Chapter 37: The Fire
Not only at the north city gate, but also at the other eastern, western, and southern city gates, such strange incidents have occurred one after another.
Among them, the situation in the west city is even worse than that in the north city.
There was an earth-shattering bang just now from the West Side, like the sound of something exploding. The rows of low-rise houses in Xicheng were all blown up in an instant, and the number of people killed and injured was unknown.
Immediately afterwards, the fire from the explosion rose into the sky, and the raging flames illuminated the entire Linshan City, and even thick black smoke could be seen from the city dozens of miles outside the city.
Natural disasters and demon disasters, under various circumstances, the four gates of Linshan City, east, west, north and south are now tightly blocked, if there are no two or three lives, I am afraid that they will not be able to rush out of the city.
The middle-aged father who took his children and daughters and fled in a hurry, the sturdy young man who wanted to stay away from the strange black fog, and the white-haired old man who supported each other.
Weeping, shouting, kneeling in prayer, asking God to worship the Buddha.
In the face of life and death, it shows all kinds of life.
In the west of the city, on top of the spired attic built of gray stone walls, an old man in a black robe wearing a hat stood with his hands in his hands, quietly watching all the chaos that was happening in the outside world at this time.
"What a wonderful taste of the spirit!" As more and more people died in the city, there was a faint look of extreme enjoyment on his face, "Frightened, panicked, hesitant...... Grief, ah, human emotions are so rich. ”
After a while, the black-robed old man frowned slightly, and said, "It's not enough, you have to add some ingredients!"
He leaped from the attic window, which was about three feet high, and landed firmly on the ground without making a sound.
On the road in Xicheng, a middle-aged man who was running away saw the scene of the black-robed old man jumping from the upper floor, and then faced his pair of cold, red-gold snake eyes, and the middle-aged man suddenly screamed in fear.
"Youkai! ...... quickly"
The sound stopped abruptly.
The black-robed old man smiled slightly, walking as fast as flying, and when the sleeve robe waved, a condensed purple light like a cloud flew out of the body, and those who touched the purple light turned into a pool of blood.
In less than a while, the entire street was full of people, blood flowed like a river, and the smile on the corner of the black-robed old man's mouth became more and more pleasant.
"Well, it's still too slow. ”
With a mutter, the black-robed old man shook his body, disappeared, and instantly turned into a sharp-nosed pit viper covered with brown and yellow patterns.
The snake's body was about five or six zhang long, as thick as a water tank, a few points larger than the marble jade pillar that supported the attic, and the black robe that was originally worn on it was also torn apart in an instant, and pieces of rags flew like rain.
The purple-black forked tongue poked out of the mouth of the huge sharp-nosed pit viper, and the triangular head of the snake was raised, and the snake body stood tall and erect.
"Shhh...... Hiss~"
After sensing the air for a moment, the giant snake swayed its snake body, dragging the slender whip tail behind it and quickly swam towards the northern city.
Beicheng is the market area carved out by Linshancheng County, and there are many people coming and going on weekdays, so most of the people who survived in the city gathered in Beicheng at this time.
Although the dissolving ability of those weird black fogs is extremely terrifying, fortunately, the growth rate is not very fast, so it is safe here in Beicheng for the time being.
......
North of the city, on Lin'an Street.
A three-storey Zhu Building, a long strip plaque in front of the door is written with a few bronzing characters of the pen walking dragon and snake, "Haidong Building"!
This was originally the best restaurant in Linshan City, but the natural disasters and demons in the city together, the little two and the shopkeepers who were originally stationed in the building left the store and fled.
The surviving people in Beicheng saw that this restaurant made of gray salt was tall and sturdy, so they all crowded into the hall on the first floor of the restaurant to avoid trouble.
"To ...... Otherwise, let's run away, those weird black fogs will fill over sooner or later......" In the crowd, a girl dressed in bright yellow and dressed as a maid said with a trembling voice.
"Run, where to flee?" a black-faced man in disheveled clothes looked a little desperate, "Dongcheng, Nancheng, everywhere is covered with this strange black fog, not to mention our flesh, even if Jin Tie hits into it, it will be dissolved in a moment." ”
"Nasi City ......"
"Xicheng is more dangerous!" another short-robed young man with a bloodstained face in the crowd spoke, and the words he uttered were desperate, "Although Xicheng does not have this strange black fog, the city gate has been blocked by fire, and it is impossible to rush out at all. ”
The short-robed young man wiped the blood stains on his face, and his expression was a little numb: "Not only that, but on Chang'an Street in Xicheng, there is also a monster with golden pupils, and he will kill people when he sees them, my wife and children have been crushed to death by the collapsed beams in the explosion before the fire, and my father was chased and killed by the monster because he ran slower." ”
"So, it's useless to struggle, wait for death. ”
As soon as he said this, a timid woman in the crowd suddenly cried.
The sound of crying, shouting, sighing, incessantly, made the hall chaotic.
"Oh my God, why did you do this to us?"
"What kind of sin have I created......
When everyone was busy crying, praying, and resenting God, there was already a sound of blunt objects rubbing against the ground on Lin'an Street, like a terrifying man-eating beast crawling forward with its body on the ground, and the movement was so loud that the entire Lin'an Street trembled.
"Oh my God, what is that?" a middle-aged man in coarse cloth clothes leaning against the carved window on the first floor was the first to notice the abnormality, pointing out the window and shouting in horror.
Everyone followed his gaze and saw that on Lin'an Street, a brown and yellow giant snake that was a few points higher than this Haidong Building was coiled in front of the building, and the snake body was standing high, and the whole Lin'an Street, because the appearance of this giant snake suddenly seemed a little crowded.
At this time, this giant snake as thick as a doorpost was lying outside the Haidong Building, and on the head of the triangular snake, a pair of red-gold snake eyes the size of a basin were looking down at everyone coldly.
Seeing the frightened and desperate emotions on everyone's faces, the brown and yellow giant snake seemed to be a little happy, and an anthropomorphic look appeared in the snake's eyes.
The purple-black snake, which was longer than an adult's arm, snorted and spitted when it rubbed against the air and made a violent "hissing" sound.
The giant snake was not in a hurry to eat people, but as if he wanted to play a game of cat and mouse with these people, he actually intimidated and tortured everyone with great interest.
After a while, the people hiding in the building had collapsed one after another, some went crazy, and some were so frightened that they fainted.
This made the giant snake feel bored, it leaned down the snake's body, the huge snake's head poked out like lightning, crashed into the Haidong Building, and the bloody mouth opened and directly bit the two people standing in the front row, without even chewing, and swallowed it in one gulp.
The gray bributy, which was stronger than gold and iron, was as brittle as tissue paper under the impact of a monster of the size of the giant snake, and the building had already begun to tilt.
The people who were still alive in Haidong Tower fled in panic, wanting to escape from this dangerous building and escape from the terrifying monster in front of them.
But the serpent did not intend to let them go, and its coiled whip-like tail swung violently, and the snake's tail rubbed against the air to make a thunderous sound, and slammed into the fleeing crowd.
Some people in the building had already given up resistance, and they sat on the ground limp and waited for death with a dejected face.
However, the imaginary catastrophe did not come as expected.
But the giant snake suddenly withdrew its long snake tail, and the snake's mouth was growling, and it was roaring in pain, as if it had suddenly been hit hard.
On the originally empty Lin'an Long Street, there was a young man in a white robe silently, the long sword in the man's hand was already unsheathed and stained with blood, and the sword body was glowing with cold blue light, which looked extremely strange.
In front of the white-robed man, there was a brownish-yellow, severed snake tail, the giant snake was vigorous, so the snake tail was still wriggling on the ground after leaving the body, kicking up layers of smoke and dust.
A bright moon climbed up the east mountain at some point, under the reflection of the moonlight and firelight, the white-robed man's eyes were like stars, his eyebrows were like sharp arrows, his face was covered with a layer of frost, and his clothes were like snow, like a fairy.