25.Branch point

Zhang Chenze's eyes were rounded and she couldn't say a word, so she could only unconsciously step back.

"What's wrong?" Qiao Jiajin was blocked from Zhang Chenze's view and didn't know what was happening.

He only saw the strutting barrister retreat several steps before sitting on his butt on the dirty ground.

"You ... you ..." Zhang Chenze reached out and pointed at the shopgirl.

The crowd also followed the sound and realized that the shopgirl was holding a small section of her arm in her spread out palm, which was very small and didn't look like an adult's. Moreover, the fingers on it were distinctly rooted, and it was definitely not an animal.

It seems that this shopkeeper did cook a ...

That arm was emitting a tantalizing aroma at the moment.

Qi Xia saw this scene and associated it with the environment of this odd room, and instantly understood something.

"Is this the ... little piglet?" Qi Xia asked tentatively.

"That's right." The female clerk nodded, "Aren't you guys going to eat it?"

Qi Xia sullenly asked again, "You said that if you let us sleep with you, you can eat little piglets, and it's this kind of little piglets that you eat?!"

"Uh-huh." The female shopkeeper looked at Qi Xia with a dull expression, "The little piglets are delicious."

The smell of blood was heavy here, the shopgirl's thighs and the bed had blood stains, if Qi Xia guessed correctly, this woman hadn't been in labor for long.

She let men sleep with her just to get a bite of 'food' .

"I can only eat piglets about once a year ... " The shopgirl smiled, revealing dry yellow teeth, "I just wanted to ask if any of you would like to sleep with me? I'll trade you pig's hooves for them ..."

"I, we don't eat ..." Officer Li shook his head.

"Since you don't eat it ... then forget it ..." She fumbled around for a bit, stuffing the boiled food into her shirt pocket and wiping the oil from her own hands.

Zhang Chenze couldn't say anything when she saw the clothes she had draped over the other party being messed up like this.

Before this she had never thought that this kind of 'ingredient' would have so many oil stains .

Sweetness slowly walked over to the shopgirl and said to her with a complicated expression, "Girl, what you ate wasn't a little piglet, it was a ... was a ..."

"Not a little piglet?" The female shopkeeper's godless eyes turned, "That's the little piglet ah, it suddenly scurried out, and even knocked me sore."

The crowd looked at each other in disbelief, no one could pick up the words.

"Hey ... I'm hungry again." The shopgirl raised an eyebrow, "I'm going to go have some pork soup, it's nice to be full."

After saying that, she turned around and once again walked into the employee lounge, before closing the door she seemed to remember something and giggled again, saying to the crowd, "Please feel free to pick!"

And then closed the door heavily.

Several people were silent for half a day, the atmosphere was very depressing.

It was finally Qi Xia who broke the silence and spoke.

"Everyone, even if this shitty place can't be destroyed after ten days, we won't be able to return to the real world." Qi Xia reached out and touched his forehead, "If we have to stay here forever, sooner or later we will go crazy just like her."

This time Officer Lee didn't object to Zixia.

He hesitated as well, how long could a human being remain sane in this city that seemed so obviously abnormal, under this dark red sky and earthy sun?

The sound of clashing kitchen utensils came from inside the room, and it sounded as if the shopgirl had served herself another bowl of delicacies and was currently feasting on them.

Just a door away, a woman was eating something that could never be called 'food'.

Everything about this place was so counterintuitive.

"I want to go out and take a look." Zixia spoke up, "Aren't you guys curious? What exactly is this place? Who are all these people? Does the city have an edge? What's out there? How did we get here and how are we going to get out?"

Instead of 'curiosity', the expression on the faces of the crowd was more like fear.

"I just feel like there's danger everywhere here ...," Xiao Ran shook her head and said to Qi Xia, 'Instead of going out to participate in those 'games', I'd rather find a safe place to stay."

"Pretty girl, there's no food or drink here." Qiao Jiajin rubbed his stomach and said, "If we want to stay alive, we can't really go and eat that little piglet, can we?"

His position was self-evident, rather than staying here and waiting to die, he also wanted to go out and take a look.

The nine people seemed to be split into two teams at this point, some wanted to leave and some wanted to stay.

Dr. Zhao looked at Han Yimo beside him and said, "Going out to take a look is fine, but the injured man can't go, he's destined to stay here. As a doctor, I should also stay and take care of him."

"Then I'll stay and accompany you ...," Xiao Ran whispered.

"Do you guys not want to die?" Qiao Jiajin shook his head, "A sick man, a weak girl boy, plus a doctor, the three of you are prepared to live here?"

"I'll stay too." Officer Li suddenly spoke.

Dr. Zhao's three people twisted their heads to look at him, knowing that it would naturally be safer if the physically fit Officer Li also stayed here.

Officer Li nodded at Dr. Zhao and said, "This punk is right, it's too dangerous for the three of you to be here alone, there's no need to talk about those animal masks, even if that woman inside starts to go crazy, you won't be able to handle it."

Now that the number of people who chose to stay had reached four, the crowd rested their eyes on Sweetness, Zhang Chenze and Ringo again.

These three girls had yet to take a stand.

"Of course I'm staying." Zhang Chenze smiled slightly, "I'm a lawyer, and I won't take the initiative until the information is completely in my hands. It would make me make a wrong judgment."

After saying that, she got up and walked to the side of Officer Li and Dr. Zhao.

At this moment, the two of them, Qi Xia and Qiao Jiajin, seemed to have become otherworldly; they were like children who hadn't grown up when they wanted to go out and explore in this seemingly crisis-ridden world.

Sweetness looked at Ringo beside her, then walked over to Qi Xia's side, but never said anything.

She didn't seem to need any reason to join Zixia's group.

"Hmm?" The corner of Jo Jiajin's mouth lifted, "I thought you'd stay."

"Stay?" Sweet smiled bitterly and shook her head, then reached out and pointed to the ground, saying, "Can't you guys see? There is a wall here, a wall that makes me have to leave."

"Wall?" Qi Xia and Qiao Jiajin looked down and didn't find any 'wall'.

"On that side of the wall, there are cops, lawyers, doctors, and writers, and on this side of the wall, there are crooks, gangsters, and prostitutes." Sweetness' tone was flat as she wisped a strand of forehead hair behind her ear and added, "Our 'sides' were determined from the beginning, weren't they?"

Qi Xia and Qiao Jiajin's complexion twitched as they realized what Sweetness meant.

Yes, even though the nine of them were all ordinary people who were forced to come here, they still had their own 'camps'.

Qi Xia, Qiao Jiajin, and Sweetness were all people who existed in the gray area, destined to be out of step with the others.

Now the only person left who hasn't chosen their own 'camp' is Ringo.

According to her status as a 'psychological counselor', she should also go to the other side of the 'wall'.

But what the crowd did not expect was that she slowly walked over to Qi Xia and the others.

Qi Xia vaguely felt that there was something wrong with this girl, but he couldn't tell where it was strange.

"You're coming too?" Sweet looked at this girl suspiciously, "You and us are not the same kind of people, if you follow them maybe ..."

"But I'm useful." Ringo interrupted as he covered his mouth and nose and smiled at Sugar, "I understand human nature, I might be able to help."

Joaquin stretched and said slowly, "Good, two pretty girls to keep us company, and Cheat Boy and I won't be bored."

"Don't call me Cheat Boy." Qi Xia frowned and said, "And I don't need you guys to follow."

"Okay, okay ...," Qiao Jiajin nodded, "When are we leaving? Now?"

"I ..."

Without waiting for Qi Xia to finish speaking, Ringo spoke up, "It's really not early in the day, I personally suggest going out tomorrow."

"Tomorrow?" The crowd craned their heads to look out the window, and the sky had indeed gotten darker.

That sky was even darker red and constantly emanated an aura of danger.