I am in the last days, I can connect to reality

The kitchen is not very big. A huge stove that is as high as the waist takes up one-third of the kitchen. Some firewood is stacked near the stove.

There was a wooden cupboard against the inner wall. The cupboard was open, and there was nothing inside except bowls and plates.

Qin Zhong frowned and pulled open the wooden lid on the big pot. The pot was very large, but there was very little in it. At the bottom of the pot there were some white slices of meat and some things that were not sure whether they were grass roots or leaves, stewed together.

It looks like it's only half a bowl.

Seeing these white pieces of meat, Qin Zhong knew it was human flesh just by smelling it, and he couldn't help feeling a little disgusted.

But then, Qin Zhong wanted to find the victim's body in the kitchen, but strangely, after he walked around the kitchen, he didn't find it.

After all, the kitchen is only this big, and you can almost see the whole thing at a glance. If it really exists, you can definitely see it at a glance.

Finally, Qin Zhong found a sharp kitchen knife on a wooden chopping board next to the stove. There was some dark red blood on the blade of the knife.

Seeing the blood on the kitchen knife, Qin Zhong looked at the ground. Sure enough, on the kitchen floor, he could see a pool of blood that had turned brown.

Moreover, there were some scattered bloodstains in various corners of the kitchen, with the most scattered around the stove. Although these bloodstains were a bit messy, Qin Zhong could see that most of them were evenly scattered on the ground in lines.

Finally, a clear trail of blood extended outside the door. Qin Zhong was a little curious. Could it be that the victim was not dead, but struggled and ran away?

When Qin Zhong searched along the bloodstains on the ground with a flashlight, until... he returned to the living room, he discovered that the long bloodstains indeed extended to the man's body.

At this moment, the man was still kowtowing and repeating his previous words like chanting a mantra, as if he was afraid that the soldiers would take his family away.

Just as Qin Zhong was walking back along the blood trail, the soldier who went to the second floor also came down and reported that a seriously ill woman was found in a bedroom on the second floor. She should be the boy's mother.

"stand up……"

After hearing the soldier's report and combining it with the bloodstains found in the kitchen, Qin Zhong had a rough guess in his mind. Following Qin Zhong's order, the man struggled to get up from the ground. He looked trembling and seemed to have an injured leg.

Qin Zhong carefully looked at the man who was standing in front of him and trembling constantly. Soon, he found that the man was not very old. Strictly speaking, he was still a minor.

It seems that the boy is only sixteen or seventeen years old. Although his hair is very long, his face is full of childishness and confusion.

The boy's clothes were tattered, like a down-and-out beggar. Through the holes in his clothes, you could see his skinny body, as thin as ribs.

Of course, the boy's cheeks were also thin, but he looked like a human being.

Standing there, one of the boy's thighs kept shaking, and it could be clearly seen that his pants in the middle of his thigh seemed to be wet and stuck to his thigh.

Qin Zhong frowned, thinking of the guess that had appeared in his mind before, and suddenly drew out the Tang sword, and the sharp blade of the Tang sword cut open his trouser leg.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Qin Zhong's heart moved. He saw blood on the withered yellow thigh. Where the blood was dripping, a piece of mottled rag covered the wound on his leg.

Looking at the wound on the boy's thigh, Qin Zhong couldn't help but think of the meat slices that were constantly cooking in the big pot. Everything before him had fully verified Qin Zhong's previous guess.

……

"hiss!"

Seeing the wound on the boy's thigh, the three soldiers with Qin Zhong all gasped and simultaneously moved their guns away from the boy.

They were not fools. From this wound and everything they had discovered, they could tell that this was a ruthless person! Moreover, he was a filial son!

"Have you ever eaten anyone?"

Qin Zhong verified his idea and asked questions in a gentler tone. Hearing his questions, the boy shook his head subconsciously.

Seeing the boy shaking his head, Qin Zhong felt relieved suddenly. He felt a little admiration for the boy in front of him.

This is not just ordinary admiration. When the boy ran out of food, he actually cut off his own flesh and cooked it for his sick mother.

What courage and determination this requires!

Since ancient times, in China, there have been stories in the Hundred Filial Piety Pictures about people cutting their own flesh to heal their loved ones. Today, Qin Chong and others actually witnessed a real scene, which made everyone feel a little emotional!

Even Qin Zhong had to admit that he couldn't do it.

In fact, it is not just Qin Zhong who cannot do it. Most people in this world cannot do it. The stories of cutting one's own flesh for medicine and lying on ice to catch a carp are from the ancient times when people were blindly loyal.

Modern people are exposed to too many things and their thoughts have become complicated. All kinds of selfish thoughts are flooding this impetuous society.

Perhaps most people are filial, but if they are really asked to cut their flesh to feed their hungry mothers, they will definitely shake their heads. Moreover, it is the end of the world now, and most people cannot do it.

But the boy in front of me did it. No... he can no longer be called a boy. He is already a man, a real man!

Because he achieved something that even a man of iron will might not be able to do.

"You really haven't eaten? If you tell the truth, I will treat your mother. I have medicine, all kinds of medicine. I have food, tons of food. Your mother won't be hungry anymore. All I want is your truth..."

Qin Zhong's tone was soft and slow, like the snake that tempted Adam to eat the forbidden fruit. He kept tempting the boy in front of him with all the wonderful things in the future.

He didn't believe this man's one-sided statement. The key point was that the words he said when he started begging his mother for mercy were too suspicious, and Qin Zhong couldn't be sure whether he had really eaten it.

If he really ate it, Qin Zhong would definitely kill him for his own principles, or he could give him a quick death and then have his mother taken back to Songcheng and raised well.

"You said you haven't eaten it, are you really not eating it?"

Seeing the boy constantly shaking his head, Qin Zhong's face suddenly darkened. He reached out and pulled out a pistol from his waist, pointed it at the boy's forehead and looked into his eyes.

Then, Qin Zhong asked word by word, "Then why did you tell us not to arrest your mother from the beginning? Did you know we would eat people?"

"I... I thought you were them... them... They also have guns, the same guns as you..."

Hearing the boy's trembling voice, Qin Zhong frowned and thought carefully about what the boy said. After a while, he put down the gun in his hand and asked, "Who are they? How many people are there? How many guns? And, how do you know them?!"

Qin Zhong finally decided to believe him. A person who could kill and eat people would never be as good at disguising as he was.

After all, he is not yet an adult and has not had the opportunity to gain experience in a complex society. In other words, the boy is still a rookie.

Such a rookie, who did not admit to eating humans even after being coaxed and threatened by Qin Zhong, must have never eaten humans!