Chu Huan was surprised: "If the stone door is not opened, will it all be sealed in this grotto?" ”

Elder Xin Guiyuan's voice said lightly: "At that time, we had spent nine months in the cave, and the rumors outside had not completely subsided, and Feng Hanxiao had sent many people to search for us at that time...... By the time the stone gate was sealed, the grain stored in the cave was only enough for more than three months......! ”

Liuli frowned and said: "You have been sealed here for more than a year, and more than three months of food is not enough." ”

Xin Guiyuan sighed: "Do you know that the real horror of time is not death, but hunger. ”

Chu Huan deeply sympathized with this, people who have not experienced hunger cannot feel the fear brought by hunger, and that fear is even worse than death.

He suddenly understood something at this time, frowned, glanced at the white bones all over the room, and said, "Could it be that the people here are all killing each other because of food?" ”

"The rations for more than 300 people, even if they are reduced to life-sustaining, will only last for five months." Xin Guiyuan's pupils constricted, "At the beginning, most people didn't realize the food crisis, all they thought about at that time was how to open the stone gate, until they spent their energy, and finally knew that the stone gate could not be opened, so everyone began to look for other ways out in the cave." ”

"Since you are the minister of state, you have naturally thought about the food problem a long time ago." Chu Huan stared at Xin Guiyuan's eyes and asked.

Xin Guiyuan had already said: "So from that time on, except for a few people such as the king, I have reduced the rations of other people as much as possible. The king wants to share the weal and woe with everyone, and he asks for a reduction in rations, believing that as long as everyone can survive, they will eventually find an outlet. ”

Liuli sighed: "Since you have been trapped here for an extra year, that is to say, hundreds of people have been looking for an exit, but there has been no result for a year. ”

Chu Huan's heart sank again, if it took more than a year for the soldiers of Xichang to find an exit, then with the strength of himself and Liuli, it was impossible to find an exit in a short time, and the soldiers of Xichang still had some food in store back then, but now they had nothing to eat.

However, he naturally knows that since Xin Guiyuan has been able to live until now, it proves that they have indeed found an exit in the end, and now that they want to leave this grotto, the black-clothed minister in front of him may be the last hope.

The black-clothed country sighed: "The food is getting less and less day by day, and the mood of the soldiers is becoming more and more anxious and demoralized day by day, and only at that time can a person's loyalty be truly tested." ”

Chu Huan said: "The soldiers mutinied. ”

"It's just a bunch of people who are greedy for life and afraid of death." The black-clothed minister said coldly: "The little food left at that time was stored in this stone room, and the soldiers were all eating and lodging outside, and General Yun had always eaten and lodging with the soldiers, and he was also outside at that time. General Yun is worthy of loyalty and courage, he already knew that there was not much food at that time, and he was ready to sacrifice his life, and the more than 200 soldiers were all personal guards under General Yun's command for many years, and they had always obeyed General Yun's orders, so General Yun mistakenly believed that when he was ready to sacrifice his life for righteousness, the soldiers under his command would also be willing to die with him. ”

Chu Huan sighed: "Yun Dingtian wants to kill himself and export grain to the king of Xichang?" He thought that he had this thought, and the soldiers under his command would be like him, after all, he was a generation of brave generals, but he forgot human nature. ”

"So he did one thing wrong." Xin Guiyuan smiled bitterly: "Although the rations were reduced, those soldiers didn't know that the remaining rations could only last for a month at most, but Yun Dingtian told them the truth, and then showed everyone that they were willing to commit suicide, and the remaining food was supplied to the king." ”

Ruri just sighed faintly and didn't speak.

"That's why the mutiny happened." Xin Guiyuan clenched his fists, "At the moment, those soldiers became very excited, Yun Dingtian wanted to restrain everyone, but it was too late, they were already hungry, I heard that the food was about to be cut off, and the last food was in the stone room, under the encouragement of a few people, they abandoned their loyalty, righteousness and shame, and all rushed to the stone room, wanting to snatch the last grain away ......!" ”

When Xin Guiyuan said this, his body trembled slightly, obviously remembering that scene vividly.

Chu Huan seemed to have imagined the situation at that time.

"Yun Dingtian didn't expect that group of beasts to be so unconscionable." Xin Guiyuan's eyes showed a cold look, "There are more than two hundred people, only a dozen people are still loyal and righteous, and Yun Dingtian blocked them from breaking into the stone room together, but that group of people has become mad dogs, Yun Dingtian stopped them, they began to bite Yun Dingtian, although General Yun is brave, but in the face of more than two hundred people, he is outnumbered...... The dozen or so people under his hand were all killed in battle, and he was forced to retreat outside the stone room, we can see at the entrance of the cave, he was alone in the Yongdao and the mad dogs fighting, with countless wounds on his body, a Yongdao, all corpses, one died, two came up, we opened the stone cave, it was the king's order, and we wanted General Yun to come in...... General Yun was entangled by them, shouting for us to seal the entrance of the cave, and in the end we had no choice but to seal the entrance of the cave in order to protect the king......! ”

Chu Huan had already thought of the tragic scene of that year, and his brows were tightly locked.

He couldn't tell who was at fault in that incident, maybe as Xin Guiyuan said, those soldiers lost their loyalty, but in that case, the soldiers were hungry, and in the face of the threat of hunger and death, it was easy to lose their minds, they might not frown when they fought and died on the battlefield, but the fear of being tortured to death by hunger allowed them to do anything.

Liuli listened for a long time, and finally said quietly at this time: "The entrance of the cave is sealed, and the soldiers can't enter, although Yun Dingtian died in battle, I'm afraid that the more than 200 people will not survive." ”

"They deserved to die." Xin Guiyuan said: "A group of traitors are not allowed to live after death. ”

Chu Huan's lips moved, wanting to say something, but after all, he didn't say anything.

Liuli said softly: "Although there are more than two hundred mouths missing at once, there are still dozens of people here, and there is not enough food." ”

"Although there are more than 200 mouths missing, the food can only last for six or seven months at most." Xin Guiyuan said slowly: "At the beginning, there was nothing to do, but after a month, we sent people out of the cave, only to find that those traitors did not all starve to death...... They even had a dozen people left......! ”

Chu Huan and Liuli glanced at each other, both were a little strange, without food, no matter how strong they were, let alone a month, I am afraid that they would starve to death in six or seven days.

It was just an instant that Chu Huan and Liuli's eyes showed horror at the same time, because they thought of a surprising result at the same time.

Xin Guiyuan had already made a strange voice and said, "It seems that you have already thought that they deserve it, and in the end they have become real beast ......!" ”

"If that's the case, they'll live a long time." Chu Huan sighed.

More than two hundred corpses, enough to consume for a long time.

Xin Guiyuan said: "The king knew about this, of course he would not allow such a thing to happen, so one night, we secretly went out of the cave together, touched the place where the traitors were sleeping, killed them all, and then according to the king's orders, gathered all the corpses, and burned all those corpses with a fire." ”

Only then did Chu Huan understand why outside the stone room, there were no dry bones in sight, only Yun Dingtian's dry bones leaning outside, and it turned out that the corpses of other people had been burned to ashes.

He was puzzled in his heart, and couldn't help but ask, "Since they have all been cleaned up, why did Yun Dingtian's corpse stay outside the cave?" ”

"That is the king's command." Xin Guiyuan said: "Yun Dingtian is a first-class loyal minister, and the king decreed that if the king dies one day, he will be buried in the Buddha cave with General Yun...... If we end up trapped here, even if we are found a hundred years later, we must remember that there was such a loyal warrior guarding outside. ”

"King Xichang still didn't get out in the end." Chu Huan said: "The people in this stone room, presumably in the end, also killed each other because of food. ”

"There is always good and evil in human nature, they just think that if one more person dies, there will be one less mouth, and the food will be able to support it for a while longer, and they will be able to live for a while." Xin Guiyuan said in a deep voice: "At that time, most of the people who came here with the king were Wenchen, but in addition to Yun Dingtian, there were still several military generals, who were originally guarding the Shengshang's side, but in the end, it was those military generals who colluded to attack at the same time and wanted to slaughter Wenchen......!" ”

Chu Huan frowned and said, "Of course, Prime Minister Xin is also a Wenchen. ”

"So I was almost immune." Xin Guiyuan sighed: "Tearing like a beast, for food, former colleagues cannibalism, although the ministers are not good at martial arts, but after all, they all have weapons, and there are many people, the generals and generals are fighting each other, the king was already very weak at that time, and the medicine man was conditioning for the king inside, and it was I who shouted to the medicine man to close the stone door of the small stone room...... At the end of the fight, there were corpses everywhere, blood stains, I thought I was dead, and when I woke up, I realized that I almost died, and it was the medicine man who saved my life....... ”

"Then in the end, only you and Yao Weng are left with two courtiers?" Chu Huan frowned and asked.

Xin Guiyuan's eyes showed resentment, and he sneered: "If that's the case, it's okay, but there are still two people who survived...... The real evil was committed by those two traitors. ”

Chu Huan was stunned, he thought that everything was over, but listening to Xin Guiyuan's meaning, there was still a big event behind him, looking at Liuli, seeing Liuli was also puzzled, staring at the black-clothed look.