The two men obviously planned to sell the coyote's wolf skin to the central market for other useful supplies - after all, for anyone living in a quarantine, they must be fully prepared when the dark season is approaching.

No one would think that there was not enough material to store. In any dark season, the number of people who died of hunger was much larger than the number of people who died of wild beasts.

And, most importantly, the central market will not be open during the dark season.

When the central market first took shape, many people decided to regard this place as a "sanctuary". In that dark season, almost 500 people gathered on the Empire Square. They built a fence on the periphery of the square to defend against wild beasts, and dug a large number of traps outside the fence... More than half of the five hundred people were veterans with rich combat experience, and dozens of flintstones, in their opinion, it was enough to ensure that the central market could spend the dark season safely.

However, they were wrong. In that dark season, the beasts in the entire isolation area rushed towards the central market. People's defense collapsed after only two days. The entire central market was slaughtered by wild beasts. The carriages were filled with broken corpses, and the sticky and smelly plasma was enough to cover the insteps of people... None of the five hundred people survived. Even the women who hid in the sewers in the square were dragged out by the beasts to share the food.

It was also after experiencing this disaster that the largest force in the isolation area, the "Silhouette Gang", was able to incorporate the entire central market into its own control.

However, even the Lion Heart Gang would never dare to continue to run the central market in the dark season. Based on the experience gained from countless blood lessons, in the dark season, as long as more than ten people gathered together, it would soon attract a large number of wild beasts to attack. No matter where these gathered people were hiding, they would be as eye-catching as a cluster of torches in the dark night for the wild beasts.

No one knows why, but if you want to survive in the quarantine area, you must abide by this rule, even the powerful "Silhouette Gang" is no exception.

...

Ashes followed the two people to the periphery of the central market. The two people were so vigilant that they were terrible. They walked here without allowing Ashes to capture any opportunity.

Of course, if Ashes wanted to force his attack, he was sure to kill the guy carrying a coyote on his shoulders first, but the flint gun in the other guy's hand would definitely hit Ashes. At that distance, no matter whether the gun chamber was filled with iron sand or lead bullets, Ashes would definitely die.

"..." Ashes kept chewing bitter grass roots. This grass root contains slight toxins. Overdose can cause diarrhea and vomiting, but this toxin can stimulate the human brain and effectively relieve fatigue and distress. It is one of the essential emergency medicines for survivors in the isolation area.

Ashes felt that his patience was almost gone... He had to make a decision immediately if he took action or gave up, otherwise he would basically have no chance after the other party entered the central market.

At this moment, the two men suddenly stopped, which shocked Ash, squatted down quickly, and held their breath.

Did the other party find himself?

Ashes were not sure. He and those two people had always kept a distance of more than 30 meters. Even if they were discovered, they would still have a great chance if they wanted to escape...

...

"Have you noticed something wrong?" The first person who stopped was the man holding the flint gun. He squinted his eyes and looked at the direction of the central market. However, the messy shrubs here were too dense, and his vision was greatly obstructed. He could only vaguely see a row of fences made of wooden stakes as thick as bowls behind the bushes. On the top of the wooden stakes, there were many rusty spikes.

"What's wrong? Is there any problem?" The guy carrying the coyote was a little slow to react, but when he saw the first person stopping, he also threw the coyote to the ground with great alertness and pulled out the short sword at his waist.

"Quiet... It's so quiet. It's less than two hundred meters away from the central market. How come it can't be heard at all?" The man holding the flint gun said in a low voice. Then, he suddenly lay down and pressed his ear to the ground.

"Did you hear something?" After more than ten seconds, the second person asked in a low voice.

"I can't hear... I can't hear anything." The guy holding a gun climbed up from the ground and shook his head, "Wait, have you smelled... there is a faint smell of blood in the air!"

"The smell of blood? It seems that there is really... it's not the coyote, right?" Another man sniffed hard and turned to look at the coyote thrown on the ground.

"No... it's not emitted from the coyote... it seems to be coming from the central market!"

At this moment, three figures in black clothes suddenly emerged from behind a pile of bushes and appeared in front of them!

"Who are you?!" The man holding the flint gun immediately shouted, but just when he wanted to raise his gun to shoot, the three men in black picked up the weapons in their hands first-

The weapons they used looked somewhat similar to the long-barrel flints used by the army. There was not much difference in the structures of the barrel, trigger, and stock, but at the end of the barrel, there was a copper tube connected, and the other end of the copper tube extended to a metal can on their backs.

The three men in black pulled the trigger first, without the loud noise of the flint gunfire, nor the black smoke and fire generated when the gunpowder burned. The muzzle of the strange weapon only trembled slightly a few times, and several blood flowers suddenly appeared on the bodies of the two men, and they fell to the ground with a very horrified expression.

"Did these three people... come in from outside?!" Ashes hiding in the distance, his heart beat fast. He clearly saw how the two people were killed. In just one breath, at least ten projectiles shot out from the muzzle of the strange weapon and penetrated into the bodies of the two people. The weapons in the hands of those people could conduct continuous shooting without reloading gunpowder, and the firing rate was extremely fast. He had never heard of such weapons, and he had never heard of them. In addition to the clean and tidy black uniforms on their bodies, Ashes were completely certain that these three people were definitely not the "indigenous people" in the second isolation area!

In the past ten years, no one outside has ever entered the second quarantine area... Even if there are, no one has ever seen them... or the people who see them have been beaten to death like the two people in front of them.

Ashes took several deep breaths and began to squat slowly and retreated... Although Ashes could not guess what their purpose was to enter the second isolation area, it was obvious that anyone who saw them would be silenced. Ashes didn't want to become like two guys lying on the ground...

"Don't move, raise your hands and put them behind your head."

The three men in black were still examining the two corpses on the ground, but a cold tubular metal object suddenly pressed against the ashes, and a sound without any emotion sounded behind him at the same time.
Chapter completed!