The safest place 11

The safest place 11

The monster came out!

This news spread like wildfire among the powerful people in Dagan.

Perhaps it was just bad luck. The emperor, who had once encountered a monster during an incognito visit and survived, suddenly became unable to sleep or eat.

On the day when the news was learned, several imperial decrees were issued, requiring those talented people who were enshrined to go to Tanghe County and eliminate the monsters that had escaped.

During this period, a large number of talented people were recruited from the public.

In order to win the favor of their superiors, they never stopped fighting with each other.

But no matter how things turned out, the superiors didn't seem to mind.

What do you really mind?

The superiors only care about whether these talented people who were recruited and treated like honored guests are really capable.

Everything else doesn't matter.

These talented people have been living a very comfortable life during this period.

Except that you can't run around, you have to be available at any time when your superiors need you, and the treatment is very good.

Now that the emperor has issued an urgent order, no matter what the talented people think in their hearts, they have to bite the bullet and go to Tanghe County.

Among this group of talented people, most people are optimistic.

After all, they had never seen a monster before, so they just thought it was a trick or that the people were ignorant and playing tricks.

Even the specific circumstances were only interpreted by them with only a partial understanding.

Just like their miraculous methods, they are nothing more than various tricks to deceive others.

A small number of people are a little nervous.

This kind of panic is not just happening now.

It started when the government began to recruit talented people on a large scale.

Later, he was served with delicious food and drink, and then the emperor received an urgent order.

"I'm afraid it's a fatal mission."

This small group of panicked people thought so.

They are all rather slick people, and they join the government only for fame and fortune, but they are unwilling to risk their lives for the government.

So after thinking it over, they took action, each of them thinking about how to leave the team heading to Tanghe County.

Shangguan didn't agree with the reason at all, so everyone had to start thinking of ways to escape secretly.

As a result, Shangguan watched closely.

Any talented person who wanted to escape was killed by the escorting soldiers.

Now, with the lessons learned from the past, few people who wanted to run away dare to do so.

I just hope that I am wrong. Maybe the situation is different from what I guessed?

However, the closer they got to Tanghe County, the more disheartened these talented people became.

Even those optimistic guys began to waver in their hearts.

How can a crowded place become deserted overnight?

Under normal circumstances, it is difficult to imagine.

But everything in front of me doesn't look normal.

The places they passed through were not just one or two villages that looked empty because of the sparse population.

The people who lived in this area are truly gone.

All they could see was empty village after empty village.

Through the various traces left in the village, we can roughly guess what the people in the village must have experienced before they disappeared...

A very terrible thing.

But what exactly happened?

Shangguan didn't tell them.

The Shangguan who escorted them all the way left after seeing many empty villages like this.

Only a part of the soldiers were left to follow them and they were given tasks to do.

"Eradication of the monsters active in this area will give you a chance to rise to the top. Perform well. His Majesty is paying close attention to this matter!"

After leaving these words, Shangguan, who looked very arrogant, turned around and disappeared.

I heard that he was busy with his work and had other things to deal with.

The talented people who were left behind could clearly feel it.

Since their superior left, the escorting soldiers have become much lax in their supervision of them.

This made those talented people who had temporarily settled down become active again.

The next day, some people were missing from the huge team of talented people.

In the following days, the number of people continued to decrease.

What is strange is that the soldiers who were keeping a close watch on the talented people on the road are now blind and turn a blind eye to this.

What happened to those who ran away?

A few days later, someone found the body of the escaped talented man.

The circumstances of death were incomprehensible and bizarre.

At this point, everyone's hearts gradually cooled.

Is it any wonder that the soldiers no longer care about people running away?

It turned out that after entering the area near Tanghe County, it would be difficult to escape even if you wanted to.

…

There are many talented people who are given high hopes by the emperor.

Regardless of whether they were nimble and well-known knights, or those who possessed supernatural powers and could solve puzzles that ordinary people could not, basically all of them died near Tanghe County.

This news was brought back by the "talented people" and soldiers who survived by chance.

Those who came back were basically in a crazy state, repeating the word "monster" over and over again.

What kind of monster is that?

From a distance, it looks like a moving mountain.

When you get closer, you can see that this is not a mountain at all.

This is a Jingguan built by stacking up human corpses.

An extremely large Jingguan that almost blocks out the sky.

They finally understood why the villages near Tanghe County were almost empty and why the people in the villages could not be found.

That’s because the people originally living in the village have all become part of the Jingguan.

More than just the village.

Even many of these talented people who were sent to destroy monsters became part of the Jingguan.

People who were clearly dead were grabbed by countless hands in the Jingguan and sent to higher places one by one.

Once they find a "suitable" position in the Jingguan, the dead person will be able to open his eyes, and like the other corpses in the Jingguan, he will let out a deep breath from hell, waving his stiff arms, and move towards the living.

What a nightmare that is?

These talented people who had managed to survive should have been subjected to the emperor's wrath and beheaded in public.

But there was no need for the emperor to give any order, as most of the people who survived died soon after.

Those who are not dead yet are almost crazy.

They were trapped in the nightmare of the monster Jingguan all day long, and always felt as if they were a part of that Jingguan.

Even if you escape now by chance, you will eventually return to Jingguan.

So before long, the people who were still alive but almost crazy disappeared one by one.

Rumor has it that they really did "return" to the Jingguan.

…

There is a lot of "liveliness" outside the "plague" blockade area.

In the "plague" blockade area, Tianyi's team, which was heading west, stopped.

After many battles with different monsters.

Although the team heading west suffered heavy casualties, most people's views on monsters changed dramatically.

Everyone realized the importance of "courage" and "firmness" when facing monsters.

I also understood that although monsters are scary, they are not impossible to kill.

With this understanding and experience of fighting more than one kind of monster, almost all the living people have learned how to fight monsters.

They are not as smart as Wenxiu, nor as talented as Tianchuan.

But those who want to continue living also understand that only they can truly protect themselves.

With Tianchuan not hiding anything, almost everyone in the team has a knife in their hands. When a monster comes, they don't choose to run away, but think about how to kill the monster and actually pick up the knife to try.

Such a change is a complete reversal compared to the beginning when one could only flee in all directions when monsters came and rely on luck to survive.

Human beings are still fundamentally weak.

Tianyi became optimistic about this team.

After all, only if you have the courage to face and fight monsters, and the determination to survive and never give up, can you survive in a world full of monsters.

Originally, this team heading west was just heading west.

No one knows whether there is really a way to survive in the West. They just move forward with the simple belief that they want to survive.

Now that everyone had hope of survival, they chose a good place to stop.

Everything seemed to have returned to the way it was before, and people began to consider everything they needed to survive.

There was no longer confusion on everyone's face.

If they encounter lone survivors, the team will be happy to absorb these survivors and replenish the lost manpower.

Everything seems to be getting better.

Even the monsters that appear frequently are decreasing.

Tianyi was sure that this was not his illusion.

As time went by and the number of human deaths in the blockaded areas increased, the number of monsters continued to grow.

This also caused the team to encounter monsters more and more frequently on their way westward.

But recently the frequency of monster appearances has decreased a lot.

Tianyi would almost use the word "stable" to describe his current life.

Among their stopped team, many people started making shoes and clothes.

This is something we won't do on the road ahead.

But what happened to cause this to happen?

These doubts were answered when two dusty and desperate men appeared nearby.

…

They were a couple.

They were wearing torn coarse cloth clothes, their hands and feet showed signs of long-term walking and running, and the soles of their shoes were worn out.

They accidentally appeared near where the team was staying, and then met the person in charge of guarding Tianyi's team.

This group of people are also the best and most fearless ones in killing monsters in the entire team.

They are not as talented as Tianchuan, but they learn to kill monsters easily.

Most importantly, they are willing to risk their lives.

When they discovered the couple, they naturally also discovered the monster chasing after them.

It was a monster with only a body that could make crying sounds, something I had never seen before.

Just because they haven’t seen it doesn’t mean they won’t kill it.

They were not very familiar with it at first, but after killing more monsters and hearing Wenxiu talk more, everyone began to understand it.

When you see a new monster, you should try to "divide" it from those aspects.

They successfully killed the monsters that were chasing the couple.

Then……

The desperate couple had confused expressions on their faces.

They felt it was very unreal as they watched the group of people in front of them running towards the monster with knives in their hands and actually killing the monster that had been chasing them all the way.

"The monster... was killed?"

"The monster just died like that...?"

"I must be dreaming."

But even in their dreams, they could not dream of someone killing monsters, only endless scenes of being chased and killed by monsters.