Outside Zhenyang City, inside the teleportation array.
In the dark night sky, the seven or eight-meter-tall statue of Kong Shu stood quietly outside the formation.
Lantern-like eyes emitted bursts of yellow light, and he held a huge piece of human skin paper in his mouth.
The red letters above suddenly jumped from 'zero' to 'one' and then to 'three'.
There were many people standing outside the formation. Originally, they had disappointed faces and were about to leave after the red letter jumped to zero. Unexpectedly, the number suddenly jumped to three again.
They were as skinny as wood, with sallow complexions. Their collarbones tightly wrapped their flesh like iron shackles, trapping their necks, and their rows of ribs were like rugged farmland.
Women have nothing more than two dry, yellow and shriveled ‘cloth bags’ hanging in front of them.
They all wore linen clothes with many patches and wore a pair of straw sandals.
Their deeply sunken, dark and bloated eyes regained some energy. They raised the cracked and rusty knives in their hands, waiting for the three of them to step out of the formation as if they were waiting for prey.
"Is it really coming out?"
Zhang Wanyu felt terrified for a second, thinking that she was about to die in the hands of those three monsters. The next scene changed, and a familiar giant Kong Centipede appeared in front of her.
"It's great! It's great! I'm finally out." Her voice was a little more choked, and her face was a little flushed due to the excessive excitement.
Yi Yan and Wang Hu came back to their senses and observed the situation around them.
The first thing that hit me was the smell of urine and rotting corpses.
His sight ranged from the crowd nearby, to the corpse of a child lying on the ground, to the city wall of Zhenyang City made of black boulders connected by fire.
Is this Zhenyang City?
Is it really the hope of mankind?
Huan Yan thought silently in his heart, but the words he wanted to speak were choked in his throat. He saw a child whose whole body was swollen and whose face was dark.
People coming and going selectively ignored him. Under the light, the child opened his mouth slightly and looked sideways at the three of them, as if he wanted to say something.
Ember knows what it's like to be a truly hungry human being.
Before they died, their bodies were swollen, their faces were weak, and their bodies were weak.
And these skinny people are obviously typical examples of people who have something to eat but are not full.
"What do these people mean?" Wang Hu pushed Zhang Wanyu, motioning for her to look at the group of people outside the formation, and said.
Zhang Wanyu came back to her senses. She seemed to be accustomed to this scene. She took out two statues of Kong Shun and distributed them to the two of them. She said, "After each mission, they will kill those poor people who have not been blessed by Kong Shun and use them as food."
eat"
Ember took the statue. The shuddering feeling made him extremely uncomfortable, but he still forced himself to walk out of the formation and separate a path among the crowd.
"Lord Kong Shu protects you"
People's eyes could not hide the look of disappointment. They touched their chests from side to side, said loudly, and then walked away.
"Where are these kids?"
Yan Yan has the ability of night vision. He avoided the feces on the ground and pointed at the swollen child lying next to him in the dung pile.
"These children are the leftover children of the White Lotus Sect. They were the children of those people who gave birth to women after the adults in the sect consecrated them. They were abandoned outside because they did not receive the blessing of Kong Shun's power."
Zhang Wanyu explained.
"Although they are abandoned, people cannot eat them, otherwise they will be tortured by the church people."
This place is more of a temporary residence than a refuge for humans.
Feces and urine can be seen everywhere.
And there are hundreds of tents set up against the city walls.
The people in the tent were dressed in tatters, their faces were numb, and their eyes were staring into the distance and losing color.
Occasionally, some women with sallow complexions and unkempt hair could be seen playing with the two "dry cloth bags" hanging in front of them. They squeezed out a smile that was uglier than crying towards the two people, and motioned for them to come in and "have a seat."
"**Be careful, bastard, your urine splashed on me."
Two men in black with torches swept over the three people in the embers, kicked away the children who were struggling to crawl on the ground, flew into a tent, and hit the man who was staring at the night sky in a daze.
It took the man a while to react, and he numbly threw the motionless child a little further away from him. He didn't repair the broken tent and continued to sit inside in a daze.
"By the way, can you do me a favor?"
The entire journey was silent, and Ember King Hu felt solemn. When he reached the city gate, Zhang Wanyu turned around and said to the two of them.
"On the last mission, our Sun Ghost Hunters team rescued only me and survived, so I would like to ask you to temporarily join the Sun Ghost Hunters team so that we can live in the city."
Zhang Wanyu's dusty face revealed a trace of unnoticeable sadness. It seemed that the death of the ghost hunter team was a shadow in her heart.
"Okay." Yan Yan did not refuse. Anyway, they had just arrived and had no basis. They got to know Zhang Wanyu along the way and they had some understanding.
"Thanks!"
Zhang Wanyu bowed cautiously to the two of them, and then took out two wooden tokens and handed them to them.
The token has the word "Scorching Sun" written on it.
It was late at night, and the soldiers stationed at the city gate dozed off occasionally. They glanced at the tokens in the hands of the three people and continued to doze off without asking too many questions.
After approaching the city, Yi Yan realized that this was a town in the true sense.
The ground is paved with blue stone slabs, and the roads are spacious and clean.
The houses on both sides are painted red and have white tiles, and are very neat.
"Believe in Kong Shun, and the white lotus will live forever!"
"Believe in Kong Shun, and the white lotus will live forever!"
A group of wealthy men wearing brocade robes carried lanterns and passed by the roadside.
Yan Yan followed several people with his eyes, and three words were engraved on their backs--White Lotus Sect.
Only now did he remember that this name seemed to have been mentioned in the grotto, but he didn't pay much attention to it at the time. He only remembered it now after meeting it for the second time.
After walking about a kilometer into the city, you can see various extremely luxurious mansions, with the names of their respective teams engraved in large golden characters on the door plaques.
There is "Black Tiger Gate" and "Lanshan Hall"...
Through the crack in the door, you can see a group of people practicing with knives with bare arms late at night.
"Wanyu?"
"Lin Lin!?"
Ember tried his best to accept the new cultural system in this world, and heard a cry in front of him.
He raised his head and saw a girl wearing a long linen skirt walking towards him.
The girl was only sixteen or seventeen years old, already pregnant, with a big belly and a pale complexion.
The moment he saw Zhang Wanyu, there was a hint of surprise and a bit of worry on his face.
"What are you...?"
Zhang Wanyu's originally very solemn mood immediately brightened up, but when he saw the pregnancy of the girl opposite him, he had a bad feeling in his heart.
"Could it be that you have already..." Zhang Wanyu's eyes were full of grief, his lips were trembling, and he did not continue.
"Well, I promised to be the concubine of Grandpa Bai Yue's family. Now I am three months pregnant and I can't go back..." The girl gently hugged the thin Zhang Wanyu, and a line of tears fell from the corner of her eyes.
"Half a month ago, I learned that you were on a mission and the whole army was wiped out. This place was also occupied by the Baiyue Ghost Hunters team. Everyone in our team was secretly eliminated. Wanyu, we can survive in the city.
That’s already a blessing.”
Zhang Wanyu raised her head and looked at the three characters Baiyuemen on the door plaque. With thoughts on her pale face, she looked at the girl and said:
"Who else is on the team now?"
"Aunt Bai has been talking about you, saying that she wants to see you one last time. She refuses to give in to Bai Yuemen, and is now being imprisoned in the woodshed." The girl thought for a moment and said.
Zhang Wanyu bit her lip tightly, her thin body trembling slightly. She thought over and over again and rushed in without hesitation.