Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 128 Children

At 05:30 in the afternoon, Walker Street has already shrouded in a deep twilight.

The winter night always comes earlier than people expected, and the lights on both sides of the street have been turned on, most of the dim yellow light comes from kerosene lamps.

There are so few homes with access to electricity that the dim light from most windows isn't even bright enough to illuminate the snow-covered streets of Walker Street.

Everything was shrouded in the hazy twilight when the street lights hadn't been turned on. Chen Yan walked under the twilight, lost some sobriety due to hunger, and his head became a little achy.

He still doesn't know how he accumulated so much hunger while working at the zoo.

Every time after get off work, the accumulated hunger fills every cell in the body.

This feels really bad.

Fortunately, I will be home soon.

Presumably the glutinous rice fruit has already been prepared for dinner, right?
What's for dinner tonight?

It's amazing how quickly her cooking skills have improved.

Chen Yan got off the bus platform and walked all the way through the block of Walker Street.

Outside the cake shop on the first floor of No. 8 Walker Street, two boys lying on the window attracted his attention.

They were wearing baggy and tattered workers' uniforms. Although they were lying on the window, they kept looking around, as if they were waiting for someone.

Chen Yan was a little surprised, because such children were not common in the first half of Walker Street.

Judging from their clothes and eyes, they most likely came from the back half of Walker Street, or even the lower part of Walker Street further south.

Chen Yan passed by them, and inadvertently saw the mandibles on both sides of their cheeks that were exposed due to hunger, and the dark circles under their eyes that they didn't know how to make.

Their expressions seemed to be anxious, and it was obvious that they were almost impatient in their eyes.

Chen Yan remembered that he had seen such eyes before.

Most of the children from the black families in the lower city, those who have been in the market since they can remember, have such eyes.

He came to them and said as calmly as possible, "Hey, boys, who are you waiting for?"

The two children were taken aback when they saw him, but they were not scared away by him—everyone knew that Asians were basically the most harmless ethnic group on Walker Street, and there was no need to be too vigilant against them.

They didn't answer, they just stood in the snow, looking at him timidly without blinking their eyes.

"It's two more fish on the beach..." Chen Yan thought, "It's the same as the corner girl in the lower city." '

"I can give you some food...if you need it." He was not so clear-headed, so he could only express such superficial words.

At the same time, another idea was born in his heart:
I am not a kind enough person, and I cannot save everyone. I am still running around all day for my own livelihood. What qualifications do I have to help these children?
This thought flashed through his mind, Chen Yan lowered his head, and walked straight towards No. 33 Walker Street regardless of whether the two children were willing or not.

Footsteps sounded from behind.

It means they followed.

Chen Yan was inexplicably relieved.

Ten minutes later, he returned to his apartment building, turned his head, and said to them, "Wait a minute, I'll bring out some food."

He entered the house, came to the kitchen quickly, and said to the glutinous rice fruit who was baking bread: "I need to get a little food, I don't need a lot, one meal is enough."

Nuomi Guo didn't say anything, just packed three pieces of black bread with old newspapers and handed them to Chen Yan.

Chen Yan took the black bread, returned to the platform in front of the door, handed the newspaper wrapped in the black bread to the two of them, and asked:

"If you don't have anything to eat, go to the soup kitchen of the church school, or the relief tent... Try not to go out in this cold weather."

Not everyone in the empire can bear the winter, and the news telegrams will report every now and then about those who unfortunately lost their lives in the cold night.

The two children took the black bread and did not thank them.

Chen Yan thought, they are still young, maybe they don't have much contact with their parents, no one taught them, maybe they don't have the concept of "thank you" in their heads.

They didn't eat the black bread immediately, but took the black bread and walked towards the city.

The figures of the two quickly disappeared into the gradually growing vast snowstorm.

The footprints on the ground were quickly covered by the wind and snow that rose at night.

Chen Yan endured the constant pain in his head, took the bread, went back to the door, and locked the door behind him.

When he entered the restaurant, Ougami and Nuomi Guo were already waiting for him at the dining table.

The kerosene lantern placed on the other side of the dining table provided just the right amount of light, and the snowflakes on Chen Yan's body melted into a light mist due to the heating, making the light in the room mixed with some hazy mist.

Chen Yan's head was muddled, and he barely understood the chatter between Ogami and Nuomi Guo.

I only heard roughly that Ohgami found a job as a bodyguard, and the employer was Leonardo, an ambitious young man.

Glutinous rice fruit didn't go out, but just previewed the mission school homework at home.

I don't know where she got the book from.

Chen Yan finished gnawing the black bread in a daze, lowered his head, and said with a slurred tooth:

"Ogami, I originally planned tonight... let's go to the lower city to find my third uncle, but I'm really not feeling well today, so I can't go..."

Ohgami expressed his understanding, and motioned him to rest more, his words were all relaxed, without any embarrassment.

Chen Yan could barely hear the ease in his tone, so he relaxed his slightly nervous spirit.

After relaxing, the mind becomes even more chaotic.

What Ogami said next, Chen Yan couldn't remember clearly.

All he remembered was saying good night to them when he had finished his supper.

He still remembered that he seemed to smile at the glutinous rice fruit, then staggered upstairs, went to the bathroom on the second floor before returning to his room.

He even forgot to close the door, and only had time to take off his coat before falling headlong on the bed and falling into a coma.

What he couldn't see was that the muscles all over his body had shrunk, as if his whole body had shrunk.

Only the head seems to be bigger than before. A certain gland in the forehead swells up, which not only increases the intracranial pressure, puts more load on the nervous system, but also extracts the energy from the muscles of the whole body as a source of self-growth. food.

That was Chen Yan's pineal gland.

It was just 06:30 in the afternoon. Although it was already dark, the street lights hadn't been turned on yet, and the moonlight became the only lighting besides the kerosene lamp.

At this moment, the moonlight shone into the bedroom on the third floor of the apartment building at No. 33 Walker Street, and the moment it covered Chen Yan's body, his twisted facial features gradually relaxed.

It was also at the next moment when the body was shrouded in moonlight in reality, Chen Yan opened his eyes in the dream.

(End of this chapter)