The demon world I designed.

Chapter 516: You must die in Jiangnan!
"Dad, can you drink some water?"

In a dense mountain forest, a young man opened a kettle and carefully brought it to the chapped lips of a middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man opened his eyes slightly, picked up the other person's water bottle and put it on the cushion. The small amount of water made his already bitter face become even more bitter. He forcibly suppressed his desire, licked his chapped lips, and said with difficulty: "Take it and give it to your mother and sister to drink. Remember to keep half of it. Don't drink too much. You know how rare this water is now."

The young man glanced at the mother and daughter who were sitting not far away and had fallen asleep. He hesitated and said, "Dad, you have to drink some. Otherwise, how can your body bear it?"

When traveling over mountains and ridges, water is now the most difficult resource. If you save on dry food, you can eat it for a long time, especially the dry food pickled with Jiangnan meat worms. One bite can last you a day, but water is different. When walking on foot, you can eat it for a long time. Need water to maintain?
In the past, food was hard to find when fleeing famine, and the ground was bare for thousands of miles without even a blade of grass. However, three months ago, when several major famines began in the southeast, hundreds of millions of people were displaced, which was much larger than the number of people displaced by natural disasters at any time in the past. Along the way, in the middle of winter, you will see endless green and full of vitality!

Just like the mountains where they are now, the green leaves are lush and dense, the clear water is everywhere, and there is an endless supply of plump fish.
But the more this happens, the more dangerous it becomes!

You want to eat the fish in the water, and it also wants to eat you. When you are close to the water source, you don't know what monster will suddenly appear and tear you apart in an instant.

Several experiences have told these survivors that the closer they are to a water source, the more cautious they must be. If it is not necessary, it is best not to get close to the water source.

And even if they took a huge risk to get some clean water, they might not be able to drink it. They saw too many people drinking directly from the clear spring water in the mountains on the way, but [-]% of them were consumed by the water in the water within one day. The bugs ate away the entrails.

Thinking of that scene, the man was so frightened that he couldn't sleep. When he woke up, the bandits who drank water had all the flesh in their bodies eaten by insects. There was just a piece of human skin attached to human bones, and countless fist-sized bandits. The maggots burst out of his stomach, and his whole life was shadowed.

After that, whenever they drank water, they had to boil it over fire for at least a quarter of an hour before they dared to try it.

But in today's jungle, burning fire and boiling water is the most dangerous thing. Usually you only dare to start a fire during the day, and you only dare to choose a relatively safe place. Anyway, you don't dare to do so in this dense jungle.

If you don't dare to light a fire, you don't dare to boil water. Naturally, there will be less and less drinkable water.

"Little Yanzi, hurry up, my brother has brought you some water, drink it quickly." A woman who looked sallow and thin, but could vaguely see some beauty in her bones, her eyes lit up, she took the kettle and coaxed her into her arms. A girl who is only three or four years old.

But no matter how much the girl shouted, there was no movement at all.

At this moment, both the woman and the young man who brought the water felt their hearts sink.

"Swallow? Little swallow?"

There was no movement. The young man carefully extended his hand to the tip of the little girl's nose, and then retracted it like an electric shock. The precious kettle in his hand fell to the ground with a plop.

The woman's eyes turned red when she heard this.

At this moment, the old man who was lying on the ground struggled to get up, walked over in a few steps, grabbed the little girl, and carefully tested the girl's nose with his hand.

"Old man, what are you doing?" the woman struggled and cried.

"I told you that you can't live here, you can't live here. You have to drag the whole family to come with you. Erya died along the way, and the third baby also died. Now that Siya is gone, what else do I have to live for? ?”

"Shut up!" the old man yelled weakly: "If you don't break in, why don't you wait at home to die?"

"Have you not seen how those Nanbarbarians treat us Han people? Do you want your children to be taken to a ghost temple to be skinned and soaked in wine, or do you want them to be eaten alive by those monsters?"

The woman was choked and speechless. It took her a long time to stammer: "It's not necessarily our turn."

"A woman's opinion!" The old man glared at the other party: "The capital is arresting children. Now that the officers and soldiers of the imperial court have left, the Nanman people are even more unscrupulous in arresting children. Why do you think your children can escape? And now in the yard The chickens may turn into man-eating monsters the next day. Can we still stay in our previous home?" "Then can we stay in Jiangnan?" the woman hissed, "Are you sure Jiangnan has not turned into this?"

"It's impossible for Jiangnan to become like this!" the old man yelled back, with a bit of seriousness and a bit of expectation in his eyes: "You haven't been to that place, you don't know. No monster can get close to that place. , even if something happens, the people above will not become accomplices like the imperial court did!"

As he spoke, he panted again from exhaustion: "I should have sent your mothers here years ago. Even if they can't register, even if they become refugees, it would be better than now."

The old man really regretted it. He was a salesman from Southeast County. One time, at the suggestion of a friend, he went to Jiangnan to do business. He only bought goods once, which made him earn money for several years.

After seeing the prosperity of Jiangnan at that time, he came up with the idea of ​​​​bringing his wife and daughter to live in Jiangnan.

But this woman, an old farmer, has always been reluctant to part with the fields at home, and the scholar Erya is engaged to be married to is said to have passed the Jinshi examination and will soon become an official. How can the mother-in-law be willing to move to the south of the Yangtze River?

I'm afraid that if I move, the other party will find an excuse to regret the marriage.

It's better now. I don't know whether the scholar is alive or dead in the capital, and Erya also died so miserably.
The old man did not continue to argue, but handed the little girl to his most powerful eldest son: "Liangzi, take Yanzi and run over there. If I remember correctly, this place is only a few miles away from the dividing line in Yunzhou, Jiangnan. We're on our way, you have to risk your life to get Yanzi to the junction, and Yanzi must die there!"

"Why, dad?" The young man looked puzzled.

Even if the little sister is still breathing, she won't be able to go to Jiangnan for medical treatment. In this situation, shouldn't she stay with her, take one last look, and bury her whole body?
Now let him run desperately to the Jiangnan border, just cross the line?What's the use of crossing the border?
Is daddy crazy?

"Go if you are told!!!" the old man shouted with red eyes: "If you fail to send the swallows over, don't come back!!"

It was the first time for the young man to see his father at home looking so scary, so he didn't dare to speak back. He quickly carried his little sister on his back and ran quickly in the direction pointed by his father.

"What are you doing, old man?" The woman cried so hard that she couldn't breathe. The girl was gone. Now she wouldn't let herself accompany him for the last time. She was still thinking about his Jiangnan. He knew Jiangnan in one day and took her daughter's body. Will they be able to accept you if you send them there?
thump.
As if all his strength had been exhausted, the old man sat on the ground and looked expectantly at his son's back.

He knew that his son did not understand what he had done, but as soon as he arrived in Jiangnan, he understood.——
As the saying goes, misfortune never comes alone. Maybe the old man never thought that the son he had spent so much effort to send away would encounter a huge mountain insect halfway.

Centipedes like pythons rushed towards the two of them when they saw them, and the smelly poisonous gas made people's scalp numb even from a distance.

The young man was so frightened that he ran away quickly with the girl on his back, but after all, he was exhausted from traveling through mountains and rivers for several days, eating and drinking sparingly, so how could he still have much physical strength?
After only running for a quarter of an hour, my legs were already shaking and stars were shining in my eyes.

It was almost impossible to hold on any longer, and there was only one breath left in my heart.
His father asked him to send the swallows to the border of Jiangnan. He didn't know why the old man insisted so much, but he was so desperate now that he almost had no thoughts. He just wanted to fulfill his father's instructions before he died.

Although he knew it was useless, the border between Southeast and Yunzhou had always been blurry. After the unification of Jin Dynasty, there was not even a post station on the border, let alone officers and soldiers. So what if he and his little sister ran into Yunzhou?

Could it be that once we enter there, the giant centipedes behind us won’t chase us?

I don’t know why, maybe it was the last straw after drowning. With the last hope, the man tried his best and jumped directly from the cliff to the place where the stone monument was in his mind!

A fishy wind blew behind them. Apparently, the giant centipede didn't let them go because of his fearless action, and flew down after them.

Looking back carefully, I found that the centipede could actually fly. Its huge mouth was right in front of me, and it bit off the little swallow behind it together with the meat on its own back!
The severe pain made him heartbroken, not only in his body, but also in his heart. The family traveled through mountains and rivers, but they did not expect that the body would not be intact.

So be it
The big man gave up his struggle and closed his eyes.

(End of this chapter)