"I don't want to get too close to the children anymore?"
Xu Xiao thought she had misheard and murmured the words again.
It was not until she saw the surrounding Palu nodding one after another
that she realized this absurd request was actually real.
"Why?"
Xu Xiao felt that she had already guessed the answer, but she could not help asking for confirmation:
"Why don't you want me getting close to the children anymore? We got along so well!"
"Because..." The Palu Pigman lowered his head, somewhat afraid to look into Xu Xiao's bright eyes.
"Because my little one told me today that you... wanted them to become people..."
"What's wrong with that?" Xu Xiao's breathing quickened slightly. In that instant, she felt a surge of hot blood burst powerfully from her heart and rush straight to her head.
"Tell me, do you eat your fill every day?"
"Do you sleep well?"
"Does being a Palu slave exploited by slave owners really feel good?"
The Palu Pigman was left somewhat dazed by the woman's three consecutive questions.
After taking a long while to recover, he finally murmured:
"Xu Xiao, from the very first day you came here, I knew you had backing."
"But I wasn't curious, nor did I intend to ask."
"Yes, we really can't eat our fill, and we don't sleep well either."
"We work hard day after day without a moment to catch our breath, and it truly isn't comfortable at all."
"But at least we can still live like this!"
"If the slave owners are in a good mood one day, they might even reward us with some good food."
"We Palu were born to be slaves. There's no way to change that..."
"There is!" Xu Xiao gritted her teeth and shouted in a low voice.