The two groups of prisoners suddenly started fighting.
Those prisoners who came one step earlier still knew why. Those who came late were at a loss at first, but they could not watch themselves being killed and rose up to resist.
The scene instantly fell into chaos.
As people died and dissolved, those who came later finally understood why these people killed themselves.
One life, one spore.
Finally, half of the prisoners were dead, and the remaining injured ones were directly killed by their companions for spores.
Eventually, each of the living prisoners received one or two spores.
At this moment, Zhang Chu and Xiao Wutong were stewing meat nearby. Those people were holding the spores and gnawing hard.
After a while, someone finally ate an entire spore.
It was a middle-aged man. The moment he finished eating, he suddenly emitted a strange wave of soul. At the same time, the giant mushroom also emitted a burst of yellow light, covering the middle-aged man.
Suddenly, the middle-aged man's expression changed drastically, and he glanced viciously at the people around him.
Everyone around them became wary, and someone said angrily: "What are you looking at?"
But the middle-aged man didn't say anything. He just stood up suddenly and ran forward as hard as he could along a road deep into the desert.
Everyone around him was at a loss and didn't know why this man ran away.
But soon, someone else ate the spores, and their souls also resonated with the giant mushroom, and then they also stood up and ran towards the distance.
Zhang Chu and Xiao Wutong were surprised. At this time, Zhang Chu stopped a young man who wanted to escape and asked, "Why are you running?"
The young man hurriedly said: "After eating the spores, you can only live for ten days. Within ten days, you must go to the next area to find other spores to eat, otherwise you will be poisoned to death."
"Is the next area far away?" Zhang Chu asked.
The young man shook his head blankly: "I don't know, but if you don't go quickly, you will definitely die!"
"Is one spore enough for you to run to the next area?" Zhang Chu asked.
The young man said with an ugly face: "It's definitely not enough. You must take one spore a day, otherwise, you will die."
After saying that, the young man left in a hurry.
Zhang Chu understood that the existence of this giant mushroom, on the one hand, protected these exiles, and on the other hand, it drove away the prisoners and allowed them to quickly enter the real war.
This giant mushroom is just Ronghuang's first screening.
And this selection process is extremely cruel. If you want to enter the next area alive, you may have to eat ten giant mushroom spores.
In other words, for every person who made it to the next area alive, he probably ate ten people.
At this moment, the prisoners had finished eating the spores one after another, and they all got the message that the spores were poisonous, and they all started on their way.
Zhang Chu also said to Xiao Wutong: "Let's go, let's go to the next area and have a look."
Countless giant mushrooms formed a road, twisting and turning, leading to the depths of the desert.
Zhang Chu and Xiao Wutong directly used their magical powers in terms of speed. Their speed was more than ten times faster than those prisoners.
Not long after, Zhang Chu and Xiao Wutong had walked the same distance as the prisoners for a day and caught up with some of the prisoners.
It can be clearly felt that there are many fewer prisoners.
Moreover, Zhang Chu felt carefully that those people were not in good condition, and their spiritual power had declined severely.
But their eyes were like hungry wolves, their eyes scanning Zhang Chu and Xiao Wutong.
After realizing that they were no match, they all hurriedly lowered their heads, not daring to look at Zhang Chu and Xiao Wutong.
At this time, Zhang Chu said: "It seems that these people have consumed a lot of spiritual energy in order to survive, but they can no longer replenish it."
Xiao Wutong looked disgusted: "You deserve it! When I saw the way they looked at us, I wanted to kill them."
Zhang Chu and Xiao Wutong didn't stop at all, they continued to speed forward.
The soles of Zhang Chu's feet glowed, and the speed was so fast that it was blurry. Xiao Wutong also unfolded his body skills, and the two of them seemed to turn into a stream of light.
Not long after, they caught up with another group of people, and the number of these people was even rarer.
Zhang Chu saw that some people actually had seven or eight spores in their hands.
Obviously, some people were afraid that there would be insufficient spores later, so they chose to strike first and prepared ten spores in advance.
Of course, Zhang Chu ignored these people and continued to chase them forward.
For ordinary prisoners, it was a ten-day journey, but for Zhang Chu and Xiao Wutong, they completed the journey in less than two hours.
The further back Zhang Chu saw, the worse the conditions of the prisoners became.
On the seventh day of the journey, all the prisoners Zhang Chu met had no spiritual power.
By the ninth day of the journey, the physical strength of many prisoners had been completely exhausted. Many prisoners had lost their sight and walked forward with only one breath.
In this war-torn world, the environment is so harsh that it suppresses the state of living beings to an extremely low level.
Zhang Chu even felt that an ordinary person could kill those once vicious murderers.
On the tenth day of the journey, Zhang Chu and Xiao Wutong finally reached the end of the road.
Under a giant god mushroom, four teams of strangely dressed people appeared.
Obviously, they are the indigenous people living in the wilderness.
Of course, the four teams also saw Zhang Chu and Xiao Wutong. However, when they saw Zhang Chu and Xiao Wutong jumping around, they all felt nervous.
"Destroyer!" One girl even exclaimed, her face looking very ugly.
When an old man saw Zhang Chu, he looked even more frightened: "Oh no, how could such a person appear? Are we, the war-torn humans, going to face another disaster?"
Other indigenous people were also extremely nervous, with many of their faces turning pale and their lips trembling:
"It's ominous, it's ominous!"
"It's over, they won't kill us, right?"
…
Zhang Chu and Xiao Wutong's hearing is so keen, of course they heard these words.
At this moment, Zhang Chu and Xiao Wutong accelerated and quickly arrived under the giant mushroom.
Before Zhang Chu could speak, an old man hurriedly took out a red spore, knelt down on the spot, raised the spore above his head, and said to Zhang Chu:
"Hero, don't kill us. This is the antidote to those white spores. We gave it to you. Don't kill us."
Wow…
Everyone in the other teams hurriedly knelt down and held the treasures in their hands above their heads.
A middle-aged man held up a treasure medicine that looked like Ganoderma lucidum: "Hero, this is Millennium Dry Blood Mushroom. After taking it, it can not only cure the spore poison, but also make people not thirsty for ten years. Please accept it."
The leader of the other team held up something like a red meat jerky: "Hero, this is Wugen Tai Sui. If you eat it, you will be immune to all poisons in this world. Please accept it."
There was even a child holding a sweet cattail tree and offering it to Zhang Chu, asking for his life.
Zhang Chu and Xiao Wutong looked strange. The reaction of these people was a bit too big.
At this time, Xiao Wutong said: "Everyone, get up, we won't kill you."
However, none of these people stood up. Instead, they all trembled.
Zhang Chu thought. Since they were so afraid of him, they might as well act more majestic and domineering and find out what they were afraid of.
So, Zhang Chu made a move, and a big stone flew to Zhang Chu's side. Zhang Chu patted it twice, and the big stone turned into a stone bench, and Zhang Chu sat down.
Xiao Wutong stood next to Zhang Chu, took out a big leaf, and fanned Zhang Chu, making Zhang Chu look like the second generation ancestor.
At this time, Zhang Chu shouted: "Old man, let me tell you first, where are your four teams from, and what do you want to do here?"
The old man hurriedly replied: "Sir, we are four nearby tribes. We are here to take the animals back to work in the tribe."
Zhang Chu was slightly startled, but then he understood what the old man meant.
The so-called leading animals should be to drag these prisoners back to their tribes and use them as livestock.
At this time, Zhang Chu asked: "Since we are leading animals, why are we leading them here? If you go a little further, won't you get more?"
The old man hurriedly explained: "You don't know something. If you go forward, the animals will be very violent. Only here, when they are about to die and have no energy, can they be tamed."
Zhang Chu suddenly realized that if he took a closer look at the strength of these people, most of them were ordinary people with slightly stronger physical bodies. They had little cultivation and they couldn't defeat those with spiritual power.
But here, even if the prisoner was once a real person, his spiritual power has completely disappeared along the way, and his physical strength has been suppressed to the extreme and can be easily tamed.
At this time, Zhang Chu asked again: "Why do you say I am unlucky?"
The old man turned pale with fright and shook his head hastily: "No, no, no, we didn't say that."
Zhang Chu's expression was cold, and he slightly released some dangerous aura: "Why, don't you want to live?"
The old man suddenly trembled with fear: "I said, I said, there is a rumor in our tribe that if a powerful person appears among the foreign animals, that person is a destroyer, an ominous person, and a disaster."
"Huh?" Zhang Chu thought for a moment and somewhat understood the logic of this rumor.
Because those who were exiled from Zhongzhou to the wilderness were originally extremely vicious people.
If these extremely vicious people were to walk for ten days and their strength was wasted, they would be reduced to cattle.
But if you retain your spiritual power and strength and are still a master, it may be a real disaster for the surrounding tribes.
After understanding this, Zhang Chu said: "I understand, don't worry, I am not interested in killing people, and I am not interested in your tribe either. Now, I only ask two things."
"You ask!" the old man said.
At this time, Zhang Chu said: "First, where is the crab roe bowl?"
The old man looked confused: "What bowl? I've never heard of it."
People from other tribes around him were also at a loss and had never heard of it.
At this time, Xiao Wutong whispered: "I understand, their strength is too weak, and they don't even know what treasures Ronghuang has."
"Ronghuang, wherever there is any treasure, this is a hungry land." The old man said.
"Okay, I'm overthinking it," Zhang Chu said. Thinking about it carefully, how could such an ordinary tribe with little cultivation know about the treasures of Ronghuang.
At this time, Zhang Chu asked again: "So, what is the most powerful city, or the most powerful tribe or race around you?"
The old man's expression changed, and he hurriedly kowtowed to Zhang Chu and shouted: "My lord, please don't cause trouble. You are a human being. If you mess with those tribes, we will all be finished!"
Several other teams actually kowtowed: "You must not mess around, we still want to survive..."
This time, Zhang Chu didn’t understand at all. I am a human being and you are also human beings. If I go to trouble monsters, then you should be happy. Why are you so scared?
