Chapter 12: The Defeat of the Lonely City
"That army is your enemy, and they have made up their minds about you and will not embarrass you, and they will not wait for you to leave. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info Such an important matter, why don't you explain it to the brother who handed over it?"
Qi Yan asked the female disciples of the Chonglong Sect, at this time she was following the female disciples back to the Chonglong Sect, because of this condition, she did not dare to ask until now.
The older female disciple replied, "If we leave an empty city for him to occupy, if the thieves can flee when the Holy Sect pursues them, we will have nothing to lose, and we will not kill them all." When the thief came, he showed a momentary state of pride, but he could be asked to stir the tiger's whiskers and throw himself into the net, even if there is only one person's blood debt in the middle, the Holy Sect will never give up!"
If it were someone else, she would never understand how such a delicate woman could have such a femme fatale, but Qi Yan had a close relationship with the demon general, and her thoughts were also greatly affected by the demon general, she was not half surprised, but nodded, but in her heart, she had alienated the ruthless female disciple, and there was no communication along the way.
The journey became lonely, she became alone again, the people around her and her were afraid of each other and did not contact each other, just like in Fengyu Mountain, it seemed to be in a state of captivity, but there was no throne there to open her eyes, she didn't need much energy to keep following the guide, and the rest of her mind was only the nostalgia for "her own people" who had only been with her for a few days. It seems that she doesn't need to worry about the affairs of the demon general, and someone will rectify it for her, but this can't make her feel at ease, because since she walked out of Fengyu Mountain, nothing is up to her, and it only develops according to the momentum that should have been done. For example, in the confrontation with the demon general in Fengyu Mountain, she first foresaw the defeat of Qi Wuwei, and even if she had another way, she still lost. This made her willing to endure this unstable mental torture and hand over the right to decide to stay by herself, because Qi Wuwei returned to Fengyu Mountain until she was sent to the Chonglong Sect stronghold, she clearly felt Qi Wuwei's every move, and also understood that it was difficult to see Qi Wuwei on this trip.
She raised her arm forward, a trace of white light fluttering on her arm, and said firmly in her heart:
"You are willing to take it, I just hate not to go together. ā
......
Jing Shuiyi's breath changed slightly, and the man had already noticed it, he knew that Jing Shuiyi was about to wake up, and judging the sound made by a person was the only way to guess his movements in this darkness.
"Brother, did you sleep well?" the man began, his voice very relaxed.
"What, what, what?......" Jing Shuiyi looked flustered, his fluttering limbs making a sound in the dark.
"Eh! Calm, calm. The man spoke again, "It's just a lack of light here, not a netherworld." ā
"Oh. Jing Shui Yi trembled and stood up, he slept for a few days, the wound had healed, he knew some medical skills, he knew how not to let the wound tear.
"Hey, don't move, you must have some injuries when you come here!" the man said urgently.
"Don't worry, brother, I'm measured. As he spoke, the joints on his body rattled to check his condition. Jing Shuiyi said: "Ah! It's okay! The person who sent me in was really thoughtful, and the bandaging skills were all in place!"
The man said, "Don't be in a hurry to get up and go, touch the ground three steps away from you, there should be water, food, and some medicine, that's the most important thing, take the medicine first, I came with a screaming pain, and it will be much better after taking the medicine!"
Jing Shuiyi sneered: "Hmph, I hope the medicine will cure you, it's better to go and worship God!"
"Is it Jing Shuiyi?" Suddenly, a high-pitched old man's voice came from another direction, and the person was on Jing Shuiyi's right, and this one was on the left.
"Who is Your Excellency, and how did you recognize me?" Jing Shuiyi asked.
"Your disguise technique, you can't recognize any of you when you walk outside, you have to hear your opinion on 'medicine' in this dark place, you can recognize it!" The old man's voice was old but powerful, just listening to that voice, he knew that this person must be a battle-hardened veteran, and he could even imagine that weather-beaten face.
"Ha! Your Excellency is a senior of Canghui!" Jing Shuiyi said happily, he had already touched the food and began to eat. Swallowing the first bite, without waiting for the man to answer, Jing Shuiyi asked again: "Senior, do you know who arrested you and me here?"
The man on the right replied: "Before you came, I had already talked to Mr. Cang, and both of us believed that this matter was done by the capital of Jiling Prison. ā
The surprise on Jing Shuiyi's face was not something that the other two people could see.
"Is that really the dumb man right?"
Jing Shuiyi asked, "The two of you said this." But what is the basis? Although the method of the prison capital is to secretly arrest righteous people and imprison and mutilate them, but only the three of us are not receiving extra care except for being locked up here!"
The person on the right said coldly: "You are really enlightened, isn't it cruelty to be locked up in a small dark room?"
Cang Hui said: "Shui Yi, don't forget that our identities are different. ā
Jing Shuiyi sighed: "I'm just tired of my uncle and running for the heroes, but listening to the answer of my seniors, don't you have something to hide?"
Cang replied, "Because of your uncle's affairs, I was going to take action against the prison capital, but the prison capital took the first step and drugged my diet. Knowing my plan and being able to get close to me and have a chance to be drugged, I thought about it carefully, and I already counted it. ā
"I can't imagine that my predecessors would be able to fall for the trick of refining the medicinal body?" Jing Shui Yi said in surprise.
Canghui smiled wryly.
"That's the case, who is the same person who hasn't asked Brother Tai yet?" Jing Shuiyi asked as he turned to the right.
"Uh...... I, I'm not your guys! I have nothing to do with you. The man on the right replied, "Ha! If I had to force the relationship, I would at best be an admirer of the old man." ā
Cang Hui and Jing Shuiyi didn't speak.
"Haven't you all watched "The Holy Man Slaying the Dragon"?" the person on the right asked, "That play is the life-saving hole card of many theater troupes in my family!
"That was thirty years ago. 'Jiaolong', it's just a thief who does evil in the backwoods, but on the stage he really pretends to be a dragon to kill the actor who pretends to be me, ha!" Cang Hui patted his thigh and smiled.
A few days ago, when the "Slaying the Dragon" in Zhongzhou was staged, I took advantage of the break to run backstage to take a look, guess who played Canghui? It's Ye Li! The famous character who sings the reverse string! The man's body, the woman's face! It's strange to put on that mask, I can't see it......" When it comes to opera, the people on the right can't stop.
When he stopped, Jing Shui Yi asked, "What if I run out of food and water?"
The man on the right replied, "Don't worry, someone brings it every day, and we are sleeping while we are safekeeping." There should be a vent to blow in the smoke, to ensure that we are not aware when we send it in, and even the feces and urine will be handled for us. ā
The darkness fell silent.
......
"Welcome. The smiling face of the royal robe guest said first.
Qi Wuwei said: "It's all 'guests', don't talk about welcome." ā
"You are welcome to visit my world, covet my world, and serve my world. The royal robe guest said this, but he did not have half a condescending meaning. This also made Qi Wuwei not know how to answer.
The emperor said again: "You will meet people, have you ever seen my anger, which monarch in the world is more prosperous than which founding ancestor of all countries?"
Qi Wuwei frowned, "This is different?"
"What's the difference?"
Qi Wuwei said: "The difference between looking at people and looking at qi is that people who meet people should be able to use people, but those who look at qi are often used by others." If you dare to try this world, you can't explain it to me, this doesn't make sense, it's different. ā
"Ha!" the robe laughed at, "I don't comment on how you look, but I found that there is a person who is very good at getting along." ā
"Who are you talking about?"
The royal robe guest said meaningfully: "After March, Xuning Mansion will naturally see the difference. ā
Qi Wuwei didn't react at all, with his experience, after the emperor robed guest said this, he should immediately turn into a light group and leave, so that he couldn't catch up, so there was no need to lose his temper and do useless work.
But the imperial robe guest didn't leave, he looked at Qi Wuwei, who was rippling in his heart but didn't show half of it, smiled and said: "That's an important matter, so I will help you solve the trouble in front of you, after all, your trouble is not different from my trouble, in essence." ā
Qi Wuwei didn't say anything, he was only afraid that he would lose his words and send away this strange-tempered guy.
"Well, you don't want to talk, I'll say. The royal robe nodded, "It's just a brand!"
Qi Wuwei couldn't control it and trembled.
"Hah! Why did I feel a wave of triumphant joy in my heart!"
Qi Wuwei turned his back, clenched his fist, put it in front of his mouth, and coughed. When he turned around, he saw that the imperial robe had turned into a ball of light and flew away, and his voice stayed, "Don't solicit useless things, you returned to Zhongzhou, you found the right direction by mistake." ā
......
Lian Huangxi and Lian Muhuan stood side by side on the avenue, waiting for a person to return.
Qiu Shaotang walked towards them slowly, looking relaxed.
"This will be tomorrow's big news!" Qiu Shaotang said, but his voice was Yan Yun's.
Lian Huangxi didn't understand, and asked with a puzzled face: "What did you say." ā
Qiu Shaotang lowered his head and grinned: "When the news of Qiu Shaotang's death came out, some people would say, 'I saw Qiu Shaoxia on the street!'" He raised his head again to look at Lian Huangxi, and that face had regained Yan Yun's appearance at some point, "But...... If the news of my Yan Yun's return to Zhongzhou comes out, I don't know if it will cause even more shock?"
Lian Mu coughed, and Yan Yun immediately said: "There is no new news about the fox demon, maybe the predecessor showed his hand a little to let it know that it has converged, but you can take advantage of the past few days in Zhongzhou to cultivate well, and the thousand-year-old sword will be launched, you can also take this opportunity to have a good visit." Lian Huangxi smiled and said to Yan Yun: "I'm not interested in what fox demon, what sword duel, since this is no longer my business, then I'll go." ā
"Huh, where are you going?"
"Go home. Lian Huangxi said, "There were originally me and Feng'er in this family, but now I am the only one." After saying that, she walked away without looking back, and no one said anything more.
"Alas, what a sin!" these words actually came from Yan Yun's mouth, and after he finished speaking, he felt speechless, and secretly looked at Lian Muhuan, who must have heard it, but he did not mean to blame.
Yan Yun said: "Connect with that friend of mine, he may have a way to heal the broken arm of his predecessor." ā
"Can this be cured?"
Of course, there is a limit to what he can do, but the physical disability will have an impact on the foundation, and everything will be unfavorable and must be remedied. ā
Lian Muhuan was silent for a moment and asked, "Who is your friend?"
"Well...... Please forgive the juniors for being inconvenient to disclose!"
"Oh, it's fine. Lian Muhuan didn't seem to speak clearly, but the meaning of his rejection of this suggestion was already clear, "I'll find a place to rest, and the **** of Zhongzhou's thousand-year-old sword duel will come to me." ā
He didn't say where to rest, so he had to rely on Yan Yun to find a way to find him, Yan Yun was angry and insulting in his heart, and he also knew that he actually knew the attitude in his heart, but as long as he didn't show half a point, he wouldn't take the initiative to find trouble.
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In the silent night, the idiot sat cross-legged on the bed, one elbow rested on the crook of the leg and his head propped up, staring at the oil lamp on the table not far away, he couldn't sleep, he always felt that something had not been done, and his heart was empty.
He got up and got out of bed, the two pairs of shoes next to the bed did not mean that he was really mature and did something mature, the extra pair was prepared by the inn for guests who were far away. Those shoes weren't that good, but they were still a lot better than the ones that could see through the soles of the shoes.
He walked softly to the door, opened the door and closed the door, without making a sound. Despite walking a long way and putting on a new pair of shoes that he was not used to, he didn't even need a cat on his waist when he walked silently. It's strange to say, this is because he has such a ability when everything is quiet at night, maybe it is because he was working in the inn of Liangping City and encountered a vase when he got up at night, and he was beaten by the people in the store as a thief, and he was found by the thief who sneaked into the store, and he was the one who held the knife to his throat.
Without much effort, the idiot pulled out a feather duster from the counter of the inn, and he was accustomed to putting it in this place on the counter after cleaning, but the guy at the inn was the same as him.
"The backyard is spacious. He thought, picking up a feather duster and walking to the backyard. After practicing the swordsmanship he had mastered smoothly, he launched an offensive towards the part that he had not mastered. He didn't feel tired, and the more he practiced, the more he felt that Jing Shui was easy to be smart. He often heard some lay disciples in the temple preach that it takes ten years to practice martial arts in the temple, eight years to cut down trees, two years to squat on horses, this method of building a foundation integrates countless wisdom, but it is the most clumsy. And he has only practiced this introductory swordsmanship for a few days, but he can feel that the muscles that are not strong can contract freely, his breathing is longer and deeper, his shoulders, arms, waist and back are more flexible and powerful, and the waist board that is accustomed to a respectful posture is straightened by a vigorous force in the dantian. It was the young man's eagerness for quick success that made him pay more attention to the benefits of practicing this set of introductory swordsmanship.
As he practiced, he had more doubts in his heart, and his appeal to solve his doubts became more urgent, so he became more sober and motivated to practice swords, but this doubt accumulated more, and the young man's mentality gradually collapsed, and he let go of the breath he had been carrying, and the strength of his body also dissipated to an unknown place. He couldn't help but fall without making a sound, but the sound similar to the sound of a tumbling bag went unnoticed.
The eyelids could not be opened, and the whole body could not move, but the consciousness became more and more awake, and the more I could feel the air inhaled in the nostrils, getting colder and colder.
When the cold was about to be extremely cold, so cold that he never had a chance to feel the cold again, a rooster crow dispelled his nightmare, and he opened his eyes, the day was already dark, but the sun had not yet appeared. He heard a deliberate but slightly clumsy footsteps, which would have been beaten as a thief, and would have been found by the thief with a knife to his throat. The idiot had developed a keen alertness at some point, and he suddenly got up, and the "sword" in his hand had already pointed over.
The phrase "what person" could not be uttered because of his dry mouth, but the man was so frightened that he took several steps back, stepped on his loose clothes, and sat on the ground. The sun shone on the man, a slightly chubby boy with a sword.
"Good...... You're ...... What are you doing?" asked the chubby boy.
"Get up early to practice swords. The idiot replied.
"That's amazing! I thought it was enough to say that the smell of the chicken danced, and there was also the 'smell of the dog dancing'. The chubby boy applauded, he looked at the idiot's sword, "Oh, no!
"If you want to practice swords, then I'll give it to you. After the idiot finished speaking, he turned around and left.
The chubby boy stood up and shouted, "Hey, brother, how about making friends? I'm rich!"
The idiot looked at his clothes and didn't doubt his words, but just glared at him with some anger and asked, "What if you have money?"
The fat man smiled and said, "I'm rich, but I won't give you a penny!
"Uninteresting. The idiot walked away, and the chubby boy said a lot to him, but he ignored it. His childhood experience and his nature of judging people by their appearance made him always look down on this style of high-ranking officials and nobles playing the world.
Put back the feather duster, go into the room to rest for a while, and after breakfast, come and call him on his way.
"Yo, how did you sleep, I see you're in good spirits!"
The idiot chuckled, "Ha! I slept well, thank you girl for taking care of me." ā
"Zhongzhou is coming, the days of running around are coming to an end, I want to think that you can't bear this hardship, but I didn't expect it to be easier than me. ā
The idiot said: "There are still many unclear questions about the thousand-year-old sword duel, and I want to ask the girl. ā
There was a little doubt on his face, but he quickly figured it out, and he didn't talk much with the idiot along the way, and every time he stopped, he either lowered his head to eat, or went into the room to rest.
"Okay, I'll talk to you on the way. ā
......
A whole ruin, and there is nothing to stop the wind and fire raging in the sky.
"You...... Are you blind? huh? Can it be dark ****** this day?" a stout man scolded a small man who was making a campfire next to him, and he knocked the man aside with a rude punch.
"Right...... I'm sorry!" The little man raised his head slightly, but the sockets of what should have been a pair of eyes were covered by the impenetrable eyelids, and the eyeballs kept rolling under them, which was very terrifying, "I know that there is no change of sun and moon in this realm of wind and fire, but just now, I saw that the sky was dark..... "He pointed to the sky.
"!" the stout man flew up and kicked him into the crowd. The little man had a little in common with the crowd, and that was the difference between them and the stout man, who wore the same cloak, but the stout man stood straight and straight with his bare arms. Perhaps it was because of his ability to resist the wind and fire, but what he had just done undoubtedly separated himself from the group even more.
"Don't beat or scold your fellow men anymore, you are on equal footing. An inconspicuous man in the crowd said to the beater, staring straight at the beater, and the "you" in that sentence could also see that this time his status was also different from the others.
"Forget it, Doctor Jing! Harmony is precious. There was a voice from the crowd, but I don't know who said it, because except for Dr. Jing, the rest of the people hid their faces under their hoods, perhaps because they had something in common with the beaten person except for what they were wearing.
The stout man squinted his eyes and raised his hand to Doctor Jing and said, "Jing Xie, you have sworn allegiance to my lord, but why did you do something to sow discord?"
Jing Xie smiled helplessly, unable to justify how inferior his abrupt hat was, and the people who accompanied him were all pitiful than hateful, and they all harbored hatred for this world and gratitude for the prison capital. They are guilty, but they should not be the ones to be punished.
Fortunately, the stout man had no intention of going further, and he went about his own business. After a while, people who were also wearing cloaks came from all directions, and the people who came first communicated and then reported the situation to Jing Xie.
Jing Xie nodded, "The corpses of the seven hundred and ninety people we sent earlier were all found, but we couldn't find any other living people. Does it mean that someone in the lonely city is alive and hiding?"
One of them questioned: "But when our people came, they destroyed the walls of the lonely city so that the wind and fire could escape, and even if there were still survivors when our last man fell, I am afraid there would be no way to survive." ā
Jing Xie said: "There are two kinds of people here in the lonely city, one is the manager and the other is the managed. Just like the prisoners in the prison and you, the prison can be regarded as an ant nest, but the ants that can drown after being filled with water are only those prisoners. ā
Everyone was silent, and Jing Xie ordered: "Keep looking, there is a lonely city or a secret room or a secret passage or other place where you can hide!"
"Yes!" everyone agreed to act resolutely, and they had gradually recognized the authoritative position of Jing Xie in their hearts.
Jing Xie also moved his body and walked into the distance, when the stout man who beat him stopped him and asked, "Hey, why are you going?"
"What? Contribute to our co-master, just do your best. ā
"You have a strange face, there must be something strange! I will go with you!"
"Oh, don't get me wrong! people who always treat people will always be stained with some bad luck!" Jing Xie defended: "Brother Wangquan, are you willing to see me drive everyone to enjoy comfort alone?"
"Hmph!" the king just followed and ignored him.
Jing Xie did participate in the search for some gain, but he didn't know that this harvest would come so quickly, and he was inopportunely in the middle of it. He could understand why others couldn't see it so obvious, and he began to wonder if it was a signal from someone specifically targeting him.
Jing Xie quickly reacted in his heart, but he had lost his temper on the surface.
"Che'er's sword!" Jing Shuiyi shouted, and he quickly ran to Jing Shuiyi's sword, which was stuck straight into the ground, and the blades that resembled discarded were all more conspicuous than it, but they had nothing to do with Jing Xie.
Without much thought, Jing Xie directly pulled up the sword, he only hoped that this sword could give some clues about Jing Shuiyi. The royal power noticed his strangeness, but silently allowed him to develop.
As the sword was drawn, a terrifying mutation protruded, and first a rumbling sound came from the ground, and the sound came from far and near, and everyone felt it at their feet, but then it moved somewhere. The eyes of the people followed the sound, and gathered at a point, only to see a large door break through the ground at that point, and a much smaller room behind the door seemed to be only to support this door, and also showed that there must be a downward passage behind this door, and the style of this house was incompatible with the form of this lonely city building, but it shocked everyone in the prison capital.