Chapter 202 221. New Life
Rainy day.
Countless cold raindrops fell from the sky, and everything around, including the air, was wet.
This is one of the few relatively quiet and sparsely populated places in the city: the garbage dump.
The cold searchlights occasionally swept across the piles of garbage, and the red warning neon lights in the distance warned the scavengers that even though there was only garbage here, it was not a safe place.
But even so, it still cannot stop some slum scavengers from coming here under the cover of night to look for some useful things.
Xu Zhi was woken up by the cold. When she just woke up, her mind was still in a mess and she couldn't remember anything. She just felt very cold, very sleepy, and her whole body was in pain, especially her brain was as confused as a paste.
The cold raindrops hitting her body failed to cause any ripples. She could only feel that her already dying life was slowly slipping away. If she didn't find a way to leave here to avoid the rain and warm up her body a little, she might be killed by this rain.
However, even though her brain was urging her to leave here quickly and move, in reality, Xu Zhi couldn't even open her eyelids.
My body felt heavy and weak, and my limbs didn't seem to belong to me. I tried to move my fingers but couldn't feel where my "hands" were. I tried my best to open my eyes but my eyelids only trembled slightly.
Her mind was in a mess and even thinking became a very difficult thing. She had just woken up for half a minute when she felt like she was about to faint again.
But, if I faint here like this, I will die, right?
A wave of panic came over Xu Zhi, who was lying on the garbage dump, and she didn't know why she was so panicked. The intense fatigue made her want to just fall asleep obediently, but the desire to survive that emerged from deep in her heart was pulling her back, making her unwilling to give in to her lazy thoughts and give up the struggle.
Just when Xu Zhi was feeling distressed, a giggling sound suddenly came from the side. This sound, which was extremely subtle on ordinary days, sounded like thunder in Xu Zhi's ears, causing her eyelashes to tremble slightly, and she realized that there might be something, or someone, beside her.
Although his mind was in a mess and he couldn't remember anything, Xu Zhi still subconsciously tried to open his eyes.
So in the chaos, she trembled her eyelashes and tried her best to open her eyes slightly, and then she saw a blurry figure coming up from the garbage heap. She seemed to be holding a bag in her hand, and when she saw a person on the garbage heap, her movements became stiff.
It's a woman.
The face could not be seen clearly, and Xu Zhi's eyes seemed to be shrouded in a layer of fog, as if he was severely myopic.
The action of opening her eyes seemed to have consumed too much of her energy. Before she could hold on for a few more seconds, Xu Zhi couldn't help but close her eyelids, and her consciousness sank into the abyss again.
In the last second before she lost consciousness, she seemed to see the woman hesitate for a moment, and then move a little closer to her.
What does she want to do?
Before he had time to think about this question, Xu Zhi fell into coma again.
In the third garbage dump, an adult woman carried the unconscious girl on her back with some difficulty. Since the girl was unconscious and could not support herself, and she was not very strong, she tied the girl's body to herself with several ropes to prevent her from accidentally stumbling and falling to the ground due to the slippery road caused by rain.
The bag in her hand was still empty, indicating that she had gained nothing tonight except a dying girl in the garbage dump.
After all, she had just gone out. Only on a rainy night like this would other people be unwilling to come, and an ordinary person like her who was powerless could also gain something.
Just not tonight.
The woman carried the girl with some difficulty and walked towards the outside of the garbage dump step by step, avoiding the searchlights.
The third landfill is very large. In addition to the garbage from the plain area, some of the garbage from the lower layers is also dumped here, so the third landfill is very popular among scavengers.
Even on such a rainy day, which was considered a relatively deserted night, I could still see a few scavengers coming in as I was leaving.
She came early to avoid conflict with the scavengers who came later, after all, she couldn't beat them.
The expressions of these scavengers were all indifferent and defensive. When they saw the shriveled bag in the woman's hand and confirmed that she had not picked up anything at all, no one came forward to embarrass her.
When there is no profit, no one wants to cause trouble for themselves.
Everyone passed by each other in silence, and the puddles accumulated on the ground of the garbage dump reflected their identical indifferent and vigilant expressions. As rats in the city sewers, they survived hard by gnawing on the garbage produced in the city. They were alert every day whether disaster would suddenly befall them.
After leaving the garbage dump, the woman breathed a sigh of relief. She tightened the rope holding Xu Zhi and walked towards home.
It’s called a home, but in fact it’s just a “slum” built on an abandoned piece of land outside the industrial zone, in which she has a “house” of her own.
It was a narrow house made of wooden boards, plastic, bricks and cement. It was less than 30 square meters but had everything it needed.
The door is probably the most solid part of this "home". After all, she lives alone. Although she has neighbors to help her, she still has to be careful.
The woman opened the door and carried Xu Zhi inside. It was raining and the roof was leaking from somewhere. Before she left, she placed a bucket at the leaking location, and now it was half full of water.
The smell of damp earth, the cheap and inappropriate furniture that seemed to have been picked up from anywhere, and the walls that were neither heat-insulating nor sound-proof all showed that this "home" was not really a "safe shelter".
But even so, the house is quite tidy. Although the furniture is obviously not matched, the colors are roughly the same. A few pots of flowers and plants are placed by the window as embellishments. The worn but clean walls and furniture, the neat table top, and the room without a trace of odor are enough to show that even though the conditions are limited, she is still managing this home with care.
The industrial area operates day and night and still makes rumbling noises even late at night, but the people living here have long been accustomed to the noises.
She did not put Xu Zhi directly on the bed, but first leaned her against the chair, and then went to boil some hot water. When turning on the gas, a trace of heartache flashed across the woman's face, but she still insisted on boiling water for Xu Zhi to take a bath.
When she carried the girl home, she felt her shivering body and icy body temperature due to the cold. When there was light, she also saw her pale lips due to the cold.
But when she carried the girl into the bathroom and planned to take off her clothes and give her a hot bath, the moment she opened her cloak, she saw the bloody wounds on Xu Zhi's body, and the woman paused.
I reorganized the outline and new plot, which took some time. There is still one chapter today~
(End of this chapter)
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