Volume 1 The Scene of the Academy Chapter 11 Changes in the Ruins
This abandoned area had a great impact on Gu Tianxiao, since he could remember, he lived in the bustling Jinling City or on the fairyland-like Ancient Sword Immortal Island, where the same people were supposed to be wandering like walking corpses. There are men and women, old and young "things" here, Luo Yin Qianyu told him that these "things" would do anything in order to survive, but Gu Tianxiao couldn't see how they could survive at all. They were planted in groups of twos and threes, most of them still holding rather sharp pieces of gravel in their hands, wary of their fellow kind. Gu Tianxiao saw a thin figure not far away, struggling to move on the gravel road full of potholes, and it took a while to climb to the crack of a stone road, reaching out to keep scooping up something, and then it seemed that he had caught something and smiled happily, the dirty and withered face smiled like a mournful examine, and then the dirty hands like skin and bones seemed to have fished out a pig's trotter that had not been eaten clean, and soon, the pig's trotter stained with sticky black sewage was eaten clean by this person, and there was not even a little bone residue left.
"Under that stone path is the ditch used by the people above to drain the sewage, and it is also the main source of food here. It's ridiculous to say, the more wasteful the people above eat, the less people here will starve. Luo Yin Qianyu sneered lightly and said to Gu Tianxiao.
"Why don't they get out of here and find a place where they can live better. Gu Tianxiao asked puzzled.
"There will be people who will leave, and there will be people who will leave and come here, but the places where they can be taken in, everywhere they are. So in the end, these 'things' that are still alive will still choose a place like this to stop. Habit is a terrible thing, and people are a 'thing' that will be used to it unconsciously. Luo Yin Qianyu said flatly, and then took Gu Tianxiao to stand on a few high walls, to see some more tragic things that would happen.
Gu Tianxiao looked a little numb, he couldn't figure out how the Great Wu Dynasty was so powerful, but there were so many unsightly "things", he didn't even dare to imagine whether his family's Ancient Sword Dynasty was also full of this kind of hell on earth. The smell of blood in some places in the ruins was a hundred times stronger than that in the dark passage just now, and Gu Tianxiao didn't even need to look to know what the 'thing' lying there was gnawing on. After a while, Luo Yin Qianyu took him to a relatively normal ruin, where the houses had not all collapsed, and the people here looked more human, Gu Tianxiao even saw a few muscular big men, occupying a relatively complete mansion.
"Bit,, hard, hahaha. There was a rough howl in the distance. Gu Tianxiao looked at the sound, it was on the high platform above the relatively intact mansion, but Gu Tianxiao was not standing at a good angle, and behind the crooked eaves, a strong man with a full face seemed to be standing behind a young woman and kept insulting her, the young woman had a mediocre posture and ragged upper body, but she was plump compared to others. The big man whipped the young woman's weak body with a whip in one hand, and hung a fresh clove radish in the other hand in front of the young woman's mouth, and the woman's face was full of curvature, and her lips were wrinkled and broken, and she raised her waist to bite the radish, and after exhaustion, her body fell heavily and shook for a few times, and then the woman raised her face as if she was crying and laughing, and continued to struggle to bite......
"Boss, when can we meet some Peugeot little ladies, these are all half-old, greasy. A scar-faced man among the strong men muttered as he looked at the boss with a meaty face.
"Little lady, yes, not to mention the largest Qinglou in the city, 'Drunken Sleeping Xiangju', even if it is a second-rate Lichun Ju, as long as you kid has money, it is guaranteed that you will not be able to get out of bed the next day, but money, do you have it?"
"No... No, but isn't it just a big deal, what good things can I get in exchange this time?" Scarface said with a grin.
"There's a lot to exchange, so I'm going to bet my life on the next thing, don't mess up like this one. It's done, the people above said, I promise you enough to live happily for a few years. The meaty-faced boss shouted loudly, and then, as if at last he had finished venting his anger, he left behind the young woman.
"Teacher, that woman is so pitiful," Gu Tianxiao looked at everything that was happening in front of him, biting his lip and saying hatefully, "And those big men, teacher, kill them all." ”
Luo Yin Qianyu didn't respond to Gu Tianxiao, but just motioned for him to continue watching.
The young woman who was let go by the big man hurriedly staggered down from the high platform, holding the rice bag rewarded by the big man tightly in her hand, and then quietly trotted to the back of the stone pile at the corner to hide the rice bag, and carefully took out an unusually thin child, no men and women, the clothes were tattered, the whole body was dirty and black, only a cross scar on the neck was shocking, Gu Tianxiao was clearly visible even if it was far away. The woman trembled and fed the child most of the clove turnips she had bitten, and the child seemed to be hungry, and after a while he devoured it cleanly, and then the whole body hugged the woman tightly as if he had come to life. On the high platform, the man with the scar took advantage of the fact that the other big men were not paying attention, and seemed to inadvertently throw a cucumber, which landed right at the feet of the woman and the child.
Luo Yin Qianyu told Gu Tianxiao that most of these big men were second- and third-rate masters of the secular rivers and lakes, and after the immortals came down the mountain, some sects were destroyed, and some families were ruined, so they gathered in this ruined place to enclose the land as the king, and did some dirty work for the nobles in the inner city to make a living. Gu Tianxiao didn't know what the Jianghu sect was, but he knew that he hated these big men and even hated that woman. After that, Gu Tianxiao didn't know if Teacher Luo Yin had disposed of these 'things' in the 'garbage area', so he returned to the academy with the teacher and continued to explore the path of cultivation with great difficulty.
On the high wall, Gu Tianxiao stood for a long time with a glutinous child, and now there are rows of decent stone houses in the ruins of the 'garbage area', although the wandering figures are still thin, but they have the appearance of people, many people are immersed in beating drums and making some small mold devices and the like, and the original dilapidated building has been renovated into a two-story stone house, and there is a silver and white pennant on the high platform of the stone house, and the flag flutters with the four big characters of "Xu's Workshop".
"This used to be a real hell on earth. Gu Tianxiao said softly to the glutinous child, wondering if Teacher Luoyin had done something later.
"Oh, what hell? hell on earth This palace has seen a lot in East Taipingzhou, but in the eyes of this palace, human beings are not a good thing, well, of course, the smile of this palace is excepted. She was a little disdainful, she could clearly sense that there were traces of dead bodies being disposed of here not long ago, and she combed her hair with her little paws.
Gu Tianxiao touched Hanako's little head and said with a smile, "I know, you have your own ideas, but I was really scared to death at that time, but hell on earth is always wrong." ”
The little red eyes of the rice dumplings turned, and they didn't seem to think that there was anything wrong, but since the master said it, then nodded and agreed, so the rice dumplings nodded, and thought that it would be better to doze off, but immediately, the rice dumplings found that there was trouble, and secretly some people were quietly gathering over, in fact, the rice dumplings had a bad feeling of being stared at all the time.
A man who looked like a deacon walked to the high platform where Gu Tianxiao was, made a salute, his eyes swept over Gu Tianxiao's whole body intentionally or unintentionally, and seemed to be attracted by the sword and ring on Gu Tianxiao's hand, and then raised his head and said respectfully, "In Xia Xu Song, he is the deacon of the workshop here, this son must be the master of the East China Sea Academy, I don't know what the son has to do when he comes here?"
Although he is only fourteen years old, Gu Tianxiao's body and face have actually grown, although he is still a little thin and thin compared to adults, but he is wearing a standard brocade robe standing high on the wall, and with the momentum of the prince accumulated for a long time, in the eyes of people like Xu Song, who are used to being subordinate, he has the power of a prince.
Gu Tianxiao looked at the deacon under the wall, thinking that he recognized the academy uniform on his body, seeing that he spoke without leaking, and received a reminder from the glutinous man in his heart, Gu Tianxiao simply pulled up the tiger skin and said generously, "This son chased a wild cat on a whim, but he came here inexplicably, and when he saw the banner that said Xu's Workshop, he came over to see, is this related to one of my roommates, Deacon Xu, do you know Xu Xiangxi?"
"Know, know, of course," Xu Song's body trembled unconsciously when he heard Xu Xiangxi's three words, and then said calmly, "Since Childe is a friend of Xu Shizi, please sit down and let the villain entertain you," and then pointed to the high platform on the roof, "This place is relatively deserted, but there is still a screen on the high platform to sit elegantly, and please don't dislike it." After saying that, I don't know what code I called, and I found that the people around me who were slowly approaching quietly retreated.
"No, this son doesn't have this leisure yet," Gu Tianxiao remembered the ugly things that had happened on the high platform for no reason, and waved his hand and said, "It's good that Deacon Xu is busy himself, and this son has to hurry back to the academy." After speaking, he didn't care about Xu Song's reaction, Gu Tianxiao jumped off the high wall and turned to leave.
"The villain sends off the childe. Xu Song lowered his head and said in a high voice.
Not long after, a dark figure behind Xu Song half-knelt on the ground and asked hoarsely, "My lord, will you let them go like this?"
Xu Song, who was still bent over just now, suddenly straightened up and became domineering, how could he still look like a villain with low eyebrows just now. Xu Song waved his hand and said slowly: "For the time being, don't startle the snake, there are people behind him who have been following, presumably the dead man who is secretly protecting." And he seems to have discovered your actions, so don't make your own claims without a hint from this seat in the future, this seat deliberately sold a flaw, hoping to expose this matter. In addition, it is necessary to manage it well, exchange all the valuable, and let them starve to death if they are not human or ghost, and the talented ones will still be trained to become a 'dead face', and they will retreat if they understand. ”
"Yes, sir. The shadows receded, and the ruined area was dead again, except for the crash of hard objects.