The people around Yan Liqiang, except for Gu Zexuan and Zhao Huipeng, were all bodyguards from the escort agency. These bodyguards reacted almost instinctively when they saw those people taking out their weapons. With a loud clatter, everyone drew out their swords.
The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became tense. There were more than twenty people over there, nearly twice as many as Yan Liqiang's team entering the city.
"Friends, what kind of gang are you from? Jinling City is such a big piece of fat meat, ready for anyone to take advantage of. My brothers here are just looking for some money to spend, and we are not blocking anyone's financial path. Do you want to butt in?" In the crowd over there, a man with triangular eyes, a bald head, and a pockmarked face walked two steps forward from the crowd, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth stained by smoke, and spoke viciously to Yan Liqiang and the others.
Yan Liqiang glanced at the people opposite him. There were more than twenty of them, ranging in age from twenty to forty years old. They were all dressed in colorful silks and satins, but many of them were wearing clothes that did not fit them well, and it was obvious that they were temporarily found from somewhere. Many of them had necklaces and various gold and silver jewelry hanging around their necks, which looked awkward no matter how you looked at them. Even without using his eyes, Yan Liqiang could smell the scent of city foxes and rats from these people. These people hid during the day and came out at night, and had no fixed place to live. Unexpectedly, they survived the disaster that happened last night, and were now looting everywhere in the city, just like New Year's Day.
Wang Hui did not speak, and the people from the Sihai Escort Agency who followed Wang Hui did not speak either. At this time, Wang Hui and the others naturally turned their eyes to Yan Liqiang.
Yan Liqiang looked at the pile of Jinling City scum in front of him with an expressionless face, "We came to the city to look for someone, and passed by here. Let's not interfere with each other. Please make way, we want to pass by, so as to avoid misunderstandings!"
The man who was talking to Yan Liqiang stared at Yan Liqiang and the bow on his back seriously. Yan Liqiang did not take off the bow and his expression was calm. The tough temperament that Wang Hui and his companions had developed while escorting made him feel uneasy and a little afraid. After thinking for a few seconds, the man waved his hand and took his men back a few steps to make way, but he still did not put down his weapon and continued to stare at Yan Liqiang and his companions with vigilance and a hint of hostility.
Yan Liqiang glanced at these people and was the first to walk over. Wang Hui and the others followed Yan Liqiang without putting down their weapons. The two sides were on guard against each other and passed each other. Only after Yan Liqiang and the others had walked a few dozen meters away did they relax and put away their weapons.
Before entering the city, Yan Liqiang found a war bow and a pot of arrows in the yard and carried them on his back. This war bow was left by a bodyguard in the escort agency. The bodyguard went out last night and did not come back. His weapon was in a pile of ruins and was not damaged yet. Yan Liqiang found it and used it. The war bow was just an ordinary war bow of three stones. Although it was not as good as the five-stone horn python bow that Yan Liqiang used before, it was enough to kill people within one or two hundred meters. With the war bow on his back, Yan Liqiang suddenly felt confident to face danger. However, until now, the bodyguards in the escort agency, even Gu Zexuan and Zhao Huipeng, did not know that Yan Liqiang was a master of archery, because Yan Liqiang had never used a war bow in front of others before.
"I didn't expect that there would be someone making money from the dead in broad daylight in Jinling City, and no one has done anything about it..." Wang Hui said to Yan Liqiang with a serious face.
"This is only the first day, and the situation may become even more chaotic later. This is not a place to stay for long. Once we are ready, we will leave immediately..." Yan Liqiang said to everyone, and everyone nodded.
You wouldn't know until you enter the city. Now that you are in the city, everyone realizes that the situation in Jinling City is exactly as Yan Liqiang had expected. The government is paralyzed, the army is nowhere to be seen, there is chaos everywhere, and some people are taking advantage of the situation to rob. It's already a mess.
Under the leadership of Wang Hui, Yan Liqiang and others passed through the ruins and arrived at their destination amidst the cries and wails of separation.
The market where rice was traded had turned into a ruin. No one could be seen. Only a few broken signs of rice shops, oil shops, butcher shops, salt shops and the like among the ruins still told of the former bustle of this place. A group of people found a collapsed grain store and started cleaning up the ruins together. It didn't take long before everyone found the grain in the grain store after clearing out a lot of collapsed and broken doors and windows, beams, columns, bricks and the like.
After finding the food and more than ten kilograms of salt from the ruins of the salt shop next to them, Yan Liqiang and others each carried a bag of more than 30 kilograms of rice, and then prepared to return to the yard outside the city.
Less than ten minutes after leaving the market town, Yan Liqiang and his companions who were walking through the ruins suddenly heard a voice in their ears.
“Help… Help… Ah”
The voice came from behind a broken wall not far away, and from the sound of the voice, it was a woman.
"Everyone put down your bags first, and let's go take a look together..." Yan Liqiang frowned, put down the bag of rice he was carrying, and ran directly towards the ruins. Wang Hui and others looked at each other and hurriedly followed.
Although Yan Liqiang had already convinced himself that he should be hard-hearted at this time, he still couldn't ignore the cry for help from a woman and couldn't help but want to go over and take a look...
Yan Liqiang walked briskly. Before he ran behind the broken wall and ruins, he heard the footsteps of many people and the laughter of men behind the broken wall and ruins. Yan Liqiang took off the bow on his back while running.
Beyond the broken wall and ruins, just behind a collapsed building and rockery, Yan Liqiang saw seven or eight men surrounding a woman curled up on the ground and laughing. The woman's clothes had been torn, revealing a section of her snow-white shoulders. She was being pressed to the ground, and the men surrounding her were grinning lewdly and groping her face and body with their hands.
"Hahaha, this girl has such beautiful skin..."
"This girl has a pretty face, and she's still a virgin. I saw her coming in and out of the Zheng family a few months ago. I heard that her family had fallen on hard times, and she came to Jinling City to live with her relatives. I didn't expect this girl to be so lucky and still be alive..."
"Stop, what are you doing?" Standing dozens of meters away, Yan Liqiang shouted.
The people surrounding the woman turned around, and coincidentally, they were the group of scum who made money from the dead that Yan Liqiang and his friends had just met on the road...
"Kid, we meet again. Are you here to cause trouble for us?" The bald scum with triangular eyes turned around and pulled out a knife from his body again, looking at Yan Liqiang viciously, "Get out of here quickly, or I..."
Before he could finish his harsh words, an arrow had already shot into his mouth and pierced through the back of his head...
(End of this chapter)