Chapter 680 - Yuan Xiaoyi (2/2)
Outside the window, some people were thrown off the top floor by the blast. While falling, they were swaying their hands in the air rapidly as if they were trying to grab something. However, none of them succeeded. They just kept falling and falling in the blood-curdling screams.
Crowded, screaming, pus.h.i.+ng, shaking…
Yuan Xiaoyi finally came downstairs, but it was a mess on the ground. It was so terrible that she couldn’t even bear to look at it.
On the dim streets, refugees like headless flies were running everywhere in chaos, shaking the dizzy flashlight in their hands. Someone nervously said that the army from the east was coming, and some people said in horror that the army from the west was advancing. With many different words, no one knew who to believe anymore.
Yuan Xiaoyi, who had some escape experience in the fight against floating monsters, helped a swollen female cla.s.smate to get up and said decisively:
“There is going to be a fight in the city, staying here will only get us killed, let’s get to the outside of the city!”
Her suggestion seemed to light up a beacon in the dark, illuminating the headless flies that rammed around blindly. Then more and more people felt that what she said was reasonable and began to follow her.
However, Yuan Xiaoyi and his cla.s.smates didn’t run very far. As they just ran past the third streets, they noticed that more and more figures began to appear before them. In the dark, the flickering torch lights made them even dizzier from hunger.
“Run!” was the most frequent word that Yuan Xiaoyi heard people shout, but they were so weak that how could they possibly run? Even walking was a difficult task for them now, let alone running.
In the distance, the sound of more and more intensive artillery mingled with the roars of the machine guns. It became the only force to support them to walk away from the city. Only by escaping from the city could there be the hope of not being swallowed up by war.
Fortunately, they did not settle in the key protected area of the city. This was probably the only good thing for not knowing anything in the government or the military.
After pa.s.sing another street, Yuan Xiaoyi felt that her legs were as heavy as if they were filled with lead, and her cla.s.smates were so weak to a point that once they fell down, they would no longer be able to get up again.
It was at this moment, she suddenly b.u.mped into a person in front. She quickly pushed, but that person did not move. She pushed again, but the person still did not move. Then she noticed that all the people around her all stopped. At this time, she finally realized that the road ahead was blocked.
“Keep moving!”, “Why don’t you move?”, “What happened at the front?”
The artillery fire and gunfire behind were like the grim reaper, forcing the men who still had the strength to stand on their toes anxiously, and ask loudly. Some of the impatient ones even climbed on the roof of the cars on the side of the road, looking over the dense heads of people ahead.
The transmission of the message needed time. No matter how anxious and urgent the people behind were, there was still no exact information coming back from the front. Without looking at the situation ahead, no one knew how long they would be able to find out what exactly happened at the front.
It was about ten minutes or so, and when Yuan Xiaoyi still couldn’t figure out what happened, the message was delivered in another way.
The crowd in front of them began to push backward!
Caught off guard, she was almost pushed to the ground. It instantly caused her to break out in a cold sweat.
If she fell down at this time, the dense crowd would not be able to tell whether she was alive or dead as they pushed each other back, but it would definitely not take long to trample her to death.
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