Chapter 799: Strange Situation in the Mountains
Zhan Changfeng stood on the water and looked up at the opposite mountain wall, the mountain wall was covered with semi-circular stone gates, and there was no trace of people, compared to the two settlements encountered earlier, the Gorim settlement was obviously safer, they could live in the mountain without water and not exposed.
However, she questioned the news described in the mission that "all the people of Gorim are dead", and she could clearly sense a lot of faint breath of life.
Zhan Changfeng pinched the trick and disappeared, through a stone door, the cave was not large, only a dirt bed was placed, on which lay a short man, still breathing, but paralyzed.
There is also a door on the inside of the cave, and through it is another small cave, which is also an earthen bed, and a person.
According to the head of the previous settlement, Gorim's dwellings were distributed like honeycombs, and one or two people occupied a small cave, and on weekdays, they would eat and gather in groups, and they would go to the inner cave hall.
She should have been able to go down the doors to the cave hall, but every little cave was full of paralyzed people, which made her suspicious.
It is not like it is the work of evil spirits, who are evil spirits, or spirits and ghosts affected by resentment and miasma, who feed on the flesh and soul of living beings, and are not kind enough to let them be paralyzed here.
Zhan Changfeng stretched out his palm and hung it above a person's head, flipping through his life's memories in a hurry, but there was nothing special, as if he had suddenly become like this.
She observed a few more people, and it was all the same.
It is worth noting that they are all paralyzed, unable to speak, unable to open their eyes, unable to move, but have a sense of touch, taste, hearing, and are conscious. The heart howls in pain.
As she listened, she noticed someone coming in front of her, and after waiting for a while, the door on the side was pushed open, and a lame old man entered.
The lame old man's eyes were numb, and he carried a wooden bucket with some kind of mushy food in it.
He expertly inserted a funnel into the paralyzed man's mouth, scooped up a spoonful of the runny paste and poured it in, then pulled the funnel up, picked up the barrel, and went to the next small cave.
Zhan Changfeng didn't feel any other breath on him, and couldn't help but wonder, could it be that she was a step late, and the so-called evil spirit had already left?
Her consciousness swept over the entire Gorim over and over again, and nothing else.
After thinking about it, Zhan Changfeng returned to the foot of the mountain, where there was a shelf, on which was a half-human-high gong, which was used to remind the people in the mountain when foreign settlements visited.
She knocked more than a dozen times, and the deafening sound resounded through the sky.
The living people in the mountains did not recruit, but they attracted a few adult locusts, the adult locusts have the size of a strong ox, thin wings on their backs, and their front claws are like sickles, shaped like praying mantises, and their strength can be compared to building a foundation.
Zhan Changfeng slashed them with a sword, and waited for a while, a rock next to him moved, revealing a crack, and there were a pair of eyes looking outside, probably to see that there was no danger, so he moved the rock away a little more, and asked in a hoarse voice, "What are you here for?"
"The leader of the Purple Ge Settlement sent me, I want to exchange some seeds, and then ask us where the merchants of the Purple Ge Settlement are. ”
"Oh. He leaned over and motioned for her to come in.
The human race here is generally thin and short, and the road built is also very small, she must bend over to walk, the Gorim man in front of her straightened his waist, three inches from the top, not to mention that most of him is hunched back, as if he is not old and decrepit.
The Gorim man who led the way was not very old, and he realized that he was followed by a "behemoth", ran forward a few steps quickly, and then timidly turned back, his numb eyes moved, and a few wisps of curiosity and envy floated, "You must be the general of Zige, you can eat so tall." ”
Eat?
Zhan Changfeng recalled the leaders and guards in the Zige Settlement, and the relatively strong people seemed to indeed have a half-official position.
He didn't ask Zhan Changfeng to reply, he thought to himself, "Only leaders and generals can eat enough, raise strong, and choose men when they are strong. Women mate and give birth to the next generation, I don't have anything to eat, so I'm so thin and small, I don't have children, but now it's different."
Zhan Changfeng's eyebrows moved slightly, she knew what this "different" meant, in the whole mountain, there were only twenty people who could move their hands and feet, a lame old man, two young men, thirteen pregnant women, and four young children of different ages.
"Come in. After a tortuous passage, the Gorim man pushed open a small wooden door, and inside was a relatively large cave hall.
"Where's the food?"
"Where did you die!"
The pregnant women vented their emotions in a frenzy and pain, picked up the stones around them and smashed them casually, and the Gorim people who were hunched on their backs nodded their heads in despair and flattery, and ran into another door, bringing out the food that was still good for consumption.
On the other side, a Gorim man with a broken arm hurriedly stopped the four children who were on a rampage, "You can't eat that, that's what mothers can eat." ”
He took out a black bowl, "You eat this." ”
The children began to cry and refuse to eat the rotten leaves with mud in the bowls.
"Don't cry, I'll give you this again. He took out a jar of urine in distress, "It's all fresh today." ”
The children burst into tears and laughed.
"Anything else?" the lame old man limped back with an empty bucket.
The man with the broken arm wrinkled his face sadly, "I'll mix some more." ”
He took out a basket of dried excrement, poured it into the tank, sprinkled some grain husks into it, and looked blankly at the lame old man, "The water in the underground river is polluted, and we don't have enough clean water and urine." ”
The lame old man made a wooden face, moved his lips, and squatted in the corner without saying anything.
The man with the broken arm threw down the mixing tank and stood there not knowing what to do.
After more than half an hour, the slumped-back Gorim man finally coaxed the pregnant women, and he said to Zhan Changfeng with a tired face, "Our groundwater is gone, can I get some water from you?"
Zhan Changfeng didn't answer and asked, "Where did the people who came here to do business go before?"
His eyes flickered, "I don't know, I haven't seen it." ”
"Yes, why just a few of you, and the other Gorims?"
He wanted to pull out a sad expression, but his already desperate eyes turned hideous, "A month or two ago, all of us here contracted a strange disease, and all of them were paralyzed overnight. ”
"Look at me. ”
He looked at Zhan Changfeng as if frightened, and the inexplicable fear made him want to pull his legs and flee, but his legs couldn't move, as if he was caught by something, and fine sweat climbed up his pale face, "What are you doing?"
Zhan Changfeng checked his memory, everything was fine, but there were two slightly strange things, the first one, one night ago, he cursed the top and bottom of the Gorim, and said that if they all disappeared, he would have the right to mate, and he would be able to have children, but the next day, the Gorim people were all paralyzed, leaving only his father and brother, and the woman with a baby and a pregnant woman.
Second, not long after, he had another dream, in which someone told him that his wish had come true, that it was time to repay, and that the price of his wish was that he had to take care of the paralyzed people.
There is an indescribable weirdness in the whole thing, could it be that the monk who has gone astray has done it?
But what about this mission message that "all the people of Gorim are dead"?