Chapter 48: The Shadow of Death

Rabbits are running away, foxes are running away, rats are running away, even wolves composed of thousands of wild wolves are fleeing, all the animals on the grassland are fleeing, they are mixed together, forming an army of escapees, they even blatantly pass through the barracks, in front of tens of thousands of soldiers, seize the road and escape.

Suddenly, all of these animals passing through the barracks came to a sharp brake, and they sprang around the barracks like a swarm of headless flies, and at last they hid in the dark corners of the barracks and shivered, and for a time there were two or three thousand more rabbits, seventy or eighty wild wolves, two foxes, and a male lion who had stuck his head in the haystack and would not come out again!

Thousands of animals and 10,000 soldiers stared at each other, and the entire barracks turned out to be an open-air zoo! Suddenly, someone let out a cry of surprise, Zhao Wei, the director of the gang, rushed out with a group of gang leaders, carrying kitchen knives in their hands, chasing dozens of rabbits everywhere, Zhao Wei held the kitchen knife and shouted: "Hurry, everyone hurry up and help, don't let them run away......"

Rushing out of the room and seeing thousands of rabbits in front of him, Zhao Wei stayed for a long time before he said stupidly: "Hey, these are all large pieces of fresh meat, why don't you catch them?" ”

There was a soft snort from the nose in the barracks, and I don't know how many people scolded in their hearts: "Fool without eyes! ”

Midnight turned his head and happened to meet Jiang Shang's gaze, and the two of them saw the worry in each other's eyes at the same time.

The soldier standing on the lookout rubbed his eyes in disbelief, and after a long time, he opened his throat and shouted, "I see people!" I saw a large crowd of people, a large number of crows! They came to our barracks from all directions, and they were really numerous, I estimate at least 50,000 people, no, at least 100,000 people! Oh my God, they surrounded us!! ”

The sentry shouted, "They have weapons in their hands, they seem to be sticks or something, what are they doing with them?" Are they going to attack our barracks with that kind of play? Although they are ten times more numerous than us, they are not looking for death when they come to storm the barracks like this? Hey, isn't the one who walks in the front my mother? ”

Midnight quickly rushed to the lookout, and within his line of sight, there were densely packed figures everywhere, hundreds of thousands of people, in an absolutely abnormal posture, pressing towards the barracks step by step. From time to time came a beastly wail from among them, a strong wind blew in their faces, and the midnight changed slightly, and a deep voice said: "Prepare for battle!" ”

Seeing that the sentry was still standing there stupidly, midnight snatched the horn from him, and the loud and high-pitched horn echoed over the entire barracks.

"Hey, how can they be our enemies?" The sentry exclaimed, "There's my mother there!" ”

"I don't care who there is," Midnight said coldly, "If you have actually been on the battlefield and have rolled through the pile of dead bodies, you will understand that what comes from them is the smell of death!" ”

Bai Ning rushed out of the tent with Huang Xiang and the ten captains, and through the gap between the wooden stakes, Bai Ning saw the crowd that was constantly approaching the barracks, and he hissed: "Are you all stupid? When you hear the clarion call for urgent operation, why don't you act immediately? As for the archers, get ready to release your arrows immediately! ”

The soldier standing on the lookout shouted urgently: "Report to the captain, my mother is also in the crowd, they may all come to visit our family together!" ”

"Fart, if it's your mother, it's not an enemy, if it's your mother, you don't know how to blow the horn? How many of your mothers are out there? Don't tell me that those hundreds of thousands of people are your mother? Don't tell me that those hundreds of thousands of people came all the way to us because they missed their sons, and they performed a good show of searching for their sons?! ”

Parkin pointed at the sentry and roared, "Fuck me off!" I'll send you to join the vanguard in a moment, so that you can reunite with your mother and see how your mother treats your son! ”

Midnight patted the sentry on the shoulder and said in a deep voice, "Take a closer look at your mother, and see what kind of 'weapon' she has in her hand!" ”

The sentry's body trembled suddenly, and he cried out in a trembling voice, "My mother's hand is a root, a root, a root...... Bone! ”

"Yes!" Midnight said in a harmonious voice: "If you haven't been on the battlefield and don't know much about human bones and structure, I can tell you clearly that what your mother is holding in her hand is a leg bone, judging from its length, it should be a human leg bone!" You see, that leg bone seems to be sharpened, so it's a relatively sharp weapon, right? ”

The sentry was really stupid, he stared blankly at his old lady who was holding a leg bone in her hand, moving towards the barracks little by little with an abnormal movement, and his old lady suddenly had a green light in her eyes, and a hare that could not escape and had been paralyzed by fright, only had time to let out a low roar, and was pierced by the sharpened leg bone. The sentinel's old lady looked at the hare on the leg bone, and let out a creepy screech, she suddenly opened her mouth, and bit the neck of the hare that had not yet died, and then pulled hard, blood and rabbit hair flew in the air, she bit down like this, and soon a hare, a few pounds of hare, even the belt bones were torn clean by her, and there was not even a bone left.

A cold feeling surged through every sweat pore of this sentry's body, and Midnight said coldly: "Do you still think that she is your mother?" I'll bet you, if you were to be worn on that leg bone, she'd eat you all in one bite! Of course, she may not have such a good appetite, but there are hundreds of thousands of such people out there, and separating you from the flesh and bones is not enough for one of them to eat a bite! ”

The sentry's eyes were fixed on his old lady, his whole body was trembling, and he didn't know how long it took for him to suddenly cry out loud: "No, she is not my mother, she will definitely not be my mother!" I must be dreaming! yes, I must be having a nightmare! My mother is usually reluctant to trample even an ant to death, how could she bite a rabbit alive and tear it apart like a beast?!!! ”

"Are you really sure you're dreaming? Are you really sure that the thing that resembles a beast more than a beast, and no longer has a human surname, is not your original wife? ”

Midnight said indifferently: "Don't you have a bow in your hand, don't you have a box of feather arrows on your body?" If you're sure it's just a nightmare, or if she's not your mother, then shoot her with a bow and arrow until you wake up from your nightmare and shoot out the beast pretending to be your mother! But if all this is true, then as her son, you should shoot her with your own hands and let her completely get rid of the most terrible life experience of this kind of person! ”

The sentry stared at the beast a few hundred paces away, his whole body trembled, Midnight patted him on the shoulder comfortingly, slowly walked down the lookout, walked directly to Bai Ning, and said, "Report, I have a proposal, I hope it can be approved!" ”

"I've been observing for a long time, those enemies are very slow, even if they can launch the so-called charge, I'm afraid they can't stand up to the walk of a normal person, so I would like to ask the commander to give the order to open the gate of the barracks and pull all our soldiers outside, please take a good look at the enemy we are about to face!"

Hearing Midnight's proposal, Bai Ning and Huang Xiang's eyes widened, and Huang Xiang said in a low voice: "Ao Midnight, what do you want to do?" ”

"Nothing, I just want everyone to recognize their relatives." Midnight's voice was very flat, and he said leisurely: "That sentry can recognize his wife from a crowd of more than 100,000, I don't think it's an accident." Many of our soldiers here may be able to find their relatives outside! Let everyone line up outside and say goodbye to their loved ones for the last time, so as not to waste the kindness of some people! ”

Bai Ning and Huang Xiang looked at each other, and after a while, Bai Ning said astringently: "Are you saying that this group of 'enemies' besieging our military camp did not come here randomly, but were deliberately arranged by some people to use the blood relationship between the soldiers and their relatives to mentally oppress our soldiers?" ”

Midnight said in a deep voice: "No matter what speculation it is, it needs to be verified by practice, pull everyone out, and try it?" ”

Eight thousand recruits who had just been drafted into the army walked out of the barracks and lined up a horizontal line under the command of the veterans, their eyes widened and they tried to search through the crowd, and suddenly someone pointed to the front and cried loudly: "Big brother, isn't that our father?" Little sister, mother, sister-in-law, our family is here! ”

The two soldiers suddenly threw away their weapons and rushed forward, and Bai Ning hurriedly shouted: "You two bastards, are you blind? Hurry up and get me back! Come on, chase them back to me at once!! ”

Midnight's face was as gloomy as water, and he said indifferently: "No! ”

The two soldiers rushed to their relatives, they were suddenly stunned, they stared at their relatives, looking at their bodies that were already insincere, and they could smell a strong smell of corpses from a dozen steps away, and on the bodies of their relatives, I don't know how many white corpse maggots that were still wriggling were crowded together. Their father smiled at his two sons, and the rotten muscles on his face were shattered.

The eldest brother of the two brothers hissed, "No, little brother, let's run!" ”

They finally came to their senses, but it was too late, they had been completely surrounded by hundreds of bodies that smelled of corpses, these bodies were all familiar to them, including the neighbor Aunt Zhang, the little tiger who followed them all day long and wanted to learn how to climb trees to touch the bird's nest, the lover of the younger brother who had a spring breeze in the haystack before enlisting in the army, and the wife of the elder brother who had only been in the door for three months...... These neighbors, friends, and relatives who are now familiar with each other stretched out their hands to the two brothers, and the two brothers struggled with their lives in the crowd, but they were all hands on all sides, and their bodies with the smell of corpses squeezed towards them like a mountain of mountains, squeezing their limbs firmly to death, and then a dozen large mouths that were still stained with blood bit the two brothers together.

The terrible screams of the two brothers resounded in the sky, and they writhed their bodies as hard as they could, trying to break a bloody way out of the sea of people, but they were completely submerged, and blood splashed from them little by little, and their screams continued for five minutes before they slowly died down.

The soldiers standing in front of the barracks were all pale, and a considerable number of them had already seen their relatives from the crowd, but seeing the most miserable ending of the two brothers, no one dared to rush forward, they could only cry loudly, and for a time the whole barracks was full of sadness and desperate crying.

Suddenly, Evil Lai's eyes widened, he pointed to a corner of the crowd, and roared: "Brother Midnight, look, that's Heizi and Erniu!" ”

Maybe it's because there are too many arrows and the blood in the whole body is drained, or maybe it's the kind of poisonous weed they eat, which can not only stimulate the blood-eating instinct of living creatures, but also have an antiseptic effect similar to spices. They still carried more than 100 wolf tooth arrows on their bodies, and in their hands, they still held a spear stained with the blood of the Qiang cavalry, dragging their stiff bodies and moving forward step by step.

Behind Heizi and Er Niu were a large group of fallen soldiers still wearing tattered leather armor and holding a variety of weapons in their hands, and among these soldiers there were even Qiang cavalry sitting on skeletal horses! These soldiers, who once fought to the death on the battlefield, have joined forces to form an army of necromancy!

"Mother, I'm sorry!"

There was a long cry of grief from the watchtower, and in the trembling of the bowstring, a feather arrow roared out, and the feather arrow actually cut a long distance of two hundred paces, and shot straight at an old woman, who looked at the feather arrow that suddenly appeared on her chest in confusion, and she stretched out the feather arrow, and the triangular bronze arrow then brought out a large piece of carrion without blood on her body. She took the feathered arrow to her mouth and bit down hard at the bronze arrow.

Probably thinking that the taste was not good, she threw the feather arrow aside, casually spat out a few bloodshot teeth, and continued to pinch the leg bone in her hand, and walked forward.

Seeing this scene, the soldiers standing in front of the barracks gasped in unison.

Midnight slowly walked up to all the soldiers and said, "There are your relatives standing there, but now I can only say that they are no longer human!" I think the ending of those two brothers has been shown to you clearly enough, and I have to tell you that you don't have a home anymore! ”

No one spoke, some of their soldiers had already found their relatives or fellow villagers in the crowd, some were still searching in vain, and the whole force was immersed in an atmosphere of sadness and despair.

"If you really love your relatives and really want to take on the responsibility of a man, then hold the weapons in your hands and fight to the death!"

Midnight pointed to the crowd in front of him and said in a deep voice, "You guys have opened my eyes wide to see clearly!" They're dead! They should settle in the ground, not become zombies and wander around the prairie. This battle is not for the honor of the Great Shang Empire, nor for promotion and wealth, you wave the weapons in your hands, cut their bodies into countless pieces, and let their souls get a real rest! It's the only thing we can do, and it's what we have to do! ”

"Wipe away the boring tears in your eyes, only a girl will do nothing, just sit on the ground and grab your hair and cry there, wanting to get the sympathy of others!" Midnight glared fiercely at every soldier in front of him, and said coldly: "The sky is eyeless, the earth is unfair, if you want to avenge your relatives, follow me and fight a bloody way!" No matter who is behind this tragedy, we want him to pay for it with blood!! ”

A terrible murderous aura slowly rose as the heavy breathing of the eight thousand soldiers slowly rose, and everyone clenched their weapons tightly. Midnight suddenly shouted: "If you see your relatives, even if he is smiling at you, even if he welcomes you with open arms and a hug with him, throw up the weapons in your hands, and give me a knife to cut down!" ”

A soldier shouted in a trembling voice: "But they are not afraid of death or pain, even if an arrow pierces their bodies, they have nothing to do, how can we fight them?!" ”

"How to fight?!"

Midnight laughed, he laughed arrogantly and weirdly, he said coldly: "An arrow pierces the body, they can not be afraid, then you will cut off his head with a knife!" If he can move forward without a head, you can chop off his legs for me again!" Aren't they just a bunch of cripples who can even walk, don't they just attack you with their nails and teeth, and you also go to scratch, bite, kick, and kick with your milking strength! Isn't all this in front of us crazy enough? It's a crazy world, and you can only get out of here alive if you make yourself crazier than this world! Do you understand?! ”

The soldier nodded again and again, he violently pulled out his weapon, and hissed, "I see, big brother, you are the real outlaw!" I'll always be behind you, and if you dare to fight those beasts with your teeth, I'll bite them down on the neck!" ”

Yes, outlaws, midnight wants this kind of effect, this kind of momentum!

Midnight picked up his elongated version of the thunder knife, walked up to the slave soldiers who were tied together with copper chains, and cut off the chains on their bodies one by one.

"Take up arms and prepare for battle, you will not get any monetary reward for killing these enemies, but you can take your own life!"

(To be continued)