Knowing that the dragon would arrive soon, the lion king asked his servants to hire five women to help clean up the lion king's mansion. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoAlthough the Lion King's Mansion is not big and luxurious, there are many places to clean. So the five women wiped, brushed, and rinsed the porcelain, took down the paintings and maps, and hung them up, wiped the mirrors and candlesticks, and lit a fire in the bedroom prepared for Xilong. But the lion king was not in a hurry, he stayed in the study all day, and he had been thinking about the plan to let Xilong secretly go to the new capital of Beili Kingdom, but this needs to be discussed after Xilong comes, and further preparations are needed in all aspects, after all, it is dangerous to enter the tiger's den!

Before I knew it, it was night, and the day was spent in meditation.

"Report! - "When the lion king heard the herald's tone, he knew that the court's documents had arrived, so he quickly got up to greet him, and the herald quickly delivered the documents to the lion king, and the lion king arranged for his servants to take the courtiers to rest, and he quickly opened the documents and read them.

The content of the document made the lion king excited: the court not only agreed to his request for more troops, but also agreed to his plan to expand the "Jingchi Road" - to build a wide post road and set up post inns along the way to connect the capital with major cities, and the funds were all allocated by the court!

But the jade seal at the end of the document is like a basin of cold water sprinkled on the body of the lion king, originally the document can only be issued after being stamped with the queen's imperial seal and the imperial seal of the cabinet court, but now only the imperial seal is left! The lion king didn't feel a cold sweat on his body, and the court had changed! What I feared most finally happened! Did something happen to the Cabinet Minister? ……

After reading the documents of the imperial court, the lion king unconsciously sat on the Taishi chair next to the desk, about the real situation inside the imperial court, the document did not mention the slightest, but from the sudden change in the attitude of the imperial court and the change of the imperial seal on the document, the lion king can deduce that the queen Zhou Lan, who is holding the imperial seal, has completely controlled the imperial court. In the past, the court's request to the lion king was always delayed again and again, and finally it was not resolved, but now the court is obviously relying on himself, and the lion king doesn't know whether this is a blessing or a curse for himself.

The Lion King knew very well in his heart that he had to stabilize his mentality. The court has changed dramatically, and if you are not careful, you may be burned.

Holding an energy crystal in his hand, he walked heavily and preoccupied towards the wall opposite the desk where the map was hung, using the light of the crystal to stare at the capital on the map with his eyes locked in sorrow.

Nodding his head and shaking his head repeatedly, he couldn't guess what was going on in the capital, whether it was a coup d'état or not. Thinking that there would be no result after thinking about it, and he could only wait for further news, the lion king took a break for a while. He turned his head and looked through the lattice window next to his desk to see the garden next door. The garden is planted with poplar, birch, apple, pear and cherry trees, but the leaves have long since fallen and the grass in the yard is desolate. At midnight, the moonlight shines through, leaving dappled shadows on the garden, and the teeth and claws of the trees are dancing like mad demons.

"Come on, O Xilong!" The lion pondered. There are not many talents around him, and the best students have been scattered all over the Crystal Country, but the capital does not have its own student cronies, and even if there are, they are either transferred out of the capital or removed from their posts, which is deliberately done by the imperial court. In recent years, there have been more and more strange things, and there are very few people like Xilong who know how to deal with these supernatural events. The Lion King is glad to have someone like Xilong to help him, but he also knows that Xilong has left the government and does not participate in politics, but only relies on his friendship to help him, and is not his real subordinate, and he will still leave when it is time to go. Therefore, the lion king thought that it was a good way to recruit these strange people by distributing hero stickers, but this would alarm the imperial court, and he would be suspected of recruiting troops, and the imperial court might not agree, and even guard himself more strictly, so as to cause trouble! There was a sound of wings flapping outside.

"Lots of bats!" Outside, the shouts of the servants were heard.

The lion king hurriedly walked out of the study and looked up, although it was winter, the sky with a bright moon was densely covered with dark clouds, flying towards the south of the city. The screams are terrifying! In fact, the people of the entire Xiyang City were awakened, and came out to see this strange scene, everyone talked about it in horror, plus the scene of a large number of foxes going south and dying tragically in the trench a few days ago, they all felt the slightest fear. "It's a pity that the dragon is no more, otherwise, he would have known what these visions could portend." The Lion King thought. He hurriedly asked the servant to invite General Chang Quyu, light a piece of sandalwood, and while he was waiting for Chang Quyu, he sat on the Taishi chair by the fire, closed his mind, and let himself rest for a while.

Soon, Chang Quyu came dressed all over his body, knowing that the Lion King invited him in the middle of the night, it must be urgent. In fact, hearing the piercing scream of the bat, even Chang Quyu, who had been in a hundred battles, panicked. As soon as he heard that the lion king was invited, he felt a little stable in his heart, so he hurried over.

Hearing Chang Quyu's thick and powerful steps, the Lion King immediately opened his eyes, and he was very relieved to think that this battle-hardened general could stay by his side.

"Chang Quyu visits the prince and waits for the prince to send him!"

"General, you should see those bats! What do you think? ”

"This ......, forgive my subordinates for their incompetence, this is beyond my ability, but—if Xilong can ......"

"Hey, this is not something I can understand, so I decided to send the officers and soldiers out of the city overnight, go south along the post road to meet Xilong, and escort them all the way back to Xiyang City!"

"Order! Please rest assured, I will definitely bring Xilong back! After speaking, Chang Quyu turned around and left.

The next day, just after dawn, bells and horses' hooves rang outside.

"It's finally here!" The Lion King immediately felt full of excitement, and he quickly rushed out of the study and went straight to the gate of the Lion King's Mansion, however, several of his servants ran over and said, "Lord Wang, no...... Oh no! ”

"What's wrong?!"

"Lord Wang, go out and take a look!"

The Lion King hurriedly rushed out of the Lion King's Mansion and saw General Chang Quyu leading a team of soldiers escorting a group of carriages, which were tattered and bloodstained, and there was no one on the carriage, but the horse pulled the empty cart to the Lion King's Mansion. The Lion King knew at a glance that this was the carriage of the convoy of the dragon.

"General Chang, what happened? What about Master Yuryu? The lion king couldn't help but feel a little black in front of him, and Chang Quyu hurriedly went over to support him.

"Lord Wang, don't worry, I've sent someone to search!"

The Lion King gradually came to his senses, first the great changes in the imperial court, and then the annihilation of the entire army of the Xilong convoy, these two blows made the Lion King feel heartbroken. He stood firm, looked at Chang Quyu, and asked, "How many people have been sent?" ”

"Two hundred."

"It's too little, if you meet a mortal enemy, you can only send it to death! Xilong's team can be destroyed, at least five hundred people have a combat power, and the other party is likely to have strange abilities! The Lion King knew that although Xilong's team was only a few dozen people, its spells were powerful, and it was by no means a few hundred people who could defeat them!

"However, there are not many troops available in Xiyang City!"

"Don't care about so much, you lead two thousand infantry to immediately blockade the whole city, pay attention to the movement in the north, and repair these carriages of Xilong as soon as possible. The carriage has the remnants of the Ryu's equipment, and if it is missing, try to replenish it as best you can. I personally led the remaining 1,000 cavalry out of the city south to search! ”

"Order!" Chang Quyu knew that the lion king said the same.

The next morning, the sun had just risen in the clouds, giving off a miserable blood-red color, and the sky was covered with snow, fluttering and sprinkling, without a single wind. A thousand heavily armed cavalry were assembled and lined up on the training ground in the south of the city to wait for the lion king.

The 1,000 cavalry borrowed heavily from the equipment of the cavalry of the Northern Liberians: they wore iron helmets that covered the back of their necks, and wore tough, soft cuirasses woven with black strips of leather and pieces of iron. Each cavalryman was armed with two crossbows and two quivers filled with arrows, a curved saber, a short-handled hand axe, and an iron stator hammer suspended from the saddle. A spear with a hook to drag enemies off their horses, and a rope of horsehair with slipknots. These horses were all trophies given to the Crystal Kingdom after the defeat of the Northern Liberty Kingdom, and these horses were small but strong, and had a long endurance. It was these horses with strong necks, short and thick legs, strong temperament, abundant physical strength, and steady pace that carried the soldiers of the Northern Liber Kingdom and almost conquered the powerful Crystal Country!

The lion king always let these cavalry practice before dawn, and from time to time he would order them to run hundreds of miles out of the city, and always maintained a strong combat effectiveness. And now, in order to find Xilong, the Lion King decided to use the only trump card army in his hands, which shows the important position of Xilong in the Lion King's mind.

Although there are more than 1,000 cavalry, the lion king knows the character and characteristics of almost every cavalry, especially these heavy cavalry who fought with him in the north and south, the lion king is like a child's father, understands them and cares about them. Even though the lion king was extremely demanding of them, these cavalrymen still respected him and stood up for the lion king at any time, even sacrificing their own lives.

The situation in the court is unclear, the lion king can only wait, but he can't wait passively, he must take action, so before the lion king went south, he ordered General Chang Quyu to close the city gate and the whole city to martial law, without his personal order, no one is allowed to enter and exit the crystal country through Xiyang City.

The lion king knew that the country was in an extraordinary period, and the various forces in the DPRK and China would definitely try to win him over, so he could only wait and see what happened. And the disappearance of Xilong just gave the lion king a good excuse to leave Xiyang City, a place of right and wrong, so he had written to the court last night to explain the disappearance of Xilong, there may be enemies around Xiyang City, the stakes are very high, and the lion king must personally go out to find the enemy. In this way, the Lion King went south to learn about the current situation in the Crystal Country; And from the lion king's letter, after all levels of the imperial court to reply, and then reply to the lion king, at least more than ten days.

"For more than ten days, maybe the various forces of the imperial court have compromised with each other, and the various city-states in the south are ready to move, and the imperial court cannot be allowed to continue to fight." The Lion King thought.

Soon, enough grain and grass, baggage vehicles, more than 100 requisitioned laborers, and more than 300 grain guards were also quickly assembled, and under the leadership of the lion king, they searched and advanced along the road where Xilong came.

It was a place where the snow had fallen heavily in the sky, but there were still sporadic bats that braved the cold and flew south.

"Bats are hibernating animals, how can they come out on a snowy day?" The lion king was puzzled, "Maybe it has something to do with Xilong, but unfortunately the soldiers around me are ordinary soldiers, and when they encounter these unusual things, they can only go to reconnoitre, but they can't find a solution, if only there were a few wizards like Xilong around me!" The lion king couldn't help but feel anxious when he thought of the missing sunset dragon.

To the southwest of Xiyang City is the upper reaches of the Qinglong River, but the river is too shallow for boats to pass. Hundreds of miles down the river, is Lengyang City, which is an important rear base for the garrison of Xiyang City. The Qinglong River begins to deepen from Lengyang City, and there can be ships to pass through the capital, Crystal City, and Xijia Village to the coastal city - Sea City.

Someone from Lengyang City soon came to report that Xilong's convoy had a short stay in Lengyang City, so the convoy must have disappeared between Xiyang City and Lengyang City, so the Lion King decided to expand the scope between Xiyang City and Lengyang City to search for the traces of Xilong.

The team marched mightily in the direction of Cold Sun City, and the snow was falling heavier and heavier, and the reconnaissance light cavalry walking in front had to spread out as much as possible to search for the traces left by the Xilong convoy as soon as possible, otherwise the snow would cover all the traces. But bats that appear in the sky from time to time attract the attention of the lion king.

Because along the way, these bats fly straight to the south, and the flow of the Qinglong River is to the southeast, and the location where the bats fly is the west of the Qinglong River, and there is the royal cemetery - Wanguo Mountain.

"Could it be that it has something to do with the sunset? Could there be something in the Ten Thousand Caves Mountain that attracts these bats and makes them fly there desperately regardless of the cold, regardless of life and death? "The Lion King knew in his heart that the mana of the Xilong was strong, and there could be no force between Xiyang City and Lengyang City to deal with the Xilong convoy, only the surrounding area of Wanguo Mountain was the most suspicious, but this was just speculation.

"Are there robbers? Impossible, his own cavalry often practiced in this vicinity, except for the imperial court's ban on not approaching Wanguo Mountain, other local cavalry patrolled. The lion king couldn't help but look in the direction of Wanguo Mountain, but the sky was full of snow, and he could only see the color of heaven and earth, and there were still tireless bats, like stepping on snowflakes, flying towards the direction of Wanguo Mountain.

The snow was flying all over the sky, fluttering and sprinkling, the lion king looked back at the cavalry team like a long dragon following behind, the second half of the team had been hidden in the vast snow curtain, and the baggage troops behind were even more invisible. With more than 1,000 cavalry, the lion king felt that he had a bottom in his heart, as long as he remembered Xilong's words: "All evil is in the heart, and evil cannot defeat the good!" ”

The lion king himself silently recited this sentence several times, and his heart gradually calmed down from being at a loss.

He dismounted and looked around, the snow had covered the road with dead grass, but fortunately there were sparse heather bushes on both sides of the road. These heather trees were specially planted by the people of Xiyang City and Lengyang City led by the Lion King to repair the road between the two towns, so that they could identify the road in the season when the grass was growing wildly.

All the scout hussars returned, much to the Lion King's disappointment, as he did not find any clues about the dragon. Only the three heavy cavalry who went to the vicinity of the Qinglong River to reconnoiter have not returned, these three heavy cavalry are familiar with the nearby terrain, and more importantly, the three of them were the guards of Wanguo Mountain before they threw themselves into the lion king's team, and then they had to evacuate Wanguo Mountain due to the war caused by the southward movement of the Beili Kingdom, and joined the team of the lion king who resisted the Beili Kingdom nearby. Fortunately, the army of the Northern Li Kingdom respected the undead, and although they surrounded Wanguo Mountain, they did not enter Wanguo Mountain to destroy the imperial tomb of the Crystal Kingdom. There is also a saying that the army of Beili could not enter at all, because those who went in never came out.

The Crystal Kingdom has been established for more than 300 years, and now the heir to the throne Tang Hua, who is only five years younger, is the tenth emperor, of course, the actual power of the imperial court is the current Queen Mother - Zhou Lan. Tang drew the above nine generations of emperors, each of whom built a huge imperial tomb of an entire mountain for himself, plus some tombs of princes, concubines and other relatives, and there were at least 100 tombs hidden in the mountains of Wanguo Mountain. There are countless gold and silver treasures and precious crystals buried with it, especially the legendary purple crystal the size of a grinding plate, which is the treasure of the crystal country. It is said that the reason why Wanguo Mountain can enter and exit is due to the huge energy of this purple crystal, and the secret of controlling this crystal's energy is only known to the members of the royal family.

The cavalry team continued to advance in the direction of Lengyang City, the lion king and a few guards stood on the side of the road, looking in the direction of the Qinglong River, and after a while, three black shadows gradually enlarged in the snow curtain, and sure enough, it was the three heavy cavalry rushing wildly! There seemed to be two black animals following behind, and the leading heavy cavalry was called Yao Yi, and shouted from a long distance: "Lord Wang! There's a clue! ——”

The lion king hurriedly greeted him, Yao Yi jumped off the horse and was about to give a salute, but the lion king hurriedly stopped him and said, "Love will work hard, what clues are there?" ”

"Can you take a step to speak?"

So the lion king let his guards leave, and followed the cavalry away from the procession, until he could not hear the sound of the procession.

"Lord Wang, just ask these two black donkeys!"

"Ahh The Lion King shouted in surprise.

"The Lion King! It's me, you don't have to look around, I'm Xilong! The black donkey in front of him raised his head and said.