Ye An

Chapter 111

From time to time, there was a roar in Qiancheng, which was the loud noise of the ground cracking and buildings collapsing,

The Colosseum in the city has completely collapsed into a huge black hole.The wanderers and mutant beasts who were trapped in the cage escaped one after another, broke through the wooden fence with all their strength, and ran to the outside of the Colosseum.

Dust and black smoke are everywhere in the city, and the city people are crying and crowding the streets.

The guard of the Colosseum was crushed by a collapsed beam, half of his body could not move.Several teenagers ran past him, and one of them stopped suddenly.

"Ash, what are you going to do?" the boy's companion turned his head and said, "Are you going to save him? Have you forgotten what he did to us?!"

Ash didn't speak, but bent down to pick up a piece of wood, walked up to the guard, pointed the sharp end at his eye socket.

The guard's eyes widened, his expression changed from anticipation to despair, and because of his extreme fear, he yelled frantically, "Damn you, I should have killed you, killed you!"

Ash stepped on the guard's shoulder with one foot, forcing him to be immobile. He let the guard scratch his calf, grasped the sharp wood with both hands, and pierced it hard into the guard's eye socket.

The screams sounded suddenly, Ash was unmoved, warm blood splashed on his body, he still mechanically pulled out the wood, stuck it down, pulled it out again, and stuck it down again.

In less than a moment, the guard was limp on the ground like mud, his head was shattered, and he couldn't see what he looked like before birth.

"Enough, let's go!" The red-haired Camille grabbed Ash, snatched the blood- and brain-stained wood from his hand, and threw it on the ground.

Ova quickly climbed up a section of the wall, using the height to find a way out.A street that hadn't collapsed was soon discovered, but it was already crowded with people, and it was very difficult to pass through.

"It's impossible to go to the west, and neither is it to go to the east. The roads to the south are all collapsed, and the north, the north must go around the Santo's Mansion!" Ao Wa mentioned the Santo's Mansion, and couldn't help gnashing his teeth.

He originally lived in a settlement, and his life was not very good, but his parents and brothers were there, and the whole family worked hard together, so there was always hope in life.

It was Qiancheng who destroyed all of this.

The Lord of Qiancheng led a hunting team to attack them, killed most of the adult men in the settlement, and took away all the food and stored dried meat. Those who were still alive were tied up and taken to Qiancheng.

Aowa was walking in the snow with his hands tied by a rope. His father, mother and elder brother were all dead. The place where he grew up was engulfed in flames. The raging fire burned behind him, and gray-black ashes fell from the air. Covering him, the pain and hatred at that moment, he will never forget it forever.

After being brought to Qiancheng, he was quickly sent to the Colosseum, where he was imprisoned with Ash and Camille.

The three of them were about the same age and had similar encounters. They had to be whipped by the guards every day, and they were also arrested to fight against the mutant beasts.If you survive, you can get a piece of wheat cake as hard as a rock or moldy jerky. Unfortunately, if you die or are seriously injured, you will be dragged away to serve as rations for mutant beasts.

The number of people living with them is decreasing every day, and the three witness their companions disappearing one by one, suffering from anxiety and hatred every day.

Day after day, they are struggling with life and death.

In order to survive, they started to join hands, encouraged each other every time they were dragged out of the cage, and tried all available methods to survive, even if they themselves had to turn into a wild beast.

When they killed a mutant beast with all their strength, licked their wounds in the cage where they were imprisoned, and prepared to face another battle, there was a sudden roar, the ground under their feet began to shake, the earth's crust was torn apart, and terrifying cracks ran through the city. The rock formations at the cracks were raised, and many people were swallowed by the sudden cracks before they could escape, or were crushed to death by the flying gravel and wood.

This sudden change caused chaos in the city.

To make matters worse, the city lord and the elders have been fighting each other, and have no time to care about the chaos in the city.Even if someone went to report, there was no news back.

Neither the city lord nor the elders showed up, and no one was in charge of the overall situation. Others could not convince the crowd at all, and the city soon fell into even greater chaos.

Ground fissures kept appearing, and everyone wanted to escape, pushing and trampling in panic, accidentally fell to the ground, and would soon be trampled into a pulp by the chaotic crowd.

As the ground fissure continues to intensify, there are fewer and fewer safe areas in the city. It can even be said that there is almost no place to hide in the current Qiancheng.

Three teenagers escape from the Colosseum but cannot find their way out of the city.The ground under their feet began to shake again, and the expressions of the three of them changed drastically.In the shaking, Ova grabbed the edge of the collapsed wall, stretched out his arms to hold Camille, and Camille reacted quickly, grabbing Ash who almost fell into the crack of the ground.

"Go to the north, to the City Lord's Mansion!" Ash struggled to climb up to the ground and said to his companions.

"go!"

Aowa saw with his own eyes that the streets full of people collapsed, like an earth dragon turning over, and a large cloud of smoke and dust engulfed the crowd.

The entire street was wiped out, and I don't know how many people survived.

The only option they had to get out of town alive was to run north.

"quick!"

The three teenagers were running in the ruins, the roaring sound came from behind, and the ground split open quickly, like a terrifying beast opening its mouth, chasing and devouring them.

Ash was the fastest, and Camille accidentally sprained his foot. Owa rushed up, grabbed Camille's arm with Ash, and continued to run forward with him.

The three of them tried their best to run as fast as they could in their lives, and arrived at the square in front of the City Lord's Mansion. Belong to yourself again.

Thankfully, the cracking has finally stopped.

Only three meters away from them, the terrifying cracks in the ground no longer extended, gravel still rolled down from the cracks, no sound could be heard after the fall, and the dark tunnel seemed bottomless.

The three supported each other to stand up and staggered forward.

There were no guards in front of the City Lord's Mansion, and there were only a few corpses lying down, with knife marks all over their bodies, obviously having experienced a battle.

"Go around." Among the three, Camille is the calmest. The sprained foot is not serious, and it will not slow down the speed. After making sure that there are no guards outside the city lord's mansion, and no one will block the way, he immediately makes a judgment.

Ash and Owa had no objection, and the three quickly climbed up the steps, passing the corpse of the guard on the way, each picked up a short knife, and Owa also carried a bow and arrow on his back, and hung the full quiver on his waist.

The three continued to move forward, and found that the vicinity of the City Lord's Mansion was strangely quiet, which was completely different from the inside of the city.There is no ground fissure here, no big pit that can swallow people, only the smell of blood and endless silence.

Passing through the half-open door, Ash swallowed hard and said hoarsely, "Camille, I think I should go in and have a look."

"What, are you crazy?!" Aowa couldn't believe it.

"I'm not crazy." Ash explained, "We need warm animal skins and food. Now we have nothing, even if we can run out, we will be frozen to death and starved to death."

"We can hunt!" Ova patted the bow and arrow and the dagger.

"What should we do before we find the prey?" Ash stared.

"Okay, stop arguing!" Camille stopped the two of them from arguing, and said in his mouth, "Just look in the hall, and get out immediately if you find something wrong!"

Two against one, Ova had to accept the proposal of his companion.

The three of them approached the gate cautiously, looked in from the half-open door, and found that torches were burning in the hall, and unburned candles were still hanging on the roof.

There were more corpses lying on the ground, no different from the guards in front of the mansion. They were all covered with knife marks and died in the battle.The blood under his body has solidified, and he should have died for a long time.

"Be careful." Camille urged again.

Ash and Owa nodded, carefully pushed the door open, and quickly came to the hall to collect what they needed.

Warm hides can be seen here and there, simply pulled from the walls.Even if there are blood spots splashed on it, the three of them don't care.Pick the best one to wrap around your body, tie it tightly with cloth strips, then spread out a sheet on the ground, find all the things that can be used, tie them up and carry them on your back.

"No food."

The three of them each carried a large package, which contained not only animal skins and weapons, but also flints and candles, as well as some tools found from the dead, but there was no food.

"Forget it, don't look for it, let's go!"

The three of them have fought against strange beasts for a long time, and they have a keen sense of danger.Even if you don't see it with your eyes, the sense of crisis is still with you.They quickly reached an agreement to leave the City Lord's Mansion as quickly as possible and continue to flee for their lives outside the city.

Suddenly there was a sound from the stairs at the end of the hall, and the three raised their heads reflexively, and saw an old man with gray hair and beard grabbing a thin boy, strangling him tightly by the neck, and even trying to throw him from the stairs down.

The boy struggled in pain, but could not make any sound.

"Ova!"

"understand!"

The boy's appearance reminded the teenagers of themselves, and when they recognized the old man as one of the elders in the city, the teenagers immediately made a judgment.

Aowa threw away the package on his back, quickly set up his bow and shot an arrow.

Three arrows flew out one after another, two of them missed, and one was precisely nailed to the old man's shoulder.

The old man let go of the pain, and the boy fell from the second floor. Ash and Camille rushed forward and tried their best to catch the falling boy.Because of the impact, the two also fell to the ground, their bones were not injured, but they couldn't stand up for a while.

Aowa continued to draw his bow, the old man clutched his wound and tried to escape, but suddenly staggered, as if he tripped over something.The sound of breaking wind came at this moment, several sharp arrows pierced into his body one after another, one pierced through his forehead, killing him on the spot.

The rescued boy sat up and looked at the three of Ash with a blank expression.

Ash shook his wrist, grinned and said, "Don't be afraid, we won't hurt you."

Camille realized that something was wrong with the boy, but he didn't have time to think about it. There was another sound of footsteps on the stairs. It was obvious that there was still a lot of power in the city lord's mansion. If they continued to dawdle, they would all die here!

"Come on!"

Camille quickly stood up from the ground, Ash also picked up the boy, and Ova said loudly: "You guys go first!" After saying that, he was about to shoot again.

"Walk together!"

Camille grabbed the package that Ova left on the ground with one hand, and when passing by Ova, grabbed his collar with one hand, rushed out of the Santo's Mansion, and dragged him out backwards.

Ash hugged the boy tightly and followed closely behind his companion.

The three teenagers were busy running for their lives, and they never looked back. Naturally, they didn't see that the pupils of the boy lying on Ash's shoulder changed color, and a crack suddenly appeared at the feet of the pursuers, swallowing all those who couldn't catch up.

The chaos in Qiancheng continued, but the ground cracking stopped suddenly, and the chaotic crowd found their way out and rushed out of the city one after another, some even ran towards the direction where Zhao Weng and Xiao Yun were.

The three of Camille and the boy mingled with the crowd. After running out of the city, they gradually separated from the group, tried every means to avoid the large-scale convoy, and ran towards the inaccessible forest.

"I know a way. Go through this forest and continue north to reach a frozen lake. Go east along the frozen lake and find a big river. We can follow the river and always find a place to stay." Ova Road.

Ash and Camille have no objection. For them, as long as they escape from Qiancheng and are no longer thrown into animal cages every day, even being a homeless person is a happy thing.

After walking a certain distance, Ova hunted two snow rabbits. The teenagers were resting by lighting a fire in the forest. Ash put the boy who had been carrying him all the way on the ground, handed him a piece of roasted rabbit meat, and squatted in front of him with a smile. Asked: "What's your name? You were also arrested in Qiancheng?"

Holding the rabbit meat, the boy looked at Ash with his brown eyes, and when the latter thought he couldn't speak, he said, "My name is Milo."

"How old?" Ash continued.

"I don't know, it's about eight years old." After saying this, Milo began to tear the rabbit meat, his cheeks swelled up, obviously from starvation.

Ash wanted to ask again, but was stopped by Camille, who threw him a rabbit leg from the air, and said, "Hurry up and eat, we have to hurry after eating!"

The teenagers stopped talking, and Milo remained quiet.

The four of them started on their way again after eating, braved the wind and snow through the forest, and came to the icy lake in Ovati. Ye An's team discarded.

"How big is this fish?" Ova grabbed a bone and marveled.

Camille looked at the lake worriedly. He originally wanted to stay here for a while to survive the coldest part of the snow season, but now it seems that it is not feasible.

After spending the night by the frozen lake, the four set off again in the early morning.

The land is covered with snow, and it is very difficult to identify the direction. They can only look for the eye-catching forests, hills and frozen rivers, so as not to lose themselves in the snow field.As a result, they inevitably deviated from their original direction, and they couldn't find the river that Aowati had crossed at all.

"Forget it, it doesn't matter where I go, I'll try my luck nearby to see if I can find the cave." Ash wrapped the animal skin tightly around his body, grabbed a short knife and was about to set off.

Today's snowstorm is exceptionally heavy, and it will only get colder after nightfall.

If they couldn't find shelter from the wind and snow, they might all freeze to death.

At this moment, a large group of red clouds suddenly appeared in the distant sky, flying towards the boys against the howling north wind.

"what is that?"

"Fiery sparrow?"

Before the teenagers could see it clearly, an RV appeared in the snow curtain. In the blowing snow, the headlights of the RV turned on. Behind the car was a long line of trailers and sleds, which were piled up with goods like a hill.

The teenagers' eyes widened in surprise, and they didn't know how to react for a moment.

Inside the RV, Ye An saw the figure in front of him through the car window, and felt the energy that belonged to mutants, and couldn't help being surprised.

Milo stood beside Ash, grabbing Ash's robe with one hand, and looked up at the approaching RV. Under the cover of his forehead, his eyes were bright orange-red.