In an unremarkable ravine among the countless mountains of Wu'an County.

There is a village here, counting carefully, there are about thirty thatched houses,

A clear river flows down from the mountain, dividing several thatched houses into east and west.

To the east, near the foot of the hill, there are several families thatched in which, unlike the others, occasionally smoke rises.

If you walk into the village, it is not difficult to find that there are no more people in this village, only a few elderly families remain here.

As if to get rid of loneliness, I don't know when, they all gathered in one place.

I don't know what happened at this moment, several old men and old ladies gathered in the courtyard.

Some of them sat in the courtyard on crutches and a few small stools.

His expression was solemn and worried.

"Just now, Lao Li Tou went out to collect firewood, and I saw it, someone came up from the path, you say, what should we do?"

"Old village chief, if you are dexterous with legs and feet, let's go first, there is a cave on the back mountain, after you go, you can just hide."

The one who spoke was an old man who was paralyzed on a wicker chair, and the old man was paralyzed in bed a few years ago, that is, the neighbors helped each other to take care of each other, and this is why he has lived for so long.

"Those thieves, several of our old men have become like this, and they still want to exploit us, it's really not ancient!"

It all started a few days ago, when a wave of refugees broke into this isolated village.

When a person is forced to be helpless, the evil in human nature will be magnified more and more, so that it will become a state of getting by.

They used to be good people, but they were forced by this era, and they did all kinds of evil.

There is even no lower limit, and finally embarked on a road of no return.

If they want to live, then others will have to pay.

I don't know where, when they learned that there was such a village here, they came here to let out cruel words.

If, after half a decade, the food they asked for was not prepared, these people would come and slaughter an entire village.

In this world, there is a stable dynasty, and the people will be exploited by the noble landlords, and their lives will be more miserable, but they will not worry about their lives.

But when there is no stable day, people will kill their compatriots in all kinds of ways in order to survive.

The old village chief was a thin old man, described as withered, but he looked extremely healthy, and he was dressed in coarse cloth clothes, which he wore on his body, and he actually had some common demeanor.

The old village chief was on crutches in both hands, and the light in his eyes was long gone, and there was no trace of thought in his eyes.

"Several, you and I are both old people, and it's enough to live for so long."

When the other old men heard this, they nodded, and they knew the true meaning of his words without the village chief saying it.

The old man knows that his life is running out, and now he is alive every day.

"Since the village chief said so, then so be it."

An old man was the first to stand up, and the children of this old man all went to flee, he was a big family in the village, and there were as many as ten people in his family.

It was also in an instant that he was the only one left.

The old man put his hands on his back and slowly walked towards the back mountain.

An old woman lamented, "Old yellow head, this is the lady who went to the back mountain to see him, hey, the old woman also went to the back mountain, look at my dead old man, and tell him that I will go to him immediately." ”

Several old people have already tacitly understood that the meaning of the village chief is very clear.

They don't want to do anything, just wait for death, although it is better to die than to live, but so many of them are old people, and they have already put life and death aside.

Many of the old people walked towards the back hill, some returned to their houses, and some were still sitting in the courtyard.

The village chief also got up slowly, and walked to the door of the village alone.

The village chief is like a warrior in the minds of the villagers, and the crutches in his hand are his weapons.

The old village chief looked at the only way into the village, like a general who was a one-man general.

At the foot of the mountain, several people were climbing up the river.

Among them, there were men and women, old and young, and if they were ordinary people, it must be those teenagers who walked faster.

However, at this time, it was the two old men who walked in front.

The two old men were wearing ordinary winter clothes, and they were vigorous, and after a while, they left the two little boys who followed behind far behind.

This group of people is Xiao Qi and them.

Huzi, who was at the back, gasped, leaning on a thin wooden branch that he had picked up from somewhere, and looked at the person in front of him.

felt that he couldn't catch up, so Huzi could only stop.

Chestnut heard the movement, glanced back at Huzi, and then stopped as well.

"What's wrong?"

Huzi wiped the sweat from his forehead, gasped for breath, and replied, "Chestnut, did you say that these people are not tired?" I can't even walk, you see how fast they go. ”

Chestnut scratched his head a little embarrassed, "Actually, I don't feel that tired, it must be that you have been moving too little recently and lacking exercise." ”

Huzi looked at the chestnut seriously and said, "Are you really not tired?" ”

Chestnut nodded and said, "Okay, let's hurry up and follow, otherwise the distance will be further away in a while." ”

Huzi scratched his head, chestnuts were the weakest people in the small group before them.

Even in this small group of Xiao Qi and a few of them,

"Is it really the reason why I've been walking less lately?"

Chestnut turned forward and had already started to walk, and said a word in his mouth, "Go!" ”

Huzi sighed, with a bitter look on his face, but he could only follow the past.

The farther and farther away Huzi walked away from them, the few people in front of him also felt this situation.

Mo Yan, who was walking in the front, stopped and said to the nail palace behind him, "Let's take a rest." ”

Nail Gong glanced behind him, nodded, and pointed to a place not far away that looked flat and had a few huge stones.

By the time Huzi got there, they were already sitting on the stones.

Huzi threw aside the wooden stick in his hand and lay limply on a stone.

The stone that has been exposed to the sun on its back and absorbed a lot of energy makes Torako's back feel comfortable.

"Do you really see smoke rising from the top of the mountain?"

They asked Huzi, and this matter was told by Huzi, and they saw a road at the foot of the mountain, and a mountain was really inhabited.

But after following that path for a while, the road was trivial in the middle of the jungle.

A few people could only follow the direction pointed by Huzi, follow the direction of the current, and move upstream.

Huzi gasped for breath, and said angrily: "That must be true, I can still lie to you." ”

Huzi doesn't want to move at all now, this mountain road is rugged, not to mention, they are not walking on the mountain road now, but have become a trail opener.

Chestnuts are also a little tired at this time, but they are far from being like Huzi.

This made Chestnut a little surprised, after all, after walking for so long, others didn't find out that something was wrong, but he himself could find out.

It's just that he also wants to coax himself like he coaxed Huzi just now, and wants to make himself believe in his nonsense.

"If there are real people, it's a good thing for us, and even if there isn't, it doesn't matter."

The nail palace didn't have any entanglement in this matter, after all, everything was a kind of cultivation for him.

They were heading south, and even if they didn't climb this mountain, they would climb other mountains, so it wasn't a big deal for everyone.

Just hearing that there are people on the mountain, this is a little worry for several people, from expectations, to disappointed expectations.

They have walked for such a long time, and since they entered Wu'an County, they have encountered many villages on the way, but the common point is that there are no living people.

"Alright, let's go."

Xue Yi had already rested, and she didn't take the tiger who had just fallen on the stone seriously.

Huzi scolded directly, "You ruthless girl, I just came here, you have to go back on the road, do you have any grudges with me!" ”

Xue Yi smiled disdainfully, "Waste." ”

After saying this, Xue Yi was pulled back to the original place by Xiao Qi and sat down.

"Xue Yi, just rest for a while, otherwise, Huzi and they still won't be able to keep up with us."

Of course, Xue Yi has her own considerations, this kind of rest on the way, if the time is short, it is fine, the longer the time, the more difficult it is to recover the inertia.

For those of them who have been sitting here for a long time to rest, it is completely possible to recover in such a short period of time.

Huzi said with a reluctant face: "You guys go, I won't leave if you kill me, I want to rest here!" ”

Naturally, this is what Huzi said bastardly, if he dared to go alone, he would have stopped being with these people a long time ago.

Chestnut is another guy who has to drag him to repay his kindness, and if there is another choice, he will not be here.

Huzi looked up at the sky, and suddenly saw that black smoke was rising again.

He sat up, pointed to the sky and said, "Look, there's smoke!" ”

If there is smoke rising, it means that someone exists, and several people are pointing in the direction that Huzi is pointing, not too far from them, and now there are wisps of smoke rising.

"There's really smoke, let's go!"

Mo Yan had already gotten up and walked towards the place where the smoke had risen, and several other people had also left.

Left two people, Chestnut and Huzi.

Chestnut stretched out a hand, "Let's go, let's hurry up too." ”