Famine: I farmed and saved the world

Chapter 403 Silent Withering

Last night was New Year's Eve, and the people who ate the New Year's Eve dinner had nothing to do, so they went to the card field to play cards to watch the New Year. Those who haven't returned home now played all night here.

The sky outside the window is already bright, and Xiaojie's work for the day is finished, so she can go back to her residence to have a good sleep and come back to work at night.

"Xiaojie! Here's your food for today, get off work!" The boss is a bald man with few hairs left on his head.

He handed Xiaojie two palm-sized, dark pancakes and a bottle of drinking water.

Xiaojie is not very talkative, so she took the food and stuffed it into the coat with wood foam floating out, put the hat on her head, and wrapped her head tightly with a piece of cloth, with only two eyes exposed from the slits, otherwise she would be caught by slugs If you bite, it will hurt for a long time.

The cold wind from outside poured in from the door, blowing away the last trace of temperature stored in Xiaojie's clothes, and the biting cold could freeze people's blood.

Xiaojie tightly hugged the food in her clothes with her hands, lowered her head and looked at her feet as she walked quickly to her residence.

She didn't know what was going on in her little head, she was probably only focused on hurrying, and didn't realize that today seemed different from usual.

The cold wind hit her face, and it was very difficult for the thin woman to walk in the wind. She tried her best to shrink her neck to prevent the cold wind from pouring into her clothes.

The sawdust in her clothes fell out more with the wind, and spread in the air from behind her with the wind.

The powder in the clothes was mercilessly taken away by the bitter cold wind, and now the clothes wrapped around her body became thinner and thinner, and her thin and small body could not withstand the ravages of the cold wind, like a dead branch, about to break.

The temperature on her body was getting colder and colder. Xiaojie's dazed head seemed to wake up a little from the cold. Looking down, the clothes on her body had been cut into many small openings at some point, and the tree ends used to keep warm had been blown away. Scattered clean.

It was bone-piercingly cold, as if the bones in her body had turned into ice sculptures. She panicked. This was the only piece of clothing she had to keep warm. She stretched out her thin hands to caress the cut pieces of cloth on her body.

The sharp snowflakes slashed across her arms, and there were several bloody mouths in an instant.

Xiaojie opened her mouth, and then raised her head to look. The slug she was afraid of was gone, replaced by heavy snowflakes all over the sky. The seemingly light snowflakes were sharper than knives.

Like an invisible knife cutting her body, a huge fear rose from her heart. Xiaojie ran away without caring about anything else. She had to go back to her residence early, otherwise she would be frozen to death outside.

Running and running, her aching body from the cold began to warm up, causing Xiaojie to panic even more.

Those grown-ups said that every person who died of freezing was found without clothes on his body. They said that before freezing to death, people could feel their bodies heating up and burning.

If someone grabbed her at this time, they would find that her body was as cold as ice.

It's a pity that no one will hold her back, everyone is struggling to live, Xiaojie knows clearly that no one will help her, no one will give her a bite of food and a piece of clothing to keep out the cold.

Fortunately, the residence was coming soon, so she rushed in and closed the door to keep out the cold wind.

She lives in a large collective dormitory, each person has a bed, and she only needs a thin blanket on her bed. She used to sleep with clothes on, but today her only piece of clothing to keep out the cold was torn. I can't afford the jacket, it's too expensive.

Xiaojie ate the food her boss gave her, trying to fall asleep early, and when she went to work at night, there would be a heater in the poker room so it wouldn't be so cold.

She had a sweet dream, dreaming that her family was waiting for her, dreaming of a big stove, warming her body.

In the evening, other people in the dormitory found that the 15-year-old girl's body was already stiff, and she was quietly withering at such a young age.

This is not the only withered life in this dormitory. Five other people were found. The cause of their death was the same. Their clothes were torn by snowflakes, and they couldn't afford new clothes.

There are not many opportunities for people at the bottom to earn work points. Most of them work hard at the base to provide for their food and clothing. Their income is only enough to eat every day.

When supplies are in short supply, the price of a piece of clothing to keep out the cold is enough to overwhelm a person.

This kind of thing happened all over the world. Countless people, in this gorgeous snow, fell silently and closed their eyes in despair.

Those who have not fallen, are struggling in the quagmire of existence, silently shouting for help, but no one lends a helping hand, this world, like the snowflakes outside, has become cold and ruthless.

Many people are too scared to go out, causing great trouble to their lives.

This is the disaster that Jiang Wan is worried about. Everyone is struggling to die, and any disaster may become a deadly knife.

The heavy snow showed no signs of stopping, and it was getting bigger and bigger, and the extremely low visibility made their navigation more difficult.

A huge hazy silhouette appeared in front of him. According to the map Jiang Wan got from the old ship, there was an island in front, and a group of pirates were entrenched on the island.

Qi Fei and the others finally knew what Jiang Wan was going to do if he didn't go back to China directly.

She wanted to rob, but the one who robbed was the vicious and raging pirates at sea.

This is a headache for all countries, there is no way to exist, they really admire Jiang Wan's courage.

"Put on the equipment, let's go straight there!" Jiang Wan waved his hand, how domineering.

They are so close to the island, the pirates above must have spotted them, probably because their boat is small and there are not many people on it, so they let them approach.

So there is no need to hide, just face it directly.

The others were so frightened by Jiang Wan's words that their hearts missed half a beat.

To describe it in one sentence, it's really bold.

If they didn't know Jiang Wan well, they would have been taken to feed the fish before they landed.

A few people didn't change their equipment, but stood there looking at the heavy snow outside, feeling a little worried.

Including Jiang Wan!

Xiao Li wrinkled his face, and then looked at the clothes on his body that were scratched by the snowflakes just now, like a beggar's clothes, "Tell me, when we rushed to the island, will all the clothes on our bodies be scratched into strips and blown by the cold wind?" gone."

He now deeply suspects that the reason why their ship is so close to the island is that the pirates were also caught off guard by the snowflakes.

I was afraid that after I went out, my clothes would be torn apart by snow flakes, blown away by the cold wind, and I would freeze to death in the ice and snow.

"It's possible!" Qi Fei nodded seriously.

Glancing at the strip of rags still hanging on Jiang Wan's body, the soft thermal clothing inside was leaked, and quickly looked away, not looking any further.

They have bulletproof armor to wear, but it's vest-style, it only protects the chest, what should I do with two arms, two legs, and a head?
This is a problem, and Jiang Wan is also a little melancholy.

The snowflakes all over the sky are like fine knives floating, smashing all the soft things, which seems to be more difficult than the erosion of the black mist.

(End of this chapter)