Chapter 100: Desolation
It's like...... Flee the same.
Ye Feng's heart beat in fright by this sudden flash of speculation in his mind.
How can it be?
Chencang County is the first county town in the northwest border, a commercial fortress, even if the people do not have a life of fine clothes, they will definitely live a small life of peace and contentment.
The more Ye Feng thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, and he happened to see an old man with a slumped back passing by.
He drove a bullock cart made of broken wooden planks, which creaked and creaked, and carried a cart full of grain and grass.
"Uncle, what's going on in Chencang County?" Ye Feng stepped forward and asked.
The old man's slightly dull gaze glanced at Ye Feng lightly, and sighed mournfully: "Young man, are you from out of town, right? Go back quickly, don't go to the city again, it's no longer the Chencang County City of the past, it's ...... Purgatory, ......"
Purgatory?!
Ye Feng's heart shook suddenly.
In just a few months, how did Chencang County become purgatory?
He was puzzled and asked again: "Uncle, can you tell me in detail about the current situation in the city?"
"The rich and powerful, as early as the first time after the disaster, fled with their families to other counties and towns for refuge, and in the past few days, we are the old, weak, sick and disabled who have come out of the city...... Look there, young man. ”
The old man turned around with difficulty and pointed to a black ding furnace under the city tower.
"That's the crematorium! A lot of people are in that furnace, turning into a cloud of green smoke!"
"The people, the cremation of the corpses?!"
Ye Feng's brows furrowed tightly, Chen Cang's situation was unimaginably bad.
The old man sighed faintly, and then explained: "A few months ago, a group of extremely ferocious monsters suddenly came to the city, they are like people, more like beasts, gnawing at humans for food, and what is even more strange is that after being bitten by them, the people of Chencang have also become like them, half-human and half-beast, very terrifying......
"Half-man, half-beast?!"
In Ye Feng's mind, an image flashed with a whoosh.
Ouyang Feng!
Could it be that Ouyang Feng was not the only one who turned into a beast and mutated into a monster at the beginning?!
Bidding farewell to the old man who drove the car, Ye Feng quickened his pace and walked to the bottom of the city tower.
In front of me, several burly soldiers with numb expressions were dragging their arms and legs one by one into the huge black tripod furnace with their eyes closed and covered in blood.
The blazing fire crackled in the stove, and the ashes inside were piled up two or three meters high.
As the corpses were thrown in, there was a faint whining sound in the fire, like a terrible and desolate roar of a wild beast before it died.
Rolling black rocks erupted from the mouth of the cave and soared into the sky.
All around, the falling ashes, sprinkled with joy, ups and downs, like carrying the resentful spirits of the people of Chencang, lingering in this world.
Ye Feng's eyes were solemn, he pondered for a moment, and decided to go to the city first to find the people from the county guard to understand the specific situation.
He walked to the entrance of the tower, where he was stopped by several heavily armed sergeants with spears, who commanded:
"Chencang County City, idle people, etc., are not allowed to enter!"
Ye Feng frowned, and was about to bring out the newly appointed staff general to prove his identity, but he heard a sergeant next to him, and asked suspiciously:
"You are Ye Fengye Shaoxia?!"
There are still people who recognize themselves?
Ye Feng looked at it curiously, but he didn't think of what the relationship was with the sergeant in front of him.
The sergeant was about the age of his early twenties, and was mediocre in appearance, but he had a friendly face, a tall build, and looked powerful and strong as an ox.
"Ye Shaoxia, you definitely don't remember me, but I can't forget you, on the last day of the Heavenly Destiny Hunting Competition, I and several of my brothers were saved by you from the Li family's group of grandsons!"
I see.
Ye Feng nodded, said hello, and then asked, "How did you become a sergeant?"
In my impression, there seems to be a rule in the Destiny Hunting Tournament that sergeants are not allowed to participate.
"Not only me, but also many of the brothers who participated in the hunting competition at that time, and they have now joined the Chen Cang Escort Army. ”
As he spoke, the sergeant beckoned and called the sergeants who were guarding both sides of the tower.
"Huh, Ye Shaoxia, you also came to Chencang County?"
"Ye Shaoxia is here, we have another good helper!"
"Yes, Gongsun Gongzi and Ye Shaoxia can once again show the domineering demeanor of young heroes!"
The sergeants all recognized Ye Feng and sighed with excitement.
Ye Feng was concerned about the changes in Chencang County, and he was no longer polite, and asked straight to the point: "I don't know where Lord County Shou is at the moment?"
"Ye Shaoxia, come with me!"
The sergeant's surname was Zhou, and he was now an adjutant general in the Chencang garrison, so he arranged the rest of the work and took Ye Feng into Chencang City.
There is only desolation in sight.
The originally bustling and busy streets lined with merchants have long since lost the grandeur of the former commercial capital.
Under the heavy blow, there are no eggs.
The portals on both sides of the road, whether they are deep mansions or ordinary huts, are all closed.
Except for the patrolling escorts marching through the city, the people who could be seen were very few, and almost all of them were trembling and hurrying by in fear.
What he saw in front of him made Ye Feng's mood extremely complicated.
On the side, Vice General Zhou looked solemn, as if he was carrying endless distress and helplessness in his heart, and sighed softly.
"The dead die, the fleeing flee, and now there are only tens of thousands of people in the city, plus the army left behind. ”
One is prosperous, and one is lost.
When the people suffered, why is the city still there?
As the common people of Chencang County, most of the young warriors like Vice General Zhou joined the military camp to protect their hometown and contribute their last strength.
Ye Feng looked at this deputy general with a bleak face, and there was also a surging aura in his heart.
All of this must be related to the evil force behind Ouyang Feng, no matter what kind of sinister purpose they have, but it is simply too bad to use the entire people of Chencang County as a means of sacrifice.
Coupled with the previous beast tide in Tangyu Town, if Ye Feng guessed correctly, the two must be related, in this way, the hands of the master behind it are stained with thousands of innocent blood, which is a great crime!
Ye Feng's gaze was as condensed as ice, and he and Zhou Shen would continue to walk, when suddenly the two stopped.
Oh!
Manic shouts were heard.
A half-human, half-beast, furry, bloodthirsty eyes, wolf-like monster rampaged out of a street bend.
This orc has completely lost human consciousness, leaving only the mutated bloodthirsty **, searching for innocent people everywhere.
Soon, before the orc had gone far, he was captured by the sergeant who rushed to hear the news and used a dense net covered with steel thorns.
The steel spikes were quenched with venom and pierced into the orc's body, and its blood instantly coagulated, its limbs became numb and weak, and it collapsed to the ground and convulsed, its mouth emitting a terrible whine.