Siheyuan: At the beginning, I can integrate everything!

Qin Huairu rummaged through that pile of junk for a long time.

They dug out half of a rotten cabbage root, still covered in mud.

She carefully tucked it into her bosom, hunched over, and limped toward the courtyard house.

These days are like being fried in a pan of oil; every day is worse than death.

But she still has to persevere, for the sake of her mentally challenged son who has become half-disabled.

at this time.

A large open-air garbage transfer station not far from Nanluoguxiang.

The north wind howled, carrying with it waves of a nauseating, sour, and putrid stench.

A thin, bony old woman wearing a tattered cotton-padded jacket whose original color was no longer discernible.

He was kneeling in the garbage heap, frantically rummaging through it like a wild cat searching for food.

Her sparse, gray hair was a mess, like a bird's nest, and her face was covered with deep wrinkles and age spots.

Especially her right hand, which was strangely missing two fingers, looked rather horrifying.

It was none other than the once arrogant and domineering wicked woman, Jia Zhangshi, who was once the most powerful and domineering woman in the Hongxing Courtyard!

Time and hardship have mercilessly left the cruelest marks on this wicked old woman.

She looks so old.

Gone is the days when he was fat, strong, and full of swagger.

Now, she is a pitiful old woman, frail and old, who makes a living by scavenging for garbage.

"I'm starving... this old woman is starving..."

Jia Zhangshi's withered lips murmured, her voice hoarse like sandpaper grinding glass.

With her crippled hand, she tightly gripped a rusty, broken iron hook.

He rummaged through the stinking rotten vegetable leaves, coal ash, and broken cardboard boxes.

I hope to find half a hard bun that someone else has left over, or a bone that hasn't been completely gnawed on.

Just then.

A light van bearing the "Future Technology Group" logo drove up.

Two employees in neat overalls jumped off the vehicle and carried a large black plastic bag out of the compartment.

With a "bang," it was thrown onto the edge of the garbage heap.

"Hey, this is a high-end staff meal blind box that was just put away by the kitchen staff. I heard it even contains braised pork and roast goose that haven't been touched much."

One employee said with some regret.

"Chairman Zhang said that our company cannot keep leftovers overnight; we must ensure the food safety of our employees. So, just throw it away."

Another employee clapped his hands, and the two got into the car and drove away.

Hearing the words "braised pork" and "roast goose"...

In an instant, an extremely greedy and insane green light burst forth from Jia Zhangshi's cloudy, dim-eyed, inverted triangular eyes!

Meat! She hadn't smelled meat in years!

She seemed to have suddenly regained her youth.

He scrambled out of the depths of the garbage heap and lunged at the black plastic bag.

She frantically tore at the plastic bag with that rusty iron hook.

With a "rip," the bag was ripped open with a large tear.

Instantly.

A rich aroma of meat, mixed with the fragrance of premium rice, permeated the stench of the garbage dump.

Several elegant aluminum lunch boxes fell out, one of which had its lid come undone.

Inside, several pieces of braised pork belly, glossy red in color and with alternating layers of fat and lean meat, were clearly visible!

"Meat! My meat!"

Madam Jia was so excited that she trembled all over, and a long stream of drool instantly flowed down her face, dripping onto her filthy clothes.

She couldn't even wait to take it with her hands; she stretched out her withered neck and opened her mouth, which had only a few teeth left.

Like a starving old sow, it gnawed at the piece of braised pork.

however.

Before her lips could even touch that piece of meat.

"Woof! Woof woof!"

Several harsh and fierce barks suddenly rang out behind her.

Jia Zhangshi was startled and turned around abruptly.

Four or five emaciated stray dogs with bloodshot eyes had silently surrounded them without anyone noticing.

They bared their pale white fangs and growled menacingly from their throats.

Obviously.

These stray dogs, struggling on the brink of starvation, were also drawn in by the rare aroma of meat.

Furthermore, they regarded Jia Zhangshi as a competitor for food!

"Get out of my way! This is my flesh! You dead dog, get out of my way!"

Although Jia Zhangshi was afraid, her instinct to protect her food made her swing the broken iron hook in her hand, trying to drive the wild dogs away.

But these stray dogs were starving, so why would they be afraid of a frail old woman?

The lead black dog suddenly pounced!

"what!"

Jia Zhangshi let out a terrified scream.

She instinctively stepped back, but her foot landed on a slippery, rotten watermelon rind.

"thump!"

Losing her balance, Jia Zhangshi fell flat on her back, landing heavily in the two-meter-high mountain of garbage behind her!

"Splash—"

It was accompanied by a nauseating sound.

The rotting cabbage stalks, the dead rats with maggots, and all sorts of unidentified foul-smelling slime.

In an instant, it buried half of her body.

When the stray dogs saw her fall, they immediately swarmed over and snatched the braised pork from the ground.

There was even a dog that bit Jia Zhangshi's leg hard while fighting for food.

"Help! It's biting me to death!"

Jia Zhangshi was in so much pain that she rolled around frantically in the garbage heap.

As she rolled over, her body became covered in all sorts of disgusting filth.

The overwhelming stench, a mixture of feces, rotting flesh, and sewer smells, was so strong that she didn't even have the strength to gag.

"What are you doing! Howling like that in broad daylight!"

Just then.

Two street security officers wearing red armbands were patrolling by on bicycles.

Hearing the noise, he covered his nose and came over.

They saw Jia Zhangshi surrounded by stray dogs, rolling around in the garbage heap, covered in stench.

The two officers' eyes were filled with extreme disgust and contempt.

"Go away! Get out of here! Don't ruin the city's appearance!"

The officer waved his baton and chased the stray dogs away.

Then he poked Jia Zhangshi, who was still groaning on the ground, with his baton, as if he were poking a bag of stinking garbage.

"Get up right now! You stink! If you don't leave, I'll take you to the shelter!"

Upon hearing the words "shelter-in-place".

Jia Zhangshi was so frightened that her soul almost left her body.

She no longer cared about the pain in her legs or the stench on her body.

Like a frightened mouse, it scrambled and crawled out of the garbage heap.

Without daring to look back, he limped away from the place.

into the night.

Biting cold.

Under a dilapidated bridge arch outside Nanluoguxiang.

Like an abandoned stray dog, Jia Zhangshi huddled in a tattered haystack deep inside the bridge arch.

The dog bite wound on my leg is still throbbing.

The stench emanating from her body was so overwhelming that she almost suffocated.

My stomach was completely empty, and I felt like I was on fire from hunger.

Listening to the howling north wind outside and the occasional car horn in the distance.

Finally, Jia Zhangshi's turbid tears flowed down her cheeks.

She thought back to those days.

Back then, she was incredibly powerful and influential in the Hongxing Courtyard!

Whenever she throws a tantrum, everyone in the hospital has to give in to her.

That gullible Sha Zhu brings her lunchboxes every day, and she lives a more comfortable life than a landlady.

in case……

If only she hadn't coveted Zhang Huaimin's two large brick houses.

If only we hadn't provoked that devilish little devil.

Is she sitting on a warm kang (heated brick bed) right now, eating the braised pork that Sha Zhu brought, enjoying her old age surrounded by her children and grandchildren?

"I was so stupid... I was completely blinded by greed..."

Extreme regret and despair gnawed at her internal organs like venomous snakes.

Jia Zhangshi stretched out her hand with the severed finger.

"Slap! Slap! Slap!"

He slapped his withered old face hard and mercilessly, left and right.

She sobbed as she cried out in the cold wind.

This sound was the final echo left in this world by the wicked woman from the compound who had committed countless evils.

This is the end.

The evil spirits that once roamed the Hongxing Courtyard have finally met their most tragic karmic retribution.

Those years in the courtyard house were filled with scheming, jealousy, and bloodsucking.

In this long winter night, let's turn the page completely.

At this time.

Dozens of kilometers away from the bridge, in the heavily guarded underground secret laboratory of Future Technology Group.

Bright lights.

Zhang Huaimin was wearing a pristine white lab coat.

He paid no attention to the changing world outside.

Those deep, dark eyes were fixed on a crystal petri dish on the workbench in front of them, which emitted a dreamlike pale blue halo.

His fingers flew across the holographic keyboard.

With the last set of extremely complex molecular equations input, the process was complete.

"Ding!"

The system's long-lost, crisp and clear notification sound exploded in his mind!

[Host's technological development progress has reached a critical point!]

[Congratulations, host! Successfully extracted and materialized: the first 'Primary Gene Life Evolution Fluid'!]