Chapter 041 Smelly Bread
"Abdominal bloating and ascites caused by indigestible food?"
Colin saw a child with slender limbs chewing on a piece of wood, breaking it into pieces, and then swallowing it slowly.
He is less than 1.2 meters tall but has a belly bigger than a basketball and a bulging belly button.
Colin had only seen these people in some pictures about hunger in Africa.
"Is there a famine in the neighborhood, or something else?"
Colin walked among the victims and looked around thoughtfully. He found that many of the trees along the way had been stripped of their bark, and there were many potholes on the ground, and not even any grass roots could be seen.
Everything edible within sight has been eaten up by the refugees...
What is even more uncomfortable is that some refugees who still have intact limbs would look at the injured and dying people like vultures from time to time, as if they were waiting for something.
The atmosphere in this area is terribly depressing and gloomy.
However, at this moment, Colin was suddenly startled and felt that there were several malicious gazes in the crowd, directed at him from all directions.
Someone is targeting him!
Almost at the same time, Colin also discovered the reason why he was targeted. The refugees present were all huddled together, dozens of them in a group, and he was the only one left alone.
I am isolated and alone, so I am obviously the best target!
Before he could think about it, he heard some people approaching him with rustling sounds.
There were not many of them, only five or six, and they surrounded them like hyenas.
These people were also dressed like refugees , but they did not look exhausted from hunger. Instead, they looked energetic and in good shape.
At this time, as the encirclement narrowed, these people no longer tried to hide.
One of the men, with a dark and wrinkled face, noticed Colin's gaze and grinned fiercely, his eyes filled with undisguised greed.
They had already regarded him as a piece of fat meat in their mouths——
Literally fat!
"You really know how to choose your targets."
Looking at the guys gradually surrounding him, Colin was not panicked, and even felt like laughing.
Although there is something wrong with these people...
But in general, they are just a group of ordinary people. They won't suddenly become strong and tall like the warden.
Taking the "Retrograde" is enough to deal with it easily.
"You are asking for your own death."
Colin reached into his waist pocket, which made the people who had surrounded him pause for a moment, worried that his prey might have some unknown tricks up his sleeve.
But they had finally caught a lone fat piece of meat and didn't want to disperse.
"There doesn't seem to be any danger around here. If there is any, it should be this group of people."
As Colin's thoughts turned, he had some guesses about what happened to the employees who lost contact in this area.
If nothing unexpected happens, his first time will probably be lost at the hands of this group of people.
It's probably not a very comfortable way to die.
Click.
After the two sides confronted each other for more than ten seconds, this group of hyena-like carnivores began to move their legs again and surrounded them.
The nearest one was less than ten meters away from Colin.
Just as Colin was about to draw his gun, a bell sounded suddenly in the distance, causing the group of carnivores to stop.
Then, a noise came from deep within the refugee group, breaking the standoff here.
"It's food! That noble figure from yesterday is here to deliver food again!"
Someone shouted, and then the originally oppressive atmosphere in the vicinity began to boil over. Even the weakest people struggled to get up and rushed in a certain direction like a group of monkeys fighting for food.
Even the few people who regarded Colin as food retreated and disappeared into the crowd after hearing the bell.
Before leaving, he saw the person who was looking at him and said, "Good luck to you."
"Do you want to capture all of them now?"
Colin narrowed his eyes. After activating the two characteristics of the Retrograde, he could hit the target he wanted in an instant.
But after thinking about it, he decided to wait and see.
He has locked on to all of these people...
If we act rashly, we will probably alert the enemy. It would be better to stay and follow them to see if we can find the employee's information.
Then, looking at the direction where the crowd was rushing, Colin no longer stood there, but followed them over to see what was going on.
After all, he still had a mission [Event 5: Carry "Token-13" to "World No.-13" to investigate any abnormal events that might be related to "hunger"].
Isn’t all this related to “hunger”?
In addition, Colin felt something was not .
Because if you leave just to get food...
Why would you give up on attacking him?
"Speaking of which, according to the predictions on the fate paper, when Li Ming and I came here together, we saw a large number of injured people, corpses, and traces of fighting. Not long after, we found the second employee nearby."
Colin looked around and didn't seem to see any signs of the fighting mentioned above.
Could it be that because he came alone this time, things changed again?
At least the brutal battle mentioned in the book of numerology did not seem to happen.
I guess I came too early...
Colin followed the direction of the crowd and soon saw a large convoy of horse-drawn carriages in front of him.
Some soldiers wearing iron armor were guarding nearby, holding long swords. There were not many of them, only about twenty people, spread out next to a dozen or so convoys, with only two or three people in each convoy. However, they made the refugees afraid to attack.
At the front of , a woman wearing a gray cloak that hid her face was standing on a carriage and directing the soldiers to distribute the food in the carriages to the hungry refugees one by one.
Each of these foods was a block of black, rotten-smelling bread.
Under the deterrence of the soldiers, order is now relatively normal and even no trampling has occurred.
Even if there were a few people who tried to take advantage of the situation and get more bread, they were quickly caught and thrown to the back.
"These soldiers are very strong. They can lift an adult weighing over 100 pounds so easily. They may not be as strong as the warden, but they are about the same as the warden's men. However, are these breads so delicious?"
Colin saw the refugees smiling as if they had received a treasure when they received the black bread.
Then he put it in his mouth like crazy and started chewing it...
After thinking about it, Colin squeezed through the crowd and joined the queue, wanting to get a piece of bread to taste.
His keen sense of smell told him that the bread must taste terrible.
But seeing these people eating so happily...
He was more or less tempted to try it.
What if it smells bad but tastes good like stinky tofu?
