Xiao Yao and his entourage took the heavy dart cart to bid farewell to Duan Sanshan and others, and then rushed forward to stop while the sky was still bright. I saw that the sky was gradually darkening, but I finally saw a town that seemed to be a place to rest before it was completely dark.

It's just that at this time, it is already the time to enter the future, not to mention the cooking smoke of cooking in this town, even the light of the fire illuminated by ordinary people can not see a star, and there is no pedestrian on the road outside the town, which really reveals a strangeness. To the east of the town looked like a wasteland, the soil had cracked like a cobweb, from the drought of the month, and strangely scattered with small bulging dirt bags, which were indiscriminately filled with large and small wooden boards.

Among the people, Fang Ziyu, the young dart, was the most curious, and when he saw this situation, he hurriedly urged the horse to go to the cracked barren field to take a look. When I got closer, I saw that every tattered wooden board had a name and date written crookedly, but where was the wooden plank, it was clearly a simple tombstone, and this large cracked wasteland turned out to be a seeping mass grave.

Seeing this, Fang Ziyu's frightened soul flew, and at this time, the sky became even darker, and gloomy phosphorus fires flew around sporadically on the small dirt bag.

Everyone couldn't see clearly from a distance, and at this time, when they heard Fang Ziyu, the head of the young dart, say this, they were also shocked and vigilant.

But it was said that the group was escorting the cart and was about to go to the entrance of the town, and suddenly out of nowhere came a group of hungry wild dogs, spitting out scarlet tongues, minced meat and saliva hanging from the corners of their mouths, and pounced on everyone.

Xiao Yao and all the dart heads took out their blades and committed suicide by killing some mad dogs, and the remaining wild dogs saw that they couldn't please it, so they hurriedly dragged the corpses of the dead dogs and ran away to fight for food.

Fang Ziyu, the head of the young dart, was shocked when he saw this situation, and he also raised two golden retrievers at home, knowing that dogs are usually the most tame, and if they were not a last resort, they would not snatch and eat the corpses of their own kind.

Seeing the strange situation here, the chief dart head Fang Changqi asked the dart car and the driver to stop and wait outside the town, and arranged a few agile dart heads to protect the cart around, and agreed to contact each other with a whistling sound if something happened.

And he himself led his son Fang Ziyu, Xiao Yao, and Li Zhengqing, the king of guns, to go to the town to investigate the situation before making plans.

As soon as a few people entered the town, they saw a mutilated corpse lying on the side of the road, and the corpse had not been eaten by any wild beast, and now only a white skeleton remained, and it was difficult for everyone to distinguish whether the corpse was a man or a woman.

Li Zhengqing, the king of the gun, said hatefully: "It must be the group of brutes we met in front of the town just now, we should have killed these harmful brutes just now." ”

This Li Zhengqing said as if he was going to pick up the big gun and go back to the previous place to kill all the wild dogs to relieve his hatred, but he just raised his foot but was dragged by Fang Changqi, the head of the dart.

Fang Changqi grabbed Li Zhengqing and pointed out to him the situation in this town, only to see that there were some jackals and wild dogs foraging everywhere, these beasts and people like them who practiced martial arts were not taken seriously, but ordinary ordinary people were often violated.

I saw Fang Changqi shaking his head lightly at Li Zhengqing: "Brother Li, these brutes can't be killed for a while, let's find someone to ask what happened in this town is the right way." ”

Several people then dispersed to investigate the situation, Xiao Yao first found a hotel with a sign of 'Jinfu Inn' hanging on the outside, and shouted loudly while knocking on the door: "Hey, shopkeeper, is the shopkeeper there? ”

Not far behind this Jinfu Inn is a valley, the empty valley echoes, only to hear the echo of "Hey ~ Store ~ Store is there...... " The echo floats around, but there is no slightest movement and response to the door in the inn.

At this time, a cold wind blew, and the door of the inn was blown open by the wind, Xiao Yao actually had a trace of chill, seeing that no one answered, he tightened the pear blossom point steel gun in his hand, and approached the store along the open door.

Xiao Yao carefully walked through the lobby and went to the backyard, only to see two thin corpses in the middle of the courtyard of the inn lying on the ground, their heads had been cut off, leaving a large pool of black blood, flies flying around the corpses, and a foul smell came to his face, it seems that these two people should have been dead for a while, and before Xiao Yao approached, several fat rats with blood-red eyes came out from under the corpses and ran away.

Xiao Yao looked around again, and saw that this huge inn was not a human figure, but even a ghost could not be seen, so he had no choice but to retreat first.

At this time, a few people scattered around the town gathered again at the entrance of the town, and each of them briefly told what they had seen along the way, but they saw that a small town was now only left with broken corpses under the wind, and the smell of corpses spread everywhere, and there were many birds and beasts.

Xiao Yao and others were afraid that there would be a plague breeding here, so they didn't dare to stay here for a long time, so a few people went out of the town and called the people who were waiting outside the town, re-attached the cart to the livestock, and rushed to the front overnight.

Seeing that everyone was about to leave, there were hungry wild dogs and jackals who did not give up and stayed far behind the horse convoy, and when the gun king Li Zhengqing's angry hair was erect and the spear was chasing, those brutes had already run away and took Li Zhengqing back on horseback to follow, and in the end, Xiao Yao took a strong bow and arrows and shot a few jackals, and these beasts did not dare to follow again.

The group walked forward for more than ten miles, and the sky was already dark, but they still couldn't see a place to stay or a place to stay, so they had to choose a stone forest to stay overnight.

After forming a simple defense of the cart and the cattle in a circle, the coachmen had to raise a bonfire, and each of them took out his dry food, roasted it on the fire, and ate it with clean water.

After a day of running around and fighting with the people of Black Wind Village, they were all physically and mentally exhausted, and after the head of the dart, Fang Changqi, assigned a few darts who took turns to keep vigil, and the rest of the people found a place to rest.

In the middle of the night, Xiao Yao suddenly heard a slight neighing of horses, and then there was a shouting and scolding of the night guard dart in his ears, and everyone was shocked in their hearts, picked up the blades around them and ran to the place where the sound came.

When they arrived at the place, they saw that the night watchman had caught a teenage boy who looked like a beggar, and one of the boy's hands was still tightly grasping a little girl of seven or eight years old.

The chief dart head suddenly remembered the tragic situation in the previous town, and let the dart master let go of the young man, and asked gently: "Young man, how old are you, what are you doing when you don't run to this wilderness at home so late." ”

The young man pursed his lips tightly and did not glance, but his eyes never left the dry cake that had fallen on the ground beside him.

Fang Changqi looked at the young man's emaciated figure as if he understood something, took out a clean cake from the pack horse bag on the side, walked to the fire and baked it and handed it to the young man, the young man looked at Fang Changqi in disbelief, and suddenly grabbed the dough cake, but he didn't eat it himself, but turned around and handed it to the little girl hiding behind him, the little girl took the dough and swallowed it like a wolf, she didn't care about chewing it as if she was afraid that the dough would fly, Xiao Yao untied the water bladder from his waist, gently touched the little girl's head with his hand and handed the water bladder to the little girl, the young man opened his mouth and smiled at Xiao Yao when he saw this。

Xiao Yao took another piece of cake and baked it and handed it to the young man, but the young man held it in his hand but still refused to eat it, just looked at the little girl who was gobbling it up, Xiao Yao suddenly understood and said: "Little brother, this bread is for you, if that little sister can't eat enough, I still have it here, you can eat it with confidence." ”

The young man put the dough in his mouth and gnawed it desperately, the little girl ate two large pieces of bread, and the beggar-like boy ate five large breads, looking at the two of them as if they wanted to eat again, but the god fist Fang Changqi put the bread away.

Xiao Yao looked at Fang Changqi puzzled, as if he didn't understand why he did this, Fang Changqi smiled bitterly: "Xiao Yao, don't be stingy Uncle Fang and reluctant to give up these few pieces of dry noodle cakes, it's really that these two children have been hungry for too long, and they don't know how hungry they are, if they eat like this, I'm afraid it will kill the two of them." ”

The young man was very disappointed to see that he could no longer eat cakes, and the seven or eight-year-old girl looked at Xiao Yao and the others holding bright knives and guns in their hands as if she was very scared, and pulled the young man's clothes from behind with her little hands, as if urging the young man to leave quickly.

Seeing this, Xiao Yao asked, "Little brother, how could you two children come to such a place so late." ”

The boy hesitated for a moment and finally spoke: "My sister and I have been hiding in this stone forest for many days and starving, I really can't stand it, I just smelled the fragrance of scones, and I thought about stealing a few dry cakes to eat while the uncles were asleep, but I didn't expect to be caught by the previous uncle just when I leaned over." ”

Fang Ziyu said: "Since you want to eat cakes, why don't you tell us directly, but you came to steal it at night." ”

The young man said in a trembling voice: "We don't dare, I'm afraid that the masters will kill us." ”

Fang Ziyuqi said: "We have no grievances with you, how can we kill you for no reason." ”

The young man suddenly trembled, and there was already a crying voice in his voice, "Daddy and those poor uncles are also unjust, those poor uncles came to ask for money, and my father and mother were killed by them before they did, and my sister and I hid under the bed so that we were not killed." ”

The young man suddenly knelt down and cried when he said this: "Uncles, although my sister and I have no money now, I will definitely find a way to get money in the future, please don't kill us." The little girl seemed to be frightened by something, and she cried with her head in her hands.

Xiao Yao and Fang Changqi took a lot of coaxing to stop their crying, and the young man saw that Xiao Yao and the others had no intention of killing them, so he confided in the truth.

It turned out that the brother and sister were the people in the small town that Xiao Yao and others had passed by before, and their father and mother were the shopkeepers and proprietress of the Jinfu Inn.

The father and mother of these two children run this inn, and thanks to the help of the people and others, the family of four survived, but in such a year, there is no silver money saved.

Some time ago, a group of officers and soldiers said that they had found mineral deposits on the mounds outside the town, and they wanted to come to the town to collect mining taxes, not to mention that the mineral deposits were true or false, and even if it was true, most of the people in Shanxi today could not even eat enough to eat, and how could anyone go to open the mountains for mining, and the few remaining families in the town tightened their belts and only scraped together a few dollars of silver.

The hundred households who led the troops saw that only these silver coins were angry from their hearts, and they not only connived at their subordinates to loot the town, but also killed all the remaining families, cut off their heads one by one, made them as bandits, and brought them back to prepare for confiscation and reward.

At that time, the brother and sister were secretly hidden under the big kang by their father and mother to steal their lives.

Although the young man didn't say something very clearly, all the people present were old rivers and lakes, and the places that the young man didn't say, everyone could figure it out for themselves. Everyone hated the hundred households who had lost their conscience and the dog officials in Shanxi.

If these two children in front of them are not lucky to meet Xiao Yao and others, I am afraid that it will not take a few days for the two brothers and sisters to starve to death in this chaotic stone forest, and Fang Changqi, the head of the Sanshan Dart Bureau, has no good way to deal with these two children for a while, so he can only temporarily settle the two of them in the convoy, and only wait for everyone to go to Huanglong Mountain to relieve the darts and return to Kaifeng Mansion to make plans in the future.