Chapter 369: Nowhere to Run
As soon as the sun sets, dusk has arrived.
Five or six off-road vehicles suddenly rushed out of the hazy Sunrise Castle and drove away in several directions.
"Oh no, the pursuers are coming!" Lao Wang saw all this from the telescope lying on the hillside, turned around and said to everyone.
Ziyang poked his head out from the back of the hillside to watch, only to see two off-road vehicles driving in the direction where they were, and in less than half an hour, they would reach the place where everyone was hiding.
What to do? Everyone looked at each other.
"Guys, hurry up and come up with an idea, let's not squat here and wait for death!" Lao Wang looked at everyone anxiously.
"Well, what else can we do, where can we go?" Zi Yang said with a sigh.
Yes, you can only wait to die if you stay where you are, but how far can you run?
The vast wasteland was almost unobstructed, and no matter how fast they ran on their two legs, they couldn't outrun the off-road vehicle, not to mention that there were so many wounded in the team.
"Go there!" Ah Yan Ran stretched out his hand and pointed ahead, and said with a determined expression.
"Are you crazy?!" Lao Wang saw clearly the place that Ah Chong was pointing and exclaimed: "Risheng Fort is guarded by Miao Yin's heavy soldiers, let's finally run out and send it to the door again?" β
Zi Yang also looked at Ah Chong suspiciously,
He knew that the old man Timur was dead, and Ah Chong felt uncomfortable, but now was not the time to be rash.
Miao Yin hung the old man's body on the flagpole to lure them, and at this time, there must have been a heavy ambush in the Sunrise Fort, and Miao Yin might be waiting for them to grab the corpse in the dark.
Ah Chong said categorically: "The elite soldiers sent by Miao Yin must be in his hands, the troops in Risheng Fort are relatively empty, we can secretly kill them now, we can catch them off guard." β
Lao Wang sighed and said, "I don't know if it's an elite soldier or not, but I know that the Sunrise Fort is definitely not empty, you can see for yourself." β
Lao Wang handed the telescope to Ziyang, who leaned over the telescope and looked at the sunrise fort in the hazy night.
The evening of the Sunrise Fort was very different from the scene of the past, there were no pedestrians coming and going on the street, and there were three or two idlers walking back and forth on the empty road from time to time, and by looking at the guns they carried, you could know that these people were Miao Yin's patrol.
Lao Wang sighed: "This Miao Yin really didn't brag B, this guy seems to be really the Emperor of Sunrise Castle, and he has started to make rings on the street!" β
"It is impossible for Miao Yin to have so many well-trained troops, it is estimated that most of these people in Sunrise Fort are temporary workers such as security guards, and their combat effectiveness is not strong, they will not work hard for Miao Yin. It's more hopeful for us to fight in the streets of Sunrise Fort than to be surrounded and suppressed in the wild. β
Ah Chong said such a rare call, it seems that he wants to try to convince everyone, after all, in the eyes of others, rushing back is similar to sending them to death.
Lao Wang glanced at Ah Chong's broken arm and muttered, "If your hand is still there and the little black leg is not injured, then maybe there is some hope...... Who to count on now? Me and Lao Li? No matter how thick our flesh is, we can't block a few shots! β
"I listen to Brother Chong, let's fight back to Sunrise Castle! I'm not afraid of death as a girl, you big men cower, is there a kind? Naya glared at the old king and said loudly.
Lao Wang opened his mouth to refute, but after thinking about it, he swallowed that breath.
If it was put aside, Lao Wang would have been furious when someone said such things to himself, but now he didn't dare to look directly at Naya's gaze.
In order to save the crowd, Timur and his people rushed into the encirclement without hesitation. It stands to reason that now that they are fighting back, it is only natural that they will fight with the enemy to annihilate them - they have no other choice now, anyway.
"Good! Lao Tzu fought with them! The old king stood up with a sigh of relief.
Zi Yang sighed and said, "Don't worry, it's not dark yet, if we go back now, we will be beaten into a sieve before we enter the alley." β
Su Rui said: "It's too late to wait. They're almost there. β
At this time, the two off-road vehicles were getting closer and closer, and the driver in the cab could almost be seen with the naked eye.
At this time, Asgen, who had been silent beside him, suddenly stood up and said, "I have a way to sneak back to the horse market!" β
The people looked back at him together.
"There's a secret passage that leads to the bottom of the horse market."
Following Asgen's point, the group saw an abandoned and collapsed wooden house a few hundred meters in front of the hillside.
Lao Wang looked at the wooden house, and then at Asgen: "Big brother, why didn't you say it earlier?" Now that there is a fart, the enemy is blocked to the **. β
By this time, they could already hear the roar of the buggy, and in a few minutes, the pursuers would be able to see the people hiding behind the hillside.
Su Rui frowned, looked at the pickup truck next to him and asked Naya, "Can this car still drive?" β
"The oil is about to run out, and the water tank has been broken, and it is estimated that it can last for about ten minutes at most." Naya looked at her and said.
These few minutes didn't help them, and the dilapidated pickup truck simply couldn't outrun a high-performance off-road vehicle.
"Enough!" Su Rui said: "I will drive to lead away the pursuers, and you will take the opportunity to run to the secret passage." β
"And what do you do?" Ziyang couldn't help but ask.
He knew that Su Rui wanted to sacrifice himself.
"Forget it, let me do it." Lao Wang said awe-inspiringly, it's time to stand up and show the demeanor of a man.
"There's no time to fight!" Su Rui stepped into the driver's seat and turned around and smiled at everyone: "I have what Miao Yin wants, he won't kill me easily." As soon as I lead away the pursuers, you hurry up! β
Before Zi Yang wanted to say something, Su Rui had already started the engine, and the pickup truck roared angrily, jumped out of the slope, and drove away into the distance.
When the two off-road vehicles saw the pickup, they immediately turned around and chased after it.
The crowd did not dare to hesitate, bent down, and ran wildly in the opposite direction.
Under the cover of twilight, a few faint figures moved quickly towards the dilapidated wooden house, and Zi Yang followed at the end of the group, looking back at the direction of Su Rui's departure as he ran.
The pickup truck driven by Su Rui has turned into a small black dot in the field of vision, and the two white off-road vehicles are very fast, and the tires are picking up rolling dust on the ground, and it will not take long to catch up with Su Rui. The two cars separated left and right and quickly approached the pickup truck.
"Bang, bang"
There were two crisp gunshots in the distance, and Ziyang's heart tightened!
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Lao Wang took the lead in running at the front of the team, strode to the wooden house, raised a foot and kicked the hidden wooden door, and was suddenly stunned as soon as he entered the door.
The roof of the wooden house had collapsed in half, revealing half of the gray sky, and a pile of timber lying on the ground in the house.
There was a pile of tattered cotton wool in the ruins, and a ragged homeless man poked his head out of the cotton wool and looked at the crowd with sleepy eyes.
Asgen strode forward and kicked the man in the face. The homeless man snorted and bleeded from his nose and immediately fainted.
Asgen picked up a broken rope from the ground, tied the homeless man's hands and feet, and pointed to a corner of the room as he tied it, saying, "The secret passage is below." β
Zi Yang, Lao Wang and the others hurriedly stepped forward and struggled to remove the pile of wood, revealing a wooden floor covered with dust and dirt underneath.
Asgen brushed all the dust off the planks, groped on the ground for a while, put his fingers in the gap between the two planks, and with a muffled grunt, pulled the hidden secret door open, revealing a hole about a meter in diameter underneath.
Asgen jumped first, and Lao Wang, Ah Chong, Xiao Hei, Naya, and Ah Rislan also climbed into the cave one after another.
Zi Yang glanced back at the direction where the pickup disappeared, silently burrowed into the hole, and reclosed the secret door with his backhand.
There was no light in the tunnel, and the group followed Asgen as he groped his way through the darkness.
After walking more than ten meters forward, Asgen took out an oil lamp by the wall and lit it with a match next to it, so that everyone could see the appearance of this dark passage.
This dark passage is more than half a meter wide and more than one person high, and there are traces of mechanical excavation on both sides. Looking forward along the dark passage, it was pitch black at the end, and it looked bottomless.
"What kind of place is this?" Lao Wang couldn't help but stammer.
"Sunrise Fort was built on an abandoned ore vein, which was the pit used to be mined, and it was closed after the vein was excavated." Asgen said as he walked down the aisle.
"How many people know about this secret passage?" Ziyang couldn't help but ask.
"The people who dug this mine back then are old and dead, and there are few people leftβbut I am the only one left who knows that this mine leads to the horse market."
Asgen said in a muffled voice: "When my brothers and I were building the horse market, we dug a secret passage underneath it in case of emergency, and accidentally opened this mine tunnel, but I didn't expect it to be used today. β
The group walked along the mine road for more than ten minutes, and a narrow hole suddenly appeared in the pit wall in front of them, and Asgen slipped into it.
Zi Yang looked at this narrow secret passage, thinking that this should be the secret passage that Asgen and the others dug up.
The new passage was only half a man high, and was lined with wooden pillars and planks on both sides, in which everyone could only crawl on their knees.
After a few more minutes of climbing, Asgen pushed the stone slab in front of him, and the group arrived at a small secret room.
Asgen shone an oil lamp at a black iron door above his head and said, "It's here! β
The iron gate was more than three meters high from the ground, Asgen handed the oil lamp to Naya, and slowly climbed up by stepping on the pits on both sides, and after climbing to the top, he supported the cave wall with his hands and feet, and pressed his back against the iron door, and the iron door creaked and opened a crack slightly.
Asgen listened intently for a while, and after hearing no unusual movement, he slowly pushed the iron door open little by little, turned over and climbed up.
Next, Lao Wang and the others also climbed up in turn.
As soon as Ziyang poked his head out of the hole, he smelled a disgusting stench in his nose.
Glancing around, he saw that they were in the livestock pen.
Lao Wang gave Asgen a thumbs up, lowered his voice and said, "Dig the secret passage in the dung pit, you are so creative in stepping on a horse!" β
The stables in the horse market are very huge, divided into stables one by one, and there are dozens of them in the left and right rows, most of which are empty.
The livestock were not afraid of people, and when they saw a group of grizzled people coming out of the ground, they snorted and turned their heads disapprerovingly.
Asgen tiptoed to the door of the stable, and when he looked out, the huge horse market was empty, the dogs and the corpses of the guards had been cleared of the ground during the day, and only the puddles of blood on the ground reminded people that there had been a thrilling battle here.
Naya tilted her head and looked at the air with a sad expression, the corpses of Timur and two other people were hanging on the flagpole in the center of the horse market, and there were no guards under the flagpole, it seemed that these three dead bodies were not a threat to Miao Yin, and he was too lazy to send someone to guard them.
Lao Wang wondered, "Hey, where have all those people gone?" Is it really as Ah Chong said, they are all sent out to chase people? Is Miao Yin singing about the empty city plan here? β
Asgen shook his head and pointed in the direction of the hall, the huge hall was brightly lit and the smell wafted from it.
It was already time for dinner, and it seemed that Miao Yin and his men were having dinner inside.
Lao Wang hadn't eaten for a whole day, and now he suddenly remembered that he was also hungry, so he greedily sucked his nose, swallowed his spit, and scolded and said, "Riding horses, did those people cook and eat all our dogs?" β