Chapter 9: The Ghost Cave
With a bang, Wen Tong bumped into Tian Ziyun and collapsed to the ground.
"Childe!"
Wen Tong looked up and found that it was Tian Ziyun, so he calmed down a little, he stretched out his hand and pointed behind him, and said tremblingly: "Childe, this is ...... Ghost...... Haunted Cave! ”
"Ghost caves?"
"Childe, let's go quickly, if we don't leave, it'll be too late!" Wen Tong picked up the sword on the ground, held it in his arms, and got up.
"It turns out that there really is a ghost cave." Tian Ziyun was surprised in his heart, and cautiously walked to the entrance of the alley, pressing his right hand on the hilt of the sword, and fine sweat was oozing out of his palm.
This feeling has nothing to do with life and death, but only a deep sense of resistance and disgust for these two words in my memory.
This feeling of disgust was so strong in "Tian Ziyun's" body that Ye Shaoyun had a physiological reaction at this time.
The so-called ghost cave, also known as the "ghost cave".
There are no ghosts in the ghost cave, but it is just another name given by the people of Jimo to a "special area" in the city.
This area is located in the northwest corner of Jimo City, where the city's sewage collects, garbage is dumped, and even corpses that are too late to be buried will be thrown here to decompose.
This is a place that is a hundred times worse than the lowliest slave district in the city.
The appearance of the ghost cave began five years ago, that is, when Jimo City was besieged by Le Yi.
At first, the people who lived in the ghost cave were mostly some old, weak, sick and dying people, who had no relatives and no hope of survival, so they chose to wait for death in the ghost cave.
However, since the siege of Jimo City, after several wars, more and more soldiers and people have been killed and wounded in the city. At first, the government could still pay for the pension, but with the sharp increase in the number of casualties, the city was short of money and food, and there was no longer enough money to support these redundant "wasters". Those soldiers who were mutilated on the battlefield would be secretly thrown into the ghost cave by the defenders if there was no one to take care of them at home, leaving them to fend for themselves.
Later, the war intensified, and some people fled into ghost caves in order to avoid the government's labor and military service, even if they could not receive the rations distributed by the government, and even did not hesitate to eat human flesh for a living.
Over time, the ghost cave has become a land of three religions and nine streams, and all kinds of people live a life here in peace.
Crime, death, ***, ***, violence, and disease are all pervasive in every corner of the ghost cave, turning this place into a place where there are no people and no ghosts.
"Childe......" Wen Tong saw Tian Ziyun striding forward, and he had already panicked, but he couldn't abandon Childe to escape alone, so he had to follow behind and persuade softly: "Childe, the people here are all cannibals, let's leave quickly!" ”
"Can you really eat people?" Tian Ziyun's face was moved.
He had also heard rumors of cannibalism in the Ghost Man Cave, but for Ye Shaoyun from another world, this kind of thing was simply incredible, even if he was standing at the entrance of the Ghost Man Cave now, he couldn't convince himself to accept such a fact.
"I haven't seen them eat either...... Wrong! Wen Tong paused, something suddenly came to mind in his mind, his face was horrified, he pointed to a dilapidated wooden house ten steps away, and exclaimed: "Childe, they really eat people!" I saw with my own eyes a one-eyed butcher who dragged a human leg into it from there! ”
"That female thief, it won't be, it won't be ...... by him" Wen Tong covered his mouth in shock, his eyes widened, and he looked at Tian Ziyun.
At this moment, the sound of clattering bones in the alley also stopped abruptly, leaving only the sound of boiling water, as if the smell of blood in the air was also boiling.
The ghost cave was quiet for a moment, and suddenly there was a loud bang, like a machete smashing on the pier, followed by an angry roar: "Which blind man said I was a butcher?!" ”
The roar was thick and loud, and even Tian Ziyun was shocked, and almost drew his sword.
There was a sound of footsteps, and a huge human head suddenly poked out of the wooden house, and the dim light shone on his head, shining a shadow under his eyebrows, but it was a one-eyed one.
Then, the human head brought out a fat body from the house, the upper body was naked, and only a leather suspender apron hung from the chest, like a "blood-blocking clothing" for killing pigs.
But because the man's body was too fat, the suspender on his chest was propped open, revealing a thick black chest hair, and dots of blood splattered on it, dripping down the chest hair.
After this person appeared, he stopped in the middle of the aisle, and most of the way was blocked.
"Who didn't talk long?" The fat butcher pointed at Tian Ziyun and Wen Tong and asked.
Wen Tong was swept away by this person's eyes, shivered, and shrank behind Tian Ziyun, not daring to reply, let alone looking directly into the eyes of the fat butcher.
"Hey, hey." The fat butcher's eyes shifted from Tian Ziyun to Wen Tong, and he laughed and said, "Dare to say it, whether your courage is big or small, do you want your grandfather to cut it out for you?" ”
"Don't worry, Grandpa Xu's knife skills are the best in the world, and you won't cry out in pain if you keep it." The fat butcher shook the sharp knife in his hand and smirked.
Tian Ziyun glanced at the knife in the fat butcher's hand, and his eyes lit up.
Although this butcher looks obscene and is covered in blood, the two sharp knives in his hands are extraordinary, and they are not stained with blood, and there is a faint cold light.
This kind of cold light is not formed by ordinary copper and iron metals, and only metals with a certain degree of density and hardness can refract this metallic luster.
What Tian Ziyun has seen, only military knives made of titanium alloy and tungsten steel can emit similar knife light, and ordinary stainless steel knives can't do it at all.
However, metals such as titanium alloy and tungsten steel could not be refined during the Warring States period. What kind of material the sharp knife in the fat butcher's hand was, he couldn't guess.
However, what surprised Tian Ziyun was that the shape of the two sharp knives in the hands of the fat butcher was clearly a typical "wide blade, thick back and pointed head" cattle slaughtering knife!
"It's really a cattle slaughtering knife......" Tian Ziyun couldn't help but glance at it again.
"Hmph, there's finally one with long eyes!" The fat butcher noticed Tian Ziyun's eyes, knowing that the other party saw the extraordinaryness of his beloved treasure knife, and his tone softened a little, "You outsiders, what are you doing in the ghost cave?" ”
"Hey, that female thief just now, was she ...... by you?"
Wen Tong plucked up the courage to ask a question, but was stopped by Tian Ziyun raising his hand, and the latter said: "Your two knives are made of extraordinary materials, good horses with good saddles, good knives with masters, I don't know what to call them?" ”
Although there was no saddle during the Warring States Period, the fat butcher also heard these words praising him, and his heart was overjoyed.
He especially likes others to praise his knife, and his hostility towards Tian Ziyun has also disappeared a little, and he immediately patted a lump of black chest hair on his chest, and said loudly: "I am Kushan, and I don't have other skills, but these two ancestral treasure knives in my hands, hehe, cut the flesh and remove the bones, absolutely let you not see half a drop of blood!" ”
"What ancestral sword? Aren't they just two cattle slaughtering knives? Wen Tong muttered in the back, but fortunately Kushan didn't hear it.