Embers Ad Infinitum

Not long after Odik threw the grenade, he fell into the predicament of constantly sneezing, and then passed out directly. He had no impression of the changes in South Street, and was only vaguely aware of it. The situation was urgent, so he naturally did not care to learn from the city lord Xu Liyan. Other news.

He shook his head and said:

"I'm asking now."

As he said that, he picked up the phone again and dialed another number.

Taking this opportunity, Jiang Baimian squatted down and groped the fake "priest"'s body to see if he could find any useful clues.

Soon, she took out a note from the fake "priest"'s pocket.

It says in both gray native script and Honghe dialect:

"This is a special order approved by the city lord."

Except for this paragraph, there is nothing on the paper, not to mention the seal, not even the signature.

"He just entered North Street easily with such a 'passing order'?" Jiang Baimian said amusedly.

"It can still be like this..." Shang Jianyao's eyes were bright, and he seemed a little ready to make a move.

Jiang Baimian noticed something, turned his head and cursed with a smile:

"Don't try, you don't know how to 'hypnotize'."

Even if you want to try it, you have to find a piece of radish, carve a seal on it.

At this time, Odik ended the call and said to them:

"The homeless people outside the city are rioting and have rushed in. It's chaos."

"Sure enough..." Jiang Baimian took off the walkie-talkie hanging on his armed belt and tried to contact Bai Chen and Long Yuehong.

But this didn't work out.

"Outside the range..." Jiang Baimian breathed out and said to Odik, "We have to return to South Street and find a few friends to prevent them from having any accidents during the commotion."

Odik understands very well:

"Take my car and take these two people away."

"Okay, how can I pay you back later?" Jiang Baimian didn't waste time being polite.

"If the riot ends soon, we will drive to the guild. If not, we will go outside the city lord's palace. There will be a special pass in the car." Odik said simply.

Shang Jianyao and Jiang Baimian didn't hesitate anymore. They carried Lei Yunsong and Lin Feifei on their backs respectively, and ran to the door of the First Hospital. They used the key given by Odik to open the door, got in the car, and drove out.

Until this time, the city guard assigned here had just arrived.

Because they had special passes, they easily escaped from the encirclement, exited North Street and entered the central square.

When we got here, the sound of gunshots became more and more obvious, coming from all directions. There were countless corpses on the ground, including adults, children, men, and women, some neatly dressed, some with tattered clothes, and some with mutilated corpses. Some looked like they were being strangled to death, some looked like city guards, some were holding guns like ordinary hunters...

Their blood spilled on the ground, reflecting the numerous bullet holes.

There were also many people sitting in the streets and alleys, stuffing steamed buns into their mouths, watching the commotion absentmindedly, neither joining nor resisting.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao were silent for a while.

After a few seconds, Jiang Baimian took off the walkie-talkie again and tried to contact Bai Chen and Long Yuehong.

This time, there was an echo.

"Where are you?" Jiang Baimian tried to keep his tone calm so as not to make the team members panic and nervous.

Bai Chen's voice sounded with a little noise:

"We are rushing to the 'Afu Gun Store'.

“When the homeless rushed in, we were still on East Street and directly found a place to hide.

"Now that the first wave of riots has dispersed and a large number of people are no longer concentrated, we plan to go back and move the materials in the room to the jeep, then drive to pick you up, leave through the East Street Gate, and wait until the situation calms down before returning to the city. "

"Very good. Let's meet in the alley outside the 'Afu Gun Store'." Jiang Baimian praised and motioned to Shang Jianyao to drive Oldick's red cross-country into South Street.

The sound of clanging followed, and the occasional flying bullets were blocked by the thick steel plates and bulletproof glass installed on the vehicle.

The situation on South Street was even more serious than in the central square, with streams of blood even flowing on the street.

A large number of people died on the street, and corpses were everywhere. Some of them still had their eyes open, full of reluctance and doubt.

From time to time, one or two living people can be seen, but most of them are dying and just moan in pain instinctively.

Jiang Baimian glanced around and suddenly pointed to a place:

"Drive over."

That was the first restaurant they ate at after coming to Weed City:

“Time-honored noodle shop”

At that time, Jiang Baimian and others were deeply impressed by the boss's accent that blended many dialects and his insistence on borrowing books from the library to teach his grandson how to read.

The same goes for the delicious spicy noodles.

At this time, the noodle shop was in a mess.

The boss with gray temples fell to the ground, with a big hole in his forehead, blood stained his clothes, and he was lifeless.

Behind him was a little boy of seven or eight years old squatting in the corner, shivering.

There were several books mostly with pictures scattered around them.

On the other side of the noodle shop, at the only table that hadn't been overturned, two people were sitting.

One is a man who looks to be in his thirties, and the other is a little girl of seven or eight years old.

They buried their heads and ate noodles from a big bowl, turning a blind eye to the chaos and gunshots outside.

After Shang Jianyao stopped the car, Jiang Baimian immediately opened the door and jumped out. While raising his hand and aiming at the man eating noodles, he quickly moved closer to the noodle shop owner and the little boy behind him.

There was no need to do other tests. She could judge from the electrical signal alone that the boss was dead.

The man eating noodles quickly put the remaining green onion in the bowl into his mouth, licked the tip of his chopsticks, and stood up without finishing, blocking the little girl behind him.

The little girl had a dirty face but bright eyes.

She didn't stop and ate the remaining noodles in three bites.

Shang Jianyao recognized the man. He had bronze skin, a Chinese character face, and a rather honest appearance. He was the wilderness wanderer who had previously answered Odik's question and told him the whereabouts of the fake "priest".

Seeing Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao pointing their guns at him, the wilderness wanderer showed a smile that was uglier than crying:

"You shoot, I killed him.

"He didn't give us food, so I had to grab it and cook it myself...

"Otherwise, people will starve to death."

Recalling this incident, his expression became a little distorted and his voice became much louder:

“We are all human beings, don’t we deserve to live?

"We are humans too, do we deserve to starve to death?"

Jiang Baimian looked at him and the little girl behind him who reluctantly put down the dishes, but he delayed pulling the trigger.

After a few seconds, there was a loud gunshot, and the man fell down, with blood gushing out of his chest.

The shooter was Shang Jianyao.

The little girl looked at this scene numbly, without crying or shouting.

Jiang Baimian tilted his head slightly and looked at Shang Jianyao. He saw him holding a gun in both hands and aiming forward, with a serious expression on his face.

Withdrawing his gaze, Jiang Baimian quickly ordered:

"Take them both and meet Xiaobai and the others."

If they were left alone, the two children would have no chance of survival in this chaotic situation.

At that time, we will wait for Weedao City to regain stability and then find a way to resettle it.

Shang Jianyao nodded and protected the two children on the red off-road vehicle. One squeezed into the back seat with the unconscious Lei Yunsong and Lin Feifei, and the other got into the passenger seat and stayed beside Jiang Baimian.

The two children did not cry or resist, and seemed to be frightened.

When the vehicle gradually moved away from the "time-honored noodle shop", the little boy and the little girl seemed to wake up and threw themselves against the window at the same time.

They looked at the two corpses and shouted heartbreakingly:

"grandfather!"

"dad!"

…………

"Afu Gun Shop" is located in the alley.

Long Yuehong hurriedly swung her right arm and pulled the trigger.

boom!

A homeless man with a knife jumped out from nowhere and fell on his back, twitching.

Compared to the beginning, Long Yuehong is now quite calm.

Not ten wilderness wanderers died at his hands, but seven or eight.

After he and Bai Chen left the hiding place on East Street, they followed the least crowded route back to "Afu Gun Shop". However, even so, they encountered many wanderers in the wilderness who were killing and robbing people and people who were taking advantage of the chaos. The villains of this city.

After the initial panic, Long Yuehong discovered that these people were not very good at shooting and their skills were not very good. As long as they avoided large groups and did not rush towards places where bullets were flying, she and Bai Chen cooperated. , completely able to cope with it.

The only thing you need to worry about is that the ammunition you carry with you is only consumed and there is no time to replenish it.

Of course, there were dangers along the way. Long Yuehong and Bai Chen encountered a city defense team that was cleaning up homeless people in the wilderness. Unknown to them, this team was too nervous and overreacted, mistaking them as rioters. , still felt that there were only two of them, and they were alone, so they tried to annihilate them.

Fortunately, there were only five people in that team, and Bai Chen saw through their intentions in advance. After a scuffle, they left the two bodies and retreated to other alleys.

This made Long Yuehong a little scared and a little excited.

Because he killed one of the city defenders with a single shot to the head.

For him, this is a remarkable achievement.

After entering the "Afu Gun Shop", Bai Chen glanced at it and his heart suddenly sank.

Many of the guns sold here were missing and were littered everywhere, looking like they had been robbed.

Almost at the same time, bang bang bang gunshots were heard upstairs.

The sound stopped and continued, which was heart-wrenching.

"Aunt Nan..." Long Yuehong glanced at Bai Chen and said a name.

Bai Chen's expression did not change and he nodded:

"Let's go up and have a look."

After saying that, she added:

"There are still a lot of supplies in the room."

"Okay." Long Yuehong didn't object. She just put away the "Bing Moss" with a slightly hot barrel, replaced it with a "United 202" pistol, and filled it with bullets.

Arriving at the back door of "Afu Gun Shop", they passed through the door opening and looked at the yard to make sure that the Jeep was still parked in its original position.

Obviously, the wilderness wanderers who rushed here were not interested in the car for the time being, and they did not realize that there was a lot of supplies hidden in the car.

Turning into the stairs, corpses came into view of Long Yuehong and Bai Chen.

They were both men and women, lying or lying on their backs. They were all shot to death.

Bai Chen scanned it quickly and subconsciously quickened his pace.

As they approached the second floor, gunfire rang out again.

Bai Chen lowered his waist and moved up carefully. Long Yuehong imitated her movements and followed closely behind.

Rounding the corner, they saw five or six men with weapons shooting at people in a room on the second floor.

In front of them, corpses were so densely packed that they were almost piled up.

Bai Chen did not hesitate, raised his hands, and shot continuously at the group of men who looked like wanderers in the wilderness. Long Yuehong did the same without asking any questions.

Bang bang bang!

Cooperating with the counterattack inside, they fired empty bullets and cleared out all the enemies in front.

"It's us!" Then, Bai Chen shouted.

Aunt Nan's voice came out immediately:

"Come up quickly."

Bai Chen and Long Yuehong ran up and saw a bunch of people hiding in the room, including Aunt Nan, Gu Changle and other shareholders of the "Afu Gun Shop", as well as women of different ages who were in the flesh business. They huddled inside, shivering a little.

An Ruxiang was guarding the door, preventing a wilderness wanderer from rushing up.

The relic hunter and "temporary teacher" held a pistol, squatted half-crouched, and leaned against the wall. His expression remained indifferent and he looked very calm.

Aunt Nan's brother Afu is responsible for loading bullets and delivering guns.

Seeing Bai Chen and Long Yuehong coming up, An Ruxiang suddenly sat down and breathed heavily.

A rare smile appeared on her face, clean and pure.