Xing Lie frowned, tightened his arms around Huayang, lowered his face and kissed her forehead, then looked at the old man, "I'm afraid my old eyes are dim."
Huayang nodded and blinked sheepishly, "That's right, old man, please lead the way quickly, we are all hungry!"
The old man suddenly paused, looked at Xing Lie's cold and threatening eyes, hesitated to speak, and then continued to walk forward, his wrinkled but skinny body full of sadness.
The three of them walked into an ancient house built with bricks and mud walls. The place was not big, but it was in the center of the entire ancient town.
The houses in this area all look similar in appearance and size. This is not a modern antique-looking building, but an ancient building that has truly experienced a history of ups and downs.
In such a house, you can see the historical traces given by time and space from ancient times to the present, which are very obvious. The vicissitudes and time make these buildings look old, but they are still full of antique charm. When you walk in, you will be immersed in it.<
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"Come in, this is my home."
There are two chairs at a table, a kang next to it, and a small kang table on top of the kang.
The layout of the entire house can be seen at a glance, except that the kitchen is separated on the left by a thick cotton curtain.
The kang pile in the room is still burning, so it is very warm in the room. Once the door is closed, all the cold air outside is blocked.
Huayang and Xing Lie unceremoniously occupied a chair each at the table. There was only half a pot of water in the kettle on the table. Huayang opened it and took a look, and found that the water was clean.
However, since she became pregnant, she has never drank water other than spiritual water.
The old man saw the two people sitting at the table looking at him helplessly, their old and shriveled faces so wrinkled that they could hardly see their facial features. Then he went to the kitchen and brought out a plate and placed it in front of the two of them.
"I only have peaches here, and there is really no other food at all."
Xing Lie didn't react at all. He just sat on the chair, put his handbag on the table, and tapped his fingers on the table with a relaxed expression.
Huayang saw the helplessness on the old man's face, took the plate, looked at the three big and pink peaches on it, and felt really greedy.
She picked up a peach and washed it in front of the old man with the water produced by her supernatural power.
The old man saw that the woman in front of him was pregnant, and his face originally showed a little unbearable, but when he saw the woman conjuring a body of water out of thin air to wash the peaches and wipe the table, the expression on his face changed.
"Girl, don't eat it!" The old man's skeleton-like hands wrapped in old skin suddenly snatched the peach from Huayang's hand. "Oh, let's go! Just leave as you came!" p>
Huayang frowned in confusion, looking at the empty palms and staring at the peach in the old man's hand.
"Old man, it's just a peach, why are you so reluctant to part with it?"
But Xing Lie smiled, and his eyes when looking at the old man softened a little from the indifference just now.
"Tell me, where is the family named Rong?"
The old man's face became strange as soon as Xing Lie said his words.
"Surnamed Rong?" The old man looked at Xing Lie, full of guard but pretended not to show any emotion, "Who are you? What are you doing with someone named Rong?"
His expression and body movements revealed too much in their eyes.
Huayang didn’t know why Xing Lie brought her here. His surname was Rong? Could it be related to Rong Ning’er? This person was looking for someone named Rong under the pretext of coming to her to relax?
But that’s wrong! Rong Ning’er is not a person on earth. This ancient town has been a tourist attraction before the end of the world and has nothing to do with Rong Ning’er!
Not only did the old man look at Xing Lie warily, but Hua Yang also had doubts in her eyes. But she chose to believe Xing Lie and didn't ask.
"You organized my girlfriend to eat the peaches here, which shows that you still have some conscience. If you tell me, we can rescue you, how about it?"
Huayang couldn't understand anymore. What was Xing Lie talking about? What does this have to do with whether she eats peaches or not? Save him out?
"The old man sighed deeply, "It's useless! Our place has been isolated from the outside world, and we can't leave at all. Once we step out of the peach forest, our bodies will quickly dry up and die, and we won't be able to get out at all!" "How is that possible? You will die if you step out of the peach forest? Then with the way you are acting now, I think you are not far away from death!" Hua Yang felt more and more strange the more she thought about it, so she asked.
"Old man, why are you like this?"
"Alas! It is our own choice. Since the end of the world, some people in the village have begun to turn into monsters. The people in our village are either young people who have gone out to work for a long time, or we are the old people in the village.<
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How can we defeat these monsters!"
"What happened next?"
"Thanks to the help of the gods! The gods came to help us get rid of the evil spirits and save the village. They also set up a divine light here to protect us.
From that day on, people from outside couldn’t come in, but we couldn’t get out either.”
Huayang understood but became more confused, "You can't get out, and this is a peach forest. What do you eat? We just saw that you neither raise livestock nor grow vegetables and grains, how do you survive?"<
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The expression on the old man's face became even sadder.
Xing Lie pointed at the plate of peaches.
"Is it a peach?"
The old man nodded and said, "Since then, the people in our village have eaten up all the food reserves. When there was no food to eat, the peach trees surrounding our ancient town began to bear fruit.
From autumn to winter, it never stopped. It kept bearing fruits, so we used it to satisfy our hunger!"
"No wonder we could smell the sweet fragrance of peach blossoms from afar when we came here. Is this peach forest a variety of peach trees that bear fruit all year round?"
"No, this peach grove has a special variety. In the past, it only bloomed but did not bear fruit. And even if it did bear fruit, it was green and astringent peaches smaller than apricots. We would cut them down for fear that they would affect the flowering of the peach trees."
"It's not surprising. Variations of plants in the apocalypse are also normal. But even if you eat peaches every day, you won't be so thin, right?"
"I don't know about this. I only know that the divine light protects us and prevents others from coming in, but at the same time we can't get out.
Since we started eating peaches to survive, our bodies have begun to change. We are skinny, but our bodies are getting stronger day by day. Therefore, even if we can survive like this, we people in the village have no complaints."
Xing Lie continued to point his long fingers on the table.
"What do those four peach trees have to do with these?"
The light in the old man's eyes dimmed, "Oh, those four peach trees were planted by the old man from the Rong family before! When the divine light came, it hit the four peach trees, and the peach forest began to bear fruit.
Everyone was so excited just now because they were afraid that the sacred tree would be damaged. If there are no peaches in the peach forest in the future, everyone will only starve to death. It is inevitable to be emotional!"
"Then, who is the god?"
Xing Lie's expression was stern. The old man was stared at by this look that was like a sharp knife piercing the bone for a while, and a moment of clarity appeared in his head.
"Yes, it is a god who descended on Lao Rong! All the gods' wills are conveyed by Lao Rong!"