Chapter 14 (1/2)

Chapter 14: To Kill

Chang sighed as he walked through the crowd. He repressed his feelings and tried to stay detached from his surroundings, trying to avoid looking at people who were about to die and hearing the cries from their families.

However, the more he tried to avoid looking around, the more he was able to perceive everything around him.

The anguished faces entered his eyes and into his mind; Chang felt like he couldn’t breathe as he walked through the crowd.

He continued forward and gradually drifted away from the crowd. He felt like a lonely soul.

“Sweet heart, you can have the lollipop if you go inside the hospital and tell us what happened.” When Chang moved along the street with glazed eyes, he heard a voice that made him uncomfortable.

“No, I don’t want to go.” Then came a cry from a little girl.

“Are you going or not?” The voice suddenly became stern.

The strange conversation attracted Chang’s attention; he could no longer remain uninvolved. He walked toward the voice and saw three men with flat-top hair style.

Among the three, one had a scar on his face, one was stout and one had a hooked nose.

They all had the same kind of standard prisoner haircut. Their coa.r.s.e hair was closely cut to their scalps.

This kind of hairstyle was rare on the street; the chance of running into men with this haircut was less than one in a hundred. Now that there were 3 men with the same haircut gathered together, their ident.i.ties were obvious – prisoners.

Both their appearance and behaviour resembled that of criminals, and although they weren’t in uniforms, Chang was almost completely certain that they were.

The three also had injuries on their bodies and faces, probably caused by fighting with others. If Chang was correct, they must’ve been prisoners who escaped from jail after the growth of the red fog, their injuries were all infected.

In front of them was a six-year-old girl. Obviously, they didn’t know each other, but there weren’t any parents watching over the girl.

“I don’t want to go into the hospital, it’s dangerous in there.” The little girl shrank her neck after she heard what the people in front of her wanted her to do.

“Bullsh*t, we’re just asking you to walk into the hospital. There’s nothing dangerous there.” The hook nosed man said with a grimace.

“…It, it’s dangerous…” The little girl repeated as she started sobbing.

Seeing this, Chang felt even more uncomfortable than when he witnessed death. The struggle between having integrity and surviving made it difficult for him to breath, but he didn’t want to be kind again – in the chaos, things like this happened all the time. It was none of his business, and he didn’t want to risk himself for that meaningless morality.

Chang turned away to the opposite direction. He decided to ignore the cry.

He heard a resounding smack on a face as he took the first step.

“Fu*k! You’ll do what I say, no more bullsh*t!” It was a husky and thick voice.

Then, the girl started to cry louder. Chang gritted his teeth, but didn’t stop.