The falling city wall is like a collapsed firmament, and the rising sun above the sky is like a raging flame.

There were no living defenders on the wall, and Hassan, Ranzi and others stood on the wall and fought for a long time, and then quietly waited for the master of the grassland to enter the city and land on the wall.

Before entering the city, Yan Liuyuan rode through the homeless market town outside the barrier, and on both sides of the road, the homeless people hid in their shacks.

The walls had been broken, but it was surprising that the fallen walls did not reach the market towns, and none of the displaced people died in a war.

Yan Liuyuan saw a child hiding in the shack, and his father protected him firmly behind him, but the child couldn't help but look at Yan Liuyuan secretly.

Yan Liuyuan smiled and asked Qiqige beside him to ask for beef jerky to throw to the child, but he didn't say anything more and continued to move forward.

The little kid who took the jerky looked at Yan Liuyuan curiously, and he suddenly felt that the other party seemed to be the best-looking person he had ever seen since he was born.

His eyes are like stars, his eyebrows are like swords, and when he looks at each other, he is like looking at a perfect god.

But what the child didn't know was that when Yan Liuyuan looked at him, it seemed as if he saw himself many years ago, and at that time, there was also a person who would always protect him behind him like his father.

When passing by a brick and stone courtyard, Yan Liuyuan saw many schoolchildren hiding inside, and he asked, "Is this a school in the market town?"

A young man said tremblingly: "Please let these children go, their oldest is 14 years old, the youngest is only 8 years old, even if 176 Barrier has offended you, but these children are innocent." ”

The scholar was so frightened that there was no end in sight to the iron horsemen who entered the market town, and the majestic horses needed him to look up to see the young man on the horse.

But no matter how frightened he was, he didn't take a step back.

The sturdy horses snorted, and the white gas that erupted from their nostrils was like arrows, and the momentum was amazing.

The young gentleman retreated in fright, but he still protected the student behind him.

Yan Liuyuan looked at the young man, and then smiled at the children: "You have a good teacher, remember to study hard, someone told me that books are the best way to understand this world, and if you want to understand this world again after you leave the school, you have to pay the price of blood, this is your last shelter." ”

I don't know what came to mind, Yan Liuyuan was a little distracted when he said this.

The young gentleman was a little at a loss, and the young man on the horse opposite should have been very cruel, but it didn't seem to be the case.

"Su Gu Yan, give them some jerky," Yan Liuyuan continued to ride forward after speaking, no longer looking back at the children.

Su Guyan looked at the group of children in surprise, but in the end, he still let the clansmen carry a bag of dried meat on the ground and said fiercely: "My master rewarded you." ”

By this time Hassan had already run down the tower, kneeling in the city and respectfully greeting the new king.

"Get up," Yan Liuyuan said.

Qiqige beside him suddenly found that when Yan Liuyuan entered the barrier, his expression began to gradually turn cold, and he was like two people when he was in the market town before.

Da, da.

The crisp sound of horses' hooves resounded on the long street of Barrier 176, and the entire barrier was silent because of Yan Liuyuan's arrival.

The rough men and costumes on the grassland, and the majestic iron horses, are in stark contrast to the Central Plains civilization.

On one side is a neat brick and stone building, and on the other side is a long knife dripping with animal skins and blood, Yan Liuyuan sat calmly on the horse, looking around at the scene around him, he never thought that he would step on the barrier again in this capacity, and set foot in the place he hated the most.

And now, for the first time in more than 200 years after the cataclysm, the steppe people have entered the barrier.

The soldiers around him watched the city move, and the inhabitants of the city all cowered at home, and did not dare to come out.

Hassan whispered beside Yan Liuyuan, "Master, shall we start?"

Yan Liuyuan glanced at him: "What to start with?"

"Slaughter the city!" said Hassan, "the leaders of the tribe behind are very excited, and they want to slaughter the city to show your glory, this is the wish of everyone." ”

"Slaughter the city?" Yan Liuyuan was stunned for a moment, he looked at the tribal leaders behind him, and sure enough, they couldn't wait one by one, especially the two leaders of the Mulan clan and the Sugu clan, they had killed too many clansmen in this war, and it was time to use the blood of the barrier people to pay tribute to their clansmen.

And they all inquired with Hassan, and the master said that they would sacrifice the blood of the 176th Barrier.

Although they suffered heavy losses in the storm, and although there was a lot of material loss on the march, they would have a lot of wealth after a massacre.

But at this time, Hassan found that his master was silent.

Once the slaughter of the city begins, there will be cries in the ears, black smoke will rise from the huge barriers, and countless people will die.

Yan Liuyuan looked at the barrier that should have been very prosperous, as well as the broken barrier wall behind him, if Sister Xiaoyu was here, she definitely didn't want to see the slaughter of the city here.

He suddenly said: "Tell me not to slaughter the city, first find out all the managers in this fortress, and tell the residents that as long as these officials are reported, they will survive, and it will be better to talk about their crimes, but before I get my order, I will kill whoever kills indiscriminately." ”

Hassan was a little embarrassed: "If you kill your own people because of the death of the barrier people, I am afraid that you will ......"

Yan Liuyuan said calmly: "Then it seems that they still don't understand who is the master of the grassland." ”

"Understood," Hassan took the order, of course his order to Yan Liuyuan was unconditional obedience, if someone did not obey, then he should pull this person out and drag him to death with a horse.

The fighters behind moved quickly, and in just a few minutes they asked where several officials lived, and then dragged the barrier officials out of their homes.

Yan Liuyuan sat calmly on horseback from beginning to end, Qiqige rode a horse and followed beside him, and the team headed towards the center of the barrier, and a barrier official said that it was the official residence of the Shen family.

When he was about to arrive at the residence, Hassan saw that the manor was heavily guarded, so he immediately rushed over with his people from the Jin tribe with heavy machine guns.

Yan Liuyuan waited on the horse, and within half an hour, Hassan opened the door of the official residence for him.

There was already a river of blood in the official mansion, and all the living people knelt on the ground, Yan Liuyuan turned his horse forward, he looked at everyone in the official mansion and said, "I heard that the person in charge of this barrier is called Shen Yin, which of you is, stand up and speak." Su Guyan, you take people to raid the granary and the arsenal, and we will take everything we can take away. ”

After speaking, Yan Liuyuan dismounted and walked to the villa in the manor, until he sat on the leather sofa in the living room of the villa, and then looked at the middle-aged man who was pressed by Hassan: "You are Shen Yin?"

Shen Yin looked at Yan Liuyuan coldly: "The barbarians on the grassland also dare to come to the Central Plains to make trouble, aren't you afraid of the retaliation of the entire Central Plains?"

Yan Liuyuan smiled: "Tinder, Kong, Wang, who do you think will avenge your Shen family." ”

As soon as these words came out, Shen Yin immediately realized that the young man in front of him should know the Central Plains very well, and the other party came prepared for breaking through the No. 176 barrier this time.

"I'm curious," Yan Liuyuan's slender fingers tapped on the armrest of the leather sofa and asked, "Barrier 176 was on the same level as Fortress 178 in the early years, why is it so depraved now." ”

Shen Yin stared at Yan Liuyuan deadly, but he didn't know how to answer this question.

At this time, a large number of fortress officials were brought to the official residence by the servant Lanqi, still holding a thick pile of paper in their hands.

The officials were pressed to kneel in a row, and the servant Lanqi handed the paper in his hand to Yan Liuyuan: "Master, this is all evidence written by the residents of the barrier." ”

"It seems that you are really unpopular," Yan Liuyuan took the paper: "Why don't we play a game, you report and expose each other, let me see if you have made meritorious contributions." ”

As soon as the words fell, a middle-aged man immediately knelt on the ground and stepped out step by step with his knees: "I report, their Shen family has been powerful in the city for decades, and they have oppressed the people unspeakably, and this Shen Yin is even more sinful, and even robbed the wives of his subordinates!"

"Go on," Yan Liuyuan said with interest as he put his arms on the sofa and his chin in his palms.

"Also, Shen Yin is really not a thing, he killed innocents indiscriminately earlier, and he likes to torture slowly when he catches the grassland people!"

Someone opened the head, and other people's accusations are like a faucet that can't be stopped anymore.

The villa was noisy, and someone said loudly: "This Shen Yin still likes men!"

"The year before last, he also selected women and children from the out-of-town homeless market town!"

Yan Liuyuan seemed to be a little impatient when he listened to the chaotic voice: "Okay." ”

The villa fell silent again.

Yan Liuyuan looked at Shen Yin: "Look, this is your barrier people, living pampered, but you have lost your backbone and happiness." ”

But Shen Yin knelt on the ground and sneered: "The homeless people are just a group of pigs, what dignity and happiness do they have." ”

"No, they're happier than you," Yan Liuyuan shook his head.

Shen Yin laughed loudly: "Those homeless people can only run for a living, some people sell their daughters to others, some people can only steal chickens and dogs, even if these people die under the mine, no one cares, their families never mention revenge, only ask how much compensation, some people send their children to school, only to find out after a few years that what they have learned is useless, those who should dig sand will dig sand, those who should go down the mine will go down the mine, and live a day by day with today and no tomorrow, living like livestock." I ask you, what joy is there for such a person. ”

Yan Liuyuan looked at the morning light outside the gate of the villa, and in his impression, the market town was not like this, and the homeless people were not like this.

At that time, his brother came back from hunting, and the family was already very poor, but the other party would often go to Wang Fugui's store to buy him two hard candies, the sweet and greasy kind.

My brother would hide one first, and then give him only one, telling him to save some food.

But Yan Liuyuan always couldn't help it, he ate it all at once every time, and then looked at Ren Xiaosu with a blank eye, and then Ren Xiaosu took out another one from his pocket, so that he could get two surprises.

Every time during the Chinese New Year, my brother would go to Wang Fugui to buy him new clothes, although they were very poor, he had new clothes to wear every year.

In the cold winter, the adults in the market town will go to the slaughterhouse to cut some fat meat and come back to make dumplings, and on Chinese New Year's Eve, the smell of meat will come from the simple shacks, and the hungry children will look at it.

Wang Fugui would stand in the market town and give firecrackers to children, which were small firecrackers removed from 5,000 firecrackers, and a child would give them five and let them play with them.

The children ran around the market town like crazy, occasionally knocking over other people's shacks, and then the adults in the family would quickly apologize, apologizing and opening the culprit's buttocks.

There, there was laughter and crying.

During that time, everyone experienced poverty and suffering, but Yan Liuyuan felt that the time in that memory was all happiness.

Yan Liuyuan can even recall his brother's rare smile at that time.

But at a certain moment, Yan Liuyuan suddenly resisted a little to recall all this.

However, he didn't plan to tell Shen Yin about this, and the other party didn't deserve to listen to it.

"Servant Lanqi," Yan Liuyuan said.

Fu Lanqi knelt down on one knee in front of Yan Liuyuan: "Master." ”

"It's not interesting, kill all these people and hang them at the door," Yan Liuyuan's eyes never fell on Shen Yin and the others: "I didn't allow you to slaughter the city before, but now I allow you to raid these people's homes, one tribe raids one family, I believe it is enough to make up for your losses in the war, go, don't let them hiss like pigs." ”

After speaking, Fu Lanqi and Su Guyan stood up excitedly, and they directly smashed the hilt of their knives into the mouths of Shen Yin and the others, smashing their teeth one after another, and then making them speechless.

The once prominent officials in those fortresses could only open their eyes in horror at this time, and a wail came out of their throats.

Shen Yin, who was still a little hard just now, is now incontinent.

Ranzi and the others rushed to the official mansions with their own people, doing whatever they wanted, where gold bars, jewelry, and guns were hidden, and Hassan also emptied the arsenal and granary.

In the evening, the plunder finally ended.

The men on the grassland erected a huge wooden fence in front of the villa, and then hung the bodies of the officials one by one, looking from a distance like a row of terrifying wind chimes.

Whether Yan Liuyuan likes or dislikes these 'wind chimes', now the grassland people need to arouse their own blood, and then they can face the more difficult war in the future.

Yan Liuyuan must let them enjoy victory and killing again and again, and then become his most faithful believer.

At this point, it didn't matter whether he liked it or not, and the owner of the steppe only had to consider whether his followers needed it or not.

If the steppe people need it, then he will let the corpses of the enemy become his banner.

Suddenly, Yan Liuyuan saw the newspaper on the coffee table in front of him, and the top of the newspaper said, Hope Media.

......

Yan Liuyuan didn't take the newspaper after seeing it, but still leaned on the sofa and closed his eyes to recuperate. The messengers of the Qing clan had already brought everything they should know, so he was not particularly interested in the newspaper.

Qiqige always stayed next to him, and at this moment she felt the contradiction in Yan Liuyuan's heart, as if he himself was struggling.

The little girl took out a comb from her sleeve and stood behind Yan Liuyuan to comb his hair obediently, and she said while combing her hair: "You are now the hope of Abba." ”

"Hope?" Yan Liuyuan repeated, as if considering the meaning of these two words.

The little girl said: "Yes, I have never seen Abba so brave, in the past, the big tribe came to let him contribute cattle and sheep, he only dared to sacrifice the cattle and sheep, and other people in the tribe also dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, now it is different, that day I saw him talking to the patriarch of the Chudun tribe, he was neither humble nor arrogant." ”

"That's because the power in his hand has become stronger," Yan Liuyuan said with a smile, "And the Qiu Dun clan is declining. Originally, I wanted to see if they were brave enough to fight this time, but I was disappointed that the Chuduns had been hiding behind and that they had been beaten out of courage. How can you, Abba, have no confidence in the face of such a person. ”

"No," Kikige said softly, "Abba said that the gods had given him strength. Now every morning, he will take his grandmother to bow down to you, and he said that you can lead the steppe people to live a good life, and you don't have to fear anyone anymore. Now the tribe says that you are the sun in the sky, and I think it is the same, only when the sun in the sky comes to the earth, it will be so beautiful. ”

"Okay," Yan Liuyuan smiled, "Go find your Abba and tell him that I'm ready to leave here." ”

The ghost sent the gods, Yan Liuyuan picked up the newspaper on the coffee table, he glanced at the date, this newspaper looked like it was yesterday.

He had heard of Hope Media because Wang Fugui liked to read newspapers every day.

At that time, he would also ask Wang Fugui why the other party likes to read newspapers, Wang Fugui smiled and said to kill time, and then said to Yan Liuyuan to learn knowledge from Mr. Zhang, and when he can understand the whole newspaper, he will give him a candy to eat.

At first, Yan Liuyuan had a longing for candy and studied hard every day, but soon he began to be lazy again, begging his brother to take him hunting every day, because there was a bigger world outside the market town.

Now, he could read the whole newspaper, but the man who had promised to give him candy was nowhere to be found.

Yan Liuyuan looked at the first page of the newspaper, talking about the war between Tinder and the Kong family, as well as the movements of the Wang family.

At this time, the Wang clan was not in a hurry to join the battlefield, but stationed troops at the border, quietly waiting for something.

According to Yan Liuyuan's speculation, this Wang clan is just waiting for the opportunity to kill the Kong clan with one blow.

In fact, there is nothing special about the consortium, right, everyone is like a beast in the wilderness, as long as they find an opportunity, they will go all out, and before the hunt begins, everyone tends to remain silent.

Yan Liuyuan turned to the second edition, this version talks about the follow-up of the incident of the holy mountain, such as how many people entered the mountain in total, how many people went out of the mountain, and how heavy the losses were, and this version also told in detail that the trip to the holy mountain was just a trick between Anjing Temple and Tinder, and I don't know who revealed it to Hope Media.

The third edition began to get boring, talking about what the editor-in-chief Jiang Xu saw and heard in Wang's family, as well as his record of artificial intelligence, with mixed reviews.

The newspaper said that Jiang Xu is still in the No. 61 barrier, and he will continue to observe about artificial intelligence.

By the fourth edition, the newspaper began to talk about the changes of the Los Angeles Qinghe Group, and the knight organization had all left Los Angeles except for Xu Ke, and was nowhere to be found.

Yan Liuyuan just flipped over slowly, waiting for his subjects to gather.

But at the moment when he turned to the fifth version, the young male lord froze.

I saw that half of the fifth edition was written, and only two lines were written.

Don't let the sorrow of the times become your sorrow.

61.

......

Yan Liuyuan is too familiar with this passage, and he also knows who this passage comes from, and all the good memories about the homeless market town are related to the other party.

On that day, he saw the red spear pierce the other man's abdomen and then be swept away by the flood.

That flood was like an irreversible time, almost taking away all the beautiful visions of this world.

No more sweets, no more new clothes every year.

At that time, he was the younger brother of the other party, and now he is the new king of the steppe.

At this time, Kikige rushed into the villa: "Abba, they're back!"

But as soon as she finished speaking, she found that the young man was sitting alone on the sofa, and the twilight was heavy in the distance, shrouding the young man in a black shadow, and he was extremely lonely.

Yes, it is the loneliness of the king.

Loneliness wrapped in snowstorm and thorns.

Yan Liuyuan looked up at the outside of the villa, wanting to go to Barrier 61 to find Ren Xiaosu.

But when he looked up, he saw the corpses hanging from the wooden fence shaking, and the purple-black blood was dripping to the ground.

That's the man he ordered to kill, and it's his sorrow.

Next to the corpse, Hassan and tens of thousands of iron horsemen had assembled, ten thousand people formed a sea, and the rough iron horsemen continued to line up on the long street, and there was no end in sight.

And all of these people suddenly dismounted and knelt on one knee, and the mountain called for the birth of a new king, and the walls began to tremble.

Yan Liuyuan could see the expectant eyes of Hassan and the others from a long distance, pious and hot.

At this time, Yan Liuyuan got up and silently lit the newspaper, and then still lit a raging flame in the villa.

The luxury and decadence in the villa burned together and began to spread.

Yan Liuyuan stood in the flames, looking at the flames around him, as if looking at this decaying era.

"Brother, I can't go back. ”

"Brother, I'm not going back. ”

"You said don't let the sadness of the times become your sorrow. ”

"But I want my sorrow to be the sorrow of this age. ”

Yan Liuyuan was in this flame, and took out the black blue-faced fanged face armor from his arms and put it on his face, hiding everything in his past.

He felt that there was no longer any need for existence in this era.

Hassan knelt in front of his horse to act as a stool for him, and Yan Liuyuan stepped on Hassan's back and stepped on the horse: "Go home, Triumph!"

The warriors cheered, some people shot into the sky with their newly acquired automatic rifles, and the men who had come out to fight finally followed the new king back to their homeland.

The hometown is in the north.

......

The end of this volume, the next volume: The Wall of Fracture

Say something, it's not worth opening a single chapter. For the sake of plot coherence, this is still a three-in-one chapter.

I've said that the first part of this book will probably drain all my energy in two years, and all I want to say, what I want to express, all my desire to talk about is in this book.

It may seem trivial at times, but please give me a little patience so that I can finish this story. I think that it was not until this moment that Yan Liuyuan finally became himself completely.

I maybe, perhaps, love every character in this story more than everyone else, and I hope to accompany them to their respective fates.

I don't want much for this book, but I want you to tell your friends that there is a storyteller named Elbow who tells a good story.