When the two suns start to move separately, the small sun rises before the big sun and sets later than the big sun, the pace of the world enters the summer.

In the canons of the Little Yang Cult, this season means that the whole world begins to step into the brink of hell, and this is the moment when the evil Great Sun wreaks havoc on the mortal world.

It is conceivable that in the mouth of the priest of the Xiaoyang Sect, summer is the most comfortable and enviable day of the four seasons, and it is a special gift from the gods to mortals.

The concept of religious history on the mainland, which has lasted for nearly 1,000 years, has been reversed, and to put it upside down, it is actually nothing more than these two rebellious words.

Now, both sects have realized that it is clear that words alone cannot convince each other completely.

In the vast majority of places on the continent where the two churches bordered, more advanced methods of persuasion were used: horses and swords, armor and walls, hunger, sickness, and despair.

There is only one country on the whole continent that can still talk about peace, and only in this country can the competition between the two sects remain at the level of lip service and fists, and there is no large-scale forging of weapons and army recruitment, but the people of this country are not grateful, but they are deeply worried about it, because they all think that such a state of affairs is very unreasonable, and they need a war to settle this painful dispute, otherwise, the gravitational pull of these two suns, Will tear everyone's heads out of schizophrenia.

Just like their king.

The people desperately wanted war, but the country had one of the most irrational kings, the madman Elis.

In the whole continent, if you rank the monarchs of all countries, as long as the keywords are positive, whether it is piety, charity, justice, wisdom...... King Elise will definitely dominate the bottom of the rankings forever, but what is unacceptable to the smart people of the whole continent is that under the command of such a king, who seems to them to be extremely defeated, there is one of the most elite troops in the whole continent. Because of the existence of this army, even though the Kingdom of Elise is at the junction of the two churches of the Great Yang Sect and the Little Yang Sect, even if the people of the two sects are clamoring every day to kill each other's entire body, this country still exists strongly.

What's more, it not only exists, but can be regarded as the most prosperous area of the entire continent, even if the king of the kingdom now hangs people on the gallows at the gate of the city every day, it still can't stop the merchants from transporting the goods of the entire continent here.

At the hottest time of the noon in the summer, when eggs can be cooked without boiling, the gates of the royal city of Elise are still in constant flux, and the richly dressed merchants sprinkle cold water on their bodies while letting their servants help fan the heat; The poor frowned, their eyes were only on their goods, and they clutched their purses, and as for the sun in the sky, they were accustomed to endure it; Only the pastors remained zealous and preached their doctrine to all who came and went on both sides of the road; The children in the crowd would listen to the little Yang priest in the queue on the left and tell them about the pain caused by the sun, and then they would listen to the sun on the right and make them harvested, and their preaching was so convincing, but it was so-for-tat, that every child listening to the story was dizzy, and even their parents were asked questions that could not be answered.

A young nobleman led his mount and was moving forward little by little with the crowd. Neither the spirit of the man nor the horse looked very good, and he couldn't lift his head in the scorching sun. If you listen closely, you can hear the well-dressed, dusty nobleman's belly still seem to be grunting as a poor man, and his mount seems to be choking with hunger, for its head is always on the carrot that the farmer carries nearby.

Wu Xiaoqing broke Jingding's head back for the tenth time and told it: "Don't be greedy, be a little patient, when you enter the city, brother, I will let you eat enough." ”

If it weren't for the law here, which prevented any transactions from being allowed while queuing at the city gate—because then there would be no taxes in the city—Wu Xiaoqing bought Jing Ding a large bundle of carrots early in the morning and let him eat enough.

There are not only carrots around, but also fresh chickens and ducks, and even pigs, cattle and sheep, these livestock are standing in line with the crowd, just behind Wu Xiaoqing, at this time there are several pigs swaying back and forth on the side of the road.

Wu Xiaoqing wondered why, when he came all the way, he took the money all the way to buy these chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep at a high price, and these ordinary people just bit to death and refused to sell them. Several times, Wu Xiaoqing was so hungry that he almost pulled out a knife and was about to kill a pig himself, and he bought and sold it by force. Unfortunately, he underestimated the pig's desire to escape, and he chased the pig for half the village, and he didn't even eat a single pig hair.

But when he arrived in the city, he lined up and found that all the people were scrambling to send their things into the city to trade, Wu Xiaoqing had been here since the city gate was opened in the morning, and it was noon, so it was his turn.

According to the search and rescue team's theory of Wu Xiaoqing's popular science, to a large extent, it is because the city still has a good level of management in this era - the managers will not directly rob the merchants who come to trade at every turn - but only part of it, and it is also named "tax".

In this world, this alone is enough to attract the general public and businessmen.

Wu Xiaoqing was also affected by this consequence, although the impression left on him by the world's first city was so terrible that Wu Xiaoqing could still recall the terrifying smell of that city. But compared to not being able to eat the right food outside, Wu Xiaoqing felt that he would rather endure the taste - it was more terrifying in the outside world than inside.

You don't have to talk about people to be wary of, stealing and robbing everywhere, just buying things was a professional knowledge in the Middle Ages. Not to mention adulteration, many times it is even poisonous - there is alum, lead white, slaked lime and even ashes in bread, gypsum, sand and earth in sugar, sulfuric acid will be added to vinegar to increase flavor, and chalk will be added to milk...... The most terrifying thing is that many times, these practices are still sincere and kind from the heart!

In the end, there is no such thing as an "expiration date" for all of these foods, and generally speaking, the store will try their best to sell all the stock in the store first, and then make a new batch of things out.

Wu Xiaoqing even bought cured meat that had been stored for forty-five years, which could almost be regarded as an antique. If it weren't for the search and rescue team, Wu Xiaoqing might have died dozens of times just because of food poisoning at this moment.

Because of food safety problems, Wu Xiaoqing even had to go to the field to pick ready-made food, such as radishes and potatoes, which are complete and not easy to fake.

Up to now, Wu Xiaoqing has been eating potatoes for four days in a row, and this potato is still made by himself - he can only fry one kind of potato, and after eating it in four days, Wu Xiaoqing will subconsciously think about its flesh when he sees something alive now......

It is said that King Elis once ordered the right hands of 29 bakers to be cut off overnight - since then, the bread of the King of Elise has become synonymous with the best bread in the whole continent. It is precisely for this reason that Wu Xiaoqing came here day and night - his stomach is really a little unbearable.

"What are you doing?"

"Doing a jewelry business."

"Check."

Wu Xiaoqing opened the stainless steel lunch box he used for eating, and now this lunch box has become a jewelry box, glass marbles, pearls, and gemstones...... The valuable things on his body are basically placed in it.

The clerk next to the soldier carefully counted the number, and according to the prescribed tax rate, took out three glass marbles from it as tax, and then let him go.

When Wu Xiaoqing entered the city, the first thing he did was to find someone to inquire where the best restaurant was, and he wanted to eat enough at one time!

Still, the search and rescue team found something more interesting.

So, Wu Xiaoqing had to be patient for a while, and according to the requirements of the search and rescue team, he walked to a whole row of gallows.

There were nineteen of these gallows, and by this time nineteen corpses had been hung, the first few had been decomposed, and only a pile of bones remained, and the last of the newest, clothes were still stained with the stench of feces and urine, and countless flies were biting around the corpse.

After looking at these gallows, Wu Xiaoqing struggled to squeeze through the crowd and walked to the target that the search and rescue team was interested in.

It was a billboard.

Wu Xiaoqing adjusted his glasses so that they were steadily aimed at the words on the list, and then read the search and rescue team's translation word by word.

This is a list of medical treatments written by the king of this kingdom himself three years ago.

The king had sweet urine - presumably diabetes, and wanted to use the list to seek a wise doctor or a wizard - and with the civilization of this world, the two were largely one and the same - and if anyone could cure him, the king would be willing to meet any request from the doctor.

The king even said in the list that he was willing to give him the throne for this. But if the person who came to be treated was merely in name, then the doctor would have to meet any of the king's requests—the requirements of death.

Hanging, beheading, poisoning, trampling by horses, whipping to death...... The last one, who was thrown into a dung pit and drowned, seemed to be a way for the king to tell everyone that the name of the madman Elise was not for nothing.

The most widespread, most concerned, and most enduring topic on the continent is now about Elis's illness and the tragic deaths of doctors, wizards, and psychics. ——On the way to the Kingdom of Elis, these news once made Wu Xiaoqing hesitate whether he should set foot on the territory ruled by this tyrant.

"What are you looking at here?" On the way to the restaurant, Wu Xiaoqing asked the search and rescue team, "Have you figured out a way?" ”

"I'm still thinking that this is a collection of information," said the search and rescue team, "and you can rest in the city for a day, and tomorrow you will have to travel to investigate a valley." ”

Wu Xiaoqing was a little lazy: "Let's rest for two more days, Jingding has lost weight, anyway, there are still more than four months." ”

A few days ago, Shen Changwen had calculated the exact time of the volcanic eruption and had already informed Wu Xiaoqing. Running around outside, Wu Xiaoqing couldn't remember the specific number of days, but he only roughly remembered that it should be more than four months, almost half a year younger.

In Wu Xiaoqing's opinion, what is too late to do for such a long time? Their last mission only took about twenty days.

However, the search and rescue team did not see it that way.

"Strictly speaking, it's one hundred and thirty-one days and eight hours," the search and rescue team said, "and the time is very tight, and we haven't been able to find a satisfactory and feasible rescue plan so far." ”