[Zhongyingmei] The clown is actually me

"Let's be honest,? Edible children."

Emma was stunned for a moment, then collected herself and put on a surprised face: "What 'edible children',? Mr. Jack?"

Jack was too lazy to expose Emma's obvious lies. He patted the forehead of Norman who was lying on the bed pretending to be unconscious. Norman slowly opened his eyes. His pupils were as blue as a teardrop from the sky. He sighed : "Don't pretend to be Emma,? Mr. Jack didn't cheat on you, he already knew."

The three looked at each other, and they all saw surprise in each other's eyes,? But Emma confirmed a thought from Norman's eyes: he really knew it was true.However, this is not "shipping immediately"!

"Don't worry, you are a 'high-end product' that can't be picked at will. I won't send you to the dining table until it's ripe." Jack brought four steaming cups of rose tea, and handed them to them,? " Take it easy,? Have a drink, no poison."

Emma hesitated for a moment, and finally picked up the scented tea, took a small sip, and stared at Jack, thinking: What should I do?

There is no doubt that? Although Jack is also a human being,? But he is the spokesman for ghosts,? Cannot be trusted.He already knew that Emma and the others wanted to escape, and they would definitely take strict precautions against them, and it was impossible to extract useful information from him.It means that they not only returned empty-handed this time, but also exposed themselves.However, there was obviously only one way from the library to Jack's room, and they had to go through corridors and stairs. They had confirmed that, and Jack was reading in the library after dinner.How on earth did he bypass Emma's surveillance and return to the room?Could it be that this orphanage has a small secret passage that they have never discovered?

No, this is not the point now, the point is...

Norman's voice interrupted Emma's thoughts: "You do serve ghosts, but you are not responsible for this farm, are you?"

Jack looked at him, showing the same iron smile as Isabella, like a mask hanging on his face: "How do you know?"

"Mom is very respectful to you, which proves that your status is higher than that of mother, and you don't work as a breeder. And you are too lazy and slack. If you are a shepherd dog that guards and eats children, you are absolutely unqualified, but the ghost still releases you Come in. So I guess, you are not a subordinate of the ghosts, you are not under their control, and you are not responsible for this farm, even if the edible children run away, the only one who is held accountable is the mother."

Jack chuckled and said, "You're very smart."

"Since there are humans like you who are equal to ghosts, does it mean that there is still human civilization outside?"

"I'm sorry to pour cold water on you. All human beings born here can only be raised on farms as domestic animals to barely maintain the population. The human civilization you know does not exist in this world, and there is no scale outside the wall. Some human communities are just societies made up of tens of millions of ghosts." Jack shook his head with a smile.

it is as expected.Emma thought.

In fact, they should have been mentally prepared a long time ago. Maybe the world outside the wall is completely different from the world in the books, and the worst situation is this: the human society they know has been destroyed by ghosts, and there is no help outside. Among their people, there are only countless ghosts.

"It's a really hopeless situation," Norman said.

Jack took a sip of scented tea slowly, but Norman leaned forward and stared at him coldly: "But, there are conditions."

Jack paused slightly with the hand holding the teacup.

"'This world', 'outside the walls', 'born here' are all qualifications. Just talking to an 11-year-old, you don't have to be so strict at all, the only explanation is that you are not lying, but you are playing with words technique,” ​​Norman said.

"We have known for a long time that there is a human society outside." Lei said as he took out an AA battery from his pocket, "According to national safety standards, the AA battery should maintain 5% of its charge for at least one year. I have tested it. All the batteries that can be obtained are produced within a year. That is to say, at least a year ago, there was a complete industrial system outside."

Jack stared at the AA battery in Ray's hand, and the three of them stared at him too.To be honest, facing Jack, Ray and Norman didn't know what to do. It took a long time to smile slowly, as if removing a plaster mask: "It seems that you are really smarter than I imagined. Okay Well, it is true that human society does not exist outside the walls, but..."

He told Emma and the others one by one the stories of the era when people and ghosts lived together, the past 1000 years ago, the Latori family who made an agreement with "Him", and the two worlds separated from then on.Emma and the others were stunned for a while after hearing this story that was comparable to the Arabian Nights: "It... so... there are no human beings in this world who are not raised by ghosts, that's really—"

She took a deep breath, and cheered with Norman: "——that's great! That's great!"

Even Jack was surprised by their reaction, "This is a world of ghosts", which should have been a cruel answer, but these children cheered for the worst situation, and he couldn't help saying: "You don't despair ?"

"No, although it is a bad situation that I never thought of, but there is a world where only humans exist and no ghosts, at least there is a future! And the two worlds can communicate with each other, and there are ways to come and go! It is already better than we imagined. Much better!" Emma smiled and clapped Lei.

Norman smiled and said to Jack: "I thought we had to survive in the desert jungle, farm the land to support ourselves, and always deal with the attacks of ghosts."

"Aren't you afraid that I'll lie to you?"

"You like playing tricks, but you don't like lying, don't you? Otherwise, you could have lied to us from the very beginning. And, whether you tell the truth or lies, it's not the most important thing now. Say, we all have to get out."

Emma slowly calmed down, she turned her head to look at Jack, her eyes showed a depth that an 11-year-old girl would not have, and even a little horror.That gaze scanned Jack from head to toe, as if to see if there were ghostly hands under his luxurious gown.Jack shrugged and looked back at her without hesitation. There seemed to be an insurmountable iron curtain in his golden eyes: "What's wrong?"

Emma said quietly: "You are from the Latori family, and you are also human."

"Then?"

"You and your family have sacrificed and eaten children indifferently, and exchanged them for the peace of the two worlds. When you look at them, don't you feel guilty? Don't you imagine how painful they are? You too Human!" Emma yelled at him.

"Well, it's really like a child's question." Jack reclined in the chair, smiling at Emma, ​​"but my answer is, 'No'. I neither kill nor cannibal. I I won't ship you out, and I won't help you either. My mission is only to look after the offerings to 'Him' - the one you saw in my room, Norman. Other than that , Humans and ghosts have their own way of life, I don't care."

Emma was stunned by his indifference. She had always lived in the farm and the gentle countryside woven by her mother. She had never seen such a cruel person as Jack. After a long time, she said: "I thought that as long as I was a human being, I would not tolerate it." It's such an unreasonable thing to eat your own kind..."

"Nothing out of the ordinary. If ghosts don't eat you, they'll starve to death, like if you don't eat meat, you'll die from malnutrition too. All the meat you've eaten for 11 years has come from human society's farms "Eating to survive" is the norm, not evil." Jack paused, "The ghosts want to live, so it is reasonable to keep you in captivity to eat; It is also reasonable to slaughter them all. In the final analysis, morality can only exist between the same kind and intelligent races without survival conflicts, not at both ends of the food chain."

"You just stay out of the way and talk about the big truth from above."

"No, I was born in the world of ghosts, and so was your mother Isabella. She was also a food child."

Emma was stunned for a moment: "Mom... is a food child?"

"Female food children with excellent grades, as long as they get the recommendation of the breeding supervisor, they can choose to join the breeding supervisor when they ship, return to the farm as a 'mother', and live a happy life with the lovely children. But the competition is fierce. Intense, usually more than 30 girls, only one can get the throne of 'breeding assistant (sister)', and the rest will be shipped. Your mother, Isabella, is the youngest breeder." Jack smiled, and said to Emma in a devilish and secretive voice: "So, Emma, ​​you don't need to think about escaping urgently. With your grades and gender, you definitely have a second way to go. "

Emma looked at Jack, put the white porcelain teacup on the tray, and the bottom of the teacup knocked on the plate, making a crisp sound: "Even if it is another choice, I will never join the camp of ghosts, there is no way I have this option , I will definitely take everyone out of this farm!"

Connie's face emerged in front of her eyes, that six-year-old girl who was as quiet and shy as a porcelain doll. Her corpse was lying quietly in the truck compartment, her big eyes staring blankly into the deep sky. Her skin showed a bluish-white color from blood loss, and a bunch of umbrella-shaped flowers were inserted on her chest. The flowers were as bright red as snow, and the richness seemed to drip down immediately.

At that time...Kony did not choose to join the Breeding Supervisor.

This is just a trick of the ghosts, Emma thought. They want the edible children to be divided and unable to unite as one. They can only keep fighting among themselves, always pointing the sharpest swords at each other, and have no time to care about the ghosts who are really persecuting them.

I won't be fooled by you, I won't be fooled by your words.Although you look like a human, under this human skin, you are nothing but a ghost!

Jack suddenly said, "You want to take everyone out?"

It was only then that Emma realized that she had spoken out her purpose in excitement, but she could only say, "So what?"

After a long silence, a strange, dreamlike look appeared on Jack's face, like a crack in a heavy mask, revealing a man's face: "So, you want to be a hero?" .”