Pessimistic people are defeated by themselves first, and then defeated by life; optimistic people are defeated by themselves first, and then defeated by life. - Wang Guozhen

Hearing Li Baoqiang's angry scolding, the surviving men and women in the village lowered their heads, and a hint of shame finally appeared on their originally numb faces.

When the woman heard Li Baoqiang's words, she became even more crazy: "Snake-hearted? Vicious? Worse than a beast? Haha! Haha!" A look of violence appeared on the woman's face: "Look at how well you are dressed, and the same on your face.

If you don't look like you're hungry, how do you know how it feels to starve to death? It's a feeling worse than death, you don't understand, you don't know!"

"After the earthquake, all the rich and powerful people in the village drove away in their cars. What about us? We have no money, no cars, no food, and no ability to protect ourselves. The remaining food at home was also robbed." The woman burst into tears, and the villagers also

They all burst into tears. "The child is my life, but the adults can eat some bitter food, but the children cannot. They are hungry day by day. My heart almost breaks when I see the children are so hungry that they are skin and bones!"

The woman's face became dazed, as if she had seen her own child, "Gradually, they couldn't cry or make trouble anymore. I hugged them and felt their bodies slowly getting colder, but I wasn't sad at all.

Finally, they are no longer hungry, they sleep so soundly, and they no longer cry or make trouble!”

This was the first time for Zhao Xiaoxiao to hear about such a tragic situation, and she finally had a new understanding of "exchanging children and eating them".

Li Baoqiang did not continue to listen to the woman's nagging, and said harshly: "So you are going to cook your own child and eat it!?" The man on the ground explained in a low voice: "Who dares to eat his own child, we will change the food.

Li Baoqiang became even more angry when he heard this. He took out a handful of wild vegetables from his backpack and threw them on the ground, "We dug these from outside the village. You adults, if you are strong, you can still eat the bark and the wild vegetables."

Well, why do you want to eat your own children?"

The man on the ground Nuonuo said: "Wild dogs are so powerful. Packs of wild dogs go crazy eating dead people. Several people who survived in the village were eaten alive by wild dogs. We... we... are afraid

." Li Baoqiang kicked the man who was like a pile of mud hard, "This is not a reason, this is not a reason at all!"

"All your children are dead? What happened to this little girl? Whose family does she belong to?" Li Baoqiang asked sharply. "They were picked up. It seems that both parents were killed in the earthquake." After the man finished speaking, he vented.

He took a breath and finally collapsed on the ground. He understood that he had sinned deeply.

When Li Baoqiang heard this, he said in a cold voice: "I'm crazy, if I don't kill you today, it will be unjust!" After saying that, he pulled out the thorn, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and he inserted the thorn into the man's body, and the man died in convulsions.

.The surviving villagers panicked and hid one after another, as if they were going to be killed by Li Baoqiang next.

There was no fear in the eyes of the woman on the ground, as if a big stone had fallen to the ground. Her expression was indifferent. She grabbed the sharp knife on the ground and stabbed it into her chest resolutely. She slowly fell to the ground. Black blood slowly seeped into the ground.

He muttered vaguely: "Children, mommy is here to accompany you. Mommy was wrong. Please forgive mommy."

Li Baoqiang's hand holding the military thorn was trembling, and the muscles on his face were twitching. He stared at the villagers with a fierce look. The villagers were frightened. It was the first time that Zhao Xiaoxiao saw killing, and it was Li Baoqiang who saw killing. She saw Li Baoqiang killing someone.

When he was about to kill the man, he thought about stopping Li Baoqiang, but never shouted. But when he saw the woman committing suicide, especially Li Baoqiang's ferocious face, he finally stopped Li Baoqiang.

Zhao Xiaoxiao stood up and faced the armed team members and the surviving villagers. Even when he spoke to everyone and Li Baoqiang, he seemed to be talking to himself:

"Changing children to eat" is an animal instinct, the instinct to live in order to survive. But we are advanced animal humans with intelligence and emotions. Only fools would do that. "Changing children to eat", as a real human being, even

Even if we starve to death we will not do that, because we have love and we will give, "Be good, eat me"

There is something similar to an idiom that can always be heard when describing troubled times:

Eat by exchanging children.

Teachers always mention this, and they often have tears in their eyes when they teach this knowledge.

What a pitiful common people in troubled times, because they are reluctant to eat their own children,

Just trade with others to eat.

There are always novels that casually include this line to set up the plot,

They are all so hungry that they have to exchange their children for food. War is such a sin.

In this kind of narrative, I really treat my parents as human beings and my children as some kind of reserve food.

Just like he and she in English, a baby is an it.

Only now did I realize that this was the real sin.

Is this "filial piety" in Confucianism?

Just like when Liu Bang was chased by Xiang Yu and was cornered,

Throwing a child off a speeding carriage twice to save weight?

this is not,

There is no doctrine or philosophy that encourages humans to sacrifice others to save themselves.

What's more, it's his own child.

It's just sin.

If I had a child and was born into troubled times,

Be obedient,

Eat me."

As your parents, I can keep you alive,

Even if I sacrifice my flesh and blood, I won’t hesitate!”

"

"Be good, eat me." After hearing this sentence and seeing Zhao Xiaoxiao's sad and angry expression and the miserable voice, the villagers finally burst into tears. Thinking of their children, they were ashamed. For their own survival, they

After eating a child, even though it was a noble-sounding child from another family, now that I think about it, it was really worse than a beast, and the villagers' spirits were about to collapse.

After hearing Zhao Xiaoxiao's words, Li Baoqiang suddenly realized that when he killed someone, although he was filled with righteous indignation, he was relying on the strong to bully the weak, and was essentially no different from these villagers.

"Don't cry. I originally wanted to kill you all and go to another world to face your own children, but now I don't want you to die so happily. Your own sins must be punished and you can repent in the punishment.

!" Li Baoqiang said angrily.

Li Baoqiang decided to take this group of people back to Hope Village and let them be punished while mining and consuming their physical strength. Li Baoqiang asked the team members to tie up these collapsed villagers and led them to a flat land in the village.

Bonfire, ready for some lunch.

The fragrant dog meat and crispy wild vegetable root soup were placed in front of the armed soldiers and villagers, but no one touched their mouths to eat. The bloody scenes and tragic conditions made it difficult for them to swallow, especially the dog meat that came from wild dogs that had eaten dead people.

It made the team members feel sick.

Li Baoqiang reluctantly gave the meat to the eager wolf dog Candy beside him. Candy opened his mouth wide and swallowed it in a few mouthfuls. He howled happily. The villagers looked at the white wolf in front of them in horror. Candy had grown up.

, because spending all day in the mountains catching prey with the team members has exposed the wolf’s primitive nature.

Li Baoqiang asked several team members to dig out hibernating animals such as hedgehogs and snakes. Soon the team members found a bunch of hibernating animals from the potholes on the hillside. After working for a long time, the villagers finally had a full meal.

They were also surprised, and finally had a decent meal, their faces became energetic and their expressions were no longer numb.

Zhao Xiaoxiao watched Li Baoqiang wolfing down a piece of snake meat timidly, and asked Li Baoqiang: "Have you eaten all kinds of meat?" Li Baoqiang didn't understand what he meant, and wanted to brag, "Yeah, don't talk about meat.

, even the maggots have been eaten, it smells so good, it is high in protein, good stuff." "Get out, don't kiss me again." Li Baoqiang finally regretted his showing off.

In the next two days, Li Baoqiang and his team members visited three nearby villages and rescued more than 70 villagers in total, including more than a dozen children. They did not find much food. Seeing that the New Year was very close, the team was sparse.

The villagers could not walk much distance every day, so Li Baoqiang decided to ask Li Dayong to lead ten people to escort the villagers back to Hope Village.

At this moment, a villager came to Li Baoqiang and revealed a situation to Li Baoqiang. Ten miles south of the current village is a town of 3,000 people called Songling Town. There are many survivors in the town and there is a lot of food, but

The town has been put under temporary control, and the few surviving bullies in the town have begun armed separatism, killing, setting fires, raping, enslaving, and committing all kinds of evil. This villager escaped from the town.

Knowing that the town was armed, with guns and a large amount of food, Li Baoqiang thought about it and decided to capture the town. He asked Li Dayong to lead four subsequent team members to continue escorting the villagers back to Hope Village immediately, and at the same time asked the fat man Wang Zhiming

and Li Dayong rushed back to provide support.

Li Baoqiang led the Wu Chun female soldiers and sixteen male soldiers to Songling Town to seize food and rescue survivors. Zhao Xiaoxiao insisted on following Li Baoqiang, but Li Baoqiang had no choice but to let Zhao Xiaoxiao follow. Seeing the trust in Zhao Xiaoxiao's eyes

With a look of dependence, Li Baoqiang became more determined to capture the town safely.

Li Baoqiang checked the submachine gun and found that there were still forty rounds of ammunition. The pistol that Li Dayong insisted on keeping had fifteen rounds of ammunition. Li Baoqiang handed the pistol to Zhao Xiaoxiao and taught her how to use it. Zhao Xiaoxiao danced excitedly

, making aiming movements, the childish movements made Li Baoqiang speechless for a while. With him here, Zhao Xiaoxiao's safety should be no problem.

The other male and female soldiers held Miao knives and spears in their hands, and carried crossbows on their shoulders. These team members were the first batch of armed members. The so-called team members who had killed wild boars and seen blood, especially the six female soldiers such as Wu Chun, were the real killers.

Li Baoqiang, who has seen blood among the team members, is very relieved about the female soldiers.

"Rookies always have to go through bloodshed and sacrifice to mature!"

Li Baoqiang led the team to the outskirts of Songling Town after half a day. The sky had darkened. Looking at the smoke rising in Songling Town, one could faintly hear the sounds of women and children crying. Li Baoqiang arranged for the team members to rest in hiding, and he

Go on a reconnaissance trip alone.

Li Baoqiang put on his pistol, gave the submachine gun to Wu Chun, took Wu Chun's crossbow and put it on his back, comforted the nervous Zhao Xiaoxiao, touched Candy's head, and took a handful of black from the ashes on the ground.

The ash was smeared on his face, and Li Baoqiang suddenly found the feeling of performing tasks in the army before.
Chapter completed!