The former border town is already a charred and black ruin.

There is no breath of the living, only a silent silence.

There were no corpses on the streets, but the puddles of blood left on the ground were shocking.

Judging by the extent of the dried up of the blood, it was not more than ten days.

Most of the houses that burned after the fire collapsed, with a few exceptions, and a few tenacious carbon black beams and pillars were occasionally supported!

There was a massacre here, all the corpses were burned, and in the dilapidated ruins, charred bones could be faintly seen, some large and some small......

"Damn, even the children didn't let go!" Chen Tuo clenched his fists.

Bang dang!

A cool breeze blew, and a half-missing wooden plaque fell from the skeleton of the door frame, with a mutilated "unitary" character on it.

It used to be a restaurant, but now, there is nothing left.

Chen Tuo remembered that a month ago, the boy was not much older than him, and the boy was very enthusiastic, because he was worried that he would run into bandits, so he persuaded him a lot, so he received a harsh reprimand from the boss......

Chen Tuo walked all over the town, but did not find any live mouths, and even the cats and dogs were slaughtered.

"If I have the chance, I will avenge you!"

Chen Tuo muttered to himself, he didn't expect that he could help these innocent people avoid a disaster, but he didn't expect that fate would play tricks on people like this, and they would still be unable to escape such a fate after all.

Without staying too long in the small town of Biansai, Chen Tuo continued to travel north with the black stone egg on his back.

After that, he walked hundreds of miles, passing through many villages.

Some villages were also looted, some of them were already in ashes, some of them were scattered with a few figures, and when they saw Chen Tuo, a stranger, they seemed to be terrified, and they closed their gates one after another, and some villages were very large, comparable to a large town, and the walls were all built high......

Chen Tuo learned from a passer-by that there were bandits in a radius of hundreds of miles, many small villages were plundered, and some were wiped out, and only some large villages were spared because they formed their own armed forces to resist......

Chen Tuo asked, "Isn't this the boundary of the southern kingdom? There is such a big thing, why don't they care about it?"

The passer-by sighed and said: "Now that the Rong Kingdom has invaded the southern country on a large scale, all the soldiers in the southern country are fighting on the front line, and there are still insufficient soldiers, where are the extra troops to send out to suppress the bandits." ”

At the same time, Chen Tuo also got various news from different passers-by.

Some people say that when bandits happened here, Nanguo did send people to suppress the bandits, but they were all killed by the bandits, and even the leading general was not able to return alive.

Some people say that these bandits are Rong people, who burn, kill and loot in the southern country, in order to disrupt the deployment of southern troops from the inside and make the southern country exhausted.

Some people say that in fact, bandits are rampant here, which is just a microcosm of the difficulties in the south today, and there are not only bandits but also famine in many places. It was precisely because of the famine that many people fled here, and finally gathered and became bandits. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that these bandits were originally doing the work of bandits, and they fled here to do their old jobs.

......

From all kinds of information, it can be known that the current situation in the south is indeed very bad, not only are there Rong people eyeing the outside, but also there are more serious internal troubles, and it has reached an extremely critical situation.

"I don't know how the little sister is now?" Chen Tuo remembered the encounter in the wild forest four years ago and met his first friend, this time he went down the mountain, in addition to looking for the seeds of heaven and earth, he also stopped by to visit the young lady.

......

On the way, Chen Tuo saw many people who had fled, and they were all people who had been wiped out and were homeless or afraid to return home.

There are also many people who cast puzzled glances at Chen Tuo, he is not very old, his appearance is delicate, his skin is fair, he is dressed in animal skin, and he has a temperament that is different from ordinary people. However, these are not the places they pay attention to, and there will be nothing special about these, this may be the identity of a little boy, a little young master, etc., but he is carrying a big black stone, which is really confusing.

However, in this era of chaos and banditry, no one has the leisure time to pay too much attention to these, and after a little curiosity, he left in a hurry.

I don't know if those bandits were lucky, or Chen Tuo was lucky, along the way, he didn't meet any bandits.

However, if he encounters those bandits, Chen Tuo doesn't mind ending them easily.

The sun sets, and the sky is full of red clouds.

On this day, Chen Tuo came to a village.

Since Tianya Peak came down, he has been sleeping in the open air, either living in a broken temple or a broken house, or looking for some big trees to rest. However, when he came here, within a radius of several miles, or even ten miles, he did not see any broken temples and houses, nor did he have any big trees that had taken shape, and even the vegetation was pitiful, so it could be said that he could not "go to the ground".

So Chen Tuo planned to see if he could borrow a night in the village.

Desert Village.

These three characters are engraved on a large stone at the entrance of the village.

Perhaps it's because it's hard to grow grass and it's similar to the desert area, so it's so named.

This village is not small, it is said to be a village, but it is more like a small town.

The village is surrounded by a high wall, taller than it had ever been seen, and it looks very new, but it has only been built in recent years.

Obviously, this is all because of the defensive works built in recent years due to the banditry!

At the entrance of the village, there is a fence made of giant wood, which is two feet high. Next to it, there is also a watchtower with people walking around on it.

Chen Tuo walked down the hillside, and before he could get closer, the people on the watchtower spotted him.

"Who?"

At the same time, noisy footsteps immediately sounded inside, and many people quickly converged towards the entrance of the village.

"My home was destroyed by bandits, and I wanted to go to my relatives from afar, passing by here, and wanted to spend the night in your place!" Chen Tuo said in a somewhat sentimental voice, these were the words he had come up with. Although the words are false, the sentimentality is true.

"We don't let outsiders stay here, so you might as well go somewhere else. The young man on the watchtower said this, rejecting Chen Tuo's request.

At this moment, several people climbed the watchtower, and one of the middle-aged people asked, "Xiaofang, what's going on?"

"Uncle Yong, a young man has come out and wants to spend the night in our village!" replied the young man.

The middle-aged man named Uncle Yong frowned, looked down, and really saw a young man, but this young man was very strange, he was carrying a black stone?

"Uncle Yong, I've already told him to stay somewhere else!" said the young man.

"There are no other villages within a radius of twenty miles, and now that the sun has gone down, and he has no horses for a child, where can he go to stay, I am afraid that before he can go out, he will be eaten by those big wolves. Uncle Yong said.

Hearing Uncle Yong say this, the young man's face changed, and he said: "Uncle Yong, now the bandits are impermanent, and extremely treacherous, if we didn't resist to the death last time, I'm afraid our desert village is gone, and now this young man's whereabouts are unknown, in case it is a spy of the bandits, the consequences are unimaginable!"

"A child, what kind of spy can be, take 10,000 steps back, even if it is a spy, what waves can be stirred, I will arrange a few more people to keep vigil together tonight. Uncle Yong said.

"But ......"

The young man wanted to say more, but was interrupted by Uncle Yong and said, "I'm the village chief, just listen to me!"