The end of natural disasters: the daily life of child brides in ancient times

Chapter 387 Captivity

There is a shallow ditch next to the courtyard wall.

At this time, the ditch was densely packed with matted hair, bones with the flesh removed, and internal organs soaked in blood.

As the temperature rises, some of the things in the ditch have begun to rot and spoil.

An indescribable stench filled the air and went straight into people's nostrils.

Even though everyone had seen many corpses, the visual impact of this scene still made them vomit.

Most people in the team just took a quick look and then quickly looked away.

But the scene just now was almost imprinted in their minds.

For a moment, the whole team was filled with the sound of retching.

This kind of physiological nausea cannot be suppressed just because you want to.

After a while, the vomiting sound gradually stopped.

Lu Tianming wiped the vomit from the corner of his mouth, and when he looked up again, his eyes looking towards the yard were full of murderous intent.

There are so many corpses piled up in this ditch, and it hasn't been a day or two.

Considering the many deserted villages ahead, I’m afraid that these animals inside have been living on this kind of meat for the entire winter.

At this time, more than a dozen neatly dressed men carrying bags rushed out of the room, muttering words like "run away".

As soon as they walked out of the house, they saw people standing at the gate of the courtyard.

A few people who reacted quickly had already climbed over the wall and ran outside.

The rest of them hid back in the house in panic.

After they closed the door from the inside, they began to move various things to prop up the door.

At the gate, Lu Tianming's voice was filled with murderous intent:

"Master Yan, please take care of the few people who escaped!

Don't let any of these beasts escape!"

"Don't worry, no one can escape!"

Master Yan said this and called a few of his disciples to chase after those people.

Lu Tianming stood at the gate of the yard and ordered people to surround the yard.

After making sure that no one could escape, he led everyone into the yard.

At this moment, on the east side of the yard, where livestock were supposed to be raised, there was a sudden sound of banging on the door.

Lu Tianming walked slowly forward with a knife in hand, and carefully used the knife to pry open the hook blocking the door.

As the wooden door slowly opened, the scene inside was revealed.

A group of people with disheveled hair and scantily clad clothes huddled in the corner. As the wooden door opened, there was a commotion.

Lu Tianming, who was standing at the door, smelled a strong stench of fish and corpse.

The floor of the house was covered with human excrement and bloody bones. It had been unknown how long since it had been cleaned.

There were still a lot of rotten bones thrown in the pit below.

At this moment, a dark, skinny hand stretched out from behind the wooden door.

Then, an old woman with messy hair walked out slowly with her back bent.

Lu Tianming took a step back and looked at her warily.

After looking carefully, I discovered this.

The old woman was thinner than any refugee they had seen before, and her clothes were covered in excrement.

But there was a hint of surprise in a pair of cloudy eyes.

"Are you... coming... to save us?"

Lu Tianming looked at her, then at the people inside who looked similar, and he already understood what was going on.

At this moment, he couldn't describe the sadness.

These people inside are his kind!

Yet they are kept in captivity by their fellow humans just to eat their meat.

These captive people can survive by eating their own kind.

Lu Tianming was so frightened that he took a few steps back, not daring to look at the scene inside.

He held the knife, turned around and walked towards the door step by step.

At the back, the crowd around them also understood what was happening, and immense anger surged in their hearts.

They had only one thought in their minds: to kill those beasts!

A group of men rushed to the door, kicking it open or chopping the windows with knives.

The refugees inside were frightened by the scene and held tight against the doors and windows from inside.

Wang Dashan was furious. He went to the yard to find a thick piece of wood and asked someone to help him move it over.

Everyone picked up wood and hit the window. In a few hits, the entire window panel was knocked down.

Lu Tianming jumped in first, holding a knife.

He chopped down the refugees who were ambushing by the window with a few strokes of his sword, and then rushed inside.

The rest of the people also climbed in through the windows.

In the room, blood and flesh were flying everywhere.

Soon, the shouting and begging for mercy stopped.

Lu Tianming and others moved away the tables and other items piled at the door, and when they came out, their bodies and faces were covered in blood.

Lu Shuhe shook off the blood on the knife and looked at the open wooden door on the east side of the yard, but found that only the old woman and a man with a broken leg came out.

The rest of the people were still in the same position as when they opened the door, squatting and huddled in the corner.

If you look closely, you will find that there is no expression on their faces, as if their souls have been taken away.

Lu Tianming left only two people in the yard to watch, and then led the rest of the people to the town to chase the fleeing refugees.

When Lu Qingqing and Qin Lang came over, they saw Lu Tianming and others searching house to house. As long as they saw fleeing refugees, they would kill them with a single knife.

When Li Rui saw them coming, he told her what happened before.

When Lu Qingqing looked at the fleeing refugees again, murderous intent boiled in her eyes.

The entire team searched house to house from east to west.

Many of the refugees who fled did not run far and hid in various courtyards.

As they were found one by one, they were hacked to death by the crowd.

They worked until it was completely dark and finally searched the entire town.

At this time, the women were helping each other and dragging their luggage over.

When choosing a place to stay for the night, the men deliberately sent them away, not wanting them to see that scene.

But the women knew what was going on in the town.

There were many impatient people who wanted to chop the dead refugees a dozen more times.

After the team settled down and the women were preparing to cook dinner, Lu Tianming finally had time to lead people to release those who were held in captivity.

The only one who was still sober among these people was the old woman.

The one next to her with a missing leg is her little son.

According to the old woman, most of the people who were captured were from nearby villages.

There were also a very small number of people who were fleeing famine and passed by here and were captured by those beasts.

As far as she knew, the number of people who were first captured and raised as sheep filled eight or nine rooms.

After a winter, they were the only ones left after being eaten.

Most of these people are old or sick, and are left behind because they are despised.

As for the details, Lu Tianming did not ask any more questions.

Although this old lady did not go crazy like the others, her mental state was extremely poor.

As for the above contents, they are still upside down and it took a long time to make them clear.

Lu Tianming settled these people in another yard. After thinking for a while, he decided to keep most of the food he had collected from the refugees.

He calculated that this amount of food would be enough to feed these people for two or three months.

If they have the will to survive, this food is enough for them to survive.