Chapter 86 - 77: Xianle in Chaos; Crown Prince Returns to the Mortal Realm
For displaced disaster victims like those from Yong'an, to fight against the imperial army
was a losing battle, a gross overestimation of their own strength.
Yet, those who were cornered often possessed the courage to court one's ruin and bite
off more than they could chew. After that one riot, the hundreds of thousands of Yong'an
refugees finally left the city gates, backing off to some distance away, and changed
where they built temporary camps.
However, they just wouldn't leave. They might die on the road if they keep going, and
hanging around was also death, so what's the difference? Using the rations and water
the king distributed from before, plus munching on bark skins, wild herbs, plant roots,
critters and insects, and a build up of resentment and loathing on top of all that, those
people possessed an unimaginably persistent will to live, and stubbornly persevered.