"I'm satisfied with your answer, it's a reward for you...... Falcon, Four, you two go and search the other rooms in the tunnel to see if there are any corpses left behind or any other clues. Qi Lin took out two chocolate energy bars and a bottle of purified water from his backpack and handed them to the little boy, then said to the two people standing aside.

The little boy took the food and water and immediately devoured it, apparently having been hungry for some time.

The subsistence allowance in the slums can only meet the most basic survival needs of an adult, and there is absolutely no way to feed on the quota alone, and as a minor, he can only get half of the quota, and it is difficult for the residents of the slums to save a little material if they do not go to work or find another way out.

And now it happens to be the end of the month, and the quota for the next month is almost due to this time, but because of this accident, the residents not only failed to get supplies, but also put themselves in.

Qi Lin glanced at the things in the room, and the containers containing the food were all empty, only the two plastic bags containing synthetic food were thrown on the sides of the trash can, and the inner walls of the bags were scraped extremely clean.

"Aren't you afraid that what I give you is poisonous?" Qi Lin glanced at him and asked.

"......Don't be afraid," the little boy's cheeks stirred hard, quickly chewing the food in his mouth and swallowing it before continuing, "I have told you everything I know, I am worthless to you, I have no power to resist in front of you, and if you want to kill me, there is no need to use poison at all. ”

"......" Qi Lin suddenly felt that what he said was indeed very reasonable.

At first, he was just joking, but it turned out to be a nose on the other side.

This guy is so calm, and not only calm, but also indifferent to death.

Ignoring death is not that he is not afraid of death, on the contrary, the child still cherishes his life very much, but in the slums of the shelter, death is very commonplace - starvation, disease, robbery, murder, abound...... In many cases, the value of a human life is equal to the amount of parts of the body that can be eaten multiplied by the average price of human flesh on the black market.

In fact, many people in the slums have eaten human meat, and after it has been grilled, dried, and salted, the taste of this meat from the same kind is not much different from that of animal meat.

Human flesh is cheap, only one-third of the price of pork, and those of poor quality, or offal, are even lower.

However, when it comes to trading or eating, although both sides know it, neither of them will tell the truth - no one likes to eat their own kind except for a few people with special fetishes, but if you think of it as the meat of other animals, it is not so difficult to swallow.

Life in the slums is far more difficult than those rich people who have no worries about food and clothing imagined, with shortages of materials, rampant epidemics, and subsistence allowances can only barely survive, and the poor do not have enough to eat, do not have the strength to work, and without work, they cannot obtain additional resource points, and life falls into a dead circle.

If Qi Lin hadn't had the skills to assemble guns, he would have spent every day hungry and cold.

Of course, all of this has improved a lot since the Wasteland Survival Code was enforced, but this improvement is not because the poor people have earned resource points in the game, but because there are too many people who have been eliminated, and the shortage of materials in various shelters has been alleviated, and for the first time in three years, the subsistence allowance in the slums has been increased by 20 percentage points.

"What's your name?" Qi Lin took out another energy bar and handed it over.

"Xu Ying." The little boy said.

"Win? Win or lose? ”

"Hmm." The little boy nodded, "My original name was Xu Shu, a book of books, but I changed it later." ”

"Why did you change it? Is it because 'win' sounds better than 'losing'? ”

"Almost, my dad likes to play dice with others, and once he lost a week's worth of food, and the whole family was hungry for more than half a month, so he beat me up severely, saying that it was all my bad name, and then he changed my name."

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It didn't take long for Falcon and Number Four to return to this room and say to Qi Lin: "This pit has a total of eighteen rooms, all of them have been searched, and no other survivors have been found, there are a lot of blood stains on the ground, but the bodies of the dead have been removed, and we only found this one." ”

The falcon pulled out a transparent plastic bag containing four shells of a nine-millimeter pistol.

"The pistol issued by the security forces of Vault 444 is a semi-automatic model of nine millimeter caliber, and the bullet casings also have the mark of the Vault 444 military factory, which can basically be determined to be the rebels of the Edas Consortium."

"So, in addition to the parasites, there are also some human soldiers among the rebels? At least as far as I can remember, no parasite would use a gun. Number Three said.

"This is uncertain, according to the traces of the scene and the child's oral account, the massacre should have taken place 36 hours ago, and during these 36 hours, no one knows what happened again." Falcon put away the plastic bag and said.

"Wait a minute."

It was not Qi Lin who spoke out, nor No. 3 and No. 4, but the little boy Xu Ying.

"If there's anything important you're going to discuss, I think I can avoid it for now, I don't want to be silenced by you because I know too much." The little boy looked at Qi Lin and said.

“…… This kid is quite interesting. There was a rare hint of a smile on the falcon's face.

"That's good," Qi Lin nodded, took out half of the water and food in his backpack, and put it on the ground, "This is three days' worth of food and water, in these three days, you just stay here obediently, don't leave, if someone comes, hide-"

"What if I accidentally get caught and they ask about you? Can I say that? ”

"Yes, if that happens, then all you know is no secret, and if you can save your life, tell whoever you want. But one thing I have to tell you is that not everyone is as trustworthy as we are, and it's normal to give you a shot after hollowing out what you know. ”

"Okay." Xu Ying nodded, put away the food on the ground, and retreated to the corner of the room.

And Qi Lin and the others quickly left Xu Ying's residence.

"One thing must be understood, the rebellious Edas higher-ups...... What exactly does it have to do with the mastermind? Qi Lin said as he walked, "Three, you should remember the structure diagram of Vault 444, I need you to find a safe route to the 'Merlin' food processing plant. ”