Extra 076 The difference between humans and animals...
No matter how young and ignorant I am, I have my own persistence and bottom line. Even if it means death, some principles cannot be shaken, such as different types of food.
Although I don't know the suffering of the people, I already know at this time that the biggest difference between humans and animals is that humans don't eat their own kind...
If one can even eat his own kind, is he still a human being?
What’s the difference between that and animals?
The meat on the ground smelled delicious and he was very hungry, but he still walked away without hesitation, without even taking a second look.
"This kid has some backbone." The four big men did not walk too far, but kept watching the Ninth Uncle in the dark.
After all, this is a child that our superiors have instructed us to pay special attention to. No matter what, we cannot let him die now. He must survive for a few more days to live up to the instructions from our superiors.
"Integrity? What is that? Can it be eaten? Don't forget that we just came here, it was the same. If I'm so hungry, let alone eating human flesh, I can even eat myself." The man called Corpse Three spat, still disdainful of the Ninth Uncle's behavior.
The short and thin man he attacked nodded in agreement: "Pride cannot be eaten. If he doesn't eat it now, he will only suffer for two more days. When he is so hungry that he can even gnaw on the soil, he will find that he has no choice but to eat human flesh here."
Do you think they are born to love eating human flesh?
It's just that there is no choice.
Human flesh is something that is disgusting the first time you eat it, but once you get used to it, it's no longer a big deal. What's the difference between it and pork or fish?
Since there is no difference, why bother?
Eating other people's flesh is better than being eaten or starving to death...
The four big men stopped staring at the Ninth Prince. After all, the Ninth Prince was just a child, so they didn't take him seriously. If anything happened to him, no one would say it was their fault. Anyway, as long as they didn't do it, there would be no problem if they ate him...
What the four men didn't know was that the Ninth Prince didn't go far at all. After he ran out, he quietly turned back and listened to everything the four men said. At the same time, he also understood that in this place, there was no other food except human flesh. Unless he would rather starve to death, otherwise...
Apart from human flesh, he can only eat himself.
This was definitely a fatal blow to a seven-year-old child. If he was like an ordinary child, he might really eat the human flesh on the ground due to hunger and reality, but he was not...
He couldn't eat his companions, he couldn't sell out his soul completely. That feeling was too painful, like his heart was being cut out.
The Ninth Prince looked up at the sky, his calm eyes were silent. The bright sky could not shine into his heart. He knew that he was in a desperate situation, but...
"Father, no matter if this is a test from you or not, I will treat it as a test. I, Dong Lingjiu, swear to heaven that I will never eat human flesh, even if I die!"
I can't live like a walking corpse. If I don't have any principles, is he still himself?
There was no food, and no one around. For a seven-year-old child, it was really not an easy task to survive in this place, not to mention...
Before leaving the palace, he had never known what it meant to find food.
He had no idea about food. There were many trees and fruits in this place, and the bright red ones looked very tempting, but...
Those four big men would rather eat human flesh than eat these fruits. Does that mean these fruits cannot be eaten?
He is not stupid, he has his own thinking ability, but in the case of extreme hunger, even the most sensitive brain can't function. He has no strength left, he must find food, otherwise he can't survive...
Without any hesitation, even though he had guessed that these fruits were most likely poisonous, he still took action without hesitation.
Red, black...purple!
He knew from the book that the brighter the fruit, the more poisonous it was. So now...
He ate all the most poisonous fruits. If he was really poisoned to death, it would be his bad luck. He had to survive...
From now on, he won’t have to be afraid of these poisonous fruits, right?
Life in the palace made him understand that poison was not that scary. There was no such thing as a fatal poison. As long as you find a poison that is mutually beneficial and counteracting, you can survive even if you are poisoned.
He knew it was poisonous but ate it without hesitation. Only he would do such a stupid thing, right?
The Ninth Prince laughed at himself, but he didn't regret it at all...
People always have something to insist on throughout their lives. Even though he is still very weak now, he doesn't want to use it as an excuse to live in a muddle...
He understood at a very young age that people who live clearly are miserable. However, no matter how miserable he is, he is not willing to live his whole life in a muddle.
The bright-colored fruit is poisonous, but tastes very good, not sour at all, and feels warm in the stomach, which suppresses the sourness in the stomach.
Knowing that these fruits were poisonous, the Ninth Prince would not eat just one kind. He mixed all the fruits together and ate them. He did not understand medical knowledge, so he could only gamble that his illness would not be fatal, but...
His luck in gambling doesn't seem to be very good.
Before he finished eating the fruit, he felt a sharp pain in his abdomen. The pain... he couldn't describe it in words. It was like a thousand knives, shredding his flesh into pieces, and every part of it felt like a needle prick.
"ah……"
The severe pain made the Ninth Prince unable to hold on any longer. He rolled on the ground holding his stomach, beads of sweat dripping down his forehead...
"Father, Father..." Waves of pain, stronger than the last, caused the Ninth Prince's body to tremble uncontrollably, like a patient with a sudden epileptic seizure, his body twitching and rolling...
"Father, it hurts so much, it hurts so much..."
The Ninth Prince's thin body curled up into a ball, his face was not pale, but blue, or even purple-black...
This is poisoning, and it is a deep poison.
"Father...Father."
Every part of his body was in pain. The Ninth Prince was no longer conscious. He had no idea what he was doing. He could only act on instinct...
"Father, Jiuer doesn't want to die, doesn't want to..."
The Ninth Prince rolled on the ground in agony. At this moment he would rather faint from the pain, but the severe pain made even fainting a luxury for him.
In order to relieve the pain, the Ninth Prince pinched himself hard, but even bleeding did not help. Compared with the severe pain caused by the poisoning, this little pain was nothing.
The pain... was like that of a maggot attached to the body, penetrating deep into the bone marrow and lingering. The Ninth Prince's body was already covered in blood from the sharp piercings. By the time the four big men found the Ninth Prince, he had already fainted in a pool of blood.
"This kid is really brave. He dares to eat this thing." The four big men were quite surprised, but they were not worried because they knew that these fruits were poisonous, but they would not kill people. They would only make people faint from pain. Back then...
They have eaten it too.
"Drag him back." Shi San had an expressionless face. He dragged the Ninth Prince by one of his legs and threw him into the room filled with bones and human corpses.
In this place, the thing that is most abundant is dead bodies, so it is normal to have these things in the room. These big men have long been accustomed to them, and even if they are rotten, they will not clean them up and will just step over them.
In this place, only grown men and children can move around. There are women too, but their role is just to have fun. Women here don't need to wear clothes or know how to do anything. They just need to eat and then open their legs...
After throwing the Ninth Prince into the **, the four big men did not care about the Ninth Prince anymore. They knew that this child would not die, but they did not know what would happen tomorrow...
The Ninth Prince woke up again three days later. He found himself still in the same room, but the smell in the room was even worse.
Unlike the last time, the Ninth Prince was not frightened. He calmly jumped down from the cliff, checked his condition, and found that apart from the external injuries, he had no problems. And these external injuries?
He totally ignored it.
After taking a glance at the bloodstains on the ground, the Ninth Prince's eyes dimmed slightly, and then he walked out calmly.
When he escaped yesterday, he found a puddle of water. It was necessary to wash it now...
After cleaning, the Ninth Prince thought about it and went back to the room to clean out the things in the house.
If nothing unexpected happens, he should have to live there for a short period of time. In order to make himself sleep more comfortably, those body parts must be cleared away. As for the bed of bones?
It was scary the first time he saw it, but after sleeping on it twice, he could already calm down...
Being small in stature and weak in strength, the Ninth Prince took great pains to clean the room. His actions attracted the ridicule of the four big men: "He is indeed a noble young man."
"If you can't stand this, how are you going to survive the training later?"
"Training? It's hard to say whether he can live to the training. Those drugs are not something that ordinary people can bear. So many people are sent here every year. How many can survive to the training? Aren't they all given to us brothers to take?"
The four big men never avoided talking to the Ninth Prince, and every time the Ninth Prince heard them, he kept silent, as calm as a little adult, hiding all his emotions in his eyes, which were as clear as those of children of the same age, but had lost their brightness.
It turns out that this is not the hardest part, there is more to come?
The long eyelashes blinked lightly, and the anxiety in the eyes...
While the four big men were grilling and eating, the hungry Ninth Prince did not stay where he was, but, like before, went to pick those brightly colored, poisonous fruits that could fill his stomach.
One by one...
The Ninth Prince did not waste any. He only picked as many as he had eaten last time.
Although there were a lot of fruits, he didn't know how long he would stay here. His future life would depend on these fruits...
With the lesson learned last time, the Ninth Prince did not eat outside the house. Instead, he packed the fruit and brought it back to the house. Sitting on the bed made of bones, the Ninth Prince looked at the fruit in front of him. His young face showed only determination, without a trace of timidity or fear...
He could endure the pain. As long as he didn't die, he was willing to endure the pain over and over again, like a knife stabbing him...