The ability of a person to adapt to the environment in the face of adversity is truly amazing. Misfortune can be endured and overcome because man has amazing potential, and if he is determined to use it, he will be able to overcome it. - Dale Carnegie

"There are seven days left before the Spring Festival!" Li Baoqiang stood at the head of the city and looked into the distance, sighing at Zhang Juncai.

"yes, time flies." Zhang Juncai stood beside Li Baoqiang and reported on the village affairs of Hope Village. Li Baoqiang gradually learned that because of the increase in population, food was running out, and the new villagers said that there were still some people living in abandoned villages and towns, and their lives were very miserable.

"I wanted to expand the search area, find some food and collect the population at the same time, but I forgot about it because I was busy and messy for a while." Li Baoqiang explained. "How can it be called a mess? You see, building the city walls, making explosives, and refining table salt are not the most important. Zhang Juncai admired.

"Next, the armed team was divided into two parts, one part hunted and protected the village, and the other part I led the team to nearby villages and towns to continue looking for food." Li Baoqiang instructed the fat man Wang Zhiming. The fat man is now the vice-captain of the armed team, responsible for everything inside and outside the team.

"I'm going too, don't let me go and want you to look good!" Zhao Xiaoxiao learned from the fat man that Li Baoqiang was going to lead the team out to search for food, so he ran directly to Li Baoqiang, half pleading and half threatening. I didn't make it last time, but I didn't see Li Baoqiang's glorious image, Zhao Xiaoxiao has been regretting it, and this time he is determined to follow Li Baoqiang.

Li Baoqiang saw that Zhao Xiaoxiao was coquettish to him, his heart softened, he believed that he could protect his lover, and agreed to the girl's request. "Ouye." Zhao Xiaoxiao jumped up excitedly and pounced on Li Baoqiang, leaving a shallow kiss on Li Baoqiang's cheek. Li Baoqiang hugged Zhao Xiaoxiao and kissed the girl's mouth directly.

Since the relationship between the two has been confirmed, they have secretly hugged and kissed several times, so now they are bold when there is no one around. Unexpectedly, a pair of hazy eyes in the distance had already stared at the two, and when they saw that the two were still hugging and kissing, the man was crazy, breaking a branch in his hand, breaking his finger with broken stubble, and bleeding, and he didn't bother to wipe it.

Li Baoqiang and the thin man Li Dayong led two main teams, a female team and Zhao Xiaoxiao set off to find food, and the fat man led the other teams into the mountains to hunt and be responsible for defending the town. After Li Baoqiang, Professor Zhao and others said goodbye one by one, they led the team to set off in the expectant eyes of the villagers.

Although Professor Zhao didn't want Zhao Xiaoxiao to go out in his heart, after all, there were many dangers outside, but seeing his daughter's expectant and eager eyes, thinking of Li Baoqiang's skills and the combat ability of the team members, he reluctantly agreed, but privately reminded Li Baoqiang that he must protect Zhao Xiaoxiao, and Li Baoqiang faced his father-in-law with a serious expression and accepted it.

Zhao Xiaoxiao changed into a set of training clothes and put on a coat, although the large training clothes looked extremely incongruous on her, but the girl found an armed belt like this, highlighting the thin waist and towering chest, which couldn't help but make Li Baoqiang's abdomen hot, uniform show, uniform control, it turned out that he still had such a hobby in the depths of his mind.

Under Zhang Juncai's hard excavation, the original Wuzhen has almost been razed to the ground, and the materials have basically been scavenged according to Li Baoqiang's requirements of not leaving a single nail, because of the construction of the city wall, almost all the bricks and wood that can be dismantled have also been demolished.

"We will rebuild Wuzhen in the future!" Li Baoqiang promised with confidence to everyone. Zhao Xiaoxiao looked at Li Baoqiang and thought, "Maybe it's Li Baoqiang's self-confidence that moved him, right?" According to the research with Zhang Juncai in advance, Li Baoqiang has already arranged the route of travel.

Taking Hope Village as the **, from south to east and then north and finally back to Hope Village, this time a total of three villages and towns, if you want to return to Hope Village in Chinese New Year's Eve, time is a little tight. There are no cars, they can only walk on two legs, and along the way, they see collapsed mountains, rolling rocks, and broken roads, and Li Baoqiang and others continue to sigh the severity of this crisis.

The armed detachment did not bring food, this was a rule set by Li Baoqiang, and everything the armed team ate was solved on the spot. Along the way, the team shot a few vicious-eyed, fat and strong wild dogs, slaughtered the lean meat, prepared it for lunch, and collected the fur at the same time, which was a good thing to keep out the cold.

At noon, I finally saw a village in front of me, and smoke was rising. Li Baoqiang pointed to the village vigilantly and said, "Li Dayong led a small team to reconnoitre. "Since the first attack on the armed forces in Wuzhen, Li Baoqiang has been training his team members to search carefully before they act.

According to his usual training, Li Dayong organized a small detachment to slowly approach the village in a straggler formation, and after a while making gestures to indicate safety, Li Baoqiang led the others into the village and looked for the places where the smoke was rising.

Li Baoqiang followed Li Dayong into the courtyard of a house, everyone looked up, only to see that several houses had collapsed, leaning on half of the wall to support a shack, a trace of blood smell came to the nose, Li Dayong's team members were angry, with crossbows and Miao knives pointed at the men and women who were squatting on the ground, their eyes were full of panic.

I saw a man and a woman on the ground, all as thin as skin and bones. An iron pot, a pot full of water, has bubbled slightly, and in the pot is a child's arm being stewed, Zhao Xiaoxiao and the female soldiers can't help but want to vomit, even the male soldiers can't help but sour water. The man crouched on the ground, a sharp knife at his feet, the blade sharpened, and a few strands of blood extending from the straw pile next to him.

Li Baoqiang walked towards the straw pile, the man and the woman seemed to be frightened, and wanted to get up to block Li Baoqiang, but were forced back to the place with knives by the team members. Li Baoqiang became even more suspicious, turned over the straw, and couldn't help but gasp. A little girl naked, bruised from the cold, was dying, and next to her was a little boy who had been mutilated.

Li Baoqiang hurriedly asked Zhao Xiaoxiao to lead the female soldiers to wrap the little girl in a coat and feed her a few mouthfuls of hot water, and the little girl slowly eased up. Li Baoqiang turned around and asked the two men and women angrily: "What's going on, whose child?" Your children? ”

The woman collapsed to the ground and cried bitterly: "It's not ours, it's the neighbor's." Our house has been eaten by our neighbors. ”

Li Baoqiang hurriedly asked Li Dayong to gather all the people in the village who were still alive here, and at the same time check the situation.

"Easy to eat?" Zhao Xiaoxiao couldn't help crying.

Zhao Xiaoxiao is in history, and knows that there has been a phenomenon of "eating children with easy children" in history, but now that she has witnessed it with her own eyes, she has never believed that in the context of such a developed modern civilization, although the disaster occurred less than two months ago, it is unbelievable that there can be a thing of cannibalism.

She knew that cannibalism in ancient times could be divided into two categories:

The first is when people are forced to feed on their own kind in order to survive due to severe social famine caused by natural disasters or wars. This phenomenon is commonly recorded in the history books, and every dynasty will have a tragic phenomenon of cannibalism in the first year, even in the prosperous era, as Bai Juyi wrote in the poem, "It is the drought in the south of the Yangtze River, and the people of Quzhou cannibalize people", which is just a well-known one.

In some dynasties, in disaster years or disaster areas, human flesh will be openly sold on the □ during the Jingkang Rebellion in the late Northern Song Dynasty, the people cannibalism between the Jianghuai and Huai provinces, a bucket of rice costs tens of thousands of yuan, the price of human flesh is cheaper than pork, and the corpse of a young strong man is only 15,000 (not as expensive as a bucket of rice). In the forty-fifth and forty-sixth years of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1617 and 1618), Shandong***, Caizhou had human flesh □, and it was miserable. During the three or four years of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1864 and 1865), people ate people everywhere in southern Anhui, and human flesh began to sell for 30 wen a catty, and later the price rose to 120 wen a catty, and at the same time, it was sold for 80 wen a catty in Jurong, Liyang, Lishui and other places in Jiangsu.

This phenomenon is of course against human nature, but in a situation where everyone is threatened with starvation, it is still understandable for future generations to live by eating human flesh.

The other category is cannibalism, which is cruel. Due to the different purposes, the specific manifestations of such situations are different, some people show off their ferocity by eating human flesh, some people listen to the evil magic of the left way and use human flesh to treat a certain disease, and some people eat the enemy's flesh to vent their revenge because of hatred, and so on, all of which are more barbaric and cruel than being forced to eat human flesh in the famine years. This kind of cannibalism does not fall within the scope of punishment, but it has some similarities with the practice of punishing people with various forms of torture, and the openness shows the cruelty and cruelty of the ancient people.

In the animal world of the jungle, it is not surprising that different animals are hunted and eaten alive, and similar animals also kill each other, which is the need for survival competition in the animal kingdom. After human beings entered the civilized society, there was still the phenomenon of cannibalism, which shows that human beings have not completely eliminated their animal nature. Since humans have a higher social consciousness than animals, cannibalism is more barbaric and cruel than animal cannibalism.

Zhao Xiaoxiao and the female soldiers were crying, and this scene was too stimulating for Zhao Xiaoxiao. She thought that the outside world was similar to Hope Village, at least there was food and self-protection, but she didn't expect to encounter the realistic version of historical facts in the textbook, she didn't believe it, she always thought it was an illusion.

At this time, Li Dayong had already escorted more than 20 dumb-eyed, zombie-like men and women into the courtyard. When Li Dayong told Li Baoqiang that the body of the child had also been found in several other homes, Li Baoqiang asked angrily: "Where did these children come from, you must answer truthfully today!" If you don't answer honestly, I'll kill you all today. ”

Li Baoqiang stared at the two men and women kneeling on the ground. The man suddenly lost his soul and screamed, "Don't kill me, I am too...... There's no way, my two children are dying of hunger, and ...... If I don't eat, I'll ...... I'm going to starve to death! ”

"The child was not deceived by us, it was not defrauded, it was exchanged for our own children and other families in the village, and my children were also taken away by them......"

"Easy to eat!" Li Baoqiang couldn't help but shouted: "There are femme fatales and vicious parents like you in the world, and tiger poison does not eat children!" You are not even as good as beasts! ”

The more than twenty people finally reacted and lowered their heads in shame.