Chapter 24 third quarter

The black figure walked slowly under the moonlight, and his heavy black cloak brushed the ground behind him, sweeping away his own footprints. He was walking on the military path of Shangyang Pass, and the ground he walked on changed imperceptibly. At first, there was a very slight sound, and then small pieces of soil were lifted up, and tiny insects and ants came out of the ground, not one or two, but There are swarms of ants, scorpions and centipedes. If you don't see it with your own eyes, it's hard to believe that there are so many lives hidden in the soil.But at this time, they pushed the soil away as if they were alarmed, and drilled out of the ground. They circled around violently, and gradually merged into a team. At the same time, they gradually became quiet and no longer flustered.Then they drilled into the soil again, as if there was an invisible vortex on the ground that sucked in these insects and ants, whether they were ants, scorpions or centipedes, they were arranged in an orderly order, and drilled into the largest hole, without competing for the first or not lagging behind.

Under the soil of the entire Shangyang Pass, unimaginable changes have taken place because of his walking.If all the noises are eliminated at this time, standing behind this black figure, you will hear the subtle rustling sound moving in the soil, making people feel like there is a flat layer of mudslides slowly advancing under the ground where he is standing. It's like a huge army again! Dirt, alive. Turning a corner, a group of patrolling Fenghu passed by with horses carrying lanterns on their heads.The black figure walked slowly towards them, and the Fenghu drew their swords in horror.The leader Shichang wanted to shout loudly, but an inexplicable pressure pressed on his body, causing severe pain in his chest, and he could hardly breathe.Resisting the extreme discomfort, he drew his saber from the saddle, and all the sergeants around him also drew their sabers, pointing at the approaching black figure.The great horror caused them not to pay attention to the warning issued by their horses. These well-trained war horses seemed to be affected by the great pressure, but they were still struggling hard, and the eyes of the turning white horses showed great panic. Muscles trembled, trying desperately to get out of some kind of bondage.

The man didn't raise his head, he approached slowly, and when he got close enough to swing his knife, he suddenly raised his head.His face peeked out from under the hood of the cloak. It was not a complete face, because his eyes were too bright, strangely bright, as if absorbing all the light around him.The wind tigers could only see a pair of his eyes, and a mouth that was smiling silently under the eyes.What pale lips, grinning to reveal the same pale gums and sharp teeth, as sharp as those of a wild beast. The sabers fell to the ground one after another, and the soldiers who saw his eyes felt like a nightmare.They are no longer afraid and have lost all thought.They didn't notice at all that the struggling horses had given up their resistance, and the horses bent their legs and knelt down slowly.The sergeants also left their saddles and knelt behind the black figure.The man left, followed by a tide of insects and ants. They came out of the ground, crawled forward, and climbed up along the hands of the soldiers who supported the ground. Soon, these soldiers were covered by insects and ants .

But none of them moved at all, they just knelt there and worshiped the retreating figure, allowing themselves to be devoured by insects and ants. Xue Dayi looked up at the moon, thick clouds came from the north and swept across the sky quickly.He watched the moon disappear behind the clouds. "Damn it, it's going to rain again!" He cursed the damn weather in his heart. He wasn't qualified to be a clerk in the supply camp, so he just cleaned up and buried the corpses, and did some dirty work that clerks wouldn't even want to do.The corpses in the city were far from clean, and there was always an unbearable smell of corpses floating in the air. Xue Dayi could bear the smell better than ordinary people, but when it rained, the corpses would rot faster, but there were not enough people to bury them. I am afraid that there will be an epidemic.

He thought about burying some of the bones that he picked up these days overnight, but he was afraid that the brothers who had slept to death would not get up.These days the share of military rations is decreasing day by day, people sleep more when they eat less, and the gang of sergeants who clean up don't have to be on duty. Some sergeants are like chickens with rooster plague, always awake.In the morning, Xue Dayi saw some brothers sleeping crookedly, and often suspected that those people were dead, but when he went up and shook them, he could wake them up again, but he was still lazy and lack of energy.

There was a vague worry in his heart, but he couldn't be sure. He hesitated for a moment, thinking that he didn't have to make such a fuss, he might as well make another tour of the camp and go back to sleep.He was punished to patrol the camp, so there is no need to be overly careful. The Peking Camp is heavily guarded, and it is difficult for spies to get in. He tapped the copper shield he carried with the handle of the knife, and the empty sound was heard far and wide in the night, which was a night watch rule.This is the center of the Beida Camp. The horses waiting to be slaughtered are penned in the nearby stables, and the wounded soldiers sleep in the barracks. There is basically no one walking around here at night.

"Sleep on the saddle--knife and gun--" he cried hoarsely. These words are no different from the "beware of candles" shouted by watchmen in big cities, but what matters in the barracks is not candles, but vigilance.Bai Yi's laws are strict. Cavalrymen must rest their heads on the saddle when they sleep at night. One is to take off the saddle and fight the horse easily; Military punishment. Naturally, no one would answer him, a damp and cold wind blew through the air, and Xue Dayi tightened his neckline. He wanted to turn around and go back to his barracks, but at this moment he saw the door of the barracks in front was open, and the door leaf was rattling in the wind, and from time to time it hit the wall making a loud noise.

"Grandma, these wounded soldiers have slept enough to death! Don't sleep to death!" He cursed a few words viciously. Leaving the door of the barracks open at night is a violation of the prohibition, but that barracks is a barracks for wounded soldiers, so even if they violate the military regulations, there is no penalty.Xue Dayi moved his legs, wanting to go up and close the door for them.He thought in his heart that he might as well lock the door outside, so that the wounded soldiers would not be able to go out to eat when they wake up tomorrow morning. Even if they were punished a little, it would be justified by the higher authorities.

Xue Dayi touched the door and suddenly felt a strange feeling. He felt that there was something wrong, the sound of the door hitting the wall was so loud, even a person who was sleeping would be woken up, no one could bear this sound and continue to sleep.But after so long, no one got up to close the door, and there should be nearly a hundred wounded soldiers in this barracks. He yanked open the door!The torch in his hand illuminated a small space in the house, a passageway forward, with beds of wounded soldiers on both sides.At this time, these wounded soldiers were lying quietly on the beds, so quiet that it was unbearable!

Xue Dayi felt that his blood was frozen, and a voice in his heart shouted wildly: "This is wrong! This is wrong!" But he couldn't move, and a huge force oppressed him and slowly approached.His torch was blown by the wind from the house, causing the flames to fly violently behind him, making a whirring sound. He knew it was wrong, he was a person who had dealt with the dead all his life, he could tell the difference between the dead and the living by smelling them on the battlefield, but there was no smell of the living in this room! The pressure from the barracks finally came into play in the light of his torch.It was a figure, shrouded in a thick cloak, walking slowly towards him.The cloak was pitch black, but the inside was as red as blood.The man walked past Xue Dayi, turned his head and seemed to smile slightly at him.Xue Dayi saw the two rows of sharp white teeth in that smile.

That person just walked past Xue Dayi and left without a sound. Not knowing where the power came from, Xue Dayi fought a cold war, and suddenly reacted.This cold war caused severe pain all over his body, as if he had exhausted all his strength to fight a cold war, and the huge pressure on his body suddenly disappeared.Xue Dayi jumped up, grabbed a paper bag from his waist, and threw it at the man's feet. That person was already five steps away from Xue Dayi, and the paper package was broken under his feet.A strong sulfur smell filled the air. It was a bag of sulfur.Xue Dayi then threw out the torch.The sulfur sticks to the sparks and burns rapidly.The man in the black cloak watched silently as the flames began to rise under his feet, spreading upwards. "Dead thing! Dead thing!" Xue Dayi yelled and pulled out his saber, "Then burn you to death! If you burn to death, you will never be able to live again!" Xue Dayi didn't dare to charge forward, but turned his head back in horror. He knew that a strong enemy was in front of him, so he shouldn't turn his head at this time.But the sound from behind was creepy, rustling, like thousands of things crawling fast.He saw the insects and ants coming out of the ground, these little things swarmed towards him as if thirsting for blood, densely packed, the ground was covered with a layer.Before he could escape, the ants got into his boots and were still crawling up his legs.He pulled up his trouser legs, and there was a dark layer on his legs, like thick leg hair. And this is not the most frightening thing, next Xue Dayi saw those wounded soldiers slowly get up from the bunk, stiff and slow. "Dead thing! Dead thing!" Xue Dayi screamed. The man chuckled, the fire on his body had been extinguished at some point, and the brimstone didn't really hurt him. Xue Dayi tried his best to tear off his military uniform, and his chest was also covered with insects and ants in a large dense patch.The insects and ants did not bite him, but seemed to penetrate into his skin. More and more insects and ants climbed up, but not many climbed to his neck. disappeared. "Dead bugs! It's dead bugs!" Xue Dayi's voice was no longer like that of a living person. He suddenly grabbed another paper bag from his arms, squeezed it hard, and crushed it, and the sulfur powder sprinkled his whole body.Howling, Xue Dayi charged at the man in the black cloak. He swung his knife and slashed, but was easily dodged sideways by the man.At this moment, Xue Dayi got an opportunity. He pounced on the still burning torch on the ground like a hungry dog, raised it high, stuck it behind his back and ignited the sulfur on his body. He turned into a fire man, and those insects and ants were crazily crawling out of his body, Xue Dayi's body was like a nest of insects and ants, tens of thousands of them were shaken out in the flames.Xue Dayi rushed forward madly with flames, he rushed to the edge of the well, but instead of taking water, he pushed the bronze bell by the edge of the well with all his strength. Bells run across the night sky! "An enemy is coming! An enemy is coming!" Xue Dayi roared in the flames. In front of the main gate of the North Camp, Xi Yan came galloping on his horse, and Mo Xue spouted heat and stopped beside Bai Yi, followed closely by Lu Guichen and Xiyuan's horses. Xi Yan jumped off the horse, went up and pressed Bai Yi's shoulder: "What's wrong? Where is the enemy?" Xiyuan looked around nervously, only to see more and more soldiers gathering towards this side, but they all surrounded the door to form a defensive formation, and the enemy was completely invisible.The entire defense formation is facing the camp, so it seems that the enemy is actually in the Beida Camp!Xiyuan was stunned to stay there. After the zombies attacked the city that night, the defense in Shangyang Pass was planned again and again. It was extremely cautious, and there should be no loopholes. But suddenly the alarm bell rang, and the enemy had already invaded the Chu Wei Kingdom's luggage. Beidaying where it is located. Bai Yi didn't answer Xi Yan's question. He half-kneeled on the ground, holding a man in his arms who was so burned that he couldn't tell his face.There was a strong smell of sulfur on the man's body, so he couldn't help coughing loudly. "Xue Dayi?" Xi Yan still recognized the veteran who made a mistake. "I saw the enemy. It's a man in a black cloak. There's only one person!" Xue Dayi stared at Bai Yi with the last of his strength. Bai Yi nodded. "General, he brought corpse gu, it's all over the place, it's all over the place! Injured people are infected and will turn into dead things! Inside...everyone is infected...everyone has Corpse Gu...can't be left...none of them..." Xue Dayi swallowed his last breath with blood foaming from his mouth after saying this. Bai Yi brushed his face with his hand and closed his bleeding eyes. The giant shields of the mountain array are being sent in a steady stream. The sergeants in the front row got these heavy giant shields and stacked one side to form a shield wall, so that the enemy's weapons have to pierce the defense of the two shields to damage the mountain array. soldiers, and almost no weapons can do this, the mountain formation is a formation that cannot be conquered from the front.The only remaining Bauhinia shooters prepared their longbows behind the mountain formation, and Gang Wuwei raised his sword and charged behind the shooters. Bai Yi put Xue Dayi down and stood up slowly. "The enemy brought corpses into the supply camp?" Xi Yan asked. Bai Yi nodded without showing any expression. "It's full of wounded soldiers!" Lu Guichen was stunned. Xiyuan was blocked outside, so he couldn't see clearly what was going on inside, so he led his horse around in a hurry to find a gap.He suddenly thought of a way, jumped up and stood on the horse, so that everything in the Peking University Camp was in his field of vision.He shivered viciously. Zombies wearing wounded uniforms were dragging their feet in the barracks. They were different from the zombies they saw that night. They seemed to have not completely lost their sanity, but lost most of their consciousness, walking aimlessly in the barracks , as if looking for something.Some wounded soldiers hid in the barracks and called for help in horror, but their number was not as many as the zombies, and they didn't even dare to make a way to escape.Occasionally, the zombies approached the barracks, and the wounded soldiers hiding inside stabbed them open with their weapons, but the zombies didn't know the pain, and just insisted on going to the barracks. Let them get close to the window, and they grabbed the iron bars on the window and growled in a low voice.The wounded soldiers inside stabbed their weapons into the mouths of the zombies in horror and pushed them far away. "How...how did this happen..." Lu Guichen also stood on the horseback like Xiyuan and looked in. "They're not zombies yet, they're just slowly becoming zombies. In other words, they haven't died yet, they're just being infected by corpse voodoo and are slowly dying. Corpse voodoo can erode people's spirit, and the injured can't resist it." Xi Yan Standing on Mo Xue's back, side by side with Lu Guichen, "At this time, the consciousness of the eroded people began to become very blurred. They could feel that they were dying. They were actually crying for help in fear, but no one could save them. They. When they die, they really become zombies." "What should we do? What should we do?" Lu Guichen asked.His voice was very loud, he felt that he was really incompetent, he could only yell and ask Xiyan so loudly, while thousands of wounded soldiers were dying.But he really didn't know what else he could do at the moment other than ask questions. "There is nothing to do, no one can save them." Xi Yan whispered. "Just... just look at it like this? How can you just look at it like this? Doctor...does the doctor help?" "No, unless the doctor is a master of the secret way who is proficient in the fire of the sun, but it is useless to say these now." Xi Yan gently stroked the hilt of Jingdu's sword, "What we can do is to shorten their It's just pain." "General, you mean...but you just said that they are still alive!" Lu Guichen couldn't believe that such words came out of Xi Yan's mouth, he shouted, his voice hoarse. "Then what should I do? Young Master Chen, is there a better way? They have lost most of their consciousness, and now they are like newborn babies, instinctively calling for help, you see they are pulling on the bars and shouting , but they don't even have the ability to speak. Their consciousness continues to blur, and soon they will lose even the most basic humanity, and then they will become zombies, and they will instinctively kill the living." Yan looked at Lu Guichen, "Do you want to watch them turn into zombies and then kill them?" "There are many such things on the battlefield. Wounded soldiers can be killed. Famous generals have done it in ancient times. Compared with what we younger generations have done, is it considered atrocity?" Xi Yan slowly pulled out Jingyue from his waist. The sword flicked by his side. Lu Guichen stared blankly at his calm face, not knowing whether his words were cruel self-deprecating, or whether such cruelty really existed in Xi Yan's heart.He felt that his strength was not enough to bear the weight of his body. He sat on the saddle, panting with his hands on the horse's back, and he felt that there was a strong force in Xi Yan's words that would overwhelm him. He looked up at Xi Yan, who was holding a sword like a sculpture, felt the great majesty contained in his frozen posture, and felt that he didn't really understand this teacher. "Bai Yi, I'm waiting for your order." Xi Yan said in a low voice. Gang Wuwei also nodded vigorously in this direction. The unconscious wounded soldiers have become violent, and they are more and more like real zombies.They began to gather together to attack the door of the barracks. They grabbed the iron bars and tried to put their faces on the iron bars, opening their mouths as if to bite off the necks of the wounded soldiers inside.Their strength became more and more incredible, and the wounded soldiers inside used some heavy objects to push against the door, but the door panel was gradually shattered under the impact. "No one can say whether they are living or dead now. The resentment brought by the power of death has almost swallowed their consciousness." Xi Yan whispered, "Hurry up!" Bai Yi looked up at the sky, he didn't look at anyone, and raised his arms high. "Don't leave a single one behind," he whispered. "Including wounded soldiers who haven't been infected yet?" Xi Yan asked. "Didn't you hear? All the people inside have corpse voodoo, and it will be a matter of time before they become zombies. Don't leave any of them." "Decree." Xi Yan nodded. Bai Yi swung his arm violently. Gang Wuwei also swung his arm down, and the Bauhinia shooters threw arrows into the air, and when they fell, they made a sharp whistling sound, as dense as a torrential rain. The mountain array began to advance slowly, and the spear was sandwiched between the giant shields. Xi Yan jumped down and sat astride his horse, and the light cavalry who heard the news gathered behind him. "Clear the battlefield!" He shouted loudly, "Xiyuan, Lu Guichen!" "I...I..." Lu Guichen wanted to calm down, he thought Xi Yan was right, what should he do?There is no way.They can't save these wounded soldiers, delaying time is more cruel than killing them.Lu Guichen wanted to say loudly to Xi Yan that I was here!In this way, he rushed out, and a flurry of knives cleared the battlefield.But his hands were trembling, like a man suffering from a fever, and he had no strength to hold the handle of the knife.He desperately wanted to make a fist to gather some strength, but under Xi Yan's cold gaze, his hand shook uncontrollably.The light cavalry around him looked at him, and he was so sad that he wanted to cry, but he couldn't. He knew he couldn't draw a knife, and he couldn't see the wounded soldiers as zombies. "I'll go!" Xiyuan drew his sword, patted Lu Guichen's shoulder, "You Luezhen!"