Chapter 24: Refugee Disaster

The corpse on the donkey cart had nothing special, and Lin Feng quickly buried it and gained a stonemason skill.

According to Lin Feng's experience these days, the things planted from different corpses could be roughly divided into the following categories.

The first category, the most common, was various third-rate martial arts, which were the common goods widely circulated in the Jianghu.

If one mastered one and practiced it to a proficient level, one could become a third-rate expert in the Jianghu.

The vast majority of martial arts Lin Feng obtained through planting corpses were of this type. Now he not only mastered various saber, spear, and stick techniques, but even mastered quite a few fist, foot, and movement techniques.

These martial arts could not be said to be very brilliant, but they highlighted practicality!

The second category, which was more profound, was martial arts like the Hunger-Enduring Skill and the Pine-Crane Health-Preserving Skill, which could practice internal energy.

However, this type of martial art was not only small in number, but the effect was also very slow, requiring constant accumulation of internal energy to gradually become stronger.

Fortunately, Lin Feng could sometimes directly obtain internal energy by burying corpses, which made his internal energy cultivation progress quite rapidly.

Otherwise, relying solely on his own cultivation of internal energy through eating, drinking, or tempering his body, heaven knew when he would reach the year of the monkey.

The third category was various craftsman skills, such as the carpentry skill he had already mastered, and now he had harvested a stonemason skill.

Lin Feng would absolutely not dislike these skills, and he was even more attentive to them than harvesting a third-rate martial art.

Compared to third-rate martial arts that could only kill, these skills were the foundation for changing his life!

The last category was the various ghosts planted. Unfortunately, the number of corpses that could directly plant ghosts was not many.

After handling this corpse, Li Erniu and Zhang Dazhuang did not rush to leave, but chatted with Lin Feng on the side.

"Brother Lin, the two of us heard that a large number of refugees from the east are about to arrive. By then, I'm afraid Luohe City will be in a lot of chaos."

"So during this period, I'm afraid the work in other places cannot be done. Brother, you also don't run around. If chaos appears by then, I'm afraid we people will have to clean up the mess..."

As government runners in the city, their intelligence channels were also not bad. At this time, they told Lin Feng this, I'm afraid they heard some wind.

"Alright, I understand!"

Lin Feng nodded. Combining what he heard and saw, what these two brothers said would probably happen eight or nine times out of ten.

"That's good. It's not easy to live a stable life in this day and age. I don't know how many more days this Luohe City can be peaceful?"

Zhang Dazhuang led the donkey cart and turned to leave, with Li Erniu's thin-bamboo-like body following behind.

Listening to their words, Lin Feng sighed in his heart. This matter had reached the point where everyone knew it. If there was no one pushing it behind the scenes, Lin Feng would not believe it even if he died.

However, it was still the same sentence: the major events of the world should not be something he worried about. He was just an ordinary gravekeeper.

Carrying the hoe back to the gravekeeper's small courtyard, Lin Feng began to pick up the firewood knife and get busy.

In the past two days, he had cut some dead trees from the mountain, intending to use these materials to make some simple furniture. After all, the room he lived in now was too simple.

Besides a short couch, a chair, and a bench, there was nothing else in the room.

Lin Feng intended to make a table and other furniture, and also wanted to make a more comfortable bed.

"Thump, thump."

The dull sound of chopping wood rang out in the small courtyard, spreading far away to the graveyard in the distance.

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Two days later, outside Changshou Town, which was not too far from Luohe City, a large number of refugees who surged over had a fierce conflict with the government soldiers guarding here.

"Run, run! Squeeze in! Squeeze in to have a way to live!"

"These dog officials want to force us all to death!"

"Fight them!"

"Dad! I want revenge! Ah!"

"Boom, boom, boom~"

"..."

The government soldiers and townspeople here guarded the gate and walls of Changshou Town to prevent the refugees from entering. After all, the number of these refugees was truly terrifying.

Standing on the wall and looking over, it was a dark, overwhelming mass. If they were let into the town, it would be all over!

But because of this, those refugees who were tortured by hunger, illness, and despair and had gone crazy were not willing.

At this time, they all had red eyes, climbing the walls and hitting the gate of Changshou Town with their lives.

This caused the government soldiers and strong men guarding the town to pick up weapons to block them, but because of this, both sides immediately saw blood.

If this were normal times, it would definitely scare a group of people, but now, the fresh blood not only failed to have the effect of deterring people's hearts, but instead made the refugees even more crazy.

Refugee after refugee climbed the wall and squeezed into the gate without regard for their lives, and even went crazy to the point of biting people when they saw them and stuffing whatever they saw into their mouths when they saw food.

Soon, the gate of Changshou Town was smashed, and groups of refugees surged in. The entire town was instantly in chaos, with crying and shouting everywhere, and the entire Changshou Town quickly fell.

The originally ordinary refugees became rioters after the baptism of blood, and burning, killing, and looting began to become their instinct.

"Dad! Mom!"

"Boom~ crackle~"

As a house in Changshou Town was ignited, the fire soon started, and the entire town began to be shrouded in thick smoke.

"Hahaha, grain! There really is grain here!"

"Hurry, hurry, move it away! Move it all away!"

Someone had long told them that as long as they entered the Luohe City boundary, there would be food and housing. Now the food snatched from Changshou Town immediately made all the refugees excited to the extreme.

However, such a town obviously could not satisfy everyone's hunger, and more refugees chased those fleeing government soldiers and rushed toward Luohe City.

The government soldiers originally responsible for defending this side had already fled in all directions after the town was broken. They would not fight to the death with these crazy refugees.

"That dog official on the horse is going to run!"

"Stop him! Absolutely cannot let this dog official run!"

"Giddyup! Giddyup! Clatter!"

Zhang Xuan, a Colonel of the garrison in Luohe City, felt at this moment that he had hit the worst luck of his eight lifetimes.

He never imagined that just guarding a town would encounter a refugee attack, and these refugees all looked like monsters.

The arrows and swords in the hands of the soldiers originally could not play much role now. After seeing blood, those refugees were more like some kind of humanoid fierce beasts, able to pounce on them without fear of death.

When had he, a small colonel, ever seen such a battle? After the town gate was broken, he immediately chose to run away.

If he were a little slower, he was afraid he would be gnawed clean by those starving refugees. Who knew if these starving crazy refugees would dislike his meat for being too tough?

"Giddyup! Giddyup!"

"Run! Run quickly!"

Zhang Xuan whipped the horse's butt desperately. In this day and age, horses were extremely important strategic materials. Among the entire prefectural soldier force he brought, only he had a horse to ride.

Now he also relied on the horse's strength to shake off the rioters behind him, and then galloping all the way, he quickly returned to Luohe City.

Subsequently, the news that the rioters were about to attack Luohe City spread. At first, the rioters spread were only 10,000, but as it spread wider and wider, the number became more and more exaggerated.

50,000, 100,000, and even how many Heavenly Kings were among the rioters, and which Heavenly King liked to eat children or women and children the most, were all spread with nose and eyes.

Zhang Xuan, who failed to suppress the refugees, directly cried miserably to the City Lord, deliberately exaggerating the scale of the refugees by several times.

That day, the prefectural soldiers of Luohe City were all mobilized, and the four city gates were directly closed. For a time, it was full of the smell of wind and rain coming.

Soldiers in armor and holding sharp weapons filled the city walls, and the people outside the city also surged toward the city gates one after another. For a time, both inside and outside the city were in chaos.

In the evening, a dark, overwhelming mass of refugees arrived outside Luohe City. These refugees, who were starving, could do nothing about the high walls and thick gates of Luohe City, and only began to snatch the houses and grain of ordinary people outside the city. ===== CHAPTER 25 =====