"This... What's going on?"
After seeing the scene inside the door, the three of them were horrified and had no idea what was going on.
Ye Li carefully felt the interior of the fortress and there seemed to be no movement inside. After making sure there was no danger, Ye Li leaned his body against the giant door and pushed hard.
In order to open these two huge doors, one needs to go to the city and use a winch to control them. However, under Ye Li's tremendous force, the door that had already been opened a little was slowly pushed open by him.
The scene inside the door was clearly presented in front of the three people. The entire fortress was filled with corpses of monsters and humans.
"Could it be that the monster disaster this time actually breached the fortress, and all the people here are either dead or have fled?"
Huang Jian looked puzzled as he looked at the scene in the fortress and said with a puzzled look on his face.
After standing in the door and observing for a while, the three of them turned around, led their horses and walked into the fortress, wanting to take a closer look at the situation inside the fortress.
When they entered the fortress, a very tragic battlefield appeared in front of them. A huge number of monster corpses were scattered all over the ground. Along with these monsters, there were also many human corpses. They all looked like they were wearing clothes embroidered with the word "Emperor".
Obviously, those who died here were the guards of the Imperial City.
The entire fortress is now dead silent. If the number of corpses here was not much less than the number of guards Huang Jian knew, they would have concluded that all the guards in the fortress were wiped out.
Ye Li and the other two walked around the fortress and found that there was indeed no living person here. In such a large fortress, except for the horses in the stable, there was no one else alive.
Obviously, both the monsters and the guards left here after leaving behind a large number of corpses.
Based on the situation at the scene, the three speculated that the guards were unable to resist the attack of the monsters and the fortress was directly breached.
After fighting for a while, the guards determined that they could not defend the fortress and evacuated collectively.
Ye Li and the other two checked around and found that of the four gates around the fortress, only the gates on the north and east sides were completely open. The gate on the west side was completely closed, and the gate on the south side, where they entered, was slightly ajar.
It seems that the north side is where the monsters attacked, and the east gate is where the guards chose to evacuate. As for why they did not choose to leave through the south gate, based on the inspection of the scene, the three people estimated that it was because the entire fortress was surrounded.
When the guards chose to break out, they could only attack the side where the monsters were weaker, so they chose the east side.
Looking at the many human and monster corpses left on the road out of the city on the east side, the three of them came to this conclusion.
"Brother Huang, what should we do next? This place has been breached by monster beasts. What is the scale of this monster tide
Should we choose to return directly to the Imperial City's bases in various counties to report, or try to check the situation nearby?"
Mu Tianzhi frowned and asked Huang Jian. After all, he thought Huang Jian might know the situation here best.
However, Huang Jian shook his head and said, "To be honest, I don't know what the situation is now and what we should do.
I have always heard about the situation here from the old disciples, but this situation has never happened before."
After observing for a while, Ye Li said: "The bodies here look fresh, and they have been dead for no more than a day. I think we should look around, maybe we can find something.
How about we go back to the gate and report after we confirm the situation?"
After hearing Ye Li's words, the other two thought about it and then nodded.
Huang Jian said: "Ye Li is right, let's check the situation nearby before making a decision.
The horses here don't seem to be attacked by monsters, so we'll leave the horses here and go out through the east gate to see if the guards have left any clues."
After making the decision, the three of them left their horses in the fortress. After all, if they encountered monsters along the way, their horses might not be able to run because of their weak legs, which would put them in danger.
Afterwards, the three of them left the fortress from the east gate and headed into the nearby forest. The traces of battle on the ground and around, as well as the corpses of monsters left behind from time to time, guided them in the direction.
The three followed the trail for about half an hour, when suddenly, seven or eight huge monsters suddenly rushed out from the ground in the jungle next to them and attacked the three.
The three were so shocked that they could only dodge in fear. They never expected that there would be monsters lying in ambush on the road.
The seven or eight monsters that emerged from the ground were all skilled in digging holes and hiding, and all of them were in the early stages of the Descending Spirit Stage.
But what is very strange is that these monsters are obviously of different species, and some of them are even hostile species on normal days, but at this moment they are living together in such harmony.
The first thing Ye Li thought of was the beast tide they had encountered before, where countless monsters mixed together and launched an attack on humans.
However, under the circumstances at that time, the monsters that Ye Li encountered seemed to be controlled by humans, and their eyes had a hidden red light, which looked very abnormal.
However, the seven or eight monsters encountered here now look very normal, nothing special about them. There is no red light hidden in their eyes, and they don't even look like they are being controlled.
The moment the three saw the monsters attacking, they dodged at the same time. They were not confident that they could face the attacks of so many monsters at the same time.
"Let's run away first. Although these monsters are at the early stage of the Descending Spirit Stage, there are quite a few of them. If we are surrounded, the consequences will not be good."
Ye Li suggested.
Huang Jian and Mu Tianzhi naturally had no objection, and the three of them quickly released talismans to protect themselves while heading into the forest nearby.
Huang Jian looked at the monster behind him with a confused expression on his face.
"Strange, how could these different kinds of monsters, some of which are even hostile to each other, mix together and ambush us here.
Although it was a beast tide and there were high-level monsters to support them, they would not get into chaos of fighting each other, but it was impossible for them to ambush us here.
After all, without the support and command of high-level monsters, these different types of monsters in the early stages of the Descending God Stage will not know how to cooperate with each other."
After all, Huang Jian often hunts and is quite familiar with the habits of monsters.