Searching for Treasures in the Clouds

Perhaps they had never seen it before, perhaps they had forgotten, or perhaps they were worried that the meat might be poisonous. After the workers got their share of the meat, they didn't eat it. They just looked at it in confusion.

Seeing this, the person in charge got angry again. He untied his belt and slapped the ground hard, causing a cloud of coal dust and dirt to rise up. The dust was like the smoke from a chimney, floating high and far, blurring the appearance of some people at the scene.

"F*ck, I gave you food but you didn't eat it? Eat it all, or I'll chop you into pieces and feed you to the dogs!"

Seeing that he was about to hit someone again, those who could still hear and were not yet mentally ill quickly grabbed the meat in the bowl and stuffed it into their mouths. When others saw someone start eating, they knew what was going on and followed suit.

Yu Ru looked at the meat in the bowl and felt that it was strange. Some time ago, thanks to Boss Luo, she had eaten all kinds of meat, including beef, pork, chicken, mutton, duck and fish. She remembered what those meats should taste like. But the meat in front of her didn't smell like any of them, and the shape didn't look like any of them either. She didn't dare to eat it. There was also something in the bowl that looked like fried chicken feet, but it was slightly larger than chicken feet. It looked like duck feet or goose feet, but it didn't have webbed feet. It was really strange.

All the factory management personnel were out now, each holding a thick whip. They put their hands behind their backs, tapped the air with the whip, and turned their heads to carefully observe everyone's eating situation.

"Eat them all, or I'll beat you to death."

Those people threatened as they walked.

In order to avoid being beaten, Yu Ru had to pretend that she was eating meat. She buried her face in the bowl and ate like a dog. In fact, she was just chewing air with her mouth next to the meat, not eating at all.

After a while, when everyone had almost finished eating, the person in charge of the black factory took out a loudspeaker from somewhere and came to the center between all of them again. This time, he looked like he had encountered some great happy event, with a smile on his face, so much so that all the fat and wrinkles on his face were squeezed together, making him look like a pile of cow dung, soft, wrinkled, and bulging.

He raised the megaphone, looked at everyone present, and then asked with a smile: "Do you know what you are eating?"

Everyone sat on the ground and looked at him blankly without responding.

The person in charge added: "You don't know? Then let me tell you, what you are eating is human flesh. Maybe the person you met yesterday is in your bowl today. Hahahahahahahaha..."

Those with intellectual disabilities and hearing problems didn't know what he said and just stared at their bowls in a daze, while those who could understand human language stared at the person in charge, as if they couldn't believe what he said.

Yu Ru heard it, and she was completely sure that what the person in charge said was that the meat they ate was human flesh!

Her hands began to tremble uncontrollably, and some of the soup in the bowl spilled onto the ground. Although she did not eat the meat in the bowl, nor did she drink the soup, she felt very nauseous now, with a churning feeling in her stomach. A sour feeling surged up from her body and almost broke through her throat.

“Hahahahahahahaha…” The person in charge bent over with laughter.

"You bastards, do you think human flesh tastes good? Let me tell you, those chicken feet are fried human hands, the hands of those little beasts who lost the life-and-death fight. The next time there is a life-and-death fight for you to participate in, whoever can't win will end up like this. Also, if you don't listen, I will cut off your flesh and feed it to others."

He said, laughed, walked, came to a big barrel filled with meat, grabbed a piece of meat and took a big bite. The piece of meat looked like the wrist, a flat cylindrical shape, the person in charge took a bite, rolled most of the meat into his mouth, and only the cylindrical bone was left, a yellow bone.

After the meat was eaten, he threw the bone randomly to a place. The bone flew in the air in a parabola shape and finally landed in front of Yu Ru.

Seeing the bones suddenly falling in front of her, Yu Ru's whole body trembled, and tears could not help but come out. She did not dare to cry out loud, nor did she dare to let anyone find out. Here, crying would be severely punished. Before, she saw a child crying, and the person in charge took out a gun and put the muzzle of the gun into the child's mouth, killing him directly.

Ever since she saw that scene, she didn't dare to cry anymore, and she forced herself to lose the ability to cry all the time. But she really couldn't hold on any longer, and it seemed that half of the bones in her hands had been pulled out, and they became soft. The managers of the black factory disregarded human ethics, and what they did had long exceeded the limits of human reason and emotion, and each time was more cruel than the last. She felt at a loss, what else was waiting for her?

She buried her head very low, and even though her nose was runny, she didn't dare wipe it, just letting it fall down.

At this moment, those who were clear-headed finally understood what was happening. They wanted to eat something and eat meat, but that didn't mean they wanted to eat human flesh. Several people at the scene were so scared that they dropped their bowls, and some began to retch continuously. Those who dropped their bowls knelt on the ground and crawled forward, picking up their bowls with trembling hands. Those who retched pinched their necks with their hands, trying to make themselves silent.

How can physiological behavior be stopped so easily? The dry retching became real vomiting after a while. Soon, a pile of yellow and white things appeared on the ground, and the air was stained with a sour smell.

The workers slept in a pig shed, hundreds of people sleeping together, no beds, just simple grass leaves on the ground. The grass leaves were mixed with all kinds of things: urine, feces, rotten meat, blood, saliva, sputum... Sometimes, they would sleep with rotten corpses, or even corpses that had turned into giants.

No one vomited in such a stinking environment, but now, because of a bowl of meat, after smelling other people's vomit, they vomited until their limbs cramped and foamed at the mouth.

Everyone held their stomachs, kneeled on the ground, or lay on the ground, enduring the discomfort of retching while using their hands covered with dirt and coal dust to repeatedly pinch their throats to induce vomiting. Even though their hands were covered with their own vomit and already smelled unbearable, they still pinched their throats hard. Others even beat their stomachs hard to induce vomiting.

People were crying, shouting, yelling, and howling. Some even collapsed on the spot, banging their heads against the ground repeatedly. Even though their faces were blurred by the blood, they did not stop. They were determined to die, and wanted to bang their heads against the ground. For a moment, the scene was devastated, earth-shaking, and unbearable to watch or hear.

In this situation, the person in charge and other managers laughed.