People in Terra, poor and weak but invincible

Chapter 956 Salt Wind City

"Teacher, the Saltwind City is ahead... Why is it like this?"

Elini's grey eyes were filled with shock.

She followed her teacher, following Outcast's footsteps all the way to Saltwind City, a small seaside city that had long been marked as lost on the map of Iberia.

But in this city that should have fallen in the disaster, Elini saw scenes that were beyond her cognition.

One by one...or rather, one by one, human-like beings wandered on the dilapidated streets of Saltwind City.

Although pedestrians in dirty clothes can be seen everywhere, all the streets in this city that Elini sees are filled with death.

"Are they still alive?" Elini's throat was a little dry.

"As you can see." Dario said calmly, as if he had expected all this.

"Teacher, you know all this?" Elini asked in shock. "Since there are still people living in this city, why is it considered a lost city?"

Dario glanced at Elini's face and reminded her:

"Our mission is to follow the lady from Rhodes Island closely. The situation in Saltwind City is not within the scope of our mission."

"But Saltwind City is right in front of us, I must know why!"

Elini was visibly excited for a moment, but when she met her teacher's calm eyes, she immediately forced herself to suppress her agitated emotions.

Dario didn't blame him, but he didn't mean to explain. Instead, he asked:

"Do you want answers? Or do you want the truth?"

“I don’t understand, what’s the difference between the two?”

"If you just want an answer, I can tell you now." Dario adjusted his gloves and walked into the city streets. "After you get the answer, you must restrain your idleness and complete our mission wholeheartedly.

But if you want the truth, you have to find it with your own eyes."

Elini opened her mouth but ultimately said nothing and just followed Dario's steps obediently.

The master and his disciple walked in this decayed city.

A strong fishy smell filled Elini's nostrils. She was not unfamiliar with it. The smell of protein slowly rotting in the wet and salty sea water was an old friend to the people in the Inquisition.

But Elini could see clearly that the city was clean in a sense.

Anything that could be stuffed into the mouth and digested had long been eaten by the emaciated people on the streets. There was no way this city would have left any food to rot.

Where does this smell come from?

Elini looked at the residents of the city. Their shriveled muscles seemed unable to support their skeletons and could collapse at any time. Their dull eyes in their sunken eye sockets were almost swallowed by the shadows. Even though the two men walked past them, they could not arouse any reaction.

The city is rotting, and its inhabitants are rotting.

Elini actually felt like vomiting.

Before Elini could suppress this feeling, she heard laughter coming from the front again.

"Ms. Outcast?" Elini's eyes widened. "How could she laugh in a place like this?"

"You ask too many questions," Dario lectured.

Elini quickly shut her mouth, walked quickly around the corner of the street, and came to the door of the dilapidated little house where Outcast's laughter came from.

"Anita, you are just shining like a little girl."

Outcast's hearty laughter came from the door. "And your name is much better than others in the city. I am so lucky to meet you. Little wooden stool, don't show your teeth to me. This is a bullet. I really can't let you eat it."

Elini listened to the sounds in the house and was obviously confused. She turned her head to ask her teacher for advice.

But while she hesitated, Dario pushed the door open and walked in.

The atmosphere in the room was temporarily stagnant due to Dario's sudden intrusion, but it quickly recovered because the entire atmosphere was driven by Outcast alone.

"Man, you guys are too slow."

Outcast used the half bread in his hand to tease a skinny little boy, turned his head and nodded to Dario, "If you don't come, the food I carry with me won't last until the 100th high tide... Ouch!"

While Outcast was talking and distracted, the bread in his hand was bitten by a little boy named Mu Deng.

There was even a hint of ferocity on the boy's numb face. He bit down mercilessly, leaving a cut on Outcast's finger.

"Ma'am, you're hurt!"

A black-haired girl who looked no more than a teenager next to Outcast had a nervous expression on her face and was frantically looking for a piece of cloth to bandage the wound in the house.

Dario looked at the girl in silence.

His first impression was that she was thin.

too skinny.

Although girls have slim figures, this black-haired girl is so thin that she looks almost sick. Her slender arms have obvious muscle lines, as if they are tightly attached to the bones, without any fat at all.

In addition to the girl, there were two adult men in the house. They were equally thin, but their reactions were more agile than the girl. Their conditions were similar to those of the pedestrians on the street outside. Even though Outcast was injured and two outsiders, he and Elini, intruded, it did not cause much reaction from the two men.

Perhaps it was because the house was not that big to begin with, and with so many people gathered inside, the atmosphere inside became a little suffocating.

"Anita, you better hurry up." Outcast seemed unaffected by the depressing atmosphere and said with a bright smile, "If you don't come to bandage my wound, it will heal on its own."

Black-haired girl:?

She took a moment to react, not sure whether he was urging her or just joking.

After a brief thought, the girl named Anita looked down at her tattered black dress.

She reached out and grabbed the hem of her skirt, trying to tear off a piece to bandage Outcast's finger injury, but she couldn't move it at all after pulling for a long time.

"Well, you're always hungry, how can you have the energy?"

Outcast stood up and walked over to stop Anita, and took out a loaf of bread from his waist bag: "Take it and eat it, this is the last bit of stock that grandma has."

"What about you?" Anita didn't answer. "It's still some time before the next hundred high tides."

Outcast looked at Master Dario and his apprentice with a smile.

Dario remained indifferent, but Elini obviously couldn't stand it anymore, so she took out the food she had with her and prepared to go forward.

But as soon as the food in Elini's hand came into view, she was suddenly fixed by three pairs of eyes.

The two adult men with dull expressions in the room, and the little boy who wolfed down half a piece of bread, almost instinctively chose to pounce on Elini.

At that moment, Elini had the illusion that she was surrounded by three mindless beasts.

boom--

The wooden chair brushed past Elini's hair, bringing down two gray feathers, and then smashed heavily on the three people who pounced on her.

The three of them screamed as the wooden chair collapsed to the ground.

"Teacher?" Elini's brain was clearly not working properly.

“Kindness is a rare and good quality, but next time remember to show your strength first before giving away your ridiculous kindness.”

Dario said a few words of admonition, ignoring the three people wailing on the ground, and turned to look at Outcast: "Madam, let's stop the meaningless temptation here."