Above the Ruins [End Times]

hungry.So whimpered and cried, wanting to fill his stomach, the feeling of an empty stomach was something this little baby who had been cared for had never experienced before.

The little boy lowered his eyes and looked at the baby.

"Are you hungry?" The little boy shook the bread in front of the baby. The baby opened his beautiful eyes, and the eyeballs kept turning with the bread.The crying also stopped.

"Gu, heh..." Blinking and blinking, his face wrinkled with tears, looked pitiful.

The depths of the dark eyes softened.Wiping the teardrops from the baby's face, the little boy bit off the bread and put it in his mouth. When the dry and hard bread was softened by spit, he almost swallowed it. You know, he just took a bite of the bread before. , my stomach is still rumbling with hunger.

Resisting the urge to swallow his food, the little boy moved closer to the baby.The long eyelashes trembled, passing the mushy food that a baby could swallow in his mouth.

The little baby was very obedient, and accepted the food as soon as it was given, and looked at the enlarged immature face with sapphire blue eyes.There is only the reflection of the little boy in the clear eyes, and those dark eyes.

Calm, rational, firm and yet...gentle.

After feeding the baby one mouthful, the little boy swallowed another mouthful by himself.He will feed the baby, but it doesn't mean that he will feed all the food to the baby. He is also hungry and needs food.

Just like that, you swallow the little boy and the baby, and I swallow a piece of dry and hard bread.

Licking off all the bread crumbs on his hands, the little boy calmed down and felt much better.Standing up holding the baby.The dark moss was a bit slippery, and the little boy walked out of the alley while holding on to the wall.

His left leg was injured, and he couldn't stabilize his body for the time being, and he couldn't exert force on his leg, otherwise it would be very painful.Originally, the little boy planned to stay in the alley and wait until the situation was better before going out, but the alley was full of dust, and the baby was choked by the raised dust, thinking that the baby could not stay in this environment , the little boy had no choice but to take the child out.

"... Let me find you a family. Maybe they will adopt you. After all, you are such a cute little guy." Regardless of whether the baby can understand, after saying this, the little boy pursed his lips .

The little boy is unwilling to go to the supernatural institution in this city, but he also has no ability to take the child to another city. To go to another city, he has to go through a wilderness, and the wilderness is the most dangerous place. The little boy Without this strength and courage.And he even has problems with his own survival, so it is even more impossible for him to adopt this child.

"Hey, you want Mom and Dad too. You want...someone who can love you."

【03. Bite】

Dragging one leg, the little boy walked to the alley.

Dilapidated streets, large and small brown stains on the ground, the color of dried blood, this city—no matter which city, every city in the second civilization, every day wakes up in the midst of struggle of.

From time to time, mutant beasts from the wilderness would come to attack the city, so if you look carefully at the bloodstains on the ground, you will find that besides the brown blood spots of humans, there are also green bloodstains of mutant beasts.It is the best proof that a city has survived the attack of mutant beasts.

"Huh..." There are not many pedestrians on the street. It is evening now, and the sky is always shrouded in gray-green clouds. In the evening, the weak light has not dimmed much. After evening, it is night , is the darkest time of the day.

In this world, neither the sun nor the moon can be seen.

Ordinary people with no ability can't see a sincere smile on their faces. All people have is a numb existence.

People who live in a cloud never dare to want more.

The little boy knew where a certain ability user in this city lived. It was a very luxurious house, which was many times bigger than the thatched hut he lived in.Capable people are a group of people with privileges.

The little baby didn't know that he was about to be abandoned. He opened his eyes and bit his nails.

The little boy dragged his sore legs and limped to the house he had chosen with the baby.The door was closed tightly, and there was no one else around.The little boy looked at the little baby he was holding, who blinked a pair of innocent innocent eyes at him, and then giggled.

The little boy reached out to poke the little baby's face, but he grabbed his finger. The little baby held the little boy's finger in both hands, and pulled it towards himself, rubbing against the little boy's tender gums that hadn't grown teeth yet. Fingers, drool all over the place.

The little boy withdrew his hand as much as possible so as not to hurt the baby, took one last look at the ignorant child, and carried him to the door of the house.Holding the door panel, the little boy stood on tiptoe and looked in through the peephole. When he saw someone inside, he put the baby on the ground at the door and knocked on the door.The little boy knew that someone from this supernatural family would come out to take out the trash every night, so he would not fail to find this baby.

Hiding at the corner of one side and looking at the door of the house, the little boy has no way to leave the baby and leave. He can't rest assured until he sees the baby is adopted.The little boy poked out half of his head, his dark eyes fixed on this direction.

After a while, the delicate door opened with a creak.A woman who could even be said to be a bit fat came out, holding a bucket in her hand, followed by a huge mutant dog.

The big brown-yellow dog smelled a strange smell immediately, and barked crazily at the little baby on the ground. Without the owner's order, this tamed mutant dog would not attack at will.

The fat woman also discovered the little baby lying quietly on the ground wrapped in a white swaddle.A not-so-good-looking smile appeared on her face: "Look at what I saw, a baby. The meat of a baby is the most delicate. I'm worried about not having a meal, and I'm really sleepy now." pillow."

The little boy who watched from the side hid, his brows furrowed.

"Hey, stop barking." The fat woman comforted the mutant dog beside her, put down the bucket she was carrying, and bent down to pick up the baby.

Before the fat woman's hand touched the baby, the child burst into tears, waving his hands indiscriminately, refusing the fat woman's approach.The fat woman made him feel terrible.

Being rejected, the fat woman grinned grinningly: "How dare you cry? How dare you cry? It's just an abandoned baby who was thrown here by someone expecting to be adopted. Look at this thin-skinned and tender-flesh..."

Gritting his teeth, the little boy rushed out, picked up the baby and ran away.

He regretted it.

The little boy overturned the idea of ​​finding a family for the baby to adopt.

He should have thought earlier that babies are not an important existence—at least for many people. In this era of food scarcity, babies are just rare extra meals, or as long as some food is produced or mutant animals High-grade food that can be exchanged for energy crystallization.

Raising a baby requires a lot of resources, and not everyone can accept it. If there is no value for use, they will not raise a child—even if it is their own child.Most of them were sold to people with resources, in exchange for a few pieces of life-saving bread.

How could this family easily accept a baby, how could it easily raise a baby who came from nowhere!But how could he forget it!Not everyone will have good intentions towards a child of unknown origin!

The little boy ran away with some difficulty holding the baby.Because of the injury on his leg, and the fact that he hadn't eaten anything and was very weak, he couldn't run fast, but he still persisted, wanting to escape here, and escape here with the baby.

This little guy is so cute, how can he be eaten as food!Anyway, such things as cannibalism... such things...!

The extra meal in hand flew away, and the fat woman didn't realize it at first, but when she came back to her senses, she immediately gave an order to the mutant dog: "Catch up with that damned brat! Obedient!"

"Wow -!" The big brown dog rushed out like a spring.

The little boy, who sensed something was wrong, quickened his pace, but he was already weak from hunger, and his leg was still injured. How could he outrun a mutant dog that was recharging its energy?

After running a few steps, the little boy was thrown to the ground by the mutant dog.He bent over and held the baby in his arms.The intact right foot kicked backwards, but the mutant dog was heavy, even if it was kicked, it didn't hurt or itch.

The front paws pressed against the little boy's shoulders, and the sharp nails dug into the little boy's muscles, causing him to frown in pain. The mutant dog sniffed around the little boy's neck excitedly, and the saliva dripped down , fell on the little boy's neck, and the skin in this area was quickly corroded and turned into a scorched black.

The little boy gasped.The severe pain made his body tremble uncontrollably.The warm and smelly breath made the little boy's brain go blank.

There was a sudden darkness in front of the eyes, the little baby didn't understand what happened, and stretched out his little hand to push the little boy, and the little boy subconsciously protected the little baby even tighter.

"Little devil, are you robbing food?" The fat woman followed, this one because of the wealth