Outside the west city gate of Huyang, hundreds of people crowded in front of the city gate, and it was black.

There were more than 5,000 civilians, blocked by the soldiers defending the city, and at a glance, only the heads of the city were left in front of the city.

"Where did you come from, and where are you going!!" shouted Pei Dong, who was guarding the city wall, but his voice was quickly drowned out by the voices of the people below.

"I beg the general to let us in, something big is going to happen to the north! If we go back, we will have only one way to die!" said an elderly village chief, kneeling down to the city gate, and pleaded.

"I beg the adults to allow us to enter the city, my child has a very severe cold and needs to be treated by a doctor urgently...... many villagers knelt down.

Most of these people migrated lightly, carrying not many rations, and the cold at night in the north made many of them catch the wind chill on the way and urgently need to go to the city for medical treatment.

The old man fell ill, the children wept, and the heavens and the earth were silent, and now to ask them to go back the way they came, it is undoubtedly to force them to go to a dead end.

"General Pei, what should I do now? A lieutenant general said.

"This ...... Alas!" Pei Dong looked at the miserable people under the city gate, and couldn't help but feel compassion, and fell into a dilemma for a while.

But before He Yi's consent, he didn't dare to put such a large number of people into the city under any circumstances, so he could only pretend to close his eyes.

"My lord, my old father has fainted, and I hope that my lord will be merciful and let me go into the city to treat my father!" shouted a middle-aged man, his father was over the age of six, and he really couldn't stand the toss.

"General, my child has a high fever and is in urgent need of medical treatment, please have mercy on us..."

"Please let us in!"

“......”

Bitterly begging to no avail, I don't know who started it, the villagers cried and shouted, crowded to the city gate, desperately pushing.

Helplessness, helplessness, panic, despair.

Looking at the pair of eyes under the city, although Pei Dong felt uncomfortable, he was helpless.

......

The people who gather to migrate have another name, which is called "wanderers".

If the number is not large, it is okay, and you can go directly to the city to register.

However, if there are too many of them, direct reception will bring a lot of pressure to the city, causing population congestion and unnecessary disputes.

Therefore, ordinary towns will not easily let a large number of displaced people into the city.

Moreover, among the people outside, many of them are suffering from cold disease, which is very easily contagious, if it is a large-scale outbreak in the city, if it is not controlled, it will form a plague that everyone fears, once it spreads, the entire Huyang City will immediately become a dead city.

No one can afford to do that.

"Wen Jian, what's the situation?" At this time, He Yi flew in and came, and before he approached the city gate, he could hear the noisy crying sound outside.

"Young General, you are here!" Pei Dong looked at the city wall, and saw He Yi, Gongliangju and others galloping over, and hurriedly greeted him.

He Yi turned over and dismounted, handed the reins to Jia Shao, and hurriedly asked, "Why are there so many displaced people all of a sudden?"

Pei Dong looked left and right, and whispered in He Yi's ear: "I don't know if it's credible, it's said to ...... It's because of the monsters!"

"Monster ...... Sure enough!" After being verified, He Yi suddenly "chuckled" in his heart.

But where did this monster come from?

Could it be...... Did the demon beasts in the Northern Wilderness Snow Plains run out?

The more he thought about it, the more He Yi felt that it was indeed possible.

When the snow beast is dead, the stinging beast will come out.

In addition, the immortal men and families who came to Huyang to settle down during this time

Frequent entry and exit of the Northern Wilderness Snow Field, if it inadvertently attracts the demon beasts inside, it is not impossible.

The expression on He Yi's face became more and more serious, if a few demon beasts really ran out, it would really hurt the people of the Northland.

......

Outside the city, there was a sad place, cries and pleadings were endless, the weather was cold, and it was not a way to drag it like this.

To release or to expel them?

Everyone was waiting for He Yi's order.

"Xiao Shao, you go and gather the doctors of the whole city to come over, and then take out half of the silver taels in the Taishou Mansion and buy them as medicinal materials for treating cold diseases. ”

"Wen Jian, you take two teams of people, one team goes to the outside of the city to set up temporary tents, and the other team goes to take the other half of the silver taels left in the house, buy all the rice grain, set up a stove outside the city to cook rice, and distribute it to the people outside the city. ”

"Yunyi, you take a doctor, check at the gate of the city, if you are sick, you will be placed outside the city for treatment first, as for the ...... who are not sick" He Yi frowned, pondered and meditated, and didn't know how to place it.

There are more than 10,000 people outside, and the total population in Huyang City is only 50,000 or 60,000.

"Let's pick out some of them first!" He Yi sighed and said helplessly. Immediately issued another order with Pei Dong: "We can give out money, food, and medicinal materials." But these people must be kept in order, and if anyone dares to fish in troubled waters and take advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble, no matter who they are, they will be killed!"

"The last general understands!" Pei Dong's eyes flashed.

If someone adds fuel to the fire, it will only add to the chaos, so the hidden danger must be strangled in the cradle.

If necessary, you can even kill chickens and monkeys.

After arranging all the miscellaneous things, the city gate was opened, and He Yi personally led a team of soldiers to set up temporary tents outside the city.

Everything is going on in an orderly manner.

Seeing that Huyang was willing to accept them, these people also breathed a sigh of relief, and formed a long queue outside the city gate to be inspected one by one.

"Uncle, where are you from?" Taking advantage of the pause to rest, He Yi dusted off his body, walked to a freshly built grass hut, and asked an old man.

The old man's face was wrinkled and weather-beaten, and he held a bowl of hot white porridge in his hand, and his eyes were full of sadness and loneliness.

At such an age, I should enjoy my family quietly, but I don't want to suffer from this uprooting.

"My lord, the villain is from Baihu Village. The old man stood up tremblingly and bowed to He Yi.

He Yi hurriedly helped the old man up, looked at a young man next to him, and asked, "Little brother, what about you?"

The young man smiled honestly and said, "I am from Lijia Village, just east of Baihu Village, not far away. ”

He Yi nodded and asked casually, "What's going on with you there, why did you all come to Huyang all at once?"

When the young man heard this, his body first stiffened, and then he said in horror: "Ghost, there is a terrible ghost in the village......

"Devil?" This time, it was He Yi's turn to be stunned.

Judging from the previous behavior of the Zhong family, He Yi also speculated that there might be some evil sneakiness in these villages, but after some inquiry, he didn't feel like it was haunted.

Because Zhong Zhuo once told him that sneaky things usually do not appear on the surface, but are used to hiding in the dark, or possessing people, quietly ingesting souls to nourish themselves. But right now, outside this city gate, there are already more than 20 villages that he can name, and the real number will only be higher, otherwise it would not have formed such a large scale.

So many villages began to flee, this was obviously something extremely terrible happened, and the only thing He Yi could imagine was that the alien beast attacked the village.

But now it seems that he guessed wrong.

"Even if a village is haunted...... As for the collective migration of so many villages?" He Yi couldn't help but ask.

"Your Excellency, you don't know. This ghost is different from ordinary ghosts, and can turn living people into zombies. The old man sighed and said, "It must be because someone moved the statue in the Tumu Temple and angered the Tumu, so those monsters will punish us." ”

"Zombies, old men, don't worry, what's going on, you can be clear. ”

"That's ......"

With the old man's narration, He Yi gradually understood a little bit of the reason.

Outside Lijia Village, there is a "Tumu Temple", and the temple is dedicated to the Tumu God.

Every year just after winter and before spring, dozens of villages near this temple will go to the Tumu Temple to burn incense and pray, hoping for a good harvest this year.

But just half a month ago, when the villagers organized again and went to the Tumu Temple to pray, they found that the statue of the Tumu God in the temple was missing, and it was replaced by an extremely ugly, stone statue like a demon god.

They didn't know the name of the statue, but since it appeared, it has snowed frequently in the surrounding villages, and the temperature has become colder and colder.

So, the villagers named the stone statue "Snow God Statue", and the name of the temple was changed to "Snow God Temple".

It wasn't a big deal.

The Tumu Temple is gone, and then build a new one next to it, and the surrounding villages have also discussed it, and thousands of families have raised funds together, and those who have money have contributed money, and they have made strong contributions, so that each family can not contribute much money, and soon they will have all the money to build the temple.

But just as they were about to rebuild a Tumu Temple, something terrible happened.

The first craftsmen who rushed to repair the new temple disappeared soon after.

Disappeared into thin air, leaving no trace.

"Disappearing into thin air? That's weird. Hearing this, He Yi's brows tightened together.

It seems that it is really not a strange beast in the Northern Wilderness that is attacking the village.

If those big guys come out, they will definitely be devastated and destroyed.

After all, savagery is the nature of beasts, and even if they are swallowed alive, they will always leave some traces such as footprints of hasty escape.

Disappearing into thin air, that would be very strange.

"The weirder ones are yet to come. The honest-looking young man took over the conversation and continued to tell He Yi.

Soon after, the villagers who had been sent out to look for people returned, but they did not know what kind of evil they had suffered, and their eyes were blank, and their expressions were dull, and they could not answer a word for a long time, and they began to sleep when they got into the house, and no matter how they called, there was no sign of waking up.

One of them was the young man's cousin.

The ordinary farmhouse was not large, and this young man usually squeezed into the same bed with his cousin, but after midnight, he suddenly woke up with a feeling of suffocation.

When he opened his eyes, it was his cousin, staring at his eyes as big as copper bells, and pinching his neck desperately.

He tried his best to break free from his cousin's grasp, shouting for help as he ran out.

In a hurry, he couldn't help but glance back, only to see that his cousin was still standing in place, but he reached out and put a quilt on the bed on his shoulder, and walked out slowly.

Afterwards, the young man hid in the corner of the street, and looked out by the faint moonlight, only to see seven or eight dark figures, each carrying a fainted villager on his shoulder, staggering into the distance.

A moment later, the young man's cousin joined them, and the figure faded into the darkness.