While he was stunned, Qi Yanxuan had already arrived beside him. He bent down and pulled the man onto his horse. He took the man away in a dignified manner in front of the crowd's curious gazes.

Shen Yanqing hugged his wife's waist from behind, rubbed his chin against Qi Yanxuan's neck, closed his eyes and sniffed the faint scent of grass and trees in the wind.

When he thought that it was the smell of his wife, the corners of his lips curled up unconsciously, and he couldn't help but kiss her again.

"Itchy~ Stop it." Qi Yanxuan couldn't help but shrink his neck.

"Okay, listen to my wife."

As expected, Shen Yanqing leaned obediently on Qi Yanxuan's shoulder and stopped making trouble.

The horse walked slowly on the grassland, occasionally lowering its head to nibble on the grass.

Not far away, Qi Yanxuan sat on the ground, eating a bunch of grapes with relish, while Shen Yanqing lay on the grass, his head resting on Qi Yanxuan's legs, with his eyes closed, looking extremely comfortable.

The two of them stuck together, enjoying their rare time alone.

Qi Yanxuan picked a grape and fed it into Shen Yanqing's mouth, "Are you tired of getting up so early every day?"

"Not tired." Shen Yanqing smiled and enjoyed being fed by his wife.

"You only sleep for a short time every day and you still say you're not tired. Do you really think you're made of iron?" Qi Yanxuan slapped Shen Yanqing in annoyance.

"As long as Xuan is around, I won't feel tired."

Shen Yanqing bit a grape, raised his hand to hook Qi Yanxuan's neck, and pressed his big palm on the back of his head and pressed it down.

Their lips touched, stopping Qi Yanxuan from saying anything.

Shen Yanqing bit into the grape, and the sweet juice spread between his lips and teeth. The two of them fought over it, and they felt a little unsatisfied even after the sweetness disappeared.

Looking at Shen Yanqing's eyes that seemed to want to eat him up completely, Qi Yanxuan suddenly felt a pain in his waist and quickly reached out to cover his eyes.

"Be good, I have something else to do later and don't have time to play around with you."

"What's the matter? Do you need my husband's help?" Shen Yanqing grabbed the hand covering her eyes and kissed it lightly on her lips.

"Before I came here, I saw a group of people walking towards our city. I think it was Lao Xiao's people who came. There is no need for me to do anything. I just need to take them to Xu Xiucai to register and find a vacant place for A Kun to take them and make arrangements. You are busy enough. I can handle this small matter myself."

"Okay, don't get tired, call me if you need anything."

"Okay, I'll listen to my husband!" Qi Yanxuan cooperated with a smile in her eyes.

*

Qi Yanxuan returned to the South City Gate on time. When he arrived, the group of people was still thirty or forty feet away from here.

Their hair was a mess like a chicken coop, their eyes were bloodshot, their lips were chapped, their clothes were so tattered that their original colors could not be seen, and their exposed skin was covered with dirt and blood that had coagulated into blood scabs of various sizes. How miserable could one describe their condition?

Perhaps because they were getting closer, the people's footsteps became faster.

Lin Zi paused as he watched the man's movements. "Tsk tsk tsk... This is too pathetic. He's no longer human."

"It's tragic, but at least he's still alive. The same can't be said for others."

Qi Yanxuan muttered something and silently took out ten water tanks from the space and filled them with water.

Seeing that those people were about to rush over, Qi Yanxuan struck the front of the crowd with a bolt of lightning, forcing everyone to stop.

"queue."

After saying that, Qi Yanxuan calmly took out a chair and sat next to him.

The crowd had only lost their minds due to thirst at first, but after being frightened, they immediately came to their senses and lined up obediently in ten teams, one next to the other.

When the person in front gulped down the water, the sound of the person behind him swallowing his saliva never stopped.

"That's enough, those in front just need to drink one spoonful, there are so many people waiting behind!"

"Dad, I'm so thirsty."

"Be good, my dear. Just bear with it for a while. We will be there soon."

"Hurry up! Don't waste time in front!"

“Cough cough cough…hurry…hurry for what?! I almost choked to death!”

"If you were behind me, you would be in a hurry!"

"That's enough! You still have the energy to argue even though your throat is burning. Hurry up!"

Dry sounds rang out one after another, and the throat sounded like it had been scraped by sandpaper, hoarse and unpleasant.

The person who had drunk the water stood aside and waited, glancing at Qi Yanxuan and Lin Zi nervously, opening and closing his mouth.

"Young Master, are you the masters of the city? Can you take us in? I can do any job! As long as I can have food to eat, that's all I need."

A tall and thin man stood up, followed by a boy of about twelve or thirteen years old. The boy was holding a little girl of about six or seven years old, who seemed to be the man's child.

The little girl's face was dirty. One of her hands was held tightly by her brother, and the other hand was clutching her father's clothes. Her big black eyes were looking at Qi Yanxuan uneasily, and when she saw Qi Yanxuan looking at her, she timidly retracted her gaze.

"Didn't someone notify the manager of Nangong City before? With our people from Yan'an City ahead, you shouldn't encounter any danger." Lin Zi asked in confusion.

"Because we had to pack up, we left a day later than Yan'an City. At first, we did follow the tracks left on the road, but then more and more animals fled, and the tracks we left were covered by the footprints of various animals. The adults in our city didn't waste any more time looking. Since they knew the general direction anyway, they simply took a road that was not attacked by animals. We thought it would be safer, but who knew that this would cause trouble."

As the man spoke, fear unconsciously flashed in his eyes, as if he had remembered something extremely terrifying.

Seeing the man lost in memories, Qi Yanxuan injected a gentle wood-type power into the man's body, and the man instantly came back to his senses from his fear.

"Go on."

"yes."

The man wiped the sweat from his forehead and continued, "The soil on the road the master took us on was relatively moist, probably because he thought there would be more water. But the more we walked, the more things felt wrong. Before, we could occasionally hear the roar of animals and see flocks of birds flying over the branches, but I don't know when it became so quiet that only the sound of people's footsteps could be heard.

We were walking at the back and had no idea what was happening in the front. We just saw the team suddenly became chaotic, people were running around, and soon someone was trampled to death due to the crowding.

I could only hold my daughter in my arms, ask my wife to pull my son and run to a place with fewer people. That's how our team dispersed.

The rest of us could only head north as we had agreed, but it was not so easy for ordinary people like us to escape. We were on guard against man-eating beasts along the way, but we couldn't escape from the flowers, plants and trees, and my wife didn't escape either.

Later, we tried to take paths with less vegetation. It took us five days to reach the grassland. We met other people on the road and we came together.

As the man spoke, his eyes became red and his voice was choked with sobs.