I talked with Lao Liu for a long time, and he gradually recovered his strength. Lao Liu carried a bag with him, and there was something to eat in the bag.
In this place, the food is very poor. Old Liu is cooking in the kitchen. The conditions are better, but what he brought out is only some wowotou mixed with grains, and salt is put in the wowotou. To save food.
"These people are too wicked." I glanced at the dry food that Lao Liu brought, and felt that the road to the world was a bit stingy. They were so generous outside, but they were so harsh on these workers.
"They did it on purpose." Old Liu sighed. In fact, there are two big holes in this place. The caves are very shady and they are usually used to store food. There is a lot of food in the cave, and a lot of meat.
But I don't usually give these things to coolies, just occasionally improve. Coolies can't get enough, and when they meet to improve their meals, they work very hard.
If you eat and drink enough every day, then improving the food will not make Coolie work more willingly.
Lao Liu gave me a wowotou, and I took a bite. It was salty and astringent, and it was difficult to swallow.
A wotou hadn't finished eating. Suddenly, there seemed to be a chanting sound from far below. The voice suddenly sounded like a chanting from a temple, but if you listen carefully, you will feel it is not.
I don't know what's going on. I always feel uncomfortable when I hear such chanting.
"They are giving their lives to the corpse again." Old Liu has been here for a long time, and seems familiar with such voices.
Old Liu said that when the people here give their lives to the corpses, there is a chapter dedicated to them. After the corpses have passed their lives, they can go to work like living people.
"Brother, you have been here for such a long time, and you haven't heard of it. What are they going to do to open this door?"
"No." Old Liu shook his head and said, "The people who work here are all hard-working people in the country. No one knows the inside story."
I was talking to Lao Liu, and after eating the wowotou in my hand, Lao Liu asked me if I wanted to escape with him.
I hesitated a little bit. I definitely want to escape from here, but as soon as I leave, I don’t know anything else.
However, I still have a plan in my heart. Lao Liu has been here for so long, and still knows nothing about the key clues. Even if I waste time and hang around here, what can I find out in the end
After thinking about it, I finally gave up. This place is not a good place. If you can escape, you should leave first. As long as you live, there will be hope for everything in the future.
"Let's go together." I made up my mind and said to Lao Liu: "In a place like this, you won't be able to survive sooner or later, so it's better to fight."
"I actually don't want to take you on an adventure. You are still young, but there is only one dead end for you to stay here. Brother, go ahead and give it a try."
After discussing with Lao Liu, I slowly moved back from this huge gap and moved to the side of the river. The two went into the water one after the other. I asked Old Liu to follow my example, grabbing the raised stones on the side of the river with my hands, and then slowly moving upstream.
This movement is very slow, but the current here is faster than before, so we have to bear with it first, and wait until the current flows.
Only in relatively gentle places can you let go of your hands and swim upstream.
There are too many people working near the gate, and the division of labor is more complicated. Lao Liu is not an important person, and no one notices it when he ran away. Therefore, everything is relatively calm and smooth, and no one is clamoring to catch up.
However, after arriving in the river, Lao Liu was very cautious and a little scared. He had seen those runaways who were captured by the Huangquan Corpse Collector before, and the results were very miserable.
The key is that the Huangquan corpse hunter came and went without a trace, and he was out of sight. When he was about to appear, there was no sign at all. What we need to guard against now is this Huangquan corpse hunter.
But after thinking about it, I smiled bitterly again, and Old Liu said, Huangquan's corpse collectors are out there, so there is nothing to guard against. Now it's just a chance to see if we can escape the disaster.
The two of us were on the side of the river like this, relying on the strength of the stone, and slowly moved a distance of three or four miles upstream. After three or four miles, the overall terrain of the river became flat and the water flow slowed down. I let go of my hand and tried it. I felt that I could swim upstream, so I waved to Lao Liu.
Lao Liu was not a person who went to the river before, but he grew up by the river and would swim. His water is not very good. After entering the water, I was a little flustered. I was there to help. After a while, Lao Liu got used to it. Swim fast.
In this way, the two of us swam in the upstream direction for about two miles, and the surroundings were still very calm, and there was a little more hope in my heart to escape. Old Liu was also more energetic. After all, he escaped for a while, and then he was closer to his home.
"I haven't been home for almost a year, I don't know how the house is..." Lao Liu's tone was full of emotion, and a bit desolate. When he was leaving, his son had already booked a marriage with someone, but he disappeared. After almost a year, he didn't know what was going on at home, and he was very worried.
"It must be okay, let's go, after we escape, everything will be fine..."
Huh!
At this moment, a net seemed to fall from the sky and directly enveloped me. My reaction was a little faster than that of Lao Liu, and that was also crucial. I flipped my body in the water, and the net was attached to it. As I fell down, Lao Liu was directly caught in the net.
I suddenly turned my head, and at a glance, I didn't know when a boat was coming behind me.
The boat is not big, and there is a middle-aged man in his forties who is standing on the boat. When I saw this boat, I couldn't tell how I felt.
This is obviously a corpse scavenger boat, the same as the one used by the corpse scavengers on the river beach outside, except that the middle-aged man only uses a net to catch people who want to escape from here.
"Help me! Help me..."
After being caught by the net, Lao Liu immediately panicked and called for help. I rushed tentatively, but the net was tightened. I drew out the knife from my body, trying to cut a hole in the net, but I don't know what the net was woven from. It was extremely flexible. I cut a few times with a sharp knife and couldn't cut it.
The middle-aged man on the boat had no expression, just squinted slightly and glanced at me. His two arms were very powerful, and he dragged the net onto the boat. I followed the boat and wanted to rescue Lao Liu, but when I was in the water, I looked up at it.
When I was a middle-aged person, an inexplicable panic spread in my heart.
I don't know where my panic came from. I just feel that when I see a middle-aged person, my heart starts to panic. I still wear a mask on my face, however, this middle-aged man seems to be able to see through everything about me.
Lao Liu was dragged directly onto the boat, and the middle-aged man dropped his net at will. Lao Liu struggled back and forth in the net, trying to break free. However, the knives cut the endless net, how could he break free. I looked at what Old Liu looked like now, and I didn't know if I should continue to save him.
But the feeling in my heart is very bad. Lao Liu was arrested. I was lucky enough to escape the capture of this big net. However, this Huangquan corpse hunter was right in front of me. I want to escape now, but I can still escape. NS
For a while, I was right next to this corpse salvaging boat.
Lao Liu tossed a few times, and gradually lost his strength. He was panicked and scared. He knew what would happen to the fugitive caught by the Huangquan Corpse Collector. He knew better than anyone else.
"You, come up." Huangquan's corpse hunter glanced at me again, his eyes seemed to be faint, and his tone was faint.
As soon as I gritted my teeth, since I couldn't escape, I didn't escape at all. If you are dead, it would be better to be more generous, lest you can only make promises, and you won't be able to escape death in the end.
"Okay, come up as soon as you come up."
I grabbed the boat gang with both hands, turned over and climbed up. After standing on the boat, I shook the water on my body. Regardless of the Huangquan corpse hunter, I walked to Lao Liu by myself, found the place where the big net closed, and untied the hole.
The Huangquan corpse hunter has not stopped him, standing quietly on the side, silently. After I released Lao Liu, Lao Liu was in shock, and he was almost stupid.
I asked Lao Liu to sit down next to him, then turned around and said to the Huangquan corpse collector: "The people here are all deceived. They have been doing your work for a few months in vain. Isn't that okay? People are going to leave. If you don’t let you go, you will be executed when you catch it back. What's the reason for this?"
"In this world, there is no reason at all."
"There is no reason? The sky is big and the earth is the biggest reason. Haven't you heard this sentence?" I completely gave up, because I know that begging is useless. If the pleading is useful, all those who ran away must have pleading for it.
But none of them survived.
"You tell me what is the truth."
"I..." I heard Huang Quan's corpse hunter's words, and seemed to be able to explain to him at any time what the truth was, but when the words came to my lips, I couldn't say a word.
What is the truth
"You can't tell." Huangquan's corpse hunter looked at his facial features very correct, with a slightly refined atmosphere, but he was a black and white impermanent character, cruising back and forth in this Huangquan River. Reap the lives.
"I can't tell, is there no reason?"
"Sheep have been hiding from wolves all their lives, guarding against wolves, and afraid of being killed by wolves and eaten by wolves. Whenever something happens, it first thinks of the sheep-raiser. It feels that only the sheep-raiser is the most reliable. It’s best for yourself, because the sheep-raiser feeds it grass and builds a sheepfold for it. But how many sheep in this world are killed and eaten by wolves? The people who kill them are precisely the sheep-raiser. "The Huangquan corpse hunter still looked at me faintly, and asked: "What is the reason for this?"
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