The chaos and bloodshed in the city was hard to describe. On the streets, in the alleys, in the courtyards and houses, there were ghosts howling everywhere. The people who had been infected and died by the devil insect eggs had completely turned into bloodthirsty beasts and monsters. As long as they saw a living thing, they would pounce on it, bite and devour it. The entire Imperial City, the center of power in the Han Empire, the largest and most prosperous city in the empire, at this moment, turned into hell. There were corpses everywhere, and the sounds of ghosts howling everywhere.
The streets were too chaotic, and Yan Liqiang ran on the roofs, eaves and walls. He took action several times along the way, killed more than a dozen monsters, rescued several people, and then continued to rush into the city.
Yan Liqiang didn't know whether the people he saved could survive, because in this situation, the power of an individual was too small. The whole city of Dijing was filled with cries and wails. Even if he could split himself into ten, facing such a scene, it would be a drop in the bucket and he would not be able to save them at all.
Ironically, at this time, there were quite a few gangsters who survived in the city. Like Yan Liqiang, they were running around on the roofs, climbing over eaves and walls. These gangsters originally came to the Imperial Capital to fish in troubled waters. Most of them lived in inns or found their own homes. Because they were not locals, they had no chance to drink the vitality soup organized by the government. But at this time, they were able to save their lives.
The chaos in the Imperial Capital also frightened those people in the underworld. The timid ones tried desperately to escape the Imperial Capital, while the brave ones had already regarded tonight as an opportunity to make a fortune...
Yan Liqiang rushed to Chema Lane first!
There was also chaos in the Horse and Carriage Alley. There was a yard on fire not far away. In the firelight, dozens of monsters could be seen lying on the ground outside the alley, gnawing at the corpses on the ground. There were several houses in front of the alley with their doors wide open. Something had happened.
The door of the house where Sun Bingchen lived was locked and there was no movement inside.
Yan Liqiang flew directly into the yard and saw that there was no light in the room next to Sun Bingchen. He pushed the door, but it seemed to be blocked from the inside. At this time, he didn't think twice and used a little force to shake the door open and walked in directly...
A kitchen knife came crashing down on Yan Liqiang's head.
Yan Liqiang easily stepped aside and said, "Uncle Li, it's me..."
"Ah, it's Li Qiang..." Behind the door were the frightened faces of the old servant and his wife beside Sun Bingchen. Uncle Li was holding a kitchen knife, and his wife was holding an oil lamp. When he saw Shi Yan Liqiang, Uncle Li quickly closed the door, "Li Qiang... you... why are you here?"
"There was a commotion inside and outside the Imperial Capital tonight, so I came to see if Lord Sun was okay. By the way, where did Lord Sun go?"
"My Lord just went out after hearing the noise outside. He said he went to the palace..."
"Master Sun went to the palace?"
This answer was both unexpected and expected for Yan Liqiang. Given Sun Bingchen's character, if nothing happened, he would indeed go to the palace at this time.
"Yes!" Uncle Li nodded. "The master said that there were bandits from the White Lotus Sect causing chaos tonight. After that, he went out. Li Qiang, are there a lot of people killing people outside?"
"Uncle Li, the situation outside is hard to describe. I was able to get here because of fighting. Now the entire Imperial Capital is in chaos. This is not a place to stay for long. I think the east side of the city is relatively better. You pack your things and I will take you there first!"
Uncle Li shook his head, looking somewhat sad. "We are all old now, where else can we go? The master has gone to the palace. If the master is fine, he will come back to find us. We want to go with the master. If the master can't come back, we old couple don't want to leave. We will stay in the Imperial Capital to keep the master company. Li Qiang, if you are capable, don't worry about us. The master is in the palace, go find him quickly, you don't need to worry about us here, we will prop up the door and hide upstairs, so that people outside can't get in easily..."
Seeing that Uncle Li and his wife were determined and could not be persuaded, Yan Liqiang said nothing more. He said goodbye to Uncle Li and his wife, jumped from the yard of Sun Bingchen's house to the top of the wall again, stepped on the roof, and rushed towards the imperial palace in the distance.
After a while, Yan Liqiang rushed to Zhuque Street. The scene he saw was so terrifying that his scalp numbed. The entire Zhuque Street was filled with zombie-like monsters. The scene was like a train station during the Spring Festival travel rush. If he jumped down, he wouldn't even be able to find a place to stay. Just looking around, he saw that there were more than 100,000 people on the street. The zombies on the street screamed and rushed out of the streets and alleys, rushing towards the location of the palace, like moths flying into a flame, or like a flood that destroyed a dam...
Before going to the palace, Yan Liqiang happened to run to Eunuch Liu's yard to take a look. When Yan Liqiang arrived, there was no one in Eunuch Liu's yard. The gate of the yard was rushed open, and there were dead bodies all over the yard. A warehouse was on fire. The rhinoceros horse in the stable at the backyard ran out and was running around everywhere. Eunuch Liu was no longer in sight.
Near Eunuch Liu's yard were the mansions of the high-ranking officials in the imperial capital. At this moment, those mansions were already filled with the walking dead. All the high-ranking officials and powers had turned into blood and rotten flesh. Yan Liqiang even saw an official dressed in the uniform of a second-rank official of the court, with disheveled hair and a bloody face, rushing out of his own yard, and then merging into the torrent on the street outside.
Rushing to the outskirts of the palace, when he was still seven or eight hundred meters away from the palace, Yan Liqiang heard a deafening noisy sound coming from the palace. When Yan Liqiang flew like lightning to the roof of a four-story attic nearest to the Jinshui Bridge and looked towards the Jinshui Bridge, he saw that the entire palace was surrounded by hundreds of thousands of zombies.
The zombies were so dense that they crowded the entire palace wall. There were more than 100,000 zombies gathered in the square outside the Jinshui Bridge. Countless zombies roared and grabbed the palace walls with their hands, leaving countless blood marks on the walls. Others were like waves, thousands of them, directly using their bodies to hit and push down the palace walls outside the palace. Even though their bodies were bloody, they still did not stop...
"Hold on, hold on, don't be afraid, shoot, shoot..." An armored general shouted on the gate tower at the entrance of the palace, directing the guards guarding the palace from the gate tower and the top of the wall to shoot arrows at the walking dead below.
At this time, there is no need to even aim, because the area under the palace wall is already crowded with hideous and screaming zombies. A blind man can hit them even if he shoots with his eyes closed.
But bows and arrows were ineffective against the zombies. The guards guarding the palace looked at the zombies with arrows all over their bodies, roaring and hitting the dark red palace walls below. They were so frightened that they couldn't even hold the bows properly.
One by one, burning pottery jars filled with tung oil were thrown down from the walls and towers of the imperial palace, burning under the walls, with thick smoke and flames rising to the sky. But even so, the zombies that were hitting the walls did not stop, even though their bodies were already burning, even though their hands and feet were broken, their bones were exposed, and even their skin and flesh were burnt, they still hit the walls. When some zombies fell, new ones would immediately step on their bodies and hit the walls of the imperial palace...
After all, the palace wall is not a city wall, and is not as strong and thick as a city wall. Just like that, under the desperate impact of tens of thousands of zombies, a section of the palace wall that was more than ten meters long finally collapsed with a loud crash, and a gap was created. In the blink of an eye, countless zombies rushed into the palace through the gap like a mudslide, and in the blink of an eye, those guards stationed in the palace who wanted to resist were washed away without a trace.
Seeing such a scene, Yan Liqiang's face turned pale. No matter how powerful you are, it is useless even if you can kill fifty people in one second. Those zombies who are not afraid of pain or death will rush at you in tens of thousands, just like army ants. They can bury you with their corpses in the blink of an eye...
Amidst a loud bang, another section of the palace wall was pushed down, and countless zombies gathered on both sides of the Jinshui Bridge Square rushed into the palace from the collapsed palace walls on both sides. In just a moment, the general who had just been standing on the gate tower to give orders was drowned by a group of violent figures rushing onto the city wall!
Seeing this scene, Yan Liqiang realized that the Han Empire and the court were finished...
It is estimated that the civil and military officials and the Emperor who were still thinking about how to tour the south and leave the imperial capital during the day would never have imagined that after just one day, many of them would be drowned in this violent wave.
If they could evacuate the people in the capital area earlier, if they were not so selfish as to think that as long as they left the people in the capital area to die, they could maintain the stability of the empire and the situation, and allow them to still enjoy wealth and power, perhaps all this would not have happened.
It was not others but themselves who destroyed them. It was the greed, selfishness, stupidity, arrogance and self-righteousness of all the officials in the court and the man sitting on the throne of the emperor.
This imperial court eventually became the burial object of those people it thought it could sacrifice at will!
Yan Liqiang jumped down from the tall building, his figure like green smoke, stepping on the heads of the densely packed zombies below, and then rushed into the palace...
(End of this chapter)