Dark Blood Age

“Old fu… Oh no… I mean old man, don’t be so serious, it’s just a joke… a joke…” the young man whose head was pointed by a gun instantly changed his words and constantly waved his hands.

In the dark age, killing a man was far easier than killing an insect.

“Yes, Yes, grandpa’s meat won’t taste nice, even if we need meat, we will cook kids first, it was a joke earlier…” the vicious man who asked to set up the campfire earlier also changed his expression and laughed apologetically. He was scared that the old man would shoot him.

Even the way they called Chu Yunsheng also changed dramatically from an old fuck to grandpa.

A pistol that had not been fired yet could scare them this much, what if Chu Yunsheng told them that he was a Skywalker? Probably, those people would kneel down to him immediately.

“Tie that little girl up, we have been feeding her for so many days now, it is time to cook her, grandpa, you can take a rest at the moment, just wait for the meat soup to be served!” The woman who had an intimidating appearance also changed her attitude, but her eyes were staring eagerly at the gun that Chu Yunsheng was holding. No one knew exactly what she was thinking.

This group of refugees had been starving for a while now. When they heard what she said, they immediately started to set up a campfire and cauldron. They quickly gathered the dry beaches in the area and lit it up to melt the snow in the cauldron.

A girl roughly around 10 years old was then being dragged out of the group. She was looking at the cauldron in panic while constantly kicking her little legs trying to move away…

“But, grandpa, you saved my sister, you are a good person. They want to eat me, they are bad guys!” the boy said. His eyes were still red and swollen.

“It was not me, it was the castle of Snowstorm, you need to find them,” Chu Yunsheng didn’t know how to explain to a 6-7 years old boy that he could save him once, but he couldn’t save him all the time. So he simply just wanted to stop the kid following him.

“Can you take me to that snow..? Snow castle?” the boy said hopefully.

…

The place Chu Yunsheng was at, was very close to the castle of Snowstorm. Soon, they started to encounter the castle’s search teams more and more often. With his old appearance, if he started to move fast, it would definitely attract a lot of attention, so he could only walk slowly. Because of this, the boy behind him could catch up with his pace.

For the first time, Chu Yunsheng realized that a kid’s walking speed would not be slow if the kid was “serious”!

Whenever Chu Yunsheng stopped, the boy would quickly approach him, giving him a helping hand or giving him a massage as if he was really an old man. It made Chu Yunsheng speechless.

Whether he started to walk faster the boy would instantly get very nervous as if the kid was worried that he would lose Chu Yunsheng.

Both of them were not talking to each other until they arrived at the edge of the castle.

The castle of snowstorm didn’t have high walls like an ancient castle did. Instead, it was surrounded by wired fences. Around 30 meters behind the wired fences, there was another low wall and it was covered with ice and snow.

Because the wall was blocking the view, Chu Yunsheng couldn’t see the situation inside the castle. However, the outside of the castle was filled with homeless refugees.

Chu Yunsheng had heard from one of the castle’s commanders Xu Qingshu saying that they were using the hierarchical social system in the castle, so they would not feed people that had no values to the castle. Perhaps, she meant those old, sick and weak people outside the castle.

When those refugees outside the castle saw a kid was following an old man, their expressions were not better than the people who had been killed by those horsewomen earlier.

According to the map, Chu Yunsheng planned to find another candidate who was outside the castle before he could help one of the female candidates to escape from the prison. He wanted to give some food to the candidate who was outside the castle first, in case that the candidate would die of starvation.

Chu Yunsheng felt like he had almost become a babysitter now.

Luckily, in order to save as much energy as possible, the refugees didn’t tend to move that often. So it was quite easy for him to find the first candidate, who was a real old man in a shack that was built of soil and bricks.

“Old pal, who are you looking for?” the old candidate asked slowly in a shaking voice, it seemed like his physical strength was very weak,

Chu Yunsheng was once again hit by the harsh reality. He was called an old pal by a real old man. It reminded him again how old he looked now.

‘Bastard Min! How many years of my life exactly did you take away from me?’ Chu Yunsheng cursed in his mind.

“Someone asked me to bring you something,” Chu Yunsheng glanced around, then threw a small bag of insect’s meat into the shack after he was sure that no one was watching him.

“Is it Lao San that kid? It must have been very difficult for him, I’m very old, it’s time to go now. Giving the children’s food to me is a waste… Thank you, old pal.” the old man sighed.

But Chu Yunsheng didn’t have time to listen to him. He simply turned around right after he gave the food. However, the little boy was standing at a place not far behind him. He had been looking at what Chu Yunsheng was doing from the beginning.

“Grandpa, daddy was right, you are a good person,” having thought of his father, the boy’s eyes were filled with tears again.

“You don’t understand. Don’t tell anyone!” what Chu Yunsheng did was just for himself, he just wanted to leave this place, so he didn’t consider himself to be a good man at all.

But then, suddenly Chu Yunsheng realized something, “did your father tell you to follow me?” he asked, even though he thought that he probably knew the answer.

He was just a 6 or 7 years old kid. When facing the death of his father, and his elder sister was taken away, there was no way he would have such intelligence to judge that following him was the safest option. The only possibility was that it was the kid’s father’s dying wish.

A father, who had to choose who got to stay alive between his daughter and son.

A one-armed and crippled father, who was scared to fight for his daughter’s life, but even when he was dying, he was still trying to help his son.

Was he a coward? A heartless father or a great father?