There were about a dozen people in front of me, including men and women, old and young. They were all sallow and thin, and their steps were sluggish. When they saw Zhan Yue and the others, they rushed up one after another.
"Is there something to eat...is there anything to eat?" A middle-aged woman stared at Zhan Yue longingly.
Both Zhanyue and Zhanyue had space props, but in order not to be exposed, they still brought packages to show off. The packages also contained some cooking cakes and potatoes that they had brought with them when they left Yunmo Village.
He took out a piece of cooking cake, and the person in front of him was like a wolf seeing meat, and was about to rush forward.
"Stop! Come back here!" A loud shout rang out, and a middle-aged man walked out of the crowd, seemingly the leader of the fleeing team.
"Both of you, are you from Nancai Province?" the man asked. His face was equally dirty. Although he was hungry, he still maintained his sanity.
"That's right. You guys?" Zhan Yue looked at the man doubtfully.
"Don't go north again. A locust plague broke out in Wunan Province, causing famine and plague. The officials above are unable to protect themselves, and there are no other provinces to provide relief. The entire Wunan Province is already a hell on earth. We are lucky to be close to Nancai , and got the news in advance that there was a lot of food in the house, so he ran away in advance." The man explained.
These more than ten people belonged to the same family. Fortunately, someone in the family was on duty. They received the news in advance and made plans to escape south.
"Bandits, riots, plague, famine, the whole of Wunan is completely over. You should turn around quickly." The man emphasized again.
"Take these cakes first. Then walk south for two or three days and you will see Yunmo Mountain. There are some wild fruits and wild beasts in the mountain to satisfy your hunger." Zhan Yue handed some food to the man.
Everyone else's eyes were shining with gold and they knelt down one after another. It's not a lot of food, but it's definitely life-saving, and they can survive just by walking into the mountains.
The man took the food, divided it, and looked at Zhan Yue with a grateful face. "We will never forget your kindness and kindness. Where are you going to the north?"
"Go to Northern Xinjiang." Zhan Yue said.
"Ah?" The man was stunned and said quickly: "Northern Xinjiang is very far from here. You have to cross Wunan and Wubei provinces to reach Northern Xinjiang Province. Not to mention that Wunan is already a hell on earth. You can't get it. Any supplies, what are you doing there when the war in Northern Xinjiang is now in chaos?"
"We have reasons to go." Zhan Yue replied.
"Hey, you should take a detour. Anyway, don't go to Wunan. That's not a place for people to go." The man said again. Naturally, he didn't want to watch these two people jump into the fire pit.
"Thank you, big brother. Don't worry, we know what's going on. If it doesn't work, we will come back." Zhan Yue continued, as for the detour? God knows how much time they have left for this mission. General Yue is most likely ill, so Huang Xueqing is asked to treat him. If the time drags on for too long, both himself and Huang Xueqing will fail in their mission.
"Okay." Seeing that Zhan Yue couldn't be persuaded, the man stopped worrying. Everyone has his own destiny. He took out a map from the bag behind someone in the team. "We have no way to repay the great kindness of our two benefactors. This map of the 'Great Luck Country' is given to you. I hope you can arrive safely."
Zhan Yue was overjoyed, and Huang Xueqing's beautiful eyes trembled at the side. It turns out that the country the two of them were in was called Dayun Country, which was vast and consisted of sixteen provinces. They were currently located at the junction of Nancai Province and Wunan Province.
After sending away these refugees, Zhan Yue and the others continued their journey north.
However, what they encountered along the way frightened the two of them, and they encountered several waves of refugees. Some of them just came to beg for food, and left angrily when they saw that they didn't have any. Some people bared their fangs and seemed to be eyeing their flesh. Zhan Yue never expected that Wunan Province would actually reach the point of cannibalism.
Of course, these refugees could never be Zhan Yue's opponents. All the turf on the road was eaten away all the way north. Everything you see is dilapidated, there are no crops in the farmland, and at a glance, you can't see any deep mountains and old forests beyond the hills.
"We are below the difficulty level of the mission. I didn't expect that we would have to worry about food one day." Zhan Yue frowned. After walking for five or six days, all the food on the two of them was exhausted. He had refined a large amount of food in the past. Pills, those pills can fill the stomach, so he never has to worry about eating. However, in this world, pills have no effect at all. Except for the food they brought from Yunmo Village, their original storage space I ate everything I could eat.
Soon after, the two came to a village. As expected, it was a dead village. Different from what they expected, the village was not empty. Instead, there were corpses lying there. Men, women, old and young, all simple. They were simply covered with cloth or mats, and some even died at the door or on the street.
"Plague...we have arrived at a place affected by the plague." Zhan Yue endured the feeling of nausea and searched the village for a long time but did not find anything to eat.
"Let's go, I don't want to spend the night here." Huang Xueqing frowned. What she saw along the way made her sigh, but there was nothing she could do.
"As a miracle doctor, don't you study this plague?" Zhan Yue asked.
"So what, in this situation, do you think it will be useful even if I can develop an antidote to the plague? Not to mention that I can't find the corresponding medicinal materials at all, and I can't even see living patients. These days, How many corpses have you and I seen, thousands or tens of thousands?" Huang Xueqing said helplessly, although she has the power of a miracle doctor, the current situation is not something she can change at all.
"Let's go." The two continued to go north and found a ruined temple on the north side of the village, which could be used as a resting place at night. Fortunately, there were no people or corpses in the temple. Everyone who could run ran away, and everyone who couldn't run died. The closer they got to the center of Wunan, the more frightened the two of them were. Hell on earth was just like this. Either starved to death or died of the plague, no one, male, female, old or young, had any privileges.
"This Dayun Kingdom doesn't know how to deal with the Wunan problem. I heard Yu Dayou's tone before, and I'm afraid the current king is not a good person." Zhan Yue sighed.
The two of them cleaned up the temple and discovered something strange about the ruined temple. What was enshrined in the temple was neither a statue of a god nor a human being, but a statue of a fox. This is actually a fox fairy temple? Does Universiade still have this kind of tradition?
But no matter what it enshrines, Zhan Yue and the others are not afraid of it.
"What do you think we should do? Wulan is very big. We have no supplies. If we can't find anything to eat, we might really starve to death. I don't want to eat human flesh." Huang Xueqing also had some trouble on her pretty face. Confused, they were not fully prepared, and they did not expect that there would be no roosters crowing for thousands of miles, and bones would be walking in the wild.
Zhan Yue is not worried about the two of them starving to death. In the worst case, looking back on their physical condition, it is just a waste of life. It is better to use it naturally if it is not needed.
"Just wait a little longer." Zhan Yue sighed. Since it was a trial, there was naturally a way to break the situation, but he just hid it very deep. They may have to prepare enough food from the beginning before setting off. In short, even if the mission fails, even if they die, they will just have to start all over again. So the two of them didn't have any special feelings, but after the mission was reset, they seemed to be still together. Huang Xueqing hoped to follow Zhan Yue. Wouldn't it be nice to be carried on her back along the way?
Suddenly, something happened in Zhan Yue's magical space, and he was overjoyed. "Bai Yatou is indeed my good baby!" But he saw him taking out a plate of roast duck and a jar of wine out of thin air. He didn't expect that even in the trial space, the magical power space was also connected. It can be seen that the level of magical power is different. high. "It seems that she has also completed the first task." Thinking of this, Zhan Yue felt relieved. He had written a letter in the magical space before, explaining the current situation, and had just received the roast duck and fine wine.
"You..." Huang Xueqing was dumbfounded. Where did this hot roast duck and fine wine come from? Not to mention she was stupid, the Book Spirit who was waiting outside to see the joke was also stupid. What did she see? She saw Bai Zhi cooking roast duck and buying wine in her trial space, and not long after that thing appeared in Zhan Yue's hand!
"They cheated!" The Book Spirit gritted his teeth, but after thinking about it, he probably couldn't cheat in this trial world. Is this their own ability? She originally thought it would be funny to see Zhan Yue's joke about a generation of talented people being starved to death, but instead she saw him happily drinking wine and eating roast duck.
"Hmph, don't worry, this trial is not as simple as you think. Do you think it's enough to solve the problem of eating?"
