Chapter 185 Valley of Life

The flowing water is gurgling and the breeze is gentle. This should have been another beautiful morning. However, no sun rose out of the sky this morning. It seems to be covered by thick dark clouds, leaving only a faint outline for the world to see.

How many people are breathing in the world? Sometimes Kan Cangyue will think so. She doesn't know and doesn't want to know. It may hurt more if she knows. Since she watched the two martial artists turned into walking corpses by ghosts in Wangjing Town that day, she has been a little frustrated - she has worked so hard for so long that she may not be as good as the blow of ghosts. What on earth does he want to do with this ghosts?

In the past few days, Kan Cangyue has been recalling the little things before the ghost life turned into a ghost life. At that time, Gui Ming was still a sunny young man. He looked thick and kind, and he was not as demonic as he is now. What made him like this?

There is a stream near here. The stream was originally green, but now it has turned green. From time to time, there will be a rotting corpse floating with the water, emitting a rotten smell in the stream. Perhaps with the moisture of the body, there is a thick layer of green algae floating on the surface of this stream, which looks very eye-catching.

Kan Cangyue walked slowly by the stream with the moon god bow. She walked slowly from east to west. At this time, she had completely lost her goal. To destroy the walking corpse? All the people in the world have become walking corpses, that is, how much can be destroyed by her? Even if all of them are destroyed, what can they do? Now Kan Cangyue is completely following the faint breath of the broken soul beads and walking mechanically to the west. She has walked like this day and night.

The edge of the stream flows with a short mountain bag. On the other side of the stream, there is a row of dense forests. It was supposed to be a green world, but now it has all turned gray and yellow. Linzi is still dense, and even Kan Cangyue can hear a slight sound or two from time to time.

"Who is that?" A low male voice came from the forest. The owner of this voice obviously deliberately lowered his voice, as if he was afraid of alarming something else.

"I don't know, it doesn't look like that thing." Another man whispered.

In fact, Kan Cangyue has known for a long time that there are people on the other side, but it is full of the smell of death. This breath of death confuses other smells and makes it impossible for her to distinguish between them. Now that she hears this person's words, she knows that there are living people there, and she also knows that those who are alive are also on guard.

"It's a girl, third brother, that's a living girl." A younger voice whispered with surprise.

"Well, go and tell her..."

"Oc, you can't watch her die!"

After a period of chatty, four or five middle-aged men came out of the dry forest with steel fork hoes and shouted to Kan Cangyue across the stream, "Hey! Girl, come here!"

Kan Cangyue turned her head and looked. She saw several farmers-like people, but they all held all kinds of rough weapons in their hands. They were ragged, and some people even had many wounds.

"Are you calling me?" Kan Cangyue turned to look at them and asked slowly.

"Yes, girl, come here!" Those people said, "Go ahead for a while, don't wade through the water, take the stone bridge over there!" One of the oldest said.

"Why?" Kan Cangyue asked, "We don't know each other..."

"Oh, just come here. We won't do anything to you. Didn't you find that there were such things everywhere on your way?" A younger man shouted anxiously, "There is a village not far ahead, and the whole village has become that thing..."

Kan Cangyue looked forward. There was a rough stone bridge more than ten feet ahead, and the stream flowed from the arched bridge cave from west to east. Further ahead is a vast farmland, but now the farmland is also abandoned.

Kan Cangyue walked along the stone bridge, and those people carefully looked left and right, and then took her all the way to the mountain. As the leader walked, she told her, "Girl, you may not know that we have one or two hundred villagers here. They have hidden here since the outbreak of the plague, and they don't know for a few days. What's going on outside..."

When Kan Cangyue heard this man's words, somehow the original haze in her heart disappeared. Maybe she saw hope? As long as there is a fire, sooner or later, a fire will be formed. As long as there is a living person, the world will not be swallowed up by the plague.

The mountain bag is very low, with a spacious valley, both of which are cliffs. The cliff is not high, but it is very steep, and it is not easy to come down from above. Of course, this steepness is also relative to ordinary people. In Kan Cangyue's view, this valley is like a grave bag. Once a walking corpse blocks the exit, these people will have no life. However, in the eyes of these ordinary people, this valley is a place that can save their lives at present.

"We named this place Life Valley, thinking that this place can make us survive!" An old woman who was rubbing a hemp rope said to Kan Cangyue with a smile while working.

"Old woman, why can you still laugh?" Kan Cangyue looked at her curiously and asked.

"Girl, if you are alive, you can laugh more when you can smile more..." The old woman stopped the work and looked at Kan Cangyue seriously. "I see that you always look worried on your face. It's not good. Look at me. I'm old and sick. Don't I have to live? Even if I die tomorrow, I will laugh today. Things have been like this, crying and laughing day by day. Why don't I laugh and spend this day? Don't you think so, girl?

The old woman looks like an ordinary village woman. The wrinkles on her face are as if they were carved with a knife, deep and dense. When she laughed, Kan Cangyue could see her yellow, irregular and sometimes lost teeth. Anyway, this old woman is not a beautiful person, but somehow, When she smiled, Kan Cangyue felt as if a stream of sunshine fell into the valley through the dark clouds.

"Well, what are you talking about?" Kan Cangyue smiled faintly and answered.

While chatting with the old woman, Kan Cangyue observed the situation in the valley by the way. Perhaps it has not been polluted by the plague, or because there are living people here. In short, the valley is covered with grass, and many green trees grow on the bottom of the valley or the cliff next to it. In the open space in the valley, shacks are built everywhere, and a family now lives in this shack.

Men built a fence wall at the foot-wide exit of the valley, and built a watchtower outside. The watchtower is very simple, that is, several wooden sticks. Twelve hours a day, people are on guarding it to prevent those walking dead. Come on. When Kan Cangyue followed the men into the valley, she found that they had also dug many traps outside the mouth of the valley, which were said to have protected them many times.

"What do you eat here?" Kan Cangyue asked.

This problem is very realistic. Now it is devastated outside. The green in this valley is the only green that Kan Cangyu has seen during this period. There are even people holding chickens, ducks and other poultry and livestock here. Although it looks good, the resources in this valley are limited and will be exhausted sooner or later.

"Men go up the mountain to hunt, although there are fewer and fewer prey now!" The old woman sighed, "But we have porridge and food to eat. First, we can rely on some food accumulated before, which can still persist for a period of time."

"What about after a while?" Kan Cangyue asked.

The smile on the old woman's face was a little frozen. Maybe Kan Cangyue asked what was on her mind. She was stunned and replied after a long time, "I can only take one step. I heard that there are no living people outside... Girl, you are the first living person we have seen since we lived here!" It seems that the old lady is still very happy to mention this.

"A living person..." Kan Cangyue was stung by these two words, and she said with a wry smile, "Maybe."

"Girl, you are not an ordinary person, are you?" The old lady looked at her and asked.

"How can I see it?" Kan Cangyue asked with a smile.

"Tut, she is also a young and beautiful lady. You make me feel different from others, like a fairy in the sky. Are you a cultivated person?" The old lady asked in a low voice.

Kan Cangyue nodded with a smile: "I really am."

"That's great!" The old lady danced happily, "With you, we have a better chance of living."

"Well, yes, the opportunity is bigger." Unlike the happiness of the old lady, Kan Cangyue is happy that there are more than a dozen children, dozens of men and dozens of women. With them, the world will not fall into despair.

After rubbing the rope, the old lady was eager to arrange a place to live for Kan Cangyue. Although Kan Cangyue desperately explained that she only needed a tree to spend the night, the old lady still gave up half of her small shed to her.

"Are you alone?" Kan Cangyue found that the other shacks were a family, and the old lady seemed to be the only one here.

"Ha ha, yes, my husband and children and grandchildren..." When the old lady laughed, tears did not stop and flowed down from her turbid eyes. "Now I am left alone, but these children are very good to me. Those who have food and drink will want to keep it for me, and I will do what I can do. Retribution to them..."

There was a burst of ** outside. Kan Cangyue hurried out of the shack to have a look. She was afraid that a walking corpse would come here to disturb the only pure land in the world, perhaps the only one. However, Kan Cangyue soon found that it was a false alarm. The noise outside was because someone caught a wild boar from the mountain. The wild boar was very thin because it had no food. Although it was very thin, it was still a food given by God for the people in the valley.

"Okay, don't grab it, everyone has one!" The leader is a man in his thirties. He has a bow on his back, a firewood knife on his waist, and looks like a hunter.

"How should I eat this pork?" Someone shouted and asked.

"Stew it. I haven't had a good meal with oil for a long time!" Someone shouted.

"I know how to eat. You eat this meal and don't care about the next meal!" The previous man was immediately criticized by everyone.

At this time, an old man stood up and said, "I think we should marinate the pork, one for each family, and let them make their own decision?"

"Good!" The hunter nodded and said, "I agree with Uncle Zhang's words and do it like this. The thin water flows for a long time, but the pigs go into the water and these things that can't be preserved will be stewed for everyone to make a tooth sacrifice today!"

Hearing the hunter's words, everyone cheered, as if it were the Spring Festival. They cheered and followed the hunter to kill pigs, while the children played on the ground. The scene in front of her infected Kan Cangyue. She took a deep breath and said to herself, "Anyway, I will protect the people here." At this moment, she suddenly felt that she lived in this world and seemed to have a goal again. Perhaps this goal was temporary - to preserve beautiful things.

Everyone had a good dinner, and they even brought out the only jar of rice wine and drank it openly. No one suggests that they should save this wine, because they all know that tomorrow is unknown, and perhaps many of them will not have a chance to drink it again tomorrow.

Naturally, Kan Cangyue didn't need to eat. She gave the bowl of soup given to her to the old woman, who then transferred it to an orphan and widow. Leaving the 'banquet' scene, Kan Cangyue walked to the mouth of the valley. She always felt a little uneasy in her heart. How long can she live such a peaceful life? The grain in the valley will eventually run out, and the walking corpses outside the mountain will eventually find here one day. What should they do then?

A young man was standing in the observation tower, seriously and attentively observing the wind and grass outside. He didn't even find that Kan Cangyue had come up.

"Frightened!" The young man finally realized the existence of others. He turned around and saw Kan Cangyue in the faint moonlight, which was startled.

"I'm sorry for scaring you." Kan Cangyue said with some guilt.

"It's okay..." The young man saw clearly that there was a fairy-like girl in front of him, and his face suddenly turned red and he waved his hand.

The watchtower is not big, only enough for three or two people to stand side by side. Kan Cangyue saw a bowl on the ground. The broth in the bowl was cold, and a layer of oil floated on it.

"Why don't you eat it?" Kan Cangyue asked curiously.

"I want to leave these for my brother." The young man said embarrassedly, and the expression on his face appeared that he had been found to have done something bad.

"Eat it, your brother has already eaten it." Kan Cangyue said, "You are the one who protects everyone. If you are hungry, how can you protect them?"

When the young man heard Kan Cangyue's words, he frowned and meditated and nodded, "Yes, you're right. If I die, who will protect my brother?" After saying that, he squatted down and picked up the bowl and began to eat his dinner.

"That's right... What should I call you?" The young man asked Nuonuo while eating. Obviously, he had not had much dealing with girls, because Kan Cangyue could see the blush on his face and felt his awkwardness.

"Call me Cangyue." Kan Cangyue said.

"Oh, Miss Cangyue... How did you get up just now?" The young man asked curiously, "In our look tower, only when the people above put down the cable, the people below can come up. The pillars below are full of wood thorns."

"Ha ha, I'm a true person. It's naturally very simple to come here." Kan Cangyue smiled and did not hide him.

"Ah, isn't it?" When the young man heard Kan Cangyue's words, he asked excitedly, "I've always wanted to find a master to learn martial arts. Can you accept me as an apprentice?" It seems that this young man can't understand the difference between a person who cultivates truth and a person who knows martial arts, but it doesn't matter.

Kan Cangyue pondered for a moment and nodded, "Yes." She thought that teaching these people some survival skills should not be a bad thing for them. She is not going to teach them how to practice, but just teach them some martial arts.

The young man later introduced himself. His name is Genzhu and his younger brother is Tiezhu. Now there are only two brothers left in the family, and his parents have become walking corpses. Driven by the root pillar, all the men and women in the whole valley began to learn some self-defense skills from Kan Cangyue. They were very serious and focused. Although many people did not have enough to eat, their belief in survival supported them.

Kan Cangyue has also accepted apprentices before, but she has never met such serious apprentices as dozens of people in the valley. They may not be well-qualified, but their concentration moved Kan Cangyue and will certainly bring light and hope to themselves.

Light and hope are not always there. On the second night when Kan Cangyue arrived at the Valley of Life, there were guests outside the valley that they did not want to see - walking bodies.

As those people said, not far west of this mountain, there is a village where the whole village has become walking corpses. That night, Kan Cangyue was meditating when she suddenly heard a rapid sound of tapping on the bottom of the pot, and the valley suddenly rose up.

"There are walking corpses!" There was an almost desperate howling from the tower.

All the men were armed in a very short time and gathered at the exit of the valley, while the women protected their children to hide in the farthest corner of the valley. The children didn't cry. They just looked outside with frightened eyes. No one knew whether the walking corpses would attack this time.

Kan Cangyue settled down with the old woman and rushed to the mouth of the valley with the moon god bow. She jumped to the top of the cliff next to the mouth of the valley, from which she would see farther.

There are dozens of walking corpses outside. They are approaching from the west to the mouth of the valley. These walking bodies should be the villagers of the village. They finally touched here.