sin of nature

After Xiao Ming left, the situation in Li City was still slowly getting worse. People received less and less food every day, and incidents of scrambling for other people's food continued to occur in the city. Later, the guards in charge of distributing the daily food also Started to be dissatisfied.

Seeing that everyone was getting yellow and thin day by day, some guards began to quietly move their hands and feet when distributing food.

"Do you think everyone didn't see that the food you distribute to your family is more than ordinary people?"

"Why, this grain was confiscated from us, how could you be so selfish?"

"If I knew this earlier, I would never let you take our food away!"

This kind of quarrel happens every day. At the beginning, the guards were able to suppress it, but later Li Ran found out, and ordered all the guards to deduct the food of that day if they were caught unfairly in food distribution. situation can be avoided.

But in the minds of the city residents, the status of the guards has long been lost. Coupled with the lack of food for a long time, the basic food and clothing cannot be guaranteed, and other aspects can no longer be maintained.

The city residents began to find fault with the guards every day, insisting that they were showing partiality again, and when the food was said to be inspected correctly, they also said that they were in charge of taking care of the food, who knew how much they had taken behind their backs.

The guards dared not speak out, Li Ran gave them more food than ordinary people, because they maintained the normal operation of the entire Li city and searched for food.

But this is no secret. Before the shortage of food, everyone took it for granted. At that time, people thought that the catastrophe would not last long.

But as time went on, the city residents couldn't help complaining that the food and wild fruits that the guards could find were getting less and less.

Most of the city residents were talking about it, mostly criticizing them for not doing things well.

"Take our food, lead a higher share than us, what do you do every day?"

"With so many people, so few poor things were recovered?"

The guards were also miserable. They had already searched all over the nearby mountains, and every day they had to go to further mountains to search.Horses are out of the question, all the horses have been slaughtered for food some time ago.

There is also a small team that goes up the mountain every day to investigate and find a way out for rescue.

Although the quota of these guards has never been reduced, most of them still have to distribute some of their own food to their relatives, because the food that ordinary city residents receive can only sustain their lives, and it is not enough to talk about food and clothing.

For everyone, the only lucky thing was that the rain stopped on the second day after Xiao Ming left, and Li Cheng saw the sun after a long absence.The people in Licheng who used to live comfortably and comfortably are now no different from beggars.The prolonged torrential rain filled the whole city with a musty smell that could not be dissipated immediately.

Li Ran dispatched a small team to drain water from the farmland, and the townspeople began to repair their houses, but the atmosphere in the city was still sluggish.

The problem of food is like a knife hanging over everyone's head. The knife will fall soon, and it's only a matter of time.The guard in charge of looking after the food saw that there were fewer and fewer things in the granary day by day, and he felt anxious and frustrated in his heart.

Everyone gradually realized that even Li Ran couldn't save them.

Li Ran has always been the reliance in the eyes of everyone in the past, but now, the title of city lord has become an empty shell.

Some extreme city residents began to complain that Li Ran had been the city lord for many years in vain, and now he couldn't even provide food and clothing for everyone. It turned out that he was just a "prince" who would put on airs in peacetime.

There are also some rich and powerful households in the city who have handed in a large amount of food, and they are also dissatisfied with his previous actions. The predicament they are facing now is directly related to life and death. The dead will never be among them.

There were complaints from the city residents, and Li Ran didn't have time to pay any attention to them. He was busy with the guards draining water from the farmland and searching for food in the mountains.

People in the city have already started to starve to death.

Originally, everyone received a fixed amount of food every day. It stands to reason that such a situation should not happen.

But in many families, the elderly have been abandoned first. They occupy a place in each household's inventory booklet, but the food they receive has not been distributed to them.

One less head means more food for others.The old people are getting old and frail, and they seem to have expected this ending long ago, so they are unable to fight anymore. It seems to be a matter of course to give up the chance of life to younger people.As a result, they starve and close their eyes, and they can gradually escape from the sea of ​​suffering.

There are more and more people like this, but Li Ran can't deal with them.

He can no longer control those people. Every day tens of thousands of people want to receive food, but there are not many things to be found on the nearby mountains. He and the guards counted the food a few days ago. According to the current consumption rate, in half a month, They will be grainless.Even if they can finally get assistance from other cities after crossing the mountains, they will starve to death before they can even wait for those rescues.

At this moment, the situation suddenly changed drastically.

A group of people formed quickly and began to kill and rob food in the city.

Worst of all, the organization is growing from strength to strength.

Under the banner of the strong, they fought for food and clothing. In just two days, they swept through half of Li City, killed countless people, and absorbed hundreds of city residents who defected to them. Among these people were men, women, and children. Whoever has a strong desire to survive and survive at the cost of other people's lives can become one of them.

Li Ran heard the news suddenly, and immediately led all the guards to meet this group of people. Not only did the two sides not have the advantage in numbers, but they were incomparable in momentum.

Li Ran is always leading the genuine bodyguards, but it is not as good as the opponent's team, which is full of desperadoes fighting for survival.Their bodies bent by hunger and suffering suddenly became straight the moment they got the weapons.

What is the pity of other people's life and death?

Since ancient times the strong stand in the world!

The two teams faced each other, and Li Ran stood at the front of the guards.

It has been a long time since he saw that gentle and broad smile on his face. The frown left a distinct vertical line between the brows, his cheeks were slightly sunken, and there was no blood on his face, but the eyes were still there. The bright light was shining, and the tall and thin body stood upright, as if it had not been overwhelmed by the natural and man-made disasters for a long time.But at this time, he was like a general who had nowhere to go, only the unshakable will in his heart was left struggling to support him.

The leader over there was at the rear, he stopped and was about to attack his own side, walked out from the crowd, and walked ten steps away from Li Ran alone without any scruples.

Even after three years, that face is still unmistakable.

"He Li?"

When the other party saw Li Ran again, he looked him up and down, his knife-like outline was tense, and it seemed that he was not relaxed, and his expression was somewhat disdainful, "It's been a long time, Lord City Master, you haven't changed at all. "

Li Ran frowned, "So you didn't die three years ago."

Three years ago, when Li Ran burned the mountain, all those who could not bear the fire went down the mountain, and were either captured or killed on the spot after some resistance. Captured by the guards, he would rather be burned to death than go down the mountain.

Never thought that he was still alive.

He Li laughed loudly and said, "Of course I can't die. If I die, I won't see your miserable end."

Li Ran didn't speak.

He Li looked around at the guards behind Xiao Ming, and said, "Believe it or not, I don't need to fight them at all, they can automatically surrender?"

Li Ran still didn't say a word, but his expression changed suddenly.

He Li began to laugh again, and there was a kind of happiness in his laughter that got what he wanted.

He loudly said to the guards, "Everyone, do you really want to fight to the death with He? You know the current situation in Licheng best. There are tens of thousands of people, and there must be not enough food. But if there are only a few people left in the city Hundreds, can't we get through this difficult period? Join my team, how about we survive together?"

The guards stood quietly and kept looking at Li Ran.

He Li asked loudly again, "Or do you want to kill yourself right here?"

So, starting from the first person, most people in the team chose to surrender and join.

Only a small group of people still stood in place, staring at Li Ran's back, expecting what he could say and do in their hearts, so that they could continue to stick to their positions.

The same is true for those who submit, they want to hear Li Ran's reprimand, and see the disbelief on his face.

but.

He had been the faith of the city.

With him, there is stability and peace.

He was the first to eradicate the bandits and robbers who were dangerous outside the city, and gave the city people peace. He loved the people like a son, and there was not a single beggar in Licheng in the past.He does everything for everyone, everyone loves him and regards his words as the standard of truth.

But he stood there quietly, as if everything in the world had nothing to do with him.Everyone is looking at him, how this former god will deal with all this.

Li Ran just sighed faintly, raised his hand and waved it in an unclear manner.

Without retaining and reprimanding, he knew that he was powerless.

The time he once believed and believed in was over.A new life grows out of violence.

Everything that happened afterwards was like a nightmare from which I could not wake up.

He Li led hundreds of people and turned Licheng into a purgatory.

The houses that had just started to be repaired stopped working again, and the farmland that had just been watered and became dry was filled with blood again.

He Li became the new leader of the crowd, and they will step on the corpses of the crowd to pass it on from generation to generation.

But this massacre seemed to have a tacit understanding, everyone avoided the people in Li Ran's mansion and was not injured at all.

Li Ran couldn't wait for Xiao Ming to come back.

He came to the place that had been converted into a temple, where Xiao Ming had been lying, and just like him, he didn't know where to look, motionless.

ended up dying there.