Destiny is ashes

Chapter 366 Chaos in the City (33)

Today, the city of Linjiang is full of ice and snow. The biting cold wind blows palm-sized snowflakes onto the roofs, causing the tiles to shake.

Without the magic weapon, even if the underground vein formation is still operating, it is impossible to completely block the heavy snow. It can only prevent the weather from deteriorating to a level that the city cannot bear.

However, just because the city can withstand it doesn’t mean that people can.

An Jing did not go to the city center, which is the headquarters of Linlang Chamber of Commerce, at his fastest speed.

He walked slowly through street after street at an ordinary pace, observing the lives and details of the people there.

At this time in Linjiang City, icicles hung from the eaves of the houses, the dirty streets were covered with ice formed by condensation of black mud and water, all kinds of garbage and dirt were piled up on the street corners, and even the quiet air of winter snow could hardly suppress the diffuse smell of something rotting.

An Jing walked slowly among the ice and snow. He carefully observed the things on both sides of the street that seemed to be sealed in ice and amber.

Dead body.

The body, frozen as hard as iron, curled up in the snow in a strange posture. If someone with poor eyesight, they might have thought it was the wood left after a house was demolished.

But An Jing knew clearly that they were human corpses, and there were quite a few of them, in various shapes and sizes.

Some were frozen to death, some were starved to death, and some were beaten to death... These corpses were hidden at the edge of the streets. A team dressed in the uniforms of the Linlang Chamber of Commerce were shoveling away the ice and snow, cursing as they threw all the corpses into the car, seemingly planning to throw them out of the city later.

In addition, forced sales of food were also taking place in other residential streets.
"They can obviously rob, but they are still really buying and selling. I don't know whether to say that it is the nature of businessmen, or that they are somewhat afraid of Dachen's rules."

An Jing stopped and observed the scene with great interest. He couldn't help but sigh, "Perhaps it's because the big shots above are still in the government, so they don't want to leave any evidence that's too shady?"

At the beginning, An Jing did think so, but soon he had to admit that he was too young, thought too little, and had too little experience.

Because the Linlang Chamber of Commerce was really robbed!

It was a coincidence that An Jing saw a grain truck on the way to the city center. An Jing glanced at it and didn't pay much attention at first, but soon turned around and stared at the mark on the truck.

It was a blue wave pattern, which was the logo of the Hanlang Escort Agency.

"what?"

An Jing looked carefully several times, looking at the car and the people, and then he was shocked and said, "Is it true?"

"So that's how it is. They rob the food and medicine that the kind people around them give them for free, and then sell them themselves... They sell them for double the price after robbing them. How can ordinary robbers enjoy robbing money as much as they do!"

"Wow, this Chamber of Commerce is too arrogant. I'm really a little angry!"

Originally, An Jing was in a good mood because he found his mother, so he didn't use any heavy hands when teaching those arrogant warriors from the Linlang Chamber of Commerce a lesson. At most, he made them lie down for two days.

But now, An Jing's brows were furrowed, and he felt that he had gone too easy just now: "What do these people mean? They want to make money from a person who has no parents and no descendants?"

Thinking this way, he came to the grain cart and asked: "Where do you get this grain from?"

"Why do you care where it comes from?" The warrior from the Linlang Chamber of Commerce in the car said impatiently, "I'm just asking you whether you want to buy it or not!"

"want."

An Jing raised his hand and clenched it in the air: "Give me a box."

The internal energy surged, and the surrounding wind and snow rolled up, rolling up a box of grain on the car, and then lightly fell into An Jing's palm.

"Internal energy is like a tide? Internal strength?"

When the grain cart warrior saw this scene, his heart suddenly sank. His internal energy left his body and he was able to move heavy objects with ease. It seemed that he could not handle it.

His thoughts raced, and he hurriedly got out of the car, laughing, "So you are the warrior master, I wish you good luck, this box of food is for you..."

An Jing asked curiously, "Are you really sending it to me?"

"What a gift!" "I don't mind you charging me." An Jing stretched out his tone: "How much do you think this box costs?"

"This..." The grain cart warrior looked at the box and said hesitantly, "Two and a half taels?"

This is a very realistic number because this box is much heavier than the box of grain sold to Shen Mubai.

Although it is still a little expensive, considering the cost of transportation in the snow and the original price of the grain, if "this box of grain is really transported by the Linlang Chamber of Commerce", then the money they charge is really reasonable.

But the premise is that this is really their luck.

"You guys are really interesting. Don't you know the price very well? God knows how many people will be driven to death by you."

An Jing laughed, and the grain cart warrior suddenly smelled a scent of blood. Before he could say anything more, An Jing patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, I won't attack you... but listen to my advice."

An Jing calmly looked towards the Linlang Chamber of Commerce, which was not far away: "Leave the city now and return to your hometown in the south."

"If we stay in the city any longer, it will be hard to say."

The grain cart warrior shuddered. He didn't know why, but he felt a horrible coldness from the young warrior, a coldness even colder than the frost disaster - but just as he was about to nod in agreement, An Jing's figure disappeared.

"This... am I seeing a ghost?!"

An Jing disappeared too quickly, his steps silent and imperceptible, causing the warrior to look around the surrounding streets in shock, but he could not find any trace of him.

He trembled all over, bowed in the direction where An Jing was originally, then called his companions to take over, and left secretly by himself.

The other side.

Some time ago, Xu Tai entered the city and headed towards the city center.

Before entering the Chamber of Commerce gate, he saw a group of people leaving the street and walking towards the outside of the city in a distraught manner.

"Going out in this weather, it looks like there isn't much food... Isn't this a suicide mission?"

He muttered to himself that although Xu Tai loved money, it was only because he could not practice martial arts without money.

He charged too little, and if he got hurt, it would set his progress back.

But generally speaking, he was a warm-hearted person, so he stopped and walked up to the group of people and asked, "Old man, what's the meaning of this? Why are you leaving the city on a snowy day?"

The leader of the group was an old man with snowy hair and beard. Seeing Xu Tai was tall and strong, with a scar on his face, and looked like a great warrior, he bowed respectfully and said, "Alas, our family has no money left, and the ancestral house has been sold. We are too ashamed to face our ancestors. If we continue to hold on, we will die."

"Others are afraid of the beast tide and enter the city, but we have nothing now. We are not afraid of the beast tide. We can only fight and see if we can return to the south and find a way to survive."

Xu Tai took a quick look and found that there were women and children in this small group. The children were no more than six or seven months old, still in their cradles being held by their skinny mothers.

He sighed: "Does anyone at home know how to cook?"

"This……"

The old man didn't understand what Xu Tai meant, and answered honestly: "Of course I can..."

"You guys follow me." Xu Tai shook his head and said, "Don't go too far from the city. Go to the south bank of the outer city next to Yujiang River and find an empty house to wait. When I finish my business in the city, I will take you back to the south."

"When the time comes, you can go to my escort agency to help out, clean and cook, and that will be your escort fee."

"This……"

Hearing this, the old man and his family looked at each other in bewilderment, knowing that they had met a good man. Tears immediately fell from their eyes and they knelt down to kowtow: "My benefactor, my benefactor!"

Xu Tai sighed, raised his hand to let several people stand up, then pointed the way for them in detail, then shook his head and walked towards the Chamber of Commerce.

(End of this chapter)