Chapter 57: The Saint of the Deserted Village

The surrounding trees grew strangely. The tree trunks did not grow straight upward, but twisted back and forth at various strange angles.

If it weren't for these strange trees, Lin Yi and the others would have been faster.

"Be careful, don't get pricked by the thorns on the tree." The people surrounding them reminded them.

"What will happen if you get pricked?" Lin Yi asked curiously.

"These spines are poisonous," explained another.

"Although the poison is not fatal, the place where it is stung will be extremely itchy and last for many days."

"If you accidentally scratch your skin, the smell of blood will attract those disgusting strange birds." The person walking behind the team also added.

"Not only those strange birds, but also some big black rats that come out at night will also be attracted by the smell of blood."

"Yes, yes, those big black rats are the scariest."

"What's so scary about rats?" Lu Linhai looked confused.

"Ha." Zhang Cheng on the side sneered and said, "You know nothing."

"Rats are the scariest thing at any time. Not only are they covered in bacteria, but they also have a terrifying ability to reproduce."

"If our world really faces the end, maybe the ones who survive to the end will not be humans at all, but rats."

"Besides, the rats outside may be different from the rats in the city." Lin Yi continued what Zhang Cheng said.

"If you think about what those strange birds look like, maybe the mice outside are just like the strange birds."

"You have to remember, don't get bitten by those big black mice." The people in the team kindly reminded.

"As long as you are bitten by them, even if it only breaks the skin, the wound will not heal, but will gradually rot."

"Unless you cut off that piece of flesh, the rot will spread from the wound throughout the body.

"If that piece of meat is cut off, the smell of blood will attract more strange birds and rats, and then it will fall into a vicious cycle." Lin glanced at the strange tree nearby and became more vigilant.

"These people don't seem that bad." An Chengdao said softly.

Although these people have been wary of Lin Yi and the others, they are only worried that Lin Yi and the others are aliens disguised as humans.

Moreover, on the way to the village, they would kindly tell Lin Yi and others about the dangerous things nearby.

Perhaps, they are really just like Tian Wenlei said, they are all human beings who escaped from the hands of aliens.

Because of these strange trees, Lin Yi and the others walked for more than an hour.

As he walked, Zhou Kai seemed to sense something.

He walked to Lin Yi and whispered: "There are many people in front of us, it should be their village."

"Are you sure they are all human?" Lin Yi asked.

Zhou Kai nodded: "They are all people, about a hundred or so. Moreover, I also heard the laughter of children."

Hearing this, Lin Yi breathed a sigh of relief.

A village full of humans. Although the population is not large, since Zhou Kai heard the laughter of children, it means that the people in this village are indeed not bad people.

Soon, they arrived at the village.

However, this is not so much a village as a shabby village.

The houses inside are dilapidated, and most of them are wooden sheds built later.

Everyone in the village stayed in the simple wooden sheds. After seeing Lin Yi and the others, their eyes showed a hint of caution.

Occasionally, you can see a few children about seven or eight years old playing and playing, but those children look like...

"The look of those children..." Lin Yi had a hint of surprise on his face.

Those children looked very weird and different from each other.

Some children are obviously about eight years old, but they open their mouths but don't have a single tooth.

Some children also have many bulges on their faces, and if they scratch them from time to time, they don't seem to hurt or itch.

They are not tall and have very thin bodies. Some of them have stooped backs and some walk with a limp. They look silly.

When they open their mouths and laugh, their nose water mixed with saliva will be sucked into their mouths.

Finally, he smacked his lips, as if he had tasted something delicious.

"Zhou Kai, are they really human?" Lu Linhai asked softly.

Zhou Kai nodded.

"But why do they look like this?" Lu Linhai was puzzled.

"Is it because of some kind of mutation?" Zhang Cheng thought for a while and said.

"For example, these trees, birds in the outside world, and mice that we haven't seen yet are all because of this mutation."

"Didn't you say that there is a special device for isolation on the edge of the city? Will the existence of this device also be able to isolate these mutations?"

"But why do those adults look so normal?" Lu Linhai asked.

"Because these children were born later." Tian Wenlei, who was walking in front, came over.

He seemed to know that Lin Yi and the others would talk about these children, and explained in a low voice: "Children born in the outside world, for some reason, all look strange."

"Perhaps..." Zhang Cheng guessed, "This is a way for those aliens to limit the growth of human beings."

"If the escaped humans begin to reproduce, it will threaten the existence of alien species in a few decades or hundreds of years."

"In order to solve this problem from the root, the aliens have manipulated the humans they raise, or they have manipulated the outside environment, causing children born in the outside world to..."

At this point, Zhang Cheng stopped.

They walked to the entrance of the village, and the people guarding outside saw them and shouted "Brother Lei" in unison.

"You go and notify the people in Team 3 and Team 4 to exchange with Team 1." Brother Lei arranged.

Then, Brother Lei looked at Lin Yi and others and said, "Others, follow me and take them to see the Saintess."

The Saintess they mentioned lived in a dilapidated ancestral hall.

Brother Lei asked Lin Yi and others to wait outside the door and walked into the ancestral hall alone.

"The Saintess, she must be very beautiful." Zhang Cheng muttered in a low voice, as if he couldn't wait to see the Saintess.

But when the door of the ancestral hall opened, the person who walked out behind Brother Lei was a gray-haired old lady.

Although the old lady was staggering, the clothes she wore seemed to be the style that young girls liked.

"Saintess, they are the people who came out of that city this time." Brother Lei lowered his head and said respectfully: "Please take a look, are they human or alien?"

"Huh?" Zhang Cheng was stunned. He rubbed his eyes and looked at the old lady who came out of the ancestral hall with surprise.

"She is a saint? Are you mistaken? Aren't saints supposed to be fair-skinned, beautiful and long-legged?"

"Keep your voice down." Lin Yi glared at him, "Don't you see that the people in this village respect the saint very much? If they hear you say that, they will beat you to death."

The old woman called "Saintess" walked out slowly.

She first came to Lin Yi, looked at Lin Yi, and nodded slightly.

Then she walked to Zhang Cheng and nodded as well.

But when she came to Lu Linhai, the expression on her face suddenly changed.

The saint took two steps back and looked Lu Linhai up and down.

"What's wrong?" Lu Linhai looked puzzled.

Lin Yi and others also looked at Lu Linhai, but they didn't find anything strange about him.

At this moment, the Saint spoke.

The Saint opened her mouth, and her teeth were almost falling out.

She raised her hand tremblingly, pointed at Lu Linhai and said, "You...what the hell are you?!"