Chapter 34: Famine Mountain Village (1/2)
The autumn wind is cold and the dead leaves are desolate.
This autumn was exceptionally cold. It was so cold that the wind blew like slices of thin knives, cut in the **** openings of the chapped skin, making people tremble.
The village is called Tongbai Village, it is very deserted, with mountains on both sides. On the one hand, it is close to the billowing river, and on the other hand is the wilderness. On weekdays, it can only be walked in from the path between the mountains. Rows of low houses are lined up, sparsely populated, and the mang and green hills behind can not be seen at a glance.
The weather today is dark and heavy, and it looks like it is about to rain.
The traffickers dragging the broken wooden carts to Yushan Road, gathered from house to house in the open space of the village, watching from a distance.
The silent female relatives were tied to the cart, staring at a pair of sullen eyes, and the ragged sweater could not cover the invasion of the cold, let alone the dirt that could almost be rubbed out on the corners.
The trafficker used his stiff fingers to index the dirty gross ticket in his hand, spitting stars flying wildly.
”Nowadays, teenage girls are not easy to sell. The village in Jiangkou next door can buy one for five yuan. The masters are tired of this and can't sell it at the previous price.”
The village at the mouth of the river next to him is only a few miles away from here, but it is located outside the mountain. Except for the steep and difficult mountain road, its geographical location is not known to be much superior to Tongbai Village.
Wang Shou sighed fiercely, ”Selling one for five yuan also makes a profit. The lady in the family is also a product who can only eat but can't make it. I will tie her up and sell it in a few days.”
In the past few years, people have not been able to get enough to eat. It just so happens that this year there is a severe drought. The crops have died out in the fields, the grains have not been harvested, and there has been trouble. The outside is too serious, and the deeper the mountain is, the more terrifying. The worst place is that people in a village starve to death in all likelihood. The bones are laid on the ground and no one collects them. The smell is so bad that they are as cheap as those who are hungry. To the vulture with red eyes.
Fathers sell daughters, husbands sell daughters-in-law, and sell them to prostitutes/courts in other cities. There are also those who are so hungry that they can’t eat enough to follow the traffickers voluntarily. There are not many women left in the huge village.
Along the way, everyone was thin, skinny, and barely clothed. There was not even a piece of bark left on the side of the road.
Although human traffickers travel to and from various villages and traffic women in the pretext of famine, they sometimes have a nameless fear of this village of Tongbai hidden deep in the canyon.
This feeling is not easy to describe. If you have to blame it, it is the scene he saw at the market at the back of the village a few days ago.
He traveled north and south, and his life had been memorized, but it was the first time he saw him in that scene.
After going back, he tossed and turned for a long time, then went around a few times, finally only intending to come in for the last business.
——The business of girls in other places is not easy to do. Either the disaster is not serious enough, and they are unwilling to sell their flesh and blood to those places to suffer, or they have not lost their relationships under the torment of hunger.
Only in this severely-disastered village of Tongbai, the whole village gave out in one breath. The males were responsible for tying them and selling them. Every time they came back, they received five or six good goods.
This was supposed to be the last business of the trafficker in this village, but the villagers' words made him think again.
Not a girl of fourteen or five years old, adults in their twenties can get a higher price, the big people in the city like the latter one, and sometimes they can get a net profit of twenty or thirty yuan. Who is not moved by it?
The trafficker's hand for counting the money paused, ”All right, you must be strict, and I will come again at night the day after tomorrow.”
Wang Shou smiled, ”Don't you worry about me doing things? The lady's stomach was uncomfortable, and she fled back to her family a few days ago.”
He was so thin that his cheeks were sunken, he squatted down and kicked viciously at the wooden wheel.
The girl in the car showed a look of fear in her eyes, and she couldn't stop shrinking back.
He was thoughtful and muttered to himself: ”It's okay, the money-losing goods are still there. If you count the time, she will definitely come back and take a look.”
The trafficker did not speak, and drove the same skinny mule onto the road and slowly drove away from this deserted village deep in the mountains.
The dead leaves engulfed the wind, whirling, blowing from a distance.
After finishing the vote, he won't come to this evil village.
The sound of the mule's hooves followed the reel of the wooden wheel gradually away, into the forest further away, and could no longer be heard.
......
Everything fell into a static state of solidification.
[DiDiDi...The main system is being linked]
After this pre-story, the trainees in the square also found that they could finally move their feet and move around in a narrow area.
They were all put on coarse cloth clothes that were consistent with this copy era, and the grade badges hung on their chests indicated their identities.
Although the surrounding scenery is frozen, the trainees are free to walk around this empty square. Many people are secretly looking at the other trainees in this dungeon.
After seeing the two S-levels present, and the two high-level S-levels, everyone took a breath.
Not only S-level, but also A-level, B-level and C-level, the upper three ranks are not a few. After seeing this scene, many D-level and E-level trainees' faces turned pale with ”Why--”.
Many trainees have analyzed that the difficulty of the horror copy will be adjusted according to the strength of the participants.
This is only the second game. Two high-level S ranks were added to one instance. One can imagine how difficult this instance will be.
They are newcomers. They survived the first game with great difficulty, and they got the chance to live at the cost of their lives in Las Vegas, staying behind and knowing the preciousness of life.
It's not sensational, just the scene of this special event in Las Vegas, you don't know how many practice life and death are caused.
At the beginning, the main system proposed a method of exchanging organs for chips.
The rookie who has no initial gambling capital is desperate, enters the casino with chips, and loses his eyes at the gambling table.
Winners take more chips to the more advanced gaming tables, to the unknown fate in front of them. The loser can only return to the front desk in a desperate manner, using more organs for mortgage.
Infinite Loop has never opened a channel for special item exchange before. The horror of the first copy also made them fully aware that one more item represents one more hope of survival.
The main system does not want all the trainees to die, it opens up channels. As long as they don't want to die, newcomers with brains will desperately seize this opportunity.
But all of this is based on bones and blood.
The trainee who had taken a generous stake was triumphant, and his greed grew bigger and bigger. Finally, he returned to the pre-liberation at the high-level gaming table and lost a lot of money, and he couldn't even get the chips to redeem himself.
Practitioners at low-level gaming tables have repeated spleen. They have won and lost, and have been forced to pay for some organs in their bodies for some F-level and E-level props, lacking an eye, and missing a few fingers everywhere. Yes.
Many gamblers who squandered their chips did not dare to walk out of the gates of the Las Vegas palace. There are bankrupts who simply smashed their jars and immersed themselves in the golden palace lounge, gathering crowds to buy drunk, waiting for the moment of trial. There are also people kneeling on the crimson carpet and begging for high-level trainees. They even use all kinds of dirty trades to do things in a low voice, just in exchange for a bargaining chip to sustain their lives.
In the face of the cruel problem of survival, everything has become cold and realistic.
Humanity is displayed naked/naked/naked.
Three days later, the cold mechanical sound of the main system filled the trainee dormitory.
[The special scene ”Las Vegas” will be permanently closed after ten minutes, and every trainee will be liquidated immediately. Trainees with less than the initial gambling funds will be immediately executed for organ removal or forced obliteration]
This event is enough to leave a memory for everyone.
The number of horror trainees who originally had more than 10,000 people dropped sharply, but now there are only 7,000.