After Qin Shaoyou and Qin Qiaoer received the new mission, they rushed all the way, and finally entered Xinglong Mansion on the third day.
After passing Xinglong Mansion, there is Qingtangwei.
The Qingtang Guard was originally used to guard against attacks from Qingtang, and the scale was not large. Later, as Qingtang became stronger and continued to harass, the scale of Qingtang Guard also continued to increase. Not only did it build several military towns, but also built many watchtowers and sentry towers.
Later, Qingtang changed its strategy and no longer harassed the border with force, but vigorously promoted bilateral trade.
Since then, Qingtangwei has become a prosperous trading town.
During its most prosperous period, countless businessmen from Qingtang and Daxia gathered in several military towns of Qingtang Guard, and countless wealth and enjoyment were also gathered there, so much so that some people boasted that the treasures in the world could be found elsewhere. Yes, Qingtangwei has it here, but if it doesn’t exist elsewhere, Qingtangwei also has it.
But these glories are now in the past.
As the war broke out again, the excitement of Qingtangwei also changed to another form.
Instead of the merchants soliciting customers and selling goods, there was only the cursing and fighting of the sergeants!
And what is gathered here in Qingtangwei is no longer wealth and treasures, but blood and death!
Xinglong Mansion, the mansion closest to Qingtang Guard, was also greatly affected.
After Qin Shaoyou and Qin Qiaoer entered Xinglong Mansion, they discovered along the way that except for counties, towns and a few relatively large villages, they could barely protect themselves by relying on their own city walls, village walls and watchtowers. Other smaller villages with poorer walls were either emptied out or left with only a pile of looted and burned ruins.
As for farmland, most of it is deserted.
There were many wild dogs and vultures along the way, looking for corpses.
The eyes of those wild dogs that had eaten people were red, and they were filled with bloodthirsty desire when they looked at Qin Shaoyou and others. If they were not afraid of the strong aura exuding from Qin Shaoyou and others, they would have rushed up to attack them long ago!
Obviously, the situation here in Xinglong Prefecture is far more chaotic than in other prefectures because it is close to the front line.
The homeless refugees, the bandits who took advantage of the chaos, the Qingtang wizards and sentries who sneaked in through the cracks in the front line to cause damage, as well as these beasts and monsters that smell the smell of blood and death, and those lurking in the shadows The cult monsters who continue to act as monsters under them, and even the rebel soldiers who have withdrawn or escaped from the front line, etc...
It’s all caused by chaos!
The troubled people here in Xinglong Mansion are living in dire straits, like a hell on earth!
However, the more chaos there is in Xinglong Mansion, the more unscrupulous bandits, demons, evil cults and rebels become.
Qin Shaoyou and the others even encountered a scene of a monster on the official road, eating people in broad daylight!
Judging from the clothes of those who were eaten, they should be refugees fleeing the war.
In order to survive, they left their homes. They thought they had escaped the military disaster, but unexpectedly, they ended up in the belly of the monster, were ambushed, and were all bitten to death.
When Qin Shaoyou and others saw this scene, all the refugees who were ambushed had been killed, and no one was left alive.
Even the corpses were eaten to pieces by these monsters.
Blood and intestines dripped all over the floor, leaving only the head and other parts that were not easy to chew. In the blood, eyes widened with fear, despair and unwillingness.
Seeing the arrival of Qin Shaoyou and others, these strange-looking monsters that looked like vicious dogs but had no butts, instead of being frightened, they raised their scarlet eyes and stared straight at Qin Shaoyou. et al.
His eyes were full of desire.
The lust for blood, the lust for the living.
Perhaps it was because they had eaten too many people these days and were so ferocious that they were not afraid of the auras emanating from Qin Shaoyou, Qin Qiaoer and others, and roared at them.
These monsters do have some abilities. In the middle of the charge, they were able to escape and appeared from behind Qin Shaoyou and others in an instant. They wanted to bite through their excrement doors, take out their intestines, and make them suffer in pain. Die.
Those refugees were probably killed by this group of monsters in a sneak attack.
But unfortunately, this time, this group of monsters obviously chose the wrong target.
They escaped from the ground and made a sneak attack. Not only did they not hurt anyone, but Zhu Xiucai, Monk Ma and the red-clothed messenger under Qin Qiaoer used a whack-a-mole method to smash their heads.
Gunshanjun immediately charged towards the monster.
But he never expected that these monsters would sneak around to the back, and they didn't know if they thought his skin was rough and his flesh was unpalatable, or for some reason, no monsters attacked him.
The result was that by the time Mr. Gunshan could react, all the monsters had been killed, and he had not snatched a single opportunity to do good deeds.
This made Mr. Gunshan very dissatisfied and complained: "You are too fast, and you don't even want to leave one for me."
"He moved with anger and struck too hard... Mainly because these monsters are too inexperienced to fight."
Everyone knew that Mr. Gunshan was holding back his demons in order to do good deeds and accumulate virtue, so naturally they were a little embarrassed.
Fortunately, Qin Shaoyou opened his mouth and relieved them.
"Lao Gun, go dig a hole next to the official road and bury the corpses that haven't been eaten by the monsters... Preventing these people's corpses from being exposed in the wilderness can be considered a good deed."
"Okay, okay."
When Gunshan Jun heard that there was still an opportunity to do good deeds, he hurriedly nodded in agreement. He dug a grave next to the official road without even using tools and only a pair of bear paws.
Monk Ma and Cui Yougui, one chanting sutras and the other reciting mantras, were trying to save the refugees who died tragically here.
Qin Qiao'er looked at the mutilated corpses on the ground, sighed, and said softly: "I'd rather be a peace dog than a troubled person... If there is an afterlife, I hope you can all live in a peaceful and prosperous age, and don't have to suffer from the disasters of war and monsters." bitter."
Qin Shaoyou also sighed lightly.
In troubled times, people are indeed inferior to dogs.
Gunshanjun was very efficient. He dug a pair of bear paws into the ground and quickly dug a big hole. He also put the corpses, internal organs and other objects of the victims that had not been eaten by monsters into it, and filled it with soil to bury it.
On the other side, the red-clothed envoys under Zhu Xiucai, Cen Biqing and Qin Qiaoer found some firewood from nearby, threw the corpses of several monster beasts and lit them on fire.
These monster beasts have little edible value, so it would be better to burn them.
After the corpses of the monster beasts were burned cleanly and the corpses of the victimized refugees were buried, Qin Shaoyou took out three incense sticks, lit them, inserted them into the graves of the victimized refugees, then got on his horse and called on everyone to continue setting off.
I thought this experience was just an episode, but I didn't expect that this kind of thing was not an episode, but the norm in Xinglong Mansion...
In the evening, Qin Shaoyou, Qin Qiaoer and others were ready to find a place to rest.
According to the map he carried with him, there was a village ahead of the march, so Zhu Xiucai and a red-clad envoy named Yao Quan under Qin Qiaoer were sent to quickly explore the way.
After a while, Zhu Xiucai and Yao Quan did not come back, but they saw a cloud-piercing arrow rising into the sky with a sharp whistling sound!
"There is a situation in the village, everyone is moving forward at full speed and rushing to support!"
Qin Shaoyou's expression condensed and he immediately ordered.
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