Most of the time in the Evernight Continent is twilight, especially in the dark season, when the orbit of the upper continent blocks the sunlight, and the daylight hours are only a few short hours.
Tonight, the Gemini Alpha star turns into low-Earth orbit, and it is a rare night with a moon.
A huge full moon occupies almost half of the sky, as if it will hit the head in the next moment. Even ordinary people without the ability can clearly see the huge basin and majestic mountains on the moon.
But those who have not yet fallen asleep are terrified.
The full moon was scarlet, and the moonlight fell from the sky like a tulle to the earth, like a living thing, spreading on the undulating and rugged land. A large area of gray and black silhouettes is rendered in rich red, like huge scars and wounds, and the cold light of metal flashes from time to time.
Long wolf howls and unknown beast howls could be heard from a distance from time to time, echoing each other, full of tyrannical aura.
In the legend of the Evernight Continent, the Scarlet Moon is an ominous omen, very rare, but once it appears, it means chaos and pain. Whenever the moon is soaked in blood, the princes of the dark world will open the door of disaster and spread violence and disaster to the earth.
The legend is not without reason, because under the bloody moonlight, all creatures will involuntarily become more irritable and bloodthirsty, and more aggressive.
Under the crimson night, a small black spot suddenly appeared. It came from out of the sky and slowly moved across the sky, getting bigger and bigger. It is a floating airship with a length of several kilometers!
It is already extremely dilapidated, the huge airbag is covered with patches, the metal components are rusty, and the splicing places are warped in many places, making people worry about whether they will suddenly break.
As if confirming people's concerns, the airship suddenly shook violently a few times, and many parts collapsed from it, including a large metal component more than ten meters long.
The metal structure fell to the ground, causing a roar.
The airship was struggling hard, the rows of copper pipes on the outer wall were trembling, and a large cloud of steam was ejected from the mechanical cabin at the rear. A total of eight sets of propellers at the rear of the boat made jerky creaking noises and spun crazily before they barely stabilized the boat.
Dozens of thick cables hung messily from the bottom of the airship, hanging the same huge rusty cargo hold, and through the open door, it could be seen that it was full of garbage.
The rusted and old floating airship, like a behemoth in the twilight, made it through the last mile with difficulty, and finally flew to its destination. On the ground hundreds of meters below, there is an extremely large airship cemetery!
At this time, tens of thousands of people are swarming out from various hiding places. They have long forgotten the fear of Feiyue, waved vigorously at the airship, and kept cheering excitedly!
Even on this land that was almost forgotten by the empire, they are the bottom ants in the whole world, struggling for survival every day.
This is the burial place of those once glorious behemoths. The scrapped airships flying from the upper continent usually carry a lot of garbage, and after a long time, they become a garbage dump with everything. And the people living in the airship cemetery rely on the garbage thrown down from the upper continent to survive.
Once the airship that has not transported garbage arrives for a long time, a large number of people here will starve to death. For them, the trash of the upper continents is all hope.
And tomorrow... Tomorrow is too extravagant a word here, no one will think about tomorrow.
The airship that had already aligned its coordinates groaned in pain, and the propellers stopped rotating one by one. The huge hull suddenly shook violently, bouncing up and down in the air with a drop of tens of meters, and then the outer wall on the left front cracked, separating a small airship.
The appearance of the small airship looks much cleaner. It flew around the garbage dump, then turned its head and climbed, and gradually flew out of the sky.
The airship in the air lost its power, began to vibrate continuously, suddenly tilted, and slowly fell to the ground!
It fell faster and faster, and finally hit the ground, disintegrating with a roar. Countless rubbish, scrap, and metal components flew in all directions, and a garbage rain fell over the airship cemetery.
The carnival begins!
The sojourners howled and rushed to the place where the airship fell, and some even ran on all fours like wild animals.
From time to time, huge metal components fell from the air, and many people who were directly below the landing point could not dodge in time, and were directly smashed into meat paste by several tons of components. But the companions around them turned a blind eye to the danger, and still rushed forward with all their might, just trying to get to the place where they could grab the garbage first.
Among the people were men, women, old people and children. But age and gender are meaningless here, each group is distinguished by body shape and strength, which is the only criterion for dividing the territory of the cemetery.
Those who can rush under the wreckage of the airship are the strongest and most powerful men in the entire cemetery, then weaker men and stronger women, and then weaker women, and the outermost circle is the elderly and children.
In this way, people formed concentric circles with the falling airship as the center. There is an invisible but insurmountable boundary between each layer.
On the outermost edge of the layers of concentric circles is the children's activity area. Hundreds of children rummaged through the rubbish, looking for food that barely existed.
Among them was a thin and small boy who was also trying to rummage through.
He was about seven or eight years old, his small face was so dark that he couldn't see his true colors at all. The clothes on his body should have been an adult's shirt, but it wrapped around him like a long robe. Moreover, the shirt had long since been torn into shape, it was simply a few larger pieces of rags wrapped around his body with strips of cloth.
He picked up the cold garbage with both hands, and his little hands were full of cut wounds, many of which were still festering. But he didn't seem to feel any pain, and he desperately picked up the pile of rubbish that couldn't be distinguished in shape.
He hasn't eaten for three days, if he can't find something to eat today, then he will definitely not last until the next time the airship arrives.
But no matter how hard the little boy tried, he got nothing.
This area has been turned over countless times before it will be reserved for this group of children under ten years old. These kids are the weakest people on this dump. And when the strong people really can't find food, their hungry eyes will... stare at the elderly and children.
This is the Land of Abandonment, and this is the Airship Graveyard. As long as people here live, they are no different from wild animals. Even mighty beasts outlive them with dignity!
The little boy refused to give up because of his desire to survive. He kept digging through the trash, and many wounds on his body were opened again due to too much force, oozing blood. But he didn't realize it.
Another rain of garbage fell from the sky, and one of the larger garbage bags landed beside the little boy.
The shell of the garbage bag was broken, and an oiled paper bag rolled out of all kinds of useless garbage, which firmly attracted all the eyes of the little boy. There were oily spots on the paper bag!
He suddenly pounced on it with the agility of a wild cat, clutching the oiled paper bag tightly in his hand. He didn't open it at all to check what was inside, and tucked it into his clothes. At the same time, he turned his head vigilantly to look left and right, and then crawled cautiously to the outside.
Among this group of children, there is also competition, snatching, and even killing! The cruelty is no less than the world of adults.
The little boy was very thin, and he was weak in this garbage dump. Once the strong older boy found out that he had found something edible and wanted to hide it privately, a severe beating would be the lightest thing to do.
Luckily, the little boy managed to escape the area while avoiding the sight of all the older kids. He seems to have an innate keenness, and he can always avoid those big children who are more terrifying than beasts.
After getting away from the wreckage of the airship, the little boy ran wildly, ran all the way to another garbage mountain, and got into an empty iron bucket.
This is his nest, a habitat to avoid wind and rain. In the little boy's mind, this small space of just over one square meter is a paradise on earth.
He carefully took out the oil-paper package, held his breath, and opened it slowly with a pilgrimage-like expression.
There was actually a piece of bread in the paper bag! A loaf with just one bite!
When the little boy saw it, he knew it was bread. He had never seen such a complete food at the dump, but he couldn't remember where or when he knew about such a thing as bread.
In fact, it was just an ordinary piece of round bread. In the upper continent, even the lowest-level people might take a bite and throw it away, just like the piece in the little boy's hand. But in this junkyard, it could be worth several lives.
When he got closer, he could smell a faint smell of grain, and the little boy felt that the pain all over his body had disappeared. He held the piece of bread carefully, unbelievable that he could find such a treasure.
Is this a dream
A drop of blood oozed from the cut on his hand and rolled onto the bread. The little boy cried out, and hurriedly wiped his hands vigorously on his body, wiping away all the blood and sweat stains. He had a mournful face, and when he looked back at the piece of bread, he was as sad as if the sacred object in his heart had been desecrated.
At this time, the little boy's stomach suddenly growled, and his stomach expressed his desire with twitching pain. So he tore off the blood-stained part of the bread, and with all his resolve, prepared to put it in his mouth.
But his hand suddenly stopped in mid-air.
Just outside the iron barrel, a little girl appeared at some point.
She was only four or five years old, her small face was black and gray, completely submerging her original skin color, but the clear lines outlined the immature shape of a future stunning girl. And her pair of shining big eyes were exceptionally beautiful, and her spirit was flowing, staring straight at the bread in the little boy's hand, unable to move away.
The little boy sat up abruptly, quietly grasping an iron rod with a sharpened end in his left hand. This is the most instinctive reaction of people living in the garbage dump. When the food in one person's hands is seen by another person, it is often a life-and-death fight.
The little girl didn't run away, her eyes were glued to the bread, and she didn't move.
The little boy slowly put down the iron rod in his hand, hesitated for a long time before making up his mind, slowly tore the bread in half, and then handed half of it to the little girl.
The little boy moved very slowly, his hands were shaking, and his forehead was covered with beads of sweat. His stomach and all the wounds on his body protested with the most intense pain.
But the bread still reached the little girl.
The little girl seemed unable to believe her eyes. She held the bread firmly in one hand and wiped her eyes vigorously to confirm that she was not dreaming.
She suddenly stuffed the bread into her mouth with all her might, and half of the bun, which was about the size of her fist, disappeared into that small mouth in just a few strokes, maybe not more than three seconds!
The little girl ate up all the bread and licked off the residue on her hands, then raised her eyes, focused her eyes on the little boy's face for the first time, looked carefully, and ran away like flying away.
At this moment, the little boy didn't know what it was like, let alone why he did this, so he could only sit down slumped. Maybe it was the little girl's pure eyes that touched a certain emotion deep in his heart
But what strange things are emotions? Leaning against the barrel wall, the little boy carefully tore off a piece of bread the size of a fingernail, and put it in his mouth. He didn't swallow it right away, but held it in his mouth, feeling the fragrance of the grain with the tip of his tongue.
At this moment, a young girl's voice suddenly came from outside his den: "He has something delicious! You promised to share half of it with me!"
The boy's heart sank to the bottom of the valley, and he saw several older children standing outside.