The blood mist was like a thick curtain, dividing the city, and chaos spread throughout the city.
The fox-faced scholar on stilts set the house on fire with a shrill smile. The smiling golden Buddha buried the corpses one after another in the lotus platform under his seat. Thousands of insects gathered in the shape of demon faces and crawled through the cracks in the doors and windows, succumbing to the anesthesia. The bloated victim is injected with insect eggs.
Ordinary people hid in closets, woodsheds, and cellars, listening to the sounds of chewing, screaming, and wailing coming from across the street or even from the house next door, and did not dare to let out their breath.
To the east of the city, there is an orphanage and an underground ice room for storing ice.
"The imperial court will come to save us. It will definitely happen. Just hold on for a little longer."
Xia Erniang held two children in her arms and murmured so softly that she could not hear them clearly.
When the disaster occurred, the orphanage was about to turn off the lights, but was suddenly enveloped in blood mist. The terrifying-looking beast-headed demon rushed into the courtyard and started killing people.
Xia Erniang and a group of children hid in the ice room and escaped.
It's just that the ice room is so cold that the children wearing thin coats can't stand it. She held two of them in her arms and folded a few more around her body, relying on her body temperature to fight against the pervasive chill.
Click, click.
Slightly sticky footsteps sounded above the head, like stepping through a pool of sticky blood, and finally stopped above the ice room.
Yes, is it a monster?
Xia Erniang trembled all over, and slowly took out her arms from the child's arms, stood up against the wall, groped against the wall for a while, and found the iron crowbar for loading and unloading ice cubes.
She held a crowbar and stood in front of the wooden door leading to the ground, listening in fear as the chain outside the door was being removed.
Squeak.
The moment the door opened, she swung the crowbar forward, but the iron bar was suddenly caught by the long knife in mid-air.
The sword holder was a young officer wearing Zhenfusi uniform, followed by a group of soldiers with lanterns tied to their waists and wearing swords.
By the light of the lantern, Xia Erniang also identified that the officer was her husband Yu Wenyuan.
The couple should have been happy to reunite, but Yu Wenyuan's expression quickly fell from ecstasy to sadness. The soldiers behind him also looked shocked.
"Husband, what's wrong?"
The words that Xia Erniang thought of in her mind turned into a sharp snake hiss when she came out of her mouth.
She belatedly looked at herself. Her upper body was normal, but her lower body expanded and stretched rapidly, growing yellow scales like an anaconda.
The snake's tail sank deep into the ice chamber and balled up to resist the cold temperature.
Sections of the child's arms and legs stretched out from the gap in the snake's tail, connecting to the corpse that had been strangled for a long time.
what did I do?
Fear and regret welled up in her heart. Xia Erniang turned to look at her husband, and all the words in her heart turned into snake hisses. The original oval face also developed brown and yellow snake scales under the violent mood swings and chaotic thoughts.
"Captain Yuwen, let me do it."
Pei Jing stepped forward with a heavy look on her face, patted Yu Wenyuan on the shoulder, and drew out the Canghai Sword from her waist.
"no!"
Yu Wenyuan stood sideways in front of his wife and said with a pale face: "There will be a way, she hasn't completely transformed yet."
Before he finished speaking, he felt severe pain in the back of his neck.
Yu Wenyuan looked up and saw that his wife's facial features were distorted, her vertical pupils were full of desire for living flesh and blood, ligaments grew on both sides of her cheeks, and her mouth opened to the limit, intending to swallow his head whole.
call out--
The sharp arrow shot through the air and penetrated between Xia Erniang's eyebrows, causing her head that had turned into a snake to rise high and smash into the ice of the ice room shelves.
"It's not a demon transformation,"
Several figures walked out of the darkness. The iconic black conical hats announced their identities as the Supervisory Department. One of them took off the conical hat, revealing the face of the academy's physical education teacher Ren Chao, "It's the Blood Bath Demonic Epidemic."
Bloody plague?
Hearing this uncommon and obscure word, everyone in the Zhenfu Division looked confused, while Pei Jing frowned.
He knew that the Demonic Epidemic was a phenomenon in which ordinary people, under the influence of high-concentration demonic energy for a long time, not only did not die, but were assimilated by demons. Commonly found in Shiwan Barren Mountains.
However, the demonic energy in the surrounding environment is not abundant at the moment, and it is far from enough to cause such a large-scale infection. Not to mention driving the demon to move freely.
Unless the key is the word "blood bath" at the front.
The situation was urgent. Ren Chao did not look at Yu Wenyuan who was kneeling slumped on the ground. He asked Pei Jing in a deep voice, "Are everyone else scattered in various cities?"
"yes."
Pei Jing nodded. Before the disaster happened, there were many soldiers from the Zhenfu Division patrolling throughout Chang'an City. After the blood mist fell, people from all walks of life were in the area to contend with the demons.
As for Pei Jing, the defense force at his home was not weak. After discovering that the monsters in the city did not deliberately launch a siege against dignitaries, but instead killed innocent people without discrimination, he left most of the guards behind and left Pei's house with a small group of people. , join forces with the Zhenfu Division to eliminate nearby demons.
"We also met other people along the way, either going to Dali Temple to investigate the source, or going to Daming Palace to protect the prince. By the way, how is the Academy?"
Pei Jing added. There is more than just Zhenfusi in the city. There are many wealthy families like the Pei Mansion. Not only are they members of the clan who have embarked on spiritual practice, but there are also guards, bodyguards, and worshipers hired from outside.
Added together, the damage caused by the plague can be limited to some extent.
However, after listening to Pei Jing's words, there was no joy on Ren Xuan's face, only solemnity, "There is nothing going on in the academy for the time being. How much energy do you have left? Come with me to seal off the imperial city. It will be too late if it is too late."
Ren Chao led several people from the Supervisory Department towards the imperial city. Pei Jing hurriedly pressed her sword to follow and asked, "What's going on? What exactly is the Blood Bath Demonic Epidemic?"
"Spiritual power will not be generated out of thin air, and ordinary people will not suddenly turn into great monsters no matter how much they are nurtured. The blood mist originating from Dali Temple is the source of the monsters' power."
Ren Xianji said quickly: "If the prediction is correct, those who went to investigate the source of the blood mist may have become bait by now."
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tread.
Li Ang stopped in front of Shunyi Gate on the west side of the imperial city. The arrow slot of the glow crossbow in his hand is equipped with a light talisman, which emits light like a lantern and illuminates the surroundings.
The solid city gate that could withstand the impact of the train was destroyed and shattered in the previous explosion. The Jinwu Guards who were supposed to guard the imperial city have disappeared.
Only the unmanned ballistae above the city wall were left, pointing quietly at the ground.
A strong sense of ominousness emanated from the breach in the city gate, and the rich scent of blood could be clearly smelled even from a street away.
'Something's wrong'
Li Ang narrowed his eyes slightly. Based on his understanding of the operating system of Yu State, after a disaster, whether it is the imperial palace enshrinement department, the Zhenfu Division, or the monks from the academy scattered in the city, they will spontaneously go to the imperial city as soon as possible. Investigate the cause of the disaster.
But at this moment, the Shunyi City Gate next to Dali Temple was completely silent, and no sound of fighting could be heard.
After thinking again and again, he removed the light talisman, extinguished the light, sprinted briefly, and jumped onto the city wall.
Then, he saw the world of flesh and blood.
(End of chapter)
