Chapter 414
Because it is halfway up the mountain, there are many black-sailed boats parked under the cliff, and people entering and leaving have to climb up and down the black-sailed boats.
There were also some people living in the black-sailed boats, all of them were old, weak and sick with weak limbs.
Whether it is the cave on the cliff or the black-sailed boat, they are all covered with yellow sand and are difficult to find.
Occasionally, whispers, gasps, and coughs could be heard by He Lian, but the other children could not hear them.
But without listening, I know that these people don't live well. Those who can go out to fetch water should be those who have some strength in their families. Those who are strong behave like that, not to mention those who are weak.
The big team thought that the former land of fish and rice must be better than the western mountainous areas.
Who would have thought it would be so tragic.
Come to think of it, there are still animals in the mountains and forests for them to hunt and eat.
There is nothing here. The water has dried up and there are no fish. There is no source of food. They are all small forces, and their inventory is definitely not much. It is not enough for so many people to eat up all the food.
These people are just living one day at a time now, with no future at all.
I just don’t know where the people from Longfeng City have gone. It’s impossible that they ran to the north, right?
Are you so ambitious?
As the leader of their Dragon and Phoenix team, they are not sure that they can persuade the northern major forces to surrender now. It seems that those who come out of their Dragon and Phoenix City are all ambitious young people with aspirations and abilities.
Well, this matter is not important now. What is important is whether to recruit these people in front of us.
"What do you mean?" Lan Shiruo asked her friends.
Lu Chaoyang laughed and said, "We have confiscated the burden before. I'm afraid the total amount in the entire western region is less than one million."
Lan Shiruo raised her eyebrows. Does this mean you're done?
Turning around to look at the other friends, this group of stupid teammates are unwilling to use their brains. They just do whatever the big brothers and sisters say and have no opinion at all.
Lan Shiruo was too lazy to ask them again, but it would be difficult to accept the offer.
Even if these people were given food and supplies, they would not be able to take them to Longfeng City, and they would not be able to escort them the entire way.
Furthermore, these people are obviously in poor health. I don’t know how serious their illness is. If we just send them away like this and wait until they reach Longfeng City, who knows if they will implicate other people or even collapse on the way. So before sending them away, we have to treat them first.
It is not difficult to cure the disease, but the people here are so scattered that no one knows where people live, and it is impossible for them to visit all of them.
If I let them come to see the doctor by themselves, I don’t know if they have the strength to come here.
Alas, it’s so depressing.
This help has made me depressed, which is not very pleasant.
Anyway, the big team decided to meet the people here first, ask them for some useful information, and then decide what to do.
Although these people look quite pitiful and appear to be in urgent need of help, whether they really need help is not something they can decide. What if these people are willing to live this way? No one can say for sure.
The large group went to the nearest wupeng boat, which was not big and usually carried only three or four passengers. Unexpectedly, there were now nearly ten people crammed in it, each of them even more disabled than a cripple, with missing limbs, old and frail, and still crying for food, as weak as they could be.
They were lying there with lifeless eyes. Someone lifted the torn curtain, making quite a noise, but these people didn't react at all. They lay there like corpses, without even moving their eyeballs.
Flies and mosquitoes buzzed around my body without any care. I was already so thin that I had barely any flesh on me, and if they sucked me, it would be too miserable.
If it weren't for the faint gasping sounds and the negligible rise and fall of their chests, no one would have thought they were still alive.
The smell inside was very bad, it was hard to tell what it was, maybe a mixture of all kinds of smells. The whole team subconsciously frowned and looked at Lan Shiruo. In this situation, should they talk about it or not?
Lan Shiruo raised her eyebrows. Since she was already here, she naturally had to chat.
"I have some water. If anyone wants some, come out and chat with me."
The people lying dead were stunned for half a minute before they slowly reacted. They turned their heads with difficulty and opened their mouths. Their dry lips cracked instantly, oozing blood. I don't know if it was because they were half dead, but the blood looked pale.
Ignoring the pain in his mouth, he tried several more times, but still couldn't open his mouth or make a sound.
Lan Shiruo frowned. She was thinking too much. These people were struggling to breathe, so how could they have the energy to chat?
Looking around, anyone who can crawl through a cave should have the energy to chat.
The people in the black-sailed boat saw Lan Shiruo looking away, and felt sad. They closed their eyes and waited for death.
Lan Shiruo didn't know that just one look from her made everyone on the boat lose their last hope of survival. She let the vines control several small bottles and slowly moistened the mouths of the people on the boat.
Then feed them water slowly. These people are so weak that they will break if touched. If they drink water in big gulps, they may choke to death. So we can only feed them slowly, little by little.
The big team has been struggling in the apocalypse for so long, and their mysophobia and other problems have been cured, but when they saw this group of people, they still didn't have the courage to enter the cabin, so they had to leave it to the vines.
This guy has no sense of smell, which is good.
The people in the boat tasted the water, and even though they were heartbroken, they instinctively opened their mouths, wanting to drink more, eagerly and longingly.
The vines are very stable, and they say they will give you a little bit at a time, and they won’t take more than that.
Perhaps it was because of the water that the stuck lips loosened and the throat became usable, the child who looked to be about half a year old began to cry loudly. The cry was not loud, after all, he was very hungry and was tired from even breathing, so how could he have the energy to cry loudly.
It's just that it's too quiet here, and the breathing is shallower than elsewhere. Suddenly, an unusual sound appeared, and it was naturally very clear, attracting the attention of everyone around.
Can you still cry out loud?
What surprised them was not the crying, but the fact that they could still cry. Being able to cry meant that they still had the strength.
But they are all waiting to die. There is only this second and no next second. How can they still have the strength?
Thinking that maybe the child was fed blood by his family, he sat back calmly. The parents who felt sorry for the child would cut the flesh and drain the blood so that the child could survive a little longer. They had seen this many times and it was not surprising.
On days without food or water, lying down conserves resources and can extend one's lifespan. Curiosity speeds up the heartbeat, accelerating blood circulation, which in turn speeds up metabolism, which in turn accelerates hunger and ultimately death. This is the survival experience they've gained after nearly a year of lying down.
The child's cry was like that of a sick kitten, as if it could die at any moment. The children watched the child cry, their faces tense. They felt a sense of empathy. Before they met Lan Shiruo, they had also lived such a life. They didn't know if they would survive until now. Even if they did, they didn't know how miserable their lives would be.
The girls and guys were quite hard-hearted. After all, they had seen such scenes before. It was also because there were not many people outside now. It was not long after the end of the world began, and there were many such scenes when the roads were full of people. They had become numb to them and did not feel that uncomfortable.
Lan Shiruo sighed. Although she didn't feel that bad, she couldn't just watch him cry. She took out a bowl of warm porridge and asked Tengman to take the child out and put him on a recliner that Ao Chengyi had brought out.
(End of this chapter)
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