Chapter 1871: Chapter 978: Overwhelming Advance

Qing Chen silently examined the thatched cottage.

In the middle of the shabby house, there was a black iron pot, and a group of children gathered around it, eating charred insects.

Seeing Qing Chen awake, they chewed on the insects while looking at him with strange smiles, speaking words he couldn’t understand.

As the children chewed, the legs of the large grasshoppers stuck out of their lips.

Qing Chen: "..."

Why does he feel like these natives might eat humans?!

For Qing Chen, whose mind was still stuck in the autumn of his 17th year, the experience of ’first’ crossing was a bit unpleasant.

With some of his memories sealed, he had just spent eight hours in the dimly lit safe house in the Inner World, listening to seven hours of unbelievable stories, and then returned to a place like this.

Qing Chen looked at the clothes on his body, patchy rags just like those of the Mexican natives.

He didn’t know yet, after the villagers carried him back from Swallow Cave, someone noticed his precious undergarments and took them all, it was a kind aunty who dressed him in old clothes, otherwise, he wouldn’t even have clothes to wear...

The aunty came over with a plate of grasshoppers, butterfly larvae, and water bugs, making Qing Chen’s scalp tingle.

At this moment, a child brought over a plate of ant eggs, placed it in front of Qing Chen, pointed at the white ant eggs, and then at Qing Chen’s mouth.

Qing Chen wasn’t sure how to start, but the child looked at the ant eggs and swallowed involuntarily.

Generally, when Mexican natives offer you ant eggs, it means they treat you as an honored guest, this stuff is known as the "Mexican caviar."

Qing Chen looked at the aunty’s smile, hesitated, grabbed some insects, and ate them, the spicy and sour taste filled his mouth.

Just as he wanted to politely refuse the rest of the insects, inexplicably, he earnestly ate all the roasted insects on the plate, wasting none.

Some things seemed to have been etched into his bones.

At that moment, certain fragments rushed into his mind like a tidal wave.

Qing Chen sat motionless on the bed, seeing snow and wind, and someone was speaking to him.

As he tried to grasp something from the tide, it was pulled back by some gravitational force.

The aunty, seeing he had finished eating, cheerfully patted his shoulder, making a loud sound, then brought him another plate.

Qing Chen: "..."

How did he get stuck in a bug loop with the aunty? He never wasted food, but she kept offering plate after plate of insects, and he couldn’t finish them.

Finding the other’s hospitality overwhelming, Qing Chen tried asking in English, "Do you have a phone here? Or any way to leave this place?"

The aunty, not understanding a word, continued speaking gibberish and went back to roasting insects for the children...

Qing Chen sighed, "Really plagued by fate... I wonder if Qing Guozhong has been released yet?"

Curiously, if he hadn’t lost his memory, he wouldn’t even remember he had a father who was taken away.

At this moment, an engine sound came from outside.

Qing Chen’s eyes lit up, where there’s a car, there’s a way to leave this place, regardless of what happened before his memory loss, getting back home as soon as possible is the proper thing.

However, the next moment, rapid gunshots sounded from outside. The aunty frantically pulled the children, urging them to escape through the windows.

But as she opened the window, someone was already blocking the way outside.

Qing Chen: "..."

What is this, just an ordinary high school student, how did he suddenly get caught up in such inexplicable matters?!

Suddenly, dozens of fierce bandits rushed in, tying everyone’s hands with ropes and taking them to cars outside.

The entire village of over three hundred people, more than twenty were shot dead, the rest all caught.

The bandits, unrestrained, shouted joyfully, firing their guns into the sky as if celebrating this victory.

Qing Chen, with his hands tied, sat in the truck bed in a daze, not even knowing what had happened.

In the truck bed, four men holding AK47s coldly guarded everyone.

Qing Chen had never seen this kind of scene, not knowing where these bandits were taking him!

He observed the environment, trying to free his hands from the hemp rope, but with a little exertion, the rope snapped...

Qing Chen was startled, the four bandits in the truck bed casually moved their gun muzzles over everyone, he quickly tied the hemp rope back onto his hands quietly...

He was amazed at his own strength now, but he didn’t have a real sense of combat advantages.

The boy’s natural awe of guns and bandits kept him from acting rashly for now.

The car wobbled along for six hours before plunging into a dense forest.

The convoy entered a village, and Qing Chen saw under over a dozen thatched huts, hundreds of Mexican natives with dirty face coverings, busy... making drugs.

This was a drug lord’s secret drug lab!

Qing Chen roughly understood, the earlier bandit attack on the village was not due to enmity or war between villages, but because they needed labor to manufacture drugs!

It’s just, this factory seemed to be newly built, so there was a large labor gap.

The bandits drove the freshly caught villagers to an open space for pre-work training, Qing Chen couldn’t understand a word, only relying on memory to retain the Spanish words, then quickly analyzed what each term meant.

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