I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 520 Yama Banner

Zhang Chen glanced at Chen Ping, picked up the wine and took a sip. How could he not know Chen Ping's difficulties?

The journey south is a long one, and not only are there wild beasts wreaking havoc, but there are also armies of humans and demons constantly chasing and intercepting, trying to trap everyone in the north and keep them in captivity.

According to Zhang Chen's understanding, the so-called human demons should be similar to the grassland tribes such as the Xiongnu and Xianbei in previous lives.

They use wolves, insects, tigers and leopards as totems, and worship various great monsters as gods.

Those human demons had no shortage of horses, and they had the help of all kinds of ferocious beasts, especially the wolf cavalry and tiger and leopard cavalry. They rode wolves, tigers and leopards and had enormous killing power. They caused heavy losses to the 3,000 cavalry of the Dragon and Tiger Escort Agency. If Zhang Chen had not secretly helped them many times, the Dragon and Tiger Escort Agency would have been slaughtered long ago.

"I have planned to recruit strong men among the refugees and train them day and night to resist the invasion of wild beasts. The North lacks everything except manpower. Now there are refugees everywhere and many of them cannot survive. I can ask them to work hard as long as I provide them with a meal. As long as tens of thousands of troops are trained, then it will not be us who are hunted by the wild beasts, but we who hunt the wild beasts." Chen Ping's eyes showed a cold look, and the murderous intent in his eyes was very sinister.

"I have three thousand soldiers. If each of them trains ten people, that will be thirty thousand people. If we train a hundred people, that will be three hundred thousand. When the time comes, we will form a large army. Even if there are more wild beasts, they will not be enough for us to kill. They will only become our food. If the Demon King does not come out, who can do anything to us?" Chen Ping's eyes were full of coldness.

“If too many people gather together, the great demon king will definitely take action.” Zhang Chen warned the other party.

"For the Great Demon King to take action, there must be 100,000 people. As long as we control the number of people to less than 100,000, how can those Great Demon Kings have time to pay attention to us?" Chen Ping poured a full glass of wine for Zhang Chen nonchalantly: "Besides, if we don't form a large team, I'm afraid we won't be able to leave the Northland at all."

Zhang Chen fell silent upon hearing this, agreed with Chen Ping's words, then picked up the wine cup and drank it all. The two no longer discussed the situation in the north, but began to joke about various things from all over the world.

At the end of the conversation, the two were slightly tipsy, but Chen Ping suddenly sighed: "I haven't been home for three years. I miss home! I don't know how my daughter is doing."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Chen looked at Chen Ping in surprise. The other party was only seventeen or eighteen years old, but he actually had a daughter?

"You have a daughter?" Zhang Chen asked in surprise.

"I got married when I was fifteen. On the third day after my daughter was born, I received a large order, so I had to escort her to the north in person. Who would have thought that such a thing would happen in the north just as I was about to return." Chen Ping cursed: "Damn King Pingbian, he actually asked the monsters to jump over the Great Wall of Bones. He deserves death! I originally wanted to return by water, but I encountered a water monster. Only 3,000 of the 10,000 executioners were left..."

At this point, Chen Ping's voice was filled with melancholy, with a hint of tears in his voice: "Seven thousand people! More than seven thousand families, how can I explain it when I go back? How can I face those orphans and widows?"

Zhang Chen fell silent upon hearing this, remembering that Prince Pingbian had flooded the north, and he also had an unshirkable responsibility in this matter. If he had not repeatedly ruined the cause of Prince Pingbian's Mansion, Prince Pingbian's Mansion would not have had to resort to such desperate measures.

But even if Zhang Chen was asked to make a new choice, he would still be so determined to attack Zhang Shicheng again and stop Zhang Shicheng from transforming into a dragon. After all, having an opponent of the twelfth or eleventh level is definitely an extremely terrifying thing. Zhang Chen does not want to be hunted down and the old and young in his family will be implicated.

"By the way, how is King Pingbian?" Zhang Chen asked.

Chen Ping is from the escort agency and has friends all over the world. He might know some gossips in the underworld.

Hearing Zhang Chen's question, Chen Ping gnashed his teeth in hatred: "King Pingbian retreated all the way, abandoned Gou Lan County, and directly abandoned half of the territory, dividing the north with the demon tribe and confronting each other. The masters of the demon tribe are all stationed on the front line to fight against the masters of King Pingbian's mansion, otherwise how could we survive? King Pingbian is a bastard. He chose not to resist the demon tribe and directly abandoned the people of the north. He is simply a sinner of my human race. If I have the chance, I will cut him into pieces."

"Where are we now? Is it the territory of King Pingbian or the territory of the demon clan?" Zhang Chen continued to ask.

"We are lucky. We are on the boundary between King Pingbian and the demon clan. It is said that the people in the demon clan's territory have been imprisoned by the demons and have become their food. Human blood naturally nourishes wild beasts. As long as those wild beasts eat human flesh and blood, they will surely become intelligent. It is said that no matter what kind of beast it is, as long as it eats more than ten humans, it will become spiritual and thus become wise." Chen Ping said gritting his teeth.

Zhang Chen fell silent upon hearing this. He was speechless for a while. He just picked up the wine and drank a big bowl of it. His eyes were a little red, but he didn't say anything.

He could imagine how desperate those humans living in the demon tribe's territory must be at this moment!
The only good news is that the demons will not eat the humans in the north to extinction. They will even keep the humans in captivity so that they can continue to eat them for a long time. This is the only good news.

Zhang Chen drank a large jar of wine, and his whole body was full of alcohol. He was a little drunk, and he stumbled all the way back to the donkey cart, feeling extremely uncomfortable.

You mean he has no responsibility?

He knew in his heart that he was largely responsible. You can say he was responsible, but he had to act this way because he had no choice. He didn't want to die, so he had to stop Zhang Shicheng from turning into a dragon. Zhang Chen was drunk and fell asleep on the donkey cart. Just as he was sleeping soundly, a strange wind suddenly blew from a distance. The strange wind blew so dark that the sky was dark and the sun and moon were dim. It was as mighty as a nuclear explosion and swept towards the direction of the large group of people.

In the storm, three figures were fighting with a huge black skull. The skull held a black flag and was not willing to be outdone by the two figures. The fight was so fierce that the sky was dark and the sun and moon were dim. Looking at the strange wind and the two figures in the strange wind, Chen Ping was horrified: "It's a ninth-level strongman fighting. That's Gu Mingyue from Huang Tiandao. I don't know what kind of horrible evil thing he is fighting with. Everyone, hide quickly!"

But before Chen Ping could finish his words, the overwhelming black wind had already covered the entire escort team, and countless escorts, goods, carriages and horses were swept up into the sky by the strange wind. Behind them, countless refugees were also blown directly into the sky like fallen leaves by the strange wind.

Only Zhang Chen's carriage seemed to sense the coming storm. The Wind-Fixing Pill automatically emitted light that enveloped an area of ​​twenty meters. All the strange winds met the power of the Wind-Fixing Pill and instantly calmed down, turning into a gentle breeze that brushed the face.

The carriage stopped, and the people inside could not see the scene outside the wind and sand. At this time, the whole world was dim, and even the roar from the outside world was blown away by the wind and sand.

Zhang Chen was drunk at the time. When he woke up, he found the carriage empty. There was no sign of his younger sister, younger brother and others. The air outside was terribly quiet.

Zhang Chen was shocked. With so many people from the escort agency gathered here, why was there such a dead silent atmosphere?
So he quickly opened the curtain, and then he was stunned. All he saw was yellow sand, without a single green. There was a layer of yellow sand on the ground, and it looked like he was in a desert.

In front of the carriage, his younger brothers and sisters, stepmother and others stood in front of the yellow sand with sad faces, staring at the yellow sand silently, their eyes full of worry.

"Where are the people from the escort agency?" Zhang Chen asked.

"You finally woke up. Something terrible has happened!" Cheng Yu turned to look at Zhang Chen. "An hour ago, a strong wind blew over here, darkening the sky and the sun and moon. When the wind calmed down and we got off the carriage, all the people from the escort agency were gone, even the refugees."

Zhang Chen was shocked when he heard this. He quickly jumped off the carriage and carefully sensed the surrounding environment. His face changed. "The yellow sand on the ground is probably a meter thick. What kind of wind blew the yellow sand so thick? And blew away all the big trees?"

Zhang Chen looked across the distance. Where was the shadow of the big tree? All he could see was withered yellow, turning into endless yellow sand.

As for why the carriage was not blown away, it was because of his own Wind-Fixing Pill.

Zhang Chen was a little confused. He had only slept for a while, how come the world had changed? How could everything have changed?

The yellow sand was blown up to a thickness of about one meter. All the people in the escort agency must have been blown away, and the refugees were probably blown away as well.

"What should we do now?" Zhang was confused and had no idea.

"Are we short of anything?" Zhang Chen asked.

Zhang smiled bitterly, "The gold, silver, and jewelry you collected earlier, and the stone sculpture (Han Suzhen) were placed on another donkey cart, and now they have also been blown away without a trace."

The sculpture is so large and heavy that it certainly cannot be placed on a small carriage for people to sit and lie on.

Zhang Chen was horrified when he heard this. The gold and silver jewelry were fine, but his master's sculpture must not be blown away. If his master's sculpture was blown away, how would he explain it to Chen Sanliang in the future? Wouldn't that old man fight with him to the death?

Zhang Chen quickly jumped off the carriage and asked, "Where did the donkey cart stop before?"

He could only hope that the stone sculpture was heavy enough and would not be blown away by the strong wind.

Zhang also knew the importance of the matter, and quickly pointed to the back of the donkey cart and said, "There was a porter driving the donkey cart before, but when the strong wind came, we didn't take care of it. When the strong wind died down, we came down to check, and everything was blown away."

Zhang Chen hurriedly walked towards where the donkey cart was parked. When he got closer, he used the power of the earth to sense it. The next moment, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He saw the yellow sand moving, and a stone statue was pushed out. However, all the gold, silver and jewels he had stored at home had been used up.

(End of this chapter)