"Has it come to this point?"

Li Yu muttered to himself, looking farther away.

Thick smoke could be seen billowing out, black fog rising, and most of the city was shrouded in an atmosphere filled with gunsmoke.

"There have been heavy casualties in the city, several blocks have been lost, and more than 10,000 people have been killed!" The official who greeted them no longer had the smile on his face, and said with a bit of solemnity, "We have to give up the southwest corner of the city, use the street as a beggar, and strictly defend it."

But even so, there's no way to stop those cloth demons from spreading......"

"Have you told the people the truth so that they can be prepared?"

Suddenly, Li Yu turned his head, stared at the official, and asked a crucial question.

"This ......," the official hesitated.

"Why don't you inform them! Even if only part of the truth is told, more people will survive! ”

"Strange things are secret, and they really don't fit for the people to know."

"Let your mother's bullshit go, tell the demons about their weaknesses and how to deal with them, what's the matter, you obviously don't want to be responsible!"

Li Yu snorted coldly and roughly interrupted the other party's words.

But even so, he could not say that the officials of the city had done wrong, because they did follow the rules and kept the secret of the treacherous events closely.

"Who are the 100 Demon Suppressors here? The officer will see him at once! ”

"Zhong Baihu is on the opposite street, the little one is going to summon him......"

"No need, prepare the horse immediately, I'll go find him!"

After a while, Li Yu rushed to the street where Zhong Cheng was located and saw Zhong Cheng who was personally leading people to patrol.

He was wearing a pair of leather armor, and some of the soldiers next to him were wearing armor-clad patrols, and some were wearing straw skirts, and they were scattered around shirtless, looking at them vigilantly.

"Are you ......" Zhong Cheng was stunned after just one glance, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "See your lord, dare to ask this lord who ......"

There is a way to respect Luo Yi first and then respect people, Li Yu is wearing a bright flying fish suit, wearing an official hat can only be worn above the fourth grade, and he is also accompanied by a group of elites in fresh clothes and angry horses, which is definitely not comparable to ordinary roles.

Zhong Cheng didn't know the specific identity of the other party, but he understood that the other party's official was much bigger than himself.

"I am Li Yu, the envoy of the Ministry of Guards, and I was ordered to come here to supervise you and others to fight against the evil demons and deal with all the things in the Yinshan Demon Cave case, you are Zhong Cheng?"

"Xia Guan is exactly."

"I've heard about your decisive handling of events in the city."

Li Yu's face was slightly pale, nodded, and jumped off the horse.

Zhong Cheng's expression was gloomy: "It's a pity that they still can't stop the spread of the cloth demons, now they have occupied most of the city, General Huo ordered to take the middle line that has not yet been invaded by the cloth demons as the boundary, abandon the west of the city, and lead the people." ”

Li Yu inexplicably remembered the original Xingdaofang fire, and shook his head helplessly: "Now it seems that it has to be like this." ”

While speaking, someone suddenly galloped over on a fast horse: "Lord Baihu, Lord Baihu...... And they succeeded! ”

"Really?" Zhong Cheng turned his head to look, but saw the messenger on horseback running over, jumping off his horse and half-kneeling on the ground, and excitedly reported, "The cloth in the inventory of the Majia Commercial Bank, the Lin Family Commercial Bank, and the Chen Family Commercial Bank in the south of the city has been burned, and there should not be a large number of cloth demons derived ......from it in a short period of time."

It turned out that he had just sent someone to burn the confiscated cloth.

Because those wealthy businessmen stopped it, the government will not have time to dispose of those things in time, and it will become a great hidden danger if they remain in the unguarded occupied area.

Zhong Cheng can be regarded as risking his own life to destroy them, because those are the property of rich businessmen, even at this critical juncture, they have to bear a lot of responsibility.

Li Yu glanced at the other party deeply: "Zhong Baihu is brave in doing things, loyal and brave, are there similar hidden dangers in other places in the city?" We can't dispose of the clothes and cloth of ordinary people, but those cloth houses and trading houses can still deal with it.

You don't have to take care of this matter alone, and the official orders you to send people to burn it immediately. ”

"My lord, you ......" Zhong Cheng didn't expect Li Yu to support him on the spot.

"Don't be stunned, hurry up!"

"Yes!"

……

In the west corner of the city, the people in the city, Yan Yuandi's house, one large, two small and three people hid in the cellar behind their houses shivering.

Yan Yuandi is a talent in the city, and after repeated failures, he has long been discouraged, and has found a job as a teacher in a large family, writing letters to people, couplets and the like to earn some extra money for a living.

Originally, he learned with his talent, although he was poor and could still get by, but he didn't expect that one day he would encounter such a catastrophe.

First, there was a great chaos in the city, and some people shouted: "Evil has come to haunt you!" ”

He wanted to run out, think of his family, and go back to Zhangluo, but the streets were already blocked and he couldn't walk.

The city is full of cloth demons, and all kinds of clothes and pants are moving as if they are enchanted, chasing and killing the living everywhere.

The neighbors crowded each other, forced into the road, were chased and hanged, and then some people set fire to the cloth, and as a result, the house was set on fire and suffocated to death.

Some people were forced to go up to the roof of the beams, and they were involved and stumbled, falling like rain, breaking their hands and feet, and breaking their livers and gallbladders.

And many of the clothes and cloths in the house also came to life, and they continued to join the demon army, and the people panicked and fled in all directions, but they did not know the direction, and made a mess.

Yan Yuandi was much more alert than ordinary people, and hid his two children as soon as possible, but he saw his wife dancing in the house, trembling there as if she was enchanted.

In a panic, he suddenly saw his neck twisted, his hands and feet broken, and then his clothes fell off, and he was stripped naked in an instant.

It turned out that the clothes on her body had also become demons, and she was binding and killing the original owner and breaking free from her.

Yan Yuandi was grief-stricken, but fortunately remembered that someone had used a torch to deal with the cloth demon before, and led him to the edge of the fire before he escaped.

Returning to the cellar at home, the child cried and asked his mother, and said that he was hungry in his belly, Yan Yuandi was sad, and he couldn't help but howl and cry, and he was stunned in his heart, and he didn't know why.

I was helpless all night, and I stayed up until dawn the next day, and went out to check the details, only to find that I was extremely lucky.

Because he and his two children are at least still alive, and the dead in the neighborhood, nine out of ten, have already been strewn with corpses all over the ground.

Most of them were strangled to death by their necks or long cloths, and the babies and children were not strong enough, and they were first afflicted, then the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, and after that, perhaps the number of cloth demons continued to increase, and the young and brave could no longer be spared.

On the contrary, it was a weak scholar like him, who survived because he paid attention to dodging all the way.

The victims he saw, men and women, young and old, were naked, their privacy exposed, and some of them were burnt out, and those with broken arms and shins were still breathing, whispering and wailing like ghosts.

Up and down the street, the victims folded their arms and strands, their hands and feet pillowed, and they were in an intimate state, but in fact they were extremely terrifying, making people feel like hell.

"Oh my God...... How did it come to this? ”

Yan Yuandi's body trembled, and he almost collapsed on the street.