Chapter 406

After climbing up in a panic in the middle of the night, carrying his sister whose face was faintly purple to the hospital, and tossing for a full dozen hours, Li Ang, with bloodshot eyes, sat by a dirty hospital bed with his back to the sunset outside the window, looked at his sister who finally stopped coughing, and asked in a low voice with a complex expression:

"Anna, tell me, when did your medicine stop?"

Hearing Li Ang call her name rarely, the thin girl on the hospital bed who was as pale as paper couldn't help but tremble slightly. Knowing that although her brother looked calm now, he was actually probably going crazy, she had to lower her head and confess honestly:

"Almost... two months ago?"

Two months ago...

Li Ang recalled upon hearing this, and then couldn't help but squeeze his fists hard. His fingernails, which were stained with a little mud, almost wedged into the flesh of his palms.

Two months ago, it happened to be the time when he turned sixteen and became an adult.

That day, the comfort officer of the Kingdom Military Department came to visit on time, announced that he had become an adult, and according to that so-called new policy, forcibly stopped the pension for the family members of the fallen soldiers that should have been issued until the age of twenty-two.

That rare afternoon without waste gas and dust clouds, sunny, warm, and bright, was colder than the ice plains in winter in the hearts of their family of four.

When the Kingdom Military Department, in order to balance the accounts, chose to occupy the pension to fill the hole in military spending, the decision to forcibly stop the pension pushed this family, which could originally barely maintain, to the edge of the cliff...

After recalling the situation that day, Li Ang bit his back molars silently, and his knuckles were faintly white.

Yes, clearly there was a quarter less pension, but the family's expenses hadn't decreased much in these two months, and the food could even barely maintain the same... Damn! Why did I only discover it now!

"Brother."

Looking at Li Ang who was silent with his head down beside him, the girl on the hospital bed who looked thinner and thinner was silent for a while, then turned her head slightly, and said faintly with a voice that seemed to dissipate at any time:

"How about, just don't worry about me?"

Li Ang trembled violently upon hearing this, then suddenly raised his head, glared with bloodshot eyes, and scolded angrily:

"You hu..."

"Brother!"

After trying to raise her volume, but causing a violent coughing, the thin girl hurriedly grabbed Li Ang's right hand with bulging blue veins, and while trying to stabilize her bellows-like breathing, she tried to persuade softly and calmly:

"I have calculated carefully in these two months. Even if there will be one less pension after I die, as long as I don't have to buy my medicine, relying on the remaining two pensions, you can do more daily odd jobs, and it will be enough to barely bring them to adulthood.

Also, my registered age is one year younger than the actual one, so after I get sick... after I leave, you just need to avoid the patrol team, secretly throw me into the sewage river outside the outer city of the capital at night, and hang my old clothes on the hanger at home, pretending that I am still there, then we can receive the Kingdom Military Department's pension for another two years.

Brother, listen to me, I have already begged the families in the veteran alley in advance, they are all willing to help us cover up, as long as they cooperate with you to deceive the comfort officer of the Military Department... Brother? Brother! Where are you going?"

Going to kill! I'm going to kill!

After hearing Anna's suggestion, the trembling Li Ang found in terror that he actually subconsciously agreed with her method for a moment. After coming to this world for three years, he actually started to get used to all this!

As if there was another numb and cold self behind him, chasing him desperately, wanting to swallow the current self who was barely alive, Li Ang began to run wildly uncontrollably, and the hot blood almost filled his brain instantly.

On the way to run out, he roughly knocked over a medical cart, leaned down and touched a scalpel that was still stained with blood, then stumbled out of the hospital and rushed towards the Road Administration Department three streets away!

If it weren't for that group of dog things in the Road Administration Department, who approved the construction of the alchemy pharmaceutical factory near the residential area, Anna wouldn't have gotten sick because of the alchemy waste gas leakage!

If it weren't for them colluding with the factory to issue a certificate that the leakage incident did not cause pollution, her illness could also have money to treat!

If it weren't for the shameless occupation of the Kingdom Military Department, the double pension left by the parents who were mechanics would be enough for me to pull the three younger siblings to adulthood!

Also! If it weren't for this dog-day world being rotten like this, I wouldn't have to struggle so hard like now, and I could live like a human being!

Li Ang, with hot blood rushing to his brain, held the scalpel and crossed three streets, rushed to the Road Administration Department in the blood-red sunset, and arrived at the square where he was picked like livestock yesterday.

Although it was an hour before the time stipulated by the Kingdom to get off work, the staff of the Road Administration Department had already filed out from the brightly lit building, talking and laughing as they passed by Li Ang, who was in ragged clothes.

"Next week, Master Wang Erde's troupe will come to the capital to perform his famous opera at the Central Cross Theater. Are you going?"

"I don't have your elegance. I'm interested in circus or something. Opera is forget it. By the way, why are you looking for me to watch opera? Where is your wife?"

"Her? She likes opera, that's right, but she likes beautiful leather bags and shoes more, as well as the department store that will be on sale that day."

"No wonder, haha, then I can only wish your wallet good luck."

Opera, circus, leather bags, department stores... If I didn't hear them say these things, I would have forgotten that this is not a barren and poor world, and it is not that everyone is so painful.

Listening to the laughter of the brightly dressed Road Administration staff, Li Ang couldn't help but slowly raise his head, and two eyeballs full of thick bloodshot eyes stared at the brightly lit building in front of him.

Anna is right. Instead of being dragged down by her illness, the most correct thing to do is to give up treatment and watch her die of illness, and then secretly throw the body into that sewage river full of feces and swill, try to "cheat" two more years of military pension, raise the remaining younger siblings, but... sorry, I really can't hold on anymore...

Li Ang, who had worked hard for three years but found that life not only didn't get better but began to slide into the abyss, first pursed his lips that were cracked with blood, then with a mouthful of fishy and salty rust, walked quickly towards the Road Administration Department building.

Now is the time for the Road Administration Department to get off work, and it is also the easiest time to mix in. Next, he has to go to the second floor, find that dog thing that approved the construction of the alchemy pharmaceutical factory, and cut open his belly full of fat with a knife.

Then take advantage of the chaos to run to the fourth floor, find the bastard who gave false testimony for the pharmaceutical factory, causing the family to fail to get compensation and have no money to treat Anna, and then die with him! Let these damn...

"Boom!"

"Are you blind? Don't look at the road when walking forward?"

Glancing at the thin young man knocked to the ground, the fat and strong man who came out of the corner frowned, patted the dust on the front of his coat with disgust, then took a bite of the cheese-filled burger in his hand, bypassed the fallen Li Ang and walked away.

After climbing up a bit confused, looking at the somewhat familiar back, Li Ang couldn't help but be slightly startled.

It's the fat guy who "picked livestock" yesterday!

Staring at the back of that arrogant man, looking at that greasy and hateful fat face that was biting a double-layer meat burger, Li Ang only felt that his brain was in a mess.

As if dominated by something inexplicable, the anger that was about to explode in his mind found the most suitable vent, dyeing his already bloodshot eyes into a piece of scarlet, and driving him to squeeze the cold scalpel and stumble to chase after him.

If he could let himself pass yesterday, maybe he wouldn't be so desperate now! If he could let himself pass yesterday, maybe he could still save Anna's life! If he could let himself pass yesterday...

"Daddy~"

Just when Li Ang had already chased to the man's side and was preparing to do something, a crisp child's voice suddenly came from the side.

Accompanied by that crisp call like a wind chime, the arrogant and cold face in front of him suddenly warmed up, and the fatigue on the fat man's face was swept away instantly.

I saw him first suck his bulging belly hard, then squatted down with some difficulty, and opened his arms to the little girl who was running towards him with a smile.

"..."

Looking at the little girl who ran past him laughing and threw herself into the man's arms, Li Ang couldn't help but gradually slow down his pace, then looked back blankly, and found that not far behind him, a middle-aged woman with a somewhat plump figure was gazing at this side with a gentle smile.

Even if living in such a garbage and fucking world, the woman's eyes looking at the father and daughter were still full of enviable happiness... and the smile that Anna looked at him during dinner yesterday was exactly the same.

"..."

"Fuck!"

After muttering something inexplicably, Li Ang, who didn't know what he was cursing, loosened his right hand slightly, and the blood-stained scalpel fell to the ground with a clang, immediately attracting the suspicious eyes of the fat official.

Directly ignoring this family of three who were happy enough to make people hate, and spitting at the blue stone floor tiles that were as bright as a mirror under his feet again, the calmed Li Ang turned around silently, stepped with his iconic heavy footsteps, and walked towards the Cleaning Bureau sitting in the shadows.

Killing the enemy and then dying, it is indeed very fucking happy, but there are always times when no matter how much people want to die, they have to live well... at least die more worthily.

Standing in front of the pitch-black heavy door of the Cleaning Bureau, Li Ang was silent for a while, raised his hand to grab the brass handle that had been polished shiny, and pushed hard inside.

Remember that at this time yesterday, that red-haired interviewer said that the Cleaning Bureau is an extra-departmental department of the Police Department. According to the rules of this kind of field department, if he died in the line of duty, he should also be able to leave a large pension.

So if one of his family of four is destined to die first, and the remaining three can live crying... then let me do it!

(End of chapter)