Blind date in time and space.

Chapter 299 Food
Xia Shumin couldn't help asking, "Don't they grow crops?"

Maien sent her words.

"Crops? What's this?"

"Ah? It's rice and wheat, which are grown in the ground and can be eaten when they mature."

"In the field? What grows in the field? I don't know, we don't know these things."

Xia Shumin was stunned by Cassian's answer, and asked again.

Only then did I realize that his village was bare without even a single blade of grass.

Chen Ji had a bad feeling and continued to ask him.

It turns out that Cassian's village not only has no plants, but also the sun, moon and stars, rain and wind, singing of birds and fragrance of flowers, changing seasons, everything!

The village is made of iron houses, surrounded by pitch black, no wind, no rain, nothing, only the guardian, and the things called spars dug out from the river bed outside the village.

Cassian knew the concepts of the sun, the moon, the stars, plants and animals, but he had never seen them, only heard them in the stories of the old people in the village.

For him, there are only the guardian, the village, his family, and the ore on the river bed outside the village, and his cognition of other things is very vague.

Even the concept of water on the river bed was told by the guardians.

As a result, Cassian, as a 12-year-old child, has sharp thinking and clear logic, but it is difficult for Chen Ji to communicate with him.

He lacks the concept of too many things in the normal world. Many things are told by the old people in the village, and the old people in the village listen to them from the guardians.

"What kind of world is this?!" Mu Xiaoxiao frowned, "It's like a dead place that was deliberately blocked."

Astana also speculated: "Maybe it is a place abandoned by gods, and outsiders cannot reach it."

But these are just guesses.

Zhou Wan said to Ma Yien: "Ask him, do they eat crystals? Or what?"

If it is to eat spar, then there is a high probability that Cassien will not be able to eat the food on the earth.

"No, we put the spar into the altar, and there will be food, iron blocks, clothes, medicines, toys, and so on from the altar. All of our things are obtained from the altar with spar."

Transform directly?
Cassian's words made Chen Ji and the others look at each other again.

Even in God's Grace Continent, Astana has never heard of such a strange thing:
The altar gave them everything, and only the altar can give them things.

"Is that so..."

Chen Ji was sitting on the sofa, touching his chin with his hands, frowning and thinking, surrounded by a group of beautiful girls.

"So, the spar, the guardian, and the altar are the most important things in Cassian's world!"

Chen Ji looked at them, analyzed and said: "According to what he said, most of the crystals are gray, with occasional blue, the earth and the world you are in should not be able to find such things, and there is no way to give them to him.

Maien, ask him, who is the Guardian?What is the state of the people in the village now? "

The girl nodded and sent the message.

"The guardian is the guardian. He is the same as us, but he will not age or die. I heard old people say that he knows everything in the world, but he never said it... By the way, he would know everything in the world before." Taught us to play the game, but now it's like this, we are all very sad."

"Everyone in the village is kneeling and begging the guardian to get out of the altar, but the guardian won't let us leave the village. If I come to the Tongtian altar, the villagers will scold me if they find out."

After reading his words, Chen Ji thought again.

Obviously, the guardian is different from Cassian and the others. I don't know if he is a strong person after cultivation.

He should know the truth of the world, but he doesn't tell others, even information about the altar, spar, and the outside world, deliberately concealing it from the people in the village.

"What is the Tongtian Altar?"

Astana asked.

She is very concerned about things related to the gods, and Cassian said before that the altar will give them many things, which is very similar to the gods.

"The altar is a huge gray-white column. The old man in the village said that the guardian once looked up at it. The altar leads to other towns. Many places are connected by this column. At the top of the sky, there is a god who created everything Gods, and our ancestors lived there!

I'm at the altar right now. "

Cassian's words made Chen Ji and the others ponder again.

The altar is like the trunk of the world tree?
However, it can lead to other towns, which proves that there are not only people like them in Cassian's world, but Cassian has never seen outsiders, and he guessed that Chen Ji was from other towns before.

Chen Ji still wanted to continue chatting with him, but Cassian suddenly said in a panic: "I saw a light, and it was people from the village who came here!"

After these words, Cassian stopped sending messages, making Chen Ji a little worried that he would be scolded, and he was not allowed to come to Tongtian Altar again.

At noon, he still didn't appear. After having lunch here, Astana returned to the Continent of God's Grace.

Mu Xiaoxiao originally wanted to go back to Jiuyu, but Xia Shumin pulled her and said that he wanted to go to Peony in Green City with her.

The Empress did not refuse.

Looking at her expression, Chen Ji thinks that she is quite happy to stay on Earth?I am also very happy to go out with Shumin to do house decoration.

The two Zhou Wan went to work, and by the way, the little Zhou Wan asked the secretary to go to the supermarket to buy some food and send it home in case Cassian needed it—she seemed to remember the scene when Zhou Wan was in the wine storage room, so she prepared it in advance.

Chen Ji stayed in the living room, Ma Yien and Xiao Ke were by his side, and continued to wait for the news from Cassian.

……

worlds far away.

"Cassien!!"

A bright light appeared in the darkness, and an urgent voice came from afar. After Cassian who was staying by the Tongtian Altar heard it, he quickly shouted to answer them.

Soon, a few people wearing thick clothes and holding a small dim lamp arrived at a slow pace, and saw that Cassian was safe and sound. They were handsome and thin, with thick and tired faces. relieved.

Immediately afterwards, there was a scolding:

"Cassien, what are you doing here?! Do you know how worried the people in the village are about you!"

"In order to find you, the village chief took out a few pieces of lamp oil, but you... well, you go back and apologize to everyone, do you hear me?"

"Cassien, don't leave the village again! You have already left the village three times!"

The words of reproach and concern from relatives made the thin and thin Cassian shrug his shoulders. After they all calmed down, he whispered:

"I...I...Master Guardian...It has become like this, our food is almost finished, I, I don't want to see everyone starve to death..."

Several people were silent for a while.

Cassian looked at his father, Santos, and saw that his father had sunken eye sockets and a very thin face. He hadn't eaten for many days and left most of the food to him.

As for his mother, she starved to death not long ago and was sent back to the altar, and he ate half of the food she got.

"Don't worry, Cassian!"

Santos patted him on the shoulder with the palm of six fingers, and said in a hoarse voice: "Master Guardian taught us everything, he will not watch us die, he must be..."

"Father!"

Cassian became excited, "Master Guardian has gone crazy, he has watched many of us die, even mother...!"

"Cassien!"

Santos gasped and stopped him: "You are not allowed to say that the Guardian is crazy, the Lord is not crazy, he just..."

"No, he's just crazy. He took away his sister, took away Amber, took away the newborn little Auston, and killed the children in the village..."

"Snapped!"

Santos slapped him, gasped, his chest heaved violently, and his body shook.

Cassian, who was beaten, became nervous instead, and hurried forward to support his father.

His father was too weak, and he still managed to come out to find him, and his energy was consumed faster. If this continued, his father would also return to the altar...

However, he didn't have any food on him, neither did the others, and no one in the village had been able to eat for several days.

"Father, I found people from other towns!"

The thin Cassian ran back to the Babel Altar, touched its gray-black wall with both hands, and looked up at the pitch-black sky.

In his hands, the dust on the gray-black wall fell one after another, and the Tongtian Altar looked like an old dead tree, the trunk of which had been decayed for many years.

But I don't know if it was because he was too excited that he didn't get any response from the person named Chen Ji, the surrounding was quiet and pitch black.

"People from other towns?"

Santos sat on the ground to rest, and looked at Cassian with the others, not too excited.

In fact, they didn't see anything appear either.

The so-called other towns are just things the guardians have said, but they have never seen.

For more than 100 years, no one has ever seen people from other towns.

The Tongtian Altar stands there quietly, and it does not know how high it leads to.

"Cassien, let's go back... You have to be obedient, and stop talking about the guardian's madness."

Father said weakly, forcing Cassian to come back and help him up.

He also planned to tell everyone about that Chen Ji, but it was not easy for everyone to find him outside the village, and they didn't want to stay outside in the cold at all.

Helpless, Cassian could only look back three times at a step, kept looking at the Tongtian Altar, and walked towards the village.

A group of people lit a small lamp, followed the route in memory, and moved forward in the dark and cold.

Cassian's father was even weaker.

He walked almost staggeringly, his thin body trembling constantly.

Cassian wanted to carry him, but his father refused.

but.

The father finally fell to the ground, and after being helped up by the panicked Cassien, he tremblingly said to him with gray lips:

"Cassien, you carry me back and put me in the altar... In this way, there will be food in this way, you have to live, live well!"

"Santos!"

The rest of the people knelt down to bid him farewell sadly.

Only Cassian, who kept shaking his head, spread his legs and ran towards the village without saying a word.

Facing the cold, in the darkness, he saw a glimmer of light emanating from the gate of the village.

Ogar, the village head who has lived for more than 100 years, is waiting for them to come back.

"Village chief, me! Me!"

"Don't worry, kid, speak slowly, and you'll be fine."

……

The last bit of food in the village was eaten by Cassian's father, Santos.

night.

Those in the village who could stand up gathered in front of the altar, and according to the usual practice, knelt in front of the silver-white gate of the altar.

They are praying that the guardian in the altar can open the gate, reappear in front of them, distribute ore to them, and let them use the altar to obtain food.

They didn't speak, and just kneeling was already consuming the little energy left in their bodies.

for a long time.

Cassian raised his head and looked at the kneeling man.

There were a few fewer than last night, Grandma Granda who lived next door to him did not show up, and his uncle Tosi, who, maybe...

"Master Guardian is still blaming us."

The deep and hoarse voice of the village head, Ogar, echoed in the quiet village.

Cassian looked at him, and then at the round altar in front of him. The two silver-white doors were firmly closed, and the guardian still did not appear.

"Put the dead in the altar."

Ogar calmly ordered.

Soon, two people stood up, silently went to a house, and carried out the dead people inside.

Cassian's hand was tightly held, it was Grandma Granda!

He was very sad, and there seemed to be something in his eyes that wanted to flow out, but a certain will in his mind suppressed his emotion, making him hold back.

He could only watch Grandma Granda being placed on a platform in front of the altar, and he could only recite the farewell poem for Grandma Granda with everyone, the poem taught to them by the guardian:

"Your great life has come to an end, and eternal darkness surrounds you. May you have a long rest. Maien is with you!"

"Mayen!"

"Mayen!!"

After chanting three times in a row, the dead person on the platform gradually turned into a warm light, which slowly melted away her body. The light floated up like stars and merged into the altar, making the round altar glow weakly. shine.

All the people in the village stared at the warm light ecstatically. The power of the light restored some of their physical strength, and those who were unable to walk before also walked out of the house at this time.

All the living people knelt in front of the altar gate, their grief was suppressed forcibly, and no one shed tears.

"We want food."

The village chief Ogar whispered, and a ray of light appeared and fell into a thin metal plate in front of him, turning into light blue, almost transparent liquid.

This is their food.

According to the custom, the relatives of the deceased will receive half of the food, and the rest will be distributed by the village chief.

"Katia, who is pregnant, wants one more, and keep five more, and share the rest."

O'Gar quickly made the allocation, and everyone had no objections, and waited quietly.

Only Cassien stood up, straightened his thin body, and looked at everyone with stubborn eyes: "Sister Katia is pregnant and will give birth soon, but the guardian will also come out of the door and take the child with you." Let's go, exactly the same as before!"

In front of the altar, everyone was silent.

After a while, someone hesitated and said, "Perhaps, Lord Guardian wants to protect our children..."

"But why didn't you tell us?!"

No one can answer this question.

Since a few years ago, the guardian has refused all communication, and has been doing things in silence. All the ores dedicated to the altar will no longer have food and items.

Whenever a child is born, the guardian will come out of the door and take the child away.

"I'm going to keep going out of the village!"

Cassian stated his decision, and said aloud that he saw people in other towns, his name was Chen Ji, and he lived on the earth.

People don't know where the earth is, they have never been to other towns, and they have never seen people in other towns.

They had reason to question Cassian.

"Let him go."

A rare smile appeared on the face of the village chief O'Gar: "Cassien is not lying, even though I have never met anyone from other towns."

The village head has almost guardian prestige.

He was one of the first people to grow up, and was watched and raised by the Guardian himself.

"Cassien, take the lamp with you. The lamp oil is enough for you to go a few times, but you have to promise me that you will not go out of the village again if you run out of lamp oil."

"Okay, village chief!"

Cassian nodded heavily.

He was going to set off after waking up, waiting by the Tongtian Altar, and must contact Chen Ji from Earth Town again!

The village chief O'Gar said again: "Cassien eats an extra portion. He is working hard. He is one of our hopes for survival."

hope?

Everyone raised their heads blankly, they rarely came into contact with this word.

hope.

……

Earth, night.

Zhou Wan knocked on Chen Ji's door, and after a while, Chen Ji was awakened.

"what happened?"

Chen Ji was only wearing a pair of shorts, and his handsome figure was displayed in front of Zhou Wan.

It was Zhou Wan who didn't completely become a couple with him.

She was only wearing a nightgown, and her hair was a little messy, obviously she had just woken up.

"Mayne."

Zhou Wan whispered, "I wanted to go to the living room to drink some water, but I saw her sitting quietly by the window. Was she like this before?"

before?

In the past, Ma Yien used to stand in front of Chen Ji's bed, staring at him all night without moving her eyes, and even surprised Chen Ji once.

"I gonna go see."

Chen Ji went back to the room, put on a short sleeve, and came to the living room with Zhou Wan. Sure enough, he saw a girl in a white dress sitting on the sofa by the window. Her slender and fair body was bathed in bright eyes, quietly Looking at the Yellow River Bridge late at night.

Although the girl said nothing and had a calm expression, both Chen Ji and Zhou Wan could feel an inexplicable sadness in her.

It was as if she was looking at Cassian's world, and from that world, she saw things she was once familiar with.

(End of this chapter)