Rainy season.

The heavy rain came as soon as possible. The sky that had just scattered sunshine was covered by dark dark clouds in an instant, and the downpour of rain poured down. The residents of the slums who were about to come out to play were immediately scared to hide back to their houses, fearing that the rain would splash on them.

The rain accumulated on the streets and quickly spread out in the slums. Some low-lying slums have been submerged by the rain and have not been repaired. The drainage system has no effect at this moment. In a moment, the entire outer slums have become a vast ocean.

In Meishan Orphanage.

At the door of the residential house, a woman who looked in her thirties led a dozen children aged seven or eight to eleven or eleven, hurriedly carrying sandbags that had been made, piled up on the threshold, blocking the surging rainwater.

"Dudion, why don't you come and help!"

"It's useless to call him, he's a fool."

"That's so annoying!"

Several boys were so tired that they were sweating profusely when they saw a little boy standing quietly in front of the window not far away. They were a little angry, but they knew it was useless to say it, so they could only grit their teeth and continue to deliver the sandbag in their hands to the door.

The little boy in front of the window looked about seven or eight years old and thin, but his size was similar to other eleven or twelve-year-olds. The most conspicuous thing was his skin color, which was extremely fair and even a bit sickly pale. Compared with the other people's tanned and dirty skin by strong light and ultraviolet rays, it was incompatible. This made many children envious.

But Dudian sighed in his heart. This is the sequelae caused by the freezing chamber. Although he has been away from the freezing chamber for more than three months, his body has not recovered and his whole body cannot be lifted. In modern medicine, it is myasthenia.

Just standing is very difficult.

Not to mention moving sandbags to block the rain.

However, such a situation is already a blessing in disgrace. After all, when the disaster hit China, the research institute had just made its first freezing chamber. Before he had time to enter the experimental stage, no one knew whether there would be any failures. It was already a small miracle that he could sleep in the freezing chamber for three hundred years intact.

But he was not happy.

He did survive, but his parents and sister who made the freezer bin stayed. Faced with the terrifying disaster, even though they survived very, very lucky, three hundred years have passed and have long been buried in the dust.

In this vast world, he had no more relatives, and from then on he faced the world alone.

He did not despair. Although he had been sad or sad, his parents gave him two lives. He would never allow himself to be decadent. He not only wanted to live well, but also wanted to make himself proud, and his deceased parents and sister were proud of him!!

Fortunately, God finally protected the race of human beings. When he just crawled out of the freezing warehouse, he originally thought that he was the only one left on the earth now and one life. It was not until he walked out of the garbage dump where the freezing warehouse was buried that he found that human beings were not extinct. It seemed that a few people survived that disaster, and after three hundred years of reproduction and development, they had a good scale.

Unfortunately, the civilization and technology three hundred years ago have been completely destroyed by disasters. What he saw and heard during this period of time, and did not see or hear any items symbolizing the technology of the old era. Not only did human beings lose the power to conquer this planet, but even their basic life was extremely difficult.

As his thoughts flew, the storm outside the window gradually stopped.

Seeing the water level in front of the threshold stopped rising, everyone in the room breathed a sigh of relief, as if they had experienced a protracted fierce battle, and everyone felt exhausted. At this time, the middle-aged woman looked at the sky and saw the dark clouds gradually melting a little, revealing the turbid sky light. She knew that she would not go down again for a while, and immediately said: "I'm going to the cafeteria for dinner, and I'm wearing wax straw sandals."

When all the children heard the word "eating", their eyes lit up, and their previous fatigue was wiped out. They returned to the room and put on waxed straw sandals and lined up obediently.

"Dian, go and put on your shoes and prepare for dinner." At this time, a voice from the back of the team called out to Dudian. The person who spoke was a seven or eight-year-old boy. As soon as he finished speaking, he seemed to remember something. He patted his head and patted Dudian on the shoulder, gestured with one hand, pointing in the direction of the cafeteria, but the other arm had an empty sleeve.

Dudian remembered that his name was Patton, and he was one of the few children in the yard who had good intentions to him. This probably had something to do with him. After three hundred years of change, his language had been renovated. When he first came to the orphanage, he neither understood what others said nor could he speak their language. He could only remain silent. Over time, everyone thought he was a little stupid and might have an IQ problem.

So naturally, he was divided into a deformed group like Patton.

Children in orphanages are divided into two factions: one is healthy and abandoned by their parents, and the other is physically deformed and abandoned by their parents. In this world, even children have long learned to live together.

Dudian nodded, showing his understanding, and then followed Patton to the back of the team. Patton was about to ask Dodian to change into straw sandals first, but accidentally looked down, but found that Dudian was already wearing a pair of light green high-tube shoes under his trousers, and he couldn't help but feel silenced.

Plastics have not been invented in this world. Shoes made of wax grass have become the most commonly used rain gear for people. This is a natural mutant grass that can be seen everywhere, with large leaves and finely raised waxy layers on the surface can effectively block radiation rainwater, and have become a must-have item for every household.

Everyone walked carefully along a half-meter-high path made of narrow stones in front of the threshold. The rain only flooded his ankles. If they accidentally fell into the water, even the strongest adults would inevitably get seriously ill.

When they arrived at the cafeteria, everyone immediately began to grab seats. The limited seats were swept away by the healthy children in front of them. Dudian, Patton and other children with deformities had long been used to it. When they came to the corner behind, there were a few piles of stones, which were their dining tables.

"I heard that there are doctors and wall builders among the adopters who came this time."

"Auntie Dai said that, and let us seize this opportunity and perform well."

"It would be so happy if I could be adopted by a doctor."

"I hope to be adopted by a wall builder, and maybe I have the hope of climbing the giant wall of Sylvia and seeing the world outside the giant wall."

Before the meal was delivered, Patton started chatting with several other children. These children either had few ears or had small lumps of flesh on their faces, and none of them looked normal.

Dudian's eyes flashed when he heard their words, and he remained silent.

"It's a pity that Dean has a bad mind, otherwise Dean's appearance and body would definitely be selected by those people." After chatting for a while, Patton suddenly sighed, glanced at Dudian, and said with some regret.

The other children looked at Dudian who was unresponsive and shook their heads and sighed.

They had already agreed that no matter who was adopted, they would do their best to come back to help the rest of the people. In terms of appearance alone, Dudian was undoubtedly the most promising to be adopted, but his brain problems were more serious than physical problems. For example, the child with half of his face was full of flesh bumps, although he looked terrifying, but his hands and feet were sound and his IQ was normal. At least he could do a hard worker and find a job.

"Hmph, a group of incomplete things, and I want to compete with us for the opportunity to adopt them." At this time, a thin child in a nearby seat heard the words of Patton and others, snorted and contemptuously.

His words immediately attracted the attention of others. For a moment, his contemptuous and disgusting eyes fell on Dudian, Patton and others.

Compared with deformed children, those who are healthy but abandoned have a stronger sense of hostility in their hearts.

Dudian glanced at these people indifferently and said nothing. Although he was also a child, he had seen too many things and felt a deep feeling in his heart that many adults did not have.

And his appearance, in the eyes of these people, is "stupid".

"Look at this fool, he can't even understand even scolding him."

"No wonder the guy with a broken head was abandoned!"

"I still want to be adopted? Wait for me to be thrown into the mine after I was thirteen years old!"

These children do not hide their contempt or disgust at all, and enjoy it.

At this time, the food was delivered, and the middle-aged woman who brought them here shouted: "Be quiet, don't you want to eat it anymore?"

Hearing this, the children's arrogance subsided, their faces full of innocentness, as if nothing had happened just now.

...

The next day.

The silver-gray dark clouds gradually spread out, and the sun shone onto the slums.

During the rainy season, this is a rare sunny and good weather.

It just so happens that today is also a long-awaited day for the children of Meishan Orphanage - adoption day!

All families who made reservations in advance rushed to the orphanage on this day to select children they were satisfied with.

In the morning, Dudian got up on time. Although there was no alarm clock in this world, his biological clock never made any mistakes. After getting up, he finished tidying up his bedding, washed his face with simple filtered well water, and picked up another set of white-white coarse cloth clothes beside the pillow. Just as he was about to change it, he suddenly pinched a soft ball inside. When he took it out, he saw that it was a purple handkerchief cured into a ball.

Du Di'an was slightly stunned, and couldn't help but think of the little girl who led him to this orphanage in the cold night. Unfortunately, it was dark and he couldn't see the other person clearly. During the three months in the orphanage, he naturally knew that the person who could afford this exquisite fabric was definitely an upper class person in the outer wall area.

There was still a dark scoop left on the handkerchief that was wiping his face, which could not be washed clean.

After a moment of silence, Dudian put his handkerchief into his arms, then changed into clothes and rushed to the open space outside the orphanage.

Although he had only one parent in his heart, he had to let himself be adopted as soon as possible. If a child who had not been adopted at the age of thirteen would be given up in the orphanage and sent to the mine controlled by the "Meishan Coal Mine Chamber of Commerce" behind the Meishan Orphanage, it would become a permanent free labor force. Until he died of exhaustion and old age, he would never have the chance to see the light of day again.

Like Dudian, on this day, all the children in the orphanage "dressed in good clothes" and washed themselves clean one by one, changing into clothes that they had been reluctant to wear for a long time. These clothes were coarse cloth clothes distributed when they first entered the orphanage.

If your body smells, no one wants to get close to you.

This is what Aunt Dai warned them.

Looking around, in front of the orphanage, a large group of children stood in front of the sand soaked with rain in the orphanage, but they were faintly divided into two camps, sound and deformed.

After all the children stood up, the adults who came to adopt came to the children, led by Aunt Dai and other orphanage caregivers, and looked at the group of orphans who might become their own children.

"Hello uncle and aunt."

Under Aunt Dai's guidance, except for Dudian and several other deformed people who can't speak, the other children were all shouting obediently, their black eyes were full of innocence, and their faces were full of desire and hope. This fiery gaze made some adults feel sighed and unbearable.

Soon, Dudian, who was thin but tall in the crowd, became the target of all adults' attention. His pale skin color was so eye-catching, and his temperament was completely different from the children around him. The adults couldn't say where the specific difference was. They just felt that the child was very calm and had a kind of nobleness. Yes, it was nobleness.

This surprised many adults. Unexpectedly, there would be such outstanding seedlings in orphanages in slums.
Chapter completed!