Love and passion, cutting up the wasteland

The soldiers of Kaitun City searched in the ruins. The sky was dim, and the reflection of bright silver armor pieces could be seen everywhere in the collapsed buildings and the opened corridors.

Compared with Lu Meng, their number was already large, but Kaitun City was not known for its military strength among the southern states. Moreover, this time there was only his own force plus a few foreign troops, which was far inferior to the coalition forces during the suppression of the Blood Rebellion.

Therefore, Tian Xinli Zheng even ordered only two hundred-man teams to cooperate with the high wall shield guards to stay behind, and the rest of the people all headed towards Aikuang Town, which was quite resolute, but if they really wanted to sweep this road carefully, the pace of progress would inevitably be slowed down.

"This is the captured prisoner, it seems that they are the former inner city people." On the vanguard road of Kaitun City, one of the officers listened to the report of the scouts, looked at the people who were brought back, and then frowned.

There were more than a dozen captives in front of him. They were all skinny and short. The head on their necks, which was originally the same as that of ordinary people, looked extremely large in contrast. The combination was extremely weird, and they looked like dwarfs.

It made people feel physically uncomfortable at first sight.

If it was malnutrition, it was reasonable. The officer had seen many children in the slums. They were pale and thin, and weak in movement... But according to the report of his soldiers, these former citizens of Aikuang Town were flexible in the ruins, like wild beasts in the dense forest. The collapsed steel walls were their nests, and many soldiers were injured in the fierce battle.

They didn't look malnourished at all.

The officer scanned these citizens one by one, and for a moment he suddenly realized the source of his strange feeling - it was their eyes: they were obviously captives, but there was no fear in their eyes, but they looked straight at him.

There was a sense of curiosity.

Or desire?

"Kill them." The officer made a decision without hesitation. His men had interrogated them before, but could not get any useful information - it was not that their methods were not cruel, but that the citizens were screaming and shouting, and they could not understand them at all.

Facing the butcher's knife, the dozen citizens still did not panic. When the soldier cut open the throat of the first person, some citizens even shouted - not because of fear, but because of excitement.

The light in these people's eyes made the officer feel cold. He was also a veteran who had experienced hundreds of battles. No matter how tragic the death was, it could not shake his mind. But after witnessing this scene, people felt that they did not want to stay for a moment.

Perhaps it was because they saw people of the same kind as themselves become no different from beasts.

He turned his head and asked, "Have you checked the residences of these citizens?"

"The researcher from Colons went there and is now staying there alone, accompanied by some soldiers from the Wandering End - our brothers can't get along with them."

The officer nodded and agreed with his men's opinion.

Wandering End sent about a thousand soldiers as a helper, which made up for some of the shortage of Kaiton City without taking over the main force; on the other hand, Colons City only sent a team of researchers, who were mysterious, which made many grassroots soldiers in Kaiton City like them dissatisfied.

Among the southern states, Colons City can be said to be the safest and most peaceful one. It is surrounded by mountains and waters, has fertile soil, and has pleasant natural conditions. The enemy does not approach any neighboring country. The ferocious beast disasters in the Skeleton Wasteland are all stopped by Kaiton City. The occasional endless fishmen crossing the sea are also solved by Wandering End. There is almost no danger to approach this hinterland; Grace's men also control the largest slave trade market and hunter gang in the south. The servants and slaves of several major city-states have to purchase goods from here.

In fact, the foundation is quite deep.

In addition to the large-scale slave farms owned by the great lords, Colons City lives a self-sufficient life all year round, and has the spare energy to tinker with some topics that seem strange to outsiders.

But on the other side of Coronce are the southern wetlands and the ruins in the southwest of the continent, and there is no shortage of resources and ancient books for research.

It can be said that it is uniquely endowed.

However, at this moment, when the soldiers are risking their lives to explore in the Ai Mining Town, they sent a few researchers to pick up the leaks afterwards, which is quite unpleasant.

"It's okay, sir." The soldier approached the officer and whispered: "Before those glasses kids went, I had already swept it with my brothers and brought out everything that could be moved. I only left them what they wanted, and the rest was not wasted at all-I didn't expect these citizens to look like starving ghosts, and they usually eat well."

The basement was full of strips of meat torn apart and ready to be dried, as if they were from some large animals, which could not be identified for the time being.

Perhaps after decades of abandonment, the ecology inside Ai Mining Town has actually recovered very well, just like the countryside outside.

No wonder the citizens have become like this-they have returned to the life of eating raw meat and drinking blood in the wilderness, and have completely degenerated.

All the prey they had accumulated was given to this vanguard team.

After hearing the report from his subordinates, the officer felt that General Tianxin was still too cautious. He might have been frightened by the life of the wild people outside, so he asked everyone to prepare a lot of military food and supplies in advance, and acted as if they were going on an expedition - they still relied more on the city of Coronce for procurement, which exchanged for a lot of high-quality weapons and armor that they had opened.

The soldiers and horses should move forward before food and grass are used. You must know that maintaining logistics troops may require several times more than the regular army. Now that the inner city residents have their own food reserves, they can plunder and loot as they go, which can alleviate most of the supply pressure.

If reported to General Tianxin.

It should be a great achievement.

At this moment, all the dozen prisoners were executed, and the rich blood flowed all over the ground, soaking into the sand-covered bluestone floor. The executioner swung the knife and the blood was so loud that many soldiers and scouts cheered.

The officer also turned around and applauded gently, and at the same time announced the good news to everyone: "Everyone will have extra dinner tonight."

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After confirming Lu Beiyou's safety, Huo Buyang turned over and helped Chi Zi remove his warrior armor. In the process, he inevitably brought up a lot of sticky flesh and blood.

In the quiet city, even the sticky sounds could be heard clearly, which made people feel hairy. However, the young officer looked like he was fine and thanked and said hello to several people around him.

Ah Mao rushed forward with a first aid kit and skillfully began to debridement, suturing, and bandaging... Izumi walked forward as if she had regained consciousness at her feet. When she came to her senses, she was already beside everyone.

Lu Beiyou was surrounded by several people, as if he was undergoing a consultation with an expert. Perhaps he was deliberately not allowed to see her. Izumi was anxious, and when he looked around, he noticed the two people who came back with Lu Beiyou.

They should be the other two companions he mentioned.

It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, the girl is shocked when she sees it. It turns out that she has never seen their appearance before: the thin body, the skin is dry, the head is pointed, the downward waist is tightened by less than a hand, and the calf is like It was like a bamboo pole and had no soles. It just stuck on the ground and walked. It was much later that Izumi found out that Beepu was a worker bee who had broken off its antennae and was exiled from the hive. At this moment, she just thought it was very strange.

The other person was covered in iron gray, with limbs made of steel frames and bearings, and a three-hole camera on his head. Izumi knew this very well. Her eyes lit up: Skeleton Man!

"How is the old road?" Bippu got out from under the armor, turned over and sat directly on the shoulders of the skeleton man Sadnier, using his height to look into the circle of people.

Although Sadnier had said depressing words before that everyone was going to die, when he was in front of a few people, he did not continue to speak and create anxiety. Instead, he held Bippu closer and moved closer.

"The injury is stable..." Chiqi wiped his sweat. Although this former female thief didn't know much about medical knowledge, she was very flexible. She had always been Ah Mao's assistant, and now she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Bippu will know!" Bippu patted Sadnier's head vigorously, and said as if he was declaring victory: "Other than Bippu, Lao Lu is the strongest swordsman in the world - since I haven't If you die, then nothing will happen to Laolu!"

If the worker bee hadn't used too much force and was sore from the shock of the skeleton man's iron head, he would indeed have sounded quite impressive.

"..." Izumi opened her mouth, but there were so many flaws and weird logic in the other person's words that she didn't know where to start.

The remaining few people are used to it.

"What happened?" Huo Buyang asked calmly.

"It's a large group of humans...endless." Sadnier repeated in his cold voice, "As soon as they saw us, they rushed up. It seemed they wanted to kill..."

"No!" Bippu raised his hand and corrected, "Those are not murderous movements and looks - they just want to eat us!"

"Even Bippu was bitten." The worker bee motioned to several people to look at his arm, and saw a big hole there. You could even see the bones and strange organs in the chest. The edge of the wound was a jagged circle. Teeth marks, dry yellowish marks flowing down the body.

The next moment, Chi Zi pulled him off the Skeleton Man's shoulders and pressed him next to Ah Mao: "Why didn't you tell me earlier that you were injured too!"

"This, this little injury, I'm used to it!" Bippu was still struggling, but he was so thin that he couldn't even break free from the female thief's one-handed restraint.

With skilled hands, Ah Mao tied the worker bee into a mummy rice dumpling.

Just when Bippu was still unable to move, Lu Beiyou, who had just received treatment, had already stood up on the ground. Even though he was seriously injured, he never put down the knife in his hand. Even though Huo Buyang and Chi Sei were already used to it, there was still a strange look in their eyes at this moment.

Huo Buyang knew even more clearly that this officer came from a noble family and was obviously supposed to be pampered and domineering, but in fact he was quite unexpected - and what was hard to imagine was that Lu Beiyou usually acted cautiously but sometimes he was extremely bold, quite a bit. There is a madman-like spirit of seeking death, as if this life does not matter even if it is lost.

This cannot be done through pretense.

It is admirable that two completely opposite and conflicting qualities can appear in one person at the same time.

Perhaps it is for this reason that he can always save the day from danger.

"It's a cannibal." Lu Beiyou's helmet has been taken off by Ah Mao, revealing a head of blood-stained white hair, which looks fierce - and most of the blood all over his body is indeed not his own. of. He calmed down and seemed to be talking to himself: "The dynamic reaction is amazing... The survivors of Aikang Town have all been transformed."