One hundred and ninety-four. I will personally set you free
The shadow that enveloped Flalund did not dissipate until dawn.
The good news now passed through the layers of dandelions and arrived at the fallen Flalend: the safety corridor reached the edge of the bloody mist. Although it still had the possibility of changing direction, the corridor was still expanding, and the evacuation plan could already begin.
The lights in the city hall gradually dimmed, and the power plant workers and exorcists began to return to the safe area.
Everyone is preparing for the most important thing: evacuation.
City Lord Valentine collected data that he had always deliberately avoided: the surviving citizens of Flalend.
The answer is 300,000, maybe more.
A heavy number, before this Vlaland should have had a population of more than one million.
The dandelions killed many ignorant citizens when they came, and the dilapidated and leaky longhouses killed the remaining citizens. There were also those who went out due to hunger or wanted to escape Lunde.
When Anna Lu Li took Doreen into the city hall, Valentine's coughing echoed in every corner of the hall.
The waiter handed over the medicine and water. After taking it, Valentine looked up and said, "There is only one last thing left for you to help."
It takes a lot of time to evacuate 300,000 people from the secret passage, and even when night falls, only about half can be evacuated.
Bloody dandelions can cover the traces of dozens or hundreds of workers, but not necessarily tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands. Valentine needs Lu Li to stay in Lunde during the day, and after helping the last batch of survivors get into the safe zone, at dusk
Reach the other end through the secret passage and guard Anna's Corridor at night
Lu Li did not disappoint Valentine's expectations and agreed to his request.
The fence at the edge of the city hall has been removed to create a corridor leading to the garden secret passage. Several arches in front of the secret passage have been completed.
Torches were erected on both sides of the corridor, and the ignited arches burst into flames, forming a path of flames.
If Dandelion enters the secret passage, it will be a disaster - everyone knows this. Therefore, only a small amount of items are allowed to be carried into the secret passage. If you wear more than two layers of clothing, you need to take it off and go through the flame arch for disinfection again.
The first batch of dozens of people entered the secret passage through the flame corridor one after another. It took more than ten minutes, but as they stopped getting stranger, their speed would greatly speed up.
A steady stream of citizens walked out of the safe area and entered the secret passage after disinfection.
"When approaching a forked road that is boarded up, lower your head quickly. When approaching a forked road that is boarded up, lower your head and go over quickly." The staff in front of the entrance of the secret passage reminded every citizen who entered the secret passage, even though the forked road was blocked and there were exorcists.
Guarded, but hidden dangers still remain.
All Lu Li and Anna needed to do was to go to the infected area every half hour, bring the large number of survivors gathered by the scavengers back to the square, disinfect them in a chaotic manner, and then place them in a safe area, waiting for evacuation.
As morning approached, there was still no bad news coming from the secret passage, which made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.
"How much food do we have left?" Valentine asked his assistant Dom.
"There are not many vegetables and meat left, and there are still 3,600 boxes of cans confiscated and collected."
"Leave six hundred boxes and the amount used in the safe area, and distribute the rest to the citizens of the infected area. We cannot let them give up on the eve of dawn."
For Lund, which once had a population of one million, 3,600 boxes was a barren number. It was not even enough to fill the stomachs of one-tenth of the citizens——
But at this time, its symbolic significance is greater than its actual value. The can represents one thing: the city lord has not given up on you, continue to wait? Rescue will eventually come.
Were the citizens in the infected area who became agitated after hearing that the evacuation began to be calmed down? They leaned to the window and watched the street sweepers passing by over and over again outside the window.
Although there is some bad news? For example, an irresistible resident was killed by a dandelion when he ran out of his house, a scavenger team member did not notice that his pants were cut open and a dandelion was attached? Or the chaos at the entrance of the secret passage wasted for more than ten minutes.
But the evacuation plan is still proceeding in an orderly manner.
The lights of the power plant gradually turned on, and it was approaching evening? Lu Lianna and Doreen who followed them sheltered hundreds of citizens for the last time and arrived at the square, and then went to the city hall.
Doreen walked up to her brother Dom, the city lord Valentine who looked even more tired behind the desk, thanked them, and told them something about the situation at the security corridor.
St. Ann's Bunker established a sentry tower 20 miles away from Lunde to observe the wind direction. They organized scholars to analyze and found that this air flow over the Selma Mountains will move southward. Lunde does not need to worry about the wind direction suddenly changing? At least not this week.
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At the same time, St. Ann's Bunker sent five teams of night watchmen and dozens of exorcists to help - this was half of their exorcism power.
Did they set off in a carriage early this morning? Maybe they would arrive at the safety corridor at midnight, so Lu Li would no longer be alone.
On the other side, Dom, who had finished caring, took Doreen back to Lu Li and led them to the secret passage and entered the bottom of the fountain from outside the flame arch.
Most of the citizens of Lunde already knew the origin of the flames that illuminated the sky twice. Therefore, no one was dissatisfied with Lu Li and others for jumping in line.
"Please take care of her..." Dom begged, watching their figures disappear into the dark passage.
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The secret passage is wider than expected.
Should the evacuated citizens line up two by two? This would still allow the staff maintaining order to pass side by side against the wall.
This does not seem to be a simple escape passage. However, only the city lord Valentine can find out the original reason for the excavation of the secret passage from countless files.
The back passages crowded with citizens were full of murmurs, footsteps and coughs.
The dust underfoot was as thick as sand, and the torches hanging on the walls took away the scarce air? The turbid air made people breathless.
The area around Lu Li was an exception. Anna's invisible protection dispersed the dust and turbid air that made people cough. This also made the citizens in front and behind feel a little cautious.
"We should go from above." Anna whispered? Going through the secret passage didn't seem like a good option.
Lu Li agrees with her? But it's too late to turn back now.
They followed the surging crowd for twenty minutes when a staff member came from behind and reminded Lu Li that there was a disturbing fork in the road ahead.
Lu Li looked forward and saw two figures guarding something at the end of the silhouette.
He turned back and looked behind him. The bustling team surrounded them and was forced to move forward.
Lu Li frowned. He didn't know whether the sudden uneasiness in his heart was because he was trapped in a secret passage surrounded by people, or because it was a fork in the road that was getting closer and closer.
At this moment, a commotion suddenly broke out on the fork in the road about twenty meters away.
Mixed with the noisy shouts of exorcists shouting to stop, some citizens rushed like crazy into the boarded-up fork in the road. The narrow passage was suddenly filled with chaos. People fled to both sides with screams. Fear spread. Some people fell.
, someone was looking for the children who had been squeezed away, and the staff to maintain order rushed here quickly——