She got up and parted the branches and leaves beside her to take a look. Hua Zhixue was standing under the pear tree wiping away tears. Her left trousers were torn open, revealing a section of her fair and tender leg.
Chang Le walked over, pushed aside a pear branch, and asked with lowered eyes, "Are you hurt?"
Hua Zhixue looked up, sobbing.
Pear blossoms in the light rain, snow-capped peaks and golden eyes, a solitary immortal.
The beauty of that scene was enough to leave a stunning mark on the little girl's childhood.
Chang Le noticed blood on her leg, lifted the slightly long hem of her clothes and squatted down, supporting her back with one hand and pinching her ankle with the other: "Let me see."
Hua Zhixue forgot to cry, and with her little hands she grabbed Chang Le's arm and shoulder, carefully avoiding the falling hair.
The little girl must have fallen halfway down a tree. She didn't break any bones, but her pants were torn and she had a cut on her leg.
"Does it hurt a lot?" Chang Le asked, seeing that her nose and eyes were red from crying.
Hua Zhixue pouted, shook her head, and after a long while, managed to squeeze out a tearful voice: "It doesn't hurt, it's so embarrassing, boohoo..."
Chang Le smiled slightly, reached out and tied a bow on her trouser leg. He gently ran his fingers over the cut, stopping the bleeding, and the bow on the tattered trouser leg was now tied properly.
"That way, it won't happen."
Chang Le patted her head, turned around and sat down on the bench, closing his eyes to rest.
After a while, Hua Zhixue peeked over, tentatively stretched out her hand, then her foot, and finally climbed onto the bench with a thud, sitting next to Chang Le. Her legs swayed back and forth, and the bow in her hair seemed to flutter as if it were about to take flight.
Why don't you go out and have fun with your friends?
Chang Le suddenly spoke, startling Hua Zhixue into a freeze.
The little girl tugged at the hem of her skirt and said, "I... I lied to them and said it was convenient, so I ran out to pick pear blossoms, but I didn't tear my clothes and I don't want to go back."
Chang Le asked casually with interest, "Why do you want to pick pear blossoms?"
Hua Zhixue said, "Because Sister Shushu wants to give flowers to her friend, but Sister Shushu is afraid to climb trees, so I want to help her pick them."
Chang Le nodded slightly as the little girl continued telling her stories about her older sister Shu Shu and her friends, while Chang Le listened quietly.
"...Sister Shushu treated her as her best friend. Although they had never met, they were good friends. But her friend was sick, and it was a very serious illness."
Sister Shushu said that she actually bit her parents and was then locked up in the hospital where she couldn't see any flowers...
"Wait!" Chang Le suddenly opened his eyes. "What did you say?"
Hua Zhixue blinked: "Huh?"
"A bite?" Chang Le asked. "When did this happen?"
Hua Zhixue thought carefully: "Sister Shushu mentioned it last week. It was terrifying; she bit off a chunk of flesh from someone's arm!"
A bite wound, a piece of flesh torn off?
Something was about to emerge from Chang Le's mind.
At this moment, Wei Dangzhi and the other three arrived, panting. Si Jingxing stood with his hands on his hips:
"Fine, Hua Zhixue, you're slacking off here! We didn't even get enough to eat and had to look for you everywhere! I'm not playing with you anymore, and I'm never teaming up with you for school simulation training again!"
Hua Zhixue quickly ran over: "I didn't slack off, listen to me!"
"What happened to your leg?" Qin Shu noticed the injury on her leg.
After a lot of questioning, the children finally explained things and made up.
Chang Le, sitting on the bench, had his expression change several times.
Biting injury simulation training...
Some faint fragments of memory surfaced.
...
Wu Zhicheng, a mutant who degenerated into a crocodile beast, was brutally murdered;
Hundreds of corpses were found in Shazhou City, missing tibias, spines, brains, and hearts;
The "hot fire" ingested by the mutants contains elements such as calcium, phosphorus, and iron.
The Hanging Coffin City No. 99 in Desperate Situation: The Sky is Filled with "Pork"!
...
—"Wu Zhicheng's skull was blown open."
The tibia and spine both contain bone marrow. Calcium, phosphorus, iron, and other seemingly insignificant elements are all components of human bones, blood, and bone marrow!
...
Huanbo: "Could it be that the person behind the mutants who manage the crimes is a pervert with some kind of weird fetish, like collecting corpses?"
In the Hanging Coffin City, Huanbo said, "Who would eat stones after getting used to eating pork?"
Fu Jiu: "But it's hard to say what might happen if he has pica."
Quirks!
Pica!
Deliberately cultivating pica in mutants!
Mutants with pica are cultivated using "heat" mixed with human tissue and corpses soaked in seawater that have a fishy smell!
A cannibalistic mutant!
A cannibalistic...mutant!
...
"The uprising of lurking mutants around the world is indeed a huge disaster, but how do you control them?"
control?
It's not control!
No need to control it!
He wants to overturn the world's order, he wants absolute chaos!
The mutants are not meant to be controlled, but to create riots that overturn public understanding and involve cannibalism!
...
In the blink of an eye, a series of clues pieced together a shocking truth!
A chill ran down Chang Le's spine, and his tentacles almost exploded.
Her lips parted slightly, and heavy, rapid breathing returned between her mouth and nose several times. Finally, more intimate information entered her mind.
...
Was the dog kennel incident in Zone 5 an accident?
The federal Villa family-controlled farm has ceased operations—are there still cattle and sheep on the farm?
Think about it again!
What exactly are the so-called "believers" who are the expanded followers of the Holy Church?
Did the casualties resulting from the clashes between the Holy Church of Spymagor and the government forces provide the most abundant nourishment for the mutants?
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