Chapter 61 Holy Bones (1)
The construction of the road to heaven in the inner ring is underway in an orderly manner. The efforts of the wasteland slaves who are stronger than those of the human race are far faster than before.
Of course, it is impossible for a thousand people to pile up all the wasteland slaves to build roads at the forefront. They will divide up parts of the road to transport materials and do other chores, and the human soldiers are also scattered on the entire road, monitoring these powerful and barbaric wasteland slaves.
After receiving the news, Yin He came to the edge of the inner ring and the outside world, and met Ji Hou who was waiting here.
Ji Hou didn't talk much nonsense, and after meeting, he sent everyone away. When they were alone, they went to the temple to pay homage to the high priest, and the high priest's request for the road construction now.
When Yin He heard that the high priest actually asked to double the current road construction speed, his face suddenly darkened. After looking at Ji Hou, he remained silent.
Ji Hou hummed and said, "Don't look at me like this, either. This is what the high priest said. I have never changed a word from beginning to end."
Yin He took a deep breath and said, "This is very difficult, I'm afraid I can't do it."
Ji Hou said a little irritatedly: "I told him this way that day, but the high priest used the will of the gods to talk to me, saying that this is an oracle and cannot be changed, and must be done. What should you do if you ask me?"
Yin He shook his head, turned around and left, and said, "I probably can't do it, you can change someone to do it."
"Hey!" Ji Hou was shocked, grabbed Yin He, glared at him, and said in annoyance, "You kid, you have such a young temper, you haven't finished speaking yet, how could you be like overturning the table?"
Yin He smiled bitterly, shook his head and said, "Elder Ji, it's not that I don't want to help you, I've really tried my best to do this. But the Great Elder sat in the temple of the Holy City and said such words easily from afar, which made us, those who were tired from the front, unable to do anything."
Ji Hou frowned and whispered, "Be careful!" As he said that, he looked around and saw that there was no one around, he whispered, "No matter how much he wanted to complain, he would hide it in his heart and should not be disrespectful to the high priest in words."
The high priest has a respected status among the human race, almost as close to a demigod. Although he does not interfere in the human race's mundane affairs, if he really speaks, it will basically be a matter of saying nothing.
Of course, Yin He also understood this truth. He sighed softly, nodded, and stopped talking.
Ji Hou pondered for a while, then said to Yin Hedao: "Let's do this. Since the high priest has spoken and said it is the will of the gods, we certainly cannot disobey it. You should try your best to build the road in the inner ring. No matter what, you should do your best to repair it as soon as possible. You don't have to be too polite to those slaves of the desert. Use it if you should, and die if you should die."
Yin He was silent, his face looked a little ugly, but after a while, he whispered: "Since the road construction has been built, fifty-six deserted slaves have died. But if he really wants to push forward desperately, one is that going deep into the inner ring will cause unpredictable danger, and the other is that it is too radical, casualties will definitely increase significantly. I am afraid that the number of deaths will increase by about ten times."
Ji Hou was shocked and said in surprise: "There are so many?"
Yin He nodded and said, "Although it is my estimate, I think it will be almost the same. Now I am also cautious and try my best to take care of the lives of these deserted slaves. But even so, accidents cannot be avoided and people will die almost every day. And if you go deep into the inner ring, the front will definitely be even more dangerous. At that time..." He shook his head with a wry smile, and then silent for a moment, and said, "You should continue to find such deserted slaves."
Ji Hou took a deep breath and said, "How much do you think is enough?"
Yin He thought for a while and said, "Let's have another three thousand people."
Ji Hou's face changed drastically, he took a breath and said, "How come he wants so many people?"
Yin Hedao: "The future is difficult and unpredictable, and I am also trying to make sure if it happens."
Ji Hou's face looked ugly, and after a long time of silence, he suddenly "hummed" and cursed in his mouth, saying, "What's the mess?"
Yin He did not respond to him, but just stood aside.
After a while, Ji Hou nodded and said to him, "Don't worry about this matter, I will arrange it myself. As for whether we can capture so many slaves from the desert," he shook his head with a wry smile, "It depends on luck. In short, you can build the road there now and try to make it faster, so as not to let me explain to the high priest."
Yin He nodded and said, "Okay."
After saying that, he turned around and left here, looking like he was walking back to the mysterious and dangerous inner ring land.
Ji Hou stood behind him, looked at Yin He's back, shook his head, and felt helpless on his face. After frowning and pondering for a while, he turned around and left here.
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The road leading to the sacred mountain continues to move forward every day. In the sweat of the deserted slaves, under the surveillance of murderous human soldiers around, in the urging, beating, scolding, and scolding, the speed of the road stretching forward gradually began to rise faster.
But at the same time, the number of dead people falling on this road began to gradually increase.
Although it is not said that there are many corpses and white bones everywhere, the corpses that were discarded on both sides of the road and then swallowed by this strange land still add a bit of coldness to the road.
Yin He has always led the team with a expressionless face for most of the time. The lives of those dead never seemed to touch his heart, nor did he make him feel a little weak. He just tried his best to do what he could, so as to prevent these deserted slaves from dying in vain. But even so, the number of deserted slaves in this team decreased to only 750 after the third month of road construction.
Along the way, this road to the sky has crossed many terrains, including rivers, deep ditches, sand seas, hills and canyons that have never been experienced before, and many dangers have appeared that no one has ever encountered. However, the only luck is that they did not encounter the terrifying golden blood monster like the Black Demon Man, so along the way, the number of casualties was actually better than Yin He expected.
Then, one day in March, the road construction team led by Yin He suddenly encountered a huge sand pit standing in front of them.
This sand pit covers a huge area, with yellow sand in the middle. If you want to bypass it, you have to turn into a huge circle. I am afraid that the road will not be built for a month. Therefore, Yin He, who had no choice, could only lead everyone into this desert like a trapped in a large pit.
After entering this huge sand pit, there was no strange danger at the beginning, but the trouble was that the sand here was very soft and it was easy to sink when you stepped on it, not to mention that it was extremely difficult to build a road here.
After discussing with several other officers for a long time, Yin He finally found a good solution. In fact, it is more appropriate to say that it is a stupid method. He relies on the large number of people and powerful people, cut down many branches of trees from the forest behind, stacked them into this sand pit, lay the foundation first, and then build the road. This solved the problem and allowed the road to the sacred mountain to continue to extend forward.
But when the road reached the middle of the huge sand pit, a strong wind suddenly blew, and yellow sand suddenly filled the sky, covering the sky and covering the sun, making people unable to see things.
After finally enduring the wind and sand, the people who came out of the thick yellow sand and gasped suddenly became stunned, looking around them in a daze.
The violent storm swept away a lot of sand, causing the yellow sand around them to flow and flow, and then revealing some things buried under the yellow sand.
Chapter completed!