"Young man, are you kidding?" The leader aunt said mercilessly. She looked around, but she did not find any advanced equipment on Chu Yunsheng's body.
Chu Yunsheng looked at the hazy sky and said, "whether I am kidding or not, we will know after we try."
He didn't know why, but recently, he always felt that something was not right. His heart would have bursts of panic, and he couldn't explain it. Perhaps it was because too much time had passed. Therefore, no matter what, he had to get into the city as soon as possible.
"Why don't we try?" The woman with the northern accent asked her companions. She just wanted to give it a try. Anyway, there was no other way for the time being.
…
A few hours later, this group of villagers did not expect that this white-haired young man could actually do it!
Not only did he do it, but the amount was also extremely terrifying.
This was amazing. Without any detection equipment, even an energy manipulator would not be able to find so many appendages.
In the next half of the day, they almost risked their lives, because the number of appendages discovered by this young man was just too many. This kind of opportunity was like falling from the sky, it was hard to come by.
In just one day's harvest, although it was exhausting, it was miraculously equivalent to the harvest of more than ten days!
Looking at all kinds of energy appendages piled up in the warehouse, the leader aunt couldn't stop smiling. A group of villagers even gathered around the campfire, looking forward to those appendages being turned into piles of usable insect meat tomorrow. If it wasn't for the price of insect meat in the city, they would even have extra energy to buy some other daily necessities.
But these appendages were useless to Chu Yunsheng except for paying for the "smuggling". This kind of energy was similar to the heterogeneous and sub-stable Yuan Qi contained in the floating stones, so he couldn't use it, and he couldn't absorb much of it.
"Xiao Shuzi hasn't come back yet?" Chu Yunsheng sat at the entrance of the village. He looked calm, but in his heart, he was very anxious, waiting for the news.
"Brother, don't worry, Xiao Shuzi is very familiar with this place. He has come back and forth many times. Besides, he already contacted the team that bought the appendages this afternoon, they will definitely arrive tomorrow." Standing behind Chu Yunsheng, a young man about 17 or 18 years old stamped his feet, trying to increase his body heat.
"So, he might not come tonight?" Chu Yunsheng tore off the last piece of meat and gave it to the young man.
For the sake of convenience, he naturally had to use a pseudonym. However, he had used too many pseudonyms in the past, and they were all jumbled together. Sometimes, even he himself couldn't tell which name was right and which place was wrong. So, he decided to use Old Sun's name, Sun Sheng, which was easy to remember.
"I'm afraid that it'll be dark at night, so I don't dare to walk at night. This place is full of twists and turns in the mountains. Even if I don't encounter any insects, I'll still fall into the ravine if I'm not careful …" The young man stuttered while eating the rat meat.
Chu Yunsheng raised his eyebrows and said, "from your accent, why do you sound like someone from Jin Ling city?"
The young man nodded indifferently and said, "Yes, what's wrong, brother?"
"Are you really from Jin Ling city? Are you really from Jin Ling city?" Chu Yunsheng suddenly jumped up from the ground and ran towards the young man. Jin, Jin Ling city? Tell me! Where is it now? Were they still alive? How did you come back? "
The young man was scared by Chu Yunsheng. His feet were almost lifted up into the air by Chu Yunsheng, and a piece of rat meat was stuck in his mouth.
"Tell me!" Chu Yunsheng pushed him hard and said anxiously.
How could the young man withstand Chu Yunsheng's strength? After being shaken by Chu Yunsheng for a while, he panicked and said incoherently, "I came here by train, I don't even remember … Brother, brother, put me down first, I really don't know what you are talking about."
Only then did Chu Yunsheng realize that he had lost his composure. This was the first time he met someone from Jin Ling city after he disappeared from Jin Ling city, how could he not be excited?
"What happened? Tell me slowly, tell me clearly!" Chu Yunsheng put him down and said sternly.
The young man swallowed the rat meat in his mouth and said, "brother, my mother is from Jin Ling city, my father is from Shu province, they both came from this village. Before the disaster happened, I just came back to see my grandpa. I really don't know what happened to Jin Ling city, but I also dream about it every day. My parents are still there. It's been so many years, I don't know if they are still alive or not. When my grandpa died, he didn't even close his eyes …"
'So they left during the age of light!' Chu Yunsheng suddenly felt depressed. He wanted to smoke, but he couldn't find any cigarette. So he could only touch his mouth and squat down on a big rock at the entrance of the village.
Seeing this, the young man finally regained his senses. He was as excited as Chu Yunsheng just now. He grabbed Chu Yunsheng's arm and said eagerly, "brother, have you been to Jin Ling city? Brother, is it true? Is the city still there? Are there still people alive? Brother!? "
Chu Yunsheng didn't know how to tell him, so he stayed silent for a while and said, "I have been there, and then they left, but … they are still alive, they are all alive and well!"
Chu Yunsheng didn't seem to be talking to the young man, but to himself.
The young man was comforted by Chu Yunsheng's words, but he still couldn't believe it, because Chu Yunsheng just asked him about the situation in Jin Ling city. But there was nothing he could do, the communication was cut off, and the distance was thousands of miles.
"Recently, I've been dreaming about my mother. She's covered in blood, hiding in a small dark room, calling my name incessantly. Big Brother, do you think she's gone? Did she come to my dream? "The young man seemed to have remembered something, his eyes were filled with fear.
Chu Yunsheng shook his head. He had this kind of dream before, but he couldn't remember it clearly. So he changed the topic, "when the darkness fell, you were only 13 or 14 years old, right?"
The young man nodded his head and said, "Yes, it has been so long, I almost can't remember the world before."
Chu Yunsheng sighed and said, "in the blink of an eye, four or five years have passed, people have aged a lot. In another ten years, the older people will all die, I'm afraid no one will know what the world was like before. When they were born, maybe they will think that the sky is dark, and maybe they won't miss it anymore."
"Brother, do you think we can see the sun in our lives?" The young man looked up at the dark sky and murmured.
Could it? Chu Yunsheng didn't know. It was true that Tian Gui would be completely opened sooner or later, but no one knew if they could live until then.
The two of them fell into silence one after another, but it didn't last long. Soon, a few young girls came over to talk to them. Whether it was instructed by their elders, or it was their own idea, no one knew.
The girls in Shu Land had fair skin, which had always been a well-deserved reputation. Especially in today's era where there was no sunlight, it was sickly pale, which could make people feel sorry for them.
However, Chu Yunsheng didn't have the mood to care about them. The fourth map was just in front of him, and then the fifth one. The more hopeful he was, the more likely he was to be afraid when he got closer to the fifth map. He was afraid that he would face an ending where the city would be destroyed and people would die.
When he didn't know the truth, there was still hope, and he could imagine all kinds of beautiful possibilities. But once the coin fell and the dust settled, it was a foregone conclusion, and there was no more hope.
With a complicated feeling, Chu Yunsheng almost didn't sleep well the whole night. He was woken up several times in his dreams. He didn't know if it was because of the young man's influence, but in his dreams, there were also a few bloody figures, which made him feel even more uneasy.
The next day, Xiao Shuzi hadn't come back yet, but the supervisor, whose surname was Shen, came. He had already known what happened yesterday from the "insider" in the village, so he asked Chu Yunsheng to talk to him.
As for what they wanted to talk about, the people in the village also knew. Some monopolistic forces naturally didn't want to be broken by outsiders.
Originally, Chu Yunsheng didn't want to talk to this person, but since he was blocking the entrance of the village, he couldn't avoid it even if he wanted to.
"Brother, what's your background? Is it convenient for you to tell me?" Shen Liao's nickname was Shen Bapi. Although he looked big and burly, he was definitely not someone who came out without a brain. A person who could identify and find energy appendages without using any equipment was definitely not an average person. Therefore, he was still very cautious. After all, he was not an energy manipulator, and it would be troublesome if he kicked an iron plate.
Although the force behind him was very powerful, and he didn't care about ordinary energy manipulators, but if he encountered an outsider who didn't understand the situation, his force would not be able to deter him.
"Since you asked, it is indeed a bit inconvenient." Chu Yunsheng told him the truth.
Ripper Shen rubbed his chin and said calmly, "from outside?" Although he had heard the insider say so, he was still a little worried. In this day and age, anything could happen.
Chu Yunsheng neither denied nor admitted it, he went straight to the point and said, "I know why you are looking for me, but don't worry, I will not break your rules. I am just passing by, and I want to get some traveling expenses."
"Brother, thank you for your understanding!" Ripper Shen didn't say much. What he was worried about the most was that Chu Yunsheng was here to steal his job. If that was the case, a conflict was inevitable.
Chu Yunsheng smiled and said, "actually, you shouldn't have come to me."
Ripper Shen knew what he was referring to. Yesterday, he acted so arrogantly in order to make these villagers lower their heads. But now, he came to find Chu Yunsheng, which obviously showed that he did not want to lose the "business" of this village. This would put him in a disadvantageous position when he continued to negotiate with the villagers.
But he didn't know whether Chu Yunsheng was really passing by, or he was here to steal his "business". He had to figure it out. One day of delay was one day of loss, and he still had to rent the equipment!
"The Phantom Squad is here!"
At this time, someone ran back from the path and reported.
From afar, under the dim light, only a dozen blurry shadows could be seen, dragging things that looked like supermarket shopping carts.
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