Quick Wear: This Cannon Fodder is Delicate and Expensive

Chapter 247: Legend of the Blood Clan (31)

The woman had a cloth scarf on her head, her clothes were tattered, her skin was cracked, and her eyes were lifeless. The child in her arms was white and plump, and now he was no longer crying or making a fuss.

The two of them sat on the grass mat in relative silence, not attracting much attention.

It was not until a dark shadow appeared before her eyes that the woman slowly raised her head while holding the child.

"Auntie, don't make any noise. I have some thirst-quenching fruits here. You and the children can eat them, okay?" Wen Liang looked around, squatted down and took out the sour fruits hidden in his clothes.

“…Hmm?” The woman stared at the bright red fruit in Wen Liang’s hand, a hint of light flashing in her eyes.

"I..." The woman pursed her lips, as if she wanted to say something, looked somewhere and then lowered her head.

Seeing that the woman was struggling, Wen Liang didn't say much and quickly placed a handful of sour fruits on the straw mat next to the woman.

Wen Liang didn't want to get involved, and seeing that no one was paying attention to the place, he wanted to leave quickly. He just stood up and took a few steps when he saw Shi Qi behind him. He slowed down and scratched his head in embarrassment.

"I... I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that to you just now. I actually understand what you mean, but that mother and child looked really pitiful, and they looked a lot like me... um, an old friend, so I... acted on impulse."

"It's okay. Fortunately, nothing happened. Now that we've given it to you, let's continue on our way." Shi Qi smiled and shrugged, his mood improved.

After all, children are usually tough on the outside but kind on the inside, and she understood that, so she just let him be.

Anyway...she can take responsibility if something goes wrong.

The two had just walked a few steps and were almost about to turn the next street corner when they suddenly heard crying behind them. Shi Qi was stunned and thought to himself that something was wrong.

The child started crying and struggled and shouted in the woman's arms.

“Guo Guo…Guo Guo…Woo woo”

The woman panicked and quickly covered the child's mouth, fearing that someone would hear it. Fortunately, the group of people were still licking the water stains on the broken pieces of the cylinder and did not notice the movement here.

But the child was still struggling, tearing the woman's clothes with one hand and trying to grab the straw mat with the other. Suddenly, he was bitten, and the woman let out a hiss and let go of the hand covering the child. When she looked, she saw a round of teeth marks.

"Xiaoxiao...you, what's wrong with you? Be good and take a nap, okay?" The woman was afraid of being discovered abnormally, so she comforted the child in a low voice.

"Wow, bad grandma, Xiaoxiao wants to eat the fruit, why did grandma hide the fruit and not let Xiaoxiao eat it? Wow..."

The child's crying broke out suddenly and loudly. While struggling and crying, he crushed a few fruits. The blood-red juice seeped through the straw mat, emitting an attractive sour and sweet aroma.

The people who were looting around suddenly became quiet. They sniffed, their eyes turned red, and looked at the colors on the straw mats, and rushed over.

"You bitch! How dare you hide food? If I don't beat you up for a day, you won't understand me, right? Hand over the things before we have a good talk!" The leader slapped the woman fiercely and kicked her hard.

The woman felt dizzy but still held the child, shielding the fruit and refusing to hand it over.

The child was frightened and cried even harder, his face turning red.

"Why waste your time talking to a woman? You're right under her. Get out of my way, bitch..." Another man had a fierce look in his eyes. A group of people rushed over. Seeing that their fists were about to fall, the woman closed her eyes resignedly, holding the child tightly in her arms, a tear rolled down the corner of her eye.

One second, two seconds.

"Ahhhhhhhhhh!" A scream was rang out, but it was not from the woman, but from the one who was punched first.

“It hurts, it hurts, it hurts… Please spare me, please spare me!” The man’s face was filled with horror. His face turned black and distorted as he looked at his wrist which had been twisted almost half a circle by the woman.

When the others saw this, they wanted to attack Shi Qi, but he dodged them easily, and many of their punches hit their companions instead.

Wen Liang also took the opportunity to take the mother and son to another open space.

"You are so shameless that you are so cruel to women. You spend all your money and still want to rob others. Is this all you are capable of?" Shi Qi shook off the man's wrist and said with disgust.

"You...what do you know!? We want to find water too, but there is only so much. If we can't find a water supply, what can we do?"

Shi Qi looked at the man's rogue appearance and couldn't help laughing: "You seem to be talking quite normally, I thought you were mad dogs."

"You!" The man wanted to attack again, but when he thought of the pain of almost breaking his bones just now, he turned his face away in anger.

Perhaps it was because Shi Qi was so imposing, these people didn't dare to move in front of the fruit.

He is really taking advantage of his power to bully others, picking on the weak and fearing the strong.

"That tank of water is enough for you to drink for a day, but you were selfish and fought over it, ending up wasting so much water." Wen Liang stood up and said angrily.

"Hey, who do you think you are? You're not allowed to talk nonsense! You're asking for a beating!" When the man saw Wen Liang, he wanted to take his anger out on him. His eyes were wide open and he was about to raise his hand to slap him.

"My man doesn't need your education." Shi Qi gave him a cold look.

The next second, that fiery slap suddenly landed lightly on Wen Liang's face, stroking it twice: "Hey, cut, your man is a man, and he's pretty handsome."

The man pulled his hand back and touched his head to hide his embarrassment.

Shi Qi took out the remaining fruits, which were red and very tempting.

"Okay, we can't eat all the fruits, so divide them up. If you dare to grab them again, I won't let you do anything."

A group of people looked at the red fruits, their mouths watering. They took the fruits carefully and ate them quickly.

"By the way, what are you outsiders doing here? It's too dry here and no one can live here." The man put away his arrogance and domineering attitude. After eating the fruit, he seemed to have learned his lesson and gave a fairly sincere apology to the mother and son.

"Her Majesty the Queen sent us here to repair the canal. So you have to show the way. If you can help, I hope you can cooperate." Shi Qi said calmly.

However, when these people heard the word "canal", they were terrified, as if they had heard of some monster or ghost, although they were not ordinary people.

"This, this... it's not a good idea to go here. Forget about helping with other chores, but this canal... I'd rather die than go there!" The man said, his eyes moist.

Others were also terrified by this and were whispering about something.

"What do you mean? If this canal is not repaired, there will be no water. If you are afraid of being tired, you can carry some materials in the back..." Wen Liang looked at the strange expressions of the crowd and asked curiously.

"You two can't do that. You don't know, that canal eats people. It's not that we don't want to repair it. Dawei's wife was eaten by that canal." Someone in the crowd explained.

After hearing this, Shi Qi was suspicious: "What do you mean?"

The leading man remained silent, but the others were talking.

"You may not know, Dawei took us to repair the canal before, and he didn't sleep for several days and nights, just to make sure everyone could have drinking water as soon as possible. But the strange thing is, every time we went, there were fewer of us. His wife was worried about him, so she went to visit him, but he never came out again."

"Later, the canal broke down as soon as it was repaired. The more it was repaired, the more it broke down. It also sank on its own. Now the canal is probably buried. We dare not go to that strange place again."

"Have you looked for those missing people?" Shi Qi asked.

"I looked for it, but I couldn't find it at all. There was no trace of it at all."

Shi Qi was stunned for a moment, and suddenly thought of the alien. Just as he was about to ask Wen Liang, he heard the gentle voice of another woman not far behind him.

"Ling Li, there are so many people here, shall we go ask?"