Chapter 383: Being a prisoner, one must have the consciousness of a prisoner
Meng Pei looked at the person in front of him with deep hostility, and said fiercely: "Chen Anzhu is mine! If anything happens to her in your hands, I..."
"What can you do?"
Sang Zhixia impatiently interrupted Meng Pei's roar and said coldly, "Everyone is an ant in the face of a natural disaster like a flash flood. Between life and death, who can turn the tide?"
"If you really don't want Shen Anzhu to die in your petty nagging and your anger that has no effect on the facts, then don't waste time barking at me."
"Someone, send him back and lock him up! Before I come back, absolutely..."
"I'll go with you!"
Meng Pei shook off the guy who tried to hold him down, gritted his teeth and said, "I'm going to find her!"
"Is there anyone among you who is more familiar with the road conditions than me? Is there anyone who knows better than me what the signs will be when the flash floods occur again?"
Meng Pei's face was filled with mockery, and he sneered disdainfully: "You can't do it."
"I am the flesh and blood of the roots of Shu. I can figure out where to go even with my eyes closed. Without me leading the way, you..."
“When asking for help, you should act like one who is asking for help.”
Sang Zhixia looked at Meng Pei with a half-smile, and said sarcastically, "Meng Pei, this is not Huwei Mountain, nor is it Qingcheng Mountain."
"Once you become a prisoner, you must have the consciousness of a prisoner."
"you……"
Sang Zhixia: "If you want to go together, you can, but don't be so foul-mouthed."
"If you keep calling me 'old man', I'll rip out your useless tongue and make you my grandson."
Sang Zhixia's extreme anxiety made his words imposing, and the cold murderous aura between the lines was chilling and frightening.
Meng Pei glanced at Sang Zhixia with a complicated expression, and in return, he gave her a cold and tough profile: "Give him the antidote to the muscle softening powder."
The shopkeeper hesitated: "You..."
"Give it to him."
The shopkeeper didn't dare to delay and quickly found what Sang Zhixia wanted. Meng Pei took it without even looking at it, and poured it all into his mouth.
Sang Zhixia raised her hand and threw a small porcelain bottle into his arms: "Eat what's inside."
Meng Pei opened the bottle with a grim expression.
Sang Zhixia raised her eyebrows slightly, and said frankly and honestly: "Poison."
"Eat this and lead the way honestly. When this is over, I will give you the antidote."
"Of course, you don't have to eat it."
The choice is in Meng Pei's hands, and the decision of life or death is in Sang Zhixia's hands.
The person is already under control, and he harbors resentment and malice towards him. Sang Zhixia cannot let him lose control.
Facing the fierceness in Meng Pei's eyes, Sang Zhixia's brows turned cold: "I don't have the patience to wait for you."
"Lingchu, break his arms and legs and throw him back!"
"this……"
"This, this, this...eat this?!"
The shopkeeper looked at Meng Pei's throat in disbelief, and then looked at Sang Zhixia uncertainly: "Look at this..."
"I'm willing to eat this not because I'm afraid of death, but because I don't want you bunch of idiots to delay saving people."
Meng Pei opened her mouth to indicate that she had swallowed the poison. She flipped her hand and threw the porcelain bottle to the ground. Amidst the crackling sound of porcelain shards breaking, she taunted him, "If you don't want to be a widow after a man dies, then follow my instructions."
Sang Zhixia's eyes suddenly turned cold, and she walked past Meng Pei and went straight out.
"If you don't want to die before Shen Anzhu, watch your mouth."
"Your life or death will not hinder me from saving people."
"Get ready to go!"
The temporarily assembled personnel quickly gathered together, and one man and one horse broke through the rain curtain and rushed into the depths of the night that was so deep that it could not be dissolved.
Amidst the countless splashes of water raised by the horse's hooves, a pair of eyes that had been hidden in the dark for many days moved.
"Hurry up and tell the village chief that the God of Wealth we're waiting for has arrived!"
The night was deep and the wind and rain were sudden and violent.
After planning for many days, the Huweishan bandits who had secretly sneaked into Ancheng and were lurking in full force came out.
This mountain flood was far more terrible than Sang Zhixia had expected.
Less than three miles out of Ancheng, the only passable official road was blocked in an extremely tragic manner by collapsed rocks and flood-like mud.
The sky seemed to be leaking, and the sound of water pouring down was chaotic and easily drowned out all suspicious sounds.
Sang Zhixia pulled the reins hard, wiped the water off his face, and said hoarsely, "Go to the nearby villages and find people to help! Tell them I'll pay them a hundred taels a day, each person. Bring something you can use from home, and I'll give you the money when you show up!"
"While looking for people, I also told the villagers that the rain was too heavy and they should not hide in their houses. They should try to get into the city! They should hide in flat areas and stay away from the mountains!"
Shu is a land of mountains and rivers, and most houses and villages are built along the mountainside.
Once a flash flood occurs, it will be difficult to stop the heavy rain, and there is always the risk of being buried by the flash flood again.
We can’t take care of special evacuation, so we’ll save as many people as we can!
Shuanzi shouted in a hoarse voice: "Okay! Mr. Sang, please be careful!"
"Go!"
“This way!”
Meng Pei, blood dripping from his arm, waved his hands vigorously: "Push the fallen tree over here, and you can walk up the mountain! Come on, some people, help push it!"
"Boss, please take shelter here. I'll bring people over!"
Ling Chu stopped the anxious Sang Zhixia and rushed towards Meng Pei.
As the sky gradually brightened, terrifying and violent thunder rumbled and the rain became heavier.
Sang Zhixia screamed in the torrential rain, almost blinding her eyes: "Be careful of the rocks on the roadside!"
"Be careful when moving!"
"Master, you are not safe here."
In the chaos, a secret guard who had put down his crossbow and came out to move stones said urgently, "There are too many people here! Please retreat with me to a more open area!"
"I will withdraw."
Sang Zhixia raised her hand to wipe the water off her face and said hoarsely, "Don't worry about me. Those of you who are better at fighting can go over and help."
"But your side..."
"I don't need so many people guarding me."
Sang Zhixia smiled bitterly and said, "With more people and more effort, we can clear the blocked road sooner, then..."
Sang Zhixia's throat suddenly became blocked and she stopped talking. After taking a deep breath, she lowered her eyes and said, "I can take care of myself. You guys..."
"There's someone! There's someone underneath!"
A sudden shout from the crowd struck Sang Zhixia's anxious heart like an electric shock.
Sang Zhixia's pupils suddenly shrank and she ran over quickly.
People who rushed over after hearing the noise moved away the broken tree trunks and fallen boulders. Amid the noise, Sang Zhixia could almost clearly hear the sound of his own extremely tense heartbeat.
The person who was pinned down at the bottom had already lost all sound. When he was dug out from the pile of rocks and mud, he barely looked like a human.
These are pedestrians who were drowned at the moment of the flash flood.
Sang Zhixia recognized him at a glance: it was not Xu Yu.
There was no one she knew here either.
Sang Zhixia felt a huge stone drop from her heart. With red eyes, she said, "Move the body to the open ground and continue digging!"
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