Chapter 4 Clues
"Gugu..."
Ian woke up from hunger. In addition to being hungry, he was also cold. The train was still moving, and the wind came in through the gaps in the carriage, causing pain to his skin.
"I'm so hungry..." But the only things around him were wood and cold metal cars. In desperation, Ian had no choice but to curl up as much as possible and close his eyes, hoping that he would feel better after falling asleep.
I just tossed and turned but couldn't fall asleep. I turned on the Death Assist System and took a look. The number of harvested lives has increased by two. There are still eighteen days left to survive. In the space on the right, the space that originally contained venom is now there.
It became a question mark, and the rest remained completely unchanged.
The train didn't stop all the way, and there was nothing to eat around Ian. He had to sleep when he was hungry. If he couldn't sleep, he started to think wildly. Looking back on what happened in the past few days, it was like a nightmare. How did he go from being a beggar to becoming a beggar?
A murderer.
Although the life before was very unsatisfactory, it was still peaceful, but today's life, the crippled leg is healed, but I have to kill people in exchange for the time to survive. It is really... heartbreaking...
..Fear, will I have to live like this in the future? How long can I persist?
As Ian was thinking wildly, time passed by little by little. For two full days, except for replenishing water with snow, he didn't eat anything. He was so hungry that his feet were weak when he walked.
It was night after the train stopped, and someone in the distance was checking the carriages one by one with lights on. Ian quickly rolled down and hid aside. After the inspection person walked away, he carefully walked out along the railway again.
"Are you here?" Ian saw the sign on the roadside and realized that he had arrived in Ancheng, Xhosa.
He has been staying in Rolla Town since he was a child. This is the first time for him to come to such a far away place.
"It's so far away, the police shouldn't be able to find this place." Hungry, Ian found a corner sheltered from the wind and waited for dawn. Then there would be people there, and he should be able to beg for some money or food.
A few hours later, Ian had almost fallen into a coma. He suddenly woke up with a pain in his waist. He saw two middle-aged men with dirty clothes and messy hair, each holding a cardboard box in their hands.
He was staring at him fiercely.
"Get out of here, you've taken my place." One of the middle-aged men yelled loudly.
"Your place?" Ian looked around with some confusion. This was obviously just a corner.
"Get out of here quickly. The whole street in front of this station belongs to our brothers. If you dare to come here to beg again, we will break your legs." Another middle-aged man also shouted.
Seeing that these two men were so aggressive, Ian was alone and hadn't eaten for two days, so he didn't want to be beaten by them again, so he stood up holding on to the wall and staggered away.
"I'll let you have a longer memory." Suddenly there was a shout from behind, followed by a pain in his back, and a big foot kicked Ian forward and made him do somersaulting.
"You..." Ian turned around angrily, but seeing the two guys gearing up, he thought about it and let it go. It was better to be kicked than beaten.
Although he was unwilling to do so, Ian still made the right choice - he ran away in embarrassment.
"Am I destined to be a beggar?" Ian swayed forward, thinking to himself that he had killed someone before, so shouldn't he become more vicious, because everyone is afraid of him? But
Why do I still get bullied wherever I go?
He was already dizzy from hunger, and he kept thinking wildly in his head. He didn't know how long he had been walking, but he felt a scent that hit his nostrils, and he continued walking following the smell without raising his head.
"I'm sorry, sir, this place is booked today. Please eat elsewhere."
Ian looked up and saw that he had walked outside a hotel. The person who stopped him was a hotel security guard.
He glanced inside and saw that there were many people busy setting up a table in the hall, and he didn't know what they were doing. Not far away was a small cafeteria, from where the aroma came.
But in addition to looking forward to seeing what happened, Ian looked at the tall security guard, but there was nothing he could do. His stomach growled again, so he had no choice but to sigh and continue walking forward.
"Wait a minute!" A voice stopped Ian.
He turned around and took a look. A black car stopped silently, and a short middle-aged man got out of the car. What surprised Ian was that this man actually had black hair like him.
The hair made him feel a sense of intimacy involuntarily.
"What?" Ian didn't understand. The man smiled and said something very strange, and he was stunned for a moment.
The man smiled and said to the security guard: "I guess he is hungry. Go find him some food. Make sure he is full."
Although the security guard was much taller than the middle-aged man, he ran in very obediently.
"Thank you!" Ian quickly thanked him.
"Haha, you're welcome. It's fate that we met. It's just a meal." The man spoke in a very easy-going tone, which made people feel comfortable.
"Boss, the food is here." At this time, the security guard brought a lot of food on a plate, including several cakes, a piece of beef and two pieces of bread.
"Eat quickly." The middle-aged man smiled, stood up, and walked into the hotel.
Ian also started to eat ravenously. He had been hungry for too long and ate a little too hard. He choked suddenly, opened his eyes wide and patted his chest desperately.
The security guard didn't notice, but the middle-aged man who walked into the hotel and was resting on the sofa did. He put down the newspaper in his hand and rushed out quickly, startling the security guard.
"Papa..." The middle-aged man hammered Ian's back several times, and he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Ian spit out a bunch of sticky cakes and bread.
"Man, you shouldn't eat so fast." Although the snow stopped, the temperature was still very low, but the middle-aged man's forehead was sweating.
Ian was a little embarrassed and bowed quickly and said: "I'm sorry, sir, you saved me again."
The middle-aged man wiped the sweat on his head, looked at his watch, and said: "Haha, I'm a person who doesn't want to wait. I came ten minutes early today. I don't know what to do in these ten minutes. I just happened to meet someone.
When it comes to you, in the words of our Dragon Kingdom, this is fate."
Ian didn't understand, but the middle-aged man's next action made him even more grateful. He took out his wallet from his arms, took out a hundred dollars and handed it to Ian.
"This... this is too much, sir, I can't have it." Ian quickly declined.
"Haha, young man, you don't need to refuse the kindness of a kind-hearted person. I was once almost as depressed as you. It wasn't until I met a kind-hearted person who helped me that I have the life I have today, let alone a hundred dollars.
, if we have a chance to meet again in a year, I won’t take it seriously even if it’s $10,000.”
"Ten thousand dollars? Sir, what's your business?" Ian asked.
"Me?" The middle-aged man hesitated and said, "I do everything, but I have recently become obsessed with cars and plan to become a car manufacturer."
"You are really awesome, I will definitely learn from you." Ian praised, and then took the one hundred dollars.
"Haha, young man, remember, no matter how much money you make, you will spend it after all." The middle-aged man looked at his watch again, stood up and walked inside.
"I'm sorry, sir, what's your name? I'll repay you in the future." Ian asked loudly.
The middle-aged man turned his head and smiled and said: "Haha...Okay, I'll wait for you to repay me. When you are able to repay me, you will naturally know what my name is."
The middle-aged man's words revealed incomparable confidence, which made Ian feel both admiration and envy.
Holding one hundred dollars tightly in his hand and carrying the remaining food, Ian continued to walk forward.
In St. James, east of the town of Rolla, two tall and strong men came to a simple apartment building, went directly to the third floor, came to the door of a room, knocked on the door, and said loudly: "Hello,
Mr. Drew, your takeaway has arrived."
Soon, the sound of kicking came from the room, and with a "squeak..." the door opened: "It took you an hour to deliver it in such a cold day. Are you going to freeze me to death?"
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"Ah..." When the people in the room saw the two people at the door, they suddenly felt something was wrong, but before they could say anything, a big hand grabbed their necks and pushed them into the room.
A few minutes later, the two strong men carried a suitcase downstairs, drove all the way out of St. James, returned to the town of Rolla, and parked in a forest next to the road.
"Hey, wake up, wake up." The strong man grabbed a handful of snow and wiped it hard on Drew's face.
Drew woke up immediately and shouted when he saw these two guys: "Assholes, who are you? Let me go quickly. My cousin is from Tim's gang. You'd better be careful."
"That's right. It seems that Bell's cousin is you?" the strong man asked.
Drew was shocked and said immediately: "Bell? Who is Bell? I don't know him. You must be mistaken."
The two strong men laughed, and one of them turned around. After a while, the mobile phone in Drew's pocket rang. The other strong man took out the mobile phone, took a look and said: "It seems that you are talking about it."
That’s a lie.”
After saying that, without waiting for Drew to defend himself, he picked up a branch from the ground next to him and started beating Drew, making him howl and scream.
"Stop it, don't beat it." Drew cried with snot and tears. You must know that he was only wearing pajamas when he was taken out. He was beaten with branches to protect here but not there.
The pain is really unbearable.
"Stop hitting me, what on earth do you want to do?" Drew asked painfully as he rubbed the area where he was spanked.
"That's right. Don't tell lies. Let me ask you, did Bell call you a few nights ago? What did he say?"
As soon as Drew was stunned, the opponent hit him with a stick again. He quickly said: "Don't fight, don't fight. Bell told me that he hid something in Mangrove Park. It seems to be quite important..."
Chapter completed!