However, due to the disorder and chaos, some people inevitably got burned by the flames, their clothes caught fire, and their cries of agony immediately echoed through the sky.
Everyone was frantically fleeing for their lives. Who would care about the life or death of a stranger? Seeing the person being burned, with flames quickly spreading from below to all over his body, he desperately lunged at the crowd, trying to get someone to save him. In an instant, the scene became chaotic again, with everyone unable to dodge and everyone in disarray.
A soldier glanced over coldly, gripping his knife tightly, intending to end the man's suffering, when suddenly a dark figure darted over. She ripped off her heavy cloak and wrapped it around the man, then used her hands and feet to forcefully extinguish the flames on his body.
They looked at her in surprise.
"What are you doing...?"
Zheng Quchi was panting heavily. Seeing that it was almost time, she tore open her thick robe and saw that the other person was looking at her blankly, as if they had no idea what had happened just now, when everything went black and they were slapped and kicked.
She quickly draped the cloak back over her shoulders. Although it was tattered and riddled with holes of varying sizes from the flames, it still offered some fire protection.
"What are you all standing there for? Run!"
She ignored him and ran away at a speed comparable to Liu Xiang.
"Oh, oh oh."
Ahead lay a battlefield where the two nations were locked in combat. They dared not approach, fearing they might be accidentally wounded by the merciless swords. So they tried to detour to the west gate, hoping that once they were out of the city, they could escape this hellish battlefield.
However, no matter which path they took, the ground was completely covered in water. As they stepped onto it, their hearts skipped a beat. The familiar, pungent smell stunned them, and they screamed and retreated in terror.
Zheng Quchi, who was behind, looked up with a serious expression and saw that it was spilled kerosene!
If someone stands on that spot, even the slightest spark could burn them to ashes in an instant, which is far more deadly than being slowly killed with a knife.
"Run to the other side!"
The Julu soldiers led them to run in another direction.
However, no matter which path they chose, it seemed that none of them made the situation any better; they were all dead ends.
Suddenly, Zheng Quchi glanced at the eaves and saw Ye soldiers lying prone on the roof ridge, bows drawn, arrows burning. If they were to shoot this arrow, the civilians in front of them, stained with oil, would surely die.
She pulled out a slingshot from her waist, took out a stone, aimed at the other person's position, squinted, and the next second, the other person felt a sudden, sharp pain in the back of their hand and was forced to give up.
He looked at the crowd in surprise, but in the vast sea of people, he couldn't tell who had done it.
Zheng Quchi did not stop. She wandered among the crowd, using the sea of people as cover, and set off a slingshot at each place she went.
After taking them all down, she thought she could finally catch her breath, only to find that she seemed to have been discovered.
After locking onto her target, an arrow came from behind, which she dodged with an extremely flexible body curve.
Turning around, they saw archers from the Kingdom of Ye covering the entire mountainside, like the rooftops on the undulating hillside, watching their lives from above.
The feeling of being stared at by countless icy arrows aimed at your flesh and blood is indescribable, making your heart pound.
In the dead silence, Zheng Quchi's palms were sweating, and a nerve in his brain finally snapped, causing him to explode: "Liu Fengmian—don't you still want your wife?!"
Her shout stunned not only those around her, but even the soldiers above who were preparing to fire their arrows paused for a moment.
However, her outburst had no effect whatsoever; instead, it triggered an even larger influx of people who rushed in regardless of the consequences.
No one wanted to stay here and be shot to death by arrows, or be burned to death by fire. As long as they could fight for a sliver of life, they would charge through the sea of fire.
When Zheng Quchi saw that the people around her had completely lost their minds, she was suddenly pushed by someone and almost fell. However, she had a steady foot and managed to withstand the impact. But others were not so lucky, and more stampedes occurred.
"Stop!"
She rushed over, pushing aside the crowd, hoping to help the person on the ground who was being trampled to the point of almost vomiting blood to stand up.
Although she was strong, there were not just one or ten people here, but hundreds or thousands. Her strength was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.
At this moment, arrows rained down from above, and many people were hit by them, screaming as they retreated, which finally allowed Zheng Quchi to catch his breath.
But as the people dispersed, her target became clearer. When she looked up, she realized that the aura of death was so close to her face.
Her pupils constricted, and she thought she was going to die this time.
Suddenly, the surroundings seemed to become eerily quiet.
There was no frantic rush of fleeing people surging toward her, and the arrow that was pointed angrily was not fired for a long time. She couldn't help but feel strange, so she turned her head away.
The next second, she stared wide-eyed, frozen in place.
The person who should have been far away in the city lord's mansion, like a demon, was now standing a dozen meters away from her, tightly gripping a handful of arrows in his hand.
His presence instantly made the surroundings empty, forming a vacuum zone, but this did not make her feel relaxed and at ease. On the contrary, it felt as if he had even taken away her breath.
He walked towards her step by step through the oil, the arrows in his hand falling loose and scattered on the ground.
Impossible...it can't be!
How did he get here?!
She seemed not to be mentally prepared enough... Overwhelmed by the other party's terrifying aura, Zheng Quchi's hair stood on end, and she turned and ran.
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