Although Yan Liqiang thought that his heart had become hard enough before, at this moment, looking at the ruins around him, the bleeding corpse and the girl in the ruins, Yan Liqiang found that he still couldn't harden his heart completely.
At this time, if this girl who has no ability to protect herself is left here, the final outcome of this girl will probably be very tragic, no better than throwing a rabbit into a wolf's den, because in such a disordered place, the ugly side of human nature will be more unscrupulously manifested, and the corpses on the ground have already explained it all.
Yan Liqiang glanced at Wang Hui and the people from the escort agency. They were all rough men who traveled around the world and killed people with knives without frowning. But at this moment, they looked at the girl named Yu Qing with some pity and sympathy. Just now, if everyone had not heard her cry for help or had come a step later, the girl's fate could be imagined.
"Brother Li Qiang, there are so many of us here, and we are originally escorting people. I think this girl is not as heavy as a box. It's okay for us to take one more person with us..." Wang Hui was the first to speak, and then his voice became softer. A trace of pity flashed across his face, and he muttered to himself, "My daughter at home is almost this age, alas..."
"We just killed someone, so it's probably not appropriate to leave this little girl here. What if these gangsters come to take revenge after we leave..."
"The chief escort leader often says that when we travel the world, we value righteousness. Helping the needy and the needy is what we should do within our ability, and it can be considered as accumulating good karma!"
"Yes, yes, that's the truth!"
People around were talking at once.
Gu Zexuan and Zhao Huipeng did not say anything, but the way they looked at Yan Liqiang also revealed what they were thinking.
In the battle just now, Yan Liqiang's performance was seen by everyone. Almost half of the people who fell to the ground were killed by Yan Liqiang. Although everyone didn't say anything, they were shocked in their hearts at Yan Liqiang's archery skills and his decisiveness when he saved people just now. Unconsciously, everyone's attitude towards Yan Liqiang changed subtly. The group of people looked at Yan Liqiang with more awe. Silently, the group of people at this time had already followed Yan Liqiang's lead.
"Can you ride a horse?" Yan Liqiang only asked the girl named Yu Qing one question.
The girl gritted her teeth and said, "Yes!"
"Okay, then come with us!"
Seeing that Yan Liqiang agreed, everyone felt relieved.
The girl stood up and nodded at Yan Liqiang.
"Let's go..." Yan Liqiang turned and left.
"Li Qiang, look at these things on the ground..." Wang Hui winked at Yan Liqiang, then looked at the bodies of the gangsters on the ground.
On the bodies of the thugs who were chopped to death on the ground, many valuables had fallen out from their clothes and arms. There was gold, silver, and various jewelry. Everyone, including Wang Hui and Gu Zexuan, looked at the bodies on the ground with strange eyes.
"These people deserve to be put to death. The property on them is now ownerless and is our spoils of war. Everyone search these bodies, take away all the property and divide it together when we return!" Yan Liqiang said decisively. After hearing what Yan Liqiang said, smiles appeared on everyone's faces.
Then everyone started searching the corpses one by one. In less than a moment, all the gold, silver and other valuables that the gangsters had found were found by everyone, and they packed them into several large bags.
Just as everyone was searching the bodies of the gangsters, Yan Liqiang noticed that the girl named Yu Qing had wiped away her tears and silently put on the clothes he had covered her with. Then she came to the body of the gangster who had just threatened her, squatted down, and forcefully pried open the fingers of the gangster's two hands that were still tightly clenched when he died, then took the dagger in one hand of the gangster and the scabbard in the other hand, inserted the dagger into the scabbard, and then put it on himself.
The girl looks weak, but in this weakness, she has a strong temperament different from ordinary girls.
"This is medicine. You can apply it on the wound on your neck. It won't leave a scar!" Yan Liqiang walked over and handed a bottle of medicine produced by the Sword God Sect to the girl.
"Thank you..." The girl raised her eyes and looked at Yan Liqiang deeply, then took the medicine and hesitated for a moment, "Can... can I know your name?"
"My name is Yan Liqiang!"
The girl nodded.
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After cleaning up the battlefield, everyone returned to their original place, picked up the bags of rice left on the roadside, and continued to return to the yard.
After just experiencing a battle, no one on this side lost a hair, but they gained two large bags of valuable spoils and gold and silver, and saved a girl. They all returned to the yard with a completely different mood from the money they had used to enter Jinling City.
The girl named Yu Qing just followed the crowd silently without saying a word.
As for those dead thugs, at this time, even if they rotted in the ruins, no one cared and no one came to take care of them.
…
Back at the yard, another team from the escort team also came back.
Before, Yan Liqiang and his men were divided into three groups. One group went into Jinling City with Yan Liqiang to find out the situation, and another group went to the banks of the Qinhuai River to search for those brothers of the escort agency who had no news. A few who were injured and had difficulty moving stayed in the yard to watch over the things.
Compared to Yan Liqiang and his team who "returned with a full load", the team that went out to look for the brothers from the escort agency only brought back a dead body and a living coachman with a broken leg.
The body was wet, half of the bones were broken, the chest and abdomen were swollen, and there was a piece of broken wood stuck under the left rib. It was Chen Hu, the team that went out to search, who fished him out from the Qinhuai River...
There were also seven or eight porters and escorts from the escort agency who found their way back to the yard after Yan Liqiang and his men left, but each of them had injuries to varying degrees. These people were lucky enough to have survived last night's disaster.
After the final headcount, including the girl named Yu Qing who had just been rescued, there were only 46 people in the entire escort team who were able to return to the yard alive...
According to the few people who came back alive, yesterday, most of the brothers in the escort agency met at a restaurant in the city to eat at night, and they even booked the place. Some of them were drunk, so they left first and planned to walk around the city and get some fresh air. Unexpectedly, a fireball came down at night, landing a few hundred meters away from the restaurant where the brothers of the escort agency were drinking. After a loud bang, the whole restaurant was gone. Several of them were stunned, and when they woke up, it was already noon today...
When talking about the latest incident, the men who came back couldn't help crying.
Chen Hu's body was buried in an open space near the storage yard. They dug a pit and wrapped it with a few straw mats they found. They then buried him and barely built a grave. As for the other "missing" people, it can be basically judged that there is almost no trace of their bodies left, and it is difficult to find their bodies.
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The dead cannot be brought back to life, but the living must continue to live on with strength.
At night, two bonfires, one large and one small, were lit in the yard of the Sihai Escort Agency's storage yard.
A big pot was set up on the big bonfire, and the rice that Yan Liqiang and his men had found from Jinling City today was put into the pot bag by bag. They added a little salt and started to dry-fry the rice. After the rice was fried with salt, they carried it on their bodies. When they were hungry, they could take out a handful and eat it directly. It was not easy to deteriorate and was easy to carry. It was a life-saving thing at the critical moment. This was also the way Yan Liqiang heard from the elders about escaping from famine in his previous life.
In the morning, there might be people in the escort team who questioned Yan Liqiang's judgment, but at this time, everyone believed in Yan Liqiang's words.
Next to another small bonfire, Yan Liqiang, the only survivor Wang Hui and several other escort leaders sat together to discuss what to do next.
"Everyone knows the current situation, so let's sit down and discuss what to do next and where to go..."
In the solemn and sad atmosphere, Yan Liqiang looked around and was the first to speak...
(End of this chapter)