Scourge of Naruto

That large group of low buildings has another name, called slums.

When the old man arrived at his home in the slums, it turned out to be a deformed hut made of scattered wooden boards. Not to mention the air leaking everywhere, even the door panels that blocked it were pitiful.

Instructing Ye Zi to carry Ye Rui on his back and put her on the bed, the old man asked Ye Zi to get some water and twist the towel to cover Ye Rui's forehead.

Judging from her eyes alone, she didn't know how high Ye Rui's fever was, but her whole face was flushed, her breathing was a little hurried, and her hands felt very hot when she touched them.

I frowned slightly and asked Ye Zi to look after Ye Rui, then walked outside the house and started to boil the medicine.

Fortunately, he has some knowledge about medicine. Because he is alone, he always prepares medicinal materials at home when winter comes. After all, if a person accidentally catches the cold, he will die in this selfish slum.

Ye Zi was lucky enough to meet the old man, and because he said those words decisively and without hesitation, the old man brought him back. Otherwise, Ye Rui would have had a high fever in this environment and would have had no choice but to wait for death.

Since then, there have been two more children in the ghetto.

Ye Zi did not tell the old man that he had a home in the prosperous city in the south, nor did he tell the old man that he escaped from the orphanage and killed someone there.

After that, Ye Zi fulfilled his promise and took over the old man's sled. With his weak body, he went out to find food every day, raking everywhere in the snow. As long as it looked edible, he would bring it with him and then pull it back. , let the old man jump out with something edible.

Ten days later, the old man carefully sealed the board firmly, locked it, and then took the dirty Ye Zi to a place.

Along the way, there were many people following their hearts, all heading in the same direction.

After walking out of the building complex, we came to an open space that exuded a foul smell, which turned out to be a garbage dump.

Many people came out of the slums and scattered around the garbage dump. Everyone looked eagerly towards the south, where there was the outline of a bustling city.

"What are we doing here?" Ye Zi asked softly.

"Waiting for garbage." The old man replied.

"What? Waiting for garbage?" Ye Zi raised his eyebrows.

"Once a month, the city will dump garbage here. If you are lucky, you can find food and useful things in the garbage dump." The old man also looked in the south direction and explained casually.

Ye Zi was stunned. This was the first time he knew a slum.

Not long after, many trucks carrying garbage slowly drove up the road, and one truck after another fell down. After all the cars left, the people around them rushed towards the mountains of garbage with a loud bang.

The old man pulled the stunned Ye Zi and rushed into the garbage pile.

The old man picked up three plush clothes with little damage, a pack of sausages that were two days short of expiration, a bite of bread wrapped in a packaging bag, and a flattened cigarette. As for Ye Zi, he was empty-handed. .

Under the old man's disdainful gaze, the two returned to the broken wooden house.

Seeing the two of them coming back, Ye Rui showed a happy smile, then pulled a face and said, "Brother, I'm hungry."

Ye Zi was stunned for a moment, but the old man handed the sausage directly to Ye Rui and said, "Eat it."

"Thank you, Grandpa." Ye Rui took the sausage and a smile appeared on her face.

When the old man heard this, a touch of warmth flashed across his eyes, and he looked happily at Ye Rui, who was eating sausages one bite at a time.

Seeing this scene, Ye Zi, who came back from the garbage dump empty-handed, suddenly felt the urge to rush back to the garbage dump...

From that time on, Ye Zi and Ye Rui started living in the slums.

Maybe the orphanage had concerns, so even if one person died, it didn't trigger any news.

Time passed quickly, and five years flew by in the blink of an eye.

The old man is getting older, his body and bones are getting weaker and weaker, and he cannot move for too long every day. Therefore, Ye Zi is the only one to find food and bear the livelihood of the entire family.

Over the past five years, more and more garbage has been transported out of the city. The frequency has changed from once a month to once every three days.

In the past, once a month, the people in the slums could always get a good harvest, but with the infinite increase in garbage, this has become a problem.

The garbage piled up more and more, beginning to oppress the living environment of the slums, so the people in the slums began to resist. When a garbage truck came in, the people in the slums blocked it and refused to let it in. In the end, the driver carrying the garbage could only complain. And back.

That night, a fire came without warning.

When the fire was discovered, it was already too fierce to be stopped by humans. The entire night sky was illuminated by the fire. From a distance, the low buildings were submerged in the fire, like a fire dragon lying on the ground. .

The fire was caught off guard, and when Ye Zi woke up, blazing flames had already been ignited around the house.

The old man knew that he had difficulty moving. If Ye Zi took him with him, the three of them might be surrounded by fire and eventually die in the fire.

So when Ye Zi held Ye Rui with one hand and tried to hold his hand with the other, he slapped it away with the other hand.

"Let's go."

In just two words, the attitude and tone were very firm.

Ye Zi said without hesitation: "Let's go together."

The old man gave him a disdainful look and said, "You are not stupid, you know why I want to stay."

Ye Zi couldn't help but remain silent after hearing this, and repeated: "Let's go together."

"You brat, living is more important than anything else. Do you want Xiaorui to suffer misfortune?" The old man sighed softly.

"Grandpa, if you don't leave, then I won't leave either!" Ye Rui seemed to see something and looked at the old man anxiously.

"Haha." The old man smiled happily when he heard this, and said seriously: "Don't say stupid things." Then, he looked at Ye Zi fiercely, and his meaning was clearly expressed.

"Goodbye." Ye Zi knew he couldn't drag it out any longer, bit his lower lip, decisively pulled Ye Rui's arm, said a hasty farewell, and turned around to leave without hesitation.

Seeing that the old man was left alone in the house, Ye Rui immediately began to struggle and shouted: "How can you do this? Grandpa will be burned to death."

Ye Zi said nothing, while Ye Rui resisted all the way, dragging her out of the building surrounded by flames.

That night, many people looked at the house engulfed in flames and knelt down speechless. Some cried and some cursed.

Ye Rui burst into tears, while Ye Zi just watched the fire quietly without saying a word.

This is a man-made arson that does not need to be examined.

He had witnessed this kind of cruelty when he was six years old.

So, this is what he's going through, this world...

All the images were suddenly distorted and sucked into a black hole.

Under the dark ground, standing next to the bed, Madara and Furui Mubo's face showed a look of shock, but it was a rare loss of composure.

Bai Jue looked at Madara, surprised, but he didn't know what Madara saw.

"Ha, haha...!" A low laughter suddenly sounded in the quiet underground.

"This is really... wonderful, it actually makes me feel hard to calm down."

Ban looked at Ye Zi on the bed, with an inexplicable and strange light shining in his eyes.

Actually... there is another world?