Chapter 28 The humble stone gate
As he spoke, the old man opened the door of the kitchen. Behind him, there was an old woman covered in blood. She was slowly cutting a big fat man on the chopping board. The fat man turned his head and smiled at Ye Tingbai.
The pain made his smile distort, looking so weird.
Ye Tingbai: "What the hell are you doing?"
Lao Qintou sighed, not anxious at all, nor did he defend his identity.
"We are just a group of poor people. We will come back again at midnight no matter what. We opened this butcher shop just to exchange some food with outsiders like you. We are...too hungry.
Crazy with hunger.”
Ye Tingbai: "But don't you open a butcher shop?"
The old man was a little disappointed when he saw that there were not many customers today, so he simply sat in front of the meat stall and started chatting with Ye Tingbai.
“Everything is restored here at midnight.
Whatever we eat in this town will disappear at midnight, even if it is in our stomachs, even if it has been digested, it will be restored to its previous fixed place, and hunger will double.
We are so hungry."
After chatting for a while, he found that the old man was sane and had forgotten too many things. He was also very kind and did not look like a pollutant at all.
It's just that the people in this town seem to be stuck in this endless loop, living the same day over and over again indefinitely. They can't get anything, but they will feel hungry.
They were here a long time ago, long before the Icelanders. You must know that the Icelanders are a species from the first era. Before the Icelanders came, they had been enduring hunger and lived a crazy life every day.
Until there were ice people in this cave, they began to trade with the ice people, exchanging food for food. This food was their own meat. Everyone in this town once lay on that chopping board, in order to relieve all the
Humans are endlessly hungry.
These are not monsters, just a group of ordinary people who have been cursed. They are immortal, but they can never leave here.
Sub-personality: "This looks a bit like a curse. There are some records in the books of the Fourth Age."
"What is the solution?"
"I don't know, the power of the curse will weaken over time, but from what they mean, this situation has been going on for a long time."
While we were chatting, for some reason thick smoke appeared around us, and some strange figures appeared in the smoke.
Sub-personality: "It's smoke, the purity is very poor."
The dream body appeared, the sub-personality controlled the body, and more than a dozen daggers were pierced into the smoke. The figures had no ability to resist at all, and they all fell to the ground and died. The smoke also slowly dissipated with the death of these people, revealing the
The culprit in the smoke.
These people were dressed similar to Lao Qintou, all wearing the same style of clothes. They held a torch in one hand and a plant in the other to release smoke. It seemed that they wanted to charm Ye Tingbai.
, after all, for them, Ye Tingbai is not from this village, and he will not be reset if he eats it.
Lao Qintou watched all this with cold eyes and showed no reaction at all.
Old Qintou: "Well, if there are no guests today, there will be no food, and these people will go astray."
Ye Tingbai: "What kind of crooked way do you want to eat me?"
Lao Qintou did not answer the question, but emphasized that as long as the food he ate did not belong to this village, it would be fine.
If you think about it carefully, the reason why those soldiers were so secretive before was probably because they often came here to have tooth rituals, so they didn't dare to say anything casually. After all, eating this kind of food would be a bit of a loss of bottom line.
But no one can say for sure. The person you ate is still alive, or even the place you ate is back to its original state the next day. Is this still considered eating... a person?
Old Qintou didn't know much, so he could only ask others, so he called Sun En. He was the only one who could be contacted in the cave.
After some general questioning, Sun En was fully aware of this village, and they had tried to destroy this strange village before, but to no avail, no matter how many times they destroyed and killed.
As soon as midnight comes, it will reappear, and all the effects of the previous day will disappear.
No external force can affect anyone or anything here.
Sun En: "Although we can't do anything to them, these people are indeed just ordinary people, with pitifully weak abilities and average physical fitness.
We also tested their pollution index, and it was all 0."
What Sun En means is that there is no need to take care of the village, because no matter how you take care of it, it will be back to its original state the next day, and the villagers will still live this tortured eternity.
Seeing how pitiful the old couple was, Ye Tingbai asked the soldiers from the base to come over now to deliver some food, but was told that the time had passed and the village had disappeared.
"What the hell, I'm obviously still here!"
"That village only appears for five minutes at midnight every day. Five minutes later, it will disappear with the village inside the village. It will not be affected, but we cannot see it from the outside.
If you leave the village now, it will not be affected, only the villagers will be restricted."
This makes Ye Tingbai feel very interesting. Outsiders cannot see it, but the people inside actually exist, feeling the passage of time. So what space are they in now?
This place is special enough, and it is indeed a nice place.
He started wandering around this small town to see if there were any doors. There must be a place where this bronze key could be used.
Sub-personality: "Turn left ahead and there is a cellar door."
"Is it that simple? I haven't even finished shopping yet."
Ye Tingbai hurriedly ran over. This was a dead end. It was a bit dirty, like a place where they usually piled garbage. There was a stone door carved with dragon patterns on the ground. It looked very unmarked and seemed casual.
It's like it can be smashed with a hammer.
Since Si Youxu didn't mention the location and gave him the key directly, there was only one possibility, that is, this place was not difficult to find, and it was so simple that he didn't even bother to describe it in detail.
The sub-personality first went up and smashed it twice with bare hands, but it did not stir up any dust. When he replaced it with the divine bone dagger, it only made a little white mark, but the white mark recovered and disappeared within two seconds.
Sub-personality: "The various things here have exceeded the limits of ordinary local gods.
First there was the curse, which lasted for tens of thousands of years and spanned five epochs. This was simply unrealistic. Unless God had been repairing and strengthening it, it would not be what it is now.
And as for this stone slab, I’m afraid even the local gods themselves don’t have this kind of strength.”
After obtaining the knowledge reserve of the Fourth Era, the sub-personality directly transformed into a magic stick, and was very proficient in all kinds of fallacies and heresies. From time to time, he would read a book from Wu Yi. This was of course a good thing. After all, the Fourth Era
Chapter completed!