Suddenly, the surrounding scenery disappeared into a miserable white chaos, but when the wind and snow danced wildly, huge snowflakes fell from the sky one by one, and the snow that had just been trampled out by horses' hooves and people was quickly filled. A few crows hovered over the palace, their hoarse black chirping clattering and crashing into the roof.

- The monsters have invaded Bianjing. As if opening the box of disaster, they raged out of the snowdrifts, from the trees, from the frozen river, walking on the ground, flying in the sky, swimming in the water, and launched an offensive towards the whole of Bianjing.

The time is three watches in the middle of the night, and some people get up at night, when they see that the window is already bright, they can't help but wonder about their fixed biological time, and some feel more weird, and push the door to go out, just walk out, the monster with the six-legged monster with bat wings and the human face screams and flies over, the spikes on both sides of the head pierce into the throat of the person at the moment it turns its head, and it leaks out from the back of the neck, and the wail is loud for a while, the poor victim has no time to get rid of it, and is thrown into the air by the strange bird, and when it falls, the wings flutter and fly up, and the child who hears the strange noise outside the door runs out to see what is going on, just as he saw his father being torn apart in the air by several strange birds, a piece of bloody flesh fell in front of him with a click. The child, who hadn't eaten meat for a long time, squatted down and picked it up. The white-headed and red-footed giant ape scurried towards him with heavy limbs, and the child looked up to see the steely fist swinging towards him, and a pink mass of paste spread out on the snow.

This is true in the city, and there is no better in the imperial city. It is said that it is heavily guarded and prepared, but what is generally "avoided" is often something that people normally imagine, such as assassins, enemy troops, or ordinary natural disasters, anyway, it will definitely not be these strange monsters with abominable faces now, except in dreams, who has ever seen such a battle, who knows how to deal with it? When there is nothing to do, only speed can win. The nimble soles of their feet slipped away and hid, and the sluggish ones became the belly of the monsters - but when the brave or lucky defeated the monster that had eaten their companions, when the broken snowflakes in its painting fell from the sky, there were no corpses or even fragments falling from the same place, as if the "mouth" of these monsters was a passage, and in their bodies was a space of another dimension, once a person entered, he completely disappeared from this world, could not come back, and disappeared without a trace.

"It's better to die. "One of the guards carried a knife, which was covered with a thick layer of snow, which froze his hands red, swollen and purple, and his clothes were covered with his own blood. He said to the other guard with a trembling voice, "Where do you say they went? Did they go to a very dark and dark world? I am more afraid of loneliness than death, I am afraid of the dark, I am afraid of being alone, so I have to come to be a guard, and I am not afraid of being with many people every day." ”

"No, I can't. The other party interrupted him, and the upper breath was not connected to the lower airway, "Don't die, can't die." If you don't stop it this time, it's not just you and me who will die, it's going to be the Nine Clans!"

"You're so responsible! Don't you see...... The palace has become like this, let alone Bianjing. The world is going to be destroyed, it's better to die now!" The guard cried, and as if determined, he raised his knife and put it on the side of his neck with a forceful stroke, but before his companion could step forward to stop it, hot blood splattered out, and water arrows pierced his eyes. He hurriedly rubbed his eyes and stepped back, and in his blurred vision, the demon beasts swarmed up from all directions, densely squirming like fat white larvae.

When he smells blood, these monsters will come here like crazy, and he has to believe that they are real, alive, not hallucinations, and it is this thought, this inference of "not hallucination", that completely destroys his companions, and makes him fall into a state of no return in extreme fear, and he cannot come back completely, but perhaps for him, the "unknown" is more terrifying than "death", it is a matter of personal choice.

And where should he go?

When he was halfway back, suddenly someone hit him hard, he jumped up like a spring, and turned his head in horror to see that it was another little guard who had been pecked blind by a strange bird, and one eye socket had become a deep valley, and one eyeball hung down, and the strip of flesh shook violently, and it seemed that it was about to be turned to the ground. Yet he was alive after all, and he was unusually tenacious. With this tenacious will, and the luck of avoiding all the attacks that were close at hand, he touched all the way to the door of the palace of Longyou, stretched out his hand, banged on the door, and said in a hoarse voice: "Help me, save me." Is there anyone in there, whoever it is, save me......"

The Queen Mother frowned and said, "Who is making noise outside?"

Tong Guan walked to the door, lowered his head and listened, and said: "Back to the Queen Mother, this slave is not clear, probably a slave who is not big or small, and he was so frightened that he was delirious, so he dared to knock on the door of Longyou Palace." The minions went back and disposed of him. The Queen Mother should not panic, trivial things. ”

"Little things, just be careful, nothing is a small thing. The Queen Mother frowned and sighed lightly, "If you break the rules and break into the Longyou Palace, it stands to reason that you will die." The more nobodies they are, the more they are afraid of this kind of rule. But what is it that makes this person so afraid that he is not even afraid of death, and how terrible is this 'thing more afraid than death'? I am afraid that the outside has become a hell on earth now......

Zhang Dian smiled and said: "The Queen Mother is Mingjian." How long has it been since you saw such a scene? Heavy snow is falling, monsters are rampant, the world is not like the world, hell escapes from hell. Dodging is useless, Queen Mother, you have to face all this after all, just like the 'that decision' I want you to make......" Before he finished speaking, he was pressed by Liu Anshi's shoulder.

The Queen Mother said calmly: "It's not time yet." ”

The Queen Mother always said this, and the ministers were tired of hearing it. The old minister understands that the queen mother dislikes the old minister's low position and power, and he is not qualified to sit on an equal footing with the queen mother, and discuss this matter in vain, and the queen mother resents the old minister. Zhang Dian raised his head unhurriedly, neither humbly nor arrogantly, "But the Queen Mother, isn't it just so that you don't have to communicate directly with the sect leader?"

The Queen Mother raised her head slightly and said, "Are people already here?"

As he spoke, the storm outside swept wildly, and only the sound of wind and snow like drums and thunder could be heard, and the snow was so big, too much, too thick, that even the air around it turned into a cloudy mist, and the snow rushed wildly in mid-air, and threw at some behemoth, and suddenly flew into white fireworks and exploded.

Then the people heard that some kind of unpleasant fellow, some behemoth, was gradually approaching this place, so that the wind and snow were temporarily blocked, and replaced by an extremely terrible murderous aura, which blocked half of their white and bright vision, and the sky suddenly darkened.

And the hand outside Ryuyu's palace was still knocking on the door. Knock knock, knock knock, knock, knock. All at once, dying, never giving up, no matter what kind of horror the scene was outside, it still knocked on the door unmoving, firmly and firmly, closer to the ghost of condensation.

Even Tong Guan muttered in his heart, why is this person not dead yet, and his vitality is tenacious enough. In this kind of windy and snowy weather, if people are not active, they can freeze to death in a few moments. To stop is to die. It's weird, it's unusual, maybe ...... His heart moved, and he walked to the door, and said to the comer, "Who is it?"

There was no echo, only a knock on the door. Tong Guan pursed his lips, leaned to the side, and looked out through the crack in the door, trying to see the situation outside, but he only saw a slightly darker white than just now. Can't see clearly. He narrowed his eyes, raised his voice, and asked again: "Who is coming? You are not allowed to enter the Longyou Palace without permission, this is the rule!"

Suddenly, he heard a slow and long rumbling sound, like a door made of boulders being pushed open, and then, a crisp male voice sounded unusually clearly, it was the voice of a young man, this voice seemed to float in from the distant sky for a while, and it was a faint fragrance that lingered for a long time: "The rules? What is the use of the rules of the palace in front of me? I can enter when I want, and I can leave when I want, but instead of coming to see me, you also stopped me at the door, what kind of rude behavior is it?"

Tong Guan's throat tightened, and cold sweat broke out; Shao Bowen's lowered eyes lifted up slightly, and he looked out of the door; Zhang Duan was surprised and frightened, and muttered in his mouth: "He's here, he's here in person......" Liu Anshi, who was holding his shoulder, looked at each other angrily, he hated the culprit who brought restlessness to the royal family; and the Queen Mother listened quietly to the words of the visitor, and the gorgeous nails of her right hand played with the beautiful Buddha beads on the wrist of her left hand, and when he finished the last sentence, the Queen Mother paused for a while and said: "Tong Guan, open the door." ”

"Queen Mother!" Tong Guan said, "Aren't you afraid that this is a trap?"

The Queen Mother said: "The mourning family asked you to open the door, but did not let you question the mourning family in turn." ”

Tong Guan sweated and said with difficulty: "Yes." ”

The moment the door was opened, everyone was slightly stunned.

Outside the window, there were not only miserable white snowflakes, but also huge demon beasts, the form was so huge that it surpassed all the small demon beasts present, so huge that they blocked the snow and light, but they themselves were countless times more ferocious than the snow and light.

Tong Guan was in the outermost position, so he was the first to see the appearance of one of the demon beasts: it looked like a huge fat snake with wings, its huge mouth was like a funnel, and it gradually shrank into a sharp point at the tail, and the whole shape was like a huge pocket, with two pairs of four wings and six fat short feet. It had no eyes, no face, no features but its mouth, and it hovered and writhed in the air, its head bowed, and it sucked everything it approached into its abdomen, snow, stones, trees, human limbs...... Including the hand of the person who had just knocked on the door.

He had only one hand left, a quarter of his arm attached.

And this hand is knocking on the door of the Longyu Palace.

The reason is another monster next to this pocket monster. It was also huge, like a white tiger, with a black pattern like a cage iron pillar shuttling between the snow-white hair, and a pair of huge wings were born in the black pattern. It has two pale golden dragon horns on its forehead, and the dragon horns are sharp like daggers, which match the fangs in its mouth. It had the hand in its mouth, its teeth embedded in its flesh and bones, blood running down it, and the faceless beast was bent on sucking it into its abdomen, but the tiger-like monster refused. Therefore, one bites, the other sucks violently, and the hand goes back and forth, and it becomes the effect of knocking on the door again and again.

After seeing it, Tong Guan was terrified, his whole body was cold, and he almost wanted to run now, but he couldn't.

There was an eerie silence in the atmosphere, and it seemed that even Zhang Dan, who did not belong to this camp, was taken aback.

It wasn't until the one-legged giant bird that the comer was riding fell from the sky, stopped in front of the door and bowed his head, and clearly presented him in front of their eyes, that everyone's luck just now completely disappeared, and they realized that everyone had heard it correctly, it was not an illusion, it was indeed the voice of a young boy, and it was the voice of a young man they knew - this person, they could not be more familiar.

"Like?" The Queen Mother's voice trembled, and the determination she had held on to before suddenly turned into a fragile eggshell. She muttered, "How are you ...... It's become like this?"

The person who came turned out to be King Jian Zhao Ru, who was two years younger than Zhao Ji, and who mysteriously disappeared not long ago, leaving only a pool of blood on the wall. Zhao Ji knew about his disappearance, and the Queen Mother was as busy as a dhara, unaware of the matter, so she was even more shocked.

He was thinner than ever, his cheeks sunken and protruding from the bones, which a teenager of his age should not be so thin. His face and lips were miserable and pale, completely deprived of blood, and what was even more terrifying was his eyes, which were not at all the eyes of a child, for though he was precocious, he was still a child after all, and his eyes were absolutely clear, but now his eyes were full of old age, cruelty, and arrogance.

He looked at them condescendingly, and said to the Queen Mother without any emotion in a tone he had never used to speak: "Queen Mother, have you forgotten that the Huayang Sect and the royal family have never been an equal exchange relationship, but from the very beginning, the Huayang Sect has the ability to control the royal family, but you forget it again and again, and think that we will also forget, and you want to take this dangerous step, but don't you fall into the abyss of no return every time?"

Liu Anshi shouted: "You are despicable!"

Tong Guan was afraid that he would be impulsive, so he hurriedly reminded in a low voice: "Lord Liu, don't talk nonsense." His Royal Highness King Jane is in his hands. ”

"Despicable?" he raised his hand with a smile, his thumb bent and close to his palm, and the other four fingers were tightly straightened, making a "knife" appearance, across his throat, smiling coldly, and said: "Then you try, come and kill me, you can't, you don't dare, and I can kill myself, as long as I want, I have too much flesh to occupy, and it's not a pity to throw away one." But it would be a pity if one of your princes died......"

The Queen Mother got up, walked over to him, shook her head, and said cautiously: "Don't." Like, don't. ”

When he walked in front of the Queen Mother, he smiled suddenly, shook his head and said angrily: "I am the leader of the Huayang Sect, not your precious heart and liver prince." What you see is my soul, and the body of this prince who has no soul anymore, and the body that I occupy, you can think of it as a 'corpse'. Dead, understood, dead! Queen Mother, your prince has died again. It's tragic to die so much and still die. But the Queen Mother is not too sad, is she? Of all these princes, none of them were born to you......"

The Queen Mother said slowly: "Since people die, they can't be resurrected." It's you, every time, every time, since before the first emperor, since the mourning family was not born, you use different skins, manipulate everything behind your back, and your body never ages. Why don't you die? You know how much the mourners want you to be gone. ”

"It's a pity, I'm still very good, you don't stop every day, and Huayang Sect doesn't die for a day. Huayang Sect Leader sneered, "And these long years will only make my hatred more intense, I am very grateful that you have ruined my plan, and I hate you for toasting and not eating and drinking, such a great shame, I will never forget." ”

The Queen Mother sneered: "It's a great shame, is it because Empress Meng was deposed? This is the emperor's will, it is the decision of the Son of Heaven, and there is no disobedience, and Empress Meng herself is indeed practicing witchcraft in the palace, leaving her to continue to plague the royal family? Isn't it tiring to install such a stupid person in the palace to make eyeliner for you, Huayang Sect Master." ”

Huayang Sect Leader said: "I don't want you to say that she is stupid, this is my daughter!"

"Daughter?" Tong Guan suddenly exclaimed, "Then, the last body used was the doctor in the palace more than ten years ago......"

The Queen Mother didn't care about picking up her nails, and said with her head bowed: "Do you think she is as great as you? But your Huayang Sect is just a parasite attached to the bloodsucking blood of the royal family." If the royal family does fall, you simply have nowhere to go. ”

"I'm not going to do that this time. It's never been seen before that the son doesn't understand the rules and refuses to cooperate with me today—how do you train the princes?"

"After talking for a long time, it turns out that you still want to go back to the issue of Prime Minister Zhang just now. The mourners know what you're going to say. You want the mourning family to agree with your choice and let you choose a prince to be the emperor, right?—— don't think about it. The Queen Mother said coldly, "Your Majesty, he's not dead yet!"

At this time, the two monsters in the doorway let out a whimper, and the sound was long and deep. One of them, with only eyes and facial features, even lowered his body and poked his head in to peek in.