Love and passion, cutting up the wasteland

The mountain road is rugged, with reddish-brown ore scattered on the roadside. The human-powered mine carts laid along the track were overturned to the ground. The axles have been completely rusted, leaving only a thick layer of iron filings, and the rocks and sand soaked on the ground. Layer.

Like ancient bloodstains.

In the eyes of Izumi and others, they did see large pools of blood all over the ground from a distance, which had just dried up. They avoided the once prosperous neighborhood and chose to detour through the surrounding hills and rocks so that they would not be in trouble. Encountering the city residents head-on on the passage.

The number of opponents is so large that they will definitely not be able to break through directly with their strength.

With Blip's encouragement, Izumi carefully climbed onto Sadnier's back. The Skeleton Man complained a few times that his body was about to collapse, but in fact he still lifted the girl steadily, and Izumi looked away - —After taking the pills brought back by Lu Beiyou, she did feel that her vision was much clearer, and even seeing things at night was not as blurry as before.

"Brother Lu!" At this moment, she was happy and surprised, "Their bodies are gone!"

The place where there were blood stains was exactly where several people had encountered the city residents. However, they had just retreated for a few days, and the bodies had completely disappeared, and it did not look like they had been eaten by wild beasts.

Speaking of which...Izumi thought that even wild beasts might not be able to survive in Aikou Town.

"They were 'cleaned' by themselves." The armored warrior was behind the girl. "Aikuang Town has not seen outsiders for many years - just like the cannibal plain where the Painted Tribe is located, in the end they will definitely be forced The tribes had to hunt each other, eat and store the corpses of their fellow tribesmen.”

In the process, they invented special cages, special slaughtering tables, and techniques for dissecting human bodies and even extending the life of prey to the greatest extent possible to maintain freshness.

In a sense, it is also another civilization.

"I don't know the situation in Aikang Town," Chise said, "but when I was on the black street, I heard rumors that eating human flesh can gain his power, and eating human brains can inherit his power. Wisdom and so on..."

It seems that Emperor Tengu heard about this rumor, and for a while he was quite sure that he would give it a try, which scared President Long En and stopped him quickly.

Although he didn't really care how the Tengu behaved, at least he had to maintain a human appearance when appearing in front of public nobles.

In the end, it was Yamudu who persuaded the Tengu by saying, "His Majesty's astonishing wisdom is unparalleled. If you mix in other people's brains, your standards may be lowered."

But then the Tengu Emperor turned to guard against another thing: since he is the smartest, then someone will want to eat him if he is not safe... This is another matter.

"This may be true." Huo Buyang said coldly.

Everyone knew that he had traveled extensively and had a lot of knowledge, so they couldn't help but become silent.

"Beep thinks this is not good. It reminds me of Mengler." The worker bee shook his head quickly and poked the skeleton man next to him. "You live a long life, what do you think?"

"Don't ask me," Sadnier slowly put Izumi down, "I told you that I have deleted all my memories a long time ago. Strictly speaking, I am only three years old now."

After saying that, he sighed again: "If I had known, I wouldn't have come here... I didn't expect that they would even want to eat iron lumps."

Izumi knew that one of the two was kidnapped by Lu Beiyou from Kirishima, and the other was 'kidnapped' by Lu Beiyou from the Land of Death... It can be said that no place is more peaceful than Aikang Town.

But according to Sadnier, the past two years happened to be the time when the Skeletons decided to collectively update their memories in order to prevent the system from exploding the memory and falling into madness. By the time Lu Beiyou found him, all the memories and skills had been forgotten. , except for this iron frame, nothing else can play any role.

A few years earlier, it would have been very different.

he said.

Of course, if it had been that time, he would not have been carried out by Lu Beiyou directly into the black desert like a sack.

Said Sadnier.

Izumi: "..."

The girl finally understood that this skeleton man wanted to be happy-go-lucky. If no one pushed him, he would definitely stay in a dark corner and not want to move until the end of the world. However, once he was put in the shoes of an incident, he would not give up directly. It is like being pushed to complete the task.

It seemed that Brother Lu had figured out the characteristics of each of them before using corresponding methods to bring them all together.

available before then.

They should obviously be strangers to each other.

Izumi secretly looked at the armored samurai behind him... It's strange to say that he had been so seriously injured before. Even with Ah Mao's medical skills and the medical module he recovered... he stood up again in less than half a day. Although there are still blood stains and scars, his combat effectiveness has been fully restored.

This recovery speed is quite amazing.

Moreover, Izumi noticed that Brother Lu did not have a backpack before, but he spread it casually, and a simple camp medical bed appeared on the ground. After he recovered, he even spread the mats for everyone out of thin air... …I didn’t take them away afterward, I just left them where they were.

Rest the next day and have new bedding.

She was shocked at that time, but other people present saw it and didn't feel anything was wrong at all.

The girl thought to herself: Maybe they had known Brother Lu for a long time and had seen this almost 'witchcraft'-like technique many times, so they were already used to it.

Izumi didn't ask any more questions.

Didn't show any abnormalities.

I just felt in my heart that there was another layer of secrets in this man.

Now, after witnessing the disappearance of the corpses of the citizens and listening to the conversations of several companions, Izumi finally determined the changes that had taken place in Aikou Town:

[Starting from the first wave of people who were trapped and forced to cannibalize themselves, human body mutations accumulated, and the first cannibal tribe appeared. They grew stronger and survived because they had mastered the source of 'food', and further hunted, annexed, and... 'Assimilate' other groups of survivors... until in the end, all the city residents are transformed, and everyone finally falls into eternal fighting and consumption. 】

In a sense, the coalition's strategy was successful.

They can lead the residents of a city-state to irreversible destruction without consuming their own troops and time.

In the flash of lightning, a horrifying thought suddenly appeared in Izumi's heart: And this seemed to be a repeat of the history of the entire continent.

It's just that because there is only one city in Aikang Town, the number of residents is only a few dozen or even one percent compared to all groups on the mainland.

Therefore, the rate of decline and demise has accelerated dozens of times.

If the whole world were a cage like Aikou Town...

The girl turned back again, her eyes falling on the young man behind her, subconsciously seeking some comfort, but she saw that the white-haired warrior ignored them and was talking to himself as if he was thinking.

"The cannibals transformed by the city residents are already killing each other, but before that, they should have tried to attack the wild people outside to obtain more fresh flesh and blood, but in the end they did not do so. Something stopped them... …”

"In the 'real world', what stops the Painted Tribe are the northern hunters, cannibal hunters, and the northern defense lines of the Holy Kingdom and United City - although those two big countries have the need to defend the Painted Tribe, they have no intention of taking the initiative to attack. , as long as the territory is not violated, it is like a high-walled shield guard on the city wall of Aikang Town. "

"Does Wilderness Blood Hunting correspond to the ecological niche of cannibal hunters? What about the Lang Ninja Group hiding under the protection of cannibals..."

Lu Beiyou's voice was very low. Sometimes he didn't even make a sound, but his lips moved slightly. However, Izumi has already learned how to judge words from other people's mouth patterns, and the other person did not hide it in front of her.

The girl actually listened.

However, Izumi frowned slightly - she could know what the white-haired samurai said, but she didn't really understand what it meant.

Moreover, since the skill of reading language still requires special concentration, the girl did not have time to notice the changes in Huo Buyang, Chi Zi and others: they were clearly still discussing the situation before, sometimes arguing and sometimes agreeing, and they were so animated.

Now that they were out of sight of her and Lu Beiyou, the expressions and movements of several people became stiff.

Just like Sadnir, they turned into machines.

Then the conversation starts to repeat itself.

"Their bodies are missing..."

"...don't ask me..."