Smack-

The jade shattered, and crystal clear fragments splattered in all directions.

The red rope that binds the jade is spread aside.

The dark eyes turned to Lingyin, and the waterline inside recondensed, pointing ahead—it was still a bustling city.

Yang Chunxue didn't have much yin qi left, so she regretfully exited, and only Lu Li walked to the depths of the city alone.

As we go deeper, there are fewer and fewer pedestrians on the downtown streets, and the doors of the dilapidated bungalows on both sides of the street are mostly closed.

As the horizon widened, the houses began to break in, and the houses were built in a haphazard manner on the riverside wasteland, far from the city.

Lu Li's sight fell on a courtyard not far away, and a scrapped car was overpowered, leaving only an iron shelf.

This made Lu Li think of something, and Jade looked at the door number of a bungalow next to the downtown area.

No. 809 Chess and Card Street

By chance, looking for clues, he unexpectedly approached the stronghold of 'Healthy and Happy Every Day'.

Where the appearance is an ordinary house, a fence yard, mediocre and unremarkable.

Finding that the spirit guide was not pointing there, Lu Li withdrew his gaze and continued forward.

He had already left the downtown area, and the river was babbling not far away, and the rain of the previous day had made the stream very muddy.

At this point, the spirit was turned into chaos. Lu Li's pace did not stop, and he continued to move forward, walking to the river and standing still.

Lu Li lowered his head and looked at the murky river that was more than ten meters wide but only calf deep.

His silhouette was reflected.

"Sir, is there anything you can help with?"

A suppressed Mandarin accent sounded behind him.

Lu Li tilted his head and looked at a ragged scavenger behind him.

After a moment of silence, he nodded slightly: "I'm looking for someone." ”

"Looking for someone?" The scavenger smiled, revealing his uneven yellow fangs. "Would you like to come in and sit down? I live here, you can ask me something. ”

He spoke very poorly, but he was trying to make it sound normal.

"Okay."

Lu Li responded, looked around without a trace, and followed behind the scavengers.

During the rainy period, the summer temperature is pleasant, and the frail and sick may put on a coat on a rainy day, but no one will wear a down jacket.

The scavenger in front of him was an exception, his gray down jacket wrapped around his body, and wool squeezing out of a few holes. A pair of cotton trousers is worn over his legs, and a faded red rope acts as a belt.

Following the scavengers, Lu Li approached a bungalow not far from the river.

The bungalows are made of simple bricks and wooden planks, low and simple. The yard is littered with all kinds of garbage, such as several hills, sewage cross-flowing, and garbage everywhere. An indescribable stench wafted around

Walking past several mountains of garbage in the yard, Lu Li lowered his head and walked into the house.

Wires were cluttered overhead, beds were littered with bedding, and newspapers and scrap metal were surrounded. The room was cramped, and the appliances were humming.

Somewhat surprisingly, there is a black-and-white TV and refrigerator.

The scavenger noticed that Lu Li was looking at the refrigerator, and said with a smile: "It's all picked up, and now there are many things in the city that can still be used, so they don't need it, and it's just cheaper for me." ”

"You may be seated." He pointed to a low table.

Lu Li glanced at Lingyin, but it was still chaotic.

He sat down in silence.

The scavenger took off his down jacket and threw it on the bed, revealing a gray-black oil-stained sweater. He grinned and said to Lu Li, "I'm sorry, I haven't eaten yet, can you wait for me for a while?" ”

"Please."

From beginning to end, it was strange, and Lu Li replied as if he had nothing.

The scavenger nodded, ignoring Lu Li. Hong

He walked to the refrigerator and picked up a box of wild vegetables, and when he glanced at it, Lu Li saw several black plastic bags, blood leaking down and accumulating at the bottom.

Boom.

The scavenger turned off the refrigerator and walked over to the electric frying spoon with wild vegetables in his hand and turned on the fire.

Dozens of seconds later, the pot was hot, and the scavengers poured the wild vegetables into the pot, and with a snort, white smoke rose.

He picked up the black spatula and stirred it, scooped up the pebbles soaked in the water, and poured them into the pot.

Whoop -

The mist boiled and permeated the low canopy. The smell wafts to the land, without any fragrance.

The sound of the pebbles churning is crisp and uncomfortable. After a minute, when there was no more mist rising, the scavengers avoided the fire, put the fried wild vegetables and pebbles into pots, and brought them back to the low table.

The wild vegetables are all water, and the black paint is like black charcoal. A sister's pebble shell is wrapped in a bumpy salt crust.

The scavenger takes a bottle of homebrew from under the table and pours it into a glass.

Scoop up a pebble, put it in your mouth and take a sip, while the saltiness is still gone, pick up the wine glass and drink it all.

"Ha~"

The spicy taste made him sigh of relief.

He seemed to have just remembered that Lu Li was still sitting on the other side, and showed his kind smile as always: "Let Mr. see me smile, this is my appetizer." Poor, there is no way. ”

The glass fell, and some strange flocculent flocculent fluttered in the slightly cloudy wine.

"I saw that there seemed to be some meat in the fridge." Lu Li said.

The scavenger stopped his movements, then resumed his normal movements, and threw the pebbles into his mouth.

He squinted slightly, his tongue stirred the pebbles to taste the saltiness, and only took it out when it was tasteless, and put it on the table, like leftover bones: "Those are reluctant to eat, eat slowly, eat slowly......"

"You can get a job. In today's society, people will not starve to death if they have hands and feet. Lu Li made a suggestion, seemingly forgetting the purpose of coming here.

The scavenger also seemed to have forgotten the reason for inviting Lu Li in, and replied with a chuckle: "Let you laugh, I'm used to being casual, and I can't live that kind of life." ”

Perhaps after drinking some wine, he no longer maintained that awkward Mandarin, and his words took some dialects into his words.

"Understandable." Lu Li nodded.

The two of them chatted without a word, and the pebbles in the basin became fewer and fewer, and the licked stones on the table piled up.

When he drank the second glass of wine, the scavenger put his palm into the basin, but he didn't touch anything.

"I'm done eating...... I'm sorry that a guest didn't stop talking...... "The scavenger smiled innocently, stood up and said, "It seems that I have to take the meat in the refrigerator to make it, sir, do you like to eat fried or boiled?" ”

Lu Li shook his head: "No, I'm not used to eating human flesh." ”

The atmosphere in the cottage was stagnant.

The scavenger's body stiffened for a moment, and he maintained a sincere smile: "Sir, you are joking, I am a law-abiding citizen." ”

"Do the little citizens eat human flesh?" Lu Li asked rhetorically again.

The scavenger's smile faded and resurfaced: "You're so humorous, if you have to think that the refrigerator is full of human flesh, why don't you go and take a look?" ”

"Okay."

Lu Li stood up, walked to the refrigerator and opened the cabinet door.

The coolness was blowing on the face, and two black plastic bags were placed inside. One of the plastic bags was exactly the size of a human head.

The scavenger quietly appeared behind Lu Li, holding a dirty kitchen knife in his hand, gradually raising it above his head, and his honest smile did not decrease.

"Sir, do you see human flesh?"