“Boom boom boom—”
"Who is it? Why aren't you sleeping so late at night?" Huang Shao's cursing voice came from the door.
The door was then violently opened.
Huang Shao suddenly showed his head, but his expression froze.
It was Xiaoduo.
Xiaoduo is still as innocent as ever. She holds a white steamed bun in her hands, hugs a broken rag doll, and has a smile on her face.
I only heard her say: "Brother Huang Shao, don't be unhappy, I'll give you a steamed bun--"
I am so...
Huang Shao's nose felt sore, and the corners of his eyes suddenly became moist. He turned his face away, and his voice trembled a little: "I don't want it, go back, who wants you to be pitiful, little brat."
As he said this, he was about to close the door, but when he was halfway through, Huang Shao paused.
Not that he regretted it.
Even though his stomach was growling with hunger, he hadn't eaten for two days.
Because people in the building only eat once a day, and sometimes they don’t eat.
I didn’t eat yesterday, and I can’t eat today, which means I haven’t eaten for two days.
And tomorrow is the third day...
However, Huang Shao didn't think these were a big deal.
He would rather starve than go to Aunt Bai to beg for mercy.
When he thought about how he humbly begged for such a steamed bun, he felt that it was better to live a miserable life than to die...
Of course, the thought of being eaten after death...
Huang Shao had to try his best to survive.
He looked at Xiaoduo in front of him, and scanned the empty, dark corridor behind her. He asked, "Did you come here by yourself? Where's your father?"
Xiaoduo put her hands behind her back, a look of bewilderment flashed across her face, "I don't know where my dad has gone, I was scared in my room, and just when they were handing out steamed buns, I came here..."
Huang Shao held his forehead with one hand, and said to Xiao Duo in a cocky manner: "Hey, follow me, I will take you back."
Huang Shao's stomach suddenly made a rumbling sound at this moment.
He held his stomach with a hint of embarrassment on his face, but as a proud man, how could he show it? He disguised his embarrassment as much as possible.
He walked in front of Xiaoduo and coughed lightly, "Come on, come on, don't blame me if you can't keep up."
Xiao Duo tilted her head, carefully broke the steamed bun in her hand into two halves, and handed the other half to Huang Shao, "I heard your stomach growling, Huang Shao, you are not hungry after eating it."
Huang Shao blushed a little, he turned his head away, "I'm not hungry."
“Gululu——”
"Really!? But my stomach is growling."
“I’m really not hungry!!”
“Gululu——”
"What a loud noise, Brother Huang Shao, are you embarrassed to eat?"
“……” Huang Shao’s expression froze.
Damn, how to answer this?
Have the nerve?
How can he be so nice???
Excuse me……
Pride is shattered.
This little girl movie...
"But if you don't eat this...after tomorrow you'll only be able to eat pie."
"Is the pie not delicious?" Huang Shao asked with a strange smile on his face.
However, Xiaoduo replied seriously: "Xiaoduo doesn't like pies, Xiaoduo won't eat them... because... Xiaoduo feels like these pies were exchanged by the uncles and aunts in the building."
"…Why do you think so?" Huang Shao was silent.
Xiao Duo continued, "Think about it, every time the uncles and aunts disappear, there are pies in the building for no apparent reason. Don't you think the timing of these pies appearing is too coincidental?"
"It's like... a pie I got in exchange for my uncles and aunts... Xiaoduo doesn't like pie."
Huang Shao remained silent.
He continued to lead Xiaoduo towards the dark corridor.
Finally he said, "But if you don't eat the pie, you will die."
"But if I eat the pie, I won't die?" Xiaoduo's voice was still innocent and pure, just like a spotless white paper.
But Huang Shao couldn't stop trembling all over, and his eyes gradually became moist.
Yes, what would happen even if I ate it?
People...will die.
It's just a matter of dying early or late in this despair.
"But at least, if you eat it, you will die later." Huang Shao said stubbornly.
Xiao Duo continued to ask: "But what difference does it make if you die later?"
"Isn't the ending the same? We all live day after day, Brother Huang Shao..."
"One day, I will die, right? Do you think I can live to be as beautiful as Sister Xu Tong? It feels so difficult..."
"Yes." Huang Shao's voice was more resolute. He said: "I will survive."
"Because we are still young, we need to survive. The world is big, and we haven't seen it all yet. How could we fall down in such a hellish place?"
"Don't think too much... At least, you have to survive first. It's never wrong to survive."
"Only by living can there be hope."
…
“Yes, I was also saved by Uncle Xu Da, but I had an accident and was on the verge of death. I almost died, but luckily I was saved by Uncle Xu Da.
Actually, Uncle Xu Da had good intentions, but in this doomsday situation, he had no choice but to make the choice.”
"I think the one who suffers the most among all of us is perhaps Uncle Xu Da. After all, he is the one who desires peace the most."
"At such an old age, he still has to take charge of the overall situation. It's really... difficult for him."
Ma Fuchen put the meat in his hand into a plastic bucket, held a pipe in his mouth, and exhaled a puff of white smoke.
Louis followed suit and put the meat in a plastic bucket.
Suddenly, "Bang, bang, bang—"
There was a knock on the door from behind Louis and Ma Fuchen.
Ma Fuchen winked at Louis, signaling him to be patient.
Then he looked outside and asked, "Who?"
"It's me. Have you found the meat?" Xu Da's voice came from outside the door.
Ma Fuchen sighed, "Okay, we've found everything we can eat."
Ma Fuchen was holding a plastic bucket in his hand.
The cut meat was placed in a bucket.
The blood was all over the ground, inevitably splashing on Ma Fuchen and Louis' trouser legs.
Ma Fuchen carried the plastic bucket and waved to Louis: "Let's go out."
"Okay." Louis nodded.
The solemnity on his face flashed away, and finally a hint of bitterness appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Did you already know the ending?
"What's the ending? I don't know." A playful voice sounded in my heart.
Louis remained silent. He slowly followed Ma Fuchen's pace and walked out of the room that looked like a human slaughterhouse.
As the door closed.
It seems like a fig leaf has been put over everything, hiding all the ugliness.
But what's so ugly about it?
It's just... the instinct to survive.
Although it is not worthy of praise, Louis feels that no one can spit on it.
Because, Louis asked himself, if he were in the same situation as Xu Da, he would definitely do better than him.
but……
What is all this about?
This world, nothingness, or reality...
True or false.
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