Although most of the mountains in the Yunxu Mountains are gentle and there are no dangerous peaks, they can't stand the dense forests of the mountains, and the road is not easy to walk.

It took ten days, Zhang Yan and his party crossed sixteen mountains in the dark, and finally groped their way to find a small town.

In order to avoid getting lost, Yan Zhuo asked Chubby to light lamps with his abilities along the way to make a marker.

Zhang Yan flew in mid-air, looking back, a light strip was laid down on the road they had walked, and the trajectory of the light strip was not straight, but zigzag, like a river.

It's a testament to how difficult the road is when they come, and even if the path is even a little crooked, they will miss the town in front of them.

Without light, the trouble is really big.

Of course, the most troublesome thing is not getting lost and the ambush of the enemy.

It's just that it's just too cold.

There is no sunlight in this Yunxu Mountain Range for eleven days, and the temperature will drop by several degrees every day, and by now, it is already a low temperature of minus 15 degrees.

Zhang Yan has already taken out the down jacket stored in her space ring and distributed it to her teammates, if the weather continues to be cold...... When it was minus forty or fifty degrees, the down jacket couldn't bear it, and she didn't know what else to take out to keep out the cold.

She now regrets letting Zheng Yi out of the team, that guy has no long things, and she doesn't know if she is miserable these days.

Anyway, there is no information about his death in the sky these days, at least he is still alive, and it would be good to be alive.

Maybe it's because of this disaster that people are at a loss, along the way, although Zhang Yan and they met several reincarnation teams, they didn't have any intention of fighting, they met each other, and then warned each other and bypassed each other.

Now, finding a city and finding a way to fight the cold and darkness is the most important thing.

Along the way, Zhang Yan and the others encountered several demon teams.

But those demon teams were too powerful, each team had at least twenty demons, and Zhang Yan couldn't defeat them at all.

Fortunately, Yan Zhuo has a spiritual power barrier, which can achieve the effect of stealth, and they have encountered demons several times, and they have relied on Yan Zhuo's ability to dodge.

Zhang Yan and the others rested outside the town for a while, while Yan Zhuo used his mental power to probe the situation in the town.

Ten minutes later, Yan Zhuo told everyone the results of his investigation:

"There weren't many people in the town, and ninety percent of the townspeople were concentrated in a building on the north side of the town, so far away that I couldn't 'see' what they were doing, and I needed to get closer to sense it. I'll see for myself, and you'll be waiting here. ”

As soon as Xiaopang saw that Yan Zhuo was going to take an adventure alone, he immediately jumped out:

"Captain! I'm going to explore the road with you! ”

Because Yan Zhuo is the captain, his performance along the way is too strong, Xiaopang has completely become his loyal dog, and the "captain" is long and the "captain" is short around Yan Zhuo every day, and the horse is the first to look forward.

Yan Zhuo let out a "hmm", lukewarm.

Although Yan Zhuo's attitude was not enthusiastic, Xiaopang was still very happy.

Yan Zhuo was a little annoyed with him.

After getting along for a few days, Yan Zhuo found that this little chubby was a little ...... Stockholm syndrome.

Chubby used to belong to the kind of relatively low status in his own team, and was always disliked, scolded, belittled, and insulted by the former captain...... After getting used to that way of getting along, Chubby couldn't accept the same status of getting along.

Xiaopang almost didn't communicate with other teammates, he could only see Yan Zhuo in his eyes, and completely regarded Yan Zhuo as his "master", using honorific titles when he opened his mouth, with a humble posture, Yan Zhuo was terrified as soon as he called him by his name, and he had to force Yan Zhuo to call him "Little Fatty".

Yan Zhuo glanced at him and sighed.

He had already made a plan, and when he found the city and landed on his feet, he would kick Chubby out of the team.

Although people like Xiaopang are easy to use, this attitude that is more flattering than a blade makes Yan Zhuo dislike it very much.

Yan Zhuo cautiously approached the building where most of the townspeople gathered, skillfully exploring the memories of the townspeople.

After collecting information for a while, Yan Zhuo asked Xiaopang to wait outside the door, while he entered the building alone.

A few minutes later, Yan Zhuo walked out, took Xiaopang and retreated to Zhang Yan and the others on the corner of the street, and roughly explained the situation in the town-

This town is close to Huajiu City, the second largest city in the Yunxu Mountains, and it was prosperous in the past, but due to a factory pollution problem, many people in the town have fallen seriously ill, and most of them have fled from this town, leaving only some middle-aged and elderly people who miss the old ones and refuse to leave.

For example, it was dark today, and the road in the town was destroyed by a few demons, and they couldn't climb the heavy mountain, and they couldn't get to the nearby city of Hanaku, so they could only wait for death.

There were only more than 500 people in the town, most of them were sick, and they all gathered in a small five-storey building, which was built many years ago by a northern businessman who came here to invest, and the northern businessman was used to heating, so he installed a set of heating in this building by the way.

The town is like spring all year round, the winter is warm and short, a small stove is enough to cope with the winter, the heating of this building seems to be redundant, the merchant lived basically did not burn a few times, this incident was once regarded as a joke, from time to time to take out the ridicule, now, this heating building has become a lifeline for the townspeople.

However, after 11 days, the townspeople finally had no fuel to heat their homes and nothing to eat.

At this time, the townspeople were busy near the building, and they were making their last gamble.

A group of middle-aged and elderly people who are not in good health, many of them are seriously ill, and they will starve to death and freeze to death if they continue like this, and they can't manage so much, and they want to seize all the illusory hopes.

Led by a few cultists, all the townsfolk began to don their black robes and perform rituals with their only psychic stone.

Slaughtering precious livestock, cooking rice with the last bowl of rice, carving flowers out of turnips and potatoes...... These were a bit shabby, but they were the best things they could come up with right now.

Anyway, even if they don't sacrifice, they will die of illness and freeze to death after a few days when the last bit of food is eaten, and it may be ridiculous to pin their hopes on the "gods", but they have no other way.

Speaking of this, the smile on Yan Zhuo's face cooled down a little:

"And human sacrifices. It was a paralyzed old man, he felt that it was not interesting for him to live, and offered to sacrifice himself, and now those people were helping him to bathe, after all, the sacrifice had to be clean. ”

After mixing in the last days for so long, I have seen more things, and I have gradually become numb.

Zhang Yan and the others didn't react much, they just frowned and sighed.

Although the plight of these old people is embarrassing, the more than 500 old, weak, sick and disabled people are superfluous and should be eliminated in this apocalyptic world.

After being silent for a while, Zhang Yan proposed:

"Ask someone for directions, we'll fix the road and go to that Hanaku City. Let this group of people follow the lamp we left behind, and as for whether they can get there, it's up to them. ”

It is better to do a little thing and maybe save a few lives than to do nothing.

Even if they did this small favor, the townsfolk might not be able to escape being eliminated, at least allowing them to live a few more days or die with more dignity.

Yan Zhuo smiled:

"Don't worry, I've done what you said, let's go, go repair the road."

After speaking, Yan Zhuo passed on a memory of the highway to everyone, this is the only way out of this town surrounded by mountains on three sides, and now there is a 300-meter section of the road that has been seriously damaged.

With the strength of the old, weak, sick and disabled people in the town, it is true that there is no way to repair this road, but it is not difficult for Zhang Yan and them.

Yan Zhuo had long known that Zhang Yan couldn't help but want to help after hearing this, so he had already left ...... "oracle" in the mind of an old man just one step in advance.

……

In the small building, because of the lack of fuel, the heating is relatively weak, and the breath exhaled from people's mouths is white mist.

In the hall, the altar has been set up.

Various offerings were offered to the table, including the paralyzed old man.

The old man was lying on a blue tie-dyed cloth, wearing only a thin white coat, and his lips were blue from the cold.

He was now in a daze, his head was dizzy, like a hangover, his consciousness was confused, he wanted to get up, but he couldn't open his eyes.

When they heard several old voices praying to God in tongues, begging for peace, the word "living sacrifice" in their mouths made the old man suddenly sober up and open his eyes.

The word "living sacrifice" was like a boot password, and in an instant, the old man remembered a lot of things, and Huo Di sat up!

An old man who was kneeling at the offering table and praying to God was startled, and the old man looked at the living sacrifice in disbelief:

"Old, old Liu?! What's going on? You ......"

Lao Liu, a high paraplegic, actually sat up by himself!

How is this possible?!

Lao Liu didn't pay attention to anyone, but looked at his hands in a daze and touched the flesh on his thighs.

The muscles that had been atrophied were actually full, and he felt full of strength.

Lao Liu held on to the offering table on the side and stood up slowly.

What is it to sit up?!

He actually stood up!

Seeing that the paralyzed Lao Liu stood up and was able to walk on his own, several cultists who prayed bowed their heads one after another, chanting in dialect "The Holy Spirit apparilates."

After accepting the bow for a long time, Lao Liu came back to his senses and waved his hand impatiently:

"Which apparition?! How can there be a Holy Spirit! It's a 'superman' who saves me! ”

Around dark, they had also seen a few Psychic beings, all of whom they called "Superman" because they didn't know what to call them.

After speaking, Lao Liu pointed out the window.

In the dark mountains, the light strip that Yan Zhuo and the others left behind flickered brightly and flickered, it was a road sign, pointing to the last bit of hope for survival.

God didn't come to save them.

However, they may be able to save themselves.

……