Chapter 46: The Prelude to the End (Part II)
Outside the post on the side of the broken bridge, when the sky is not bright, some people stay awake all night, looking at the lonely city and the night. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
"It's dawn. ”
Outside Xiao Xuan's window, Ning Caichen stood all night.
After meeting the old emperor before, he was sent here, and with him came the Fu sisters, a small courtyard, a team of soldiers, trapped all night.
"It's time to hit the road. ”
This place is ten miles away from Kyoto, and I don't know if it is the beginning of Ning Caichen's poem.
The horse was ready, and the guards of the courtyard did not stop him, for they would go with them.
The distance of ten miles is not enough to dilute, and the earth-shattering movement in the capital last night, this night, people's hearts are floating.
Some people think about returning, some people think about leaving, but everyone is silent on their faces.
"Tuk tuk. ”
The sound of horses' hooves fell on people's hearts.
"Wait, we're going too. ”
The door, which had been closed all night, opened from the inside, and a pair of jade figures stepped out of the door.
Fu Qingfeng looked even haggard and even more haggard than yesterday, and it seemed that he had not slept all night, and Ning Caichen did not relay the news he got from the old emperor to them, because it was explained by the old emperor. So at this moment, she still thinks that Ning Caichen and Pudu Cihang are in cahoots, and her father still doesn't know whether he is alive or dead.
Ning Caichen didn't say anything, or he didn't know what to say.
The two soldiers dismounted, giving way to the two women, and no one spoke the whole time.
"Drive!"
The horse's hooves raised dust and flew, and the ten-mile official road said that it was not long or short, and after half an hour, everyone had reached the city gate.
The light of day had appeared, and the city gates were mottled with traces of rain-soaked water.
"Did it rain last night? Why didn't there get any rain in the little post ten miles away?"
Someone saw the anomaly on the city wall clearly, and then asked such a question.
"There was thunder in the city last night, and what was so strange about a little rain?"
The leader of the team answered his question.
"Anyone? We're going into town!"
If it was placed at the gate of the city in the past, there should have been soldiers on duty guarding it, even if there was no guard at the city gate, there should be someone standing on the gatehouse, this is the gateway to the national capital, and it cannot be ignored.
But today it was empty, except for a few flags waving in the wind on the towers.
The flag is lightless, and the sun is thin.
"Anyone?"
One of the soldiers dismounted, and he shouted and banged on the gates, and to his surprise, the heavy gates opened.
The door is unlocked.
“……!”
The gate was so thick that the soldier's push only pushed it open a crack.
A tube can see a leopard, a leaf can know autumn, and a ray of gaze cast through the crack in the door is enough for him to see the situation in the city clearly.
He froze.
"What's wrong?"
Ning Caichen dismounted, and he found that the soldier's face was pale, trembling and speechless.
"Hand on!"
He pushed the gate harder, pushing the crack wider.
"......"
The sound of the gates moving was eerie, like the hissing of some kind of creature, which was chilling.
"Shhh
Ning Caichen didn't hold back his curiosity after pushing the door open for a moment, he looked towards the door, and the scene in his eyes made him sit directly on the ground.
"Weird...... Monsters!"
He landed on his buttocks, constantly pulling his legs on the ground, and it could be seen that the man's calves were already weak.
This is a sign of great fright.
What's in the door?
What's going on in the city right now?
"Get out of the way!"
Fu Qingfeng flew off her horse, she bypassed Ning Caichen and put her hand on the city gate.
"Squeak......!"
There is a way to not let the scarf eyebrows, Fu Qingfeng has practiced in the end, and under a push, it is more powerful than the previous soldiers, and the city gate opens in response, this time, it was directly pushed open by half a door.
"Shhh
A stream of white gas leaked out of the door, like clouds and mist, Fu Qingfeng avoided to the side, for some reason, she felt that this white gas could not be touched.
As soon as the white gas came out of the city gate, he rushed to the sky, and under the hazy skylight, Fu Qingfeng saw the situation behind the door clearly.
"What a big centipede!"
She saw a large, hideous head, its mouthparts pointed at them, as if it were about to devour them.
Seeing the big centipede, the horses under the soldiers were all chaotic for a while, some kept spinning in place, some turned around and fled, and some even wanted to throw off the people on their backs.
The horse was frightened, and the person on the horse naturally could not have said nothing.
Some fell from their horses, others fled, but most of the well-trained soldiers were able to control their mounts at this moment, but without exception, their faces turned white.
Seeing such a behemoth, Fu Qingfeng was not as unbearable as Ning Caichen, the woman just took a few steps back and stopped her feet.
"It's dead, what are you afraid of?"
She saw that the big centipede was broken, as if someone had cut it in half with a giant sword.
It's dead, but for some reason it still has a power on its body, compared to its hideous appearance, it may be more powerful than it shocked Ning Caichen and the soldiers.
The tiger is not dead!
Fu Qingfeng thought of these five words, inexplicably, she felt that this was the source of all the movements last night.
"Dead?"
Ning Caichen reacted quickly, he stood up with his support on the city wall, and couldn't stop fighting for a long time.
"Dead!"
Fu Qingfeng picked up a stone from his feet and threw it towards the big centipede.
"Smack!"
The stone smashed into the centipede's fangs, and the big centipede did not react in the slightest.
"Dead. ”
Seeing this, Ning Caichen and the soldiers were a little relieved, and the bold soldiers gave up their horses and walked into the city gate on foot, and after a little temptation, he came to the conclusion that Fu Qingfeng had reached early in the morning.
"It's scary to be here when you're dead?!"
As if ashamed that he had not performed as well as a woman before, he kicked the big centipede.
"Oops!"
The big centipede was so huge, his kick was no less than a direct kick on the stiff city wall, he jumped on one leg while holding the other, and his face was in pain.
"Go to the palace. ”
The leading soldier ignored the teasing, and he took the lead - oh no, he didn't ride a horse.
Their horses said that they would not enter the city, and although the big centipede was dead, the sensitive horses still did not dare to approach it.
There are four castle gates in Kyoto, but who knows what the other gates are like now, so it's better to take a detour and enter from here.
"Keep up. ”
The leader snorted as he passed by the soldier who had kicked the big centipede.
They bypassed the corpse of the giant centipede, and made their way through the ruins, the blood stains and all kinds of corpses had begun to stink after the rain and a night of corruption, and some soldiers covered their noses, but the leader did not even frown from beginning to end.
He didn't seem surprised by any of this.
He seemed to have grown accustomed to it all.