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Chapter 2 - Chapter 2: Heart Like Fire

Along with the roar, the shoes on Zhou Yan's feet hit the butcher's face firmly with a snap, and he stepped on it firmly.

The fat on the butcher's face shook like waves.

But his body did not shake at all. He lifted Zhou Yan up with a force, grinned, and exclaimed:

"So fierce! It's really good meat!"

This tone was just like a Guangzhou guy who came across a big crab jumping around in the seafood market. He stared at Zhou Yan and swallowed his saliva: "It smells so good. Damn, I've never seen such delicious meat in my entire life."

"Don't even think about eating it. Just being stepped on by a foot like that makes me feel two pounds lighter."

He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, his face intoxicated.

Saliva is about to flow out from between the teeth.

Then he swallowed hard, suppressed his hunger, and tied up Zhou Yan.

"This kind of good meat cannot be eaten raw or fried over high heat. It must be boiled or steamed. When eating this person, it must have human flavor and be tender and delicious."

"What a pity! What a pity! We don't have the pleasure to enjoy this delicious meal."

"Three days later, Nanshan Zhiniang Lady will celebrate her birthday. We are worried that we have nothing to send to her. This delicious meat is enough for her."

The butcher carried him around the shop himself.

He walked around the big locust tree at the bottom of the Cross Hill three times, muttering something, then faced southeast and said "Open". He kicked the door, and it was as if a door appeared in the air. He carried Zhou Yan and rushed in.

It was cold and gloomy inside, in a huge farmhouse, lit by green lanterns.

One step separates heaven and earth.

Zhou Yan was stunned and turned back instinctively.

The butcher shop is still there at the intersection. The sun is shining outside, but it is cold and chilly inside.

this...

Zhou Yan's thoughts froze.

Is this correct?

Isn't this right?

The butcher carried Zhou Yan to a side yard, gave him a few instructions, and then threw him into a cage.

"Boss, new stuff?"

A man came over and looked at Zhou Yan, his eyes green.

The butcher said, "I just collected it today. Take good care of it. The owner will be here in three days to celebrate my aunt's birthday. This must be a dish."

"No touching, and no stealing of meat."

"Take good care of it."

The butcher gave detailed instructions, stared at Zhou Yan, swallowed hard, his teeth became sharp, and it was obvious that he really wanted to eat. Finally, his stomach growled, so he lowered his head and bit his arm until it bled, and then he sucked hard, only then did he suppress his appetite.

"I've never seen anyone smell so good!"

...…

"Damn, what the hell is this place?"

Spells? Magical powers?

Or an agency?

After the butcher left, Zhou Yan relaxed a little.

There was an intense fear in my heart, the uneasiness of being in an unfamiliar environment, and finally, there was a nameless anger burning about how I came to this world. My emotions were a mess.

Zhou Yan let out a breath.

He clapped his hands to his face.

Relying on deep breathing to control his emotions, all kinds of thoughts came and went in his mind, but among the chaotic thoughts, there was only one thing that Zhou Yan could be sure of.

These creatures, who were not sure whether they were human or not, planned to eat him in three days.

Everything else can be put aside.

The most important thing right now is to escape!

Save yourself!

"My dear, are you okay?"

A low shout brought Zhou Yan back to his senses, and he discovered that there was another person in the cage, a woman.

After Zhou Yan came back to his senses, he reluctantly replied, "I'm fine."

"You are..., you were sold here too?"

The woman was silent for a while, then nodded.

Zhou Yan felt that he had said something very stupid, but since he had come to this point, he might as well ask this woman some questions.

But she didn't know much. All she knew was that a war suddenly broke out and the area near Chang'an seemed to be fine the day before, but suddenly it became chaotic and once it started, there was no way to stop.

Chang'an...is it the Chang'an I am familiar with?

Hearing the familiar name, Zhou Yan was in a trance.

The woman said, "My dear, you... are injured." Zhou Yan looked at his arm. He didn't know whether it was because of rolling down the mountain or the struggle just now, but there was a wound that was still bleeding.

"Oh, it's actually okay, you see."

"hiss!!"

Zhou Yan shook his hand, but the wound was indeed painful. The movement made him grimace in pain.

The woman searched for a while, and finally thought of something. After hesitating for a moment, she took out a piece of white cloth from her bosom and simply bandaged Zhou Yan's arm. She lowered her head, with a somewhat apologetic and complicated expression on her face, and whispered:

"This is the white cloth used for my daughter's wake. It's relatively clean."

"Don't despise me, my dear."

Vigil...

Zhou Yan didn't know how to respond, so he could only say:

"My condolences."

"But isn't it a bad idea for me to use this thing?"

He half really thought so, and half also felt a little uncomfortable.

The woman said, "It's okay, she...my husband doesn't know her."

"She has a lively personality and likes to talk to people passing by her house. If someone is thirsty, she will run back home, take her own bowl and bring out a bowl of water for them. She doesn't mind."

When she mentioned her daughter, she had a faint smile on her face:

"My dear, you have never seen her."

"She is small, but she seems to have endless energy. When her father comes back, she runs over with a towel and keeps pestering her brother to play with her. She also cries because her brother wants to study and doesn't play with her."

"On rainy days, the snails on the roadside crawl slowly. She is afraid that the snails will be crushed to death, so she picks them up one by one and carefully places them on the leaves."

"It seems like there's never-ending energy."

A mother is always gentle when she speaks of her daughter.

Zhou Yan said: "He is a good kid."

Then the woman shrank back and said, "I sold her."

!!!

The huge split froze the softened expression on Zhou Yan's face, especially since he had personally experienced being "sold" in this world once and knew what it meant to sell a woman.

The woman lowered her head and said, "When the war started, we had to go back home to our parents. Then she got sick. We were such a strong little girl, but slowly we lost our strength."

"We tried to feed her, but there was no more food."

"The whole family is starving to death."

"I had no choice but to sell it."

"She sold some of the food for a little money, bought some rat meat and rotten cabbage, and cooked a pot of meat and vegetable porridge. Her brother came to his senses after eating the porridge, and he shouted and asked where his sister was, saying that he had to leave some for her."

"I wondered where she was. Would she have turned into a bowl of meat porridge as well?"

"Looking at the meat and vegetable porridge, I feel like vomiting."

"But I still finished the meat and vegetable porridge."

"That's food, that's life, but where is my little daughter?"

Zhou Yan couldn't bear it, touched the white cloth on his arm, and asked in a low voice:

"Where's your son?"

The woman said, "Then her brother also fell ill, died, and was sold."

"Now it's me."

"I sold myself quietly. Boss Zhao was kind-hearted. I secretly sent the money back yesterday. I just came back now."

The woman said, "Someone has to go home."

Zhou Yan looked at her and asked:

"If I'm left alone, is this still my home?"

The woman's expression froze.

The atmosphere in the air suddenly became depressing and quiet.

After a long silence, the woman looked like a fallen leaf in the autumn rain, with a sad look on her face. She asked, "If we keep going forward, we will definitely get home. My dear, you are a good man, but if we don't go home, can we turn back, my dear?"

Neither of them spoke. Zhou Yan felt that the atmosphere here was very depressing. He was thinking about the situation and how to escape. Suddenly, the guard who was watching the cage came over and shouted at the woman to get out.

The woman stumbled to her feet, and as she passed Zhou Yan, she lowered her head and said:

"We all ate that bowl of vegetable and meat porridge."

"So, my dear, this piece of white cloth is the only one that is relatively clean."

She said, "She is really still very clean, my dear, please don't despise this piece of cloth."

Zhou Yan suddenly felt a prickly pain in the white cloth on his arm.

The woman was taken away by the guards.

Zhou Yan leaned his head against the cage.

Did she cry when she said the last sentence?

Or actually I was still crying.

There are just no more tears.

Zhou Yan didn't know.

The thin man with a big belly turned around and muttered:

"This world is so strange that you can still see someone selling herself. It must be because Master Zhao likes to have fun. If it were me, I would just sell her and kill her, and give her money so that she can go back first."

"What's the point of saying fairness and refinement?"

"Bah! You think you have some skills and you are so pretentious. Damn it, you are just a butcher! Why are you so proud?"

He muttered, brought a bowl of black soup over, stared at Zhou Yan, swallowed his saliva viciously, cursed twice, grabbed Zhou Yan by the collar, pulled him over, forced him to drink the bowl of black medicine soup, looked at Zhou Yan lying there coughing, and said smugly:

"I'm not afraid to tell you, but for the next three days, you can't eat anything but this laxative soup to get rid of all the dirt in your intestines."

"Otherwise, if the monk and Lady Zhiniang eat something dirty, we will have to fry it in the oil pan."

After saying that, he looked at Zhou Yan's pair of clear black and white eyes and wiped his saliva: "Good eyes, I really want to put them on bamboo sticks and wrap them with sugar water. Wow, so delicious, so tasty!"

Zhou Yan supported himself on the ground with his hands, lowered his head and coughed, looking embarrassed, but his eyes were clear.

"I'm not that strong..."

Recalling the struggle just now, I felt the strength this man had when he was pouring the medicine into my body.

It is much bigger than an ordinary person, but not as big as a butcher's.

The man went out. Zhou Yan unzipped his shirt, took out the anti-diarrhea medicine, and regardless of whether it was the right medicine for his condition or not, he tilted his head back and swallowed it down forcefully.

If you collapse after taking laxatives, it can actually be fatal.

He came to this place inexplicably while assisting in mountain search and rescue. Although a lot of things were lost, some things were still there. He felt around and found that the flashlight, mobile phone and the like were gone, but the water purification tablets were still there, as well as a folding multi-functional Swiss Army knife, a magnesium rod for combustion, and an ignition stick.

Magnesium rod...

Afraid of the frying pan.

Zhou Yan's eyes flickered.

Take out the magnesium rod and Swiss Army knife.

......

"Hey, what's wrong with that guy? I've never smelled such a delicious smell. I'm so greedy. If I could really have a bite of this meat, it would be worth dying for." The skinny gatekeeper stuffed steamed bread into his mouth and couldn't stop drooling.

He thought of the arm meat of the three-year-old child he had eaten many years ago.

I just ate one piece.

It smells so good!

He wanted to grab the attention, but failed.

In the end, the eyeballs of the whole family, young and old, were pierced together with bamboo sticks, like a candied haws.

So beautiful!

He also knew that a small monster of his level could never eat such good meat, as he could only empty the shit pot and watch the gate. He could only satisfy his craving here.

It was the middle of the night and I was dozing off when I suddenly heard shouting from inside.

He woke up with a start and rushed inside in a daze.

Then he saw the man lying there holding something in his arms, screaming miserably. The little demon broke out in a cold sweat on his forehead. He called out "Auntie" and hurriedly opened the cage and pulled out the meat.

But I didn't expect it, so I reached out and pulled it.

However, the man took advantage of his momentum and turned and pounced, falling into his arms.

Oh my god, it smells so damn good!

It made me dizzy from the smoke.

Xiao Yao thought that such meat was worth dying for even after eating a bite!

Then something flew into his eyes.

The little demon screamed: "Who?!!"

Zhou Yan put a piece of cloth on his hand, with a handful of magnesium powder scraped off from it, and pressed it directly into the eyes of the monster who had just woken up, pressing hard inside.

Metal magnesium powder reacts when it comes into contact with water.

Use the fire stick in your right hand to light a fire, and with a sharp poke, the open flame, magnesium powder, and water instantly burst out with a large amount of heat.

"Your father!"

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