Chapter 949: I Read the Sages' Books, but Could Not Change the Affairs of the World

"Young Master, she is dead."

"She died with her eyes wide open."

Chen Sheng crawled out of the Waguan grave. He stared at Gao Yang, his tone extremely heavy.

These words left everyone in silence.

Gao Yang did not speak.

He had noticed it early on: the old woman was skin and bones, yet her stomach was bulging.

Combined with the old woman's last sentence, his guess was verified.

When people are in extreme hunger, they will eat everything they can. If there is no grain, they will eat tree bark and wild grass. If even the tree bark is gnawed clean, they will eat... Guanyin soil!

The so-called Guanyin soil is a type of clay mineral based on kaolinite, used to stave off hunger only in times of extreme starvation.

But this kind of soil cannot be digested at all. Once it enters the intestines, it is impossible to pass, and there is no medicine or food to cure it. Therefore, after a person dies, their stomach will be swollen large.

When there is a great disaster in the world and the people cannot survive, such corpses will appear by the roadside. They look like they were stuffed to death, but in reality, they were starved to death.

And the state of their death is extremely painful.

People say "one cannot live anymore and must eat soil," which is where this comes from, though the meaning is different.

The old woman ate soil, which was even worse, but whether she was starved to death or died of sheer despair, no one knew. ===== CHAPTER 951 =====