Baker Street Grocery Store [Comprehensive]

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How important is the grocery store to her?I'm afraid she herself didn't realize before she lost the corner store...

Speaking of which, so far in the story, we seem to have never introduced what kind of person Clara Cooper was before, and now, it seems that such a time has come.

Clara Cooper—actually, she wasn't that name before she was abducted into that strange training camp.

But what does it matter?When a name doesn't prove family, blood and kinship, it doesn't really matter what it is, it's just a code name... Yes, Clara is an orphan.

Of course, this is not enough to be her "bragging" capital. After all, there are not as many orphans raised by her parents. Not only this hypocritical institution, the orphanage where Louise works is one.

What a coincidence, they have known each other since birth, what a fate!And Louise grew up in the same difficult environment as her. Not only did she not turn into those abominable appearances, but she was able to give her such abundant love, how unbelievable!

You know, if Dickens hadn't arranged for Oliver to have Nancy by his side, I'm afraid Oliver would have become one of the thieves, liars, and robbers, and then ended up--

This is what happened to her.

Everyone knows the later experiences of Clara and Louise. In short, Louise’s abundant and selfless love did not accompany Clara for the rest of her life.

So, how did Clara suddenly disappear from this world, and how did she appear?

At that time among young girls, it was popular to give a graduation gift or something.So Clara worked diligently to wash dishes in a restaurant. She spent a summer vacation working part-time for the two hundred pounds promised by the boss on the last day-she wanted to buy Louise a beautiful dress.

On that last day, she sneaked out early in the morning to go to the restaurant to pay the bill. The weather was bad and gloomy, but Clara didn't lose her excitement because of the gloom, and ran to the restaurant excitedly.

Due to long-term mental and physical abuse when she was a child, although Clara is 15 years old, she looks only eleven or twelve years old, thin and small, but not enough to conceal her delicacy.

When she stepped into the restaurant and timidly explained her intentions, the boss's attitude towards her was suddenly a little strange. He had never smiled so kindly at Clara.

"Little cutie, come here." The boss said to her.

What is cutie?

Clara was flattered, she had never been called that before—the parents in the family preferred Louise, she was fatter, smarter, harder-working, and quick as a dove.She deserved it, Clara thought, and no one would hate Louise.

Clara moved to the boss's side in small steps, slowly raised her head, looked at him with wide eyes, pulled the skirt of her clothes with her two small hands uneasily, and whispered, "Excuse me, the two hundred pounds you promised me..."

The boss pulled her to his side and brought her close to her ear. An unpleasant smell of cigarettes came to his nostrils. He said in a hoarse voice, "The money is in the house, you have to come in with me."

Clara looked around and said innocently: "The guest..."

"She only wants one breakfast, and she paid for it," the boss pulled her into the room impatiently, "Do you want more money, come in quickly, let's hurry... hurry up and pay the money."

How could Clara break free from such a grip, and hurriedly turned her head to look at the woman who was eating. She was a regular customer in the store, and because she came early, her breakfast was delivered by Clara. At other times, I can only pack things in the kitchen.

The other party seemed to shake her head at her, but she couldn't figure out what that meant, so she was dragged into the room.

Later, in an afternoon when there was no one in the store, Clara basked in the sun and yawned. When she happened to think of this incident, she couldn’t help feeling that she was so stupid at the time. If Louise faced this situation, she would definitely understand it instantly. what does that mean.

what does that mean?

… Dear God, we all know what that means.

During the trip to the United States, at the embassy home, why did Clara say "he deserved what he deserved" after she knew that Mr. Parsons was a pedophile?

It is undeniable that she still has some yearning for beauty in her heart, but the experience of these years has already made her eyes see all the evil, so why feel sympathy for a little girl!

Now, we all know why...

——Back to that gloomy day before high school.

The owner of the small restaurant pretended to rummage through the boxes and boxes, cursing as he searched: "Where did the two hundred pounds I put on the table go! Which bitch took my money!"

The young Clara could only stand by the side in a daze, at a loss for what to do. Suddenly, the boss glanced at her with greed in his eyes, and shouted angrily——

"Is it you! You took the money, and now you want me to give you another two hundred!" His face was almost pressed against Clara's, and he breathed heavily on her body, "Say, hide the money in the Where is it!"

Clara was so frightened that tears came out, she could only shake her head and deny: "I, I didn't take it!"

"You must have taken it, disgusting little thing." The boss looked contemptuous, "Where did you hide it! In your pocket?"

Clara immediately turned out the upper and lower pockets to show her innocence.This behavior was in the hands of the boss. He immediately approached her with a disgusted expression, stared at her pants and said, "Since they are not here, they must be hiding inside..."

Clara suddenly felt a burst of fear and nausea, and wanted to run out like crazy, but the demon behind her grabbed her fiercely. She finally reached the door, but found it was locked behind her in despair.

"Help!" she yelled out loud. "Help me! Please, save me!"

The woman outside shook her head, she understood what it meant now, but wouldn't it be too late?

The boss's hands had torn off her pants, revealing the hideous mottled scars on her legs - she was covered all over, thanks to the "welfare" of the orphanage.

The guy behind her seemed to be disgusted by her legs, and let go of her hand. Clara pulled her forcelessly, and slammed forward, hitting her head on the door. She felt a sharp pain in her head, and the impact was severe Looking at her, one wave after another, Clara wiped it on her head, and it turned out to be a red liquid in one hand.

She bled a lot, and finally, when the door was broken open, the woman came in by stepping on blood.

Clara looked up and saw the bright red lips, the other party smiled and looked down at her: "Do you want me to help you?"

Clara nodded in a daze, and then watched her quickly take out a gun from her bag, and shot the gnawing boss in the head.

That was the first time Clara saw how people die.

Thanks to Louise for protecting her. In short, she can be said to have grown up in an environment full of love before this day. Louise will do those terrible things for her. She has seen so much for her. Things, finally, on this day, Clara's life turned upside down, and she had to see the future scenery alone.

However, it is better not to let Louise see this kind of scenery.

There is a word called death without eyes closed, the boss stared and fell to the ground, frightened her to rub a few inches outside the door, but the boss's eyes were staring at her.

There is a word called bleeding from the seven orifices. Clara saw blood oozing from the wide-open eye sockets of the dead man in front of her, and then the thick blood from his head slowly flowed onto his face, covering that layer of disgusting and greasy fat.

There is a word called dying struggle, the dead man in front of him is like a fish on the chopping board, twitching intermittently, but nothing can be changed.

Then, he died.

Clara started crying, screaming.Fear and headache came together, a well-deserved faint.

What happened after that was as you can imagine. The woman took poor Clara away from the restaurant. She was not a relative like Clara's aunt. From this point of view, Clara was much more miserable than Oliver.

There is a saying that just came out of the tiger's den and into the wolf's den. Now let Clara choose again, whether to be raped by the boss honestly at the same place, or to start a new journey and nightmare with Miss Elizabeth, then she chooses—well, It's still the same, it's better for that kind of scum to die.

Pooh,

deserve it,

Disgusting stuff.

Oh, who is Miss Elizabeth?This is the teacher who taught her how to survive. Well, she has a famous saying, which is regarded as the creed of life by Clara-"Why cry? If crying is useful, let you leave only your eyes from top to bottom." She said that with a knife.

These words had a great deterrent effect. Clara, who was crying at every turn, actually held back honestly, even though her face was flushed, she did not shed a single tear. Of course, this is something for later. When it came, the scene was still very exciting.

Hmm... This is a basement, only a small window reveals a little sunlight. Beside her lies a girl who is almost as thin as herself, lying on her stomach covered in blood. Flies fly from her body. She is dying. I don’t know if she is dead. is live.

Clara hesitated for a moment, and stretched out her hand to drive away the flies on her body. Suddenly, she stretched out her hand and grabbed Clara's wrist tightly. Clara was frightened immediately, and her back went cold, but she heard the little girl lying on her stomach say weakly. Say "thank you".

Clara was breathing violently, and when she let go weakly, Clara paused for a while before remembering to say timidly to her, "You're welcome, uh, where is this?"

But the girl never answered her again.

Well, this is the second time she has seen a dead person.

After that, there is no need to count, because when Clara looks up and looks around, there are girls like this, people die every second, people come in every second, this is not like a basement, it is like a sweatshop in the nineteenth century, the raw material is They are girls.

As for the things produced, they are probably agents, one of the top agents in a thousand.

Later, Clara was taken to "visit" the factory.

The division of labor is clear and the divisions are clear. To give a few vivid examples, there are all kinds of dead people in a room, and a girl will be stuffed in for three days. If she is in a normal state after coming out, she can proceed to the next task. Special training, if not, then she will continue to train, if she is crazy, then put it aside and starve to death, and then stay inside forever.

There is also a room with a lot of bread, chicken, sausage, and milk. That is the last step. Girls who have passed all the previous special training can come to this room and eat their thin bodies to normal size.

Clara had thought it was blissful, until finally she was in there for a long time, her mouth full of oil and dairy, and she looked up to see everyone with food stuffed in their mouths, stuffing bread mechanically, and each It was all the desperate and empty eyes, including herself, that knew that this last step was the most terrifying.

I won't go into details about the rest, these two links are the most impressive to her, and the belief that supports her to come out of it alive is to see Louise.

A year later, she sorted by number, got the name Clara Cooper, and started to go out to do various tasks. At that time, she was very numb, killing or stealing, no matter good or evil, she continued to do so.

It wasn't until she met Louise again three years later, and in order to scare her away, she mutilated a living person in front of her, and then she came back to life under Louise's tears.

Oh,

Why not escape?

Why can't she have hope?

If she goes to a place where no one knows, maybe she can whitewash the peace and spend the rest of her life happily and ordinaryly?

It's a pity that she met the Boss afterwards, and received the first mission from the Boss that dared to let her go alone, monitoring a freak with a good life to consult a detective.

Clara thought to herself at the time, Boss was scared of her, is this humiliating her?

—that was literally letting her go.

As for why she didn't escape in the end, that's the story of the next chapter.

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