Chapter 41: Rancid Bread

"Bloating and ascites caused by eating food that can't be digested?"

Colin saw a child with slender limbs gnawing on a piece of wood, crushing it and swallowing it into his stomach.

He is less than 1.2 meters tall but has a belly bigger than a basketball and a bulging belly button.

The appearance of these people, Colin has only seen in some pictures of hunger in Africa.

"Is there a famine in the neighborhood, or is something happening?"

Walking among the victims, Colin looked around thoughtfully and found that much of the bark had been stripped of trees along the way, and there were many potholes in the ground, so that even the roots of grass could not be seen.

Everything in sight has been eaten by the refugees...

What is even more uncomfortable is that some of the refugees, who are still relatively able-bodied, look like vultures at the wounded and dying people, as if waiting for something.

The atmosphere in this area is oppressive and low.

However, at this time, Colin suddenly froze, and felt that there were several implicit unkind lines of sight in the crowd, which were thrown at him from all directions.

Someone has their eye on him!

Almost at the same time, Colin also discovered the reason why he was being targeted, the refugees present were all in groups, dozens of dozens, and he was the only one alone.

Isolated and lonely yourself is obviously the best target to start!

Without thinking about it, there was a sound of rustling, and some people were approaching him.

There were not many people, only five or six, like hyenas, and they surrounded them.

These people are also dressed as refugees, but they don't have the feeling of being starved and weak, but they are very energetic and stated.

At this time, as the encirclement narrowed, these people no longer deliberately hidden.

One of the men, with a dark, wrinkled face, noticed Colin's gaze and grinned with undisguised greed.

already treated him as a piece of fat to his mouthβ€”

Fatty meat in the literal sense of the word!

"You're really good at picking and choosing who to start with."

Looking at the guys who gradually surrounded him, Colin didn't panic, and even wanted to laugh a little.

Although there is something wrong with these people....

But in general, it's just a group of ordinary people, and they wouldn't say that they suddenly became some kind of big guy with a strong body and a height of two meters like the prison warden.

It is enough to take the "retrograde" and deal with it easily.

"It's your own way of death."

Collin's hand reached into his waist pocket, and this action caused the few people gathered around him to pause, worrying if the prey had some unknown means.

But they finally caught a single fat meat, and they didn't want to scatter.

"There doesn't seem to be any danger around here, if anything, it should be this group."

As his mind turned, Colin had a certain guess about what happened to the employees who had lost contact with him in the vicinity.

If nothing else, his first time was probably in the hands of this group of people.

I'm afraid it's not very comfortable to die.

Click.

After more than ten seconds of confrontation, the hyena-like carnivores began to move their legs around again.

The nearest one was less than ten meters away from Colin.

Just as Colin was about to draw his gun, a sudden bell sound was heard in the distance, causing the group of flesh-eaters to stop.

Then, there was a commotion from the depths of the homeless community, breaking the standoff.

"It's food! Yesterday, that aristocratic big man came to deliver food again! ”

I don't know who shouted, and immediately after, the originally oppressive atmosphere in the neighborhood boiled, and even the weakest people struggled to get up at this moment, rushing in a certain direction like a group of monkeys fighting for food.

Even a few people who had taken Colin as food had retreated and disappeared into the crowd when they heard the bell.

Before leaving, he saw the person who was looking at him say "Good luck to you."

'Do you want to take them all now?' ’

Colin narrowed his eyes, after activating the two traits of the retrograde, he could hit the target he wanted to hit in an instant.

But after thinking about it, he decided to wait and see.

He's locked all of them...

If you do it rashly, it is likely to startle the snake, so it is better to keep it and follow them for a while to see if you can find the employee's information.

Then, looking in the direction of the crowd, Colin stopped standing still and walked with them, intending to see what was going on.

After all, he also has a mission [Event 5: Carry "Token-13" to "World Number-13" to investigate all anomalous events that may be related to "hunger"].

Isn't all this related to "hunger"?

In addition, the evacuation behavior of these people made Colin feel that something was not right.

Because if it's to get food, I'm leaving...

Why would you give up on him?

"Speaking of which, in the Prophetic Prediction, when Li Ming and I came here together, the description was to see a large number of wounded, corpses and traces of battle, and then not long after, a second employee was found near here."

Colin looked left and right, and didn't seem to see any signs of the engagement mentioned above.

Could it be that because he came alone this time, things changed a little more?

At least the tragic battles mentioned in the Book of Numerology don't seem to have happened.

I guess it's early...

Colin followed the crowd and soon saw a large convoy of wagons ahead of the crowd.

Some soldiers in iron armor stood guard, armed with long knives, and there were not many of them, only about two dozen people, spread out around a dozen or so vehicles, each with only two or three people, but the displaced people did not dare to attack.

At the front of the wagon convoy, a woman wearing a gray cloak and hiding her face under the cloak stood on the carriage and instructed the soldiers to distribute the food contained in the cart to the hungry homeless people one by one.

Each of these foods is lumpy, pitch-black, rancid bread.

Under the deterrence of the soldiers, the order is now quite normal, and even the stampede has not occurred.

Even if there were a few who tried to get more bread on the occasion, they were quickly found out and thrown behind.

"These soldiers have a lot of strength, and it is so easy to carry a hundred-pound adult, it seems that it is not as good as the prison warden, but it is almost the same as the prison warden's subordinates, but is these breads so delicious?"

Colin smiled as if he had received a treasure when he saw the homeless people who had received the black bread.

And then go crazy and put it in your mouth, and it's a click and a mess...

After thinking about it, Colin squeezed through the crowd and blended into the queue to get a loaf of bread to taste.

His keen sense of smell told him that bread should be unpalatable.

But to see these people eating so happily...

He kind of wanted to try it.

What if it smells like stinky tofu and tastes good?