Chen Jianguo took out the signal transmitter he had been carrying with him and was sending a message to Qi Jun and the others. I heard Baili Ji say: "It's useless, the aura in the tomb is disordered, and there is no way to send out ordinary signals." ”

Sure enough, suddenly there was a piercing sound from the signal transmitter in his hand.

Seeing this, Baili Ji turned his head to look at Yan Zhao and the others, and laughed softly, his eyes were cold: "You know, what is a tomb keeper?" ”

Immediately, without waiting for Yan Zhao and others to answer, he said in a loud voice: "In the seventeenth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang issued an edict: the crime is extremely unforgivable, and he can't bear to be tortured and killed. Therefore, the town became the place where the Ming Dynasty exiled prisoners from then on. ”

Most of the people who were exiled to the town were the heroes who helped Zhu Yuanzhang fight the world and their relatives. During the decades that Zhu Yuanzhang was in power, in order to eliminate the ministers, he successively killed the prime minister Hu Weiyong, the general Lan Yu and others. Nearly 100,000 people were implicated in the case. More than 70,000 people were killed, and the rest of the implicated people were all exiled to the town, and they were not pardoned. For more than ten years, he was imprisoned. Most of them died of illness during exile. Only more than 10,000 people will make it to the town alive. ”

"The town is a bitter cold place, and it is a new place, so it can be said that there is nothing left, and it is extremely desolate. The earth-shaking changes between the original identities and statuses have already exhausted the minds of these exiled people. Seeing the appearance of the house town again, he naturally knew that although Zhu Yuanzhang said that he would not kill them, it was not the idea of exiled them here to fend for themselves. What's more, later, the prisoners who were exiled to the town one after another were all extremely heinous, and the blood on their hands was unknown, but they were only sentenced to exile. I don't think this emperor can see them live in peace! ”

"The bitter cold weather, the lack of food, and the lack of shelter. Such a harsh environment gives birth not only to the darkness of the heart, but also to endless evil. The never-ending hunger emboldened the group of people who were later exiled here. Speaking of this, Baili Ji took a deep breath.

"Relying on their own strong bodies, they actually formed a gang to wantonly sneak attack and kill those weak nobles for food." Bailiji's throat moved, and the words he said couldn't help but be tactful.

In this way, it completely angered the nobles who had been exiled before. Although they are inferior to those villains in terms of force, they can reluctantly fight with each other with a large number of people, each with casualties, and when they finally barely settle down, the nobles who arrived in the town alive are already two out of ten. ”

After a period of time, the two parties lived in separate groups, and mutual hatred was deeply rooted in the bone marrow. If in the beginning, the nobles were able to tie with each other on the one hand, but later, when a steady stream of exiled prisoners were sent to the town, they were naturally drawn into the side of those villains. As a result, the situation of the nobles became worse and worse. The fields they had managed to reclaim were wantonly encroached upon by the thugs. Gradually, they were driven to live on the edge of the town, which was fine, but soon after, wild boars began to wreak havoc around the town, and these nobles and their descendants dared not speak out, so they could only endure it alive. ”

"Until the Wanli period, a hundred households were set up in the town. Li Changsheng, who arrived in office, was originally a nobleman, and he was framed before he was sent here, plus these villains provoked openly and secretly. So he naturally fell to the side of the nobles. Together with these noble descendants, he decided to use the opportunity of this joint extermination of wild boars to extinguish this group of villains in one fell swoop. ”

"But where will this group of villains do what they want, although they suffered heavy losses under the ambush of Li Baihu and others, but these people are not easy to mess with, a bunch of wounded people finally forced the officers and soldiers and the descendants of the nobles into the depths of the mountain."

"It was such a coincidence that Li Baihu led people to retreat into a cave, but he didn't expect to release a demon who was a lifesaver in the eyes of the people of the town."

"Demon—" Chang Yu said with a frown.

Baili Ji seemed to be unheard, and continued: "In the depths of the cave is an underground palace, surrounded by emptiness, only in the middle there is a stone platform, and on top of the stone platform is a stone box. When that Li Baihu opened the stone box, the wind roared angrily in an instant, and the whole person turned into a pile of dried corpses in just a breath. Then a faint old man in a dragon robe appeared. ”

"It's a resentful spirit again—" Yan Zhao said with a frown. I can't promise to be an emperor again. In this way, it will be even more troublesome!

The old fellow's eyes lit up red and he was about to pounce on the other townspeople present. One of the people surnamed Wu shouted at the moment of danger and promised that as long as he could protect the safety of these people, the townspeople would worship him, even if anyone asked for it. Sure enough, when the old guy heard this, he immediately stopped his movements, and immediately reached an agreement with the people of the town who were present. ”

As if to describe a story, Bailiji said in detail: "That old fellow protects the peace of the people of the town, and the people of the town must offer him enough sacrifices every year. This sacrifice is alive - human life. ”

"In addition, that guy also gave the people of the town a protective thing, which is this golden wrong knife in my hand." Baili Ji said holding up the metal piece in his hand.

In this way, Li Changsheng became the first sacrifice in the town. With the old fellow's blessing, those people used the power of this thing to wipe out those villains in one fell swoop. Gave it to the old guy. The town has also been relocated from its original location to the foot of Grave Hill. The man surnamed Wu also became the leader of the town. ”

From then on, all the prisoners exiled to the town were secretly captured by these men and offered as sacrifices to the old fellow. Until later, wars were frequent, and rogues attacked from time to time. In order to ensure the safety of this tomb, the people of the town set up the hereditary position of mausoleum keeper. ”

"What is a mausoleum keeper, in the final analysis, is just a dead soldier, who began to receive uniform training at the age of three, and was confined in the tomb for the rest of his life, and had to undergo the so-called baptism once a year. When you reach the age of an adult, it is enough to find a random woman to give birth. has been boiling alive all his life to look like a dead corpse. No, it's just a dead body. Thinking of his former playmates who had now become insensitive, Baili Ji's eyes became more and more indifferent.

"What is baptism, and these mausoleum keepers don't seem to be very powerful." Chang Yu subconsciously said, when he fought with those guys just now, it was not still one punch.

"What are they, although those guys bear the name of the mausoleum keepers, they are actually not even half-finished products." But you'll meet next, and I just hope that by then, this banquet master won't let himself down. "As for baptism, I think we'll see—"

"The development of the town has lasted for nearly 600 years. At first, it was fine, the old guy had a limited appetite, and the townspeople could satisfy his appetite without much difficulty. But later, especially in the past ten years. His appetite is getting bigger and bigger, and his demands are getting more and more, from more than 100 people a year to more than 10,000 now, and young children can only be satisfied with him. ”

Hearing this, Yan Zhao's eyebrows immediately shrank, and he played with the hilt of the sword with both hands, six hundred years! How many innocent lives have been killed in this town?

"Tens of thousands! No matter how hard the people in the house town worked, how could they do it? But if they don't, then how could the old guy let them go. So they set their sights on the traffickers. The people of the house town and the traffickers have built a huge net of abduction and deception of children, and it is with the help of this golden knife that they have escaped the pursuit of the police three times and twice. ”

"With the development of the times, the town gradually appeared in front of the people, in order to prevent the secret leakage of the town, the current helmsman of the town, Wu Hao, introduced a batch of guns, and created a group of tomb guards you just saw."

"There are only a few dozen people who can settle in the towns every year, and guess who those people are." Baili Ji said with a smirk: "Those are just the partners of the people of the house, and they are only allowed to live in the house after washing their hands. Of course, they are not simply asking them to retire, as the flow of people in the housing town increases, they have built a large number of hotels, the purpose is just to monitor the suspects. ”

"And the annual clan sacrifice in the house town is the time to pay tribute to that guy—"

"In other words, all the kidnapped children today will be mutilated by that evil spirit?" Wang Chuan immediately scrambled and said: "These people in the house town are also flesh and blood people, how can they be ruthless, they are all fresh lives!" Aren't you afraid of retribution? ”

Who knew that Baili Ji snorted lightly and looked at him sarcastically: "What is this!" The townspeople have been doing this for hundreds of years. After a long time, it will become numb. Don't look at the peaceful appearance of the people in the house, but I don't know how dark and inferior in my heart. They can harm people's lives with impunity, and no one is allowed to criticize their background. Otherwise, the people of the town would not have killed us because of Master Yan's words. ”

"Their hearts are already twisted. On the one hand, they resented their own background, because they seemed destined to be inferior and unable to hold their heads up in front of others. On the other hand, they are very grateful for the wise decisions of their ancestors. With their backs to that old guy, they can do whatever they want, killing people or something is just a pleasure, but no one else can do anything about them. Baili Ji said these words with a smile, his face was peaceful but it couldn't help but make people feel creepy.

"What about you? Who are you? Yan Zhao asked again in a deep voice.

"Me! I-" Baili Ji opened his mouth and was about to speak, but suddenly the lights in the room began to flicker and flicker, and immediately said, "It seems that I can't say so much now!" Time was short, and they were already preparing for the next living sacrifice! ”

"Living sacrifice—" Chen Jianguo gritted his teeth and said, just by the name, he could imagine what these beasts wanted to do.

"Yes! So, we have to hurry to the place of this sacrifice. Otherwise, it's not going to be good. What's more, what surprises are waiting for us along the way? After speaking, he opened the door in front of him. Look at the long corridor in front of you that looks endless in the dim light, and take a deep breath. This is just the beginning. Thinking of this, he immediately stepped out.

Everyone immediately looked at Yan Zhao in the middle.

I only saw Yan Zhao lift the long sword, and said coldly: "The matter has come to this, I can only go on forever." With that, he followed.