Chapter Seventy-Nine: Front-and-Forth Strikes
The crowd slowed down and proceeded cautiously.
Bai Qing'an, who was in the carriage behind, noticed the change in this team, and his heart also rose vigilant.
"Young master, there seems to be someone making trouble ahead." Lao Liu turned around and said in the carriage.
"Look closer." Bai Qingan commanded in a low voice.
When Lao Liu heard this, he immediately stopped the carriage.
He jumped out of the carriage and took a few steps forward, picked a flat and empty ground, and lay directly on the ground, tilting his head sideways and pressing his ears to the ground.
After a pause, Lao Liu got up.
"Young master, there are a lot of people in front, and they sound chaotic, they are likely to have a conflict." Lao Liu can actually hear it with this.
Bai Qingan pondered for a moment, "It seems that those people in front have also noticed it, don't panic, just follow them as usual." ”
The reason why Bai Qingan asked Lao Liu to follow Zuo Xingyan and them was not just for protection, the people in front of them at the critical moment were cannon fodder, and they could block the damage for them.
Lao Liu nodded and continued to drive the carriage slowly behind.
Seeing that the city wall of the town was in front of him, Song Cha raised his hand and motioned for everyone to stop.
As they walked here, they could already hear the commotion coming from under the city walls.
The outcasts were fighting with the defenders of the city.
The gates were closed, and they couldn't get in, so they picked up all sorts of things and slammed them against them.
The outcasts were all full of madness, as if they would not break open the city gates.
Also, if they can't get into the city and grab food, they will starve to death, it's better to fight, anyway, they are all dead, what is the difference between being killed by the defenders and being starved to death?
The local dog officials did not act, and even demanded that the grain depot was full of grain, but they did not help the people, and even levied it on a large scale under the banner of the imperial court, and finally wanted to sell the grain to the poor people at a high price.
The people had no way to live, so they simply gathered together to storm the city gates.
Zuo Xingyan saw with his own eyes a homeless man holding a stone and smashing the door, and was shot through his heart by the arrows of the defenders on the city wall.
The homeless man fell straight to the ground with his eyes wide open, but the other homeless people around him stepped directly over his corpse as if they couldn't see it, and continued to rush towards the city gate.
These people have been driven insane!
The corpses of the displaced people under the walls were piled together, and death and despair filled the air, and anyone who looked at them would be horrified.
"There was a flood and a drought in the north and south at the same time, God is going to destroy the Great Liang Kingdom......" Jing Zhong has always loved the people, and when he saw such a scene, he was heartbroken.
Song Chatou glanced back at Zuo Xingyan and Jing Beihan, and seeing that they had no instructions, he ordered Yacha to take the group to temporarily settle in the forest by the roadside.
Although the weather is dry and the trees are beginning to turn yellow, it can still have a little shade effect, so that they are not directly exposed to the eyes of the homeless.
Not long after they entered the forest, the Bai family's carriage also stopped.
They didn't come down, but just stopped the carriage close to the edge of the woods.
"It's really a dogskin plaster." Zuo Xingyan muttered.
"If my sister-in-law is tired of them, I'll drive them away." Jing Yannian clenched his fists very bravely.
Zuo Xingyan hurriedly grabbed the young man, "I just said it casually, how can I get the baby after driving away?" ”
"Don't act rashly, that coachman is not simple." Jing Beihan suddenly spoke.
Zuo Xingyan and Jing Yannian looked at him in unison.
"That coachman has more internal strength than you." Jing Beihan looked at Jing Yannian.
Jing Yannian stared blankly at the carriage, "No wonder I can't detect his internal force fluctuations......"
No wonder the people of the Bai family would rest assured that the eldest young master and the second lady of the family would go out without escorts, and it turned out that they were accompanied by masters.
"We are all protected by masters, why are you still following us?" Jing Yannian was quite dissatisfied.
"Aren't all businessmen like that? Maximize your own interests within limited conditions. Follow us, and you can hide that master a little longer. Zuo Xingyan saw it very clearly.
Jing Beihan didn't speak, but looking at his expression, he obviously agreed with Zuo Xingyan's words.
Jing Yannian was half stunned, and sat obediently on the side to digest it.
The homeless people under the city wall in front were still fighting desperately, and not far from them, another group of homeless people was watching them in fear.
This group of displaced people is full of women, children and old people, and it seems that they are the family members of the group of besieged refugees.
No wonder that the group of homeless people attacked the city so desperately, they were all burdened with the lives of their wives and children.
Zuo Xingyan seemed to see the scene at the beginning of the apocalypse again, when humanity had not yet been extinguished, and many people were still fighting to protect their families, just like this group of homeless people.
However, under the multiple crises of lack of water, food and zombies, some people began to abandon their humanity and sold their wives and daughters to demons in exchange for a bite to eat.
He will even push his companions, who were fighting side by side a second, into the zombie group, just to seek a chance of survival.
Human nature seems so small and fragile in the face of an existential crisis.
I don't know when the group of displaced people in front of me will abandon their humanity......
Zuo Xing's face was cold, and he looked straight ahead, and an indescribable sense of loneliness gradually spread around his body.
Jing Beihan was the first to notice the change in Zuo Xing's face, and his dark eyes rippled.
He didn't understand why Zuo Xingyan, a lady raised in a deep boudoir, would always give him such a lonely and cold feeling from time to time, she was like a person who was used to fighting on the battlefield and was indifferent to life and death.
The vicissitudes of life are indifferent, as if they are used to being alone.
Jing Beihan hated such a Zuo Xingyan, which made him feel like he was being turned away.
"What treasure do you like? When you arrive in Quanzhou, I will let my subordinates help you find it. Jing Beihan subconsciously asked.
Zuo Xingyan's memories were interrupted, and she instantly returned to her previous heartless appearance.
"Like what? As long as it's valuable, I like it. I have to say a few things, jade and jade, warm and nourishing. ”
As soon as Zuo Xingyan mentioned the treasure, he was extremely excited.
"Okay, I remember." Jing Beihan frowned and nodded.
Just when everyone was honestly waiting for the riot in front of them to subside, something suddenly happened in the rear.
The outcasts, who had fallen far behind the exiles, suddenly burst into a terrible wail, and they fled in terror as if there were evil spirits chasing them.
"What's going on in the back?" Song Chatou stood up suddenly.
There was no time for the crowd to react, and the homeless people ran through the woods with a wail.
It was only at this time that Zuo Xingyan and the others saw the situation behind clearly.
A group of fierce and vicious people are chasing and killing this group of homeless people with big knives and sticks.
But whoever is caught up is either cut off or smashed, and there is no life left.
"Is it the mob again?!"
Looking at the miserable deaths of the homeless people, Zuo Xingyan subconsciously thought of the previous group of mobs who burned, killed, looted, and did all kinds of evil.