After quickly dispatching the scorpion monster, Lu Cai helped the old woman up from the ground. After checking, he found that, aside from some ripped clothes, the old woman was unharmed.
"Auntie, are you okay?" Lu Cai supported the woman.
The old woman tilted her head and saw Lu Cai in a red cloak. She naturally recognized him: "Girl, it's you—"
The whole city was in an uproar. Lu Cai was worried about leaving the old woman behind like this. He said, "Auntie, come with me..."
Zhao Yan, who had just approached, looked at Lu Cai and thought, "Forget it, forget it. It's a disaster copy anyway, and saving a civilian NPC can gain experience."
The old woman waved her hands and said, "I am old and would be a burden to you all. I have nothing now, only these..." As she spoke, she took out a wooden box and was about to open it when she was interrupted by Lu Cai.
"There's a cart over there!" Cai Lu turned around and asked Zhao Yan to keep an eye on it, then ran towards a two-wheeled cart carrying wine jars on the street.
The aroma of wine filled the air, but the man pushing the cart had vanished. A pool of blood stretched into the nearby alley. Lu Cai acted swiftly, leaping onto the cart and lifting the half-man-high jar of wine, carefully placing it on the ground.
After a while, I saw Lu Cai pushing the cart closer: "Auntie, come and try it——"
Zhao Yan saw the old woman standing there in a daze. She opened the wooden box in her hand, revealing a box overflowing with dried fruit. He relaxed his frown, walked over to the old woman, and helped her onto the cart. "Auntie, if you don't want to be a burden to us, please get on the cart and let's leave quickly."
The old woman looked at Lu Cai, who was pushing the cart, in surprise: "How can this girl push me..."
"Don't look at her thinness, she is actually very strong." Zhao Yan half coaxed and half supported the old woman, and finally helped her to the cart.
The cart is not very big, with only two baffles on the left and right sides of the tires, and the front and back are empty, just enough for one person to sit.
The old woman sat on it tremblingly. The cart started to move briskly, but she was still worried that the girl pushing the cart would be tired.
Until the group arrived at the city gate, they found that many people were crowded there, but the imperial guards were standing on the city wall, drawing their bows and arrows, and not allowing the people to get close at all.
"What should we do?" Zhao Yan stood beside Lu Cai.
Lu Cai put down the cart, stood up and tiptoed to look at the city gate. The gate was closed and there was no one guarding it. Aren’t they afraid that someone would come through the rain of arrows to open the gate?
"I recognize the guard at the city gate!" Zhaohe suddenly said, "I'll go talk to him and ask him to let us go!"
After saying that, the little princess prepared to squeeze through the crowd, and Zhao Yan followed her.
Before they had taken a few steps, there was a sudden movement on the city wall, throwing the soldiers, who had been on high alert, into chaos. All the arrows moved away from the heads of the common people and shot wildly towards both sides of the walkway at the top of the city wall.
Where the arrow pierced the bow, a long black shell tail rose up.
The scorpion monster is on the city wall? How did it get there?
There was more than one! In another direction, the same black scorpion tail quickly rushed towards the densely packed area of soldiers, and another hail of arrows shot straight down.
The people in front were in chaos and rushed directly into the city gate. The crowd surrounded and pushed, and the gate that seemed wide on normal days became extremely narrow at this moment.
Lu Cai bent down and grabbed the handle of the cart. Zhao Yan, who was in front, also pulled Zhao He back. Now the crowd was in chaos. In order to survive, the crazy people would just ignore everything.
There was another group of monsters screaming behind him. Lu Cai looked back and saw a large number of scorpion monsters chasing the people. The patrolling imperial guards fell behind the people and used the thin weapons in their hands to resist the scorpion monsters' flexible and powerful long tails.
It wouldn't take long before the resisting soldiers would be pierced by the stinger and turned into the skin of the scorpion.
A burst of surprised cheers came from the doorway in front, and the heavy door was slowly opened.
The crowd was crowded, and the crack in the door gradually widened from a thin thread to a final ray of light.
Lu Cai pushed his men's speculation forward and took a few quick steps. There were screams of terror in front of him again, and the huge crowd began to run back.
The cart was bumped by someone and swayed slightly. Worried that the cart would be damaged, Chief Lu erected an inconspicuous barrier and pushed the cart forward against the crowd.
When she approached the city gate, she saw a large number of scorpion monsters pouring into the city.
There are so many scorpion monsters outside! The people in the Princess Mansion must be...
With the influx of scorpion monsters, the capital city, which had already become a hell on earth, was even worse off, and all living people became prey to these giant monsters.
Lu Cai stopped and looked at the old woman pushing the cart in front of him.
"Girls, you are capable people, run away quickly--" The old woman's face was pale, and her body was trembling slightly when she saw this scene.
Lu Cai remained silent, her right hand gripping the handlebars. The energy she'd expended on the branch line hadn't yet been restored. If she really fought as she'd envisioned, she didn't know how long she could hold out.
But now there is no other choice for her.
She placed her palm on the push bar of the cart, and red threads fell on the cart like drizzle soaking the wood, and disappeared into the body of the cart in a moment.
The cart gradually began to float, its wheels leaving the ground. The old woman inside cried out in surprise. A pale red light rose, intersecting and converging to form a spherical barrier that enveloped the cart.
Lu Cai endured the pain rising in her meridians and looked at the black swarm of insects. She raised her hand and waved it. The cart half-suspended in the air was enveloped in red light and rushed directly towards the city gate.
Holding the dagger and attaching the supernatural energy to the blade, she rushed into the pile of insects.
Anyway, her special ability made her invulnerable to swords and guns, so Lu Cai ignored the stingers and just went up to chop at the scorpion monster's head.
After killing one, she stepped on the scorpion monster's corpse and jumped to the other one. The blade pierced into it, and pus splashed out. She didn't bother to wipe it off and continued.
The originally densely packed group of black-shelled scorpion monsters were forcibly slowed down by her.
The scorpion monsters also saw that Lu Cai was a troublemaker, so they stepped forward together, surrounded Lu Cai, and seven or eight of them stabbed the red spot in the black with their poisonous stingers at the end of their tails.
But when the stinger touched Lu Cai, it was like hitting a piece of iron, and some of the stingers were even broken off directly.
Lu Cai also felt a little dizzy, and a bloody taste rose in his mouth. It was obvious that this defensive iron body was not indestructible.
There were too many scorpion monsters in front of her. She held the head of a scorpion monster with one hand, stepped on its back, exerted force with her hand, and directly twisted off the scorpion monster's head.
She found that the scorpion monster's head could be twisted off, so she decisively put away the dagger and twisted one with her hand, as fast as twisting a carrot head.
Zhao Yan, who was not far behind him, controlled the vines to drill out of the ground, like a giant snake monster. When the vines touched the scorpion monster, they would wrap around it and squeeze it tightly until it was crushed.
Zhao Yan held Zhaohe's wrist tightly, and he felt the vines whizzing past him, and looked at the murderous red shadow not far away.
She suddenly felt that the world was strange and terrifying. Until her eyes fell on the tall figure in front of her, she had never looked at this prince consort seriously.
Showa only remembered that he was a sickly coward, with no talent for literature or martial arts, and even an ordinary appearance.
She didn't like him because An Ning could marry a talented young man from a noble family, but she could only be married to such a useless guy who could do nothing.
But when did this idiot become so powerful...
Showa tripped over a soft corpse and screamed. The figure in front stopped, turned around, and supported the little princess.
Looking at the little princess with dazed eyes who was hugging his arms tightly, Zhao Yan frowned and cursed in his heart.
It's ok that he picked up a daughter for nothing, but he is still a drag...
He helped her up and held her wrist as he continued to rush towards the city gate.
The vines cleared the way for them and they soon passed the city gate. Outside was a muddy road. Looking up, they saw weeds everywhere and layers of trees in the distance. It was extremely desolate.
Apart from the group of scorpion monsters that just rushed into the city gate, there was no other movement and the outside was relatively clean.
But this is only temporary. Since so many scorpion monsters have appeared, it means that the area outside the capital has also fallen.
Lu Cai landed not far in front of them. A scorpion monster lay straight to the ground with its head still on its neck, swaying as if it was about to fall at any moment.
The ground at the city gate was littered with scorpion monster corpses, half of which had their necks twisted by Lu Cai with his bare hands.
Looking at Lu Cai's lonely back standing in front of him, Zhao Yan didn't dare to speak, remembering what she said about Gu Xici challenging him to a fight.
If Gu Xici was present, he would definitely be driven crazy and would have to fight with Lu Cai even if it meant sacrificing his life.
"Keep going." Lu Cai spoke, and apart from being a little tired, there was no change in his expression.
The cart that was hanging high in the air slowly descended, but did not land on the ground. It was suspended five and a half centimeters above the ground, following Lu Cai towards the dusty road.
The people running out of the city gate behind were shouting and screaming. Zhao Yan looked back. He had lived in this capital for half a month. This city, which symbolized the prosperity and strength of the Dunmu Kingdom, had suddenly become a hell.
Showa was also watching. She was born and raised in the capital, and had never left here except for festivals.
Now, disaster had suddenly struck, and her father, the Emperor, ruler of the Dunmu Kingdom, had sealed off the imperial capital, abandoning his people... and her.
"We're leaving." Zhao Yan saw that she was sad and thought that the little princess was frightened, so he lowered his voice unconsciously.
The little princess raised her hand to wipe the tears that were about to fall from the corners of her eyes, nodded, and followed him obediently, walking forward following Lu Cai's back.
Once she leaves the capital, she will no longer be a princess.
Lu Cai and Zhao Yan walked very fast, and Zhaohe almost jogged to keep up with them. Although her feet hurt a lot, she didn't dare to say it, for fear that she would seem spoiled.
They walked like this for an unknown amount of time, following the most remote road, away from the dense crowds, heading towards Stone Wall Town. Following them were many civilians who had escaped from the capital. Seeing that Lu Cai and Zhao Yan were not ordinary people, they were all looking for a way out.
When the sun is at its brightest, there is still a hint of comfortable coolness under the shade of the trees in the forest.
Lu Cai, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped. Zhao Yan walked up to her and asked what happened. The half-hanging cart suddenly fell to the ground. The old woman exclaimed in surprise and then shouted, "Girl!"
The figure in the red cloak fell to his knees as if his soul had been sucked out.
Zhao Yan was in a panic and quickly squatted down to meet Lu Cai.
The thin girl fell into his arms and fluttered her eyelids weakly: "Do you know the way?"
How could one survive in this perverted game without the ability to memorize the map?
He nodded quickly, and Lu Cai breathed a sigh of relief and fell asleep with peace of mind.
Zhao Yan saw her exposed right arm. The white bandage at the wrist was stained deep red with blood. The blood stuck to her palm and slowly flowed onto the soil and gravel.
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Lu Cai's weapon evolution process:
Hand. Gun. → Dagger → Hand...
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