"Fuck, grassman Liu Hong has met the Lord in charge! Long live the Lord! Long live the Lord!"
"Sir, we are from Sanhe Village... yes, it is a rice-growing settlement on the riverside."
"Sir, there are more than a hundred people in our settlement here, except for those who just suffered..."
The lame elder carefully reported the situation to the female leader, and the content was almost the same as what Wu Yan had guessed. Wu Yan comforted the elders of the settlement, and after ordering them not to divulge what they had seen today, he promised to send Yu
The cavalry battalion escorted them to Liyang City for a temporary rest.
The elders of the settlement who were encouraged by the leader were moved to tears. Wu Yan waved his hands and asked the soldiers to help him up, but he was obviously a little absent-minded. In fact, it was not only her, but also the female archer behind him who intentionally or unintentionally moved her gaze to Ni Ze.
there.
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"The coverage area is about a hundred meters in radius...the effect is actually semi-permanent..."
At the edge of the mud, Gu Chen stretched out his hand to touch the muddy ground and murmured to himself.
At this moment, it has been more than half an hour since the Brahma Technique was activated, but the mud in front of me is still tumbling with mud. Judging from this, the effect of the mud staff on changing the terrain will not disappear when the Brahma Technique ends, and the changed terrain will be semi-permanent.
It is fixed. However, the surrounding area is not a natural environment that can form mud. Gu Chen estimates that the mud will gradually dry up within a few weeks, and then be reshaped by natural forces into its original ecology.
Although it is not known whether the earth monsters and stone monsters that sank into the mud at that time can still move, it is certain that they will no longer pose a threat to the settlement militia. The fact that the mud staff can exert such power for the first time is a surprise to Gu.
Chen was also quite satisfied. He lowered his head and looked at the auxiliary calculation unit of the Sanskrit Seal on his right arm, secretly thinking that it was indeed a legacy from our ancestors.
At this time, several suppressed cries suddenly reached Gu Chen's ears.
Gu Chen turned his head and looked around, only to see a wooden stretcher covered with a straw mat being carried out of the mud. Lying on the stretcher was the man who had been killed while snatching the money box from the monster. It looked like several of his wife's relatives.
People were lying on stretchers crying on the ground, and the elders in the community were comforting them beside them.
Judging from the sad expressions on everyone's faces, this should be a fairly common situation, but Gu Chen couldn't calm down.
Driven by some complicated emotions, Gu Chen walked towards that direction. The approaching master attracted the attention of the people in the settlement. Seeing how Gu Chen was talking to the governor earlier, everyone subconsciously regarded him as a noble man.
They all bowed their heads and saluted him.
Gu Chen nodded silently in response and came to the stretcher.
The man on the stretcher seemed to have a face that was even younger than Gu Chen's, but his round eyes showed no sign of life. Moreover, because he was crushed by many monsters, his hands and feet seemed to be bent to strange shapes under the straw mat.
of square corners.
"Well..."
Gu Chen subconsciously covered his mouth, then put it down as he felt it was inappropriate.
For Gu Chen, who comes from a well-off modern society in Zhi'an, the last time he saw a corpse at such a close distance was when his grandfather passed away. Looking at the wide-eyed young man, Gu Chen couldn't help but reflect on his innocence in his heart——
Although the environment of the Chenghuang Star is generally similar to that of the Earth, the spiritual surge covering the planet makes strange things everywhere, so its nature is far harsher than that of the Earth. The Chenghuang people struggle to survive in such a harsh nature.
, and then evolved into different customs such as adventuring in the wilderness and organizing groups to escape from the wilderness.
Since traveling through the Yellow River, Gu Chen has had a lot of contact with wild monsters, but that was only when he was followed by powerful military envoys such as Feiyan Red Fish. Because he is used to seeing pioneers and wild monsters evenly matched, even cutting melons.
With the scene like chopping vegetables, Gu Chen mistook the strange monster for a non-threatening existence, but this was far from the truth.
You must know that the spirit weapons forged by the master are all expensive creations, and based on the population ratio, military envoys equipped with spirit weapons are also very rare. There are neither spirit weapons available nor shield equipment on Chenghuang.
The people are the majority. For them, even the weakest pawn monsters are existences that must be carefully guarded against. If they are not careful, they will end up like a young man on a stretcher.
Gu Chen looked at the deceased who was younger than himself, and the joy of making the Yunqi quickly faded away, replaced by a bitter taste rising from his throat.
"Your tribe has been saved, rest in peace... Amitabha..."
Gu Chen knelt down, covered the young man's face with his hands, and silently recited a few Buddhist chants.
When he raised his hand again, the young man's eyes were closed.
Immediately, Gu Chen ignored the astonishment of the surrounding settlement people, took out the clay staff from his waist, and silently concentrated on Yunli. Although he didn't know if there was a custom of being buried in the ground in Chenghuang Land, but the settlement people didn't seem to be able to do so.
The situation of walking with remains.
Gu Chen carefully controlled his Yun force and only allowed the ground under the stretcher to turn into soft mud. Then the stretcher carrying the young man slowly sank into the mud. Upon seeing this, the surrounding relatives retreated in shock. When the small patch of mud returned to smoothness,
Afterwards, Gu Chen stood up, clasped his hands to express condolences, turned around and left.
The residents of the settlement all looked at the figure with relief and gratitude, and the mother and son even kowtowed to him to thank him.
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Gu Chen squatted by the stream and washed his hands. While washing, he couldn't help but retching.
Burying the dead is a job that Gu Chen has never done before. Looking at the pale face in the stream seems to bring more stimulation than mental imagination. However, stimulation is stimulation, and what really shakes Gu Chen is the quiet surge in his heart.
Questions raised——
Although Wu Yan, the governor of Liyang, took office on behalf of his father, he was undoubtedly a wise monarch who was full of determination and responsibility. Liyang had safely survived many crises under his rule, and his governance performance was remarkable.
However, just by looking at the scene of the previous collective escaping of famine by the militiamen in the settlement, we can know that the current Liyang Territory is far from being called Antai.
The stone monster tribe that invaded from the Southern Barbarian Territory forced Li Yang to deploy half of its troops at Jianguan Fortress, which put heavy pressure on the territory's defense. The brutal stone monster tribe destroyed several settlements on the border and left thousands of acres of fertile land for
It was abandoned. At the same time as the food harvest dropped sharply, tens of thousands of settlement residents flocked to Liyang City, which became a persistent problem of refugees that made the Qinmin Division very worried.
Stone monsters, deserted fields, and refugees.
Any of the above is like a heavy guillotine hanging over the head of Liyang Mansion, and the most Wu Yan can do is to tightly hold the rope of the guillotine. If he wants to fundamentally cut off the disaster of Liyang Territory, he must use
Only extraordinary strength will do.
A person who has traveled from the earth has a mind armed with mathematics, physics and chemistry, and has received the legacy passed down by his ancestors. Can such a person be considered a "supernormal power"? The answer is, of course, yes.
Living a leisurely life of creating things as he pleases while running a workshop, this is undoubtedly the ideal life that Gu Chen longs for. On the other hand, although he has the ability to help Li Yang lead solve problems, he turns a deaf ear to the lamentations of the people and hides in an ivory tower alone.
Enjoyment. Maybe some people can do it, but Gu Chen is sure that his spirit is not so numb yet.
Just when Gu Chen was so entangled, a voice of greeting came from behind.