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Chapter 1: Cannibalism

“Brother, eat me…”

The girl, her face ashen, lay weakly in Lu Wei’s arms, her chest rising and falling slightly. Each breath seemed to exhaust all her strength.

Her eyes, which should have been innocent and bright, were now filled with tears, despair, and a trace of pleading, as if she was hoping for release.

Lu Wei’s heart felt as if it was being tightly squeezed, suffocated and sour, when he heard the girl’s words.

The word “eat” from the girl’s mouth sent a chill down his spine and a pang of heartache.

Lu Wei fought back the pain in his heart, his eyes reddening slightly. He raised his hand and gently stroked the girl’s withered yellow hair.

Looking at her emaciated cheeks, Lu Wei forced a smile: “Silly girl, don’t think nonsense. Sleep well, and tomorrow when you wake up, brother will catch fish for you to eat.”

Although the girl was only seven or eight years old, her eyes had already lost the light and innocence that should belong to her age.

Obviously, she didn’t believe her brother’s words.

Along the way, the land was frozen for thousands of miles. Even the bark of trees had been stripped clean, and not a single root could be dug up. How could he possibly catch any fish?

“Brother, it’s better for you to eat me than for others to eat me. This way, I can be with you forever…”

The girl’s voice was weak, getting softer and softer until it was barely audible.

Lu Wei felt a sharp tremor in his heart, as if pierced by a sharp knife. Looking at the girl, so weak that even opening her eyes was a struggle, his eyes were filled with distress and love.

He silently vowed in his heart: Don’t worry, brother will definitely find food for you.

He never imagined that he, a transmigrator, would be reduced to the point of starvation.

However, he couldn’t be blamed for this.

Originally, the life of their siblings had been manageable.

In the past six months since he transmigrated, he had relied on his advanced thinking and methods from his previous life to make their originally impoverished family relatively well-off. They not only had enough to eat and drink but also had some surplus grain.

Just as their life was about to improve…

Unexpectedly, two months ago, a sudden disaster caused his family to collapse overnight.

It was also this disaster that made Lu Wei realize that this world not only had ordinary people like him but also powerful martial artists who could move mountains and split rivers.

It turned out that the monsters in the villagers’ legends were real, and they were not ignorant.

Rumor had it that this disaster was caused by the conflict between those martial artists and monsters.

As for the specific reason, it was impossible for a commoner like him to know.

He only knew that he had to run, keep running, or he would become a snack for the monsters.

In this world, if there were no disasters, with his abilities, he could still live a good life.

However, in the face of such natural and man-made disasters, let alone a commoner like him, even the once high and mighty landlords were now living in precarious times.

Looking at his Younger Sister, whose breathing was faint in his arms, he knew it was time to make a decision.

Even though he had thousands of helplessness and worries in his heart, at this point, he had to do this. He took a deep breath and gently placed his Younger Sister on a pile of hay. He got up and first boiled a pot of water in a chipped pottery jar.

He then tore a strip of cloth and put it into the jar to boil and disinfect it.

Then, he held his Younger Sister in his arms, picked up the firewood splitter stuck in the ground, and heated it in the fire.

This firewood splitter was the most valuable item left in their small family.

No matter how difficult it was, he never thought of selling it.

Because it could not only chop wood and hunt, but also because of this knife, ordinary people who wanted to cause them trouble would have to think twice.

In this chaotic world where corpses were strewn everywhere and no chickens crowed for thousands of miles, without this knife, they, who were helpless and alone, might have already become food in someone else’s belly.

Taking a deep breath, Lu Wei’s lips trembled nervously.

As a person with the mindset of a modern civilized society, he had only seen this kind of thing in movies or novels.

He never thought that one day he would be forced to this extent.

After mentally preparing himself, he raised the firewood splitter in his hand and tremblingly placed the blade against his wrist.

The next second, Lu Wei gritted his teeth and lightly slashed with the splitter.

Instantly, blood gushed out, and fresh red blood dripped onto Lu Xiaoxiao’s mouth…

Lu Xiaoxiao had a dream.

She dreamed that she had returned to infancy, lying in her mother’s arms, sucking milk in big gulps.

The sweet juice was like nectar to her starving stomach, and she wished she could use all her strength to suckle.

Only after a long while, when she couldn’t suck a single drop anymore, did she fall into a deep sleep again.

Meanwhile, Lu Wei, seeing that the wound on his hand had stopped bleeding, quickly wrung out the cloth that had been boiled for disinfection in the jar, and bandaged the wound to prevent infection.

After doing all this, Lu Wei felt a little dizzy.

He hurriedly leaned against the edge of the pit and closed his eyes to rest.

Days of continuous hunger had already emptied his body. The two or three hundred milliliters of blood he had just lost further weakened his already fragile body.

But he had no choice. If his Younger Sister continued to starve, she might not even survive tonight.

In a daze, Lu Wei felt as if he saw his great-grandmother, and his great-grandmother was saying something to him…

“Ding, Host sacrificed himself for others, meeting the system activation conditions…”

“Ding, Binding to the Return System…”

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“Third Brother? Third Brother?”

“I’m here, stop fucking shouting, are you calling for my soul? Do you want everyone to know what we’re going to do?”

Lai Zi was startled when he heard this. He looked left and right, smiled cautiously, and walked over with his hands in his pockets.

“Third Brother, we can do it now. I just saw that kid cut his own hand and feed the girl with his blood. I guess even if they don’t die now, they can’t move.”

Hearing this, Ma San’s mung bean-like eyes narrowed slightly. He sized up Lai Zi, who was covered in snow, from head to toe. His eyes were like those of a hungry wolf looking at food, green and chilling.

“Are you sure you saw clearly? That kid has a weapon in his hand. Although there are three of us, if we’re not careful, one of us might get killed.”

Upon hearing this, Lai Zi quickly said: “Third Brother, how dare I lie to you? If I lie, my father will die a horrible death.”

Chen Qi, who was standing beside him, spat: “Fuck you, your father’s bones have already rotted away. What’s the use of swearing by him?”

When Ma San heard this, he glared: “Damn it, are you playing with me? Believe it or not, I’ll skin you alive?”

Lai Zi’s heart trembled under Ma San’s glare. He hurriedly explained: “Third Brother, I really didn’t lie to you. If you don’t believe me, I’ll be in the front later.”

Ma San and Chen Qi were waiting for these words. That kid had a knife, and they didn’t want to take any risks.

“Alright, that’s what you said. Let’s go, hurry up, lest we be preempted by others.”

In the dark night, the three men bent down and sneaked through the wilderness camp.

Along the way, many people saw the three of them and immediately became wary. These three were known for their evil deeds, from stealing chickens and dogs at the beginning to extortion.

Now they were killing people for their flesh and marrow, completely losing their humanity.

Looking at the sneaky backs of the three, some people shook their heads with pity.

They wondered who the unlucky one was that had been targeted by these three beasts.

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