There were only five or six minutes left before the next check-in confirmation. Lin Sanjiu knew it was time to leave, but she still stayed for a while because of his last words.
"Is all the food distributed by Mayor Aoye?" She frowned and asked, "Aren't any of you engaged in agriculture or breeding?"
Shimi looked as if he had been insulted and immediately denied it: "Of course not! After analyzing his thoughts and soul to Lingshan every morning, when he came home, his home was already full of things issued by the town hall. Maybe it was
I bought it from outside. Ask yourself, is there any other place in the world that is like Peanut Town, where free and unlimited food is provided to the whole family for the rest of their lives?"
"Pig pens." Lin Sanjiu looked at him and said coldly, "There are also various livestock farms."
"As I said, we are different from pigs, we will not be killed for meat!" Shmi had completely let go of his throat, and his shouts even aroused echoes in the corridor. "Even in the pig pen, there are rations for feeding.
It’s there!”
"Don't you have it too? Your ration is the capacity of your stomach." This sentence stuck in Lin Sanjiu's throat, but she had no intention of continuing to argue with Shi Mi. She raised her head and glanced at the sign on the wall.
The small black square box asked: "You said that your wife gave you two children. Where are your children?"
Shmi shrugged, "I don't know."
have no idea?
Probably seeing the look on her face, the fat man explained with an irritated look: "I gave it to the town hall when I was born and assigned it to other people to raise. How do I know which child in the town is mine?"
"Why?" Lin Sanjiu thought of the child who was beaten to death by the town police and the indifferent mother. "Isn't the one I saw just an accidental case?"
"Huh?" Shimi raised his eyes and glanced at her, "Although Mayor Aoye often calls on us to have more children, being a parent is such an important responsibility. Do you think you can raise children just by giving birth? We have division of labor, and only those who pass the exam can
Only those who pass the exam can receive a child from the town hall to raise. The scores awarded for raising children are very high, and this job is very popular."
"Did your wife pass the exam?"
The fat man's expression suddenly froze for a moment, and he replied blankly: "Passed."
"Then why can't she raise her own children?"
The fat man looked a little confused. He seemed to have never thought about this problem.
After a few seconds, he waved his hand very irritably, "Anyway, that's what the law stipulates. It's useless for you to ask me. Children are the public wealth of the town, and no one raises a child of his own... Anyway, the law is
That’s how it’s stipulated!”
It seems that as long as there is a law to follow, he will not have any more complaints and no one can say that he is not a good law-abiding citizen.
Partners in Peanut Town are assigned by the town hall, and the main purpose is to reproduce the children, but they do not belong to the parents and become one of the town's public properties.
From generation to generation, everyone has no parents, no brothers and sisters, and gradually there is no longer any kind of kinship. People are not even allowed to talk to each other, let alone establish any friendship.
As a result, in Peanut Town, there is only the town hall, and the relationship between Lingshan and each individual person has almost no emotional connection between people.
A plate of loose sand ruled by the same thing.
"I have one last question." Lin Sanjiu looked at the two small characters on his wrist, "Although I can already roughly guess your answer."
"What's the problem?" When Shimi asked, his attitude was a bit positive, but this was understandable. He probably hoped to delay her longer so that the town police could come and catch this evil criminal from outside the town.
She looked at her wrist without raising her head.
"Have you never longed for it," she asked in a low voice, her voice trembling a little for some reason. When these two words were actually spoken, they seemed like an innocent joke: "I mean freedom?"
"We are very free." Fatty replied subconsciously, and then his mind began to spin. "Besides, how can there be absolute freedom in the world? For example, if I want to kill you or steal my neighbor's wife, this is not
It’s all my freedom. Why am I allowed to do it? Then there will be chaos? If I do it and I am sentenced, does this violate my freedom? So, there is no absolute freedom. It is the same wherever I go.
, everyone still has to be controlled, after all, this is for our own good."
He talked for a long time and licked his dry mouth: "I am telling you all this to see that you are not hopeless and can be reformed. As long as you take the initiative to abandon the darkness and turn to the light..."
Lin Sanjiu didn't listen to a word of what he said later. She only felt that there was something wrong with the logic about freedom just now, but she couldn't explain it for a while, only the feeling of oppression in her chest became heavier and heavier.
It became gloomy, like a thick nimbus cloud.
She exhaled, lowered her head and quickly flipped through the textbook in her hand. As she glanced at it, she felt that every page of it seemed to be filled with words such as "obey the rules, abide by the law, and love the Lingshan Mountain".
She threw away the textbook, turned around and walked towards Shimi while carrying the wooden stake.
The fat man in blue raised his eyes warily.
If the calculation is correct, there will be less than one minute left before his next confirmation of check-in.
"I heard a piece of news about you from Mayor Aoye." Lin Sanjiu stood in front of him, her tall head casting a long shadow on him. "If he is telling the truth, then you will not die.
. Besides, my strength is not as strong as before."
"What?" Although the fat man was still confused, he still felt panic: "You want to do it?"
He got the answer immediately.
The sharp stubble of the wooden stake penetrated his clothes and penetrated deeply into the flesh of his left chest. Lin Sanjiu's physical strength was still affected after all. The wooden stake only penetrated a short distance, and she couldn't push it away.
Shimi twisted and howled in agony, the sound shaking his eardrums. When he tightly grasped the wooden stake with both hands and tried desperately to pull it out, Lin Sanjiu turned around and pushed the door open and walked out.
.
Although she failed to penetrate his body, she was already convinced that Shmi did not have a heart.
As soon as she walked into the corridor, the shadows behind the black hole on the door moved one after another, as if they had all fled back home. At this moment, a harsh sound of an electric bell suddenly sounded in the corridor.
"Confirm the check-in time, please pay attention." The same female voice came from behind the door of every house in the corridor, and they overlapped and echoed: "Confirm the check-in time, please pay attention."
You have to leave now!
When the sound of people reporting for duty began to be heard in the house, Lin Sanjiu did not dare to delay. She rushed down the stairs in a few steps to find a suitable weapon. However, as she ran all the way into the alley, she didn't even have a stick to hand.
See.
Thinking back to the food I saw in the kitchen of Shmi's house just now, it seemed that it had been cut into small pieces before being distributed, and the portions were big enough to be swallowed in one bite.
In this peaceful and happy town, where people have no worries about food and clothing, people have neither kitchen knives nor scissors. Lin Sanjiu never expected that the half piece of turning head and a piece of wooden stake she just left behind would be the only thing she could use.
The most destructive weapon ever found.
"Warning, because there are criminals with cruel nature sneaking into this town,"
Countless pole-shaped electric horns on the street suddenly rang together, and a serious female voice echoed under the blue sky: "The highest level of martial law is now implemented. All residents are not allowed to leave their homes and are not allowed to harbor criminals. Please wait.
Wait at home for inspection by the town police. Repeat it again..."
She had just escaped from the residential building for a few minutes, and the town hall had already responded so quickly. Mayor Aoye's order was issued so quickly. Could it be that something happened to the man covered in tattoos?
Lin Sanjiu pursed her lips, bent down, and squatted in the shadow next to a large trash can. Not far away, the camera at the alley was slowly turning in circles, scanning the worst of the nearby area over and over again.
Fortunately, it's not the only camera that's moving.
On the street in the distance, a long line of cameras kept buzzing as they rotated, sounding like a swarm of wasps constantly probing the air.
Without the ability to evolve, she is just an ordinary person with a little more agility and strength. She has no way to resist being crushed by the huge and heavy machine in Peanut Town.
She thought for a few seconds, then suddenly raised her eyebrows and raised her head slightly towards the distance. Waves of heavy footsteps seemed to be coming from afar, shaking the air faintly. I don't know how many town police officers were rushing toward everyone in the town at high speed.
a street.
Lin Sanjiu took a deep breath, and the rancid smell of garbage spread into her trachea.
If this continues, there will only be one end: sitting around and waiting for death. It is said that if you die in the dream script, your life will be cut off in the real world.
But she has no power now.
Teacher Yi can try to increase her strength for her, but that's all. Facing hundreds of light machine guns, what does a little more strength mean?
Lin Sanjiu lowered his head and glanced at his wrist again.
Freedom has never been so close yet so far away as it is now.
"Hello!"
A low cry made Lin Sanjiu suddenly come back to her senses. She couldn't believe that she didn't notice anything strange. She hurriedly opened her eyes and found a person standing in the shadow in the corner of the wall.
"It's you!" She couldn't help being startled, her eyes gradually moved downward from the tattoo lines on the other person's face, but fell to nothing below the shoulder. The place where a left arm used to be was now empty except for a blood hole.
Even through the tattoos on his face, you can see that this young man's face is as pale as paper. His face is not good-looking, and his voice is intermittent: "I escaped while he was listening to the report. That criminal is you, right?
"
"Yes," Lin Sanjiu motioned for him to lower his waist so as not to be caught by the camera, "Are you okay?"
"There is one arm missing in the dream. After I go out, my left arm may be useless." When the tattooed man said this, he could not hide his deep depression and anger, and his face fell. "In the dream script
No one here is so harsh! Everyone who comes in is just seeking benefits, and no one has been killed or injured in many years! Since he dares to break the rules, I won't make it easy for him after I go out."
"What should we do now?" Seeing that he seemed to have more experience than herself, Lin Sanjiu asked in a low voice, "This is my first time here and I can't mobilize my evolutionary abilities. What do you have in mind?"
