Nian An clasped the crook of the leg on his arm, felt the warmth on his back, and took a step forward firmly.

The flying ants roared past the two of them, and he even felt countless flying ants flapping their wings a few steps in front of him.

Then he closed his eyes, slammed the iron sword on the ground, buried his head, and took Qiuqiu's hands around his neck, quietly waiting for something to come.

......

......

"Buzz"

"Buzz"

A roar passed by, and they could clearly feel the wind blowing on their faces, and their hearts couldn't help but tighten again and again, but every time those flying ants still didn't hit each other in the end.

They squeezed each other's hands and waited for a while, but they could still feel each other's breathing.

Then they opened their eyes at the same time and looked around.

They were surrounded by layers of fluorescent flying ants that gathered together like clouds.

They were right in the middle of the ant tide.

Looking up, those flying ants are densely packed in the sky, dragging out long tails of light behind them in high-speed flight, which makes people frightened, and also makes people feel as if they are facing the vast ocean.

Nian An and Qiuqiu felt that the small world around them was like the last isolated island in the wind that was about to be submerged by the waves.

So the two of them were silent, did not dare to move a step, and just stood quietly in the courtyard, waiting for the tide of flying ants to tear everything around them, and then roared away.

......

After about a quarter of an hour, the heavens and the earth finally quieted down a little, and the ant tide flew deeper into Qubai City.

She hugged the hand crossed in front of him tighter.

He carried her behind his back, whimpering and sobbing, but the smile on his face grew stronger.

......

A tall giant man covered in green blood and with two heavy axes hanging from his back stood up against the stone wall crisscrossed on both sides in a ruin opposite Nian An's house.

He stared strangely at the smirking boy standing in the middle of the empty ruins and the girl on his back.

The sound of stones being moved sounded again, and seventeen or eighteen soldiers in green armor and a scholar in dirty green robes crawled out from behind the giant.

Nian An'an thought that these people should all be soldiers of the Northwest Xiuzi Battalion who entered the city this time.

"Buzz...... Airplanes...... Airplanes. ”

Two or three lone flying ants crashed into the people in the courtyard from the east. The giant didn't turn his head, but picked up the battering axe in his right hand and spread it out, and the two or three flying ants shattered along the axe's face.

"Are you alright?" said the green-robed, scholar-looking man.

He waved his hand as he pulled a soldier beside him up from a small hole in the bottom of the rubble.

So the soldiers sat down in unison at the sound of his command, and tended to each other's wounds.

Nian An was stunned, who is this scholar?

He looked more closely, and his gaze naturally noticed the scholar's hands, which had been turned into two dead woods, hidden in the cuffs. Sniffing carefully, the boy could even smell a faint fragrance from the two wooden hands.

"This is camphor wood, I didn't expect that fluorescent flying ants to be afraid of this like ordinary mosquitoes. The scholar said as he tore off a sleeve and wrapped it around three dark purple blood holes in front of his chest.

Nian An took a few more steps forward, put down his sword, and carried the girl on his back so clumsily that he bowed to the scholar.

The boy grinned, "It's okay." ”

The girl turned pale and grinned, "It's okay." ”

The scholar-like man lifted his hand, bit open the sleeve of his shirt with his teeth, pulled out two strips of cloth, latched them in his mouth, and skillfully tied the placket of his shirt around the wound.

"I am Li Jingyu, the commander of the Northwest Muxiang Regiment and the Xiuzi Battalion. There was a bit of despondency in his voice.

The boy hurriedly took the girl and saluted again.

"Young Nian'an. ”

"Girl Wang Qiuqiu. ”

Li Jingyu saw the solemn appearance of these two people, and almost spit out a smile in his mouth.

......

He looked at the young man who claimed to be Nian'an and Qiuqiu, who was tightly wrapped in a coat on his back, and said, "Nian'an, are you willing to go with us, this city is about to be attacked by monsters." ”

Of course, going out can still be dead. ”

"General!" Du Rui shook his head at Li Jingyu, his face a little worried.

Li Jingyu turned sideways and bumped the shoulder of the captain of the pro-soldiers: "I, we, yes, big, Xia, army, people." Although his voice was very low, he bit every word very hard.

Then he turned his head and looked carefully into the boy's eyes.

Nian An also looked at him, and there was no wave in his eyes.

"Good boy. Li Jingyu reached out and pounded Nian'an's chest.

......

The moment he withdrew from the city wall, Li Jingyu was blaming himself.

What if I could have led people to break through earlier? If I could have discovered the mutation in the wilderness earlier? If so......

If there is no if, Qu Bai in front of him has almost turned into a ruined city!

The eldest brother always told himself that the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility.

I failed to investigate the anomalies here, nor did I protect this moving border city. So next, even if it is a certain death, he wants to take the people of Qubai City to break through and try it together.

For some reason, after the initial panic and distraction, he now has a faint but unyielding will in his heart.

They are the elite Xiuzi battalion in the Northwest Muxiang Army.

The ruins of this city should not be their destination, and even if they fall, they will fall on the way to the charge.

......

There is no endless road.

After about two quarters of an hour, the monsters outside the city were silent and no longer screaming.

When the flying ant colony flew to a dirt slope called Qingyang Mountain in the south of the city, it gradually settled down.

The ant tide slowly dispersed, and the flying ants fluttered and quietly fell to all parts of the city.

They seem quiet and peaceful at the moment, and it is impossible to imagine the restlessness and frenzy of their recent past.

Li Jingyu bumped into the guts and picked up one on the ground and observed it in his palm. These flying ants don't look much different from normal ants on the surface. However, if you touch them lightly, you can feel the unusual coldness on the surface of their bodies. Of course, their shiri tails are also very distinctive, they are transparent, and contain a kind of fluorescent powder inside.

Li Jingyu touched his fingers, and the flying ant was so comfortable that he took the initiative to his tail and rub it on his fingers.

Everyone couldn't help but sigh, what was the angry sound from the ground? It could not only drive the monsters outside the city, but also make this gentle and calm flying ant go crazy.

"Chen Chong, you take people back to the city wall to gather the brothers who may survive, and I will go to the city to search for the people who are willing to go with us. ”

......

After a few more repairs, they split up and walked in two directions on North Street.

Since the sun receded, the Northwest Wasteland has been bitterly cold. Li Jingyu found a wooden stick, dipped it in oil, and tried to light it.

The flying ants used to go berserk at the sight of fire. The crowd was delighted to find that although they still gathered towards the torches, they seemed very calm, did not hurt anyone, but only flew quietly around the torches.

As more fluorescent flying ants gathered, everyone walked in the darkness as if they had a band of light with them.

Walking all the way from the north street, there are ruins everywhere, and there are countless dead bodies scattered on the ground and bloodstained clothes and shoes scattered around.

Of course, there are still people who have climbed up from the rubble. Some of them wept as they hugged the little relics left behind by their loved ones. Some, after losing their minds, limped towards the light and joined Li Jingyu's team.

The team, which was originally only seven or eight people, was finished on North Street, and it was actually forty or fifty people.

When Li Jingyu led the way in front, he would also point to the corpses of several monsters that occasionally appeared on the ground and tell them that the city was actually surrounded by such snake-like monsters.

If you want to leave, you can follow him to break through tomorrow. If you don't want to go, you can also stay in the city and wait.

After hearing this, the vast majority of people still chose to follow him silently.

Although the city was confined, every family stayed in their houses and survived for a few days with the food distributed by the government. However, most people in the city had already guessed the dilemma that Qu Baicheng was facing, relying on more or less anecdotal news and daily fighting and drumming. Although the big guys have been living in fear for the past two days, no one expected that this day would come so quickly.

Isn't there still a tall curved white city wall?

Quite a few of them are there those city defense troops and the Northwest Army that look majestic?

Isn't there still Changdu County, which has been guarding here for many years?

The answer to them was the chasm of the abyss, which passed through the city in front of them, about ten feet wide. This deep ditch came out of the ground, like the magic of nature, which made people believe in the rumor even more.

After making a deal with the evil ghosts of hell, the traitor Yan Wendao was going to bring his troops back to slaughter.

......

Li Jingyu casually threw a fast stone from the ground into the ditch, but I don't know if it was too vast. After the half-palm-sized stone entered, there was no reply from it.

He poked his head forward a little more, wanting to take a closer look.

There was a sudden commotion of human voices on the other side of the chasm, but it was thirty or forty people who helped an old man to look over from the opposite side, just looking at the people led by Li Jingyu.

There was a cheer from the crowd.

"It's Changdu County! It's Changdu County!"

Li Jingyu was in a trance, he remembered that when he was on the city wall, he saw with his own eyes that Changdu County and the entire city defense army on the entire wall in front of him all fell into the chasm in the smoke and dust.

Next, he waited for the ant colony to float over his head, and searched for it with his surviving soldiers, but he couldn't see Changdu County by the ditch.

At this time, Dujun should have been thrown into the other side of the chasm.

His heavy earthy armor was now mottled with sword marks and dirt, and on his chest hung a huge bullet hole and a bloody wound that seemed to have been torn by his teeth. He still held the steel knife firmly in his left arm, but the empty cuffs of his right arm were stained dark red with blood. Looking like that, the whole arm should have been smashed off by some heavy object.

"General Li, are you okay?" Chang Dujun's voice sounded low, but it was still full of energy.