Chapter 41 Sour-Smelling Bread

"Abdominal bloating and abdominal fluid caused by eating indigestible food?"

Colin saw a child with slender limbs chewing on a piece of wood, chewing it into pieces, and then swallowing it carefully.

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 the appearance of these people in some pictures about hunger in Africa.

"Is there a famine nearby, or something happened?"

Colin walked among the victims and looked around thoughtfully. He found that the bark of many trees along the way had been stripped off, and there were many potholes on the ground. Not even the 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 whose limbs are still intact look at the injured and dying people like vultures from time to time, as if they are waiting for something.

The atmosphere in this area is depressing and terrifying.

However, at this moment, Colin suddenly froze and felt a few unkind glances in the crowd, directed at him from all directions.

Someone is after him!

Almost at the same time, Colin also discovered the reason why he was being targeted. The refugees present were all in groups, dozens and dozens of them, and he was the only one left alone.

The isolated self is obviously the best target!

Without thinking much, there was a rustling sound, and some people were approaching him.

There were not many people, only five or six, like hyenas, surrounding them.

These people were also dressed as refugees, but they didn't feel like they were starved to the point of weakness. Instead, they were very energetic and in good spirits.

At this time, as the encirclement narrowed, these people no longer deliberately concealed themselves.

One of the men, with a dark face and full of wrinkles, noticed Colin's gaze and grinned, his eyes full of undisguised greed.

Already treating him like a piece of fat to the mouth——

Literally fat!

"You really know how to choose your target."

Looking at the guys gradually surrounding him, Colin didn't panic, and even wanted to laugh a little.

Although there is something wrong with these people,

But generally speaking, they are just a group of ordinary people, not like the warden who suddenly turned into a strong two-meter tall guy.

Taking "Retrograde" is enough to easily deal with it.

"You are the one who brought your own death."

Colin put his hand into his waist pocket. This move made the people surrounding him pause for a moment, worried that the prey might have some unknown means.

But after finally catching a lone fat man, they didn't want to disperse.

"There doesn't seem to be any danger around here. If there is, it's probably this group of people."

As Colin's thoughts turned around, he had some guesses about what happened to the employees who lost contact here.

If nothing else, he probably fell into the hands of these people for the first time.

It would probably be an uncomfortable way to die.

Click.

After the two sides faced off for more than ten seconds, the 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.

But just when Colin was about to draw his gun, a bell suddenly sounded in the distance, causing the group of carnivores to stop.

Then, a noise came from deep within the refugee group, breaking the confrontation here.

"It's food! That noble man came yesterday to deliver food again!"

Someone shouted something, and immediately after, the originally oppressive atmosphere in the area boiled. Even the weakest people were struggling to get up at this moment, rushing towards a certain direction like a group of monkeys fighting for food.

Even the few people who regarded Colin as food also disappeared into the crowd after hearing the bell and retreating.

Before leaving, he saw the person looking at him say "good luck to you".

‘Do you want to capture them all now? ’

Colin squinted his eyes. After activating the two characteristics of the Retrograde, he could hit the target he wanted to hit in an instant.

But after thinking about it, he decided to wait and see first.

He has locked all these people

If you do it rashly, you are likely to alert the snake. It is better to keep it and follow them later to see if you can find any information about the employee.

Then, looking at the direction in which the crowd was rushing away, Colin no longer stood still and walked over with them, planning to see what was going on.

After all, he still has a mission [Event 5: Carrying "Token-13" to "World Number-13" to investigate all abnormal events that may be related to "hunger"].

Isn't all this related to "hunger"?

In addition, there was another point, the evacuation behavior of these people made Colin feel something was not right.

Because if it was to get food, that’s why I left

Why would you give up on him?

"Speaking of which, during the fate prediction, when Li Ming and I came here together, the description was that we saw a large number of wounded, corpses and traces of fighting. Then not long after, a second employee was found nearby. .”

Colin looked around and didn't seem to see the signs of the battle mentioned above.

Is it possible that things have changed because he came alone this time?

At least the tragic battle mentioned in the book of numerology didn't seem to have happened.

I guess it's early

Colin followed the direction of the crowd and soon saw a large carriage convoy in front of the crowd.

Some soldiers wearing iron armor were standing guard, holding long knives. There were only a few dozen of them, spread out next to a fleet of about ten vehicles. Each vehicle only had two or three people, but the refugees did not dare to attack.

In front of the carriage convoy, a woman wearing a gray cloak, hiding her face under the cloak, stood on the carriage and directed the soldiers, asking them to distribute the food contained in the carriage to the hungry refugees one by one.

Each of these foods are lumps of dark, rancid bread.

Under the intimidation of the soldiers, the order was now quite normal, and not even a stampede occurred.

Even if there were a few who occasionally tried to take advantage of the situation and get more bread, they were quickly picked out and thrown behind them.

"These soldiers are very strong. They can lift an adult weighing more than 100 kilograms so easily. It seems that they are not as good as the warden, but they are about the same as the warden's men. However, are these breads so delicious?"

Colin smiled when he saw the refugees who got the black bread one by one as if they had got the treasure.

Then he put it into his mouth like crazy and chewed it randomly.

After thinking about it, Colin squeezed through the crowd and joined the queue, hoping to get a piece of bread to taste.

His keen sense of smell told him that the bread must be very unpleasant.

But look at these people eating so happily.

He kind of wanted to try it.

What if it smells as good as stinky tofu?