Human Shackles

“hong long long!” The pouring rain kept pouring.

Yunling Province, a dilapidated small stone building near the Jinxiu River. A bonfire is lit in the small building. A dozen people in ragged clothes are curled up by the bonfire. This group of people is either a few Half-year-old children, either some old people with white hair, or a few thin women, although the small building is broken but separated from the storm outside.

The heavy rain has been coming down for several days, the people in the small building are hungry, but they dare not search for food in the heavy rain, because terrifying monsters will appear in rainy days, only when sun shone brightly The monster will disappear.

There is no shortage of food in the world today. As long as you are careful and experienced, you can easily find a variety of starchy plant rhizomes and highly nutritious sap in mountain forests full of dense plants. , Good luck can also find some sweet fruits.

The abundance of food brings about not only human changes, but animals also become more terrifying. In the wild environment, even the weakest animals have their own secrets of survival, and they are not only extremely intelligent. , Have also evolved a variety of weird abilities, and the smaller the animals, the more they have evolved asymmetrical abilities, such as highly poisonous.

While they were anxiously waiting for the heavy rain to stop, they suddenly heard a heavy footstep from outside, and several silhouettes approached the small building under the heavy rain.

The people in the building immediately panicked. Now the world’s Taoists are more terrifying than ominous beasts. Since a battle broke out between Eastern Origin Kingdom and Sea Clan in Xinyi Port three years ago, the world situation has continued to deteriorate. , The mutant organisms in the sea frequently attack coastal areas, and humans are forced to migrate to the inland areas. However, the inland areas are not safe. The four major ominous beast War Zones have almost broken out wars. Although it is not a large-scale war, the ominous beast has already occurred. Penetrating into the hinterland of Human Race, the entire Human Race is surrounded on all sides, and there is no more safety.

Frequent climate change that followed has caused a large-scale reduction in food production, an unprecedented shortage of materials, traffic interrupted, and the major lords are like islands cut by endless dense jungle.

Other weird things are also spreading in human society. They are called weird. They are more terrifying than ominous beasts. After all, ominous beasts actually exist, and no one knows about these weird things. What is it.

When the social system is in chaos, then the world will be in chaos. Various bandit groups blatantly occupy villages and towns and drive out all the old and weak women and children who cannot work. These people originally lived in The vicinity is a place called Qubo Town, but recently a band of bandits suddenly came to occupy the town and drove them out.

A teenage boy took out a gun from his underwear, and said with some horror to a gray-haired Elderly: “Uncle Yan, what should we do.”

The white haired old man’s face unchanged, he took out a hardwood bow from his side, shook his head and said: “We have nothing, nothing to worry about, don’t be afraid.”

Heavy The big iron gate did not have the slightest blocking effect. It was pushed open with a creak, and the three silhouettes were revealed. In the center was a gray-skinned young man. On his left and right stood a giant with wide robes. The covering is tight and solid, all of them are two or three meters high, tall and strong, especially the person on the right hand, who is plump like a ball, bulging the robe.

The man glanced at everyone in the house and said softly: “It’s raining outside, I’m bothering you.” His voice was rustling and soft, and it was very comfortable to hear.

The visitor did not seem to be malicious, Uncle Yan sighed in relief and hurriedly said: “Don’t disturb, don’t disturb, please feel free.”

The tall giant on the left puts down his burden, Squatting on the ground, the mechanical version took out pieces of meat, and it soon spread all over the floor.

The fat-ball-like giant on the right was a little impatient, fell on the ground, trying to stretch out his big hand to take it, but was slapped by the man. He murmured pitifully and did not dare to move. .

The man swept around and saw that there was no firewood available. He went out again and came back soon. He carried a large bundle of dry firewood on his back. It made people secretly surprised. Where did he come from in such a heavy rain Get so much firewood.

He started the barbecue slowly, and soon the smell of meat filled the small building. Everyone was staring at him and swallowing saliva.

The teenage boy tugged at Uncle Yan’s clothes and whispered: “Uncle Yan, they have a lot of meat.”

“en.” Uncle Yan is gently nodded , Hesitated for a while, or opened the mouth and said: “My friend, we have some firearms here, can I change some food for you?”

The little boy hearing this hurriedly hugged the snatch in his arms They had a lot of guns, but they were damp and rusty. Only the one in his arms could be used. He wanted to say disagree, but was attracted by the oily meat and fell into a battle between heaven and man.

The man turned his head and glanced at them, shook his head and said: “You can’t eat this meat.”

Uncle Yan doesn’t say anything anymore. They are all old and weak women and children, and the other party doesn’t want to give it. There is no way.

After a while, the heavy rain gradually stopped, and the bright sunshine came in. Uncle Yan’s expression was invigorated, and the little boy confessed: “Little fish, you look after the house.” Hardwood bows led everyone out to find food. They hadn’t eaten for a long time, and it was difficult to resist humidity and sultry without energy supplement. Many people fell ill.

There are only a few sick patients left in the small building. The little boy is holding a gun, cautiously looking at the three people on the other side, and seeing a discarded bone on the ground. The bone was chewed very badly. It is clean, but there is still bone marrow in it, which can be used to make soup, dreaming about the fresh and thick broth, can’t help swallowed saliva and said.

Just when he finally made up his mind to pick it up in the past, the man opened his eyes, his starlight eyes flashed, suddenly asked: “How long have you been on your body? “

The little boy was dumbfounded, and hurriedly covered his neck. There were many wrinkles on his neck, like dead old tree skin. Not only him, but everyone here has gotten this kind of weirdness. Illness, it’s just that some things grow like moss on the body, and some grow mushroom-like spores, which only appeared because of the rain during this period.

After a while, the people who collected outside gradually came back, and the small building became lively again. The collected tubers were mostly plant tubers and some bark. The tubers are food and the bark can be made into clothes and bedding. Now the weather is changeable, and sometimes hail will fall inexplicably, and the temperature will drop to sub-thirty-forty degrees. Without clothing, it can’t stand it.

Uncle Yan on the other side is acting alone. He was an experienced old hunter, shrinking his figure all the way, passing through the dense jungle reeds beside the river bank, and coming to the edge of a big river. After more than ten days of heavy rain, the water level of the big river was so high that the opposite bank was almost invisible.

Take a knife from his waist and rummaged through the reeds. Some variant reeds have hard reed cores that are not worse than metal. After a while, they found a lot and started to make arrow feathers. The calluses’ hands are so dexterous, they made a lot of them in a short while, and then they lurked in the dense reeds and stared at the surging water surface.

About ten minutes later, the target was already locked. The hardwood bow of the eagle kept moving, and the sizzling sound continued. The sharp reed arrow shot into the water like a storm. There was no sound when it shot into the water. The water immediately became turbulent, bloody water burst out, and a large black scale fish floated. Out of the water.

This fish is big enough to eat for a few days. Uncle Yan dragged the big fish to return to house. Seeing Uncle Yan came back, everyone came to help and cut the big fish into pieces. The snow-white fish meat, impatient’s fire and grilling, the fat will make the sound of zi zi after a while, and the enticing smell of meat diffuses.

The fat ball over there seems to smell the scent, moving cautiously, with a shy face trying to get closer, through the fire, you can see it has an ugly ape face, no It looks like a human, more like a wild beast, but after moving a few steps, he slapped his head, whimpered and backed away.

In the past few years, there have been a lot of local mutations, and people are not surprised at this. Uncle Yan raised his head and looked up and continued to sort the peeled fish skins. Now there is a shortage of clothing and animal skins. Very precious, the fish skin is very thin, and full of toughness, whether it is made into water storage bags or clothes are very good.

“Uncle Yan, eat…eat.”

Another half-old child came over with a crisp voice, obviously a girl, just stuttering, she held it A piece of fish was carefully handed to Uncle Yan’s mouth.

Uncle Yan’s vicissitudes of face softened for the first time, and he said softly: “Little fan, you eat first, I will eat later.”

The little girl looked back and looked at it. The big fish turned into a skeleton, pursing their dirty mouth, and whispered: “No… no more.” The group of them is too hungry. The big fish and plant tubers that would have been enough to eat for a few days, this The meeting will be over.

Uncle Yan rubbed the little girl’s messy hair: “It’s okay, I’ll go get some later.”

After eating, everyone belched up. In return to house, I started to find a place to sleep.

The sky is getting dark, and there is a heavy rain outside. Uncle Yan walked to the door and couldn’t help being secretly sighed. God bless, if it weren’t for this interval, they would venture to find food in the rain. There was a shiver in the bottom of my heart when the strange things appeared in the dark sounded.