"Sophisticated."
"When you were with them just now."
"Have you ever asked them whether they saw those strange corpses in the alley and how they killed them?"
This problem has troubled Jin An for a long time.
The old Taoist priest shook his head.
"I asked, but it was chaos at the time. Everyone was rushing to escape, and no one noticed how those strange corpses that were as motionless as tree root statues killed people."
Jin An pondered.
I stopped asking the old Taoist priest.
Perhaps it was because Jin An had just entered the alley alone and came out unharmed. At this time, Jin An, who was holding a long knife, was considered by these people to be a martial arts master...
Or maybe it's because the old Taoist priest is dressed in Taoist robes, which gives people the image of a master of Taoism and a master of the world...
When this group of people from Chang County who were also on the run saw Jin An and the old Taoist priest continuing on their way, they hesitated for a while, and then they all followed, fearfully following the two men and the sheep.
Long before, when the old Taoist priest stabilized them, these people already knew that Jin An and the old Taoist priest were running out of the city, and they also planned to escape outside the city.
They were all ordinary people living in that alley. Who knew there was a monster hiding in the alley, and that was how the previous scene happened.
And the middle-aged woman who was holding her child and crying bitterly, although she had just experienced the pain of losing her husband and had not yet come out of her grief, she looked at the crying child in her arms and learned to hold back her tears in front of her child. With grief in her heart, she wiped away the tears on her own face, wiped away the tears on her child's face, and gently comforted the child to be strong. This woman who had just experienced the pain of losing her husband firmly held her only relative in her hand. The child, whose back looks much older overnight, follows the procession out of the city.
Women are soft by nature, but mothers are strong.
…
The chaos in Changxian County continues under the night.
Crying and wailing were everywhere, and from time to time, the desperate screams of people before death could be heard. Panic had spread throughout the city, and a thick layer of haze enveloped everyone's mind.
Just like the raging fire that enveloped Chang County, not only did it not go out, but it burned more and more fiercely. It was obviously night, but it was burned as bright as day by the fire.
From far away, you can feel the heat brought by the heat wave, and your lips are chapped.
Chang County is completely finished.
The spread of the fire has been completely unstoppable.
Everywhere, people were dragging their families and luggage out of the city. Some people were leaving the city in bullock carts, some were riding horses, and some squires were dragging more than a dozen women and their family members out of the city.
There are also businessmen who regard wealth as their life and cannot give up the family fortune they have worked hard for most of their lives, so the chambers of commerce form a long carriage procession to leave the city, and those carriages are filled with all the belongings of these businessmen.
These businessmen are most likely to be targeted by some extremely vicious murderers.
But these smart businessmen who knew how to stick together were alert all the way and refused to allow strangers to approach, so that murderers who wanted to take advantage of the situation never found a chance.
So these people began to focus on ordinary people and businessmen who were alone.
Along the way, Jin'an saw many corpses that had been robbed and killed on the roadside. These people all fell in a pool of blood, and their death was horrible.
Some had their skulls smashed with knives and axes, and their brains were shattered all over the place.
Some passers-by who met on the road took advantage of the money and stabbed them in the back with a knife, piercing the heart fiercely.
There are women who are half-dressed.
Today, when the laws and regulations of the imperial court have collapsed and there is no government security, many people in Chang County have begun to go crazy. Some people died in the hands of evil spirits, and some died in the hands of their own people.
The war is in chaos, and people are suffering.
At this time, the team behind Jin An and the old Taoist priest had expanded a lot.
The number of people is already fifty or sixty.
Maybe people have a herd mentality, or maybe it's because the combination of Jin'an and the old Taoist priest can easily give people a sense of security. Along the way, many people have joined this escape team.
Most of these people are honest ordinary people.
Those who were in the martial arts world, were rough in the rivers and lakes, or had merchants with their own guards, but they all disdained this team of sheep.
Jin An and the old Taoist priest walked in front.
Naturally, they also noticed the snowballing group of escapers behind them.
They did not choose to take the initiative to accept someone who was exhausted and gradually fell behind. They did not take the initiative to stop and wait for others to catch up, nor did they take the initiative to drive away the people who were following them. Although the old and the young did not talk about this matter along the way, But there is a tacit understanding and they are focused on rushing ahead.
At this time, Jin An and the old Taoist priest walked to a market.
Standing in front of this market, the outline of the wall stacks of the east city gate can already be seen vaguely.
They will arrive at the east city gate soon.
But Jin An suddenly stopped in front of the archway at the entrance of Fang City, and the ordinary people who were following Jin An stopped in fear.
"Little brother, there is something wrong with this city. It is too quiet. The whole Chang County is in chaos. Killings and arson are happening everywhere. However, no one has destroyed this place. Everything is intact. But it looks like there is no one at all. Not even a lamp was lit, it was pitch black... This pool of water is very cold!"
The old Taoist priest said solemnly.
Indeed, as the old Taoist priest said, this city is too peaceful.
When something goes wrong, there must be a monster.
"Um?"
Jin'an's five senses were sharp after practicing martial arts. He felt that there were eyes quietly observing him, and he turned around to look.
I discovered that my gaze was coming from the second floor of an inn near the entrance to Fangshi.
On the second floor of the inn, a window was quietly opened a small crack, and someone was peeking out from behind the dark window.
The other party noticed Jin An's gaze and was so frightened that he hid behind the window and hurriedly closed the window.
Jin An frowned.
But the window on the second floor of the inn immediately opened a small crack, and the person behind the window actually threw something out.
"Huh?"
"Little brother, something seems to have been thrown out of that inn. There is someone in that inn."
The old Taoist priest said in surprise.
The old Taoist priest holding a torch quickly found what was thrown out of the inn, which turned out to be a ball of paper.
When the paper was spread out, the ink on the paper had not yet dried, and there were a few lines of words that had just been scrawled on it.
There is a monster
Leave quietly
Quiet
don't make a sound
Looking at the words on the note, the old Taoist priest was surprised again. He subconsciously lowered his voice and asked Jin An: "Little brother, the benefactor in the inn who kindly reminded us might have also encountered the same evil corpses we met before. Bar?"
After the old Taoist priest finished speaking, he asked Jin An for his opinion, should he take a detour?
As the old Taoist priest spoke, his eyes subconsciously glanced at the people who had been following them.
Jin An also glanced at the team behind him.
"This market is the only way for us to go to the East Gate. If we take a detour again, we will need to take a long detour, and no one can guarantee that other markets will be safe."
Jin An said thoughtfully: "In this case, Old Taoist, you and the goat will stay here and wait for me. I will explore the situation in this city first, and we will talk about everything after I come back."
The old Taoist priest looked at Jin An worriedly. Jin An said it was okay and did not go to take the torch handed over by the old Taoist priest. He asked the old Taoist priest to protect himself and the goat and be vigilant.
Next.
Jin'an held the Husha knife in hand and began to enter Fangshi.
Jin An did not hide anything, and walked directly into the market with a long sword. When he had just walked two or three feet away, suddenly!
Densely evil spying.
From every city pavilion, they watched him maliciously.
…
Chen Gui is a squire in Chang County. In his early years, he was also an official in Chang County. After retirement, he became a small-time rich man and married several beautiful concubines. His life was quite enjoyable. Tonight, he met Mr. Jin'an. He and Magistrate Zhang gathered at Lefeng Tower together. He also brought a young singer with a weak waist and no bones back to the mansion, ready to slowly appreciate the elegance of "embroidered clothes shining in late spring, golden peacocks and silver unicorns".
Who knew that all this beautiful life would suddenly change overnight? He was the first to see the opportunity and was one of the first to escape from the city.
But when they arrived at the east gate, they saw that they were only a hundred feet away from the city gate, but it was as far away as the end of the world. Chen Gui and his family members were hiding in a private house a hundred feet away from the east gate, looking frightened, horrified, and anxious. Staring at the huge black shadow outside the east gate that was so depressing and despairing that it was suffocating.
That is a despairing black shadow like a black mountain!
Chen Gui asked one of his servants to continue staring at the black shadow like a black mountain. Then he quietly climbed down from the bamboo ladder set up on the courtyard wall with weak legs. He was very tiptoe the whole time, fearing to wake up the black mountain.
Next, Chen Gui called all the servants together and began to think about what to do next to escape from the city with a frown.
Everyone knows that Chang County is finished tonight.
If you don't run away, even if you don't get burned to death by the bigger and bigger fire, you will still be killed by those strange corpses that are everywhere.
When I think of the unheard-of horrors and grotesque corpses, the already panic-stricken people are cast into a haze of despair.
"Master Chen, how about we wait until dawn to see?"
"If after daybreak, those... bodies blocking the east gate are still there, why don't we try to escape from the city through other gates?"
"And during the day, the field of vision is wide, which makes it easier for us to detect dangers in time, and it is easier for us to move so many people..."
A servant suggested.
Seeing that no one else could think of a better way, Chen Gui had no choice but to accept the proposal, but worry was still lingering in his eyes. The night was still very long and there were too many variables... He was afraid that they would not survive the day. …
Just when Chen Guiyou was worried, a servant suddenly noticed something unusual. A large group of people hiding in the yard hurriedly pulled out their weapons, only to see that it was the servant they had sent out to explore the surrounding terrain in order to prepare an escape route in advance. He actually brought back two sturdy men.
The two powerful and sturdy men, with sharp knives around their waists and a fierce aura, looked like men from the world who had been licking blood with their swords all year round. They were by no means good.
After a brief meeting, Chen Gui soon learned the other party’s intention.
These two big men, one named Ma Chen and the other Han Jin, are masters of the largest tea merchant association in Chang County.
They, a group of brothers, escorted the merchants and their families in the chamber of commerce. When they arrived near the east gate, they also discovered the huge and terrifying black shadow like a black mountain blocking the east gate.
Just as they were retreating quietly, they happened to meet the servant, so Ma Chen and Han Jin came over in person to share some information.
Chen Gui was not stupid. He also knew that only through united efforts could he escape from Chang County, so he immediately shared everything he knew.
Just when the two parties tried to control their movements and lowered their voices to communicate, suddenly!
Boom!
Boom!
boom! boom! boom!
Explosions were heard one after another around them, like the ground cracking and cracking, and dust rising into the sky. The three people were horrified to find that the explosions came from a city behind them.
The three of them hurriedly climbed up the bamboo ladder on the courtyard wall. As a result, the three of them saw with disbelief on their faces that the city was filled with dust and there were continuous explosions.
Pavilions exploded one after another, brick walls flew off, and earth and wood flew everywhere. The scene was like a disaster, and several pavilions even collapsed with a roar, which was shocking.
The three of them looked dumbfounded.
"What exactly is going on!"
"What exactly happened in that city?"
"Could it be those ridiculous corpses we saw along the way, wreaking havoc in the city, looking for living people?"
Immediately afterwards, the three of them were horrified to see that the explosion in Fangshi was actually approaching them, because the buildings along the way were exploding and collapsing. Finally, in the dust that filled the sky like a dragon, a figure holding a knife appeared. , slowly walked out of the dust in the sky.
"Is it a human?"
The three people's eyes were horrified.
Is this a human or a monster? Almost half of the buildings in the city were reduced to ruins in his hands. He was as powerful as a dragon and an elephant, fierce and violent, charging straight into the place where there was no one.
"This man is definitely a martial arts master who specializes in martial arts. Even if my two brothers join forces, they will not be able to match him!"
"You can only make friends with this person, not be an enemy!"
Ma Chen and Han Jin, who had always had high self-esteem, both looked at each other with fear. Unfortunately, they were far away and the night was dark, so they couldn't see each other's faces clearly. They racked their brains and couldn't figure out. Which master in Chang County is suitable for the person in front of me?
"I don't know if this person is a human, or..."
Before the two of them finished speaking, they were dumbfounded to see that shortly after the mysterious sword-wielding master walked out of Fangshi, another old Taoist priest wearing a Taoist robe walked out of Fangshi.
Behind the old Taoist priest, there was a goat.
When they saw how fat and strong the goat was, both of them couldn't help but gasp, and they were even more shocked.
"Is there such a big sheep in the world?"
"Isn't this a cow that looks like a sheep?"
The two felt that the shock tonight was too much, too much.
Um? The two people suddenly stared at each other.
Following the sheep-like cow, they actually saw more people from Changxian County walking out.
Those people in Chang County were just ordinary people, dragging their families and families with them, tremblingly walking out of the city... one person, two people, three people... a team of fifty or sixty people.
They even saw people who had been hiding in the city's pavilions, shops, restaurants, and inns walking out of the buildings and joining the group, which soon expanded to a hundred people's escape group.
"There are so many people, and they are making such a fuss, these people are all dead!"
"Although that mysterious master has great martial arts skills, in the face of those ridiculous corpses, human power cannot defeat the ghosts and gods after all, especially since the evil corpse blocking the east gate is different..."
However!
Before the two of them finished speaking, they were stunned again, and they didn't come back to their senses for a long time.
In the fierce light of Changxian County, at the east city gate, there stood a huge mass like a mountain, made of the tangled hands, feet and torsos of countless dead people, like an ugly and twisted corpse of tree roots. It was like a black mountain. Lived in the east gate of hope to escape from Changxian County.
There are densely twisted hands and feet, and twisted faces. At a glance, there are no less than two to three hundred dead faces.
Most of the dead people had blood stains on their clothes that had not yet dried. These people were supposed to be people who wanted to escape from Chang County through the east gate, but in the end they all died tragically and died of evil, and the monster corpses grew stronger.
From the first twenty or thirty tangled monster corpses, it swallowed and entangled hundreds of people, and grew into this huge mountain of corpses that was terrifying and frightening.
Among the newly devoured living people, there were ordinary people, servants of rich families, and masters of the martial arts world, but without exception, they were all dead.
All died in Xie Yi's hands.
This is the reason why they are collectively trapped here.
But what do they see now...
Even if they saw it with their own eyes, they still couldn't believe it!
The fleeing team that they all looked down on, led by the mysterious knife-wielding master, left the city unharmed.
The black mountain of monstrous corpses with hundreds of people densely packed with dead faces remained motionless, as if... they hadn't noticed those people?
…
East gate of Chang County.
The people of Chang County who finally escaped were cheering for the rest of their lives, but soon they began to cry in sadness again.
Some of them had recently experienced bereavement.
Some people had just experienced the brutal experience of being burned, killed, robbed and narrowly escaped death.
Some people had three generations living under the same roof during the day, but overnight their families were destroyed, leaving them all alone.
Jin An also didn't expect that he could escape from Chang County, which had turned into a devil's cave, so smoothly. He couldn't help but wonder, could this be considered God's will?
If he chooses to be forbearing when it has nothing to do with him, does not take action to kill Master Yin-slayer and Monk Pu Zhi, and does not resolve part of the Yin Coin crisis, he will not have enough Yin De to seal the Five Thunder Evil-Slaying Talisman three times...
If we hadn't supported Wenwu Temple, spent 5,000 Yin De to seal the Five Thunder Evil Talisman three times, successfully assisted the White Coffin Female Corpse and Young Master Yiyun to launch a counterattack, and successfully delayed Qing Qianliu, perhaps we would not have been able to successfully escape from the city tonight. …
And if he did not have the Five Thunder Evil-Slaying Talisman that was sealed three times, even if he escaped to the city gate, he would be trapped and die in Chang County. In the end, Chang County became a cage of flesh and blood millstones, trapping everyone to death...
"Man-made good deeds are far away even if they do not lead to disaster, and man-made evil deeds are far away even though they are not the end of good fortune." Jin An deeply realized this sentence again.
Just when Jin An was still comprehending these words, suddenly, the familiar feeling of the great avenue came again. It turned out to be a woman holding a child in her hands, kneeling in front of Jin An and bowing in gratitude.
This mother and son are the same mother and son that Jin An rescued from the alley.
But Jin An did not get Yin De's joy, but hurriedly helped the mother and son up.
But just as Jin'an hurriedly helped the mother and son, the people who were rescued by Jin'an from Chang County also collectively knelt down to Jin'an.
"Thank you Mr. Jin An for saving your life today."
"Young Master Jin'an's great kindness will be unforgettable to me, Wang Yong."
"I, Old Yang, would like to thank Mr. Jin An for your life-saving grace."
…
Although the voices of these people were not uniform, they shouted anything, and their voices were mixed, they were all sincerely grateful to Jin An for his life-saving grace. They all had evil virtues coming to them. Jin An hurriedly helped these people, without caring about any evil virtues. The Taoist priest twisted his beard and looked at Jin An who was in a panic.
"My little brother's good deeds today may actually lead to a golden body in the future."
The old Taoist priest smiled at the goat and said.
BAA Baa baa--
The Taoist priest and the sheep talked to each other and answered each other, but it was not clear whether they could understand each other's words.
Jin An finally helped everyone up, and then advised those people to flee for their lives as far away from Chang County as possible, but he did not intend to leave immediately.
To leave, you must definitely leave Chang County.
but not now.
Jin An remembered that before leaving the city, he sensed the prying eyes of several people in a private house.
As the saying goes, save people to the end and send Buddha to the West.
Saving one person is saving, saving ten people, and saving a hundred people are also saving. I love helping others, and helping others makes me happy. How can I talk about such vulgar things as whether there is any evil virtue? It is vulgar, vulgar, and vulgar.
"Old Taoist, take this silly sheep first and wait for me in Xiba Village, twenty miles away. I will go there to find you during the day and join you."
When the old Taoist heard that Jin An was going to the city to rescue people again, he said that he and Shayang would also go with him. Tonight, the three of them, their grandfather and grandson, would not be separated and would go together.
Several thick black lines hung from Jin An's forehead.
Even now, the old Taoist priest did not forget to take advantage of his words.
…
At this time, in Chang County, fires were shooting into the sky, and chaos and fighting were still continuing.
In the house near the east gate, Chen Gui, Ma Chen and Han Jin greatly regretted why they didn't escape from the city together just now.
But it's too late to say anything now.
"It doesn't make sense. Why can they pass through the city gate unharmed, but those mountains of corpses didn't kill them?"
"Is it just scary to look at?"
Although people are naturally afraid of these strange things, in order to escape from Chang County, the three of them discussed for a long time and decided to send one person to test the mountain of corpses.
This scares the others half to death, their heads shake like rattles, and no one is willing to go. Is this clearly going to death?
Just when they couldn't decide on a candidate, suddenly, a servant in charge of the lookout whispered that something was going on. The servant was dumbfounded and said that the mysterious master who led the people of Chang County had returned with an old Taoist priest and a calf that looked like a sheep. They were in Chang County and were walking towards the house where they were hiding.
…
"Master Jin'an!"
"Hahaha, I never expected that the mysterious master is actually you, Mr. Jin An!"
"Tonight we just drank wine together and admired the singer at the "Hongyun Gaoshengtang" in Lefeng Building. Mr. Jin An came to rescue Mr. Chen tonight. Mr. Chen was very moved. Mr. Jin An was indeed I didn’t forget to enjoy our friendship together several times.”
Before Jin An could approach the house, the door of the house opened on his own initiative, and then he was hugged excitedly by an old country squire who rushed out in a hurry.
Jin An: "?"
Such a magical acquaintance with concubines, Jin An almost didn't lift up the old country squire who could be his grandfather at this age and throw him away.
At this time, Jin An's face was darker than the bottom of the pot the goat was carrying.
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Ps: Sorry, this chapter is late.
I originally planned to code 4,000 words for this chapter, but I had already coded it out at 2 a.m., but as soon as I started writing it, I became more and more confused as the night went on. I thought I had already stayed up late anyway, so I just finished writing the story and posted it all at once.
This chapter is from yesterday, the 14th. A total of 10,000 words were updated on the 14th, and there will be another update on the 15th.
It's late at night, good night guys~
