After a long journey, everyone is feeling more and more tired, both physically and mentally. But what makes people happy is that the loess wilderness slowly disappears, the scenery in front of them begins to look green, and vitality returns to people's vision.

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But no one in the refugee team was happy. The strange wailing sound enveloped the entire team like a monster devouring human life, which was very heavy. Everyone's face was filled with despair and indifference. They had fled too far and there was not enough left.

The food allowed them to continue their escape.

"A few more people have starved to death. This is the third consecutive day that people have starved to death." Wang Jin said fearfully. If Li Yi hadn't taken them into the mountains to hunt, I'm afraid they would have been one of these people who starved to death.

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Not far away, family members of people who died of starvation were cremating the remains. They looked at their relatives who were so thin and emaciated from starvation with dull expressions, and looked at their family members who were about to be completely lost. Their eyes were full of despair.

There were also some people who starved to death without any relatives. They were pushed into the main ditches on both sides of the official road. Their skinny bodies could no longer show their expressions. They just clenched their fists and stiffened their bodies, leaving them forever.

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The wild dogs began to wander around, eagerly surrounding the corpse of the deceased, and began to enjoy the feast; while the crow screamed and jumped down from the dead tree, looking at the corpse with its dark eyes like the scythe of death, and stopped on the bed.

The bloody corpse was chewed with fresh meat, and its eyes were gouged into two horrific bloody holes.

Everyone is numbly watching the human tragedy on both sides of the official road. Soon, they will become one of them.

Li Yi walked slowly. Some of these dead people he had met several times before. They were all simple and kind-hearted farmers. But he did not expect that the first people in this world to starve to death would be these people who support the people of the world.

farmer.

"Don't be sentimental. We have seen this kind of situation many times." Wang Jin came up and patted him on the shoulder, with a look of normality and nonchalance.

Many of their farmers have not had enough to eat since birth, and it is common for people to starve to death in disaster years. Wang Jin also said that even in peaceful years, they can often see some abandoned babies on the fields, and they will die after one night.

If it dies, it won't take long for it to rot and stink.

"It's okay." Wang Jin shrugged, "In this world, the death of 1,800 people is nothing."

"But they are all human beings." Li Yi said softly, "They are worse than pigs and dogs, so how can they be called human beings? Is there no one who can save this world?"

At this moment, Li Yi suddenly had the urge to change everything.

No matter what, as long as you live you have to bear whatever happens.

Li Yi can't even see his own future clearly clearly, so how can he take care of so many people?

The team has entered Taihang Mountain, which seems to belong to the boundary of Henan. They originally wanted to enter Zhending Mansion, but were blocked by a group of soldiers and government officials and could not enter at all.

They had no choice but to keep going. As for where they would end up, only God knew.

With no household registration, no land, and no money, in the chaotic era of the late Ming Dynasty, the refugees had to play the role of disaster victims to survive.

Just as Li Yi was walking listlessly, a commotion suddenly broke out in the refugee team. The refugees stopped one after another. Groups of people were whispering and buzzing like countless bees. It was very noisy. But everyone's face was very noisy.

But their expressions clearly showed that they were scared.

What happened? Why are these people so scared? Li Yi was confused.

At this time, Wang Jin ran back from the front of the team in a panic. His eyes were full of worry. When he saw Li Yi, he surrounded him as if he saw the backbone and said: "It's not good, it's not good. There is a team."

The horse army caught up with us and followed us from a distance. I don’t know what to do?”

Horse Army? As a powerful cavalry unit, the Horse Army is either an official or a thief. In this era, there is no difference between an official or a thief.

Li Yi was also a little panicked. They were a group of miserable refugees, why would there be a horse army following them? He had an ominous premonition in his heart.

Thinking of this, I hurriedly ran forward, pushed through the crowd, and happened to see a horse army about a mile away on the other side of the river. I don't know when a group of horsemen appeared, about fifteen people, all on horseback.

His eyesight was very strong. With the help of light, he could see the riders holding spears and sabers. The cold light reflected by the metal shone brightly in the sun, but it made him feel infinite chill in his heart.

This is not a fight between country men. The one-meter-long waist knife and the blood-stained spear are both sharp weapons for killing people. However, these horse soldiers are surrounding them from a distance but do not approach or leave. They are definitely coming with bad intentions.

The refugees all noticed this group of cavalry. Some of them were still squeezing forward to get a closer look. Some discerning people had already stepped back in fear, apparently sensing something was wrong.

"It's the bandits, the bandits are coming." Someone shouted loudly.

The whole team exploded immediately, everyone screamed and retreated, and became a mess. Some people had fled desperately, but most of them were crowded together, hoping to rely on their numerical advantage to make these bandits give up their attack.

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But these are of no use. A group of miserable and weak lambs, no matter how large the number is, will only allow the wolves to kill more to fill their stomachs. As long as the bandit horse army rushes up, they will not be able to resist it with only their flesh and blood.

They rushed and fled in all directions.

But there is no other way. If we spread out, we will only die faster.

Li Yi was overwhelmed by the crowd and saw that as the bandit riders slowly approached, some people could no longer hold back their fear and began to run away in the distance.

There were so many of them that the bandits didn't dare to charge at them for a while. If they all turned around and ran away, how could two legs outrun others with four legs? There would be absolutely no way for the bandits to catch up.

"Don't run away, don't run away. There are few bandits and there are many of us gathered together, so the bandits will not dare to rush over." Li Yi shouted loudly.

Zhang San next to him was also a smart man. Wouldn't he be seeking death if he dispersed at this time? He quickly shouted at the top of his lungs with Li Yi.

Li Si and Wang Jin next to them also shouted, and the four people's voices were not too quiet. They finally drowned out the noise and attracted people.

The whole team was in a mess because they lacked a person to lead them. Now when they heard someone speaking, they immediately seemed to have found a backbone. One person, two people stopped, and the people around them also stopped blindly.

All the refugees were crowded together. At the critical moment of life and death, they did not care about their physical strength and used all their strength to squeeze towards the center of the crowd, which was the safest place.

A few people who were so hungry that they had no strength were trampled to the ground by their companions. Their screams gradually disappeared and they never got up. More people were squeezed until their faces turned red and their necks were thick, and they almost suffocated. Although no one collapsed and ran away.

But it's also very confusing.
Chapter completed!