"In the desert area, if you don't have the enlightenment of swallowing broken things, dirty things, rotten things, and even dust shavings as food, you will not be able to survive."

That's what my brother said.

Although I was very resistant at the beginning, once I tasted hungry, I would not care about the taste of the food at all. Eat more when I could. Being able to eat enough is a blessing in itself. If I had to care about the taste of the food again, it would be too luxurious.

My brother is a very good person. Sometimes I wandered outside for a day and didn’t find food. He would give me the little bit of his own. The same is true for being bullied by a guy who is also a scavenger. He would also help me get the debt back...

Then when I was six years old, a great famine broke out in the place where I lived.

Although the desert area was originally a famine area, the famine that year was not comparable to that of ordinary people. A self-proclaimed [Desert Company] organization, which was actually a major alliance of many armed forces in resistance, launched an impact on the development department of the desert area. The area where I live was the first place controlled by the organization, ha... What about the free and independent area, it was actually just a different ruler.

And it's even more serious.

The food must be handed over and the rationing system is adopted, and the whole nation must completely obey the orders of superiors. Men act as military forces, and women become military prostitutes. Even the elderly and children, as long as they are tied with explosives, they can be used as disposable human assassination bombs.

However, the so-called rationing system is just to let the ruler eat the food first, and then distribute the residue. If it were the past, if you went out to find it yourself, you might have a great harvest like a surprise, but everything has changed since those guys came.

Even eating is a luxury, just "cannot be able to stay until the next day without starving to death", just to control the amount of food to this level. Not only that, but also recruit soldiers from time to time, sending hungry and thin people out as cannon fodder and living explosives.

A month later, the troops of the Development Department united the forces of another unknown army and quickly suppressed the [Desert Company].

(When I said this, Yi Chen touched his chin and thought about it again. If you think about it now, that unknown army may be the Fourth Federal Legion guarding the desert area?)

The reason why so many areas were occupied at the beginning was that the Development Department did not want to spend any effort to pay attention to this little bug. Then the bug became self-righteous and began to become more severe, turning into a huge blood-sucking leech. This caused disgust among the people who were sucked by blood, so the bug was taken off the body, stepped on it with its feet, and rubbed it back and forth hard to ensure that its body could be broken and completely killed.

In a sense, it is also a warning.

"Ahhh, did you see it? This is the end of being too proud. The little bugs jump around are just a little annoyed at most. If it's just this level, it might make you live a little longer. If you take my ignorance as a reason to indulge, then let me die now."

That's it.

However, the rebellious armed forces launched a crazy counterattack on the eve of being suppressed. Although the ending was still the same, they still launched a counterattack. As a result, there was nothing left in the month of the counterattack.

In order to accumulate the power to fight back, they swept through all the resources in their disposable areas.

Human resources, food, medicine, weapons...

My brother and I finally lie in the pile of corpses for a week before finally hiding.

But my brother still didn't survive.

The cause of death is hunger.

There is no food, and there is no chance to eat human flesh. All the corpses around me are already highly decayed. Not to mention cutting off the meat and eating it, even touching it may cause plague disease. I was able to hide in such a place for a week and avoid being infected with the bacteria and viruses on the corpse.

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"But...but then, how did Mr. Chen... live in that environment?" Yelena asked him.

"Because the goddess of luck is favoring me!"

Yi Chen laughed.

"In the end, I was picked up by a good man. The guy's name was Ax... You don't know him anyway. When I was about to starve to death, he picked me up from the pile of dead people. Oh... Although I was very grateful, I still felt very angry at that time."

Why do you feel angry?

Because if I had come earlier, wouldn’t my brother not have died?

If you come earlier, will such a sadder thing not happen soon?

"But--"

Yi Chen stretched out a finger to the two little girls.

"—You must remember this. It is a blessing to be able to survive. If you die, then you will not even have the right to be sad for the dead. Do you think that the teacher is hurt and can't do anything? When my brother died, I regretted it too. If you think about it carefully, it is usually the elder brother who protects me! But I can't do anything, so from that time on, I made up my mind. I have to become stronger. Only when I become stronger can I grasp what I want to grasp, and only when I become stronger can I protect what I want to protect. If someone dies to protect himself, then I have to cherish life more, because from now on I am not living for myself, and I have to bear the life of the dead behind my back. So for me, when I am alive, I have to live at least twice as valuable as ordinary people."

"So, Roberts is still on the verge of crisis, but it is a blessing that people are not dying. If you want to become stronger, the opportunity will be with you no matter what. But if you keep being negative, you will not be able to grasp the opportunity even if you are always by your side. So don't continue to be depressed, the food will be delicious! If you continue to have a bitter face, your teacher will cry."

"……I see!"

The two sisters were silent first and then replied at the same time.

The tone also became louder, and people seemed to be much more energetic.
Chapter completed!