The periphery of the Dayuan Empire is a wasteland without plants and trees.

Cold corpses and dead bones can be seen everywhere.

The light of the fireflies flashed under the starry sky, and the faint phosphorus fire drifted around.

Echoing the stars in the Nine Heavens!

"Lu Yao" who was disguised was supporting Huang Quan, who was also disguised, and wandered under the starlight.

At night, poisonous insects, snakes and rats began to become active, and they ate their bodies and enjoyed themselves.

There were jackals wandering in groups in the distance, making whimpering sounds, their eyes were cold, and they were flashing green light at Huangquan and "Lu Yao".

However, they were all scared away by Huang Quan's cold snorting.

A refugee residence appeared in front of him!

A village!

Every household has closed the doors and windows!

"Alas... These corpses are not burned. If this continues, a plague will break out." "Lu Yao" frowned slightly, with a worried tone.

"You kid knows a lot. By the way, we came out in the middle of the night just to see the dry bones of the wasteland?" Huang Quan complained a little.

"Let's go and take a look at a village in front." "Lu Yao" opened.

Wow wool wool ———

At the entrance of the village, an old hungry skinny dog ​​barked constantly.

"Don't release your breath, just let it call." "Lu Yao" sent a message to Huang Quan.

Huang Quan laughed dryly, stood on a crutch, pretending to be sick.

Hearing the barking of the old dog, many people in the village woke up.

There are doors and windows that open a gap, and the people inside look out.

When they saw that it was a pair of beggars, they all relaxed.

"Old man, what's wrong outside?" In a dilapidated room, the old woman asked her husband in front of the window.

The old man sighed and shook his head and said, "It's a pair of old and young people. It seems that they have escaped from other places! Alas... Where can I escape now?"

"Why don't we give them a stutter?" the old woman asked.

"What nonsense? Where can we have surplus food?" The old man turned around and glared at the old woman.

The old woman suddenly became silent.

Immediately afterwards, 'Lu Yao' began knocking on the door, and asked crying, "Is anyone? My grandfather is sick, please help me!"

Huang Quan pretended to cough repeatedly, looking like he was about to die.

"You go! We can't help you! Who has medicine these days?" Such a voice came from the house.

"Lu Yao" shook his head in frustration and began to knock on other people's doors again.

As expected, no one in the entire village opened the door for them.

"Is human nature so cold? "Lu Yao" said disappointed and his eyebrows were low.

At this moment, the door of the broken room next to it made a creaking sound, quietly opening a gap.

A thin little arm stretched out from the crack in the inner door.

The slightly thin little hand was holding a handful of black things.

"Little brother, I'll give it to you." A little girl's voice came from inside through the door.

Hearing this, ‘Lu Yao’ hurried forward, stretched out his hands, and then.

The little hand stretched out from the crack in the door was slightly loosened, a little slow, it could be seen that the people inside the door were hesitant and reluctant to let go.

Finally, the handful of black things fell into the hands of "Lu Yao".

After a closer look, it turned out to be a ball of grass roots stained with soil, with tender buds on it!!!

"I only have this one. I originally planned to keep it for food tomorrow morning. But I don't want to hear you say that everyone in our village is cold and weak." The girl's voice came from the room.

When Lu Yao heard her words, his heart trembled slightly.

Did he say the wrong thing?!

At this time, the girl said again: "My father has joined the army. He has not come back for two years and has no letters. Everyone in the village said he will not come back again! Later, my two brothers were also taken to join the army. My mother starved to death two months ago."

The girl in the room couldn't help but say this.

Although she didn't cry, her tone was not even more sucking.

"Lu Yao" can hear the sadness and helplessness in her heart.

The reason why she doesn't cry may be because she has already cried and she has dried up her tears!

The meaning of her words was also very obscure. She wanted to tell "Lu Yao" outside the door that you have at least a grandpa!

And she is already alone!!!

"Lu Yao" felt the same way, frowned, his heart was mixed, and his face was gloomy.

What is a troubled time?

That's all!!!

'Lu Yao' asked, "Can you open the door and let us in?"

Inside the room, there was silence.

A few minutes later, the girl in the room opened the door.

With the moonlight, "Lu Yao" finally saw her appearance and was stunned!!!

This is a little girl. She is very thin, with no excess flesh on her face and almost skinny and bone-bone all over her body!

Her hair was dry and yellow and curly.

Her clothes were very tortured and scattered, with many patches, and there were many places where there were no patches.

What shocked Lu Yao the most was that there were two hideous scars on her face, which made her look scary.

She was actually disfigured!

She saw "Lu Yao" stunned, tried hard to squeeze out a smile, and asked, "Am I scary?"

She was reluctant to open the door, probably because she was afraid of scaring "Lu Yao" and Huang Quan!

"Lu Yao" came back to his senses, shook his head quickly, waved his hand and said, "No."

She smiled dryly and said nothing.

She has long been used to other people's strange and pity.

She took the initiative to come forward to support Huang Quan and took the two of them into the house without saying a word.

There was no candlelight in the house, only a small earth basin and a hard bed.

"Wait, I will make a fire to warm you up."

She squatted beside the soil basin, put some hay into it, and then took out two flints from her arms with a very precious time and started to ignite.

The flints collided, sending out yellow sparks, flashing to illuminate the house.

Once, twice, three times...

"Don't worry, there is no cotton wool. It's very slow to ignite with flint, it will be fine in a while!" She spoke a little apologetically, with a faint smile on her face.

‘Lu Yao’ didn’t understand why she could still laugh!!

I don’t know how many times, a small grass was finally lit, emitting warmth and flames.

She carefully added grass to it, fearing that the flames would go out.

"Lu Yao" sighed secretly, and released his mental power to stabilize the fire.

The fire finally started.

"Why don't you eat?" She turned her head and looked at "Lu Yao" holding the grass roots.

‘Lu Yao’ was stunned and said with a smile: “Let’s keep it for tomorrow morning!”

When she heard 'Lu Yao' say this, she lowered her head slightly and whispered: "I have only this one. It's hard to catch mice. I can't catch them. I can only dig some grass roots on the ground."

Her tone was very low and she was a little bit self-blame.

When "Lu Yao" heard this, he felt even more sad. He slowly sent the grass roots to his mouth.

The grassroots entrance, some wood, sand and small stone grains are very chewed!

The taste is a little astringent, a little sweet, and more bitter!

It's an indescribable taste, it's not bad, but it's definitely not delicious!

[It turns out that the refugees in the mainland are not as good as those refugees on the island! At least the refugees on the island can still catch fish!]
To be continued...