(It took a morning to change the ID card and get a passport, and I'm sorry that the update was slow, and I also said that the staff and the city lord are very important people in the whole book, so it took so many chapters to write about them)

Nineteen years ago, in the slums of Yilun, dark clouds coalesced over the slums, as if a torrential rain was brewing, and a heat wave rose from the barren and dirty ground.

A little boy of about five or six years old ran fast down the slum avenue with a piece of dirty bread in his arms.

He was followed by a man who was extremely tall, but a little too thin.

But it's also strange to say, the man's limbs are obviously much longer than the little boy's, and each step can almost reach the boy's two or even three steps, but the man is a little out of breath and looks like he is physically exhausted.

The man cursed and yelled, "You little rabbit who steals! Stop for Lao Tzu! ”

But the little boy ignored the shouting of the man behind him, and continued to run as fast as he could.

The little boy did not run along without encountering other pedestrians, but the passers-by turned a blind eye to this.

There are so many battles for food that the vast majority of Iren people will choose to sit idly by and watch if the matter itself is not their business.

The streets of the slums are littered with garbage, emitting a disgusting stench of rotting and littered with rats, cockroaches, and their corpses.

The little boy stepped on the corpse of a mouse as he ran, and he suddenly felt the world spin and his whole body suddenly lost his balance.

"Ahh The little boy let out a high-pitched exclamation and plunged headlong into the garbage heap in front of him.

Countless pieces of garbage flew up, and an even stronger stench came from the surface.

The man chasing the little boy behind him finally caught up with the little boy's footsteps, and when he saw the little boy fall into the garbage heap, the man spat hard at the little boy's body: "Damn, it's so bad that Lao Tzu chased so far." ”

He stretched out his right hand and grabbed the little boy's hair, pulled the little boy's face in front of him, and glared fiercely at the little face full of childishness: "Little rabbit, what is not good to learn at a young age, you have to learn to steal things......"

The little boy trembled at his sight, and his teeth chattered with fear.

"First...... But I'm hungry, sir...... I...... I haven't eaten in two days. He said pitifully to the man in front of him, clutching the dirty piece of bread tightly in both hands.

"Are you hungry?" When the man heard this, his eyebrows were exaggeratedly raised, as if he had heard something extremely ridiculous, and then he yelled angrily at the little boy, "It's the first time I've heard such a ridiculous reason!" You're hungry, aren't you hungry!? In the entire Irun slums, except for those four or five-year-old bastards and girls with big bellies, who has eaten enough on any day!? ”

After saying this, he actually punched the little boy in the stomach fiercely!

This punch was extremely heavy, and the man didn't have the slightest hand because the other party was a child!

This punch hit the little boy's stomach, and the little boy bent down in pain, and spit out a big mouthful of sour water with a "poof" in his mouth!

"Little bunny, do you have a long memory!?" The little boy's painful appearance did not arouse the man's sympathy in the slightest, but he grabbed the little boy's hair even harder, and continued to punch the other in the abdomen one after another!

Every punch to the little boy's abdomen caused the little boy to spit out a large mouthful of sour water, and after three or four punches in a row, the little boy only felt as if his stomach was burning with flames.

His fragile stomach began to cramp wildly, and all the acid that was still left in his stomach seemed to rush up in an instant, and then burst out of his throat!

The acid sprayed on the garbage heap next to it, and it emitted a trace of white gas.

"Little bunny, dare you steal my things......" the man shouted as he raised his right hand again and again, as if ready to throw another punch at the little boy.

However, just as his fist was about to land on the little boy's abdomen again, another immature voice came from the side:

"That's enough."

The man stopped the punch he had already thrown, a little surprised, for he had never thought that someone would stop him.

When he beat the little boy before, many pedestrians passed by them, but none of them looked at them more.

He turned in the direction from which the voice had come and saw another boy.

The boy was tall, almost as tall as a man, and if it weren't for the childish feeling on his face that was clearly childish, the man would have even thought that the other party was a man his own age.

The boy was noticeably more mature than the boy before him, about eight or nine years old, dark-skinned, skinny, and carrying a dirt-stained hoe on his shoulder—as if he had just finished his task of digging.

The children of the Iren people usually start working independently to earn their own food from outsiders around the age of six, so the appearance of the boy in front of him is a true portrayal of most Iren children.

The little boy he grabbed immediately looked at the boy who was a few years older than him with hopeful eyes, as if begging the other party to help him.

"How...... Do you want to be nosy, kid? The man saw that the man was just a scrawny little ghost, and his eyes narrowed in a dangerous arc.

The boy frowned, as if he didn't hear the hint of threat in the other party's words, and said seriously to the man: "I mean, this little boy has offended you by stealing your food, sir, and it is enough for you to get the food back, why bother a child like this." ”

"So you're unhappy with what I'm doing?" The man's right hand loosened the boy's hair and took a step forward, trying to oppress the boy in front of him with his slightly stronger size.

The man's movements made the boy's brow furrow deeper, but he didn't want to back down in the face of the threat that had been written on the other party's face.

"If you have to think so, sir...... There's not much I can do. The boy looked at the man, and took a step forward not to be outdone, "However, I suggest that you better not think like this. If you have to be obsessed......"

"You'll regret it."

The boy paused every word when he spoke, and his immature voice sounded like it was weaker than the other party in terms of momentum, but after hearing the boy's words, the man inexplicably felt a sense of fear in his heart!

This subconscious feeling startled him, and he quickly raised his head to look at the boy in front of him.

I found that the boy was also looking at him, and his black eyes were as deep as night......

With a gaze full of astonishing murderous intent!

That killing intent was almost condensed into substance, as if as long as there was a disagreement, the boy would really dare to kill himself!

The boy ...... He's killed people.

Although the slum of Yilun was damp and hot at the moment, the man shivered after realizing this.

He quickly snatched his dirty bread from the little boy's hand and quickly left the scene as if fleeing for his life.

The boy with the hoe sighed imperceptibly.

He walked up to the little boy, who was still clutching his abdomen, and asked softly, "Are you alright?" ”

"It hurts...... the little boy clutched his stomach, almost rolling in pain.

"In a place like the Yilun slum, you have to be prepared to be caught stealing......" The boy looked at the little child in front of him and shook his head a little helplessly, "You better don't steal in the future, you don't look like you can beat other people......"

"But...... I'm really hungry. The little boy looked at each other aggrievedly, "I haven't eaten for two days, and the adults who would have given me food before don't know why they suddenly stopped giving me food, I don't know where to find food, I really can't stand it anymore to steal other people's things......"

Listening to the little boy's words, the boy with the hoe realized the problem: "You won't ...... It's just 'weaned', right? ”

Outsiders provide free food to the Iren under the age of five, but this treatment is immediately abolished as soon as the Iren celebrate their fifth birthday.

The Ilun people themselves usually refer to the end of the free food supply after the age of five as "weaning".

"Broken ...... Ablactation? I was weaned when I was one year old, huh? The little boy was visibly puzzled by the question, and he blinked his brown eyes, not knowing what the other meant.

The young man who resisted the hoe knew that he had met an out-and-out rookie this time.

“…… So you don't even know the basic common sense that food needs to be exchanged for work from outsiders? ”

"Huh!?" The little boy's eyes after hearing this sentence were almost like discovering a new world, "Big brother, do you know how to get food!?" ”

The title of the eldest brother made the corners of the eyes of the boy who had to carry the hoe jump, and the naivety of the little boy in front of him was far beyond his expectations, so he felt a little annoyed, and there was a faint bad premonition in his heart.

If you continue to manage this matter yourself, it will probably become a very troublesome matter.

"Anyway...... If you want to survive, go to work with those outsiders, and they will give you food for a day as long as you work for one day. The boy with the hoe decided not to care about it, and after saying this, he turned and tried to leave.

The boy with the hoe behaved so that the little boy couldn't help but panic a little, and he thought that the kind big brother would patiently help him before leaving. But unexpectedly, after he said the words just now, the other party avoided him as if he had seen a plague god.

He struggled to his feet, trying to catch up with the boy in front of him: "Big brother, wait...... Wait a minute! I have so many more questions for you! ”

But his injuries were not light, and as soon as he stood up, a piercing pain came from his abdomen, and his eyes went black, and he fell headlong into the garbage heap in front of him.

The little boy couldn't get up again with great difficulty, and could only sit on the ground reluctantly.

A disgusting stench of rot rushed to his nostrils, and the feeling of hunger made him feel as if the world was spinning.

I'm so hungry, so painful, I miss my mother

The little boy stared at the air for a moment, and suddenly felt very aggrieved, so he cried sadly.

He cried loudly and was really aggrieved, as if he didn't understand why his life was so difficult.

But before he could cry, a slender hand suddenly appeared in his field of vision, and the little boy who was crying loudly forgot to cry for a moment after seeing this hand, and just looked at the owner of the hand in a daze, and big tears fell from his face.

“…… Get up!? Why are you sitting stupidly, stupid!? ”

The boy with the hoe went and returned, and looked at the little boy in front of him with a blank face, and his heart became more and more annoyed.

"Oh oh oh!" The little boy was startled by the other party's scolding and quickly held the other party's hand.

This hand is very rough, and I don't know how long it takes to work to make a boy's hand of eight or nine years old rough; This hand is very slender, presumably because he has been living a malnourished life since he was a child.

But the hand was really strong, and the little boy who held it felt the other hand lift himself up with one hand.

"Big ...... Big brother, why are you back again? The little boy's tone of voice this time became very cautious, for fear that the other party would leave again.

The boy with the hoe scratched his bird's nest-like hair with some distress: "I can't help it...... I know you're a nuisance, but I can't bear to leave you here alone, and you're crying so sadly, I'm back. ”

"That'...... Are you going to go...... then" The little boy was a little surprised at first, but he immediately realized a problem, and his little face darkened again.

The boy with the hoe suddenly smiled when he heard this, and then said to the little boy in front of him with a serious expression: "It's hard to say...... I'm not a good person, so why should I keep helping you as a useless person? ”

The little boy immediately panicked when he heard this: "But ...... But I really don't know anything......"

"Ah...... That's a problem. The boy frowned and rubbed his chin, as if he was very embarrassed, "What should I do?" ”

The little boy looked at him nervously.

"I see!" The boy suddenly clapped his hands excitedly, and then took out a worn-out oil-paper umbrella from the garbage heap on the side and handed it to the little boy, "You can hold an umbrella for me in the future!" ”

The little boy hurriedly took the oil-paper umbrella that the boy found out of nowhere, and his eyes widened curiously: "...... An umbrella? ”

"Yes," the boy nodded, pointing to the cloudy sky, "you see, it's going to rain now, and every time it rains, you're responsible for holding an umbrella for me." ”

The little boy froze for a long time.

This behavior made the boy a little dissatisfied: "What about the fool!? Told you to hold an umbrella, did you hear that!? ”

A drop of rain suddenly fell from the sky and hit the tip of the boy's nose.

The little boy, who was startled by the raindrops and the boy's reprimand, hurriedly stretched out the worn-out oil-paper umbrella in his hand.

A tattered umbrella cloth stitched with patches of various sizes unfurls the streets of the slums of Irun.

At that moment, countless raindrops condensed and formed in the dark clouds, and were hurriedly thrown down from the sky.

There was a dull sound on the umbrella cloth.