As soon as he stepped into the Demon Suppression Forest, it was dark in front of his eyes, and the light was already extremely dim, and the dense trees were covered by a dense tree, and no light could penetrate at all.

Rong Sheng was familiar with the way, took the torch from a big tree and lit it: "Walk for half an hour, there is a tunnel in front." ”

Jin Li: "Authentic? ”

"The road where the beasts gathered, and it is the only way to pass through the trading market, when there was no tunneling before, people who went out to exchange things often went halfway to the loss, and then everyone summed up, simply each gathering place contract to dig people to dig a common tunnel." Rong Sheng explained: "The main reason is that each family goes out to exchange food and daily necessities, at most three or four people, and the rest of the people have to stay, mine, find spiritual grass, hunt, and have insufficient manpower. ”

Jinli asked, "Why don't you integrate all the people together?" ”

"Nope." Rong Sheng shook his head: "The conditions do not allow, there is not enough to safely accommodate so many people, we can only disperse the group, our gathering place is already large." ”

Jin Li: "How many scattered gathering places are there in the Demon Suppression Forest?" ”

Rongsheng: "33." ”

Jinli: "What about the total number of people, has anyone counted them?" ”

"There are no detailed statistics, about 10,000." Rong Sheng said with a sad expression: "The first batch of people who were deported here was the largest, but most of the first batch of people who came in were gone, they couldn't adapt to the life inside, and they didn't know how to live, there were many people who committed suicide, and there were many people who died in the harsh environment, almost one in ten." ”

Jinli was silent.

Rong Sheng paused for a moment, and then said: "I arrived in the Demon Suppression Forest five years ago, and I am lucky, when I came, my predecessors had already slowly figured out how to survive. ”

Jin Li diverted the topic: "Since you have built the tunnel, why don't you just repair it all the way?" ”

In fact, she knows the answer, but she doesn't want to talk about such sad things, the Si people have passed away, and she can't even catch up with the memorial service, so what's the use of saying a few words of comfort and compassion.

Rongsheng: "There is no need to waste manpower, and the periphery is not dangerous. ”

As he spoke, Jin Li saw a strange-looking big-headed snake crawling down from a tree, with a slender body, a very large head, and a bulb-like eye on the big head, and green eyes staring at the group like an owl.

Rong Sheng glanced at the big-headed snake, and said with the same expression: "This thing looks ugly, vegetarian, not fierce at all, and does not attack people." ”

Jinli is ready to move.

Black gas brews.

Rong Sheng said again: "The things that that thing eats are all to replenish the brain, the body is slender, there are not a few taels of meat, and the meat is very woody." ”

Jinli turned off the flame.

The black qi returned to the dantian.

Particularly realistic.

Rong Sheng was amused by her, and Miss Feng seemed to be very hungry: "There is a kind of four-legged chicken in the Demon Suppression Forest, which specializes in picking up spiritual grass to eat, and it will fly to the dangerous cliff to peck at some spiritual grass that we can't collect to eat." That thing is a big supplement, the taste is delicious and the meat is tender, it is not easy to catch, it will fly up the tree, run fast, flash an eye and disappear, easy to catch, generally caught we are reluctant to eat, the nobles in Hanbian City are the most fond of four-legged chicken, help cultivation taste and wonderful, a four-legged chicken can be exchanged for ten bags of food, who is willing to eat, at most on the big solar term to beat the tooth sacrifice, enjoy one or two. ”

Jinli's first thought was to slap the table and choke his wrists, how could he cheapen others if he grew up eating spiritual grass.

Second thought: "Do you know the habitat of four-legged chickens and where do they usually build their nests?" ”

Guiyuan Zhenren poked his head out of the fur, stared at Jinli with glowing eyes, swallowed his saliva, and said in his heart, I am still smart.

Rong Sheng didn't react yet, and said, "I don't know, it's gone in the blink of an eye." ”

Jin clasped his palms together and said, "Looking for a nest, one end and one nest, I am still worried that there is no meat to eat." ”

Rong Sheng laughed: "We fought this idea, but we ran too fast to catch up." ”

Jinli: "It's not that I haven't been caught, what's so difficult about this?" ”

Rong Sheng blinked, what is the relationship between the two?

Jin Li said again: "Wipe some tracking herbs, put the meat back to the nest." Even if you don't track herbs, break a leg, break a wing, isn't it slow, can you still catch up? ”

Rong Sheng blinked again, can he still do this.

It's not that they're stupid, they're running around for life every day, how can they have time to specialize in researching the same food, Jinli is different, and if you catch something delicious, you must dig out your mind to find the most convenient way.

During the chat, the group unknowingly arrived at the tunnel entrance.

Rong Sheng extinguished the torch and led them into the tunnel.

The tunnel is not wide or narrow, allowing three people to walk in parallel.

Two resin lamps are lit every twenty meters on both walls.

Rong Sheng pointed to the rattan baskets on both sides of the tunnel and said, "When people in each gathering place go out, they will bring some resin in and add resin to the basket, and everyone will spontaneously check the resin lamp." ”

Jin Li also picked up a piece of resin and put it in the lamp that was about to burn out: "Consciously, unity." ”

Rong Sheng smiled bitterly: "It is already very difficult for everyone to live, the days are already hard enough, no matter how much we are not united, how can we live if we are cautious and intrigued, everyone has experience this hardship in their hearts, everyone is in the abyss, mutual understanding and mutual warmth." ”

Jin Li said: "Although it is dark here, the atmosphere is very good, and it is simple and pure. ”

Rong Sheng sighed: "Forced by the environment, at the beginning, there were people with bad thoughts, and there was a bit of a miasma, which caused contradictions between the gathering place and the gathering place, and then the leaders of the various gathering places met and discussed, and the people who took care of each family were severely punished once they were aware of the small actions in private, and they were expelled from the gathering place, and none of the people who were expelled from the gathering place would be re-contained, and twenty or thirty people could not live in a group here, after all, the people with improper thoughts belonged to a minority, and gradually the atmosphere was getting better and better." ”

Jin Li: "How to arrange for the newcomers to come in, and they will form a group again?" ”

Rong Sheng said: "Look at the small number of people, when the number of people is small, they generally choose to disperse and join other old gathering places, and if you find a new safe place, you must take a walk around the Demon Suppression Forest, and if you go around, the people are almost dead, and the safer places are occupied by those of us who came first." ”

Jinli: "That's right. ”

The two chatted for a while, and after walking for about an hour, Rong Sheng pointed to a fork in the tunnel and said, "This tunnel leads to the first gathering place, and this gathering place is the closest to the periphery. The further we went, the denser the forks became, and each tunnel led to a different gathering place, where we walked for about four hours, and the farthest for a day. ”

Jin Li said: "The tunnels are intertwined, and the cobwebs are spread, it took a lot of time, right?" ”

Rong Sheng nodded: "More than 10,000 people have been digging for nearly a year, and spending this little time is nothing. ”

Jinli: "Worth it!" ”

The environment is harsh, but humans have wisdom.