Ding Yi found that there were almost no young villagers in these villages, even twelve or thirteen-year-old boys almost never saw it, and even if there were, they were all stupid and imbecile disabled people who lacked arms and legs.

Ding Yi didn't believe that there were no young people here, otherwise where would those children come from.

He threw this question to Uncle Dong again.

"Haven't you heard of Breaking the Heavenly Gate?" Uncle Dong asked rhetorically.

Ding Yi recalled this incident of breaking through the gate of heaven, it turned out that the city would expel a certain number of civilians every year: those who were old and helpless and had no place to live, those who were disabled because of various accidents, those who were unwilling to drag down their families due to illness, and those who misbehaved......

Therefore, there is not a single beggar in the city, and there are few old people who are not engaged in production, and there are no homeless people, because these are not allowed in the municipal government. This is also the main reason why Xiaomin had to drop out of school after Xiaomin's father died.

It is not easy to live in the city, and although the price of goods is relatively stable and cheap, the average salary of citizens is also relatively low.

If it weren't for the fact that Ding Zhaoding was an old native of the city, a plain scholarly heirloom, a humble and courteous tutor, and a place to live when the family changed dramatically, Ding Zhaoding was still young and willing to provide him with some job opportunities and lend him money to maintain his life, otherwise he would have been driven out of Jiyun City a long time ago.

At the same time, the city will also absorb a certain number of outsiders every year, which is an opportunity for villagers in the wild.

The rules of entering the gate of heaven are different every time. Sometimes the Qingyun faction would release a few fierce beasts for the villagers to hunt and kill, and select the bravest dozens of people. Sometimes the villagers would be divided into two sides and let them kill each other, picking the strongest ones. Sometimes, it is just an iron plaque that symbolizes the identity of the citizens in an area, and these villagers compete with each other...... This is an extraordinary sacrifice for the villagers!

Anyway, the most fertile land in the world is in the hands of cultivators, and those remote lands can't support so many people, so if you want to survive as a villager, you have only two choices, either migrate to the sparsely populated mountains and Daze, or fight your way out of the Heavenly Gate held every year to become a civilian in the city.

Of course, if the transcendent sacrifice can be passed, this is also a way, but the cultivation seeds among the villagers are not necessarily higher than those of the urban commoners.

After all, the lucky ones produced every year are very few, and most people can only repeat their tragic fate year after year.

"Uncle Dong, there is no shortage of food in the empire at all, why don't you take it out and distribute it to these poor villagers?" Ding Yi couldn't help but ask again.

"This is the method of raising Gu, don't you understand the truth of removing the turnip and preserving the essence?" Uncle Dong said. After speaking, he couldn't help but sigh and said again: "Natural selection is originally the natural law of this heaven and earth, although this method is a little more ruthless, it also follows the avenue, the rise of the empire is by no means overnight, and it is this law of competition that sweeps the Liuhe Eight Desolations." Xiao Yi, that's how things happen in this world. It's good that you have a pure conscience, but everything in this world has its laws, simply put, some rules, you see that the villagers live miserably, but Cheng thought of them attacking passers-by, choosing people to eat. They are pitiful in your eyes, what are we in their eyes? just beasts stronger than them, they eat people. ”

It's rare for Uncle Dong to say so much, and he is just a saw-mouthed gourd and a man of few words.

An old woman with white hair and wrinkles turned out of a low wall, with a toothless old mouth like a dried orange peel, muttering something in her mouth, and staggering towards Guan Qi.

Suddenly three broken stones floated up on the ground, and they floated towards the old woman.

"Get out of here, if you don't want to die, get out of the way. Guan Qi shouted. Ding Yi was shocked to find that a lot of people had emerged from all directions, and there was a faint tendency to surround them.

The old man who was still walking and staggering just now, and the crooked and crooked old man immediately became numb

Slipped back.

The villagers who had risen to the occasion retracted their heads again.

Three stones swirled against a low wall, and this inconspicuous little gravel had a terrible kinetic energy, and the 'boom' actually destroyed the entire low wall.

Ding Yi heard a terrible scream from behind the low wall.

Guan Qi Zhengse said to Ding Yi: "I said earlier, you must not treat them as human beings with these things, they are not worthy." ”

Ding Yi had close contact with these villagers for the first time, and for the first time felt the humility and numbness of life.

He only now understood the look in them that was numb and only animal instinct remained.

Food, food, food! The villagers who are struggling on the verge of death have long since been reduced to primitive creatures, a walking dead who are far from civilization and rely only on a survival instinct.

The stronghold of Skinny Dog Ridge is just behind these cottages.

Such a big set of strongholds here made Ding Yi feel a little incredible. But perhaps because even Ding Yi thought it was incredible, he successfully evaded several times by the special search team.

Near the stronghold, there are a few families of villagers who seem to be in good condition to guard, it seems that these people are also dependent on the organization to live, at least there will be no risk of food shortage, and these people are all young and strong, and they are also equipped with knives, guns and weapons. These guys don't even go to 'break into the sky', this is going to die and follow the organization.

Only then did Ding Yi realize how unwise he was to take it for granted that he wanted to escape outside the city. Imagine that there is a large area of land outside the city, and the fields are rich enough to live, and the threat from them is only those wild beasts such as jackals, tigers and leopards, and you know that this outside world is like this.

It turned out that the vast land outside the city was occupied by cultivators. Taking the Qingyun faction as an example, almost all the fields around Jiyun City are the industries of the Qingyun faction, and the situation of farmers farming, paying rent, paying taxes, and serving labor hundreds of years ago has long changed.

In the past, a farmer could only plant fifty or sixty acres of land a year, and he was as tired as a dog, and the grain he harvested was not much. And now that all these lands are in the hands of cultivators, thirty or forty cultivators have easily managed the millions of acres of fields around Jiyun City.

These cultivators do much better than farmers in terms of loosening the soil, sowing seeds, weeding, repellent insects, watering, harvesting, and so on. Moreover, ditches are excavated, land is leveled, seedlings are grafted, improved seeds are cultivated, wind and rain are raised, insects are repellent, and natural disasters are prevented...... In these respects, the peasants are far behind.

In the past, one acre of land produced three or four hundred catties of corn, which was a bumper harvest, but now after the cultivators take over, they can easily produce several thousand catties per mu. All aspects of agriculture, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry have been completely crushed, and one person is worth 10,000 people, which is better than these tens of thousands of farmers.

The landlords with land moved to the city early, and the remaining small farmers, tenants, and vagrants finally entered the city if they were able, and those who were unable became villagers and savages in the middle of nowhere.

Not to mention that those forests, rivers, lakes, and valleys with abundant products have long been occupied by these cultivators, leaving only some barren Gobi Desert, poor mountains and bad waters, left for these villagers.

The cultivators did not want to wipe out all these villagers, and the establishment of this mechanism was like raising Gu to remove the chaff and preserve the essence, maintaining the pattern of the empire's long-term prosperity.

In the previous feudal empire, the rulers were still afraid of peasant uprisings, and now these people are not like ghosts, even if everyone is issued a weapon, these people will not be able to defend the empire in the slightest.

Not counting the villagers who guarded the entrance of the stronghold on the side of Slender Dog Ridge, there were also seven members of the organization: Ma Face, Scar, Sparrow, Lao Niu, Chang Shui, Xiu Xiu, and Madman.

Xiuxiu is the only woman, and her name is very inconsistent, she is a fat woman with a rough appearance, thick arms, thick thighs, and a bucket waist, only

One worthy of her name is an unexpectedly good voice. Don't look at the face or the figure, just listening to her will make many men think about it. She is in charge of the logistics here, and she can be regarded as the logistics team leader here. She is a monk who cultivates both body and law. He is quite slippery in controlling fire with one hand, and he is also a wrestler with a thousand pounds.

Scar and the Maniac are the combatants guarding the stronghold here. Scar's Ice Sword combined with his Extreme Frozen True Qi made his combat effectiveness extraordinary. He also has the spiritual power that has reached the high level of the feather level, and the swordsmanship can be used to attack from afar and defend closely, which is the existence with the highest force value here.

The madman has cultivated a bloodline technique called the Bloody Spirit. This guy can transform into a giant more than a foot tall when he goes berserk. His Jiuyang knife technique is also very powerful, and the eight-zhang long flame saw knife weighs more than 800 catties alone. His weapons are just as much a cultivation item as Scar. This guy is very fierce, and after going berserk, his blood is boiling and his force value is off the charts, and the only drawback is that he is very bloodthirsty in battle, and his six relatives don't recognize him.

Ma Face is a master of escape, and he is responsible for the investigation and control of the surrounding environment. He is a monk of the spiritual department. Unlike most cultivators who major in the spiritual department, who cultivate mental power, his major direction is induction. Spiritual-level psychic induction was able to give him insight into every plant and tree ten kilometers away.

Sparrow is a master of disguise, he is an illusion who refines the spiritual system, and his job is not to disguise the members of the organization, but to create illusions on a large scale and cover the stronghold.

Changshui is a monk of the natural department, he mainly focuses on mushroom plants, and he is also a poison expert, he is the supreme person in charge of this base, in fact, this base is a production base for Changshui to cultivate mushrooms.

Of course, what he cultivated was not ordinary fungal mushrooms, but poisonous mushrooms of various sizes.

Lao Niu is a feather-level Five Elements cultivator, and he is a dual cultivator of earth and water. The internal construction and layout of the stronghold is currently his job, and he is also the deputy team leader of the auxiliary Changshui.

None of these people know how to do tricks or puppetry, and they all have the task of digging tunnels and underground palaces in addition to their own work.

Everyone in the stronghold got the point wrong, they all thought that Uncle Dong was a puppet master sent by the organization to repair, and they were all not enthusiastic. As for Guan Qi, he is a liaison who has been here several times, and he is very familiar with him, so he doesn't need to guess at all. Ding Yi was just a half-grown child, and he thought he was Uncle Dong's nephew or apprentice, so no one paid attention to him at all.

A group of people surrounded Uncle Dong, talking and laughing, and got off the road. Guan Qi and Ding Yi followed, leaving only a scar left behind.

After passing through one road after another, turning around, up and down, Ding Yi found a lot of interesting mushrooms, many of which glow, and a large area of colorful mushrooms was very beautiful. Some of the small rooms have closed wooden doors, and some have thick cotton curtains.

Guan Qi told Ding Yi that these were cultivation rooms with highly poisonous mushrooms, and Ding Yi looked at these mushrooms that grew in the soil, on rotten wood, in dead grass, on stones, and even on animal corpses, which opened Ding Yi's eyes.

Cautiously followed behind Guan Qi, did not dare to make a mistake, and finally arrived at the construction site.

All five of these puppets were completely useless. When Ding Yi, Uncle Dong, and Guan Qi arrived, the last excavation puppet also stopped working. The five excavation puppets in front of him, Ding Yi is very familiar with them, the bison-shaped mining puppets, these damaged puppets, are all lying on their stomachs right now.

"Brother Dong, it can be regarded as looking forward to you, and now you won't even move the last puppet, this time you have to repair it for us, otherwise we won't be able to do this job. The little sparrow said.

"You're looking for the wrong person, I can't fix this. I'm just a refiner, and I'm not the main force this time. Uncle Dong smiled.

"It's not you, who could it be? Could it be him?" Xiuxiu screamed. Only then did everyone turn around and see the thin and delicate young man led by Guan Qi. (https:)

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