Seawater.

The salty sea water laps against the chapped feet stained with dried salt grains,

The soles of the feet are rubbed by the reef and the flesh is blurred,

The cold sea breeze blew on her body, causing the thin girl with a dark complexion to tremble for a while.

Rupee is the name of the currency used in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, etc., English Rupee, code INR, base 100.

1 rupee, which is equal to 0.01349 US dollars, is equal to 0.8862 yuan.

For Indians, an ordinary meal costs 30 rupees, and a noon takeaway for low-income people is only about 10 rupees.

But what does three rupees (about three cents yuan) mean for the untouchable in India?

The answer is: two lives.

As night falls, the cold moonlight casts on the sea, and the sea ebb and flow, lapping against the reef and forming foaming waves.

A thin Indian girl with a dark complexion, sitting in a cave on a low cliff by the sea,

She was wearing a shirt and shorts that were so dirty that she couldn't see the color clearly, unkempt, her arms were clasped around her knees, and she shivered under the cold night wind, and her eyes were hollow.

Ten days ago, the maiden and her two older sisters, plucking up the courage to ask their factory boss for an increase of Rs 3 on the basis of Rs 25 per day, after work.

They are untouchable, the lowest pariah in India outside of all castes.

Untouchables, or Dalits, make up 16.2% of India's total population, and there are 200 million Dalits in a total population of 1.324 billion.

In the traditional Indian belief that the flesh of Dalits is filthy, everything they come into contact with will be contaminated, even their shadows? can defile people of the higher castes.

Are they forbidden to appear frequently in public? They are not allowed to use the same drinking containers, utensils, touch other castes, marry other castes, work for the people of the village, but are not allowed to live in the village, and are allowed to work in the lowest and most menial professions.

In the teenage girl and her two older sisters? After offering to increase the daily wage by Rs 3, the owner of the workshop laughed and beat them? Tie up the girls with twine? Hours of abuse.

What's even more desperate? After the arrival of local police cars? Indian police officers getting out of the car? Instead of stopping the boss? Instead, with the latter? Joined in the abuse of the girl's two sisters.

The girl tried her best to break free of the hemp rope and escaped at night, with sirens in the rear? The flashing headlights appear and disappear in the dense weeds at a height of one person.

She escaped? But her two older sisters? But he was hanged from a tree by a rope? Bruised and bruised, it was used to demonstrate against the untouchable who dared to make rebellious demands – this image was seen at the entrance of the village in the early morning when the girl tried to escape home.

Standing next to several police cars parked on the side of the road were the Indian police officers who had participated in the abuse.

The girl didn't dare to go home, and she didn't dare to leave here, for fear of being discovered by the police car on the road and killing people.

She hid in a low, hollow cave under a cliff by the sea, eating small fish and crabs when she was hungry, and drinking ice water dripping from the cave when she was thirsty.

The girl didn't know what was going on in the outside world, so she could only count the passage of time by the rising and setting of the sun.

It's cold...

She hugged her knees harder, her thoughts cluttered in her chaotic brain.

Hinduism advocates equality for all, but this equality is only at the spiritual and spiritual level, and it is not equal in the physical body.

The bodies of the Brahmins and Kshatriyas are pure and clean, the Vaishyas and Shudras are stained, and the untouchable Dalits are a collection of the filth and filth of the world.

There are only two ways for Dalits to make themselves clean.

The first is to practice asceticism, to endure what is considered the most painful thing by normal people, to cut off water and food, to endure hunger, to self-flagellation, to endure bitter cold and heat, until the body and mind are detached, and then to move the gods and get out of the sea of suffering.

The second is to obediently accept oppression and exploitation, to serve the high castes, not to contact other untouchable people, to close themselves off, to reduce the degree of pollution of oneself, so that after reincarnation, one can become a Brahman, a pure human being.

Under the rendering of this traditional concept, the Dalits at the bottom have developed hatred for each other.

The Dalit who kills chickens, the Dalit who despises catching mice,

Dalits who catch mice, despise Dalits who dig dung and drains,

Dalits are divided into different ethnic groups, each of which considers the other to be an impure source of pollution, and actively asks for isolation to avoid contamination.

The high degree of involution and hatred at the bottom makes it impossible for Dalits to unite together, and they still have no say in the social system despite the huge total population of 120 million.

The girl hiding in the cave of the cliff did not think so far, she stared at the sea with empty eyes, and another face of an Indian girl with the same dark complexion came to her mind.

Nina.

A member of the Seventh Group of the Wind Chasers, India's Special Envoy to the Global Occult Coalition, and a Glory to India's Low Castes.

Same age, same identity,

The other party can become the focus of countless spotlights, meet with dignitaries,

The girl's two sisters were hanged from the branches of a tree in the early morning mist.

A burst of sadness welled up in the girl's heart, if Nina is here, if Nina is still in India, then after she hears the news, she should, no, she will definitely preside over justice,

Just like she had done before for the Dalit community.

However, shortly after the battle for the door, Nina, who often appeared on major Indian television stations, disappeared from the sight of the news media and disappeared.

The cohesion that the low-caste groups had built up so hard also dissipated.

"Damn, where the hell is that girl?"

A faint and noisy human voice sounded above the cliff, and the light of a flashlight, lit up above the cliff, shone on the surface of the sea.

The girl's empty eyes were instantly occupied by fear and despair,

The cliffs here are low, and the sound can be easily conveyed.

Not daring to move, she slowly shrunk back and moved towards the back of the cave.

A man's voice said, "I've been looking for so many days, and I haven't found it yet." The damned new director is just a missing untouchable girl, and if we have to investigate it thoroughly, her parents have been dismissed by us. ”

"We'll find her."

Another man's voice said slowly: "She has injuries on her body, she has nothing to eat, and she can't escape too far." ”

“... What do we do when we find her? ”

"Do you need to ask? Kill her. ”

"But the new director demanded..."

"Don't worry about the new director, he's a Brahmin, the son of a diplomat, an elite of the IPS (Indian Federal Police System), whether this matter is found out or not, he will be promoted. And we're going to stay here and rot for the rest of our lives. Do you want to find out the case and wait for it to be liquidated by the local forces? ”

“...”

"Don't forget, your uncle, our boss, was also involved in that day's abuse..."

“... I understand. ”

The two men on the cliff talked in low voices, the light of the flashlights sweeping across the sea.

The girl under the cliff covered her mouth in despair, tears sliding down her eyes.

Whoop -

The sea in front of the cave suddenly swiped to both sides,

An animal climbed up from the sea.

It was a dog, with brown and black mottled hair, skinny, and wet, just like a wild dog on the roadside.

How can a dog swim up from the sea?

The girl's brain didn't have time to process such information, and she instinctively stepped forward, trying to cover the dog's mouth to prevent it from barking and attracting the attention of the two men above the cliff.

But, the moment she stretched out her hand, she froze.

The dog's body suddenly exuded an intangible and qualitative strange aura, like a top predator like a tiger lion, staring indifferently at the girl in front of him, treating it as a moving piece of meat.

Can't move.

The girl's body froze in place, and the brown and black wild dog turned its head and body on its own, and the sea water on its body splashed dry as the hair flicked.

"Whew, it's so cold here, let's go, let's go and meet the others."

"Wait."

The flashlight on the cliff suddenly stopped, illuminating a sea surface, "What's that?" ”

In the light of the flashlight, a blood-stained shard of cloth floated on the surface of the sea—the cloth that the maiden used to bandage the wounds of her beatings.

"Could it be..."

The second man muttered quietly, the light of the flashlight, dangling at the mouth of the cave, "There seems to be a cave down here."

Come here, give me a light, and I'll climb down and see. ”

The sound of walking sounded above, the light of the flashlight flickered, and then the sound of the palm pulling the grass and vines sounded.

Once again, the girl fell into fear and despair,

Tears welled up from his eyes and ran down his chapped cheeks.

The brown and black wild dog, on the other hand, took two steps forward indifferently, came to the girl, and tilted his head.

In the black bean-like eyes, there was no emotion at all, just staring silently.

Syllable.

Without warning, a slender tongue-like catheter like a harpoon shot out of the wild dog's mouth, nailed to the center of the girl's eyebrows.

A vague but powerful psionic will echoed in the girl's mind.

[How far can you go to survive?] 】

One, everything.

The girl's eyes were hollow, and she instinctively answered the question posed by the voice.

[Very good.] So, embrace the hive and join us. 】

The wild dog's tongue-shaped catheter, which continued to bulge and contract, injected something into the center of the girl's eyebrows.

After a few seconds, the catheter was withdrawn,

The other party reverted to his normal wild dog appearance, lying on the rock, lazily scratching the hair on his waist with his hind feet, making a slight rustling sound

The girl, on the other hand, looked at her palm in a daze, raised her hand and touched her forehead.

There was a faint bloodshot on his forehead, and the wound had been cut open by the wild dog creature with a tongue-like duct, and it had healed.

Smack.

A fat man in a brown Indian police uniform jumped onto the rock at the entrance of the cave from above, a loaded pistol pinned to his waist.

The light of the flashlight in his hand swept in, illuminating the ragged girl and the ordinary wild dog.

A look of joy appeared on the fat man's face, and he shouted to his companion above the cliff, "Come down, I'll find her."

The voice stopped abruptly,

The girl instinctively raised her arm, and a catheter with a cluster of sharp arrows shot out of her wrist, nailed to the center of the fat man's brow, interrupting his words.