"Have you arrived at Didao City?" Bai Ya asked with some joy, after staying on the ship for so long, even with his otaku personality, he felt a little tired.

"No, we crossed the confluence of the Huangshui River and the Yellow River yesterday, and now we have just entered the waters of the Tao River. From here, we have to walk to Di Dao City, and some sections of the road can take the flying bus of the big post road, after all, we have to investigate the people's conditions, and we can't take the boat all the time!" Wang Peng said with a wry smile.

For a warrior like him, it was obviously a chore to investigate the people's feelings. If he didn't have a choice, I'm afraid he would rather fight the brute beast.

After walking along the river bank for a few days, the two had to take a detour.

Ahead of us, there was a muddy land of mud, a mess everywhere, broken clay pots, broken stone and bricks, broken wooden beams half-buried in the swamp like snakes, and the occasional swelling of human and animal corpses.

Bai Ya had never seen the scene of a flood disaster in his previous life, and at most he had seen flood news in some poor countries on TV.

However, those news images that only lasted a few seconds really could not compare with the disaster scene in front of him.

As the two walked along, they began to see groups of victims who had taken refuge in the north.

"It doesn't seem that the disaster is very serious!" Bai Ya carefully observed the team of victims in front of him, and said with some doubts.

The victims in front of them were either pushing wheelbarrows or sitting in ox carts, strong laborers carrying large and small burdens on their backs, leading cattle and donkeys in their hands, women and children holding hens and lambs, dragging their families and families on the road in twos and threes.

Although everyone was worried, it was obvious that they were not in a desperate situation, and as long as the local government handled it properly, they would soon be able to settle down.

"No, a certain person got information from Liangzhou City, the place where the flood broke is five hundred miles south of the county capital Didao City, and it is still thousands of miles away from here. At best, it has suffered the aftermath of the floods. The Blood Knife Guest was not as optimistic as White Cliff, but said with a grim face, "They didn't have to migrate. ”

"What? Then they ......" Bai Ya was startled, looked at Wang Peng's ugly face, and suddenly understood, "Could it be that these people have to leave their homes because of the impact of the real disaster?"

Bai Ya felt unbelievable, in his previous life, he had seen the historical record of the bursting of the embankment at the mouth of the Yellow River, and the flood was hundreds of kilometers long, and tens of millions of people were affected. Today, the geographical situation of Shenzhou is special, the population is not so dense, but the disaster area is undoubtedly larger.

It's still hard to imagine that a single flood can affect thousands of miles away!

"If this is the case, I am afraid that the local disaster will far exceed the original expectation, and most people will only take risks and take action against their neighbors when they can't survive. Wang Peng thought for a while, raised his head and said, "I wanted to visit all the way to the past, but now it seems that we must speed up, we have to go to the nearby county town first, and directly teleport to Didao City." ”

The two stepped up their pace, and finally entered a small nearby county town at sunset.

Originally, this place had been sealed off by the order of the county magistrate, but under Wang Peng's inspection bronze medal, the county magistrate had to let them use a small teleportation array in the city.

......

The object in front of them was sudden for a while, and when they opened their eyes again, the two of them had reached the destination of their trip.

"What kind of person?" Seeing that the teleportation array that had long been sealed was lit up with teleportation brilliance, the soldiers guarding near the military office immediately waited until Wang Peng showed the bronze medal of the inspection to a brocade official who rushed to hear the inquiry, and then he was released from the military office.

As soon as the two of them left the city, the gatekeeper hurriedly closed the city gate as if there was a fire burning behind his buttocks, and the two of them also found that the situation was a little wrong.

The moat belongs to the military city, and it is not allowed to gather near the city, but only a hundred meters away from the moat, it is already full of tattered cloth sheds. These cloth sheds were irregular, sewn from various rags, and White Cliff even saw many old shirts that had been cut off on them.

There seemed to be people living in the cloth shed, but it was just a vast and boundless shed, and the two of them did not hear a rooster or dog barking, and it was quiet as if it was a wild burial post, leaving only the cold wind to blow the rags of the cloth shed violently.

An inexplicable chill rose from Bai Ya's back, making him feel creepy.

"Let's go, let's get out of here!" Wang Peng greeted softly, and he wanted to stay away from here.

Bai Ya didn't dare to slack off, and followed closely behind the Blood Knife Guest, but his eyes still couldn't help but look at the shed, wanting to see through the strangeness in it.

Wang Peng, who was in front of him, ran for a while, and suddenly stopped, almost letting Bai Ya, who was following closely behind, crash into it.

"What's wrong......" Bai Ya turned back suspiciously, but as soon as he saw the scene in front of Wang Peng, he only felt that his scalp was numb, as if something had exploded in his head.

Not far in front of the Blood Knife Guest, there were two people and a dog. One of them had been transformed into a skeletal corpse, with his right forearm missing, and another scrawny teenager lying next to him.

The boy's cheeks are deep, his cheekbones are high ~ convex, the ribs are exposed, and the skin of his limbs is close to the bones, almost like a living skeleton. He was too weak to stand, and could only crawl on all fours.

He held the skeletal corpse in one arm, and the other slowly swung in front of him, as if to drive away the wild dogs in front of him.

The wild dog, also skinny, was gnawing on something, but from time to time he still looked up at the boy and the corpse in his arms, and his eyes gleamed with a miserable green light.

At this time, seeing Wang Peng and Bai Ya, the wild dog seemed to be frightened, roared in his mouth, picked up the gnawing thing, and ran away with his tail between his legs.

At this time, the two of them saw that what it was gnawing on just now was actually a skeletal hand with an arm bone attached, which seemed to be the missing right arm of the corpse.

The young man lying next to the corpse finally realized that there was someone next to him, and turned his head to look at the two with difficulty, his eyes were as pale as beads, and only two black pupils flashed with the same ghostly light as the wild dog just now, and slowly stretched out his hand towards the two.

"Hiss~" Bai Ya clenched his teeth, gasped, and couldn't help but take a step back.

"Hurry up! They're all out. Suddenly, the whisper of the Blood Knife Warrior sounded in his ear.

Bai Ya was startled, looked around, and sure enough, he found that among the cloth sheds that were originally as silent as a cemetery, many thin people slowly climbed out, and they seemed to be some old, weak, sick and disabled.

These people no longer had the strength to stand up, and their limbs trembled like dry wood to support their bodies, crawling on the ground. Their gaze reflected a ghostly glow, and almost nothing left of them was a skin and a skeleton, like dry bones in a mound.

As if under their influence, the sky was gray, and the sky seemed to be left with only the color of dead silence, and the light mist shrouded in the shed seemed to be a call from death.

Bai Ya only felt that his scalp was numb, and he completely forgot where he was. Until Wang Peng dragged him out of this realm, his mind was still engraved with many ghostly eyes in the ghosts of the world.

"I have been cutting people like hemp since I was eight years old, and I have seen countless death row inmates who are as fierce as evil ghosts, but I didn't expect that there would be a day when I would be afraid of these dying people. The Blood Knife Man gasped twice and sighed.

"How can this be, how can this be? Isn't Didao City the capital of a county? Even if it is not as prosperous as Liangzhou City, doesn't it even have food to give these victims a mouthful of porridge?" Bai Ya finally came to his senses and looked at Wang Peng in shock.

"A certain ...... I don't know!" Wang Peng wanted to say something, but he just thought about it, but he gritted his teeth, and a chilling fierce light flashed in his eyes, "Let's go, let's go to Di Dao City, and see what the officials and county guards here have done!"

The moat was less than three miles away from Didao City, but the two of them walked along the way and saw countless cloth tents like before. It's just that the two of them didn't dare to get too close, and they even dodged their eyes a little, for fear of seeing an unbearable scene.

Seeing the walls of Di Dao City from afar, both of them secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but Bai Ya immediately felt ashamed, and his face couldn't help but be hot.

A temporary dirt slope made of sand and dirt was built on the outskirts of Didao City, and the county guards behind the checkpoint were fully armed, holding Changge, and the two even saw a column of crossbows the size of a car. It is no wonder that those victims can only be trapped in the tent outside the moat, and cannot approach the county capital Didao City.

There are still shacks for the victims at the back of the checkpoint, and the style should be the tents issued by the government.

However, compared to the sea of sheds outside the checkpoint, the victims here are almost a drop in the ocean, and there is no one in a hundred.

"There are at least a million people outside!" Wang Peng stood up on the dirt slope and looked at the sea of sheds outside the checkpoint with a grim face.

After passing the checkpoint, the two thought that the situation of the victims who had received government relief here would be better.

But along the way, I found that the grass beside the road was full of bones, and the victims who were squatting in twos and threes, although they were not like those outside the checkpoint who only had a skeleton left, they were also hungry and weak, with blank expressions and empty eyes.

"Look, there's a relief porridge shed over there. Wang Peng's eyes were sharp, and he pulled Bai Ya towards the porridge shed.

From a distance, the two of them saw stacks of dough cakes stacked in the porridge shed, and there was a well next to the porridge shed. It's just a little strange that there are no soldiers guarding this porridge shack, and there are no people distributing food, and there are only a few victims around, as if everyone else has deliberately forgotten this place.

"This is not a dough cake...... Bai Ya was very surprised, walked into the porridge shed, reached out and picked up a cake, his eyes widened instantly, and he exclaimed softly, "This is ...... Mud cakes!"

"What mud cake?" Wang Peng frowned, looked carefully at the cakes stacked in the porridge shed, and suddenly his face changed, and he reached out and took a cake, which was broken into clods with a little force.

Sure enough, as Bai Ya said, this was a cake dried in yellow mud! He turned around and looked at the well next to him, but found that it was a bottomless dry well.

"The plagued people are hungry with mud cakes, but there is no food in the city?" the Blood Knife Man muttered to himself, somewhat incredulous.

"White Cliff, White Cliff, White ......" Wang Peng thought of this, and suddenly had no intention of staying outside the city any longer, and greeted him a few times, but saw Bai Ya standing in place with his back and did not respond to him.

The Blood Knife Man frowned, and leaned over to him, only to find that the young man was staring at the other side of the porridge shed in despair, not hearing him at all.

Wang Peng followed his line of sight and saw a pair of mother and daughter in tattered clothes who did not dare to approach the porridge shed because of their relationship, and stood aside tremblingly.

The woman was naked, her wrinkled breasts ~ room was like a shriveled water bag attached to her chest, and she was holding a young ~ child who was only one or two years old in her arms. She was followed by another shaggy girl, about four or five years old, who was looking timidly at them.

"Wow~" The young ~ child in the woman's arms sobbed weakly, and then began to convulse all over his body.

When the woman heard the child's cry, her empty and numb eyes lit up at once, and without hesitation, she put her finger into her mouth and bit it hard, and then stuffed her bloody finger into the mouth of the young ~ child.

The young ~ child just took two puffs, and immediately began to convulsions again, the woman took out her finger to look, but found that the finger was no longer bleeding, so she bit it again......

"Mother, give my brother bread!" The girl behind her slipped into the porridge shed at some point, grabbed two mud cakes in her hand, and handed them to the woman on tiptoe.

Looking at the woman's boneless fingers and the mud cake on the girl's hand, Bai Ya couldn't control himself anymore, stumbled out of the porridge shed, squatted aside and covered his head and face with his hands.