Black rain is dripping from the sky, and the vegetation on the ground is still decaying. My boots are walking on the soft and deep ground, and everything is dead and silent. The Bloody Mercenary Group is walking in this desolate and inhabited land. Once upon a time, this was a lush and vibrant hinterland of the continent.
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The air was filled with a strange smell of decay. The person walking at the front of the team was holding a staff with a dim lamp hanging on it.
No one wanted to speak. The darkness and silence brought invisible pressure. They all lowered their heads in silence, facing the dark sky under the pot, their hearts heavy.
After a long time, Big Low pulled out his legs that were stuck in the mud, turned around and said, "Find a place to rest, everyone is tired."
Everyone feels tired in this kind of place. The harsh environment prevents them from bringing draft animals to this kind of place. They cannot afford the large amount of food they need, so they have to rely on manpower to carry everything on their own.
Everyone continued to move forward. It was not suitable to rest now. They had to at least find a flat place to pitch their tents.
The light shines under everyone's feet. Although in the mountains and wilderness, due to the loss of sunlight, the road was not covered by plants in the past. There were only some fallen dead trees lying on the road, which added a lot of difficulties to their journey. But there used to be many places here.
A place in a mountain village.
Walking straight from the path, an abandoned town appeared in the light. The magician in the team fired three fireballs to explore the streets of the town. Not only had the town been destroyed for a long time, but it had also been set on fire, probably before the natural disaster came.
I was robbed by bandits for the first time.
Everyone found some relatively intact houses and entered. Many of the rooms had quite a bit of furniture and ornaments, but were covered with thick, damp plaster. They used local materials to make soup and stew meat, and some people were in the room.
Search it for something you can use.
Irina found some dry towels and casually wiped the thick mud on her leather boots, then came to the second floor of her small building. In the master's bedroom, there was also a happy couple hanging on the wall.
Her wedding photos were in a mess, and the wardrobe was in a mess. She thought they left in a hurry when they left. She opened a few cabinets, and there were seven silver coins and two gold coins scattered in the bedside table.
There was a medium-sized copper-nailed wooden box, which contained a few knives and short sticks that were not taken away, as well as a few worthless copper and iron rings. Judging from the markings on it, they were probably graduation certificates from a certain college. Some good ones
The college will give some practical small gifts to students after they graduate.
The man making broth downstairs complained that he should not take this road and this direction. If he followed Lara Felu and the others to the south, the situation would not be so bad.
Dongsar, a member of the Tamar tribe who just celebrated his 16th birthday, said: "It doesn't matter which way you go. When Bimoye and I came, we took a detour to the south. It was dark everywhere and the sky was completely covered."
The red dwarf Ermuda said in a high voice: "We must find those things that can save the world as soon as possible before everything gets worse. Now on the dark land, hundreds, thousands or even more people die every day.
, the dust in the sky is still expanding, we must save ourselves and end this."
On the street, Luo, Mio, Delma, Dean and Ada were patrolling along the street. Although there was probably no danger in this deserted town, it was still good to be on the safe side and find out what was going on here.
Ada and Dean originally escorted Lara Phil to the Desman border and were supposed to return to Ten Star City to return to work. However, midway through, they received new instructions from a fast horse, requiring them to accompany Miss Cole. Therefore,
Come here together.
Dean and Delma were more agile and each occupied the rooftops on the left and right sides of the street to explore. They found nothing. They only saw two highly decomposed corpses lying on the street and under the eaves. Most of their bodies had been covered in black pulp that fell from the sky.
It was covered with rain and must have been dead for more than a month.
In another small building on the same street, Scar, Bimoye, Cole, Afro, the backbone of the team and other newly joined powerful people were gathering together to discuss action plans. Because the environment was not ideal,
They discuss the next course of action every day.
Since their departure, the Bloody Mercenary Group's primary goal is to find the core of the entire salvation plan, to find the Abyss of Light. But no one knows where the Abyss of Light is, so they have a secondary goal, to find the elemental spirits.
Especially the elemental spirit of light. Therefore, when planning the route of action, follow the route where the elemental spirit is known to be found.
At this time, the five Luo people ran back and said to them at the door: "There is someone in the town!"
Most of the members of the Bloody Mercenary Group arrived on the other side of the town without eating. They saw many refugees scattered under the house and on the street. Most of them were old people and children. The children were crying from hunger, and the adults had no energy.
, everyone is very weak, and when they see a stranger appear, they are frightened and excited at the same time.
"Do you have anything to eat? Please give me some charity." A man who was so hungry that his eyes were blurred bravely stepped forward to ask. When the man said this, everyone looked over eagerly.
The tall Moya turned up the light and held up the hanging lamp, looking at the pairs of peeping eyes everywhere in the dimness. The dozens of pairs of empty and powerless eyes in front of him made people feel chilled. In the dark depths of the streets and houses,
I don't know how many eyes like this are still peering here.
No one in the mercenary group spoke. Of course they had food, but the food was prepared for themselves. This dark and desolate area was vast and constantly expanding. They didn’t know how long they would have to walk to get the next supply. Refugees here
There is so much food, and if we give them food, we will not have enough.
Seeing that they were not moving, the refugees knew that they had lost hope of getting food, and they all sat listlessly. Even the baby who was crying just now lost the last bit of strength to cry.
Woods, who was new to the team, bumped his companion Jasmine with his elbow, and pointed at the half-hidden bones behind a wooden barrel in a narrow alley. It was the white bones of a child, with no skin or flesh on them. It had obviously been...
It was cooked and eaten by people.
Jasmine was a woman. She noticed the white bones, thought of its meaning, and vomited it out on the spot.
The refugees noticed the gazes of these mercenaries, some looked ashamed, and some were crying in the corner.
Someone in the mercenary group couldn't bear it and muttered: "Let's share some food with them."
Some people were unmoved and had a heart of stone: "Giving them a bite of food will not save their lives. They are old, weak and disabled, and cannot leave this dark place on their own. The final outcome will still be death. Sharing food with them will not save their lives, but also