In the bungalow, Granny Tang's body hung quietly in the air, a rope made of rags, one end hanging from the beam, and the other end was attached to Granny Tang's neck.

Granny Tang's face was serene, as if she had fallen asleep, her face was full of wrinkles, and her brows were indeed relaxed, as if she had finally let go of some heavy thoughts.

Rayson, and Maurice and his companions, all came to the bungalow at this moment, and gathered around Granny Tong's corpse, and looked up in silence, all silent. But at the moment, the room was not quiet, and the baby's cry came from the baby recliner in the corner, which continued to stop.

It's jarring.

After a long time, Rayson finally spoke up and broke the silence: "You guys...... Who's going to coax that kid? ”

"Huh? Oh! I'll go! ”

Maurice hurriedly walked over, holding the baby in his arms and gently rocking it, patting the baby on the back.

"Don't cry ~ good ~ good ~ "

It was clearly not the first time Maurice had taken care of a baby, and he quickly put the crying baby to sleep.

"Let's put the old man down first......"

At Rayson's suggestion, someone finally lifted up the stool that had fallen in the middle of the bungalow, and with the help of others, removed Granny Tang's body and laid it flat on the ground.

Rayson examined the body, and judging from the condition of the body and the chair that had been dumped in the room, Granny Tang had committed suicide.

Ironically, there is still a large pot of soup burning in the back room, and this time there is a lot of meat in the soup, and it is no longer a clear soup with little water, and you can smell the aroma of meat outside. It was this scent that attracted people in, and Granny Tang's body was found.

The person who was chatting with him yesterday committed suicide in the beam of the house today, leaving behind the baby who still needed her to take care of, and he was extremely resolute, but he did not forget to burn a large pot full of broth before leaving.

Rayson was a little incomprehensible and a little dazed.

"Boss, look at this, this is written by Granny Tang, right?" Maurice came over with the baby in his arms, still holding a piece of paper on which he had written, which he had found in the chaise longe.

"I guess it's the old man's suicide note, right? What was written? ”

Maurice looked embarrassed: "I ...... I can't read. ”

Rayson was stunned for a moment, and then looked at the others: "You guys...... Are you illiterate? ”

Everyone shook their heads. Nowadays, the world is barbaric and disorderly, there is no such thing as a school, education is missing, and people like Maurice who live at the bottom are basically illiterate.

Lei Sen suddenly realized why Granny Tang asked herself inexplicably yesterday if she was literate. She had planned to do it herself, but she couldn't tell anyone about it, and she couldn't explain the things she couldn't let go.

And her own appearance, just so that she can leave a suicide note to explain what happened after her death, and she has no worries. Invisibly, it was Rayson who contributed to Granny Tang's suicide.

Rayson took the piece of paper, and sure enough, it was Granny Tang's suicide note.

"Stranger, we've only met once, so I'm really sorry to let you read my old woman's suicide note. Maurice they are illiterate, and I can only ask you to convey my words on your behalf. ”

"I'm old and useless. If it weren't for Maurice and everyone taking care of us, my grandson and I would have starved to death. ”

"Originally, everyone was already living very hard, and they still had to save food for me and my grandson; The more people took care of us, the more I felt guilty. The only thing I can do is cook a little tasteless soup and continue to do everyone's burden. ”

"I don't want to go on like this, and when I'm gone, everyone can save a ration and have less burden."

"My grandson, in the future, please Maurice help me take care of it, I'm sorry, even if I leave, I still have to be cheeky and ask everyone to help me. I really want to grow up with my grandson, but I can feel that my old bones can't last until then, and I don't want to wait until the day when I can't even move myself, when I can't even cook a pot of soup, and I have to trouble everyone to take care of me, take care of my grandson, and be a burden to everyone. ”

"Thank you, stranger; Thank you Maurice and all of you, I'll rest first. ”

"May you be carefree and safe."

After reading the suicide note, Rayson also understood Granny Tang's thoughts.

Granny Tong was old and frail, and the baby was still swaddling, they did not even have the ability to find food on their own, nor could they do anything else, and they could only survive with the help of Maurice and others; Seeing that everyone was living so hard, and saving them two people's rations, Granny Tang became more and more guilty, and finally chose to commit suicide, thinking of saving her own mouth to eat, so as to reduce everyone's burden.

Seeing that Rayson had finished reading the suicide note, Maurice asked in a dumb voice, "Granny Tang...... What was said. ”

Rayson glanced at the baby in his arms, and instead of answering immediately, he asked, "Old man...... There is no other family except this child? ”

Maurice shook his head a little sadly: "There was before, after the child was born, the child went out to look for food one day, and never came back, and I don't know if it was missing or an accident." A few months ago, the child's father really couldn't pay the protection money, so he went to the Colosseum, and the result was ...... Hold out until the third game...... He died there. I still remember...... That day, Granny Tang cried for a long time......"

Rayson nodded silently, no wonder Granny Tang would entrust the baby to Mauris, she really, there is no one else to explain.

Rayson folded the suicide note in two and handed it to Maurice: "The old man said that she was very tired, so she left first." I'll leave this child to your care......"

"yes, okay."

Without hesitation, without prevarication, Maurice nodded very calmly. Rayson was in a trance for a while, he was a little suspicious, is this the same person who knelt at the feet of the Tongbang girl and begged for mercy?

At this time, a fat man next to him suddenly said, "Then, what should Granny Tang do?" ”

"Or ......," another yellow-toothed man continued, "drag it out into the street, just like before." ”

In Devon City, the dead are generally dragged to the streets, and there will be corpse collection teams composed of soldiers to collect corpses regularly, which is also to avoid the accumulation of corpses and the plague.

Rayson was a little speechless: "Anyway, she is also a friend and elder who has lived with you for so long, so you can't bury her properly?" ”

"Buried?" Everyone looked at each other, not understanding why Rayson was dealing with it like this.

Rayson held his forehead again, too, these people are illiterate, and they can't be expected to know the etiquette of the dead.

"You can find a quiet place, dig a pit, and bury the old man in it."

No one objected, and a group of people found a crooked-neck tree and dug a hole under it.

Rayson put Granny Tang's body in the pit, tidied up her clothes, and put her hands on her chest to try to make the old man look decent.

"Fill in the soil."

Rayson crawled out, and the group immediately filled the pit with earth, and Maurice stood aside with the baby in his arms, watching the old man's body gradually be buried, his eyes full of incomprehensible emotions.

Rayson looked around, intending to pick up a wooden sign and erect a monument, so he asked, "What is the old man's name?" ”

Maurice shook his head: "I don't know, she never said her name, she never said the child's name. Because she often cooks soup for everyone, we all call her Granny Tang. ”

Without a name, there was no point in erecting a monument, and Rayson gave up on the idea.

From the discovery of Granny Tang's body to the present, no one has cried, no complaints, and no one has even been able to say a word of frustration, everyone seems to only regard this as an ordinary thing that can no longer be ordinary, and deal with it silently.

“……”

Suddenly, Maurice broke the silence again: "Granny Tang...... He once told us that when a person dies, he turns into a star in the sky and keeps looking at the people who are still alive on the earth. If I take good care of this child and raise it to adulthood, Granny Tang will be happy when she sees it in the sky, right? ”

Rayson didn't know how to answer for a moment. In today's world, it is not easy to raise an infant baby into an adult, not to mention that Maurice is a person who does not even dare to pick up a knife, and he has no meal. Rayson asked himself, he was not optimistic that Maurice would be able to grow up safely, and it would be good for him to live safely.

"When a person dies, he dies, he doesn't become a star in the sky, he doesn't see anything, he doesn't think about anything, the corpse just slowly decays, it stinks, and in the end there is nothing left, it's a hundred."

After Rayson finished speaking, he turned his head to look at Maurice: "Are you sure that you want to raise this child?" ”

"Of course." Maurice nodded without hesitation: "Since Granny Tang has entrusted him to me, I will do my best to take care of him." Otherwise, can I still throw him away? ”

Rayson narrowed his eyes slightly and said seriously: "Even if you really do this, no one will blame you." You should know very well that with you, and the people here, it will be difficult for you to even live well, let alone take care of such a child. ”

"It's okay, boss." Maurice smiled in return, his smile a little bleak, but he was also calm.

"Difficulties are difficulties, and there will always be a way." Maurice said this not as if he was answering Rayson, but more like saying it to himself. "As long as you are careful and work hard, you can always live. You see, aren't we still alive and well? ”

Looking at Maurice's reluctant smile, Rayson admired this cowardly guy for the first time.

He didn't persuade Maurice again, patted him on the shoulder, and said in a deep voice: "You can rest today, over there in the Colosseum, I'll go by myself." ”

Ignoring Maurice, Rayson went to the Colosseum on his own.

This time, though, it seemed like everyone was waiting for him. Yesterday, there was a ruthless man, the news of four consecutive wins in the Colosseum has spread, and a few gunmen who saw Rayson yesterday who watched the stadium took the initiative to greet Rayson as soon as he came in, and asked Rayson to follow them.

The people in the audience also spotted Rayson, and they disturbed for a while, obviously looking forward to Rayson's arrival again for a long time.

"Look! That's him! Yesterday slaughtered six ghouls and a mutant, what a stroke! ”

"I don't think he's anything special, is it really him?"

"It's him! You didn't see it yesterday, he snapped the necks of those ghouls, and the mutant, he kicked it first, and then slashed the girl in half. ”

"yes, and I heard that he insisted on playing the fifth game, just to get a slave."

In the midst of the discussion, everyone consciously moved out of the way, and at the end of the road, it led to the auditorium with stone stools.

A middle-aged man sat on a stone stool, his face was calm, his hair and beard were neatly groomed, and even when he was sitting, his back was straight, and he was not angry.

In his hand, he was still holding a dog leash, but the other end of the leash was not holding a dog, but a small boy with abnormal fair skin. The little boy seemed to be really a dog, so he was wearing a pair of pants and lying obediently at the feet of the middle-aged man, rubbing the middle-aged man's feet from time to time.

This scene looks very weird.

Yesterday's dwarf stood behind the middle-aged man with a respectful face. There was also a man with short limbs, extremely short stature, and gray hair sitting a little lower in the audience.

There is no doubt that the middle-aged man is Saito.