Chapter 306: General Wu's Invitation
The Black Watch fire did not make any waves, but the streets were not quiet that night.
Just after twelve o'clock, the sound of dense footsteps, and the occasional roar of armored vehicles, a large number of soldiers poured into the city from the direction of the south of the city, passed the front of the church, and then turned to the garrison camp in the eastern new district.
Although it was not very clear at night, Li Duo could still see their number, this was the troops withdrawn from Yunlong Mountain, they were all gray and tired, some wounded soldiers could not move, and were carried on stretchers, perhaps for fear of causing a riot, their entry into the city was carried out at night, but even so, it attracted a lot of people's attention.
The lights were turned on in each room, and people were lying down by the windows, trying to look down, although they were stopped by the soldiers who maintained order, but they could not stop it at all, and the miserable situation of the routs was unobstructed.
Among these soldiers, there were also traces of the Black Watch, but their appearance was not much better, and they were all dejected and full of exhaustion.
It took ten minutes for these soldiers to go through and look at the number, and the number was about 4,000, which was more than half less than the number of the integrated division.
However, they retreated, which also means that the zombies will soon be in the city!
The next day, the news of the withdrawal of the defenders of Yunlong Mountain spread all over the streets and alleys, and with it, a panic that swept the whole city!
Zombies, coming!
People's memories of zombies are still stuck in the time when the end of the world comes, in fact, as ordinary civilians trapped in a lonely city, except for soldiers and mercenary groups, no one has ever seen high-level zombies at all, seeing that the well-equipped army has suffered defeat, the fear in their hearts can be imagined!
The military arrested a few typical examples and shot them in public, claiming that all this was a rumor, but the paper could not contain the fire, and the panic still could not be suppressed.
In the following days, there were fewer and fewer troops to transport grain to the north, and even the large mercenary groups such as the Fire Eagle Celestial God no longer went out to hunt, the prices in the city soared, the new currency depreciated, and in the end, it had developed to a sky-high price of 500,000 steamed buns, and the financial system completely collapsed.
This was followed by a widespread famine, in which the streets were filled with sick and sick refugees every day, and the number of people dying of starvation and disease increased at a geometric rate, and in the end, the curfew was a non-existent curfew, because the roadsides were full of refugees who had fallen to the ground, and even the corpses could not be distinguished from the living.
When the most basic food is not satisfied, panic and riots ensue.
What began as a small riot turned into a massive demonstration, with hungry people storming checkpoints and attacking the provincial government, and stones flying like rain in the sky, beating the confronting military and police to the ground.
The march was bloodily suppressed, and the riots were temporarily quelled after the military announced the execution of Liu Wenhao, the manager of the grain and oil company who had inflated grain prices, and opened a warehouse to release grain.
It's just that at present, no one knows that Liu Wenhao is just a substitute for the dead, and this is just an expedient measure, trapped in the lonely city, the day when the food will run out, and at that time, the city will be a real hell.
The shadow of the zombies has not yet been seen, and a large number of refugees have poured in from the city gates on all sides, these are the survivors living in several counties near Lincheng, there was originally a Yunlong Mountain position in front of the front, although the days are a little difficult, but it is also safe and worry-free, but now Yunlong Mountain is broken, and the zombies in the east, west and south directions pass through the pass fortress and pour into the south of the city plain, they also have to leave their residences and enter the already saturated Lin City.
The streets and alleys were full of displaced refugees, and the corpse trucks were cleaning up the corpses one by one and transporting them to the crematorium in the Eastern New District, even so, the corpses could not be cleaned up, the fire burned day and night, and the eastern sky was always shrouded in a dim cloud of smoke and dust.
With Matthew, the vicar by his side, Li Duo didn't have to worry about eating and drinking, but Li Duo asked Matthew to properly help the refugees, although the number was not large, but these refugees were grateful to Dade, and they simply regarded Matthew as a living bodhisattva.
His prestige actually has a tendency to close to Archbishop Augsger!
When the survivors from the surrounding counties poured into Lin City in large numbers, Wang Yuanwu suddenly came to the door.
It was Li Duo who was notified by Matthew, saying that an acquaintance came to the door outside, and he wanted to find Li Duo by name.
Wang Yuanwu came to the door, Li Duo was not surprised, he went to the headquarters of the rebels in the past few days and told Li Mozhou where he was staying.
Li Duo's face was no different, but Matthew was crying and mourning, taking in Li Duo was enough to be frightened, he woke up in a nightmare every day, for fear that the army would come to the door, but looking at the current trend, Li Duo obviously regarded him here as an "underground transportation station".
Matthew walked out, there was not much time, as soon as the door opened, Wang Yuanwu walked in.
Li Duo was not surprised by Wang Yuanwu's arrival, but when he saw the two people behind him, Li Duo suddenly stood up!
"Brother-in-law!"
Listening to this cowardly tone, the familiar title, Li Duo was pleasantly surprised, he laughed, stepped forward, and hammered Ling Feng's chest with a fist.
"It's you kid! Aren't you guys in Longjiang City? Why did you run to Lin Cheng now! ”
The person who came was Ling Xue's sister and brother, Li Duo experienced the joy of meeting his old acquaintance in a foreign country for the first time, and he had been with them for a long time, and Li Duo had already regarded them as friends.
"Brother-in-law, it's not that Ling Xue, a stupid woman, misses you, she has to pull me here, I took her all the way through the siege, and thousands of mountains and rivers came to see you!"
Ling Feng smiled and stepped forward to give Li Duo a bear hug, and at the same time, he turned his head: "Sister, why don't you come and hug you?" ”
"Don't talk nonsense, when did I say I missed him!"
Ling Xue's face turned red, and she didn't know whether she was angry or shy, her snow-white pretty face turned crimson, looked at Li Duo, and forced her to calm down: "Li Duo, this time it's not just us, all the rebel forces in Longjiang City have already mixed into the refugee flow and entered the city. ”
Li Duo was shocked, the rebels in Longjiang City poured out? What does this mean!
Although Ling Feng was unreliable, it was impossible for Ling Xue's temperament to be untrustworthy, Li Duo nodded, and he said lightly: "Huo Yunting is also here?" ”
"That's right, the military abandoned Yunlong Mountain, we don't have any reason to stay in a deserted city, now we and Lin Cheng's partners have converged, Longjiang City and Lin Cheng's rebel forces form a coalition army, at present, Li Mozhou is the general commander, and Captain Huo is the deputy commander."
"Since you also participated in General Wu's Great Revolutionary Actions, I don't need to hide it, we are here to help the revolution this time, as long as General Wu is in power, we evolutionaries can be treated equally!"
Speaking of the Great Revolution, Ling Xue's eyes showed a strong fanaticism, and Li Duo knew that for this girl, destroying the Black Watch and restoring the status of the Evolved was all she had.
"I said two, I haven't seen you for many days, how good it would be for us to talk about something relaxed and happy, don't talk about national affairs with a straight face!"
Ling Feng spread his hands indifferently, unlike Ling Xue, he didn't have any lofty ideals, he laughed and scolded, everything was as he pleased, even in the face of this major event that was enough to change the situation in Jiangnan, he didn't care at all.
"Ling Feng, if you don't speak, no one will treat you as a mute!"
Ling Xue glared at him viciously, raised her beautiful feet, and mercilessly let the soles of her shoes make an intimate contact with the surface of Ling Feng's feet, which immediately made him gasp in pain.
Where there is Ling Feng, there is always joy, Li Duo smiled, but at this time, Wang Yuanwu suddenly spoke.
"Li Duo, the current situation is already very clear, General Wu thinks that the time is ripe, tomorrow at six o'clock in the afternoon, in the underground of the Imperial City Hotel, there will be a drinking party, announcing the date of the revolution and preparing the plan, General Wu personally called the name, I hope you can be present at that time."
Wang Yuanwu paused and continued: "The people who are qualified to participate in this meeting are all the heads of the military and political and the spokesmen of all forces, and they are all big figures who control the lifeblood of Lin Cheng. ”
Is it finally coming!
Li Duo's heart was flooded with monstrous waves, the great revolution planned by Wu Qing, this was a major event that was enough to change the fate of the entire Jiangnan, and participating in this magnificent action made Li Duo's heart full of emotion.
Joy and anger were invisible, and his heart was shaken, but on the surface, it was light, Li Duo nodded, and said lightly: "I understand." ”
"Brother-in-law, you are a big man now, when you see a beautiful woman at the drinking party, don't like the new and hate the old, forget my sister!"
Ling Feng stepped forward, patted Li Duo on the shoulder, and admonished with a serious face.
"Get out!"
Li Duo and Ling Xue said in unison.
After Wang Yuanwu finished explaining the matter, he left in a hurry, but Ling Feng sat on the bed, stretched his waist, and actually lay down directly!
Li Duo looked at him and asked with a puzzled face, "Ling Feng, why don't you leave?" ”
"Huh? Piercing my heart, brother-in-law, are you chasing me? ”
Ling Feng's face was full of shock, and this expression, coupled with his exaggerated rendering, made him even more heartbroken.
"I ......"
Li Duo stroked his forehead, and retreated under Ivy's attack, but in the face of this guy, he had no way, he sighed, and looked at Ling Xue as if asking for help.
Ling Xue was also full of embarrassment, he coughed dryly twice, and glared at his beautiful eyes: "Ling Feng, you get up for me!" ”
Ling Feng yawned, he ignored Ling Xue and turned his gaze to Li Duo instead.
"Isn't it just stepping on the limbs of a boy with a mouth full of feces! Then Lin Cheng's group of grandsons looked at me as if they were ghosts, and I felt uncomfortable with them. ”
He looked at Li Duo with a smile on his face: "Brother-in-law, shouldn't you be ruthless and not take me in?" ”
Stamped limbs?
The corners of Li Duo's mouth twitched slightly, Ling Feng's methods, he knew it deeply, killing soldiers who had no power to resist, as well as female scientists, that kind of ruthless methods, made Li Duo feel cold, and it was nothing more than those rebel soldiers were very afraid of him, that poor guy, I am afraid that I will spend my life in a wheelchair.