Chapter 1334: The Disasters of the Streets
The buildings weren’t normal though. One house had fire burning on the inside. Another was overflowing with icy mist. A third was choking with deadly poisons. The fourth one was crawling with insects. The fifth house was covered in sharp spikes. The sixth house’s walls were covered in nails...
Just the same, the maze-like streets looked ordinary from the outside, but the people treading them all looked like they were walking on thin ice. It was as if they were walking on a single-plank bridge or a tightrope between cliffs. One misstep, and they would fall into the abyss and die.
The travelers themselves looked neither human nor ghastly either. They drank iron water, ate charcoal, and wore iron clothing...
As Ye Qing stepped deeper into the city, he began to feel all sorts of sensations such as hunger, fatigue, weakness, cold, hot, pain, irritation, fear and more. Not only that, they were only growing stronger over time.
It wasn’t just a mental or spiritual feeling. It was not a hallucination he could shake off so long as he gritted his teeth and soldiered on either. It was his body telling him that he truly needed to satisfy the needs that created these feelings—eat to satisfy his hunger, drink to sate his thirst, sleep to alleviate his fatigue, wear clothes to keep warm etc—or he would die.
However, there was no food, no water, no bed, and no clothing in Void Stomach City. The people could only eat charcoal to satisfy their hunger, drink iron water to sate their thirst, sleep in buildings to alleviate their fatigue, wear iron clothes to block the cold, and skin themselves to resist the heat...
“Hmm? This street is...”
Suddenly, Ye Qing sensed something and looked at his feet. As if on cue, the pedestrians suddenly started screaming uncontrollably. It was because their shoes had suddenly caught on fire and crumbled into ash in just the blink of an eye. As if the street was red hot metal, their bare feet sizzled against its surface, and large chunks of flesh were ripped off every time they took a step.
Everyone on this street started screaming in pain. However, the pedestrians on another street were perfectly fine. Noticing this, the pedestrians ran toward the other streets as quickly as they could.
“Senior, the street is going to get so hot that it can kill eventually, so we should head to the other streets as well.”
Since Ye Qing and Papersmith did not move, the three-eyed man forced himself to stay still even though the heat was killing the bottom of his feet as well.