Chapter 67: The Remnant City
"How are these children?" Bai Ya said, his gaze on the group of children huddled beside Zhao Wan. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
There were seven of these ragged children, five girls and two boys, the youngest was no more than five or six years old, and the oldest was only ten years old. These children all have the same characteristics, with delicate skin and a cute little face with baby fat.
It's just that now the face is black, with traces washed out by tears, and those timid eyes make people feel distressed, and even Bai Ya's heart is inexplicably soft.
The man-wolf did not kill these children on the spot, not because they were cute, but because they were the best ingredients......
If Bai Ya and Zhao Wan hadn't seen the man-wolf camp, and then thought of the final fate of these children, he couldn't help but shiver.
"Sure enough, defending the cubs is the innate instinct of all living beings...... Shouldn't I be glad I'm not so cold-blooded!" Bai Ya shook his head with a wry smile.
"Except for excessive fear, there is nothing wrong with their bodies, those human wolves seem to feed them some bitter fruits every day!" Zhao Wan said suspiciously, "They said that eating those fruits, in addition to excreting a little too much, they can also fill their stomachs." ā
"Isn't it strange why the human wolf gave them food?" Bai Ya's face was a little ugly, but he still couldn't help but explain angrily, "Those beasts are not kind, this is to clean the intestines of children, just like we clean the intestines of pigs. ā
After Zhao Wan listened, her pretty face became gloomy.
In the past, she only regarded the battle between different races as a bedtime story, and liked the heroes and geniuses who emerged from the battle between man and beast, and wandered through the experiences of knights and revered their adventures and love legends.
It wasn't until she experienced all this herself that Zhao Wan discovered the cruelty and gore hidden behind these stories.
"Do you regret leaving your parents and slipping out of Chaoge?" Bai Ya asked meaningfully as she looked at the flickering look on her face.
"If this palace regrets it, it's just that it comes out too late!" Zhao Wan glared at him angrily, straightened her chest, and replied heroically, "My daughter Yan Zhao is not a rouge fan in Jiangnan, but she is not afraid of bloody killings. ā
"Haha, okay, it's not in vain that I got acquainted with you. Bai Ya chuckled, "It's a pity ......"
"What is a pity?" Zhao Wanqiao's face was blank.
"Nothing!" White Cliff couldn't help laughing.
It's a pity that Zhao Wan is a woman, with her character, Bai Ya feels that it will be very painful for the two to be husband and wife, and if they are dead friends, they can't play openly, after all, men and women are different.
"Let's go, before those human wolves catch up, let's go to the town ahead. ā
"There are only four of them left, do they dare to catch up?" Zhao Wanliu raised her eyebrows and asked in surprise.
"It's hard to say, these wolves have an extremely sensitive sense of smell, and even if they don't meet us, they will hang us from a distance, and then send people to find reinforcements. Bai Ya said distressedly, "Although this is just someone's speculation, it should be eight or nine or ten." ā
"With these kids around...... Can't you find a place to ambush them?" Zhao Wan asked curiously, with a roll of her eyes.
"The phantom miasma of the Dao Infant Peach Doll has a certain range, and the human wolf will never be fooled again if he suffers a loss. Bai Ya shook his head and said cautiously, "And without the cover of the Dao Infant Peach Puppet, how can our ambush be able to hide from the nose of the human wolf." ā
His sneak attack on the man-wolf camp just now reminded Bai Ya of a silent assassination technique hidden in the thick fog. Although that kind of assassination technique was only the content of fantasy, it was indeed similar to his previous sneak attack.
It's a pity that this kind of assassination is too restrictive to the scope of the environment, and the human wolf will not give Baiya another chance.
"Adapt to the situation, if the town ahead is not attacked by the beast tide, these wolves will have nothing to do with us. Bai Ya said calmly.
The two stopped talking nonsense, and each carried the youngest child on their backs and ran forward.
Fortunately, these children have experienced a great disaster, and they have matured a lot psychologically, gritting their teeth and enduring exhaustion along the way, and none of them are noisy. Luckily, it's not far from town, and after a few miles you can see the walls.
It's just that under this look, Bai Ya and Zhao Wan's hearts sank straight down.
The three-zhang high walls were now full of crumbling gaps, and the outskirts of the city were littered with corpses, broken knives, guns, and arrows. These corpses are both human soldiers and all kinds of ferocious beasts, but there are no corpses of demon beasts.
All of the corpses showed signs of being eaten, and some were almost eaten to the point of being reduced to a bloody skeleton.
"Vomit~" Zhao Wan leaned over and vomited, Bai Ya rolled in her abdomen, although she didn't vomit, she also subconsciously looked away, and no longer deliberately looked at the cruel scene in front of her.
It's just that when he saw the children behind him, his expression couldn't help but move, because these children were unmoved by the blood on the battlefield, revealing a trace of indifference.
Bai Ya remembered what happened to them before, and couldn't help but sigh, these days when they were caught by human wolves, I was afraid that they had already seen more cruel acts.
"Stay here, go to the city and investigate. ā
Bai Ya looked at the wisps of black smoke slowly rising in the city, and his expression was a little solemn.
They had seen these pillars of smoke in the distance before, because the smoke was not too strong, and they thought it was cooking smoke, but they didn't expect it to be the case.
"You go and come back quickly. Zhao Wan's face was a little pale, and she vomited weakly.
......
White Cliff quickly approached the city wall and entered the city through a collapsed gap.
Compared to the chaos and bloodshed of the battlefield outside the city, the city is even more in shambles, and the streets are full of mutilated human and animal corpses and household debris.
Bai Ya closed his eyes and took a long breath, the tragic situation in the city was condensed into a picture deeply engraved into his mind, and he felt that he would probably never be able to forget this scene again for the rest of his life.
He could see a lot from this tragic picture.
The snuggling and hugging of each other on this street, as well as the stumps that are fought and bitten together, show the greatness and selfishness of human nature.
The combination of two very different extremes has become the most primitive ecology, this is no longer a town of the Terrans, but a hunting ground, and blood and fire are the real themes.
White Cliff's nails were deeply embedded in the flesh of the palm, and blood dripped down the palm lines. Looking at the scene in front of him, he couldn't help but be aroused by the most violent emotions in his heart.
The hideous and distorted faces made him feel the pain, anger and fear of the deceased before death very clearly, and he unconsciously substituted himself into it.
A sad sentimentality of a rabbit and a dead fox mixed with another inexplicable emotion surged into my heart.
"Things hurt like that......" Bai Ya spread out his hands and looked at a pair of palms that were trembling slightly subconsciously.
Suddenly, he remembered how similar the scene in his previous life was when he went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, and the slaughtered pork, chickens and ducks were piled up on the cutting board.
"Grope~" Bai Ya's face changed, and he couldn't hold back the churning in his stomach anymore, so he just held on to the wall bricks and vomited wildly.
After a while, his face slowly improved, and his originally cranky mind finally calmed down.
When Bai Ya actually walked into the street behind the city wall, there was no more turmoil in his heart, but he fell into a completely calm state of mind, as if his spirit was separated from his body, and he was completely free from physical discomfort.
This city is actually a satellite town of Chaoge, and it does not cover a large area.
White Cliff sneaked down the streets towards the center of town, and there were scattered beasts along the way, but they were not many and did not pose a threat to him.
I don't know if it's a psychological effect, he always feels that these beasts that have eaten human flesh and blood are a little different from ordinary beasts, even if they see him from a distance, they are staring at him with a green and faint penetrating gaze.
When he walked a little farther, they lowered their heads and continued to gnaw on the corpse, making Bai Ya feel uncomfortable.
He soon found himself in the center of the town, where the corpses of men and beasts were almost piled up into a hill, filling the town's squares. It seems that the remaining survivors and soldiers of the town have fled here, fought the swarming beasts for the last time, and then died here.
Bai Ya looked at this corpse mountain in a slight daze, as he expected, although there were still scattered beasts here, the main force of the beast herd had been away for at least a day, otherwise he would have fled for his life.
This place is filled with the smell of corpses and blood, and it is indeed a good hiding place, at least the noses of those human wolves are going to fail, and it is difficult to find their whereabouts with their sense of smell.
As soon as he thought of this, Bai Ya put aside his distracting thoughts and immediately returned to the hiding place of Zhao Wan and the others.
"Well, are there any living people in the city?"
"There's no one alive anymore, it's ...... inside Bloody!"
Bai Ya didn't know how to describe the tragic scene to her, so she had to divert the topic in a few sentences, anyway, when Zhao Wan went in, she would see it.
"You take these children to find a secret cellar in a dwelling and hide them, and so-and-so go and lure the stalking wolf away, and wait for ......," he said, considering his plan.
"No, this time it's time to change the main palace to lure away the pursuers. Zhao Wan shook her head resolutely, "Don't forget, although this palace is not good at martial arts, the speed of the body is not much worse than yours." What's more, you have not recovered from your serious injuries, and you can't hold on any longer. ā
"You?" Bai Ya pouted.
"Hmm!" Zhao Wan raised her eyebrows and said with some sentimentality, "Don't worry, even if this palace dies this time, it will definitely not trigger the national war again, and my father and queen mother are only afraid that I will die in the beast tide!"
"And ...... After all, Panlong is still following the palace, so it should be fine. ā
"That's not what I mean...... Bai Ya frowned and smiled bitterly, "Those human wolves have been following us for a long time, they should have known that XX is the culprit, even if you are used as bait, I am afraid that I will not be able to seduce them." ā
"That'...... Anyway, I won't let you take the risk alone, if you want to be a bait, you will come by the palace himself, or everyone will stay together. Zhao Wan pursed her lips and said, "Didn't you say that the smell in the city is very strong, and it is impossible for those human wolves to find out our traces?