Chapter 270 Missing People
Xia Xiaoman thought she didn't have the ability to be a hero and save more than two million people in Fucheng. But she could tell Chen Peiqiong how to find food in this barren mountain.
"There are a lot of steel-toothed rabbits in the mountains. You have nothing to do after work, so you can wander around nearby. Maybe you can catch a steel-toothed rabbit."
"Steel-toothed rabbits are afraid of light. Find something to block the sunlight, and then put some food with a strong smell on the ground. You will definitely be able to catch a steel-toothed rabbit within ten minutes."
This method was thought up by Maodan. Maodan liked to eat steel-toothed rabbits, so when she was busy making mud bricks, he took away her roasted rabbit meat and put it in a dark place. Soon, several steel-toothed rabbits came out from underground following the smell.
Maodan used a small piece of rabbit meat to attract more than a dozen steel-toothed rabbits. The steel-toothed rabbits ate the small piece of rabbit meat only after they were full.
Thinking of the group of people he met earlier, Xia Xiaoman said again: "If you want to catch steel-toothed rabbits, it's best not to go out alone. There is a village nearby, and the people in the village seem to come out to catch people and eat their meat..."
"Capturing people and eating their flesh?!" Chen Peiqiong's voice unconsciously rose a lot, "How could someone eat human flesh? This, this..."
Chen Peiqiong was so shocked that she couldn't speak, and she couldn't understand it either. Let's not talk about the past, let's take the current Fucheng as an example. Although you can't get free relief food, as long as you can move, you will be assigned work to do, and you can go to the canteen to get a bowl of porridge after working.
In a word, in the floating city, as long as you are willing to work, you will never starve to death, and you will never be so hungry that you eat human flesh.
Xia Xiaoman said: "I'm not sure whether the people in that village really captured people and ate their flesh." After all, neither Wang Laizi's gang nor Ji Ming directly admitted it.
"I met people from that village on the way here. They said they were coming to the garrison to arrest people. In any case, don't act alone."
Chen Peiqiong nodded in response. Suddenly, she thought of something and looked up at Xia Xiaoman. "I remember that two days ago, I heard from Uncle Fei that someone was missing in the planting area. The missing person said he went to the toilet, and he never came back."
"The team leader on duty thought they were lazy and went to sleep, but he didn't see them on the second and third days. He found their families and then realized they were missing."
"Those people you said were missing...could they have been captured?"
Xia Xiaoman frowned, "Someone disappeared while working. Has anyone been sent out from the planting area or above to look for him?"
"I don't know." Chen Peiqiong shook her head. "You also know that the world is so chaotic now. It's normal for one or two people to go missing."
Natural disasters and chaos have caused a shortage of food. The authorities are now focusing most of their energy on agricultural planting, while also arranging personnel to treat plague patients and planning the garrisons. They can't always let the people live in tents.
With so many things piled up, the authorities no longer have the energy and manpower to investigate the missing persons case. Even if there are fights, as long as no one is killed, the authorities will not care. Even if someone dies, as long as it is not reported to the authorities, no one will deal with it.
Xia Xiaoman's face darkened. "If the higher-ups don't care about this matter, then you should be more careful."
Chen Peiqiong said, "I will be careful. When I have time later, I will talk to Wang Shijin and see if he can report this to the higher-ups."
Xia Xiaoman said, "If you want to report it, just say that when the employees in the planting area disappeared, someone saw nearby villagers walking around the edge of the planting area. Don't say anything else."
"I know." Chen Peiqiong nodded.
The fact that the villagers captured people and ate their flesh was too horrifying. She had no evidence and if she rashly told this matter to others, the people above her might not believe her and it might even alert the enemy.
The two chatted for a while, and Xia Xiaoman asked Chen Peiqiong about the location of the plastic greenhouse, and then followed the route she pointed out to find Li Yu'e and the others.
Xia Xiaoman was followed by a wolf and it was not suitable for her to take the main road, so Chen Peiqiong pointed her to a road with fewer people.
On the roadside, many people built a simple shed with sticks and cloth to provide shade. Those who couldn't find sticks used stones or clay to build two walls and fixed the cloth on the wall.
The survivors who were hiding under the cloth had dark and skinny skin, and their lips were cracked and peeling. When they saw someone passing by, they numbly raised their heads to look, then lowered their heads to work.
Some of these people were straightening bent iron wires; some were sewing steel-toothed rabbit skins or scraps of cloth dug out from the ruins; others were weaving and winding some thick threads, and judging by the shapes of the objects piled nearby, they were probably making soles.
Everyone had work to do. Even children of five or six years old would help crush the clay dug up by the adults into powder.
"Dog, mommy, dog." A little girl pointed at Maodan and said.
The little girl's mother suddenly raised her head and looked at Maodan, her eyes glowing green. I don't know what she was thinking about, but she restrained her desire to catch Maodan and held the little girl in her arms without saying a word.
Many people wanted to catch the hairy eggs and eat them along the way, but no one took action.
They were not stupid. If they dared to bring a pet to the streets at this time, the owner must have something extraordinary. Just looking at the Tang sword on the pet owner's back, you knew that this was not someone you could easily mess with. If you were not absolutely sure that you could kill the pet with one strike, it would be better not to do it, to avoid losing your life.
Xia Xiaoman found the greenhouse where Li Yu'e and her family lived without any obstacles.
She had come to look for Li Yu'e several times, and most people in Lingxu Gang recognized her. When she came, an aunt greeted her warmly, "Sister, are you here to look for Sister Yu'e? Come in and sit down. Sister Yu'e is out and will be back later. Come in and sit down and wait. Don't stand outside in the sun. It's very hot today."
Xia Xiaoman nodded to the aunt as a greeting.
The aunt was a little enthusiastic. She pulled Xia Xiaoman and said, "Sister, you came at a bad time today. Sister Yu'e took Xiaoling and Xiaoxu out. Ayu and Ayang also went out. They said they were going to look around to see if they could find some food."
"If you ask me, Ayu and Ayang are just messing around. All we see around here are bare mountains, and all the things on the mountains have been eaten by locusts. If they go out, at most they can find a few locusts. How can they find food?"
After the auntie asked Xia Xiaoman to sit down, she said, "Please forgive me, sister. There is no well here. We don't have water to drink. We really can't get you a glass of water. Please don't mind."
Xia Xiaoman shook her head. "It's okay. I'm not thirsty."
"Awoo!" I'm thirsty. Maodan hit Xia Xiaoman's calf with his head.
Xia Xiaoman pulled its ears and said, "You are everywhere, stop making noise and just lie still."
The auntie saw the sturdy Maodan with a natural expression on her face, without showing any greed. She smiled and said, "Sister, Sister Yu'e and the others will be back in an hour at most. You just sit here for a while. I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."
Xia Xiaoman nodded and watched the aunt leave the greenhouse.
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