ps: Make up for the chapter I owe to my book friend Han Cho last month. In addition, I kindly recommend "Open Sea" by Duoluhou, although I haven't had time to read it yet (bad laughs).

As soon as Wang Zhong heard the ghostly screams of his subordinates, although he was shocked, he still restrained his spirit and beckoned his scattered subordinates to gather at the entrance of the settlement, ready to deal with the unknown threat.

The screaming subordinate also ran out at this time, his head bleeding and his face pale, obviously frightened, so that Wang Zhong's other subordinates also became nervous, and asked him what he had bumped into.

"Dead Man—House—Maggot-Ground"

The frightened subordinates spoke incoherently, which made the people who were anxious to understand the situation even more anxious, and for a while the people were panicked, and everyone nervously held their swords, looking at the empty courtyard of the house, as if there was an evil spirit lurking in it.

Wang Zhong's mind had stabilized at this time, he didn't believe that his people could meet ghosts in this wild settlement in the daylight.

He parted the crowd and approached the frightened man, grabbed him by the garment, and slapped him hard with the other.

"Don't pretend to be a ghost for me, you are afraid of this evil ghost in the mountains, but this evil ghost is afraid of the knife in my hand!"

Wang Zhong scolded the subordinate who caused panic, but the words were said to everyone, after he scolded him like this, not only the panicked subordinate calmed down a little, but even the subordinate who was originally incoherent was able to tell the reason intermittently with a crying voice.

It turned out that he had just rushed into the house to search for things, and he didn't notice the smell, but he broke into the door, and the moment he rushed into the house, his feet slipped, and he fell down.

Just as he tried to stand up and see what had slipped him, he touched his hands and felt a soft, wriggling mass, and he was instinctively startled, and when he stood up, he finally saw the horror of the room by the faint sunlight that came in from outside.

There were several corpses on the floor in the house, the flesh and skin on the body had rotted, and a steady stream of rotting maggots came out, and those rotting maggots not only occupied the corpses, but also spread throughout the house, like a layer of white hair, and he had just stepped on the body of those maggots, and was slipped by the body fluids flowing out of the maggots.

This kind of dense wriggling maggots were already disgusting, coupled with the dim light in the room, and the rotting corpses, weaving a miserable picture of the world of ghosts in the daytime, which frightened the brave subordinates to scatter, screamed again and again, and ran out of the yard with rolling and crawling, which triggered the scene that seemed to hit the ghost just now.

As for incoherence and inability to speak, it is not that there are any ghosts, but that the person is suddenly frightened, and the previous heavy fall and poor breath will cause the good person to be unable to speak.

After understanding the specific situation, Wang Zhong already had a plan, he waved his hand, and immediately asked the other subordinates to disperse and go to each house to see if there was such a similar situation.

After a dozen or so subordinates got the order, they immediately went into teams of two and two to inspect the houses in this wild settlement, and soon ran back one after another, reporting the situation of the houses they had inspected to Wang Zhong.

As a result, in this wild gathering, there were also other houses where the corpses of the subordinate just now were decomposing and the houses were full of maggots, which immediately made Wang Zhong vigilant.

It is very likely that there was a plague outbreak in this wild gathering many days ago, and many of the mountain people in the settlement fled one after another when they saw that the situation was not good, and the rest were infected or unable to escape, and were slowly dying, so this small wild gathering became a ghost in the world.

At this time, the plague is more terrible than the ghosts and gods, Wang Zhong has even seen a dock fort, a township people infected with the plague, since this wild gathering may have been infected with the plague, then the food and water here are also very risky, can not be eaten, Wang Zhong even feels that staying here for a while, will be uncomfortable.

He hurriedly beckoned his men to withdraw from this wild gathering, and the group hurriedly fled along the same road, wanting to completely get away from this human ghost.

When he fled back to the original official road, Wang Zhong had just been able to catch a breath and boldly breathe in the air, but his subordinates screamed again, pointing to the swaying weeds on the side of the road and shouting:

"Someone!"

Wang Zhong was so frightened that he hurriedly pulled out the ring head knife, looked in the direction pointed by his men, and saw the half-human-high weeds swaying, obviously someone was separating the weeds and fleeing to the rear, he suddenly had a spirit, pointed to the weeds and shouted:

"Chase, don't let people escape!"

There were only a dozen or so subordinates left by Wang Zhong's side, and there were many refugees who fled to Jingxiang in Wuguan Road, but they were either groups of displaced people, or large families who migrated with their clans, or poor families with their families and skinny families, the first two were unprovoked by a small force like Wang Zhong, and the latter was useless to rob.

At present, it is rare to meet a few people who will turn around and run away, it can be seen that it is very likely to be a fat sheep, where can the hungry Wang Zhong let go, and immediately beckoned his subordinates to run in the direction of the other party's escape, rushing into the weeds.

There were only two people who fled, and the speed on their feet was not faster than Wang Zhong and others, and they were outflanked and intercepted by Wang Zhong and others not far away, and the two people who escaped wanted to resist when they saw this, but after one person was cut down by Wang Zhong with a knife, the remaining other person also lost the courage to resist, and could only put down his blade, knelt down in front of many blades and spears, and begged for mercy.

The fleeing man who was begging for mercy was pale, sobbing and looking very frightened, he kowtowed, and under the pressure of Wang Zhong and others, he cried and answered everyone's questions.

He claimed to be a ranger in Shang County, because of the chaos in Guanzhong, so he and a group of light heroes wanted to flee to Jingxiang, but on the way they were ambushed by thieves who robbed the road, and suffered heavy casualties.

Unexpectedly, after escaping, he ran into Wang Zhong's group again, and he and his other companions were afraid that Wang Zhong and others were also thieves who sought money and killed people, so the two of them panicked and wanted to escape in the grass.

Wang Zhong and the others were suspicious of his words, but Wang Zhong's subordinates searched his whole body, and indeed did not find any dry food or water bladders, only an iron sword representing the identity of the ranger, but it had already been seized by Wang Zhong.

Wang Zhong's subordinates couldn't find anything when they saw it, and they suddenly became interested, and the momentum that had just chased and killed the fat sheep also dissipated, shouting to rip off his clothes and spare his life.

They are not government officials, they are all hard-working people who are busy fleeing, and they really don't have the time to investigate the identity and authenticity of this fugitive's words, and they don't want to waste their physical strength and kill innocents indiscriminately.

But Wang Zhong listened to the gossip of his subordinates, but quietly and quietly observed the changes in the face of this fugitive, when he saw that the ranger heard that only stripped off his clothes and left him to fend for himself, a trace of luck appeared on his face, and Wang Zhong's heart immediately became alert.

In this wilderness, the fugitive has no water, no dry food, and no blades and clothing, in fact, it is no different from death, not to mention other threats, just mosquito bites can suck up his blood.

This man looked lucky, and obviously he still had something to rely on. Wang Zhong thought about it, and then had an idea, and immediately waved his hand and ordered, and let his subordinates search carefully along the original path where this ranger had escaped, to see if there was anything secretly hidden.

Hearing Wang Zhong's order, the ranger's face suddenly showed nervousness, but he also noticed Wang Zhong's knife-like eyes, and immediately drooped his head and buried his face low to prevent Wang Zhong from seeing it.

When Wang Zhong saw this scene, he smiled and hooked the corners of his mouth proudly, his old profession is the pavilion chief who chases the murderer and arrests the thief, just like the tengu who resists the murderer, his eyes are very vicious, and he will never miss his eyes when he treats bad people.

Sure enough, Wang Zhong's men quickly searched for a large package not far from the road where the ranger had fled, which contained not only a few pieces of gold cakes, clean clothes, water bladders filled with water, but also a few pieces of air-dried jerky.

This time, Wang Zhong's subordinates were no longer polite, and when they surrounded the ranger who was hiding them, they were punched and kicked, and when they directly beat the ranger to the point that his nose was blue and his face was swollen, they could be regarded as having a bad breath and stopped their hands and feet.

Of course, more importantly, because Wang Zhong has begun to distribute water and jerky, everyone left Xia Xia and went up to share the water and meat.

After dividing the water and meat, Wang Zhong puffed out his cheeks, chewing the jerky meat that was as hard as iron and no longer had much taste, and proudly held the ring head knife, put it on the neck of the ranger with a blue nose and swollen face and bleeding face, and sneered:

"If you dare to deceive Naigong, then you can't complain about others if I kill you today."

The ranger seemed to be dying, but when he heard Wang Zhong's words, he struggled to highlight a mouthful of blood foam, looked at Wang Zhong who was chewing heavily, and smiled vengefully:

"I didn't lie to you, I don't have any dry food. It was the flesh of the dead, not any food. ”

The ranger's chuckling words were like a stone stirring up a thousand waves, Wang Zhong's face instantly became blue and white, extremely ugly, the whole person was as uncomfortable as a fly flying into his throat, and the dried meat still in his hand was not thrown, if he held it, if he didn't have an empty stomach, he would almost vomit on the spot.

The performance of his subordinates was even worse, some of them hugged their stomachs and vomited on the spot, some were so frightened that they threw their jerky on the ground, and some desperately cleaved their throats, trying to spit out the jerky that they had just swallowed like a date.

Eating human flesh, having heard of it, glimpsing it, and eating it in your mouth, the feeling in your heart is completely different, not to mention that there is no psychological preparation in advance.

These are the reactions of normal people, Wang Zhongqiang endured the overturning of the river and the sea in his stomach, and was aroused by this clumsy behavior of the evil ghost who ate human flesh, and he was jealous and hateful when he was the pavilion chief, he kicked the ranger over, and scolded loudly:

"You, I'm going to kill you!"