Chapter 14: Calamity
Move the time forward a little, how can the people who stay in the camp know the precursors of the storm, except? Xu's sentinels patrolled around the camp. Perhaps because most of the strong men in the camp had already left with their leader, Wangxin, the remaining sentinels were a little uneasy, and they whispered to each other, occasionally performing their guard duties through a broken hole in the room.
The situation in the camp was the same as ever, nothing happened, and occasionally there were people arguing, cursing whispers, and no one realized that it was the calm before the storm.
In a house on the right-hand side of the street west of the camp, the current owner of the house had recently left with the bulk of the army. There was a low murmur from the closed iron door, and through the unblocked gap by the window, you could vaguely see the situation inside the room. At the other end of the gap is a dormitory, dimly lit, and if you look closely, you can see that the sleeping person in the bed is waking up.
Li Xin closed his eyes and reminisced about last night's wonderful night, that woman was even more enthusiastic than he imagined, and he was still sore until now. He suddenly found that his hands were naturally stretched forward, and his hands struggled left and right, and he was shocked to find that he was actually tied to the bed. Li Xin struggled to sit up, staring at the rope that bound his hands, his face darkened a little, he already knew what was going on.
"Damn, it's too careless" Li Xin has already given up struggling, the rope made of animal tendons is tough, and the steel bar is not bad, and ordinary people are difficult to cut even if they use a sharp blade. He began to scan the room, and found a pot of food on the table not far away, which should be the food that Shihan specially prepared for himself, and he couldn't help but sigh lightly when he thought of this.
Shihan had changed, and she didn't want to leave secretly, so she chose to use this forceful way to keep him here.
"Has she changed too?" Li Xin muttered to himself. From this matter, he felt that the other party was inclined to pathological love, but this was not difficult to understand, and he would choose to do it himself.
The rope is very tough, ordinary people may not have a way to take it, but Li Xin is not included, he has a way to break free from the current shackles. There was a slight 'click' in the room, and Li Xin lightly removed his right elbow.
"It hurts, you still underestimate me too much, even if I lose my ability, I am not comparable to ordinary people." Li Xin raised his low-hanging arm, carefully bypassed the bound rope, and came out from the other side. He struggled and tore off the tendons that bound his hands. Then he grabbed his right arm and dragged it hard to put the removed elbow back on.
"Finally free."
Li Xin kicked the beast tendon rope on the ground, moved his connected arm slightly, and after confirming that it was okay, he sat down on the table, ate the food on the plate again, and slowly recovered his body last night.
The food doesn't taste very good, it's like spoiled fresh meat, and it feels very disgusting to eat. He still throws things into his mouth piece by piece, in the last days, it would be nice to have something to eat, who cares what it tastes like, the meaning of eating has become monotonous, just to maintain the nutrients that the body needs.
After eliminating the food on the plate, Li Xin got up to find his weapon, and then left the camp to continue the unfinished hunt. Even if hunting mutant beasts can't increase his strength, he must continue, once he relaxes, it will be difficult for his body to recover to its current peak state, and at that time, he will really be a waste.
His broken sword wasn't deliberately hidden, and the rest of the weapons were thrown in the corner of the hall. Li Xin pulled the iron door and found that the gate had been closed from the outside, and he wanted to know who did it. At the moment he has only two options, break the door and leave from the front, or tear down the other closed windows in the house and walk from the side.
It's not a good idea to tear down this gate, so it's better to go through the side door. Li Xin quickly made his choice, and just as he was about to turn around, a muffled alarm bell sounded outside the door, a warning of danger from the sentinels who stayed behind in the camp.
The alarm bell soon died down, and it was clear that the person who sounded the alarm had been killed.
Exclamations, screams, and roars followed.
There were mutant beasts invading the camp, which was Li Xin's first reaction after hearing the alarm bell. He removed the blanket to block out the sun and observed the situation outside the street through the gap by the window.
The sunlight in the streets has completely disappeared, as if there is a bottle of dark clouds covering the sunlight, no, it is not a dark cloud, but a dark cloud made up of countless mutated birds. A few sentinels who did not have time to escape, fought back in the streets, and were occasionally snatched away by sharp claws that fell from the sky.
Although there are many mutant birds, they are still there? Enough to create a danger, and the survivor can avoid the risk as long as they hide inside the house. However, it wasn't just the mutant birds hovering overhead that invaded the camp, Li Xin even saw other mutant creatures on the streets.
What the hell is going on during the time when I was asleep, could it be that there is a large-scale beast tide.
The brief counterattack by the camp's sentinels soon collapsed, and the screams around them did not stop for a moment, and many of the survivors who had gone into hiding could not escape even a little.
Li Xin felt a little uneasy, now it is not safe outside the street, it is not safe to stay inside, and what is worse is that he does not have the strength to deal with these monsters, and the situation is not optimistic. Now, the only thing he can rely on is the weapon in his hand, and the only thing he can sit on is to hold the weapon tightly, and silently end this terrible beast tide quickly.
Things usually go badly, not as you would like. With a bang, something collided with the iron door, and Li Xin jumped up in fright, his face was gloomy and terrible, and he knew very well what was going on. Outside the street, mutant beasts smell the scent and begin to pound the iron gate.
The original iron gate was knocked out of a huge hole, and the gate did not fall because of this, which can be regarded as a miracle.
Li Xin clenched his sword and stared at the violently shaking gate, waiting for the moment to attack. The iron gate finally couldn't bear it anymore, and fell to the ground with a bang, and a mutant beast with a single horn rushed in, staring at Li Xin greedily with scarlet eyes.
The next moment, Li Xin made an evasive action and rolled on the ground, avoiding the attack of the mutant beast. However, the table behind him had no such luck, and was swept by the tail of the annoyed mutant beast, smashing into the wall and shattering to pieces.
At the moment when the mutant beast attack staggered and paused, it was the moment when Li Xin attacked, and it was now!
At the moment of life and death, Li Xin did not hesitate, and slashed at the mutant beast with a neat swing of his sword. He can't fail, and once he falls into passivity, he is not far from death.
The sword stabbed the weak part of the neck, but it did not have the desired effect. Li Xin quickly drew his sword and turned around, avoiding the other party from a distance.
The one-horned mutant beast didn't seem to expect that the prey actually felt a counterattack against him, raised his right hand in annoyance, and swept towards his head in the air
Li Xin dodged, and the sword in his right hand was sent into the part of the monster's neck that was not protected by bone armor, and pierced it deeply, piercing the arteries and blood vessels, and when he pulled out the sword, the blood from the wound spurted out three meters, staining a large area of the wall.
This time, he was lucky, and the fatal blow almost saved his life.
The unicorn mutant beast fell to the ground, not immediately dead, after losing a lot of blood, its breathing became short, and soon it fell to the ground unable to move, Li Xin made up two more swords and completely killed it.
In this life-and-death duel, although Li Xin won by luck, luck cannot always be by his side.
Despite killing a mutant beast, Li Xin's situation did not improve. On the contrary, his situation became more dangerous, the smell of blood would absorb more danger, and he could no longer leave from the front, otherwise he would inevitably be attacked violently. Li Xin walked up to the second floor, through the hall to the balcony, he kicked open the door to the balcony sealed with wood, and found countless carrion birds still wandering around the camp. Li Xin didn't dare to show up, otherwise he would inevitably suffer a catastrophe.
The smell of carrion birds is keen, they have already found Li Xin hiding behind the side door, several fell from the sky, ready to hunt the food in front of them, the first carrion bird just put its head into the door, and was cut off by a sharp blade, as the saying goes, the gun shoots the head bird, not wrong at all.
Seeing this, the other carrion birds swarmed together, they squeezed into the hall on the second floor, Li Xin had disappeared, and he chose to use the terrain in the house to hunt down the uninvited guests who broke into the house.
One after another carrion birds were killed, although Li Xin felt that these carrion birds were stupid, if they were outside the house, he would definitely not be their opponent, and now, these monsters actually gave up their strengths, and it was reasonable to be killed.
Glancing at the corpses all over the house, he cautiously returned to the second floor, and found that the flock of mutant birds hovering in the sky had disappeared, and there were no other mutant beasts on the street.
Li Xin couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, the beast tide had passed.
Street? Outside, there have been survivors who have survived coming out of the shelter, some are crying, some are sitting on the ground weakly, looking at the fragmented bones everywhere, Li Xin's heart can't help but feel a sad feeling of rabbit and fox death, maybe the next moment, the dead person will be himself.
"Damn, why did you choose this time in this time, how could such a thing happen if the leader and the others hadn't left."
No wonder the defense of the camp was so weak, it turned out that most of the strong people were taken away, and those who stayed behind to act as sentinels were eliminated before they could resist.
Li Xin looked in the direction of the mutant beast's departure and couldn't help frowning. Hearing the man's words, he turned back to the man who spoke and asked, "Where did the chief go with the others?" ”
"Towards that side." The emaciated person was shocked by Li Xin's eyes, and trembled and stretched out his hand to point out the direction, which was the direction in which the beast tide disappeared, this city, what happened.