"My husband and I are from the lower class areas. It's not just me, most of the people here are from the lower class areas."

The woman then looked at her son beside her with a sad expression: "My husband and I were brought here after we arrived here. Later, we had a son, but my husband went into the forest to ensure we had enough food and never came out again."

Shuangshuang felt a little sorry: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have mentioned that—"

The woman shook her head and wiped the tears from her eyes. "It doesn't matter. The people here all have green eyes and green hair. They treat those of us with black hair and black eyes as slaves. We do the most tiring and difficult work, but we only get the least food. Many people die of exhaustion or starvation here."

"Are you also from the low-level area? But why haven't I seen you before?" Shuangshuang looked at the face in front of her and tried hard to recall it in her memory.

Seeing Shuangshuang was young, the woman said, "My husband and I have been here for nearly ten years."

Shuangshuang immediately understood. She was still a child ten years ago and had never left the shelter.

Seeing this, the woman continued, "No one has come to the low-level area in the past few years. You are the first new face I have seen in these years."

Shuangshuang was puzzled: "How could that be? If you win first place in the low-level regional competition, you will get a spot in the middle-level regional competition. Why is no one coming?"

The woman shook her head. “I don’t know.”

Shuangshuang thought of the dead manager of the seventh shelter. When they won the first place, he asked the tenth shelter to give up the first place. Could it be related to him?

Shuangshuang couldn't figure it out for a moment, so she simply stopped thinking about it.

"My name is Qingxin, and this is my son Jiang Yi. If you have nowhere to go for the time being, you can live here!" Qingxin looked at the girl in front of him and said with some softness in his heart.

Although she and her son had a very difficult life, when she saw Shuangshuang coming from the low-level area, she suddenly felt like she had seen her own family and couldn't bear to watch and do nothing.

Shuangshuang was very grateful to Qingxin for taking her in: "Thank you so much, but I don't know where my brother and the others went. I got separated from them, so I have to go find them."

After hearing this, the woman quickly said, "Stay here for now. I'm sure your brother and the others will be taken to other abandoned places. People like us with black hair and black eyes, if we show up on the streets of the intermediate area, we'll be taken to a nearby abandoned place and left to fend for ourselves."

Shuangshuang suddenly felt that the intermediate area seemed very different from what she had imagined, and seemed to be very hostile to them.

"Since it's so dangerous here, why don't you go back to the low-level area?" Shuangshuang looked at Qingxin in confusion.

Qingxin patted his son's head and smiled bitterly: "If you can go back, who would stay here? People who come here are not allowed to go back."

"Besides, we can't find a way to go back."

No wonder Shuangshuang has never heard of anyone returning from the intermediate area.

Qing Xin calmed down and reminded Shuang Shuang: "Don't appear in front of those green-haired and green-eyed superpowers. Even if you meet them, don't do anything. They are very hostile to people like us here."

"If they attack me, should I just stand there and wait for them to kill me?" Shuangshuang clenched her fists in anger.

"The psychics here are very powerful. I am now at level five. There are many level five psychics here, and even quite a few level six psychics." Qingxin reminded Shuangshuang.

Shuangshuang was surprised: "Is there no one with a lower level?"

Qing Xin nodded: "Of course there are. The hierarchy here is very clear. The lower the level, the harder the work. Ordinary people are not welcome here like us."

"only--"

"Just what?" Shuangshuang saw that Qingxin only said half of the sentence and asked quickly.

Qing Xin shook her head: "You'll know later. It's getting late now. You should get some rest first. You have to get up early tomorrow!"

Shuangshuang was puzzled: "What are you doing getting up early?"

Qingxin nodded: "We have to work in exchange for food, otherwise we will starve."

After Qingxin finished speaking, she took her son Jiang Yi to the other side to lie down and rest.

Shuangshuang looked at this impoverished home and could imagine how hard it was for Qingxin to live here with her children.

Shuangshuang lay on the cold ground, glanced at the two people shivering beside her, and remembered that she had not sent a message to Mu Sheng, so she immediately opened the mall space and sent a message to Mu Sheng to report that she was safe.

The next day, Shuangshuang opened her eyes with two huge dark circles under her eyes, and saw Jiang Yi sitting next to her with his eyes wide open, looking at her.

When Jiang Yi saw Shuangshuang wake up, he ran to the side. Shuangshuang sat up and looked in the direction Jiang Yi left.

Qingxin came in with something, placed three bowls of food in front of Shuangshuang, and then sat down.

"Wake up! I just finished cooking. We're going out to work soon. Do you want to come?"

Shuangshuang nodded without thinking: "I'll go with you."

Qingxin smiled and pushed a bowl of porridge in front of Shuangshuang.

Shuangshuang looked at the few gray rice grains floating in the black water in front of her, then looked at the bowls of the two people next to her. They were really no different from water.

"Is this what you usually eat?" Shuangshuang said, looking at the three people's bowls.

Qingxin was a little embarrassed: "This is all the rice we have at home. We will have more rice after we finish work today."

Shuangshuang smiled, picked up the bowl in front of her and started drinking.

The taste is not that good, a bit bitter, very different from the white rice.

"This is a mutant rice that only exists in medium-sized areas. Does it taste good?"

In response to Qingxin's question, Shuangshuang nodded without saying anything.

These mutated gray rices are indeed rare foods in the end times, but after Shuangshuang ate the rice that Mu Sheng sent her, she felt that this gray rice was not very delicious.

Shuangshuang thought that when the mall space could be opened, she would secretly take out some food from the mall space to improve the lives of Qingxin and her son.

After dinner, before leaving, Qingxin gave Shuangshuang a wooden barrel that she could carry on her back, with a knife inside.

Shuangshuang was puzzled, but seeing Qingxin and the other man carrying the wooden barrels on their backs, she had no choice but to do as they were told.

The three of them didn't walk far before they saw three people with the same hair color as them standing there. On the other side were some people with green hair gathered together, also carrying wooden barrels on their backs.

There was a wide distance between the two teams, and no one looked at each other.

A man in the team saw Qingxin and her son, and then his eyes fell on Shuangshuang.

"New here?" the man asked, and the other two also turned their eyes to Shuangshuang.

Shuangshuang nodded: "Hello everyone! My name is Shuangshuang, and I just came from the low-level area."

The man didn't say anything after hearing this. He just nodded and said, "Since everyone is here, let's go now!" Then he turned around and led everyone forward.

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