Casey and Li Zichen shook their heads in unison. Neither of them liked snacks, so they never brought snacks with them.
And when I came here, I didn’t expect it to have anything to do with food.
Jack took out several chewing gums and lollipops from his pocket: "I only have these, and I don't know if they will work. After all, these are things that only children like."
Gu Zichen nodded, "Let's give it a try."
Several people stopped a passerby and said, "Excuse me, can we ask you about someone?"
As soon as the pedestrians stopped, an indescribable smell wafted out. This smell was mixed with sweat, rancid, and various other smells, making people unable to control their retching after smelling it.
Despite this, several children still suppressed the organs that kept feeling queasy.
"What good do I get?" the pedestrian asked very realistically.
Jack quickly took out the chewing gum and lollipop: "If you tell us, these things will be yours."
Pedestrians glanced at the chewing gum and lollipops in his hand with disapproval, "What I need is something that can fill my stomach, not this kind of gadget that only children like!"
He raised his eyebrows: "Do you have anything to fill your stomach?"
Jack paused and shook his head: "This is all I have, how about you tell me first. Next time I come, how about I bring you more things to fill your stomach?"
The passerby sneered: "Next time? Let me tell you, for most people, the first time they come to a place like ours, there will never be a second time. Why do you think I should believe you?"
"Then how can you trust me?" Jack frowned anxiously.
The pedestrian asked tentatively again: "Do you really have nothing to fill your stomach?"
Jack shook his head, "There really isn't any. If there was, we would have taken it out to you long ago."
The pedestrian made a cold sound, and finally passed by them, waving his hand casually: "Tch, what's there to talk about? There's nothing to talk about!"
"Wait a minute, what if I promise you that your place will become as advanced as the city in the future? Are you willing to tell us the information we want to know?"
Gu Zichen stood up and said something that surprised everyone present.
The pedestrian stopped, with a sarcastic look on his face: "You are such a little bullshit, how can you have such great power? Do you think I will believe you? In the past, we also fought for our own interests, but what? We were all
Even if we get a bloody blow, we still can't get back everything we should enjoy."
"What?" Gu Zichen seemed unable to understand what he meant.
The passerby shook his head: "Did you think our place was a slum in the beginning? Originally, our place should not be like this. It is all because of those greedy people that made our place like this...Forget it, I am with you.
How can you understand what nonsense you are talking about?"
After saying that, he shook his head and left.
Only then did Li Zichen understand the meaning of what Jack just said, "It seems that there is no food to fill our stomachs. It is really difficult to find the information we want to find."
"Then there's nothing we can do now! We can't go back to buy it! It will take us several hours by car! If we go back and come back again, it will probably be close to the evening. It will be very dangerous then..."
Casey shook his head, they couldn't go back.
Li Zichen looked at Jack: "Jack, is there a small canteen or somewhere that sells food here?"
"No, this is the poorest place in country m. In the past, country m had no leader, and everyone lived independently. Later, there was a head of state, and the head of state didn't seem to notice the situation here."
Jack shook his head, "So the people here are very poor, so how can anyone open a canteen? Even if people in the city want to open a canteen here, they don't dare to take the risk. If people get hungry, what's wrong with grabbing things?
Do it? Who dares to open a canteen here?"
Casey wandered around anxiously: "Then what should we do? Do we have to come back next time?"
She didn't want to procrastinate, and she didn't want to miss this opportunity. If Jack's father discovered it, it would be difficult to do it again.
And what if they attract Fat Tiger’s attention and Fat Tiger runs away?
"Perhaps we can try using these chewing gums and lollipops to find suitable groups of people. Adults may think of food that can fill their stomachs, but these things are quite popular among children. So, we can just ask the children.
"
Gu Zichen shook his head and suggested.
Jack nodded, "Now, I can only try this."
Several people changed their targets and started searching, but failed to do so smoothly.
The children here seem to be very timid. When they see outsiders coming, they hide away. If Gu Zichen and the others want to talk to them, they run away and ignore them completely.
After several setbacks in a row, several of them were a little tired.
The four of them found an open space to sit down and rest, and looked at each other.
"What should we do now?" Li Zichen looked at Gu Zichen.
Gu Zichen looked at the lollipop in his hand and frowned. This situation was indeed difficult to handle.
The adults ignored them because they had no food to fill their bellies, and the children ignored them because they did not want to talk to strangers.
Then who else can they look for?
Just when a few people were distressed, suddenly, a small head not far away caught Gu Zichen's attention.
He looked over where the little head was, but the little head shrank quickly.
Gu Zichen stood up, walked over with extremely gentle steps, and made a booing gesture to the people behind him.
I saw a little boy squatting in the corner not far away. The boy was about ten years old, about the same age as Jack.
But he is only as tall as Gu Zichen and Li Zichen. Due to malnutrition, the child is very thin, so thin that when he raises his hand, you can see his ribs.
Both sides of the cheeks seemed to be sunken, which made people feel very distressed.
The little boy's name is Dazhi, because in the slums, they don't have particularly formal names. Their names are all like nicknames because they are catchy and easy to remember.
Dazhi secretly poked his head out and looked outside again, but did not see Gu Zichen or the other four.
He frowned in confusion and couldn't help but mutter: "Strange, where is the person? Why is he missing?"
Suddenly, a hand put on his shoulder and patted him: "Are you looking for us?"
Dazhi was startled, and when he turned around tremblingly, he realized that Gu Zichen and four others were already standing behind him.
His whole body was shaking, he shook his head repeatedly, turned around and ran away: "No, no, I'm not looking for you, you are mistaken..."