The stench filled Zheng Yuan's nostrils, and his head began to feel dizzy from the smoke. Memories that were not his own kept appearing in his mind.
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“It tastes so bad!!”
Chewing the boiled lard soybeans, it was fishy and oily. The soybeans seemed to be overcooked and too much water was added. After one bite, it was sticky in the mouth, and the fishy lard burst out during chewing, but If you don't chew it hard, the soy rice that's too sticky will get stuck in your throat.
He struggled to swallow, danced and took a sip of water, and took a long breath.
"It tastes terrible, isn't it, Sister Xiaoyu!"
Xiaomu looked at the girl chewing quietly with her eyes closed and said with a grimace.
She has short hair, a gray face, and wears baggy clothes. She looks unattractive. The only feature that shows that she is a girl is her slightly raised breasts.
"Um."
He raised his head to reveal his somewhat rounded neck, with a thin rope hanging on it and a small pebble tied to it. After swallowing the food with difficulty, Xiaoyu opened his eyes and looked at Xiaomu calmly.
"Hey, Sister Xiaoyu, I really want to eat rice. Only the fat man is willing to cook a pot for everyone to eat during the Chinese New Year. In the past, when Grandpa Dean was here, we had white rice to eat every day."
Xiaomu grimaced and rambled.
"I have to work 14 hours a day. Although it's pretty good to have food and shelter in this place, I'm still so tired!"
Xiaomu frowned in distress, complained to Xiaoyu, and kept talking. Xiaoyu just listened quietly and looked at Xiaomu with a slight smile.
Looking at Xiaomu's big round face with a double chin, Xiaoyu began to be in a daze. She, Xiaomu and everyone else turned out to be children from an orphanage in the town. Later, the kind old director passed away, and the orphanage closed down after losing income. .
At one time, more than 50 children were displaced, and Mr. Sito, a wealthy man in the town, adopted them and paid them for their labor.
The town is a small town on the edge of mankind. It used to be a no-nonsense zone, but not far from the town is a food forest called Carlo that covers an area of more than 50,000 square kilometers. It is extremely rich in products, and the highest level of capture in it is only Five, still in the deepest part of the forest.
The capture level in the edge zone is basically no more than three. Although it is an unstoppable disaster for ordinary people, the town is relatively safe with the existence of the beast-repelling tree. The food hunters coming and going have driven the economic development of the town. Orphans are basically a product of that period.
The town became more and more prosperous, attracting the IGO allies - Khaki, and merging them into itself. The army was stationed, and the town grew bigger and bigger.
Of course, these have nothing to do with the orphans under Xi Tuo. Their task is to take care of and harvest 400 acres of crops. Their daily food is only soybeans with a little salt and lard, and rice is only available during the New Year.
Xiaomu felt something was wrong, but he couldn't tell. After all, he was only 8 years old and didn't know anything. His survival was all due to Xiaoyu's care.
Putting down the clean bowl in her hand, Xiaoyu stood up and pinched Xiaomu's round face.
"I've been thinking about it for a long time, and I want to take you out of here. This is not where we belong, and there is no reason for us to be exploited. Our labor should not be rewarded with soybeans that even pigs won't eat!"
Holding Xiaomu's shoulders with both hands, Xiaoyu stared into his eyes and spoke word by word.
"I've been thinking about it for a long time. I must leave here. Will you come with me?"
Xiaomu wiped his mouth and said without thinking, "If you go there, I'll go there!"
He stretched out his hand to hold Xiaoyu's cheek, "We are family!" He said with a smile.
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a few months later
"Gudong!"
Xiaoyu swallowed nervously, holding tightly in her hand a simple homemade voice recorder - she made it by picking up discarded electronic equipment, and asked passing food hunters for the manufacturing method.
"You can do it, you can do it!"
Xiaoyu held her chest, her heart beating extremely fast, as if it was about to jump out.
Lying on the ground, Xiaoyu put her face on the cold ground and only looked at the people in the forest in the distance with her peripheral vision.
Through the dense branches and leaves, only two moonlight shadows can be vaguely seen, one is fat and the other is strong. The strong shadow is also holding a big dog that is one meter tall.
"Hahaha, Mr. Ole, you are getting stronger and stronger!" The fat shadow put down the portable box and hugged the other party.
"Hey, Xito, you are getting younger and younger!" Ole patted Xito and complimented, glancing to the left.
After exchanging pleasantries, the two began to talk about business.
"This is 5 million food coins. Please take care of Mr. Ole in the future!" Xito opened the suitcase, which was filled with banknotes.
Otto tied the leash around his waist, took the suitcase, estimated the weight, closed the suitcase, and patted Sito's left hand.
“It’s a pleasure to work with you!”
"...please cooperate!"
Watching the two people who had joined forces leave behind a tree that was only five meters away from the conversation place, Xiaoyu let out a long sigh of relief, and his hands and feet became weak.
Sito controls the town's economic power, and Ole has 1,000 trained gunmen and 50 search dogs.
Xiao Yu deeply understood that it was impossible to leave with everyone, or even just with Xiao Mu, because Xi Tuo did something big enough to get himself into the hive prison - selling lard, soybeans and other delicacies to the Eight Law Houses Forbidden ingredients.
Although lard soybeans are extremely unpalatable without processing, if they can be used to extract oil, the oil will be as translucent as honey, and the processed ingredients will exude a charming aroma.
but! If you take the oil extracted from lard and soybeans for a long time, not only will your body gain weight quickly, but the special trans fatty acids will make those who gain weight no longer lose weight! The pig in lard and soybean does not mean that it is as delicious as lard, but it will make people fat like pigs!
Xiaoyu is two years older than Xiaomu, so she has more education from the old dean. She understands how powerful Xito and Ole are in collusion.
But IGO is the real behemoth. She has already anonymously established a line with an IGO staff member. As long as she gives him the evidence, Sito and Ole will be crushed by the IGO's fingers!
Raising her hand against the moonlight, Xiao Yu looked at the simple recorder in her hand and smiled.
Freedom is in your own hands!
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"Snapped!"
"You little bitch, you're so hard to catch!"
One big hand pinched Xiao Yu's neck, and the other hand fanned it fiercely, leaving streaks of blood on Xiao Yu's face.
"Damn it, you failed...?"
