Chapter 50: The Catastrophe of Zhushi Town
The change began after five years.
During these five years, the wars and divisions of the world have not stopped. As long as there is no strong ruler in this world, and there is no co-ruler of the world, the scuffle between the warlords and the princes will be endless and will never end. Zhu Shizhen has been independent for more than 12 years as a paradise, and it will finally be broken one day.
One night, five years after coming down from the giant tree, Lu Lie was sleeping in his bed, and suddenly, his keen facial features heard the sound of rumbling horses' hooves, knives coming out of their sheaths, and the roars of countless dumb voices from the distance from Zhu Shizhen. The sound was like a tidal wave, constantly approaching unstoppably in the direction of Zhu Shizhen.
Lu Lie suddenly woke up from his dream. He thought he was dreaming, like a nightmare about a giant tree, which had been haunting him for countless nights for the past five years, making him sleepless and calming for a moment. But when Lu Lie got out of his bed, the rumbling sound that came through the earth still hadn't gone away. On the contrary, it is more violent.
At this moment, Zhushi Town is still silent, and every household is asleep. But from Lu Lie's point of view, thousands of troops were already heading in the direction of Zhushi Town.
"Ayun...... Ah Yun! Ah Yun!" Lu Lie shook the bell next to the bed and woke up the sleeping maid in the lower room.
"Young Master...... What's the matter?" the two maids in Lu Lie's mansion still hadn't woken up from their sleep, and when they heard the bell in Lu Lie's room, they forcibly opened their eyes and staggered over.
"Something is wrong!" Lu Lie said sharply, "Dress me immediately, prepare my horse, I want to go to Xue's Mansion to see Old Man Xue!"
"But at this time, the county master has already fallen asleep...... Young Master, you know Old Man Xue's temper, if someone dares to disturb his sleep, no matter who he is, he won't be able to get a good face......" The two maids were still resigned, trying to persuade their young master to dispel this ridiculous idea.
Listening to the sound of horses' hooves getting closer and closer in the distance, Lu Lie felt as if countless war drums were hammering frantically in his heart. I don't have time anymore, and I don't have time to explain to these two girls. He just wore loose pajamas and rushed straight down the street.
"If you don't wake up Old Man Xue now, then there will be no chance to wake up anyone in the future!"
By the time the two maids reacted, their young master had already crossed them like lightning and disappeared at the door of the mansion. That's not as fast as humans can do.
"But young master, how can you go out dressed like this?" The two maids did not realize the seriousness of the matter, and still stretched out their hands in vain, trying to stop Lu Lie from leaving.
Running wildly on the deserted street, the rumbling sound of horses' hooves in Lu Lie's ears became louder and louder, and he was getting closer and closer to Zhushi Town. Could it be that what he had been worrying about for a long time had finally happened? Lu Lie, who was running wildly on the road, thought nervously in his heart, if that day really came, then where would he and the entire Zhu Shizhen go? Sure enough, in this troubled world, there was no place that was truly a paradise without fighting with the world.
When he rushed to the Xue Mansion, it was still too late after all. No matter how fast you run, even if you try again, you will never be able to catch up with death and cause and effect. Lu Lie stood at the door of the Xue Mansion and watched blankly as the entire huge Xue Mansion had been engulfed in flames and burned into pieces. There are countless children and women in the house, all of whom are trapped in the sudden fire, and they can't rush out for a while, so they can only watch the fire engulf everything little by little until they die.
There are also some people who were burned to death by the fire in their sleep, but for them, there is a lot less pain before death.
The entire Zhushi Town was awakened, but no one rushed into the Xue Mansion to save people. Because the rain of flaming arrows shot from the hillside opposite Zhushi Town, igniting the entire Zhushi Town into a fire. Under the dark night sky, countless people let out a mournful and painful wail, running in the fire to save themselves.
"Who is it, who is it?......"
"Why, we're all civilians...... We have no allegiance to anyone, and we don't have any ideas about fighting for the world......"
"Why slaughter us...... Why do you ...... us like this?"
Zhushi Town, which has not been in war for a hundred years, once it encounters an organized army, it is like a lamb that has lost the shelter of the sheepfold, and is bitten by hungry wolves and has no power to fight back.
"What's going on? What the hell is going on?" Lu Lie's eyes were blood-red. He rushed into the increasingly angry fire of the Xue Mansion, lifted a whole beam that fell to the ground with one hand, and rushed into a room engulfed in flames with the sound source, snatching out the two crying babies.
The lower half of a woman's body was crushed under rotten wood, unable to move. But when she saw that her child had finally been rescued by someone breaking in, she smiled and nodded to the other party.
The fire spread and soon engulfed the nameless woman in it.
Lu Lie rushed out of the fire with two babies who couldn't stop crying. In the huge Xue Mansion, more people were roaring and wailing, waiting for Lu Lie to save them. But what could Lu Lie do? The fire in the Xue Mansion was getting bigger and bigger, and it had already burned up the dark sky for half a day. The fire in the entire Zhushi Town is also getting bigger and bigger, and it is almost burning to the end of the sky. Countless family members are trapped in it, everyone is wailing, waiting for Lu Lie to save him, but how many can Lu Lie save? What can he do?
The fire rose to the top, and everything around was enveloped in black smoke. Standing in the middle of the fire, Lu Lie felt that his breathing was beginning to have problems. After all, he is a man, not a god. In this situation, he could not save more people.
He rushed out of the fire with the two babies in his arms in his arms.
Standing on the edge of Zhushi Town, Lu Lie raised his head and took one last look at this town that meant something special to him. What he saw was the glow of the fire, the countless sad faces, the refraction of the cold bow beds and metal helmets on the other side of the mountain in the moonlight. Lu Lie turned around and took one last look at the giant tree, facing the human tragedy under his feet, it was still deep in the sky, unattainable.
Before the cavalry rushed into Zhushi Town to burn and plunder, Lu Lie left the town like the wind with two babies in his arms.
He remembered the appearance of these cavalrymen who broke into Zhushi Town.
The purple "Guo" flag.