Chapter 802: The Walking Dead
By the kerosene lamp, several people sat around, some muttered in a low voice, some were silent, some were asleep, and some didn't know where to get food, creaking and gnawing, like mice.
Takato casually joined the group, and no one asked him what his name was, and no one asked him where he was from.
Everyone doesn't care about each other, they are indifferent, and they only treat each other as if they don't exist.
Soon Gao Yuan knew why, and several people came from different directions, and they were treated the same.
The people here don't care about the others, everyone is like a lone wolf, with a twinkle in their eyes.
Gao Yuan took out two biscuits from the space capsule, leaned over to a big man, and said in a low voice, "Brother, eat some?"
The big man's eyes had been staring at the person who was munching on dry food not far away, and from his cramped expression, Gao Yuan had already judged that this person had been hungry for a long time and was in urgent need of food.
Sure enough, as soon as he heard that Gao Yuan had something to eat, Dahan's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly took it, chewed it without looking at it, swallowed a large piece of biscuit in three or two bites, and looked at the piece in Gao Yuan's hand after eating, and his eyes were like a vicious wolf.
Gao Yuan handed over another biscuit, and the big man snatched it and gnawed on it.
When the others heard the voice, they looked at it impatiently, and the big man seemed to sense something, and swallowed the rest of the biscuits in one gulp, his cheeks bulging.
Everyone withdrew their gaze and looked at Gao Yuan again, their eyes flickering with a dim and uncertain light.
"Thank you. The big man gobbled up the biscuits and swallowed them hard into his stomach, so he had time to speak.
"Nothing. Gao Yuan smiled.
"Tell me, who do you want to kill. Dahan's next sentence surprised Gao Yuan.
"I didn't want to kill. Gao Yuan couldn't cry or laugh, I don't know where the big man came out of such a sentence.
The big man said strangely: "Then why are you paying me?"
"It's not pay...... It's just that you're a little hungry. "High and far-reaching.
The big man was even more strange: "You are a fool, this food is enough for you to kill three people!"
Two cookies equal three lives?
"I'm actually new here. Gao Yuan hurriedly said: "I gave you food to exchange some news here." ”
Dahan showed a clear expression: "Oh...... That's right, that's fine. If you want to know anything, just ask, whatever I know, I'll tell you everything. ”
Gao Yuan and Dahan chatted with each other, and found a cookie in the middle.
Dahan got the benefits, and he didn't have to kill anyone, just chatted with Gao Yuan, he knew everything and said everything, and it didn't take long for Gao Yuan to inquire about the situation in Huangquan Realm.
According to Dahan, the area of Huangquanjing was once a prosperous city with a population of hundreds of thousands. But one day a few decades ago, the city was suddenly hit by a moat, and the entire city was directly wiped out by some incomparably large force of nature, and even the earth's crust was pierced, leaving a huge bottomless hole in the ground.
At first, everyone thought that the destruction of the city was a calamity from the gods, and they did not dare to approach the pit.
Officials have also closed off this area, and have sent expeditions several times, but they have not given a reasonable answer.
At that time, it was rumored in the Maple Leaf Empire that it was the military that carried out some kind of experiment with a powerful weapon, and after the failure, it caused a huge explosion to raze the city.
A few years have passed, and no one knows why the city suddenly disappeared, how deep the huge crater is underground, and the authorities seem to have given up on the investigation.
But just when everyone was gradually forgetting the city, the earth's crust shook, and a lot of earth erupted from the huge crater, which was mixed with some precious gems.
When the news broke, countless adventurers rushed from all directions of the Maple Leaf Empire, wanting to enter the giant pit to find out.
Officials also tried to get a piece of the pie, setting up a mining bureau next to the giant pit, and for more than a decade, the giant pit attracted countless people to take risks, with the dream of getting rich overnight, hoping to dig up gems in the huge pit.
Indeed, someone discovered the treasure and became extremely rich, attracting more people to flock to it.
Countless people also entered the crater and never appeared again. I heard that the depths of the giant pit are full of mysterious tunnels, and there are countless underground beasts, as well as various poisonous miasma, landslides, magma, and many dangers. After these people disappeared, not even their bones could be found.
Over time, some people called this giant pit Huangquan, which means "once you enter this gate, there is no life".
The boom lasted for ten years, until no more gems were produced in the crater. The authorities took the lead in canceling the Mining Bureau, and the adventurers also left, leaving a mess behind.
I thought that the giant pit would be abandoned from now on. But I don't know when some unknown people appeared here.
They used the former mine caves, used the facilities left behind, stayed in this barren land, and struggled to live.
At the beginning, there were only a few hundred people, but before you knew it, it had grown to thousands, ten thousands, and until now, no one knows how many people have survived under this giant cave.
There is no community, no law, no rules, there is little food and drink, and every day people starve, fall, crash to death, are murdered, and are insulted, but many more people come together.
They are like ghosts in hell, and like the dead spirits under the Yellow Spring, wandering in the darkness like walking corpses, living a life like a mustard, and life is worse than death.
This is the Yellow Springs Realm!
"If life here is so hard, why do everyone have to come?" Gao Yuan thought incredible.
According to Dahan, the giant pit was able to produce gems back then, and it is understandable that everyone flocked to it, but now there is not a single hair under the giant pit, why are there still so many people struggling to survive here?
Gao Yuan's question actually exposed the origin, but Dahan didn't think too much about it. The hardships and torture of Huangquan Realm limited his intelligence, and the few biscuits he had just eaten made the blood in his brain run to his stomach to participate in digestion, and he almost subconsciously ignored this problem.
"For we are all sinners. Dahan hugged his body and said: "All the people who ran here have violated the laws of the empire, if they were in other places, they would have been captured and killed by the Purple Guard, only here, the Purple Guards are unwilling to govern, and everyone can survive." In fact...... If you get used to it, that's fine. ”
Gao Yuan really can't see what's good, it's full of walking dead, and everyone has fallen to the point that they can do anything as long as they can live.
It's like the end of a famine, lingering, hungry and cold, no longer thinking, only biological instincts.
Such a place doesn't seem worth exploring, huh?
Gao Yuan was thinking about it, and in the tunnel in the distance, there was a sound of "popping" footsteps.
The kerosene lamp went out instantly, and someone exclaimed in a low voice: "Here they are!"