33, (borrow a title to call the novel "Opening the Sea")
ps: Make up a chapter that I owe to my book friend Han Ke last month. In addition, I would like to recommend Dulu Hou’s novel "The Sea", although I don’t have time to read it yet (bad smirk).
When Wang Zhong heard the screams of his subordinates, he was shocked, but he still calmed down and called his scattered subordinates to gather at the gate of the settlement to prepare for the unknown threat.
The screaming subordinate also rolled out and crawled out, his head was bleeding and his face was pale. He was obviously scared, which made Wang Zhong's other subordinates nervous and asked him what he had encountered.
"Dead people-houses-maggots-on the ground"
The scared subordinates spoke incoherently, which made everyone who was anxious to understand the situation even more anxious. For a moment, people were panicked. Everyone nervously held the weapons and looked at the empty house courtyard, as if there were evil ghosts hiding in it.
Wang Zhong's mind had stabilized at this time. He didn't believe that those of him could still encounter ghosts in this wild settlement.
He separated everyone, came to the frightened hand, grabbed his clothes, and slapped him hard with the other hand.
"Don't pretend to be a ghost for me. You are afraid of this evil ghost in the mountains, but this evil ghost is afraid of the knife in my hand!"
Wang Zhong scolded the man who caused panic, but he said it to everyone. After he scolded him like this, not only did the panic-in-armed man calm down slightly, but even the man who was originally incoherent could tell the reason intermittently in a crying voice.
It turned out that he was anxious to rush into the house to search for things, but he didn't notice the odor. As a result, he broke into the door and slid his feet and fell down as soon as he rushed into the house. He fell suddenly, but he fell heavily, and he directly broke his head and blood.
Just as he was desperate to stand up and saw what was slipping him down, his hands touched him and had already touched a soft and wriggling thing. He was instinctively startled. When he stood up, he finally saw the horror scene inside the room with the faint sunlight coming in from outside the room.
Several corpses fell on the ground in the house, and the flesh on their bodies had rotted and rotten maggots were constantly emerging. The rotten maggots not only occupied the corpse, but also spread throughout the house, like a layer of white hair. As soon as he stepped into the door, he accidentally stepped on the maggots' bodies, and the body fluid flowed out from the maggots slipped down.
This densely wriggling maggot was originally disgusting. Coupled with the dim light in the house and the rotten corpses, weaving a tragic human condition like a ghost in the daytime. The scared subordinates were so scared that they were scattered, screamed, and crawled out of the yard, which triggered the scene that seemed to be hit by a ghost just now.
As for being incoherent and unable to speak, it is not because of any ghost, but because the person is suddenly frightened. In addition, he fell heavily before and his breath was not smooth, so the good people could not speak.
After understanding the specific situation, Wang Zhong had already made up his mind. He waved his hand and immediately let the other subordinates scatter and go to the various houses to see if there was such a similar situation.
After receiving the order, a dozen subordinates immediately went to check the houses in the wild settlement separately, and soon ran back one after another and reported the situation of the houses they checked to Wang Zhong.
As a result, in other houses in this wild gathering, the corpse just mentioned that the subordinate had rotted and maggots were everywhere in the house, which immediately made Wang Zhong alert.
It is very likely that this wild gathering had an outbreak of plague many days ago. Many mountain people in the settlement fled when they saw something wrong. The rest were infected or unable to escape, and they were slowly dying, so the little gathering turned into a ghost creature on earth.
The plague at this time is even more terrifying than ghosts and gods. Wang Zhong even saw a fort and a villager who was infected with a plague. Since this wild gathering may have been infected with a plague, the food and water source here are also at great risk and cannot be eaten. Wang Zhong even felt that staying here for a while would make him feel uncomfortable all over.
He quickly called his subordinates to withdraw from the wild gathering, and the crowd hurriedly fled along the same path, trying to completely stay away from this ghost creature on earth.
When he escaped back to the original official road, Wang Zhong had just taken a breath and took a bold breath of air. Unexpectedly, his subordinates screamed again, pointing to the rustling weeds beside the road and shouted:
"Someone!"
Wang Zhong was so scared that he hurriedly pulled out the ring-headed knife and looked in the direction he pointed at. He saw the half-height bushes shaking and shaking. It was obvious that someone was splitting the bushes and running backwards. He suddenly shuddered and pointed at the bushes and shouted:
"Chasing, don't let someone run away!"
Wang Zhong was only a dozen subordinates left by his side. There were many refugees who fled to Jingxiang on Wuguan Road, but they were either group of refugees, or wealthy families who migrated from their families, or poor families with their families with their families. The first two were something that Wang Zhong could not afford, while the latter was useless to steal.
It is rare to turn around and run away when you meet a few people. It can be seen that it is very likely that it is a fat sheep. The hungry Wang Zhong could not let go. He immediately called his subordinates and ran towards the other party's escape, rushing into the weeds one after another.
There were only two people who escaped, and their feet were not faster than Wang Zhong and others. They chased them not far away, but were intercepted by Wang Zhong and others. The two people who escaped wanted to resist when they saw this, but after one of them was chopped over by Wang Zhong, the remaining one lost the courage to resist. They could only put down their weapons, kneel down in front of many blade spears, and beg for mercy.
The fugitive who begged for mercy was pale and burst into tears. He seemed to be extremely scared. He kowtowed and answered everyone's questions cryingly under the urge of Wang Zhong and others.
He claimed to be a wanderer from Shang County. Because of the chaos in Guanzhong, he formed a group of young men and wanted to escape to Jingxiang, but he was ambushed by thieves who robbed the road on the road, and suffered heavy casualties. Only he and another companion escaped, and all his belongings were lost when they ran away.
Unexpectedly, after escaping, they ran into Wang Zhong and his group again. He and his other companions were afraid that Wang Zhong and others were also thieves who were seeking money and killed, so the two of them were panic and wanted to get into the grass and escape.
Wang Zhong and others were skeptical about his words, but Wang Zhong's subordinates searched his whole body and did not find any dry food or water bags. There was only an iron sword representing the identity of Ranger, but it had long been seized by Wang Zhong.
Wang Zhong's men couldn't find anything, and they suddenly became uninterested. The momentum that had just chased the fat sheep disappeared, and they shouted that they took off his clothes and spared his life.
They are not officials, they are all miserable people busy running away. They really have no time to investigate the identity and authenticity of the fugitive. They don’t want to waste their energy and kill innocent people indiscriminately. They just want to take off their clothes and let him die.
But as Wang Zhong listened to his subordinates' discussion, he quietly observed the change of the fugitive's face. When he saw the golfer's only stripping off his clothes and leaving him to fend for himself, a trace of luck appeared on his face, and Wang Zhong immediately became alert.
In this wilderness, the fleeing person has no clear water, dry food, and has lost his weapons and clothes. In fact, there is no difference between death and death. Not to mention other threats, just mosquitoes bite the whole body, they can absorb all his blood.
The man looked lucky and obviously had something to rely on. Wang Zhong thought about it and had an idea. He immediately waved his hand to order his subordinates to search carefully along the path of the Ranger's escape to see if there was anything hidden secretly.
Hearing Wang Zhong's order, the golfer suddenly showed nervous expressions, but he also noticed Wang Zhong's knife-like gaze, immediately drooped his head and buried his face low to prevent Wang Zhong from seeing it.
When Wang Zhong saw this scene, he smiled and curled his lips proudly. His old job was the pavilion leader who chased the thief, just like the fierce tentacle, with a very vicious look. He would never miss his eyes when dealing with bad people.
Sure enough, Wang Zhong's men soon searched a large package not far from the road where the Ranger escaped, which contained not only a few pieces of gold cakes, clean clothes, water bags filled with water, and even a few pieces of air-dried jerky meat.
This time, Wang Zhong's men were no longer polite. They punched and kicked the Ranger who concealed them, and beat Ranger to the bruised face. Only then did they breathe a sigh of anger and stopped.
Of course, what is more important is that Wang Zhong has begun to distribute clear water and jerky meat, and everyone left Gouxia'er and put it in to distribute the water and meat.
After the water was divided, Wang Zhong, who was swelling his cheeks and chewing them as hard as iron, had no taste of jerky meat. He proudly held the knife on his neck, which was covered in blue and swollen and bleeding, and sneered coldly:
"You dare to deceive Mr. Nai. If you kill you today, you can't blame others."
The golfer seemed to be dying, but when he heard Wang Zhong's words, he opened a mouthful of blood with difficulty. Looking at Wang Zhong who was chewing, he smiled revenge:
"I have never lie to you. I really don't have dry food. The bag contains dead flesh, not anything to eat."
The words of Youxia'er's chuckling seemed to stir up a thousand waves. Wang Zhong's face instantly turned blue and white, extremely ugly. He felt as if a fly flew into his throat. He was not thrown away the dried meat in his hand. If he hadn't held it, he would have almost vomited on the spot.
His subordinates were even more unbearable. Some of them hugged their stomachs on the spot, some were so scared that they threw the jerky to the ground, and some tried their best to sniff their throats, trying to spit out the jerky that they had just swallowed whole.
I have heard of eating human flesh, seen, and stuttered into my mouth, and felt completely different from eating it in my heart, not to mention that I had no psychological preparation in advance.
These are normal reactions. Wang Zhong forced himself to resist the uproar in his stomach. He was aroused by the clumsy behavior of an evil ghost who ate human flesh. He was so righteous that he hated evil when he was a chief of the Ting, kicked Ranger over and cursed loudly:
Chapter completed!