Chapter 17: The First Time_1

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The suburban settlements in the county town aren't much different from the countryside, only slightly neater with houses and an increased ingestion of soil due to their proximity to roads, along with a bit more rumbling noise from cars.

However, even the lights of the big lorries don't reach the gloomy corners at the back of these settlements.

On a large tree at the edge of one of these corners, a bird like an eagle is perched, staring without blinking at a cesspit not far below.

This is an ordinary cesspit commonly found in rural areas, where people dump animal manure, wood ash, and other things to make compost. There is also some household rubbish around it, mostly rotten vegetable leaves and such.

Naturally, there is nothing pleasant to look at in such a place, but what Yan Fei is observing is the man struggling in the middle of the cesspit.