Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

The resplendent and spotless Tai Chi Hall disappeared completely, and all the beasts in the clothes and clothes of the court disappeared. What was replaced was an endless red land covered by yellow sand all over the sky, and people in tattered, moldy and black clothes who were so thin that their bones could be seen. The victims in linen clothes, even without clothes.

hungry…

The extreme hunger suddenly hit without warning, and the stomach felt as if it was being burned, which was extremely uncomfortable.

At the same time, there were waves of indescribable powerlessness in the body. Under the extreme hunger, not only was he completely unable to lift up his energy, but his mind was also dizzy.

Lu Chen instinctively wanted to move, but found that although he was conscious, had five senses, and was able to think, he did not have the right to control this body at this time.

Wonderful feeling.

Soon, he came back to his senses completely.

"Is this the effect of the soul search technique?"

Since very few people can perform the soul search technique, and even if it is successfully performed, the duration is quite limited, so there is very little information about the soul search technique. Even Lu Chen, who is well-read, only knows a little bit.

Among them, it naturally includes the effect of being able to experience the opponent's life immersively when performing the soul search technique.

After a while, he slowly collected his mind and carefully felt everything that Chai Hongyu had experienced.

But at this moment, there was a rustling sound in his ear.

After a few breaths, an extremely weak human voice sounded.

"Old Chai, how are your preparations going?"

"Um…"

The voice of the responder was a little intermittent, and it was not known whether it was too weak or hesitating.

"My mother-in-law was dismissed by me, let's now... oh no, we can do it in half an hour..."

"Hey! Look at your mother-in-law, let me tell you, my tiger is in front of the yellow disaster (not a typo, the yellow disaster is a kind of spiritual disaster), but the famous fat boy in our village, if it weren't for us The relationship between the two is good, so I won't trade it with that poor girl of yours."

Hearing this, Lu Chen couldn't help but startled.

In the next second, his mind was shocked, and a noun that occasionally appeared in history books in his previous life appeared in his mind, and he only understood the meaning but had no specific concept——

Yizi cannibalize each other!

As soon as I thought of this, a strong fear suddenly rose from the depths of my heart.

Even if he knows that this is just the world in Chai Hongyu's memory and will not affect reality, even if his current body, which is probably Chai Hongyu's, is eaten by someone, he will still return to the real world unscathed.

But this instinctive fear spread uncontrollably and quickly to every corner of his heart.

This...is this the life Chai Hongyu once had...

It's hard to imagine that Chai Hongyu, who has the blood of Suzaku in her body and has awakened such a powerful fiery red spiritual power, would have such a miserable past.

Time in the world of memories flows very fast. Not long after, Lu Chen witnessed what happened 15 years ago through Chai Hongyu's perspective. Among the yellow sand that blocks the sun, it is also the biggest stain in the life of Emperor Yuanzhi [Huangtianmangxu].

This is the most important turning point in Chai Hongyu's life.

Not long after, Lu Chen saw, in the endless yellow sand, a thin woman suddenly went crazy and rushed towards this side desperately.

Chapter 167 The Real World

Snapped! !

The woman who came rushing suddenly ran to the nearby place, without saying a word, she slapped the man surnamed Chai on the face with the strength she didn't know, and at the same time she angrily reprimanded:

"Chai Yuan, you bastard!!"

She obviously knew everything, and there was a strange fierce light in her blood-red eyes.

As she said that, she directly blocked Lu Chen's sight, and tightly protected his current body behind her.

Seeing this, the man beside Chai Yuan ran away in a hurry.

Looking at the emaciated woman standing straight in front of her, trying her best to make herself look untouchable, Lu Chen inexplicably felt a sore nose, and a strange emotion kept rising in his heart.

This woman... is Chai Hongyu's mother, right?

In the next second, as if to confirm his judgment, the owner of his current body, Chai Hongyu, who was a child, stepped forward slowly, and stretched out her withered little hands to pull the woman's dirty clothes.

"Mother... Daddy loves Yu'er, please stop beating Daddy..."

Hearing this, the faces of the two trembled at the same time, and Chai's mother's anger not only did not dissipate, but even more angrily shouted at Chai Yuan: "Chai Yuan, look at Yu'er, she is so cute and sensible, and You, a father, actually want to trade your own flesh and blood for flesh and blood, are you still human?!"

"Then what else do you think we can do?!"

Chai Yuan didn't fight back, but roared with a broken face:

"Before the yellow disaster happened, the people from the government robbed our life-saving food and took away all the supplies in the prefecture and county. It was obvious that they wanted to use the spiritual disaster to mess up the cycle of reincarnation. Those in the prefecture and county Didn’t the dog officials force us to plant those fairy grasses that we couldn’t eat at all? We refused to plant them. Now that the yellow disaster comes, after we starve to death, this place will become a land of no one. In my opinion, this The yellow disaster was caused by those dog officials on purpose!"

"The imperial court can't count on it, there is no trace of disaster relief money and food, the storehouses of the prefectures and counties are empty, and those domineering elders have already run away. Now that all the official roads and the people's roads are closed, what else can we do? ?!"

Facing her husband who had lost his mind, Chai's mother's expression remained unchanged.

"The imperial court has abandoned us like we are, and if you don't give us food, you will use jade to fill your stomach?!"

These words were like a sharp knife, piercing into the depths of Chai Yuan's heart in an instant, tearing apart his heart that had been tortured beyond recognition by the extreme hunger.

"what!"

He didn't refute Chai Mu's words, but opened his mouth suddenly as if he had lost his mind, let out hysterical roars, and let the yellow sand keep pouring into his mouth.

After a while, his eyes finally regained their clarity.

The moment his reason returned to his body, he suddenly raised his hand, grabbed his head and squatted down, and then let out a heart-piercing cry.

Seeing this scene, Lu Chen felt very unhappy.

At this time, the eyes suddenly went dark, but it was the young Chai Hongyu who had completely passed out from the extreme hunger.

Memories flow quickly.

When his sight was restored again, Lu Chen inexplicably felt a lingering smell of meat on his mouth.

The feeling of weakness in the body also dissipated a lot.

Where did the meat come from?

Lu Chen was puzzled.

However, when Chai Hongyu glanced at the empty-eyed Chai Yuan and the kind-faced mother in front of him, he keenly noticed that there was a smear of blood on Chai's mother's left sleeve, and her shoulders were shaking unnaturally.

Could it be that…

Thinking of a certain possibility, Lu Chen couldn't help but tremble in his heart.

In the days that followed, the family of three followed tens of thousands of fleeing teams and struggled forward, trying to escape from the coverage of the yellow disaster and seek a chance of survival that did not exist.

However, although the yellow disaster is not fatal in a short period of time, it is not like the fire disaster and white disaster that will make a large number of creatures sleep forever in an instant, but its scope is extremely wide, and the yellow sand that covers the sky will completely lose people's consciousness. direction, once you get caught in it, it's hard to survive.

Soon, Chai Hongyu, who had just recovered a little strength, fainted from hunger again.

Then he woke up inexplicably in the smell of meat.

Repeatedly.

As if nothing had changed.

But Lu Chen noticed that Chai Mu's left hand gradually became empty.

Then there is Chai Yuan's left hand...

Soon, when he woke up again, Chai Yuan disappeared and was completely buried by a sudden dust storm.

In the yellow disaster, even sad tears are precious water sources, and there is not even time for sentimentality, so the surviving mother and daughter continue to move forward.

Not long after that, Chai's mother fell into the yellow sand forever, and Chai Hongyu finally saw that her mother's left shoulder was already empty...

Chai Hongyu burst into tears after learning the truth.

But at this time, among the tens of thousands of victims at the beginning, only a hundred or so survived until this time. Facing the endless yellow sand with no end in sight, they were no longer like before. As long as someone in the fleeing team fell down, they would immediately Pounce on it and eat it.

They have run out of energy.

Moreover, people who have lived to this day basically have no flesh and blood in their bodies, no water, no salt, and it is difficult for them to even struggle to survive.

In the end, they could only fall one by one into the yellow sand.

Only now, after experiencing all this personally, has Lu Chen truly realized what a horrible purgatory this ancient world of high martial arts called Zhongzhou is for the low-level people without spiritual roots!

Although he inherited the memory of his predecessor, he knew that ordinary people's lives were not easy, and he also saw the difficulties of the people in Yuzhou with his own eyes.

But the predecessor was born in a high-class prefecture at any rate, and when the demon queen was in chaos and corruption was rampant in the government and the public, Yongchuan sent Xia Yan, a super good official who would rather sacrifice his own interests to let the people live and work in peace, make the predecessor Although the family is poor, life is not too difficult.

At least eating is not a problem.

And although the people of Yuzhou were deeply harmed by the tyrant king, corrupt officials, and mediocre officials, the land under their feet was spiritual soil anyway, and when Lu Chen passed by, no natural disasters broke out, and the floods were subsided. .

However, the Daxia River and Mountains, which stretch for hundreds of thousands of miles, are more people like Chai Hongyu in her childhood, who have to face the threat of spiritual disasters from time to time.

With spiritual disasters, if the government does not act, the disaster area will be a real purgatory on earth.

What is even more frightening is that the inaction of the government has become more and more normalized.

Even deliberately conniving.

Although the spiritual disaster is terrible, in some people's eyes, it might not be a good knife that can make a profit.

By completely substituting Chai Hongyu's life, Lu Chen started from Yizi Xiangeclipse. In Chai Hongyu's flashing memory, he witnessed the tragedy that should have appeared in hell. The cognition in his heart was refreshed again and again. Shock, still shock.

Chai Hongyu naturally survived in the end.

It seems that after seeing her mother's empty shoulders, she was stimulated by her mother's miserable and tragic death, or through the fusion of some kind of power through this tragic way, the originally thin Suzaku blood in her body was completely activated, winning her A silver lining.

There is no memory during coma.

When he opened his eyes again, Lu Chen found that Chai Hongyu was in a tent.

She was rescued.

Rescued by hundreds of refugees from other prefectures, led by a small official, in a slightly better condition.

These refugees were originally slave laborers, and the little official was responsible for taking them to work.

That little official was a good person, seeing that Chai Hongyu was still alive, he gave her some of his remaining supplies, and took care of Chai Hongyu in every possible way during the escape, completely treating her as his own daughter.

Under his leadership, these victims did not lose their humanity, but supported each other and went through the adversity together. Even if some people could not hold on and died unfortunately, they would be buried properly and the whole body would be left instead of being food in someone's stomach.

From that little official, the young Chai Hongyu finally realized that not all officials in this world are dog officials as her father said.