Lao Liu and the more than twenty people worked with joy to earn a sum of money, and they took them home to subsidize their families. But I didn't expect that waiting for them would be a nightmare.
"Almost, I came from a ferry south of Tongchuan." As soon as I heard what Old Liu said, I immediately remembered my previous experience at the Tongchuan ferry. That time, someone called dozens of coolies and said yes. How much money is given in a day and ask people to work.
But that time, I was asked to move the box alone by the master, so I didn't know what happened to the dozens of civilian husbands.
However, after listening to the meaning of Lao Liu's words, after further deliberation, you can know that most of those people have also been taken to this place.
How did Lao Liu get to this place, he himself couldn’t tell. The man who was looking for them to work brought them to a river beach, and then said that he was waiting for the boat by the river, but he waited and was near the river. Suddenly, the shallow water was like a stormy sea, which directly swept everyone in.
After that, Lao Liu lost consciousness, and when he regained consciousness, he arrived here.
This process is similar to the process when I was sent here. I think Lao Liu didn't lie. He looks like an honest man.
After Lao Liu arrived here, all his companions were broken up, divided into several parts, and worked with others. Said it is work, in fact, most people pull the rope below day and night, and very few people are assigned to do other tasks.
Because Lao Liu can cook, he was in charge of cooking. Because of this, the supervision was looser. He planned for a long time before looking for a chance to escape.
"Brother, you just came here, you don't know many things." Old Liu sighed and said, "This place, people can't live long."
Lao Liu said that the twenty-odd people who came here with him at the beginning are all dead, because he is usually responsible for cooking, doing light work, and being able to eat enough, so he can barely survive until now.
In addition to the heavy workload and poor conditions, this place has a terrible reason, that is, the yin qi is very heavy. After a normal person arrives here, the yang qi on his body will quickly disappear, and he can live for a year. Already considered luck.
"Look." Old Liu opened his shirt, turned around, and said, "This black line is on my back."
I looked and saw that there was a looming black line beside Lao Liu’s spine. The black line had reached the chest. Lao Liu said that if the black line reached the neck, people would die soon, no one. Can't save.
The dead will not be discarded directly, but sent to another place. After a few days, these dead will appear again. But they couldn't talk anymore, they just pulled on the rope every day like walking corpses, didn't know how to eat or drink, and didn't know how to rest.
Such a person will not last long. In about three or two months, he will "die" again. If he dies this time, even if he is really useless, he will be thrown into the river below and let the water take them. Wash away.
"I don't know who is in charge of this place." Old Liu said: "People often bring corpses in."
The corpse that was transported in can be revived, but the result is still the same. After the corpse is resurrected, there is no consciousness at all, and within three or two months, it will begin to rot
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When the living people arrive here, they will die soon. Even the dead have to die again when they arrive here. The scenes are horrible.
Lao Liu is just a cook, and he doesn't know much about these secrets. However, he had talked with many people by taking advantage of the opportunity of cooking and delivering food.
When a living person arrives here, he must want to escape, but this abyss is the end of this space. The space may still be extending, but it is blocked by the gate and cannot enter. So if you want to escape, you can only retreat and escape along the river like a yellow spring.
It is still unknown whether you can escape along the Yellow Spring River upstream, because no one has ever really escaped to the upper reaches of the river.
"There is a corpse scavenger in this river." Old Liu said: "I heard people say that the corpse scavenger specializes in cruises in the river. But he doesn't scavenger corpses, he's just fishing for living people."
This corpse scavenger only scoops the living, that is, the one who has escaped from here. The corpse scavenger is out of sight, without a trace in the first moment, and may suddenly appear in front of him the next moment. The corpse hunter has a net, and those who escape from here will not be able to break free after being caught by the net and will be sent back again.
I've heard Qingluo talk about the Huangquan corpse hunter, but I never knew that the corpse hunter was actually hunting for living people.
There are many things that Lao Liu may not be able to think through, but I have already understood that Huangquan's corpse hunters are not constantly on the cruise, in fact, they are not afraid of people fleeing. There are many people here, the dead and the living, but a few people are not much. He was just afraid that after the living people escaped, the things here would be leaked.
Moreover, I know very well that this place has a great relationship with Human World Road. The living and dead outside are all sent in by Human World Road.
Renjianlu appears once in sixty years, and each time it appears, it will not last too long, and it will last for two to three years.
In other words, they only have two or three years to coax people into work outside.
I'm thinking about it carefully, and there is no doubt that Human Road is trying to open this door. However, if you want to open the door, you must hurry up and work hard day and night. But every time I only did it for two or three years, it died down. Why
I guessed vaguely, maybe, only in two or three years, the door can be opened with external force, otherwise, it would be in vain to ask more people to pull it over.
"The people who got caught back are very miserable..." Old Liu didn't know that I was thinking about it. He glanced down and said: "After being caught back, he will be thrown into the cave of ten thousand corpses."
The so-called Ten Thousand Corpse Cave is actually just a private name given by the people who work here. No one knows the origin of the cave. However, this Huangquan River eventually flows into the Ten Thousand Corpse Cave. Usually, the decomposing corpses are thrown into the cave of ten thousand corpses. If there is a living person who wants to escape, after being caught back, they will also be thrown into the cave of ten thousand corpses.
In that kind of place, there is nothing but a rotten corpse. It is more painful for a living person to wait alone in such an environment than to be killed by a knife.
However, even such a miserable end cannot stop people from wanting to escape. There are a lot of living people working here. People on the road of the world will send a group of people in, ranging from dozens to dozens.
, Sometimes there are hundreds of them. Almost every day, someone will find various ways to escape.
Lao Liu missed home very much. To live in such a place, life is better than death. More importantly, if he does not escape, the heavy yin here will consume his yang. At that time, even if he wants to escape. I'm running out of strength.
Therefore, Lao Liu had no choice but to try to escape even if he died.
"My life is not good, and I blamed him for being too greedy for money. I heard that there was a salary, so I followed in a daze." Lao Liu regretted it, sighed, and said, "I think it's better to get away. , I really can’t escape. If I was caught by the Huangquan Corpse Collector, I would just bite my tongue and kill myself so as not to be thrown into the Cave of Ten Thousand Corpses to suffer. But my brother, you just got here not long ago, and you still don’t suffer from the anger. Seriously, trying to escape like this is too risky."
"In short, I can only live for so long, die sooner or later, die later, but after a few months, I don't want to suffer alive." I said lightly, but I regret more than Lao Liu in my heart. Why do I not sink so much? Staying mad, I want to come over to find out if I see something, this time it's good, and I directly forced myself to a dead end.
"People, they all say that everything is empty when you die, but here you can't live in peace." Lao Liu said: "When you die, you still have to be driven to work for another three or four months."
"How did they do it, how do the dead do their jobs?"
"There are some things, you probably don't know." Lao Liu didn't stay here for a long time, but after Human Road returned from the rivers and lakes this time, Lao Liu was the first group to be caught here. There are more people.
Old Liu said that there are some people outside who are taking their lives, and all the lives that have been taken have been sent here. By passing these lives to the corpse, the corpse will be like a walking corpse and will suffer for another three or two months.
I thought about it for a while. The Road on Earth might not dare to catch people outside in a blatant manner. For example, at Tongchuan Ferry, after thirty or forty civilian husbands were taken away, there is no more news. When people in the vicinity learn about these situations and encounter similar things, they will doubt that they will definitely not be attracted by wages. Follow the stranger to work elsewhere.
Therefore, the goal of the human road can only be placed on the dead. Especially in a mass graveyard without an owner, even if all the corpses disappeared, it didn't matter.
As I thought about it, the roots of my teeth started to itch, what is the road to the world? According to the existing situation, it has been a long time since Renjianlu wanted to open this gate. They appeared three times before and after. In more than a hundred years, this gate has not been opened yet.
However, when I think of this, I suddenly feel a little uneasy. Before disappearing on the road of the world, I once said that when they reappear, everything will be cut off.
If I heard these words before, I still don't think what would happen, but now that I know these things, I suddenly have a hunch.
Renjianlu has re-emerged in the arena this time, is it sure to open this door
It is unknown who built this gate and what its use is. But many things are obvious. Once the gate is opened, there will be no good things.
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