Chapter 4: Breaking the Bondage

Along the way, Chen Xian examined several more corpses, all of which were flesh and blood without exception.

These corpses made Chen Xian at least sure that everything in front of him was not a movie set.

The closer you get to the city gate, the denser the corpses become, and under the earthen walls of this small village, there are at least hundreds of corpses, and within a dozen meters of the city gate, the ground is almost completely stained with blood and black and red.

Fortunately, the ground here was all mud, and the blood had seeped into the ground, otherwise, Chen Xian would not have known if he would have the courage to get down.

Standing at the gate of the village like the gate of hell, Chen Xian hesitated for a long time, and finally decided to go into the village to have a look, as soon as he wanted to see if there were any living people and understand his situation.

Although there are other villages nearby, and the nearest village is only a dozen miles away, Chen Xian will never rush into the villages here unless he has to.

Just as getting lost in the African jungle and encountering a local indigenous tribe is not necessarily a good thing, rushing into an indigenous settlement that you don't know anything about is full of uncertainty.

Just by looking at the scene in front of you, you can understand that the survival pressure of the people here is not small, and in such a war, it is not inconceivable that a stranger who suddenly appears will be executed as a spy.

These are the truths that Chen Xian wanted to understand this morning.

Of course, if it is a lonely native, then leave it another matter, thinking of this, Chen Xian clenched the long stick and the big black eagle in his hand, gritted his teeth and stepped over the corpses, and walked into Zhuangzi.

When he walked into the door hole of Tuweizi, Chen Xian looked up and saw that there was a stone bar above the doorway, and three traditional Chinese characters "Lujiazhuang" were engraved on the stone bar.

There is a 20-meter-wide open space on the inner side of the city wall, and opposite the open space is a low and simple adobe thatched hut.

On the inside of the city gate, there was also a dense circle of corpses, many of which had been stripped of their clothes, and only a few of them were wearing tattered clothes.

Chen Xian observed for a moment, and he found that all the corpses that had been stripped of their clothes were stronger and cleaner than those in tattered clothes, and those people should be soldiers from this village.

Stepping over the pile of corpses, Chen Xian walked into a narrow alley.

On both sides of the street are the simple and low mud thatched huts that Chen Xian, who grew up in the mountains, has never seen before.

There were corpses lying all over the street, and most of the houses on both sides were open, and the light inside the gates was dim, but one after another could still be faintly seen, many of them had been stripped of their clothes.

As we went deeper, the streets on both sides of the street were still thatched huts, but they gradually became tall and regular.

After walking along the street for nearly 100 meters, bricks and tiles finally appeared in front of Chen Xian's eyes.

It was a high-walled compound, surrounded by blue bricks, and in the middle of the long wall was a tall vermilion gate.

The contrast between the high-walled compound and the low adobe thatched houses in the vicinity is even more opulent.

It's just that the corpses lying down at the door and the open Zhu Gate spoil this rich atmosphere.

The corpses inside and outside the gate were extremely dense, and it was clear that there was a fierce battle here, and most of the corpses here had been stripped of their clothes, as near the city gate.

There is a plaque above the vermilion gate with two large characters written on it, "Lu Fu".

Seeing more corpses, he became numb, and when Chen Xian stepped over the pile of corpses at the door, his heart was no longer so afraid.

Inside the gate is a wide courtyard, a bluestone paved road leads to the middle hall at the end of the courtyard, the middle hall is a majestic brick house, the walls of the big house are painted white with lime, and the blue and black tiles of the roof form a sharp contrast, the white walls and black tiles, it looks majestic and elegant.

There were many stripped corpses lying in the courtyard.

Chen Xian walked through the courtyard and into the central hall, which had obviously been looted, and it was completely looted, there was not even a single piece of furniture in the house, except for the body of the house, the looters had removed everything that could be moved.

There is a wall on each side of the central hall, separating the front yard from the back yard, and there is a door open on each wall.

Passing through the ear gate, there is a courtyard behind it, opposite which is a large brick house that is slightly lower than the central hall, but wider and more refined, and on either side of the courtyard are two rows of lower wings.

In this courtyard, the bodies of women appeared, and several young women were lying naked in the courtyard with their legs wide open and their faces full of pain.

Chen Xian's gaze avoided the distorted face and dead fish-like eyes of the woman lying not far from the gate, subconsciously took a deep breath, picked up the stick, put the big black eagle on the stick again, touched the trigger with his fingers, and then walked into the courtyard.

Chen Xian hurriedly searched the courtyard.

It's as looted as the front yard, and there is hardly a single thing left to move except for large items like beds.

There are naked ** corpses in many houses that people can't bear to look at.

Chen Xian came out of the last chamber, he endured fear and looked for so many places, not to mention the living, he didn't even see a complete piece of clothing, no food at all.

Just when Chen Xian was disappointed, he suddenly heard a voice from the backyard, which made him feel slightly startled and happy.

This brick compound is a typical central axis symmetrical building in the style of front hall and back yard, with a total of three entrances in the front and back.

The third courtyard is a back garden, and when he searched for the second courtyard just now, Chen Xian found that if he wanted to enter the back garden, he had to pass through the main hall of the second courtyard.

The main hall was the first place he searched, but he didn't find anyone in the backyard at that time.

Bypassing the innermost wall of the main hall of the second courtyard, I came to a smaller hall, and when I walked into this hall, the sound from the backyard became clearer, and the voices were men and women, and there seemed to be the cry of children.

Chen Xian stepped over the two naked female corpses, came to the door of the hall, and looked out through the tattered window flowers.

Outside the window is a small garden, in the middle of which is a flower bed fenced off, surrounded by a stone path, with dense bamboo forests on both sides and a pavilion open on all sides.

It is not difficult to imagine that if there was no disaster, the owner of this courtyard would have been drinking tea and enjoying the flowers in the pavilion with his family at this time, but unfortunately at this time, the garden was in a mess, and even a few naked corpses could be seen lying among the flowers.

The source of the sound was in the pavilion across the garden, where two men were pulling a woman and two children.

The garden is not big, and the pavilion is only a dozen meters away from the hall here, and Chen Xian can hear the other party's words clearly.

What relieved Chen Xian was that although the other party's accent was a little strange, it was not any dialect he had heard, but it was relatively close to the northern accent, he could barely understand it, and the choice of words and sentences was also very strange, but he could barely understand it.

Chen Xian quickly understood what the other party was saying, and it turned out that the two men intended to mistreat the woman.

One of the men was tall and burly, with obscene words in his mouth, and he was moving his hands and feet at the woman.

Another man seemed to have a lower status, helping to control the two seven or eight-year-old children on the side, preventing them from making trouble, and kept threatening the woman with the two children, making her "obey the elder brother".

The woman resisted, and at the same time bitterly scolded the two men for being ungrateful, being supported by the Lu family, not only did not fight to the death for the main family, not to mention escaping from the battle, but now they also insulted the orphans and widows of the main family.

The woman seemed to have a good upbringing, although she scolded sharply, but there were no dirty words in her mouth, she called the burly man who did something to him, Wang Jiaotou, and called the man who pulled her son Liu Jiaotou.

After listening to the woman's rebuke, Chen Xian suddenly noticed that the two men were wearing iron armor under their cloth robes, with sabers hanging from their waists, and a spear was placed on the guardrail next to the pavilion, a long stick with iron hoops nested at both ends, and two iron helmets were placed on the guardrail.

Noticing these weapons, thinking about the woman calling these two people the head of the sect, Chen Xian suddenly became nervous, carefully leaned the wooden stick against the wall, and raised the big black eagle with both hands to aim at one of them.

Looking at the Wang Jiaotou smiling and smiling and teasing the woman like cat and mouse, the two children were crying and struggling, wanting to help the bullied mother, Chen Xian's heart was like a cat's claw.

Looking at such a scene, Chen Xian felt that he had to do something, but he didn't know how to do it.

Direct shooting? It's easy to shoot, less than twenty meters away, with this big black eagle with excellent stability, let alone a human head, even if it's a walnut, he is sure to shoot, but the education he received since he was a child made him unable to start at all, and he didn't dare to start.

Go out and stop it? One only has to look at the corpses on the ground to understand that this is definitely a stupid idea that cannot be more stupid.

Just when Chen Xian was at a loss and sweating on his anxious head, Liu Jiaotou, who was controlling the two children on the side, suddenly screamed and let go of the older child, and his arm was bitten.

The freed child screamed angrily and threw himself at Wang Jiaotou, who had already held his mother in his arms.

Without waiting for the child to pounce, Liu Jiaotou, who had been bitten on the hand, shouted angrily, stepped forward, grabbed the child's hair, and threw the child to the ground with a forceful throw, and then he took a step forward, gritted his teeth, and stepped on the child with his feet.

This Liu Jiaotou is strong, powerful, this foot looks merciless, if he really steps on it, how can an eight or nine-year-old child stand it? I'm afraid of being trampled to death on the spot! The woman couldn't help but let out a scream when she saw this.

didn't wait for Liu Jiaotou to step on it, but suddenly stumbled and fell to the ground.

It turned out that Chen Xian, who saw this scene, finally broke through the shackles of morality and law in his heart, and in an instant, subconsciously pulled the trigger of the big black eagle.

The fierce crossbow bolt shot into Liu Jiaotou's neck like lightning, with incomparable precision, instantly shattering his cervical vertebrae, making him lose all his mobility.