Chapter 21: Into Autumn, Into the Law Enforcement Tower
Two lonely figures, one after the other, walked on the uninhabited mountain road, the surrounding woods were luxuriant, walking with their heads down, and occasionally the afterglow of the sunset rendered the reflection of the inky black extremely indifferent.
Occasionally looking up at the cold and murderous figure in front of him, Lin Ji who was walking behind, although his face was expressionless, it was obvious that he was secretly solemn from the depths of his eyes.
The figure in front of him walked unhurriedly, as if he was walking and admiring the traces on the side of the road, and the older he got older, the more he sighed at the meaning of life.
"Interesting, no one dared to kill a fellow disciple in the sect for nearly half a year! And no one has chosen to enter the law enforcement tower for nearly ten years! I can be regarded as absent from work for many years!"
The distance between the two was less than ten meters, and Lin Ji obviously heard the middle-aged man's voice clearly, but Lin Ji did not reply very calmly, still bowing his head slightly, his steps remained unchanged, and he seemed to be looking respectfully at the road moving forward step by step.
"But what's even more interesting is that after such a long absence, I am also a member of the torture hall, and you dare to choose to join me, and you are not afraid of some accidents on the road, after all, many people in the inner gate died inexplicably!"
"Look at this lush forest, isn't it natural to be green? But their fertilizer seems to be very rare, after all, there has been no reserve for more than ten years, I don't know if you are suitable? Or should I say, I don't know if you will become one of them. He suddenly turned around and stared straight at Lin Ji.
Even if he didn't have to look up, Lin Ji could detect the hidden imperfect killing intent from the unfriendly-sounding words. For a moment, just for a moment, Lin Ji's still moving body subtly straightened the skin of his whole body.
The deacon laughed, it was futile to resist in front of the chasm of absolute power, and the result was the same anyway. The changes in Lin Ji's body were not noticed by the middle-aged man, and Lin Ji also responded very calmly.
"Are you clever? Or should you be cunning? If I really believe that you are unprepared to follow me as a dangerous person! Am I stupid?" the middle-aged man suddenly turned back again, as if he had not changed all along.
"If the elder can trust the deacon, I can trust the deacon, after all, there are many people who want me to die! Lin Ji said as he looked at the man with his back to him.
"Of course, after all, we are also cautious people, and it is difficult for prudent people to do those bold things, especially when they don't find out the true side of someone!" swallowed his scarlet tongue, like moistening dry lips.
If the word "inevitably" comes out of the mouth of a deacon, I am afraid that it is a bit funny, right? After all, the human heart is unpredictable, and the time of change is often a moment, and that moment can be the difference between life and death. Fingers moved subtly, pointing at himself and the man in front of him with his back to him.
"Who knows that, maybe you're bluffing, but I'm inexplicably trying to believe it, like you've seen through everything, disgusting, disgusting. It's really disgusting! Don't you think?" didn't turn his head again, and the calm and emotionless words continued out of tune.
"It's really disgusting, but it's inevitable that it will have some effect, after all, the best way to protect yourself may be to give up some so-called dignity! The difference between the so-called shamelessness of a tree and the shamelessness of a person is often huge!" Lin Ji replied, and then his eyes touched the open scene in front of him.
When he came, he lowered his head, restrained his edge, and restrained himself in the hidden sword box, and at this moment, the scene in front of him, he lost his temper for a moment. Behind the tall and majestic Zhu Wall, the cold and solemn iron tower is like a giant beast crawling on the ground.
Standing in the sunlight, Lin Ji's gaze swept over the seemingly endless vermilion wall, and fell on the pitch-black iron tower that covered half of the sky and the morning sun. These towers reflected a faint red light in the sunlight, and Lin Ji knew that this iron tower was not black, but the blood black left after the blood coagulated.
The smell of blood fills the air, and these towers are like sharp swords, which makes people feel intimidated.
It's just that it's too quiet.
The afterglow of Lin Ji's eyes swept faintly around, and only dead leaves were rolling on the quiet path.
The middle-aged man yawned for an unknown number of times, and glanced at the calm Su Wei, the former's calm was not deliberately disguised, and in the face of this death tomb known as the sect, there was no panic in his dark eyes, and even a rare relaxation.
But after a short period of relaxation, a kind of vigilance continued to emerge, and that was the vigilance of the unknown instinct! But it didn't seem to be for the sake of the law enforcement tower in front of me.
"Maybe you think you'll survive in a month!, but those brutes in the law enforcement tower don't know how long they've been hungry, and you don't have enough bones to stuff the brutes between their teeth. Weird, the middle-aged man reminded.
"That's natural, only by living can I have a future, and I naturally won't take care of one or the other. Lin Ji's right hand rubbed his left hand, perhaps because of the hand of the habitual sword, so there was such incongruity.
To tell the truth, Lin Ji rarely had no foundation in his heart, because his enemy had never been the law enforcement tower in front of him, nor the fierce beast imprisoned in it, but the inexplicably approaching one-month deadline. His mood was expectant and worried.
The middle-aged man's gaze fell on Lin Ji's right hand, and said, "To be able to fight the mid-stage of seven Lingyuan alone, and to be able to shake the peak of the late stage of the Lingyuan Realm, to be honest, those three little ghosts may let you escape because you entered the law enforcement tower?" Although he was a deacon of the torture hall, his words always carried a kind of unstable thought.
Looking at the middle-aged man meaningfully, Lin Ji did not continue to talk.
"Your strength is very good, whether it is reflexes or combat experience, it is far from being comparable to these flowers in the greenhouse! So I can't help but be a little curious, what have you ever done, soldier?killer?" the man said with a funny face.
Lin Ji's reaction was still the same, his eyes, pupils contracted, facial muscles, mouth and nose movements, without the slightest delay or acceleration, just like the man said that everything had nothing to do with him.
For the first time, the middle-aged man had a trace of hesitation in his judgment, and when he looked at Lin Ji, he inevitably thought, could it be that he really guessed wrong, or was the direction of his guess wrong from beginning to end?
"The next road, you can go by yourself! After a month, if you can leave, you can go by yourself. Some bland but tired words, the figure of the middle-aged man disappeared, as if it never existed.
Without the slightest care, the dappled sunlight could not dispel the coldness behind the vermilion wall, and it was lifeless, it was like a tomb, and even the earth smelled of decay. While walking, Lin Yan could feel the suffocating sense of oppression coming from it.
A moment later, following the guidance of several figures visible to the naked eye, a dark iron tower suddenly appeared in Lin Ji's sight, this iron tower seemed to be high and endless, standing silently between heaven and earth, like a giant beast crawling on the ground.
Lin Ji looked left and right before he could barely see the end of this iron tower, squinting his eyes slightly, close at hand, he could feel the cold aura of slaughter coming from this iron tower, that bloody familiarity, this iron tower is more like a tomb, burying many former geniuses.
Boom!
Suddenly, an ancient bell rang out through the area, breaking the dead silence.
The dark and red pitch-black iron tower trembled in vain, and then I saw that the confined pitch-black door automatically clicked and slowly pushed open, and the cold and bloody smell seeped out, and its interior was extremely dark, even if the sun was shining at this time, its light could not shine into it.
And within the only remaining sight distance, a somewhat old figure slowly appeared. An old man in a bloody robe, he seemed to have crawled out of a grave, his withered old face was piled up with the stripes of time, and he looked up at the bright sunshine, as if he was a little uncomfortable.
The old man raised his head, glanced at Lin Ji thoughtfully, and turned around and walked towards the dark gate, "Let's go!" The old man's voice was hoarse.
Lin Yi nodded slightly, looked at the iron tower close at hand, felt the heaviness and coldness on it, took a deep breath, raised his footsteps, and walked leisurely towards the dark gate with a familiar smile.
Until the figures of Lin Ji and the old man were swallowed up by the endless darkness, the open door creaked and slowly closed, but the cold breath that seeped out was still there.
The autumn wind blows through the lonely fallen leaves in front of the tower, this is the autumn season, it seems that a fiery red leaf fades and the leaf green begins to wither quietly.
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