Omi had to sit up

Continue to go west for three hundred miles, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, the people on the official road become more deserted, the original caravans are gradually decreasing, and there are pedestrians in twos and threes on the road, or families who have migrated with their families, or beggars who have fled all the way , everywhere you see, everyone is displaced and depressed.

Chen Shu and Xie Zhen walked on the same road, but in the opposite direction to the refugees. Ten days later, a small city was seen near the official road.

"According to the blueprints submitted by the Taihua Academy, this should be the last city after we enter Xihammer." Chen Shu looked at the map in his hand and said, "After this market, there will be no place to resupply. "

West Hammer is drought. In the past two years, due to the drying up of the western river and the depletion of water sources, most of the towns and villages ahead have disappeared. The meaning of the last city here also includes that if you continue westward, there will be few people and it will be a desert.

There are many dangers after stepping into the desert, he and Xie Zhen can only rely on their own strength to move forward.

"Let's go." Xie Zhen glanced at the dilapidated city gate, nodded yes, and rode in with Chen Shu.

The last city of West Hammer is named Kangwu, which was originally a transportation hub leading to West Hammer. It used to be a commercial market from the middle of Li Kingdom to the west. However, with the arrival of drought, the population of West Hammer gradually decreased, and refugees moved eastward. Well, the wealthy businessmen in the city evacuated after hearing the disaster, and Kangwu City was quickly defeated within two years. When Chen Shu and Xie Zhen entered the city, there were only a lot of sheds built in the city, but most of the sheds were already covered with thick The dust was thick, and there were only five or six yamen servants and officials standing under the sheds, with pots and bowls spread out below, and they were taking turns giving rice porridge to the victims.

In the hot sun, outside the porridge shed, victims have already lined up a long queue.Most of these victims are old people, children and women, dressed in rags and skinny as bones.And the yamen servants who donated rice porridge also seemed to be weak and not in good spirits.

Chen Shujiu did not return to the Li Dynasty. Although he learned that the situation in Xizhu was worsening when he was in Sangju, he did not actually go to Xizhu to see it. When he saw the situation at this time, he felt devastated and a miserable prison on earth. The promenade cannot be stopped.

After the sound of horseshoes, the two were speechless for a while.After a while, after the long queue of victims passed by, Xie Zhen's voice came: "The magistrate of Kangwu has written letters many times, and the water source here will also be exhausted. In more than a month, the town here will also become A deserted city."

Chen Shu raised his eyes, and saw that behind the porridge shed was the shelter of refugees, and there was a simple grass shed beside it, but when he walked on the road, the refugees could not see the end.

Most of the refugees who settled in Kangwu City were either suffering from illnesses or were physically weak and could no longer withstand the long journey.If this city was wiped out under the drought, then what I saw in front of me was that few people would be able to escape.

"I don't know what's going on under this drought." Chen Shu pondered for a while, still worried in his heart, "You are still seriously injured, if something happens, come to me first."

Chen Shu used the power of Changming to induce the rain when he was in Beiguan, but since he set off to the west, he tried to pray for rain as before, but he didn't know if it was because of the decline of Changming, or because of the disaster in the west. The imagination was complicated, and the rain didn't fall, but Xie Zhen who was next to him stared at him for a long time.

"Okay." Xie Zhen replied quickly after hearing the word "beside".

With Xie Zhen's answer, Chen Shu felt relieved, and rode his horse through the shelter of the refugees together with the men, but as soon as he reached the door of a thatched shed, a figure suddenly jumped in front of Xie Zhen's horse. Wearing ragged and mended clothes, he yelled loudly as soon as he bumped into the horse's hooves: "Young masters, please stay behind! Please save my younger brother, save my younger brother..."

The horse under Xie Zhen's seat had been traveling for a long time, but it was already exhausted at this time. Hearing the sound, he immediately hissed in alarm, and began to move up and down restlessly, even shaking Xie Zhen's figure sitting on the horse.

Chen Shu didn't expect a refugee to come out on the way, and his face changed, but Jian Zhen had already reined in his horse and backed up to stabilize the horse, so his original face eased a little. Looking at the refugee blocking in front of Jie Zhen, he shouted in a low voice: " You don't want to die? How dare you send yourself under the horse's hoof?!"

The refugee who broke in suddenly trembled all over. He didn't expect that he stopped a horse, and the people with him reacted the most.She panicked, and hurriedly bowed her head and knelt down in the direction of Chen Shu, bowed three times and said: "Young master, forgive me, son, forgive me, my daughter is not intentionally blocking the way of the two sons, really It's my little girl's younger brother who is dying, and my little girl has no choice but to ask the two of you for help..."

She said, fearing that the person immediately would not agree, she kowtowed continuously.

Chen Shu fixed his eyes and looked at the refugee in front of him. He saw that the refugee was skinny and looked very young, not more than 20 years old.

He froze for a moment, turned his head and looked at Xie Zhen.

Xie Zhen's expression did not change, but the road ahead was suddenly blocked, and his face looked a little cold, but he didn't say anything. Instead, the nearby victims all looked in the direction of Chen Shu and Xie Zhen one by one.

"Get up." Chen Shu looked away, sighed in his heart, and said to the refugee, "What's wrong with your brother? Is he injured or sick?"

Seeing the reply from the short-haired young master, the refugee quickly wiped away the tears on his face, and replied, "I, I don't know, my brother was fine when he went to fetch water in the morning, but he couldn't do it after he came back..." She Speaking of this, I was afraid that the young master in front of me would not agree, so I bowed down again and said: "Young master, as long as my brother is fine, the little girl is willing to be a slave and a handmaid, and work for the two young masters. As long as the young master can save my brother .”

"..." Chen Shu saw the female refugee pleading in a low voice, seemed to think of something, fell into a brief silence, and finally got off the horse under the gaze of the refugee.

Xie Zhen didn't object, and followed Chen Shu off his horse.

Seeing this, the female refugee kowtowed again to thank her, and hurriedly got up and took the two of them to a shelter for the victims.Several thatched huts were temporarily built in this residence, and under each hut there were many victims of the disaster. When Chen Shu and Xie Zhen came, they could only hear crying in the hut, the sound was sad and continuous.

The female refugee's face changed slightly when she heard the cry, she hurriedly quickened her pace, led the two of them to a corner, got into the hut with a short body, and pointed to a thin figure lying inside.

"He is my brother." The female refugee said.

The victims' sheds had a bad smell. Chen Shu and Xie Zhen looked at each other, and their gazes fell on the person in the arms of the female refugee. They saw that the refugee's younger brother looked about the same size as Xie Su, but he was as thin as a bone.His eyes kept turning upwards, and his tanned complexion was showing an unnatural blue color at this time. He kept grabbing the thatch on the ground with an extremely painful expression.

Chen Shu's eyes suddenly froze, and stayed for a while on the blue color on the boy's face.

"You two, this is my younger brother, can you save him?" the female refugee asked.

Chen Shu frowned, stretched out his hand and pulled the boy's skirt to take a look, then stopped and asked, "Before your brother had this symptom, did you meet anyone?"

"I don't know..." The female refugee couldn't answer for a while, but repeatedly wiped her tears and said: "My brother went out to fetch water with the people in the next shed this morning. There were six of them, but they came back in the morning. Afterwards, accidents happened to all six of them, and now only my younger brother is left...Young Master, my younger brother and I depended on each other for our lives, and finally escaped and settled here, you must save my younger brother."

She looked at Chen Shu pleadingly while talking, but saw the short-haired young man frowned and asked, "Are these six people having the same symptoms as your brother?"

"I went to other sheds to see their remains, and they were all the same." The female refugee said in fear, "Did my brother catch some kind of plague?"

If it was infected with the plague, under the current conditions, the entire Kangwu City would probably become a dead city. Chen Shu shook his head and said, "It may not be the plague, I have seen this symptom."

The female refugee was taken aback when she heard the words, and Xie Zhen also looked at Chen Shu, asking with a look in her eyes, "Have you seen it?"

"Back when Fang Shouqian bought the medicine, he used this poison to deal with Robber Bone." Seeing Xie Zhen's puzzlement, Chen Shu immediately lowered his voice.

Xie Zhen's eyes darkened instantly, and he frowned and said, "Toxic students?"

"I'm afraid it's his handwriting."

"..."

Xie Zhen fell into silence.

Chen Shu knew that Lu Qi beside Xie Zhen was inextricably linked to Tu Dusheng, but he had been away from this world for more than a year, and when he came back, he reunited with Xie Zhen and did not ask about the current situation of the two of them for a while. sinking.

An Yu, the Toxic Sheng Zhen, ranks third in Jianghu Records. He once controlled the ups and downs of the Li Dynasty's throne for several years.This Xihammer disaster is serious, if he appears here, there is probably something strange.

Chen Shu was secretly worried. He settled down, but seeing the begging eyes of the female refugee next to him, a starlight still radiated from his hand, and slowly tapped into the boy's Yintang, and began to dispel the poisonous gas in the opponent's body.

The blueness on the boy's face began to fade slowly, and his breathing began to gradually stabilize. After a while, he slowly opened his eyes.

The female refugee was overjoyed, and immediately wanted to kowtow to Chen Shu again, but was stopped by Chen Shu raising her hand.She was taken aback for a moment, but when the savior looked at her younger brother, she suddenly asked, "Little brother, you went to fetch water today, but did you meet a person with a bell tied in his hair?"

When the boy woke up, his eyes showed a trace of fear and confusion.

The female refugee looked at her younger brother, then at her savior, and hurried forward and said, "Second brother, they are not bad people. Can you tell me what you encountered when you fetched water this morning?"

With his older sister, the boy seemed to have settled down. He looked at the short-haired young man and calm man in front of him, frowned and recalled carefully: "We, we are the same as usual today, except for meeting a strange person on the road, nothing happened. Yes. Sister, what happened here?"

The female refugee hesitated to speak, hugged the boy's head and rubbed it. She didn't dare to say that the rest of the people had died, but just looked at the two men opposite.

The short-haired young man on the opposite side seemed to be investigating something, and asked, "Strange person? Did he attack you?"

"No." The boy said blankly, "We just saw it from a distance, and the big iron head greeted him, but he didn't respond, so we left, but I didn't seem to hear the sound of the bell..."

If the tormented student wanted to kill someone, he would definitely not be left alive, and these refugees had no grievances or enmity with him, so logically they would not spread poison directly.Chen Shu only felt a suspicion rising in his heart, and looked at Xie Zhen again.

At this time, Xie Zhen's face was also uncertain, and after pondering for a moment, he asked, "Then which direction is this person going?"

As soon as the boy heard the directions, he immediately flinched into his sister's arms, with deep fear in his eyes.

"West, he went west," the boy replied.