Chapter 571: The Crowd Was Like a Sea

Chaos erupted at the North Gate, with Yan Moshan and Wei Lao fleeing toward the South Gate, while He Yi headed for the East Gate, mingling within the crowd that swelled like a tide, all rushing toward the city gates.

The surge of people was like the sea; some carelessly fell and were trampled to death on the spot, a ghastly occurrence that no one spared a glance for. Humans are always like this—at critical moments, they instinctively look out only for themselves, without the capacity to concern themselves with much else, including discipline and order, which at that moment became trivial matters.