"The Imperial Capital no longer exists?"
"No more, what does that mean?" Huang Sheng and Gong Dequan looked at each other and asked with some confusion.
"Not even a single brick is left in the entire Imperial Capital, only a huge pit. Moreover, within a thousand miles, there is no grass growing, no people or animals. It's just like... just like the desert near the Huoyan Mountain in Yizhou that we passed through when we were escorting..."
When Wang Hui said that Dijing was gone, Huang Sheng and Gong Dequan might not understand what he meant. But when Wang Hui mentioned the desert near the Huoyan Mountain in Yizhou, the faces of the two men changed instantly, and they were stunned.
“Oh my God, how many people will die?” Huang Sheng asked with a bleak expression.
"It's not just the Imperial Capital. Li Qiang and I climbed up the hill near Jinque Pass and found that the southern part of the Imperial Capital, that is, Jinling, was relatively less affected. Jinque Mountain was even collapsed by the earthquake, and the damage suffered by the western and northern parts of the Imperial Capital seemed to be even greater. The entire four suburbs, north of Jinque Mountain, has almost completely become a dead land. If the number of casualties is counted, I'm afraid there are tens of millions of people...
"If this is the case, then the Han Empire... won't it... won't it be completely messed up in the future..." Gong Dequan also thought of the consequences at once, and his tone became difficult.
"Whether the Han Empire will fall into chaos or not is a matter for later discussion. But if we remain in Nanjing, I'm afraid we will just have to sit and wait for death. We don't know when rescue will arrive. We can only rely on ourselves!" Yan Liqiang took over the conversation. "I wonder how the yard is prepared?"
"We spent a day, starting from last night, working together to dig out all the goods in the escort team. Except for a few boxes that were slightly damaged, the goods are basically fine!"
"All the carriages and horses that can be used are ready!"
"Then let's follow the plan tonight!"
The three escorts all nodded without saying anything else.
"By the way, Brother Wang, let's divide up all the valuables we seized in the city yesterday tonight. Before the action, let's boost everyone's morale. If we accidentally get separated on the road, it can come in handy..."
"Ah, those things... Li Qiang, how do you want to divide them?" Wang Hui was stunned.
Because the property seized from killing the gangsters in Jinling City yesterday was collected after arriving at the yard yesterday, Yan Liqiang did not express anything, so the property was not divided. Yan Liqiang killed the most gangsters at that time, almost half of them, so according to the rules of the escort team, plus the prestige established by Yan Liqiang, he has absolute right to dispose of those things. Wang Hui originally thought that Yan Liqiang did not plan to distribute the property for the time being, but he did not expect that the first thing Yan Liqiang did when he came back today was to divide the property.
"Of course, it will be divided equally among all the brothers in the escort agency. It depends on how many people there are. Oh, and the girl named Yu Qing will also get a share. It can be considered as a guarantee for her. Do you have any objections, brothers?"
What could the three of them have to say? Yan Liqiang could easily take most of those properties by himself, and Yan Liqiang himself could even bear to do so, so what could the three of them say? Not only that, seeing Yan Liqiang being so magnanimous at this critical juncture, the three of them felt a little emotional, as if they had just gotten to know Yan Liqiang all over again. There were only a few people like him in the entire Sword God Sect. Looking at the intelligence, decisiveness, and magnanimity of treating money as dirt that Yan Liqiang had shown in the past two days, as well as his hidden skills, the three of them were almost certain that a person like Yan Liqiang was no ordinary person in the Sword God Sect.
"Since Brother Li Qiang has said so, let's do it!" Wang Hui nodded.
"Brother Li Qiang is so generous, I have no choice but to admire him!"
Gong Dequan said nothing, but just gave Yan Liqiang a thumbs up with a look of admiration on his face.
Yan Liqiang just smiled faintly. Although that little bit of money seemed to be a lot, he didn't care about it. The protector of the Sword God Sect was his master, and he would inherit the responsibility of the protector of the Sword God Sect in the future. This little bit of money was nothing. Everything he did now was not only for the people in front of him, but also for himself. To a certain extent, the experience of the escort team this time was an opportunity for him to stand out among the outer disciples of the Sword God Sect. If he became famous in the Sword God Sect, it would be legitimate for Liu Guiyuan to accept him as a disciple, and it would no longer be abrupt and suspicious. His situation in the Sword God Sect would also be improved all of a sudden, and it would never be the same again...
How could a few bodyguards guess what Yan Liqiang was thinking
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Not long after, it was time for dinner. When Wang Hui divided the property seized from Jinling City yesterday into more than forty parts, all the survivors in the escort team exclaimed in surprise. They couldn't believe that they could still get money. Because after the property was divided, almost everyone who survived in the escort team got more than two hundred taels of silver and gold and silver jewelry. These properties were far more than the income that many people could get from this trip.
A group of people who survived a great disaster suddenly made a fortune. The originally low morale of the entire team was boosted almost all of a sudden, sweeping away the lethargy, and many people's eyes began to light up again.
At this time, there were only collapsed buildings in the storage yard. Apart from Yan Liqiang and his companions, there was no one else. The owner of the storage yard disappeared after burying his wife and children yesterday. The few surviving yard workers naturally followed him and found their own way to make a living. There were also a few merchants who were lucky enough to survive, but they also knew that the city of Jinling was not a place to stay for long, as chaos or epidemics could break out at any time. Early this morning, Yan Liqiang and Wang Hui had not returned yet. The surviving merchants took some valuables they had dug out, found a few horses, and fled on horseback, not even taking the goods under the ruins.
After dinner, when it was completely dark, everyone in the escort team started moving.
Huang Sheng and Gong Dequan had already prepared more than 30 carriages, and the goods in the escort team were lifted back onto the carriages. In the darkness, Yan Liqiang and others drove the carriages themselves, without torches, in the dark, through an empty path, to a small meteorite crater a few hundred meters west of the storage yard, and then put the boxes on the carriages into the meteorite crater one by one...
After one trip, everyone returned to the yard, brought another box, put it in the pit, and then made another trip...
After seven or eight trips, all the goods in the escort team were hidden in the meteorite crater, and the crater was almost filled with boxes. Then everyone untied the horses that pulled the carts, used some simple tools made from wooden boards, and used animal power to fill the soil around the crater back into the crater. They also covered it up so that no trace could be seen.
After all this was done, the night was almost over, and then at dawn, all the members of the escort team packed their belongings and dry food, and left Jinling on two horses, embarking on the road back to the Sword God Sect...
At this time, the news that the capital of the Han Empire had encountered a sudden change in the sky had spread, and more and more people knew that a storm of chaos that had descended from the sky and swept across the entire Silver Continent had finally arrived...
(End of this chapter)