infinite blood core
Chapter 59 Food
Chapter 59 Food
Bai Ya fell, and everyone was worried and angry, not only because Bai Ya was popular, but also because of fear.
People are terrified that they will also become the next white shoots, and they will fall into a state of unconsciousness and resignation.
But now the move of needle gold, let everyone understand: the young knight in front of him has the real chivalrous virtues!
The sand dunes are continuous, one after another.
Without a stretcher, Bai Ya was carried on his back in turn.
Soon, everyone moved to the back of another dune.
Aware of the movement, the scorpion group got out of the ground, followed the crowd to the new location, and then got into the sand again.
"After they burrow into the sand, it seems that they can't directly transfer their positions underground." Cang Xu analyzed.
This is good news, but not much better.
If everyone has mounts and the speed is fast enough, they may be able to take the opportunity to get rid of the scorpions and get rid of them.
The current situation is: a group of people are exhausted, and the speed is completely inferior to the scorpion group.What's more, there was another wounded number unconscious, which greatly dragged down everyone's footsteps.
After noon, before evening came, Zhen Jin led the team to set off again.
The scorpion soon appeared at the back of the line.
The silver spear scorpions came more and more and fought fiercely with needle gold again.The battle continued for a while, and it retreated voluntarily.
Needle Jin reluctantly watched it evacuated, there was nothing he could do about it.
The crack on the spider's blade has expanded a lot, and needle gold doesn't know how long this weapon can last.
Without it, things would get pretty bad.Ordinary iron swords are no threat to scorpion shells.
This kind of battle happened several times, and everyone went from being anxious every time to gradually becoming numb.
Dusk came, the sun fell near the horizon, the sky was bleak, and the mood of the people also sank.
"Is there really no way?"
"Lord Zidi, is there any medicine to kill these damn scorpions?"
Zi Di shook her head.If there was, she would have used it long ago.
"Let's just not leave and die with these damn scorpions!" Someone said irritably.
"That's what I said." Someone agreed.
Some people objected in a sarcastic tone: "To perish together? You are thinking too much. Let's rush up, and we will only be cut in half by that silver beast."
"What do you mean?"
"What do you mean?!"
The expedition team members were so angry that they looked at each other very upset.
Another person put Bai Ya on the ground, then sat down with his buttocks, and he complained: "Hey, if you have time and strength to quarrel, why don't you help me and carry this guy for me."
"This kid is too heavy."
"It's good for him to fall asleep. It's really energy-saving that he doesn't have to travel by himself."
The two quarreling looked at the man on the ground, and one of them snorted coldly: "It's not that I haven't memorized it before. I've memorized him more than you. You can't take it anymore with this skill?"
The other slanted his eyes, glanced at Cang Xu, and said yin and yang strangely: "In my opinion, the person who should carry Bai Ya the most is an old man. Bai Ya was seriously injured just to save someone. Without this injury, he It's still alive and kicking."
The riots in the team began to spread from the quarrel between the two.
In normal times, they would respect Cangsu very much.After all, Cang Xu's knowledge has helped them a lot.
But now, on the brink of desperation, everyone is restless and fearful.They did not dare to target Zhenjin or Zidi, and subconsciously turned their anger, panic and other emotions into words and eyes, and attacked the weakest old man in the team.
Most importantly, Bai Ya was indeed in such a situation to save Cangxu.
In terms of morality, Cang Xu must be criticized.
Therefore, everyone was arguing, so they focused their firepower on Cang Xu.
With cynicism and malicious eyes, Cang Xu remained expressionless.
"Hey, old man, what are your thoughts? Let's talk about it." The silent Cang Xu made people feel more and more weak, and finally someone chased and beat Cang Xu to provoke Cang Xu.
Cang Xu showed a sneer at the corner of his mouth, and then he glanced at the players who were provoking him with mocking eyes: "Bai Ya is in a coma, it's actually a good thing."
Everyone was dumbfounded.
Cang Xu continued: "At the critical moment, he is food, we can chi him."
For a moment, the air seemed to freeze.
The people who besieged Cangsu all widened their eyes and looked shocked.
"What, what did you say?" someone shouted.
Needle gold and purple pedicles are also unbelievable.
Cang Xu was very calm, his long-standing eyes were deep and cold at the moment: "Hehe, what are you doing looking at me like this? Bai Ya is no longer good enough, anyone can see that. He is food, and it is perfectly fine. eat."
"How can you say such a thing!"
"Yes, he is our companion."
"How can we chi people?!"
The crowd shouted in sharp voices.
"Old man, are you a devil in human skin?" Someone even walked up to Cang Xu, looked down at Cang Xu, and pressed his eyes.
"Why can't people be chirped?" Cang Xu asked back, not afraid.
"Don't all the ferocious monsters we encountered on this island use us as food?"
"The current situation is that we are seriously short of food. Without food, we have no physical strength. Without physical strength, we will definitely be killed by scorpions in the end."
"At that point, Bai Ya is also dead."
"In fact, he's dead. This is a desert, and we don't have priests or potions. Even if there are priests, low-level magic and fighting spirit are strictly prohibited on this island. Where do we find high-level priests?"
"So, instead of doing this, let's chi. If we chi him, we have a better chance of escaping."
The expedition team member who was staring at Cangbeu was extremely angry, grabbed the old man's collar, and lifted him up: "You are still talking!"
Cang Xu snorted coldly and waved his arms violently.
With a snap, the explorer's arm was knocked open.
The explorer was caught off guard and took two steps back.He looked at Cangsu suspiciously, and the strength of the old man in front of him seemed to be beyond his expectations.
Cang Xu said slowly while tidying his neckline, "You guys read too little. Now I'll tell you a truth--the same kind can eat each other."
"There is a kind of insect called praying mantis. The male praying mantis and the female praying mantis mate, and the female praying mantis will eat the male praying mantis that night to supplement her own nutrition, so as to give birth to offspring more smoothly."
"A few years ago, when the famine broke out, people in the northwest of the empire also exchanged their children to cook and eat."
"Don't get caught up in morals, laws. These are just things that sustain our daily lives."
"For any life, everything at the lowest level is for survival and reproduction. If we can't even guarantee our own survival, what laws and morals are we talking about?"
"Besides, what kind of stuff are you all? Others don't know, but don't you know?"
"Our ship is going to the Orc Continent. There is going to be a war there. Who would go there at this time?"
Cang Xu sneered, and finally concluded: "Survival is more important than anything else, isn't it?"
No one spoke, and the entire team fell into dead silence.
Many people are still staring at Cangbeu, but their eyes are no longer as angry and hated as before.
"Cangshu, please take back your words. Baiya is definitely not food, but our companions. I will never allow the tragedy of companions to eat each other." Zhen Jin frowned and looked stern.
"As you wish, my lord knight." Cang Xu's collar was tidied up, and he saluted the needle gold. .
The extreme heat caused the yellow algae to open his eyes.
His eyes were bloodshot, and his head was chaotic.It took a long time for him to wake up before he gradually came back to his senses.
He was lying at the foot of a dune, and beside him was a comatose man, his brother Spirulina.
The blue-green algae remained motionless, still in a state of coma.His condition is getting worse and worse. Originally, it was just his lips that were chapped, and now the skin on his body was peeling from the sun.Although there is still breathing, the strength of the chest ups and downs is obviously more than twice weaker than yesterday.
Huang Zao tried to sit up with his upper body.
He immediately felt a violent dizziness, and quickly supported his body with his hands behind him.
"I also have a fever." He touched his forehead, and his heart suddenly sank.
He recalled.
The night in the desert was extremely cold, and he was so exhausted that he could only sleep on the spot.He relied on cyanobacteria, using his body heat from a high fever to ward off the cold.
But he still failed.
He fell asleep, and when he woke up, it was noon.
Huang Zao felt a wave of fear.He was very fortunate that he did not encounter any predatory beasts during his sleep.
"But what now?"
There is still some dry food on the yellow algae, but he has no water!
More than half of his water was used to rinse the cyanobacteria, and he drank the rest long ago.
Not only was he surviving alone, he was also carrying an adult man heavier than him.
After sitting on the sand for a while, the yellow algae slowly carried the blue-green algae and continued to set off.
However, the confusion, panic, annoyance, and despair in Huang Zao's heart were difficult to resolve, and accumulated more and more in his heart.
The exhaustion, hunger, and dizziness of the body are like thorns tied to his body. The thorns of the thorns are deeply pierced into his flesh and bones. Every time he takes a step forward, these will be involved. Innumerable wounds.
"Water... water..."
The blue-green algae behind him began to murmur again unconsciously.
Huang Zao stopped abruptly, and he didn't know why, but there was a strong feeling of anger and hatred in his heart.
"Stop talking, are you annoying!"
"It's not that you were injured, we must have water now!"
"Now in this situation, where can I find water for you?"
"I want to drink water, I want to drink too!!"
The yellow algae let out a roar, ignoring his dry, smoking throat.
The blue-green algae couldn't hear it, and were still whispering, thirsting for water.
Huang Zao's eyes were round, and a sullen anger surged from his heart, rising between his brows, and then covering his face in an instant.
He suddenly let go and threw the blue algae on the ground.
"Stop calling!"
He shouted at Spirulina, with anger in his eyes, but also a cruel and cold ferocity.
His chest rose and fell rapidly, and his breath became heavier.
Killing intent breeds in the heart of the yellow algae, and then grows strangely and rapidly.
Huang Zao stared at Spirulina for a long time, his Adam's apple rolled subconsciously, and there was a green light like a hungry wolf in his eyes.
Hunger filled his heart, his mind, and kept him from thinking.
The instinct of survival kept reminding him, let him ignore the identity of cyanobacteria, let him "see clearly" every piece of flesh on cyanobacteria, every fresh blood flowing in his body.
"This is……"
"food!!"
The yellow algae approached slowly, leaned over slowly, and then half-knelt on the ground, holding out his hands.
His hands reached towards the blue-green algae, moving very slowly, as if hanging from a heavy hammer.
His hands were still shaking.
At first it was only slightly trembling, and the closer it was to the blue-green algae, the deeper the trembling of the hands.
Suddenly, the yellow algae found that the eyelids of the blue algae trembled slightly.
Immediately, Spirulina slowly opened her eyes.
"Brother, you're awake!!" Huang Zao shouted, and the surprise surged, overwhelming the sky, like a tsunami, covering his entire body and mind.
The previous emotions of hunger, thirst, ferocity, despair, and madness were like a mirage, and they were all dream bubbles.
Lan Zao looked in a trance, and the scorpion between his eyes turned imperceptibly, and he saw Huang Zao kneeling in front of him.
The dazzling sunlight was obscured by the body of the yellow algae, and the head of the blue algae was just in the shadow of the yellow algae.
Spirulina's lips moved.
"Brother, what did you say?" Huang Zao shuddered in body and mind, and immediately lay down in front of Spirulina, and put his ears close to Spirulina's mouth.
Then, he heard a very weak voice.
"I-I can't do it anymore."
"Don't drag yourself down for me..."
"No food and water..."
"Brother...you...just..."
"Eat me."
These words exhausted all the strength of Spirulina, and he passed out again.
When Huang Zao heard this, it was as if he had been struck by a thunderstorm, his pupils shrunk to the size of a pinhead in an instant, and the whole person was stunned.
He seemed to be a stone statue.
He stretched his neck, stuck out his ears, knelt on his knees, clasped his hands in the sand, and kept silent for a while in a twisted and weird posture.
Finally, his blank mind began to slowly run again.
He reacted.
He retracted his neck, still half-kneeling on the ground, but straightened his upper body.
He looked at the blue-green algae lying on the sand, and his vision quickly became blurred.
Tears accumulated in his eyes, and then flowed out in large quantities, streaking across his smoky face, forming two black tears.
"Brother, brother!"
He shouted loudly, the guilt, annoyance, self-blame and other emotions in his heart blocked his nose and throat, making it difficult for him to breathe.
"You are my only relative!"
"How can I treat you as food?"
"I wouldn't do it."
"I would never do this!"
He was yelling, as if swearing.
Then, he carried the blue-green algae on his back again, and set off again staggeringly.
With a face of determination.
(End of this chapter)
Bai Ya fell, and everyone was worried and angry, not only because Bai Ya was popular, but also because of fear.
People are terrified that they will also become the next white shoots, and they will fall into a state of unconsciousness and resignation.
But now the move of needle gold, let everyone understand: the young knight in front of him has the real chivalrous virtues!
The sand dunes are continuous, one after another.
Without a stretcher, Bai Ya was carried on his back in turn.
Soon, everyone moved to the back of another dune.
Aware of the movement, the scorpion group got out of the ground, followed the crowd to the new location, and then got into the sand again.
"After they burrow into the sand, it seems that they can't directly transfer their positions underground." Cang Xu analyzed.
This is good news, but not much better.
If everyone has mounts and the speed is fast enough, they may be able to take the opportunity to get rid of the scorpions and get rid of them.
The current situation is: a group of people are exhausted, and the speed is completely inferior to the scorpion group.What's more, there was another wounded number unconscious, which greatly dragged down everyone's footsteps.
After noon, before evening came, Zhen Jin led the team to set off again.
The scorpion soon appeared at the back of the line.
The silver spear scorpions came more and more and fought fiercely with needle gold again.The battle continued for a while, and it retreated voluntarily.
Needle Jin reluctantly watched it evacuated, there was nothing he could do about it.
The crack on the spider's blade has expanded a lot, and needle gold doesn't know how long this weapon can last.
Without it, things would get pretty bad.Ordinary iron swords are no threat to scorpion shells.
This kind of battle happened several times, and everyone went from being anxious every time to gradually becoming numb.
Dusk came, the sun fell near the horizon, the sky was bleak, and the mood of the people also sank.
"Is there really no way?"
"Lord Zidi, is there any medicine to kill these damn scorpions?"
Zi Di shook her head.If there was, she would have used it long ago.
"Let's just not leave and die with these damn scorpions!" Someone said irritably.
"That's what I said." Someone agreed.
Some people objected in a sarcastic tone: "To perish together? You are thinking too much. Let's rush up, and we will only be cut in half by that silver beast."
"What do you mean?"
"What do you mean?!"
The expedition team members were so angry that they looked at each other very upset.
Another person put Bai Ya on the ground, then sat down with his buttocks, and he complained: "Hey, if you have time and strength to quarrel, why don't you help me and carry this guy for me."
"This kid is too heavy."
"It's good for him to fall asleep. It's really energy-saving that he doesn't have to travel by himself."
The two quarreling looked at the man on the ground, and one of them snorted coldly: "It's not that I haven't memorized it before. I've memorized him more than you. You can't take it anymore with this skill?"
The other slanted his eyes, glanced at Cang Xu, and said yin and yang strangely: "In my opinion, the person who should carry Bai Ya the most is an old man. Bai Ya was seriously injured just to save someone. Without this injury, he It's still alive and kicking."
The riots in the team began to spread from the quarrel between the two.
In normal times, they would respect Cangsu very much.After all, Cang Xu's knowledge has helped them a lot.
But now, on the brink of desperation, everyone is restless and fearful.They did not dare to target Zhenjin or Zidi, and subconsciously turned their anger, panic and other emotions into words and eyes, and attacked the weakest old man in the team.
Most importantly, Bai Ya was indeed in such a situation to save Cangxu.
In terms of morality, Cang Xu must be criticized.
Therefore, everyone was arguing, so they focused their firepower on Cang Xu.
With cynicism and malicious eyes, Cang Xu remained expressionless.
"Hey, old man, what are your thoughts? Let's talk about it." The silent Cang Xu made people feel more and more weak, and finally someone chased and beat Cang Xu to provoke Cang Xu.
Cang Xu showed a sneer at the corner of his mouth, and then he glanced at the players who were provoking him with mocking eyes: "Bai Ya is in a coma, it's actually a good thing."
Everyone was dumbfounded.
Cang Xu continued: "At the critical moment, he is food, we can chi him."
For a moment, the air seemed to freeze.
The people who besieged Cangsu all widened their eyes and looked shocked.
"What, what did you say?" someone shouted.
Needle gold and purple pedicles are also unbelievable.
Cang Xu was very calm, his long-standing eyes were deep and cold at the moment: "Hehe, what are you doing looking at me like this? Bai Ya is no longer good enough, anyone can see that. He is food, and it is perfectly fine. eat."
"How can you say such a thing!"
"Yes, he is our companion."
"How can we chi people?!"
The crowd shouted in sharp voices.
"Old man, are you a devil in human skin?" Someone even walked up to Cang Xu, looked down at Cang Xu, and pressed his eyes.
"Why can't people be chirped?" Cang Xu asked back, not afraid.
"Don't all the ferocious monsters we encountered on this island use us as food?"
"The current situation is that we are seriously short of food. Without food, we have no physical strength. Without physical strength, we will definitely be killed by scorpions in the end."
"At that point, Bai Ya is also dead."
"In fact, he's dead. This is a desert, and we don't have priests or potions. Even if there are priests, low-level magic and fighting spirit are strictly prohibited on this island. Where do we find high-level priests?"
"So, instead of doing this, let's chi. If we chi him, we have a better chance of escaping."
The expedition team member who was staring at Cangbeu was extremely angry, grabbed the old man's collar, and lifted him up: "You are still talking!"
Cang Xu snorted coldly and waved his arms violently.
With a snap, the explorer's arm was knocked open.
The explorer was caught off guard and took two steps back.He looked at Cangsu suspiciously, and the strength of the old man in front of him seemed to be beyond his expectations.
Cang Xu said slowly while tidying his neckline, "You guys read too little. Now I'll tell you a truth--the same kind can eat each other."
"There is a kind of insect called praying mantis. The male praying mantis and the female praying mantis mate, and the female praying mantis will eat the male praying mantis that night to supplement her own nutrition, so as to give birth to offspring more smoothly."
"A few years ago, when the famine broke out, people in the northwest of the empire also exchanged their children to cook and eat."
"Don't get caught up in morals, laws. These are just things that sustain our daily lives."
"For any life, everything at the lowest level is for survival and reproduction. If we can't even guarantee our own survival, what laws and morals are we talking about?"
"Besides, what kind of stuff are you all? Others don't know, but don't you know?"
"Our ship is going to the Orc Continent. There is going to be a war there. Who would go there at this time?"
Cang Xu sneered, and finally concluded: "Survival is more important than anything else, isn't it?"
No one spoke, and the entire team fell into dead silence.
Many people are still staring at Cangbeu, but their eyes are no longer as angry and hated as before.
"Cangshu, please take back your words. Baiya is definitely not food, but our companions. I will never allow the tragedy of companions to eat each other." Zhen Jin frowned and looked stern.
"As you wish, my lord knight." Cang Xu's collar was tidied up, and he saluted the needle gold. .
The extreme heat caused the yellow algae to open his eyes.
His eyes were bloodshot, and his head was chaotic.It took a long time for him to wake up before he gradually came back to his senses.
He was lying at the foot of a dune, and beside him was a comatose man, his brother Spirulina.
The blue-green algae remained motionless, still in a state of coma.His condition is getting worse and worse. Originally, it was just his lips that were chapped, and now the skin on his body was peeling from the sun.Although there is still breathing, the strength of the chest ups and downs is obviously more than twice weaker than yesterday.
Huang Zao tried to sit up with his upper body.
He immediately felt a violent dizziness, and quickly supported his body with his hands behind him.
"I also have a fever." He touched his forehead, and his heart suddenly sank.
He recalled.
The night in the desert was extremely cold, and he was so exhausted that he could only sleep on the spot.He relied on cyanobacteria, using his body heat from a high fever to ward off the cold.
But he still failed.
He fell asleep, and when he woke up, it was noon.
Huang Zao felt a wave of fear.He was very fortunate that he did not encounter any predatory beasts during his sleep.
"But what now?"
There is still some dry food on the yellow algae, but he has no water!
More than half of his water was used to rinse the cyanobacteria, and he drank the rest long ago.
Not only was he surviving alone, he was also carrying an adult man heavier than him.
After sitting on the sand for a while, the yellow algae slowly carried the blue-green algae and continued to set off.
However, the confusion, panic, annoyance, and despair in Huang Zao's heart were difficult to resolve, and accumulated more and more in his heart.
The exhaustion, hunger, and dizziness of the body are like thorns tied to his body. The thorns of the thorns are deeply pierced into his flesh and bones. Every time he takes a step forward, these will be involved. Innumerable wounds.
"Water... water..."
The blue-green algae behind him began to murmur again unconsciously.
Huang Zao stopped abruptly, and he didn't know why, but there was a strong feeling of anger and hatred in his heart.
"Stop talking, are you annoying!"
"It's not that you were injured, we must have water now!"
"Now in this situation, where can I find water for you?"
"I want to drink water, I want to drink too!!"
The yellow algae let out a roar, ignoring his dry, smoking throat.
The blue-green algae couldn't hear it, and were still whispering, thirsting for water.
Huang Zao's eyes were round, and a sullen anger surged from his heart, rising between his brows, and then covering his face in an instant.
He suddenly let go and threw the blue algae on the ground.
"Stop calling!"
He shouted at Spirulina, with anger in his eyes, but also a cruel and cold ferocity.
His chest rose and fell rapidly, and his breath became heavier.
Killing intent breeds in the heart of the yellow algae, and then grows strangely and rapidly.
Huang Zao stared at Spirulina for a long time, his Adam's apple rolled subconsciously, and there was a green light like a hungry wolf in his eyes.
Hunger filled his heart, his mind, and kept him from thinking.
The instinct of survival kept reminding him, let him ignore the identity of cyanobacteria, let him "see clearly" every piece of flesh on cyanobacteria, every fresh blood flowing in his body.
"This is……"
"food!!"
The yellow algae approached slowly, leaned over slowly, and then half-knelt on the ground, holding out his hands.
His hands reached towards the blue-green algae, moving very slowly, as if hanging from a heavy hammer.
His hands were still shaking.
At first it was only slightly trembling, and the closer it was to the blue-green algae, the deeper the trembling of the hands.
Suddenly, the yellow algae found that the eyelids of the blue algae trembled slightly.
Immediately, Spirulina slowly opened her eyes.
"Brother, you're awake!!" Huang Zao shouted, and the surprise surged, overwhelming the sky, like a tsunami, covering his entire body and mind.
The previous emotions of hunger, thirst, ferocity, despair, and madness were like a mirage, and they were all dream bubbles.
Lan Zao looked in a trance, and the scorpion between his eyes turned imperceptibly, and he saw Huang Zao kneeling in front of him.
The dazzling sunlight was obscured by the body of the yellow algae, and the head of the blue algae was just in the shadow of the yellow algae.
Spirulina's lips moved.
"Brother, what did you say?" Huang Zao shuddered in body and mind, and immediately lay down in front of Spirulina, and put his ears close to Spirulina's mouth.
Then, he heard a very weak voice.
"I-I can't do it anymore."
"Don't drag yourself down for me..."
"No food and water..."
"Brother...you...just..."
"Eat me."
These words exhausted all the strength of Spirulina, and he passed out again.
When Huang Zao heard this, it was as if he had been struck by a thunderstorm, his pupils shrunk to the size of a pinhead in an instant, and the whole person was stunned.
He seemed to be a stone statue.
He stretched his neck, stuck out his ears, knelt on his knees, clasped his hands in the sand, and kept silent for a while in a twisted and weird posture.
Finally, his blank mind began to slowly run again.
He reacted.
He retracted his neck, still half-kneeling on the ground, but straightened his upper body.
He looked at the blue-green algae lying on the sand, and his vision quickly became blurred.
Tears accumulated in his eyes, and then flowed out in large quantities, streaking across his smoky face, forming two black tears.
"Brother, brother!"
He shouted loudly, the guilt, annoyance, self-blame and other emotions in his heart blocked his nose and throat, making it difficult for him to breathe.
"You are my only relative!"
"How can I treat you as food?"
"I wouldn't do it."
"I would never do this!"
He was yelling, as if swearing.
Then, he carried the blue-green algae on his back again, and set off again staggeringly.
With a face of determination.
(End of this chapter)
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