The absurd game of a performance artist

Chapter 296 Cannibalism
After expelling the man-eating ghost, Liusha turned around to help everyone clean up the mess.

The remaining [-] minotaurs quickly fell down helplessly under the quicksand's fist.

The originally peaceful village was now silent.

After counting the living people in the village, except for those who were taken away by escort, the rest of the people were basically dead.

Only a few lucky ones survived until Quicksand and others came to the rescue. Most of the others were either devoured by the group of man-eating ghosts that appeared out of nowhere, or died tragically in one step...

It was a disaster.

Those who survived the catastrophe were also in a daze, probably in this life, it would be difficult to erase the shadow left by today.

Quicksand looked at the dim sky and shook his head.

This is the troubled times, in the tide of changing times, countless people will always be swallowed by the tide.

However, he also experienced too many sentimental thoughts, which didn't last long, so he counted the war damage and profit.

In this battle inside Guda Village, three fire fighters, more than 50 infantrymen, and seven knights were lost, which can be described as heavy casualties!

Of course, this is from Quicksand's own point of view. In Ake Demi's point of view, this kind of battle damage is already a miracle!
You must know that when facing the invasion of the army of evil spirits, the battle loss ratio between the Astra troops in Durban City and the opponent reached an exaggerated 5:1 or even 6:1.

They originally had an advantage in numbers, but they were killed by the opponent, and thousands of troops died and scattered.

If the previous battle of defending the city could achieve this effect, why should the army of evil spirits be worried?

After sorting out the battle damage, Quicksand counted the spoils.

It can be said that apart from reaping some [soul] and [human nature], the evil spirits in this village don't have any extra output.

These man-eating little ghosts only had a few pieces of rags hanging on their bodies, and those minotaur monsters also relied on thick cowhide as leather armor, so they didn't have any useful equipment at all.

But Quicksand still underestimated this group of players.

Players are the real cannibals.

They didn't even spare the skins of the minions on these evil spirits. Under Zhou Papi's guidance, they directly made arrowhead leather armors to serve as backup supplies...

But when it comes to the biggest loot, it should be the village itself.

Guda Village is located in an open basin with fertile land and rich agricultural products. It can be said to be an excellent habitat.

After settling down the residents here, Quicksand said to the female knight commander Akademi.

"This can be temporarily used as our stronghold. We will gather your previously separated troops here. Now take your people back and bring the people in the valley over!"

Hearing Quicksand's instructions, Akdemi was naturally convinced.

At this moment, she already understood why Oscar believed in this army so much, and was obsessed with counterattacking Durban City.

To them, the existence of these brave fighters on the other side is simply a divine weapon descended from heaven, and these people are well-deserved leaders of Quicksand, and they are also envoys sent by the God of War!
If you can't grasp such an opportunity now, then there is no hope of regaining your homeland in the future!
After leaving the infantry stationed, Ake Demi led the cavalry back to the valley at full speed.

Quicksand, on the other hand, started talking to Apollo with some anxiety.

"How's it going, do you have any clues?"

It was inconceivable to see Apollo coming out of a pile of corpses of evil spirits.

"No, there is no [Ring of Darkness] on these evil spirits... It's really, really strange! There's none of them..."

Obviously, in the process of fighting various evil spirits, Quicksand felt a variety of dark and profound forces.

Combined with the rumors about the ring of darkness of the undead, Quicksand couldn't help wondering if the undead were driven by some kind of force to become such a monster.

But after hearing the results of Apollo's investigation, Quicksand was half relieved.

In any case, there is no evidence that the undead are connected to these evil spirits, which is good news.

Compared with Quicksand's relief, Apollo is a bit brooding.

"It shouldn't be... Proportionally speaking, it's impossible for there to be no undead, right? Could it be that this special soul is incompatible with undead? Strange..."

Soon, just as the rest of the troops cleaned up the village, Oscar and Akademi led the troops and brought the mighty refugees to Guda Village.

Although after a catastrophe, the population of the entire Guda Village seemed deserted and emptied, but it was obviously impossible to accommodate so many people entering at one time.

Everyone can only start by building some simple temporary settlements to accommodate these excessive people.

When everyone was building a new stronghold, the spider was consuming a lot of soul power, releasing hundreds of soul scouts in one go, looking for nearby stragglers.

The spider sensed various vibrations constantly coming from a distance, and concentrated its mind intensively.

It is still a bit difficult for him now to process the information of hundreds of soul scouts in one breath.

Under the training of processing a large amount of information, he gradually developed the [intelligence] attribute that most fire fighters did not involve.

This attribute can help the character to better complete various information processing in the brain, and expand the upper limit of memory, allowing it to record more complex information.

All in all, it can expand the brain capacity.

The intelligence attribute of 26 points has made the spider's processing efficiency of various information far higher than the limit of ordinary people, but it is still somewhat stretched for such a huge vibration information.

After a long period of high-intensity load, he finally sensed something!
"24 miles to the southeast, there are quite a few people there... well, there may be thousands of people, I suggest you go and have a look, some interesting things are happening there, hehehe..."

Hearing this, Quicksand had a bad feeling.

After all, he still has some understanding of the pissing nature of spiders, and the interesting things he said may not be interesting to normal people.

But Oscar was very happy when he heard the news.

As the leader of Durban City, after taking back this base, he couldn't wait to get back those lost old ministries.

Hearing the news at this moment, I can't wait to get on the horse and go out.

"Then what are you waiting for? Your Excellency Quicksand, let's go and summon them!"

Since the spider suggested [hurry up and take a look], I'm afraid it's really a little urgent!
So Quicksand greeted a few quick marchers, a total of ten or so people, plus Oscar's more than 20 elite knights, followed the spider's guidance and rushed to the gathering place.

Since the people who went on this trip were all elites with the ability to travel in a hurry, the distance of more than 20 miles was not a big deal.

In a narrow woodland, everyone saw a burst of flames from a distance.

The smell of meat filled the air, making everyone move their index fingers!
After the war broke out, the cavaliers like Oscar, who were full of food all day long, also had a meal without a meal. Only after recapturing Guda Village did they have a relatively stable food supply.

Seeing Oscar and his party from a distance, the group of people gathered in the woodland burst into shouts of relief.

"Yeah... It's the Commander! It's the Commander!"

"Master Commander! We respect and love you!"

Amid the shouts, a large group of people ran towards Oscar!
This scene is really touching. If Liusha didn't know the inside story, he would have thought that Oscar was really a great lord with great achievements!
But the actual situation is that this kid is just a cheap commander who lost the battle and killed his father.

If the taint of his escape from the battle had not been highlighted in the follow-up battles, he might not be able to wash it away in this lifetime.

So this scene made Quicksand somewhat unexpected.

At the same time, the bad premonition in Liusha's heart became stronger, because such an unreliable commander became a savior in the eyes of everyone, what happened here?
Seeing this scene, the spider lay on the tree and laughed maliciously.

He has already sat in the VIP seat, ready to watch a good show!

Seeing his former subjects support him so much, Oscar couldn't help being moved, as if he was riding a horse and strolling in the clouds.

Facing the rush of the crowd to greet him, he greeted with a smile.

"I'm sorry I'm late, I made you suffer these days! But you can rest assured, we have regained a piece of territory, everyone can go there with me at ease, and prepare to take back our homeland!"

The group of yellow and emaciated people immediately burst into tears.

"Really? Great! We are finally saved!"

"My God, it's finally over, this terrible day!"

"Long live! Long live the reign of Oscar!"

However, in this jubilant atmosphere, Quicksand carefully discovered that when a large number of people came out to welcome Oscar and his party, the soldiers in the woodland wearing leather and soft armor were discussing something hurriedly.

A knight beside Oscar couldn't help asking, smelling the smell of meat wafting in the air.

"What are you cooking? It's delicious. We haven't eaten meat for a long time. What are you eating, wild boar? No, this smell...is it wild deer?"

For a moment, the audience was dead silent.

The atmosphere of celebration just now was gone at this moment.

In the unfathomable silence, the spider hung from the tree and pointed to the bonfire in the woodland with a smile.

"Hey, Lord Knight, if you want to know what's being baked, just go inside and have a look, and you'll know if you taste it yourself!"

Hearing the ridicule of the spider, everyone cringed and couldn't speak.

Oscar finally noticed this strange aura. He winked at the knights, and the group rode horses slowly towards the bonfire in the forest.

Seeing Oscar leading the people walking towards the woodland, the soldiers who had huddled inside and hadn't greeted him finally had to come out and stop Oscar.

Their leader, Ogg, quickly laughed.

"Master Commander, we have been waiting for you for a long time after being separated from you! We don't need to waste any more time here, hurry up and meet up at your new stronghold, and prepare for the recovery of the territory in the future, our brothers are always ready Get ready to fight!"

Oscar didn't pay attention to him directly, but looked towards the bonfire in the woodland.

Beside the fire, a pile of white bones was piled up and scattered.

This skeleton, this shape, this...

This is not a wild deer, it is clearly a human!
Oscar suddenly looked back at the people around him, and said in horror.

"You...you?!"

Everyone was silent.

This humanoid figure gradually distorted in Oscar's eyes, turning into something ugly and terrifying...

ah!It's a man-eating ghost!
Quicksand is silent.

He no longer had any doubts, those little man-eating ghosts and big man-eating ghosts must have become human beings!
Because humans are inherently cannibals!

Facing Oscar's shock and anger, Ogg gritted his teeth and explained.

"My lord...we...we can't help it! There is nothing to eat in the deep mountains and old forests. They just eat the bark, and the grass roots are not hungry at all! If we don't do this, everyone will starve to death!"

Speaking of this, should everyone have some doubts, Nima's gang has been chased by the Baijiao barren mountains for a month, why didn't TM starve to death!
Then this is about the essential difference between undead and ordinary humans.

After the [Dark Ring] appeared on the undead, in the initial time, there will be no difference from normal humans.

But as long as you have died once, or haven't had normal eating behaviors for a long time, so that the body's nutritional supply chain is broken, then everything will be different!

At that time, the body of the undead will stop developing and lose all normal physiological functions.

Even if you continue to eat, you can't get energy from it.

Because at this moment, from a physiological point of view, they are already a corpse.

At this time, the only energy source consumed by the undead to maintain any action is [soul].

[Soul] is the food, motivation, and source of everything for the undead. The reason why the undead consume [soul] is precisely because of this!
But ordinary humans, or undead who have been living a normal life, are different. They can obtain energy to regulate their bodies through normal eating and resting. During the growth and development period, the soul in the body will not only not be consumed, but will gradually grow stronger.

The way for ordinary human beings to improve their life level is through growth and development and various exercises.

In the process of constantly exercising to squeeze their potential, their bodies will continue to absorb more energy, which in turn will promote the elevation of the source of life.

During this process, their souls will gradually integrate into the source of life, slowly promoting the level of life, and the souls in the body will not be exhausted, but will grow stronger.

Because they are [living], they have the ability to create [soul].

The undead who have died or lost their physiological functions no longer have this ability, so they can only use the method of life forging to improve the origin of life.

From the perspective of the soul-eating chain, you can regard undead as soul-eating animals, ordinary humans as plants that produce souls, ordinary food, etc., are the carbon dioxide needed for photosynthesis in the air.

Plants grow by photosynthesis, and animals have to eat plants or... other animals.

But in some cases, plants have to become animals in order to survive...

If you eat, you will live, if you don't eat, you will die.

Quicksand suddenly remembered the famous saying of the art master Shatubia.

To be or not to be, that's a question.
To perpetuate or perish, that is the question.

(End of this chapter)