Chapter 58 Humans and Beasts
After these villagers jumped out of the alley, pairs of eyes opened in the nearby alleys, behind the gatehouses, and on the beams.
Their clothes are in tatters, they are thin, they hold hatchets in their hands, and their eyes are glowing red.
The most peculiar thing is that they are all missing a piece.
Some people are missing hands, some are missing feet, some are missing arms, and some are even missing half of their body.
At a glance, the bloody blade in the hand that can still hold the knife is a very dangerous thing. The handle of the knife is wrapped with a strip of cloth and appears purple. Anyone who has been fighting for a long time knows that there is a lot of blood on it. Layer after layer solidified, turning brown and purple.
These blood-red eyes stared at the three people in front of them, with only animal lust remaining in their eyes.
"There are donkeys! There are donkeys!"
"It looks fat and tender, it should be ready for roasting."
"I want the girl over there, her skin is hydrated, It’s definitely delicious to eat with the roots.”
"I heard that eating Taoist meat can prolong your life. I don't know if a bite of the soup made by this Taoist can help me live to ninety-nine."
"Why does this kid look familiar?"
This group of creatures that looked like humans but not beasts gathered together and whispered, but their words were incomprehensible to the living people. Only strange screams were heard, making it difficult to distinguish their words.
Xiao Changcheng was obviously frightened by the sudden appearance of the villagers. He was at a loss and looked around:
"Folks, it was me, Xiao Changcheng. I went out to look for food at that time. I am looking for food now. Back!
"This Taoist master is very capable. He can bring out rice. He can make us full of food. Follow me and kneel down and beg the Taoist master for help!"
But his words fell on the ears of these people. This seemed to have turned into an incomprehensible foreign language. A trace of doubt seemed to flash on the faces of these villagers, but it turned into fierce malice.
Xiao Changcheng saw them surrounding him with all kinds of weapons. He had no choice but to look at Zuo Chen for help, and he didn't want to hurt the fellow villagers.
Zuo Chen stared at them for a few breaths before saying:
"The fetal light among the three souls has dissipated. They look like living people, but in fact they have become ghosts."
"Master Dao?" Xiao Changcheng's eyes widened: "They...can't be saved?"
"They can be saved, but they won't be human again after they are saved. Even if they are supported, it will probably take forty or fifty years." It takes time to barely regain human appearance, not to mention..."
Zuo Chen looked at the missing parts of these people: "Most of them are indeed dead, with a large piece of their body missing, and they are completely dependent on one mouthful. Guiqi survived."
Xiao Changcheng closed his eyes.
Two lines of tears flowed down the corners of my eyes.
But he opened his eyes again after a moment.
His eyes seemed to be on fire, but something was different from before.
"Master Tao, please give them a full meal, so that they can go on the road full."
Xiao Changcheng did not wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes, but his voice was no longer confused:
"I have to rush to the west of the city to save my mother, and I don't have time to delay here with them.
"I don't believe that there is not even a single living person left in such a big town in Changshan!"
"Okay." Zuo Chen nodded, then took out a bowl from the bamboo basket and scooped out a bowl. rice.
Shaking his hands to cook the rice, Zuo Chen casually threw it in the direction of Xiao Changcheng, who subconsciously caught the rice bowl.
“Just blow the rice fragrance into their faces.”
“Yes.”
When the surrounding villagers saw a whole bowl of rice appear, they all screamed like bandits after seeing a large ingot of gold, and rushed towards Xiao Changcheng like sneaky shadows.
Xiao Changcheng didn't doubt that he was there, and he straightened up the rice bowl.
Take a deep breath, push up your chest, and then blow forward on the rice bowl. As if God was arrogant, a gust of wind suddenly blew in the air, carrying Xiao Changcheng's long call and blowing it towards the villagers.
The group of evil ghosts who were rushing over to kill suddenly smelled the fragrance of rice coming from in front of them.
For a moment, my mind was in a trance, as if I was seeing wheat all over the ground during the autumn harvest.
A few old and weak people were running, tripping over their left legs and falling to the ground with their right legs. When they looked again, they were no longer breathing.
Those who were young and vigorous and energetic could still push forward, but in the end they leaned dejectedly in the alley, with smiles on their lips and tears in their eyes. , it is also the living soul that has left the body.
For a time, there were many corpses lying beside Xiao Changcheng.
"My home is right in front." Xiao Changcheng didn't seem to want to linger here anymore. He didn't look at the body on the ground and pointed directly in the direction in front of him, intending to move forward.
But he was a little hesitant because the scent of meat he just smelled was right in front of him.
The villagers have become like this, what will they eat?
What else can be eaten as meat in Changshan Town now?
Pulling himself up, Xiao Changcheng stepped forward, with the donkey cart following behind.
The three of them went around several alleys, and some villagers who looked like evil ghosts popped out of them. Xiao Changcheng could name everyone, but they no longer recognized Xiao Changcheng.
He could only hold the rice and blow on them one by one until they fell to the ground and until they closed their eyes.
The only thing that makes Xiao Changcheng happy is that the faces of these lying down villagers are not ferocious and malicious, nor are they not dead-eyed. Most of them have no expression, as if they have slept peacefully, and some of them have expressions on their faces. He smiled with satisfaction, as if he had seen something good.
Talking a few steps further, I felt the smell of meat floating in front of me, but Xiao Changcheng's steps were somewhat slow.
He roughly guessed what was happening in front of him, but he didn't dare to take a step forward.
However, at this moment, Xiao Changcheng suddenly saw a figure running out of the alley next to him.
Xiao Changcheng was shocked. He directly picked up the rice bowl, pointed it at the figure and started blowing it hard.
"Hey! It smells good! Brother Xiao, you went out to find rice!"
A girl's voice came out in front of him, Xiao Changcheng felt his wrist flick, and he almost lost his grip on the rice.
Looking closely, I realized that the people standing in front of me were not the villagers who had lost their souls before, but a girl wearing burlap clothes.
This girl is also hungry and skinny, but her eyes are still clear. Now her eyes are fixed on the rice in Xiao Changcheng's hand, and she can't help but swallow her saliva.
"Yimei! Are you okay!" Xiao Changcheng was overjoyed and looked at Zuo Chen again, with a question in his eyes.
Zuo Chen directly took out a bowl of white porridge from the bamboo basket, with a piece of salted fish on top, and threw it to the girl in front of him.
The girl was a little confused and had no idea where Zuo Chen took out the porridge. But she was so hungry that she couldn't care about these things, so she took it and swallowed it.
I almost choked on the fish, so I picked up the porridge bowl and swallowed a few more times before taking a breath.
“I thought you were like that.”
Xiao Changchang breathed a long sigh of relief, obviously relaxed a lot:
"What is going on in the city? Why have the villagers become like this?"
"It's the city Folks from the East." After the girl ate half of the fish, she carefully hid the remaining half, still smashing it in her mouth, savoring the rice taste, and said:
"Since Brother Xiao and the others left. , everyone has less food, so they tighten their belts every day and rely on sleeping to carry it. Originally, they could carry it for a while, but unexpectedly something strange happened in the east of the city.
" At first, a villager from the east of the city came over and told us that they had prepared an iron pot and started boiling stones. As they cooked, the stone smelled like meat, so they took it and ate it. And named the soup Immortal Soup. ”
At this point, the girl's face showed a look of horror:
"We from the west of the city wanted to take a look, only to find that they were boiling stones.
"They were boiling themselves. meat! ”
(End of this chapter)