Chapter 1344 The price of being a human being?

The parents of those Palu children were unable to complete the labor tasks assigned by the slave owners due to injuries and illnesses.

Therefore, they were unable to receive sufficient food rations for the day.

Parents, who are the main labor force, cannot get enough food.

A child who eats through his fingers will naturally go hungry.

This situation is not uncommon.

It is common for underage Palu children who are unable to work in exchange for food to go without eating for the entire day.

But the arrival of the Palu Rabbit People changed this normal situation.

She made a move that no one in the Pallu could understand.

He brought the hungry children back to the shed and shared all his food with them.

The children enjoyed the meal very much.

The Palu rabbit man also laughed happily.

Until one of the Palu children made a request to her:

"Sister Xiaoxiao, can I take one of these steamed buns back to my mother to eat?"

"She hasn't had decent food like this in a long time, and I want her to try it."

Xu Xiao, who transformed into the Paloo Rabbit Man through the props, was stunned for a moment, then smiled and nodded:

"of course can."

"But shouldn't the lack of rations this time be a special case? Don't you usually eat similar food?"

"Aren't those golden-veined wheat harvested here considered decent food?"

"Sister Xiaoxiao, what kind of joke are you telling? Golden-veined wheat is eaten by slave owners!" A skinny Paluma child snorted and rushed to speak:

"We serfs can only eat things like mud roots and sheep's horn potatoes."

"You are wrong. We are not serfs yet!" another Palu child with short horns interrupted:

"We are not old enough, nor strong enough. We have not opened the data panel, and we have not awakened our talents. We simply cannot meet the standards to become serfs!"

"Then what are we?" Before Xu Xiao could reply, the other Palu pigman, who had just stuffed a whole steamed bun into his mouth, asked vaguely.

While speaking, he looked longingly at the remaining food on the side.

Xu Xiao pushed the things in front of several Palu children and asked:

"Yeah, so what are you?"

"It's a little beast!" The Palu child with short horns on his head answered as a matter of course:

"The slave owners call us little beasts."

"But my parents think that I am worse than a little beast, because when a little beast grows up, it will become a big beast and help my parents farm, making their work much easier."

"And when I grow up, I won't become a big beast."

"It will only increase your appetite. You'll eat more and get hungry faster!"

"You fool, when you grow up, won't you become a serf?" Palu the pigman had already grabbed the second steamed bun.

While he was talking, his dirty face was full of satisfied smile.

It was as if what he was holding was not a steamed bun, but the most precious thing in the world.

"If I become a serf, I can farm, work, and earn my own food!"

"You are the fool." Another Palu puppy man who had been silent all this time seemed to have a good relationship with the Palu bull man, and spoke up to defend him:

"What he meant was that even if he grew up and became a serf, he wouldn't be able to share the labor for his parents like a large animal."

"His parents still have to work in the fields until the day they can no longer do it!"

There was food in hand and no slave owner was around.

Under the warm aura of Yu Xu Xiao, several Palu children soon started arguing with each other.

He didn't notice at all that the 'Palu Rabbit Man' next to him had a frown on his face, with a look of distress in his eyes.

It's obviously like this, why don't you resist?

Why did those Palu slaves continue to cover their eyes and plug their ears even though they had external assistance?

Do they want to live in such hardship and exploitation forever?

Xu Xiao couldn't figure it out.

So she had no choice but to ask.

"You...haven't you ever thought about becoming a human being when you grow up?"

"People?" Several Palu children stopped chewing at the same time, their bright eyes filled with curiosity and confusion.

They soon began to talk among themselves.

"What is a human being?"

"Are you a player?"

“It must be the player!”

“Like the slave master, is he able to easily kill the terrifying monster when the rift erupts?”

"That sounds amazing... After becoming a human, I will be able to eat my fill every day, right?"

"Of course. All the golden wheat our parents planted was handed over to the slave owners."

"With so much food, they won't have enough to eat?"

"I'm so envious... I really want to be a player..."

"You can think about it. What is the first requirement to become a player? It is to awaken a powerful talent ability when opening the data panel!"

"But we are Palu children. The result of awakening powerful innate abilities is that we are picked up by slave owners!"

"If you're lucky, you might be able to stay and work for the slave owner, like a deadpool or something."

"If my luck was worse, I would be sent directly to the Tower of Abyss!"

"That's true... I heard from my parents that the eldest daughter of the Baki family, whose name was Sha, awakened a diamond-grade talent. Later, she was captured by the slave owner and sent to the Abyss Tower."

"Then there seemed to be a big mess, and in the end, it seemed that all of Bucky's family members were killed."

"I've heard that... all the Palu cats were implicated during that period. My favorite Xiao Miao was beaten to death by the slave owner at that time..."

"Hey, why are you saying this? It's really unlucky."

"We will definitely become serfs when we grow up. It's not easy to awaken good talents..."

"That's right... But I still want to be a player. If I'm lucky, at least I can have enough to eat. Being hungry is too uncomfortable..."

Hearing those innocent words, Xu Xiao's brows furrowed even tighter.

Before she knew it, her knuckles had turned slightly white from holding onto the corner of the table, leaving finger marks on the hard wooden surface.

"In fact, you can still have enough food to eat without becoming a player."

She opened her beautiful mouth slightly and uttered a word with an obvious tremor.

"Eh? Really?" The Palu children did not realize Xu Xiao's inner changes, but responded happily:

"As long as you become a human, can you have enough food to eat?"

The woman nodded slowly and solemnly.

"Then I want to be a human being!" Palu Pony was the first to raise his hand:

"If I become a human, my mother won't be hungry anymore!"

"Then I want to be a human too!"

"Me too!"

Palu the pigman was obviously more sensible than the other children and did not say anything in agreement.

Instead, he looked at Xu Xiao and asked very seriously:

"Sister Xiaoxiao, since being a human being can provide enough food, what price should one pay for being a human being?"

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