Beginning to practice immortality as a refugee

Chapter 12 Strangers

Chapter 12 Strangers

After Wang Hu received a slap, his distracted eyes finally came together, and then slowly became fierce, like a wounded lone wolf.

He looked at Lu Ye first, and then turned his gaze to the soldiers not far away who were killing the scattered refugees.

Wang Hu wiped away the snot and tears on his face, climbed up, and held the simple spear in his hand tightly. His face turned red, and half of his face was swollen with the marks of a slap.

A dull voice was squeezed out of his throat, desperate and sad.

"Brother, do what you say and do whatever you want!"

Wang Hu took a big step and was about to rush out and fight to the death with the soldiers who were chasing the refugees by the river.

Lu Ye was so anxious that he couldn't hold it back after several pulls.

Snapped!

He could only give Wang Hu another slap in the face. This time, there were slap marks on the left and right sides of Wang Hu's fierce face, which was finally symmetrical.

Wang Hu was stunned, his fierce aura plummeted, and he looked at Lu Ye with an aggrieved face.

"Brother, why did you hit me again?"

Lu Ye hated that iron could not become steel, and pointed to the mountain.

"Huzi, you're running the wrong way! We have to run up the mountain!"

"There are many officers and soldiers, and there are servants from wealthy families as minions. There are only two of us, and our stomachs are not even full."

"Do you think you are a grand master, rushing to charge thousands of troops by yourself?"

"We brothers want to live, not die! No one has discovered us yet, and it's not time for you and me to fight tooth and nail!"

Wang Hu suddenly woke up and said that he might not be able to listen to anything else, but when it came to the Grandmaster, he finally knew how much he weighed.

"Brother is right," he rubbed the palm marks on his face, "Hiss... don't hit your face so hard in the future, it hurts too much... let's run up the mountain..."

The two immediately supported each other and ran towards the mountain.

Because they were afraid of being exposed on the official road and attracting pursuers, they did not dare to blatantly escape along the road, and could only hurry along the official road.

Wang Hu grabbed Lu Ye's arms and stepped forward, almost trotting. Lu Ye quickly grabbed his arms, deliberately controlling his speed.

"Huzi, don't run too fast. If you run too fast, we have no food in our stomachs and we won't be able to hold on. If we run too fast and lose all strength, we can only fall on the spot and let others slaughter us."

“We just have to run faster than everyone else.”

Wang Hu wanted to say that there were pursuers behind him and he should run as fast as possible, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he felt pain on both sides of his face and immediately changed his mind.

"I understand, brother, I will listen to you from now on."

So the two adjusted their speed, held on to the wooden sticks, supported each other, and walked forward with their waists bent, while not forgetting to turn and look back as they ran.

What I saw behind me was that it had become a hell on earth.

At this time, most of the sun has set below the mountain tops, leaving only a little afterglow trying to illuminate the sky and the earth, like the remaining flame of a candle, which will be extinguished at any time.

Outside the city.

Armed soldiers, government servants and servants of wealthy families rushed out, armed with knives and guns, divided into dozens of small teams, crashed into the homeless shacks, and killed the old and weak indiscriminately.

On the other side, after the officers and soldiers who left the city to suppress the bandits today crossed the river, they launched an attack from behind the refugees, and then divided into several small groups to patrol along the river to prevent the refugees from crossing the river to escape.

The refugees, old and weak women and children who faced the two groups of soldiers were like a fragile piece of tofu, being hit by two hammers at the front and back, and shattered into pieces on the ground.

The setting sun watched silently, dyeing the earth red.

However, the area occupied by the refugee shacks was too large. The officers and soldiers spread out in all directions and attacked from both sides, forming a large and loose net. Many refugees on the periphery escaped from the "net".

Many of them waded across the river from a distance and ran to the foot of the mountain. There were also many refugees who ran to the wilderness on both sides of the city, just wanting to stay away from this hell of fighting.

When scattered refugees crossed the river, a small patrol of cavalry led the infantry to pursue them fiercely.

In just a short time, many corpses fell from the river to the foot of the mountain. Following the fleeing refugees, dozens of soldiers rushed across the foot of the mountain and chased them up the mountain.

Lu Ye and Wang Hu didn't dare to look too much, and hurriedly ran away with support.

The two of them tried to control their foot speed, but behind them were the cries of many refugees soaring into the sky, and the shouts of killing officers and soldiers who were red-eyed with murder. The two of them couldn't help but speed up their steps a little faster.

One step at a time, one step at a time, one step at a time, until the sky was dark enough to hide his figure, Lu Ye dared to pull Wang Hu up the road and escape.

I don’t know how long I ran, but the sounds of crying and fighting in my ears slowly subsided.

The two people were panting heavily and had already run halfway up the mountain. Their legs were trembling, their breathing was rapid, and they were running slower and slower. In the end, they simply moved one step at a time.

Lu Ye and Wang Hu turned around and looked again.

The sun had completely set at this moment, and darkness enveloped the sky.

Outside the city, many refugee shacks were swaying here and there. Many of the shacks were set on fire, illuminating the surrounding area. You could see the corpses of many refugees lying on the ground.

Perhaps the officers and soldiers who "went out" today spent a whole day running around, first killing the young men, and then returning to the city to attack, which consumed a lot of their energy.

There was a horn blowing, and the many soldiers who had been chasing in the mountains held torches and crossed the river to return to the team, and followed the large group of soldiers towards the city.

Wang Hu sat down on the ground and gasped.

"Brother, have we escaped?"

Lu Ye frowned.

The government first singled out the young and strong refugees in the name of conscription, then beheaded them in the name of going out to suppress bandits, and then attacked the refugee shacks occupied by the old, weak, women and children.

The majority of the young and middle-aged refugees were wiped out, and the old, weak and a few young adults who escaped would no longer pose a threat to the city.

It was already dark now, and I was afraid that the government would not have the energy to pursue and kill everyone anymore. "Maybe," Lu Ye took a breath, "Take out the buns, eat some to replenish your strength, and then see if you can hide or escape."

Wang Hu took out the remaining piece of hard bun from his arms, broke it in half, and handed the extra half piece to Lu Ye.

Lu Ye blocked it and took the missing half.

"Huzi, eat more. If we really want to fight, you can't lose your strength."

Wang Hu did not give in anymore. They sat on the mountain path, chewing hard buns to replenish their strength, and stared at the bottom of the mountain.

at this time.

The city gate is open.

First, the officers and soldiers who "went on expedition" today returned to the city.

The soldiers who had previously rushed out of the city to fight were followed by the government officials back to the city.

But the servants of wealthy families who also carried swords and participated in today's encirclement and suppression of refugees gathered together, numbering hundreds of people, and lit torches.

There was a civil servant in red robe, accompanied by many wealthy family heads, riding a big horse and saying something unknown to the slaves.

I saw all the slaves scattered like stars in the sky, scattering into the surrounding wilderness.

There were dozens of people and horses among them, crossing the river and heading straight to the foot of the mountain.

Wang Hu spat hard.

"Brother, look, the officers and soldiers have withdrawn, but those henchmen are chasing us!"

His ideals were disillusioned. He wanted to be a servant of a wealthy family before, but now he calls these people to be their lackeys.

Lu Ye stood up with the hard bun in his hand and turned to look at the top of the mountain. Now the two of them had only climbed half of the mountain road.

"Let's go! Eat while you walk! It's dark, I don't believe these losers will search the mountain carefully."

"Let's run as far as possible to the mountains and hide."

"If you are unlucky enough, you will have to fight hard!"

Wang Hu nodded in agreement, glanced down, and suddenly let out a sigh.

"Brother, look, this official cat is crying and a mouse is showing mercy."

"The front foot is to grab a knife to kill, and the back foot is to find someone to save!"

Next to the red-robed official, I saw a middle-aged, black-robed Taoist priest with a beard getting off his horse, and several Taoist boys immediately surrounded him like stars over the moon.

The black-robed Taoist had an immortal air and a very good skin. He was holding a small flag with many incomprehensible runes painted on it, and he was walking calmly in the bloody field.

There were also accompanying Taoist boys who held bells, struck rocks, or played flutes. There were also several Taoist boys who carried bamboo baskets and took out a lot of paper money and threw them around.

It's just that the Taoist priest led the Taoist boy to wander on this tragic land, his eyes swept the corpses left and right, his face was expressionless, and it didn't feel like he was saving the souls of the dead, but more like going on an outing to pick things.

Lu Ye suddenly felt something in his heart. He inexplicably called up the picture of fish and dragon in his mind and looked at the Taoist priest.

Immediately, the picture showed a man-eating giant crocodile with a ferocious mouth full of sharp teeth.

The man-eating giant crocodile quickly disappeared from the scroll, and another scene was displayed on the scroll.

I saw corpses of refugees everywhere. The Taoist priest was walking among them, shaking the talisman flag in his hand. Among the corpses of the refugees who fell to the ground, pale white shadows floated out from the corpses.

These shadows are somewhat human-like. The head and torso can be barely distinguished, but the limbs cannot be distinguished, and the facial features are all black holes. The "mouth" is opened wide, as if it is screaming in pain.

As these shadows fell into the flag, the runes on the flag became more dazzling and concise.

A few more lines of writing are displayed.

“Name—unknown.

Root bone - psychic jade bone.

Condition - old and feeble.

Lifespan: 93/120.

Qi and blood——3000/10000. "

pat.

Lu Ye opened his mouth wide, and the hard bun in his hand fell to the ground, jumping and rolling down the hillside.

Wang Hu pounced forward and pressed the hard bun firmly under him.

He raised his head in confusion.

"Brother, what's wrong with you?"