City of Thieves More Future Predictions

It turns out that I was right on my previous prediction. The giant, bearded man did not have any eggs to sell to Lev and Kolya. Instead, he and his wife tried to kill them! This quote describes that these strange people were actually cannibals, "Maybe for half a second I thought it was pig, maybe my brain tried to convince my eyes that they weren't looking at what they were looking at: a flayed thigh that could only be a woman's thigh, a child's rib cage, a severed arm with the hand's ring finger missing." At this point Lev and Kolya find out that this man and his wife lure people into their apartment, only to be killed and later eaten. With Lev's knife and Kolya's extreme fighting skills, they manage to escape these cannibals and go after their next rumor, a farmer with a giant chicken coop that produces lots of eggs. When they finally reach this place, they find the farmer dead, rotting in a corner, and his grandson sitting in the middle with only one chicken left under his coat. The boy trades the chicken for money and small rations of food and Lev and Kolya go seek warm shelter to try to keep the chicken alive.

I predict that this chicken will die before it lays all the eggs that they need, as the odds are against them. Another possibility is, what if this chicken is really a rooster and doesn't lay any eggs? I guess this could be good and bad because they wouldn't get any closer to their goal of 12 eggs, but they could eat it to give them some more energy to keep them going on their quest.