On the fifth day after the siege began, the last monster disappeared, and at the same time, Huang Taiyi also felt the hot wind from the outside world.

The walls turned transparent, and then dissipated like smoke.

"Hahaha! It's a foolproof strategy! ”

Si Ming was full of spirit, and shouted loudly with his waist in front of the giant city opposite.

"That's what it is...... Chang'an? ”

Huang Taiyi was actually a little disappointed in his heart.

I thought that under the protection of the Great Wall, everything inside should be intact.

But that's not the case.

"Chang'an in the past must not be like this...... Sorry, I didn't mean to mention ......"

Huang Scarlet Sword's words had already been spoken, and when he saw Xiong with a complicated expression, he couldn't help but regret whether he had said the wrong thing.

"Of course...... It's not like that. ”

The bear closed its eyes, its body trembling.

It's not an important person, not even a screw, and its existence or absence is less important than whether a person has cut his hair or not.

But that doesn't stop it from having pride in its heart.

The sense of belonging to Datang and the glory of soldiers guard the responsibility of countless ordinary people......

It knows what it is, and it doesn't cling to the remnants of the past.

Just looking at the ruins, there is always a strange feeling in my heart.

That's what it is...... Tears?

The bear is aware, but it doesn't shed tears because it's mechanical.

So I buried everything in my heart.

"Tut, it's a pity, flying and flying, people don't know if they have flew, it's not that there is nothing left."

Mephistopheles leaned down and picked up a piece of shards that he didn't know where to come from, and threw them at the pool of stagnant water, on which the shards made three splashes.

"That's not right."

The squad leader suddenly spoke.

"Huh? Shouldn't tonkatsu be eaten with tomato sauce? Is it really better to have spicy soy sauce? ”

Si Ming raised his head with drooling.

She was following everyone and didn't fall asleep.

I already knew what was going on in her head.

"The waterhole is hard to keep intact without supplies, and although it is stagnant water, it is very clear, only the surface is dusty, and I suspect it has remained in its current state before we broke the Great Wall."

The squad leader will not pay attention to Si Ming's mentally retarded behavior, but just express his inferences in front of everyone.

After saying this, Huang Taiyi also found many doubts.

For example, the traces of the explosion, charred black, will not be mistaken.

Anyway, it's definitely not painted.

More than 3,000 years, almost 4,000 years.

Intact.

The monster did not commit any offense to the area outside the Great Wall, and when he waited, he did not see the explosion inside, that is......

If the Great Wall were some kind of device that resembled a seal, allowing the contents to be preserved.

In fact, there is a great possibility that Chang'an was destroyed when it was sealed by the Great Wall.

The actual situation is of course unknown now.

So this is by no means a collapse caused by the passage of time.

Something must have happened thousands of years ago.

Walking into Chang'an, the emperor felt that he was on the battlefield.

The smell of gunsmoke, after thousands of years, does not seem to have completely dissipated.

The ruins seem to be about to tell some tragic history, but unfortunately they don't make a sound, so they can't reach everyone's ears.

Target?

The goal, of course, is.

conspicuous enough to make Huang Taiyi think it would be a trap.

At the northernmost point of Chang'an, there is a huge crater with a diameter of about 30 kilometers.

Even if you are on the other side of Chang'an, you can see it clearly, which is second to none.

Anyone who is stupid knows that something must have happened here.

"Wow! Tofu slag project! ”

Si Ming sighed without any scruples.

Human "stupidity" is a relative concept, and it is difficult to know where the lower limit is, after all, the lower limit is constantly being broken.

"What was this place?"

The squad leader asked.

"It's the Imperial Palace."

The answer given by the bear is no different from conjecture.

Huang Taiyi also knew that there should have been many thrifty emperors from ancient times to the present, but no matter who they were, they would not be too sloppy in the palace.

It's like saving up most of your life to buy a house, and naturally you can't let go of every detail, and you have to think about it from beginning to end.

There is a high probability that the emperor will not be particularly short of money, but becoming an emperor is the most difficult, and there should be not much difference between the mentality and saving money to buy a house.

So, the palace can't just be a big pit.

"Don't get close, Mr. Huang, take a sample first and check if there is any harm."

The squad leader stopped Si Ming, who was about to go up and touch him, and then turned his head and said.

"OK, I'll take a look, this looks like it's plated."

The Emperor walked towards the edge of the pit.

Judging from the shape of the crater, there is a high probability that it was caused by the explosion, and traces of fluctuation and diffusion can be seen.

However, the palace, which was once in the pit, was not completely destroyed.

This is a doubt.

The second suspicion is the thin layer of metal that covers the surface of the crater, which has a texture somewhat like mercury but seems to be completely solid.

As long as it is still in the pit, without exception, it is all wrapped in it.

Maybe it's because of the existence of this metal that the ancient things haven't been destroyed?

Or was it the culprit in the explosion?

Huang Tai concentrated on the defense of True Qi and touched the surface of the metal.

Well, I see?

"It's ordinary metal, I don't know what structure it is, so I don't need to be vigilant, but I don't know why it became like this."

The Emperor informed everyone of the results of the investigation.

"Let's go down and have a look."

The squad leader was the first to jump, and among these people, the only one who needed to use the action of "climbing" was the bear.

"Is there anyone else?"

The sword in the Emperor's hand can poke and rummage around, so finding things is the most efficient.

It's just that what was found wasn't anything pleasant.

"I'm afraid it can't be saved, don't think about it."

Mephistopheles laughed.

Dead people can only be called corpses.

The whole body is wrapped in metal of unknown truth, and the expression of the person inside before death is clearly visible.

"It seems...... It's not a painful expression. ”

The Imperial Scarlet Sword slowly bit his lip.

Most people who have encountered disasters will not have any normal expressions when they die.

But the corpse looked calm.

It was an old man, probably between fifty and sixty years old, fat and kind, and the clothes he was wearing felt very much in line with the impression of "ancients", especially the part of the robe.

The old man should have been praying reverently for something, probably praying to eliminate the disaster, but his prayer should have had no effect.

When death comes, most prayers don't mean much, and the scene of waking up the person who should have died with tears can basically only appear in the anime.

The room where the old man was was had completely collapsed, and he was crushed under a broken pillar, and metal wrapped him and the pillar together as one.

"The man dies first, and the room collapses later."

The squad leader made a judgment on the status quo.

"How do you see that?"

Huang Taiyi asked.

"If you were pressed by the pillar before you died, your expression would be too calm, unless people in the past couldn't feel pain."

The squad leader's assertion is correct.

From the mouth of the bear, I learned that not only the people of the sky, but also the emperor was also a very ordinary person.

It is precisely because of the ordinary, that they will pursue some extraordinary actions.

For example, immortality.

The old man is just an ordinary official, the kind who commutes to and from the palace every day, and there may be hundreds or thousands of people at the same level, which can be judged by the bear on the costume.

Then this should be part of the palace, or at least the surrounding area.

"Apparently it died here, and the secret of immortality was not pursued."

Mephistopheles sometimes has a lot of damage.

But the facts cannot be changed.

"It's kind of weird, do you remember the monsters out there? If they were all made with the people of the sky, how would these people explain it? ”

The squad leader found a second body, an officer of the same paragraph.

"Maybe they're the masterminds."

Si Ming yawned as he walked, listless.

This possibility cannot be ruled out, and this explosion may also have a bit of a meaning of destroying the corpse.

Huang Taiyi's footsteps did not stop, he wondered what would be in the deepest part of the pit.

Maybe there will be the body of the emperor, and then it will be a little delicate.

He didn't think about who to laugh at in the past.

An ending is better than all words of ridicule.

"There could be a big palace nearby."

Emperor Scarlet found that as he got closer to the pit, the size of the wreckage became larger and larger.

The same is true for the pillars, which have gone from being the size of one person to being held by one person to the level of two or three people.

Xiong has not yet come into contact with the core of the palace, and can only make some judgments from the only memories he has, and he believes that this is indeed the center of the way to the palace.

It's good, it's getting closer to the emperor.

But unfortunately, the emperor or anything like that was not found at the bottom, but quite a few other corpses were found.

In the current situation where identity can only be judged by clothing, Xiong can identify many high-ranking officials above the court.

There are also civil ministers, and there are military generals, and everyone's death is so peaceful that it is terrifying.

Because this in itself is an anomaly that shouldn't happen.

There were even some corpses with expressions that were too pleasant, as if they were celebrating something.

Celebrate your own death?

In some cases, it's elegant.

If life is worth celebrating, why can't death?

"This is supposed to be the wreckage of the throne."

The bear found what is commonly known as a fragment of the dragon's chair.

You can really feel the spirit of craftsmanship from the inside, and it is more delicate than other wreckage.

But the emperor was not pressed below, and it was inevitable that there would be some regrets.

Click-

It's just a very subtle sound.

"Ah, I'm sorry! Really, I actually stepped on his hand......"

Si Ming kept bowing to one place and apologizing, everyone was cautious enough, but they still couldn't avoid stepping on the corpse.

At this time, Huang Taiyi's pupils suddenly constricted, and he rushed over to grab Si Ming like carrying a rice bag, and ran away as soon as he carried it.