can't go wild

This is the seventh day since Xing Zhou arrived in Luye. During these seven days, he has traveled to many places.

Once he walked through a black forest and found a dry water source.At the bottom of the cracked riverbed lies the skeleton of an unknown beast, and there is no grass growing around it, but there is a black wireworm-like creature swimming through the cracks in the ground.If it wasn't for Xing Zhou's quick reaction, the bugs would have burrowed into his skin.

Once he found a stone temple in a patch of sand.The temple had collapsed, leaving only a few broken walls. He found some pictures from the stone walls, which showed a group of people prostrating to the gate.The murals are old and have been eroded by wind and sand, but some people hacked on them with sharp tools like axes, leaving many traces.

He tried to dig a few times in the sand and found some children's skulls.According to his persistent investigation with Zong Mian for so many years, it probably originated from some kind of ancient sacrificial ritual.

Once he found a crypt and found traces of someone living in it.Judging from the remaining items and decorations, the owner of the crypt should be a few wanderers.

There are grass mats, and bones are still hanging on the wall.Bones, big and small, have been carefully polished, some have become knives, some have become flutes, necklaces, and some small discs are strung on ropes, which are tokens that can be circulated.They are not human bones, but a very powerful beast on the Luye Plain, a bit like an undeveloped wild boar.The meat of this wild boar is not tasty, and it is very ferocious, but if you kill it, you will not only get a full stomach, but its bones will also become your medal of bravery.

There is no one in the crypt, and a layer of dust has accumulated on the straw mat, but the bones are still hanging on the wall, which shows that those homeless people did not move away voluntarily, but never came back after going out. I don’t know what happened Accident.

Xing Zhou slept in it all night, and left this place early the next morning. After walking for half a day, he finally found a small settlement.

The concept of city is rare in Luye Plain, because no matter how hard you try to build a city, it will soon be destroyed by various accidents.Sometimes it is a big storm, sometimes it is a war among priests, and sometimes it is the depletion of water sources. The maintenance period ranges from a few months to a few years. The city is gone.

Xing Zhou met a homeless person before, and after capturing him, he exchanged food with him for some information. He didn't find out about Chu Lian, but he found out that Tuozhen's territory was about a hundred miles away.There is a small city that has just taken shape, but Luye's so-called city is different from the outside world, it is probably just a village.

Tuozhen is a very ambitious person, he is not willing to bring everyone to live in a tent forever, so after Song Yuan left, he once again devoted everything to build his own country on an oasis.

Of course, now that Takuma is dead, his daughter has to flee from Luye, and that oasis has long since been snatched away and divided up.

The group of tents in front of him was not big, so Xing Zhou spotted the position of the leader, sneaked in quietly, and inquired about Chu Lian again.This leader is the original priest, but now these priests are afraid of retaliation, so they have kept a low profile.

He had never seen a gun, but he had heard of such a fetish, and compared Xing Zhou's "outlandish clothes", he realized that he came from outside, and quickly knelt down in panic.Xing Zhou didn't need to threaten him, just told him the information he wanted.

Chu Lian did appear, but most of the fringe people living at the bottom of Luye didn't know about it.They are tired enough just thinking about how to survive, and only people like the leader can still hear some news from the oasis.

It is said that a person who left Luye and came back appeared in the oasis. He brought them the news from outside and said that he could take everyone to leave together and create a new world.

Hearing this, Xing Zhou's heart skipped a beat, thinking that this was Chu Lian's plan, but what he heard next made him quickly overthrow his guess.

"That night, there were songs and dances in Miwang Township, but after midnight, when everyone fell asleep, a fire broke out, many people died, and very few escaped..."

Miwang Township is the city that Tuozhen built on the oasis.

The leader recalled what he saw from a distance that night. He also wanted to attend that grand event, but he went late and missed it.But later, he was glad that he didn't catch up, otherwise he might have died in that fire too.

The night sky was ignited by the fire all over the sky, and the sound of houses collapsing and the screams of people resounded all over the field.The tree shadows swayed in the firelight, like ghosts and ghosts in hell, as if they were about to emerge in the next second.

People kept escaping from the fire. They ran into the depths of the night, shouting "Help", but when they rushed out, many people had already turned into burning men, and fell to the ground within a few steps.

That fire lasted for three days and three nights, turning the entire Miwang Township into a charred black ruin.

The leader returned to his tent in a daze. Others knew that he had gone to Miwang Township, and asked him for news, but he kept silent about it.Especially when someone asked about the "messenger" who went back and forth, he wanted to dig the memory out of his mind.

That night, he saw the man.

He was standing on a dirt slope outside Miwang Township, with the fire shining on his face, he was wearing exquisite clothes that they had never seen before, all in black, elegant and calm.Looking at everything in front of you calmly, without a drop of blood on your body, but it can strangle your mind.

As if sensing the prying eyes, he turned his head and looked at the leader for a moment.

The leader sat on the ground in fright, then turned around and ran out.He didn't even remember how he ran back, and when he calmed down, he was already far away from Miwang Township.

The fire in Miwang Township must have been set by that person. He went and returned, not to bring them hope, but to revenge.

The leader thought that Xing Zhou was also here for revenge, so he was terrified and begged Xing Zhou not to kill him.

Of course, Xing Zhou would not kill people at will, but that night, the leader led people into his tent secretly, trying to chop him into minced meat.They also put medicine in his food, but they didn't know that Xing Zhou was always cautious, all the food he ate was brought in from outside, and the water he drank was also found by himself.It is even more impossible for him to fall asleep in a stranger's place.

It is impossible for the captain of the police department to overturn his car in Luye.

Xing Zhou didn't entangle them too much, and re-examined the leader to make sure that he hadn't lied about Chu Lian, so he decided to go to Miwang Township to have a look in person.

What puzzled him was that the leader didn't seem to know Chu Lian.He didn't know that the messenger from hell was the weak wanderer who stole the key and fled.

Revenge without leaving a name?

Xing Zhou continued to set out in doubt, the road to Miwang Township was very long, and he met the door not long after.It was also at this time that he determined that the plains were being compressed.

This door does not expand outward in a straight line, but the door frame is arc-shaped, that is to say, when the door expands to the end, it will become a ring, enclosing the plain.This ocher-red gate, which is as high as [-] meters, will be tempted to step over the threshold as long as people approach it.

Xing Zhou tried it, and for him, that kind of temptation was not great.At least he can't dominate his body and force him to take a step forward.

Most of the people on the Luye Plain have firm minds, and there are very few real softies who can survive here.But their desire for survival is also the strongest. This kind of temptation is not only for people with unsteady minds, it will become a kind of temptation for people with a strong desire to survive.

Let the firmness become more firm, desperate, until the ashes are wiped out.

And when the gate completely surrounded the city, wouldn't these people living on the Luye Plain be equivalent to being imprisoned?Although this place is not connected to the outside world, this circle is smaller and more oppressive.

I am afraid that in the end, there are very few people who can really insist on not going through that gate and continue to live in Luye.

Looking up, the sky in Luye is always gloomy.

The weeds were swept by the wind and raged in the wind. Occasionally, a few pieces of wild grass broke into the door without fear of death, and turned into fly ash in an instant.On the four fields, wild beasts wailed, and their living space was compressed, and they had to start a final battle with humans.

Xing Zhou continued to walk forward.

He met many things again, such as the kind of "fireflies" that can emit light, such as a group of wanderers sitting quietly on the dry land, as if they were asking questions about the world.

It was the fifth day he arrived in Luye, and he encountered a 48-hour polar night.

Because of his distinctive attire, when Xing Zhou meets people, he will get all kinds of feedback.Some people directly kill when they disagree with each other, and some people stab the knife secretly on the surface of friendship, but the homeless person in front of him ignores him at all.

Their faces were full of distress, their clothes were ragged, and they seemed to grow on the ground, with their eyes closed and motionless.It looked like a lifeless stone sculpture, but when I got closer, it was still alive.

Xing Zhou walked up to one of the old men and asked, "What are you doing?"

The old man opened his eyes, his thin white hair fluttered in the wind, his flesh didn't move, only his eyeballs were moving around, very strange.But he looked at Xing Zhou, and finally answered him, "waiting to die."

Xing Zhou: "Since you are going to die, why don't you try to go through that door?"

The old man suddenly approached, his black eyes looked at Xing Zhou without blinking, and he told him in a hoarse voice nervously: "The outside world is fake."

Xing Zhou resisted not to retreat, his expression was normal, "Why?"

The old man shrank back, "There is no reason."

Xing Zhou: "There is always a reason."

The old man was silent for a long time, and said: "It was a scam. That woman lied to us. Those who went out died and never came back. Those who came back were all bones, and the bones tempted them to go out again. This must be God's punishment for us. ..."

But pity is back.

These people think that the outside world is false and everything is a scam. Lian's return broke their cognition, their beliefs collapsed, and their survival is hopeless, so they decided to wait for death?

"Do you know Lian?" Xing Zhou asked.

"Ho ho..." The old man smiled, his laughter was weird, like phlegm stuck in his throat, vague.He rolled those eyeballs to look at Xing Zhou again, and said, "He's also a liar."

Xing Zhou hurriedly asked, "Why did you say that? Who did he deceive?"

The old man was speechless, and the "ho ho" in his throat became louder and louder.Xing Zhou sensed something was wrong, but it was too late.The old man seemed to have something stirring in his stomach, his organs were damaged, his blood vessels burst, and he bled to death from his seven orifices in a short while.The same is true for the rest of the people. After Xing Zhou checked carefully, he found that they should have eaten something they shouldn't eat.The thing took root in their stomachs.

No wonder waiting to die.

Is eating a full meal before death considered a way of dying for a homeless person?

Xing Zhou continued to walk forward, and finally arrived at Miwang Township before the end of the polar night.

The fire in Miwang Township was less than half a month away, and the ground was still scorched black, and the heavy rain could not wash it away.Xing Zhou took out his mobile phone. Although there is no signal here, the mobile phone still has power, so it is not a problem to check the time.

He looked up at the outline of the distant door again. If he did not make a mistake in his calculation, Miwang Township should be in the center of the entire circle.