The scorching stars are in the sky, almost melting people; The scorching air distorted, bringing infinite despair.

This is the edge of a desert on the planet Weakness, and the environment is so harsh that not to mention plants and insects are hard to see.

And even more distinctively, the rows of corpses on the edge of the desert.

Whole corpses wrapped in plasma and condensed on the surface, headless corpses, broken bodies, fragmented corpses, and skulls with numb eyes, everything is here.

Morgue.

The foul smell of rotting corpses emerges from these morgues, and under the impetus of the heat, the molecules move at a distance, spreading the smell that makes people want to vomit worse than feces and burrowing into the inside of the human nose.

"Squeak" "Squeak" The military boots stepped on the slightly soft sand, making a small sound, and two figures stepped out from the bottom of a certain sand dune.

Ike and Zhen Wuyu, they were wearing gray and white clothes, with various weapons and equipment strapped to their bodies, just like cosmic mercenaries.

Stepping on the rotting corpses in the ground and the blood-stained sand in the gaps, the two walked through this purgatory-like field on earth.

"What are we going to do now?" Zhen Wuyu turned her head to Ike and asked, she frowned slightly and shrugged her nose.

For this tragic scene, she naturally does not feel uncomfortable after experiencing death space, which indirectly proves that Zhen Wuyu's psychological quality is very passable. But even so, the smell of corpses emitted by these corpse piles cannot be ignored, and it is simply a great destruction to the sense of smell.

"Let's go to the nearby village first and see if we can contact the pirates, and then find the pirate leader after catching up with the line." Ike still has the same poker face as always, and his calmness at this time makes Zhen Wuyu have to admire.

The two of them continued to walk forward, although the sun was so hot that it scorched the ground like an incinerator, but they had already experienced the extreme heat on the planet Z43, and they were used to this level of heat, and they didn't feel anything.

After walking for more than a few tens of meters, they finally came to the edge of the desert in the true sense of the word. The pile of corpses here has also become smaller, which makes people feel much better.

Looking up into the distance, beyond the desert there is still a large barren area, and the cracked ground has opened large forks and scattered in all directions, apparently due to the prolonged dryness.

Large swathes of the place were deserted, and not all of them were filled with refugees, as the historical documents describe.

Zhen Wuyu couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then she swept around again, feeling that the immersive scene was still different, and this place was still a little worse than what she knew.

And at this moment, a slight sound came from not far away, somewhat similar to the sound of sucking.

What is that?!

Zhen Wuyu was suddenly alert, and at this time, Ike had already pulled out the sickle on his trouser leg and walked ahead of her.

Zhen Wuyu immediately followed Ike and became completely alert.

Is that...... A thin figure crouched in front of the pile of corpses, not knowing what it was doing.

The two had already walked behind the thing, but it didn't seem to react yet, apparently not noticing them.

Ike lifted the sickle slightly, turned around and walked to the thing, while Zhen Wuyu was on guard beside him.

However, after seeing the appearance of that thing, Ike directly lowered his scythe, and at the same time glanced at Zhen Wuyu, indicating that there was no danger.

So Zhen Wuyu walked up to Ike and looked towards the lowly figure.

Human body posture and facial features.

This turned out to be a person! Although it is more like a monkey, because it is skinny and bones-in-one, there is almost no flesh in sight, and its face is also skinny, and it looks almost like it has been cut by a knife, which is strange and terrifying.

This "human" ** body, barely an inch on his body, was lying on top of a corpse, his face was constantly squirming, apparently making a swallowing motion.

It's eating human corpses, it's eating meat, it's eating rotting flesh and entrails!

But when they saw the cruel scene in front of them, Ike and Zhen Wuyu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

You know, the actions of this "human" just now are very similar to Witch, which makes both of them a little nervous.

While relaxing, Zhen Wuyu glanced at Ike with an inquiring gaze, meaning how to deal with this person, this monkey-like person.

Ike would look at him and signal him to come by himself.

Immediately, Ike walked around the back of the "monkey" again, then lifted his own foot and suddenly fell.

With a light but crisp impact, the "monkey" was kicked to the ground by Ike at once, unconscious, but not dead, and Ike deliberately controlled the force.

"Saiko, turn on link mode." Ike muttered to himself.

"Yes, master. Now release the memory read. ”

As the few pieces of information poured in, the "monkey's" memories were completely read by him, and Ike understood some of the situation in the vicinity.

But after learning this information, Ike's expressionless face changed slightly, revealing a slightly different expression.

"What's wrong?" Zhen Wuyu didn't know why, she didn't know this trick of Ike memory reading.

"It's fine." Ike indifferently put the scythe back on the outside of his thigh, and then stepped down again, and with the sound of a broken spine, the monkey-like man was killed by him, "There is a village 4km away, now go there." ”

"Hmm." Zhen Wuyu nodded, Ike didn't say much, and he didn't ask more.

She put her weapon away and continued to walk with Ike.

The two walked through the desert and the piles of corpses, walking on the cracked land.

The texture of the ground is so brittle that it will crumble if you step on it with a little pressure. And in the midst of this extremely dry and cracked soil, some edible plants can be found, which are earthy yellow in color, distributed among those cracks, and are obviously extremely drought and sun tolerant varieties.

As he walked, Ike also thought back to the memories he had just read.

This "monkey"-like person is actually a young man in his early teens, but due to long-term hunger, he has developed seriously and looks like a monkey. In fact, he doesn't remember much, only the village where he was born, the life that was more humble than a dog since he was a child, and the extreme hunger.

Extreme hunger had caused his memory to fail, and the village was the subject of frequent pirate massacres, but he survived. He was transported to the edge of the desert with the corpse.

Soon, Ike and Zhen Wuyu finally saw a group of buildings, located a few hundred meters away.

But at this moment, in the direction of the building, there was a wave of figures walking towards them, very slowly.

The two of them couldn't help but approach forward while on guard, and they approached the wave of figures.

It was a large group of poor people, with dark skin and yellow muscles, and even the ribs were clearly exposed. Some of them were less than tall, almost all of them were dwarfs; But there are also some people who are tall, but they are thinner, and this should be a difference of race.

Their eyes were numb, but they looked eagerly in the direction of the desert, and walked on the ground with difficulty.

They can barely walk upright, so it's a fitting thing to call them "monkeys".

These "monkeys" were very slow to react, and even if Ike and Zhen Wuyu were close, they didn't notice it at all.

So Ike and the others immediately avoided and watched the group of people go away. It's not that they're afraid, it's to prevent any accidents.

"These people are supposed to be going to eat meat." Ike turned his head and said the most cruel words in a calm tone, "Those rotting corpses are still there. ”

Such a mess!

Through Ike's prompt, Zhen Wuyu suddenly became more vigilant, but she would not have the slightest pity because of the "pity" of those people.

Soldiers do not need mercy, they need to take care of the people of their own country.

The two of them continued on their way, and finally entered the village.

The village is very dilapidated, full of skinny "people", and here the poor have nothing, not even garbage. And along the ground, you can also see a lot of white bones, mixed with the roadside and street corners, and no one knows where the carrion of the white bone owner went after his death.

The complex is a sand roasted house, which looks rather rudimentary, and there is a lot of red around the walls of the house, which seems to be blood.

"These buildings are ......" Zhen Wuyu saw the "house" baked by this kind of sand, and couldn't help but recall a historical article that he had spent in the past, which was somewhat like a stall text.

This is clearly the method used by the indigenous people of Africa in the past, where the sand is made to the right thickness, mixed with the soil, and solidified by the flames. The house created in this way can withstand the scorching sunlight during the day, and the sand walls at night release the heat absorbed during the day to ward off the cold.

At the time, she thought it was a lie, but she didn't expect that there really was such a building.

At the entrance of the village, there is a well with a large radius, but it has long since dried up.

There is no hope, no disappointment, there is only eating and death here.

And this is one of the corners of the planet Lalik.

ps: There are two in the dormitory besieging me, I really can't stand it!