Love and passion, cutting up the wasteland.

Chapter 719 Cage
The mountain road was rugged, with reddish-brown ore scattered on the roadside. The human-powered mining carts laid along the tracks were overturned on the ground, and the axles had been completely rusted, leaving only a thick layer of iron filings that soaked into the rocks and sand on the ground.

Like ancient blood.

In the eyes of Izumi and others, they could indeed see from afar large pools of blood on the ground, which had just dried up. They avoided the once prosperous streets and chose to detour through the surrounding hills and rocks, so as not to encounter the citizens head-on in the passage.

The number of the opponents is so large that they definitely cannot break through directly with their strength.

With Bipu's encouragement, Izumi carefully climbed onto Sadnil's back. The skeleton complained a few times that his body was about to be crushed, but he still lifted the girl steadily. Izumi looked away - after taking the pills brought back by Lu Beiyou, she did feel that her vision was much clearer, and even what she saw at night was not as blurry as before.

"Brother Lu!" At this moment, she was both happy and surprised, "Their bodies are gone!"

The place with bloodstains was exactly where the few people had encountered the citizens before, but they had just retreated a few days ago, and the corpses disappeared completely, and it didn't look like they were eaten by wild beasts.

Come to think of it... Izumi thought, even wild beasts would find it difficult to survive in the Mine Town.

"They cleaned it up themselves." The armored warrior was right behind the girl. "No outsiders have entered the town of Mine of Sorrow for many years. Just like the Cannibal Plains where the Painted Tribe lives, they will eventually be forced to hunt each other, eat and store the corpses of their own tribe."

In the process, they invented specialized cages, dedicated slaughter tables, and techniques for dissecting the human body and even maximizing the lifespan of their prey to preserve its freshness.

In a sense, it is also another civilization.

"I don't know the situation in the town of Sorrowful Mine," Crimson said, "but when I was in the underworld, I heard rumors that eating human flesh would give you his power, and eating human brains would give you your wisdom, or something like that..."

It seemed that the Tengu Emperor had heard of this rumor, and for a while he was quite certain that he would give it a try no matter what, which frightened President Long En so much that he hurriedly tried to stop him.

Although he didn't really care about how Tengu behaved, he still had to behave like a human being when appearing in front of public nobles.

In the end, after much persuasion, it was Yamudu's words, "Your Majesty's amazing wisdom is unmatched. If you mix in other people's ideas, it will probably lower your level," that convinced Tengu.

But then Emperor Tengu began to guard against another thing: since he was the smartest, there might be someone who wanted to eat him...that was another matter.

"This may be true." Huo Buyang said suddenly.

Everyone knew that he had traveled widely and had a lot of experience, so they couldn't help but remain silent.

"Beep thinks this is not a good idea. It reminds me of Mongrel," the worker bee shook his head quickly, poked the skeleton next to him and said, "You've lived a long life, what do you think?"

"Don't ask me," Sadniel slowly put Izumi down, "I've already told you that I have completely deleted my memory. Strictly speaking, I am only three years old now."

After saying that, he sighed again: "If I had known, I wouldn't have come here... I didn't expect that they even wanted to eat iron lumps."

Izumi knew that one of them was kidnapped from Kirishima by Lu Beiyou, and the other was kidnapped from the Land of Death by Lu Beiyou... It can be said that no place is more peaceful than Ai Mine Town.

However, according to Sadniel, these two years were exactly the time when the Skeletons decided to collectively update their memories in order to avoid the system from going crazy due to memory explosion. By the time Lu Beiyou found him, all his memories and skills had been forgotten completely, and apart from this iron frame, nothing else could be of any use.

If it had been a few years earlier, it would have been very different.

He said.

Of course, if it was at that time, he would not be carried out like a sack by Lu Beiyou when he rushed into the black desert.

Sadnil said so.

Izumi: “…”

The girl understood that this skeleton was a go-with-the-flow type of person. If no one pushed him, he would definitely stay in a dark corner and not want to move until the end of the world. However, once he was put in the shoes of the skeleton, he would not give up directly, but complete the task as if he was being pushed.

It seems that Brother Lu understood the characteristics of each of them before using corresponding methods to bring everyone together.

available before then.

They should obviously not know each other.

Izumi secretly looked at the armored warrior behind him... It was strange that he had been injured so badly before, but even with Ah Mao's medical skills and the medical module he had looted... he stood up again in less than half a day. Although there were still bloodstains and scars on his body, his combat power had been fully restored. This recovery speed was quite amazing.

Moreover, Izumi noticed that Brother Lu did not have a backpack on him before, but he just spread out his hand and a simple marching medical bed appeared on the ground. After he recovered, he even followed the same method and laid out mats for everyone out of thin air... and did not take them away afterwards, but just left them there.

The next day we rested and had new bedding.

She was greatly frightened at the time, but the other people present saw it and didn't seem to think there was anything wrong.

The girl thought: Maybe it's because they knew Brother Lu for a long time and have seen this kind of almost "witchcraft" method many times, so they have already gotten used to it.

Izumi didn't ask any more questions.

Didn't show anything unusual.

I just felt that this man had another layer of secrets.

Now, after seeing the disappearance of the bodies of the citizens with his own eyes and listening to the conversations of several companions, Izumi finally determined the changes that had taken place in Aikuan Town:

[From the first wave of trapped people forced to eat each other, the human body mutations accumulated, and the first cannibal tribe appeared. They grew and survived because they controlled the source of "food", and further hunted, annexed, and "assimilated" other groups of survivors... until finally, all the citizens were transformed, and everyone finally fell into eternal fighting and consumption. ]

In a sense, the coalition's strategy was successful.

They don't need to waste their own manpower and time to let the residents of a city-state go to irreversible destruction on their own.

In a flash, a horrifying thought suddenly popped up in Izumi's mind: This seems to be a repeat of the history of the entire continent.

However, because Ai Mine Town is only a city, the number of residents is only a few dozen or even one percent compared to all the groups on the mainland.

Therefore, the speed of decline and extinction has accelerated dozens of times.

If the whole world is a cage like the Mine Town...

The girl turned around again, her eyes falling on the young man behind her, subconsciously seeking some comfort, but she saw that the white-haired warrior ignored them and talked to himself as if he was thinking.

"The city dwellers who were transformed into cannibals have already been killing each other. But before that, they should have tried to attack the wild people outside to get more fresh flesh and blood. But they didn't do that. Is there something stopping them..."

"In the 'real world', the ones who stopped the Painted Tribe were the Northern Hunters, the Cannibal Hunters, and the northern defenses of the Holy Nation and the United Cities. Although the two great powers had to defend against the Painted Tribe, they had no intention of actively attacking. As long as their territory was not violated, they were like the high wall shield guards on the walls of the Mine Town."

"Does the Wild Blood Hunt correspond to the ecological niche of the cannibal hunters? What about the Wandering Ninjas hiding under the protection of the cannibals..."

Lu Beiyou's voice was very low, sometimes he didn't even make a sound, just his lips moved slightly. However, Izumi had already learned how to judge words from other people's mouth shapes, and the other party did not hide it in front of her.

The girl actually heard it all.

However, Izumi frowned slightly - she knew what the white-haired warrior said, but she didn't really understand the meaning.

Moreover, since the skill of reading language still requires special concentration, the girl did not have time to notice the changes in Huo Buyang, Chi Se and others: they were clearly discussing the situation before, sometimes arguing and sometimes agreeing, and it was very heated.

Now that they were out of her and Lu Beiyou's sight, the expressions and movements of several people became stiff.

It was as if they had all turned into machines, just like Sadniel.

Then, the conversation started to repeat.

"Their bodies are gone..."

“…Don’t ask me…”

(End of this chapter)