Chapter 77: Inside and Outside the City
Soon after the three family heads left, Gao Cheng asked Cheng Yifan to be brought out of the back hall.
Cheng Yifan saw that there were only a few people left in the hall, Gao Yunliang and Ye Feifei, so naturally he had to ask.
Gao Yunliang wanted to speak and stopped, looking very impatient. After briefly describing what happened, he told Cheng Yifan: "Be careful. ”
Cheng Yifan has not known Gao Yunliang for a day or two, he understands the reason why Gao Yunliang stayed in the Gao family, there are conditions for him to become stronger, and only by becoming stronger can he better protect others.
For Cheng Yifan, only by leaving the Gao family and leaving Wuyun City can he better hide himself. After all, he has too many secrets and his own skills are too weak. In such a strange enchantment where ability determines everything, the only way to survive is to hide and endure until you become stronger.
Cheng Yifan patted Gao Yunliang's shoulder and smiled to reassure Gao Yunliang. He turned around and picked up the golden blood sword from his seat and handed it to Kuroko.
The sunspot naturally pushes in every possible way and refuses to take it back.
"This is your Gao family's thing, I take it with me, I'm afraid someone will be unhappy." Cheng Yifan glanced at Gao Cheng and Gao He meaningfully. Then, he patted his chest a few times and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I am no longer the Cheng Yifan I used to be." ”
Gao Yunliang walked over, put his arm around Kuroko's shoulder, and said with a meaningful smile: "Take it back, rookie takes off, it's inconvenient to carry this stupid sword, hahaha!" ”
Simple greetings, Gao Cheng and Gao He naturally couldn't see anything, but they were different for Ye Feifei and Heizi. They knew that the shy and unconfident Cheng Yifan before had been completely reborn, and he was no longer a weak person who needed protection.
Since entering the mountain, this seemingly most ordinary, most ordinary, and weakest teenager has faded at an incredible speed, and in just two days, he has completely changed a person.
"If it's not that this boy hides too deeply, it's that he has experienced some unknown adventure!" While Bai Quan and Ren Hong appreciated it, they were also a little envious.
Not long after, the old man in white took Cheng Yifan and Ye Feifei and the four of them quietly left Wuyun City, of course, the major families of Wuyun City still noticed them.
After quietly testing Cheng Yifan, they confirmed: "Cheng Yifan is just an ordinary person who strayed into the enchantment, and like many laborers outside the city, he has little to do with this Wuyun City. ”
When leaving Wuyun City, Cheng Yifan made a general observation. The layout of the buildings here is almost exactly the same as that of Gokumo Castle outside the mountain. In addition to the extra "Sealed Spirit Realm" in the center of the city. This is a five-acre round wall, the wall is more than ten meters high, and it is firmly enclosed in a circle, and there is no door seamless, and you can't see the appearance inside.
At this time, it was already dusk, and many houses in Wuyun City were lit up with oil lamps. Along the way, Cheng Yifan roughly counted about 1,000 households, which was far from his original conjecture. Cheng Yifan wondered in his heart: "After all, it is just a remnant city, the land is disproportionate to the population, how can the food be hidden?" ”
The white-clothed old man seemed to see Cheng Yifan's thoughts, and said with a smile: "All things have spirits, take their essence and raise it." ”
Ordinary people sustain life by absorbing nutrients from food.
Absorbing nutrients through food is actually a way to absorb aura. The aura extracted through food is very rare, and can only be used for normal survival needs. The aura extracted in this way has too many impurities, which is not conducive to lifespan, which is why mortals live no more than a hundred years old.
The natural aura is completely different, it is the life form between heaven and earth that has been exhaled for thousands of years, it is very pure, and a mouthful of aura is equivalent to the nutrients extracted from eating ordinary food for a year. Reiki is different from air, in a space with sufficient aura, everything is new, time is stagnant, and the more dense the aura, the warmer and slower the streamer disappears, which is why people of the same age seem to have a lot of age differences.
The aura inside Wuyun City is dense, and the aura outside Wuyun City is scarce, which leads to the fact that the people in Wuyun City are generally younger than those outside the city, and their lifespan is longer than that outside the city.
"Do you see the field?" As soon as he walked out of the city, the white-clothed old man pointed to a fertile field in the distance and asked.
Cheng Yifan nodded.
"You must be wondering, if this barrier survives on aura, why are there still people cultivating it?"
Everyone nodded suspiciously.
Not all of them in Wuyun City are surnamed Wuyun, there were 3,000 soldiers and generals who followed Yuan Chengzhi back then, plus the He family in the deep mountains, in fact, there are nearly 6,000 people living in this Wuyun City. It's just that after the night of turmoil~ chaos, only about half of it remained. These people have multiplied in this barrier for several more generations, and now there are about 10,000 people.
As the population increases and the aura decreases, the fighting here becomes more and more intense. The five great families have a deep foundation, and each has a unique knowledge, so they naturally occupy Wuyun City, which has sufficient aura. Those who were less capable were driven out of the city.
Speaking of this, the old man in white sighed sadly and said: "This is a cruel and sinful world, there is no family affection, no humanity, this kind of place really shouldn't exist." ”
Although it is outside the city, there is also a lot of spiritual power. Where there are people, there is fighting, fighting for spiritual power, bloody fighting; In order to survive, the six relatives did not recognize. At that time, the outside of Wuyun City, which had no order, was even more chaotic than the inside of Wuyun City, and it was completely a hell for one person. It was at that time that I couldn't bear to watch these thousands of creatures tear up to death, so I moved outside the city to preside over the overall situation.
Fortunately, under my coercion, these people were able to settle down. But even so, tear-and-kill battles still happen from time to time. It wasn't until 25 years ago that several young people surnamed Ye entered this enchantment and adopted a governance method called the military road management system, which stabilized the more than 6,000 residents outside Wuyun City.
"Outside Wuyun City, under their management, it can be considered stable." The old man in white touched his beard and praised with satisfaction.
"Military road management system, young man surnamed Ye!" At this time, Ye Feifei was excited. "It's him, it must be him!" She was even more sure.
"What is the military road management system?" Cheng Yifan asked curiously.
"Is that a merit-based approach to military management?" Ye Feifei suddenly interjected and replied to Cheng Yifan.
"How can I assign a child?" Cheng Yifan asked.
"Allocation according to ability means to divide the ranks according to the contribution and ability, and then distribute the work and remuneration according to the ranks."
"What does this have to do with farming." Bai Quan also asked curiously.
"First, the aura outside the city is insufficient, and food is needed to replenish it. Second, the children of the families who are not short of aura in the city also like the worldly taste of grains and grains, and often exchange them for aura. The old man in white replied.
"In that case, the outside of the city is not necessarily much better than the inside!" After listening to the narration, Cheng Yifan sighed inadvertently.
The white-clothed old man glanced at Cheng Yifan, smiled lightly, and said: "Cheng Gongzi, you are a family with a good heart, and you come from the civilized world, so naturally you can't accept this kind of rule. This person is in a desperate situation, in order to survive, he often can't care about these etiquette and shame. Now, although there is still competition outside Wuyun City, there is no killing, and the family affection is still there, which is already good. At least not as bloody as in Wuyun City! ”
"Haha, when people first come here, they will naturally not be able to accept it for a while, and you will get used to it after a long time." The old man in white, with a wave of his sleeves, walked out of the city with a smile.
Cheng Yifan thought about it carefully, but he could also understand it. In such a closed world, with poor resources, how can it be judged by the concept of a civilized world? It is important to know that the frontier of human civilization is also a slave society. It is not easy to do what this world is now.
"My heart is still too immature!" Cheng Yifan couldn't help but feel in his heart.
The outside of the city is very wide, with fertile fields, green grass, rivers, hills, forests, everything, and the whole scenery is more than a hundred times better than that in Wuyun City. The breeze caresses and makes people feel free.
"I really don't understand, why do you have to squeeze into the city with such a beautiful scenery outside the city? Maybe it's because I'm a mortal man who doesn't understand the importance of Reiki. Cheng Yifan explained for himself in his heart. But he really liked the environment outside the mountain, and he felt that it was like a place for human habitation.
In fact, this aura is like money and power in the civilized world. Cities in the civilized world have developed economies, abundant material resources, and convenient life; The countryside is poor and closed, living in poverty, but primitive and free. Although people like life in the countryside, they have to leave their hometowns and gather in the cities for money and power.
However, it is also strange to say, I have spent most of the day in Wuyun City before, and I have not eaten any food except for drinking tea, but I have not felt hungry. But as soon as he came out of Wuyun City, his stomach grunted a few times.
"Tonight, you will go to Yefu to rest for one night, and then arrange your place tomorrow." The old man in white in front turned around and arranged.
"There are also rules outside the city, no one can eat white food, just tomorrow to catch the market, then you go to the competition, see if you can find a better errand." Not allowing everyone to ask questions, the old man in white turned his head and walked forward again, leaving the stunned Chengyi mortal pedestrian.