Chapter 257 Escape
Zhong Zhong whispered a few words to the warriors around him, and then he saw the warriors riding their horses towards the front of the stream.
While Su Ying was wondering, she saw a warrior go behind a big rock, and he pulled some mechanism. She heard a rumbling sound, and a stone bridge rose from the ice.
The solid stone bridge broke through the ice on the stream and gradually appeared before everyone's eyes.
"Chief, we can go now." A warrior shouted at them.
Zhang Nuo looked at the stone bridge in surprise. He had walked to this place many times before, but he didn't expect that there was a hidden mechanism here.
"City Lord Su, please."
Su Ying nodded and rode the horse onto the stone bridge. The stone bridge, which had been submerged in the water, was covered with moss and looked mottled, but it was very solid.
After she crossed the bridge, she saw that they were directing the cattle and sheep to walk in a single line.
After crossing the stream, the rest of the road is not so difficult to walk.
"City Lord Su, when we pass the Tarot tribe, why don't we rest for a night before continuing on our journey?" Zhang Nuo looked up in the distance and came to Su Ying and said.
Su Ying knew that he wanted to go home and take a look, "Yes, but you don't have to follow me this time."
Zhang Nuo was a little surprised, "City Lord Su, don't you want to go somewhere else?"
"Of course I have to go, but if I stay out for too long, I have to stay at home for a while, otherwise the children will be unhappy."
Zhang Nuo was even more surprised, "City Lord Su, you have a child?"
Su Ying smiled, as if illuminating the white snow in winter, "Yes, we have a child."
"Then City Lord Su should return home as soon as possible to reunite with his children. My child, your family must miss you very much."
"You know your family will miss you, but you still run out all day?"
Zhang Nuo laughed heartily. "I'm not afraid of being laughed at by City Lord Su. If I could leave this place, I would like to visit other countries and draw maps of every country. This is my lifelong wish."
"I hope your wish comes true."
"Thank you, City Lord."
The group was not in a hurry to travel. After all, the road was difficult to walk on in the snow, so safety was the top priority.
But the journey was not far, and they were riding horses, so in less than three days they saw the tribe hiding in the snow.
Su Ying, who was walking in the front, noticed the bright red marks on the ground with her sharp eyes. She kicked her horse's belly and quickly moved forward. Then she dismounted and squatted down to check the marks on the ground.
When she smelled the fishy-sweet smell, her brows furrowed. It was the smell of human blood.
Su Ying stood up and took out a telescope from her body to check the surroundings, and found a person lying not far ahead.
She walked over.
In the snow, a man wearing clothes made of animal skins fell in a pool of blood. Su Ying reached out and turned the body over. When she saw the man's appearance clearly, her face gradually darkened.
"It's Pu Mo, it's Pu Mo!" Zhang Nuo followed and his face changed drastically after seeing the other person's appearance clearly. This was his childhood playmate who had survived the last attack by the southerners. But, he was gone not long after.
Su Ying opened his shirt and carefully examined his wound, making sure it was caused by a sharp weapon.
She jumped on her horse and ran to a high point in front. She took out a telescope and looked around. She found that the colorful flags raised by the tribes when they left were gone.
Zhang Nuo said that these colorful flags have a warning function. If the tribe is in danger, they will take down the colorful flags as a warning!
Now, all the colorful flags have disappeared, proving that something has happened to one of the tribes.
"Something may have happened to the tribe. Chief, please wait here for a while. Zhang Nuo and I will go over and take a look."
Yangzhong thought of what Zhang Nuo had said before, that there were people from the South coming to attack the tribe, so it must not be just one person. Since they followed him, there was no reason not to help.
Zhong Zhong left five people to guard the cattle and sheep, and took the rest to follow Su Ying in the direction of the tribe.
The closer we got to the tribe, the more blood we saw on the ground, and the more corpses we saw.
Zhang Nuo looked at his familiar tribesmen lying in a pool of blood, his eyes tearing. He held back his tears, gritted his teeth, ran in from behind the tribe, and shouted, "Is there anyone? Is there anyone?"
The tribe was covered in blood, and the bright red blood dyed the snow red.
The tribe was eerily quiet; even the cold wind carried a bloody scent.
Zhang Nuo ran all the way back to his home, but there was still no one at home, and no body was found either.
Su Ying discovered that although there were a lot of bloodstains and corpses in the tribe, there were not as many as she had imagined. If the entire tribe was massacred, there would not be only these corpses.
"Don't be alone, let's go to other tribes together."
Zhang Nuo suppressed the grief in his heart and followed everyone to other tribes. After visiting several tribes, he found that the situation was similar to that of the Tarot tribe. There were bloodstains everywhere on the ground, and there were also corpses, but the number of corpses was not large.
"They must have escaped. Let's follow the footprints on the ground to see which direction they went."
"good."
With so many people leaving together, there couldn't be no traces on the ground. Soon, Su Ying and her friends discovered that there were a large number of footprints behind each tribe. Judging from the direction of the footprints, they were going in the direction when Su Ying came.
"Do your tribes have a common shelter?"
Zhang Nuo shook his head. "No, the terrain here is very flat. There is no entrance to a deep mountain cave. If you want to get to the deep mountains, you have to go in the direction of Tiankui City."
Su Ying looked at the direction of the footprints and found that they were indeed heading towards Tiankui City.
"Let's go and follow the footprints to take a look."
"good."
Zhongzhong called his people and asked them to follow the cattle and sheep and catch up quickly.
The group walked forward quickly following the footprints. The further they walked, the more Su Ying felt that they were heading towards Tiankui City.
They hurried all the way and finally found the traces they left behind.
Zhang Nuo came to an extinguished fire and tested the temperature. There was still residual heat, proving that they had left not long ago.
Zhang Nuo immediately jumped on his horse and chased after them, and sure enough, he saw many people from the tribe.
He rode forward quickly and shouted, "Father, Mother..."
The advancing team suddenly heard Zhang Nuo's shout and fell silent. But when they saw that the person coming was Zhang Nuo, some tribesmen who knew him shouted in response.
"Zhang Nuo, Zhang Nuo."
Zhang Nuo heard the shouting and looked up, then he saw his own people.
He rode up to the tribesman and looked at him with red eyes. "Puda, tell me quickly, has something happened in the tribe? Where are my father and mother?"
"Don't worry, I think I saw them escape before, they should be right ahead."
"Tell me, what on earth is going on?"
(End of this chapter)
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