【Nine】

There is also a ninth city regulation? But the back is blank and not written.

This suddenly increased Sang Que's pressure. What if the city rules could be written at will, and the people in the city simply wrote a rule that outsiders must die? Then the power of the entire Dead Zone would crush her and Xia Chan who met the requirements.

Sang Que stood in front of the signboard, not daring to act rashly. She looked at Du Enfu, who was still mechanically reciting the city regulations, and whispered a few words in Xia Chan's ear.

After Xia Chan understood, she nodded and walked to Du Enfu. A strand of hair from her back quietly pierced Du Enfu's neck.

Du Enfu couldn't see the two people, but he felt his throat was a little uncomfortable as he was reciting. Fortunately, he had finished reading and the person in front of the signboard left.

"Grandpa Village Chief, do you still remember Xiao Chan?"

Xia Chan shook her head vigorously, "I don't want to, this place is not good, Xiao Chan feels uncomfortable!"

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After Du Enfu left, Sangque asked Xia Chan, "Xiaochan, if you can eat your fill every day here without having to do anything, and you will be given food, are you willing to live here forever?"

Du Enfu turned around and saw the two people. He stared at Sang Que carefully for a while, his face full of confusion. He seemed to recognize him, but also seemed not to remember him. However, he did not ask anything and continued to lead the two people through the deserted alleys.

Du Enfu looked at Xiao Chan in astonishment, then at the rice and meat on the table. No matter how he looked or smelled, they were normal rice and pork. He had been eating the rice and meat obtained from the Temple of the God of Joy in recent months, and there was nothing wrong with it.

Sangque opened the rice bag and found that it was indeed full of white japonica rice. The piece of meat also looked fine, except...

The dim light could only illuminate a small area around the table. Du Enfu tried to speak, "Xiao...Xiao Chan, why are you here? Where is Yushan? And where are Baosheng's family and Shouhou?"

The time left for Xun Gua is running out.

Sang Que did not answer the question directly. "Why is the city like this? I see the city gates are not closed, there are no guards in the city, and the city regulations do not restrict you from leaving. Why is no one leaving?"

The sound of summer cicadas suddenly reached Du Enfu's ears. Du Enfu was shocked, his eyes widened, and his mouth opened instinctively but no sound came out.

Sangque tried to suppress his nausea and turned his head away. Xiachan leaned forward and sniffed, "It stinks. This isn't rice or pork. This is something from a dead person."

Du Enfu didn't understand why, but he didn't know why he had an inexplicable trust in Sang Que. Moreover, with her in the room, Du Enfu even felt that the room was a lot safer.

Du Enfu didn't remember Sang Que, he only remembered that Xiao Chan left with Kou Yushan and the others.

At the exit of the alley ahead, Du Enfu stepped out and immediately stepped back, and Xiao Chan almost bumped into him.

Du Enfu glanced around. His job in the city was to stand here every day and read notices to illiterate people. However, the guards of the Qianshou Army were not here today. Even if he left early, no one would notice. Besides, the city regulations did not state that absenteeism would result in death.

Not long after, Du Enfu came back from outside with a small cloth bag and a piece of meat in his hand. He had smoked the meat with firewood, and the surface was black, so it could be stored for a longer time.

Durnford nodded.

Du Enfu sighed heavily, "Go? Where to go? Isn't it the same wherever you go? At least here, as long as you worship the God of Joy once every three days, you can get a portion of food. If you save it, it's enough for three days. Sometimes, if you're lucky, you can even get some meat."

Xia Chan tilted his head to think, and sighed, "Little Chan doesn't know either..."

In Sangque's eyes, the rice turned into dense maggots that kept wriggling. The blackened meat next to it turned into a boneless forearm, with the nails on the five lower fingers still intact.

Thinking of this, Du Enfu walked directly into an alley next to him and left the busy street.

Du Enfu turned around and gestured to the two of them to keep quiet. He shrank into the shadow cast by the alley wall, his face pale and his eyes full of fear. His arms twitched from time to time, and he didn't feel normal.

Sangque poked his head out slightly, and the red lanterns on the roadside shops cast shadows on the passers-by. Among them was a man in coarse cloth, walking with his head lowered, with no shadow under his feet.

Xia Chan winked at Sang Que, "Grandpa Village Chief, we're following you, hurry up."

"If other places are comfortable but you can't eat enough, what will you do?" Sang Que continued to ask.

When talking about Kou Yushan, Xiao Chan's expression gradually became sad. Kou Yushan was already dead. She found his body corroded by ink in Wangshan City, which fell apart at the touch. In the end, she could only build a cenotaph for Kou Yushan with Yunniang.

"Mind if I take a look?"

With the help of his ghost eyes, Sangque looked at the rice and meat again, and the scene before him changed drastically.

Although Du Enfu is old, he has passed the imperial examination and his mind is still quick.

"Don't be afraid, Grandpa Village Chief. Xiaochan is not a bad person. Can you take Xiaochan to a safe place? Xiaochan wants to ask you something."

When he came in, Du Enfu bumped into the door frame and almost fell down. Fortunately, Sang Que handed him the long knife in time to support him.

Du Enfu certainly remembered who Xiao Chan was. There was only one Xiao Chan in Heishan Village.

"ah?!"

Du Enfu nodded, "Yes, I was lucky yesterday and got a bag of rice and two taels of meat."

Durnford walked unsteadily, as did everyone else on the street.

Du Enfu shook his head and rubbed his eyes, and this time he was able to accurately pick up the tinder and light the lamp.

“It’s all here.”

Xiao Chan lowered her head and was speechless, so Sang Que answered for Xiao Chan, "Uncle Yushan died in the ghost disaster in Wangshan City. Uncle Baosheng's family and Shouhou are all in Dongyang County, and they are all still alive." Du Enfu stared at Sang Que for a while, feeling that he was familiar, but he couldn't remember if he had seen him before.

After the man had passed by, Du Enfu led the two men forward until they came to a remote and sparsely populated alley in the city. Pushing open the door of the dilapidated courtyard, Du Enfu invited the two men in and closed the door from the inside.

Sang Que frowned, "Is it still like this these days? Can you get food and meat?"

When he got into the house, Du Enfu closed all the doors and windows and checked several times before sitting down tremblingly. He reached out to take the tinder on the table, but his hand went to the side several times.

"Are you from Dongyang County? You have already joined the Evil Suppression Division and are here to attack the city?"

Sangque and Xiachan followed Du Enfu, but within two minutes, the Xun Gua lost its effect.

"Wait a moment, I'll get it."

Sang Que thought for a moment and asked, "Have the people in the city, including you, started to walk unsteadily, have limbs twitched, and have blurred vision since eating these things?"

As he spoke, Du Enfu's arm twitched involuntarily.

Xia Chan immediately said, "Xiao Chan knows. Aunt Qiao told Xiao Chan that if a person eats the flesh of a dead person, he or she will get this disease. There is no cure and the person will die!"

Du Enfu opened his eyes in shock and turned pale with fright.

(End of this chapter)