Chapter 103
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The refugees in the northern part of town were already in a state of chaos. Before Ren Xiaosu led Wang Fugui and the others away, he jumped onto a roof and looked north. He was surprised to see the black swarm of bugs sweeping through the entire town.
At that moment, it was as though the town had been suddenly dyed with a basin of ink. The originally colorful town was gradually covered by the black swarm of bugs.
Wild animals were galloping in the distance. Ren Xiaosu did not see any wolves or Experimentals, so the face bugs were probably the first wave of creatures to arrive in town.
However, Ren Xiaosu felt it wouldn't be long before an even greater crisis befell them.
The refugees fled towards the stronghold's gate. They cried and begged the stronghold's stronghold to open the gate to save them.
"Hurry up and open the gate!"
"Please, please open the gate and save us! Can't you see those bugs?! "
"Please, I'm begging you, just let my children in!"
The refugees at the foot of the stronghold all knelt down. However, the private troops guarding the stronghold only shot at the densely packed insect swarm with their automatic rifles. They had no intention of opening the gate to let them in.
Moreover, their bullets were just a drop in the bucket against the bug swarm.
Seeing that the bug swarm was about to arrive and that the stronghold's gate was still tightly shut, some of the refugees started cursing and swearing. But they had to leave quickly after a few curses. Otherwise, the bugs would arrive!
Ren Xiaosu had never had any expectations of anyone else. So his first reaction was not to negotiate with the stronghold but to leave immediately.
He could not care less about the lives of others. All he could do was take care of Yan Liuyuan and the others first.
At first, Ren Xiaosu was worried that Wang Fugui would bring along a lot of cumbersome items. But he realized Wang Fugui and Wang Dalong were only carrying a backpack each. Although Wang Dalong was a little burly, he was very sturdy and did not slack off at all when carrying things.
At some point, Ren Xiaosu even wondered if Wang Dalong was some kind of strength-type supernatural being. Ren Xiaosu opened Wang Dalong's backpack and saw that it was filled with compressed biscuits from the stronghold. Meanwhile, Wang Fugui was carrying some medicine.
The packaging of the medicine had been removed and stored in some plastic bottles to make it easier to carry around.
As Ren Xiaosu led them southwest of the stronghold, he asked Wang Fugui curiously, "I thought you would be carrying some gold or something."
Wang Fugui was panting from running. As he lacked physical training, he was the most tired one while running for his life.
Ren Xiaosu glanced at him. "Don't cry so miserably. The medicine you're carrying is worth a lot of money. There are over a thousand anti-inflammatory pills here, and each one is worth 200 yuan."
There was also another point. Money was often useless while they were on the run, but the medicine was not.
Zhang Jinglin had mentioned that gold was a hard currency, but he had left out another hard currency — medicine.
In fact, Wang Fugui had made the smartest choice.
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Not all of the town's refugees were foolish enough to call for help from the stronghold walls. Some of them understood right from the start that the important people in the stronghold did not care about the lives of the refugees, so they simply fled into the wilderness.
When Ren Xiaosu and the others left, they could only hear the cries of the refugees behind them and the gunshots coming from the stronghold walls. Not long after, even more intense gunfire rang out. Ren Xiaosu looked back and saw from afar that the private soldiers on the stronghold walls had started throwing grenades and bombs down!
There were still a lot of survivors down there!
The smarter refugees were frantically running into the wilderness. Some of them accidentally tripped and fell. As a result, they did not dare to stay on the ground for even a second even after rolling and crawling.
Ren Xiaosu and the others were not the only ones fleeing southwest. There were also several hundred other people "traveling" with them.
As Yan Liuyuan, Sister Xiaoyu, and the others could not run too fast, Ren Xiaosu could only take them and blend in with the large group of several hundred people.
Fortunately, all of the luggage was carried by Ren Xiaosu, so Yan Liuyuan and Sister Xiaoyu had it a little easier.
After running for a while, they realized the face bugs were not chasing after them, so they gradually slowed down. Other than Ren Xiaosu, everyone was exhausted from running.
Some people looked back and saw that the town had turned into purgatory. The shacks were all burning.
"Our home is gone," someone muttered.
Some of the people who had just lost their loved ones couldn't help but cry. Ren Xiaosu had seen with his own eyes some people abandon their young children in order to run faster.
But there were also people who protected their children tightly before they died. In the end, both of them were killed by the face bugs. The patterns on the back of the face bugs' carapaces seemed to have become brighter and whiter. The chewing sounds they made when they ate were probably a nightmare that many people would never forget.
As the group had left early, they had reached a relatively safe area. The face bugs seemed to be more interested in the stronghold, so they did not chase after the humans who had fled into the wilderness.
Ren Xiaosu suddenly felt that the stronghold would attract a lot of attention for the humans who were fleeing. After all, there would be more "food" for the wild animals and face bugs there.
When the Kyung Clan Consortium's troops joined the battle and used the firearms and heavy weapons they had stockpiled in the stronghold, it shouldn't be a problem for them to rely on the stronghold to fend off the wild animals and monsters.
If it weren't for the fact that they had to avoid the Kyung Clan Consortium, Ren Xiaosu might have decided to stay in the wilderness for a while. After the Kyung Clan Consortium cleared out the monsters, he would return with Yan Liuyuan and Sister Xiaoyu.
But for now, he had to stay far away from the Kyung Clan Consortium.
But at this moment, Ren Xiaosu frowned and looked down at the ground. Everyone could feel it. "It's another earthquake!"
The earthquake this time was more violent than any of the previous ones. Some people were even caught off guard and fell to the ground!
"Look, what's that!" Someone pointed north.
They saw a huge black line rapidly spreading south. The black line came from the direction of the Jing Mountains and stabbed straight into the stronghold like a knife!
The round and towering walls emitted a sound like an iceberg breaking apart. Even the sturdy walls were starting to crack from the bottom up.
When Ren Xiaosu saw this, he was so shocked that he could not speak. The cracks did not form an abyss. Instead, they forcefully split the stronghold into two semicircles on the east and west sides. Meanwhile, the ground on the west side suddenly rose by more than ten meters!
It was as though someone had suddenly pulled up a flight of stairs from the plains!
The two tectonic plates collided with each other here, and in just an instant, more than half of the stronghold's walls were destroyed!
The walls had really collapsed!
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