Chapter 123 A calf that looks like a sheep (6k big chapter, please subscribe and vote monthly) (revised)
"Old way."
"When you were with them just now."
"Did they mention seeing 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 a chaotic time and everyone was rushing to escape. No one noticed how those motionless evil corpses 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 carrying a long knife, was considered by these ordinary people to be a martial arts master...
Or maybe it's because the old Taoist priests are 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, but who knew there was a monster hiding in the alley, which led to the previous scene.
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 the grief, but when she looked at the crying young son in her arms, this woman learned how to care about her child.
The former woman held back her tears and inner sorrow. She wiped away the tears on her own face, wiped away the tears on her child's face, and gently comforted her child to be strong. This woman, who had just experienced the pain of losing her husband, held her baby tightly in her hand.
The only remaining relative was the youngest son, whose figure had aged significantly overnight as he followed the procession out of the city.
Women are naturally weak, but mothers are strong.
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The chaos in Changxian County continues under 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.
Even from a distance, I could feel the heat brought on by the heat wave and my lips were chapped.
Chang County is completely finished.
The spread of the fire has been completely unstoppable.
Everywhere, people were dragging their families and their luggage to escape from the city. Some people left the city in bullock carts, some rode horses, and some squires dragged more than a dozen women and servants out of the city.
There are also businessmen who regard wealth as their life and cannot give up the family property they have worked hard for most of their lives, so the chambers of commerce form a group to 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 vicious murderers.
But these smart businessmen who knew how to work 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 those people began to focus on ordinary people and small businessmen who were left alone.
Along the way to Jin'an, we have seen many corpses that were robbed and killed on the roadside. These people 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 the world is 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 reckless, or had businessmen with their own escorts, but they all disdained this ragtag escape team.
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 these people. Some people were exhausted and fell behind, but they did not take the initiative to stop and wait for others, nor did they take the initiative to drive away the people who were following them. Although the old and young people did not talk about this matter along the way, they
There is a tacit understanding and the focus is on the road 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.
You will arrive at the east gate and exit the city in no time.
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 also stopped in fear.
"Little brother, there's something wrong with this city. It's too quiet. The whole Chang County is in chaos. Killings and arson are happening everywhere, but no one has destroyed this place. And it looks like there's no one there. There's not even a single person there.
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?"
With his sharp five senses after practicing martial arts in Jin An, he sensed eyes secretly spying on 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, and it 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
don't make any noise
don't come in
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 if he wanted to take a detour.
As the old Taoist priest spoke, he subconsciously glanced at the dozens of exhausted people who were following them behind him.
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 have to go a long way, and no one can guarantee that other markets will be safe."
Jin An said thoughtfully: "In this case, old Taoist, you stay here and wait for me. I will explore the situation of 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. Instead, he asked the old Taoist priest to protect himself and the goat and be vigilant.
Next.
Jin'an held the Husha Sword in hand and began to enter Fangshi.
Jin An did not hide anything, he walked directly into the market with a long sword, and when he had just walked two or three feet away, he was suddenly stunned!
Densely evil spying.
From every city pavilion, they watched him maliciously.
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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 rich man and married several beautiful concubines. His life was quite enjoyable. Even tonight with Jin An
The young master and Magistrate Zhang gathered together at Lefeng Tower. He also brought a young singer with a soft and boneless waist back to the mansion, ready to slowly appreciate the elegance of "embroidered Luo clothes shining in late spring, golden peacocks and silver unicorns".
Little did he know that all this beautiful life would suddenly change overnight. He was one of the first to see the opportunity and was one of the first to escape from the inner 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 world. Chen Gui and his family members were hiding in a private house a hundred feet away from the east gate. Their eyes were frightened and uneasy, and they stared secretly.
The huge black shadow outside the east gate is depressing, despairing and suffocating.
That is a despairing black shadow like a black mountain!
Chen Gui asked one of his servants to continue staring at the black mountain-like figure, and then he quietly climbed down from the bamboo ladder set up on the courtyard wall with his weak legs. He was careful the whole time, fearing to wake up the black mountain.
Next, Chen Gui called all the servants together and began to think of a solution with a frown on his face. What should he do next to escape from the city?
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 ever-increasing fire, you will still be killed by those monster 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 daybreak and take a look?"
"If the bodies blocking the east gate are still there after daybreak, can we try to escape from the city through other gates?"
"And during the day, the field of view 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 this proposal, but worry was still lingering in his eyes. The night was still very long and there were too many variables... I was afraid that they wouldn't be able to survive.
daytime……
Just when Chen Gui was worried, a servant suddenly noticed something strange. A large group of people hiding in the yard hurriedly pulled out their weapons, only to see that a servant they had sent out to explore the surrounding terrain in order to prepare an escape route in advance actually
Brought back two sturdy men.
Those 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 contact, 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 a stupid person. 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!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Explosions were heard one after another around them, as if the earth was cracking and the earth was cracking, and dust was rising in 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 collapsed, 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 people looked at it and were dumbfounded.
"What the hell is going on!"
"What happened in that city?"
"Could it be those ridiculous corpses we saw along the way, wreaking havoc in the city in search of 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 Fangshi were exploding and collapsing in pieces. 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. He rushed straight into the land and killed as if he was in an uninhabited land.
"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 thought highly of themselves, 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 it out.
Is there any master in Chang County who matches 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 of them felt that the shock tonight was too much, too much.
Huh? The two people suddenly stared at each other.
Following the sheep-like cow, they actually saw more people from Changxian County walking out following them.
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...there were a team of fifty or sixty people.
They even saw that people who had been hiding in the city's pavilions, shops, restaurants, and inns also walked out of the buildings where they were hiding and joined the team, which soon expanded to a hundred people's escape team.
"With so many people and making such a big fuss, these people must all be dead!"
"Although that mysterious master has great martial arts skills, in the face of those unheard-of absurd corpses, human power cannot defeat ghosts and gods after all. Especially the evil corpse blocking the east gate is still different..."
However!
Before the two of them finished speaking, their mouths opened wide in shock, and they were stunned for a long time without regaining consciousness.
Just under the fierce fire of Chang County, a huge mountain of corpses stood at the east gate. It was like a black mountain blocking the east gate of hope of escaping from Chang County.
There were so many twisted hands, feet, and twisted faces that at a glance, there were no fewer 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 the number of monster corpses increased.
From the beginning, there were twenty or thirty tangled monster corpses, which swallowed and entangled hundreds of people, and grew into this huge mountain of corpses that was terrifying and frightening in front of us.
Among the newly devoured living people, there were ordinary people, servants of wealthy families who were guarding the courtyard, 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 escape team, which they all looked down on, left the city safely under the leadership of the mysterious knife-wielding master.
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?
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East gate of Chang County.
The people of Changxian 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 just experienced bereavement.
Some people had just experienced the horror of being burned, killed, robbed, and barely survived.
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, was this something that had already been determined?
If he chooses to be forbearing when it has nothing to do with him, does not take action to kill Master Yin-thorn and Monk Pu Zhi, and does not resolve part of the crisis of Yin coins, he will not have enough Yin De to seal the Five Thunder Evil-Slaying Talisman three times...
If we had not supported the Wenwu Temple, we spent 5,000 yin to seal the Five Thunder Evil Talismans three times, successfully assisted the white coffin female corpse and Mr. Yiyun to launch a counterattack, and successfully delayed Qingqianliu, perhaps we would not have been able to successfully escape from the city tonight.
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And if he did not have the Five Thunder Evil-Slaying Talismans with him 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 do not lead to good fortune..." Jin An once again deeply realized this sentence.
Just when Jin An realized those words, suddenly, the familiar feeling of the great road 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 was not happy because he had obtained Yin De. Instead, he hurriedly helped the mother and son up.
But just as Jin'an rushed to help the mother and son, the people who had been rescued by Jin'an from Chang County also collectively knelt down to Jin'an.
"Thank you Mr. Jin'an for your life-saving grace today."
"Young Master Jin'an's great kindness and kindness will never be forgotten by me, Wang Yong."
"I, Old Yangtou, would also like to thank Young Master Jin An for his life-saving grace."
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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. At this moment, all of them had evil spirits. At this time, Jin An hurriedly helped these kneeling people up.
The people didn't care about their moral integrity... The old Taoist priest was twirling his beard and smiling 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 and get as far away from Chang County as possible, but he did not intend to leave right away.
If you want 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 is saving, and saving a hundred people is also saving. I love helping others, and helping others makes me happy. How can I discuss such vulgar things as whether there is any evil virtue!
"Old Taoist, take this silly sheep first and wait for me in Xiba Village, twenty miles away. I will go find you after dawn and join you."
When the old Taoist priest heard that Jin An was going to the city to rescue people again, he directly 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.
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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 explore the mountain of corpses.
This scared the others half to death, their heads shook like rattles, and no one was willing to go. This was clearly a sign of death. Whoever wanted to go could go. No matter how much money they were given, they would not go, for fear of losing their lives.
Just when they couldn't decide on a candidate, suddenly, a servant who was responsible for the lookout whispered that something was going on. The servant was dumbfounded and said that the mysterious master who had successfully led the people of Chang County to escape from the city, and also brought the old Taoist priest and the look-alike
The sheep's calf has returned to Chang County and is heading towards the house where they are hiding.
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"Master Jin'an!"
"Hahaha, I didn't expect that the mysterious master is actually you, Mr. Jin An!"
"Tonight we just drank wine together and admired the singer at the "Hongyun Gaosheng Hall" in Lefeng Building. Mr. Jin An came to rescue Mr. Chen tonight. Mr. Chen was very moved. Mr. Jin An was indeed
I haven’t forgotten the many times we enjoyed our friendship together.”
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, Jin An almost picked up the old country squire who was his grandfather at this age and threw him as far as he could.
At this time, Jin An's face was darker than the bottom of the pot the goat was carrying.