The blood mist was like a thick curtain, dividing the city, and chaos spread throughout the city.
The fox-faced scholar on stilts set fire to the house with a shrill smile. The smiling golden Buddha buried the corpses one after another in the lotus platform under his seat. Thousands of insects gathered in the shape of demon faces and crawled through the gaps in the doors and windows, anesthetizing the animals.
The bloated victim is injected with insect eggs.
Ordinary people hide in closets, woodsheds, and cellars, listening to the sounds of chewing, screaming, and wailing coming from across the street or even from the house next door, and dare not let out their breath.
To the east of the city, there is an orphanage and an underground ice room for storing ice.
"The imperial court will come to save us. It will definitely happen. Just hold on a little longer."
Xia Erniang held two children in her arms and murmured so softly that even she herself could not hear them clearly.
When the disaster occurred, the orphanage was about to turn off the lights when it was suddenly shrouded in blood mist. The terrifying beast-headed monster rushed into the courtyard and started killing people.
Xia Erniang and a group of children hid in the ice room and escaped.
It was just that the ice room was so cold that the children wearing thin coats couldn't bear it. She held two in her arms and several more around her body, relying on her body temperature to fight against the pervasive cold.
Click, click.
Slightly sticky footsteps sounded above the head, as if they had stepped through a pool of thick blood, and finally stopped at the top of the ice room.
Yes, is it a monster?
Xia Erniang trembled all over, slowly pulled out her arms from the child's arms, stood up against the wall, groped against the wall for a while, and found the iron crowbar for loading and unloading ice cubes.
She took a crowbar and stood in front of the wooden door leading to the ground, listening in fear as the chain outside the door was being removed.
Squeak.
The moment the door opened, she swung the crowbar forward, but the iron bar was suddenly caught by the long knife in mid-air.
The sword holder was a young officer wearing Zhenfusi uniform, followed by a group of soldiers with lanterns tied to their waists and wearing armor.
By the light of the lantern, Xia Erniang also identified that the officer was her husband Yu Wenyuan.
The husband and wife should have been happy to reunite, but Yu Wenyuan's expression quickly fell from ecstasy to sadness. The soldiers behind him also looked shocked.
"Husband, what's wrong?"
The words that Xia Erniang came up with in her mind turned into a sharp snake hiss when she came out of her mouth.
She belatedly looked at herself. Her upper body was normal, but her lower body expanded and stretched rapidly, growing yellow scales like an anaconda.
The snake's tail sank deep into the ice chamber and balled up to resist the low temperature.
Sections of the child's arms and legs stretched out from the gap in the snake's tail, connecting to the corpse that had been strangled for a long time.
what did I do?
Fear and regret welled up in her heart. Xia Erniang turned to look at her husband, and the endless words in her heart turned into snake hiss. The original oval face also developed brown and yellow snake scales under the violent mood swings and chaotic thoughts.
"Captain Yuwen, let me do it."
Pei Jing stepped forward with a heavy look on her face, patted Yu Wenyuan on the shoulder, and pulled out the Canghai Sword from her waist.
"no!"
Yu Wenyuan stood sideways in front of his wife and said with a pale face: "There will be a way, she hasn't completely transformed yet."
Before he finished speaking, he felt severe pain in the back of his neck.
Yu Wenyuan looked up and saw that his wife's facial features were distorted, her vertical pupils were full of desire for living flesh and blood, ligaments grew on both sides of her cheeks, and her mouth opened to the limit, intending to swallow his head whole.
call out--
The sharp arrow shot through the air and penetrated into Xia Erniang's eyebrows, causing her head that had turned into a snake to rise high and smash into the ice of the ice room shelves.
"It's not a demon transformation,"
Several figures walked out of the darkness. The iconic black conical hats announced their identities as the supervising department. One of them took off the conical hat, revealing the face of the academy's physical education teacher Ren Chao, "It's the Blood Bath Demonic Epidemic."
Bloodbath Demonic Plague?
Hearing this uncommon and obscure word, everyone in the Zhenfu Division looked confused, while Pei Jing frowned.
He knew that the Demonic Epidemic was a phenomenon in which ordinary people not only did not die but were assimilated by demons after being exposed to a high concentration of demonic energy for a long time. It was common in Shiwan Barren Mountains.
However, the current surrounding environment is not rich in demonic energy, which is far from enough to cause such a large-scale infection, let alone drive the demons to move freely.
Unless the key is the word "blood bath" at the front.
The situation was urgent. Ren Chao did not look at Yu Wenyuan who was kneeling slumped on the ground. He asked Pei Jing in a deep voice: "Are everyone else scattered in various cities?"
"yes."
Pei Jing nodded. Before the disaster occurred, there were many soldiers from the Zhenfu Division patrolling various places in Chang'an City. After the blood mist fell, people from all walks of life were in the area to contend with the demons.
As for Pei Jing, the defense force at his home was not weak. After discovering that the monsters in the city did not deliberately launch a siege against the dignitaries, but were killing innocent people without discrimination, he left most of the guards behind and left the Pei Mansion with a small group of people.
, join forces with the Zhenfu Division to eliminate nearby demons.
"We also met other people along the way, either going to Dali Temple to investigate the source, or going to Daming Palace to protect the prince. By the way, how is the Academy?"
Pei Jing added. There is more than just Zhenfusi in the city. There are many aristocratic families like the Pei Mansion. Not only do they have clan members who have embarked on spiritual practice, there are also guards, bodyguards, and worshipers hired from outside.
Added together, the damage caused by the plague can be limited to some extent.
However, after listening to Pei Jing's words, there was no trace of joy on Ren Xuan's face, only solemnity, "There is nothing going on in the academy for the time being. How much energy do you have left? Come with me to seal off the imperial city. If it is later, it will be too late."
Ren Chao led several people from the Supervisory Department towards the imperial city. Pei Jing hurriedly pressed her sword to follow and asked, "What's going on? What exactly is the Blood Bath Demonic Epidemic?"
"Spiritual power will not be generated out of thin air, and ordinary people will not suddenly turn into great monsters no matter how much they are nurtured. The blood mist originating from Dali Temple is the source of the monsters' power."
Ren Xingji said: "If the prediction is correct, those who went to investigate the source of the blood mist may have become bait by now."
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tread.
Li Ang stopped in front of the Shunyi Gate on the west side of the imperial city. The arrow slot of the glow crossbow in his hand was equipped with a light talisman, which emitted light like a lantern and illuminated the surroundings.
The solid city gate that could withstand the impact of the train was destroyed and shattered in the previous explosion. The Jinwu Guards who were supposed to guard the imperial city have disappeared.
Only the unmanned ballistae above the city wall were left, pointing quietly at the ground.
A strong sense of ominousness emanated from the breach in the city gate, and the rich scent of blood could be clearly smelled even from a street away.
‘something’s wrong’
Li Ang narrowed his eyes slightly. Based on his understanding of the Yu State's operating system, after a disaster, whether it was the Imperial Palace Consecration Department, the Zhenfu Division, or the monks from the Academy scattered in the city, they would spontaneously go to the Imperial City as soon as possible.
Investigate the cause of the disaster.
But at this moment, the Shunyi City Gate next to Dali Temple was completely silent, and no sound of fighting could be heard.
After thinking again and again, he removed the light talisman, extinguished the light, sprinted briefly, and jumped onto the city wall.
Then, he saw the world of flesh and blood.
This chapter has been completed!