Chapter II: There is a danger in collecting corpses
"Money or food?" The man at the table who was in charge of handing out the "bricks" glanced at the cart behind Feng Xue and immediately asked.
However, the other party was only a customary inquiry, because before Feng Xue could speak, he had already picked up three bran bricksβwhich represented the three corpses on the cart behind Feng Xue.
Feng Xue didn't have any intention of talking nonsense, and after scanning the identification function attached to the gold finger and confirming that each piece had at least 100 towers, he immediately took the bran brick and stuffed it into the backpack that crossed with him, and pulled the cart to follow the corpse collectors who walked in front.
However, what gave him a headache was that after walking about five or six hundred meters, the people in front of him suddenly separated.
"Ah......h Are the destinations all different? Feng Xue's brows immediately furrowed, hesitating who to follow, and after a short thought, his eyes locked on a beard that looked to be in his thirties, with a rather artist-like beard on his chin, but he was wearing an antique vertical brown.
It was this guy who, on the day he first crossed, lied to him of a brick.
Retracting his hand into his sleeve and holding the short knife hidden there, Feng Xue was extremely glad that he had gone to visit the exhibition before crossing over, although the Assassin's Creed costume did not have any actual defense, but the sleeve that held the Hidden Blade in place could at least provide a place to store weapons.
It seemed that he heard the sound of wheels rubbing from behind him, and the man immediately turned his head vigilantly, and at the same time, Feng Xue also noticed that his left hand had already touched into his arms, needless to say, there must be some weapon hidden there.
However, after seeing Feng Xue, he suddenly relaxed a little, and while dragging the cart with six or seven corpses to move forward, he said in a tone of some admonition:
"Isn't this the little brother who just came? Collecting corpses is not a good job for newcomers! β
"Oh? Isn't it just collecting corpses? What's not going to work? Feng Xue half-truthfully showed that he was ignorant of the world, the man's eyes narrowed slightly, he took out a bran brick and threw it, and then said:
"Of course, otherwise how could it be worth the price? But this is also the capital to save your life, give me a brick and I'll tell you! β
Although he had just received 300 towers, Feng Xue was still a little hesitant, after all, this was only three days' amount, plus the little that was originally left, if he didn't find a new job for four days, he still had to die.
However, his hesitation did not last long, because the three days since the time traveled had made him realize that work in this strange place was far more difficult to get than he thought.
Carefully took out a brick from the bag, but did not immediately throw it to the man, but followed the other party's example, and threw the half palm-sized brick and said:
"You say it first, I'm here anyway."
As he spoke, his consciousness focused, and a warm current poured into his body along the bran bricks, and he clearly felt that he could stay in this world for another day - that feeling, as if the countdown in the upper right corner of the field of vision had been twenty-four hours longer.
"Okay." The man was unexpectedly easy to speak, but he deliberately tensed his expression and said in a slightly gloomy tone:
"These corpses could turn into bad omen!"
"A bad omen? What is that? Feng Xue listened to the other party's tone as if telling a ghost story, and was a little inexplicable for a while, the man was stunned when he heard this, and then said as if he had just remembered:
"I forgot you were new here."
As he spoke, he patted his head and explained:
"Bad omen is a vicious strange story, almost everything in this world is made up of [consciousness], but only the [knowledge] possessed by the [real thing] is edible, the [consciousness] of the [pseudo-thing] is almost solidified, and it cannot be absorbed at all, and the [consciousness] in the body of us [creatures] has a mark, if someone eats the [consciousness] with the mark...... Well, to put it bluntly, if he eats a person, then his [consciousness] will be polluted, settle, and finally become an irrational monster, and that thing will be called a bad omen. β
After realizing that the piece of shit that caused the bloody case was likely to be the [real thing] when she first crossed over, Feng Xue then asked, "This bran brick is the [real thing]?" And what is the [Counterfeit]? And what is the imprint? β
"Everything that is not a creature and is not a real thing, the soil, the walls, the air, and the clothes on your body, these things are fakes, as for the sigils......"
Speaking of this, the man showed a somewhat disdainful smile:
"That's not a few bricks of information."
"Well, then back to the corpses, why do these corpses turn into bad omens?"
Feng Xue was very good at restraining her curiosity, and almost without the slightest hesitation, she turned the topic back, and the man didn't pay much attention to it, so he naturally followed Feng Xue's question:
"It's not 'will' become, but 'maybe' become, and all living beings who die for reasons other than the depletion of consciousness have remnants of consciousness in their bodies, and these cognitions may constitute elements in the process of sedimentation, eh...... You don't need to know this, but if certain conditions are met, they will become a bad omen, although the chances are small, but they still exist, and a small landfill like ours can be completely destroyed with a bad omen. β
"Element ......" Feng Xue couldn't help but think of the entry displayed in the identification function of her gold finger, and kept this word in her heart, before she said:
"So the purpose of collecting the bodies is to move the bodies to a place where they are specifically disposed of? But why is everyone not taking the same path? β
"Processing?" The man let out a sneer, then shook his head and said:
"What's the deal? Those of us who collect corpses are just throwing corpses into the wilderness, and as long as we leave the city, this kind of bad omen of corpse transformation will not make any waves. As for why separated? Of course, because the more corpses, the greater the risk of corpse transformation! Alright, it's time for us to part ways, give me the bricks. β
Feng Xue nodded, took a brick from the bag and threw it to the man, the man got the brick, but he was slightly stunned, and then said with some surprise:
"I thought you'd be a little clever."
"You dare to pull so many corpses, and you know so much news, even if you are not a hidden master, you must have two brushes, there is no need to fall out with you for a brick." Feng Xue responded calmly, but she was also ready to hand over everything and beg for mercy.
In just a few words, he had already sucked up two bricks, and even if the other party had the intention to rob him, he would have nothing to gain.
The man obviously didn't plan to do such a thankless thing, but nodded: "It's still a clever one, it looks like I can live a few more days, my surname is Li, you call me Lao Li, if you want to ask anything in the future, come to me, of course, charge." β
"Then you can call me Xiao Feng." Feng Xue nodded in response, and seeing Lao Li turn around, he hurriedly said:
"Well, where should I go?"
"Do you see the walls? Follow the road all the way to the city walls, and then find a random gate to get out, but remember to avoid the guarded gate, which has farmland outside. Lao Li waved his hand with his back to Feng Xue, turned around and walked on a fork in the road, before leaving, he suddenly seemed to remember something, and turned back and explained: "Outside the city is a bad omen's territory, if you plan to continue to do this work, it's best not to stare at a place to lose." β
Feng Xue, who was turning to look at something, was startled by Lao Li's sudden turnaround, and it wasn't until the other party really disappeared from sight that he breathed a sigh of relief, and re-cast his gaze on the corpse on the cart behind him frowned, and when his gaze focused on one of the corpses, two lines of small words also resurfaced-
Name:Corpse (male)
Elements: [Human], [Male], [Suffocation], [Death], WERTU@%YS#@%%$&%I......