Southern Qi has a vast land, and most of the terrain is Pingchuan. Therefore, there are many cities and villages. Originally, because the Southern Qi army was strong, there were many plank roads, and most of them were safe and sound.

It's just that recently there have been rumors of demons eating people in some villages.

Loushan City, tavern.

In the tavern, the voices of people are boiling, and people can always dispel the barriers between each other after a few glasses of wine, and start to talk about the world, and the topic unconsciously leads to the "demon eats people".

"It's not me who blows, I once saw a demon from afar," a short and fat man with a scar on his face, his face was ruddy, and he talked eloquently, "That demon, tsk, I'm afraid it's not nine feet tall, it's bubbling black, leaning down, digging into the heart of that unlucky guy..." ”

Everyone exclaimed in surprise and asked the fat man to continue.

"Oh, that monster, the corners of the mouth, the body is full of blood, that eye, all the whites of the eyes, not black at all... Lao Tzu was frightened and crawled back. ”

"Hahaha, you're a fat man, scared to pee?" The crowd burst into laughter.

The fat man's face flushed, "If you see it, you can be scared to death!" That's good..."

"But—" The fat man seemed to think of something, and fell into deep thought.

"But what, don't hang your appetite here, let go of a fart quickly!"

"That demon, it seems to be a bald head..."

Sifang Village, in the middle of the village.

"Dad, are you going out again?" Yunchen had just finished practicing footwork, and was lying on the ground with bared teeth, his legs were bleeding, and he was miserable. However, after eating dragon meat and soaking dragon blood, the body's self-healing ability is greatly enhanced. This kind of injury will be almost healed in half an hour.

However, what puzzled Yunchen was that Rao now had a qi machine, and his father only allowed him to practice this footwork with a pure body, so that Yunchen's progress in this set of footwork can be described as "turtle climbing".

"Well, I heard that several surrounding towns and villages have not been peaceful recently..."Yun Zhan sorted out the medicine box.

"Dad~~"

"Huh?"

Yun Zhan waited for a while, but he didn't hear the following, so he turned his head and saw Yun Chen squatting aside, looking at him with a look of hope.

Yun Zhan smiled, "You want to go with you too?" ”

"Uh-huh!" Yunchen nodded like a chicken pecking rice.

Yun Zhan groaned, "Okay, but... Be mentally prepared. ”

"No problem, what's there to prepare for?" Yunchen looked confident and disapproving.

……

Only when he arrived on the road did Yunchen know why he wanted to make the so-called "psychological preparation".

After leaving the village, Yunchen's expression gradually turned from joy and excitement at the beginning, to seriousness, and then to solemnity and sadness.

On the country roads in the wild, can you see people's corpses, and some, there are still coarse cloths wrapped in them, and you can vaguely see the appearance before birth; Some, crawling with maggots and buzzing with flies; There are even some who only have white bones left, exposing the wilderness.

The corpse's silent accusations, the vulture's cold-eyed observance, the maggots screeching...... All of this turned into two bloody words in Yunchen's eyes

- Cannibalism.

Although it was a blazing sun, Yunchen's heart was cold.

"How can this be..."Yunchen's voice was hoarse, don't turn his head, he can't bear to look directly at this hellish scene on earth.

"Do you really think that this world is all about singing and dancing?" Yun Zhan looked coldly, "This is just a microcosm of the portrayal of the world, even if you think that the capital is peaceful with singing and dancing, it is just that..."

"Aren't there plank roads, don't the government care?" Yunchen is still unbelievable.

This time, Yun Zhan didn't speak.

"If you want to know the answer to all this, you should not ask here again and again, with your eyes, with your knife, with your reasoning, to find out for yourself..."

There were no words all the way, no words.

In front of you, Jiupai Village.

Yunchen thought that this was the same as Sifang Village, a peaceful and peaceful paradise. However, he soon realized that he was wrong.

There is no anger in the village, no children's frolicking, no old people's gossip.

On the side of the road, it is common to see the old man leaning against the broken wall, putting a bowl in front of him, wrapped in a layer of cloth, looking at the two of them in a daze, without a trace of brilliance in his eyes... Not even, there is no despair.

When an emotion reaches its extreme, it disappears and becomes a numbness, a numbness to everything, a numbness to death.

Whenever he met this kind of person, Yun Zhan would step forward and open the medicine box, and Yun Chen only found out at this time that the medicine in the medicine box only accounted for a small part, and most of the places were food.

After getting the food and medicine, there was a gleam in the eyes of these people, but Yunchen knew that soon, this light would be ruthlessly swallowed up by darkness.

The two walked into a bamboo building, and there was a middle-aged man lying on the bed in the house, the man's complexion was not bad, but his legs were wrapped in cloth, and there was a little blood on it.

Yun Zhan sat at the head of the bed, "How's the leg?" ”

The man struggled to get up and arched his hand, "Thank you, doctor, my leg is much stronger than last time." He looked at Yunchen again, "Dare to ask who this son is..."

"It's the dog." Yun Zhan said casually.

Yunchen nodded at the man, and couldn't help but ask, "This uncle, I saw many people outside who looked like beggars, sitting on the side of the road, and dared to ask......

The man smiled bitterly, "Don't hide it from this son, I am officially the head of Jiupai Village, and they are all from the same village as me." ”

Yunchen frowned, "Then how could they..."

"Alas... It's all to blame on this thief, first there was a big drought, and then a big fish, and there was almost no grain in the field, but those landlords and gentry didn't care about this... Those people, because they couldn't pay their food, their houses were smashed, all their belongings were robbed, and they were left on the streets..."

"These legs of mine were also broken when I resisted... I had no choice but to obey them..."

Yunchen's eyes widened with an expression of disbelief, "They are all your countrymen!" You're just in the same boat? ”

The village chief's eyes also slowly cooled, "Don't look at me with this kind of gaze, I have also resisted!" The man's face flushed, and his eyes flashed with an uncontrollable rage, and he pointed to his legs, "This is the consequence... I also want to live well! ”

"You..." Yunchen was speechless for a moment, and he couldn't think of any words to refute.

"Let's go," the man lay down again, "You people who have no worries about food and clothing, you will never realize that we are like dogs, struggling to survive in the cracks......" Tears flowed from the man's eyes.

Yun Zhan and Yun Chen walked through the streets, one village after another, and as far as the eye could see, they were all like the scene of nine rows of villages. Yunchen even felt that he had come to another world, a dark country with no hope and no light.

That night, Yunchen tossed and turned in the inn, couldn't sleep at night, and when he finally fell asleep, he seemed to have a dream:

"When I passed through the seventeenth floor of hell, and when I reached the eighteenth floor, the messenger of hell opened the heavy gate and said a word to me

- Welcome to the ...... of the world"