Drought Demon: Three Million Skeletons in Longyuan

Name: Drought Demon: Three Million Skeletons in Longyuan
Author: Qingfengdu

旱魃：陇塬骸骨三百万

by Qingfengdu (青锋渡)

Status: Completed
Length: 756k Words
Genre: Urban
Subgenre: War & Espionage
Audience: Male
Updated: 9mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

In the seventeenth year of the Republic of China, there was a severe drought in the northwest, and the land was red for thousands of miles. The Jinghe River is cut off, food is exhausted in Longdong, and the roads are blocked by hungry people. Liu Shuangxi was a gambler who lost all his ancestral land and was in debt to the King of Hell, so he was forced to leave his wife and children and flee. He originally thought that he would die under the sword of a debt collector, but he did not expect that the real Yama would be this famine that had never happened in a century. The hungry victims began to eat tree bark and gnaw Guanyin soil. Later, even the dead became food. On the way to escape, Liu Shuangxi saw his mother who exchanged her children for food, saw tomb robbers dragging out undecomposed corpses from the coffins, and saw Ma Jiajun's cavalry driving away living people as livestock. He carried a broken bowl of rough porcelain with a crack on the bottom, which looked very much like the eyes of his father who starved to death before he died. "Han Ba is born, and the red land is thousands of miles away." Does the disaster star mentioned by the old people really exist? Or is this the world of hungry ghosts?

Reader comments

Liu Shuangxi's escape in the book is a microcosm of countless disaster victims. He witnessed the despair of exchanging children for food, the madness of tomb robbing and cannibalism, and the misery of living people being driven away wantonly. The broken bowl of coarse porcelain carried the fragility of life and the slimness of hope. The cracks were like the wounds of this broken era. Here, survival becomes the only law, and morality and ethics are swallowed up by the hungry mouth. The stories in the book have no gorgeous embellishments, only the simplest and cruelest truth. It allows us to see to what extent human nature can be distorted in the face of extreme natural disasters. After reading the book, I couldn't calm down for a long time, as if I had been baptized by a storm. This is not only a book, but also a profound reflection on human nature and history. If you also want to explore the truth of that dark age and feel the struggle of human nature on the edge of life and death, then this book is definitely not to be missed. It will take you through time and space, face those years that you cannot bear to look at but cannot forget, and let you re-examine the meaning of life in shock.
12 likes1y ago
The miserable years traveling through time and space
4 likes1y ago
It's very real. It makes people feel that it was very difficult in society before.
4 likes1y ago
Lifelike, gorgeous words, fascinating, hard to put down
3 likes1y ago
The narrative of the story is natural and smooth, vivid and rhythmic, bringing people into the artistic conception of the story.
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