During the two-day journey, although he had slowed down as much as possible, the old man still couldn't bear the bumps, his wound worsened, and he developed a high fever and fell unconscious.

Several people rushed to Chenzhou, but Ji Xiamo stopped Fang Lin Jun, got out of the car and looked at the desolate city gate, feeling uneasy.

Fang Lin Jun walked to Ji Xiamo's side, and looked at his gaze, there was nothing wrong with the clear sky and beautiful sun. "Is there something wrong?"

Mortals naturally can't detect it with the naked eye, but in Ji Xiamo's opinion, the sky above Chenzhou is shrouded in black fog, condensing a strong and suppressed dead air. If there are no dead people, there will be absolutely no dead air, and it is so turbulent, I am afraid that there are countless dead souls. If this Chenzhou is not a ghost town, it is also extremely vicious.

Ji Xia Mo's cultivation rose sharply, and he was more sensitive to this yin and dead qi, although he had not yet entered the city, and he was so far away, he still felt shivering all over his body, his chest was depressed and dull, and his face was pale. Compared with Sanssouci Valley, this Qiyang City is afraid that it is a hundred times more fierce.

Bai Erb hugged Ji Xiamo's shoulder from behind, frowning slightly, "It's uncomfortable." ”

I don't know if it's psychological reasons or something else, Bai Erbium's proximity made Ji Xiamo feel a lot more comfortable, at least his breathing was not ugly and short.

Lou Yin didn't know when he appeared, and floated in front of Ji Xia Mo to look at the lifeless city, and his eyebrows, which had always been indifferent, were faintly wrinkled. "Get out of here."

"Why stopped?" Ye Yi walked out of the carriage with anxiety on his face.

"Xiao Lin, there are other towns around here." Ye Yi was now anxious about the old man's injuries and he couldn't tell him at all, Ji Xia Mo looked at Fang Lin Jun sternly.

Being looked at by Ji Xiamo's gaze a little sneering, Fang Lin Jun touched his nose, "I passed by in Chenzhou many years ago, and there were no people around for hundreds of miles. ”

'That's a fool's a shame!' Ji Xia Mo scolded secretly.

"What the hell is going on? I haven't seen you change your face when you are so dangerous in Sanssouci Valley, could it be that there is something inside this Chenzhou that makes you taboo? When did Fang Lin Jun see Ji Xia Mo cowering, his face was a little bad for a while, and he looked at Qi Yang City a little more guarded.

"You can't see it." Ji Xia Mo looked at the city sadly, "The black clouds over this Chenzhou are shrouded, lifeless, if there are only thousands of dead souls, it can't form this dead air that covers the sky and the sun at all." I'm afraid that this Chenzhou is already a ghost town. ”

As soon as Ji Xiamo's words came out, Fang Lin Jun's face changed drastically, and the tragedy of Sanssouci Valley was vividly remembered, and now he still feels creepy when he thinks about it. Ji Xiamo said it so strictly, the horror of this Chenzhou is unimaginable.

Ji Xiamo looked at Lou Yin beside him, "Lou Yin, you can know the reason." ”

"First, evil is a haunt. Second......" Lou Yin's tone paused. "It's hard to slaughter the city."

"Slaughter the city!!" Several people were shocked, and even Bai Erbium was a little stunned.

"You mean...... Has this city been slaughtered? Ji Xiamo's feet were a little soft.

"Impossible!" Ye Yi drank hard. "Chenzhou does not live on the border, even if there are bandits rampant here, how can they have the courage to slaughter the city?"

Bai Erb looked up at the sky and tightened his grip on Ji Xiamo's shoulders. "It's getting dark."

"Although I have recovered seven or eight times, this city is dangerous, and I have no confidence to protect you." Lou Yin said coldly.

"The master's injury cannot be delayed, and if he can't find a doctor to treat him, he may be in danger of his life." Ye Yi insisted that he would enter the city no matter what.

"You insist on sending yourself to death." Fang Lin Jun sneered.

Ji Xiamo rubbed his aching forehead and looked up at Bai Erbium. Bai Zhi silently held Ji Xiamo's hand, "What do you want to do, I will accompany you." ”

Ji Xiamo looked at the city dyed red by the sunset and was silent for a long time, and after a long time, Ji Xiamo's eyes gradually became firm. "There must be a reason for the difficulty of slaughtering the city."

Ji Xiamo had made up his mind, Lou Yin glanced at Ji Xiamo, turned around and returned to the white cat's body, jumped into the carriage and ignored it.

Ji Xiamo looked back at Fang Lin Jun and Bai Erbium, "This city is dangerous, if you two don't want to go with you, it's reasonable, I ......"

Before the sentence was finished, Bai Erbium's eyes were cold, and the momentum was like cold ice breaking, spreading around, and pressing down Ji Xiamo's unfinished words alive. Feeling bad, Ji Xiamo shrunk his neck and didn't dare to say anything more.

Fang Lin Jun was almost angry, and the fan in his hand pointed at Ji Xiamo's forehead, "You lack heart, listen to it or not, your little life will die in your hands sooner or later." ”

After Fang Lin Jun finished scolding, he returned to the carriage aggressively, and Ji Xiamo covered his red forehead and looked at Bai Erb pitifully. The anger in his heart melted in Ji Xiamo's aggrieved little eyes, Bai Erb sighed helplessly, and his cold fingers touched Ji Xiamo's forehead.

"Actually, I should have noticed something was wrong early on." Ji Xia Mo held the hand that Bai Erb put on his head and sighed. "Chenzhou is not a small town, but the road when we came was deserted and empty, so you don't have to think about it to know that something is wrong."

Bai Erb took Ji Xiamo's hand and walked back to the carriage. "Don't worry, I will never let you die before me one day when I am born."

His heart accelerated, Ji Xia Mo looked up at Bai Erbium's serious side face, and unconsciously there were red clouds burning on his face, and his chest was faintly sweet and sour.

Several people got into the carriage and rushed to the city, and the further they went, the more strange the atmosphere became, that is, ordinary people like Fang Lin Jun and Ye Yi noticed that something was wrong. The huge city gate is deserted, the wind rolls up the flags under the city gate, and the tattered lanterns and oil paper are rolled up.

The carriage entered the city, the cold streets were deserted, the windows and doors on both sides of the street were closed, and the sun was shining brightly outside the city, but the city was eerie and strange, and there was no trace of popularity.

The carriage stopped, and Bai Erb jumped out of the carriage first, looking at the lifeless streets around him, his brows condensed. Fang Lin Jun followed behind him, and couldn't help but shudder, "Is it too late for Xiaosheng to quit now?" ”

Ji Xiamo rolled his eyes, ran to Bai Erbium's side and hugged Bai Erbium's arm tightly. For some reason, he always felt very relieved to stay by Bai Erbium's side, and even the sadness brought by the suppressed death breath was gone.

"Xiao Mo, you said this is a ghost town, are all the people here really dead?" Fang Lin Jun rubbed to Ji Xiamo's side and whispered.

"I don't know." Ji Xia Mo shook his head, the black clouds over Chenzhou were shrouded, it stands to reason that even if the scene in this city is not a hell on earth, it is also a dense number of unjust souls, but why don't you see a single unjust soul. Looking at the stalls with small objects hanging around, Ji Xiamo slowly approached, and couldn't help but stretch out his hand and stick it.

A chill pierced his body along his fingertips, and a mist of blood dispersed in front of his eyes. The shattered picture kept flashing, the ragged people fell to the ground and screamed bitterly, they rushed to the city gate frantically, but they were surrounded by a group of people dressed as officers and soldiers, the swords in their hands fell mercilessly, and those who were as thin as wood fell one by one. Among them were the elderly, children, and even young children waiting to be fed. The screams and cries gradually died down with the glaring blood.

"Ahh Ji Xia Mo suddenly opened his eyes, staggered back, his face turned pale and he was short of breath.

Bai Erb quickly protected Ji Xia Mo in his arms, his face showing urgency. "What's wrong?"

"Xiao Mo?" Fang Lin Jun also surrounded him, staring at Ji Xiamo nervously. "Uncomfortable?"

Ji Xiamo closed his eyes and breathed calmly, and his two hands trembled a little and clutched Bai Erbium's collar. "Here, there was a massacre here."

Fang Lin Jun and Bai Erb looked at each other, and they both saw shock in each other's eyes. Bai Erb glanced at the sky, and his eyes were a little heavier, "It's getting dark, we have to find a place to stay first." ”

Knowing that now is not the time to seek the truth, Ji Xiamo quickly calmed down, and the three of them were about to return to the carriage again, when suddenly a boy appeared at the corner of an alley a hundred meters away, the boy was about seven or eight years old, and he looked at a few people in the corner for a while, then quickly shrank back and ran back into the dark alley.

Ji Xia Mo and Bai Zhi glanced at each other, and looked back at Ye Yi, "Abandon the carriage and follow." ”

Since entering here, Ye Yi, who is often on the verge of life and death, also felt uneasy, and when he heard Ji Xiamo say about the slaughter just now, his face was even more ugly. Now seeing that Ji Xiamo said to abandon the car, he didn't ask the reason, and quickly returned to the carriage to carry the unconscious old man out and followed behind Ji Xiamo.

Ji Xia Mo ran towards the place where the boy disappeared, and when he arrived at the alley, he only saw a blurred back around the corner. Ji Xiamo chased after him, although Fang Lin Jun and Ye Yi didn't know why, they only knew that it was right to follow Ji Xiamo, and they didn't talk nonsense to ask the reason.

Ji Xiamo followed the boy and kept running in the alley, turning several times without direction, and when the boy lost his trace, Ji Xiamo was also completely lost.

Darkness gradually fell, and Ji Xiamo looked at the corners of the alleys around him, and he couldn't hide his impatience in his heart. Bai Erb patted Ji Xiamo's shoulder and comforted Ji Xiamo, "It's dark, let's find a random house to spend the night first, and talk about it tomorrow." ”

At this point, there was no other way, Ji Xiamo had to suppress the irritability in his heart and nodded in agreement. "Okay."

Just as a few people were about to leave, suddenly there was a sound of the threshold rubbing not far behind them. Bai Erbium held the sword, and Fang Lin Jun was vigilant. A few people turned around, but saw a dark yellow wooden door cracked, and in the dark, a thin old man with an oil lamp in his hand came out of his body halfway, like a dry bark on his face, a pair of eyes carefully looked at Ji Xiamo and a few people, and stretched out his hand to summon

Several people looked at each other, Ji Xiamo nodded silently, and walked over to the old man. When he approached the door, Ji Xiamo was about to ask, but the old man returned to the door.

Bai Erb pulled Ji Xia Mo back behind him, and took the lead in pushing the door in, and when several people entered the door, the wooden door suddenly closed. Ji Xiamo was startled, looked down, and saw the boy against the wooden door, quickly hiding behind the old man. This boy is the same child who just ushered in a few people.

"Sit down in the guest house." The old man gestured.

Several people followed the old man through the small courtyard and into the house. I saw that the four walls of the house were empty, and the furniture that could be seen was only a table and a few benches, which showed that the family was poor and shabby.

Xu saw the person on Ye Yi's back, and the old man led Ye Yi to put the old man on the bed in the inner room. The dirty quilt had hardened, the empty hut had no windows, and an oil lamp was exceptionally dim.

Ye Yi was a little embarrassed, but he also knew that now was not the time to be picky, so he could only put the old man down first, and then take off the cloak and cover the old man.

"Grandma, I'm hungry." The boy poked his head out of the door and whispered.

The old man beckoned, "There are buns in the kitchen bowl, go eat them." ”

The boy had to disappear for a while, and Ji Xiamo couldn't help but ask with doubts. "Old man, what the hell is going on in this city? Why don't you see anyone? ”

"People are dead, and those who aren't dead are almost gone." The old man sighed.

Ji Xia Mo was stunned, "You can ask the old man to elaborate." ”

The old man looked up at Ji Xia Mo for a while, then turned around and left the hut and sat down on the bench in the main house. Since there was no light, the only light in the house was the moonlight outside the door. "There is only one oil lamp at home, and the distant guest is wronged."

"Nothing." Ji Xia Mo sat down, and Bai Erb sat next to Ji Xia Mo after him.

"The old man doesn't know us, how did he know that we came from afar?" Fang Lin Jun was puzzled.

The old man smiled, "I am the only one alive at the city gate." A few distant guests were freshly dressed and had good complexions, and at first glance they came out of the rich and noble family. The people in the vicinity of Chenzhou fled for their lives, and a few people broke into this fateful place in a daze, how could they not be distant guests? ”

Ji Xiamo felt more and more uneasy in his heart. "Old man, where have all the people in this city gone?"

"The jackals, tigers, and leopards all went to the south of the city to have fun, and the dead ones were buried outside the city. Those who were still alive were driven to the north of the city to fend for themselves. ”

Ye Yi walked out of the back room and stared at the old man with sharp eyes. "Old man, what's going on in this city?"

The old man sighed and looked quietly outside the door for a long time. After a long time, the old man's desolate voice sounded.

"The plague."