Yang Cheng stood up from his seat and wiped his oily hands with a napkin, "Let's go, follow me somewhere."
"Where?" Tangtang was worried that Yang Cheng would force her to go home.
"To find a high-end Internet cafe."
"Internet cafe?" Tangtang smiled happily, "Uncle, you're so nice. Not only did you treat me to a meal, but you're also taking me to the Internet!"
Yang Cheng laughed, "Don't worry, I'm not in the mood to take you to play games, I just want to show you something."
Ignoring Tangtang's question, Yang Cheng walked out first.
Tangtang stuck to his side along the way, and the two of them walked for a few dozen meters before they found a large chain Internet cafe.
Walking into the Internet cafe, Yang Cheng asked for the most expensive single room to surf the Internet. Tangtang was getting more and more curious, not knowing what Yang Cheng wanted to show her. He was being so mysterious and even wanted a separate room.
"Uncle, don't tell me you want to … do that with me in the Internet cafe?" Tangtang couldn't help but ask shyly.
"Do what?" Yang Cheng didn't understand.
Tangtang blushed, "It's that kind of intimate thing … Aiya! Why did you choose an Internet cafe, even if it's a separate room, I'll still feel embarrassed. Uncle, you're so bad, liking this kind of thing … "
Yang Cheng finally understood what Tangtang meant, and reached out his hand to tap on the girl's forehead, "What are you thinking about all day long!? Do I look like that kind of pervert!? "
"You look like …" Tangtang said weakly.
Yang Cheng ignored the eccentric girl who was at the age of puberty, walked into the separate room, turned on the computer, and began surfing the Internet.
Tangtang stood behind Yang Cheng, no longer joking around, and watched patiently.
After Yang Cheng opened the browser, he skillfully entered a website, and after pressing enter, a very strange image appeared on the page.
The entire screen went black. Then, a pale golden ring-shaped object appeared in the center. The ring-shaped object was divided into two layers.
Yang Cheng began to input various English subtitles and numbers into the blank space inside and outside the ring-shaped object.
Tangtang, who was at the back, was stunned. She realized that the URL Yang Cheng had entered had turned into a row of "*". She couldn't tell what the URL was, but it was more than 20 digits long.
What was even more frightening was that the number of characters that had to be entered in the two rings had already exceeded a hundred, and all of them had become "*" symbols. Obviously, it was something like a password.
When Yang Cheng finished typing, the two ring-shaped objects began to rotate. When they rotated to a certain degree, as if they had completely merged, they disappeared from the screen.
"Uncle, that's so cool! The password for your account is at least a hundred digits! How do you remember!? "Tangtang couldn't believe it.
Yang Cheng thought that there was no need to remember. With his brain power, a thousand digits was a matter of a glance … But he still casually explained, "I just need to type a few more times."
"Oh … Now that the screen is black, what do you want me to see, Uncle?" Tangtang was getting more and more excited.
Yang Cheng rummaged around and took out a headset from a drawer. After connecting it to the computer, he said into the headset, "Picture!"
As soon as he said that, the blackness on the computer screen dissipated, and an image of a photo album appeared. There were many categories in it, and the name of each category was on the cover.
Yang Cheng said another word, but this word wasn't in English, nor was it in the Hua Xia language. To Tangtang, it sounded like a relatively small language, but she couldn't tell what language it was.
After saying that word, a picture of a native village appeared on the screen. There were all kinds of thatched houses decorated with colorful totems. There was a bonfire outside, and all kinds of beast skulls were stuck outside the houses like flags. In the distance was a towering snow-capped mountain, and below it was an endless withered yellow grassland.
"Uncle, where is this?" Tangtang asked. She was already attracted by all the strange things.
Yang Cheng said with a little nostalgia, "This is an African native village called Budea La Gua. It's on a grassland in Central Africa. Although it belongs to the territory of an African country, it's a primitive area that's almost ungoverned. That village and some other similar native villages still maintained a slave system that was close to a primitive society. They fight with wild beasts, fight against the heat and cold, and often don't have enough to eat for a few days. They also have to fight for water by bleeding because the water source suddenly dried up. The mountain god they worship has never protected them. If any of them fall sick, they'll be thrown into the uninhabited wilderness and eaten by wild beasts. They're afraid of spreading the disease, and they're powerless to treat them. "
Tangtang listened attentively. "They're so pitiful. How can there be such a place in the world? Uncle, how do you have a picture of that place? Have you been there? "
"About six years ago, due to some matters, I had to stay at that place for half a month. Since there wasn't much to do while I was waiting, I used a special camera to take some pictures," Yang Chen said. Six years ago, he wasn't even 18 years old.
Then, Yang Cheng used voice control to flip through a few pictures. They were pictures of the primitive people living in the village. They were scantily dressed, and their faces were covered in paint. Men, women, old, and young were all black. They were eating the bloody, burnt meat of wild beasts.
There was a picture that made Tangtang blush. These natives were doing something outdoors to breed the next generation.
This was a small society that made people feel completely out of touch with the real world. They seemed to be a special group that had been abandoned by the world. The dawn of human civilization had already excluded them thousands of years ago.
He flipped to a picture of a thatched cottage in a native village. In the picture, a female villager was lying on a bed made of stones and hay. On her body, there was a baby that looked like he had just been born. He was thin and was lying on his mother's chest. On the other side of the bed sat a girl who was sucking her fingers. Her eyes were wide open as she looked at her younger brother and mother.
"Uncle … What is this?" Tangtang asked hesitantly.
"This woman is a widow in that village. When her husband was bitten to death by a cheetah, she had just given birth to the boy. But in less than two months, the woman got cholera and constantly had diarrhea. Her body was as thin as a mummy. When I took this picture, the woman was already dead. But the baby boy didn't know that his mother was already dead. He was very hungry and wanted to drink milk, so he climbed onto his mother's chest and sucked it himself. But how could a woman who had already been hollowed out and turned into a corpse feed her child?
The little girl by the bed was the eldest daughter. She was also very hungry because no one would give them food. But she knew that her mother was dead, so she could only stare blankly at the head of the bed. She watched her younger brother suck while she sucked her fingers. "
Before Tangtang finished listening, her eyes were already red. "Uncle, what happened to them after that? Did they starve to death? "
Yang Cheng shook his head, his eyes revealing a hint of desolation. "They didn't starve to death. Before they starved to death, the villagers who discovered their mother's death dragged them out. This pair of siblings became the village's food that day. Everyone was very happy. They all got a piece of meat, including their so-called grandfather and grandmother. "
"Ah!"
Tangtang cried out in shock. She covered her mouth as tears flowed down uncontrollably. "How could they do this, eat … eat people!?"
"To them, a child without a mother is equivalent to a lion cub without the care of a lioness and a male lion. They can become food at any time." Yang Cheng smiled bitterly. He knew that Tangtang would be very sad, but he didn't expect that this girl's heart was so pure that she directly cried.
Tangtang turned her head away, wiped her tears, and waved at Yang Cheng, "Don't say anymore, Uncle. Turn it off, I don't want to see anymore …"
Yang Cheng nodded and exited the system. The computer screen returned to its original desktop, as if nothing had happened.
"Uncle." Tangtang turned around and asked, "Although I don't know why you went to that kind of place, why didn't you save them? They died just like that. They were still so young, it was too pitiful."
"Save? How could I save them? Do you know, at that time, I was even younger than you are now. I brought those two children out of the prairie? The little girl might be able to, but her brother was still drinking milk … "Yang Cheng shook his head and sighed," Furthermore, how could I save them? This kind of situation happens almost every day there. "
Tangtang was silent. She sobbed a few times, "Uncle, why did you show me this? It makes me so sad."
Yang Cheng smiled slightly, "I want you to make a comparison. Compared to them, how have you been since you were young?"
"Compared to me?" Tangtang pouted and said, "How can you compare to me? Although my parents can't be together, I still have my parents since I was young. Furthermore, I've never lacked money, so I can buy whatever I want."
"That's right. Compared to them, you're too lucky. They can't be like you. Even if you run away from home, you still have a spendthrift like me to bring you to McDonald's. " Yang Cheng teased and continued, "You think your life is tiring and your family isn't happy, but have you ever thought about how many children in the world are still facing tragic endings like theirs? Even I, who is close to you, do you think that a person who has obtained family happiness will go to that kind of lousy place where even birds don't lay eggs for more than half a month before the age of 18? You have someone to love you, someone to provide for you to eat, wear, and go to school. But because you're tired from studying for a month, your mother is strict with you, and you want to find a man, you fall out with her and run away from home. Do you know that the home you left is a place that many people dream of? "
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