The Devil Sword Swordsman
Ch. 42 - The Famine
"Lotus Temple?"
"Yes right. You better hurry over there or-"
Kaibo held onto his chest and a moment later his mouth spit out fresh blood. "The devil knows what I'm talking about, he definitely won't stay silent. Now, go there!"
Kaibo turned into black smoke after saying that, leaving Xin Fai filled with many question marks. But he had no choice but to obey Kaibo.
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Lang ran at top speed making Xin Fai who was above him overwhelmed balancing the body so as not to fall. Despite already having power, Lang's speed was still no match for him.
For hours they spent traveling in the forest until from a distance Xin Fai saw a human corpse.
"Stop," Xin Fai said for a moment. He jumped off Lang's body and examined the corpse.
On the man's wrist was a figure of 223 indicating he was a warrior, his face covered in a cat mask with three red lines on the cheeks.
Xin Fai turned to the man's luggage and found many gold coins inside. There was no sign of a savage animal attack or murder wounds. He thought about what had happened to the man.
But Xin Fai did not find the answer, the death of this man was really strange.
"He carried two hundred gold pieces and died without any interference. From his direction this warrior must be about to go to Anguo city."
If the warrior was going to Anguo City it would be impossible because of the great distance and the warrior had no horse. Walking like this will certainly drain a lot of energy.
"And out of her body, she's so skinny..."
Xin Fai stopped thinking then climbed up Lang.
"Something's up ahead. Let's go!"
Lang ran twice as fast as to make Xin Fai's stomach swirl about to let out its contents. With a very fast running speed that they managed to get to less than two hours.
At the gate of a simple-looking village they found no one, Xin Fai decided to check deeper. When he entered a house, he was surprised to see a crowd of people coming to him.
"Is that Dong Chai? Is he back?" Half-century-old woman first speaks.
"That's not him... What's going on?"
"If Dong Chai fails to get food how will our fate be after this..."
Xin Fai stared at the swarm of villagers who on average only lived those bones. When he looked inside the house he was about to enter, a foul smell stung out. He saw a human carcass in it that had been eaten by rats.
Xin Fai remembered the massacre in the village earlier, he clenched his hands tightly and smashed it at the door of the house.
"Who did all this?"
The residents there stared at her for a while until one of the skinny girls there replied.
"A few weeks ago a group of black-flow warriors came here and took all of our livestock" he explained, turning a blind eye. "If we don't give them away then they'll all kill us."
One of them added. "They also took all our food supplies. So we don't have anything else to eat."
Xin Fai went around the surroundings and saw the rice fields there had already been destroyed. It was obvious that the culprit wanted to slowly kill the villagers, from which Xin Fai understood how the black school warriors worked.
"The Crow Alliance of Hell, as they call it."
Xin Fai would remember the name and reply to them if they found it. For a while he tried to understand the situation in order to take the next step.
After getting enough explanation from them, Xin Fai took out a few pieces of dried bread from his bag. Their reaction was so unexpected, they were scrambling like starving beasts and ahead of each other.
Xin Fai could only put on a slurred face, she felt sorry to see these villagers. Even with that little piece of bread, they split it even smaller and divided it into starving children.
For a while Xin Fai would look for edible animals within the forest. But not a few meters he was directly faced with a large tiger there.
He retreated for a moment and returned to one of the houses where the residents gathered.
From there he only knew the reason they could not hunt was because of a tiger that ruled the forest near them. As for facing the tiger, at least it takes strength equivalent to a medium swordsman.
Fighting with the tiger at night was not the right choice, Xin Fai decided to look for another way.
"I think hunting around here will only end up in vain, besides I'm not necessarily getting the hunt their number is also not necessarily enough to fill the stomach of everyone in this village."
Lang who heard it only took a pissed breath. "Why do you always think about the fate of others who don't even recognize you at all?"
Xin Fai looked at the wolf inside.
"If only I had been in their position, and suddenly came someone who might have saved me. Of course I really wish I could be helped."
The wolf in front of him did not answer. Xin Fai's words were truly unthinkable before. In this world, everyone lives for themselves. People who have thoughts like Xin Fai must certainly be willing to accept all risks.
For example, you have to sacrifice your own life, because many warriors who choose indifference and only help when getting the right pay.
"Lang, do you know that guy named Dong Chai?"
Lang just growled.
"He was one of the fighters who was about to go to Anguo City to buy food. You yourself know, the distance from Anguo town to here is very far..."
"So?" Lang felt his sleep disturbed.
"With your running speed it's-"
"No way."
"Come on Lang," Xin Fai persuaded later. He shook Lang's body while whining. "You must have felt hunger, right? At least you understand what happened to them." His index finger headed towards the population group consisting of the elderly, small children and had grown up there.
Lang closed his eyes, he remembered that when he was starving because his game was gone and there came a boy who confidently offered him to go with him to a city to get food.
"Grrhhh..."
"Hows it? You want? Come on, I promise I'll repay your kindness later."
"Sleep there, we'll move tomorrow."
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