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It seemed as though something important had been excised from his mind.
I'm hungry...
Gao Sishu rubbed his stomach, the world-weariness in his eyes gradually concealed, replaced by the naive gaze of a child.
He was, in fact, just a child, an orphan with no parents or relatives, who became a 'Corpse Ghost' surviving off the dead in the battlegrounds alongside his older brother.
No, that's not right, I...
"Big brother, let's go..." Gao Sishu muttered as he rubbed his stomach and called out, "Big brother, I'm so hungry."
The youth was momentarily stunned, the air around him twisted, as if something had crept in, and he smiled, "Bear with it a little longer, we'll keep looking. With so many bodies, there's bound to be food!"
It was as if he hadn't heard a word Gao Sishu had said before.
The two of them, one after the other, continued to search through the corpses, and then, unsurprisingly, encountered the man in black and entered into the loop once more.
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