Chapter 23: People who can be released
Xie Liang and Xu He climbed onto the roof of the bungalow. They hid on one side and peeked at the three pig monsters in the yard downstairs. They were eating hot pot around a table.
In the middle of the table stood a large copper pot filled with white soup, and the rest of the table was filled with plates of chopped human flesh.
They were using chopsticks to rinse the fat man's intestines in the copper pot. After the rinsing was done, they slurped it up like vermicelli noodles.
The three pig monsters were eating with gusto in the yard, and from time to time there were creepy laughs.
I don’t know how long it took, the night grew deeper, and the wind started to blow, causing the incandescent lamp hanging in the yard to sway back and forth.
The three pig monsters dispersed after eating and drinking. They probably went back to their room to sleep.
After a while, all the lights went out and the entire gray bungalow was plunged into darkness.
After Xie Liang and Xu He came down from the roof, they left this "human breeding farm"
The two walked around the village for a long time, guided by the faint light from the sky, and discovered that the entire village was dotted with human farms of all sizes. Some were small and simple, while others were large and surrounded by high fences.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, Xie Liang felt his legs grow weak. He took out a pocket watch from the bag he had brought into the small world and saw that it was already past four o'clock.
"It's a good thing I slept with this bag on my shoulder, otherwise I wouldn't be able to check the time now." Xie Liang muttered.
After hearing what he said, Xu He took off the ring on her hand and handed it to him: "This is for you."
That ring looks like the 'black bone ring' often worn by 'non-mainstream' and 'Shamatte' people. It doesn't seem that Xu He likes the accessories that those spirited young men like.
"Uh... why did you suddenly give me a ring?"
Xu He forced the ring onto his middle finger. "It's a storage ring. You won't have to sleep with a backpack on your back anymore, but..." He changed the subject and continued, "However, there will be a slight delay when retrieving items."
"Storage ring? It sounds very valuable. I can't accept it." Xie Liang said as he was about to take the ring off his finger.
Xu He stretched out his big hand and pressed on his two hands to stop his movements.
According to Xu He, this ring is just for them to bring some small things in from outside, but after coming in, they still have to try to take out the things they need and carry them on their backs.
Because it takes about one or two minutes to retrieve the item from the ring, Xu He said that if a person is in real danger, one or two minutes can cost him his life.
Xie Liang was finally persuaded by him to accept the ring. According to Xu He, they would be born together in the future anyway, so it didn't matter who held it.
The two men walked to a flat ground full of haystacks, planning to sleep on top of the haystacks first and make plans the next morning.
"Ah! That's right." Xie Liang said as he took out the blue-green long gown he got from the previous copy from his bag.
Because Xiao Ha said it might have other uses, Xie Liang put it into his bag in case of emergency.
I don’t know if it has any other uses, but for now it can block the cool breeze at night.
After lying down on the haystack, Xie Liang covered himself and Xu He's waist with his long gown horizontally, "It's cold at night, cover yourself with it to block the wind." After saying this, Xie Liang closed his eyes and rested.
The sky is dotted with stars, shining with dazzling light. Such a night scene is rarely seen in reality, and the person lying next to him is even more unique, Xu He thought.
Xie Liang had fallen asleep, and the sound of his even breathing lingered in Xu He's ears. Xu He began to feel that as long as Xie Liang was by his side, the surroundings were filled with the atmosphere of human life.
Soon, Xu He also felt a little sleepy, so he closed his eyes next to Xie Liang.
When it was bright outside, Xie Liang slowly opened his eyes. When he got up, he found that Xu He beside him had already gotten up.
In the distance, there were several high fences surrounding the flat grassland, and several pig monsters were driving humans walking on all fours into the fences.
The pig monsters drove those 'people' into the fenced circle and left.
After a while, the pig monsters came back, holding two large black buckets in their bristly hands.
After entering the fenced area, they poured the contents of the bucket into the wide trough. From a distance, the bucket was filled with a thick, slop-like substance.
Seeing this, the natives swarmed towards the feeding trough.
In the corner of the fenced area, three clothed men huddled together, looking out of place and terrified at the natives who were huddled around the trough and wolfing down their food.
"Those three people seem to be Adventers. We have seen them before in the temporary residence." Xie Liang said to Xu He who was standing beside him.
Xu He responded calmly: "Yeah."
There were two pig monsters standing by the fence. Seeing that the three people in the corner were not eating the food in the trough, they walked towards them.
A pig monster lifted a man with one hand and began to examine his body with the other. The man struggled frantically, but was no match for the pig monster's strength, and it stripped him of his clothes effortlessly.
After the pig monster checked his body, it threw him back into the feeding trough filled with natives.
Seeing that he still refused to eat the slop in the trough, the two pig monsters whispered to each other, and then one of them carried the naked man away.
Just as another pig monster was about to check the remaining two men, they seemed to suddenly realize something, rushed to the trough, and followed the natives to eat the thick slop.
"Could it be that the pig monsters are checking why they aren't eating, thinking they are sick?" Xie Liang asked.
"Yeah." Xu He's voice was still faint.
"What if the pigs in the pen suddenly stop eating and we can't find the reason?" Xie Liang muttered.
Xu He said calmly, "Kill them and share the food, or bury them alive."
Xie Liang nodded: "Usually I kill and eat it before it has any problems."
At this moment, they heard messy footsteps behind them, which sounded like those of the pig monsters. The two of them hurriedly ran to hide behind the largest haystack.
Just then, Xie Liang saw a descender wearing a white T-shirt running towards them. After seeing the two of them, the man sped up and ran in front of them in a moment.
"Are you Adventers too? Hurry up and hide somewhere else, they are about to catch up!" said the man in the white T-shirt, panting.
The messy and heavy footsteps gradually approached. They bent over, ran around the haystack up the hillside, and hid behind a big rock on the slope.
After the pig monsters searched around the haystack and couldn't find the man, they turned around and left.
The man bent over with his hands on his knees, breathing heavily. "My name is Lu Bubu, what about you?"
Xie Liang wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "My name is Xie Liang, and he is Xu He."
"Did you sneak out too?"
"Well, we got out of those pig pens last night."
Lu Bubu nodded and said with a gloomy face, "We can't understand what those pig-headed NPCs are saying, and we have no idea where to find clues to the quest this time."
"Those pig monsters treat humans as food. In this small world, the positions of humans and pigs have been reversed," said Xie Liang.
"I thought of that, too. Also, here, if you don't eat the slop in the trough, you'll be killed. If you eat it, you'll get fat quickly. I was afraid of being assimilated, so I quickly slipped out."
Xie Liang looked towards the fenced area in the distance. The two Adventers inside who had eaten slop seemed to have become rounder. "It seems so."
Lu Bubu touched his head and said, "Look at the people in the fence. After eating, they bask in the sun. They are no different from real livestock."
At this moment, two pig monsters in the distance picked up two fat, naked women and threw them into the fence.
The man inside pounced on him with shining eyes upon seeing this, and the two fat women also rubbed against the man who violated them as if they were in heat, as if they were inviting him.
"Brother! Don't look at anything inappropriate!" Lu Bubu said as he covered Xie Liang's eyes.
"Wow... In broad daylight, actually..." Xie Liang said blushing.
Xie Liang pried Lu Bubu's hand apart and took another look. The two dressed Adventers looked ready to make a move and were unbuckling their belts. "They're almost assimilated too."
Lu Bubu looked at the men and women rolling around in a ball without blinking. "Not necessarily. Maybe it's just that they can't control their desires. It has nothing to do with the environment."
After the indigenous men finished their "exercise", they lay on the grass and rested in the sun.
At this time, the two descenders pounced on the two naked fat indigenous women, and a chaotic "special movement" suddenly broke out in the fence.
"It looks like breeding." said Lu Bubu.
Xie Liang looked at him, who was reading with great interest: ...
There are farms surrounded by fences all around, and sturdy pig monsters are walking around in groups of two or three, as if they are on patrol.
The three decided to escape from the farm first and then make plans.
They walked stealthily along the village road towards the village entrance, occasionally seeing one or two older-looking pig monsters on the road.
When they saw Xie Liang and his group, they did not chase after them, but just looked at them curiously, and then went to different farms.
Not long after they started walking, a large truck slowly drove up from the other side of the road, and they quickly hid behind an abandoned building on the side of the road.
A large truck, more than ten meters long, drove into the open grassland beside the concrete road and began to honk its horn continuously.
"What is the truck for? Why is it honking its horn all the time?" said Lu Bubu.
"I don't know, let's take a look first." Xie Liang said.
Soon, pig monsters came out from the nearby farms pushing forklifts. On the big forklifts were cylindrical iron cages, and inside the iron cages were fat, naked men.
"There's a patch of grass over there. Let's go over there. It's too far away and we can't see what they are doing!" said Xie Liang.
They looked around and after making sure it was safe, the three of them quickly ran towards the dense grass.
Only after they moved closer did they see the scene clearly: there were several large electronic scales on the ground, and several pig monsters were throwing the iron cages containing people from their forklifts onto the electronic scales one by one to weigh them.
After the electronic scale makes a "beep" sound, the iron cage containing the person will be delivered to the truck by the pig monster waiting on the side.
Lu Bubu whispered in Xie Liang's ear, "Looks like they've been fattened up enough to be 'slaughtered.' Where will these fat guys be taken?"
"Either they are sent to the slaughterhouse and sold as meat, or they are canned." Xie Liang said in a low voice.
Lu Bubu nodded. "Uh, our hint this time is 'damaged'. Damaged to what?"
"We don't know yet, but we must go and take a look!" said Xie Liang.
Soon, the truck had collected all the fat people who had been "slaughtered" in the area. After they put the electronic scales on the truck, they slowly drove the truck back to the cement road where Xie Liang and his group had come.
After all the pig monsters had gone away, Lu Bubu said with lingering fear: "Fortunately, before we climbed over the fence, we repeatedly warned that guy not to eat too much, otherwise he would have been doomed."
"Who?" Xie Liang asked.
"It's our cousin."
Lu Bubu looked a little worried.
"You look very experienced." Xie Liang said.
"It's okay. I can't say I have any experience, but I just luckily survived by chance."
Xie Liang wanted to know if he was from a dark organization, so he tentatively said, "I heard there's a 'dark organization', and the people there should have a lot of experience."
Lu Bubu's face froze when he heard this, and he said awkwardly, "Well, actually, I am... a member of that organization."
"No wonder when you were explaining the rules to those newcomers in the temporary residence, I seemed to vaguely hear you mention a few words about the dark organization." Xie Liang said.
Lu Bubu scratched his head and said, "I saw that those people didn't understand anything, so I wanted to explain it to them. Even if they were going to die, at least they would die with a clear understanding, right?"
"Then do you know Shi Xiaoyin? She is also in your organization." Xie Liang asked.
"She is an administrator in the WeChat group created by our organization, and we are quite familiar with each other," said Lu Bubu.
"Oh, by the way, there's a dense jungle behind this village, so that big truck will definitely be back soon. Then..."
In the end, they decided to wait by the side of the road, and when the truck returned, they would take the opportunity to climb onto the roof and follow the truck to take a look.
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