just a tabby cat

Chapter 170 Meow, Life Is Like Grass

After leaving Yidu, and only going south for more than 300 miles, you can see that the vegetation on the ground has withered. Although the field is not cracked, the crops on it are drooping.It is the harvest season of the year, but there is no hint of a harvest.

The water level of the big river is dropping, and the riverbed of the small river is exposed, and only a small amount of water is in the riverbed.

And along the way, you can meet disaster victims. Some of them heard the wind and went back, and more of them were the latter group of victims who were going to go north and try their luck.

"It seems that the situation is more serious than what the victims described." Lan Sheng stood at the head of the spirit boat, looking at the scene below: "If the source cannot be found, it won't be long before the wings will be affected."

Li Hua nodded after hearing that, when the turmoil broke out, it would not be able to be bluffed by a simple apparition.The country of this wing dynasty will surely be attacked by the enemy.

"Thinking about it this way, the few days I was wandering outside were nothing at all." Situ Qi puffed up her chubby face, her expression a little downcast.He saw a child underneath, whose whole body was like a skeleton, with only a protruding belly, which was unusually big.But he held on tightly to the numb people in front of him, for fear of falling down.

At that time, he was alone in the deep mountains. Although he didn't have enough to eat, he didn't starve to death, nor did he lose weight, but the child below had a swollen belly, which showed that he had eaten something that he couldn't digest. .

"I heard from my parents that in this extraordinary period, grass roots, tree roots, and even mud are their food, just to survive." What I saw with my own eyes was far more real and cruel than what others described.

"Li Hua, Ying found something."

Because of the sighs of the two children, the spirit boat fell into a brief silence, and Lan Sheng suddenly spoke, interrupting the moment of silence.

"What did you find?" Li Hua looked down in the direction of the shadow finger, and saw nothing unusual except for the yellowish trees and the dry river.

"Go down." Lan Sheng thought for a while and decided to go down to find out. Ying's intuition saved them several times in the barren land. Since he felt something was wrong, there must be something abnormal down there.

"Did the water in this river bed disappear too completely?" Lan Sheng squatted at the bottom of the dry river bed, rubbing the soil in his hands with his fingers, and asked aloud.

The trees on the bank are still green, which means that the river has not been watered for long, but the soil in the river bed has no trace of water, as if it has been dry for half a month, and it turns into gravel when you twist it with your hands.

But plants do not behave like this. If the riverbed has been dry for nearly half a month and slowly dried by the sun, the plants should also be dead.

The trees on the bank are still alive and well, but the river seems to have been drained dry by something.

"It's really not right." Li Hua squatted down with him, checked carefully and said, "It seems that there is really something evil at work."

The shadow pointed to the ground, seeing Lan Sheng and Li Hua looking at him in bewilderment, they slapped down heavily with their hands, the river bed split a crack in the middle, revealing a piece of blue under the ground.

"What?" Li Hua squatted on the ground, picked up a twig, and poked at the piece of blue, not wanting that piece of blue to disappear before his eyes like lightning, so fast that everyone had no time to react.

"It should be this thing." Li Hua dropped the branch and looked in the direction it was escaping, towards the north.

"It's no wonder that along the way, the further south you go, the more thorough it is. It seems to be the reason." Lan Sheng analyzed: "This should be part of it. We need to find its body to solve this drought."

Li Hua nodded, just looking at the blue color, she had no clue at all, she had to find the body to know what kind of evil it was.

"Walk."

The group boarded the spirit boat again and flew south.

As the first city in the south came into view in the north-south boundary, the group fell silent.

Those who can escape to the north are lucky and wise.Along the way, I could see corpses lying on the side of the road from time to time, with their mouths wide open, their stomachs protruding high, their fingers pointing north, and their eyes opened reluctantly.

I don't know if they regretted that they didn't leave the place of right and wrong before they died. If they left sooner, would they be able to drink a sip of water, eat a sip of food, and wait to return home.

It's a pity that there are no ifs in life, maybe because of sickness, maybe because of improper planning, maybe because of other reasons.They didn't have time to escape, so they died miserably on the side of the road, and their bodies were eaten by other animals that needed water.

Yu Yue covered her mouth and sobbed softly, tears flowed out uncontrollably, but she was afraid of disturbing the three of them, so she tightly covered her mouth.

Situ Qi was even buried in Li Hua's arms, her shoulders kept shaking, and the tears on her little face instantly soaked her clothes.

Li Hua froze for a moment, stretched out her hand to wrap his arms around his small shoulders, and brought Yu Yue into her arms, regretting in her heart, should she have rejected their request?
"I'm fine." Situ Qi raised her head, wiped away the tears on her face with her hands, her eyes were red, and she was crying: "Sister, mother once asked me what I would do in the future? I've already thought about it."

Situ Qi took a few breaths of silence and said, "Let the people of Yi Dynasty, and even the people of the world, not starve to death."

Li Hua rubbed his head, and smiled at him gratifiedly: "Well, this is a grand ambition, work hard."

"Take me." Yu Yue didn't have time to wipe away the tears on her face, and said in a strong cry: "When I go back, I will donate the jewelry that I don't need to support the disaster victims in the south."

"You're great too." Li Hua stroked her raised hair, "The little girl has finally grown up."

The sadness in the spirit boat dissipated a lot after Lihua interrupted it.

Ying suddenly took Lan Sheng's hand to signal him to stop, and pointed down.

"Here?" Lan Sheng followed the direction of his finger and stopped in a huge reservoir.The reservoir that originally supplied the entire city, now there is not a drop of water, the soil at the bottom of the reservoir has been completely dry and cracked, and dust is brought up by stepping on it.

"There has been a lack of water here for a long time."

There used to be a dense forest next to the reservoir. At this time, the leaves on the trees had all fallen off. Due to the long-term drought, some trunks were split from the middle, some fell to the ground, and most were broken in the middle.

Ying repeated his old trick, and slapped the ground hard. After a loud "bang", the reservoir split from the middle, splitting into two, which showed Ying's strength.

Under the wide gap is the blue that occupies the entire area, as if it has occupied the entire bottom of the reservoir.Under the sunlight, this smear of blue has a strange light.

Shadow hit the big piece of blue heavily, and saw that piece of blue quickly fleeing to the distance, but where the shadow hit, there was gurgling water seeping out, and within a moment, a small pool of water formed under their feet .

"Sure enough, it was responsible for it. What kind of monster is this that actually stole the water?" Li Hua cried out angrily, wishing she could take out this thing and whip it hundreds of times to vent her anger.

(End of this chapter)