, I often played hide-and-seek with my friends in Ammu's temple. We always played until my mother came over with a stick and dragged me away. Later, when I grew up, my mother and father died, and I came to the city to make a living. I never went back."
Tears streamed from the old man's cloudy eyes, and his voice sobbed unconsciously: "I'm going to die. Are you sent by Emu to pick me up?"
“…”
Shen Lanzhou took off his hood silently, his eyes closed tightly: “Yes, it’s time for you.”
The old man let out a long sigh, collapsed to the ground as if he had lost all his strength, and closed his eyes with peace of mind.
Even in the Shanhai City base with abundant resources, people at the bottom still have a very difficult life.
It would be better to say that in the end-of-days environment, hunger, poverty and suffering are the main themes.
I was standing too high that I forgot the white bones under my feet for a moment.
Li Kexin walked over, not daring to look at Shen Lanzhou. Instead, he focused his gaze on the dead old man and said stiffly, "You killed him."
Shen Lanzhou opened one eye and looked at him with a half-smile: "Boy, if you don't need your eyes, you can dig them out and give them to someone in need."
For the locals here, Amu is not an evil god, but a mother goddess passed down from their ancestors.
However, judging from the monster made up of countless human bodies seen in the abandoned village before, this "Mother Goddess" may not be that serious.
There is nothing much to say about the rest of the journey. We were escorted by a group of guards in black uniforms to the Defense Bureau, which was responsible for the security of the base.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived at the place, Shen Lanzhou was attacked.
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