Chapter 27: Mia's Memories
Hungry!
I'm so hungry!
I'm so hungry!
Mia curled up in a tuft of dead grass, a low moan coming out of her mouth.
How long has it been since she eaten...... Two days? Three days? Or five days?
Mia didn't know.
It's been about ten days since she escaped from that man, right?
It's been more than a month since she was sold to that man by her parents, and I don't know what happened to my parents and younger brother.
"Mia, Mia, forgive me, we really can't open the pot anymore!" The man who was her father clasped her hands behind her back, begging for her forgiveness and, despite her struggles, twisted her into the man's car.
"Mia, we're sorry for you. But you can't bear to watch your mom and dad and your brother starve to death. โ
A woman with a thin face and thin body with almost only a skeleton remained, holding a fairly white and fat boy, knelt down in front of her, and cried.
The boy also called her name in a milky voice, and he said, "Sister, I'm sorry, but Hao Hao is so hungry." โ
Her father, who was holding her back, said behind her, "Mia, just follow that man, and you won't have to starve again." Please, please, just help Daddy. โ
It's nice not to starve, but why didn't she get into that man's car?
Mia remembers that last night she woke up hungry in the middle of the night and went to find her mother with the doll, only to see her parents crying outside the house.
"Really...... Do you want to do that? Her mom asked her dad.
Dad looked up at the dead black sky, and after a while, he considered the words and said, "We are really desperate, and Mia will starve to death sooner or later with us...... What's more, Haohao is still so young, Mia, Mia, we have been raising her for twelve years, and we have done our best. The man said he would pay a large sum of money, andใAnd she promised to wait until Mia grew up......," he said in his final tone, not knowing whether he was convincing his wife, or convincing himself.
Mom whimpered loudly and buried her head in her lap. Mia heard her forced cry: "But...... We're pushing Mia into the fire pit......"
Mom and Dad want to sell her!
No, she doesn't believe it!
Mia was no longer hungry, and she slowly retreated back into the house with the doll in her arms. The younger brother Hao Hao slept soundly in the only bed, snoring slightlyโhe should be the only one in the family who could eat enough.
The next day, when an SUV stops in front of Miaga's dilapidated shack, a man in the car puts a bag of Gray coins in front of her parents, and Mia believes that her parents really want to abandon her.
Despite Mia's struggles and cries, Dad still grabbed her hand and forcibly stuffed her into the SUV. Her favorite pink doll fell to the ground, stained with dust, and trampled on.
The man locked the car door and drove into the depths of the wasteland with a crying unconscious Mia.
It wasn't until she was led into a room with a light musk smell by the man that Mia knew what her mother's "fire pit" meant -
That man wants her to be a prostitute!
Of course Mia refused, how could she be. She resisted desperately every time, swearing to the death, leaving the man helpless. Finally, on a rainy night, Mia freed her genes and escaped.
But what happens after you escape? Even if she can be genetically emancipated and has nothing to eat, she is just a sick cat.
Mia soon fell hungry.
A sharp pain in my stomach. In the empty stomach pouch, has the unbridled stomach acid begun to digest itself?
Mia tasted the blood oozing from her chapped lips, and bursts of palpitations, mania, and sometimes hallucinations, all signs of severe dehydration under extreme hunger -
A pair of boots appeared in front of Mia, and the owner of the boots placed an open box of cans in front of her.
Mia pounced on it and swallowed up the can in a few bites, leaving her empty stomach bag feeling a little better.
The owner of the boots watched Mia gobble it up until she licked the last drop of gravy and put down the can without getting enough of it, and then asked her slowly, "Do you know what this can is made of?" โ
โ...... Rat meat? โ
"No, it's made of human flesh."
Mia's eyes widened instantly, and she fell to her knees and picked her throat with her fingers, trying to spit out the can she had just eaten. But the hungry stomach pouch had already digested these things, and Mia retched on the side for a long time, not throwing up anything.
"Why, why do you want to eat human flesh for me...... Why do such an evil thing. Mia wrapped her head and fell to her knees.
"Follow me." Said the owner of the boots.
The owner of the boots, who calls himself Mr. Mole, takes Mia to a factory.
In the factory, there is an assembly line, and large and small pieces of meat fall from the hopper to the conveyor belt, and then from the other end into cans and transported out.
"These ...... It's all human flesh? Doll asked, following Mr. Mole, looking at the roaring machine.
"Have you heard the story of the Old World 'Prometheus'?" Mr. Mole did not answer the rhetorical question. Then, without waiting for Mia to answer, he went on to himself:
"Prometheus stole the Heavenly Fire and gave it to humanity to save them from hunger and cold. He was also punished by Zeus, the lord of all gods, and was chained to the Caucasus Mountains. There, every day, a vulture pecks at his entrails, but the entrails are constantly reborn, and there is no end to the pain. โ
He took a breath and looked down at Mia: "This meat comes from some hybrid who can regenerate limbs, cutting off an ear and dodging a finger is nothing to them, but it can save a person who is about to starve to death." Do you think it's good or evil. โ
"It's ......," Mia couldn't answer.
"The meat has been specially treated and the DNA in it has been broken. They are not human flesh, just an ordinary, inexpensive but delicious piece of meat. โ
Mr. Mole stroked Mia's pale yellow hair and whispered, "Mia, join us, I will treat you like family." โ
"Family......"
Mia agreed, and from then on she lived in the factory, guarding the factory for Mr. Mole and not allowing outsiders to enter.
......
However, Mr. Mole, who promised to treat her as a family member, has also abandoned her. Once again, she was abandoned.
Seeing that Mia was not struggling, Si Moxue tried to let go of her. Mia collapsed on the ground, two lines of tears streaming down her cheeks.
Just when Smoxue and Doll thought it was all over.
"Boom-" There was a loud bang.
The room began to tilt, and the knick-knacks on the desk fell to the floor.
Si Moxue propped up the wall: "What's wrong?" Was there an explosion? โ