I! Cleaner!

He got up in a hurry in the middle of the night and ran to the hospital with his sister, whose face was faintly purple. After more than ten hours of tossing and turning, Leon, with bloodshot eyes, sat beside a dirty bed with his back to the setting sun outside the window. Looking at his sister who finally stopped coughing, he asked in a complicated voice:

“Anna, tell me, when did you stop taking the medicine?”

Hearing Leon calling her name, which was rare, the thin girl with a pale face on the bed trembled slightly. She knew that although her brother looked calm now, he was probably going crazy with anger. She had to lower her head and confess honestly:

“About… two months ago?”

Two months ago…

Lyon recalled what he said, and then he couldn’t help but clenched his fists tightly, and his nails with a little mud almost wedged into the flesh of his palm.

Two months ago, it was exactly when he turned sixteen and became an adult.

That day, the comfort officer of the Kingdom’s military department came to visit on time, announced that he had become an adult, and in accordance with the so-called new policy, forcibly stopped the pension for the families of the deceased soldiers who were supposed to be paid to the age of 22.

That rare afternoon without exhaust gas and dust clouds, clear, warm and sunny, was colder than the ice field in the severe winter in the hearts of his family of four.

When the military chose to embezzle the pension to fill the hole of military expenses in order to balance the overspending accounts, the decision to forcibly stop the pension pushed this small family that could barely maintain it to the edge of the cliff…

After recalling the situation that day, Leon bit his back teeth silently, and his two palms were clenched so hard that the joints were faintly white.

Yes, although a quarter of the pension was missing, the family’s expenses did not decrease much in the past two months, and the food could even be barely maintained… Damn it! Why did I find out now!

“Brother.”

Looking at Leon who was keeping silent with his head down beside her, the girl who was getting thinner and thinner on the bed was silent for a while, then turned her head slightly and said in a light voice that seemed to be dissipated at any time:

“Or, just leave me alone?”

Lyon was shocked when he heard the words, then he raised his head suddenly, stared at his bloodshot eyes and shouted angrily:

“You are nonsense…”

“Brother!”

After trying to raise the volume, it caused a violent cough. The thin girl hurriedly grabbed Leon’s right hand with bulging veins, and tried to stabilize her breathing like a bellows, while trying to calmly and softly persuade:

“I have carefully calculated in the past two months, even if I die, I will lose one more comfort. But as long as you don’t have to buy my medicine, with the remaining two pensions, you can do some more daily odd jobs, which will be enough to barely bring them to adulthood.

Also, my registered age is one year younger than my actual age, so when I get sick… after I leave, you just need to avoid the patrols and secretly throw me into the sewage river in the outer city of the capital at night, and then hang my old clothes on the hangers at home, pretending that I am still here, and we can get the military pension for another two years.

Brother, listen to me, I have already asked the people in Veteran Lane in advance, and they are all willing to help us cover up, as long as they cooperate with you to deceive the military comfort officer… Brother? Brother! Where are you going? “

Go kill people! I’m going to kill people!

After hearing Anna’s proposal, Leon, who was trembling all over, was extremely horrified to find that he actually had a moment, subconsciously agreed with her method. After three years in this world, he actually began to get used to it all!

As if there was another numb and cold self behind him, chasing him desperately, trying to completely devour this barely alive self, Leon began to run unconsciously, and his head was almost instantly filled with hot blood.

On the way out, he violently knocked over a medical cart, leaned over and touched a bloody scalpel, then staggered out of the hospital and rushed towards the Highway Administration three blocks away!

If it weren’t for those bastards in the Highway Administration who approved the construction of the alchemy factory near residential areas, Anna would not have gotten sick from the alchemy exhaust gas leak!

If they hadn’t colluded with the factory and issued a certificate that the leak did not cause pollution, she would have had money to treat her illness!

If it weren’t for the shameless encroachment of the Kingdom’s military, the double pension left by my parents, who are mechanics, would have been enough for me to raise my three younger siblings to adulthood!

And! If this damn world hadn’t been so rotten, I wouldn’t have to struggle like this, and I could have lived like a human being!

…

With blood boiling in his head, Leon held the scalpel and crossed three streets. Under the blood-red sunset, he rushed to the Road Administration Department and came to the square where people lined up in a long line yesterday and were picked like animals.

Although there was still an hour before the Kingdom’s stipulated time to get off work, the employees of the Road Administration Department had already filed out of the brightly lit building, talking and laughing as they passed by the ragged Leon.

“Next week, Master Wilde’s troupe will come to the capital to perform his famous opera at the Central Cross Theater. Will you go?”

“I’m not as elegant as you. I’m interested in circuses, but forget about opera. So why did you ask me to watch the opera? Where’s your wife?”

“Her? She likes opera, but she likes beautiful handbags and shoes more, and department stores that will have discounts on that day.”

“No wonder, haha, then I can only wish you good luck with your wallet.”

Opera, circus, handbags, department stores… If I didn’t listen to them talking about these, I would even forget that this is not a barren and poor world, and not everyone is so miserable.

Listening to the chatter and laughter of the brightly dressed Highway Department employees, Leon couldn’t help but slowly raised his head, and looked steadily at the brightly lit building in front of him with his two thick, bloodshot eyes.

Anna is right. Instead of letting her disease bring down the whole family, the most correct thing to do is to give up treatment and let her die of the disease, and then secretly throw the body into the sewage river full of feces and rancid water, and find a way to “cheat” again. With two years of military pension, the remaining younger siblings were brought up, but…

Sorry, I really can’t hold it anymore…

After working hard for three years, leaving early and returning late, Lyon found that his life not only did not get better, but began to slide into the abyss. First he pressed his bloody lips hard, and then he walked quickly towards the door with a mouth full of the salty taste of rust. He walked towards the building of the Highway Department.

It was the off-duty time of the Highway Department, and it was also the easiest time to sneak in. Next, he had to go up to the second floor, find the bitch who had originally approved the construction of the Alchemy Pharmacy Factory, and cut open his belly full of fat with a knife.

Then he took advantage of the chaos and ran up to the fourth floor, found the bastard who had perjured himself at the pharmaceutical factory, resulting in the family not being able to get compensation and no money to treat Anna, and then died with him! Let these damn…

“Swell!”

“Are you blind? Don’t you look at the road when you walk forward?”

Glancing at the thin young man who was knocked to the ground, the fat man who came out of the corner frowned, patted the dust on the front of his coat with disgust, then took a bite of the cheese-smeared burger in his hand and walked around Leon, who fell to the ground, walked away.

After getting up in a daze, Leon couldn’t help but be slightly startled when he looked at the familiar figure.

It’s the fat guy who “picked cattle” yesterday!

Staring at the back of the arrogant man, looking at the greasy and hateful fat face, which was grabbing a double-layered meatburger and biting it, Leon felt that his mind was buzzing and confused.

As if being dominated by something inexplicable, the rage in his mind that was about to explode found the most suitable outlet, dyeing his already bloodshot eyes scarlet, and driving him to tighten his grip. The tight and cold scalpel staggered after him.

If he could let himself pass yesterday, maybe he wouldn’t be so desperate now! If he could let himself pass yesterday, maybe he could save Anna’s life! If he could have just let himself pass yesterday…

“Dad~”

Just when Leon had caught up to the man and was about to do something, a clear child’s voice suddenly came from his ears.

Along with the clear call like wind chimes, the face full of arrogance and indifference in front of him suddenly warmed up, and the tiredness on the tall fat man’s face was instantly wiped away.

He first sucked in his bulging belly vigorously, and then squatted down with some difficulty, smiling and opening his arms towards the little girl who was running towards her.

“…”

Looking at the little girl running past him with a smile and throwing herself into the man’s arms like a swallow, Leon couldn’t help but gradually slowed down, and then turned around in confusion, and found a middle-aged man with a somewhat fat figure not far behind him. The young woman is staring here with a gentle smile.

Even though she lived in such a trashy and fucked-up world, the woman’s eyes when she looked at the father and daughter were still full of enviable happiness… It was exactly the same as the smile Anna looked at her at dinner last night.

“…”

“Oh shit!”

After grunting inexplicably, Leon, who was cursing for no apparent reason, loosened his right hand slightly, and the bloody scalpel clattered to the ground, immediately attracting the suspicious eyes of the obese official.

Ignoring this disgustingly happy family of three, and spitting on the shiny bluestone floor tiles under his feet again, Leon calmed down and turned around silently, taking his trademark heavy steps and heading towards the The Cleanup Bureau walked over in the shadows.

It’s very satisfying to kill your enemy with your hands, but sometimes, no matter how much you want to die, you have to live well… at least your death should be more valuable.

Standing in front of the heavy, dark door of the Cleanup Bureau, Leon was silent for a while, raised his hand to grab the shiny brass handle, and pushed it hard inside.

I remember this time yesterday, the red-haired interviewer said that the Cleanup Bureau was considered a non-staff department of the police department. According to the rules of this field department, if he died in the line of duty, he should be able to leave a large pension. .

So if in my family of four, one is destined to die first, and the remaining three can cry and live…then let me do it!