Chapter 273 Visitors from Other Places
The fact that the Heizhu Village had fallen to the point where they were starving and had to eat their own kind was, in Xia Xiaoman's opinion, their own fault.
If they had gone to the city to ask before the perpetual cold night, they would have known that the trading point was selling winter clothes. With winter clothes, they could at least go out to catch steel-toothed rabbits and skuas to fill their stomachs during the extreme cold, so how could they be so hungry that they would eat their own kind?
"When it was extremely cold, they were trapped in the cave and couldn't get out, so it was barely understandable that they ate corpses. But why do they want to capture people and eat their meat now?" Li Yu'e asked puzzledly.
After the extreme cold, the weather is as warm as spring, and wild vegetables can be seen everywhere in the mountains. If the villagers are more diligent, filling their stomachs will not be a problem, so why do they still risk arresting people?
Chen Ya said, "Those people said that after the extreme cold, the village chief no longer allowed them to eat human flesh, and organized the villagers to plant crops and dig wild vegetables. But they were lazy, so they neither planted crops nor dug wild vegetables. Also, they were used to eating meat and didn't want to eat vegetables every day, so they would go out hunting every now and then."
Before the floating city moved here, they would sneak into the city to capture people, or capture those who came alone to dig wild vegetables. Now that everyone in the floating city has moved to the vicinity of the village, they often wander around, and if they come across anyone who is alone, they will capture them and take them back to kill them.
"This time they didn't intend to capture Brother Yang and Brother Yu, they just wanted to steal the steel-toothed rabbit that Brother Yu caught. Brother Yu refused to give it to them, so they got angry and wanted to capture Brother Yu and his men and eat them."
Li Yu'e was silent for a while after hearing this, then she asked, "What is the specific layout of their village? Is there a well in the village?"
Chen Ya said: "The village collapsed during the earthquake, but they used to live in bamboo houses. Bamboo is light, so the collapse did not cause any casualties to the villagers. After the earthquake, their village chief led people to dig a well."
"Man-made well digging?" Li Yu'e touched her nose thoughtfully. "It seems that there are many capable people in Heizhu Village. Let those people tell us the way to the village. After a few days, when Xiao Zeyu and Zhou Qiuyang's injuries have improved, we will go to visit Heizhu Village again."
Chen Ya responded and went back to question them. After she had asked all the questions she could, Li Yu'e ordered the five villagers to be killed.
After dealing with the body, Li Yu'e led her men away, and Xia Xiaoman followed behind.
Suddenly, Maodan stopped, turned around and stared at the ravine in the distance.
Xia Xiaoman followed its line of sight and looked towards the ravine, but didn't see anything unusual. "Maodan, what's wrong?"
"Awoo!" Follow me! Maodan shouted and ran up the hillside.
Seeing this, Xia Xiaoman hurriedly followed. Li Yu'e heard the noise and turned around, and saw Xia Xiaoman chasing Maodan closely, thinking that the two of them were joking.
But on second thought, Xia Xiaoman was not such a tactless person. Zhou Qiuyang and Xiao Zheyu were seriously injured, so Xia Xiaoman would never play with Maodan at this time.
"You go back first and let Luo Menglin take care of Xiao Zheyu and Zhou Qiuyang's injuries." After saying that, Li Yu'e quickly ran towards Xia Xiaoman.
Chen Ya was concerned about Zhou Qiuyang's safety, but she was also worried about Li Yu'e being alone outside. She left two people to protect Li Yu'e and took the rest back with her.
Li Yu'e ran up the hillside and saw Xia Xiaoman and Maodan standing at the top of the hillside, both the man and the wolf staring ahead.
She walked over and asked, "Xiao Man, what's wrong? What did you see?"
Xia Xiaoman didn't say anything, but pointed forward. Li Yu'e looked in the direction of her finger and saw seven or eight vehicles coming from a distance in front of the ravine. The leading vehicle was an off-road vehicle, and the rest were all Liberation vehicles.
"Military vehicles? I haven't heard of any military vehicles leaving the garrison during this period of time." Li Yu'e was a little puzzled.
Although the garrison was large, seven or eight military vehicles going out would make quite a noise. Larger groups like their Lingxu Gang would pay attention to the military's actions. If so many military vehicles were going out, she should have received the news.
Xia Xiaoman took out a telescope from her bag and looked at the military vehicles. The rear compartments of the military vehicles were covered tightly, and no useful information was found.
Then, she moved the telescope and looked in the direction where the military vehicle came from. Suddenly, her face changed and she handed the telescope to Li Yu'e, "Sister Yu'e, use the telescope to look behind the mountain over there to see if there is anyone moving around?"
Upon hearing this, Li Yu'e took the telescope and looked at the place where Xia Xiaoman was pointing. In the distance, behind the two mountains, she could vaguely see some small black dots moving.
She frowned. "It seems like something is moving. It should be a person walking around. The mountains around here have been eaten clean by locusts. All the animals have fled. Those black spots can only be people, otherwise we must have seen a ghost."
Xia Xiaoman looked in the direction where the black spots were moving, "Those people should not be from our Floating City!"
"No." Li Yu'e said with certainty: "When the floating city moved here, the higher-ups had already counted the number of people and found the survivors in each area. Even if there were omissions, they wouldn't have left out so many people."
At this point, Li Yu'e reminded Xia Xiaoman, "When you are free, go to the office to register your information. Otherwise, when the base is built, you won't be able to come in even if you want to."
Xia Xiaoman nodded in response and returned to the original topic, "If those people are not from Fucheng, they should be from the neighboring Yunhai City."
Beyond this mountain is Yunhai City. Judging from the direction those black spots are coming from, they are most likely people from Yunhai City.
Speaking of Yunhai City, Xia Xiaoman couldn't help but think of her parents. I heard that after the epidemic ended, all the Yunhai citizens stranded in Fucheng were repatriated. Her parents were lucky enough to survive and became part of the group repatriated to the city. I don't know if her parents are among those black spots ahead.
Thinking of this, Xia Xiaoman decided to go to the office to register her information later, so as not to be found by her parents. These two people were very difficult to deal with. Although she had killed many people, she could not kill her father or mother, so she avoided them if possible.
While the two were talking, the military vehicles had already arrived at the garrison.
Xia Xiaoman saw through the telescope that some soldiers stopped a military vehicle, and soon, people jumped out of the back of the vehicle. It would be more accurate to say that they fell down rather than jumped down.
Those who got off the back of the car were skinny, hunched over, and could barely stand on the road. It was obvious that they were hungry, as if they had been hungry for many days.
Xia Xiaoman handed the telescope to Li Yu'e. Li Yu'e saw this and frowned, "The higher-ups don't want to take over the people of Yunhai City, do they? What is the mayor of Yunhai City doing? He just throws the citizens to other cities at any time!"
"We don't even have enough food in the floating city, how can we have the energy to save others?"
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