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Chapter 51 Domestication
"Crash!"

The strong man poured the food from the wooden barrel into the wooden trough, and the six children quickly climbed out of their respective iron cages.

They crawled to the wooden trough one after another, immediately buried their heads in it, and started eating quickly.

When the fifth child buried his head in the trough and quickly swallowed the food in the trough, he just filled up the trough.

The wooden trough was not long enough to accommodate a sixth head.

This was clearly carefully designed.

When the last child climbed to the edge of the wooden trough, there was no place for him.

Faced with this situation, what he did was to speed up and slam into a child who was eating nearby.

"what!"

The child, who was concentrating on eating, was suddenly hit and fell over, leaving his eating space empty.

When he roared and turned over and got up, and was about to pounce on the child who took his place and was eating quickly, a whip hit him.

When he fell to the ground in pain, he realized his "mistake" and immediately crawled on all fours to retaliate against the child who had just hit him.

Sure enough, no more whip hit him this time.

Worried that the whip would fall on him again, he couldn't help but feel relieved, thinking that the rules were not strict and were quite lenient.

Soon, he regained his own eating spot.

The chaos caused by the "food fight" was not limited to these two people, but soon involved several other children.

Six kids, five eating places.

Although on average the food in the wooden trough was enough for all six children to barely eat their fill, in such a fiercely competitive atmosphere, when the food in the trough was licked clean, two children were clearly only half full.

They did not resent the "feeders". Instead, they looked with anger and even hatred at the two "food snatchers" who had occupied the eating position for a long time and whose stomachs were obviously bulging from eating too much.

It's not just that the two of them ate too much or didn't eat enough.

This will most likely determine their future - no one wants a future with broken hands, feet, and tongue.

But among the six of them, three will move towards this future.

It can be said that the competition between them began after the news was announced.

Even though some children were slow to react, confused and didn't really understand the deep meaning at first.

But after these few days, being in such an atmosphere, I naturally understood everything.

"Tomorrow, tomorrow I must climb faster and snatch more fiercely!"

The child became angry and climbed into his own iron cage obediently.

After all six children climbed into their respective cages, the thin man holding the whip locked the iron cages.

The sturdy man had already put out the fire, and holding a torch, he and the thin man entered two different tunnels.

After they left, the children who used to cry loudly stopped crying and the dark underground space fell into deathly silence.

……

Neither the sturdy man carrying the bucket to feed the children, nor the thin man holding the whip to supervise, including the six children, knew that everything that happened here was under a pair of silent gazes.

Because the daily feeding time here is fixed, Geng Xuan will come here on time while expanding the scope of exploration these days.

The ugly beggar with deformed legs and two iron sticks doesn't come every day. For example, he didn't come today.

At the same time, Geng Xuan also noticed the changes in the six children.

Originally, the tops of the six children's heads, even though not as clean and clear as Chen Xiaoyu's, were basically clean and free of impurities.

But in just a few short days, it had become turbid and seemed to contain impurities.

Among them, the two stronger and more ferocious children who ate themselves to death for three consecutive days showed the most obvious changes.

Based on his own experience, Geng Xuan judged that the birth of the first ray of red energy was not far away.

“Perhaps, when the three people with broken hands, broken feet, and broken tongues are selected, that will be the time when the two of them will transform into the first ray of red energy.”

"Red Qi is not only produced by killing people."

Geng Xuan pondered this matter in his mind, and used the raccoon flying technique to quietly leave the place. Not long after, he arrived at the place where Su Ruiliang and his five men surrounded and killed the "fat sheep".

He did not stop and continued walking along the same path the others were taking.

Soon, they arrived at the fork in the road where light was faintly visible in the three tunnels.

Geng Xuan's eyes swept across the three tunnel entrances, and he entered the tunnel on the right without stopping. This was also Su Ruiliang's choice before.

After entering this tunnel, the light becomes brighter as you go forward.

At the same time, some noisy sounds began to reach my ears.

After walking about three hundred steps in the tunnel, the view in front of me suddenly became clear.

A huge underground space appeared before him. Oil lamps hung on the walls and pillars, and flames burning in stone tripods and pots on the ground illuminated the space as bright as day.

The underground black market is not dark at all.

Geng Xuan walked out of the tunnel and entered the underground black market. Before he had taken a few steps, many pairs of eyes, some direct and some subtle, were cast on him.

However, these gazes, whether open or hidden, naturally turned away after seeing his face clearly.

This is also one of the reasons why Geng Xuan wanted to enter this place as Su Ruiliang.

Just think about the kind of attention a complete stranger would receive if he entered this place.

The price of something may double or even triple, or there may even be quality issues, but these are all small matters.

If you accidentally show your cowardice or wealth, it is normal to be slaughtered like a fat sheep.

Unlike the ground, Kangleji’s management of this underground black market is limited to “don’t fight or kill here”. They don’t ask anything else, and they can’t ask any other questions.

As long as they don't die in public, the death of one or two people here won't cause any ripples.

Of course, this doesn't mean that familiar faces like Su Ruiliang are not dangerous at all. When their luck comes, they will still be slaughtered.

However, compared to unfamiliar faces, familiar faces like Su Ruiliang are undoubtedly easier to integrate into this environment full of caution and vigilance.

For example, Geng Xuan now feels like a fish entering the water.

He wandered around casually.

Soon, he had explored the entire underground black market.

Geng Xuan discovered that this underground black market was really not that big. All the stone chamber shops carved out of the rock wall, plus some stalls in the central open area, totaled less than fifty.

Moreover, there were not many people. Compared with the bustling level of the ground market, it can only be described as deserted.

However, to Geng Xuan, this is more valuable than the market on the ground.

Although he thought so in his mind, he did not go into detail to look at these shops. He just took a quick look around and came to a staircase with several black-robed guards from Kangleji.

One of them stared at Geng Xuan's face for a few seconds, then nodded to him and stepped to the left to allow Geng Xuan to pass more conveniently.

One of the main duties of these people is to prohibit some unidentified people in the underground black market from coming to the surface. They let Geng Xuan pass so easily without even asking any questions, which shows that they are very familiar with this face, to the extent that they can recognize it by face recognition.

Geng Xuan walked up the stairs, and when he reached the last step, he found himself standing inside a half-open door.

He stepped over the high threshold, walked out of the gate, and came onto the stone-paved street.

He first walked forward for dozens of steps, then turned right at an intersection, and the familiar iconic gate came into Geng Xuan's sight.

It was none other than the gate of the recreation center.

A few days ago, Geng Xuan entered through this gate and watched a very significant "lecture in the hall".

The door that he had just walked out of, which led to the underground black market, was a side door of the recreation center.

After walking a distance along the street, Geng Xuan suddenly felt something strange and stepped to the left.

A fruit shell fell where he was just now.

Geng Xuan looked up and saw a man leaning on the railing on the second floor, looking at him with a smile:

"Lao Su, what are you doing wandering around by yourself?"

(End of this chapter)