NOVEL SIMPLE Chapter 726: Cedar Town
The old man smacked his lips.
“This matter started more than half a month ago.
The poisonous fog in the south has been spreading for several months. Before this, many survivors from other bases fled to Luoshi City. It is said that no grass grows on the land covered by the poisonous fog.
That bald man...oh no, monk, that monk appeared at that time.
One day, he walked out of the fog with a group of wanderers and asked the mayor of Luoshi City to open the gates and take them in.
They couldn't afford the entrance fee, and the city lord didn't want this group of people to enter Luoshi City.
Tens of thousands of survivors gathered outside the city.
That night, I suddenly smelled a strong smell of kerosene at home and rushed out to see. The flames outside the city gate illuminated half the sky red, and there were screams and cries everywhere.
I didn't dare to go out, but I heard people say that it was the city lord who gave the order, asking the psychics to spray kerosene from the air and then set fire to it while everyone was sleeping.
They were instantly ignited, and the firemen ran everywhere.
The wind blew the fragrance into the city, and the smell of roasting meat was everywhere in Luoshi City.
When the city gates were open during the day, there was a task to clean the city gates, and each person who went could receive two multi-grain steamed buns.
I went there..."
At this point, the one-eyed old man turned to look at Jiang You and said, "Noble superpowers, you may have never taken the lives of ordinary people like us seriously.
I will never forget that day. It was more tragic than anything I had ever seen.”
“Countless charred bodies were lying on the ground in various postures, and some were convulsed by the burning.
Of course, there were a few people left alive. The city lord stood on the city gate and said that the winners who could survive could enter Luoshi City.
But no one cheered.
That day, in addition to those who came to participate in the mission to clean up the scene, many people came together to drag these bodies back home. I also picked one to drag away. Do you know what I took it back for?"
The one-eyed old man stared at Jiang You with his cloudy eyes, with a sinister smile.
Jiang You said calmly, "In the harsh natural environment, animals will not waste any protein. They will try every possible way to recycle it. Even mother animals will recycle their cubs after giving birth to stillborn babies to replenish their energy. You don't have to tell me this. I don't care.
I just want to know about that monk."
In the midst of a disaster, the constraints of civilization and morality fade away. When it comes to life and death, there is no essential difference between humans and animals.
Eating one's own children and killing one's own kind are all done for the sake of survival.
Jiang You has no habit of telling others how to survive, nor does she have the qualifications.
The one-eyed old man laughed weirdly again, "That's right, all meat is meat, all meat, hahahaha!
You and I both know it, but the monk can't see through it.
His clothes were all burnt and his body was covered with burns. He was holding the pitch-black wood and crying at the city gate. I asked him why he was crying and he said he felt uncomfortable.
He said that his Buddha was blindfolded and refused to look at the world or save people.
Only then did I realize that the dark thing in his arms was a Buddha statue..."
Jiang You, "What happened next?"
"After that, the crazy monk burst into tears at the gate and went to the City Lord's Mansion... He was standing alone, barefoot at the gate, wearing burnt black clothes that could not cover his body.
He said he had a question and wanted to ask the city lord for help..."
"Clear the confusion?"
Jiang You thought about how Zhu Xie was said to have gone to the head of the Gu family to resolve his doubts, and then the Gu family was gone.
Hearing this, she could already foresee what was going to happen next.
Sure enough, the old man continued.
"At that time, the city lord had already decided to abandon everyone and go directly to City No. 9 to seek refuge. He alone was going to take away almost 90% of the city's resources, and the people in the city were full of complaints.
However, the appearance of the monk delayed his progress. The city lord was angry and ordered a killing without mercy.
I have never seen such a person before. He walked towards the City Lord's Mansion step by step. Others attacked him with supernatural powers, but he did not fight back.
They shot him and he kept walking forward bleeding.
He seemed not to feel anything when a knife was used on him. He did not make any attacking moves and just took it.
Soon, there was not a single piece of good meat left on the monk's body.
Those who attacked him had the same wounds on their bodies as he did.
Gradually, no one dared to attack him anymore.
Those people looked at him eagerly, holding weapons, but they did not dare to take action.
They surrounded him, and every time he took a step forward, they took a step back.
Blood flowed along his bare feet, reflecting lotus flowers on the ground. Suddenly someone in the crowd said that this monk was a Buddha.
Some knelt down, some kowtowed, and some looked on with disdain.
The monk just walked into the City Lord’s Mansion like this…”
The old man's pupils flickered, as if he remembered something terrible, "The city lord is the best master in Luoshi City, but the next morning, an unknown charred corpse was found at the city gate.
Next to the charred corpse were more than a hundred bodies that had died in tragic ways...
The city lord disappeared, and the new city lord took office and formulated a migration plan as quickly as possible.
But the new city lord did not run away alone. He wanted to take all the survivors in Luoshi City who could escape to evacuate together, and everyone was saved.
Some people say that the new city lord is a good person.
Some people say that it was the crazy monk who asked the new city lord to do this.
Some people say that the more than one hundred charred corpses hanging at the city gate are the former city lord and his men..."
“…Except for the elderly and the weak who really didn’t have the strength to evacuate, and the extremely evil criminals, everyone who could leave was taken away by the city lord.
On the day when the main force withdrew, I saw the bald man again.
He was still holding the black Buddha statue, standing on the city gate and crying, and no one knew why he was crying...
This monk always cries. He cries when he sees debris on the roadside, cries when he sees people eating each other, cries when he sees people dying, cries when he sees people being born, as if he has endless tears to shed.
Jiang You, "He didn't leave with everyone else, which means he's still in Luoshi City?"
"Do not."
The one-eyed old man shook his head, "He left and walked into the fog. He said there are still people in the fog.
I happened to be at the city gate at that time, and I told the bald man that he was going in the wrong direction, and that only by going in another direction could he get farther away from the poisonous fog.
He said he was going to Cedar Town, where he said there were survivors waiting for him...
I told him that under the poisonous fog, I'm afraid that the people in Xuesong Town would have died long ago, but he didn't believe me. He said he wanted to see for himself, saying that the path he had walked was the law. I didn't quite understand...
When the monk left, he cried again because someone was seeing him off.
Someone knelt down to him and called him a living Buddha, but he cried and shook his head, saying that he was not a Buddha and that he would not save people..."
After hearing these words, Jiang You wondered if Zhuxie had gone through something and was suffering from depression.
After all, monks like to meditate, and thinking too much can easily lead to depression.
This guy was a little crazy before, but at least he was quite optimistic. How come he has become a crybaby now?