Together with Chu Renlong, Chen Feng entered Baiyu City.
As soon as he entered Baiyu City, Chen Feng frowned, because before his eyes, a scene appeared that should not appear in the fairyland.
The streets were filled with refugees with pale faces and skinny bodies. They were ragged and skinny, and they looked nothing like immortals. Even beggars in the secular world were more prosperous than them. (Of course, most beggars in the secular world earn more than white-collar workers.)
When these people saw Chen Feng, their eyes first lit up, with a look of desire and struggle in their eyes. Then, when they saw Chu Renlong and others beside Chen Feng, their faces immediately darkened, and they lowered their heads one by one, not daring to look at him again.
"What's going on?" Chen Feng naturally felt a strong sense of aggression from these people's eyes, and immediately asked curiously.
"Speaking of which, these people are all miserable." Hearing Chen Feng's question, Chu Renlong also sighed. It can be seen that he also truly sympathized with the people in front of him.
"What do you mean?" Chen Feng was even more puzzled: "Could it be that these people are related to the corpses outside the city gate?"
Chu Renlong nodded and said helplessly: "You guessed right. In fact, these people are the predecessors of the corpses. They just haven't turned into corpses yet."
Chen Feng frowned, vaguely feeling that this Baiyu City was a little unusual.
"You just got here, so you must not know. Just three years ago, Baiyu City had already become an abandoned place of the Three Emperors Immortal Kingdom!" Chu Renlong said angrily, "The high-ranking officials of the Three Emperors Immortal Kingdom all regard Baiyu City as a scourge. We warriors living in Baiyu City must not step out of the Baiyu City area within a hundred miles, otherwise, those blockaders will start a massacre!"
"Why is this? I've read in the classics before that Baiyu City is rich in high-quality white jade and is the largest source of white jade for the Three Emperors Immortal Kingdom. Why would the high-ranking officials of the Three Emperors Immortal Kingdom block this place?" Chen Feng glanced at the refugees around him and speculated in a low voice, "Could it be related to these people?"
Chu Renlong's eyes were filled with sadness: "You only guessed half right. These people and the corpses outside are actually just victims."
After a pause, Chu Renlong said again: "Maybe in the near future, I will become one of them."
As Chu Renlong spoke, the faces of the people behind him also became gloomy, with a hint of panic.
Chen Feng looked at Chu Renlong in surprise, and seeing that he still had something to say, he waited quietly for him to continue.
"In fact, all of this stems from something that happened three years ago..." Chu Renlong's eyes were lost in memories, and his voice became blurred.
It turned out that three years ago, Baiyu City was still an extremely prosperous place. Although it was a little smaller, it was definitely comparable to those big cities because of its resources such as white jade.
But one day, a cultivator discovered a high-quality white jade mine on a hill thirty miles outside Baiyu City. This discovery made everyone in Baiyu City extremely excited. Because of the over-exploitation of Baiyu City in recent years, many surrounding white jade mines have been almost exhausted. If no new mining areas are discovered, Baiyu City’s status in the Three Emperors Immortal Kingdom will also come to an end.
The discovery of this new mining area undoubtedly made the top leaders of Baiyu City ecstatic. Without any delay, they dispatched a survey team composed of Daluo Jinxian to the mining area.
Two days later, the exploration team came back. They reported to the top management that the reserves of this mineral deposit were amazing and could sustain the development of Baiyu City for ten thousand years. Moreover, the white jade deposits here were of extremely high quality. If they were really mined, the value of the white jade mined in a year would be comparable to the sum of all the mineral deposits around Baiyu City.
Under the impact of overwhelming joy, the top leaders of Baiyu City did not even reconfirm the safety level of the mine, but directly sent a large number of miners into the mine.
As expected, these miners unearthed huge wealth. For a moment, Baiyu City was completely filled with joy.
However, unexpectedly, while these miners brought out wealth from the mines, they also brought back a strange plague.
With their return, from time to time, some monks in the city fell ill with strange diseases. Their immortal essence gradually lost, and even if they practiced hard, they could not keep up with the speed of immortal essence loss. At first, everyone thought that these monks were just practicing and getting possessed, but as more and more monks showed such symptoms, Baiyu City finally fell into panic.
Later, the alchemists of the Alchemist Union of Baiyu City discovered the reason. It turned out that there was a virus in the bodies of these sick monks. This virus had never been seen before, but it was extremely powerful. The alchemist who discovered the virus tried his best but failed to develop a pill to kill the plague virus. Instead, he was infected with the virus because he had contact with the plague. He only survived for a few months before he died.
The plague virus is contagious!
With the death of this alchemist, everyone's expectations were completely shattered, and Baiyu City fell into fear. What was even more terrifying was that these monks who were infected with the plague actually stood up again after they died. They had no consciousness and could not use the immortal essence. They only preserved the physical energy before death. However, they had a common hobby, that is, they would attack anyone they saw. Not only that, they also ate human flesh and blood. Often a group of corpses would rush up and eat the flesh and blood of the monks. The corpses that devoured the monks would absorb the blood and energy in the flesh and blood, becoming more powerful.
In desperation, the Lord of Baiyu City convened a high-level meeting and decided to ask for help from the Three Emperors Immortal Kingdom. However, what everyone did not expect was that the Three Emperors Immortal Kingdom had already learned about the changes in Baiyu City through Baiyu City's spies, and had already sent experts to deploy defenses a hundred miles away from Baiyu City. In order to prevent the people inside from bringing the plague to other parts of the Three Emperors Immortal Kingdom, only entry was allowed within a hundred miles of Baiyu City, but no exit was allowed. A large number of experts from the Three Emperors Immortal Kingdom almost surrounded the entire Baiyu City like an iron barrel. Anyone who wanted to escape secretly would be blasted into slag by them and then burned to ashes.
Even the top leaders of Baiyu City, those representatives of the former Three Emperors Immortal Kingdom stationed in Baiyu City, could not take a single step beyond the city’s hundred miles.
At this point, Chu Renlong clenched his fists and said, "How hateful! These decision makers of the Three Emperors Immortal Country want to trap hundreds of thousands of cultivators in Baiyu City to death!"
(Busy as a dog!)