Chapter 22 Aixina (1)
Before arriving at the port, the people on the ship were shocked by the scene before them.
The land in front of the city gate was not connected, but scattered here and there as if it had been destroyed by an earthquake. There were many people living on the land covered with shrubs and weeds.
Ding Xiang noticed the surprised looks of the people and hurriedly explained.
"Qingshui City is divided into the outer city and the inner city. We are going to the inner city, which is surrounded by walls to prevent the invasion of monsters. Of course, the larger part is the broken outer city like the one in front of us."
"There are a lot of civilians living here, and people who can't enter the inner city because of the lack of certification points. They open all kinds of shops. Even the nobles in the inner city will buy the gadgets they want in the outer city."
"So everyone doesn't need to..."
When he was about to continue speaking, the horizon behind him, which should have been calm, suddenly had strange ripples.
Several fuzzy and twisted strange objects floated up and down on the water, constantly making creepy, soul-sucking roars like a dying person asking for help.
Most of the people on this ship are citizens of Xiangshan City. This is the first time in their lives that they have changed their city of residence. They instinctively feel terrified by this situation, but they don't know where this fear comes from.
"It's a monster!" An old man shouted, and all the people who were still at a loss and trembling with fear suddenly changed their faces.
The sailors who had originally looked very relaxed also quickly restrained their originally comfortable expressions after looking back.
They were like facing a powerful enemy. They immediately took out the signal device on their bodies and quickly pressed the emergency button. Then the whole cabin was buzzing and howling, as if something was activated.
The ship was in an incomprehensible state, ignoring the obstacles in front of it and moving forward in a straight line, and the speed was dozens of times faster than before.
Originally they were going to bypass the broken ground in the outer city, but now they didn't care about that at all. The ship ignored the people living in the outer city and crashed directly into them.
The waves generated by the water resistance even washed the broken ground once before the monsters.
Countless people living here fled in panic.
Some were sitting at the doorstep of their homes eating, and some were holding children in their arms, but how could they escape the huge waves that were wrapped around the ship with just their two legs?
They simply couldn't escape the speed of the sea water, and were swept into the waves like little ants. Their screams, struggles, and cries were instantly more terrifying than the monsters in the distance.
"Oh my God! The monsters haven't come yet, can't we go slower?" A young lady with exquisite clothes shouted at the sailors.
"Yes... I just saw a child who fell into the water because he ran a few steps slower... Who can save him?" A middle-aged man who obviously had a family and whose brows were full of anger immediately supported them.
However, the sailors who had been kind throughout the voyage had completely different expressions of indifference from the previous few days. Some of them even smiled sarcastically.
"They are just some savages who don't even have the qualifications to enter the city. Maybe they live outside because they are polluted." Ding Xiang, who has always been close to the passengers, explained immediately.
After saying this, he seemed to realize that his words were a bit unkind, and then he smiled again.
"We are all residents of the inner city who have certification cards. We will know the situation in Qingshui City from now on..." Just as he was saying that, in less than two minutes, the ship had arrived at the port at the entrance of the inner city. "Everyone, get off the ship and hurry into the inner city. It is not safe outside now."
At this time, the Book of Alien Beasts gradually approached from far away, and many people with overflowing sympathy did not care about anything else at this moment. They rushed to get off the ship, especially those gentlemen and ladies who bought independent boxes.
A man who originally lived in the outer city fell not far away due to the impact of the water wave of the ship. His body suffered a lot of injuries due to the impact, and there was a long red wound on his left thigh.
"Who can come and save me!" He was like a fish that was thrown onto the shore and struggled in vain. His face was twisted by pain, his body curled up, and his hands covered his thighs, but blood was still oozing out from the wound.
"Who can come..." He was about to continue shouting, but he saw a fire spreading on the ground that was originally covered with weeds and vegetation.
The poor injured man opened his eyes in shock and looked at the strange and unknown flames not far away. His lips trembled and he mumbled twice. His brain was so confused that he didn't know what to say.
No one would come to save him, no matter if he was injured or encountered any other abnormalities.
The nobles who had been arranged to enter the inner city gate first also noticed this situation, but no one wanted to lend a hand. The worries they had just expressed were easily blown away like a gust of wind.
Now, even if they were getting off the ship at the back, the ordinary passengers who were relatively behind also quickened their pace, but the fire was like some kind of living being, spreading to the ship at an extremely fast speed.
"Get down quickly!" The shirt-sleeved man rushed to the entrance of the cabin first, and then shouted to his wife who fell behind because of her thinness.
"I'll be there right away!" The short-haired woman was followed by a mother holding a child. They were both weak, and they relied on their own body advantages to barely get out.
"Why are you squeezing!" Someone yelled at the short-haired woman.
"Aren't you also squeezing in?!" The shirt man took advantage of the advantageous position to refute his wife.
The group of people in black robes who were walking silently at the end were not in a hurry to leave, but after standing on the deck and seeing the strange scene of the blue flames rising in the distance, they also followed the crowd that was originally at a distance.
"Officially..." A black-robed man looked at the withered man beside him with an inquiring look.
"I just spilled my blood in the sea and attracted the group of monsters." The withered man's face was still swollen on one side, and he barely looked like a normal person under the pure black scarf.
"What about the fire?"
"Hurry up." As his impatient voice fell, several people surrounded him and the little girl in the middle and quickly rushed out of the crowded crowd.
Louisa, who was held tightly by him, looked back at the cabin from time to time. She always felt that the believer had not left the ship, but her natural ability was almost exhausted due to the consumption in the past few days and could not be used.
The sailor called a few more times, barely scanned the cabin, and quickly followed the captain to leave the ship. At this moment, the alien beasts were close to the broken outer city.
Just now, they could not distinguish their appearance from a distance, but at such a close distance, many people who had never come into contact with alien beasts could clearly see the appearance of this group of strange creatures. Many
people only glanced at them from a distance, and then quickly turned their backs and restrained their curiosity.
But a young teenager, out of some rebellious mentality, looked closely at the monster in front of him.
It looked like a patchwork of animals, with a head like a stunted horse, and countless holes on its body like a sponge. Its entire body was purple, green, and blue, constantly shrinking back and forth.
Seeing this funny appearance, the boy was about to laugh at the cowardice of the people around him.
But suddenly he felt a chill, and then he saw that the countless holes of the monster extended out slime-like tentacles, and the moment they touched the broken ground, they accurately touched the ground.
It twisted and twisted at a crazy speed and crawled and rolled towards the inner city, while the tentacles growing in other directions were like headless flies dangling above or around when they were idle.
The boy, who had never come into contact with an alien beast before, was shocked. He screamed and fell backwards without any control.
When he was about to fall to the ground, he felt something holding him up from behind.
The boy thought someone was holding him up and breathed a sigh of relief.
When he raised his head, he found that the people around him were wary of him as if he had seen something dirty, and they gradually retreated with serious faces.
He couldn't help but look back, but found that it was a tentacle as sticky as the alien beast that had just grown on his back, glowing with purple, green and blue colors.
"What is this...huh?" He raised his head in confusion and asked the people around him for help, but what he got was a steel fork.
The law enforcement team in charge of guarding the city gate arrived at the first time and pushed him out of the city gate with a small gap left, without even asking a question or probing him.
The boy was in great pain and rolled around outside the city gate several times without any ability to resist. His whole body was covered with dust and weeds, and he finally realized what had happened to him.
He looked at the empty ship in front of him with grief, and his two hands, including the sticky tentacle behind his back, fell to the ground powerlessly.
Just when he was about to jump into the sea to commit suicide, he suddenly heard a sound coming from the empty ship.
Thump, thump, thump.
It was the sound of people walking.
The boy looked up in horror, his empty eyes reflected the blazing broken ground, and all he saw was a scene of raging fire. The strange flames that had originally only ignited one area had now engulfed the entire cabin.
But the focus of his pupils was on a tall figure, or to be more precise, he was looking at the person who was tightly embraced by this person.
"Sorry... I was late for entering the city because I wanted to take a nap. How are you now?"
In the arms of the expressionless man who was looking down like a statue, the young man with black hair and black eyes, gentle eyebrows and a smile on his lips slowly asked him.