Chapter 285 Xu Ling

"Sister Lingling, will someone come to save us?"

Several little guys looked at Xu Ling with hopeful eyes, but Xu Ling didn't know how to answer.

No one would come to save them. She had heard her parents say that this was a closed space and no one could leave except for the high-ranking figures in the central palace.

But if she really said that, these little guys who were born here like her would probably be completely desperate.

"Yes! Don't worry! As long as we persist for a while, someone will definitely come to save us!"

A smile appeared on Xu Ling's face, as if she was full of hope for the future.

Seeing what she said, the little guys finally felt a little calmer.

"Eat!"

A young man as thin as a hemp stick walked into the dungeon, took out bundles of Yinming flowers from the storage bag, and stuffed them into each cell like feeding pigs.

In these cells, in addition to eight or nine-year-old boys and girls like them, there were also many adults. Compared to the children who still had hope, those adults looked numb, as if they were just waiting to die.

"Sister Lingling, I don't want to eat this kind of thing!"

A little boy looked at the Yin Minghua in front of him and said with an expression of resistance.

"I'll help you choose a few!"

Xu Ling picked two Yin Ming flowers that were not yet fully mature and did not have that strong Yin energy and handed them to the young man, but they were slapped away by the young man.

"I won't eat! I won't eat!" the boy shouted in a rage.

“Then we’ll eat it later!”

Xu Ling didn't persuade him any more.

She has some blood relationship with the boy and is considered his cousin, so she has always taken care of him, but this care has obviously become the boy's venting capital.

Under the current circumstances, she was too lazy to say anything more. If she was hungry for a long time, the other party would naturally eat.

The little boy sat in the corner angrily, watching everyone pick up the Yinming Flower, chew it and swallow it like medicine, and couldn't help but clenched his fists.

After eating, everyone sat down very skillfully and did their exercises to expel the yin energy from the body.

Although the Yin Ming Flower is only a first-level elixir, eating it in large amounts for a long time will still accumulate a large amount of Yin Qi in the body. If it is not cleared or resolved in time, the body will soon have problems.

They only have the cultivation level of the Qi training period. No matter how they resolve it, there will still be residues in their bodies, and they will still be unable to escape death over time. It is just the difference between dying early and dying later.

But they have no other choice. For them, Yinming Flower is almost the only thing they can eat here.

Other higher-level elixirs will only make them die faster.

In the past, people in the palace would give them ordinary food on a regular basis. All they had to do was grow various spiritual elixirs and practice the techniques given to them in the palace.

Although life at that time was boring and boring, it was also carefree.

But things have changed since a year ago!

People in the palace no longer appeared, and a large number of ghosts and corpse puppets began to appear in the wilderness. Although those ghosts and corpse puppets would not attack them due to their skills, losing the source of food would mean cutting off their Life.

At the beginning, the town could still maintain stability under the prestige accumulated by the palace over a long period of time.

But as food becomes less and less, chaos inevitably begins to breed.

Before the monks advance to the golden elixir stage, they have to eat food, but the higher the level of cultivation, the less they eat.

People in the town are in the Qi training period. They can survive without eating or drinking for three to five days, but they won't be able to survive any longer.

As for water, they can condense it with magic, but there is no way to create food out of thin air.

The longer time passes, the greater the chaos in the town.

Xu Ling's parents died in one of these chaos.

And she didn't even find the body.

As for where the body went?

The group of people who imprisoned them were doing the same thing every day.

Yin-type elixirs grown outside could not be used in large quantities. Those who were powerful, in order to live longer, banded together and began to raise them in captivity.

They take elixirs, and the other party refines them into food.

Thinking that they might become food at any time, and how many people could bear it, all those adults had despair and numbness on their faces.

Xu Ling's only extravagant hope now is that someone from the palace can show up, so that they can be saved.

But as time passed and the number of people continued to decrease, she was about to fall into despair.

"I don't know what the outside world is like? How great it would be if I could take a look before I die!"

After refining the Yin Qi in his body, Xu Ling lay at the door of the cell, daydreaming in his mind.

She was born in this space and has never been to the outside world. She has only heard legends about the outside world from other people's mouths.

There is honey that is ten and a hundred times sweeter than the black sour fruit, there are foods with various flavors, sour, sweet, bitter and spicy, as well as all kinds of unheard-of fruits, and all kinds of colorful scenery.

It is said that there is something called a rainbow, which can have seven colors at the same time. She simply couldn't imagine it.

"No! No! Don't kill me!"

A shrill scream brought Xu Ling back to reality. She turned around and saw that a guard was opening one of the cells, and a young man was dragging him out like a piglet.

The young man struggled too hard and impatiently slapped him unconscious.

She had seen the same scene more than once, and her heart skipped a beat before she quickly regained her composure.

"I wonder who will be next?"

Xu Ling prayed in her heart that it would not be their cell.

But God always likes to play tricks on people.

Not long after the young man was dragged out, two more guards walked in and walked straight towards the cell where the boys and girls were held.

"The boss wants to change his taste today, so we have to choose carefully. Last time Shen Biao didn't have a good eye, so the boss chopped off two of his fingers!" said one of the guards.

"It wasn't the ingredients that were the problem last time, it was Shen Biao's lack of eyesight that mixed a hair in, so the boss got angry!" Another guard said with a smile.

"That's it! Why did the boss get so angry! We two have to be careful this time!"

"Don't worry! Don't you know my craftsmanship yet?"

"Then it's up to you. If the boss is satisfied this time, we might not have to eat water in the future!"

The two were chatting and laughing, as if they were not arresting anyone, but going to the market to buy vegetables.

This place is isolated from the rest of the world, and their moral concepts are inherently weak. Now that they have experienced such a long period of adaptation, they have long been accustomed to it.

"Don't come here! Don't come here!"

Xu Ling kept thinking in her heart, but it didn't change anything. The other party still walked straight towards them, opened the seal on the door, and pulled it open.

The boys and girls huddled together in fear, like panicked chickens. Xu Ling was trembling all over. The extreme fear made her brain go blank, but she instinctively blocked the crowd.

Because she is a little older, she has always been the eldest sister among the children in the town. At this time, she naturally had to stand in front and rely on her lonesome courage.

"Shout! Little girl, you are very brave!"

One of the guards couldn't help but be surprised when he saw Xu Ling's actions.

He had done this countless times, usually pushing each other, but this was the first time he saw someone taking the initiative to rush forward.

"This girl seems to be Xu Mang's daughter. Her temper is just like her father's and she likes to be in the limelight!"

Another guard seemed to recognize Xu Ling, with a look of disgust in his eyes.

Because when Xu Ling's father was alive, he was his boss and was very strict with him. Every time he made a small mistake, he would hold on to him, making him jealous.

Xu Ling's father would be killed in a sneak attack, and he had contributed a lot behind the scenes.

"Since you don't like him, then choose her."

The other guard said indifferently.

"good!"

He clicked and reached out to grab Xu Ling.

Xu Ling instinctively ducked back, but she didn't expect that someone from behind pushed her hard.

In this way, she was easily caught by the guards.

She didn't dare to look back confidently, but she only saw the joy in the eyes of the middle-aged and young girls.

I'm glad it's not them, I'm glad I can live a little longer.

The young man pushing her hadn't completely lowered his hand yet. It was none other than her cousin who was yelling that he didn't like taking the elixir.

After catching Xu Ling, the two did not stop and grabbed Xu Ling's cousin, who asked him to stretch out his hand.

"No! Don't catch me!" Cousin Xu Ling had a strong desire to survive. After being caught, he yelled and struggled desperately: "She has a lot of meat, one is enough. Don't catch me! I don't want to die!"

"Noisy!"

The guard knocked him unconscious with a palm, and then walked out carrying one.