The pattering cold autumn rain wetted the stone roads in Lingzhi City.
These stone slabs have been in disrepair for a long time, most of them are broken and half-sunk in the muddy water. There is a strange smell permeating the streets and alleys.
A huge, terrifying-looking creature stood silently in the middle of the road.
Soldiers wearing raincoats stood on the watchtower and guarded the walls.
Taking advantage of the rain, buckets of water were drawn from the nearby well and poured on this good-tempered steel giant.
In the stagnant water on the ground, there were strands of hair and sauce-colored pieces of flesh and blood.
He Zhou carefully used a piece of cloth to sweep an unknown piece of meat off the monster's head.
Like his colleagues around him, he even breathed a little cautiously.
As the first batch of White Horse Yicon sergeants to enter the city, they were not only fortunate to witness the power of this huge monster galloping across the city.
When I was still receiving the county barracks, I saw this beast-like thing from the wild, crashing and crushing the huge passage along the way.
He Zhou thought that even in the story, the animal path that the tiger often walked in the mountains should not be so powerful.
While he was thinking, he carefully and religiously cleaned the flesh and blood on this huge monster.
When such a giant creature stands beside you, it is both scary and exciting.
After it was mostly cleared, a person came from a distance.
Wearing an azure scholar's robe, a raincoat draped over his shoulders, a few strands of clean beard on his chin, and a kind and slender face, the handsomeness of his youth can be vaguely seen.
He walked with a gentle and restrained expression, but wherever he passed, the sergeants all bowed their heads in respect.
The person who came was none other than Zhao Xi, Mr. Zhao, everyone’s mentor and respected by everyone.
"Thank you for your hard work!" Zhao Xi walked up to the gray-green steel monster and greeted everyone with a smile.
"Where!" He Zhou straightened his back immediately.
The coercion of a division commander that comes with Zhao Xi is always particularly intimidating when facing certain groups of people.
"Azhou, are you leading the team?"
Zhao Xi can always clearly remember and identify the people he has met and the students he has taught.
He Zhou trembled, put his hands against the seam of his trousers, and stood up straighter: "Yes!"
"Haha, it seems that there were still fines that were not paid before?"
Similarly, Zhao Xi can also clearly remember the debts owed by each student, so no one can get away with it.
He Zhou's face was expressionless. He looked up and saw that everyone in the robes around him lowered his head and shrank his shoulders, behaving like a quail.
"Remembering the punishment for non-payment, I copied it and handed it over." Zhao Xi smiled and put his hand lightly on He Zhou's shoulder.
He Zhou felt as if a huge boulder was pressing down on his shoulders, and he nodded in frustration: "Yes."
After answering, they saw Mr. Zhao opening the head of the huge monster behind him without fear and climbing up awkwardly.
"Mr. Zhao." Everyone changed their colors and wanted to stop him. He Zhou hurriedly stepped forward to protect him, holding his hand nervously on the handle of the knife.
"It's okay, it's okay." Zhao Xi struggled to lift his foot, trying to step on the pedal, "Azhou, come and help me."
He Zhou hurriedly stepped forward, helped Zhao Xi climb into the huge monster, and sat in its head.
After a while, He Zhou was horrified to hear that the monster let out a low roar that was exactly the same as that day.
Then his eyes suddenly lit up, and the light beams from his eyes pierced the rain curtain.
He Zhou was agitated and wanted to retreat, but he was worried about Mr. Zhao sitting in the monster's head.
I couldn't move forward or retreat for a while, and my body was tense.
Then he saw the monster slowly move.
Then Mr. Zhao poked his head out of the monster's head and said, "Remember, you will be punished."
The double fear left He Zhou speechless, and he could only squirm his mouth.
He stood there blankly, watching the monster crawling docilely under Mr. Zhao's hands and walking away slowly and clumsily.
In the distance, there are groups of soldiers guarding and escorting along the street, and the huge monster roars away.
Occasionally, he deviated from the road and scraped off a piece of the wall along the street.
Don't know where it will go.
It wasn't until the monster was completely out of sight that he regained consciousness and breathed a sigh of relief.
Only then did he notice that while he was distracted, he accidentally stepped on a piece of soft flesh, which seemed to be half a face.
He jumped back suddenly and found that the clothes on his back were wet.
Under the raincoat, the sticky underwear felt very uncomfortable against my flesh.
His surprise attracted everyone's attention.
A burst of laughter burst out in the silent rain.
"Azhou, I see you are scared." A sergeant stuck his head out from the top of the watchtower and said with a laugh, "Go back quickly and calm down while holding the amulet given by the Ma family girl."
He Zhou's cowardice was personal. Faced with Pao Ze's ridicule, he responded unceremoniously: "You are just jealous of me!"
"Who cares to be jealous of you?"
Everyone laughed and quarreled, then collected the broken pieces of meat on the ground, wrapped them in cloth and took them away for disinfecting.
When it rains for a while, the remaining marks here will be washed away.
Lingzhi City will have another story about the appearance of the mountain god.
The sergeants each held a bag of meat in their hands and got on their horses.
Everyone tacitly abides by the military prohibition, never mentioning the reason for the monster's appearance here, and avoiding a name.
While everyone was laughing and joking, He Zhou, who was being teased by everyone, suddenly raised his right hand, spread his fingers, and then made a fist to signal everyone to be silent.
Everyone's laughter stopped, and they became quiet for a moment, and they all became alert.
In the distance, amid the rain, faint bursts of crying could be heard.
He Zhou looked solemn. Compared to the patrolling infantry, these cavalry were already responsible for patrolling the city.
He hung the cloth bag dripping with brown liquid on the side of the saddle and led several people in that direction.
Go straight to a captured village.
The walls here have collapsed, and the ground is full of broken stones and half-burned wooden beams that were blackened by smoke.
Dark brown blood stains that have not been washed away by the rain can still be seen on the gravel and walls.
Lying or lying on the ground were corpses and mutilated bodies.
Yesterday, Zhao Yun had already started working on the rescue and corpse disposal in Lifang.
Today, Gongsun Yan also urgently recruited Chinese medicine practitioners and residents in the city in the name of the prefect's mansion. Hua Tuo organized the treatment of the injured and the disposal of corpses and other aftermath issues.
However, it is unlikely that the decree will be implemented immediately.
There will still be situations like this that haven't been dealt with yet.
People who are able to walk have been evacuated to temporary rescue points set up in other areas to take shelter temporarily.
The only ones who will remain here are either the abandoned wounded or Yuan's defeated troops.
He Zhou and his party searched along the road.
Finally, I found the cry in front of a collapsed house.
Only now did everyone hear it clearly.
"Here, here." A soldier walked around a male corpse and opened a broken wooden beam.
The crying sound came from the hearth of a stove.
A disheveled female corpse lay in the distance, her gray eyes staring intently at the fire chamber.
He Zhou strode forward and dug out the firewood that was randomly blocked in the fire pit.
Finally, a dusty swaddle was pulled out from the ashes.
Cold rain fell from the sky, and a baby with a dark face was wrapped in swaddling clothes, crying loudly.