Chapter 2: Out of the City
"Murder?...... Depends where you want to go, is it fun to kill people? I mortgaged these things with crystal stones, let's deal with them in the next few days, and when I make money, I will redeem them!"
The stone said it easily, but Ah Jian and the others knew how difficult it was for the stone to make such a decision. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info crystal stone is the lifeblood of the stone, more precious than his own life, because this is the only thought left to him by his parents, and it is also the only evidence for him to find his parents in the future.
Last year, he had a very serious illness and was almost dying, and the pharmacist in the pharmacy took a fancy to his crystal stone, and even wanted to exchange a elixir for his crystal stone, but he was reluctant to change it, and almost died.
"Brother Shi, we're not hungry, you can just go back these things! Let's drink some water, and we'll fall asleep after a while, and we'll not be hungry when we fall asleep." ”
Ah Jian, Ah Hong and Jingzi said in unison, but their eyes involuntarily swept over the bag of coarse grain. Hadron and Xiaolan didn't speak, but their throats kept stirring, as if they were swallowing something.
"How can I return the things after I took them? Besides, how can I get out of the city tomorrow without a steel knife? Don't say more, I will change the crystal stone back later." ”
The stone's words were as firm and powerful as ever, as if it was a magic needle that fixed the sea, which made everyone's excited emotions settle down at once. He is the head of the whole group and the backbone of the six brothers and sisters, and the sky will not fall without him.
In fact, they are not related, just a group of strangers who have been forced together by fate, and they don't even know who they are and where they come from.
Three years ago, two traffickers abducted more than a dozen children here, originally saying that they were going to sell them to the old wizard as apprentices, but later learned that they were not apprentices at all, but sold to the dark wizards for grabbing.
Seizure is a mysterious word, which was once a taboo in the Divine Apocalypse, and the original gods were able to descend to the world by taking the bodies of mortals. In the post-god era, evil dark wizards often used this method to replace their old and decrepit bodies in order to continue their spirits.
When they heard the terrible news, they were so scared that they desperately wanted to escape. But the traffickers were strictly guarded, and every time they were caught, they would be beaten half to death, and one sick child was even beaten to death.
They couldn't get help, they were locked up in dark underground caverns, and they couldn't reach outsiders at all. In fact, what if they could contact outsiders? They didn't have a household registration in Blackstone City, and they weren't protected by the temple at all. They were fed drugs by traffickers and did not even know their names, let alone who their parents were, so they could not ask someone to report to them.
For a whole year, they were in a state of confusion, and they lived in fear that one day the dark wizard would pick on them.
In these days of horror and fear, three children died of illness, one child committed suicide by hitting a wall, and eight children were picked up by the dark wizard, and in the end only six of them remained.
The reason why they were able to survive for the time being was because Qiangzi and Xiaolan were weak and sick for a long time, and the other four were because they showed enough rebelliousness, and they were determined and eager to survive, such souls were difficult to tame and would bring risks to the dark wizard's seizure.
The friendship between friends in distress is stronger than the walls of Black Rock City, and they are now six brothers and sisters who are closer than relatives. Especially the eldest stone, he always protects everyone like a brother, and often encourages everyone to be patient, there will always be a chance to escape.
After a year of such days, I didn't expect fate to really give them a chance to escape.
On that day, the two traffickers came back from outside, but for some unknown reason there was a heated argument. Later, he actually started to move. Both of them have a fighting spirit, and their strength is about the same, but after fighting for a few hours, they were exhausted from fighting, and they both fell to the ground and couldn't get up all of a sudden.
Seeing this, Shi led everyone to rush out, afraid that the traffickers would settle accounts after the autumn, so Shi and Ah Jian took knives and killed the two directly. This was their first killing, and they gave up everything at that time, but after the killing, they were all stunned, and they all turned their stomachs and vomited so much that they even vomited bitter gall.
Later, they retrieved their belongings from the traffickers, took their money, and escaped from the dungeon. They didn't dare to live on the street, so they found an abandoned warehouse to hide temporarily, and secretly exchanged money for some food, and thus survived for another year.
Later, when the money was spent, they were hungry and hungry, so they had to beg along the street.
Aunt Zhang also told them to stop begging, there were no beggars left in Black Rock City, and they would be expelled from the city once they were discovered by the city guards. And more importantly, beggars will not have a household registration, so they will not be able to enter the temple to study, and they will not be able to learn elementary meditation and basic martial arts, so that they will not be able to become hunters and mercenaries in the future, let alone noble mages and elixir masters.
They eventually followed Aunt Zhang's advice and got a job as a merchant in the market. As long as you have worked for two years and paid the poll tax for two years, you can apply for household registration and then learn the skills of cultivation.
But how easy is it to survive these two years?
In order to survive the hardest summer on the planet, they worked without sleep and food during the active season, and did not rest even in the harsh winter when the temperature was as low as minus 30 degrees, so they accumulated some food for the summer.
They saved every grain of food, so they barely survived this summer, and when they moved out of the dungeon, they had actually reached the point of exhaustion, and Ah Jian remembered to venture out of the city, and Brother Shi would mortgage the crystal stone that he regarded as his life.
It seems that things can only be like this, and everyone finally reluctantly accepts it.
"Out of the city, then I'm going too, I can pick wild vegetables, and I can dig birds' nests!"
"I'm going too! I can also pick wild vegetables, and I know some elixir?"
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As soon as they heard that Shi and Ah Jian were going out of the city tomorrow, several children asked to follow, and the house was suddenly in chaos.
"Nonsense! Do you think it's going out to play or play at home? And digging out the bird's nest, is this magic bird's nest something you can dig out?"
With Brother Shi's reprimand, the room was so quiet that even the sound of needles could be heard, the eldest brother was the father, and only Brother Shi could suppress these younger siblings.
In fact, who doesn't know the ferocity of the demonic beasts outside the city, when did the Black Rock City not kill hundreds of people under the claws of the demonic beasts? Aunt Zhang's husband went out to encounter the demonic beasts some time ago and was injured, and it is said that his fighting spirit has also been refined to the intermediate level!
They just don't want to let Brother Shi and Brother A Jian face the danger alone, they have all been in trouble and blessed all these years!
At this point, they had to hear about Brother Shi's arrangement, and they would stay at home tomorrow and wait for Shi and Ah Jian to come back. And now, they have at least one more thing to do, and that is to help them prepare what they can use.
Ah Hong and Qiangzi volunteered and ran to the market warehouse overnight to find broken sacks, old wires, nails, and the like. The twine on the broken sack can be removed to make a bowstring, or you can make a bag for wild vegetables or something. Old wires, nails, etc., are difficult to find, but they are good materials for arranging traps.
Jingzi and Xiaolan were not idle, they made some portable snacks with the coarse grain brought by the stone, found two old bamboo tubes, added wooden stoppers, drilled holes, and tied a hemp rope, which were two kettles that could be hung around their waists.
Shi and Ah Jian took the knife to a small bamboo forest in the west of the city, where the yellow bamboo was so tough that it could be used to make bows and arrows. Although they don't have much strength, as the saying goes, a live cat can meet a dead mouse, and who knows if it will just hit a stupid bird at that time?
Work is busy, but also fulfilling, and working for a better life is even happier.
This night, each of them was busy until the second half of the night, but each of them was in high spirits and sleepy.
The steel knives were sharpened, the bows and arrows were sufficient, the iron clips were made, and the snacks, kettles, flints, and so on were all packed into the newly woven twine bags by the attentive sisters.
At night, I can finally sleep peacefully. Have a good dream, dream that your brothers will come back safely with bags full of wild vegetables, and prey......