Chapter 1: The Mysterious Woman and the Child
After a long journey of nearly a month, Yu Ziying and his party finally entered the northern Fujian boundary of Chaoyuan Kingdom, because Hua Qian has been unconscious, Yu Ziying can not change his identity with him at all, and the quota of "Princess Bao Dai" is still occupied by him.
According to the plan, after entering Yanjing in Chaoyuan Kingdom, the first thing she did was to find Wule as soon as possible to detoxify him.
The road was unexpectedly smooth, with no obstacles or ambushes, and the Assassins and Outlanders who had tried their best to prevent other countries from going to the kingdom of Korea had disappeared, and there was no threat of jumping out of the way.
Even some of the robberies frequented by bandits or horse thieves in the green forest have an eerie feeling of quietness.
Along the way, Yu Ziying often lifted the curtains and looked at the vast sky in silence, this silence carried a kind of tranquility like before a storm, and this oppressive waiting atmosphere also infected Nu and others.
In the middle of summer, finally in the major plates of the Jiuzhou continent in the national boundaries of the natural disasters one after another, Jiuzhou is roughly divided into thirteen plates, in the southwest of most areas of the heavy hail, floods, typhoons, blizzards, and in the northeast is drought, sandstorms, volcanoes, earthquake disasters, mountain collapses, mudslides and other meteorological disasters, and the mainland border is storm surge, tsunami and other marine disasters, the middle end is forest and grassland fires and major biological disasters and so on.
Because Chaoyuan Country is located in the north of Jiuzhou, the weather is extremely hot along the way, the vegetation on both sides of the road is roasted and bent down, the appearance of lack of water is miserable, the weather is so hot and stuffy, there is no wind at all, the thick air seems to be condensed, and the air is constantly compressed, as if a little spark will cause an explosion.
The scorching sun was like fire, and although I sat in the carriage and barely suffered the pain of the direct sun, the ground and the air were rushing in waves of rising heat, like a steamer, so hot that people could not breathe.
"Why is it so hot in the north?" Xiao Baoyin's cheeks were so hot that his cheeks were red, his eyes were weakly drooping, and his forehead, neck, and back were full of sweat.
"In previous years, the climate in the north had never been so hot even in the summer...... "Nu thought for a moment.
"Baby...... Water, water is almost gone......" Si poured the water bladder, and looked at Yu Ziying with a little grievance and worry in his eyes.
"In case of greed - when the baby falls into the city, take a day of rest and replenish water and food." There is no need for him to say that Yu Ziying also knows that during this time, because of the hot weather, he consumes too much water, and he is about to run out of food, but because there are no restaurants and towns along the way, and he can't touch the river bank at all, he can only save the source of the stream, but fortunately he can reach the baby city before sunset tonight.
"Baby, do you ...... Here we go? He turned his head angrily to look at Yu Ziying, and suddenly asked something that didn't mean anything.
However, Yu Ziying knew what he meant.
When she looked over the rocky wilderness and saw the rolling sandstorm sweeping from the barren rock and high soil farther away, her eyes fell into a deep darkness: "The natural disaster is the prelude to destruction......
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After changing their orbit and getting out of danger before the sandstorm hits, they finally arrive at the city of Babyfall before dark.
At this time, the infant city and Yu Ziying saw a few months ago have a new change, the dilapidated ruins are gradually repaired to the new house body, the east of the city is rebuilt faster, and even the residential area has been built, and the commercial area is still being rebuilt.
Because of taking the three brothers and sisters of Yuwen and Xiao Baoyin and others, Yu Ziying did not plan to meet anyone in the city, but bought some water and food with a family in the residential area, borrowed it for the night, and then set off again to Yanjing the next day.
However, before leaving, Yu Ziying spent a few nights drawing a diagram of the four small formations of gathering spirits and gathering fortune and secretly threw it into the city lord's mansion.
The four small formations of the Gathering Spirit Gathering Movement are one of the Gathering Spirits Gathering Arrays, compared with the other three formations, the four small formations are easier and the requirements and the items required for the formation are also the most concise, it is a large formation for the safety of the home, the infant falls into the city and she has a deep relationship, she will not watch it be destroyed again, although this array is valid and the number of times, but it is enough to resist the natural disaster.
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In the following journey, Yu Ziying and others finally thoroughly saw the so-called "God is also a crime, not a crime of war", sometimes natural disasters are more terrible than man-made disasters, and the scope and lethality of the impact are also more unexpected.
It won't take long for the Jiuzhou Continent to completely fall into a hell.
There was still a distance that was neither too short nor too long, because the weather was unusually hot as being roasted in a pot, and there was no place for people to shelter from the sun in the limestone fields, so Yu Ziying and their carriage gradually slowed down to conserve their strength, and they tried to choose the night to hurry.
At this time, behind their carriage, they unconsciously followed a large number of victims who had fled from the villages under their jurisdiction, and they went all the way north to beg, and they were bent on marching towards Yanjing, where the Chaoyuan Kingdom was prosperous, hoping that at the feet of the Son of Heaven, there would probably be someone who would pity them and reward them with a mouthful of food, and solve the problem of disaster and temporary settlement for them.
Some of these victims were victims of an earthquake in their hometowns, some were suffering from drought, and most of them were hungry people who had nowhere to stay due to the sudden disaster.
In the scorching summer, there is no shade to escape the heat, and everyone is basically sunburned and their skin is red and panting.
Since their carriage was not moving fast, it was about the same pace, and the shadow cast could allow the group of victims to walk slowly in the shade behind the car.
Although this group of refugees did not come from the same place, most of the poor people were simple and kind, and because there were not many shady places, the young or young people did not rush to compete for places, but consciously gave way to those who were sick and sick.
"Sister Ying, why are there so many refugees in Chaoyuan Kingdom?" Xiao Baoyin propped his chin and looked at the people outside the car with a sympathetic face.
Since I met Yu Ziying, Xiao Baoyin has something to do with "Sister Baby", not to mention the "Beginning" who once had a little ambiguous thoughts, and even the angry brother she admired before was directly left behind by her.
Love is precious, friendship is more expensive, if it is a baby sister, both can be thrown.
"Observe everything with your eyes, not with your mouth." Yu Ziying used a professor-like rigorous tone to educate Xiao Baoyin about the behavior of moving faster than her brain.
"Well, teachable." Xiao Baoyin immediately straightened her chest, her little face that was red and puffed by the heat rose seriously, obviously wanting to learn from Yu Ziying's high-end expression of contempt for all things, but it was a pity that her eyes full of keen admiration exposed her true appearance, but there was a feeling that a tiger could not be an anti-dog.
- What to do? Even the baby sister who teaches people with an expressionless face likes it so much~
As soon as Xiao Baoyin finished speaking, he suddenly heard a young woman's angry shout from the carriage of the three Yuwen siblings: "You untouchables dare to dirty my carriage!" ”
"Oh, yes, I'm sorry, I, we...... We didn't mean to...... I beg your pardon. A pitiful pleading voice with a dry voice explained in a panic that it was a middle-aged man with a gray face, who was now half-crouching on the ground, holding a child whose face was a little abnormally red.
"Fuck off! Don't come near my carriage again! Get lost! Yuwen Ying leaned out of the car window, looking at the dirty figure of the group of untouchables approaching, Tie Qing's face, the anger on her face was clear, her shoulders continued to tremble violently, and her voice gradually changed tone.
This group of catastrophes fled here, coupled with the lack of water resources in this wilderness, they have not taken a bath for a long time, plus the weather is hot, the smell of sweat on their bodies is wrapped in a sour smell, as soon as they come up, the smell is so angry that Yuwen Sakura is annoyed.
But in order to maintain the kind and gentle side of her little white flower, she endured it all the way without having a seizure, and finally completely broke out when she heard a vomiting sound.
She thought about what qualifications this group of pariahs had to be tolerated by her, anyway, Yu Ziying and those people were unguarded against her or disgusted and ignored her, so she simply broke the jar and broke it!
"Huh? Miss, have mercy on us miserable people, right? This kid has been sunburned all the way, and he has been a little confused for a long time, so he will accidentally spit filth on your car, and he definitely didn't mean it! A kind old woman on the side of the road, wearing a flowery headscarf and a dusty coarse cloth dress, couldn't help but plead.
"yes, yes." The middle-aged man who had just pleaded kept nodding.
"Miss Ben doesn't care if you do it intentionally or unintentionally, you should leave quickly......" Yuwen Ying stretched out her hand to cover her nose, her eyes revealing disdain and meanness: "What a smell, it stinks, get out, get out, get out!" ”
The middle-aged man looked embarrassed, he looked down at the little boy who was half-closed with his eyelids half-closed and kept humming, gritted his teeth, or begged bitterly again with a shy face: "This kind young lady, the weather is too hot today, it has never been cool at all, I just want to hide from the sun under the shade of your car, don't worry, when he is a little better, I will leave immediately!" ”
"You ......" Yuwen Ying was very angry and wanted to scold, but on the one hand, she took into account her noble status as a "princess" and the weak image of the little white flower, she endured it, and suddenly smiled with her eyes, revealing two rows of white teeth like broken jade, and said, "Okay." ”
The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, and after raising his eyes to make sure that she didn't seem to be joking, he was overjoyed and kept thanking and kowtowing, so that he didn't see the sinister and sarcastic look under Yuwen Ying's smile.
Just as the team set off again, they came to their senses and continued to follow the carriage, when the horse in front of them suddenly sizzled as if frightened~ a neigh, and kicked the tower back, and suddenly splashed a layer of thick soil and ashes.
cough cough cough cough ...... The father and son who followed behind the carriage were sprayed with ash, they hurriedly took a few steps back, kept coughing and rubbing their eyes, embarrassed, only to hear a crisp bell-like smug laugh from the carriage at this moment: "Hehehe~ I just asked you to stay away, hey, now you should know what I said, it's actually really good for you, right?" ”
When the middle-aged man heard this, he put down his hand to rub his eyes, and stared at the carriage where Yuwen Ying was with a pair of red and angry eyes, his face was blue and white for a while, of course he knew that this young lady was playing with them at all.
"You-"
"Mosquito, calm down."
At this time, from the center of the disaster came a veiled, graceful woman walked out, under the sun, the girl had long hair like seaweed, slightly curled, eyes like seawater, very white, ivory, the whole person looked lazy, faint.
She was smiling, but her eyes were indifferent, she was like someone who was completely different from the victims, but she was really with them.
"Agnes, the rat bit you, do you plan to bite the rat too? Be careful with the stinky hairs that you have bitten off. A crisp, childish and slightly cold boy's voice sounded.
The woman with the veil was holding a little boy who was just as high as her waist.
The little boy looked very thin, about seven or eight years old, with weak pale cheeks, unhealthy purple lips, and a little staggering when he walked, and when he lowered his head, he at first glance looked not much different from the children of ordinary disaster victims.
But when he looked up, he could see that his facial features were very beautiful, as if he was as delicate as a half-blood, like a fragile and perfect jade doll, and in addition, he had a pair of black and indifferent pupils, and these eyes had a coldness, despair, and gloom that did not belong to his age...... All negative emotions. And it was this pair of eyes that made Yu Ziying's carelessness just now become bright.