The atmosphere in the central hall was tense, and the candlelight swayed with everyone's breath.

The old man Xia Dong argued with reason, his eyes and words were extremely loyal: "A thousand years ago, it was that wise man who descended from the sky to save mankind and help mankind establish Huacheng. This young man has taken the slate test, and he is the one chosen by the wise! Castle Lord! ”

"That's enough, Elder Xia Dong. Don't you see the fire burning eyebrows! Can you stop being so dead-eyed. The most important thing for us right now is how to defend Hwaseong. What is the point of discussing this young man in a life-or-death situation? One of the elders spoke out loud.

There were more than a dozen people in the hall, and one by one they stared at Zhuang Qiu fiercely.

"I said, young man, no matter what your purpose is, what means did you use to deceive our upright Elder Xia Dong, so that he would speak for you so desperately. But we're not that easy to deceive! Come on, grab it and press it down! Another elder slapped the table and stood up and beckoned to the guards.

The reigning Elder Xia Bei took advantage of the situation to expose Zhuang Qiu, and said in a fierce tone: "This person must be arrested, when he enters the city, he is holding the special rain gear of the Demon Dog Clan Royal Family in his hand. Also, why did he enter the city with his front foot, and the demon clan came to attack with his back foot! ”

"What are you talking about, you know that he may be a spy of the demon clan, but you dare to let him in. Elder Xia Bei, are you going to be a sinner through the ages! The other elders rebuked mercilessly.

"At that time, the old man was about to arrest him, but the eldest princess passed by...... "Xia Bei omitted Zhuang Qiu's fall into the pond, and his words were a little slurred.

"Wait!" Xia Dong stretched out his hand to stop him, he looked at Zhuang Qiu, his eyes were complicated, and there was a hint of apology in the entanglement. Then he faced the hostility of the crowd with one person, and said resolutely: "This matter started because of me, and I pledge my life that this man is a man of a thousand years." ”

"Now is not the time to discuss this matter, the soldiers are coming to the city, and it is imminent, and this is the first thing we should deal with." The main force of the city oppresses the crowd, "The human race will never kill, but it will never tolerate any spies." Wait for Hwaseong to survive this catastrophe, and then make a decision on this matter. Please go down and keep watch! ”

From beginning to end, Zhuang Qiu didn't defend himself, if he stood on Hwaseong's position, he would do the same. But to his surprise, Xia Dong was so convinced that he was the one chosen by the wise.

After a dispute to no avail, Xia Dong safely sent Zhuang Qiu out of the central hall.

"I'm sorry to make you laugh, they are all thinking about the future of Hwaseong, I hope you don't mind." Xia Dong was very polite to Zhuang Qiu, he had done the test for forty or fifty years, and no one knew more about the test and the legend of the test than him. A once-in-a-millennium pit turns into a bump, and he knows better than anyone what it means.

Zhuang Qiu also understood that what the other party could do now was to stabilize Zhuang Qiu and not let Zhuang Qiu's impression of human beings be extremely bad. Xia Dong firmly believed that Zhuang Qiu was that person, and took a step back and said, even if it wasn't, there was nothing to lose. As for Xia Bei's statement that Zhuang Qiu had a connection with the demon clan, Xia Dong didn't believe it, and the demon mirror did not issue a warning, which meant that Zhuang Qiu was a human being. Naturally, humans can't be in the same league as monsters, just as humans and cockroaches can't coexist at all.

"Elder Xia Dong is not afraid that I am really a demon clan spy? In the central hall, you do not hesitate to offend the people, and fight for me. Zhuang Qiu's mind fixed Xia Dong's back to him, and with the scene of a pair of people, he was slightly grateful in his heart.

Xia Dong shook his head, took out something from his arms and handed it to Zhuang Qiu, "This is my elder order, you take it." I believe in you, others don't necessarily believe in you. When it's really life-threatening, you use it to save your life. ”

Zhuang Qiu took the iron elder's order, Xia Dong and the guards explained that they would take care of Zhuang Qiu, and hurried back to the central hall.

The two guards brought Zhuang Qiu to the room to settle down, and Zhuang Qiu thanked them and glanced at the surroundings.

"I see that our people in the city are preparing everywhere, why didn't they go to the west?" Zhuang Qiu asked.

The two guards pouted and shook their heads, "It may be that the city lords and elders feel that the third city in the west will not act rashly. Hey, I don't know what's going on, suddenly there are so many demon clans at once! ”

Zhuang Qiu already understood the general situation, and obediently walked into the room, and the two guards closed the door and guarded here. Entering the room, Zhuang Qiu came to the window. Scanning the surrounding environment before, there was a clearing behind the window, which was originally guarded by soldiers, but now that the demon clan is attacking, the situation is urgent, and these soldiers are transferred to prepare for battle. For a while, there was no one to fill the gap.

"Now that the divine soldiers have come out, some demon clans have taken action to search for the whereabouts of the divine soldiers. But now, Hwaseong is under attack, and it must be the third city that is making trouble. The soldiers are fast, they want to take advantage of the fact that all the demon clans are focused on the divine soldiers, and take the fortress of Huacheng in one fell swoop! "Zhuang Qiu's mind remembers clearly, the east of the third city is Huacheng, and the east of Huacheng is a steep mountain, such a natural barrier, a place where soldiers must fight, "On the surface, Huacheng is between several demon cities, but it is not guaranteed that those cities are all subsidiary cities of the third city......"

The more he thought about it, the more complicated Zhuang Qiu's mood became, he held Xia Dong's elder order in his hand, and secretly decided, "Since I, Zhuang Qiu, am in Huacheng, I won't let this city fall under my eyes." ”

Zhuang Qiu opened the window and saw the humans running back and forth around, and he didn't have time to look at others at all. He immediately rolled out the window and went straight to the west gate of Huacheng.

Because most of Hwaseong's troops went to several other directions, in the judgment of the Hwaseong City Lord and the elders, the Third City has not participated in the struggle for hegemony, and presumably this time it is just a bluff.

Zhuang Qiu thought the opposite, "This may be the third city's transfer of the tiger from the mountain." ”

Running all the way to the west, a little girl of five or six years old along the way attracted Zhuang Qiu's attention. The same beautiful Lori, the same double ponytail. Zhuang Qiu had a plan, called the name of Elder Xia Dong, and borrowed the little girl.

"Little friend, will you do what your brother taught you in a while?"

"No, you're an uncle, not an older brother."

Zhuang Qiu was speechless, and ran to the west gate with the little girl in his arms. Now that the army is approaching the city, time is pressing, and Zhuang Qiu does not have much time to delay.

"Open the door! Elder Xia Dong's token is here, let me out of the city! Elder Xia Dong is responsible for all the consequences! Zhuang Qiu put down the little girl and urged her to run up to the city tower, "Go, remember what I taught you, and go back Uncle will make you something to eat!" ”

The well-behaved little girl saved Zhuang Qiu a lot of effort, but this group of soldiers was not easy to deal with. Under the city is the demon army of the third city, if the door is opened, they will attack it in groups, and Huacheng will be destroyed.

"There's no time to be verbose now, Elder Xia Dong personally gave an order, delayed, which of you is responsible! It's okay if you don't open the city gate, is there a dog hole? Zhuang Qiu threw the Elder Token into the soldier's hand and asked anxiously.

"Huh? Yes! Yes, there is. The soldiers defending the city were stunned for a moment, and hurriedly took Zhuang Qiu to open a passage that was just right for one person to lie on the ground and pass through the passage.

At this time, there were already bursts of war drums resounding through the sky outside the city wall, and the demon army was eager to try and was preparing to attack the city. Zhuang Qiu did not hesitate to drill out of this hole, and he would face an incomparably brave army of 30,000 demon clans in the third city.

"I'm afraid of a fart! At the beginning, Zhuge Liang's empty city plan scared away Sima Yi's army, isn't it the same! ”

Thank you [Lori?] Nao Saito].