The Demon Swordsman 3
Ch. 196 - Hope is extinguished

"We have to move faster and find Qin Yujin, before they create anything bad. We won't be able to stop it again if it happens."

He forced his feet to stand up, not thinking about illness and all the annoying things that kept trying to kill him. He only thought about Qin Yujin and the great plague that would most likely hit the Shang Empire if he did not stop the man.

"Before that ... How do we get out of this town?"

The Lightning Fox stared ahead where the entire road was impossible to cross, it could have used its power to clear the path. The fox raised both his hands, until in the next second his powerful electricity rattled the entire city. Cloudy adorned the sky, accompanied by lightning that continued to rumble violently.

If Xin Chen could not handle this, the Lightning Fox would intervene directly. Xin Chen regretted why his body was so weak, it was all wrong for him to fight against being infected. Wearing that power spirit body instantly went berserk, wearing the form of a mad-disease human being was trying to kill his brain.

Fu Hua looked at Xin Chen, looking far ahead where a fierce lightning bolt fell to the earth in droves. The electric current grabbed a puddle of water, electrocuting hundreds of them. Then glowing fireflies flew all over the city. Explosion after blast hammering, blood splashes ceaselessly wet the road that was swarmed by the herd. When the infection was stopped, he immediately shouted. "Now, run!"

Fu Hua ran over to Xin Chen, following the Lightning Fox from behind without daring to look back where one by one the infected were seeing them start chasing wildly. Xin Chen still lost some control over his body and could only run as he could.

The Lightning Fox waited for Fu Hua to enter the back door of a house with a stone wall. Closing the door to the house when a swarm of infected came after them. The three took a heavy breath. But not yet had time to go further, another creature appeared to mark their smell. Directly chasing with a noisy voice that continues to make a month.

Xin Chen released his hand from Fu Hua, releasing spirit power that quickly wrapped the corpse's body. A few seconds of spirit power raged until the darkness returned to Xin Chen's body. Not even a fingertip from the infected corpse.

Xin Chen could feel something flowing in his body, his pulse never ceasing to channel merciless pain. But at least now that they are safe, the infected will not be able to enter from the thick iron door.

There was an oddity that was seen when they passed through the hallway of the house. Unlike the abandoned house that had been abandoned all these years, Xin Chen saw some footprints that were still imprinted clearly. Mud stains that say that someone recently also broke into the same house.

"There's someone here." Xin Chen touched the stone wall, blood stuck to his index finger.

"Be careful" said Fu Hua. Be aware of the many signs of life in the house that has been empty. Every part of the room was filled with nothing, completely empty of leaping. Walking not so far away, they arrived at the front door. The fox interjected, "Street in front, hit the front door even to the back. Which makes this house must have lost its sanity."

He opened the door, surprised by the human voice he had heard from before, but not the sound of being infected. Unless human beings are alive. But the Lightning Fox could not immediately trust anyone, in a critical situation like this humans could be more violent than animals.

"Retreat."

The fox held back Xin Chen who continued walking forward.

The place itself is like a hideout specially made to defend itself from infected attacks. The front of the house they passed through was the gate to enter the refugee camp. Where each house is connected to each other to form a circle. Fenced in by wood, zinc, iron and anything around four meters high. Fortify them from outside attacks and also hide them if at any time Imperial soldiers come.

"Max ..."

"I'll finally find you." Xin Chen held the hand of the fox who was confused at the time, but perhaps from his hesitation he was sure Xin Chen knew who the person in the refugee was. Their situation cannot be said to be good.

The elderly are dying in one of the houses, starvation and disease. The young are either men or women full of wounds and blood. Sitting silently in contemplation of a fate that is getting worse. As far as anything goes, the struggle they put up to pursue every small possibility always ends in vain.

Among them, one of the teenagers came and directly hugged Xin Chen. Ian, a teenage boy who when the massacre occurred at Camp Southeast cut off his own tongue by biting it.

He's the only surviving child. Because it was considered defective, Ian was not taken by the researchers.

He cried, raved about something incomprehensible. But Xin Chen knew what had happened to the people of the Southeast Campground.

"Where are the kids?"

Yu held back his sobs, among everyone she was a strong woman. But the current situation was already far beyond his power. The woman's voice shook as she replied. "Made experimental material. They were taken to a new laboratory. They're developing a new virus and we can't stop them from running around like losers ..."

Yu's clothes were full of blood, his own body was badly injured. His lips were dry and pale, his eyes harboring such profound destruction. The Southeast camp he had long guarded, living peacefully and safely under his command was instantly destroyed in one night when dozens of soldiers carrying two researchers came. Taking innocent little children, taking the baby from their mother.

It was clear what the fate of the child was. They will only end in death. Before enjoying the true beauty of life, without war, plague and disease. Xin Chen crouched down facing Ian.

"What's wrong, I'm here. I won't let you fight alone ..."

"We're wrong to believe it!"

shouted one of the women, she was a mother who had lost her child, her face was sternly looking at Xin Chen at that time.

"We should have killed that barbaric man, not given him the confidence to lead. Now I just think that Emperor Shi earlier was kinder than he is now ..."

"It's my fault. I trusted Shi Long Xu, thinking he was the right person to restore the justice and safety of the Wei Empire. I helped him become a leader. And this is what happened."

Yu approached, "No, it's not your fault. Everyone outside the center thinks the same as you. We trust him to the point that the news of him becoming Emperor is the only good news we've heard in the last seven years ...."

Lian hugged her own knees near the campfire that only wood and ash remained. "I'm starting to think there's no reliable leader in the Empire." He looked at Xin Chen, "I'm also worried that one day you will betray us. Then ... Who will defend us? Should our destiny be to die? Why fight so hard"

"That's not true!" Fu Hua suddenly shouted. His breathing was hunting, he stared at all the people of the Southeastern Campground sadly. "You can't give up that easily. You all deserve to live. We just need to fight to reclaim what they've taken."

"Not living as a farm animal you mean?" Shuo from a distance threw his knife at the straw shot which was paired with the uniform of the Wei Empire's soldiers. He's been doing the same thing lately.

"Three are gone, I'm sure you met him outside." Shuo approached Xin Chen, giving a sharp look.

"His last message was to keep the remaining people from us. But now we're starving. There is no food in this town. And you see yourself out there?"

"What's going on outside? They're a lot of numbers." The Lightning Fox asked, Shuo glanced at him before replying.

"Know the Death Labyrinth? It was there that hundreds of thousands of infected were dumped. The last time was no more than two hundred thousand. The latest data says they've grown to three hundred grand." Shuo pulled the tip of his lips, sliced. "The charge is too big. Then some of those infected were released flooding the city streets. This city is an exiled city. Let's just say, it's the Death Labyrinth. This is the City of Death. You won't reach a safer city without a bridge."

Shuo explained in detail. The city where they are located is separated by a large river that is connected via a bridge. The bridge was lifted by the officers guarding it. There was no chance to cross the river, no boat.

While the city before this was as dangerous as the one they occupied. They are trapped, you could say. Now Xin Chen had found out that it was possible for Shi Long Xu to give the order to release the infected. He had gone mad, his wits might have been crushed since the death of his father.

Xin Chen wanted to know, what the man was thinking. Didn't he have seen everything that happened in the Wei Empire? He should have felt sadness like a central outsider did.

And all of the fooling Shi Long Xu had done so far was shrewd.

"But at least it's not just us who feel this crisis. People inside the center also felt the same way. If you come to that place, I'm sure you won't notice any difference between inside the central or outside the central. At least it's more fair now. We suffer, and they must suffer."

"This Empire's state is getting worse by the day."

Xin Chen was inexhaustible. I regret what happened back.

"Then why did you come back if you knew this was gonna get worse?"

Xin Chen responded to Yu's question, there was anger implied in it. "To kill Shi Long Xu, he had betrayed everyone. I helped him up into the clouds, and I slammed him to the bottom of the earth."

Yu got up, "You serious?"

"My friends here are also coming to kill other brains that will create even greater misery. Qin Yujin's."

Yu punched her shoulder. "In that case, we'd better unite with the defectors. They have more complete weapons. But we're apart, they're a long way from here."

"You want to take these people to their place?" The Lightning Fox doubted that. Yu who did not really know who the demon figure behind the hood of the gray robe was answering clumsyly. Yesterday Xin Chen brought Lang, a wolf and now it has changed into a fox.

And it looks more judes than any previous demon.

"Is there another option? We can't survive without food and drink."

"But this is a safe place from infected attacks ..." Fu Hua corroborated the fox's argument.

Xin Chen let out a slow breath, it was impossible to put the elderly and the already injured in a dangerous situation. They will only decrease a lot.

"Tell me where it is, I'll find and bring them here. This place is big enough to hold a lot of people."

"Then what about the food supply?" Another question followed. Xin Chen replied. "No need to worry, I'll look for him. Then heal your wounds and repair this base. There are some points with a weak defense."

Pretty hard decision. Yu had no other choice and could only trust Xin Chen. "alright. But it's almost night. We had better wait for the morning to come, we still have a little food supply. Rest and eat first."