The sky is gray and yellow, vast and vast. A sun is hanging in the sky, and the hot summer air is steaming, as if it is steaming the earth dry.
Streams and rivers have long since dried up, leaving only riverbeds filled with corpses.
In such weather, even moving seemed unnecessary. Not even half a month into the work-for-relief program implemented by the imperial court, a large number of people suffered from heat stroke. The only time during the day that construction could be carried out was four hours after dark, and the rest of the time was extremely hot.
Along the way, people died of hunger and corpses lay everywhere. Su Ming just silently disposed of their corpses and returned them to dust. As for saving people, he had no such idea.
Disaster relief and rescuing people were a matter for the imperial court and had nothing to do with him. Moreover, even if he took action against tens of millions of people, it would only be a drop in the bucket and of no use.
In fact, for the victims, the most important thing is a rain. With rain, there is hope. Only in this way can the victims return to their homes and accept the arrangements of the court.
Qingzhou was in chaos, but the government maintained order. Even if there was a rebellion among the people, it was only limited to a few counties and did not spread. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Su Ming also sealed all the Yin Tide Lands in Qingzhou, showed himself as a saint in front of others, and unlocked a lot of luck values.
While sealing the land of Yin Tide, he saw many tragedies in the world.
At this moment, the victims of the disaster in Qingzhou can no longer be called human beings. In order to survive, they can eat anything, including grass, tree roots, soil, and even their own kind.
In just half a month, Su Ming encountered dozens of waves of victims who wanted to attack him. Those people were in ragged clothes, skinny and skinny, their eyes were glowing green, and they only had survival instincts, morality, etiquette, and... Their shame has long been lost, and now they are no different from wild beasts.
This is the result of natural and man-made disasters.
Of course, the consequences of this disaster are not just that. In this disaster, although there are naked evil thoughts, there are also pure kindness and beauty.
However, fall is much easier than redemption and protection.
Compared with the purely evil thoughts among the victims, what interested Su Ming the most were the strange thoughts among the officials and children of aristocratic families in various counties and cities.
This kind of power is intangible and very strange.
"Fight! Beat to death!"
"What are you waiting for, hurry up!"
"Fight quickly!"
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In an unknown space underground, there is a large iron cage on the high platform in the center. Inside the cage is a beautiful tiger, and opposite the tiger, there is a person.
This is a fight.
In an arena jointly set up by the children of the wealthy families in the county, more than a dozen people would be killed by the tiger's mouth every day, and those who watched the fight between man and beast were the children of the noble families in the city.
"God's Coming"
Poverty, famine, and disaster are all insulated from them since birth. Most of the things in this world are available to them just by stretching out their hands.
In the pursuit of excitement, the Colosseum exists.
Fighting, blood, and fighting, these most barbaric and bloody things can easily arouse their blood, and over time, they become obsessed with this feeling.
In the Colosseum, there are not only tigers, but also various wild beasts and even monsters.
The bloodier the battle scenes, the more excited they became.
At this moment, outside the ring, there were stands, and there were groups of well-dressed men and women standing on the stands. Their eyes widened, their faces turned red, and they raised their hands and shouted.
In the iron cage on the ring, the colorful tiger once again attacked the man in the cage, but the man was so thin that he had no room for resistance and could only keep dodging.
After half an hour, he was finally caught by the tiger and torn into pieces three or two times, and blood gradually spread on the ring. This scene made the atmosphere in the venue boil again.
Seeing the tiger killing people, the men and women were not afraid, but cheered. Their faces were red, excited and excited, and the blood was constantly surging in their bodies.
"ah!"
"Wuhu!"
"Wow!"
Some people even got so excited that they hugged their female companions and acted coquettishly in public.
The lustful and confusing atmosphere spread. Others seemed to be infected by the atmosphere, and their desires revived in their minds. Many people immediately started to exercise.
What a carnival of clothes is in front of me.
Su Ming had a panoramic view of everything. He had been here for several days, and every fight would result in such a scene. Of course, not everyone will die in the mouth of the beast.
However, after fighting with wild beasts, they would all be left with serious injuries, and they were unable to treat them. In the end, they died of their injuries.
It can be said that almost all the people who came to fight in this arena died.
And those who fought with the beasts were picked from the victims outside the city.
This is what they sacrificed their lives for.
And those kids from rich families only spent a few kilograms of grain, so this deal was a good deal. And those victims came here even though they knew they had a narrow chance of death.
Because it is death outside, and it is death here as well. They might as well exchange their own lives for some food rations to keep their families alive.
On one side is selflessness, love, dedication, and responsibility, while on the other side is invisible evil. Just for pure stimulation, this hell on earth is created.
The air was filled with the smell of blood and the evil spirit of death, and the remnants of the fearless souls were wailing. They were crying and wailing, but it was a pity that no one heard them.
And in these young people, Su Ming once again saw a strange black energy, which was invisible and very strange. Whenever these young people became emotional, this black energy would slowly grow stronger, and everyone might have something. More or less exists.
As the black energy grows stronger, those young people become more excited and obsessed with it. This is the excitement they have been pursuing. This black energy has no destructive power or lethality. It only affects the minds of those people in a subtle way.
Even if it takes root in their hearts, they will never be satisfied.
This is the power of the human heart. The human heart is like a devil. Thoughts are like monsters, greedy and polluting the world. This is just a microcosm of what Su Ming saw.
This was not the first time that Su Ming saw the same thing among the cannibal victims, the same weird and evil spirit.
Su Ming tried. This kind of black energy is difficult to eliminate. Even if his Buddha Yuan is pure and vast, it will take a while to pull it out. This thing is rooted in the human heart. As long as the human heart has thoughts, this thing will never disappear. .
This is also the reason why Su Ming was not in a hurry to leave after sealing the land of Yin Tide, because when he saw this black energy, there was always a vague feeling in his heart, which was very subtle and strange. .
