Chapter 432: Fields and People

As the fog dissipated, Shang Lu and his two companions saw that on the southwest side of the hill there was a piece of reclaimed “farmland”.

The soil in the ground was a strange dark red color.

This is the color produced after being soaked in blood.

Because Shang Lu and the other two clearly saw that in that “crop field” there was a pool of sticky blood – making it look like a rice field that had been flooded.

However, what flooded was not water, but blood.

What is even more creepy is the “crops” in the “field”.

All people!
Real people!
These people all looked like children. The youngest looked like a newborn baby, and the oldest was only three or five years old.

All the children were naked, with most of their bodies stuck in the bloody rice fields, leaving only their chests and heads exposed. Some of the shorter ones had their chests submerged in the blood, with only their heads exposed, barely able to breathe.

Although these children were still alive, they were all emaciated and extremely thin, giving people the feeling that a gust of wind could blow them all away.

The child in the rice field has his eyes closed.

It wasn’t that they wanted to close their eyes, but the sticky blood had blocked their eyes, making it impossible for them to open them. Not only their eyes, but also the ears of these skinny children were filled with blood.

This was done intentionally by the thieves, who wanted to make these children, whom they regarded as “humans”, unable to see or hear.

The purpose of doing this, apart from preventing these children from seeing or hearing what happens in the valley, is also to torture them and accumulate resentment.

For the He thieves, the stronger the resentment, the higher the quality of the “Human He” and the better the effect.

The children in the rice field could not open their eyes or hear any sounds, and could only groan in pain with their mouths open.

The groans they made sounded very familiar to Shang Lu and the other two. They were the strange sounds they had heard in the evil fog before. They were filled with strong resentment and could pollute people’s hearts and make them feel despair.

Before, Shang Lu was still wondering what made the sound and why the resentment was so deep?

Now he knows.

They are the people who are harmed by the wheat thieves.

Most of these poor children were “planted” in this filthy field since birth. They ate filthy food and drank dirty blood, but they could not fill their stomachs and could only barely survive.

He couldn’t see, hear, or move, and couldn’t even commit suicide.

Not only that, they would be tortured by the thieves using evil magic and torture instruments every now and then.

Shang Lu and the other two saw many festering wounds on the children’s bodies, which were obviously the result of human abuse.

Many strange torture instruments were also seen on the edge of the fields.

It’s no wonder that these children are so resentful in such a situation where life is worse than death.

“I’ll go rescue them.”

Lu Yangxiu was a swordsman and his character was just like the sword. When he saw this scene, he could not sit still.

Even though his magic power had not yet fully recovered, he still climbed up from the ground and appeared in the field in a flash, completely ignoring the blood and filth in the field.

As soon as they entered the rice field, a stench of decay, blood, and pus immediately swept over them. Strangely, amidst the stench, there was also a strange sweet smell.

The smell is both fragrant and stinky, which is more unbearable than a simple stench, as if someone has sprayed perfume in a dry toilet.

The smell is so complex and smoky.

Even though Lu Yang was mentally prepared, he was still nauseated by the smell. He quickly made a sword gesture and used sword energy to dispel the stench. Only then did he recover and avoid being suffocated to death in the rice field, ending up dying before accomplishing his mission.

Lu Yang waded through the filthy blood and quickly walked to a child.

The child’s face was covered in blood and he looked in pain.

Because his eyes and ears were covered, he didn’t know someone was coming in front of him. He just opened his mouth and groaned weakly.

“Don’t be afraid, child, I’m here to save you.”

Lu Yang reached out and gently grabbed the child.

Although the child’s eyes and ears were blocked, his sense of touch was still there. He immediately realized that someone had grabbed him. He was frightened and his whole body was shaking uncontrollably, but he did not dare to struggle. He just opened his mouth and let out unintelligible wails.

This scene made Lu Yang feel extremely distressed.

He quickly activated his sword energy and dug up the bloody mud that had buried the child’s lower body, and “dug” the child out of the bloody field.

“what–“

What Lu Yang didn’t expect was that the child actually let out a shrill scream after being rescued by him.

The sound was sharp and piercing, totally unlike the weak moans from before.

At the same time, the child’s already thin body quickly dried up in Lu Yang’s hands.

In just a few breaths, the child became nothing but skin and bones. Then the skin and flesh rotted away, and the bones wrapped in skin and flesh, as well as the intestines and stomach that had rotted into a pile of rotten meat, fell to the ground in the bloody field along with a bunch of strange black silk.

“dinner time……”

“Eat…eat…”

There were several children in the rice field whose figures were obviously more normal than the other children. They were probably abducted and planted in the field not long ago.

They are also blind and deaf, but like other children, they can smell and speak.

Other children who were “born and raised” in the valley could not speak human language.

They opened their mouths and could only babble.

No matter whether they were newly “transplanted” children or children “born and raised” here, they all spat out black hair-like strands from their mouths.

These black threads seemed to have life, rushing towards Lu Yang from all directions.

The fastest black silk immediately entangled the rotten flesh and bones of the child just now, directly decomposing and devouring them.

Some black silk threads rushed towards Lu Yang, trying to wrap him up.

“What are these weird things?”

Lu Yang was originally blaming himself, but after seeing this scene, he was shocked and subconsciously wanted to activate his sword energy to cut off these strange black threads.

But suddenly, Shang Lu and Bai Lingxu’s voices of stopping him rang in his ears.

“Brother Lu, don’t do anything. Get out of here!”

“This is a special kind of mycelium. Through witchcraft, they parasitize in the bodies of these children. It is very likely that they have formed a symbiotic relationship with these children. Once the mycelium is injured, these children will die suddenly! If you are entangled by them, you will also be parasitized and turned into a ‘human grass’.”

Lu Yang was shocked when he heard this. These hyphae were indeed weak, so weak that he could crush them all with just a breath of sword energy.

But these hyphae have formed a symbiotic relationship with the poor children in the rice fields.

Having learned from the previous experience, Lu Yang did not dare to act rashly again, but when he looked around, he found that he was surrounded by strange mycelium.

However, Senior Brother Lu still had a way. He raised his head to the sky, exhaled a sword energy, and made sword gestures with his hands. He actually climbed the sword energy and flew out of the filthy rice field. In this way, he avoided the entanglement of the mycelium.

Shang Lu and Bai Lingxu stood at the edge of the rice field, observing the situation in the field and thinking about how to rescue the children.

At the same time, they were prepared to retreat immediately if the mycelium attacked them.

It is not difficult to destroy the mycelium, but the difficult part is how to protect the children from accidents while destroying the mycelium.

Shang Lu and Bai Lingxu soon discovered that these strange hyphae seemed to be able to move only in rice fields.

Even though these hyphae discovered Shanglu and Bai Lingxu standing at the edge of the field and moved closer, they did not rush out of the field and roll towards the two of them.

They just swayed in the fields and dared not leave.

In other words, there is no way to leave the fields.

They must be able to survive in this sea of ​​blood and filth?

Just as Shang Lu and Bai Lingxu were observing carefully, Lu Yang, who flew out of the wheat field with the help of sword energy, landed behind them.

He still felt guilty about what happened just now.

“What happened to that kid? I wanted to save him, but he died? And he became like that.”

Bai Lingxu said without even turning his head: “This is not your fault. It’s all because the He thieves are so abominable. They must have used mycelium to cast a poisonous curse on these children. As long as they leave the blood mud, they will fester and die suddenly.”

“Blame me, blame me…”

Shang Lu raised his eyebrows slightly, but he noticed that something was wrong with Lu Yang.

With Lu Yang’s personality, he would be angry about the child’s death, and would also feel guilty for the child’s death in his hands.

But I will never dwell on this matter or even feel sorry for myself.

Senior Brother Lu would only turn his grief into murderous intent, slay more He thieves, and avenge the dead child.

Shang Lu suddenly turned around and looked towards Lu Yang.

There was actually blood stains on Lu Yang’s face.

The dirty blood covered his eyes, blocked his ears, and was seeping into his mouth.

Before Shang Lu could make any move, Lu Yang suddenly pounced on him and Bai Lingxu, wanting to throw them into the rice field.

“Since it is our fault, we should make amends. Let us take the place of the dead child and bear fruit!”

(I’d like to wish everyone a happy new year! There will be fewer updates today and on the first day of the new year. I’ll resume on the second day of the new year and then start to make up for it.)
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