Chapter 19: The Plague Jungle
In the silent forest, a group of people walked cautiously.
"I didn't expect to be here."
A slave tied to a rope with Qi Wang has the will to live and die, they are slaves, but they still have some understanding of some things in the outside world, such as the death jungle outside the border of Shell City.
Plague jungle, not that there is a plague in this jungle, but a very long time ago, this place had a rare outbreak of a great plague, people and animals dyed when they were infected, the scale was large, appalling, and finally until there was no living thing within a thousand miles, there was nothing to pass on, this plague stopped, since then, this area has become a no-man's land, time has passed, the vicissitudes of life, the desolate place has regained its vitality, thousands of miles of blue mountains, but due to the reason that no one has set foot all year round, there are all strange things in the jungle, A few centuries ago, a group of adventurers came here, intending to explore this place, twenty-three experienced adventurers, in the end nineteen died, two went crazy, and the remaining two came out and kept silent about what they met inside, and directly withdrew from the adventure world, disappeared, and then continued to enter this jungle, all of them have disappeared or died, I don't know when, it began to be rumored that there is a monster in the inner perimeter of this forest, and any living creature that dares to step into her realm will be her meal.
What really made the plague jungle famous was the Yin Ze incident seven years ago, the explorer of the famous continent once came here, this young handsome guy with extraordinary strength stayed alone in the plague jungle for a whole month, and finally came out alive, but he was extremely embarrassed, and then he issued a general message in the adventure world, warning adventurers from all over the world to approach this place, as for what he encountered, Yi Ze refused to say anything.
I heard that he had broken into the forbidden land of the Ancient Land of Frost, escaped from the hands of the mysterious ice descendant of the uncrowned emperor, and also confronted the king of pirates in the harbor on the other side, and did not fall behind, in order to find the treasure, he also entered and exited the immortal fortress three times under Shi Wenyin's eyes, and Shi Wenyin, who was in a big rage, even sent five hundred bloody elites to encircle and suppress, but it still ended in failure.
Such an explorer who treats adventure as food and drink, and has no danger in his eyes, would be afraid of such a small jungle, which can be imagined to be terrifying.
Since then, it has been a forbidden place for the living.
Qi Wang has lived in the village for a long time, he has never seen the world, and of course he doesn't know the horror of this place, but the relics on his chest make him tense all the time, and he doesn't dare to be careless.
After Yu Huai entered the jungle, he often stopped, stroked the surrounding grass and trees, and several guards flickered their eyes, but the old dog in front of them didn't speak or move, so they turned a blind eye and didn't see it.
Yu Huai's expression was complicated.
For many years, he hadn't set foot in this kind of real big forest, and he still had the blood of the tribe's children in his bones, their home was in the jungle, and they were the most brave and powerful forest warriors.
Looking at the plague jungle in front of him, Yu Huai remembered the magnificent barrier and remembered the past.
In a trance, Yu Huai's shoulder was patted.
Yu Huai came back to his senses in an instant, looked back at the young man, and said calmly: "What's wrong." ”
The young man handed Yu Huai two steamed buns, and then snorted forward, the walking crowd had stopped, and a circle of houses surrounded by a ring could already be seen in front of him, all of which were ordinary wooden houses, a total of three circles, the guards were distributing food with a cold face, one per person, no one dared to make trouble, the one in Qi Wang's hand was what the guards asked him to bring to Qi Wang, obviously these guards were also a little angry with this man, and they didn't dare to face him head-on.
Yu Huai took the two steamed buns and nodded slightly in thanks.
Qi Wang didn't leave, but sat down next to Yu Huai, biting the steamed bun in his hand, and asked, "I heard them say, this is called the Plague Jungle, and many people will die in us, right?" ”
Yu Huai snorted.
Qi Wang turned his head to look at Yu Huai, looked at it for a while, and suddenly said, "You don't want to die, right?" ”
The corners of Yu Huai's mouth twitched, and he said, "Of the nine hundred people here, which one wants to die?" You're asking a stupid question. ”
Qi Wang shook his head and said in a deep voice: "I don't know why, I always feel that you actually want to die, but you just hold on to keep yourself alive." ”
Yu Huai was stunned.
Not to mention this rudder, even the eight rudders of the Qi clan know that there is a person in their prison who desperately wants to live, and his obsession with living has reached the point of madness, and this is the first time in twenty-six years that he said that he actually wants to die in his heart.
Yu Huai's eyes were dark, Qi Wang seemed to be unaware, chewing the steamed buns and continuing: "A lot of people have died in the past two days, the one called the old dog is really ruthless, these guards have never regarded slaves as human beings, as soon as I close my eyes in the past two days, the pictures of the tragic deaths of slaves will pop up in my mind,"
Qi Wang sighed and said, "Although I know that it is none of your business to those people's deaths, I always feel a little uncomfortable. ”
Qi Wang looked directly at Yu Huai and asked, "Can you tell me one thing, can you beat the old dog?" ”
Yu Huai was silent.
Qi Wang waited for a while, knowing that he couldn't wait for an answer, he got up and left with interest, Yu Huai's right hand fingers touched the back of his left hand again and again, unconsciously back and forth, and every time a little dirt was discharged from the pores and wiped to the ground.
After a while, Yu Huai picked up a handful of grass from his feet, wiped his palms, and then leaned against the trunk behind him, tilting his head and saying nothing.
In front of his eyes, the original scene appeared again, and the man's bitter pleading seemed to still echo in his ears.
"Resist?"
Yu Huai seemed to smile again, but it was extremely bitter.
Under the leadership of the patriarch of the Niutou clan, the one hundred and three tribes of the magnificent barrier launched a war of resistance that lasted for a month and a half, but in the end, in exchange for corpses all over the field, all the tribes of the magnificent barrier were removed, and the remaining clansmen did not survive, and they all became slaves.
After so many years of experience, Yu Huai has long been numb.
Yu Huai took out the pocket watch on his chest, opened the pocket watch, and looked at the yellowed photo stupidly, after a while, his expression gradually changed, the palm holding the pocket watch became tighter and tighter, and his expression became more and more gloomy.
Yes, twenty-six years ago, he survived, but no one knows, this is not a fluke, but someone did it deliberately, who can survive after being pierced through the chest and ignored? When he was dying, the food that the old slave got should be so precious now, where did an old slave come from?
How could the woman sitting in the slave merchant's arms be unreasonably raising the bar, she did it deliberately, and the slave merchant knew that he did it on purpose.
Yu Huai came back to his senses suddenly, the pocket watch in his hand had cracked, he slowly put away the pocket watch, and his emotions calmed down.
Not enough, not enough, a little worse.
Yu Huai looked at the dense forest around him, full of dangers, but he had not yet shown his fangs.
If it comes, it will be safe.
He has survived twenty-six years, will he still be planted in such a forest?