Chapter 5: Nightmares
Mo Bei was still drinking there, and from time to time a sergeant came back with a head, which had already killed five people and came back to drink, looking at the soldiers who came back, Mo Bei would signal them to come over and drink by themselves, this was the promise he had made before.
The blood on their hands flowed into the bowl, and they drank the blood into their stomachs as if they had not seen it. The head was placed in a random place where he could see, and while drinking, he showed off to the other colleagues who had come back to drink how neatly he had just killed and how helpless the person who had been killed was in the end. When he said that he was happy, he couldn't help but slap the table and applaud, and laughed endlessly.
At this time, a sergeant who ran back whispered a few words in Mo Bei's ear, Mo Bei stood up and lifted the remaining half of the jar of wine in his hand, raised his head and drank it regardless of whether the waves were wasted, and then looked at the place where Li Mu and his subordinates were standing, raised his hand and shouted: "Captain Li, take your people and come with me!" With that, he picked up the sword on the table and followed the sergeant who had whispered earlier into the village.
Li Mu heard Mo Bei's shout, he knew that he could not disobey this order, although he was reluctant, but he still led his subordinates to quickly follow Mo Bei.
Entering the village, Li Mu looked at the blood stains and corpses on the ground and the burning fire of the houses in the distance, which was different from what he had seen on the battlefield in the past, there were more children and women in these corpses, he felt very uncomfortable, his stomach churned, he forcibly suppressed the nausea in his heart, and pinched the scabbard with his left hand, so as to divert his attention, trying not to look at the innocent people on the ground.
Although his eyes were looking at the sky, his ears could still hear the occasional cries for help, as well as the screams and laughter of his colleagues. He felt that it would definitely not be good for the brigade commander to ask him to come with him, he had almost expected what was about to happen, the brigade commander definitely asked him to kill people, but he didn't know who he was going to kill, and he didn't know that he couldn't do anything in the face of children and women.
It didn't take long for Mo Bei to stop, looking at Li Mu who was still thinking about moving forward, he patted him on the shoulder and motioned for Li Mu to stop, and then pointed to the house in front of him.
Li Mu came back to his senses and saw the house in front of him, which should be the ancestral hall in the village, there was no imaginary bloodstain, the gate was closed tightly, surrounded by more than a dozen sergeants, and several sergeants were carrying a log to bang on the door.
"When the door opens, you and your subordinates will go and kill all the people inside, these military exploits are specially left to you, don't let me down, I think you should know the consequences of disappointing me, this time I think there are more than a hundred heads, and we don't mind killing a few people compared to these." Mo Bei said lightly in Li Mu's ear.
Listening to the words of the brigade commander, Li Mu was stunned there, and at first thought that he would be able to mix up if he didn't kill these innocent people, and when the brigade commander called himself, he decided on the road that if the brigade commander forced himself to kill, then he would not carry out the brigade commander's order even if he died, but now the brigade commander actually threatened him with the life of his entire army, and for a while it seemed that the sky had fallen, he felt very helpless, looking at the door that was slowly about to be knocked open, and his face was sweaty in a hurry.
Finally, the door was slammed open, and there was no light inside, and through the torches of the colleagues next to him and the afterglow of the setting sun, I could vaguely see the figures flickering inside, and I could hear their rapid panting.
Li Mu walked to the gate like a wooden man, he didn't even pull out his sword, Lao Yu walked to the front, and just as he was about to enter the door, a fork was quickly stabbed out of the door, which was a fork used by hunters, which was not used to kill people, but today it stabbed people.
Lao Yu's attention has been on his Wu Chang, and when he wanted to dodge, it was too late, but just when the fork was about to pierce Lao Yu's chest, it suddenly stopped, and Lao Yu came back from the tension to see that it was his Wu Chang who pierced the chest of the fork owner in advance.
Li Mu pulled out the sword that pierced it, and watched the man with the big man with his eyes open slowly falling, he recognized him, the person who ran away from the village entrance before, looked a little honest. Li Mu seems to have figured out that if he wants to save more people, he must first kill a small number of people, which is the cruel reality. Maybe he didn't understand that killing the person in front of him was just to save Lao Yu. It doesn't matter anymore, what matters is that he killed.
The people in the room began to shout, the subordinates had already rushed in with their swords, Li Mu did not stop it, he felt that he had no right to stop anything now, he walked in and found a chair to sit down, looked at the subordinates who waved the sword, looked at the fallen corpse, and his eyes began to be full of numbness.
There was a little sound behind the chair, Li Mu was immediately alert, and then looked over, it was a woman hiding in the corner, he walked to the woman with a sword, only to see that he was pregnant, the woman's eyes kept crying, her face was full of horror, but she didn't forget to try to reduce her whimper, for her today is the end.
Li Mu put the sword back into the sheath, and after making sure that no subordinate saw the situation on his side, he went to move a chair to block the woman, and he sat on the chair and used his body to hold it.
After everyone searched and did not find a live mouth, they all carried the head they killed out, of course, no one behind Li Mu dared to search, when the person left, Li Mu quickly stood up and turned around and whispered to the woman behind: "Don't make a noise, you will come out after we leave." With that, he walked out.
After meeting with his subordinates, Lao Yu handed over three heads, Li Mu knew that he had only killed one person, and Lao Yu was afraid that he would be punished by the brigade commander, so he handed two more to himself.
"Did you clean it up?" Mo Bei asked Li Mu, and without waiting for Li Mu to answer, he continued: "Let the fire burn, Chief Li Wu, the matter of lighting the fire will trouble you!" As he spoke, he handed the torch in the hand of a military officer next to him to Li Mu.
Li Mu took the torch in his hand, and after thinking quickly: "Brigade commander, this is someone else's ancestral hall, and we should not offend their ancestors for the sake of worship." ”
"Joke, the descendants have all been killed by us, what are you afraid of offending their ancestors?! Could it be that there is something in it that Captain Li doesn't want us to know? Mo Bei looked at Li Mu with doubts on his face, and slowly the doubts turned into a smile, which was a greasy smile.
"You go in and search carefully, and don't let go of any place where you can." Mo Bei pointed to the dozen or so sergeants who had surrounded the house earlier.
After a while, I saw the two of them dragging the previous woman out, and the woman's face was full of despair, the same as Li Mu's face.
After the woman was dragged out, she was sandwiched by two sergeants and faced Mo Bei, she didn't beg for mercy, all the people were killed, if it weren't for her own children, she wouldn't even hide, if she survived alone, she wouldn't have the face to see her husband.