There is a huge basket floating on the pool. The bottom is a wooden board one foot thick and several meters wide. The edges are woven with black vines to form a basket. wWW,QuanBen-XiaoShuo,comThe heat of the pool steamed up, and a strange smell emitted from the basket, which seemed to be the smell of moldy flour.
Lin Qi was used to smelling this kind of smell in his family's warehouse when he was a child. Blackbeard often hoarded a large amount of wheat and flour. Sometimes when the weather was humid and flour could not be sold, Blackbeard would curse and take Lin Qi to the warehouse. The moldy flour was extracted, added with a large amount of salt, and made into salty bread, which was smuggled to Wudalian Island.
That kind of salty bread smells like this, moldy, and also smells like stinky salted fish. Lin Qi once tasted a bite of this kind of bread. The texture was almost like a nightmare, salty and bitter, and because it was not fermented well, it felt like chewing on wood residue.
This kind of bread is very popular among the foreign people in Wudalian Island where the crop yield is not high. A piece of inferior salty bread can be sold for three to five times the price of high-quality buttery white bread on the Western continent. But the Church's Divine Prison also provided this kind of bread. Lin Qi couldn't help but wonder if someone in the Church was also doing the business of hoarding and smuggling takeaways
Lin Qi was looking at the basket blankly, and Xuan Lan stood up lazily. He stepped into the pool, picked up the things in the basket, and placed them gently by the pool. He is tall and tall, one step can reach dozens of meters, and he is extremely strong. If someone else were to carry the things in the basket, it would take him a quarter of an hour, but Xuan Lan can do it with just one step and one hand.
After taking out the contents of the basket, Xuan Lan shook the cable tied to the basket vigorously and shouted loudly: "The things are packed! You can carry the basket up, don't worry. No one is hiding in the basket and thinking Gotta get in there!"
The basket was slowly pulled up, rising very slowly, and golden divine light continued to fall from the sky, sweeping over the hanging basket over and over again. It can be seen that the guards above are extremely nervous about this matter. In just a few breaths, at least thirty detection magic spells were spilled.
Xuan Lan raised his head and watched the hanging basket rise slowly. He counted on his fingers for a while. Then he shouted loudly: "It's almost ten days again. Remember to hang ten cows for me tomorrow, otherwise I won't help you guard this exit. If you have any trouble, go and do it yourself!"
After a while, a faint cry came from above: "I know. I will send you ten cows tomorrow. Is it still the old rule, are they all bulls?"
Xuan Lan patted his chest with satisfaction, then he walked out of the pool, sat down on the spot, and waved to the black figures with a smile: "The food is here, you can distribute it. This little guy is For the new guy, just leave a copy for him!”
Those black figures looked at Lin Qi at the same time, and there was a sinister aura in these people's eyes that made Lin Qi uneasy. Although they all looked like frail old men who were about to fall over in the wind, Lin Qi was forced to lose his footing by their gazes and stumbled back several steps until his back was touching. On Xuanlan's toes, he barely managed to stand firm.
A low and hoarse voice came from the crowd: "Such a little guy, has his hair grown all the way? Hey, for what crime were you thrown away? Why can you keep a piece of food?"
The eyes of those dark figures were as ferocious as wolves. When Lin Qi was a child, he followed Blackbeard to hunt in the mountains. Those hungry wolves who were starving to death due to lack of food in winter had this look in their eyes. Lin Qi was silent for a while, and then he said calmly: "I am not guilty, I am innocent!"
The black figures were stunned for a moment, and then everyone laughed at the same time, especially the old ladies, who grinned so much that only a few big yellow teeth were left on their gums. They laughed at the same time: "Of course. We are all innocent! Hahaha, there is not a single sinner in the Black Abyss Prison, we are all innocent!"…,
A skinny old man walked steadily to the pile of food step by step, and nodded to Lin Qi. He narrowed his eyes and said coldly: "For Xuan Lan's sake, you can get a piece of food today. But from tomorrow on, you should not come here. A young and strong boy like you should find food and drink by yourself." Yes, we are all a group of old people here!"
Staring at Lin Qi, the old man slowly picked up a piece of salty bread about the size of a baby's head, and then picked up a wooden bottle from the side that was at most the size of an adult's fist. Lin Qi smelled a faint aroma of wine. The stoppers of these wooden bottles were not sealed properly. They should be filled with wine. According to Lin Qi's many years of drinking experience, this was the worst quality rum. The kind that can be exchanged for three or five coppers for a large cup in the tavern.
Such a large glass of bad wine can at least fill four or five wooden bottles like this! It’s obvious that the church is very stingy with these prisoners!
One after another, the old people stepped forward and slowly took away their portion of food. There were not many wooden bottles, only about a hundred. Only the old people in the front got a bottle of wine each, and the old people in the back only got a piece of salty bread. Lin Qi also noticed that the old people who took food here were divided into front, back, and top according to some special rules. The people who took food in the front had the highest status, and the old people who took food in the back naturally had a lower status.
At the end, when all the old people had taken their share of the rations, less than half of the food delivered by the hanging basket was left.
The skinny old man nodded to Lin Qi and pointed to the salty bread: "Little guy, you can take away a piece of bread today, and I won't give it to you tomorrow! The remaining bread, We also have to send it to the old guys who are sick and about to die, and the rest will be kept for storage, but you won’t have a share.”
Lin Qi glanced at the old man, who bowed slightly, then walked over and took the smallest piece of salty bread.
When these old people took away the bread, Lin Qi carefully distinguished the taste of the salty bread. It was no different from the salty bread smuggled by the Black Tiger Family, and it seemed that the quality was not as good as the bread produced by the Black Tiger Family. After all, although the Black Tiger family uses moldy flour, it is at least pure flour, and there should be a lot of wheat bran mixed in these salty breads. You can imagine how this kind of bread will taste.
But in this divine prison, this is all the hope for an old man to survive.
Lin Qi felt a little heavy. He didn't know what charges these old men were imprisoned here for, but as he just said, Lin Qi believed that he was innocent. Then, these old people must not be willing to tell their own affairs. Maybe in their hearts, they are innocent and everyone is innocent.
After weighing the heavy salty bread, which weighed about a pound, Lin Qi took a few steps back.
A group of old people came forward and wrapped the remaining salty noodles with a piece of wrapping cloth made of unknown fiber. Then they carried the pile of black bread and walked slowly away. of several stone pillars. After a while, they turned around the stone pillar and disappeared into the darkness.
Lin Qi weighed the black bread in his hand and smiled bitterly. He looked up at Xuan Lan and asked him in surprise: "Why don't you take a portion?"
Xuan Lan leaned lazily against the stone wall. He glanced at Lin Qi and shook his head: "I can eat all that food in one bite. If I eat it, they will starve to death. Tomorrow those people will send ten cows Come down and I can survive ten days by eating them.”
A low bowel sound came from Xuan Lan's stomach. He licked his lips and muttered in a low voice: "When my father and mother were still alive, they always told me that they were outside, in this damned prison. Outside, we can eat as much as we want! My father once ate fifty strong men and fifty bullocks in one meal, but now it takes me ten days to have a full meal.”…,
Lin Qi looked at this big guy and couldn't help being speechless.
According to Xuan Lan, he was born in the Black Abyss Divine Prison? In other words, he has never been to the outside world.
Rubbing his belly vigorously, Xuanlan laughed: "But it's okay. I'll guard this road for the people above. One of them won't let the newcomers be scalded to death by the boiling water, and the other won't let the old people sneak up. I'm very worried. Ten cows can be eaten every day."
He pointed in the direction where the old people disappeared and said with excitement: "Also, I helped them carry their things and helped them scare the demons and prevent those bastards from harassing these old guys. After they die, their bodies will be Be mine!"
After searching with bared teeth, Xuan Lan sighed with resentment: "But they died too slowly. I calculated that the last time I ate the old guy who died of illness was already two years ago. The last one was ten years ago! Why do you think they all died so slowly?"
Xuan Lan tilted his head and looked at Lin Qi. His huge eyes looked unusually simple and honest, but the words he said made Lin Qi's scalp tingle. Lin Qi shook his head, stood on tiptoes and patted Xuan Lan's ankle bones hard, then turned and walked in the direction where the old people left.
This is how to survive in the Black Abyss Divine Prison, this is how Xuan Lan survives! Lin Qi could not blame anything, because from today on, he would also live here! Live well and find a way to get out of here! Lin Qi is confident that he will not be trapped here for the rest of his life, and no one can trap him for the rest of his life!
"Xuanlan, your name is Xuanlan! I remember it, and I will accompany you to chat when I have time!"
Lin Qi looked back at Xuan Lan, who was sitting there motionless, and yelled loudly.
Xuan Lan nodded slightly, then made no other movements. He was hungry and he had no energy to do anything else.
Lin Qi looked at him sitting there quietly, sighed heavily, and then strode into the darkness. (To be continued...)