Volume 1 The Decisive Battle of the Forbidden Chapter 199 The World of the Dead
The two talked and laughed, walked into the mountain gate, walked through the ice square, and all the way forward, there were countless roofs, pavilions, rockery gardens, clear water ponds and so on. The architectural style is no different from the Central Plains, but there is a faint sense of antiquity, and because it has been uninhabited for a long time, there is a very vicissitudes of life.
Many places here have collapsed and decayed, and patches of roofs and attics have collapsed into ruins. Occasionally, some dead bodies could be seen in the ruins, but they had been crushed and buried in the collapsed ruins, and only occasionally some arms and legs leaked out, or they were smashed into an unrecognizable head, making it impossible to identify them for what they were.
I guess it was once a place of great prosperity. Li Xunhuan sighed with emotion in his heart, and continued to walk forward with Tie Chuanjia.
Bypass the layers of attics, pass by the stacked rockeries, walk through the cold needle forest garden, and pass by the clear water pond. Everywhere you go, you can see dead bodies that have been dead for I don't know how many years, but they have remained in their original appearance because of the cold weather in the far north.
Where the attic collapsed, there were stumps and severed arms. On the stacked rockery, there is the corpse of a huge white tiger lying horizontally. I don't know what kind of tree in the garden, there are also many corpses hanging on it, there are human beings, beasts, and even a huge bird that looks like a white phoenix, and its whole body is inserted into a big tree and hung in the middle of the tree.
Huge ponds, everywhere, are filled with white corpses floating on their own. Li Xunhuan and Tie Chuanjia looked at the dead bodies in the pond, but they felt very puzzled, there was obviously some stagnant water in this pond, and there was no communication to induce it, why didn't it freeze?
This confusion was only done in the eye contact between the two people, and there was no sound. Continuing along the stone bridge over the pond forty or fifty feet long, they stopped at a high wall.
This wall is very high, Li Xunhuan visually measured, at least about 30 zhang high, which is about the same height as the city wall of the Dashang capital. The only difference is that the walls of the capital are cast of stone. This wall, on the other hand, is made of something that resembles an ice cube.
Looking crystal clear, but vague, the scenery inside the wall is not real.
And at this moment, they were in front of a huge crystal city gate.
Tie Chuanjia said: "Second master, there seems to be light inside. ”
Li Xunhuan nodded and said, "Indeed, the light inside is obvious, not the light illuminated by the stars in the sky." ”
Tie Chuanjia said: "If there is light, does it prove that there are still living people inside?"
Li Xunhuan closed his eyes, sensed inside, shook his head, nodded again, and suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze became cold, and his tone was a little sharp, and said, "There are living people inside, but there is only one." ”
Tie Chuanjia asked, "Oh?"
Li Xunhuan said: "It's the eldest brother." ”
Tie Chuanjia said: "The eldest prince, is it really inside?"
Li Xunhuan gritted his teeth and said: "That's true, and the eldest brother's breath is very weak, and his life is hanging by a thread." ”
Tie Chuanjia was shocked and asked, "How can this be......?
Before he finished his next words, Li Xunhuan's eyes were already blood-red, and he shouted in a low voice: "Open the door!"
Tie Chuanjia nodded, did as he said, and slowly pushed the crystal gate open.
Then, a scene that shocked the two of them appeared in front of them. As the door was slowly pushed open by Tie Chuanjia, a mountain of corpses appeared behind the door, human corpses, all of them!
Stacked on top of each other, they were more than eight feet tall. Their faces have been ossified, and they have all been waxed together due to the time they have been stacked together. Their limbs blended with each other, their faces hideous, and they were frozen into one piece by wax, like evil spirits crawling out of hell.
Seeing such a scene, Tie Chuanjia froze, looking at this scene with some horror, and the scene here once again subverted his cognition. It's not that he hasn't seen dead people, but the scene where so many dead people are deliberately stacked together is the only time in his life.
After Tie Chuanjia lost his mind for a short time, he heard Li Xunhuan say a word coldly: "Go!"
As he spoke, he stepped in.
Iron Armor followed.
There are too many corpses taller than the Iron Armor, but they are very concentrated. There were no corpses in the rest of the palace behind the palace wall, only a dense layer of paving from the gate to the main hall.
And gradually to the bottom, from eight feet at the beginning of the palace gate to seven feet, then six feet, then four or five feet high, until they reached the closed door of the main hall, the height of these corpses had dropped to more than two feet.
Standing outside the palace gate, Li Xunhuan gritted his teeth, and anger erupted between his eyes. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and jerked back, about to kick open the door of the temple.
When Tie Chuanjia saw his move, he was immediately shocked, and when his feet were about to kick towards the gate of the main hall, Tie Chuanjia didn't care about anything else, a bear hug hugged him, pulled him back, and said in a low voice: "Second master, don't be impulsive, the situation inside is unknown, if there are other people inside, this will only startle the snake! Calm down first, and slowly figure it out." ”
Li Xunhuan seemed to have completely lost his mind at this moment, his eyes were red and bloodshot, he looked at Tie Chuanjia, and said coldly: "My brother is inside, I can already feel his breath, he is dying at the moment, but you asked me not to save him?"
Tie Chuanjia hugged Li Xunhuan desperately, used all his strength, and said in a hurry: "Second master, wait, wait, I know that the eldest prince is inside, but the methods of these mysterious people are too powerful, if the second master has any mistakes, then how can it be ......?"
Tie Chuanjia was just halfway through his words, and a voice suddenly appeared in Li Xunhuan's mind: "Listen...... His. ”
The voice was soft, thin enough that only he could hear it. This voice is very familiar, since he was a child, he has heard it countless times, it is the voice of the eldest brother. After hearing this long-lost voice, Li Xunhuan's nose was sour, and he almost fell into tears.
A few years ago, in the Liaodong Wasteland, when I was with Sun Delong, the "Back Mountain Dragon", I felt something, thinking that my brother had passed away for a long time, and he would become a permanent secret in the future. Hurry up and rush to the capital, encounter a bloody battle on the road, delay for several months, and panic. After returning to Beijing, he learned from his younger brother that his eldest brother was already extraordinary and had not died.
At that time, he had both indescribable joy and indescribable sadness in his heart, feeling that his brother had suffered too much over the years. And he couldn't help him, he felt very guilty in his heart, and he really mixed all kinds of flavors. So he decided to follow in his brother's footsteps and fight side by side with him.
Over the years, in order to find his brother, he fought dozens of battles and died for the rest of his life. At this moment, hearing his brother Li Bebei's voice again, how could he not be excited?
Li Xunhuan took a deep breath, suppressed the sourness in his heart, gradually calmed down, and silently recited: "Big brother......"
Then he gently patted the iron armor that was still holding him in vain, and said, "You are right, you should be calm at this moment." I'm sorry for the trouble. ”
Tie Chuanjia took a long sigh of relief, and when he saw Li Xunhuan calm down, the hand holding him gradually let go, and said with a smile: "What did the second master say." ”
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At the same time, Lin Shiyin, who was thousands of miles away, was haunted by a nightmare, lying on the bed, her face changing expression. This nightmare haunted her for a long time, until finally, she screamed violently: "Seek pleasure, don't go!"
Woke up suddenly, sat up from the bed, and the palpitations were particularly obvious. Looking at the sky outside the window, it was just less than an hour of sleep.
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But at this time, Li Xunhuan didn't know what Lin Shiyin's nightmare meant, and the two of them quietly pushed the door of this hall open, and saw a hall as wide as the Forbidden Taihe Hall in the capital appeared in front of them.
In the central aisle of the temple was a layer of corpses, men and women, old and young. The men have cotton clothes, the women have gorgeous clothes, the young are handsome, and the old are merciful. The face is lifelike, just like a living person. But they were all crawling, their heads raised high, their faces facing the temple door, their arms stretched out, their legs sunk back, and they were prostrate in a deformed posture. It's like you're greeting something.
Apparently, they were manipulated like this after death, just like the cascading corpses they had seen when they entered the palace gates, all of them facing forward, regardless of their posture, as if performing a strange sacrifice.
On the left and right, there are forty or fifty cases, which are extremely messy. There were four or five people crawling on each desk, and these people seemed to be sleeping, but they had been asleep for too long.
Each of them was dressed in white robes and holding their own weapons in their hands, crawling in front of the desk, no different from a dead man.
Li Xunhuan and Tie Chuanjia have seen too many such people, and the white-robed people of the walking corpse, each of them has the realm of a grandmaster! There are more than 400 of them here!
If these people are placed in the martial arts, what kind of disaster will it be?
And on a treasure seat that stretches along the central royal road, there is a skeleton that has been dead for an unknown number of years, sitting upright.
Li Xunhuan and Tie Chuanjia bypassed the corpses blocking the door, walked slowly quietly, for fear of alarming the white robes, and walked towards the skeleton in the center, gradually approaching, and arrived in front of the skeleton.
When I looked closely, I saw that the skeleton was dressed in a rich golden robe, and a sword that had completely decayed in front of its knees. He wears a golden crown on his head and a hole the size of a pin's eye in the center of his eyebrows.
Tie Chuanjia said in surprise: "The needle is so fast, and it is not worse than the second master's flying knife." ”
Li Xunhuan shook his head heavily, he could see that the needle that killed this skeleton was half a minute faster than his flying knife. Then, he shifted his gaze again to the corpses that stretched out in front of the main hall and said, "It's weird. ”
Tie Chuanjia asked, "What's weird?"
Li Xunhuan said: "Why didn't the other corpses turn into skeletons under the severe cold of the extreme north, but only this person sitting upright is withered and decayed?"
Tie Chuanjia shook his head blankly, it was obvious that he couldn't get back to this question.