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Crowding, screaming, shoving, shaking …
Yuan Xiaoyi finally came downstairs, but the ground was still a mess, and there was no place for her to stand.
She couldn't look at the corpses that had been smashed into meat paste, and the intestines that were cut open by the sharp edges. That would make her want to vomit, but in her stomach, except for some bile and bitter water, she really couldn't vomit anything useful.
In the dark streets, refugees were running around like headless flies, shaking the dizzying torchlight in confusion. Some people nervously said that the army from the east was attacking, while others were frightened and said that the army from the west was advancing. Everyone was talking about it, and it was a complete mess. There was no authoritative or accurate statement.
Yuan Xiaoyi, who had some experience of escaping in the fight with floating monsters, held her swollen female classmate and said decisively,
"There is going to be a fight in the city. If we stay here, we will die. Let's go outside the city!"
Her suggestion was like a beacon in the dark night, illuminating the headless flies that were running around. Then, more and more people felt that what she said made sense and followed them, thinking that they should go out of the city to take refuge.
When passing by the broken corpses that were thrown from the sky, someone cursed viciously, cursing that the family of the people who started the civil war would die sooner or later, which could be regarded as a funeral for the dead and a "counterattack" to the superior.
As for the relatives of those who died, they were still coldly looking at the frozen zombies on the high buildings, but in the blink of an eye, misfortune befell them. They threw themselves on the corpses of their wives, husbands, or children in disbelief, letting out heart-wrenching cries.
If it was in the past, such a miserable cry would definitely arouse the sympathy of many people, but now, there were only figures passing by in a hurry, and no one bent down to comfort them.
Those eyes that looked at those who were grieving may also contain some other thoughts: they were not glad that they were still alive, but they were just lamenting the strange misfortune of these strangers. Even if the dead were right in front of them, it seemed that the misfortune was far away from them. "Misfortune" always happened to others, and it shouldn't happen to them. There must be something blessing them, because they felt that they should be special and different from others.
The whistling cannonballs seemed to be blind. They couldn't hit their enemies, but they often hit buildings filled with refugees, scaring the people inside to rush out like ants, covering the entire road.
Yuan Xiaoyi and her classmates didn't run far. Maybe they didn't even walk three streets before they found that there were more and more people in front of them. In the darkness, the flickering flashlights made them even more dizzy.
"Go!" or "Run!" They became the two words that Yuan Xiaoyi heard the most. However, how could they be fast when they were so weak? They were already trying their best to walk.
The more and more intense gunfire in the distance, mixed with the roar of machine guns spitting bullets, became the only driving force that supported them to go on. Only by escaping from the city could they hope not to be swallowed by the war.
Fortunately, the place where they stayed was not in the central area of the city, because there was no internal relationship or back door, so they could only find a place to live on the periphery. At this time, it became a life-saving straw. From here, as long as they persisted in walking for a while, they could completely get out of the area that the bloody civil war was fighting for.
After another street, Yuan Xiaoyi felt that her legs were as heavy as lead, and her classmates, who were supporting each other, were so weak that they could fall at any time. However, the outside of the city was still so far away, as if they could never reach it. The dark shadows of the buildings behind them flickered in the light of the gunfire, like a huge monster driving them away.
There were more and more people around. Some were carrying children, some were carrying the elderly, and some were dragging their families. They all came out of nowhere, crowded on the road, and moved out of the city with the huge number of people.
Darkness, coldness, hunger, dead bodies, and so on made Yuan Xiaoyi unable to see the road and the figures in front of her. She only knew to walk mechanically. From time to time, she would trip and fall on a dead body or something else. However, the initial fear and nausea of corpses were gone. Even if she touched some bloody intestines, she had no strength to scream.
As she walked, she bumped into a person in front of her. She pushed him, but the person didn't move. She pushed him again, but the person still didn't move. Yuan Xiaoyi thought that he was frozen or frozen to death, so she wanted to go around him. However, she soon found that her classmates, who were holding hands, also stopped. At this time, she realized that the road ahead was blocked.
Yuan Xiaoyi didn't know how many people were blocked on this road because she couldn't see them. Only the flashlights that were still shaking told her that there must be a lot of people, too many to count.
"Go?" "Why don't you go?" "What happened in front?"
The gunfire and gunshots behind them were like death talismans, forcing the men who still had strength to stand on tiptoe anxiously and ask loudly. Some impatient men even climbed on the roof of the car on the side of the road and looked at the dense crowd in front of them.
It took time for the message to be transmitted. No matter how anxious the people behind them were, there was no exact message from the front. They didn't need to look at the distance. Just from the delay of the message transmission, they could guess how far the traffic was.
The people at the back continued to crowd up. People stuck to each other and squeezed together before gradually coming to a stop.
Compared with the previous slow movement, it was more difficult to wait every minute and every second. If they could keep walking, even if it was very hard, even if they didn't know when they could reach the end, there would always be hope in their hearts. They felt that there would be a time when they could go out, and they wouldn't be too afraid.
However, being stuck here made them panic. Especially since they didn't know what was happening in front of them, their hearts were in a mess. They were like fish on the chopping block, unable to control the knife of fate that could fall at any time.
About ten minutes or twelve minutes, Yuan Xiaoyi didn't know. Anyway, at that time, although the message from the front still didn't come, it came in another way.
The crowd in front of them began to rush back!
Caught off guard, she was almost pushed to the ground. She was so scared that she broke into a cold sweat.
If she fell at this time, the dense crowd couldn't tell whether she was alive or dead in the pushing back of each other. But soon, she would definitely be trampled to death.
The retreat of the crowd was very slow at first, as if the power would be reduced to the end. It was not violent, but soon it became rapid. People pushed people backward faster and faster.
The huge crowding force was not something that a single person could resist. If they didn't go with it, they would be crushed into a meat pie sooner or later.
Yuan Xiaoyi didn't have the strength to keep up with this force and speed, but in fact, she didn't need to keep up. There were many people behind her. At this time, as long as she turned around, she would be tightly stuck to a person in front and another person behind. She would be tightly sandwiched in the middle. Following this force, she would be automatically pushed forward.
Something must have happened in front of them. Maybe they had reached there, or maybe the front was blocked, but no one knew. The force behind them had told them that it was very dangerous in front of them, and they should turn around quickly. Maybe the people in front of them had already become corpses.
The huge stream of people that had been surging forward now all turned back. People piled on top of each other and walked back without understanding why. It was like a herd of pigs that had just been chased out of the pigsty in the skyscraper and were being chased back.
Suddenly, Yuan Xiaoyi felt that someone touched her butt and then pinched it hard. She subconsciously wanted to look back to see who it was, but sadly found that she couldn't even move. Then she felt that her petite body was tightly hugged by someone, and the person's palm had moved to her chest and grabbed it …
The feeling of pain stimulated her nerve cells and cerebral cortex, making her shocked and angry. The feeling of humiliation and fear prompted her to break free from the person's clutches and squeeze into a gap created by the movement of the people next to her.
However, it was not a safe place. As long as the person moved slightly, he could stick to her again. She felt that the person was very strong, not like a refugee who had been hungry for many days. He should be able to do it, so she was very scared and didn't know what to do.
But after waiting for a while, about a few seconds, the person did not come over. Just when she thought that it might be a misunderstanding caused by the crowd, a gloomy voice floated into her ears, "Fine skin and tender flesh, you are really a little beauty. Unfortunately … I will leave a mark on you first. When I come back after this fight, I will look for you."
These lewd and shameless words made her heart palpitate, ashamed and angry, but she helplessly found that she had no ability to resist at all. After the gloomy voice finished speaking, it pointed at her, and then with a swoosh, it rose from the crowd on the ground, bringing with it a roaring flame, rising into the sky step by step, stepping on the densely packed heads, galloping away.
Under his roar, huge insects swept along the building walls on both sides of the road like shadows, followed the person, and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.
The crowd was frightened and crowded more intensely. Yuan Xiaoyi, who had just separated from her classmates to avoid the clutches of the devil, was like a small leaf on the waves. She was washed away by the crowd in a moment. No matter how she shouted and struggled, she could not return to her companions.
She was not the only one who was washed away. Many people could not resist the power of the torrent even if they clasped hands tightly. In the struggle and shouting, they were washed away, and their families were scattered.
Some weak women were even carried by other people and directly rushed to a far place, unable to resist at all. Looking at their husbands who were separated by the crowd and holding their children, they stretched out their hands, and there was only despair in their eyes.
There were also people who had just placed their children on the roof of the car to avoid the turbulence, but before they could climb up, they were pushed far away by the surging crowd. They could only watch helplessly as their children stood on the roof of the car, dumbfounded and at a loss of what to do.
Yuan Xiaoyi was frightened and helpless. She was pushed back and forth by the huge crowd. In the end, she didn't know where she was pushed to, and she was completely dizzy.
At this moment, more and more people emerged from every corner of the city, joining the army of people sticking to each other and piling on top of each other, rushing towards the city center like a flood.
At this time, she vaguely heard someone beside her saying that the smell of blood was everywhere outside the city, attracting many man-eating monsters. Everyone was fleeing for their lives towards the center of the city. Even the refugees who were stationed outside and did not have the qualifications to enter had all rushed in. There was a dense crowd of people, and it seemed like the city was going to explode.
Compared with those monsters who would eat people indiscriminately, although the army in the city was abominable, they were still human beings. Did those soldiers really dare to use machine guns to kill them all?!
Yuan Xiaoyi listened to these messy discussions for a long time. Suddenly, she felt the space in front of her was empty and she was relieved.
"Is this the end?"
She thought so in her heart, and finally she could breathe a sigh of relief. The crowded crowd almost squeezed her flat.
But soon she found that something was wrong. She suddenly raised her head, and was shocked to find that a black muzzle was facing in front of her. Under the dazzling light, there was a tank parked in front of her, and behind the tank, there was a continuous stream of troops marching in, constantly stepping on the cold ground with uniform steps.
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