The Lord of the Alien North woke up.

The master of ceremonies, who was stuck in a pile of official documents and couldn't raise his head, suddenly raised his head from the bookcase after hearing the cheers, and the boss with wide eyes took a long breath, and collapsed on his back in his chair.

"Ahh Yes.. Ahhh

When Chi Xiaoming woke up, it was not yet dawn, and when he stepped out of the house, he deliberately avoided the guards at the door and went to the small courtyard where Mi Xin lived.

In the past few years of his absence, nothing major has happened in Yibei, probably because he has exhausted the ceremonial master. In the days he was lying on the couch, although his body was frozen in place, the spiritual platform was very clear, and he could hear and remember clearly who had been around him, and what he had said to him.

Chi Xiaoming pushed open the courtyard door, and a few plum trees in the courtyard were still there, but they didn't look good if no one took care of them for a long time. The door to the hut was closed, and the doorway was nearly a foot deep in snow, and it looked like no one had walked in a long time, leaving a creaking sound when stepped on.

The window paper was blown out by the wind, and the cold wind whined into the house.

"Girl,"

Looking at the fascination leaning on the couch in a daze, Chi Xiaoming called her softly.

Fanxin is still wearing a lake blue dress, her hair is messy, her face is as usual but much paler than before, her knees are covered by brocade, and she is holding Mu Jiangcuo's body in her arms, and her slender fingers are gently rubbing on the dry white bones.

She had already sensed it since Chi Xiaoming entered the door, until she heard Chi Xiaoming call her, and she turned her face slightly to look at him, her eyes were empty, and she responded to his words,

"Uncle, you're awake. ”

"I'm sorry."

Everything started because of him, except for saying sorry, Chi Xiaoming didn't know what else he could say.

"It's good if you're back," Misty didn't say anything else, just muttered the phrase, "It's good if you come back, it's good if you come back, it's good if you come back, everything is fine..."

Nothing else.

When Chi Xiaoming appeared on the street, everyone was like crazy, the streets and alleys were full of people, and everyone was cheering that the city lord was awake and the city lord was back!

Chi Xiaoming stood on top of the Yibei Pavilion, and as far as he could see, there was no difference from the original Yibei, but he knew that the current Yibei City was no longer the original Yibei City.

"I'm back. ”

Chi Xiaoming stood on the Yibei Pavilion for a long time, and finally opened his mouth, these four words, he has been brewing for a long time.

"Welcome the city lord back to the other north!

Standing at the front of the crowd, the Master of Ceremonies led everyone to shout this sentence and fell to his knees respectfully.

It's been three years, and the Lord of the North is finally back!

"Welcome the city lord back to the Otherworld!"

"Welcome the city lord back to the Otherworld!"

"Welcome the city lord back to the Otherworld!"

"Welcome the city lord back to the Otherworld!"

When the city lord returns, everything will be fine!

The next day, a guest came to Taishan Hell, and when he heard the report of the ghost messenger, Taishan Mansion handed over the affairs of the Lost Soul Hall to Bixia Yuanjun, and ordered the ghost to bring the guests to the side hall to meet.

"The lord of the city of the other north?

"I came here because of some private matters, and I bothered the prince, and I didn't blame myself very much. Chi Xiaoming saluted to the king of Taishan Mansion.

"It's okay, please sit down. "The king of Taishan Mansion ordered the ghost to set up a seat, and he also sat down on the palace.

"I came here this time to ask for someone from the Fu Jun, this person's name is Mu Jiang Cuo, a person from the North who died three years ago, I don't know if the Fu Jun can help find his soul?"

"Mu Jiang is wrong, this person I know, the woman in your foreign north is looking for him," Taishan Mansion Jun pondered for a moment and replied to him, "I don't have a person named Mu Jiang wrong here, you are mistaken." ”

"I don't know what the prince of the mansion means by this," Chi Xiaoming's face changed slightly, and he continued to ask, "I will also give the prince of the mansion a lesson." ”

"The woman came to me several times, she only said that the man she was looking for was named Mu Jiang Cuo, and he died on the third day of junior high school, and asked me to return his soul, no matter what I needed in exchange, but according to my life and death book, among the people who died on the third day of the first month of that month, there was no one called Mu Jiang Cuo, person. Taishan Mansion Jun looked at Chi Xiaoming, and there was a deep meaning in his eyes.

"Please make it clear," Chi Xiaoming still didn't understand what Taishan Mansion Jun meant.

"The location of the land in the north is special, with its back against the Wuzhou Gate Cave, and it is just at the junction of the northern land of the human world, the northern underworld of the demon world, and the northern border of the demon world. Yibei City has been enjoying the blessing of the Five Weeks Gate for tens of millions of years ago, and in the past ten million years, there have been several people who have entered the Five Weeks Gate, if I remember correctly, the last city lord of Yibei City, that is, your father once came out of the Wuzhou Gate Cave safely, and asked for the gift of the Gate Cave for the people in Yibei City, right, "Taishan Mansion Jun did not intend to get Chi Xiaoming's answer, and continued to talk to himself," There will be a price to be paid for receiving grace, and he will be buried in the dust along with the secrets of the Five Weeks Gate, and you, too. ”

"I don't know what the Mansion Jun means?" Chi Xiao Ming understood what Taishan Mansion Jun was referring to.

Taishan Mansion Jun turned his back, "How can there be any prosperity for thousands of generations, everything is an illusion, since tens of millions of years ago, the people of the Alien North City have no afterlife, after they die, they will only turn into a pile of dust, there is nothing left, dead is dead, there is no chance to re-enter the reincarnation, this is the gift of the Five Weeks Gate, the gift of the Five Weeks Gate that all the heat in this world wants to pursue, do you understand?"

"I don't understand!" Chi Xiaoming suddenly stood up and asked him loudly, "Then why can I re-enter the Yellow Spring after I die?!"

"That's because your father took your life," Taishan Fujun looked back at him, "That's why you picked up a life and came back, cherish it, and if you die again, there will be no one to fight for you." ”

"What..."Chi Xiaoming shook his head unconsciously, he couldn't accept this statement, but this was said by Taishan Mansion Jun, how could it be wrong.

"That's all that has been said, I'll mention you again, since the first person entered the Five Weeks Gate Cave, Yibei City has been a dead city, and no one will be able to live there again, think about it, are your subjects really all human? Or, yourself, are you really human?"

Before the words fell, the figure of Taishan Mansion Jun had disappeared.

The ghost sent Chi Xiaoming out of Mount Tai, and after the door of the underworld was closed, Chi Xiaoming stood there stunned, digesting the words of Taishan Mansion.

"Think about it, are your subjects really all human? or, yourself, are they really human?"

When I looked up, the sun shone on my face, so dazzling.

After returning from Dongdi, Chi Xiaoming locked himself in the Yibei Pavilion for nearly a few months, and when he came out again, the first person he looked for was the master of ceremonies.

"City Lord, are you looking for me?" the master of ceremonies saluted Chi Xiaoming.

"Well, let's sit down first," Chi Xiaoming also sat down at the table, and the maid served tea and fruit, Chi Xiaoming took a sip and said, "In the past few years since I was away, I have worked hard for you." ”

"It is our duty to serve the city lord, so how hard it is. ”

The master of the ceremony still has the same haggard face, the whole person looks thinner, the hair is tightly attached to the scalp, covered with a thin layer, and tightly tied into a bun at the back of the head, which looks even more old-fashioned.

"These things happened, it hurt Mu Jiang's fault, and the girl who was obsessed with her heart has become what she is now, it's all my fault," Chi Xiaoming sighed, "I hurt them..."

The former wings of the North have now ended up like this, and everyone talks about it.

"The world is impermanent, where can you think of these, the city governor does not want you to blame yourself too much, he hopes that we can do well, please don't live up to the heart of Lord Mujiang. The Master of Ceremonies sighed.

Although Mu Jiangcuo is not as prestigious as Fan Xin in Yibei, he did his best for Yibei City during his reign, and everyone also saw it.

"I get it. Chi Xiaoming nodded, drank the remaining half cup of tea, and slowly spoke, "I have read a lot of books in the Yibei Pavilion these days, and the Tao is saying that since the establishment of the Yibei City, there have been several major disasters, and the earliest one happened after the ancestor of the Hu family entered the Five Weeks Gate?"

"This villain really doesn't know!" was suddenly mentioned to the ancestor, and the master of ceremonies panicked.

He has always been like this, he is most afraid that others will lead the topic to him, and he clearly doesn't know anything, but he still has an inexplicable weakness, as if he really did something. He has been timid and cowardly since he was a child, and he just wants to be an ordinary ordinary citizen in the market, not to show his talents, and to live this life carefully.

"I'm just casually asking, you and I naturally don't know about what happened thousands of years ago. I also happened to read an ancient book to understand this, saying that at that time, many people in the city had a strange disease, at first it would make people have a headache and fatigue, and then the quadriplegia would be weak and unable to act, the color of the pupils would become lighter and lighter, and finally he would die, and when he died, the pupils would become grayish-white, and the bones in the body seemed to have all melted away, and the whole person had no bone support, and he was like a lump of flesh on the couch, and he couldn't help him. Chi Xiaoming's eyes fell on the plate of osmanthus cakes in front of him, and he told the master of etiquette what he knew as usual, "After that, a lot of people died in the city, and later, some people said that they met the great immortal manifestation of the Great Immortal Pavilion in Yibeiling, and brought the method of cracking back to the city, and the Tao said that there was a frozen lake at the north gate of the city, and the person who had this strange disease was placed in the lake for an hour, and the aquatic plants at the bottom of the lake were clumped, stuffed into the patient's mouth, and then the person was brought home to take care of him, and the condition would improve." Many people did this method, and it worked, and the body returned to normal, but I don't know why, I forgot a lot of things before, and my behavior became strange... It's just that the person has been rescued at that time, and even if some memories are damaged, it doesn't matter. I remember that the ancient books said that the person who saw the manifestation of the great immortal was also surnamed Hu. ”

Speaking of this, Chi Xiaoming glanced at the master of rites with a sideways face, which did not contain half a deep meaning in his eyes, but frightened the master of rites so much that he hurriedly knelt on the ground, his forehead rested on the floor tiles, and he kowtowed desperately to beg for mercy,

"The city lord spares his life! The city lord spares his life! These things, the villain really doesn't know! I really don't know, the city lord spares his life, begs the city lord to be merciful!

"Hurry up, hurry up, what are you doing," Chi Xiaoming hurriedly put down the teacup and went to the salute master.

"No, no, no, the city lord, the city lord! The little one is just an ordinary merchant, the ancestors really don't know anything about the small things, the little one has never had half a point of disobedience in the city, begging the city lord to spare his life!"

The master of ceremonies didn't get up alive or dead, just kowtowed vigorously to beg for mercy.

"It's just a casual conversation, why are you... I mean, your Hu family saved Yibei, this is a great achievement, where do I mean to ask you for sin?" Chi Xiaoming pulled him up and smiled helplessly, "Why are you fighting for any crime to deduct from your head~"

"City Lord, you, you don't want to cure my crimes..."The master of ceremonies shrank his neck and whispered to confirm it, and only after receiving Chi Xiaoming's response did he tremble and sit down on the stool again.

"I also remembered to talk to you about it, now that something happened to Mu Jiang, the obsessed girl is also separated from me, and now there are few people in this city who can talk to me," Chi Xiaoming shook his head, with a helpless wry smile on his face, "You handled the affairs in the city well, and the Taoyi and their boys have also grown up and can be on their own, you are all good." Only I, the so-called city lord, am still as incompetent as before..."

"City Lord, don't say that, you are the most important person in the Alien North. The master of ceremonies admonished.

"I remember that the book said that before that kind of strange disease was rampant, the lord of the other north was not surnamed Chi, at that time, the Hu family and the Chi family were equally powerful, and even the strength of the Hu family was stronger, and then this disaster took away nearly half of the Hu family, and it was only after that that that it slowly declined, and now you are the only one left. ”

"Yes,"

When his family history was mentioned, the master didn't see any displeasure on his face, as if all this had nothing to do with him, he was telling other people's stories, and he couldn't help nodding in agreement.

Chi Xiaoming couldn't help but sigh in his heart, the only bloodline of the Hu family, who was once quite temperamental and arrogant, had become like this...

"After that disaster, Yibei also calmed down for a long time, and the next time, that you and I experienced together, the catastrophe of the monster invasion, that disaster took half of the lives of the people in the city... Our Chi clan also perished in this way, I thought my father was still alive, but now, even he has disappeared from this world," Chi Xiaoming continued, "I am not connected to you. ”