Chapter 255 We came here on purpose
Gu Luan and Jiang Xian walked side by side on the narrow road.
The air was filled with an indescribable strange smell, the smell of sweat, sourness, and decay...
The houses here are short and shabby, and none of the people you occasionally see are properly dressed. Some even use leaves to make clothes to cover their bodies.
When they saw Gu Luan and Jiang Xian, they just raised their eyelids and were not curious at all.
A woman was sitting under the eaves holding a child of four or five years old and a black pancake in her hand.
The child was so hungry that he wolfed down the food. No matter how hungry the woman was, she did not snatch the bread from the child.
"Mom, you eat the biscuits. Baoer wants to drink water."
The child spoke very softly. I guess he was very hungry and couldn't say anything.
The woman shook her head to indicate that she didn't want to eat the cake and she wanted to save it for her child.
Hearing the child asking for water, the woman picked up a bamboo tube and gently fed him, "Baby, drink it. Leave some for daddy."
The people living in this area have limited drinking water and food to eat every day, so they have to save them.
On the other side, a man was sitting on the ground with his right foot injured. He hung his head and looked despairing.
If you are injured, you can’t work, and if you don’t work, your family will have nothing to eat.
"Son, I still have half a cake here, you can eat it."
The man's mother tremblingly took out half a black pancake. She wanted to feed her injured son.
The man raised his head, his eyes full of tears, "Mom, I'm sorry. If I had chosen to work for them, we wouldn't have to go hungry every day."
“Pah…”
The man’s mother slapped him in the face and her eyes turned red with anger.
"I don't allow you to say such things. We are Chinese. How can we work for them?"
"You did the right thing by rejecting them. Even if I starve to death, I don't want my son to become a traitor."
"mom……"
"Eat quickly, then go back to work. Mom is not hungry yet."
Gu Luan and Jiang Xian stopped, looked around, and took another step.
Ten seconds later, several exclamations were heard from behind.
"Mom, it's steamed buns."
This is the voice of a child.
"Son, steamed buns, white flour steamed buns."
This is the voice of the mother who just beat her son.
They all looked in the direction where Gu Luan and Jiang Xian left, unable to hold back any longer and burst into tears.
Leaving four steamed buns behind, Gu Luan walked slowly with a smile.
She and Jiang Xian had observed carefully and found that everyone here was a man of integrity.
They were unwilling to surrender and sell out their country, even if it meant living a hard life.
There were eight steamed buns in the backpack that were extorted from the black-faced captain.
Since neither she nor Jiang Xian would eat it anyway, it would be better to give them one each.
The two heard the words of thanks behind them clearly, but did not stop.
It was such a miserable situation all the way.
Everyone’s food was black cakes with a sour smell, and no one knew what they were made of.
Their huts were crudely built with only branches and could not provide shelter from wind or rain.
As long as the people here do not surrender, their lives will be more painful and difficult than on land.
No wonder there is no smile on everyone’s face, leaving only emptiness and numbness.
"Mr. Jiang? Ms. Gu?"
A thin woman walked out of a wooden house and shouted in surprise when she saw Gu Luan and Jiang Xian.
Gu Luan and Jiang Xian turned their heads and saw the woman, with slightly strange expressions.
The woman in front of him turned out to be Fu Xinran from Mingyang Base!
She is Fu Shengran's elder sister, and she and Fu Shengran had delivered supplies to them together.
"Why are you here?"
Gu Luan looked at Fu Xinran and asked her in a low voice.
Fu Xinran now is a completely different person from half a year ago.
At that time, Fu Xinran had the aura of a strong woman and was full of confidence.
Fu Xinran's clothes are now messy, his hair is greasy, and his body is thin. There is no trace of his former self left.
Fu Xinran smiled bitterly, "The tsunami came, we luckily escaped and ended up here."
Fu Xinran said it simply, but only she knew the difficulty involved.
As the eldest daughter of Mingyang Base, Fu Xinran thought she could manage the base well for the rest of her life.
The tsunami struck suddenly, catching them off guard.
Her father and sister died in the tsunami, and she and her brother managed to escape with supplies and trusted subordinates.
They got lost at sea and drifted for nearly two months without realizing it.
Supplies were gradually depleted, and when they were about to collapse, they encountered a fishing boat.
The people on the fishing boat are Chinese.
Those people were very welcoming to them, allowing them to let down their guard and come to the island with them.
I thought I would live a good life, but I found out that this is an island occupied by the Sakura people.
The group asked them to do things for the Sakura people, and when they refused, they were thrown here.
Living here is like leaving yourself to fend for yourself.
If you want to survive, you need to do hard and dirty work on the island to get very little food.
Every month, that group of people would come to lure them.
They brought food with them and told them that as long as they regretted their actions, they would immediately take them to eat something delicious.
Most people choose to refuse, but there are still a small number of people who can't hold on.
Everyone understands that we cannot blame those who can't hold on. Some of them are forced to do so, while others simply cannot survive.
Gu Luan and Jiang Xian heard the pain and helplessness in Fu Xinran's words.
They knew that she must have experienced despair that was difficult for ordinary people to understand.
Before the apocalypse, Fu Xinran was the vice president of a listed company, and after the apocalypse, she was the eldest daughter of the Mingyang Base.
Now it has come to this, the gap is so big that few people can bear it.
"Miss Gu, why are you here?"
Fu Xinran looked at Gu Luan and Jiang Xian and found that they looked much worse than they were half a year ago.
They are such capable people who have fallen to such a state, and it seems that she has nothing to complain about becoming like this.
This world is too cruel. No one can predict what will happen tomorrow.
From Fu Xinran's eyes, Gu Luan and Jiang Xian knew that she had misunderstood.
"It's not what you see. We came here on purpose."
Gu Luan didn't think about explaining anything to Fu Xinran, so he just said a few simple words.
"Come here on purpose?"
Fu Xinran was confused and obviously didn't understand.
Why would anyone come here on purpose? This is not a good place.
"Um."
"Miss Gu, please leave here quickly if possible. It's very dangerous here."
Fu Xinran wasn't sure whether Gu Luan and Jiang Xian could leave, so she tried to persuade them anyway.
She and Fu Shengran are inseparable and will probably stay here for the rest of their lives.
No matter how unwilling they were, they could not defeat that group of people and were forced to stay.
She knew that Gu Luan and Jiang Xian had once saved Fu Shengran from dozens of pistols.
With their abilities, they should be able to come and go freely, and this island cannot trap them.
"Thanks for the reminder, we need to stay for a while."
They had just arrived on the island, so it was impossible for them to leave right away.
The situation on the island has not been clarified yet, and there is no plan for what to do in the end, so they naturally will not leave.
Fu Xinran hesitated to speak, she didn't know what to say next.
She had already advised them, but they seemed to have not listened at all.
They said they came to this island on purpose, but what was their purpose?
It seems like they are not doing well. What could they need to do on this island?
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