(Waiting for revision) He followed the two people at a certain distance and found that they quickly lost track after getting into the sewer of an alley.
Even in the underground space, as long as it is not too deep, Xu Huo can sense it. The two children stopped moving when they went down. This is not normal.
After waiting outside the alley for a minute, he walked in, lifted the manhole cover and jumped in.
The passage below is not spacious, which may be convenient for children, but for an adult man like him, it is a bit reluctant. He barely walked to the end of this passage. After exiting, the outside was divided into five parts, with several more passages.
These channels are old and new, and two of them were dug very roughly. Unlike the others, metal pipes were laid, and the soil was just smoothed with paint.
But these passages carried sound, and Xu Huo could tell the source of the footsteps even while standing outside.
I chose the passage on the left and went in. I turned two more turns and went down twice before seeing some changes in the surroundings.
It is no longer a simple pipe. He should have penetrated deep into the cracks in the city center. Occasionally, through the exit, he can see the sunlight in the narrow cracks outside and the clothes hanging there.
Yes, it was clothes. Looking out from the two gaps he found, he saw at least three or four places where clothes were hung.
There are people living underground.
In other words, there are alien species living underground like humans.
A skinny child passed by and bumped into Xu Huo. A few meters away, the child with a pink head and forehead opened his mouth and made a "ha, ha" sound.
This sound aroused the idea of the nearby alien species. The first ones to run over were the two children who had just hit Xu Huo with stones. The two of them protected the thin one, and while they backed away, they bared their teeth and threatened Xu Huo.
Within a few seconds, several more mutants ran out. They were probably the parents of these children. They came up and hugged the younger ones tightly. They looked at Xu Huo with frightened eyes. When Xu Huo moved forward, they stepped back.
Walking out of the narrow passage that could only allow people to walk upright, Xu Huo saw many stone and earth caves dug out on both sides of the gap outside. At first glance, it looked like a residence in ancient times when human beings first developed wisdom. There was a picture inside.
The gray faces were looking around, some were afraid, some were angry, but most of them were huddled in the cave and did not come out.
I noticed that they were all pitifully thin. Due to the small underground space and their hunched bodies, even if they were in large numbers, they would still appear weak in front of a normal person.
Looking around at the "alien" who looked wary but did not attack him, Xu Huo looked at the people in front of him and asked, "Can you understand me?"
Several adults just stared at him, but the two children were brave enough. One of them grabbed a handful of mud and threw it at him, mouthing "Get out!"
Xu Huo smiled, raised his hand and threw something over.
Several adults let out weird screams and then hugged the children. When the things fell on the ground, the thin child couldn't resist the smell of food and struggled out of his parents' arms. He picked it up and put it under his nose and smelled it vigorously.
"Eatable." Xu Huo opened one himself and took a bite.
The thin child imitated him and opened the bread. Just as he was about to eat it, another child smacked him down. The bread fell to the ground and was stained with mud. The thin child burst into tears upon seeing this.
Xu Huo ate the bread and stared at the kid who hit him.
The child looked at him angrily, but he didn't last long before giving in to his friend who was gradually exhausted.
After carefully removing the mud, he handed the bread to the thin child. Seeing that he ate it deliciously, he couldn't help but lick his fingers.
Some children came out of the hole, drooling and gathered around the thin child, and each of them shared a finger of bread.
Xu Huo simply gave them all the clean bread in the luggage compartment and two bottles of water. Then he called the child who threw mud and asked him if he could write.
The child looked at him several times before writing his name on the ground, and then wrote a sentence at the end: "Do you like to eat children? Do you want to feed us before eating?"
The smile on Xu Huo's face disappeared instantly, and then he said: "I have a lot of food. I just came from outside. I don't want to eat children."
The child reluctantly believed what he said and asked him what the outside world was like.
Xu Huo took out his communication device and found some images to show him.
This was obviously more attractive to them than food. Not only children, but adults also came over and stared greedily at the endless flow of people and various gourmet restaurants in the holographic projection.
"Can all of those be eaten?" the child asked him while writing on the ground. "Is there really that much food outside?"
Xu Huo nodded and asked them what they were eating underground.
A group of adults gathered together to discuss things for a while, and then a woman came out to guide him.
The city is in a high-temperature zone. No grass grows on the ground, but seeds underground can germinate. Grass grows in some edges. Occasionally, you can see some wild vegetables, but they are few in number. In addition, Xu Huo saw some mice and some unknown things.
Dried meat from famous animals.
"Have you lived here a long time?"
The woman took out a worn-out book and opened it page by page. There was writing on it: "We came to the cleaning area more than ten years ago."
"After being contaminated, we turned into alien species, but we did not lose our humanity. We have lived underground for more than ten years and have not eaten anyone."
"What we are infected with is not a highly contagious germ, and you will not be infected even if you come into contact with us."
"There are many children here who have never been outside or eaten normal food. After so many years, there must be medicine out there that can treat infections."
"You are a good person, can you take one or two children out? Clown City will definitely cure them."
"please!"
After flipping through the words she had prepared in her notebook, the woman knelt in front of Xu Huo with tears in her eyes. Seeing that he was unmoved, she opened the last page and held it up, "You must not know the situation here from the outside. You live on the ground.
The group of people treat us as domestic animals and will eat those who arrive in the city but are not infected. We tell you this news and ask you to take at least one child away!"
When the child asked him just now, Xu Huo roughly guessed that Gao Peng and the others were not good people either.
"How many people have you shown this book to?" Xu Huo looked at the woman, "Since you haven't lost your rationality, why don't you leave on your own?"
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The woman was stunned for a moment, and white powder fell from her scalp.
"It's impossible for Clown City to accept you. You should know this very well, otherwise you wouldn't escape here and live underground." Xu Huo said coldly, as if he had no sympathy for their suffering and situation.
"If you were just being chased by those warriors on the ground, you wouldn't rather be reduced to domestic animals than to stay here and refuse to go out. Is there any other reason?"