Pucheng.

"Are you packed?" A dilapidated wooden building was dimly lit, and skinny women were packing their belongings in the light.

Since the famine began in Pucheng, everything that could be eaten has been eaten. Her mother's family finally managed to get a place in the Central Alliance, and they could finally live a normal life.

"Just bring simple things, there must be a lot of people on the train, maybe you won't even be allowed to bring packages." The woman instructed.

"Yes, yes, yes."

Her husband was in the bathroom and didn't know what to do, making a few dull thumping noises.

"I've eaten everything in Pucheng, and I've heard that some places have started to eat people, let's get out of this ghost place quickly, I can't stay for a minute." She muttered as she cleaned up.

"Mom, I'm going to starve to death......"

In another bedroom, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl lay limply on the floor.

She was so thin that her eye sockets were deep-set and her complexion was sallow. The body is thin and thin, and the stomach is deformedly bulging, and if you look closely, you will see that the shape of the stomach under the clothes is very irregular.

The floor in front of her was littered with scraps of books, and there was a faint handwriting of hers.

"Well, endure it for two more days, and when we live in Weiyang City, everything will be fine." The woman comforted weakly.

"Have you packed up? We have to hurry to the train station and wait, who knows if there will be any emergency. The woman barely mustered up her strength and shouted in the direction of the bathroom.

There hasn't been a response for a long time.

"What's going on?" The woman muttered, propping up her thin body and walking towards the bathroom.

The bathroom door was wide open, and the light bulb connected to the wire on the ceiling swayed to the floor, and there was an indescribable eerie feeling.

The husband in his plaid pajamas was lying in a pool of blood, and there seemed to be something next to him wrapped in a shower curtain, squirming slightly.

She was stunned, completely stunned by the terrifying image in front of her, and did not dare to move.

Just then, the shower curtain suddenly moved, revealing what was wrapped inside.

"Ahh

There was a heart-rending scream in the bathroom.

The woman fell to the ground with a thud, her eyes staring straight at the ceiling, never to be closed again.

Ren Yi packed his simple luggage overnight, picked up a jeep from the stockade, and drove all the way to Pucheng.

Pucheng is a relatively intact city in the southwest, which retains more old-world buildings, and is also the largest hub city on the salt tea road.

It's not so much a city as a group of close-knit villages. The transportation here is convenient, and the residents spontaneously formed many market towns, stationed in self-protection, and took care of business.

Over time, these market towns slowly converged and developed into the center, gradually forming the appearance of a large city.

But since the beginning of winter, this inexplicable famine has come, business has plummeted in an instant, and there have been incidents of people in the city looting food.

The whole city was originally formed spontaneously by many businessmen, and after the accident, many people fled overnight with gold, silver, and families. All the daily affairs of Pucheng have been paralyzed for more than two months now.

Ren Yi held the steering wheel, and the gate of the checkpoint in Pucheng was in front of him.

"My eyes are black, and I don't know if the 'Heavenly Might' can find me news."

As soon as he got closer, a distorted feeling of nausea surged into Ren Yi's heart.

"The breath of the Adventist." Themis Goddess Dao.

"That's too strong, isn't it?" Ren Yi gritted his teeth and held back, and cold sweat unconsciously oozed from his hands holding the steering wheel.

This Adventist is definitely not easy to deal with.

After passing through the unguarded checkpoint, he drove for less than half an hour, and the first village appeared in front of him in the distance.

Ren Yi swerved and slowly drove into a silent flat clearing.

It was originally a place for villagers to enjoy the shade, and several stone-carved benches were placed under the big trees, but a layer of ash had fallen, and there was no one to be seen on the street.

Ren Yi glanced at the tree and was immediately startled.

The tree is at least a hundred years old, and it is so thick that several people hug each other. But the whole bark had been stripped clean, revealing the white, bare trunk.

"Are you hungry enough?" Ren Yi's scalp was numb when he saw it.

The car drove slowly down the narrow lane, two rows of low houses made of red mud clinging to his glass and slicing backwards.

Without exception, the red mud on these low walls was so badly dug that it almost collapsed.

I didn't hear any dogs barking all the way, and there were not even birds in the sky.

Occasionally, a few corpses could be seen lying upside down on the roadside, all as thin as dry wood, but their bellies were held up extremely large, and some could even see the shape of the inner panel.

These corpses looked at the sky on their backs in pain, their mouths torn, their stomachs pierced and bleeding from the contents of the contents, and their coats were stained red, which was very miserable.

Ren Yi looked at these scenes all the way and couldn't help but gasp.

In front, a faded wooden sign peeks out from the courtyard wall of a house, with the words "accommodation" written in red letters.

Ren Yi parked the car outside the courtyard, got out of the car and walked in.

The yard was silent, the pigsty was empty, the poles supporting the wooden shed were covered with tooth marks, and the outermost layer was gnawed to the brim, and the whole shed was crumbling. There is also a pit of earth dug with a spoon on the wall of the laterite courtyard.

Ren Yi walked into the main room in the middle of the courtyard.

The door was open, and a thin young man lay on the ground and kowtowed. There was an incense burner erected in front of him, and all the tributes were eaten.

He was so reverent that he didn't know that another person had come into the house.

After a stick of incense was burned, Ren Yi watched him pour the incense ash into his mouth.

"Ahem, accommodation." Ren Yidao.

The young man kneeling in front of the incense burner finally turned his head, and his appearance startled Ren Yi.

His face had been reduced to a layer of skin, with sunken eye sockets and protruding gums.

The most terrifying thing is that the lower half of his face is deformed, and his mouth has been torn by gnawing hard objects, and the muscle tissue is covered with blood. The throat is also swollen because of inflammation. The thin limbs dragged a stiff and deformed belly, which was very weird.

"No business," said the young man numbly, "you can find another place to stay." ”

"I knew it would be like this, but fortunately I was prepared."

Ren Yi turned around and walked back into the car and opened the trunk. When he went out, he felt that he could use it, so he brought a lot of rice noodles.

"Originally, it was reserved to buy people's hearts when necessary," Ren Yi opened the trunk, "It seems that the problem here is more serious than I thought." ”

"Is this okay?"

Ren Yigang put a small bag of noodles on the counter, and the young man immediately pounced on it to eat, and his whole head was stuck in his pocket. Dust was flying all over the sky.

He kept making a squeezing sound, and Ren Yi was shocked to see it.

He finally raised his head and shouted happily into the room, "Mom, Dam, sister, there is something to eat!" ”

After a while, three figures staggered out of the room, all like him, thin but with a big belly.

The three of them looked at their pockets and said with tears streaming down their faces: "It's been so long, and you finally have something to eat?" ”

"Anyway, there are no guests, you can stay casually."

Ren Yi was led by a young man to the guest room that was originally used for rent.

"What do you call it?" When he turned to leave, Ren Yi took out a compressed biscuit from his arms and said.

"My name is Chen Shu."

The young man stared at the biscuit in his hand and hesitated for a long time, but still put it in his pocket and left it for his sister.

Ren Yi pointed to the stool next to him and motioned for him to sit down, "Idle is idle, let's talk - why are you so hungry?" ”

"Famine." Chen Shu said helplessly.

"It's been a few days since outsiders came. They all ran out, and there were only some who couldn't move and had no money, waiting here to die. You're the only one who comes to Pucheng. ”

"For your sake, I advise you to leave quickly, I'm afraid that you will be entangled by the Adventist here, and you will become like us in a few days."

Ren Yi frowned and said, "Someone who doesn't have the ability to solve this matter?" ”

"At first, there were people who didn't believe in evil and wanted to make a name for themselves. But after a few deaths in quick succession, no one came. Chen Shu thought for a moment and said in surprise, "You won't be too, right?" I advise you to hurry up and die this heart, where did you come from, go back! ”

Ren Yi was noncommittal, "You and I will tell me exactly what's going on." ”

"This ......," Chen Shu thought for a while, "I can't remember when, about two months ago." This autumn harvest was not good, and everyone wanted to save a little. But I don't know why, everyone inexplicably began to be greedy. ”

Chen Shu began to reminisce.

"I want to eat everything I see. At first, no one took it seriously, and they ate whatever they wanted, but it was just gluttony. ”

"But then, hunger turned into hunger."

"As time went on, this hunger grew stronger. I can't eat enough six meals a day. Obviously, his stomach was full, his mouth was constantly stuffed, and his hunger was still surging up one after another. ”

"I'm so hungry, I'm so dizzy with hunger, I want to eat everything I see."

"No matter how you eat, you still lose weight visibly."

"Within a few days, everyone was skinny."

"After all the things sold in the bazaars and the warehouses were eaten, the people began to kill pigs and sheep. Even the horses pulling carts, the working mules, and the domestic cats and dogs were eaten. Still hungry. ”

"Gradually, people began to starve to death."

"I can't care about anything when my eyes are red from hunger. People began to eat tables, chairs, and benches. ”

"More of them were propped up to death."

Chen Shu's expression was very indifferent, "We have seen many ways to die. ”

"Some people have eaten tables and chairs and punctured their stomachs and died of pain. Many people leaked out of their intestines, swallowed and wailed, and died like that. ”

"Some people heard that the walls were soft and the soil was full, so they ate desperately. Almost the walls of the entire village were dug down overnight. But the walls and soil were not digested, and they were all swollen to death. ”

"There are also those who eat tree trunks, and all the trees in our village have lost their bark. His mouth was scratched and his teeth were gnawed off. Just like me. ”

"For a time, the streets were full of dead people."

"Some people say that it is not a waste for a dead man to lie on the ground in vain? Animal meat can be eaten, but why can't human flesh be eaten? ”

Ren Yi felt sick to his stomach when he heard this.

"Later...... White human bones began to appear on the streets, as well as skin and flesh that had been peeled off. Tell me, is this still the life of a human being? This is a living hell! ”

"Well, do you know why we don't do business?"

"We're going too." Chen Shu sighed, "Ever since this happened, there have been scalpers who have openly resold the accounts of the Central Alliance. We worked hard for two months, and finally got on the list. ”

"We're already packing our bags and moving out in a few days."

"Call me again if you have anything."

Chen Shu stood up slowly, Ren Yi closed the door, and the sound of their family packing their tired and slow luggage kept coming from outside the door.

"Cleaned up?" Outside the door, there was a faint conversation between the Chen family.

"The eldest sister didn't answer the phone at home, and I don't know what I'm busy with at this time." Chen Shu's sister Chen Jiao complained.

"I'll fight." Chen Shu grabbed the phone.

Forget it, Ren Yi is not here to travel anyway. Now that the matter has been inquired clearly, it doesn't matter if the owner moves or not.

Let them go, Ren Yi cleaned up the house briefly, thinking about where to find a breakthrough.

……

Dudu –

The phone kept being busy, Chen Shu looked at the earpiece in his hand, and an indescribable horror premonition surged into his heart.

Chen Shu immediately made another call, still busy.

"My brother-in-law doesn't answer the phone either." Chen Shu put down the earpiece and glanced at his family.

The faces of a family of four were covered with a layer of worry, "At such a critical juncture, what are you busy with, why don't you answer the phone......"

Chen Shu hesitated for a moment, and said with a pale face, "It can't be an accident, right?!" ”

Ren Yi was making the bed when the door was pushed open suddenly, bringing a gust of wind.

I saw Chen Shu standing at the gate with a frightened face, looking at Ren Yi eagerly.

"You're here to solve a homicide, aren't you?"

He rushed up, grabbed Ren Yi's arm and said.

"I suspect something happened to my sister!"