Xia Shumin couldn't help but ask, "Don't they grow crops?" ”

Mayien sent her words over.

"Crops? What is it? ”

"Huh? It is rice and wheat, which is planted in the ground and can be eaten when it is ripe. ”

"In the field? Something that grows in the ground? I don't know, we don't know these things. ”

Xia Shumin was stunned by Cassian's answer, and asked again.

Only then did he know that his village did not even have a single grass, and it was bare.

Chen Ji had a bad premonition and continued to ask him.

As it turned out, Cassian's village was not only devoid of plants, but also the sun, moon and stars, rain and wind, birds and flowers, the changing seasons, and everything was gone!

The village was made of iron, dark on all sides, with no wind, no rain, nothing but the Guardian and something called a hedron dug out of the riverbed outside the village.

Cassian knew the concepts of the sun, moon and stars, plants and animals, but he had never seen them, he had only heard them in the stories of the old people in the village.

For him, only the Guardian, the village, his family, and the ore on the riverbed outside the village were vague about other things.

Even the concept of water on the riverbed was told to them by the Guardians.

As a 12-year-old child, Cassian's thinking is very sharp and his logic is clear, but Chen Ji has a difficult time communicating with him.

He lacks much of a concept of normal world things, and relies on listening to the village elders, who in turn hear them from the guardians.

"What kind of world is this?!" Mu Xiaoxiao frowned, "It's like a dead place, deliberately sealed off." ”

Astana also speculated: "Maybe it's a god-forsaken place, which outsiders can't reach." ”

But these are just speculations.

Zhou Wan said to Mayien: "You ask him, do they eat spars?" Or what to eat? ”

If you eat spars, then there is a high probability that Cassian, the food on the earth, will not be able to eat.

"No, we put the hedron in the altar, and from the altar there will be food, iron, clothes, medicines, toys, and so many more, and everything we get from the altar with the hedron."

Directly conjured out?

Cassian's words once again made Chen Ji and the others look at each other.

Even in the Divine Grace Continent, Astana had never heard of such a strange thing:

The altar gave them everything, and only the altar could give them things.

"That's ......"

Chen Ji sat on the sofa, touching his chin with his hand, frowning and thinking, surrounded by a group of beautiful girls.

"In this way, the hedrons, the guardians, and the shrine are the most crucial things in Cassion's world!"

Chen Ji looked at them and analyzed: "According to what he said, most of the hedron is gray, occasionally blue, and the earth and the world you are in should not find such a thing, and there is no way to give it to him."

Mayin, ask him, who is the Guardian? What is the state of the people in the village now. ”

The girl nodded and sent the message.

"A Guardian is a Guardian, he is just like us, but he doesn't grow old and doesn't die, I hear old people say that he knows everything in the world, but he never says it...... By the way, in the past he would teach us to play games, but now it's like this, and we're all very sad. ”

"Everyone in the village is kneeling and begging the guardian to come out of the altar, and the guardian will not let us leave the village, and I will come to the altar of Tongtian, and the people in the village will scold me if they know about it."

After reading his words, Chen Ji pondered again.

Obviously, the guardian is different from Cassian and the others, and I don't know if it is a strong person after cultivation.

He should know the truth of the world, but he doesn't tell anyone else, not even the altar, the spars, the outside world, etc., and deliberately hides the people in the village.

"What is the Altar of Babel?"

Astana asked.

She cares a lot about things related to the gods, plus Cassion said before that the altar will give them many things, which is very similar to the gods.

"The altar is a huge gray-white column, the old man of the village said that the guardians used to look up to it, and the altar leads to other towns, and many places are connected by this pillar, and at the very top of the sky, there is the god who created everything, and our ancestors live there!

I'm at the altar right now. ”

Cassian's words made Chen Ji and the others ponder again.

The altar resembles the trunk of the World Tree?

However, it can lead to other towns, proving that there are not only them in the world where Cassian lives, but Cassian has never seen outsiders, and he had guessed that Chen Ji was from other towns.

Chen Ji wanted to continue chatting with him, but Cassian suddenly panicked and said, "I saw the light, and someone from the village found it!" ”

After this sentence, Cassian stopped sending messages, making Chen Ji a little worried about whether he was being scolded and not allowing him to come to the altar of Tongtian again.

By noon, he still didn't appear, and Astana had lunch here and returned to the Divine Grace Continent.

Mu Xiaoxiao also wanted to go back to the Nine Domains, but Xia Shumin pulled her and said that he wanted to go to Greentown Peony with her to have a look.

The Empress did not refuse.

Chen Ji looked at her expression, why did she think she was quite happy to stay on Earth? I'm also happy to go out with Shumin to do the renovation of the house.

The two Zhou Wan went to work, and by the way, Xiao Zhou Wan asked the secretary to go to the supermarket to buy some food and send it to her home, in case Cassian wanted to use it - she seemed to remember the scene when Zhou Wan was in the wine storage room, so she prepared in advance.

Chen Ji stayed in the living room, and Mayien and Xiao Ke stayed by his side, continuing to wait for news from Cassian.

……

Far away from the world.

"Cassian!!"

A bright light appeared in the darkness, and an eager voice came from afar, so that Cassian, who was staying by the altar of Babel, heard it and hurriedly shouted in answer to them.

Soon, several men dressed in thick clothes and holding a small dim lamp arrived with a deep and shallow step, and when they saw that Cassian was safe and sound, they were handsome and thin, and they breathed a sigh of relief on their thick tired countenances.

This was followed by a scolding that cut his head and covered his face:

"Cassian, what are you doing here?! You know if the people in the village are worried about you! ”

"In order to find you, the village chief deliberately took out a small amount of lamp oil, but you turned out to be ...... Alas, you go back and apologize to everyone, do you hear? ”

"Cassian, don't go out of the village again! You've been out of the village three times! ”

The words of reproach and concern from relatives made the thin Cassion shrink his shoulders, and when they were all quiet, he whispered:

"I... I... Lord Guardian...... We're running out of food, and I—I don't want to see people starve to death......"

There was silence for a while.

Cassien looked at his father, Santos, and saw that his father's eyes were sunken and his face was very thin, and he had not eaten enough for many days, leaving most of the food for him.

As for his mother, who had died of starvation not long ago, she was returned to the altar and half of the food she had eaten.

"Don't worry, Cassian!"

Santos gently patted him on the shoulder with the palm of his six-fingered hand, and said in a hoarse voice: "Lord Guardian taught us everything, he will not watch us die, he must be ......"

"Father!"

Cassion became excited, "Lord Guardian has gone mad, he has watched many of us die, even our mother ......! ”

"Cassian!"

Santos gasped and shouted, "Don't let you say that the Guardian is crazy, the Lord is not crazy, he is just ......"

"No, he's just crazy, he took his sister, he took Amber, he took the newborn Auston, he killed the children of the village......"

"Smack!"

Santos gave him a slap in the face, gasping for air, his chest heaving violently, and his body shaking.

Cassian, who was beaten, became nervous and hurriedly stepped forward to support his father.

His father was so weak that he came out to find him, and his energy was depleted faster, so if he continued like this, he would return to the altar as well......

However, he had no food on him, neither did anyone else, and there had been no one in the village to eat for several days.

"Father, I found people from other towns!"

The skinny Cassian ran back to the altar of Babel, touched its gray-black walls with both hands, and looked up at the dark sky.

In his hands, the dust on the gray-black walls fell one after another, and the altar to heaven looked like an old dead tree, and the trunk had rotted for many years.

I don't know if it was because he was too excited, he didn't get any response from the person named Chen Ji, and the surroundings were quiet and dark.

"People from other towns?"

Santos sat on the ground resting and looked at Cassian with the others, not too excited.

In fact, they didn't see anything come out either.

The so-called other towns are just things that the Guardians have said they have never seen before.

For more than a hundred years, no one had ever seen anyone from another town.

The altar of heaven stood quietly, and I don't know how high it leads.

"Cassian, let's go back...... You have to be obedient and don't talk about the Guardian's madness. ”

The father said weakly, so that Cassion had to come back and help him up.

He also planned to tell everyone about that Chen Ji, but it was not easy for everyone to find him outside the village, and he didn't want to stay outside the cold at all.

Helpless, Cassian could only turn back three times in one step, keep looking at the altar of Tongtian, and walk towards the village.

The group turned on a small lamp and followed the route in memory, moving forward in the darkness and cold.

Cassian's father was even weaker.

He almost staggered to walk, his thin body trembling.

Cassion wanted to carry him, but his father refused.

But.

The father finally fell to the ground, and after being helped up by the panicked Cassian, he said to him with a trembling white mouth:

"Cassian, carry me back and put me in the altar...... In this way, then there will be food, and you have to live, live well! ”

"Santos!"

The rest knelt down sadly to bid him farewell.

It was only Cassian, who shook his head constantly, without saying a word, spread his legs, and ran quickly towards the village.

In the cold, in the darkness, he saw a glimmer of light emanating from the entrance of the village.

Ogar, the village chief who has lived for more than a hundred years, is waiting for them to return.

"Village Chief, I! I! ”

"Don't worry, kid, speak slowly, it'll be fine."

……

The last bit of food in the village was eaten by Cassian's father, Santos.

At night.

The people of the village who could still stand up gathered in front of the altar and, as was customary, knelt before the silver-white gate of the altar.

They were praying that the Guardian of the Shrine would open the door and reappear to them, and distribute them ore to use the altar for food.

They didn't speak, just kneeling was already consuming the little energy they had left.

Long.

Cassian looked up at the kneeling man.

A few fewer than last night, Grandma Granda, who lived next door to him, didn't show up, and his uncle Tossi, they, perhaps, ......

"The Guardian is still blaming us."

The low, hoarse voice of the village chief, Ogar, echoed through the quiet village.

Cassion looked at him, then at the circular altar in front of him, the two silver-white doors were shut, and the Guardian still hadn't appeared.

"Put the dead on the altar."

Ogar commanded calmly.

Soon two people stood up and silently went to a house to carry out the dead inside.

Cassian's hand is clenched tightly, it's Grandma Grandma!

He was very sad, and there seemed to be something in his eyes that wanted to flow out, but a certain will in his mind suppressed his emotion, making him hold back.

He could only watch as Grandma Granda was placed on a platform in front of the altar, and he could only recite with everyone the poem of farewell to Grandma Granda, the poem taught to them by the Guardian:

"Your great life has come to an end, eternal darkness hangs over you, may you have long rest, Mayin is with you!"

"Mayin!"

"Mayon!!"

After three consecutive chantings, the dead person on the platform gradually turned into a warm light, slowly melting away her corpse, and the light floated up like stars, merging into the altar, making the circular altar glow faintly.

Everyone in the village stared at this warm light with great attention, and the power of the light made them regain some strength, and those who could not move around before also walked out of the house at this time.

All the living knelt in front of the altar gates, and their grief was forcibly suppressed, and no one shed tears.

"We want food."

The village chief, Ogal, whispered, and a light appeared, falling on a thin metal plate in front of him, turning into a pale blue, almost transparent fluid.

It's their food.

As is customary, the relatives of the deceased will receive half of the food, and the village chief will preside over the distribution.

"The pregnant Katia wants one more, and then five more are left, and everyone will share the rest."

Ogar quickly made the distribution, and everyone had no opinion, waiting quietly.

Only Cassian stood up, his thin body stood up straight, and looked at everyone with stubborn eyes: "Sister Katiea is pregnant and will give birth soon, but Lord Guardian will also walk out of the door and take the child away, exactly the same as before!" ”

Before the altar, the crowd was silent.

After a while, someone hesitated and said, "Perhaps, Lord Guardian wants to protect our children......"

"But why don't you tell us?!"

No one can answer this question.

Since a few years ago, the Guardian has refused all communication and has been doing things in silence, and all the ore dedicated to the altar will no longer have food or goods.

Whenever a child is born, the Guardian will walk out of the door and take the child with them.

"I'm going to keep out of the village!"

Cassian spoke out about his decision, and loudly said that he had seen someone from other towns, whose name was Chen Ji and who lived on Earth.

The people didn't know where the earth was, and they had never been to other towns, and they had never seen people from other towns.

They have reason to question Cassian.

"Let him go."

A rare smile appeared on the face of the village chief Ogar: "Cassion is not lying, although I have not met people from other towns. ”

The village chief has the prestige of a near-guardian.

He was one of the first to grow up, and he was raised by the Guardians themselves.

"Cassian, you bring the lamp, the lamp oil is enough for you to go a few times, but you have to promise me that you will not go out of the village again after you run out of lamp oil."

"Good, village chief!"

Cassion nodded heavily.

He was ready to set off after waking up, waiting by the altar of Tongtian, and he must contact Chen Ji in the earth town again!

The village chief, Ogar, said again: "Cassian eats more, he is working hard, and it is one of our hopes to live." ”

Wish?

The crowd looked up blankly, they rarely touched the word.

Wish.

……

Earth, night.

Zhou Wan knocked on Chen Ji's door, and after a while, Chen Ji woke up.

"What's wrong?"

Chen Ji was only wearing a pair of shorts, and his beautiful man's figure was displayed in front of Zhou Wan.

It's Zhou Wan who didn't completely become a couple with him.

She was only wearing a nightdress, and her hair was a little messy, apparently just waking up.

"Mayin."

Zhou Wan whispered: "I wanted to go to the living room to drink some water, but I saw her sitting quietly by the window, was she like this before?" ”

Before?

In the past, Mayien used to stand in front of Chen Ji's bed, watching him all the time, and he could last all night without taking his eyes off, and he once startled Chen Ji.

"I'll take a look."

Chen Ji returned to the room and put on a short-sleeved shirt, and came to the living room with Zhou Wan, and sure enough, he saw a girl in a white dress, sitting on the sofa by the window, her slender and fair-skinned body bathed in bright eyes, quietly staring at the Huangjiang Bridge in the middle of the night.

Although the girl didn't say a word and her expression was calm, Chen Ji and Zhou Wan could feel an inexplicable sadness and sorrow in her.

It was as if she was looking at Cassian's world, and from that world, she saw what she once knew.

(End of chapter)