The four strong men took up the reins, and after a shout, the copper-colored muscles bulged high, and an old duke-king was slowly dragged. Liu and I were invited to sit in the car as the leaders of our people, and Gege and they drove the car and slowly followed.

I looked at the driver sitting in the driver's seat with a blank expression on the steering wheel, and I felt ridiculous. The old man turned his face to the co-pilot and said with a smile: "All the fuel has to be used to support the city, so they thought of this method, what do you think?" ”

This kind of behavior of treating people as cattle and horses makes me very disgusted, but I don't want to say anything, I just laughed casually, but Liu Dongxi said: "This method is novel and interesting, but I don't know how fast this car can run?" ”

The old man smiled: "It's a joke, how much can such a car run, but they respect me, and the conditions are limited, so they thought of such a way." As he spoke, he pulled out a red prosthetic leg from the front, and thick blood slowly flowed down from the end of the knee, emitting a stench of nonexistence.

"This is ......" Liu Shixin was very calm, I don't know how much it was pretended, anyway, I was startled, this old man looked so strong, I didn't expect to install a prosthetic leg, and there was a wound on this prosthetic leg that could not heal like others.

"The injury on my leg is not healed, it is really inconvenient, so I took a saw and cut it myself."

"Admire!" Liu Dongxi was in awe.

I looked out the window, and countless people, not knowing what inspiration they had received, walked from their shacks to the side of the road, looking at the car with extremely reverent eyes. They were all the same dirty, thin, wearing very little clothing, and without exception they all had a huge swollen wound on their bodies.

"Isn't it cold when you wear so little?" I was very keenly aware that the old man was somewhat evasive of the source of the wound when talking about his experience, so I chose a question that was easier to accept.

"Cold? We'll just feel the heat! The old man turned around and frequently greeted the people outside, "We are all sick, and we can't cure the disease at all, in our body, there is always a fire burning, and only the cold wind can make us feel better." Then he turned his face to me and looked me squarely, "A lot of times I worry about whether we're going to survive the summer!" ”

"What is this?" I asked, a little worried that it would anger him.

"This is not the place to talk, I'll talk about it when I get back." The old man was not angry, and said in a calm tone.

I felt that something was wrong with this person, and although there were so many things that were wrong with this place, this old man had been inviting us so warmly, which made me feel very wrong. I straightened up and moved the Dingguang Sword forward with my hand, and Liu looked at me with deep guard in his eyes.

The car came to a screeching halt and we stopped in front of a tent, which was just as shabby, except for the taller and larger shacks.

After getting out of the car, I looked at our car first and shook my head slowly. Gege understood what I meant, and grabbed Xiao Kan, who was about to get out of the car. I nodded and turned around, "There are too many of us, so we won't all come here, what do you have to do, tell us to be the same." ”

The old man was stunned for a moment and smiled: "No problem, please inside!" ”

Liu and I bowed down slightly and strode in.

Despite its shabby appearance, the inside of this tent is surprisingly clean. Probably seeing my doubts, the old man explained: "There is no good way for our illness, so we have to use fried loess to pull out the hot poison, not to make ourselves like that." ”

I smiled a little awkwardly, "What the hell is the matter with you coming to us?" ”

"We've got to start at the beginning." The old man beckoned us to sit down, and he himself leaned half against a pillar and struck a posture of long talk, "What is the outside world like now?" ”

"It's pretty much the same as here! But the people who are alive are still healthy, but there are not many people, only a few lonely cities are still under the protection of the army...... "I gave a brief introduction to the situation outside, and the old man listened very carefully, nodding from time to time.

"Each has its own way of living...... the old man sighed and said: "When the catastrophe just began, Chang'an was also in chaos, the army died one after another, and all methods were tried, but in the end they were defeated and retreated!" ”

"Oh? Is there no one in the city now? I asked curiously.

"And some, about hundreds of thousands!" The old man said.

"Then why are you here?" I asked.

"Listen to me slowly." The old man raised his hand, and someone brought a glass of ice water, and the old man took it and drank it all.

"Just when everyone thought they couldn't resist it, we showed up! No one can say who the first person was, maybe it was a soldier who was bitten by Gerga, and then the disease began to spread, and half of them got it......"

"So they're going to kick you out and feed Gella?"

"It's not what you think, we do it voluntarily."

"Voluntary?"

"Not bad! But it's not all, most people are still weak! The old man waved his hand in disgust, "I led them out of the city, lived on the outskirts of the city, and lived until now!" ”

"With so many Gejia, how did you survive?"

"We can protect ourselves!" The old man smiled strangely, "There were once a few cultists who said that we were cursed by their gods, just like Gega. There are also those who say that the way we are now is the sin of a previous life. ”

"I don't believe it!" The old man said, "We are just sick, this disease makes us miserable, but it also makes us live!" ”

I didn't quite understand what he said, and I guessed that maybe it was a spiritual problem that people were awake and out of a chaotic life, and I thought that this old man looked like a reckless man, and his speech was really literary and artistic.

"Gja won't attack us, they fear us like humans fear tigers!"

"Why?" I asked.

The old man seemed to feel very hot, and writhed uneasily, but at last he took off his sheepskin jacket, and explained, "It's too hot, but I'm the chief, and I have to dress modestly." ”

I smiled, but didn't ask any more questions.

It seemed to be quiet for a while, and the old man continued: "All of us will have big wounds, swollen and inflamed, and will never heal, we will not sweat, and the weather will be hot and alive, but at least we are alive." And this disease is fatal to Gejia! ”

"So Gega is afraid of you?" I remembered E's fear of this place, and thought to myself that the old man was not lying in this regard.

"Yes, we live around the city, which is the strongest line of defense in the city. The people of the city are researching the disease, hoping to find a way to combat Geja. I don't know if we'll survive the summer, but at least we'll buy them a little time! ”

I'm a little excited, if we can really do research on this disease, maybe we can really find a way to curb Göga. And the behavior of these people touched me even more, although they are all a certain death, but it is also a kind of courage to be able to abandon their homes and wait for death in such a place!

"Are they all voluntary?" I asked.

"Of course not!" The old man's expression was a little gloomy, "Most people are reluctant to leave the city, and at the beginning, the army forcibly evicted them, and many people died......"

"And then?" I asked.

"Later, Old Man Chang voluntarily contracted this disease, and he came forward to persuade us to leave and use his crippled body to buy time for mankind!" A short, stout man who was with him said loudly, the wound on his neck was stirred up by the force, and a stream of blood flowed out.

"Don't talk nonsense!" The old man stood up, "I just can't bear so many people being killed by my own people......"

"You're Old Man Chang?" Liu Dongxi also stood up.

"I'm Chang Cheng!" The old man turned to him and said, on his rock-solid back, there was a sitting Buddha tattooed, full of compassion, treasure **.