In 1918, naturalized county.

"Xian, we really don't have anything to eat, even the bark of the elm tree beside the road has been stripped clean..."

A middle-aged man in coarse clothes with a yellow and thin face, with only a layer of skin left on his face, dryly squeezed out a longing expression, trying to get the news of the food stock at the county gate.

"Don't look at me." The county is also dry, his eyes are full of despair: "The granary has been cleared."

"Here...you should go dig wild vegetables with me, it's a grassland anyway, let's top it off." The man smiled weakly.

"Don't scare me." What is the situation outside the county road, he shouted in a broken voice, but his voice was extremely weak because of lack of food: "There are no wild vegetables on the grassland, and even the mouse holes have been cleaned out by you. Nothing to eat, nothing to eat!"

He opened the window, and a stench came from outside the window.

It was midsummer, the sun was scorching, and when the wind blew, the corpse smelled ten miles away, and there were patches of black mung bean flies mixed with withered grass.

On the stone brick road and by the threshold, there were red, white and white corpses everywhere, some of which had their flesh cut off.These lively ones, with their shrunken bodies, greedily peeled off the bark.Their eyeballs were protruding, blood-red, and they were frantically turning, watching people in all directions, for fear that the food in their hands would be snatched.

It is a good county town for immigrants, but the turf has been eaten up by the locust plague, and there is not a single bit of green at this time.

Their crops died, and their cattle and sheep also died of illness and starvation. They originally reported the situation to get food from nearby cities, but because of the baptism of war, traffic routes were blocked, and it was not easy to leave the blocked county.

Guihua County was abandoned and left to fend for itself.

The famine has lasted for three months, and everything that is imported has been devoured by the hungry people.It seemed that the whole town had turned into a gray and white world made up of corpses, dry trees, and ground without turf.

Waves of despair surged in the county's heart. He only saw the scene of Yi Zi eating in ancient books, and he didn't expect Guihua County to fall to this point one day.

In a county with a population of [-], there is not one out of ten at this moment, and the old children die the most. Even his county, which has a lot of food, is almost at the end of its rope.

He looked at the middle-aged man who came to inquire about the news, and said, "Old Li, how is your family?"

Old Li paused, and finally said: "The old man left a few days ago, our family is fine."

The county's heart was cold, he said, Lao Li's family only survived by eating meat. If there was no famine, the healthy old man would still have lived for ten years, which is a pity.

Just as Gu Yan was about to hear shouts, Guihua County hadn't been so lively for a long time. A group of dirt-faced men ran towards the county excitedly, yelling something while running, but they left It was too far away, and the county couldn't hear clearly.

"What's going on, what's the noise, is there a passageway?!" Xian's eyes widened, and ecstasy flooded into his heart.

Old Li stretched out his head and listened: "No, they seem to have dug something out of the ground."

They ran out in a hurry and gathered in the direction of the group, only to see some digging men wrapping something in big red cloth and running towards the house excitedly.

"What is this?" Xian asked curiously as he squeezed his way out of the group.

"County!" The leading man broke his smile for the first time in three months: "I led everyone to dig a field mouse hole today, and dug a little deeper. I didn't expect to dig out a lot of fleshy mushrooms!"

He lifted the red cloth, and inside were meat/stems half a meter high, covered with fresh soil, exuding an incomparable aroma, and some meat/stems were covered with roots, which looked like Stems of plants buried deep in the ground.

If you don't ask if you don't want to eat this thing, no matter its fragrant aroma, even if it is a piece of bark or a belt, it is enough to satisfy these hungry people.

The county looked at the man excitedly: "Where did you dig it?!"

"It's right next to the pasture. You can see it when you dig three meters underground. It's all over the ground!"

When the crowd heard this, they all said that they would go home to get their hoes and farm tools. They hadn't had this hope for a long time.

But an old woman in the group suddenly said: "Wait a minute, this thing looks like the roots of cistanche in the ground, let's forget it."

"Why?!"

"Witch Wang, what are you talking about!"

I saw Goddess Wang wriggling her chapped lips, and said in awe: "Before we released the reclamation, there was a local belief here. Cistanche is their earth mother god. If you eat it, you will be condemned by the gods."

"Convict?! Damn it, why do you want to do so much when you're starving to death!"

Goddess Wang has a lot of prestige in the village, and if anyone's children are sick, they will ask her to take care of it, so there are only some quarrels, and if they stop them from digging cistanche to feed their hunger, they will be attacked by groups.

"No, you don't want to go!" Goddess Wang took a closer look at the tubers of the red cloth. The most obvious ominous pre-cold cold in the industry for many years, she only felt hairy all over her body, and bursts of cold sweat rolled down her forehead. .

"This thing belongs to the local gods. It really doesn't move. They all offer it as gods. Whoever eats it will suffer great disaster!"

She saw with her own eyes that someone ate the cistanche here, and within a long time, the body was hollowed out by the beard, and nothing could be seen from the outside, it was extremely terrifying.

Mistress Wang has only heard that the south loves to eat freshwater sashimi, and her heart and liver were devoured by insects. She has never seen such a deadly strange flower, and she was so frightened that she broke out in cold sweat.

The local taboo told her that it was the Earth Mother who had condemned her.

Goddess Wang tried her best to stop those who wanted to go home to get a hoe to seek death, but she was pushed somersault, fell to the ground, and her arms were scratched.

At this time, a young man helped her up.

This is Goddess Wang's apprentice, who came to Guihua County from nowhere, but after staying for a few months, he encountered this rape, and everyone said his life was bad.

"It can't be stopped." Young said lightly: "You can't control it."

"Xiao Yu, I don't want to just stand by and watch them suffer." Mistress Wang said in panic, "They don't know, why don't I know? I've heard the local people say that people who eat cistanche will get strange diseases, so why would they die suddenly? And die, I won't let my parents..."

Young interrupted her: "It's so amazing, the local area will not be squeezed into the depths of the grassland because of the reclamation, it's all rumored by them."

When Goddess Wang saw that her apprentice was not on her side, her heart was broken. She looked at the county residents who were about to go to the fields for food with tears in her eyes. She was already extremely weak, and now she was anxious and angry, and fainted .

Zhuo Yu looked at each other with double ancient well-waved eyes, and a disturbing smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He helped Mistress Wang back to the house, locked the door outside, and then walked towards the pasture, following Wu The Yangyang group entered the ranks of digging together.

It's just that Zhuo Yu just watched from the sidelines, seeing how the county residents were overjoyed, and they were holding cistanche in their hands, as if they were holding the hope of survival.

"There are still a lot in the field, enough to feed our whole town for several months!"

The county residents were ecstatic, some yelled loudly, some hid their faces and wailed, thinking that if they had discovered it earlier, their old children would not be starved to death.

My emotions are contagious. The county residents cried and laughed as they dug, and everyone hugged together.

Only Zhuo Yu was still very calm, he just took everything into his eyes without showing any emotions, and waited for everyone to return home with baskets of cistanche, then he returned to Mistress Wang's house calmly.

Goddess Wang was still in a coma, this blow was too severe, coupled with the extreme weakness of her body/body, she was very sick and passed away.

But she has lived most of her life, she has endured all kinds of hardships, and she has tenacity. When she heard the sound of Zhuo Yu opening the door, she opened her eyes with difficulty.

"Water... water..."

She made a noise as thin as a mosquito.

Zhuo Yu obviously heard it, but he didn't move. He just sat on the edge of the bed and looked at her with a flat and fearful look: "The people here are hopeless, the blockade will last for next year, and you will die sooner or later. It's time to pass."

Mistress Wang's eyes darkened.

"However, you still missed one item." Zhuo Yu poured her a glass of water and said bluntly: "You didn't count that I will come."

"What... what do you want to say?" The sorceress was more frightened, more disturbed than when she saw the dug out cistanche.

"With me, everyone will not die." Zhuo Yu and the sorceress played riddles: "But not dying doesn't mean it's a good thing, what do you think?"

"It's you!" Mistress Wang suddenly saw through something.

Zhuo Yu smiled: "Well, I told them that there is something under the pasture."

"What the hell are you doing? You will be punished for this!" Witch Wang became excited and coughed several times.

Zhuo Yu patted her on the back, smiled and gave her comfort: "Retribution? If I am freed from love, I would rather suffer retribution. Strange disease? Sudden death? What I mean, I never care about these things."

Goddess Wang had already said that she was lying on the bed dryly, saying that she had already entered the game.

This young man didn't come here to escape, but he came to this county where everyone was suspicious from the very beginning with a purpose.No matter what she did, the sorceress knew that the other party had already done it.

"Speaking of which, what would you choose? Do you starve to death in a school, or live by eating cistanche?"

Mistress Wang's heart was ashamed: "Let me die."

"I know you've always been wise, and this is the choice I expected. You chose an easy path."

"I have one more question to ask you." Mistress Wang's eyes widened: "How long have you lived?!"

Zhuo Yu tilted his head: "Why do you ask that, 22 years, as I said, I'm only in my early twenties."

"Why..." Goddess Wang looked at him suspiciously. At a certain moment, she almost felt that the young man in front of her had a soul older than her.

However, Zhuo Yu was indeed only in his twenties.

It's just that his youth was different from ordinary ones. Ordinary teenagers can read. Although the court is at the end of the road, foreign devils are burning, killing and looting, and there is no living head for reading, but what else can you do if you don't read?

Everyone went to reclaim and open up wasteland.

Only Zhuo Yu was different.

Ever since he was an adult, he had been dreaming of a silver-haired man. Although the other party didn't say anything, Zhuo Yu still fell in love with him at first sight, and he deeply realized that he and the other party were a match made in heaven.

He also tried to ask the foreign godfather, and the other party said: "Your thinking and you are on the same frequency, the same wave band, so you can communicate. There will be no more ingenious combination in the world."

But Zhuo Yu didn't quite understand the words like "frequency" and "band" he said. He only said that he was closely connected with the god in his heart, and it was his god who found him.

Therefore, he did not disappoint his gods.

"The people of the county want to live and fill their stomachs. But my love wants to be released from the ground. It's just that everyone gets what they need." Zhuo Yu tucked the quilt for Goddess Wang, and said in a tone of creepy excitement: "On this day, Coming soon."

Zhuo Yu didn't look at the pitiful old woman, and walked out of her house, just in time to bump into a tall young man.

He is the son of the county, named Mo Ziqiang.

"Brother Yu!" Mo Ziqiang chuckled, secretly took out half a sweet potato, stuffed it into his hand, and hooked Gou Zhuoyu's palm with his index finger: "I secretly hid it, you take it and eat it."

Zhuo Yu looked at him for a while and saw that he was quite healthy, so Dao County left him all the food at home.

"follow me."

Zhuo Yu took Mo Ziqiang's hand and led him around seven times and eight times, and finally reached an empty alley.

Mo Ziqiang suddenly became excited. He had already taken a fancy to this handsome man from outside. Could it be that he finally got the hang of it and said that he would trade his body for food?

However, before he was happy for a while, Zhuo Yu stuffed something into his mouth, like meat slices, or mushroom tubers, and the taste was like meat mixed with the fragrance of plants and trees. It fell on the tip of the tongue and was delicious. Choked a few mouthfuls, and finally swallowed it.

"What are you doing!" Mo Ziqiang stared at Zhuo Yu with displeasure.

Zhuo Yu smiled sweetly at him, and his almond eyes also curled up: "I know you've taken a fancy to me, so I'll give you a chance to make you look like I like."

What a mess, looking at his face, Mo Ziqiang couldn't help but want to go up and kiss him, and even want to just press him in this alley and settle the matter. Unfortunately, a sharp pain came from his abdomen , Mo Ziqiang broke out in sweat immediately, and knelt down on the ground.

He couldn't speak anymore, he felt as if thousands of ants were crawling in his body, constantly gnawing at his body.

Finally, Mo Ziqiang rolled his eyes and fell to the ground.

From his nose and mouth, a few tiny root hairs overflowed.

Zhuo Yu finally looked at him without any indifference, and he fondled Mo Ziqiang's head: "Okay, now you have a part of him."

Zhuo Yu turned and left, leaving Mo Ziqiang in the cold alley.

The next day, the county people were boiling.

Those who ate the dug desert cistanche were all overwhelmed by its deliciousness. After falling asleep, they were still obsessed with the taste of mountain delicacies when they woke up. They set off together at dawn, carrying farm tools and heading towards the pasture. , Mo Ziqiang was among them.

The pasture is at the head of the village, not far away, Zhuo Yu was woken up by their rumbling footsteps.

He saw Goddess Wang supporting her sick body and trying to stop them, but she was pushed aside unreasonably one by one. She didn't even have the respect from yesterday. Cistanche, who is the enemy!

This time, with great fanfare, they even brought their wives and children to work together, and within half a day they shoveled the land of the pasture clean.

This was something that Zhuo Yu could not do in a few months.

There were no more white tubers in the soil. Mo Ziqiang led the digging along the extension, and soon found many more. Truck after truck of cistanche was transported to the county continuously, becoming a life-saving tool for all. rations.

It was not until sunset in Shanxi that they reluctantly put down their hands and went home to feast on it.

Zhuo Yu watched all this with satisfaction.

Another day later, the excavation plan was still in full swing, and the crowd cleaned up the pasture thoroughly, only to find that these Cistanche deserticola grew along the veins, as if they were roots extending out.

They traced back to the source and found that cistanche had been spreading over the cliffs of the village.

There is nothing to go here, because I heard from the local aborigines that there are often roars of wild animals and strange noises near the cliff.

But now, the townspeople who are still alive in Cistanche County are mobilized in groups, so they are not afraid of any rumors.

Hundreds of people rushed into the valley of the village, which is the remaining vein of Daxing'an Mountains. About a kilometer away, there is a big cliff with bottomless bottom. Faintly saw the outline of a huge object.

Everyone looked at me and I looked at you. No one had the courage to go down to the bottom of the cliff, so they just gave up and went back to digging cistanche.

Only Zhuo Yu said, the more they eat, the more they will be parasitized.

The cistanche here is no ordinary plant.

They are the source of the energy of the Earth Mother, and they are also the form of overflow. These seemingly delicious white tubers grow along the veins, just like the scattered hair of the gods, and they will eventually gather in one place.

That's where the body is.

With the efforts of the county residents, Zhuo Yu finally knew where his heart was.

He is at the bottom of the cliff.

Zhuo Yu suddenly woke up from these memory fragments. He blinked and found that he was still lying on Mo Zijing's chest, and Mo Zijing's body was already cold.

[Actor Mo Zijing has died.Died of excessive blood loss. 】

[Congratulations on becoming the first actor to kill. 】

"what sound?!"

The cold mechanical sound rang in Zhuo Yu's ears, and he was startled, but the sound seemed to be sounding in his head, and there was no source at all.

The next moment, his field of vision was occupied by a strange icon in front of him, and the big bright red characters were constantly scrolling.

[The main mission has started: Please go to the bottom of the cliff in Cistanche County to find your love. 】

At this moment, Zhuo Yu clearly realized that killing Mo Zijing seemed to bring him some kind of reward, and the biggest benefit of this was that Zhuo Yu began to doubt his identity.

Did he really... come to this county because of the material?

Why did he feel that Liu Jingyun was so familiar?

Why does he have a barbarian that he never knew?Why did he kill Mo Zijing so easily?

What happened to him? !

The author has something to say: Poor Da Hua Hua No. [-] is going online soon.

感谢在2022-09-0220:33:06~2022-09-0309:47:29期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the landmine: 1 Qianjiu;

Thanks to the little angels who irrigate the nutrient solution: 10 bottles of Gengnian Zhizixi, Super Wuyuzi, Happy Chasing Literati; 5 bottles of KK; 2 bottles of Le Yi; 1 bottle of someone;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!

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