Chapter 146: Exchange of Sons...
Then, a rotten baby's body appeared in front of everyone.
The most terrifying thing was that the baby's limbs were gone, and there were several obvious bite marks on its rotten body.
"Ah——" A scream was followed by the sound of crazy retching.
Those who originally wanted to rush forward to help the poor woman get her child back were almost facing the baby's corpse. They already had empty stomachs and were about to vomit bile.
The soldiers were also frightened. They looked at the woman and didn't know what to say for a moment.
The baby's mutilated body conjured up a horrific possibility.
But no one dared to say it out loud.
But Xu Sichen's words directly pierced the last layer of window paper in their hearts.
"You ate her hands and feet!"
"She, she eats her own child's flesh..." Everyone present who heard this was frightened and couldn't help but squeeze back, looking at the woman with horror in their eyes.
The woman was panicked and kept shaking her head: "No, it's not me. I'm her mother. How could I hurt her? How could I hurt her..."
Then, as if possessed by a demon, she suddenly pounced over, snatched the child from Xu Sichen's hands, and sang a lullaby softly while laughing: "Sleep, sleep, my dear baby..."
As she sang, she burst into tears again: "Wuwuwu, baby, my baby, mommy didn't mean to hurt you, please forgive me, wuwuwu..."
"Looking at her like this, doesn't she look like someone who would eat her own children?"
"That's right. A mother would rather let her child eat her own flesh and blood than hurt her child."
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Because of the woman's superb acting skills, more and more people began to question Xu Sichen's statement.
Mother’s love is like a harbor, warm and peaceful; father’s love is like a mountain, steady and reliable.
This is the most common perception among the general public.
Even if there are occasional irresponsible parents, they are extremely rare.
But they forget the horrific examples that have occurred in every major famine in history.
Xu Sichen: "Yes, no matter how vicious one is, one would not be able to kill his own child. But what if it is not his own child?"
Then he turned his head and looked at a disheveled woman not far away. Her legs seemed to be broken and she was crawling forward slowly but firmly.
Her eyes were red and her mouth was open as if she was screaming something, but the noise around her was too loud, covering up her movements.
But after climbing a few steps, he was quickly and roughly pulled back by a man.
The woman did not give up. She lay on the ground and tried to crawl towards her even if she had to use her hands.
Xu Sichen held the child and walked straight towards the woman. Because of their aversion to the mutilated corpse, the people around her subconsciously made way for her.
"You are your child, aren't you?"
The woman stared at the child handed to her, tears almost welling up in her eyes: "Ah, ah, ah..."
Only then did Xu Sichen realize that she was actually a mute.
The mute woman struggled to move and sit up, then took the child from Xu Sichen's hands with trembling hands, completely ignoring the child's rotten body, and wailed.
This silent action is much more touching than that of the crazy woman.
The man behind her panicked and shouted, "She's a lunatic. Because she can't have children, she's taking other people's children as her own."
As he said this, he was about to knock the child out of the woman's arms.
But Xu Sichen was faster than him and pierced the man's palm with a crossbow arrow, causing him to roll on the ground in pain.
"Ahhh, murder, murder, why don't you soldiers go and shoot this woman!" A white-haired old woman screamed and asked the soldiers to help them.
But the soldiers just stood motionless behind Xu Sichen, without making any movement.
Xu Sichen: "Haha, that's enough, stop yelling. There's still some meat stuck in your teeth. You're old and your teeth are not good. Even if the child's meat is tender, you won't be able to digest it!"
The old woman was so frightened that she quickly covered her mouth.
Don't be too obvious when you are trying to cover up something.
As soon as she finished speaking, the woman who was still going crazy suddenly rushed towards the old woman, grabbed her hair with one hand and scratched her fiercely with the other.
"Give me back my child, give me back my child, ahhhhhhh!"
The old woman was not easy to deal with either. She grabbed the woman's hair and started fighting.
"You bitch, didn't you voluntarily give us your child in exchange? Didn't you eat the flesh of my granddaughter? You traded a sickly one for a healthy one, and I didn't even bother to settle the score with you!"
The two men fought fiercely and no one stepped forward to stop them.
They stopped fighting until they were exhausted.
The woman lay on her back on the ground, ignoring her torn body, she cried and murmured, "My child, I'm sorry!"
As he said this, he turned over with difficulty.
With a "bang", he hit his head on the ground and committed suicide.
She was determined to die and died on the spot.
"It's better to die. In this world, the living are the ones who suffer the most." Someone in the crowd said this.
This caused a moment of silence among everyone present.
They had read about the horrors of famine many times in books before, but they had never expected that just a few months after the end of the world, some people would start eating their own children.
It is said that people who have eaten human flesh will become addicted. After eating their own children, who knows if they will eat their own children too.
So they proposed to drive the whole family out of the camp.
Seeing the crowd glaring at them, the old woman, whose true identity had been exposed, stopped pretending and shouted angrily at the crowd, "Yes, I am eating human flesh. So what? If I don't eat, who will be responsible if I starve to death? It's all because of these incompetent soldiers. They only have such a small piece of biscuit every day. Who are they humiliating?"
Then he pointed his finger at Xu Sichen, the most glamorous and handsome man in the crowd.
"It's all your fault, you rich, unkind people. You eat and drink delicious food at home, but you don't give us any food at all, and you watch us starve to death and die of thirst!"
"You even have clean clothes to wear. You must be drinking a lot of water every day. Did you know that we only have one drink a day?"
"My eldest grandson died of thirst because he had no water to drink!"
"You inhumane capitalists, what right do you have to accuse me of cannibalism?"
The old woman's words resonated with everyone present.
Before the end of the world, they were just ordinary people who chose ordinary locations and bought ordinary houses.
So after the end of the world, they were the ones whose houses were flooded and destroyed by earthquakes. They didn't have any gold jewelry, and even when they could exchange for supplies, they couldn't afford it.
All we can do is rely on the rescue of those soldiers and live one day at a time.
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