On the Seven Towers

Ye Zi sat at the door of a small bungalow, wiping her big gun with a piece of cloth. Although her leg injury was relatively light and did not affect her movements, Wang Jiyuan still asked her to leave her post. After all, being shot was a very horrifying experience.

When she wiped the tip of the gun, she suddenly had a premonition that the moment when this sharp gun tip had to drink blood was coming soon, but she didn't know whose blood it would be. Thinking back to the afternoon, if she had been more impulsive, maybe those two people would have died first under her gun?

She sat there and asked herself this question repeatedly, but the answer she got each time was very different.

"What do you want to do by locking us up here? If you want to kill or cut us, just say something." Jiang Jie's sharp voice came from the house behind Ye Zi.

Ye Zi looked inside through the iron bars of the storage room window and saw a pale and distorted face. She sighed somewhat disinterestedly: "Stop arguing, the committee's head Zhou will come to question us later. You can ask him then."

"Hmph, what committee, they are all liars! Cowards! Murderers! They let us students take the lead with empty words, while they themselves cross their legs and hide in the building. Why? Just because they were teachers? They were officials? No one here is nobler than anyone else? Why should I listen to their judgment?" The voice became more and more shrill, like the cry of a crow in a dark forest at night.

Ye Zi ignored her, but Jiang Jie was unwilling to stop: "What's more, Niu Guangcheng and others were killed by you executioners without even a trial. A month ago, we, we were all teachers and classmates, but now we have become butchers and corpses, all the same people from the same place. You...how could you do that? You, don't you have a guilty conscience?"

"They are traitors, they should have thought of this possibility when they shot at us." Ye Zi put his hand on his chest, his heart aching uncontrollably.

"But they didn't want to hurt you, they just wanted to escape. You forced them to do all this. We are not soldiers. We are afraid and want to escape, so what? What if bandits come? Maybe everyone will scatter and hide in big cities to be saved!"

"In such a strange and dangerous place, how can we not unite? Do you think unity means holding hands and singing songs? Do you think unity has no price?"

"Hehe, killing people in the name of unity is really beautiful. Why are there always some people who can say the most beautiful words and do the most disgusting things?" Jiang Jie pressed her face against the iron railing, and the pale starlight made her look like a ghost.

Ye Zi was silent for a while and said, "Qin Mu, who fired the gun, went to be investigated as soon as he came back. If you have anything to say, you should tell Team Leader Zhou later."

"Qin Mu, Qin Mu! He is a beast! What right does he have to decide the life and death of others? Who is he? Sooner or later, he will get his retribution and die without a burial place!" Jiang Jie banged on the door, and the banging sound was particularly loud at night, which alarmed a passing patrol team.

Ye Zi saw several people there leaning their heads and shining flashlights in this direction, and waved his hand in annoyance, asking them to leave quickly.

Jiang Jie was still crying and knocking non-stop, which made Ye Zi very depressed, and her heart seemed to be burning. Just when she couldn't bear it anymore and was about to scold Jiang Jie. Wu Qi's voice rang in the room.

"We are guilty after all, stop making trouble." Her voice was much calmer than Jiang Jie's, but it still revealed sadness, "Ye Zi is just a puppet."

"Wu Qi, even if Li Qiuxin pushed you, you just stood on their side? Have you forgotten how much effort Li Qiuxin spent to bring you with him?"

"In the final analysis, he did it for himself, and so did you. No one owes anyone anything. You stole gold coins, and I stole clothes and tents. These crimes are our own."

Jiang Jie was unable to reply for a long time. Finally, she stammered "but, but." for a long time, but she didn't say a complete sentence.

"We are now traitors who are hated by everyone. Since this is the case, you should be more self-aware." Wu Qi said faintly.

"Few people know about your affairs. In order to protect you, the school should keep it secret." Ye Zi felt that these two women were pitiful after all.

"You don't need to pretend to be merciful." Jiang Jie said angrily.

"This... is useless. There are only so many people in the school. Bad things will spread quickly. Others must have thought so, but we are the only ones who did it. Since we escaped from the wall, we have been outliers. No one will sympathize with us. Even if you saw them being beaten to death on the spot, you would sympathize with us if you didn't feel guilty?" Wu Qi asked back.

"I..." Ye Zi found that the other party had said a fact.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, carrying a noisy sound from afar. Ye Zi listened quietly and found that there seemed to be such disturbing noises in all directions, and it was getting louder and louder.

At this time, she had no time to care about the mood of the two prisoners. She left a sentence, "Something is going on." and climbed up to the roof of the bungalow along the pile of debris in the corner.

She looked around, and then her heart suddenly twitched.

The school wall in this bungalow is not far away, and the view in front is very wide. From here, you can clearly see the plains and roads under the starry sky. Then, unlike previous days, countless flames shone from the horizon. At first they looked like stars in the sky, but soon they became the size of beans. Then they could be seen splitting into several paths, like long red worms, swarming towards the school.

Ye Zi knew that she had been waiting for this day. As a soldier of the guard team, she also thought that she was mentally prepared. However, when she saw thousands of flames coming towards her, she still felt like she had fallen into a deep pool. Her body was stiff and her hands and feet were cold. She wanted to shout for warning, but it seemed that her throat was stuck and she couldn't make any sound for a while.

Fortunately, the sentry on duty also discovered these in time. Soon, the school was filled with impatient bells. Ye Zi looked down and saw many people rushing out of the house in a hurry, carrying weapons and rushing to the fortifications near the school wall.

Screams, shouts, and crying, the whole campus was suddenly awakened in the night, and everyone realized that the horse thieves had finally come.

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Sporadic gunfire had already started. Wang Jiyuan threw the telescope in his hand on the table and said angrily: "Assholes! Who told them to shoot so early? They were just scouts. Signal and let the defense area of ​​the third row of the first company stabilize! Before the enemy group enters the marking line, no shooting is allowed to expose the position."

So a communicator next to him picked up a flashlight, stood at the window, and turned on and off the signal light to the position defending the southeast direction. The signal was given several times, but the position was pitch black and there was no response at all.

The gunfire still did not stop, and people in other positions could not help but fire at the bandits coming and going in front of the position. Wang Jiyuan's brows were getting tighter and tighter.

"I guess they are a little nervous, and their communicator may not have seen the signal here in time." Ji Xun, who was standing aside, said.

He stuck his head out of the window and repeated Wang Jiyuan's order with an electric loudspeaker. Several communicators downstairs rode their bicycles and ran towards several main positions. This is exactly the convenience of setting up the headquarters on the fourth floor of the administrative building. It can overlook the entire battlefield and take into account the convenience of going up and down the stairs to report.

Wang Jiyuan had long seen that the horse thieves could not rush in from a distance to launch an attack on the city. After arriving around the school, they had to at least form a team. Moreover, with the advantage that the school is a long way above the ground, their horses can't play any role. The most feasible way for the leader of the horse thieves is to rush to the bottom of the school's high ground, then climb up the high ground where the school is located on foot, and then find a way to climb over the wall.

There is no doubt that the attack from the time they climbed up the high ground to the wall was the most efficient. The original iron fence of the school has been nailed with heavy wooden blocks. Except for some shooting holes, it is almost airtight. In addition, there is a second line of defense ten meters behind the wall, as well as various fortifications on the roof. The defense circle is actually very stable. The enemy can hardly advance without paying a huge price.

However, after all, the team is too weak.

Ji Xun seemed to see Wang Jiyuan's worries, and took the initiative to say: "I will go to each position to inspect and stabilize everyone's emotions."

Wang Jiyuan waved his hand and said, "Wait a little longer, first see the opponent's main attack direction, and then you go there to watch the situation."

Ji Xun nodded in agreement. Wang Jiyuan could see that Ji Xun was very tired, and comforted him: "I'm sorry that I didn't ask you to go out to find Ji Yijun. But this kid is like a monkey, I don't think the horse thieves can do anything to him. You should be relieved first."

"I know the severity of the situation." Ji Xun punched the windowsill, "We defeated the horse thieves, and Xiaojun will be safe. This is the only thing I can do now."

The two stood silently in front of the window to observe the movements of the horse thieves.

After a while, the ineffective gunshots finally stopped one after another. The horse thieves' cavalry, with a rough and strange laugh, waved the torches in their hands, arrogantly galloped in front of the high ground for a while, and then turned their horses to gallop towards the horse thieves.

Obviously, the bandits had no intention of rushing in all at once. They stopped the team less than one kilometer away from the school, divided into several groups, and guarded the school from the east to the northwest, leaving only a gap leading to the Black Mountain behind. Judging from the number of torches, the enemies gathered at the main gate the most, and many bandits had already dismounted and started to build a simple camp.

One by one, torches made of thick branches and more than one person tall were erected, and wooden chevaux de frise and fences were unloaded from the carriages and began to be assembled to form the walls of the camp.

Ji Xun looked through the telescope for a while and sighed: "I didn't expect these bandits to be so methodical. They know how to surround three and leave one, and set up camp."

"They can dominate the surrounding areas, and they must have their own abilities." Wang Jiyuan said.

"If it were a bunch of thieves rushing over, it would be easy to deal with. But these people obviously want to play it safe, so this battle is not so easy to fight. I wonder if they will attack tonight."

Wang Jiyuan affirmed: "They will. Otherwise, they don't have to come at night. It would be much more convenient to set up camp during the day. It seems that they know we have long-range weapons and want to reduce our accuracy at night."

"Look there!" Ji Xun pointed at the enemy in the direction of the main gate and handed the telescope to Wang Jiyuan. On a slope in front of the main gate, people holding torches were in a commotion. A group of horse thieves holding shields surrounded a man in a robe and stood out. The man looked towards the school for a while and took out a scroll of things.

He unfolded the thing with one hand and danced with the other hand in the air. The yellow light slowly outlined a set of complex runes in the air with his fingertips. After a moment, the light dissipated, and a three-story-high slope actually rose from the ground.

Wang Jiyuan was surprised and said, "Could this be..."

"Magician." A voice sounded from behind him.