Chapter 63: The Great City and the People
Chen Guyu left Tianze City and rushed all the way to the main city. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The main city of Daijiang Province is located in the center of the Daijiang Province Plain, so the distance is not very far, and with the speed of a fast horse, it will take less than half a day to come to the city gate.
The gate is made of fine natural red pine, thirty or forty meters high, and is wrapped in a layer of reddish-yellow copper paint, and the gilded iron nails are neatly nailed to the door, which is shining in the sun.
Above the city gate is a huge plaque with the word "Daijiang" written on it. The handwriting is powerful, Chen Guyu recognized it at a glance, and the handwriting on the gate of Chang'an City is the same as the handwriting of the founding Tang Emperor, I believe that the main city of the 36 realms and 72 roads of the ancient Tang Dynasty is like this.
And this city, in Chen Guyu's heart, is actually very different. Even if he had never seen it, in his heart, it was strangely familiar. It seems that in the past, he had been here, and the people in it were all his relatives, and he fought for them, defended them to the death, and did not take a step back until he died.
Horse leather shroud, never die!
In the years of gunpowder, there was such a soldier, standing firmly in front of the city, one person, one city!
Chen Guyu thought silently, thinking about himself in front of the city. But he knew that it wasn't him, it was his brother!
The eldest son of the Chen Mansion who died here, Chen Weixin!
Dressed in white and bloody, with a spear, he smiled heroically, and the sunset was like blood, and launched a final attack on the enemy. The hearty laughter seemed to have traveled through time and space, and it reached Chen Guyu's ears.
"Brother, I will not forget what you once said to my father, defend the country, protect our relatives, and defend our homeland."
"This time, we will definitely drive Fu Tang out of my homeland, and cut the enemy off my horse, and never stop!"
Chen Guyu said in a low voice, with a strange emotion in his eyes towards this city.
After thinking for a while, Chen Guyu finally woke up from his memories, smiled bitterly, and stepped forward, ready to enter the city.
But before he had gone a few steps, he suddenly stopped again, and turned his eyes solemnly to the gate, or rather, ...... Inside the city gates.
The gates have not changed, they still shine in the sun. Red pine shines when it is in the light, and it is indeed a good material for making these foreign objects.
But Chen Guyu's attention was obviously not on this, and his grandmaster power found that something was wrong.
No matter where he is, he can always hear all kinds of heartbeats in his consciousness, whether it is rapid or slow, light or heavy, it is the result of the feedback from the crowd walking around, this is the perception of the grandmaster, just like the killing field of Qiu Youqing, you can know the movements within a radius of a few miles, although Chen Guyu is not so powerful, but he can also do one or two.
It's just that at this moment, under the cover of his grandmaster's power, there is silence.
It was as if there was a permanent dead silence in front of him, and there were no living beings, or rather...... No living person exists.
But how is this possible? Chen Guyu looked at the giant city in front of him, and the solemnity in his eyes was even worse. This is the main city of Daijiang, it is the hub center of the entire Daijiang Road, where the absolute power of the front line is guarded, there are countless armies, thousands of officials, and there are Qiu Shuai to help, as well as those hundreds of thousands of people, all of this should converge into a dense heartbeat into his ears, how can it be silent, like a dead domain!
Chen Guyu began to move forward, no matter how doubtful he was, he always had to go in and have a look, but at the same time, the Chengtian Sword was already in his hand, and his internal strength was ready to go.
"Boom-"
The huge city gate was slowly pushed open, Chen Guyu walked in lightly, and when he looked up, what appeared in front of him was a wide avenue that could be used by several fierce horses to walk side by side, paved with blueslab stones, extending to the interior of the main city, far away and invisible.
There was no one on the avenue, empty and silent, and I believe that even if a needle was dropped on it, it could be clearly heard far away. Chen Guyu took a deep breath and didn't think too much, and everything that came suddenly didn't give him a chance to think about it anymore.
Suddenly, he rushed into a private house on the side of the avenue.
There were people in the room, not living people, and a husband and wife were lying on the kang with calm faces, their hands folded in their lower abdomen, as if they had been cooked at night. But obviously not, it is impossible for ordinary people to have such idle time to sleep in this broad daylight, especially on the front line where the Tang Dynasty may be killed at any time, and the people here wish that they could have twenty-four hours a day to let them do more, so they are willing to waste time.
Chen Guyu walked over and probed their snorts, and sure enough, as if he sensed, there was no sign of life.
He was silent, turned around and went out, and walked towards the next room again, but after half a tea time, he walked out again, and continued to look elsewhere, as if he had a feeling of disbelief and not giving up.
After running like this a few times, Chen Guyu finally stopped, looking at the empty giant city in front of him, his face was pale. He went into several places, but the result was the same, all lifeless people, lying on the kang, fainting in the house, or husband and wife, or the elderly, and there were also girls who had not yet left the boudoir, but all of them were no exception. There are no injuries all over his body, but all of them have no vital features.
A strange feeling of innocence arose from the bottom of my heart, just like the assassin I had seen in Tianze City the day before, which was unbelievable. It seems that after coming to this generation of Jiangdao, strange things happened one after another.
Frowning, Chen Guyu directly rose into the air and rushed towards the inner city. At present, this is an extraordinary period, and the Tang Dynasty is not far away, and this kind of thing happened in the main city of Daijiang, Chen Guyu doesn't know if this bizarre everything is related to the Tang Dynasty, but Qiu Shuai must not have anything to do! As for Yue Xi and those partners, Chen Guyu didn't think much about it, because Xu Zhengri had said before that the students were all sent out by the instructor, so they were not in the main city, and this strange thing didn't concern them.
Half an hour later, Chen Guyu appeared in the inner city, the marshal's mansion is next to the city lord's mansion, you can see it at a glance, and around there, there are luxurious and luxurious mansions, huge courtyards, rockeries and flowing water, famous plaques and stone carvings, all extraordinary, presumably the master's family is a famous big man in the city, as well as the deputy city lord's mansion, the commander's mansion and so on. It can be seen that this area in the inner city should be the secret location of the entire front line.
The decrees of Daijiang are all derived from this, and the key to resisting the overthrow of the Tang Dynasty also lies in this.
It's just that as expected, what appeared in front of Chen Guyu's eyes was still a dead silence. The door of the marshal's mansion was open, and there seemed to be no one in the courtyard.
Chen Guyu walked in quickly, except for the servants who fell to the ground, but he didn't see any familiar people anymore. Qiu Youqing is not here, and those instructor leaders are not here, it seems that those who are unconscious or dead in this city are the original people of the city, not visitors. Just like the middle-aged man who fell in the garden in the backyard of the City Lord's Mansion next to him when Chen Guyu came in before, wearing a light red official robe, should be the Daoist Lord of Daijiang Dao, the City Lord of the main city is undoubtedly not spared.
Somehow, Chen Guyu breathed a sigh of relief, hesitated, and walked outside the mansion, although he didn't know what was going on in the city, but he still found the marshal and talked about it.
Chen Guyu already has a peerless force, but when he encounters this bizarre and extreme thing, the young man's heart will inevitably have the psychology of relying on his elders. Such as Qiu Shuai, there is also a Trinity instructor. Faced with such a situation, they should have a way.
Looking at the silent mansion around him, Dai Jiang was like an empty city under the deep sky, Chen Guyu sighed, although he didn't know what the reason for these people was lifeless, but in his heart, he still didn't believe that these people were dead, there were no wounds all over their bodies, not even minor injuries, how could they die suddenly, he preferred to understand that it was a deep coma that he didn't know.
The entire main city of Daijiang, hundreds of thousands of lives, no one can ignore it, those high-ranking politicians can't do it, and neither can the Tang Dynasty army sighing in the ravine not far away, which is an unbearable burden for the ancient Tang Dynasty, but for the Tang Dynasty, it is a rare opportunity.
Thinking of this, Chen Guyu's pace became more urgent, and he walked outside the mansion in a few steps, ready to find Qiu Shuai and them.
"Hiss......"
The sudden moaning made his footsteps stop, and Chen Guyu turned around suddenly, raising the Heavenly Sword in his hand, and slightly blooming with a domineering sword.
It was a voice from within the mansion, very slight, and it could only be heard by Chen Guyu, who had been releasing the power of the Grandmaster and perceiving the people around him. The abrupt voice suddenly made Chen Guyu overjoyed, there were still people alive in this dead and silent city, so maybe he could find out what was going on.
Without thinking about it any longer, Chen Guyu turned around and went back, and his internal strength was already surging towards the source of the sound.
It was in a corner of the backyard, because there were vines blocking it, so Chen Guyu didn't pay much attention to it before, until the sound and the faint heartbeat suddenly sounded at this moment.
"Boom!"
Chen Guyu pushed aside the vines and looked inside.
With a "dang" sound, the Chengtian Sword fell to the ground.
His face suddenly became extremely distorted and hideous, and in that hideousness, there was unbelief, sadness, and even monstrous anger.
In the midst of the grass and vines, a man was lying.
Wearing a strange black military uniform, although his face was covered with blood, he could still tell from his figure that this should be a young man of a small grade.
Nine daggers were inserted into the young man's body in an orderly manner like a formation, from the neck to the soles of his feet, the blood on them had dried up, and the young man's breath was already dying.
Chen Guyu still recognized it, it was Sanjiu, the Sanjiu instructor who had the best relationship with the students and was the youngest in the black horse.
He choked up, causing Sanjiu to open his eyes in a vague moan.
As if he had seen something clearly, he suddenly opened his mouth vaguely, and his voice was weak and eager: "Quick, go and save the marshal!" ”