When people are in adversity, their ability to adapt to the environment is amazing. People can endure misfortune, and they can also overcome misfortune, because people have amazing potential, and as long as they are determined to use it, they will be able to overcome difficulties. - Carnegie

"The Spring Festival will be celebrated in seven days!" Li Baoqiang stood at the top of the city and looked into the distance, sighing to Zhang Juncai.

"Yes, time flies so fast." Zhang Juncai stood next to Li Baoqiang and reported on the village affairs of Hope Village. Li Baoqiang gradually learned that due to the increase in population, food was almost running out, and the new villagers said there were still

Some people live in abandoned villages and towns, and their lives are very miserable.

"I originally wanted to expand the search area, find some food and recruit people at the same time, but I was so busy at the moment that I forgot about it." Li Baoqiang explained. "How can you call it a mess? You see, building city walls and making explosives,

Which aspect of refining salt is not the most important?" Zhang Juncai admired.

"Next, the armed team will be divided into two parts. One part hunts and protects the village. The other part I will lead the team to nearby villages and towns to continue looking for food." Li Baoqiang ordered the fat man Wang Zhiming. The fat man has now become the deputy captain of the armed team, responsible for the inside and outside of the team.

things.

"I want to go too, don't let me go to make you look good!" Zhao Xiaoxiao learned from the fat man that Li Baoqiang was going to lead a team to search for food, so he ran directly to Li Baoqiang, half begging and half threatening. He didn't go last time, but the result

Zhao Xiaoxiao has been regretting not seeing Li Baoqiang's glorious image, and is determined to follow Li Baoqiang this time.

When Li Baoqiang saw Zhao Xiaoxiao being coquettish towards him, he softened his heart and believed that he could protect his lover, so he agreed to the girl's request. "Ouye." Zhao Xiaoxiao jumped up excitedly and rushed towards Li Baoqiang.

A shallow kiss was left on the cheek. Li Baoqiang hugged Zhao Xiaoxiao and kissed the girl's mouth directly.

The two of them had secretly hugged and kissed several times since their relationship was established, so now they became bolder when no one was around. Unexpectedly, a pair of gloomy eyes in the distance had already stared at the two of them, and saw that they were still hugging each other.

During the kiss, the man went crazy and broke off a branch in his hand. The broken stubble pricked his finger and blood started to flow, without even bothering to wipe it.

Li Baoqiang and the thin man Li Dayong led two main teams, a female soldier team and Zhao Xiaoxiao to set out to search for food. The fat man led other teams into the mountains to hunt and be responsible for defending the town. After Li Baoqiang, Professor Zhao and others said goodbye one by one, in the hope of the villagers

With hopeful eyes, he led the team and set off.

Although Professor Zhao didn't want Zhao Xiaoxiao to go out in his heart. After all, there were many dangers outside, but seeing his daughter's eager eyes and thinking of Li Baoqiang's skills and the combat capabilities of the team members, he reluctantly agreed, but privately reminded Li Baoqiang that he must

To protect Zhao Xiaoxiao, Li Baoqiang faced his father-in-law with a serious expression and agreed.

Zhao Xiaoxiao put on a set of training clothes and put on a coat. Although the large training clothes looked extremely uncoordinated on her body, the girl found an armed belt and tied it up, highlighting her slender waist.

With her towering chest, Li Baoqiang couldn't help but feel warm in his abdomen. Showing off uniforms and controlling uniforms, it turned out that he still had such a hobby deep in his mind.

Thanks to Zhang Juncai's hard work, the original Wuzhen was almost razed to the ground. In accordance with Li Baoqiang's request not to leave a nail, the supplies were basically plundered. To build the city wall, almost all the bricks, tiles and wood that could be dismantled were also demolished.

After that, everyone was speechless for a while looking at the remaining ruins.

"We will rebuild Wuzhen in the future!" Li Baoqiang promised everyone with confidence. Zhao Xiaoxiao looked at Li Baoqiang and thought, "Perhaps it is Li Baoqiang's confidence that impressed him?" According to his research with Zhang Juncai in advance, Li Baoqiang

The route of travel has been arranged.

Starting from Hope Village, we go from south to east and then north and finally return to Hope Village. This time we will visit three villages and towns. If we want to return to Hope Village on New Year’s Eve, we will be a bit tight on time. There are no cars, so we can only rely on two roads.

Walking on their own legs, they saw collapsed mountains, rolling rocks, and broken roads along the way. Li Baoqiang and others kept lamenting the severity of this crisis.

The armed team did not bring food. This was a rule set by Li Baoqiang. The armed team had to eat on the spot. Along the way, the team shot and killed several wild dogs with ferocious eyes and fat bodies. After slaughtering the meat,

, prepare it for lunch, and collect the fur at the same time, which is a good thing to keep out the cold.

At noon, I finally saw a village in the distance ahead, with smoke rising from the kitchen. Li Baoqiang pointed at the village warily and said: "Li Dayong led a small team to reconnoitre." Since the first attack on the Wuzhen Armed Forces, Li Baoqiang has been training

Team members must search carefully before taking action.

In accordance with daily training, Li Dayong organized a small team to slowly approach the village in skirmish formation. After a while, he made a gesture to indicate safety, and then Li Baoqiang led the others into the village and looked for the places where the smoke was rising.

Li Baoqiang followed Li Dayong into the courtyard of a house. Everyone looked up and saw that several houses had collapsed. A shack had been built against half the wall. The smell of blood hit their noses. Li Dayong's team members were furious.

Pointing at the man and woman squatting on the ground with a crossbow and a sword, their eyes were full of panic.

I saw a man and a woman on the ground, both as skinny as skin and bones. There was an iron pot full of water, which was bubbling slightly. Inside the pot was a child's arm being stewed. Zhao Xiaoxiao and

The female soldiers couldn't help but want to vomit, and even the male soldiers couldn't help but burst into tears. The man squatted on the ground, and dropped a sharp knife at his feet. The blade was sharply sharpened, and a few traces of blood fell from the straw pile next to it.

Extend over.

Li Baoqiang walked towards the straw pile. The man and woman seemed to be frightened. They wanted to stand up to stop Li Baoqiang, but the team members used knives to force them back. Li Baoqiang became more suspicious, opened the straw, and couldn't help but take a breath of cold air. One

The naked little girl was covered in bruises from the cold and was dying. Next to her was a little boy who had been raped.

Li Baoqiang hurriedly asked Zhao Xiaoxiao to lead the female soldiers to wrap the little girl in a coat and give her a few mouthfuls of hot water. The little girl slowly recovered. Li Baoqiang turned around and asked the two men and women angrily: "What's going on?

Whose child is it? Your child?"

The woman suddenly collapsed to the ground and cried bitterly: "It's not ours, it's our neighbor's. Our neighbor has eaten it."

Li Baoqiang hurriedly asked Li Dayong to gather all the people still alive in the village here and check the situation at the same time.

"Eating by exchanging children?" Zhao Xiaoxiao couldn't help crying.

Zhao Xiao's primary school major is history, and she knows that in history, there has been a phenomenon of "exchanging children and eating them" because of the epidemic, but now that she has seen it with her own eyes, she still does not believe that in the context of such a developed modern civilization, even though the disaster occurred less than two months ago,

, it is simply unbelievable that people can eat people.

She knew that cannibalism in ancient times could be divided into two categories:

The first type of situation is when natural disasters or wars cause severe social famine, and people are forced to eat the same kind of food in order to survive. This phenomenon is commonly recorded in history books, and cannibalism will appear in every dynasty when it suffers from corruption. Tragic phenomena are unavoidable even in prosperous times. Like what Bai Juyi wrote in his poem, "There was a drought in the south of the Yangtze River, and people in Quzhou were cannibals." This was only a well-known incident.

In some dynasties, during disaster years or in disaster areas, human flesh would be openly sold on the market. During the Jingkang Rebellion in the late Northern Song Dynasty, people in the Jianghuai region ate each other, and a bushel of rice cost tens of thousands of dollars. The price of human flesh was even cheaper than pork. The man's body was only fifteen thousand (not as expensive as a bucket of rice). In the forty-fifth and forty-sixth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1617, 1618), there were human flesh in Caizhou, Shandong Province, which was horrific. During the third and fourth years of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1864) , 1865), cannibalism was everywhere in southern Anhui, and human flesh was initially sold for 30 Wen per catty, and later the price increased to 120 Wen per catty. At the same time, in Jurong, Liyang, Lishui and other places in Jiangsu, it was sold for 80 Wen per catty. .

This phenomenon is of course against human nature, but in a situation where everyone is facing the threat of starvation, relying on cannibalism to survive can still make future generations understand.

Another type of situation is cannibalism, which is a cruel behavior. Due to different purposes, the specific manifestations of this type of situation are different. Some people eat human flesh to show off their violence, and some people follow the heretical magic and eat human flesh as a cure. Certain diseases, some people out of hatred eat the enemy's flesh to vent their revenge, etc. Compared with being forced to eat human flesh in famine years, these are more barbaric and cruel. This kind of cannibalism does not belong to Although the scope of punishment is limited, it has some similarities with the practice of punishing people with various tortures, which clearly shows the cruel consciousness and sadistic mentality of ancient people.

In the animal world where the weak can eat the strong, animals of different species are caught alive and eaten, and animals of the same species also kill each other. This is the need for survival competition in the animal world, and it is not surprising. After humans entered civilized society, the phenomenon of cannibalism still exists. This shows that human beings have not completely eliminated animal nature. Since humans have a higher social awareness than animals, cannibalism between humans is more barbaric and cruel than cannibalism among animals.

Zhao Xiaoxiao and the female soldiers were crying. This scene was too exciting for Zhao Xiaoxiao. She thought that the outside world was similar to Hope Village. At least there was food and she could protect herself. Unexpectedly, she encountered She didn't believe the realistic version of historical facts in the textbook and always thought it was an illusion.

At this time, Li Dayong had already led more than 20 men and women with dull eyes and zombie-like shapes into the yard. When Li Dayong told Li Baoqiang that the bodies of children had been found in several other households, Li Baoqiang asked angrily: "These children Where did it come from? You must answer truthfully today! If you don’t answer truthfully, I will kill you all today."

Li Baoqiang stared at the two men and women kneeling on the ground. The man suddenly lost his mind and screamed: "Don't kill me, I am too... There is nothing we can do. My two children are starving to death. If you... don't eat anymore , I’m going to... starve to death too!”

"We didn't cheat the child, we didn't cheat it. We exchanged our own children for other families in the village, and my children were also taken away by them..."

"Eating by exchanging children!" Li Baoqiang couldn't help shouting: "There are such cruel and vicious parents as you in the world. The poison of a tiger is not enough to eat its children! You are not even as good as an animal!"
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