Chapter Eighty-Six: Hostages
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These angry people are like crazy, rampage and collision. Armed with rudimentary stone axes and firearms, they burned everywhere. Smash and smash and squeeze one by one; Stepping on it, pressing it; Bring the fragmented mansion under its absolute control.
I only heard the crowd inside and outside the house open their mouths and shout: "Killing people pays for their lives, it is justified!" ”
Zhang Qi suddenly heard a voice from outside in his room, and he shrank his head and tail in fear and hurried to the corner of the bed. At this moment, the two female guards who were guarding him happened to be not around, and there were only more than a dozen family members and a few soldiers guarding outside, but these people had already fled and had become a crowd of ants.
Although a few wooden chairs and red tables were blocked in front of the door, they were still vulnerable. Soon the thin wooden door was knocked to pieces, and a bunch of troublesome middle-aged strong men rushed in outside.
Zhang was so frightened that he quickly dragged his body down the narrow gap and got under the wooden bed, and his body shrunk into a ball like a frightened hedgehog, so he had to sneak down and throw his afterglow at the pair of countless legs on the threshold.
The middle-aged strong man who rushed in first looked back left and right sharply, and scolded loudly: "His grandmother's, what about the dog officer?" Where are you hiding? ”
"Why, it can't be a runaway, right?"
Outside the door, a dense crowd of people rushed in, each of which seemed to be extremely fierce. One of them said angrily: "Search for me, you must arrest that son of a bitch, and the body will be broken into ten thousand pieces!" ”
As soon as many people rushed in, they were tumbling everywhere, tables and wardrobes were overturned to the ground, and porcelain kettles were smashed to pieces. The room was turned up and down and messy. The inside and outside have also been turned upside down, and no trace of Zhang Qi has been found at all.
"His grandmother's, go, go find it somewhere else!"
Everyone rushed out in a swarm, and the footsteps were "whooshing", and everyone's movements were quite rude. The last person to walk out inadvertently noticed that the wooden bed by the wall seemed to have the voice of a wild cat.
He rolled his eyes, squinted in this direction, and suddenly shouted, "Wait a minute, there is still a place that has not been looted." ”
When the people who had just rushed out outside heard this, they ran back one after another. They all keep their eyes on the direction of the wooden bed.
"Yes, there is a person hidden under the wooden bed, and I didn't find it before."
The middle-aged strong man took a closer look, then opened his legs and slowly moved towards the wooden bed. When he walked to the bed, he suddenly reached out and pushed hard, and the tremendous force caused the wooden bed to flip over.
At the foot of the bed, there was a person who curled up and shrunk into a ball, and this person was Zhang Qi.
Shrunk up and hid in the corner, holding his head sweaty and muttering, "Please!" I beg you to spare the ruler, and he will give you whatever you want. ”
The middle-aged strong man immediately squatted down and stretched out his hand to lift his entire body up, and scolded: "Lao Tzu doesn't want anything, as long as you hand over my child." ”
Zhang Qi cried: "This official doesn't know anything, you misunderstood." ”
Another man rushed up and kicked him, scolding, "What? Misunderstood you? Don't think that you are a sesame official, we grass people dare not do anything to you, and let you die today without a place to be buried. ”
opened his throat and was a little out of breath, and said, "No, you really misunderstood, the official really doesn't know about this matter." ”
The middle-aged strong man suddenly put Zhang Qi on the ground and glared at him angrily. He pulled out a long sword from his waist, threw it in front of him, and said angrily: "You have to be punished for doing bad things, but seeing that you are an official, you have to give you an imaginary way to die. ”
Zhang Qi fell to the ground, patted his chest, and replied breathlessly: "Wait a while, you may really misunderstand this official, those children are still alive, I can take you to meet them." ”
"What? Alive? Are you all fools to us? So many young lives have been ruthlessly killed by you, and you want to deceive us. ”
Zhang Qi said again: "You must believe in this official, I am selfless, and I treat the people the same way." ”
The strong man took out a long sword again, pointed it at his neck, and said, "Only ghosts will believe you, either you do it yourself today, or I will send you on the road, choose for yourself." ”
Seeing that the situation was not secondary, Zhang Qi hurriedly said: "Wait a while, wait a while, I will give you whatever you want, gold ingots, jewelry, steamed buns?" Amber? Agate? As long as the official can get his hands on it, it will definitely be given to you. ”
The strong man smiled: "I don't want anything, I want your life, will you give it?" ”
Zhang Qi said: "This official knows what you want, you want glory and wealth, and you want to have no worries about food and clothing, right?" This official will give it to you, meet the conditions of each of you, and let you all live a fairy-like life. ”
The strong man said sternly: "Don't talk nonsense, I just want your life!" ”
"That's right! Kill you! ”
Zhang Qi's face was shocked, and he said, "Do you really want to force this official to a dead end?" If I die, none of you will live. ”
The strong man suddenly clenched the long sword in his hand, stretched it out and put it on his neck, and said: "Don't get carried away here, the group of shrimp soldiers and crabs under your command will have already been cleaned up by us, even if we kill you today, no one will know." ”
Zhang Qi suddenly cried, tears flowed down, with running water in his mouth, pulling his nose and saying, "Okay! Good! If you want your official to die, then your official will die, but before I die, I still want to have a request. ”
The strong man said: "You still want to make a request?" The only thing you have to do now is to cut yourself quickly, so that you can still retain some dignity, or you will die a miserable death. ”
Zhang Qi said: "No, no, this request is very simple, the official just wants to make a poem at the last moment of his life, the time is very short, is it okay?" ”
The strong man said, "Okay, then try to be as fast as possible." ”
Zhang Qi stood up, looked left and right, looked up and down, looked up and down again, looked up at the beams on the roof, and cried, "Hey! This ......"
The strong man looked a little impatient, and said, "You are faster, just a minute, if you don't do it yourself, I will help you on the road." ”
Zhang Qi wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, walked back and forth several times, closed his eyes, gritted his teeth, shook his head, leaned over, and sighed: "The sky is so wonderful, and the birds are soaring in the sky." Not bad! Not bad! ”
The strong man glared at him fiercely, kicked him forward, and scolded, "It's okay now, right? ”
Zhang Qi said: "Hey, it's okay, this official will judge himself." ”
Zhang Qi picked up the long sword in his hand from the ground and put it around his neck. When he closed his eyes, a drop of crystal tears squeezed out of his pupils, and with a little strength, he rubbed his neck, and Ang Tian shouted: "My life is over!" ”
Even though he said so, the hand was still stiff and he couldn't put it down. After hesitating for a while, he suddenly let go of his hands again, opened his eyes and sighed, "Hey! The official really can't do it, so it's better to swallow the poison and commit suicide, so that a whole corpse can be kept. ”
The strong man scolded: "Where did you get so much nonsense? If you can't do it, we can help you to ensure that you will be hit with the knife and have a good time, so that you will not suffer the pain of frequent death. ”
Zhang Qi cried and said: "Then hang yourself, the poison will not be found for a while, so that the pain may be reduced." ”
The strong man glanced at the people around him, and one of them walked up and threw him a rope, and said, "Give you the rope, hurry up, don't force us to do it now!" ”
Zhang Qi took the rope with one hand, looked down with tears in his eyes, and said with tears in his eyes: "Okay! Good! The official will hang himself and carry me a wooden chair. ”
The strong man glared at him angrily, and scolded again: "You won't fucking look for it yourself?" Uncle, we don't have that much time to spare. ”
Zhang Qi had no choice but to run to the side with his head down, pick up a wooden stool, place it in the center of the room, kick his legs, and climb up. Reaching out and squeezing the rope hanging from the beam, his neck slowly slipped in.
He stretched his neck halfway, suddenly opened his eyes again, looked at them, and begged again: "Actually, the official himself has a child, he is about the same age as your child, and he doesn't understand anything, but he can be naughty......"
In the middle of his sentence, the strong man rushed up and kicked him off the wooden chair with another kick. Without saying a word, he drew his sword and stabbed him in the chest.
Zhang Qi fell to the ground, hurriedly shrank his body, and the blade stabbed into his left shoulder, and he screamed.
The strong man drew his sword again, and a splash of blood flew out, and stabbed him in the chest again.
"Wait!" It was so loud that it almost cracked the room.
The strong man suddenly stopped, looked at him and asked, "What's wrong with you?" It's not slow enough, is it? ”
Zhang Qi said: "No! I don't want to die yet, you can ask for as much money as you want, there is a huge vault outside the city, which contains a lot of gold and silver treasures, you can go and get it if you want. ”
After Zhang Qi finished speaking, he hurriedly took out a golden ring from his thumb, handed it to the strong man, and said, "Come, this is for you!" ”
Then he took off a silver necklace from his neck, handed it to another person beside him, and said, "Come, brother, take it, this is a little bit of the official's heart." “
Immediately after, he took out a white steamed bun from his pocket and was about to give it to the next person. Unexpectedly, the strong man suddenly stretched out his hand and pushed him away, and scolded: "Take it back for me, don't bribe the masters with these things, I don't want to eat you." ”
Zhang Huang was at a loss, staggered back a step, looked at him with a frightened face, suddenly bent over, loosened his legs, and knelt on the ground softly, begging for mercy: "There is only so much that the official can give, and there is no more, you just let me go, the official really doesn't want to die." ”
The strong man smiled and said, "Oh, it's okay if you don't want to die, but you have to cut off all your limbs, so that you don't do evil in the future." ”
Zhang Qi was so frightened that he hurriedly said: "Then how to do it, hands and feet are the most precious things in people, absolutely not!" ”
The strong man didn't reply a word, just looked at him expressionlessly. The people around him immediately rushed forward and pressed Zhang Qi's whole person to the ground. One of them held his hand tightly and cut it down with an axe.
There was a scream in the room, and the paper window by the door was stained red.
Another man was holding a stone axe in his hand and was about to chop off his other hand, and he screamed in a loud voice: "Ah! My officer's hand, my hand. ”
The few people around him all replied viciously: "One hand, one life, after chopping it is finished, you are cutting the flesh until you repay all the lives, if you can survive, your life is great." ”
Zhang Qi couldn't continue to speak, he kept screaming, and his facial expression was very painful.
The strong man suddenly heard some strange sounds in his ears, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, and stepped forward and said, "Wait a minute, stop it!" ”
Everyone stopped and turned their eyes to him.
The strong man squinted his eyes and looked left and right, and asked, "Which of you has a bell on you?" ”
Everyone shook their heads, but they all answered no.
"What sound?" The strong man turned around and looked left and right.
From time to time, there would be a jingling sound outside, sometimes it felt outside the door, sometimes it could feel like it was on the roof. In short, the sound of movement is uncertain, and the sound can be felt faintly in all directions.
The strong man suddenly turned around and ran out of the square to look around, but he didn't notice any trouble.
Then three or five people came out of the house, looked left and right, and one of them came up and asked, "Who is it?" ”
The strong man looked up at the roof, turned back to the gate, looked sideways at the sides, and looked down at the ground. He had swept almost all over the house, but he didn't find anyone.
A black-bearded young man came up with a smile and said, "Hey! Don't be suspicious, maybe we heard it wrong. ”
At this time, there was a sudden ringing of bells in the house, and the sound was one after another, covering the entire wing.
The strong man glared at him and said, "Not good! Go back! ”
After saying that, everyone immediately turned around and rushed into the previous room. But when they entered, they suddenly found a dense mass of corpses lying on the ground, each with a string of golden bells hanging from their necks, and their faces bleeding. Only Zhang Qi was still lying on the ground, clutching his broken arm and screaming miserably.
The blackbearded young man walked in and suddenly exclaimed, "Oh no, all of us are dead." ”
At this time, the strong man also hurriedly broke in. First looked at the corpse on the ground, and then looked back at the stone walls on both sides, not only did there be no clues, but even the sound of the person moving could not be felt.
At this moment, there was another bell ringing outside the gate, and the sound was clearly feeling closer and closer.
Everyone was about to look back, but the strong man immediately waved his hand and shouted, "Don't look back!" Stand still and don't move! ”
The strong man squinted his eyes and swept left and right, and then continued: "Close the door quickly, remember not to look back, and exit slowly." ”
The black-bearded young man standing on the side looked back at Zhang Qi, who was bleeding on the ground, and couldn't help but say, "Big brother! Look, our people are dead, but that guy isn't dead! ”
After hearing this, the strong man could shift his gaze to Zhang Qi, rolled his eyes and hesitated for a while, and said: "It seems that the rescue of this dog officer has arrived, and this is too fast, but fortunately, the hostage is still in our hands." ”
Blackbeard hurriedly said, "So what do we do now?" ”
The strong man said: "What else can I do, go and tie up the dog officer with a rope, and press him to the front to open the way." ”
The blackbearded youth nodded and immediately rushed to Zhang's side and tied his body with a rope. During this period, he could still hear him screaming in pain, and Blackbeard couldn't help but go up and slap him, scolding: "You dog official life is quite hard, if you want to live, hurry up for me!" ”
Zhang Qi fell to the ground and cried miserably, while desperately begging for mercy: "Quick! Hero, let go of this official, this official will give you benefits. ”
At this time, the sound of the bell outside the house suddenly stopped.
The blackbearded young man suddenly smelled a strange smell from his nose, which made his mind a little confused, and after a shout, the whole person fell to the ground.
When the strong man saw it, he immediately exclaimed: "Quick, cover your nose." ”
But at this time, it was too late, and the people behind him fell down one after another, and they couldn't even shout.
The strong man looked back and hurriedly ran to Zhang Qi again. At this moment, only the strong man was left in the wing, and the rest were almost all dead.
The strong man had just taken two steps when the door behind him was suddenly blown open by a gust of wind. He was so frightened that he hurriedly glanced back.
I saw a woman in uniform walk in at the gate, with bells hanging everywhere, slowly floating into the room, and her face slowly turned to him.
The strong man immediately turned around and rushed to Zhang Qi's side, pinched his neck fiercely, looked up at the woman who walked in, and exclaimed, "Don't come here!" If you come here, this dog officer will die. ”
The bell ignored it, but continued to move his body forward until he was less than three feet away from him before he slowly spoke, "Who are you?" ”
The strong man yelled with an angry face: "Who do you care who I am, are you here to save this dog official?" I tell you, if you dare to take a step forward, Lao Tzu will die with this dog official. ”
Hearing this, the bell not only did not feel the slightest nervousness, but laughed, squinted at the strong man and said, "What are you doing here?" ”
The strong man said angrily again: "Don't you see, we are taking revenge, girl, I advise you not to meddle in your affairs, otherwise there will be no good fruit to eat." ”
The bell grinned and said, "Why are you so nervous?" I won't eat you again. ”
The strong man said: "Then what do you want?" ”
The bell looked at his body, then threw his gaze behind him, pointed behind him, and said, "What do you see behind that?" ”
As soon as the strong man turned around, he suddenly saw a woman crouching behind him, holding a white medicine bottle in her hand, and approaching his nose.
After the strong man smelled it, he suddenly closed his eyes and fell to the ground.
At this time, the bell immediately rushed over and pushed the strong man's body aside.
Zhang Qi also hurriedly stood up and cried loudly: "Oh, it hurts, this official's hand." ”
Yu Xin stood aside, holding a white medicine bottle, picked up the severed arm on the ground, smeared the arm with a layer of potion, and took it back to him.
Zhang Qi took a look, and suddenly found that his hand didn't hurt anymore, looked left and right, then looked up at Yuxin behind him, and said: "Oh, thank you so much for saving this official, this medicine is still really magical, this official has never seen such a magical pill in his life for so long." ”
Yu Xin just smiled after hearing this, but did not speak.
The bell in front of him immediately ran up and asked, "My lord, what's wrong with you?" ”
Zhang Qi wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "What else can happen?" This official was kidnapped. ”
Bell went on to ask, "Why did they kidnap you?" ”
Zhang Qi said: "Hey, what else can there be, it's all the big tree that caused the trouble, but this group of Diao people is really too much, and they actually rushed to my house like this." ”
"They're all dead," the bell said. ”
Zhang Qi said: "Of course, with you here, can they not die, quickly drag these corpses out and burn them, the official doesn't want to see these eyesore." ”
The bell said, "Why burn?" ”
Zhang Qi said: "Why else, this group of people is unreasonable, and they have damaged so many finances in the house, of course, they must all be burned clean." ”
Zhang Qi looked at the two of them and suddenly felt something abnormal, so he continued to ask, "Huh? What are you doing with so much relationship? Do you suspect the official? Or do you not believe the words of the official? ”
Bell smiled and replied, "Where is it, even if I can't trust others, I won't trust you, Lord Zhang?" ”
Zhang Qi sighed and said, "That's good!" That's good! By the way, you should quickly call someone to come and carry these corpses out, the official is dizzy when he sees this. Hurry up, don't grind. ”
Bell nodded, then turned and walked out. And the Yuxin on the side kept staring at him with her eyes from beginning to end, and didn't say a word.
Zhang Qi looked back at Yu Xin and said, "Hey, just thanks to the poisonous gas you released, otherwise this official would really die here." ”
After Yuxin heard it, she finally spoke: "My lord! I already regret poisoning. ”
After hearing this, Zhang Qi immediately exclaimed: "What? Why? What do you mean by that? ”
Yuxin said: "I should let go of the ecstasy, what I am most afraid of seeing is the corpse!" ”
When Zhang Qi heard this, he immediately laughed and said, "Haha! I can't imagine that you beat the girl like this, and you are still afraid of seeing the corpse, okay, since you are afraid, then go out quickly, and the official must also investigate this matter. ”
Yu Xin looked left and right, and couldn't help but ask, "What are you looking for?" Aren't all people dead? Do you still need to check? ”
Zhang Qi immediately turned his head and glared at her, and said angrily: "How can you talk to this official?" Who are you? Official's? Or is it the group of people? ”
(To be continued)