Seven days later, inside a closed warehouse.

Minami Shiori lay on a bed made of wooden boxes and fell asleep lightly.

Suddenly, she heard the faint sound of footsteps.

The next moment, he immediately sat up and pulled out a small half of the blade.

"Who?"

A woman dressed in coarse cloth held a candle in her hand, and her face turned pale from the light of the knife.

"It's you, what are you doing here, didn't I say don't disturb my rest?"

Nan Shiori took back the knife after seeing the person who came, and frowned: "Or is there something going on outside?" ”

"No, it's fine." At first glance, the female worker who had been doing rough work for a long time lowered her head, carefully took out a few candies from her arms and put them down: "It's just to see you, I haven't eaten for a day, so, so ......"

Seeing this, Nan Shiori's gaze softened slightly, and then said, "I don't need it, you can take it back." ”

"The samurai-sama protects our safety, these things are everyone's hearts." The female worker replied softly: "You, you can actually go, but you are here to protect us people, and we are all grateful." ”

Nan Shiori shook her head: "I'm not so kind, I also have my purpose...... Staying here, but by the way. ”

She glanced at the candy, and then at the female worker with a worried face, as long as she raised her hand to accept the candy, and after eating a small bag of biscuits, the female worker put her mind at ease, did not dare to disturb, and walked out cautiously.

Looking at the candle flame and gradually walking away.

Nan Shiori held the blade of the knife, and her fingers stroked the wound on her body, and there was still a faint pain.

She lay back on the bed, closed her eyes, and her memory traveled back in time for a moment.

……

Seven days ago.

The Huangquan Purification began, and the Hundred Ghosts marched at night to storm the military defense line of the front line.

There is no way to retreat, there is no buffer zone, and it is completely a fight against the water.

On this day, whether it was the shogunate army or the transcendents who were recruited, the casualty rate directly exceeded the casualty rate of the entire Huangquan Purification in previous years.

More than sixty percent of them were killed in battle.

No one thought that after the hundred ghosts were assembled into a group, their combat effectiveness would be so terrifying.

It's like a rushing beast tide of beasts, rushing forward without dying, and you can't stop it at all.

The fortifications made of concrete and cement became crumbling under the impact of the hundred ghosts, and their own material strength was not enough, after all, for more than three hundred years, Huangquan had never been actively invaded, and although the fortifications were built of high specifications, they were not injected with any strange things and mysteries.

Defending against aircraft bombing or artillery mortar may be barely enough, but it is definitely not enough to defend against the hordes of Huangquan Hundred Ghosts.

On the first day of the battle, Minami Shiori personally beheaded dozens of demons.

But she made a mistake.

That is, there is a lack of deep understanding of the overly tenacious vitality of demons, and there is no extremely important mending.

After one of the demons was killed by her, her original appearance was revealed.

In fact, it's a synthetic demon possessed by the aura of the face.

She was attacked by the face aura from behind, and a gap opened in her body, and she almost lost her combat effectiveness.

Fortunately, Amamiya Masahiro and Bai Yu were nearby, and after saving her, they sent her to the rear of the battle line.

In this chaos, even the wounded had no place to stay, and had to be moved to the city three kilometers outside the battle line.

After emergency treatment, she took the pill and was casually placed in this warehouse to recuperate, waiting to recover and return to the front line.

Originally, she had planned to rest for a few days.

But once again, things have changed dramatically.

The battle at the front lasted until the fifth day, when the military front suddenly collapsed.

Even the shogunate issued an order to retreat, but at the time, the order was to "retreat in an orderly manner," but it was carried out as a "reckless rout."

After losing the blocking front, a large number of Huangquan Hundred Ghosts broke into the city, and many civilians were swept up in the white fog before they could evacuate, and became a meal for demons and ghosts.

Because of the collapse of the front line, Nan Shiori also lost contact with the front directly, and it is not clear where her sister and husband are now.

She was very anxious, but she did not dare to go out without permission, and while waiting for her injuries to heal, some civilians fled to the warehouse here, and she took them in.

However, the food stored in this warehouse is not much, which is not enough to support the daily consumption of twenty or thirty people.

In addition, the wounded also lacked wound medicine...... The atmosphere is getting more and more oppressive.

If the shogunate did not come to the rescue, the civilians would either die at the hands of demons or stay here and die alive.

Nan Shiori saw this in his eyes, but he was helpless.

The city has a permanent population of more than 70,000 people, and if you count the circulating population, it is usually in the 100,000 people.

Even if more than half of them were killed or wounded in three days, there would still be at least 50,000 people.

Even if she can solve the problem of feeding twenty or thirty people, she is destined to not be able to save so many people.

It remains that the problem needs to be addressed at the source.

She tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, and faintly heard the conversation outside.

"Everybody's going to die, we're all done, all finished!"

"Cry what cry! It's a big deal, just hand it over! ”

"Do you think anyone is like you, with such a hard mouth?"

"Okay, what's the noise, aren't you tired? Not hungry? Aren't you thirsty? Isn't it good to save some effort? ”

"Hold on for another three or four days, and it will be three or four days, and the Huangquan Purification will be over......"

"Don't fantasize, this time it's different, Huangquan is expanding! Even the ground under our feet is already in the Yellow Spring! ”

"Be quiet! Don't disturb the others! ”

Arguments and quarrels will always erupt and suddenly cease to fall, and everyone is waiting with a sense of despair.

The people of this era actually don't believe in the official above their heads, and the people of Yingzhou don't have much hope for the shogunate, even if they encounter any disasters, they want to solve it themselves, rather than relying on the shogunate.

The shogunate is a regime built on the samurai class, and it is also a collection of power that conforms to the interests of all samurai. When encountering a problem, it can't be said that it is completely impossible to expect the shogunate to take care of the common people, at least it must be a miracle that can only be achieved by a magical girl's wish.

In the Imperial Council, the master of clear soup who dares to put forward such a proposal will be poked in the back and angrily scolded, "You dog betrayed the samurai class".

Civilians are most likely abandoned.

Although the shogunate wants to recover the territory of Huangquan, it will never choose to fight it at this stage.

As for how many people died here, the shogunate only needed to shift the blame to the expansion of Huangquan, after all, there were many people who died, which was actually a number; Especially in the feudal Yingzhou, it's really not a big deal.

Minami Shiori couldn't sleep at all because of the troubles.

She got up and left the inner room.

When the crowd in the warehouse saw her appear, they immediately became calm.

Some weak man on the ground reached out and pulled her trouser leg as she walked by.

At this time, Minami Shiori could only squat down and comfort the injured person, "Everything will be fine", whisper to the hungry child who can't sleep, "If you fall asleep, you won't be hungry", and say a few kind words to the adults to comfort them.

She knew that as long as she did this, she would be able to calm everyone's emotions for a while.

Because in the eyes of this group of people, she is both a Chinese and a samurai who can kill demons and ghosts, and such a powerful person will not lie.

This is a kind of blind belief in a state of extreme crisis, and they haven't thought deeply about whether Minami Shiori is lying...... She is not omnipotent, she is not a doctor, and she is also informed, how can she know that the patient will last a few days, and how can she know that there will be a few days before the rescue arrives?

It was all pretty words, but just because she was still standing here, the people around her were convinced.

They are also forcing themselves to believe.

However, the effect of this placebo is limited after all.

In areas shrouded in white mist, sunlight does not shine at all.

At night, the warehouse becomes even darker, but there are fewer demons wandering around.

Minami would also take the opportunity to go out, walk around a few nearby neighborhoods, look for opportunities to kill the lone demons, search for the wounded, inquire about the situation on the front line, and bring back some safe food and water.

It was less than half an hour before she went out.

A young man crept back to his original position, holding a bulging paper bag in his hand.

"Are you ......" the companion next to the young man said in shock, "You are out?" ”

"I didn't go far, I walked around the neighborhood, I remember there was a kitchen, I drilled a hole and went in, and I found this." The young man raised the thing in his hand: "Look, rice balls, it's still salmon filling!" ”

The companion looked at the rice balls and swallowed a mouthful of spit, but immediately shook his head: "Samurai-sama said that there are many things outside that cannot be eaten!" ”

"With the ones she brought back, it won't be enough to stuff our teeth, and we'll starve to death." The young man snorted coldly: "I want to eat anyway, eat enough and then run away!" I don't want to stay here and die! ”

As he spoke, he began to eat the rice balls in his hand with a big feast, and swallowed them into his stomach in three or five bites, even the rice grains on his fingers.

Then his stomach began to growl.

"Strange ......" the young man muttered, he still felt very hungry, and then took out the second and third......

Under the watchful eye of his companions, he ate up an entire paper bag of food in less than a few minutes.

It's just that there is more hunger in his eyes and more appetite.

The companion asked worriedly, "How are you?" ”

"I ......," the young man muttered, "I'm so hungry." ”

He suddenly sniffed the air vigorously, opened his mouth, and saliva flowed from between his lips and teeth: "It's so fragrant, it's so fragrant......"

"What's so good?" The companion asked strangely.

"It's all fragrant, it's all fragrant, especially you." The young man suddenly approached and grabbed his companion's wrist, his eyes glowing red.

"Brother, you're so fragrant!"

As he spoke, he couldn't help but taste the taste of his brother if he added thirteen spices.

The companion had already sensed that something was wrong, but he couldn't break free from the other's arm at all.

The red-eyed youth opened his teeth and bit at each other.

A terrible cry rang out.

Woke up everyone in the warehouse.

Everyone saw the young man biting on the other's arm, and the blood flowed incessantly, especially the young man who was swallowing the blood in a big gulp, his eyes full of greed, and his expression was satisfied.

"What's wrong?"

"What's going on with him?"

"Rabies flare-up?"

At this time, only the sound of hurried footsteps could be heard.

A sword light fell, and the biting young man's head fell directly to the ground.

The moment the head fell, the body ignited with cyan fire.

Nan Shiori put away the knife and said with an ugly face: "Did he go out to find food by himself?" ”

The companion who was holding his wrist nodded weakly: "He, he went by himself, I, I didn't eat!" ”

"You should all have heard that once you eat the Yellow Springs supper food, you will completely become a person of the Yellow Springs...... That is, a living corpse that has lost its rationality. ”

Nan Shiori opened her mouth to warn: "This place is shrouded in yellow spring mist, most of the food has not spoiled, but it has also been contaminated, only the well-packaged food can still be eaten!" I've already said it, but there are still people who don't believe it! ”

She pointed to the burning bones: "This is the result!" ”

The case that happens in front of you is more deterrent.

Quietly, many people threw away the unexpired food that they had secretly hidden.

Nan Shiori put the knife into the sheath, her expression looked much more tired, and she dropped a paper bag.

"Here's what I collected today...... Divide it yourself, you shouldn't be able to find it at all. ”

She was gradually running out of energy to take care of the group.

Especially when there is no news from my sister's side, it is even more anxious.

……

At the same time, deep in the Yellow Springs area.

It's a silent place of death.

The icy mist of Yellow Springs covered every inch of land.

Frost-covered demons wander and walk.

Buried deep in the mountains and forests.

Cortilia had a dream, a dream that wasn't very good.

Her eyelashes trembled slightly, and then she heard a flat voice.

"Awake?"

(End of chapter)