Chapter 11 Changes in the Ruins
This old area has a great impact on Gu Tianxiao. Since he had memories, he has lived in the bustling city of Jinling or on the ancient sword fairy island like a fairyland. The same people should have wandered like a walking dead. The "things" here are men and women, old and young. Luo Yin Qianyu told him that these "things" would do anything to survive, but Gu Tianxiao could not see how they could survive. They were piled up in groups of three or three, and most of them still held very sharp gravels in their hands.
He was alert to his fellow people around him. Gu Tianxiao saw a thin figure not far away, moving on the bumpy gravel road with difficulty. After a while, he climbed to a crack in a stone path, stretched out his hand to pick something inside, and then he laughed happily. His dirty and sluggish face was as if he had lost his wife. Then, his skin-like dirty hands seemed to have taken out a pig's trotter that had not been eaten. Soon, the pig's trotter that was stained with black sewage was gnawed away by the man, and there was not even a bit of bone residue left.
"Under the stone path is a ditche used by people above to discharge sewage, and it is also the main source of food here. It's ridiculous to say that the more waste the food the people above eat, the less people here will starve to death." Luo Yin Qianyu sneered softly and said to Gu Tianxiao.
"Why don't they leave here and find a place to live better?" Gu Tianxiao asked in confusion.
"There will be those who leave, and there will be those who come here from other places, but where they can be taken in, there are places like this. So in the end, these "things" that are still alive will choose one such place to stop. Tianxiao, habit is a terrible thing, and people are also a 'thing' that will be used to without realizing it." Luo Yin Qianyu said plainly, and took Gu Tianxiao to stand on a few high walls to see some more tragic things that would happen.
Gu Tianxiao was a little numb. He couldn't figure out that the Great Wu Dynasty was so powerful, but there were so many shameful "things". He couldn't even imagine whether there was a place in his Gujian Dynasty that was filled with such hell on earth. There was a place in the ruins that smelled bloody than in the dark passage just now. Gu Tianxiao didn't even have to look at it to know what the 'thing' was eating. After a while, Luo Yin Qianyu took him to a relatively normal ruin. The houses there had not yet collapsed, and the people here looked a little more human. Gu Tianxiao even saw a few burly men with strong muscles occupying a relatively complete house.
"Bite, women, use force, hahaha." A rough howl came from afar. Gu Tianxiao looked at the sound. It was on the high platform above the relatively complete house. However, Gu Tianxiao stood at a bad angle. Behind the crooked eaves, a strong man with a flesh-faced face seemed to be standing behind a young woman and constantly insulted her. The young woman looked plain and ragged in her upper body, but she was plump compared to others. The big man held a whip in one hand and slapped the young woman's weak body, and held a fresh lilac radish in the other hand, hanging in front of the young woman's mouth. The woman's face was full of curvyness, opened her dry and wrinkled lips, and raised her waist to bite the radish. After exhaustion, her body fell heavily and shook for a few times. Then the woman raised her face, which seemed to be crying and laughing, and continued to struggle to bite...
"Boss, when will we meet some beautiful little ladies? These are all half-old women, so they are so irritable." A strong man with a scarred face muttered to look at the boss with a fat face.
"Little lady? Yes, I won't mention the largest brothel in the city, "Zuiwo Xiangju". Even if you are a second-rate Lichunju, as long as you have money, you will be unable to get a bed the next day. But do you have money?"
"No...no, but isn't this just taking on a big deal? What good things can I get this time?" Scarface said with a smile.
"There are so many people who can exchange it, so I'll bet on my life next time. Don't mess it up like this time. The thing is done, the person above said, I'll be able to live a few years." The boss with a fat face shouted loudly, and then seemed to have finally vented his anger and left behind the young woman.
"Teacher, that woman is so pitiful," Gu Tianxiao looked at everything that happened in front of him, biting his lips and said hatefully, "There are also those big men, teacher, kill them all."
Luo Yin Qianyu did not respond to Gu Tianxiao, but just signaled him to continue watching.
The young woman who was spared by the man hurriedly staggered and rolled down from the platform, holding the rice bag given by the man with a horizontal meat in her hand, and then quietly ran to the back of the stone pile at the corner and hid the rice bag. She carefully hugged an extremely thin child. She couldn't see the man and woman. Her clothes were torn, her whole body was dirty and black, and only a cross scar on her neck was shocking. Even if Gu Tianxiao was far away, she could clearly see. The woman shivered and fed most of the biting cloves and radishes to the child. The child seemed to be hungry, and she ate it for a while and then she hugged the woman tightly as if she came to life. On the platform, the scar man seemed to accidentally throw a cucumber while the other man was not paying attention, and it just fell at the feet of the woman and the child.
Luo Yin Qianyu told Gu Tianxiao that most of these great men were second- and third-rate masters in the secular world. After the immortals went down the mountain, some sects were destroyed, and some families were destroyed, so they gathered in such ruins to enclose land as kings, and did some dirty work for the nobles in the inner city to make a living. Gu Tianxiao didn't know what the sect was, but he knew that he hated these great men and even hated that woman. After that, Gu Tianxiao didn't know whether Teacher Luo Yin had dealt with these "things" in the "trash area", so he returned to the academy with the teacher and continued to explore the path of cultivation with difficulty.
On the high wall, Gu Tianxiao stood with a chew for a long time. There are already rows of decent stone houses in the ruins of the "Garbage Area". Although the figures wandering around are still thin, they are like humans. Many people are burying their heads and smacking some small molds and devices. The original high platform of the broken house has been renovated into a two-story stone house. A silver-white pennant is inserted on the platform of the stone house, and the four big words "Xu's Workshop" are fluttered on the flag.
"Jizi, this place used to be a real hell on earth." Gu Tianxiao said to Jizi softly, wondering if Teacher Luo Yin did something later.
"Oh? What hell? The Hell on Earth has seen a lot in Dongtaipingzhou, but in my eyes, humans are not a good thing. Well, my smile is of course the exception." The monkey was a little disdainful. She could clearly sense that there were traces of dead bodies being dealt with here not long ago. She combed her hair with her little claws on her own.
Gu Tianxiao touched Huazi's little head and said with a smile, "I know, you have your own ideas, but I was almost scared to death at that time, but things like hell on earth are always wrong."
The little red eyes of the monkey rolled around, and didn't seem to think there was anything wrong, but since the owner said it, he nodded and agreed. So the monk nodded and thought that he would doze. But immediately, the monkey found that there was trouble. Some people were gathering quietly in secret. In fact, the monkey felt like he was staring at him all the time along the way.
A man who looked like a deacon walked to the high platform where Gu Tianxiao was, bowed a lot, and his eyes swept across Gu Tianxiao's body intentionally or unintentionally. He seemed to be attracted by the sword and ring on Gu Tianxiao's hand. Then he looked up and said respectfully, "Xu Song is the deacon in the workshop here. This young master must be a high-ranking student from Donghai Academy. I wonder what instructions did the young master give to come here?"
Although he is only fourteen years old, Gu Tianxiao's body and face have actually grown. Although he is a little thin and thin compared to adults, he is wearing a standard brocade robe and has the power of a prince that has accumulated for a long time. In the eyes of Xu Song and others who are used to being servants, he has the power of a great young master.
Gu Tianxiao looked at the deacon under the wall. He thought he had recognized the academy uniform on his body. Seeing that he was talking without any leakage, he received a reminder from the sausage in his heart. Gu Tianxiao simply pulled up his tiger skin and said generously, "I chasing a wild cat on a whim, but I came here for no reason. When I saw the flag that said Xu's workshop, I came over to see if this is related to one of my Summer Friends. Xu, do you know Xu Xiangxi?"
"Know, of course, know," Xu Song's body trembled unconsciously when he heard the words Xu Xiangxi, and then calmed down, "Since the young master is the friend of Prince Xu, please sit in and have a villain entertain him," he pointed to the high platform on the roof and said, "This place is rather abandoned, but there are still screens on the high platform. Please don't dislike it." After saying that, he didn't know what secret code he had called, and then found that the people who were slowly approaching around him quietly retreated.
"No, I don't have this leisure yet," Gu Tianxiao remembered the ugly things that happened on the high platform for no reason, waved his hand, "Justice Xu just needs to go busy by himself, I have to rush back to the academy." After saying that, without caring about Xu Song's reaction, Gu Tianxiao jumped off the high wall and turned around and left.
"The villain is kind to see you off." Xu Song bowed his head and said loudly.
Not long after, a dark figure behind Xu Song half-kneeled on the ground and asked hoarsely, "Sir, will you just let them go?"
Xu Song, who had just bent down, suddenly stood up and became arrogant. He did not look like a villain who had just lowered his eyebrows and looked down. Xu Song waved his hand and said slowly: "Don't alarm the snake for now. Someone behind him has been following him. I guess he is a dead soldier who is secretly protected. And he seems to have discovered your actions. There is no hint from me in the future. I deliberately sold a flaw, hoping to expose this matter. In addition, we must continue to manage it well, and exchange valuable things. Just let them starve to death. Talented people will still be trained to be "dead faces". If you understand, then step down."
"Yes, sir." The shadow retreated, and the ruined area became lifeless again, leaving only the sound of hard objects hitting.
Chapter completed!