Lan Xiaolan has a natural hypnotic physique. No matter where she is or what the environment is, as long as she is tired and sleepy, she can fall asleep peacefully.
Besides her, the only people around her on the plane were uniformed peacekeeping soldiers, and no one made any noise.
So she slept soundly and was not disturbed.
But Ren Tingxi, who was sitting in the most comfortable first-class cabin, could not be as relaxed as her.
Knowing he was on the same plane with her, he was so excited that he couldn't sleep.
Seeing this, Assistant Leng, who was sitting next to him, couldn't sleep well either.
Every once in a while, Leng Leng would secretly peek behind the door, or a programmer would ask about the condition of the girl sitting in the first row.
Every ten to twenty minutes, he would report to Ren Tingxi.
He had to ask questions carefully without being discovered, just like a peeping Tom.
Fortunately, Lan Xiaolan was sleeping soundly, so she didn't notice any trace of him and Ren Tingxi.
When the plane was about to land, the programmer's reminder broadcast sounded.
Only then did Lan Xiaolan open her blurry eyes and look out the window through the dazzling sunlight.
The air below was filled with the feeling of loess and sand, and the earth was covered in a gray haze. Through the clouds, you could vaguely see the situation below.
In the years after the war, although the people of Country E were constantly working hard to repair this devastated country, from the plane, one could clearly see several crisscrossing white roads.
The highway divides the land into pieces. Beside the highway, you can see scattered houses living there, which is finally some traces of life.
In the middle of those large areas, most of them were buildings and roads that had been torn to pieces by the bombing. Many places were still filled with smoke, and people had no time to clean up.
Such a scene shocked Lan Xiaolan, who was born in a peaceful country.
This was also the first time she witnessed firsthand the devastation that war had caused to humanity, how heartbreaking, sad and regrettable it was.
Suddenly, she saw an entire area of buildings to the east of the plane. The buildings here were surprisingly well preserved.
Only above this place can you see some mottled traces of green.
"Hello, may I ask where is this place down there?" Lan Xiaolan asked the flight attendant politely.
"Hello, ma'am. Down here is our country's 'living cemetery'. This is where a large number of dead people are buried."
"Because there's no energy, no government control, and the people living there are refugees from all over, this location has always been a peaceful zone."
"That's why, over the past decade or so, this living cemetery city has been the only place in Country E that has not been invaded by war."
"So, that's why..." Lan Xiaolan lowered her head and murmured sadly, "Because of this... the place where the dead live is better than the place where the living live."
"This is truly the sadness of war, the sadness of an era." Lan Xiaolan held back her hot tears and dared not read any further.
Such a vast and numerous cemetery group was not formed overnight, but evolved over decades.
The reason why it is called a "city" is because its area is large enough. Today, the city's area has exceeded 1,000 square kilometers, and the permanent population living in it has exceeded 30,000.
It is hard to imagine that such a vast area, with all the large and small buildings, are actually tombs standing on the ground.
At first, this was just Country E, a deserted Gobi desert. Except for a small section of hills in the northeast and traces of a river, the rest of the place was Gobi and desert.
At first, there were always a few respected people in Country E and some of its neighboring countries. Some of them lived at home or abroad, and some were wealthy and powerful tycoons or families.
Whenever someone dies, they will build a cemetery for their ancestors on this land.
Because there are no people here, and there is no government or military to govern, the land is flat and vast, so as long as you have money to transport materials and workers, all the land here can be used for free.
The number of births may be decreasing, but the number of deaths will indeed increase. Since the land is free, more and more people will come here to build tombs.
At first, only some wealthy businessmen or families built cemeteries here. In order to facilitate construction and reduce costs, they built more and more flat roads that connected to each other while building the cemeteries.
In this way, later on, even ordinary people could come here and build their own cemeteries.
Later, as word spread, the number of cemeteries increased and their scale grew, until it became the huge "city" we have today.
Where do the “living people” in the Cemetery of the Living come from?
In the beginning, some wealthy families and businessmen would buy some servants for convenience, and pay them some money on an annual or monthly basis to let them take care of and trim their own cemeteries here.
Some families were prosperous, and the servants who guarded the tombs lived here for generations.
Some merchants and families experienced decline, and their servants lost their livelihoods, so they all left to find a way out, and the houses that were originally intended for the servants to live in became empty.
As the war broke out, more and more refugees poured in from all directions.
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