Chapter 290: The Destruction of Black Bamboo Village
After learning from Ji Ming where the grain was stored in Heizhu Village, she tied Ji Ming up and left him to Maodan to watch over.
When Chen Peiqiong got off work, she disguised herself and went to inquire about the situation in Heizhu Village.
During the famine, the Heizhu Village earned a lot of supplies because of their well-digging skills, which made many people jealous.
Some time ago, some rumors suddenly emerged that the villagers of Heizhu Village were human butchers who specialized in catching people and eating their flesh. When we first stationed here, all the people who disappeared were caught by the villagers of Heizhu Village and taken to the mountains to be eaten.
Not many people believed this rumor at first, but as more and more people spread it, it became more and more suspicious of Heizhu Village.
It was not until one day when a villager from Heizhu Village came to the trading point to buy salt and was arrested and interrogated on his way back that he truly believed that the villagers of Heizhu Village had really eaten human flesh.
If it were in the past, everyone would be so hungry that they didn't even have the strength to walk. Even if they knew that the Heizhu Village was killing people and eating meat, they would not dare to cause trouble for the Heizhu Village.
But now everyone is full of food and has no strength to use. In addition, they know that Heizhu Village has earned a lot of materials by digging wells and harvesting a lot of food by farming, so a group of people conspired and went to Heizhu Village two days ago.
Originally, that group of people had no intention of killing anyone. They just wanted to seize the supplies of Heizhu Village and drive away these man-eating ogres.
But the villagers of Heizhu Village were not the type to swallow their anger. The two sides started arguing, and in the end they lost their minds and started fighting. Once they started fighting, the situation was out of control.
The people of Heizhu Village were few in number and were no match for the group. Soon, they were all killed or injured. The group calmed down and realized that they had massacred the village. So they decided to go all out and took out all the supplies they could find in the village, and then burned the entire village down.
Ji Ming was moving grain to a storage place at that time. When he came back, the village had turned into a sea of fire. All the villagers who had lived with him day and night were buried in the sea of fire.
Ji Ming knew that they shouldn't eat their own kind, but what could they do in such a desperate situation?
Hungry! I was so hungry that I was scratching my heart and liver, so hungry that I couldn't stand up straight and could only hunch over, so hungry that I couldn't walk and had to crawl on all fours like an animal, so hungry that I had hallucinations and was grabbing and biting my arms.
If they didn't eat the flesh of those corpses, how could they survive that period? They just wanted to live, what was wrong with them?
After the cold winter, the village chief Uncle Quan had already banned them from eating human flesh. They were already changing for the better, so why couldn't the world tolerate them? There were 87 people in total, the youngest of whom was only 12 years old, still a child who knew nothing. How could those people have the heart to do that?
Ji Ming hated it! He hated this chaotic world that left no way for people to survive, hated the authorities for not paying enough attention to their Black Bamboo Village so that they had to eat human flesh, and hated those hypocritical people who were clearly coveting the supplies of their Black Bamboo Village, but slaughtered all the members of his Black Bamboo Village in the name of driving away the cannibals!
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After Xia Xiaoman found out that Heizhu Village had really been destroyed, he quietly went to the place Ji Ming mentioned.
The place where Heizhu Village stored supplies was the cave where they hid during the cold winter. The cave had collapsed after the earthquake, but there was still a small hole that one person could pass through. Not long after entering the hole, there was a space of more than 20 square meters. Most of the supplies of Heizhu Village were hidden here.
The entrance to the cave was quite hidden, and Xia Xiaoman searched for a long time before finding it. When he entered the cave, he saw piles of food. Most of the food was cassava, followed by potatoes and some miscellaneous things, which were probably the materials earned when digging the well.
Xia Xiaoman put all the supplies into the space, and when she left, she made a mark here.
This cave is not bad. The entrance is hidden. If anything happens in the future, this can be her second place to stay.
On her way back, she took a short detour to Heizhu Village, which had been completely burned down, with rows of small earthen mounds standing next to it, probably made by Ji Ming.
Looking at the ruined Heizhu Village, Xia Xiaoman felt very sorry. It was such a good village with a well, it was such a pity to burn it down.
Seeing that the situation in Heizhu Village and the news she had heard were true, Xia Xiaoman did not stay long and quickly rushed home.
After returning home, she cut the rope that bound Ji Ming and said, "The cave belongs to me now. You are not allowed to go near it in the future. If I find out that you have been to the cave, I will definitely kill you unless you escape from the floating city."
After saying that, she pointed to the door and said, "Go away! Don't show up in front of me again."
Ji Ming stretched his arms and legs, stretched out his hand and said: "Can you give me back my knife?" He could not go back to the cave, but he must get the knife back. How could he take revenge without a weapon?
Xia Xiaoman threw the knife to him, Ji Ming took the knife and limped out of the yard.
After Ji Ming left, Maodan, who had been looking at the house all day, yawned in his nest. Xia Xiaoman pinched its ears, took out a dried steel-toothed rabbit from the space and placed it in front of it, "You've worked hard today, so I'll reward you with a rabbit."
When he smelled the food, Maodan instantly became much more energetic. He rolled the rabbit meat into his mouth with his tongue and began to chew it slowly.
On the fifth day after Ji Ming left, Xia Xiaoman heard from Chen Peiqiong that a family had been killed. It was normal for a few people to die these days, but the family that was killed had no supplies missing, and the deceased was killed with a single knife. This was somewhat intriguing.
Chen Peiqiong said: "I heard that the family was probably killed by their enemies. If it was a robbery, they would definitely take away the supplies after killing the person. But the supplies of that family were not touched."
"Some people also said it was a murder of passion. They said the male owner of that family often went out to hook up with women. He might have offended a married woman and was killed by her husband."
When Xia Xiaoman heard this, he felt that the first statement was more reliable, and it was probably Ji Ming who killed the person.
Chen Peiqiong sighed, "You said that life is getting better now, so why are people killing people again? These people just have nothing to do. They should all be sent to build underground cities and let them do hard labor reform."
Xia Xiaoman smiled and said, "If you let these people build the underground city, aren't you afraid that they will be resentful and tighten one less screw?"
Chen Peiqiong thought for a moment and said, "That's true. The higher-ups must have attached great importance to the quality of the underground city, so they let the military build it instead of letting ordinary people do it."
"Speaking of the underground city, Sister Pei, do you know how the underground city is being built now?" Xia Xiaoman asked.
Chen Peiqiong shook her head. "I don't know. It seems that since I arrived at the garrison, I have rarely heard people talk about the underground city."
Xia Xiaoman continued to ask, "What about Wang Shijin? Didn't he contact you? He should have been sent to build the underground city!"
Chen Peiqiong was stunned for a moment when she heard this. "If you hadn't reminded me, I would have forgotten. I haven't seen him since I came here."
"No, it's not just him. There are other people who entered the army, but I didn't see them. There are also several missing security teams!"
Xia Xiaoman narrowed his eyes slightly when he heard this. Some of the troops were missing, and some of the security team was also missing. Could it be that these missing people were all sent to build the underground city?
But these people disappeared as soon as they migrated here from Floating City. Could it be that Floating City had known for a long time that there was a problem with the ozone layer?
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