C40 (1/2)

” It seems like everything here is dependent on the plants in the forest? ”

” Yes, even the barbecue I just ate was made from a fruit from a plant that had been soaked in water and softened! ”

” ”Damn, looks like you haven't even eaten real barbecue before?” ”I thought you were getting tired of eating barbecue every day. You didn't like to eat dried melon seeds so much until you had eaten some cereal!” ”I'm still wondering why the barbecue from earlier can't taste what kind of meat it is and it's still a rare and precious ingredient. It's actually plain meat!”

” I've always eaten from the trees in the building. I've never eaten anything else! ” Li Si said as he plucked a spike from the top of a long house we passed in front of us. It looked like a wheat ear.

” Can this be eaten? ” I don't know which part of this stuff to eat.

” It can all be eaten! ” As he spoke, Li Si chewed out the outer layer of skin like a melon seed and passed it to me.

” You can eat anything, but don't you still want to spit? ”

” This is eating meat when you grow up. If you don't have anything to eat, you have to eat it even if you don't have any skin! ”

” ”Oh, that!” I began to feel more and more sorry for this child, which was a little weird and mysterious, but it was hard to imagine a child born into his teens eating limited food, and what I had just said, obviously not all of it. It was like three years of starvation, when people would eat peanut shells, they wouldn't be able to poop, they would eat cotton, they would eat cotton, and when there weren't many cotton, they would have to wash and continue eating those food they pulled out, which was the most cruel reality of living in front of hunger.

” Does grandpa not let you come out? I see many bows and arrows on the wall. You can kill animals, so it won't be that difficult! ”

” I've shot, but I've never succeeded! ” Li Si scratched his head in embarrassment.

” Haha, even your grandfather can't do it? ”

” He only knows how to make bows and arrows, and he doesn't know how to use them.

” ”How did I find out that you two are just elves in the castle, and idiots outside the castle in the world!” said the pockmark.