Chapter 7 Digging for earthworms and training
Early the next morning, the sun had just risen in the sky, and the sunlight had not even penetrated the surrounding mountains to shine into this mountain.

Lu Yuan was clinging to the slope, pulling at the snow on top.

He exhaled white air, and with his hands, he pushed aside the snow and grass, and dug his fingers into the loess. His hands, which had turned yellow due to lack of nutrition, were now red from the cold.

The soil was turned over, and Lu Yuan seemed to have dug up something, and his eyes lit up with joy.

When he took his hand out and saw the earthworm hanging on his hand wriggling, his mouth widened with smiles.

He was so hungry.

I slept for less than an hour yesterday and woke up hungry.

My stomach was growling all night long.

In the second half of the night, even when he was lying on the thatch, he burned the fire next to him even more vigorously, trying to use the warmth to dispel his hunger.

But to no avail.

Hunger made him groggy the whole night, and he didn't know whether he was asleep or not.

He didn't even dare to take out a few grains of dry rice from his pocket and throw them into his mouth to satisfy his hunger.

Because he knew that once he put his hand in his pocket, he would never be able to stop.

The remaining two taels of rice are the capital that can allow him to live a few more days.

He dare not.

I even put my hands behind my back, used my head as a pillow, and just looked at the stars in the sky.

When he saw a hint of dark red in the mountains, he immediately climbed up and came to the slope to see if there was anything to eat.

He had no hope of getting bird eggs from trees or catching any wild animals in the mountains.

He looked around when he went up the mountain yesterday.

There were no birds singing or animals roaring in the mountains, no frogs or crawling creatures on the ground, no insects on the trees, and even some of the bark had been stripped off.

This famine was more serious than he had imagined.

Only here, the rebel base, is relatively better.

He found a mountain slope that looked relatively fertile and dug for earthworms there.

Sure enough, he found it.

He picked up the earthworm and threw it into his mouth, chewing it hard.

There was no juice bursting out, but there was a smell of mud, which made Lu Yuan feel very disgusted and he spit out the contents of his mouth with a "Puh, Puh, Puh".

He scraped it a few times, removed the mud from the earthworm meat, and stuffed it into his mouth.

He sighed while chewing.

In my previous life, when I saw those people surviving in the wilderness and living alone in the wilderness, they all seemed so awesome and could stuff everything into their mouths.

Now that I'm so hungry, I tried it and found out that it's really unpalatable.

He continued to dig around with his butt raised, and he dug out another fat earthworm, which he didn't know whether it was hibernating. He squeezed it into a ball and put it into his mouth.

After the earthworm meat ball went into his stomach, he grabbed a dozen grains of white rice from his pocket and ate them together with his stomach. It seemed that he had deceived his stomach again, and Lu Yuan felt a little better.

The sky was already completely bright at this time.

Although it is winter, the sun shines on my body and face, and it feels somewhat warm.

At this time, a series of uniform shouts were heard.

Then there was the sound of footsteps on the ground collapsing.

Lu Yuan looked back.

I saw about three hundred naked people, neatly lined up outside the cave, running at a moderate speed on the flat open space.

Each of these people has strong muscles, and they all shine under the sunlight.

You can tell at a glance that these people have never been hungry.

Lu Yuan noticed it.

These people were all running barefoot around the flat ground. Their feet looked thick and yellow.

It should be covered with thick calluses.

Their yellow soles stepped on the ground, but there was no expression of pain on their faces. Moreover, they all ran in a very rhythmic and unified manner.

Probably in training.

Lu Yuan looked around.

Those who had already stood up and were wearing tattered cotton clothes like him did not follow him in the training.

He thought about it and didn't follow.

Those people didn't call him, and he didn't want to move.

Now I am so hungry that I feel weak all over and don’t want to move at all.

If I were called to train, I would consume too much energy and my stomach would not be able to bear it.

He just leaned on the slope, watching those people who were training running round and round there.

The one leading the group shouting slogans was a bald man with a beard and extremely strong muscles. It seemed that he had never been hungry since childhood and he always ate very well.

Among these three hundred people, he was the tallest, almost 1.9 meters tall.

The soles of its feet appear thicker than others.

At this time, the bearded man looked around and nodded at the dozen or so people in the training team.

Those people immediately stepped out of the line and walked towards the many pawns wearing tattered cotton jackets who were already watching nearby.

Among these dozen people, there was the sergeant who distributed food to Lu Yuan yesterday.

One, two, three, four, each person ordered about ten of them. They looked not strong but not too thin either, and looked a bit like pawns.

Those pawns seemed to be very familiar with the sergeant who came out, or rather, they all had a very fawning look on their faces.

After the sergeant pointed out them, they all nodded and bowed, took off their tattered cotton jackets and straw sandals, and then joined the running team.

At this moment, five hundred people ran together, barefoot, and the grass crackled under their feet.

At the beginning of the run, the two hundred people who were chosen to be away were still able to keep up.

After a while, it slowed down.

Their feet were also rough like those of farmers, but the calluses and thick skin on their feet were nothing like those of the 300 muscular men before.

Their feet were cut by the grass and bleeding.

Some people gritted their teeth and persevered, some slowed down, and one person even stopped, covering his bloody foot and crying in pain.

He didn't eat enough to begin with, and the soles of his feet were all skin, without any flesh. When they were scratched by the grass and branches on the ground, it felt like they were scratching directly into his bones. The pain was unbearable.

Just as he was holding his foot and crying out in pain.

The bearded leader raised his foot and kicked him in the chest.

"boom!!".

This sound was mixed with the sound of something breaking.

The man who was holding the foot was kicked into the air, spit out a mouthful of blood in the air, and then fell to the ground and didn't move.

The people watching around were so scared that they took a step back.

As for the two hundred new members who were still running, no matter how much their feet were bleeding, they did not dare to stop, and they did not even dare to look at the fallen body.

He gritted his teeth, his face pale, and looked straight ahead, following the team in front.

As for the three hundred men who had been trained before and had strong muscles all over their bodies, some had indifferent expressions, some looked at the corpse with some mockery on their faces, and a few who were running side by side looked at each other and sneered.

Five hundred people were running around the grass, and when they passed by the bloody corpses on the ground, they just went around them.

Huang Hou's soles stepped on the blood on the ground, staining his soles red.

(End of this chapter)