Chapter 41 There's a first time for everything.
This was the first time in his life he had killed someone, and he had killed three people at once. Zuo Shan collapsed to the ground, listening to Mao Li's muttering, "Master, you killed people, three of them! You broke the law! If this happened in our Liuguang Star System, you would be sentenced to five hundred years of exile!"
The reason Zuo Shan didn't ask for his help when he killed someone was because the mechanical race was implanted with a special chip from birth that forbade them from harming intelligent races. Once this rule was violated, a hidden automatic device would be triggered, and their brains would be formatted, turning them into idiots.
So in critical moments, she would rather ask the baby, who was still a cub, for help.
But none of that matters now. The real question is, she killed three people. Will she be arrested and imprisoned?
No, she has to destroy the evidence!
Suddenly, her gaze was drawn to the swirling soil around the roots of the mustard greens, and then she saw one after another fleshy red worms, each about a meter long and several centimeters in diameter.
Aren't these just enlarged earthworms? Judging by their shape, they must have mutated.
The mutated earthworms quickly crawled to Qiangzi's corpse and began to gnaw at the fleshiest parts of his thighs and chest.
Zuo Shan couldn't help but vomit after watching it.
Since this mutated earthworm would help her destroy the evidence, she didn't need to worry about it.
She quickly grabbed some dirt from the ground and smeared it haphazardly on her clothes until she covered up all the splattered blood.
The mutated nettle's clothes were originally dark green, so the blood splatter was not very noticeable. Now that it was covered in mud, people would only think the clothes were dirty, and they wouldn't be able to see the bloodstains at all.
People who scavenge in the wild are usually dirty, so it's normal for her to look like that.
After cleaning up the bloodstains on her body, Zuo Shan didn't dare to look at how the mutated earthworms dismembered her. Without wasting a second, she dragged two burlap sacks, told Xiao Bao to crawl into her backpack, and gritted her teeth as she ran home.
On her way back, she encountered several other scavengers who were just as panicked as she was. They all walked very quickly, seemingly frightened by the screams.
She blended in with the scavengers without standing out at all. In fact, because of the fright she had just experienced, the other scavengers didn't even bother to check what was in her sack.
I'd rather live than go hungry.
The journey was exceptionally peaceful, but she felt terrified with every step she took.
She killed someone!
She, a model young woman born under the red flag and raised in the sunshine, actually committed murder!
The thought of it made her heart tremble.
But in that situation, she had no choice but to kill.
Perhaps this is the most important lesson in wasteland survival: only by daring to face life and death can one bravely move forward and survive.
As the sun was about to set, she finally arrived home. As soon as she entered the door, she collapsed onto the ground, panting heavily, like a fish that had accidentally jumped onto the shore.
This kind of life is so fucking awful, she's really had enough!
But when she thought of her baby Ah Chen in her belly, and Xiao Bao and Mao Li beside her, she felt that she had to be strong.
She is the backbone of these three; without her, none of them would survive.
Frightened and exhausted, Zuo Shan slept soundly until 2 a.m.
Her stomach rumbled, and she sat up, deciding to treat herself to something delicious.
They called over a chestnut tree to act as an emergency light, illuminating the darkness in the room.
Then she started to deal with the three bamboo rats. The only thing she had at home was an old kitchen knife full of chips, which was not enough to kill the bamboo rats.
She had no choice but to use a cleaver instead of a butcher's knife, but the thought of the two men's blood on the cleaver made her gag repeatedly.
Perhaps because she was gagging so badly, the baby in her belly started to move around and kept conveying a kind of comforting emotion to her.
Zuo Shan felt that baby Achen was so thoughtful; even before he was born, he already knew how to care for his mother.
She took several deep breaths to calm herself down, and sure enough, she gradually stopped gagging.
There's always a first time for everything. She gritted her teeth and pressed the scalpel down on the bamboo rat's neck. Her original plan was to only make a small incision on its neck so she could collect some blood to make blood clots to eat. However, her hand trembled, and she accidentally cut off its entire little head.
She frantically grabbed a bamboo basin to catch the blood, but a good portion of it still flowed out, and the basin was also covered in hair.
Practice makes perfect. By the time she slaughtered the second bamboo rat, her technique had become much more skillful. She made a small incision and collected all the blood.
The bamboo rats' screams in the middle of the night were quite loud. Luckily, the houses in the 50th district were all built with yards and were relatively far apart from each other, otherwise it would have frightened the neighbors.
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