*Chen's POV*
"Here 35."
A man handed me a small bag full of unrefined jades and immediately pulled his hands away as if he touched something filthy.
To him, my type is not considered the same race as him.
To evade further nausea from his filthy eyes, I quickly left the camp along with my sister.
Going further down the road, me and my sister arrived in front of a run-down sign.
District 0.
Trash bin of the Eustis city.
This place is home for people born slaves like us.
While walking through the street occasionally, I would see shady people waiting at the entrance of the dark valley and dying or old ones staying with the trash waiting for its death.
Walking further down the old stone pavement, we entered a large square full of women dressed in all kinds of revealing clothes, ready to sell their bodies for a few stones or jades.
This place is a pleasure square, the place where we were born and left.
Maybe it is the only place where people like us smile.
We were born in one of those brothels in the square, and the brothel's owner given us the name Chen and Bao.
Sadly, he was killed for a stupid reason and his brothel was destroyed. At that time, I was six years old, and my sister was only 4.
The owner wasn't a good man, but he wasn't that bad either which.
To me, that makes him far better than almost all people in this hell hole.
In some way, the boss Andrews reminded me of the old boss heavily.
Now, I found a good group I should stick to them.
"Brother, I am hungry."
Moving my head, I saw my cute little sister looking at me with her bright jade-like eyes. As expected, my sister, even dirty mud and dirty cloth can't hide her cuteness.
"Okay, let go to uncle's shop and buy the fasting pills."
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"Can I choose the taste ?"
"Yes, this time we got quite catch."
"Nice, I want a sweet one!"
Said my sister began to take the lead while tugging my arm.
"Uncle, give me a nine ordinary and two with taste."
"Oh, got a haul, eh. Well, then what taste you want ?"
"I want a sweet one."
"Okay, here are nine ordinary and two fastening pills with a sweet taste."
The store uncle gave us nine brown pills and two green ones.
The fastening pill was something used as a replacement for food and water. The pellet is something people used to quench their thirst and hunger if we wanted to live in this district where food and fresh water counted as a luxury.
The ordinary fastening pill tastes like coal mixed with chalk, dry and bland. Of course, with some extra price, one can buy one with a taste.
But even with that, the effect is still the same, and that extra taste doesn't help much to hide the feeling of earing coal.
*AAA~*
No.
I stopped Bao about pop the pill immediately.
"No, Bao, we eat it at night."
I know how she likes the sweet taste, so she will definitely get one at night.
"Okay, brother."
Bao reluctantly placed back the pill back into the bag.
Eventually, we arrived at our place.
People called this place a forbidden factory, but we don't even know what the word the factory means.
The only thing I know is from a story that this place used to create a large army made of iron.
Due to rumor surrounding the factory and its man of iron people usually avoids area around it making a perfect place for us to hide and spend a night in peace.
Entering the factory through a small space behind a large machine that looks like a miner, we went towards the only intact iron box.
This box was our only safe haven where we can relax.
Inside it, there is the bed and blanket we made, along with a weirdly shaped tool I found from a junkyard.
After inserting a fistful of useless ore in the tool, I pressed the first button.
I don't what is this thing called or how it works, but I know by inserting some useless stones found from mine, this thing begins to warm or cool its surrounding depending on two little buttons on the side.
Making it comfortable for us to spend the chilling or hot night.
I know I can sell this thing for a quite amount of jade or mana stone. But I am not stupid enough to believe someone will pay us when it is easier to kill or steal it from us.
After taking the pills, I covered Bao with a blanket.
"Good night, brother."
"Good night."
After letting Bao sleep, I took out a small pyramid from a hidden pocket under my pants.
This pyramid is called a purifier, one of the tools used to absorb energies in the polluted air into the body. It said one can determine wherever it is a cultivator or magic knight and mage depending on where the energies are gathered.
One I found is a low-grade one that only absorbs 10% from the air, so I can only guess until its core condenses.
But I don't need to know which one I became.
I only need strength. With strength, I can change my and my sister's fate.
While concentrating to absorb the energies, I noticed various scars made by blisters and calluses on Bao's feet showing under the blanket.
It is unfair...
We don't even know why we get treated like this.
Why are we forced to live like this while they get to live under a warm roof, delicious food, a loving family, and no slave tattoo or shackle?
I promise one day I will let those monsters taste our pain. Then get you the real home and let you eat all the real sweets you want.
It is still one month away from the test. If I able to pass it we will no longer be threated as slaves and can join one of two sides.
I will definetly pass it for both of us.