Raid

Chapter 140 Cannibalism
The two were talking about something, and there was a trace of restlessness not far away.The two looked over in unison, and saw several big men surrounding the woman just now.

Li Shengxi and Liu Jin frowned at the same time.

"What are you going to do?" the woman wailed sharply.

"What are you arguing about? Isn't your child dead?" A big man said angrily.

"My child is not dead, don't talk nonsense."

"Look for yourself, can he not die like this?"

"Our team has taken good care of us during this time. Now that your child is dead, it's your turn to take care of us." A big man said angrily.

He said he was a big man, but in fact, his clothes were all in rags and only his bones remained. Although they were surrounding the woman, their eyes kept falling on the dead child, with viciousness and greed in their eyes.The chapped lips rubbed, and the Adam's apple rolled up and down.

"You...what do you want to do?" The woman was a little frightened, and subconsciously hugged her child tightly.

"What are we going to do, don't you understand? I haven't eaten for seven days, and I'm going crazy from hunger."

They could still eat some dry food before, but after we finished eating, they could only eat some wild vegetables, and then they could only eat grass roots and bark, and now they don’t even have grass roots and bark, and if this continues, they can only eat dirt up.

"He's a human, how can you eat him?" Someone next to him couldn't help but said.

The woman was even more terrified and angry, "My child is not dead yet, with me here, no one can think of hurting him."

However, those big men obviously didn't want to talk to the woman who was not so clear-headed. They said to the people around the woman: "Who is he? He is dead now, so you have to think about the living. No If we eat him, we will die, do you want to die?"

I don’t know if he wants to convince himself or others with these words, at least he believes so, “I just eat a dead person, can that be called cannibalism? Can a dead person still be considered a human being?”

"If I don't eat him, how can I live?"

"Yeah. Don't blame us. If you want to blame, blame him for his bad life. He didn't have a good pregnancy, and he couldn't be bought by a nobleman. He can only die here. Giving him to us is the last thing he can do. Useful."

"You're talking nonsense—" the woman roared like crazy.

Just as Liu Jin was about to step forward, Li Shengxi grabbed her hand tightly, she couldn't believe it.

"You can't save them, since you can't save them, how can you block their way of survival?" Li Shengxi took Liu Jin out of the ruined temple.

"But they want to eat people." Tears rolled down Liu Jin's eyes, "Your Highness, how can they eat people? Is a person who eats a person still a person? Cannibalism, isn't this giving up the last bottom line? Even a dead person It's the same. Animals can't do this, let alone people."

Liu Jin was incoherent, and forgot the initial title for a while.

When things hurt their kind, Qiuming is also sad.She seemed to have experienced this kind of thing when she was a child. At that time, she curled up in her mother's arms and watched those people eat her dead brother.

How can she stay rational in such a situation.

"What is the difference between them and beasts now? Are they better than beasts when they live? Is this how humans should live?" Li Sheng asked, his cold eyes were full of sadness and chic Beneath his face was incomparable suffering,
"The granary knows the etiquette, and the food and clothing know the honor and disgrace. It's almost impossible to survive, why do you ask them to be human? Why do you let them hold the bottom line? In fact, they have already held the bottom line. Those people who eat are living people. If they don’t eat this child, they will starve to death. If you put it in a different place, can you not eat this child? You want them to be human, and you want them not to eat This dead child, but you are tantamount to taking away their life."

If the child is alive, Rujin might be able to say "yes".But this child is already dead, and no one can guarantee that he can retain his sanity when he is hungry and crazy. The dead are already dead, and the living must live. Under such circumstances, how can you live without eating people? go down.

"But...but...but..." Liu Jin opened her mouth, wanting to refute something but couldn't say anything, her tears couldn't stop flowing.

She is not an ordinary court lady, she was educated by the eldest princess and has been educated.

Those who have no permanent property but have perseverance, only scholars can do it.If you are a citizen, you have no permanent property, because you have no perseverance.If you have no perseverance, you will do everything you can to ward off evil spirits.And fall into a crime, and then punish it, it is against the people.How can there be a benevolent man who can do nothing while in power?

She knew she shouldn't blame them, because she had no way to give them a better way of life.

"But now they only eat the dead. If things go on like this, who knows if they will eat the living? Freezing three feet is not a day's cold. Such indulgence, sooner or later, they will not even be able to hold the final bottom line .” Liu Jin cried.

"Do you know that Meng Songyan knew the dangers of doing business with Xirong back then, but he didn't stop him?" Li Shengxi asked suddenly.

Liu Jin frowned, his eyes seemed puzzled.It's not that she doesn't understand the question Li Shengxi asked, but she doesn't understand why Li Shengxi asked this question.

"Because he didn't have a better choice. If he blocked the trade at that time, he could indeed avoid future disasters, but it would speed up recent ones. If I were Meng Songyan back then, I might not have made the same choice as him. If you can't even solve the immediate problem, then what's the long-term thinking?" Li Shengxi didn't wait for Liu Jin to answer, Li Shengxi spoke first, her expression was bitter, and there was endless helplessness in her words.

"If you went in to stop it just now, it would not be difficult to rescue the dead child with your ability. But after the stop, who knows if those people will go crazy and eat the living? There are many people in the ruined temple. Young, old, weak, women and children. You can't save everyone. Do you want to choose to kill everyone? Killing people is really not difficult for you. But those victims are so innocent. They just don't want to die.

What you said is not wrong, now they just want to eat the dead, and they may not think about eating the living in the future.But that is also a matter of the future, if you act now, it is tantamount to accelerating the coming of the future. "

"Then can we just do nothing?" Liu Jin cried.

Li Shengxi patted her on the back lightly, his movements were very gentle, but his words were very cruel. "At least, there's nothing we can do right now."

(End of this chapter)