Dreaming for 10,000 years

Chapter 205 The female slave
When Shi Fei returned to the village, the afterglow of the setting sun was shining on the desolate land.

He saw Ah Ruo and the young boy Goudan digging a pit at the entrance of the village. After a day's rest and a few drinks of rice soup, Goudan was able to move around.

He pointed at the mutilated corpse on the ground and said to Ah Ruo in a hoarse voice: "This is my second uncle from the village. Now there is only a head left... I don't recognize that one, it has been almost eaten by rats. And this one..."

Although Ah Ruo couldn't see, his movements were very precise. He heard Shi Fei's footsteps, raised his head and asked, "Is the situation not going well?"

If everything went well, it should be raining by now.

Shi Fei did not answer, but raised his hand and waved it. As his Qi surged, a huge deep pit suddenly appeared on the ground. Under Goudan's admiring gaze, he buried the corpses in the village one by one.

The dust buried the mutilated bodies and also buried the last traces of the village.

After packing up all this, they continued on their way to look for other people.

Shi Fei didn't believe that all the people in Lunan were dead!

Goudan lay on Ah Ruo's back, carefully looking at Shi Fei who was carrying a rice soup pot, and finally summoned up the courage to ask, "You... you must be a deity who saves people from suffering, right?"

In his heart, only gods can save people from suffering.

Shi Fei heard this, shook his head, thought for a moment and said: "I am not a god. If I were a god, there would be no disasters in this world. So, I am not a god."

Goudan seemed to understand what he heard, but he felt that there were many things hidden in these words that he could not understand.

He lowered his head and asked no more questions.

They walked very fast, and in just half a day they passed through nine villages. However, every village was dead silent, and no one survived, no matter how big or small.

On the cracked land, corpses were scattered, some were eaten beyond recognition by wild beasts, and some had long been dried into dry bones. The barren land stretched for thousands of miles, and the dead bodies of the hungry were everywhere, like hell on earth.

After walking on the barren land for half a day, Shi Fei and A Ruo finally saw the second living person outside a dilapidated town.

It was an old woman in strange clothes. Her clothes were ragged, but you could vaguely see ancient runes embroidered on them. She was hunched over, digging frantically in the cemetery outside the town.

The graveyard had long been turned into a mess by her, with the tombstones tilted here and there and the grave mounds dug up, revealing the rotten coffins inside. Her movements were hurried and focused, as if she was looking for something vital.

Shi Fei and A Ruo approached quietly, and Goudan also held his breath. The old woman seemed to be unaware of their arrival and continued digging. Finally, she stopped and let out a low gasp.

She dug out a half-rotten corpse. Lava-like lines appeared faintly under the skin, as if hot liquid was flowing under the skin.

With a "clang", the old woman dropped the hoe in her hand, half-knelt on the ground, and stroked the mummy with trembling hands.

Her voice was hoarse and low, as if it came from deep in her throat: "Nüba weeps blood, the Emperor punishes the people..."

"What is Nüba?" Shi Fei suddenly asked.

His eyes fell on the mummy. The lava lines on the corpse seemed to be flowing slowly, as if it had life. He had a vague feeling that the drought and locust plague in this land might have some connection with the mummy. Was it him?
Shi Fei guessed.

"You..." The old woman slowly raised her head, with a strange light flashing in her turbid eyes.

Her face was covered with wrinkles, but a strange smile hung on the corners of her mouth: "Are you... also here to find 'her'? 'She' is right here, under this land... When Nuba wakes up, all living beings will be buried with her..."

"Playing tricks!" Shi Fei would not tolerate her and raised his hand to slap the old woman!
The palm wind was light and understated, but it contained the power he had learned from the confrontation with Hastur, the Lord in Yellow.

When confronting Hastur, the Lord of Yellow, Shi Fei felt that thoughts and ideas were a kind of power in themselves. In the spiritual space, terrible thoughts and ideas trumped everything!
Will is power, and thought is also power. This palm strike was not a single bit worldly, but it went straight to the heart, enough to distort the cognition and will of others.

In the past, Shi Fei might have needed to use his true qi as a carrier to inject his will into the other person's body and slowly affect his mind. But now, he can do it with ease.

Therefore, the ideas that this palm brought to his realization were not very destructive, but they could easily distort the thoughts of others.

Seeing this, the old woman let out a low laugh, and her body flashed, turning into a ball of fire, trying to escape. However, her actions seemed extremely ridiculous in Shi Fei's eyes. The palm wind followed her like a shadow, hitting her accurately, and knocking her back to her original form from the fire.

Shi Fei looked at the old woman who was hit by the palm and fell down again. He was stunned and sneered in his heart.

I fought against Jade Emperor Temple, Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, and Hastur, the Yellow King. What level are you at? How could you dodge my palm?
If you run away, will those Old Ones who were beaten by me have no face left?
But Shi Fei still underestimated the old woman.

In her dull eyes, a ray of fire suddenly ignited. The fire not only overflowed from her eyes, but also spread along the ancient runes on her clothes, as if her whole body was ignited by some mysterious power.

In the firelight, the old woman's eyes suddenly changed, becoming deep and majestic, as if she had become a different person. Her voice was no longer hoarse, but carried an ancient and solemn aura: "...You are the one who woke me up?"

"Who are you?" Shi Fei asked.

"As for me..." The old woman thought for a moment and said, "I have too many names. You can call me Zhu Xiang."

Shi Fei couldn't remember the name, but he felt it sounded familiar. He said, "It sounds so familiar, it seems to be an extraordinary name!"

"You are even more amazing because you can wake me up!" The old woman looked at Shi Fei with admiration.

Shi Fei did not respond, but asked directly: "What's going on with Nüba?"

"Chiyou raised an army to attack Huangdi, so Huangdi ordered Yinglong to attack him in the wilderness of Jizhou. Yinglong stored water, and Chiyou asked Fengbo and Yushi to unleash a storm. Huangdi then sent down a goddess named Ba, and the rain stopped, and then he killed Chiyou!" The old woman read a passage from "Classic of Mountains and Seas: Great Wilderness North Classic".

Her voice was deep and powerful, as if she was reciting an ancient epic.

"Nu Ba is not allowed to go up to heaven again, and it doesn't rain where she lives." Shi Fei continued her words: "You know, that's not what I'm asking! According to legend, Nu Ba ran out of power and could no longer return to heaven, so she had to live on earth!"

He paused, staring at the old woman sharply: "Is it possible that in ancient times, someone distorted Cthugha and made him unable to return to the universe!"

(End of this chapter)