Chapter 29: The Old Woman's Helplessness

The shirtless man threw his fist and knocked Si Moxue to the ground, and the audience was in an uproar.

"What are you doing?" Doll and Mia screamed, clenching their fists and rushing towards the shirtless man.

Si Moxue waved her hand to stop them, got up from the ground, wiped the blood from the corners of her mouth, and asked:

"Why?"

The man's face was angry, he opened his mouth to speak, and an old voice came from behind him: "Qiangzi, stop." ”

It was the old woman who was carried out of the fire by the man, and at this time she slowly got up from the ground with her support for the wall, and walked towards the two of them tremblingly.

The shirtless man who was replaced with a "strong son" seemed to respect the old woman very much, glared at Si Moxue, turned around and walked forward quickly to hug the old woman.

The old woman staggered to Si Moxue, although she was not very old, she was very thin, almost out of shape, and her back was slumped.

She said to Sim Xue: "We are all mixed races with almost no combat ability, whether in the human gathering area or in the oasis, we are living very hard, and most of us are starving to death. Instead of starving to death because we have no food to eat, we should come here and Mr. Mole will provide us with food and a place to live. Although it hurts a little when you cut the meat, it still grows anyway, right? ”

The old woman gently grabbed Si Moxue's hand hanging by her side: "We know that Mr. Yan's approach is wrong, killing people and eating meat, heaven is intolerable." But the people who joined the factory in the beginning were voluntary, and the canned food was sold only to those in the agglomeration who could not afford meat because of poverty. Later, the canned food was sold to the oasis, and there were more people buying canned food, and there was not enough meat. Mr. Mole began to arrest people everywhere. ”

"There was a little boy in our house who was caught and cried for his mother every night. At that time, I knew that Mr. Mole's original intention had changed, and it was only a matter of time before the factory collapsed. The old woman grabbed Si Moxue's hand in front of her eyes.

Si Moxue lowered her head and saw her little white, slightly calloused palms and fingertips held in the old woman's wrinkled hands like old bark.

The old woman gently patted the back of Si Moxue's palm, and her voice was gentle as if Si Moxue was her granddaughter: "Little girl, we don't blame you, and you don't blame yourself, I know that what you did was out of good intentions, and you were right." Human flesh factories shouldn't exist. It's just that now the factory can't be run anymore, and I don't know where to live next......"

Si Moxue lowered her eyes and looked at the ground and did not answer.

After saying this, the old woman let go of Sim Xue's hand. Her body was so degraded that just saying these words made her start to pant slightly.

Qiangzi helped her and slowly walked back to her original place to sit down and rest.

The fire behind the factory seemed to recede, revealing black, distorted walls that had been burned by tongues of fire. Thick black smoke billowed, carrying sparks, and rushed to the factory roof.

Surviving workers from the burning factory came out one after another.

Before long, the open space in front of the door was crowded with survivors, all of them with their clothes torn, their skin burned, and their gray faces with a thick smell of smoke.

People squeezed in the direction of the factory gates, greedily breathing in the fresh air outside, trying to avoid the smoke billowing from the depths of the factory

More inspectors arrived, opened the factory gates, stormed into the clearing, extinguished the fire, and escorted all the factory personnel and hybrids into the car.

Sim Moxue and Tao Er watched as Qiangzi climbed onto the transport cart with the old woman on his back.

A hybrid with a uniform that was different from the others and suspected to be the leader of the squad came to Si Moxue: "You are the recipient of the mission of 'Investigating the Unknown Source of Meat in the Factory', Miss Si Moxue, a junior wasteland hunter!" ”

"I am."

The team leader handed her the documents in his hand and said in a businesslike tone: "The follow-up processing of this factory has been handed over to the Silver Hall, thank you for your efforts in this incident." This is a reward notification that you can use to claim your reward in the nearest Silver Hall when you return to the Oasis. ”

Si Moxue took the document and responded: "Thank you." ”

After loading all the personnel into the vehicle, the patrol team started the vehicle and returned to the oasis.

Si Moxue and Tao Er watched the patrol team vehicles gradually move away until they turned into small dots and disappeared at the end of the road.

Tao Er watched the vehicle disappear, and turned her head to look at Si Moxue: "Moxue, we ...... Do you really want to do this? ”

Before Si Moxue could answer, Mia rushed out from behind a stone: "What's the matter?" Do you think I'm being taken away like that? Meow. ”

Dore: "I don't think it's good to hide your situation, in case I find out......"

Mia snatched her words: "I was secretly brought in by Mr. Mole, and I usually wear a mask, and there are few people in the factory who know my true identity, so I won't be discovered, so I won't be discovered, good meow?" ”

"Besides......" Mia said with a cold smile on her face, and she said in her usual cheerful tone, "I have all the contents of the factory transaction in my hands, enough to make them guilty, so they won't confess me, meow~"

"But ......"

Taoer wanted to say something, but Si Moxue opened her mouth to interrupt her: "Okay, I promised Mia in the factory, and ...... Mia just wants a family, and her nature is not bad. ”

She looked like Mia, the cat-eared girl was not an empty vase of beauty, she was quite clever and decisive. Si Moxue retracted her gaze.

“…… Oh. Doll silently swallowed the second half of the sentence, "It's troublesome to take her in."

Mia noticed that Si Moxue was staring thoughtfully at the place where the patrol vehicle had disappeared, and said, "Xiaoxue, are you worried about those hybrid meows?" ”

Si Moxue let out a low "um" and put her hands behind her back: "I'm thinking about what they will do in the future?" ”

After Mia listened, her beautiful eyebrows wrinkled together: "It's the end of the world, everyone has their own way of living, we can just take care of ourselves, what do you want to do so much?" ”

"What's more, they first said that they were unlucky, and they didn't have people who could make them live in the last days, and they couldn't complain about others, meow." Mia thought for a moment and added.

Si Moxue raised her head and smiled at Mia: "I know, it's me who is too worried." ”

It was getting late, and the cold wind in the Tartarus Wasteland was screaming more and more fiercely around the three of them. The temperature around is dropping dramatically.

A cold wind blew, and Mia couldn't help but shiver - the skirt she was wearing was torn in the battle with Si Moxue, and she was only wearing a thin dress and pants. Originally, there was a lot of sweat sticking to my body in the fire, but now I was blown by the cold wind, and the chill felt pierced to my bones.

"It's so cold...... Mia said in a trembling voice, holding her arm.

Si Moxue and Taoer were not much better, their clothes were soaked with sweat, and after being cooled by the wind, they were like a layer of cold armor covering their skin, arousing goosebumps.

"Let's go back early." Si Moxue shook her clothes so that her sweaty underwear didn't stick directly to her skin.

Mia and Doll answered, and followed Smoxue in the direction of the oasis.

Before leaving, Si Moxue stopped and glanced behind her.

She squinted, just now I don't know if it was her delusion or something, there seemed to be a few silver-white hairs on the ground behind the burned factory.