Chapter VII Rescue

Three days have passed, three days have passed since the prisoner of war incident, in order not to attract the attention of the high-level of the Harvey Empire, the generals of the Harvey army have taken revenge by various means, and captured those escaped prisoners of war, for the emperor's gift can not be changed, and for the face of the Harvey Empire, they also continue to capture the nearby civilians to fill the number, must make up enough for 300,000, and in this place escaped, a full 100,000 prisoners of war ran, and nearly 100,000 people were killed, the corpses of prisoners of war were hung on both sides of the road, and the remaining tens of thousands of people were captured, of course, a persecution is inevitable, the Harvey people even stripped their clothes from those dead Chu soldiers, and let those civilians wear them, only in this way that this kind of thing will not leak. Among the POWs, a large group of frightened men in tattered uniforms, and a large group of people in civilian clothes did not know what was going on, but it was by no means a good thing, they did not know that they were going to embark on this road of death, which was paved with corpses.

Leaving a hidden valley hundreds of kilometers away from the blood road, Kong Ming was leaning against a big tree at this time, his nose kept spewing out a heavy breath, holding a tattered kettle in his hand and dripping the last drop of water into his chapped mouth, the heavy armor on his body had already fallen off on the road, and at this time he was wearing a tattered civilian clothes, and around him sat more than a dozen Chu Jun who had also changed civilian clothes, and the situation was no better than Kong Ming, there were Liu Mingxin, Yang Li also had a few prisoners of war who ran out with Kong Ming in a daze, or civilians, because they had been free since the moment they left the prisoner of war camp, but for safety, they followed Kong Ming for more than a few hundred kilometers, and at this time all the people were already at the end of their strength, and they couldn't run anymore, they were like dead pigs.

"Hide, gather your breath!" Kong Ming suddenly whispered.

All of them hid in an instant, wrapping the little bit of fighting energy that had just recovered on their bodies around their whole bodies, not daring to leak even a little bit of it. Obviously, this is not the first time, all the people are very neat, there is no sound, and there is no trace of vindictiveness. After a while, a small demonic beast flew through the sky, circled above the Kongming people, and flew away into the distance. This is a kind of reconnaissance monster, after the Harvey people defeated those Chu prisoners of war who tried to resist, they continued to send a large number of reconnaissance monsters around to search for escapees like Kong Ming, once found, they will send high-level magicians or warriors to capture back, so that many of them have been captured one after another, and Kong Ming These people have also escaped the pursuit of the Harvey people many times under the leadership of Kong Ming, and they have also seen many scenes of Harvey people capturing prisoners of war, and everyone knows the consequences of being captured, so they will run wild within three days, and once they find the enemy's monster, they will immediately hideUnder this tense situation, these dozen people are highly united.

"Gone. Kong Ming exhaled deeply, his eyes looking at the direction of the demonic beast.

"There shouldn't be any more!" Yang Li said cautiously on the side, after all, such a high-intensity exercise in the past three days was a very big burden for him, whose body had not recovered.

"It's better to be careful, otherwise I don't know if I'm caught back!" said a person next to him, this is the first soldier to follow Kong Ming, a third-level martial artist, who is not very strong but very clever, and his age does not seem to be very large. At that time, he saw that there were two people around Kong Ming, and although Kong Ming seemed to try his best against the enemy, he could always kill the enemy as quickly as possible, and did not attract the attention of those masters, with his intuition, he thought that Kong Ming was a master, so he did not hesitate to follow Kong Ming, and it turned out that he was right, and with Kong Ming except for the battle at the beginning, they never experienced a battle, but spent a little more time playing hide and seek with the enemy, so they may not be the fastest people to escape, but they must be one of the fastest people。

"That's right, it's better to be careful. Who knows what tricks they will play!" Kong Ming said in a low voice, there are too many unknown things in this human world, especially the more magicians know, the more they feel the unknown, this is a very contradictory description, but it is true. These dozen or so people now take Kong Ming as their temporary leader, and naturally no one will object to what Kong Ming said for the time being.

"What now?" One of them asked, this is the news that all people are most concerned about, the choice at this time can be related to the fate of the future, anyone likes to take their fate in their own hands, rather than relying on the so-called feeling, hearing this sentence, most of the people looked at Kong Ming, in these few days of escape, Kong Ming is actually the leader of everyone, Kong Ming's decision is also related to the future of this group of people. Kong Ming thought about it and found that there was really no purpose now, but if he stayed here, the danger factor would definitely increase greatly, and he would still be arrested nine times out of ten, "Let's go over there, stay away from the Harvey people first, and plan for the rest later." Saying that, Kong Ming looked at the other people, and saw that everyone had no opinions, and they would not have any opinions, after all, everyone's goal now is the same, that is, to leave the Harvey, the farther away the better, and take the lead towards those who leave the battlefield. But everyone's body has reached the extreme, and they can only help each other and walk slowly along a small mountain road.

Four days have passed, and more than a dozen people have also left the danger area, since two days ago, there have been no more flying demonic beasts in the sky, and there is no Harvey people, but for safety, Kong Ming and the others walked for another two days before they came here. At the foot of the hill is a small town, but the streets are empty, there are hardly a few people to be seen, and the shops on both sides of the street are closed, and the whole town seems lifeless, without a trace of life, which has not been seen even in the war.

"What's going on?" asked Yang Li on the side.

"I don't know, did the Harvey people get here?"

"No way, there's not a single Harvey army in sight. ”

"Is it the plague?"

"It's hard to say, it doesn't look like it, there are no dead people on the street. ”

"What the hell is going on?"

"Come on, don't think about it now, let's rest on the spot, Liang Hua, you sentry, and the others will eat a little dry food around here. Kong Ming said. After hearing Kong Ming's words, everyone sat or lay down to rest under a nearby tree, and one of them found a place to observe and hide.

"Kong Ming, what do you see below?" Yang Li leaned over.

"It's hard to say, let's rest first, eat something, and wait for the body to recover, and then go down to reconnoitre, the situation will definitely be clear. ”

"Speaking of which, this place is so far away from the battlefield, I remember that this place should not have suffered a war, how can this happen?" Liu Mingxin said strangely. Since the battle of Chu is mainly carried out in several important cities, and towns like this are not on the axis of attack, they will generally not suffer any damage, and it is the end of autumn, and there will be no plague or anything like that, and it is also far away from where the demonic beasts live, and the towns have not been destroyed, nor are they destroyed by the demonic beasts, so what is it that makes this happen. You must know that on the way to escape now, any situation will put these people back into dire straits.

"Don't think too much about it now, the main thing for us at the moment is to recover our strength, and only in this way can we cope with the next situation. Kong Ming said in a low voice. Indeed, in the case of ignorance, to guess something indiscriminately not only consumes people's spirit, but also inevitably causes some unnecessary trouble. After saying that, Kong Ming will directly calm down and meditate, using every battle time to restore strength, is the most practical skill to maintain survival in the war, any veteran like Kong Ming who survived the long-term war has his own set of methods, this method is always different from person to person, not everyone is the same, some people keep doing something, some people just keep humming songs, some people keep complaining, some people are in a daze, but no matter what you do, it is to recover, mental or physical, all kinds, and Kong Ming chose meditation, this can restore magic and fighting spirit。 But obviously, there is not so much time to rest and recover now, in less than thirty minutes, Kong Ming was awakened by a noise, opened his eyes suddenly, Kong Ming saw that Liang Hua was quickly signaling to them, a kind of bird call common in the woods, crisp and loud, but without any hurry, this is the most basic skill of a scout. Kong Ming and the others immediately hid in the direction of the sound like a fed of frightened rabbits, and then slowly looked in the direction of the noise. It was more than 20 civilians and a few Chu soldiers, from the direction of Kong Ming was not very clear, there seemed to be something arguing between them, a few elderly people among the civilians were seventy or eighty years old, and they were excited to explain something to those few people who knew at a glance that they had escaped from the prisoner of war team like Kong Ming, and the voice was very loud, but when it reached Kong Ming, they couldn't hear it clearly, but they vaguely heard a few words "Help us," "Please." But obviously those Chu soldiers also had great concerns, and their faces looked very helpless. The two groups of people quarreled for more than 20 minutes, but there was no result, and in the end, it may be that those soldiers were indeed shameless to see those civilians, and quickly walked past those civilians with their heads down, and then quickly disappeared into the mountain road.

The sound did not stop as the soldiers left, but louder cries came from that direction. Kong Ming looked carefully, listened, there were male and female voices in the voice, and thought about it, he needed to know something from these civilians, especially after the prisoner of war rebellion, obviously, these people knew something. Kong Ming walked out of the hidden place and walked towards those people, the other people saw Kong Ming like this, and wanted to stand up, but let Kong Ming shake his head to stop him, if he was alone, those people might not be as excited as they were to see those soldiers just now, if there are more people, things may change, which Kong Ming does not want to see.

More than 20 civilians were crying on the mountain road, and an old man leaning in the direction of Kongming suddenly heard footsteps coming and couldn't help but look up. He saw a young man dressed in tattered civilian clothes, carrying a long sword on his back, the style of the sword did not look like the usual one, the young man's face was a little pale, he was not tall, and there were some rags wrapped around his hands, and some blood was faintly seeping out of the rags, and his hair was unkempt, and it looked like it had not been washed for a long time, and there were a few withered grass roots stuck in it. Seeing this, the old man stopped crying, and after wiping the tears from his eyes, the old man took the initiative to say, "Young man, you better not go any further, otherwise you will be caught." ”

"Who is it?" asked Ku Ming strangely.

"You know at a glance that you escaped from the prisoners of war, don't you?" said the old man.

This sentence made Kong Ming's heart tighten, you know, at the moment he is a civilian's dress, in order to better disguise his identity, along the way he has been constantly using a little rest time to disguise his appearance, because this kind of thing will kill people at a critical time, and he has to act carefully, but after all, he still can't escape the eyes of this old man. Seeing Kong Ming so nervous, the old man hurriedly added, "Your affairs, through guò magic communication, everyone knows, don't be nervous, I don't blame you! Pity our children!!" Before the words were finished, the old man cried again, this scene really made Kong Ming a little overwhelmed, and the ups and downs were too fast, what does the matter of prisoners of war have to do with the old man's children? But Kong Ming was the one who came down from the line of life and death after all, and he didn't rush to ask what was going on, and waited patiently for a while before the old man stopped crying, and then looked at Kong Ming with a blank face and explained.

It turned out that after the prisoner of war incident had passed, in order not to attract the attention of the high-level of the Harvey Empire, the generals of the Harvey army took revenge by various means, and captured those escaped prisoners of war, for the emperor's gift could not be changed, and for the sake of the face of the Harvey Empire, they also continued to capture the nearby civilians to fill the number, and they must make up enough for 300,000, and among the escapees in this field, there were 100,000 prisoners of war, and nearly 100,000 people were killed, and the corpses of prisoners of war were hung on both sides of the road, and the remaining tens of thousands of people were captured, of course, a persecution was inevitable, the Harvey people even stripped their clothes from those dead Chu soldiers, and let those civilians wear them, only in this way that this kind of thing will not leak. Such a process inevitably had a great impact on the Chu people in the vicinity of the prisoner of war incident, because most of the personnel were captured from the nearby area, and in this process, those who surrendered to the Harvey people were eager to play the vanguard role in order to make the Harvey people have a satisfactory explanation, and the neighborhood was full of chickens and dogs, and these more than 20 civilians were the residents of the town under the mountain, and their sons, husbands, fathers, or brothers, all of them were captured by those who were eager to be loyal to the Harveys, so they wept here bitterly, and the town did not dare to go backJust now, I met a few escaped prisoners of war and wanted those people to help them rescue those civilians, which can be regarded as a rush to the hospital.

Kong Ming thought for a moment and asked, "How many people are there, what level are they?" And the level won't be high, otherwise these people won't stop them.

"Not much, it's just seven people, the leader is the son of the mayor, he is a powerful senior swordsman, the others are usually the head snakes in the town, the highest one is just a second-level swordsman, if it weren't for the mayor's son, the other people would have been divided into corpses. Woo......!"

There were a few footsteps behind Kong Ming, and Kong Ming knew that it was Liang Hua and they followed, thinking that there was no danger here, so everyone passed. The old man's words fell into their ears and really made them feel very angry, they were desperate in front, but in exchange for this kind of bullying of men and women in the rear, it was really unbearable. One of the hot-tempered people had already burned through his head and shouted, "Head, it, Lao Tzu go up and tear these guys apart!"

For those who are soldiers, the experience of these few days is enough to convince them of a person, and in the past few days, although Kong Ming has not said much, but with practical actions, they have felt Kong Ming's ability, which can allow them to escape in the place of death, so that they can entrust life and death, so they have already tacitly agreed that Kong Ming is the head of this temporary team. Sometimes, things are so simple that some things don't need to be said to be wonderful, as long as they are made, this is far worth a thousand words. Kong Ming looked back at the others, except for three or four people whose eyes were unnatural, the others all looked at him with a hopeful eye, at this moment Kong Ming knew that these people could be used, because the difficulties did not drag down their spirits, but instead gave them more things to rely on for the future, so that they could get through one danger after another, after all, life and death have been experienced so much, and many things definitely look different from before. Kong Ming really didn't have so many thoughts about this kind of thing, he just went, he was just a high-level swordsman, and it wasn't even a threat to these people, nodding, Kong Ming looked at the old man, "How to go." Kong Ming's voice was not loud, but at this time, this voice was undoubtedly a life-saving voice in the old man's heart, and the whole person was stunned at once, everyone looked at the old man like this, and a person next to Kong Ming said: "Old man, where did those people go?"

"Ah, oh!! Following the direction the old man pointed out, Kong Ming and the others saw a snow-covered road leading to the mountain, and there were many muddy footprints in the middle of the road, so Kong Ming took the lead and walked there.