I, mythical giant

Chapter 46
Kunwuzhiye means a fertile plain named Kunwu.

The land here is fertile and the products are rich. It should be a place to live and work in peace and contentment.

But the war destroyed it.

A few months ago, Cheng Tang's army came from the north, and the Kunwu wilderness was unsafe to defend. The Kunwu country barely held the capital for two months, and was finally defeated and the country was subjugated.

But this fertile field, which was originally peaceful and peaceful, was trampled by the iron hooves of war, and the citizens of Kunwu who lived on the plain were either killed or captured as slaves.

Now it is almost a ruin.

In the morning, Jiang Shan took Zhong Yu to the junction of Kunwu Wilderness and Zhang'e Mountain. He first found a cave and placed Zhongyu there, agreeing to return before dark, and then Jiang Shan entered Kunwu Wilderness.

Kunwu's wilderness is flat and vast, boundless as far as the eye can see.

Under the cover of some low vegetation, Jiang Shan quickly penetrated, and the ruins of some villages gradually appeared in sight.

There are more and more dead bodies and bones.

There are more and more battlefields, large and small, left behind by the battle.

At noon, when passing through a ruined village, Jiang Shan found traces of living people.

Then they were found in a cellar deep in the village.

two small children.

There is a boy and a girl. The girl is about eleven or twelve years old, and the boy is about six or seven years old. They are both skinny and skinny.

Seeing Jiang Shan, the two children were trembling with fear.

"Don't be afraid." Jiang Shan jumped down from the cellar and said without approaching rashly, "I am not a soldier of Cheng Tang."

The two children huddled in the corner. Hearing this, they raised their heads cautiously, observed Jiang Shan, and found that he really didn't seem to be a soldier, so they relaxed a little.

The girl said timidly: "Who are you?"

Jiang Shan's mind changed and he said: "I, Jiang Shan, am a noble of Kunwu Kingdom."

The girl said: "Are there any nobles in Kunwu?"

Jiang Shan said: "I was lucky enough to escape with my life."

As he spoke, he slowly came forward, sat down in front of the two children, and said, "What about you?"

The girl hugged the little boy tightly, looked at him slightly nervously, shrank back, and whispered: "My younger brother and I went out to collect firewood, but we were not caught by them. But my father and mother..."

Already sobbing.

When Cheng Tang's army captured the slaves, these two children happened to be out of the village and escaped by chance.But their parents, relatives, and villagers in the village were all captured or killed.

They were still young and didn't know what to do, so they hid in the cellar; because Cheng Tang's army had plundered almost all the village's supplies, they had less and less to eat these days, and the two siblings were almost unable to survive. .

"What's your name?" Jiang Shan asked in a harmonious voice.

The girl said, "My name is Zhi, and my brother's name is Shi."

The two siblings are just savages, they have no surnames, only first names; but the sister’s name is very nice, Zhi.The fragrance of Zhilan means beauty.

The younger brother's name is Shi, the stone of stones.Their parents wanted him to be as solid and tenacious as a rock.

"You are a noble, can you save us?" Zhi pursed her dry and cracked lips, her withered face full of hope.

Jiang Shan sighed in his heart when he heard the words.

He didn't say anything, but took a piece of bloody beast meat from the Qiankun Bag, tore it into small strips, handed it to the siblings, and said, "Eat something first."

Seeing the siblings devouring a piece of animal meat each, Jiang Shan asked, "How far is Kunwu City from here?"

After eating the meat of the ferocious beast, the siblings' faces soon gained a trace of color, and their courage suddenly became much stronger.

Zhi said: "I don't know. I just remember that my father used to go to Kunwu City. He set off in the morning and returned home after two sunsets."

Jiang Shan understood.

An ordinary person sets off on the first morning and will not return until the third day; after a little calculation, he knows that Kunwu City is not far from here—for Jiang Shan.

Zhi said: "Are you going to Kunwu City?"

Jiang Shan nodded, then shook his head: "I want to know what's going on with Cheng Tang's army."

Zhi shook her head and said, "I don't know."

But he said, "That's right. Ten days ago, it seemed that many, many people passed by on the road outside the village. Shi and I didn't dare to go out. We don't know what happened."

When Jiang Shan heard this, he secretly said, "An unexpected gain."

While thinking about it, Jiang Shan murmured: "I'm going to visit Kunwu City, what are your plans?"

Both siblings looked confused.

They have no idea what to do, what to do, what to do.

Jiang Shan thought for a while and said, "Stay here and wait for me to come back. I'll see if I can arrange it for you."

So he left some food - the meat of ferocious beasts could not be left to them. It was okay to eat it on the spot, but he was afraid that keeping it would attract the covetousness of other beasts and harm the siblings. It was not that Jiang Shan was reluctant to part with it.

One deer leg was left so that they could save it.There wasn't much food in Jiangshan. It was the leftovers from a deer that happened to be shot when we came out of Zhang'e Mountain in the morning.

Instructing the two siblings to hide well, Jiang Shan left the village.

When I went outside the village, I saw footprints and ruts on the road layer upon layer. Even after more than ten days, they were still clearly visible.

——In order to hide his whereabouts, Jiang Shan did not walk on the main road.If Zhi hadn't told him that many people had passed by on the road for more than ten days, Jiang Shan would have ignored this information.

After thinking about it for a while, Jiang Shan had some guesses in his heart; he kept it in his heart for a long time, and then quickly went to Kunwu City.

Half a day later, Jiang Shan almost returned by the same route.

Kunwu City is gone—not even a ruin. It has become a huge pit with a radius of dozens of miles. The pit is almost half filled with water, like a lake.

On the edge of the lake, there is a vast camp that has been mostly demolished.There was no one around.Cheng Tang's army went nowhere, leaving only a mess.

At that time, Jiang Shan thought of what Zhi said, what happened to many people on the road outside the village more than ten days ago.Judging from the time of the traces left by the demolished camp, it was demolished more than ten days ago, not more than half a month.

That is to say, Cheng Tang's army left Kunwu Wilderness more than ten days ago.

This is good news, and it also confirms Jiang Shan's previous speculation.But at the same time, a new question emerged - where is Cheng Tang's army now?

If you don't understand this and run around with Zhongyu, if you are not careful, you may hit the area radiated by the military power, and you will die without knowing how.

His jade pendant is by no means omnipotent.Moreover, there were extremely powerful men in Cheng Tang's army.

It's a pity that Jiang Shan didn't find even a living person, and no one helped him solve his doubts.

With such doubts in mind, Jiang Shan returned to the ruins of the village where the siblings lived.But Jiang Shan didn't catch their aura - Zhihe Shi, gone!

Just half a day's work.

Jiang Shan rushed to the cellar, but saw a white skeleton standing quietly at the entrance of the cellar, the hollow eye sockets of the skeleton were fixed on him.

(End of this chapter)