At the same time, Lu Heng has also begun to play the role of "beggar".
Before starting the trial, he very cleverly took the "Hungry" talent.
Although I still don’t know the specific difficulties encountered in this trial fantasy, I can roughly guess that it must be related to starvation.
Since he is a beggar, he will definitely not be able to eat anything serious.
In this case, then "enduring hunger" is a must-have talent.
Of course, Lu Heng also remembered to refresh those useless talents every time he started again, hoping to refresh a more useful one.
For example, "bigu" or something like that.
If there was such a "starving" upper-level substitute talent, he would definitely take it without hesitation.
When he first entered the trial illusion, a system prompt appeared in front of Lu Heng.
[There is a certain degree of randomness in the current identity play, and it will not develop strictly in strict accordance with the real situation in history. Please take "survival" as your only goal. 】
Seeing this line of prompts, Lu Heng couldn't help but look serious.
What does it mean to have a certain degree of randomness?
Obviously, the things in the copy will not completely follow the script written by Sheng Taizu.
For example, Lu Heng knew that Taizu Sheng's family suffered a disaster when he was young, and his parents and relatives died due to famine and plague. He became a monk, and later joined the rebel army due to a strange combination of circumstances because of a letter from a fellow villager.
So assuming that everything goes according to the script at the time, what Lu Heng has to do is actually very clear: until he becomes a monk and receives the letter, he will pass the level.
After all, "Rebel" is the next identity, and it is the part that Huo Yunying needs to play.
But the system prompt stated at the beginning that what happened in this trial fantasy would not strictly follow the real situation in history.
In other words, Sheng Taizu, played by Lu Heng, may die at any time due to various reasons, or there may be a possibility that the letter has not been received even after several years of timeout.
The goal of this role is not to join the rebels, but to survive.
As long as he can survive, it doesn't seem to matter whether he joins the rebels or not.
"It's really difficult...
"But it's okay, it's quite challenging for me."
Lu Heng didn't dislike this beggar's identity.
He knew very well that given the nature of the game "Dark Sand", the difficulty of the four identities should be about the same, but each has its own difficulties.
"The Sword Comes"
As a beggar, the difficulty in enduring hardship will definitely be higher, but conversely, the difficulty in other aspects will definitely be reduced.
With Chu Ge playing the role of emperor and Zhao Haiping playing the role of commander-in-chief, basic living security is definitely no problem, but they definitely have other problems that need to rack their brains to solve.
So after Lu Heng chose the talent of "enduring hunger", he officially started acting as a beggar.
…
The trial illusion officially started to operate.
Lu Heng found that he had arrived at a dilapidated thatched house.
There is no tile above to cover the head, and no place for a cone to stand below.
There are many gaps in the thatch on the thatched house. You can imagine that when it rains, there will be heavy rain.
Of course, there is no floor underground in the thatched house, but dirty, damp yellow soil, where all kinds of small insects crawl around. There was also no wooden bed because we couldn't afford a carpenter.
He slept on an adobe kang, with some straw piled randomly on top, and rag quilts sandwiched among the straw. Of course, to be more precise, this is not a rag quilt, it can only be regarded as a few pieces of tattered cotton wool.
In fact, this is not bad, at least there is a kang, so you don't have to sleep on the ground.
Then, there was a smell.
With such sanitary conditions, it is difficult to even wash up, let alone take a shower, and cleaning the room is even more unnecessary. Therefore, the smell inside the thatched house is definitely not much better.
However, Lu Heng adapted quickly, probably because the body he controlled was already used to it.
Several people were hiding among the thatch piles and tattered cotton wool on the kang.
These people were all half-clothed because they didn’t have much to wear. They could only wear clothes when they went out to do errands.
The old farmer's face was unkempt, and his long hair was all sticky. He raised his hand to scratch it, and happened to catch a louse. He threw it into his mouth and made a clicking sound.
Lu Heng silently closed his eyes again.
It's better not to open your eyes to this kind of scene. It's easy to collapse if you see it too much.
He knows that in this day and age, these are basic operations. Because it was written in some ancient books that when the brothel madam was chatting with the big boss, she would throw lice directly into her mouth if she found lice from her body.
As a middle-class person in society, the madam is still a professional who welcomes guests and pays attention to personal hygiene and image. If he can give himself "extra meals" like this, let alone the poor peasants at the lower level.
But hearing about it and seeing it with your own eyes are two completely different concepts.
Lu Heng could only reluctantly adjust his mentality to adapt to all this as much as possible.
Fortunately, I had seen many more cruel scenes than this in the warrior dungeon and scribe dungeon, so I quickly adjusted my mentality.
"Lao Wu! Get off the kang."
The old man shouted. Seeing that Lu Heng didn't respond, he reached out and patted him.
Only then did Lu Heng realize that he was being called and climbed down from the kang.
After getting out of bed, Lu Heng realized that his body was quite weak. He was about ten years old, severely malnourished, his arms and legs were as thin as numbness, and his ribs were clearly visible.
"From today on, you will herd cattle for the landlord's house."
After listening to his old father's explanation, Lu Heng knew his next mission.
Grazing cattle for landowners.
Many literary and artistic works describe how miserable some people's childhood lives are, often including the subject of cattle herding.
Of course, there are also poems such as "The shepherd boy points to Xinghua Village in the distance".
The main reason is that these children are relatively thin and cannot work in the fields. Cattle herding itself does not have much technical content and does not require strong physical fitness. At the same time, cattle are very important as a means of production in ancient times. So it is very common to find children to herd cattle.
Lu Heng thought for a while: "Herding cattle? Sure enough, the difficulty will be different for different statuses. As a beggar, all you do is things that don't have much technical content.
"Perhaps the main test of this identity is to endure hardship? As long as you can endure hardship, you can pass the test.
"It's not a problem for me. After all, I've done things like scraping bones and healing wounds in the Scribes Trial. Here it's just a few hungry meals or a few beatings, so it shouldn't be a big problem."
The scene of a shepherd boy riding on the back of a green bull and playing the flute leisurely appeared in Lu Heng's mind.
Seems pretty good?
Putting on the only rags at home, I found a hemp rope to tie up my pants that didn't fit at all and might fall off at any time. I followed my father to the cowshed of the landlord's house, took the cow out and walked outside the village. grazing.
While talking about the precautions, the old father walked to the fields and prepared to start today's work.
But Lu Heng couldn't listen to it at all. He only had one thought in his mind now, hungry!
He did have the talent to endure hunger, but even with the blessing of this talent, this hunger can still be felt, and it will still affect his focus and concentration.
You can imagine what kind of state you would be in if you didn't get this talent.
As a poor person, there is no need to think about breakfast.
Even an old landowner in the village can only eat two meals a day.
As for the poor, it is good if they can drink a bowl of rice porridge with thin soup and little water every day. I was so hungry that I could eat all the snakes, insects, rats, and ants in the fields.
Lu Heng once again felt lucky that he had obtained the talent of "enduring hunger" in advance.
Arriving at the end of the village, the father and son went their separate ways.
Lu Heng felt that his legs were a little weak and he could no longer walk. He took off the broken basket he was carrying and put it on the back of the cow. Then he turned over and jumped up again, sitting on it.
It's okay. Although it's not comfortable to sit on the back of a cow, at least you don't have to walk by yourself, which can save some energy.
However, he hadn't felt comfortable for long when he suddenly heard rapid footsteps.
Immediately afterwards, a big hand grabbed his collar and pulled him off the back of the cow.
Then came two big mouths.
"You little brat! Dad just told you so much, but you turned a deaf ear, didn't you?
"You still dare to ride the landlord's cow, are you tired of living?
"If other people in our village see it, let alone the food you earned from herding cattle is gone, even I will no longer be able to farm for the landlord!"
The furious old father beat Lu Heng.
