The Emperor's Daily Nitpicking

In the south of Tagwa Town, a suburb of the Golden Lion Country, on the forest road leading to the Black Swamp, a team of nearly a thousand people was dragging forward.

It’s a team, but it doesn’t have such a strong sense of togetherness. If someone looks down from a high altitude, they will find that in this so-called team, people are in groups of three or four, and they are not deeply involved with each other.

If you take a closer look, you will find that those groups of people cross and change from time to time, but they are not actually involved too much.

They are like people who just happened to be on the same road unconsciously, except for the seemingly mighty momentum, there is no communication between fellow travelers.

This wave of people came from the country of the Golden Lion, and they were dressed in a mixture of civilians, soldiers, and soldiers. There were men, women, old and young, and even cats, dogs, and even mice mixed in the crowd...

Because of the humidity in summer, the forest will always be filled with thick water vapor at night, which looks foggy.This team was looming in the fog, and it looked like a lot of people, very strange.

They didn't give people a sense of excitement because of the large number of people, but because of the abnormal quietness, they revealed an inexplicable sense of depression and weirdness, like walking dead.

"How far is it, Mom?" A little girl asked in a low voice as she tugged at the young woman who was leading her.

The eyes of children are always extra round, and the whites of the eyes are less than those of adults.It looks extraordinarily beautiful when it is bright and clear on weekdays, but in this foggy night, there is an inexplicable sense of emptiness like a puppet.

The young woman has the same beautiful eyes as hers, but the eyes are also covered with a thin layer of mist, without focus.

She shook the little girl's hand and walked mechanically with her eyes on the front. After a while, she belatedly let out a soft "shh--".Her gaze was dull and fixed, she didn't even look at the little girl, she said in a very flat tone without ups and downs: "It's not here yet, be good."

The little girl's fingers struggled twice like a sudden spasm, and then quickly regained composure, as if the little struggle just now was an illusion.

The mother and daughter walked in the second half of the line, their speed was slower than those of the soldiers and young adults in front, their breathing was a bit heavy, and their steps were a little slow.He had obviously walked a long way and was beginning to be physically tired.

The little girl turned her head slowly, glanced at the end of the line, then turned back with her big eyes wide open and asked in a daze, "Are these extra people at the back also together? Are they going to that place too?"

When they came out of the small town of Tagwa, they had been walking at the end of the team.However, after passing through several refugee villages on the way, some people followed them one after another, joined the team, and trailed behind them not too far or too close.

The young woman nodded, and replied, "Yes dear, they are traveling with us."

Every time these people walked a certain distance, they would subconsciously raise their hands and tap the center of their eyebrows and lips, and read a sentence almost silently.Like doing some kind of worship or prayer.

About tens of meters away from the crowd is the most famous boiling swamp in the south-central part of the mainland.

A large piece of black wet mud lay there, bubbling with bubbles of different sizes, making a slight "beep" sound when it burst, one after another, accompanied by the boiling sound of "cuckoo cluck", it became the only point in this area movement.

The surface of those black wet mud is not smooth, and when the mud bubble bursts, some other weird things will be brought out, floating black on the surface, and swallowed quietly by the soft mud after a while.

There is no vegetation around the swamp for a radius of more than ten meters. Most of them are some long-shrunk stems, drooping and half-hanging in the mud.

Before I got close enough, I could feel the steaming heat from the swamp and the smell of corruption mixed with the damp smell of the soil, which was very pungent.

But the whole team seemed completely unaware that they were approaching danger, they just walked forward mechanically and at a loss, as if they only had their destination in mind, and didn't even know the turns and detours.

A wind swept through the woods, bringing with it the sickening smell of the boiling swamp, and slapped the faces of the crowd.

Probably because the smell was too irritating, a few young men dressed as soldiers at the front of the line frowned suddenly, and blinked a few times in succession. At that moment, their numb and empty eyes finally found a little focus.

In a semi-conscious state, they were intimidated by the swamp in front of them, and they stopped abruptly.

However, the crowd behind still walked forward unaware, pushing the soldiers forward for another distance.

On the one hand, those soldiers fought stubbornly in their minds, trying to make themselves more conscious and able to control their limbs freely enough.On the one hand, it is necessary to compete with the crowd pushing and shoving forward.

Driven by instinct, they almost broke away from the crowd and stepped aside to avoid being squeezed into the swamp.However, the moment one of the soldiers with a baby face struggled to turn his head, he happened to see a group of old and young behind him. The youngest cub was being held in his hands because he couldn't even walk.

The boy's eyes were much clearer than others, but he was equally unaware of danger.

When the baby-faced soldier's eyes met the little thing, the toothless cub stared at him with black eyes, and then suddenly gave him a silly, kid-specific smile.

"I...grab my...hand!" Seeing the smiling soldier suddenly became sober, he turned around for a moment, and shouted to the soldier next to him in a not-so-clean manner: "Quick! Stop... stop them!"

The soldiers in the front row stretched out their hands one after another amidst his shouts, clasped their wrists, and pulled up a thin human wall when their minds were not quite clear, trying to stop the soldiers who were still advancing behind. people who do.

However, it is almost impossible for just a few of them to fight against the nearly thousand people behind them.

While trying to keep themselves awake, they shouted and tried to wake up the people behind them, but they were pushed closer and closer to the boiling swamp by the crowd...

"Stop, stop!!" The toes of the soldiers in the middle almost touched the edge of the swamp, and the shouting suddenly became louder, almost shrill.

However, even so, he didn't think about it, he could still choose to put his hands down and hide himself aside.

"Wake up!!" A very tall soldier on the far side looked anxious, raised his foot and stomped hard on the foot of the person behind him.

Hearing a howl of "嗤——", the order of the crowd became chaotic, and several civilians were awakened by this voice.The crowd was like fire bees gathered around the nest, and the buzzing sound gradually spread from the front to the back.

However, this is only a change at the front of the team, and the large troops behind are still squeezing forward like flesh.

"Ah!!" There was a scream, and one of the soldiers in the front finally couldn't stop it and was squeezed into the swamp.

His eyes widened and he struggled frantically, but in the blink of an eye, most of his body sank, leaving only the position above his chest.Boiling Swamp, as the name suggests, is extremely hot, and just being hot can scald a person alive and peel off a layer of skin.

The soldier's scream became weak, and finally broke at the bottom of his throat, and together with his whole body, sank into the black mud of the swamp.

Once there was a gap in the human wall, several people followed and pushed into the swamp.Three of the soldiers pulling the human wall went down in a blink of an eye.

For a while, the screams continued in this area, which made people's hearts tremble.

The baby-faced soldier persisted and persisted, almost putting all his strength on his heels, but he still failed to block the people behind him.He was pushed and shoved by two waves of people, unable to stand still, and accidentally took a step towards the swamp.

The black mud of the boiling swamp is like the bloody mouth of a ferocious beast, once it bites a foot, it will not let go.

He desperately found that there was an irresistible suction pulling his whole body to the depths of the swamp, and the astonishingly hot black mud had covered his ankles and calves...

Although he was a soldier, he was actually not very old, he might have just grown up, and compared to many people in the crowd, he was even a child, only taller.

His eyes were red, and while screaming with the severe pain under his body, he was still shouting at the people behind: "Stand back! Fuck...wake up!! Ah——"

Just when he felt that the black mud had covered his knees, and the vitality was rapidly draining from his body due to the severe pain, he suddenly heard the howl of a beast from above.

In desperation and bewilderment, he looked up, and found a huge monster with its wings spread and swooping towards this side, and on the back of the beast, there was a tall and thin person riding on it.

The man waved his hand in the night, and at the moment he waved his wrist, the beast under him also swelled up a pair of giant wings almost simultaneously, and slammed it violently.

call--

A gust of wind that was so strong that it could almost lift trees from the ground slammed into the crowd, and the people who were still walking into the swamp were thrown away.

The team of nearly a thousand people pressed one by one, pushed from front to back, and all fell to the ground in a blink of an eye, unable to push forward any more.

The baby's face was red, and while he was desperate, he subconsciously let out a sigh of relief.

Just when he resigned himself to being swallowed by the black mud, he felt his neck tightened suddenly, and a huge force strangled his throat, almost choking him to death.

And when he finally recovered from the severe pain and convulsions, he found that he had been pulled out of the swamp and placed on the ground leaning against a tree.A thin figure was half squatting in front of him, wrapping him up to the knees with clothes ripped from nowhere.

I don't know if it was an illusion, but he always felt that the posture of the package seemed to be useful for his calves.

"Look to see if anyone else has a belt or something like that. Pull out two, and cloth strips are also fine." The man who bandaged his calf said without looking up.

The baby-faced soldier froze for a moment, thinking he was talking to himself.As a result, when he turned his gaze, he found that there was a ferocious beast squatting beside the man. It looked like a snow wolf that came down from the ice and snow plateau. It had beautiful fur, but it was so cold and fierce that no one dared to approach it.It's just that he has never seen such a big snow wolf, and it has a pair of wings!

He thought that just now, this pair of very beautiful wings suddenly overwhelmed nearly a thousand people, and he felt very incredible.When did the wings blow out such a strong wind? !It was as if a god waved his hand and sent a gust of evil wind temporarily.

"Go!" The bandage wrapped it up for the last time, and seeing that the giant beast hadn't moved, he slapped it with his hand and drove it away.

The baby-faced soldier was dumbfounded, thinking that such a scary beast can still be photographed like this?But in the next second, he didn't have time to think about these things, because the pain in his legs climbed up again, causing him to take a deep breath.

"Be patient, don't touch or move for the time being, if you want your calf to grow back." The bandaging man said to him without raising his head.

"Thanks, thank you for saving me..." The baby-faced soldier opened his mouth with difficulty, and whispered, "Can my calves grow well? I have seen people who fell into the boiling swamp, and their flesh was almost scalded. In a blink of an eye, only bones are left...I..."

The man raised his head and raised his eyebrows at him and said, "I said if it can grow, it will definitely grow."

"My God! Your Excellency, Commander!" The baby-faced soldier finally recognized the person coming.

He is none other than Kevin.

Oswald, who was ordered to look for cloth strips, hurriedly scanned the crowd, glanced at everyone's belts, and murmured in his heart: It's so windy when you flap your wings?Tsk... something is wrong.