Chapter 24: The Vault Dweller
Yes!!!
The sound of miserable wails continued throughout the Vault Dweller's camp.
The whole one hundred and thirty dead soldiers sent by Xu Wei gave up their lives tonight and turned into ghouls, stirring up chaos in the camp, and the soldiers who were pounced down and bitten to death by the ghouls got up again soon after, and attacked the other living with a body of drooping flesh, and every time a soldier fell, the size of the ghoul army increased by a point, and in less than half a pillar of incense, this ghoul army had increased from one hundred and thirty to an astonishing number of more than five thousand.
Outside a large tent, a man waved two large knives with both hands to kill the ghouls heartily, and the dark brown leather armor was soaked with blood. The two knives slashed at the head of the ghoul in front of him together, the skull shattered and blood splattered into his eyes, his eyes were full of blood red, he quickly reached out and wiped it with his sleeve, roar! Just then, a ghoul roared and pounced from behind.
"General be careful!"
Whoa-whoa-whoa-who
A barrage of feathered arrows instantly turned the ghoul who wanted to attack the general's abrupt back into a hedgehog, but he stood up again, but his movements were greatly hindered by the arrows, and he looked very bulky.
Suddenly, he took a few steps forward and bent forward, his arms were forced, the knife in his hand fell, and the ghoul's head was thrown away, and the "hedgehog" ghoul was quiet now.
"Hurry up and go to the main tent to escort General Ji to the riverside camp safely!"
The general suddenly commanded his men who were coming, and then the group mounted their horses and hurried to the position of the main general's tent.
Outside the main general's tent, Ji Yu was shocked when he saw his own soldiers fighting in a group.
"What are you doing? Stop! β
Ji Yu shouted at the crowd, and a soldier with a bloodstained face holding a large shield turned his head and responded: "General! Theyβ" Before he could finish speaking, he was pounced on by another soldier-turned-ghoul and bit his throat open.
Ji Yu suddenly felt that someone was attacking from behind, he clenched the mace in his hand and turned around to make a stick, and the attacking ghoul soldier fell to the ground in response, and his head was dented by the mace, but in the blink of an eye, he got up again, bang! Ji Yu swung a stick again, this time directly shattering the head of the ghoul soldier, and this time he was completely motionless.
"How so? What's going on? Ji Hao looked at the tragic scenes everywhere and was very puzzled, why did the soldiers who were like brothers and sisters on weekdays kill each other?
Whew! The sword swept by, the ghoul cut off the waist, and a team of twenty-four light armored cavalry rushed out of the encirclement on horseback, brandishing the war knife, and the man at the head shouted at Ji Yu: "General! Please evacuate with us! β
The cavalry that arrived first was Ji Hui's personal guard, known as the twenty-four wolf cavalry, and each of the twenty-four had the strength of one enemy and one hundred enemies.
Under the escort of the twenty-four wolf riders, Ji Hui successfully evacuated to a temporary port built by the Vault Dweller by the river, and in the following time, individual soldiers or crippled troops escaped from the camp one after another and came here, until dawn no one came, Ji Hui sent someone to count the number of people, one thousand and eighty-one people, and there were 20,000 soldiers in the camp, and now there are only one thousand and eighty-one people left.
Ji Hui stood in the cold river breeze, looking at these remnants of the defeated generals, and was miserable: "The 20,000 troops I brought, there is only so little left, I have no shame to return to the country to see Brother Wang." β
"General, another survivor has arrived, and it is a part of the general's sudden attack." A soldier reported.
Ji asked the soldier, "What about Tu Liehu?" β
The soldier replied, "General Tuliehu has also arrived, but he has a broken arm and is now being treated by a military doctor." β
"Take me there."
"Yes."
Ji Hui followed the soldiers to the infirmary.
"Suddenly!" Ji Hui's voice came from outside the house, and then the sudden entourage immediately walked to the door to open the wooden door, and walked out of the door to greet the general Ji Hui.
Tu Lie sat on the wooden chair, the military doctor had just finished stitching up his wound and was bandaging, he turned his eyes to look out of the door, and Ji Hao walked in.
"General..."Tu Lie was about to get up and salute, but was held down by Ji Hui who came over, and Ji Hui said: "It's good that you're still alive, you are injured, you don't have to get up." β
"General, as far as I know, the soldiers killed each other because they were infected with a disease. β
Ji Yu frowned slightly, looked at Suddenly Lie and asked, "Sick?" What disease? β
"A while ago, a ghoul plague broke out in Panxiao City in Hongtianguo, and it is said that they destroyed the big city in order to prevent the spread, and this time the soldiers in the camp were also infected with the ghoul plague to kill each other."
Ji Yu held his chin and nodded, "Well, go on, why was it determined to be a ghoul plague." β
"I captured a mutant soldier, locked him in an iron cage and sent heavy guards to guard it, which is consistent with this mutant soldier based on the characteristics of the ghouls in Panxiao City that I investigated before." Tu Liehu looked at his empty sleeve again, and then said, "This arm of mine was bitten when I captured him, and I cut it off to prevent the infection. β
"When you're done bandaging, we'll go back, take that ghoul with us, and see if the great physician Nonan can develop an antidote." Ji Yu looked at the sudden severed arm and said, "I will ask Brother Wang to reward you well for the sacrifice you have made for Yayoi Kingdom." β
"Thank you, General."
The Vault Dweller is just a name for themselves, and they call themselves Yayoi Province, and the reason for this goes back a thousand years...
A thousand years ago, the Yuanzhou Continent was still in the period of great unification, at that time the empire that ruled this continent was the Yayoi Kingdom, and the long-term peace made every emperor gradually begin to be extravagant and corrupt, and the wolf that occupied the Yuanzhou Continent had been blocked by pleasure and perception, and then the Demon Star Chaos came to bring chaos to the world, and chaos was the ladder of ascent, and a force rose up to resist the rule of the Yayoi Empire, with the start of the first resistance war, more and more resistance forces appeared one after another, The Yayoi Empire, which had lost its cohesion, was like a plate of scattered sand, and finally fell apart after many battles, and the descendants of the rulers of the Yayoi Empire fled to the northernmost realm, where even animals did not want to go deeper, and since then the descendants of the Yayoi Empire who have cowered in the realm of Yongdong have been called Vault Dwellers.
The overthrow of the rule of the Yayoi Kingdom and the unification of the Yuan Continent was the short-lived Ardis Empire, because the reform of the ruler of the Ardis Empire was too advanced, causing internal strife, and after the assassination of the ruler who had no heirs, the Ardis Empire was dismembered by the five forces, forming the five kingdoms of today: Hongtian Kingdom, Bishu Kingdom, Wuqiong Kingdom, Gaoting Kingdom, and Wandering Clan.
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Before Ji Hui's army returned to the realm of eternal winter in the north, Ji Xu, the leader of the Vault Dwellers, had already received the news that his brother Ji Hui had returned from defeat.
Syllable!
A secret letter was thrown to the ground by Ji Zhu angrily, and he got up and shouted in the hall...