Calling this place a village was too much of a compliment.
Lin Sanjiu and Ji Shanqing cautiously made their way down the mountain. Under the cover of the night, they snuck into the dilapidated houses.
It was a sunny night, and the bright moonlight cast a layer of frost over everything in sight. The place was so quiet that it felt like a century ago when they escaped from the War of Gods after losing almost half of their lives.
The houses were actually just shelves made of wood. Some of them were covered with straw while some of them had nothing on them. Lin Sanjiu and Ji Shanqing could see the beds made of leaves when they looked into the houses. There were a few extinguished fires at the entrance of the houses. Smoke covered the doors and walls. Broken pieces of wood and wooden knives were scattered on the ground. It seemed like someone had only completed a half-done job.
Most of the houses were empty. It was only when Lin Sanjiu walked to the last two houses that she heard faint breathing.
She didn't even have to think to look because there was only a hole in the wall. There was no window. Lin Sanjiu poked her head in and saw that there was only one person inside. It seemed to be a man. He was tall and skinny. He was lying on his side on a large rock. There was a tattered burlap cloth that was full of wormholes hanging from the rock.
Other than the man and his stone bed, there was only a cup and a few pieces of wood in the dilapidated house. Lin Sanjiu and Ji Shanqing wondered how the man survived.
Lin Sanjiu and Ji Shanqing looked at each other and shook their heads.
Since there was someone in this village, they couldn't stay here anymore. This world was too strange, and they had already decided not to appear in front of anyone.
Lin Sanjiu mouthed for Ji Shanqing to follow her. Then, she took the lead and walked out of the village. The two of them walked quietly for a few steps. Suddenly, they heard a low murmur coming from the dilapidated house behind them. Just as they quickened their pace, they stumbled and their ankles bumped into something thin. Instantly, the crisp sound of a copper bell reverberated in the night sky, startling a few nocturnal birds that were not far away.
The grand prize cursed under his breath and took half a step back. Only then did he realize that there was a thread tied to the ground. The thread was as thin as a strand of hair. It was tied to the door of the house with a copper bell hanging on it. Even a deity would have a hard time noticing it on such a dark night.
"Oh no," Lin Sanjiu mumbled, but she wasn't too nervous. The tall man was the only one in this dilapidated village, so he wasn't much of a threat.
"Hey, who is it? Who's here? "
At this moment, a muffled voice came from the room behind him. The man had obviously just woken up from his slumber, and his speech was not very clear. He put on his clothes and shuffled out of the room. The sound of him shuffling could be heard clearly in the dark night.
"Who are you guys? I thought it was my dad. "The tall man stood at the door. His neck was lowered by the eaves. The moonlight illuminated half of his face, and Lin Sanjiu realized that he looked a little dull. His eyes were very far apart, and his nose was very flat. Lin Sanjiu wondered if he had just woken up, but his eyes were dull.
Obviously, he was a so-called "Inhumans". Lin Sanjiu had seen this dull look many times in the City of Ants. The only difference was that none of the Deva's Inhumans had a father.
"We are just passing by," Lin Sanjiu answered briefly. She turned around and was about to leave, "We will leave now."
Unexpectedly, the tall man's eyes suddenly lit up and he rushed forward in a few steps. He seemed to have poor control of his limbs as he stumbled forward. "Wait, wait! Don't go! "
"What do you want?" the grand prize turned around and asked.
"My dad told me not to let anyone leave," when the man straightened his back, Lin Sanjiu could only reach his shoulder. He said naively, "Hmm, no, my dad told me that if he leaves, I won't be able to do it. If I meet anyone, I should beg them to help me, a big blockhead." "That's right.
He did not seem to know that "Blockhead" was not a good thing.
"Help you with what?" the grand prize seemed to be interested in the man. He tilted his head and asked.
The man looked like he was about to cry, "I, I haven't eaten for a few days."
Lin Sanjiu felt a headache coming on, "What happened?"
"I planted all the vegetables behind the house."
"Where is your dad?" Lin Sanjiu just wanted to leave as soon as possible, "Where did he go? Why don't you wait for him to come back? "
"He went to look for God." Blockhead's next words made both of them shudder, "I don't know why, but our village doesn't have God's blessing. Without God, we can't eat. People either leave or die … My dad said that he has to go look for God. He wants to see if there is any God's blessing. When he finds one, he will come back for me. "
Both of them looked at each other and saw a glimmer in each other's eyes.
Ji Shanqing asked cautiously, "What do you mean by 'God doesn't have God's blessing'?"
"I don't know," Blockhead answered honestly. Blockhead said honestly, "I heard that the people in other places all worship the gods, and the gods often visit them. However, there has never been a God in our village. They say that God doesn't like to come to this shabby place. "
"Great!"
Lin Sanjiu couldn't believe her luck.
In this perverted world, a place that God didn't like to come to was a paradise that could only be found by chance.
"Sis, we have stayed in this mountain for the whole afternoon, but we didn't see any God." Ji Shanqing leaned over and whispered into her ear, "The God in this world appears so frequently, but he hasn't appeared here for so long. I think this blockhead is telling the truth."
The blockhead blinked his eyes, which were far away, in a daze.
"Why doesn't God come?" Lin Sanjiu was still a little worried.
"I don't know," Blockhead sniffed. "Can you guys give me something to eat?"
Well, asking him about something more complicated would probably be a waste of time. The two of them had nothing to say for a while, so they quieted down and thought for a while. After a few seconds, Ji Shanqing suddenly asked, "Bring me to your vegetable field."
Seeing that Blockhead had indeed turned around and left, Ji Shanqing whispered to Lin Sanjiu, "Let's go take a look. We will know if he is telling the truth."
After all, a dead vegetable field was easy to prove — and the fact was, what the big guy said was indeed the truth.
His dad had obviously put in a lot of effort. Other than potatoes and carrots, he had also planted some coriander and chili peppers in his vegetable field. Perhaps, he wanted his son to spice it up. However, no matter what it was, it was dead. Dark green sprouts and leaves hung on the ground. They were so dry that they had turned brittle.
"It's really dead." Blockhead sniffed as if he was afraid that they wouldn't believe him. "You can't eat it anymore. Do you have any food? "
Lin Sanjiu glanced at Ji Shanqing and put her hands behind her back.
"I have some food here," she softened her tone, "How about this? Let us rest in the house over there. I will give you some bread every day. What do you think?"
"What's bread?" Blockhead widened his eyes suspiciously. He looked back and forth between them, "You didn't bring any bags with you."
When Lin Sanjiu pulled her hand back, there was a packet of oiled paper in her hand. She bought it from Red Nautilus. It was a very popular dry food in the Free District of Red Nautilus. The brown, oily bread was flattened and hard. There were about ten pieces of oiled paper wrapped in about a dozen pieces. When eating, one could tear off a piece of bread and mix it with wine, milk, or water. It would quickly turn into a thick bread paste that would slide down the tongue and into the throat, leaving behind a salty taste of cinnamon and salt.
After showing Blockhead how to eat it, he wolfed down the large cup of bread paste in a few mouthfuls. After that, his attitude towards the two of them improved by leaps and bounds. As he called them "good people", he took the initiative to clean up a room for them. He even took out the only piece of linen sheet he had, which was hard from grease, and insisted on laying it on the two of them. With a pale face, Ji Shanqing tried to push him away a few times, but finally, he succeeded.
Even though the village was small, there was a surprising stream behind it.
After the girl sprayed saliva on their faces, both of them were sweating and freezing. Their bodies were so sour and stinky that they couldn't even smell it. Ji Shanqing could not take off his clothes to take a bath, so he could only watch Lin Sanjiu enter the stream with a heart full of resentment and envy. The stream was very cold at night. Lin Sanjiu shivered and goosebumps rose all over her body.
When she got used to the temperature of the water, she dived into the stream and washed all the mud, mucus, and sweat off her body.
Ji Shanqing lay by the stream and washed his long hair. Then, he wiped his hands and face clean. In the end, under his insistence, Lin Sanjiu had no choice but to remove his clothes layer by layer until she reached his white undershirt. Five minutes later, Ji Shanqing fainted. When he woke up again, he was satisfied to find that he had changed into a new set of clean clothes.
They had only stayed in Salvation of God for less than two days, but they had already been on the brink of death a few times. Now that she could relax a little, all kinds of reactions that had been suppressed by her nervousness resurfaced. Forget about the grand prize, Lin Sanjiu was so hungry that her eyes had turned green. She called the dimwit over, started a fire, and had dinner in front of their rundown house.
After experiencing Meat Elysium, she had almost forgotten what food tasted like. She had prepared a huge bag of food in Red Nautilus, and now, she could finally put it to good use.
Sitting by the fire, the dimwit's red face was reflected by the fire. He stared blankly at Lin Sanjiu as she took out bags after bags of food that he had never seen before.
In the first bag, there were walnuts, peanuts, cashews, and various kinds of dried fruits. The sight of it was enough to fill a person's heart. Lin Sanjiu opened the bag and poured everything into the pot over the fire. Then, she sprinkled some sugar and a bit of salt on top of the cream. After the cream was heated, it gurgled for a while. The aroma of hot milk mixed with the aroma of dried fruits soon wafted out. It was so strong that Lin Sanjiu salivated.
Ji Shanqing was especially useful when it came to eating. He mixed a large box of cold beef slices — it might not be beef, but at least the seller said it was beef, so Lin Sanjiu decided to eat it without knowing anything — with all kinds of spices and sauces. Then, he roasted the meat over the fire for a while. The box was specially made. Soon, the enticing aroma of roasted meat wafted out from the small rack inside. The meat was so tender that it slid between the teeth. When Lin Sanjiu took a bite, her mouth was filled with a fresh and sweet juices.
Other than that, there were some instant noodles from an unknown world. Lin Sanjiu couldn't recognize any of the words on the noodles. They compared the pictures and made some guesses. Finally, they made three bowls of noodles with sauce. When the thick black pepper sauce glowed with a reddish-brown oil under the fire, the dimwit looked like he was about to cry.
While everyone buried their heads in their food and didn't say a word, Lin Sanjiu took out three cans of orange juice. When she bought the cans, the seller sold them in a pile of ice. Once she got them, she immediately converted the orange juice into a card. When she took them out, there were still water droplets on the bottle and it was cold.
Lin Sanjiu gulped down half a can of ice-cold orange juice and wiped her mouth. She had never been so happy before.
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