The cold wind outside the house was like the painful howl of a child, and the rustling sound of the trees seemed to be laughing at the howl of the cold wind, so the cold wind hit the trees outside the house even more fiercely.

Xu Shun shuddered before continuing: "People die every day, and it's cannibalism, I really can't stand it, and when I gather the team the next morning, I find that the team is already much smaller, although some people died at night, but the number of people is not right at all." ”

Chu Huan immediately understood: "Someone escaped from the team at night." ”

Xu Shun nodded slightly, and did not deny it, "The military regulations are strict, and if you leave your post without permission, that is a deserter, the punishment of deserters in the army is very serious, and you will be thrown into a prison at the least, or you will be cut off at the worst, but compared to military law, everyone is more afraid of dying like that, rather than waiting for death, it is better to escape by yourself, there may not be no way to live." I remember that one or two hundred people disappeared overnight! ”

"Of course, this is just the beginning." Chu Huan sneered: "This gap is opened, if Feng Hanxiao can't handle it well, there will be more and more people who will flee next." ”

"General Feng sent a few people to chase the deserters, and although most of the deserters were nowhere to be found, they also captured a dozen or so people." Xu Shun said: "General Feng's military law is ruthless, so naturally he will not forgive them, and in front of everyone, he personally cut off the heads of more than a dozen people with a knife. General Feng told us that the desert is boundless, once you break away from the team, there is no one to guide the way, it is impossible to get out of the desert, once you get lost in the desert, food and water are exhausted, you can only wait for death. A strange smile appeared on his lips, as if he was talking to himself: "If you stay in the army, you may be killed at any time, if you escape, the water and food on your body can last at least a month, this account, everyone knows it in their hearts." ”

"In the following days, people were killed in the middle of the night every day, and people fled every day, and after only more than ten days, there were only a thousand people left in the team." Xu Shun said softly: "Everyone knows in their hearts that such strange things happen every day, all because those ghosts of Lotus City are entangled, many people secretly worship to the west, begging the ghosts not to torture us anymore, but it is useless, people die every day, and people flee every day, General Feng has stopped paying attention to the deserters later, whoever runs away, he does not send people to chase them, let them fend for themselves." By the end of the twenty days, I was exhausted, and the ghosts had been haunting me ever since! He raised his head and smiled at Chu Huanwei: "Every night, when I fall asleep, those Lotus City ghosts that I killed are walking back and forth around me, and they are still crying in my ear!" Hands trembled: "The two brothers and sisters I killed by me, they will sit next to me every night, one on my left, the other on my right, covered in blood, just looking at me like that, I want to escape, but no matter where I run, when I sit down, they will appear on my left and right!" ”

Chu Huan listened, but he was thinking about the reason for these strange things in his heart.

Chu Huan naturally didn't believe that those wolf soldiers were really haunted by ghosts, in his opinion, the biggest possibility was of course because of the brutal massacre in Lotus City, which made those wolf soldiers have a shadow in their hearts, which caused great psychological problems.

If at the beginning of the individual wolf soldiers appeared crazy, then after that, similar things increased rapidly, and it is very likely that the wolf soldiers at the beginning inadvertently gave psychological hints to other companions.

The people of the Buddha country are hospitable, but the wolf soldiers will take revenge, not only into the city to slaughter, but also set fire to the lotus city, such a despicable thing, although the wolf soldiers are not good to say much after that, but there must still be guilt in their hearts, under the guidance of psychological suggestion, panic spread in the army, some wolf soldiers with weak psychological quality have a psychological breakdown, and there is a mental abnormality and thus mistakenly kill their companions.

Chu Huan felt that this should be a good explanation.

But deep down, he still felt that things would not be so simple.

If those wolf soldiers are ordinary poor people, because of psychological hints in a special environment there is a chain reaction, then it can be explained, just like the spread of Tianmen Road among the people, people with simple consciousness are easy to be brainwashed, with the spread of power, more ordinary people appear to conform to the herd mentality.

But Feng Hanxiao was under the command of three thousand elite wolf soldiers.

Three thousand wolf soldiers, is from the nearly 100,000 army carefully selected from the elite, at that time is the world hegemony, no day without fighting, no day without killing, three thousand wolf soldiers in the slaughter of the people of Lotus City, similar things have not been done before, they are used to seeing blood and corpses when they are iron and blood, the psychological quality is extremely strong, than ordinary people that is more than a star and a half, slaughtering their own compatriots has not been able to make them psychologically broken, slaughtering a foreign city will make them fall into a state of mental breakdown, Even swung a knife at his companion because of this, Chu Huan only felt that this was really a bit unreasonable.

At this moment, Chu Huan's shadow of another person appeared in his heart, if it weren't for Xu Shun in front of him, Chu Huan might never be able to think of that person anymore, but now the impression of that person clearly appeared in Chu Huan's mind.

After Lin Daier gave birth to a child, she ran away from home, Chu Huan went to pursue, but ran into the Yaksha King and Mei Niang, Chu Huan rescued Mei Niang, and the three of them hid in an ancient temple in the mountains in order to avoid the pursuit of the Yaksha King.

In the Gushui Temple, Chu Huan not only discovered Xiao Heng's adultery with his uncle Mrs. Xiao to blackmail him, but also found a sick monk who called him to repent.

Xin Cheng was terminally ill and dying at the time, but Chu Huan judged from the clothes and armor he kept, he was a wolf soldier of the year, and Xin Cheng has always been entangled in nightmares, claiming that there are ghosts around him day and night to ask for his life, Chu Huan didn't know what Xin Cheng meant at the time, but today it suddenly dawned on him, Xin Cheng and Xu Shun were both survivors of the westward march to Lotus City, and both of them were also haunted by nightmares for many years.

Xu Shun was silent for a moment, and still said to himself: "That night, the person around me finally had a seizure, fortunately I was always on guard, he wanted to pounce and kill me, how could I let him succeed and strangle him to death with my hands." Weird smile, "At that time, no one was nosy, whether someone had a seizure or not, everyone only cared about themselves, as long as they didn't do it to themselves, no matter what happened, they just watched coldly." I strangled the man, and the others didn't say a word, but I couldn't take it anymore, I couldn't stay there! His eyes flashed, and he said softly: "So I was ready to leave that day, and deliberately did not hand over the weapons, and at that time, everyone was in danger, did not hand over the weapons, and no one really came to check, and at night, I secretly left alone, and no longer walked with them." ”

"You left alone?" Chu Huan asked.

Xu Shun smiled: "Everyone wants to kill other people, I naturally can't be with others, so I can only leave secretly by myself!" Speaking of this, he suddenly shook his head: "No, it's not a person, there is also a pair of sisters and brothers, they have been following me, I have been walking for a long time, I don't know where I am, General Feng is right, no one leads the way in the desert, you will get lost, as long as you get lost, you can only be a dead end." Hehe smiled: "That's not to take care of, staying in the army is also death, no matter what, it's just a dead word, I don't know how long I walked in the desert, I saw the corpse several times on the road, hahaha, those are all deserters, they are also lost in the desert, and then die in it, one day, I also met a living deserter, there is no water in his water bag, lying in the desert waiting for death, when he sees me, he calls me to save him! His eyes became cold, "I think it's all for the sake of the Qin people, I wanted to give him a sip of water to drink, although the water in my water bag can't support it for two days, but hehe, he actually wanted to take advantage of my inattention and hack me to death, but unfortunately his strength was too small and his speed was too slow, and I found out and slashed him to death!" ”

Chu Huan sighed in his heart, under the danger, the viciousness of the human heart was completely revealed.

"Two days later, there was not a drop of water in my water bag, and I ran out of dry food two days ago!" Xu Shunmeng said: "I can only walk around in the desert without direction, that pair of sisters and brothers have been following me, hehe, I know why they want to follow me, they want to see where I die, that's it, they must want to watch me die, I just walk, I don't stop, I know that as long as I stop and fall, I can't get up again!" ”

Chu Huan was a little curious at this time, Xu Shun was lost in the desert alone, water and food were cut off, and he was already unable to return to the sky, and it stands to reason that it was impossible to survive, but how did he return to the Qin State.

Chu Huan knew that Feng Hanxiao went west to pursue the prince of Lu State, which was more than 20 years ago, and Mrs. Xu said that Xu Shun came back only for twelve or thirteen years, that is to say, after going west, Xu Shun returned to his hometown after nearly ten years, where is Xu Shun in the past ten years?

"I've been walking for a long time, I'm really tired!" Xu Shun's face also showed a look of exhaustion at this moment, "I don't know how long it took, I couldn't walk anymore, I didn't want to fall down, but I was too tired at that time, I just wanted to lie down and sleep, I sat down, and talked to the pair of sisters and brothers for a while, I told them, I'm going to die, they can go home, no need to follow me anymore, they just look at me like that, don't speak, keep looking at me, I lie in the desert, they just stand next to me, watch me sleep!" ”