36. Survive
At dawn, before dawn and the crescent moon was still hanging high in the air, the victims had all woken up.
It's not dawn yet, but time is ticking.
Although it is a barren mountain, it is not far from the next town.
It was a large town, heavily guarded and walled, and it had been heard that it had not suffered from famine, and the sooner you went there, the better your chances of survival!
To do this, they have to leave early, and the sooner they arrive, the better.
Surprisingly, however, when all the victims left their original resting places, they were left with something unexpected.
'Corpse'.
There are old people, there are children, there are adults, there are women, there are beautiful people, there are ugly ones.
At dawn. The victims had all left the place, leaving only two rickety old men, a man and a woman, looking at the sea of corpses in front of them, gloomy and sad.
The victims walked from dawn to dawn, from dawn to sunrise, and from sunrise to noon...... Afternoon......
Finally, at sunset, the victims finally made their way to the heavily fortified town.
The victims who saw the town were as excited as Qin Shi Huang, who had died frequently, when he went to Gensokyo and saw the two Penglai people, but no matter how excited they were, the victims did not rush into the town in one breath because they could survive.
Instead, they obediently lined up in a long line, waiting for the soldiers at the city gate to check it.
…… After all, their flesh and blood can't fight the knives in the hands of the soldiers.
"Don't ...... Master Jun, don't......"
Under the city gate, a man who was a little sturdy, but had no flesh, was holding the small wooden box in his arms and kept begging for mercy.
From that physique, it is not difficult to see that before the drought broke out, this person's family was still rich, and the elders should be fatter, but it was only when the drought came that he became without three or two flesh.
In front of him, a young man in military armor also reached out and grabbed the small wooden box in his arms, and from time to time stretched out his other hand and beat the man.
It's a robbery!
As a soldier, he doesn't do personnel......
But no one around stepped forward to stop it, as if he was used to it.
"You're my uncle!"
On the other side, a soldier reached out and grabbed a young girl and sent it to his arms.
Then he wrapped up the girl and turned to the rest of the city guards beside him.
"I'll take her back first, you guys look at it."
"Good!"
"Awesome!"
"The Spring Festival is worth a thousand gold!"
"Don't be abrupt, beauty!"
“……”
The rest of the garrison kept coaxing.
Again, no one came up to say a word of justice.
Even......
Even, the victims who had already entered the city showed a look of envy for the girl who had been taken away.
Maybe...... You really should be envious...... After all, at least I can live.
Maybe later there will be starvation, and later there will be suffering...... Hawkers,After all, it was taken back.。
But at least, it's alive, isn't it?
After entering the city, many of the victims of the disaster, carrying their children and their families, took action one after another, found hay sticks on the ground and stuck them in the children's heads.
But...... Not all.
The victims, who had only one child, did not stick hay sticks in their children's heads.
Victims with two or more children, as well as multiple children such as a boy and a girl, put hay sticks on the heads of their youngest or girls.
And the young man, who had talked to the old man for a word or two before, also stuck a grass branch in his daughter's head.
This is...... Selling children...... Sold a woman......
But it is not difficult to see why the young man's expression suddenly darkened in the conversation with the old man yesterday...... Selling women to make a living, can the spirit be good?!
After the farce that looks absurd to modern people and helpless to ancient people.
Some of the victims bought themselves and found a way to survive, while others set out to flee again at dawn the next day.
What exactly awaits them? They don't know, they just want to live.
"You seemed to be like them back then, didn't you?"
Above the altitude of 900 meters, Bi Liwang said to Wei Zhongxian, who was pinched in mid-air by himself.
"Now I won't let others fly in the sky, so I can only pinch you like this."
"Niangniang, the slave didn't complain about the fact that the slave and maid pinched the slave in the air. Just, do you know? ”
"This kind of scene is the prosperous era."
"Let's go, let's get busy. By the way, you have ordered Qin Liangyu to go to Beijing, right? ”
Bi Liwang in mid-air began to fly towards the capital with Wei Zhongxian.
"Yes, mother."
"That's good."
……
Last night, although Wei Zhongxian was stunned by Bi Liwang's book "The Heart Decision", Wei Zhongxian has also followed Bi Liwang for so long and has seen a lot of things that challenge common sense.
After only fifteen minutes of fainting, Wei Zhongxian woke up.
After waking up, Bi Liwang first asked Wei Zhongxian if there were any Europeans who had set foot on the land of the Ming Dynasty.
However, Wei Zhongxian's answer was like a myth.
According to legend, three years before the imminent death of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was often attacked by coastal pirates.
In one of the attacks, a strange thing happened in Guangdong Province.
It is said that there are pirates who have landed and attacked Guangdong, but the pirates have just landed in the sea, but a huge ship is driving from a distance and keeps firing at the pirates who are landing.
Afterwards, in order to thank all the people on the ship for their contributions to the Ming frontier, the admiral of the naval division who was guarding Guangdong warmly invited the captain of the ship to come to the door as a guest.
The ship docked in Guangdong for five days before slowly leaving Guangdong.
According to records at the time, the captain of that ship was an empty golden lion in human form! It's a youkai!
At that time, many Guangdong residents were scared to cry by him.
Other than that, there are no more records of blonde Westerners in the Ming Dynasty.
As for what Bi Liwang said about John Tang, Wei Zhongxian also said that he had never heard of this person.
This...... Isn't that mythical enough?
It is said that it is a golden lion, but Bi Liwang dares to be sure.
In this world, except for the two of them, there are no more than half monsters! It can't be the last batch of saboteurs who came to do the mission!
The golden lion must be European!
The reason is also very simple, because although the ships of the Europeans at that time were not so good, at least they could reach the Ming Dynasty along the coast.
And the last batch of saboteurs who came to do the task arrived in this world at the point in time, not in the Wanli period, not the Hongwu period!