To the north and west of Baidu is a continuous mountain range, which is also the main direction of migration of the people of Baidu.

Since the day of the grain release, countless people have dragged their families to the mountains for refuge, and a winding path made of people extends from the white capital to the endless deep mountains.

Perhaps a heavy snowfall can indeed bring a good harvest for the coming year, but only if the farmer can survive the winter.

The refuge food distributed by the Bai clan to the people is nothing more than a drop in the bucket for the huge migrant population.

Under the previous conscription order, most of the young and strong people had already rushed to the battlefield, and then more than 20,000 people spilled their blood on the battlefield.

There are very few young and strong men in this migratory team. The better ones had peasant women who could support a family, and they were the main force of this migration, bringing the old and the children with them, carrying the wounds of war and the thirst for life to go to unknown places.

But there are also many families, just the wife and son are on the road, or Yu Yu walks alone on crutches.

Because of Bai Boxian's order, this team, which was all old and weak, was not escorted by the army. In order to prevent the sergeants from resentment, Bai Boxian could stay in Baidu if anyone joined the army at home, and did not have to go to the mountains to avoid the war.

Baidu can accommodate the families of the sergeants and pawns of the army in a short time, and the remaining thousands of people are not all people from the vicinity of Baidu.

So much so that although Bai Boxian's order was a little cruel, there was no sign of mutiny in the army.

Although Ah Ning is dissatisfied, the help she can give to these people is limited. He could only let Shen Wushu take the five hundred ghost army to take the lead and open the way for the migrants at the forefront.

But even so, it was too much for 500 people to take care of a team of 20,000 or 30,000 people.

So far, Shen Wushu has cleaned up two thieves' dens with his soldiers. Needless to say, the bandits were escorted to Baidu as military slaves.

And the food in the thief's den was also distributed by Shen Wushu to some of the people, but for the migratory team that could not see the edge behind him, this food was nothing.

In addition to the relief food of the Bai family, these refugees naturally brought all the food they could bring with their families, and their families were tied to it.

The bandits and the cold winter have hit this team far less hard than hunger, and who can carry a winter's food on their backs?

After five or six days of traveling, what Shen Wudi feared finally happened, and the people began to compete with each other for food and warm clothing.

If it is a bandit, Shen Wushu will naturally not hesitate, he will kill when he should kill, and he will be caught if he can.

But this phenomenon was not once or twice, but a riot born of fear in the hearts of twenty or thirty thousand people.

If it was a group of homeless people who committed the crime, Shen Wushu could solve it with ruthlessness, but Shen Wushu was facing an evil that could no longer be restrained in the hearts of twenty or thirty thousand people.

At some point, corpses began to appear on the side of the road where the displaced people were traveling. At first, it was just an old man who walked alone, and there were not many of them.

Although Shen Wudi didn't want to let this happen, he couldn't stop it.

The team of the displaced people is not as rigorous as the march, although there is Shen Wudi leading the team in front, but the foot strength of the displaced people is different, and Shen Wudi will not be able to see the whole picture after the team has been marching for two days.

The murderers took advantage of the darkness to hide in the mountains on both sides and did not know where to go, and those who were still alive remained vigilant after seeing the tragic situation of these corpses.

Although the intention was to let these people hide in the mountains, it was very close to Bai, and it was far from safe.

To put it mildly, if the white capital is lost, Chen Guo will enter the mountains in the form of an army to capture these people and become slaves.

In this with manpower

In the era of agriculture, population was the most important resource. Regardless of the age, regardless of gender, as long as they can move, they can squeeze out the last bit of potential.

Ah Ning didn't want these people or even the descendants of these people to accept such a fate, so he hoped that they would hide as far away as possible.

But after so many things have happened, what the displaced people want to avoid the most is the crowd of people who are on the road together.

Maybe many people still refrain from doing anything crazy, but some desperate people naturally put their ideas on their peers in order to survive.

Some people took the lead, and some people followed suit, and by the fourth day, Shen Wudi felt that these tens of thousands of people had gotten out of control.

Many people were stoned in their sleep, and the homeless people slowly turned into an uncontrollable mob.

Except for a part of the people at the front who followed Shen Wuving's team, the displaced people in the rear had completely dispersed. More people left the ranks to find their own way out.

By the evening of the fifth day, even Shen Wudi was a little tired. The ghost soldiers rested together tiredly, and there were lit bonfires everywhere.

The scene of setting off a few days ago was no longer visible, and at this moment, there were only hundreds of people who were still following Shen Wushu and them, and many more people were left behind.

In fact, it's almost the same when you walk here, the mountains are high and the forests are dense, and there are many places to hide.

And there is no shortage of food in the mountains, as long as these people build villages one by one, it should not be difficult to survive this winter.

But because of the fear and evil thoughts in people's hearts, this tribe of refugees did not do what Ah Ning thought after all.

But everyone has their own way of living, Shen Wushu has already cut out their way of life, and his mission is over.

In the midst of the snowstorm, a group of cavalry came from the rear of the ranks. There were not many of them, about fifty horsemen.

There are no formed cavalry in the White Country, because the national strength of the White Country cannot support so many war horses, and most of the cavalry in the White Country act as scouts.

These fifty horsemen were allocated to Shen Wushu by Ah Ning, the purpose was to allow him to have some control over the entire team of displaced people.

These cavalrymen are Shen Wu's eyes and ears, and they have brought back all kinds of information about the ranks of the displaced people in the past few days.

The neighing of the war horse soon approached, and after approaching Shen Wuyi's camp, several people came over carrying something from their horses.

It was a corpse.

The soldiers of the ghost army surrounded them, and the appearance of this corpse was clearly presented in front of them and Shen Wushu under the firelight.

The corpse was withered, and although it was an adult man, it was as light as dead wood.

Although many homeless people have died in the past few days, this is the first time they have seen such a death.

The corpse was unrecognizable, with crumpled skin covered in bones. It looks like a person who has died of old age, and he is still the kind of old man who is extremely old.

But he didn't die of old age, and even if he died of old age, the corpse wouldn't be so light, at least not for a few days.

There was only a single skin left on the corpse, and there was not even a drop of flesh under the skin.

The body was not found by the cavalry, but on the way back by a weeping woman. The man was the woman's husband, and he was in the prime of his thirties.

Although most of the men went to the battlefield under the conscription order, some remained, but very few.

The cavalrymen could not see the cause of the man's death, so they brought back the body. The woman was still on the way to escape, and there was nothing she could do if she didn't want to.

"General, in me

When they came back, the homeless people who knew about it were spreading that there were demons in this mountain. ”

The remark caused a commotion in the crowd, but quickly subsided.

"Is there a demon?" Shen Wushu looked at the corpse in front of him with a torch, and the painful expression on the corpse's face was clearly visible.

"The subordinates don't know whether it's true or not, it's just that this person's death is really strange, otherwise we wouldn't have brought the body back, and we asked the general to decide. ”

The soldiers who didn't take the dead at all into the eyes of the ghost army, and there were more corpses that died miserably on the battlefield.

But once it is connected with demons and evils, not only ordinary people, but even those of them who lick blood from their knife edges are also cold in their hearts.

"What an eventful time. Shen Wudi sighed, no matter what the truth was, this person was indeed not a normal death.

Shen Wushu turned this corpse over, and it was indeed as light as a cavalry centurion.

The blade of the sword slashed, and Shen Wushu cut off the arm bone of the corpse, and then took the severed arm in his hand.

There was indeed only a layer of dry skin on the severed arm, and there was not a trace of flesh and blood. And under the light of the fire, the marrow of this severed arm was empty.

The flesh and bone marrow are all gone, and the whole person is only left with a stinky skin, and there seems to be more evidence of death from the demon disaster.

"Let someone dig a pit and bury it. Shen Wushu threw down the broken arm, and there was only so much information left on the corpse.

"General, what shall we do next?" asked the cavalry centurion.

"As soon as dawn comes, we will go back to Baidu. Also, the rumors about the demon are not allowed to be mentioned anymore. ”

"Yes. ”

Shen Wushu had never seen a demon, but he knew that there were demons in this world. Because the demon bats that Zuo Jun encountered a few days ago are evidence, and many people who know about them can't hide it at all.

It's no wonder that even these battle-hardened soldiers are afraid, and if they haven't seen it, naturally some bold people won't be afraid of such a thing.

However, these people know that there are demons in the world. If the rumors are allowed to spread endlessly, it will only cause more panic.

It would be easier to spread it only among the homeless, but if it spread to Baidu, it would be unimaginable.

Demons are rampant, and it is a sign of the destruction of the country! The white country is already in the midst of war, and such rumors will only reduce the combat effectiveness of the army.

Fortunately, there are only fifty cavalry and dozens of foot soldiers who are known now, as long as Shen Wushu handles it properly, it will not cause a commotion in the army.

Shen Wushu looked at the dark mountain, maybe there was really a demon, and now he was carnivaling wantonly in the mountain.

There are many demons in troubled times, and the more chaotic the world, the richer this feast belonging to demons will be.

A figure in a black cloak slowly walked down the mountain road, and the back was a young woman.

The displaced people have completely dispersed into the mountains, huddling together in families or clans to keep warm.

For strangers, they have been classified as threats by this small group.

It's rare for a woman to walk alone like this, and although most of them can still keep their sanity, there are also some people who specialize in picking on people who are lonely.

Anyway, order no longer exists here, and only those who do not break their hands and survive can survive this winter and this war.

The woman quickly disappeared into the mountains, and it was hard to imagine that she had such courage and guts. There are not only man-eating beasts in the mountains, but also the hungry humans themselves.

However, it is still a little uncertain who is the prey, the woman raised her head, although her face was covered by a light veil, but the red line in the center of her eyebrows was particularly eye-catching.