No one notified me in advance. Everyone in the end times is crazy.

Chapter 514 Please Give Me a Job

The scenes kept switching back and forth, showing Fang Hui complaining while feeding the zombie worms and her daily interactions with her grandfather, nothing particularly special.

Luo Shiyu, sitting cross-legged on the ground, yawned boredly and complained inwardly about when he could go back.

Fang Hui's startled cry came from inside the wooden house: "Grandpa!"

【Something happened?】

Luo Shiyu craned his neck to look over and saw Fang Hui's grandfather leaning against the corner of the cabinet, panting heavily, clearly about to die.

Is my life coming to an end? Like a goldfish in a fishbowl.

Luo Shiyu turned her head away, not wanting to disturb their farewell.

The piercing shouts assaulted his eardrums, each cry of "Grandpa" sounding heart-wrenching.

None of the neighbors cared about the situation; in times of war, it was already a miracle if one could survive.

Human life is as worthless here; only those who are ruthless can survive.

Luo Shiyu's eyes trembled, and in the end, she couldn't help but squat down to comfort her: "Huihui, be good. There will be countless partings in life, you..."

The words of comfort came to an abrupt end. Luo Shiyu had seen that Fang Hui actually wanted the zombie worms to parasitize her grandfather's corpse.

His eyeballs were eaten, and worms burrowed into his brain, making a faint "plop" sound.

Perhaps because of its small size, the zombie worm was unable to control the human corpses despite several attempts.

Fang Hui's head was lowered, obscuring her expression. All that could be heard was a disdainful "tsk!" followed by a desperate roar: "Useless! You're utterly useless! What have I been raising you for?!"

After despair came endless silence. Fang Hui knelt beside the corpse, lost in thought.

As darkness fell, she moved her body and lay down in his already stiff embrace, spending her last night with him.

At the first crow of the rooster at dawn, she made a bold decision: to let the zombie worms eat her grandfather's corpse.

She pulled chunks of meat and fed them into the insect's mouth, making Luo Shiyu's stomach churn.

Has Fang Hui gone mad? She'd even harm her own grandfather.

Fortunately, the scene changed again. Fang Hui changed into a dress with wide sleeves, hid the zombie worms in the sleeves, packed a backpack, burned down the wooden house where she and her grandfather lived, and walked to the city.

Zombie worms need to be fed with corpses, and there are almost no rats in the city, so Fang Hui set her sights on the restaurants on the street.

"Catch her! That girl stole four of my chickens this month!"

Chased by the cook, Fang Hui stumbled from the urban village into a street full of designer stores.

At the corner, he bumped into a woman's arms.

The person's arms were warm and smelled of expensive perfume. Instead of looking down on the disheveled girl in her arms, she squatted down and asked, "Why are you acting so recklessly? What happened? Where are your family members? It would be a real problem if you ran around and got lost. There are so many child abductors these days."

Fang Hui looked up and was stunned by the beauty of the woman in front of her. Her long, golden, curly hair swept across her face like ears of wheat, and her deep, blue eyes smiled kindly. She was the kind of beauty whose bone structure one could never tire of looking at.

"Little girl, you run quite fast!" The cook caught up, and seeing the elegantly dressed woman, his tone became much more polite. "Madam, do you know this girl—no! This young lady?"

The woman stared at him, the maternal instinct she usually had when looking after a child gone.

"you are?"

"That's right, she stole chickens from our store, this is the fourth time this month."

Following behind the woman was another elegantly dressed woman who took out a wad of red bills from her wallet, slapped them into the cook's arms, and exuded an air of arrogance.

"It's just a few chickens, look at you being so stingy. The money's already been paid, hurry up and get going!"

The cook's eyes lit up, and he left, bowing and scraping.

The woman stroked Fang Hui's head and said to the domineering woman, "Xiao Xiao, control your temper, don't scare the child."

"Oh dear! Sister-in-law~ If I had a good temper like you, wouldn't I be bullied to death?" Xu Xiao said this, but still softened her tone.

"You..." The woman shook her head helplessly, then looked at Fang Hui again, asking if she had a place to stay.

Seeing that the other party hadn't spoken, the woman assumed she was wary and patiently introduced herself: "My name is Orsia de Ilya. Although I wouldn't call myself a philanthropist, I do charity work and sponsor several orphanages. If you're worried I'm a fraud, you can search for me online."

"Sister-in-law, this child is so dirty, how could she possibly have a cell phone? I think we should take her to the nearest police station."

"Yeah, that's right."

Fang Hui suddenly grabbed Ilya's skirt, her voice flat and emotionless: "I'm not lost, I have no family."

Xu Xiao joked, "Oh! You're not mute?"

"I can talk and I can do a lot of work, please give me a job."

"You're so young and you're already looking for work? Don't you know that employing child labor is illegal?"

“I just want to survive.”

“Isn’t this a good coincidence? My sister-in-law knows a lot of orphanages. You can pick one you like and go in.”

"Orphanages are no different from chicken coops and sheep pens in the countryside. Once they reach adulthood, they are released from their cages and still face the problem of survival."

"Haha~ I didn't expect you to be so insightful at such a young age! What's your name? How old are you?"

“Fang Hui is nine years old this year. I am very strong. I can carry water, farm, and do some carpentry work (she makes all the coffins in the village).”

“But in the city, all your skills are useless.”

Ilya, who had been silent until now, finally asked, "Can you take care of children?"

Fang Hui: "I can learn."

Xu Xiao: "Huh? Sister-in-law, you're not going to ask me to take care of Xiao An'an, are you?"

Ilya: "Yes, it'll be happier for An to grow up with someone."

Xu Xiao: "Did you ask my brother's opinion? You just picked up a kid and took him home. Aren't you afraid he might be a corporate spy who kidnapped my nephew?"

Fang Hui: "I'm not a bad person!"

Ilya: "Okay, I'll talk to Xu Hao when he gets off work. Look how lightly she's dressed, take her home first, don't let her catch a cold."

"Alright then." Xu Xiao finished speaking and looked at Fang Hui, continuing, "Girl, you're really lucky to have met such a soft-hearted person like my sister-in-law. When you get back, you have to take good care of my nephew, okay?"

Fang Hui nodded obediently in agreement.

"Since you've been so good, let me see..." Xu Xiao snatched a bag from the bodyguard behind her, rummaged through it, found a lollipop, and handed it to Fang Hui. "Here, a reward for being good."

Fang Hui held the lollipop, but for a moment she didn't know how to eat it.

"Just tear open the packaging, like this," Ilya said, demonstrating thoughtfully.

"Thank you, you are beautiful."

Ilya was amused by her incoherent words and ruffled her greasy, tangled hair again.

Xu Xiao: "Look, just one sentence made you so happy. Hey! Kid, why don't you praise me?"

Fang Hui: "You're beautiful too."

"That's more like it." Xu Xiao raised her chin with satisfaction and stuffed a bag of snacks into Fang Hui's hands. "Since you're so good with words, you can have it all."

Ilya: "Didn't you buy that for An?"

Xu Xiao: "I'll just buy it when we get back. As his aunt, how could I possibly shortchange him!"

Ilya: "You~"