Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 316: The First Yellow Disaster
"It stinks!"

Xiao Ran held his breath and quickly jumped onto the roof. He looked at the bones scattered all over the ground. There were dense flies lying on the corpses, and not a single body was intact.

"Something's wrong!"

These corpses are so clean, there is no flesh or blood, only bones.

I have been away from here for at most a month, and it is impossible for the body to rot so cleanly in more than a month.

Xiao Ran took a closer look and found that many of the bones had turned white, which was a sign of having been boiled.

"Yellow disaster!"

Seeing this, Xiao Ran's heart jumped involuntarily. He took out his [Spiritual Robe], picked up his physical body, and flew into the air. Under the night sky, the huge Jinyang City was dead silent.

It's like a dead city.

Xiao Ran could only hear the thumping of his own heartbeat, and there was not even the sound of an insect.

"No, there's a living person!!"

At this moment, Xiao Ran suddenly noticed sporadic flames in the distance. He immediately flew over with his body in his arms, found a safe place to temporarily put his body there, and summoned Senbingwei, the painter, and the tiger to guard him.

Then he flew quietly towards the fire, and when he looked down, he found it was the Corpse Alley.

At the end of the alley, a faint candlelight flickered. If Xiao Ran had not had excellent eyesight, it would have been difficult to detect. He calmly walked to the thatched hut where the candlelight was, and squinted his eyes to look inside.

"It's him!"

In the thatched hut, a skinny young man was curled up in a ball, holding the bed sheet he had slept on tightly in his arms. This man was none other than Yang Jian.

In the dim light, Yang Jian had a dazed expression, his eyes just staring at the flame of the candlestick, without saying a word.

Xiao Ran glanced at the straw behind Yang Jian, but couldn't see Yang Jian's shadow under the light, so he couldn't help but sigh.

"Yang Jian!"

Xiao Ran called him softly.

Suddenly, Yang Jian'an trembled all over, and raised his head suddenly as if he had been electrocuted, staring around with wide eyes. Perhaps he had been staring at the candlelight for too long, and he couldn't see anything clearly. He screamed, "Who!!!"

As he said this, he instinctively pulled the bed sheet tighter against his arms.

"Don't be afraid, it's me."

Xiao Ran gently lifted the door curtain of the thatched hut with his fingers and walked in.

"Are you okay? Where are Uncle Song and the others?"

Although he knew the hope was slim, Xiao Ran still held on to some hope.

But when Yang Jian saw that the person coming was actually Xiao Ran, he immediately screamed like a possessed person: "You!! You! Don't come over here, don't come over here!!! This thing of yours is mine, it's mine, don't take it!!"

Xiao Ran looked at Yang Jian, who was jumping up and down in the room as if his butt was on fire, and he didn't know whether to laugh or cry for a moment.

I quickly nodded along with his words: "Okay, okay, I won't steal it. It's yours, it's yours, it's all yours. I'm just passing by, I won't steal anything from you."

Yang Jian's mood calmed down a little after hearing this. He just hid the bedding behind himself and looked at Xiao Ran with a vigilant look.

"Go, go!!"

"How about I stand outside the door?"

Xiao Ran walked out of the hut and stood outside the door curtain.

This time, Yang Jian's expression relaxed.

"Where are Uncle Song and the others?"

Yang Jian shook his head: "Got crazy, died, got eaten, and finally left."

Yang Jian's answer was both what Xiao Ran expected and what made Xiao Ran confused, so he said, "Explain it clearly!"

Yang Jian curled up in the corner, picked up a straw and twisted it around his fingertips.

"First they went crazy. It started to rain green rain from the sky. That's when they went crazy. They ate the corpses, like starving ghosts from hell."

"Then..." He thought for a moment and continued, "Many monsters in yellow clothes came. I killed them all and ate them all."

"They died tragically. Old man Song's stomach was cut open and his intestines were pulled out piece by piece. His screams are still ringing in my ears."

After hearing this, Xiao Ran roughly understood what had happened. In troubled times, human life is worthless. In the end, Uncle Song and his companions could not escape this disaster.

"Um...what do you mean they're all gone??"

"I don't know, I don't know anything, except that there was a bell, and it rang and hooked them all away."

Yang Jian shook his head, his mind was in a mess and he couldn't remember anything.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran knew that it was useless to ask further, and wanted to help Yang Jian and break this layer of window paper.

But then he thought of his experiences in the underworld and sighed, "Take care, Brother Yang. I'm leaving now!"

After saying that, Xiao Ran leaped high into the sky and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Only after realizing that Xiao Ran had left did Yang Jian dare to get off the bed. He walked carefully to the door of the room, and after looking around he was sure that there was no sign of Xiao Ran.

He breathed a sigh of relief immediately, and then he laughed wildly as if he had become a different person.

"Hahahaha, gone, gone, finally gone."

Then he turned around, grabbed the sheet in his arms and waved it, "You are mine, mine!!"

As he said this, he spread the sheet over his face and let out a hoarse laugh.

Just as he was laughing, Yang Jian suddenly saw that his smooth bed sheets were stained with large spots of blood.

“What… is going on?”

He wiped it hurriedly a few times, but there was more and more blood stains.

"How could this happen? Where did all this blood come from?"

Yang Jian unfolded the bed sheet, wanting to see where the bloodstain came from, but when he unfolded the sheet, the faint candlelight shone through the neat cut in the middle of the sheet onto his face.

In an instant, Yang Jian saw it.

He saw the demons in yellow clothes rushing towards him with butcher knives in their hands.

The gorgeous bed sheets were worthless in the eyes of the devil until he chopped them down with the butcher knife in his hand.

"Thorn..."

The blood kept flowing out of the chest.

The scene flashed in Yang Jian's eyes, and painful memories began to surge in like a tide. Looking at the bed sheet in front of him, Yang Jian screamed, as if he had gone insane, and tore the bed sheet apart, then laughed hoarsely, laughing crazily, laughing madly.

Looking back on my life, all I can see is anger. How ridiculous and sad.

I couldn't get relief until I died, and now I suddenly realized how ridiculous I was.

What a ridiculous life, what a sad life.

Then he threw the torn bed sheet into the candle flame, and the fire soon set the entire thatched hut on fire.

The flames grew bigger and bigger, Yang Jian's laughter echoed in the sea of fire, and his figure swayed with the flames, gradually disappearing from the world.

"Ok??"

Xiao Ran had already left Jinyang City at this moment. He looked back as if he had sensed something vaguely, and saw a wisp of wolf smoke rising up outside Jinyang City in the distance.

Unfortunately, Xiao Ran had no time to take care of these things at the moment and just quickly returned to Ruzhou.

If the yellow disaster has passed Hedong, then it will go directly to Ruzhou. Once it rushes into Ruzhou, Ruyang and other places will be the first to be hit.

I don’t know how Brother Lu’s preparations are going after I’ve been away for so long.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ran couldn't help but feel a little worried.

With the help of the [Spiritual Clothes], he flew into the sky and into the ground while holding his physical body. In just a moment, he arrived at the border of Ruzhou. His speed was quite fast.

When they were still about a hundred miles away from the border, Xiao Ran saw a dim aura in the sky ahead.

As he got a little closer, the strength of the [Spiritual Robe] dropped drastically, which scared Xiao Ran and he quickly dodged far away.

"What is this??"

Xiao Ran looked from a distance but could not see anything clearly, so he slowly and tentatively approached the left and right edges of the yellow cloud, and finally saw clearly the situation below the yellow cloud in a corner of the yellow cloud.

Looking around, all I saw was a mountain of corpses.

There were people wearing yellow clothes everywhere, and the fishy yellow smell was emanating from these people.

Xiao Ran moved closer and felt it carefully.

Hatred, hunger, anger, despair, countless negative emotions hit him, making him dizzy in an instant.

Had to back off quickly.

"These people are the Yellow Disaster? They are indeed troublesome. The aura of these people is even more terrifying than the elite warriors I met in Wancheng. I am afraid that if ordinary beginners fall into them, the cursed objects will be affected!!"

This was the first time Xiao Ran saw the yellow disaster, but he could deeply feel the horror of these people.

Although I can kill them easily if I pick them out alone.

But once this group of people gather into a torrent, they are simply an invincible army of natural disasters.

He is fearless of death and bloodthirsty. Countless negative emotions you can think of are gathered in his body. I can't stand just getting a little close to him, let alone other armies. I'm afraid that if I rush in, I will be assimilated by the foul air soon and turned into beasts that only know how to eat people.

Not to mention ordinary people, even beginners would not fare much better in front of such a legion.

This inevitably reminded Xiao Ran of the locust plague.

The so-called locust plague is a swarm of grasshoppers. It happens even in real life and you can occasionally see reports of it on the Internet.

Every time there is someone in the comments shouting to catch it and fry it.

Little do people know that once these locusts form a swarm, they will release benzonitrile, and convert it into highly toxic hydrocyanic acid when attacked.

Even its natural enemies are unwilling to eat it, let alone humans. One pot of it would be enough to kill the whole group of people.

"No wonder they call them Yellow Plague. It turns out it's a homonym for Locust Plague."

"Strange, why do they station troops here?"

Xiao Ran began to have doubts in his heart. This place was only a hundred miles away from Ruzhou. As long as they were willing to just keep charging forward, they would be able to reach Ruzhou within two days.

Ruzhou is a rich place. Not to mention Wancheng, there is so much food in the towns around Ruyang City alone. It should be enough for these locusts to eat for a year or two.

Just as Xiao Ran was wondering, he saw a team rushing out of the military camp and heading straight for the mountains and forests north of Ruzhou.

The line was very long. In addition to the Yellow Disaster Army, there were also prisoner cars one after another, filled with men and women, the old, the weak, women and children.

There was also a gorgeous carriage behind the team, on top of which hung a mask made of a cow bone.

The people supporting the horses around the carriage were wearing thick fur coats.

I saw the fur coat fluttering in the wind, revealing the bloody face on the back of the fur.

"I seem to have seen these people before. They were the priests who mixed in with the Yellow Disaster Army when Big Brother Lu first took me to see the Yellow Disaster massacre in the city."

Xiao Ran still has a deep impression of these people.

Seeing them heading straight for the northern hilltop, Xiao Ran simply hugged his own body and followed behind quietly.

He could fly in the air, and with the cover of night, he was not afraid of being discovered by these people. He followed them from a distance, waiting for them to carry the old, weak, women and children to the top of the northern mountain. Only then did Xiao Ran see that many prisoners had gathered on the top of the mountain.

These people were building an altar on the mountain with a large flag on top.

There are four words written on it: [Swallow the Heaven and Eat the Earth]

The big flag was fluttering, carrying a bloody glow.

Xiao Ran hid in the dark and observed the surrounding terrain. His vision had changed a lot since before, and he was also proficient in the art of witchcraft, so he carefully looked at the shape of the surrounding mountains.

"Oh, these guys are planning to cause evil!"

Speaking of creating evil, it is also a kind of thing recorded in the art of exorcism. After all, a latrine is not something that can be found easily, but it can be made anywhere.

If there are no conditions, create them. This is the eternal thought of the Chinese people.

There are mountains gathered on all sides here, and there is a deep pool below, like the mouth of a gourd, which is a good place to create evil spirits.

"No wonder they stopped moving forward. It turns out that they had this in mind. First they created an evil spirit, then caused the evil spirit to interfere with Ruzhou's fortune, and finally swallowed up Ruzhou in one go."

Seeing through these people's plans, Xiao Ran thought to himself that rushing forward alone would obviously be a drop in the bucket.

Not to mention that there must be experts in charge, even the Yellow Disaster Army responsible for guarding the place has at least a thousand people. Rushing in by oneself would be completely seeking death.

"but……"

After Xiao Ran pondered for a moment, he couldn't help but think of another thing. He raised his eyelids and said, "Since you guys want to cause trouble, I'll just give you a trick, borrowing flowers to offer to Buddha!"

Thinking of this, Xiao Ran took out an object from the space with a smile. It was the [Sword of Execution] that he got in Huangquan...

(End of this chapter)