my cube kingdom

Chapter 12 Where are the people?

Unknowingly, a week slipped through the fingers, which is not a long time for the square people, and the square people have a long vitality.

It is recorded in "The Clan of Cube Man" that each Cube man can theoretically live to be [-] years old if there are no special circumstances.

But in this era, it is obviously a dream, and this world is extremely unfriendly to square people.

The bloody massacre of monsters, the extreme backwardness of productivity...

If you don't try your best, you can't survive.

Farmers go out early and return late to farm desperately to fill their stomachs, which makes this group very easy to overdraw their bodies and age quickly.

Including loggers, miners... These groups are also very similar.

There are other special situations, such as: monster invasion, natural and man-made disasters...

Under the influence of various accidental and inevitable factors, the lifespan of the Cube people has been extremely compressed, and they can't even live to be a hundred years old.

Mo Fangyuan has never heard of anyone who has lived to be 70 years old. Even the old village chief who looks very old is actually only in his 50s.

It is conceivable how harsh the living environment of the Cube people is.

Last week, Mo Fangyuan had a very fulfilling life.

Going to work in the field to learn the experience of farming; training in a small garden to improve combat skills; visiting the grassroots to improve the development plan...

Now is a new week, Mo Fangyuan decided to go to other villages to recruit people after thinking that Cube Kingdom has the ability and need to continue to recruit new people according to the specific situation of Cube Kingdom.

This time Mo Fangyuan was alone, and the target was still the northern desert area.

There was no way, Mo Fangyuan had never tried to recruit people who were in a safe place, and he might arouse their hostility if he went there rashly, and he would be frustrated.

After all, who would take the initiative to follow a stranger to a place they are not familiar with when their home is safe, their relatives are still alive, and their lives are passable?

Although the north is chaotic, it also has its advantages.

Because of the skeleton power, the people there either had their homes destroyed, their relatives passed away, or they were in danger...

In such an environment, it would be easier for Mo Fangyuan to jump out to recruit people to gain their trust and recruit people, and there might even be unexpected gains.

It hurts to say it, but it's the truth.

The eight guards who have been trained by Mo Fangyuan for a long time have been able to protect the Cube Kingdom from being attacked by monsters in a short period of time, and Mo Fangyuan can leave with confidence.

This time he was more prepared and brought more props.

Ten axes alone!

After passing the road once, Mo Fangyuan is familiar with it, and it took a day and a half to reach the border of the desert.

The desert is as hot as when Mo Fangyuan first came here...

"It's still hot..."

Mo Fangyuan's physique has improved a lot during this period of time, but he can only endure the terrible temperature in this desert.

Following that small river, Mo Fangyuan went downstream last time, but this time Mo Fangyuan chose to go upstream.

Judging from the map obtained from the desert village, the upper reaches of the river are densely populated with villages in the desert.

"Tread! Tread! Tread!"

Following Xiaohe, Mo Fangyuan started to move forward.

Iron armor couldn't stop the heat, and Mo Fangyuan felt like he was about to be roasted when he stepped on the sand.

Along the way, Mo Fangyuan discovered the ruins of some large and small villages.

He doesn't know much about archaeology, and he doesn't know when these village ruins were built, when they were destroyed, and what their significance is.

However, it can be judged that the houses in these villages should have been abandoned not long ago, and basically all the things inside have been removed. It can be known that the residents inside voluntarily retreated.

Mo Fangyuan also found a few village ruins like this, all of which had just been evacuated.

Mo Fangyuan was also puzzled, what was the reason for these village residents to voluntarily evacuate their homes?Where did they retreat?

With doubts, Mo Fangyuan continued to follow the direction of the nearest village marked on the map.

"This is another empty village..."

At the destination, everything is the same as the previous villages.

There was a dead silence.

Draw a slanted bar on the empty village marked on the map. Mo Fangyuan has been searching here for almost three days.

In the past three days, Mo Fangyuan didn't see a single person, but he found quite a few monsters and empty villages.

This is already the seventh empty village that Mo Fangyuan found.

So far, Mo Fangyuan has consumed a lot of material, but gained very little.

"Income is not directly proportional to consumption, and there is no information about the skeleton forces..."

Mo Fangyuan was confused.

I have lost money now.

"It's better to go back to the kingdom and continue to develop than to waste here..."

Thinking that he almost turned into an experience ball in the mine because he was too greedy, Mo Fangyuan immediately came to his senses and decided to return to the kingdom.

Anyway, it's not just that there are villages in the north, and there are more villages in other places than in the northern desert.

Learning to give up has never been a kind of growth?

It took a week of exploration, and Mo Fangyuan did not expect it to end in this way.

"Hey!"

Mo Fangyuan was very disappointed. After preparing for so long in vain, he didn't get anything!
Mo Fangyuan did not return along the river. He planned to cross the desert and plains and then return to the Cube Kingdom, surveying the terrain along the way.

It can be regarded as making up for a little loss of this exploration.

The main location of the desert is in the northeast of the plain. Mo Fangyuan regards his own location and the location of the Cube Kingdom as two points, and the straight line connecting the two points is the distance Mo Fangyuan needs to travel.

The sky is green and the fields are vast.

Leaving the scorching desert and stepping onto the plain again, Mo Fangyuan looked around and couldn't help but marvel at the great power of nature.

On the road that Mo Fangyuan walked, he found many creatures, including cows, sheep, chickens...

Recording the locations of these animals on the map will make it easier to find them in the future. Like an explorer, Mo Fangyuan is full of curiosity about everything, looking east and west.

Before you know it, time flies and twilight falls.

Mo Fangyuan determined the place to rest on a big tree.

Anyway, the world of cubes is unscientific. Not only can leaves be stepped on, but walking on them is no different from walking on the ground.

After finding a good tree, Mo Fangyuan fell into a deep sleep.

During the long-term hunting, Mo Fangyuan's ears became more agile.

In case of danger, Mo Fangyuan can wake up as long as he doesn't sleep too hard.

At some point, Mo Fangyuan woke up, and it was still dark.

He heard the voices of spiders and skeletons. He had fought against such monsters many times. Mo Fangyuan could tell from the voices that these were definitely not scattered monsters wandering around. The voice seemed to be...

"Skeleton Knight!"

The voice was the skeleton knight, and Mo Fangyuan's hazy drowsiness disappeared immediately, and his spirit became tense.

After so many days, I finally met a team of skeleton knights, this time I can't let them escape!
The skeleton knights didn't find Mo Fangyuan on the tree, so they hurried on their way.

Mo Fangyuan also took advantage of the faint moonlight to quietly follow behind the skeleton knight.

He wasn't going to kill them immediately. Killing them directly would not be of much value to the Cube Kingdom. Compared with dead skeleton knights, living skeleton knights were obviously worth more.

Furthermore, judging from their posture, what tasks should they have.

Mo Fangyuan planned to follow them for a while to see if he found anything.

Sometimes the skeleton knight seemed to feel something was wrong and looked back, and Mo Fangyuan hid at this time; Mo Fangyuan followed the skeleton knight, sticking to them like a piece of dog skin plaster.

"Step! Step! Step..."

Sure enough, Mo Fangyuan made an important discovery within a few hours.

They stopped outside a valley. There were not only them, but also other skeleton knights and skeleton soldiers that Mo Fangyuan had never seen before.

Densely packed, it looks extraordinarily oozing in the dark.

However, some of these skeleton soldiers wore a helmet and held a sword, and some had nothing at all and were empty-handed.

There are so many skeleton soldiers that they can be seen as cannon fodder.

Mo Fangyuan is very curious about this, what is it that makes the skeleton forces mobilize so many skeleton monsters to gather around here.

Curiosity drives human development...

Well, Mo Fangyuan compromised.

People don't want to die, it's a waste of youth.

Mo Fangyuan wanted to be curious about what they were going to do, so after eating a baked potato, Mo Fangyuan continued to squat in the grass motionless and watch what happened.

"You bloody monsters don't want to step into the valley half a step!"

Just when Mo Fangyuan was bored, a girl's coquettishness came out of the valley... no, it was a roar.

Immediately, the skeleton monsters moved, moving towards the valley.

Mo Fangyuan's eyes lit up, it turns out that they are surrounded here because there are people here!
It looks like there are quite a few people inside.

People = labor force = wealth = the hope of the kingdom's development!

"Let go of those tools... Cube Man! Let me do it!"

　anyone there?Say something!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)