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On the day he returned from San Fernando, Chen Pingsheng fell ill.

Maybe it’s because certain foods weren’t sterilized well when eating them, or maybe it’s just because you’re simply not used to the environment and air there.

At night, he felt his stomach was churning, and after vomiting, he shivered all over.

After Shah learned about it, he specially called his personal doctor, a well-dressed middle-aged black woman. She looked at Chen Pingsheng's symptoms and prescribed some medicine.

Nothing serious, just a fever and a cold.

So he had to lie in bed the whole next day, looking at the scenery outside the window and wiping his nose with the tissue next to him.

Shah also came to visit him that day. She was a little curious about where Chen Pingsheng had been these days.

"Chen, so you went to take pictures of these children?" She held Chen Pingsheng's camera and looked at the photos inside, which was quite shocking.

"That's right." Chen Pingsheng was a little groggy, but he didn't want to sleep, so he could only raise the pillow and lie on the bed.

"It's amazing. There are so many street children. Did they all escape on their own?" Shah looked confused. She had never experienced such a rebellious period, so she didn't understand it.

"Not entirely. Some were abandoned by their parents, some lacked a father, and some had too many children to manage." Chen Pingsheng explained the situation, and then wiped his nose with paper.

This situation is common all over the world, and it is the same in Neon Country. A large number of runaway children are wandering on the streets.They don't want to go home or accept government relief. They just want to survive on their own.

That’s why Neon has a special culture of maidens.

But the United States is not much better, or even worse. What Chen Pingsheng has seen is only a small part.

But even so, the impact on Shah was undoubtedly huge. She had never thought that there would be so many young children who were already full of dust at the age when they should be studying, wallowing in the quagmire of the world.

"Chen, can I help them?" Shah suddenly asked Chen Pingsheng.

"What are you going to do?" Chen Pingsheng did not agree or refuse, but asked a practical question.

"I plan to sponsor them and let them go back to school or see if I can provide them with job opportunities," Shah said.

"How are you sure they are willing to accept your funding?" Chen Pingsheng retorted: "At their age, they hate authority and class the most. In their eyes, you are no better than your parents and the police. And it's not just one or two. Not as an individual, but as a group of people.”

"As for job opportunities, can you provide them locally? What will happen if they are exposed by the media?"

Child protection laws in the United States vary from state to state. In some states, child labor is allowed, but most are exploitative.In some states, once someone is exposed as using child labor, they will be taken to court and imprisoned.

But this is also the irony, because adults dare not hire children, and even if they do, most of them will not give them appropriate treatment.Therefore, the children can only live on their own, but they are underage and have no government subsidies, so they can only live with hunger and difficulty.

Only when you are old enough and no longer worry about being sent home by the police will you come out to look for a job.

This is a cycle, and it is also where Shah and Chen Pingsheng feel powerless.

"Well, there seems to be nothing I can do except expose them." After Shah said this, he continued: "But I can't expose them. This is their freedom. I can't just interfere in other people's lives."

Chen Pingsheng was silent for a long time. This was also where he was most helpless.

This place is completely different from that at home, both in terms of ideology and policy intensity.If these children were caught by the police, they would really die. He had already heard Tini talk about similar things.

Children cannot trust the government and they cannot trust adults.The government did not take any other measures except to discipline them for a few days and send them back to their families.

Therefore, exposure may not necessarily be beneficial to the children, and extreme behaviors may occur. "So are you going to continue filming?" Shah asked.

"Yes, I will come once every few months in the future, and I will ask you to prepare some cash for me." Chen Pingsheng nodded.

"No problem, this is what I should do." Shah then chatted with Chen Pingsheng for a while and then left.

Chen Pingsheng was lying on the bed, looking at the gloomy sky outside the window, with mixed emotions.

His consciousness gradually became blurred, as if the heavy sleep was about to overwhelm his nerves.

Really unable to resist the hypnosis of the disease, Chen Pingsheng couldn't help but lie down on his back, sink into the soft pillow, close his eyes, and let himself go.

And on the second day after he fell ill, a new photo album called "The Decisive Moment" was suddenly put on the shelves in bookstores in the city.
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"Tom, look, what is this?" Bain, who was taking street photos with his camera on the streets of Los Angeles, suddenly saw the huge banner hanging outside the bookstore.

"Huh?" Tom, a friend who was also taking street photos next to him, turned around and looked in the direction Bain was pointing.

The two of them are colleagues in the company. They became friends because they both like photography. They often make appointments to go out for street photography together.

"The latest photo album of the Gesei winner, the photographer's creative compass?" Bain read it word by word, then smiled and said: "It's very gimmick."

"It's probably the book "The Crow"." Tom looked at the author's name on it and suddenly remembered the photo album he had purchased.

"Chen Pingsheng, yes, that's him. His "Crow" is indeed very powerful." As a photography enthusiast, Bain will naturally not miss this work.

Both of them had a high opinion of "The Crow", so when they saw Chen Pingsheng's new work, they were immediately interested.

"How about we go take a look?" Bain suggested.

"Okay, let's go in and take a look." Tom answered in the affirmative, and then the two of them walked into the bookstore.

Bypassing the most conspicuous financial books and coming to the shelves where the albums were displayed, the two found that there were already some people checking out with "The Decisive Moment".

"Bain, here." After searching around, Tom found a sample book that could be read, and then called Bain over.

"What a thick album." Tom was first shocked by the exaggerated weight of this album.

Just holding it up felt quite strenuous.

"Let me see, 167 photos? That's an exaggeration. How could he take so many." Bain looked at the introduction on the cover and was a little surprised.

"There are also recommendations from many masters here: 'A photo album that photographers must buy' seems to have been emphasized many times. Is it really that good?" Tom expressed some dissatisfaction with the slogan. Although he is not a A professional photographer, but also an amateur with his own ideas.

He hates others criticizing his aesthetics.

So he wanted to know why this work said so.

"Let's take a look together." Tom said and turned to the first page.

　I've been on the road all day, so there's only one chapter.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)