Of course, this should be temporary. When this small copy is over, his strength will return to its original point.
"Your identity is actually a 'human'." Leslie blinked, she was a little surprised: "You didn't vote directly for yourself, in order to... see their reaction?"
"Yes." Su Mingan said.
Based on the actions just now, he has roughly figured out the identities of these people.
Besides that, he also wanted to see the reactions of Leslie and Yamada Choichi.
This was also the reason why he chose to move Lu Shu's pointer in the beginning. Because Lu Shu did not need to test and could be the initiator of the vote. And looking at the votes of Yamada Machiichi and Leslie, it can also be seen whether they really want to help him, or will turn against him when the situation turns bad.
Su Mingan looked outside the cave: "Leslie, according to the agreement, I will not attack you, please go."
"You are a trustworthy partner." Leslie smiled and put a crystal into his hand. It seemed to be an extremely rare communicator item. "If you find a new oracle, you can find me. I will not hesitate to tell you some mythological stories."
She left.
It's getting dark.
After asking, Su Ming'an discovered that the soul stone in Siber's hand on the first night was an extremely precious thing, and they couldn't even get together a soul stone that could last for a whole night.
After a long journey, they arrived at a small, very simple settlement. They had to find a building to live in.
This place can't even be considered a tribe, but just a small gathering place with more than a dozen people. The leader here is a middle-aged woman, the same woman I saw in the fourth tribe during the day.
"There are a few empty houses over there, they are just covered in dust and no one has cleaned them." The old woman received them warmly, with a dagger hanging on her side.
She looked extremely frail and had no ability to kill wild animals. I wondered why she was carrying a dagger that was obviously used to hurt people.
She was skinny, with protruding bones on her face and fleshless fingers. She looked like a skeleton covered with black hair.
It seems that the living conditions of the people here are quite poor.
She had a very good attitude towards contestants like Su Mingan: "...but we don't have enough food, so I'm afraid we can't treat you to dinner."
When they heard the noise of the outsiders, the people in the straw house also poked their heads out.
The oldest of them already has a head full of white hair, while the youngest is still a toddler.
"This is where the exiles gather." Lu Shu's guide Lilina said softly.
Looking at these children who were as thin as monkeys, and the old women with wrinkles all over their faces and sparse hair, who looked like little old men, a look of pity flashed across Lilina's face.
Earlier, she had heard that when the curse took effect, people would explode, melt, rot, and die. After their death, the surrounding environment would also be affected by the curse. Therefore, in some small tribes, some people whose curses were on the verge of erupting would be exiled and left to fend for themselves in the forest or plains to avoid polluting their living environment when they died.
Therefore, these people who have no hope of living for a long time but still have to struggle to survive will seek out scattered small gathering places on their own, and together with their kind, seek the last period of peace in their lives, and then move towards their destined death together.
Because they are the same kind of people, because they are all going to die, some people will be in spiritual communication at the last moment of their lives, knowing each other, falling in love, having a love that only lasts a few months or even a few days, and dying in each other's arms in the outbreak of the curse. They are like mayflies that are born in the morning and die in the evening, but are also as gorgeous as an ephemeral flower.
Here, she also saw lovers hugging each other. Even though their bodies were covered with dangerous black curse marks that kept people away, they both had these death marks, but they hugged each other tightly and kissed each other, as if they were in a love that would never leave each other.
"——Mom! Mom! You're back!"
When the old woman took them to the vacant house, a tall and strong man rushed out of the house and hugged the old woman.
Su Mingan recognized him as the man with an axe who appeared in the fourth tribe during the day.
The old woman stretched out her thin hand and patted him gently on the back to comfort him.
"Mom, you're finally back. Changsheng missed you so much..." The man was like a baby who had not been weaned. There was an ignorant, childlike joy in his eyes: "Mom, Changsheng drew a black lamb today. The black lamb is so cute. Changsheng likes lambs..."
"This is my child Changsheng." The old woman turned around and introduced him to Su Mingan, patting the man on the back and speaking softly, as if coaxing a child:
"...Changsheng, be good, Changsheng, it's getting dark, go back to your room and have a good sleep."
The man let go of her hand and smiled a childish smile: "Mom, I still have the soup hot. It's almost dried up."
"We'll eat soon, wait for me. Remember to hold the cup and don't spill the water you just poured, okay?" The old woman touched his head.
The man hummed, seeming to enjoy her touch. After a moment, he turned around and skipped back into the house.
"He's..." Seeing this, Lilina probably realized that this man must have some brain disease.
His intelligence seemed to have remained at the level of childhood, and he had become a big kid who never grew up.
"It's an old problem." The old woman watched him return to his room and sighed, "Changsheng...his mind has never grown up. It's good this way, at least in these last few months, he won't be so sad." She smiled, "He probably hasn't even figured out what 'death' is. He has been living a carefree life, which may be a kind of happiness."
“Bang!”
The wooden door closed and a man's laughing voice could be faintly heard. It seemed that he had found some childish fun again.
The old woman led a few people and arranged a few unused houses. As the only curse stabilizer here, everyone else listened to her.
When everything was almost arranged, Su Mingan heard a female voice coming from the side.
"… is it you?"
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