Chapter 24: The Cicada
The cicadas gradually became less and less chirping, and on the streets of Luodu, the girls who were dressed very boldly also unconsciously changed into light shirts.
Autumn is coming.
This autumn in Luodu is somewhat special compared with the past, and there are more people in the streets and alleys wearing military uniforms, alone, a little dazed, but more excited.
These people did not arrive on the same day, but when they came to Luodu, after a brief inquiry, they all went towards the same purpose.
Imperial!
Li Xuanxin also walked towards the imperial city, and even his original goal was the same as these hurried and smiling figures, but after taking out the fish talisman symbolizing his identity, after Jin Wuwei's inspection, Li Xuanxin finally parted ways with these figures.
No matter what the reason, at least he now has a path that seems to be able to get closer to the goal more quickly, but this path always needs to be walked by himself, just like cultivation, it is always the cultivation of himself.
Li Xuanxin stood at the fork in the road, looked behind him, and then looked at the figures in his sight who were gradually moving away, smiled, and walked down with his head down.
The Imperial City is a general name, and it only has a city gate in the northernmost place closest to the land of endless demons, as for the northern hundred miles of Luodu, although it is also called the Imperial City, it is more of a yamen for the various ministries, and the place where the lower courtyard of the six factions in Luodu is located.
The buildings of the Imperial City give the impression of being one at a glance, whether it is the streets or the houses on both sides, all of them are gray and black lines, and there are not as many trees here as outside the Imperial City, so that the scene here can be glimpsed at a glance.
Simple, neat and meticulous, this is the first feeling of the imperial city of the Han Dynasty!
Li Xuanxin still carefully looked at the place he had walked through, looking at any place where there might be loopholes, which was a kind of caution rooted in nature.
The Imperial City does not prohibit ordinary people from entering, but all commercial activities are prohibited, and coupled with the seriousness of the Imperial City, it is not as bustling as it is outside.
The footsteps gradually moved forward on the gray stone slabs, and the fluctuations of vitality all over the imperial city became more obscure, but in the feeling it was more dangerous.
Li Xuanxin's footsteps stopped in front of a brick wall covered with gray-black lines, and his eyes looked at an old man in the corner of the wall who was frowning and seemed to be meditating.
The old man's face was wrinkled like a knife, but he had black and shiny hair, and his eyes were fixed on another wall not far away.
Li Xuanxin's brows also furrowed, he looked left and right, and finally walked to the old man's side, and the figure cast by the sun shrouded the old man.
"The young man doesn't seem to know how to be polite?" the old man's body was covered by Li Xuanxin's shadow, raised his head, and asked.
Li Xuanxin didn't speak, he looked at the furrow-like wrinkles on the old man's face, and took a few steps forward, and the elongated shadow completely obscured the old man.
"It's no wonder that under the shroud of the old man's qi, you can only go here and get to this position. Are you just looking to see if someone will come? You don't seem to be panicking at all?" The old man stood up, he was a head taller than Li Xuanxin, he patted the dust stained on the hem of the black robe, and asked with some surprise.
"This is the Imperial City, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, I can't think of a more disciplined place than here, and I can't think of a safer place than here, at least during the day, there seems to be no safer place than here?"
"I didn't break the law, there are people above me!"
Li Xuanxin replied very calmly, his eyes looked at the old man calmly, and his indifferent expression did not reveal the slightest fear.
This made the old man a little uncomfortable, but it was just uncomfortable, although he obviously expressed his unhappy emotions on his face, but he also knew very well that what Li Xuanxin said was not a threat, but the truth.
As long as you don't break the law, theoretically it is safe in Luodu, of course, if you add someone above, it is absolutely safe.
So the old man understands very well that Li Xuanxin has fearless thoughts at the moment, but this also does not mean that he will stop there.
The old man was a little puzzled and wanted to discuss a thing or two with Xiaoyou. The old man put one hand behind him, and pointed to the wall that he was frowning at before, "Look at the cicada on the wall, he was originally on the tree, but the old man thought it was too noisy, so he drove it to the wall, and after it reached the wall, it still kept making noise, which was very annoying, what do you say the old man should do?"
Without waiting for Li Xuanxin to answer, the old man waved his sleeve with one hand, and a stone bullet shot out, and the chirping of the cicadas on the wall stopped abruptly, and the stone slammed into the wall half an inch, just nailing the cicada to the wall.
"The old man drove it to the wall and gave it a chance, but he still continued to show off, sparing people's dreams, and did not cherish his own short life, so the old man had to kill him, what do you say?"
The old man clapped his hands, looked at Li Xuanxin, and asked with an unknown smile on his wrinkled face.
Li Xuanxin stared straight at the nailed cicada on the wall, his face was calm, and he still couldn't see the slightest emotion in his eyes, and after a while, he said: "The cicada is on the tree, if it doesn't want to, you can't drive it away, so it's not you who drove the cicada away, but it walked by itself." As for whether it dies in the end, it's just that you always want to kill it, and it doesn't matter where it is. ”
"If it had been quieter and less noisy, it wouldn't have died. After Li Xuanxin finished speaking, the old man said.
Li Xuanxin was silent for a moment and said: "The cicadas are calling here, if you are in your own home, it will naturally not affect you, you have to go under the tree and say that the cicadas are noisy to you, it is too difficult for the cicadas." ”
"Moreover, as an ideal cicada, it must declare that it once existed in its short life!"
After Li Xuanxin finished speaking, he turned around and walked in the direction he had come, but after only a few steps, he found that he could not control it again and turned back to the old man.
"So, does this cicada have to continue to make noise?" the old man asked softly.
Li Xuanxin didn't answer, but simply walked to the corner of the wall, sat down on the spot, and sat up with his eyes closed in the old man's slightly surprised eyes.
In just a moment, bursts of vitality fluctuations emanated from Li Xuanxin's body, and it wasn't until Lei Ze, who was surging in the sea of qi, expanded out again that Li Xuanxin opened his eyes again.
"It's okay if the old gentleman wants to stay here, but now three hours have passed, and when my people don't see me, they will naturally come over, I don't care......" Li Xuanxin stood up, nodded to the old man, and said with a smile.