"No!" Magna said firmly and nodded without hesitation.
"Why don't you try to go out and look for other survivors?" Xu Mo continued to ask, with a hint of concern in his eyes.
Upon hearing this, Magna's eyes dimmed instantly and she fell into a brief silence, her mind involuntarily recalling an experience from the past.
It was not long after the apocalypse broke out. When she first arrived in this small town, she met a female survivor named Zara on a street. They had fought side by side and killed several zombies together. From that day on, she and Zara often went out together to look for supplies.
Everything was going smoothly until one day, Zara discovered the prison tattoo on her wrist. His temper suddenly changed. While out searching for supplies, he not only constantly targeted her, deliberately putting her in danger, but one day even tried to kill her. Magna was left with no choice but to kill Zara.
Because of this painful experience, she remains distrustful of other people.
"Other people are too dangerous, and no one will trust me!" Recalling the memories of the past, Magna's eyes revealed a trace of sadness and helplessness. She spoke in a low voice, and subconsciously hid her left hand behind her back.
'No one else can trust me'? Xu Mo silently repeated the second half of Magna's words in his mind, and at the same time, a strange feeling surged in his heart.
Logically, shouldn't it be "I can't possibly trust others"? Why did Magna say "others can't possibly trust me"?
While thinking, Xu Mo looked at Magna, only to see that Magna was secretly hiding her right hand behind her back.
After seeing Magna hiding her left hand, Xu Mo instantly understood why Magna said that.
He knew that Magna had a five-dot tattoo on the base of her left hand. This was a type of prison tattoo in the United States, usually expressing "I within four walls", which means a prisoner. The four dots represented the four high walls, and the dot in the middle represented the prisoner himself.
Prejudice and stereotypes against prisoners are common in every country, but in the United States, this is particularly prevalent. After all, the country's high crime rate, with zero-dollar shopping and shootings occurring all the time, has led to a strong bias against criminals among the American public.
In peacetime, most ordinary people would stay away from criminals, let alone in this end times where the darkness of human nature is infinitely magnified?
You know, these prisoners dared to commit crimes in peacetime. Will they suddenly become good people in the end times?
Of course, Xu Mo knew that Magna was indeed a good person.
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