1912, a strange settlement
"Nezha … I'm here to save you … Nezha!" Yang Jian suddenly jumped up and opened his eyes. What he saw was a very simple room. The furnishings in the room were very simple. There was an old radio, a table made of scrap iron, and a lot of miscellaneous tools. Useful and useless things were piled up in the house. Obviously, this was the home of a scavenger.
Hearing Yang Jian's shout, a middle-aged man came in. Seeing Yang Jian sitting up, he quickly came over and pressed his shoulder. "Don't be afraid, you're safe now! You're badly injured. You need to rest … "Before he could finish his words, he suddenly found that most of the countless wounds on Yang Jian's body had healed. His hand suddenly froze.
Yang Jian impatiently slapped the man's hand away. Then he felt that it was too rude to treat someone who might have saved him like this, so he asked in a low voice, "Where is this place? Where's Nezha? Where's Tang Yu? "
The middle-aged man frowned and said, "Calm down first. I don't know what Nezha or Tang Yu you're talking about. We found you when we went out to scavenge. At that time, you were lying on the side of the road with a dead body on your back. We saw that you were still breathing, so we brought you back. But your hand was still holding on to the corpse, so we brought it back with us. "
"Body? What body? " Yang Jian suddenly jumped up, grabbed the man's hand and shouted, "Where's the body? Where is it?! "
The middle-aged man suddenly felt pain from Yang Jian's grip. He shook his hand violently. Yang Jian also felt that he had gone too far. He quickly apologized and withdrew his hand. But now the middle-aged man's eyes began to turn cold. He said, "You must have encountered bandits, right? There are so many wounds on your body, but there's no sign of infection. That's why we brought you back. Your companion's body has been buried on the mountain behind. "
Yang Jian also knew that he had offended this person who might have saved his life. He used to be gentle and polite, and he should have continued to apologize. But now he felt a little anxious. He ignored the middle-aged man and just stood up and asked, "What's the name of this place now?" He directly asked for the name of the place but did not ask for the person's name. This was really arrogant and rude.
However, the middle-aged man did not mind. He replied patiently, "We didn't have a name here before, but we do now. This place is called Tristram. Well, since you're awake, eat something first. But if you want to continue living here, you'll need to work. Prim in the orchard needs manpower. Look at your muscles, it's not a bad idea to ask Boban to join the city defense team. "
Yang Jian didn't care too much about the name. He didn't understand the meaning behind it. He just thanked her again and walked out of the door.
This place should have been rebuilt from an abandoned small city. Yang Jian had followed Zhang Zihua in the System Space for many years, so he was no stranger to this kind of city. There were many people bustling about in the city. These people had their own duties. Some were farming, some were repairing the walls, and some were making tools in the workshops. Although everyone's clothes were old and tattered, it was still a lively place with a thousand things waiting to be done.
At that moment, Yang Jian suddenly felt a rare sense of warmth and ordinariness. These busy mortals might be ordinary, but they were extremely fulfilling. Back then, he refused to become an official in the Celestial Court because he didn't like the way many immortal officials worked. He only brought his brothers back to the Guan River Estuary. Thinking of this, Yang Jian's lips suddenly curled into a smile.
Suddenly, his eyes widened. He saw a group of skeleton warriors patrolling the road with weapons in their hands! These Skeleton Warriors were wearing golden armor with patterns of venomous snakes and human bones. Without a doubt, they were exactly the same as the Skeleton Warriors that had besieged Tang Yu previously!!
"Bastard! How dare you harm the human world! Die!!! " Yang Jian roared and tried to draw his sword, but when he touched his waist, he realized that he was unarmed. But it didn't matter. He swung his fist and was about to pounce!
Unexpectedly, someone suddenly ran up to him from behind and hugged his waist, shouting, "No! No! Stop!! Stop!!! "
Yang Jian looked down and found that the person hugging him was the middle-aged man who saved him just now! He hugged Yang Jian's waist and begged him not to fight the skeleton warriors. Just as the two of them were entangled, the group of Skeletal Warriors had already walked past them. The weapons and armors on the Skeletal Warriors' bodies clanked, and the Skeletal Warriors' jaws kept opening and closing, but they didn't pay any attention to them.
Yang Jian suppressed the anger in his heart, and it took him a lot of effort to stop himself from killing this middle-aged man as an accomplice of the undead. He took a deep breath and asked hatefully, "What's the reason for this? Why are you stopping me? I can beat a hundred of these skeletons with one hand!! "
"Please don't! If it weren't for these skeleton warriors, the tens of thousands of people in this settlement would have died long ago! "said the middle-aged man.
Yang Jian was instantly moved, "What did you say? You're saying that these skeleton warriors are helping you? "
The middle-aged man directly pulled Yang Jian towards a sentry tower near the wall. The two of them climbed up the sentry tower, and the middle-aged man greeted a sniper who was on guard, then pointed outside the wall and said, "See for yourself."
Yang Jian looked over, and sure enough, it wasn't just inside the city, there were also a large number of skeleton warriors patrolling outside the city. There were thousands of them, constantly killing or driving away the zombies that wanted to get close to the city. Moreover, he could see that there were already several groups of zombies on the outskirts of the city, and the number added up to tens of thousands! It seemed like he was right, if it weren't for the protection of these skeleton warriors, this small city would have no chance of surviving under the attack of tens of thousands of zombies!
Then the middle-aged man explained to Yang Jian that this small settlement was formed by the survivors after the zombie outbreak. They had been struggling to survive under the shadow of the zombies, but the number of zombies kept increasing, and the pressure of survival became greater and greater. The painstakingly cultivated fields were also destroyed by zombies more than once.
Until one day, these skeleton warriors came here, they didn't speak, just constantly killing the zombies, or driving the zombies in another direction. Occasionally, they would also dig graves and take away the dead, but they never laid their hands on the living. Not only that, they were also maintaining the order of this small city! They could understand some simple words, such as if the exploration team in the city wanted to go out to look for resources, they could just tell these skeleton warriors, and they would also send a few skeletons to protect them.
Over time, the residents of this place became friends with the Skeleton Warriors, forming this kind of relationship.
Yang Jian asked, "These skeleton warriors, how long have they been here?"
"About a month."
"Then how long have I been unconscious?"
"Seven days."
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