This mountain fire burned for three full days, and the sky, which was burned red and filled with black smoke, could be seen hundreds of miles away. There was flying smoke and dust everywhere within a radius of ten miles.
When Li Chengfeng led Zhao Xiaobao and Han Tianxing to the vicinity of Taiyang, the three of them felt as if they had arrived at the crater of a volcano. Extremely thick dust was flying everywhere, and the air seemed to be covered with a gray-black veil. Although It was broad daylight, and the sky was bright in spring, but the sunlight could hardly penetrate. The whole surrounding was gray, just like in the evening. When the three of them inhaled through their noses, they felt the smoke was choking, and they could only cover their mouths with cloth towels. Nose forward.
But what was even more terrifying than these was the terrible smell that filled the air. This smell was filled with the smell of burnt barbecue, and was so disgusting that they almost wanted to vomit!
"Brother, what happened here?" Han Tianxing covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief. In just a moment, their heads were covered with a thin layer of silver-black fly ash, making him look older.
"Yeah, what on earth does this smell like? It smelt you to death!" Zhao Xiaobao lay on his horse and retched. The horse under him also seemed very restless, snoring and poking its hooves, "Should I?" Is there a fire somewhere?"
Han Tianxing's expression changed: "It can't be Taiyang, right?"
Zhao Xiaobao's face turned pale: "No way? Prefect Li Tian is so heartbroken and crazy?!"
Li Chengfeng's face was frighteningly ugly, and his hands holding the reins were trembling slightly. He didn't dare to imagine what was happening here, and he didn't dare to guess: "This is still more than thirty miles away from Taiyang, don't mess around. Guess, maybe some farmers are burning the fields during spring plowing."
Han Tianxing and Zhao Xiaobao know that sometimes farmers burn weeds in forests or mountains to make farming easier. In this way, the remaining wood ash and grass ash fall into the fields and become good fertilizer, which is very beneficial to farmers. Open a pit.
Sometimes large-scale burning will trigger huge forest fires, which become uncontrollable and then burn to death a large number of animals in the forest that have no time to escape. Such a terrible smell will also be filled in the air.
The three of them comforted themselves for a while, and then continued to move forward on horseback. They traveled more than ten miles along the way. At this time, even Han Tianxing, a man with little experience in the world, noticed that something was very wrong.
"Why didn't I meet anyone along the way?!" Han Tianxing was shocked.
"That's right. If there is such a big wildfire, don't the people nearby just ignore it? Why can't you see anyone on the road?"
Li Chengfeng only felt that his heart was sinking, and the ominous feeling was getting stronger and stronger: "There are still ten miles, Taiyang City is ahead, hurry up, keep up!"
The three of them stopped talking, lowered their heads and hurried on. The mouth and nose of their horse was also covered with gauze. The horse snorted heavily, and streams of white air rose from his sinuses.
After walking another ten miles, Li Chengfeng and the others saw the vague figure of Taiyang City in the hazy gray fog. It squatted in the gray fog, like a lying giant, silent and dead. , the surroundings were so quiet that there wasn't even the chirping of insects or birds, only the breathing and heartbeats of Li Chengfeng and the three of them and the gasping of the mount under his crotch.
None of the three of them, Li Chengfeng, Zhao Xiaobao and Han Tianxing, spoke. They all stared at the prostrate body on the ground not far away.
These corpses were scattered in various directions, some in twos and threes, and some alone, but all of them were facing away from Taiyang City, and all of their injuries were cuts on their backs.
The blood on the frozen ground had already formed into a thick piece of black ice. The black patches on the ground connected the corpses together, extending all the way towards Taiyang City, like a black bloody carpet. .
Zhao Xiaobao was trembling all over, and he said in a trembling voice: "Who did this?"
Han Tianxing clenched his fists tightly and gritted his teeth and said: "So heartbroken!! Prefect Li Tian should be killed!! His body should be broken into pieces!!"
Li Chengfeng didn't speak. His face was extremely stern, and his two eyebrows were tightly knitted together. He clamped the horse's belly and continued to walk forward. Zhao Xiaobao and Han Tianxing looked at the corpses all over the ground, cautiously. They avoided and followed Li Chengfeng.
The three of them soon arrived at the only open gate in Taiyang City, the East Gate.
The last time the three of them were here fighting side by side with a sea of corpses all over the mountains and plains, there were also the brave and united people of Taiyang City and other refugees who were united and fighting hard.
But at this time... the city gate was wide open, and the entire city had turned into a ghost town. There was no sound inside, and the densely packed corpses at the city gate extended all the way from the city into the jungle.
"It seems... they should have wanted to escape from the city, but they were chased while escaping..." Li Chengfeng's voice was low and hoarse. "Let's go in and take a look..."
Han Tianxing gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, we must capture Prefect Li Tian!"
Li Chengfeng snorted coldly and said, "Do you think Li Tian is still alive now?"
The three of them walked along the open city gate and saw many dead city gate guards along the way. Some of them were hit by knives or arrows in the front, obviously fighting to death, and some were hit by knives and arrows in the back, obviously. He was chased to death while escaping.
Arriving in Taiyang City again, Li Chengfeng and three other people "revisited their old places" and arrived at the Prefect's Mansion with familiar faces.
The door here is also open. The entrance to the mansion and the front yard inside are full of dead servants and even disheveled maids who were raped to death.
Zhao Xiaobao and Han Tianxing couldn't bear to witness it. They both turned away after seeing it, but even if they turned away, they could see an even more horrific situation in the other direction. This made the two of them unable to escape and could only despair. He lowered his head, looked at his nose with his eyes, and his heart with his nose, not daring to look around.
The three of them walked through the front yard and the front hall, and finally found the prefect Li Tian in a small pavilion in the back hall courtyard.
He was hanging in the center of the small pavilion, his body already frozen solid, and he would sway when the cold wind blew.
Li Chengfeng stood in front of Prefect Li Tian and looked up at his body. Seeing that his eyes were wide open and filled with fear and anger, Li Chengfeng waved his hand and said to Zhao Xiaobao: "Put him down."
Zhao Xiaobao moved, swung his mother-in-law lightning sword to cut the rope, and then flashed back.
The body of Prefect Li Tian fell to the ground, but due to the cold weather and freezing ground, the body was too stiff from the cold. With a click, his right leg fell into two pieces.
Zhao Xiaobao smiled awkwardly at Li Chengfeng, and Han Tianxing stepped forward to check. He gritted his teeth and said, "It will be easier for him to die like this!"
Li Chengfeng asked, "Do you think he committed suicide by hanging?"
Han Tianxing shook his head and said: "Obviously he was hanged! Brother, look at the scratches on his hands and wrists, as well as his expression and eyes. This does not look like the expression left behind by a person who committed suicide."
Li Chengfeng sneered: "The murderer is extremely arrogant. He knows that there is nothing we can do against them. Even if we find the body of Prefect Li Tian, it will not help!"
"Who could have done it?" Han Tianxing asked angrily.
Li Chengfeng shook his head and said, "Let's go out and take a look again!"
The three of them quickly turned around and left the prefect's mansion, following the direction of the corpse into the jungle.
At this time, the jungle has been burned into a wasteland, with thick vegetation and ash everywhere. From time to time, you can see burnt corpses. Their postures are twisted, their limbs are struggling and stiff, and they seem to still be screaming for help. .
This is no longer a burned-out mountain forest, this road is like a hell on earth!
The more Li Chengfeng and the other three walked inside, the more they felt chilled, and the more shocked they were by this premeditated and organized massacre!
They thought that what they saw along the way was the most unimaginable tragedy in the world, but when they came to the canyon at the end of the mountain forest, they discovered that they were wrong, so wrong!
What appeared before them was a tragic scene they could never imagine!