lethal arsenal

Chapter 390: Cannibalism

People in Jianghu like to use Zhongdu, which means the center of the world, or Shuntianfu to refer to the capital.

Shuntian Mansion looks to Taihang in the west, Yanshan Mountain in the north, and is surrounded by two rivers.

It is bounded by the canal in the north, Yongding in the south, and finally merges into the river and the sea in the east.

The canal runs from north to south and is an important hub for grain transportation. It has always been a battleground for military strategists.

Surrounded by two rivers, the city and water blend into each other. There are many pavilions and palaces in it, and the palaces of princes and princes are lined up in rows, all of which are magnificent and magnificent.

To the north of the chessboard-shaped market and officials' private residences, the Forbidden City is named after Ziwei Yuan and its structural layout.

This city is the fundamental ruler of the world. It is in harmony with the Tao and possesses supreme majesty.

When Lin Dong stood under the city wall of the capital, there was not much joy, only unspeakable emotion.

Along the way, the light car drove straight. The drought, locust plague, refugees, and starvation that he saw along the way made him feel an indescribable panic in his heart.

For a time, it seemed like I had seen the scene in the last years of the Qing Dynasty again.

The people were starved of food and clothing.

In the towns we passed by, there were only a few people in the family, and only the man who headed the household had a pair of straw sandals on the soles of his feet.

It is common for villagers to have sallow complexion and thin skin, and to wear rags and rags.

more than this……

Lin Dong, Ma Zhenyi, and a few others saw a particularly absurd scene. In a mountain village that was not terribly poor, there was a weird custom.

Lin Dong once thought that evil spirits were causing trouble, but there was no such thing... In other words, poverty and hunger were the biggest evil spirits.

The custom is like this - whenever an old man passes away in the village, or for other reasons, a villager dies, the living people will cut off two pieces of meat from the dead person's buttocks and enjoy them.

There is something about cannibalism, but one strange thing is that they only cut off the butt meat and left other parts untouched.

"Why not cut off the arms or thighs? Or maybe it would be simpler and more ruthless and cruel..."

Lin Dong held down the village elder's head. He had raised such a question at that time.

"Master, look at my arms and legs, do they still have any flesh?"

The old village chief lifted up his sleeves. He was very thin and bony, with a shallow layer of flesh sticking tightly to the bones.

"To be honest, the little old man had a granddaughter who had pain every night while sleeping and could only sleep on her stomach. Can you guess why?"

The village chief's eyes were only numb, and his wrinkled old face looked up at Lin Dong, a tall and muscular man.

Ma Zhenyi on the side frowned, but looked at the sky with a huge fireball hanging in a daze, his mind wandering.

Under the scorching sun, there were no grains harvested from the field stalks, only cracked and dry land.

In the yellow mud, even the grass roots have been eaten away.

"why?"

Lin Dong asked with a hesitant tone.

He had never been so frightened before facing the Demon God, the Underworld Ghost Mother, the Weiming clan, and the terrifying monsters one after another.

Just a question from a skinny old man made him suddenly nervous.

"Because, my girl's butt has no flesh at all, only two bones left in her hand. How can she sleep if she lies down to sleep?"

"This God, God, has not given us a way to live from the beginning to the end. He has not given us a way to live. It is famine, drought, and there are locusts. What should we do? What can we do..."

"Master, this master, please tell me, is this true..."

The old man, who was as thin as a dry stick, held Lin Dong's hand tightly and asked.

A wisp of black energy visible to the naked eye floated out from the old man's eyes and slowly floated into the air.

Lin Dong's left eye suddenly hurt and he closed it subconsciously.

All of a sudden.

When he opened it again, he actually saw a red line stretching thousands of miles from the old man's body.

The affix [Holding the Pivot Pose·Reverse Sword of Life and Death] kept beating, and the body was getting hot.

At this time, Ma Zhenyi, who was standing aside, sighed heavily and said, "This is the tribulation qi, the tribulation qi." The tribulation qi is like black smoke, floating up into the sky.

When living beings in the world have grievances but dare not speak out, calamity will arise... But in the end, God will still hear it. God sends down demons, and the punishment is only one aspect, but more importantly, it is to cleanse the world.

"If a dynasty fails to achieve anything, then anyone can replace it!"

"If a dynasty cannot resolve the grievances of the people, destruction will be the only result."

"Those adults who are suffering for the common people and the noble men in the temples are not ignorant of these truths, but they are always glad that if the sky falls, there will be tall people to support them, and the disasters will not be on their heads... they cannot withstand it. If they don't, they will change their family. It's understandable that they think so, but there are always unlucky people who will be drowned by the torrent of the times."

Ma Zhenyi murmured softly to himself.

The red line passed by in a blink of an eye.

"The thread of cause and effect?"

A sudden realization gradually came to Lin Dong's heart, and the progress of the Sword of Life and Death had advanced to one-third.

The power of affixes began to gradually emerge, and it has reached the point where cause and effect can be observed.

This brief realization was interrupted by the old village chief while he was still pondering over it.

The old man took Lin Dong's hand and slowly walked towards the newly piled earth tombs at the other end of the field ridge.

"Master, you ask, since we have all committed evil desecrations of the dead, why don't we do it more simply? Well, I will tell you. Cutting off the body and eating it is for survival, and burying the dead is Because I still have an unyielding conscience and respect life and death. I hope that after death, when I go to the Lord of Hell, I will have a chance to explain..."

"If there really is a reincarnation in this world, the little old man doesn't want to have another life. He is already suffering to the point of no return... Looking forward to the next life, is he waiting to continue to suffer in the next life?"

"The sky is unkind, the heaven and the earth are unkind! They regard all things as stupid dogs."

Like a beast trapped in a hunter's trap, the old village chief howled in pain and sat down slowly facing a pile of new graves.

"Hey, old man, old man."

Lin Dong gently touched the village elder's arm with his hand. The old village elder showed no response, his face was gray and he was dead.

There were a total of sixteen families left in Liujia Village. Lin Dong, Ma Zhenyi and the others brought them to the city.

He left some gold and silver to buy some property for the people in the village. Finally, he asked Li Ruolian to take care of these people through the Shenwu Army before continuing towards the capital.

"There are too many people like this to take care of. They are starving and dying everywhere. How much can you help?"

Ding Si, Li Ruolian's ugly ghost clone, asked expressionlessly.

"I'm not a saint, how much can I help?"

"Haha, I can help anyone. I hold my hand and want to entrust the village. I slap my butt and leave. I am cold-blooded and ruthless. Isn't it just fine? It seems that I am ruthless enough and can achieve something. Heroic hegemony?"

Lin Dong asked Li Ruolian back, half-smiling but not smiling.

"I mean don't delay the business."

Li Ruolian couldn't speak to Lin Dong, so he could only say something hesitantly.

"What's the serious business? Saving one person is not saving. Doesn't it mean saving the whole world?"

"The world is nobler than ordinary people, who said that?"

"It is destiny for God to send down the demon god. We want to kill the demon god. We are the ones who go against heaven. Get it! We are the ones who go against heaven."

Lin Dong said expressionlessly.

For these thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, he only felt endless confusion in his heart.

It's not that he doesn't have the will to save the world, it's that he really has no power to save the world.

He can only keep getting stronger, stronger, and stronger again, until he is strong enough to change his fate against the will of heaven.

The Ming Dynasty can be destroyed!

But these hundreds of millions of people should not have to endure this suffering.

Those vicious insects that lie on the bodies of poor people and suck their blood are the ones who deserve to be destroyed the most.

　The author knows that the ancient meaning of "stock" is thigh, but in this article it refers to buttocks. We still have this common sense.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)