Before the car in which Tang Shuxing and the others were riding was about to enter Chiang Rai Province, smoke could already be seen rising from all sides of the city, as well as faintly heard cries and screams, mixed with scattered gunshots.

"What's going on?" At the same time as Tang Shuxing opened the car window, Gu Huaiyi had just turned into the suburban road, and the situation on the road surprised the three of them - the road had been blocked by obstacles built by a group of Gu hunting ground soldiers with various objects, and behind the road, the road that stretched into the city of Chiang Rai Province was crowded with men, women and children on both sides.

For some reason, the refugees were dressed in white or near-white light-colored pants, some wrapped themselves in white cloth, and even put on white woven bags.

Although there were many people and there was no end in sight, the order was very good, everyone was just standing on the sides, and there was no congestion on the road, but many people could clearly see that they were injured, and the blood from the wounds had penetrated the gauze that had been simply bandaged.

"What the hell is going on?" After Tang Shuxing waited for Gu Huaiyi to park the car steadily, he opened the door and walked down, and as soon as he got out of the car, two soldiers with their faces covered with camouflage cloth, wearing civilian clothes, and multi-functional combat vests on the outside, and carrying assault rifles stepped forward and signaled that they were not allowed to go any further.

Tang Shuxing looked at the two people, and then looked at the obstacles piled up in the distance, in addition to the well-equipped Gu Hunting Ground soldiers, there were more soldiers who were dressed the same as the two people in front of them, and this group of soldiers did not have the uniform dress of the Gu Hunting Ground soldiers, they were roughly the same weapons, they were all dressed casually, although the weapons in their hands were varied. But not shabby.

Just when the two of them signaled that they couldn't move forward, a Gu Hunting Ground soldier stepped forward quickly and explained to the two that it was their own, and the eyes of the two stayed on Xia Jiezhu for a while longer, and then they left with a smile.

"Mr. Tang, I'm afraid you don't remember me, you can be regarded as saving me." The Gu Hunting Ground soldier said, "My name is Palladium Zhan!" ”

Tang Shuxing looked at the palladium exhibition and shook his head.

"Not long ago, when the controller named Yu Xin was killing people in the underground fortress. We've seen it. Palladium said in a low voice.

"Oh. Zhilu said. Tang Shuxing actually didn't know who Lu Dao Palladium Zhan was, after all, the soldiers in the Gu Hunting Ground were all wrapped like zongzi, "What's going on here?" ”

Palladium Zhan called the three of them to the side of the tree, looked at the direction of the obstacle and said, "A few days ago." We were sent out. Meet this group of mercenaries of unknown origin. Our mission was to take over the defence of Chiang Rai after Cheng Guoyuan's troops left Chiang Rai, but as soon as all of their men had withdrawn yesterday evening, things went haywire. ”

"You've been attacked?" Gu Huaiyi immediately asked.

"It's not us." Palladium shook his head. Pointing to the group of refugees dressed in white, "It's them." As soon as the last group of Zheng Guoyuan's troops left, a lot of thugs suddenly appeared from all around the city, armed with all kinds of weapons, knives, guns and sticks, shouting that they would kill all the Shangdu disciples and the like, killing people everywhere, whether they were ordinary people or believers, as long as they were targeted, they would die. ”

After the mob appeared, the Gu Hunting Ground soldiers and mysterious mercenaries immediately entered the city to carry out the mission of protecting the people and killing the mob, which lasted all night until the sun rose in the early morning, and then ended the clean-up operation and turned to search and retreat to clear it.

"Before that, we also received an order to block the road from here to Shafeng, worried that the Shangdu sect members would flock in the direction of the Gu hunting ground, you must know that they all want to go to Shangdu." Palladium Zhan looked at the group of refugees, "But after last night's incident, many people who were hesitant to join the church announced that they had become believers in the early morning. ”

Xia Jiezhu stood silent, her eyes always falling on the injured children in the distance.

"How many people have died among the cultists and civilians?" Tang Shu asked.

"We didn't count, but in the fountain of a small square, we found more than 60 bodies, apparently the same mob that drove them to the center of the square." "It's cruel, it's all unarmed civilians who died. ”

Gu Huaiyi asked again: "How many thugs are there?" What's the way? ”

"The source is unknown, and the number of people is unknown." Palladium Zhan hugged the M245 light machine gun in his hand and said, "Last night alone, I killed 56 thugs. ”

"Is there a live mouth?" Xia Jiezhu interjected at this time and asked.

Palladium Zhan looked at Xia Jiezhu, obviously not knowing the director of the Shangdu Exit and Entry Administration Office, but he couldn't help but take a few more glances at this beautiful woman during this period.

"If you don't have a living mouth, they're just crazy, just like someone who has just taken drugs, it doesn't work if you tell him to surrender and lie down, if you don't shoot, they will bite you to death even if they don't have weapons." Palladium Zhan still has palpitations when he talks about it.

It's just that this kind of thing happened overnight, and it happened so suddenly, that Tang Shuxing and Gu Huaiyi didn't know how to deal with it.

"Is it safe in town now?" Tang Shuxing asked, looking at the pile-up obstacles, "Can we get over?" ”

"If it's you, you can go over, but I'm not sure if it's safe in the city." Palladium Zhan shook his head, then turned around and led Tang Shuxing and the others through the heavily defended checkpoint.

Before he could pass the checkpoint, Tang Shuxing suddenly stepped forward and asked in a low voice, "Are those thugs corpses?" ”

"Absolutely not." Palladium Zhan shook his head, "There are no characteristics of corpses, not even junior corpses, just ordinary people, they should be manipulated by some kind of drug, and their purpose seems to be just a terrorist attack." ”

Terrorist attack? Gu Huaiyi felt on the side that this word was too ridiculous to come out of the mouth of the soldiers in the Gu Hunting Ground, because in the eyes of outsiders, the monks of the Gu Hunting Ground were considered real terrorists.

Standing in front of the checkpoint, Tang Shuxing and Gu Huaiyi took the lead in walking out, and after taking two steps and finding that Xia Jiezhu did not follow, Tang Shuxing turned around and stretched out his hand to Xia Jiezhu, saying that he wanted to pull her away, but Xia Jiezhu kept hesitating.

Originally, in Xia Jiezhu's heart, the outside world was so beautiful, free air, free breathing, everything was free, not as depressing as Shangdu. But looking at it now, it seems that the outside world is not as good as Shangdu, at least such a tragic thing will not happen in Shangdu.

"Let's go, I promise you." Tang Shuxing stepped forward and grabbed Xia Jiezhu's hand.

Xia Jiezhu held Tang Shuxing's hand, but did not step forward, but said, "You did it, but ...... It's so different from what I imagined, really, so different. ”

"Just a sudden tragedy, before that. This is not the case here. Neither is the case here. Tang Shuxing grabbed Xia Jiezhu's hand and dragged him to his side, looking at the group of refugees on the side of the road who were originally civilians but now became members of the Shangdu Sect.

"They are killing the congregation, and the congregation is innocent." Xia Jiezhu shook her head. "How can this be."

Tang Shuxing listened to Xia Jiezhu's words. My first reaction was when I first went to Shangdu. Seeing Xia Jiezhu and his soldiers shooting the so-called rebels there, Xia Jiezhu was very cold-blooded at that time. Although Tang Shuxing always believed that Xia Jiezhu was born in Shangdu and grew up in Shangdu. was brainwashed very thoroughly, but she was always a kind girl from the heart, but now she said that the sect members were innocent, and that group of people was very cruel, but it made Tang Shuxing feel weird, and he always felt that something was wrong.

"Let's go." Tang Shuxing followed behind Gu Huaiyi and led Xia Jiezhu to the middle of the road.

Maybe it was because the three of them came out from the direction of the Gu Hunting Ground and Shangdu, so most of the disciples guessed where they came from, and they all looked at them with envy.

"I am willing to follow the three heroes of Shangdu forever, build Shangdu with the power of one blood, and never regret it, if there is any repentance, I will be fixed in the hell of ten thousand demons, and I will never turn over......" When the three of them walked to a middle-aged man's side, the man suddenly put his right arm on his left shoulder, bowed slightly to them, and then said the oath that everyone had to say when entering Shangdu.

The three of them stood on their feet and looked at the man, and then everyone around them began to imitate the man's movements, placing their right arm on their left shoulder, bowing slightly to them collectively, and chanting the oath in unison.

The vows were recited over and over again, as if they were chanting, and there seemed to be no intention of stopping. The voices of countless people overlapped and echoed across the road, and then the same oath could be heard from the city, and it sounded so clear even though it was so far away.

"Who taught you this!?" Tang Shuxing leaned over and asked the man.

The man didn't answer at all, just closed his eyes and read it over and over again.

When Tang Shuxing got up, he saw Xia Jiezhu doing the same and began to repeat the oath with the others.

"Clever!" Gu Huaiyi said these two words, smiled at Tang Shuxing with a little meaning, and walked towards Chiang Rai Mansion with his things.

At that moment, Tang Shuxing suddenly understood that this was still Shang Du's trick, and it was still the same as before, they were implementing a plan, and they had to play two roles.

Although there is no evidence, Tang Shuxing can also be sure that this group of rioters is 100% from Shangdu, and Shangdu let them attack regardless of religion or civilians, in the final analysis, it is to make ordinary civilians feel that there are people from the outside world who will not let ordinary people go while attacking Shangdu believers, which is tantamount to forcing civilians to choose to take sides - you choose to continue to be your civilian ordinary people, and someone will not let you go, although you will still face attacks if you become a believer, but at least you have a home, whether it is physical or mental.

Moreover, this matter was also done for Xia Jiezhu to see.

Tang Shuxing took Xia Jiezhu, a person who is also very important in Shangdu, to see some of the world's realms, which is absolutely not allowed for the high-level leaders of Shangdu. The reason is very simple, if the Earth World Realm is really so beautiful, and there is no panic before the end comes, Xia Jiezhu will definitely doubt everything she has known since she was a child.

With her suspicions, over time, there will definitely be a chain reaction in institutions such as the adaptation zone Shandu Defense Army, and this suspicion will spread within Shando like a plague until suspicion turns into doubt, and doubt turns into anger after being deceived, and finally Shangdu collapses from within.

Therefore, Xia Jiezhu will not really be allowed to truly appreciate how beautiful the world outside is.

"Every step is a plan, and even if I see it through, I won't be able to save these people." Tang Shuxing looked at the pious disciples around him, and finally let go of Xia Jiezhu's hand, and said in a low voice, "You go back-" (To be continued......)