The orphanage

Adriel walked slowly through the desolate streets of Levon City, observing the familiar yet strange buildings that spread out around him.

The suburbs of this city were already dirty and old before the apocalypse, but now, it is like visiting an abandoned city from medieval times.

Adriel left Arcadia to go to a certain place, and incidentally began the sweep of the city.

He departed after spending the remaining three thousand points to increase the density of the essence, bringing it to 1.8, 80% more than outside.

"BOOM!"

With one stomp, Adriel crushed a fist-sized cockroach that had slipped under his feet.

The giant insects are being a real nuisance, especially the cockroaches, they are so ugly and disgusting that even goblins and zombies look like models in comparison, and they are as resistant as ... well, cockroaches.

Currently, he was alone, he wanted to face this alone.

"Where are you going?"

Now it seems impossible.

Isabela got in the way of Adriel, with Alice following behind her.

"I don't want you to see it, Isabela, please move away," Adriel said sternly.

Isabela also adopted a serious expression, she approached Adriel until his faces were an inch from each other, and said gravely, "You can't give me orders, you should know by now, I'm going with you"

"No, get away," Adriel gave an ultimatum.

Isabela sighed sadly, "Why don't you understand that I only care about you? I'll go away, but only if you tell me, what is it that you don't want me to see, what are you afraid of?"

What am I afraid of?

That question reached the depths of Adriel's soul.

What am I afraid of.

That's a good question.

He could lie, he could try to be harsh and tell a lie, but Alice would reveal it right away.

Instead, he might as well tell the truth ...

I don't want you to see my past," Adriel took a deep breath, "And I'm afraid I won't be able to bear it."

Isabela said nothing, turned around and left.

"Come back", it was only after she had advanced ten meters that Adriel's heavy voice sounded.

Isabel shook her head with a smile, returned to Adriel's side and the two continued walking.

Adriel observed the familiar buildings, the second-hand clothing stores where he used to rob, the crappy restaurants and greengrocers where he used to rob, the street stalls where he used to rob ...

Yes, he stole everything he could.

There was no other option, if he tried to beg, they beat him and kicked him out, and in the orphanage they gave nothing but the employees' food scraps, many days they didn't even have anything to eat.

Therefore, he had to steal to survive, he took everything he could, many times they caught him and beat him until he was seriously injured, but he was able to survive and get to where he is now.

He was lucky, many starved or beaten to death, many girls were secretly sold to brothels or raped by the orphanage's own staff and then killed.

The authorities couldn't care less, this area was dominated by criminal gangs and gangsters, and we orphans were simply worthless cannon fodder.

After walking for a few minutes, they finally reached the site, the place Adriel would rather never remember.

The orphanage.

An old and haggard looking old building, the cracks in the walls and the dirt marks on the ceiling and hinges clearly show that the building is lacking in maintenance and has not been repaired in years.

It was gross before the game, but now it looks like a building that has been abandoned for years and is about to collapse.

Adriel was breathing heavily, unease filled his mind the moment he placed his eyes on this place, but he tightly contained his nervousness.

He walked towards the poorly made barricade at the entrance, jumped up a few meters and passed it, some soldiers began to quickly remove the barricade.

During this time, the army has been clearing the entire city at full speed, recently they reached the suburbs and started sweeping away the zombies.

Adriel wanted to face this alone, but he couldn't hinder the army's work because of his personal wish, he just let it be.

He opened the door and found the great old, familiar room where he had spent so much time in his childhood.

This place was used as a reception and as a dining room, in many cases, the children also had to sleep here when they rented the rooms to prostitutes to take their clients there.

Currently, a group of thin, dirty and malnourished children were in this place grouped in a corner, shaking and looking at him with fear.

Adriel could clearly see the wound and whip marks on the bodies of these children, most of them were recent and many of them were still bleeding.

Adriel released some of his aura gently to calm the children, he took out a handful of vitality tomatoes that a soldier had just given him and placed them in front of the children.

"Eat," he only said one word, but his aura made him extremely persuasive and poignant, to the point where the children trusted him almost instantly.

One by one, the children grabbed the tomatoes and took small bites, which turned into large bites after the first bite.

As they decorated the food, the meat began to grow on their undernourished bodies at high speed, with each passing second looking less undernourished and healthier.

The large amount of life energy in tomatoes is enough to completely heal these little children without cultivation.

While Adriel was doing this, the soldiers began to drag a group of dirty-looking adults from the floor above without any courtesy and with great harshness.

Everyone has seen the state of the children, and it is not that they liked it very much.

"FUCK!"

A soldier ran down the stairs and began to vomit as he held his stomach.

What could cause a soldier forged in several bloody battles to start vomiting like this?