The Wind Islands, off the coast of A Country, is a solitary island and a slum.

The elderly who are incapable of self-care and have no one to rely on, the severely disabled, and those with mental illnesses will all be abandoned on this island to fend for themselves.

No network, no electricity, and no supplies of any kind.

Without laws, there is no regulation.

This is purgatory on Earth.

The overcast sky draped the island in a veil of darkness.

Under the shade of a dying tree, a group of young children sat huddled on the ground. Their clothes were white and threadbare, and their faces pale with sickness. One child had a few drops of blood on his face.

Chu Mian bit her nails, her black and white eyes staring calmly and indifferently ahead.

Someone was running;

Someone jumped into the sea trying to escape outside;

Someone quietly sharpened a stone and slashed their wrist.

Such a scene has become commonplace since the Chu family threw him here three years ago.

It is the Chus' raising.

Three years ago, I learned that the Chu family had adopted him. They only did so after believing a fortune teller's words. The Chu family's legitimate son, Chu Xing, was said to have a difficult destiny from birth. He suffered from many illnesses and misfortunes as a child. At the age of eighteen, he would face a major tribulation, and afterwards, he would die tragically in a foreign land.

Only by finding someone with the same birth date and eight characters (bazi) to take his place could Chu Xing escape this tribulation.

Chu Mian is the one who stands in for them.

When Chu was a child, the Chu family would give him all sorts of strange medicine that caused him constant pain. When he turned eighteen, the Chu family even forced him to get engaged to an old man.

He fought back desperately, stabbing the near sixty-year-old man with a fruit knife. Afterward, he tried to run but was caught.

Then, he was sent to Fengdao by the Chu family.

In a blink of an eye, three years have passed.

Chu Mian also didn't know when she would die in a foreign land as the Chu family wished.

"Tap tap tap tap."

Suddenly, the sound of a helicopter came from the sky.

Chu Mian looked up and saw dozens of planes circling above the island. The whirring of their propellers was almost deafening, the scale of it immense.

What's going on?

The plane was stranded on the beach, and a horde of people with glazed-over eyes swarmed it like locusts, trying to climb aboard. They encircled the plane, just like a zombie siege.

"Bang."

"Bang."

"Bang."

After several deafening gunshots, the birds in the forest scattered, and one by one, men fell to the ground, with huge holes in their foreheads.

Someone shouted loudly.

In the distance, a group of men in suits each holding a gun could be seen.

Chu Mian slowly, Sakura bit her lip. Was it finally decided by the country to destroy all of them? Were they going to die?

Is the meaning of living in this world just to block calamity for Chu Xing?

I can't accept it, I really can't.

To survive, to take revenge!

"Mr. Li, this area is farther from the slums' tents at the center. Most of them are mentally ill and have been driven to the seaside by those who are relatively normal. The annual death rate reaches fifty percent."

Two men with guns walked into a grove of withered trees.

Chu Mian sat stiffly under the tree, a rifle pointed directly at her.

As if, he was the next soul to perish.

Lowering his gaze, he saw a pair of gleaming pointed leather shoes stepping on fallen leaves, making a crisp sound as they passed in front of him.

Suddenly, the sound of leaves being trampled stopped abruptly, and those leather shoes changed direction toward.

The owner of the shoes is facing forward.

One's gaze fell upon the top.

Chu Mian suddenly felt suffocated by the overwhelming pressure. She could barely breathe.

"Is he a holy man?"

The man's low, cool voice carried an innate nobility, lofty and detached. His piercing gaze, like a bullet, shot from his eyes straight to the heavens, electrifying every cell of her being.

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