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This kind of thing was normal in the beginning, but Lin Jin could see something unusual from it.

Logically speaking, when a child was bullied by a group of his peers, if it wasn't a pleading gaze, then it should be a resentful one. However, when he looked at the child being beaten, his eyes were completely empty, as if the one being beaten wasn't him.

It seemed that the child that was beaten was no more than ten years old. His body was so thin that one could see the bones on his body. His face was covered in mud, and it was impossible to tell what he looked like.

After they fought for a while, they seemed to have had a good fight. One of the children in the lead waved at the others, and after some unknown words, the group of children immediately laughed out loud and left like a swarm of bees. Only the child that was beaten was still sitting on the spot with a blank look in his eyes.

Lin Jin slowly walked in front of him, lowered his head and looked at him, then lightly asked: ”What's your name?”

At the sound, the child raised his head and looked uncertainly at the stranger, not knowing what he was trying to do.

Seeing his blank look, Lin Jin realized that his words were a bit stiff. He smiled and asked again: ”Little friend, what's your name?”

When he was five years old, his parents contracted an unknown virus and both died. As a child, he naturally could not protect his family property, and not too long after, the family property was taken over by his uncles, and they chased him out. If it were not for the fact that an old garbage collector took pity on him and adopted him, he would probably have starved to death on the streets.

One old and one young in this society of interests is also suffering from bullying.

And just a few days ago, the old man who had kindly adopted him was found to have been dumped beside the trash heap in the evening due to his age.

Although he was young, he suffered all sorts of setbacks that were hard for ordinary people to accept, which caused his temperament to be far more mature than others. But because of this, he valued the old man's kindness even more, and for the past few days he had been immersed in grief.

Thus, no matter how much people scolded him and how much it hurt, he pretended not to feel it.

Lin Jin stared at his pair of eyes, and a wisp of his consciousness entered his mind. His experiences these past few years were like a movie going on in his head, and appeared in Lin Jin's mind, causing him to uncontrollably sigh a little.

However, all of these things were normal. What really moved him was the tenacity hidden deep within the child's heart — — that was the intense desire to live. On the day of the old man's death.

Although his heart was as cold as death, sometimes, his mind was completely blank. However, at times like this, even he did not realize that his body would instinctively search for food.

Whether it was stealing or robbing, until his stomach was full, even though — because of this behavior, he had suffered five fractures in his body!

After these three years of travel, Lin Jin had seen so many people that he could not even count himself.

Of course, there were many who lived tragically, but those who either mourned their own fate, or were cynical and hurt others, or simply let themselves out of the world.

Everyone has the instinct to survive, but as the days of sorrow continue, this instinct will gradually be worn away by suffering. When this instinct completely disappears, then this person will either submit to fate. Either end your own life.

Like this child, he completely imprinted this instinct into his bones, and it was so strong that even he, who was over fifty meters away, could feel this intense spiritual fluctuation. It was something he had never felt before in all these years.

The original purpose of the Taoists was to cultivate longevity.