The clouds in the east gradually turned golden and red, and the sun rose.
The darkness on the earth seemed to be completely dispelled in an instant, and the clouds were vast and the mountains and rivers were clear.
In the dim canyon, countless messy footprints were left. Large numbers of people, led by soldiers, surged away from here like a tide and fled to other cities.
Among the cities in Chang'an, the three closest to the northwest fell on the same day. The soldiers guarding the cities had long been wiped out, but the number of people was far greater than the soldiers.
While escaping, for unknown reasons, fires were set off in all three cities, delaying the progress of the living corpses.
Now, the soldiers and horses leading the evacuation of these people came from nearby cities to help.
“Were these the only people who escaped from the three cities?”
Above the canyon, Zhang Anshou, who was over forty years old, was wearing a tan leather armor and no helmet. The turban of his hair was blown to one side by the strong wind, and his eyes were looking deeply at the people walking through the canyon below.
As the commander of the cavalry sent to support this time, Zhang Anshou did not stay with the ordinary soldiers.
Even if the people have withdrawn, he is still standing on the canyon.
After a while, a large amount of smoke and dust was indeed raised from behind the canyon.
But this time, those who rushed over were not the fleeing people, but an army of living corpses whose bodies were black and blue, with only some tattered cloth strips on their bodies.
Looking at their attire, maybe they were just ordinary villagers in the world.
The unknown disaster caused their souls to die long ago and made their bodies a nightmare for the rest of the living.
Living people live in the city, and living corpses sleep in the wilderness. This pattern has been stable for some years, but now someone has found a way to exorcise nightmares, so that the shadow of the sky can once again shroud the children of Zhucheng. On top of the people.
Zhang Anshou said nothing, staring at the army of living corpses that seemed to have no end in sight.
Watching them roaring and running like wild beasts, when they broke into the relatively narrow canyon from the vast wilderness, they didn't even have the intention to slow down, so that they became extremely crowded, and it was impossible to I know how many living corpses fell down and were trampled by the following figures.
This long canyon was soon occupied by them for more than half of the road. It is conceivable that in less than ten breaths, they would rush to the other end of the canyon.
“Rest in peace!”
At this moment, Zhang Anshou finally made a move. He took the baggage behind him into his hands, let out a long cry, and threw it towards the opposite cliff with all his strength.
His shouts stirred up mighty echoes throughout the canyon. The baggage cloth was completely shaken open by him, and dozens of black iron balls inside exploded out.
These iron balls, also known as fire pills, are filled with gunpowder, but ordinary people cannot detonate them even if they smash them with a big hammer.
Zhang Anshou exhaled and threw, making each iron ball accelerate to the extent that it could smash several inches of rock. Only when these iron balls hit the opposite cliff, they immediately Sparks exploded.
But it is not difficult to detonate the iron balls. What is even more rare is that he has accurately calculated the landing point of each iron ball.
An hour ago, he was here exploring the structure of the canyon and the texture of the rocks. He climbed up the cliff and stretched out his hands to dig out dozens of large and small caves. Thousands of kilograms of gunpowder were placed in these caves in batches.
Now the iron ball hits the cave, and all the gunpowder is detonated!
Boom, boom! ! ! ! !
After the fire broke out, continuous loud noises filled the entire canyon, forming an echo that was far more terrifying than the previous cry.
The entire mountain cliff on the opposite side began to collapse, like a series of large earth-yellow waterfalls, falling suddenly into the canyon, with countless boulders and soil rolling down together.
The huge vibration even affected the cliff at the foot of Zhang Anshou.
But when he threw the iron ball, he had already tried his best to escape as fast as possible.
Soon, even the cliff where he stood had a lot of cracks, and many boulders collapsed.
Yellow smoke and dust rose into the sky.
Like a huge yellow cloud covering a few miles around, it curls up into the sky.
Thousands of kilograms of gunpowder would have been impossible to cause such a big noise.
However, the "Song of the Three Armies" practiced by Zhang Anshou is a matching technique with the "Lingxi Ring", one of the twenty-four holy spirits. It was inherited from Su Dingfang, the Duke of Xing State at that time, who was known as "destroying all the countries in his life and capturing their masters alive". He is best at exploring geography and making clever use of mountains.
He has cultivated this set of skills to the level of spirituality. He used gunpowder to bury it in the weakest place where the mountain changes. Even the air waves and tremolo after the explosion can be calculated. That's why he has such a huge impact. of power.
This terrifying scene of the canyon collapsing and the earth shaking might have destroyed the fighting power of ten or twenty thousand zombies.
Even if their vitality is extremely strong and their necks are kept open, they will not die. However, after their limbs are broken, it will be difficult to crawl out and they can no longer be used as an army. They will be buried in the earth and rocks and will eventually perish completely.
The people who were running away were all extremely tired and hungry, but they were still frightened when they felt the loud noise behind them, and many people looked back.
"That's intercepting the living corpses. Don't look at it. Keep running, keep running!!"
Thousands of cavalry are scattered among the crowds of people. Many of them have bodies in their arms and on their backs. The child was lying on his stomach, shouting at the top of his lungs.
Among the common people, there were also some people who had carriages, horses, donkeys and mules. Although they were already overwhelmed, they still rushed forward at this time, and the people around them were driven along.
The crowd had just slowed down and sped up a bit.
The city ahead is already in sight.
That majestic city was built against the mountains, with dangerous peaks and ridges stretching on all sides. It has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times. It has experienced countless expansions and reinforcements throughout the dynasties.
At one glance, you can feel the impregnable majesty of the shore, which is the best line of defense against living corpses.
The three gates to the west of the city have all been opened. Soldiers and horses wearing silver armor rushed out first, passed through the crowd, faced the west, and stood still.
Many people passed by them and poured into the city.
Such a number of people cannot enter the city in a short time.
When less than one-tenth of the people entered the city, a disgraced Zhang Anshou came rushing from afar.
After approaching the silver-armored soldiers, he stopped.
"General Dong, are you here too?"
Dong Linger's appearance is a bit childish. He is only slightly over five feet tall. The double-edged long-handled battle ax in his hand is very long. It reached nine feet, and the ax blade was as big as a carriage wheel.
At first glance, it looks like a little rabbit nestling next to a tree trunk made of stainless steel.
"Uncle Zhang."
Dong Ling'er called out, "Uncle Du is here too and is making preparations on the city wall. You go in first and we will block here for a while."
Zhang Anshou glanced at the city wall. Above, wiped his face He looked at the dust on his face and said, "Let me help you too."
Although he looked embarrassed, as a master of the spiritual realm, the rush after blowing up the canyon just now was nothing. It adds a little more protection.
After all, these three thousand silver-armored swordsmen and axemen are the most elite force that the cities of Chang'an have accumulated over the past decades. It is best not to suffer losses here, today.
When the people were more than half way into the city, at the end of their field of vision, the endless figures of living corpses were approaching again.
If it were a living army, no matter which force in the world, it would be impossible to launch a pursuit so quickly after suffering such a heavy loss in the canyon just now.
But the army of living corpses cannot be treated according to common sense.
After the collapse of the canyon, the smoke and dust had not dispersed, and many of the rocks had not stopped yet. The following living corpses were already using their hands and feet to climb on the big rocks and move forward.
Looking at the way they rush over now, you can tell that their "morale" has not been affected in the slightest.
On the contrary, the faces of Zhang Anshou and others looked very solemn and depressed.
The forces in the cities of Chang'an have also taken action to clear away the living corpses nearby. However, even if they send troops to move around, they will only attract living corpses within a mile or two.
The number of living corpses that each troop must face within a certain period of time is actually not too many.
They had never experienced such a scene in their lives, with tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of living corpses rushing towards them.
I am afraid that only fifty years ago, during the period when I first encountered the zombies, the tragedy in various parts of the world could be compared to the scene in front of me.
"Are you afraid?" Dong Ling'er seemed to be aware of everyone's nervousness and said slowly, "When I entered the camp and became your leader, you guys were still very unconvinced. Now you are afraid of this kind of battle, even if you Even if you give birth to a new baby, I will come to you and laugh at you.”
A faint laugh came from among the silver-armored soldiers, and soon disappeared, leaving no answer to the question of whether they were afraid or not. , just all one step forward.
Dong Ling'er also raised the ax in his hand, like a shining silver flag, erected in the sky as his response.
When the living corpses were only twenty or thirty steps away, the big ax pressed forward.
"Kill!!!"
Three thousand people shouted in unison. For a moment, it drowned out the screams of the living corpses in front, and then countless severed limbs and heads began to fly in the flickering silver light. .
Looking down from the air, it looks like a long silver dragon, stretching outside the city, blocking the blue and black waves.
The cultivation level of everyone in this silver-armored army is at least at the level of internal soul refining. Since childhood, they have practiced the method of joint attack on the battlefield. They support each other and have amazing endurance. .
Each piece of silver armor they wear requires ten skilled craftsmen and takes more than half a year to make. It is light and flexible, not afraid of crossbows and arrows, and can discharge hundreds of thousands of the force of the beast's impact on its own.
Their knives and axes are even more carefully crafted. Not only can they cut iron like clay, but at least any child can easily cut off an ox bone if held in his hand.
Such a force, if placed on the battlefield fifty years ago, could be said to be invincible. Even in the mountains of corpses and seas of blood, among heavily armored cavalry, it could move forward and retreat freely.
But now, facing this army of living corpses, their mission is only delayed.
Protecting the people into the city is one of the reasons. It is also a purpose to experience what it is like to fight against an army of zombies and to come back to teach the experience.
When all the people entered the city, the city gate was immediately closed, and hundreds of thick and long ropes hung down from the city wall. The end of the rope was more than ten feet above the ground.
The silver-armored swordsmen began to retreat in batches. When they approached the city wall, they jumped up, grabbed the rope, held the rope with both hands, stepped on the city wall under their feet, and rushed up quickly.
Dong Ling'er, Zhang Anshou and the strongest group of people in Daoxu were also the last ones to retreat. Dozens of figures simply relied on the momentum of forward movement and slipped up on the city wall without even using ropes. need.
After everyone climbed onto the city wall, they all breathed a sigh of relief.
"The living corpses are really scary when they reach a large scale."
Dong Ling'er took off his helmet, with a slight sweat on his forehead, "If it were ordinary soldiers and horses, I am confident that I can knock down three There are four thousand people, but this kind of ghost really doesn't leave any room to breathe. It rushes straight at him. If I can't carry it away, I'm afraid I won't be able to kill more than two thousand, and I will start to be in danger. "< br>
Zhang Anshou was about to nod when someone next to him suddenly shouted: "Look!"
Everyone looked down and saw many living corpses climbing up the city wall.
The rope has been taken away, and ordinary living corpses don’t know how to use ropes at all.
However, among the army of living zombies, there are many who are more than twenty or thirty years old. They can climb up the city wall directly with their claws, and the speed is not slow.
The defenders on the city wall lowered their arrows one after another. Although the arrows could not kill the living corpse, the impact could make the living corpse unable to grasp the wall bricks and fall down.
Zhang Anshou looked at the number of living corpses that were still coming outside the city, and couldn't help but said: "Didn't you say that King Wude is also here? He should have brought something like that, right?"
"He did bring it. "
As soon as he finished speaking, a strange heat that didn't make his skin feel hot, but made his heart tremble, came from behind.
Zhang Anshou turned around and saw a man in black robes walking out of the city gate tower, with a jade crown and a long beard, holding a spear in his hand.
It was Du Wentong, the lord of Chang'an who proclaimed himself King Wu De.
"This king was just running the Great Red Sky Book to inspire this thing."
The spear in Du Wentong's hand has a dark body and seems to have many holes and patterns, but the spearhead is a A whole piece of blood-red crystal.
The bright red light was emanating from the jade-like and crystal-like thing, causing everyone around to lose consciousness for a moment.
Both Zhang Anshou and Dong Ling'er stared at the piece of jade extremely nervously, as if they wanted to throw it away immediately.
Du Wentong was also quite cautious. After moving his eyes away from the blood-red jade, he only briefly glanced at the place where the living corpses gathered most densely outside the city, and then raised the spear in his hand high.
In an instant, the veins on his arms burst out, the veins on both sides of his forehead were as ferocious as dragon horns, and his whole body exuded a strong fist spirit like fire.
There is a vaguely red nine-headed bird rising up, spreading its wings above the city wall.
Jie! ! !
Along with the sharp sound that shot straight into the sky, a line of red and black light was seen shooting out from the city wall.
The spear flew four miles away before falling to the ground.
Incomparably rich red light exploded where the spear fell. The terrifying glare instantly engulfed all the living corpses within a hundred feet, forming a hemispherical red light group that rotated extremely fast.
The next moment, this hemispherical light group burst apart and turned into violent crimson light waves, sweeping in all directions.
Wherever the light wave passes, no sound is produced, but the sound is eliminated.
All the roars of the living corpses stopped at this moment.
There was no explosion, the ground did not crack, and the bodies of the living corpses were not torn apart. However, those nightmare living corpses were like wheat that had long been broken. fell down.
In the wilderness outside the city, a land of silence nearly five miles in diameter appeared.
All the living corpses within this range have turned into complete blue-black corpses.
The diameter is five miles, and the radius is more than two miles.
When Du Wentong threw the spear, he set aside a distance of four miles beyond the city wall to ensure that the red light waves would be so thin that they completely disappeared before they even touched the city wall.
However, even so, the people who had just entered the city and some soldiers with relatively ordinary cultivation on the city wall still felt slightly dizzy for a while.
Although this spear did not eliminate all the living corpses that attacked the city today, the remaining living corpses that were affected were no longer enough to be a threat, both in terms of quantity and strength.
On a mountain peak dozens of miles away, an old man with broad shoulders and a golden crown stood with his hands behind his back, looking to the east.
“The Burning Sky Baoyu is indeed as terrifying as the rumors say!”
The old man’s blood-colored pupils were as pure as jade, his blue-black skin was as thick as fine steel, and although his beard and hair were white, his face was But there wasn't even a single wrinkle on his face. After saying words of admiration, he just chuckled.
“Pass the order, don’t have fixed and conspicuous camps, spread out in all directions, and wait until you accumulate a wave of zombies to continue attacking the city.”
"The death of the living corpse will only be good for me, but how many pieces of the Burning Sky Baoyu can you still have?"
…………
“The Burning Sky Baoyu ?”
Su Hanshan He wondered, "What is that?"
Yang Baifa said: "That is a secret method created by Du Wentong's sister, Du Yuanzhen, a few years ago. It is said that it can gather the power of all people and turn it into precious jade."
"The reason why their family dares to be called the King of Martial Arts and occupy the most prosperous places such as Chang'an is because in the past, they demonstrated the magical effect of jade in public. Once detonated, all the living corpses of birds and beasts within a radius of five miles will be destroyed. Their souls are in disarray.”
“If the world hadn’t been too sparse and their population was not sufficient, with this rare thing, perhaps they would have reunified the world, proclaimed themselves emperors, and conquered all directions. "
Yang Baifa sighed, "We were worried about this for a while at the beginning, but now it seems that this is also a good thing, at least because they have the Burning Sky Baoyu, and after being prepared, they will definitely No city will be easily conquered by the army of zombies."
Once detonated, the souls of all creatures within a radius of five miles will be shattered. Is this a soul-destroying version of a tactical nuclear bomb? !
Su Hanshan clicked his tongue twice, thought for a while, and then said: "But they don't have many of these things, right?"
Yang Baifa frowned and nodded: "Although the specific number of Burning Sky Baoyu has always been top secret, it will definitely not be large, and the number of living corpses within the four seas is probably in the millions."
"The key lies in how many soul-suppressing bells there are in Baiwang Mansion, and how many living corpses they can hold hostage from the northwest to Chang'an. , close to the area around Chang'an Zhucheng?"
Su Hanshan thought: "There should be a hundred soul-suppressing bells in this city lord's palace. We can investigate and see how they control the living corpses. , can you find a countermeasure?"
(End of this chapter)