After a three-day journey, getting rid of the fog of the open sea, Yun Pai sailed into the northeast of Helian Bay, and gradually approached the northwest territory of the Jin Kingdom.

The dull waves crashed against the ship's side, leaving dirty marks on the deck.

The closer the sea water in the northeast of Helian Bay is to the shore, the more sediment it contains, so the more yellow it is, which is a truth set by nature, and it cannot be changed by manpower, even if it is Zhou Shi.

The cloud row trudged through this earthy yellow ocean, and the weather was cloudy today, and the sun was obscured by the gray sky, so that the survivors of the whole ship could not have a little vitality.

Ye Yuchang stood on the bow of the ship with a calm face, he closed his left eye, and let the vitality fill his right eye, which temporarily improved his eyesight, and his gaze swept across the sea, and he saw an oval-shaped black dot.

Ye Yuchang's face was as gloomy as the weather, and he could see the oval-shaped black dots, indicating that they had approached the Changxin Pier.

Changxin Wharf is a wharf town that has suddenly emerged in the past three years, and it can only be regarded as a medium-sized wharf, but the foundation of three years is too shallow to build a lighthouse, but the fleet attracted by it must not be small, so even if it is to navigate the ships during the day, the local government has raised funds for two years to set up a seven-zhang high stone monument on a small island four miles overseas from Changxin Wharf to serve as a navigation mark.

Ye Yuchang shouted at the crew behind him: "You pass on my words, let the brothers in the cabin don't rest! Even if the wind is down now, it will take some time, and if we work harder, we can go ashore and have a good meal!"

Using this to reward the crew who escaped death is the only thing Ye Yuchang can do at the moment, he can't be relaxed at any time now, and after docking, he has to find a way to explain the loss of goods to the local Yang family's semicolon.

This is not a sentence of "drifting" that can prevaricate the amount of loss in the past, and it is a sure thing that the Ye family will bleed heavily.

"No, I don't know, when the time comes, where will the eldest brother be...... I can't stand the compensation to the Yang family. ”

Ye Yuchang was in a daze, watching the stone embankment derived from Changxin Wharf getting closer and closer to Yun Pai and himself.

However, the Yun Pai floated on the edge of the stone embankment for a long time, and did not see the usher on the pier.

As a last resort, Ye Yuchang could only send two sailors to row a small sampan close to the stone embankment, and after the crew landed, they found thick ropes and chains tied to the dock pillars, and threw them onto the ship, and a group of sailors connected the chains, thick ropes and the ship's fixed handles.

The people on the embankment and the people on the boat shouted slogans in pairs, and led the ship into the inner side of the long causeway of the wharf, and the four-clawed iron anchor went down to the sea, and finally stabilized the Yunpai in the wharf.

Including Shen Yu, there were some wounded people on the ship, and the little girl was an inhuman thing, and these people were not suitable to go to the town behind the port.

What's more, if the little girl went ashore together, Ye Yuchang's behavior of going to the magistrate might be exposed, so he deliberately left it on the ship and went ashore with the remaining eleven crew members.

"Young Ship Owner, look at this ......"

A crew member whispered to Ye Yu with a grim expression, he and the crew looked cold and desolate, it was not enough to describe, they could only say that it was an empty dock, and they didn't know what to say.

"I don't feel right, even if it's an off-season, it's impossible to have half a person. ”

Ye Yuchang uneasily pulled out the lancet on his waist.

The rest of the crew drew their swords and walked with their captain out of the docks.

There is a small hill between the wharf and the town, and there is a maritime office set up on the small hill, Ye Yuchang and the crew took their knives and entered the office, but there was no one either, the maritime office was very small, and the wharf was not a big wharf, and the sea office was not too big.

Seeing that there was a two-and-a-half-zhang high wooden lookout in the backyard of the yasho, Ye Yuchang and a crew member climbed up the lookout along the ladder, overlooking the long causeway of the wharf and the earth-colored sea that stretched to the horizon.

"Anyway, let's go down first. The crew next to him suggested.

So, Ye Yuchang turned around and prepared to lie down the ladder.

As soon as he turned around, he saw from the high platform the town that had sprung up behind Changxin Wharf.

The yashi is on a hill, and the high platform is in the yasho, and the distance from the flat land is extremely high.

Therefore, Ye Yuchang and the crew around him can have a panoramic view of the entire cityscape.

"Ahh

Their eyes were reluctant to blink at the sight of the town.

Ye Yuchang has been officially in charge of the Yunpai for two years, and he has been going to sea with his father for five years before becoming the captain, and in these seven years, he has been in contact with countless exquisite goods and prosperous towns, countless people and things.

But even then, I had never seen anything like it.

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The rows of houses and shops were shattered on the ground like clay pots that had been hammered, and the red, black, and gray colors were scattered on the streets of the former place, and black smoke was still rising in many places, indicating that there was once a fire.

Looking farther away, there are patches of fields that have been neatly cultivated for spring ploughing.

None of the Changxin Wharves and its towns are not ruins, no places are not dead, and no places are not purgatory.

Against the backdrop of the dim sky, it is like the end of the world.

On one side of the mound, the earthy yellow waves crash endlessly against the embankment, and on the other side of the mound, a town that was once known as "Changxin" has been destroyed by fate.

Ye Yuchang didn't feel in a daze until today what it meant to "suddenly, a town died".

The crew under the stage didn't know what the people on the stage saw and shouted for a long time, and Ye Yuchang, who had been staying for a long time, came back to his senses and staggered down the high platform.

When the crew was informed of the superb view he had seen, the others were shocked.

After discussing for a long time, Ye Yuchang wanted to go back to the ship immediately, but many of the elders in the crew said, "We survived a few days ago because we worked hard to survive and God blessed. ”

So, the group decided to break up into the town in three waves in search of possible survivors.

"Yes, anyone?"

While shouting, Ye Yuchang and three crew members shuttled through the rubble of masonry, often bumping into one or two corpses, and a few wild dogs eating corpses on the street.

Everywhere the eye looks, there is a scene related to death.

This kind of destruction does not give people the feeling of an old thing, but a relatively fresh kind of destruction, and the change that Changxin suffered should not be long ago.

If it is a natural disaster, the destructive power is slightly smaller, but wild dogs and other animals are alive, and only people and houses are dead, and natural disasters should be indiscriminate violence.

If it is said that it is a man-made disaster, the destructive power is slightly greater, even if Master Zhou, who has entered the realm of all saints, needs to set up a formation in advance if he wants to destroy a town without harming his own Yuan Chi fundamentals, Ye Yuchang's vitality has not yet detected any signs of formation.

The straw sandals stepped on the relatively intact stone road, and Ye Yuchang looked around again, carefully searching for potential survivors.

But there was no gain, and the devastated surroundings seemed to be the aftermath of the earthquake.

Ye Yuchang sighed tremblingly, "The whole city, the whole town is ......."

He sat on the stone pavement with his butt on his back.

A pile of masonry and debris lay across his eyes, the kind of thing that was everywhere in what was once called Changxin, almost indistinguishable ruins and dead places.

But something attracted Ye Yuchang, who was trapped in terror.

A crumbling plaque was buried in a pile of debris in front of him, revealing only half of his "body", but only this half of his "body" was enough to indicate the identity of the plaque.

Ye Yuchang's eyesight was not bad, and he could see the word "Yang" engraved in Lishu on the exposed part of the plaque at a glance.

"Mo, Mo...... This is part of the Yang family's semicolon?"

He steadied himself and shifted his gaze to the ruins in front of him.

The entire mansion seems to have been flattened by a sledgehammer, and there is no life at all.

Ye Yuchang suddenly couldn't get back in one breath, his body slowly leaned against the stone floor, and his left hand was still trapped in the old wound of the previous day, so he could only use his right hand to beat his chest with great effort.

Only...... Just dead?

He should have breathed a sigh of relief when the object of reparation was destroyed, but for some reason something heavier was blocked in his chest.

The name of that thing is fear.

It is the fear of sudden disaster for some unknown reason, or rather, the fear of unknown death.

"Young Captain, are you—are you alright?"

The crew asked while patting Ye Yuchang on the back, and Ye Yuchang finally reluctantly agreed.

"No, it's okay...... This body bone is too unusable. ”

The Yang family semicolon is gone.

Ye Yuchang chewed on this reality again, then suppressed the dullness in his chest, squeezed out a smile with all his might, and stood up.

As a captain, you can't be so unproductive.

"Let's go, let's continue to find out—"

A mournful cry rushed straight into Xiao Han, overshadowing Ye Yuchang's voice, echoing in the heavens and the earth for a long time like the cry of some animal.

Ye Yuchang was stunned when he first heard the screams, and after the screams echoed several times, he chose to follow the sound and chase after him, and the three sailors around him also followed after hesitating for a moment.

Through the countless broken walls, the sorrowful screams that Ye Yuchang heard became clearer and clearer.

He ran up the stairs up a section of the mound, step by step, and seemed to come to a place similar to the ancestral hall.

Running up the stairs, he saw many people lying on the ramp, or holding up the trees on the hill ramp, all of which were the scene of the dead.

Running to the heights, a relatively wide square appears in the field of vision, square stone slabs are paved on the ground, some bricks and stones are also carved with flowers and birds, there are a pile of ruins on the left, front and right sides, and the bricks and tiles and the vaguely existing building remnants are very similar to a part of the ancestral hall.

Near the center of the square, a deer was nailed to the ground by a spear piercing its belly, and made a faint intermittent chirp, and a pair of antlers were broken, leaving a thorn shaped like a twig standing alone overhead, and the antlers seemed to have scattered buds.

Around the place where the deer was lying were placed white pebbles carved with red runes according to some kind of rule, like some kind of array.

The blue clouds wrapped around the deer like a princess's shawl, like the fur painted in blue ink twitching with pain, and the empty eyes looked around, but the light in the eyes was disappearing little by little.

A young girl dressed in short gray brown with shoulder-length hair is feeling out pebbles from her sleeves to fill in the 'array' around the deer.

She had two spears stuck at her feet.

The girl noticed an uninvited guest, but she didn't squint, and her eyes looked directly at the stones beside the deer, and continued to lay out the pebbles, as if this was the most important thing for her right now.

In a dead town, doing this kind of thing wholeheartedly, it is difficult for Ye Yuchang not to guess the connection between this girl and the tragedy.

"Who are you? The people outside are dead, what are you doing? It's only April now, isn't it the time when the Jin Kingdom allows deer hunting in the northwest?"

Ye Yuchang walked over while questioning, and pulled out the lancet on his waist.

As soon as the sound of the metal grinding of the knife sounded in the air, the sound of the sharp object breaking through the air also followed, and a spear pierced Ye Yu's feet with lightning speed.

The spear smashed into the stone slab, sinking half a foot into the ground, and the shattered stone shards swept over Ye Yuchang's calf and scratched the surface of his pants.

And the place where the spear pierced was only two inches from the tip of Ye Yu's left foot that Ye Yu took a step forward.

Immediately, Ye Yuchang was so frightened that he stayed in place and didn't dare to move.

The most frightening thing was that Ye Yuchang didn't see the girl throwing a spear at him at all!

The girl's face shook slightly, and the corner of her eye stabbed Ye Yuchang with a look, and then continued to place pebbles.

Ye Yuchang read the warning in his eyes very clearly.