As if he had touched something, the cheerful old man's face suddenly turned a little sad.
Chen Yang also slowly stopped.
"Corpses..." After a long time, the old man spoke again and said, "My eyes were full of corpses. I was so hungry that I couldn't eat them. Fortunately... I saw rats eating corpse flesh!"
Chen Yang's hair stood on end for a while.
"The girl was so scared that she didn't dare to move. I said, I'll do it. I'll catch the mice and roast them! They taste so good!"
"Those rats might be crazy from hunger. They didn't even know how to run away when I tried to catch them. Maybe in their eyes, I was also a dead person and was their food! I wasn't that powerful at that time.
In addition, after being hungry for several days, it took a lot of effort to catch three of them. But it was enough for us to survive!"
"We found a ruined temple, and we set up a fire to roast the mouse. Tsk tsk... the roast was pretty good, and it was very fragrant. But we just ate one, and someone came to the door..."
There was a sense of self-mockery in the old man's eyes.
"Two middle-aged men came in and their eyes lit up when they saw us, as if they were seeing meat."
Chen Yang was shocked.
"This girl is so frightened. Although she has no experience in the secular world, she has read a lot of history books. In troubled times, she still understands the countless people who exchanged children for food."
"What happened next?" Chen Yang couldn't help but asked curiously.
"Later..." the old man scratched his head, "the girl was very popular with them because of her thin skin and tender flesh. When I saw something was wrong, I sent the remaining two mice meat, but these two middle-aged men
But no, they had to tie us up. I had no choice but to take out my self-defense knives and give each of them one knife... No, each person must have dozens of knives, killing them so hard that they couldn't even see the appearance.
It’s clear.”
Having said this, the old man smiled at Chen Yang and asked, "Isn't it a little cruel?"
Chen Yang shook his head, "They are cruel if you are not cruel!"
"Haha, if you were there with me, I doubt you would be more ruthless than me!"
Chen Yang nodded and said calmly: "If it were me, I might have murderous intentions from the moment I saw them."
The old man looked relieved, clapped his hands and said, "I like you very much."
Chen Yang smiled calmly.
"That was my first time killing someone. I was actually quite scared. Besides, I was only around ten years old at the time. If they hadn't been defenseless and the two of them were so hungry, I wouldn't have done anything at all.
No chance."
Chen Yang remained silent and did not speak.
"The girl and I were so frightened that we ran out of the ruined temple with two pieces of rat meat. Not long after, we met two families in another ruined temple. The men were not at home, only their wives were left.
The child was there. It turned out that their men had gone out to look for food, leaving them waiting in the ruined temple. And they were well hidden, and most people couldn't find them at all. Only then did I know that the two people I killed were
, the backbone of these two families!”
Chen Yang was startled.
"Their families are very good, and they are not as ferocious as these two men at all..." the old man said calmly again, "One of the women even saw us as pitiful and wanted to take us to flee together. Yes, in troubled times, even if they
I have too much time to take care of myself, but they still want to help me."
"you……"
"Then I gave them the meat of the only two rats I had!" The old man suddenly laughed, "They ate it very happily."
Chen Yang had mixed feelings and didn't know what to say for a while.
"However, I don't feel guilty about them!" The old man chuckled, "Their husband wanted to eat me, so I killed him, which was fair. Their wives wanted to take me in and save me, so I gave them a pair of rat meat.
, equally fair!”
Looking at the transparent old man, Chen Yang smiled bitterly, but said seriously: "Senior is right!"
As if he had received great recognition, the old man smiled so much that his brows wrinkled.
"I told you that you have a good eye for it, and it's really good!"
"At that time, I was thinking about a question, is it because people's hearts are bad? No, it's because the world is bad and it turns people into beasts!"
Chen Yang remembered the time before the mountain village.
Before Taohua Village, neighbors could quarrel or even get violent over trivial matters.
But now that we have become rich and every family has a surplus of food, such things have become less common.
"I like what you do better!" The old man seemed not to want to talk about his own affairs anymore. He gave Chen Yang a thumbs up and said, "I just like people like you. This world needs people like you."
Chen Yang was a little embarrassed and quickly shook his head: "I just do what I think I should do!"
The old man chuckled, "That's enough, how many people can't do what they should do!"
Chen Yang did not answer the call again.
"Come on, eat quickly!" The old man said nothing more and urged Chen Yang, "Stop talking nonsense like this. It's old news. It makes you feel uncomfortable. Eat quickly!"
Chen Yang nodded and took a few mouthfuls, but there was a stagnant breath in his chest. Regardless of his discomfort, he asked: "Senior, are you satisfied with the current world?"
The old man narrowed his eyes and slowed down his eating speed, and then said slowly: "If I go back to that time, in front of the ruined temple, I will take out a knife on them, stab them dozens of times, and then kill them."
The two men who wanted to eat us said... I have to live until decades later so that people like you will never appear again."
Chen Yang understood.
"How hypocritical!" The old man laughed immediately.
In a blink of an eye, the two rabbits had finished eating.
The old man clapped his hands and said, "Let's go!"
Chen Yang was startled.
"Come out with me!" The old man licked his fingers and said casually, "Don't bother, I'll take you to see it."
Chen Yang had no choice, but he was a little curious. What was this old man going to take him to see?
After leaving here, the old man took Chen Yang to the door of the previous pregnant woman's house.
At this time, it was at least ten o'clock in the evening.
The old man sat there, chewing a piece of grass.
"Senior, what are you looking at?"
"Don't worry!" the old man said with a smile, "Let's see something new, I guarantee you have never seen it in your life!"
Chen Yang nodded and sat there silently.
Time passed quickly and it was almost twelve o'clock.
At this moment, the old man suddenly pointed in the distance, in the direction of the Jianmu tree, and said with a smile: "Can you see anything?"
Chen Yang was startled and immediately looked over.
"It seems... there's a monkey in that tree!"
The old man was startled and looked at Chen Yang in surprise: "Can you see that far?"
"Yes!" Chen Yang nodded, "My eyes are better than others."
"It's more than better!" The old man shook his head, "You don't know how much better it is! But it's good to be able to see it clearly. Where is it going now?"