Chapter 7: The Mirage
The sudden rain rendered the clouds into a vibrant landscape painting, and King Lanling and Li Bai, who had no time to find a place to shelter from the rain, could only move forward in the heavy rain.
This was the third day he had met Li Bai, and he took four other unknown travelers and demon seeds to move towards the Senluo Mountains in the distance.
At this moment, the Senluo Mountains in the distance looked even more blurry under the blue and white sky.
The petals of the blooming scaly flowers are wet, dusty, and finally merge with the desert.
"Dust to dust, dust to dust, a doomed future, a doomed sacrifice."
Looking at the petal scale flower that landed at his feet, the messenger whispered this sentence.
The cloaked group walked through the sand dunes, and without the guidance of the Lanling King, most of the travelers and caravans would have gotten lost.
Not long ago, Guiguzi said that he sensed that there was an unusually huge force condensing in the Senluo Mountains, and even if it was so far away, he could feel how powerful and terrifying that force was.
And now, he's going there to find out.
"I've rarely encountered demon seeds along the way, where have they gone?"
Towards evening, the group lit a bonfire in a cave near the Senluo Mountain Range, and while resting, Guiguzi suddenly asked the five people who were sitting around.
He knew very well that there was one of them who knew everything, but he wouldn't tell him, leaving him to figure it out for himself, which he called "God's trial."
"Some time ago, the demon seeds in the desert in the clouds have disappeared on a large scale, I checked, the places where they disappeared are near the Senluo Mountains and the erosion land, as for the center of the desert in the clouds, I don't know, but didn't you pass there? No news? Li Bai, who was dressed in white and had a lofty spirit, said.
Guiguzi said, "At the beginning, there were still a few demon seeds, and then there were no more...... I had entered a demon seed's lair before, but when I went back, there was nothing. β
"Is this normal?" Li Bai crutches with his arm and crutches King Lanling, who was sitting beside him.
"How do I know...... Tsk, don't touch my shoulder. King Lanling closed his eyes and opened his eyes when Li Bai touched his arm.
Li Bai was a little surprised, "Eh, you were injured, when did it happen?" β
"It's just a recurrence of an old injury, and it's ...... on a rainy day," King Lanling didn't want to say more, so he changed the subject, "It's better for you to go to the Duhu Mansion!" β
"It's good, why do you want to go to the Metropolitan Protectorate?" Li Bai blinked, then approached him and whispered, "Hey, don't have any bad ideas, they're not ordinary people." β
"Hmph." King Lanling closed his eyes and stopped talking.
"Do you want to eat?" Guiguzi handed the demon seed egg brought out from the King's Canyon to Luna, who was looking at the moon from afar, and asked curiously, "What are you looking at?" β
"Hometown." Luna replied.
"Hometown?" Li Bai narrowed his eyes and laughed, "Sure enough, it is the moon in my hometown that is the most intoxicating." β
"Hey, we don't have any wine!" Guiguzi said.
"It's okay, I know this blonde lady does."
"Golden ...... Blond? Guiguzi was taken aback, and King Lanling also looked at it, his eyes puzzled.
Is there such a person in the ranks?
Li Bai narrowed his eyes and smiled brightly, "Is there anything strange?" When I was fighting before, I saw - blonde hair. β
"When?" The messenger asked.
Li Bai opened his eyes, grinned, and said, "When we first met, I was fighting with demon seeds, and after you appeared, those demon seeds suddenly showed fear, and some nights, I saw long golden hair from under your cloak, and that color was not ordinary golden...... Now, who the hell are you? β
"We are ......," the messenger paused and said, "the primeval remnants, the travelers who inherited the will of the gods and activated the twelve miracles. β
"Clergy?" Li Bai raised his eyebrows and asked curiously, "So, you have something to do with Jixia?" β
"Well, we're students at Jixia Academy, and we're working on a research project called the Twelve Wonders Report." The messenger's heart did not beat and his face did not blush.
Guiguzi was secretly surprised in his heart, he didn't expect the envoy to lie!
Monki didn't have any doubts, as he and Luna shared the Demon Seed Egg and slept in their arms.
"So, you're going to the Great Wall?"
"Hmm." The messenger nodded.
"But unidentified people like you can't enter the Great Wall."
"Because there's no way?"
"That's right, but with your ability, you should be able to make a few copies!"
"Li Bai, you ......" King Lanling and Guiguzi spoke at the same time, one was said to help them, and the other didn't want the envoy to do this kind of thing.
The messenger nodded, and at the same time she asked, "But you need a guide, what do you want to do with it?" β
"Of course it isβrevenge on the Great Wall."
"I can't help myself." The messenger said.
"I just want to vent, can't I?"
"Yes, but I won't make a fake way to use it."
"Why? Don't you want to go into the Great Wall? β
The messenger replied solemnly, "I promised him that I would never do anything beyond my identity." β
"Really, irrefutable reasons." Li Bai shook his head helplessly, then jumped into a certain stone cave in the cave, and turned over to face them with his sword.
"You ......" Guiguzi pulled the sleeve of the messenger, wanting to say something, but only sighed.
"What did I do wrong?"
"No, you didn't do anything wrong and you didn't do it well."
"Oh."
"Is there anything big going on tomorrow?"
"Does a red rainstorm alert count?"
ββ¦β¦β
"Go to bed early, otherwise you won't be able to catch up with Senluo Mountain tomorrow."
"Why is it called Senluo Mountain?"
"Because there's everything."
"Vientiane? A mirage in the desert? β
"Well, I guess so."
"Oh, then, let's get some rest."
"We're already asleep." Luna, who was leaning on Monki, half-opened her eyes and replied sleepily.
The dawn of dawn pierced through the clouds, countless pillars of light cast on the desert, and the wind blew the petals of the scaly flowers.
The messenger, who had not slept all night, was standing on the cliff at the top of the cave, looking at the golden buildings in the distance.
Her cloak floated in the wind, like a pair of wings, as if it could rise at any moment.
"That'sβa mirage!" Guiguzi, who was looking at this scene together, was taken aback.
"Lanling City ......," the Lanling King muttered.
The Imperial Protectorate was built on the ruins of the ancient city, which was called Zhuliu City, also known as Lanling City.
King Jin Ting deliberately assigned the city belonging to the Metropolitan Protectorate to his jealous clan as a territory, and as long as the King of Lanling did not retake the Metropolitan Protectorate, he and his people would never have a territory.
The king of Lanling, the king of no territory and loneliness......
Thousands of mountains and rivers, the city gates are open in all directions, the fields are barren, the grass and trees are green, the traffic is busy, and the traffic is endless...... Rows of houses, wisps of rising smoke, the leisurely footsteps of the people, and the hurried figures of travelers.
Civilization has created a bustling city, but war has created a world of silence.
"Brother, Sister Mulan, uncle, Brother Kai, look, it's a mirage." In the ruins of the Duhu Mansion, Xuan Ce pointed to the scene of Lanling City and shouted at the others who were searching.
Hua Mulan looked up and was taken aback, "Is it really a mirage, or is it a ...... of Lanling City?"
Such a strange image was projected in the sky above the entire cloud desert, and countless people watched its existence from a distance, and recognized it as the former capital of the palace, the former ...... Lanling City.
- G, did you see that?
The voice of the second system of the Ark Light Brain Santa Ξ² appeared in the messenger's ears, and the messenger's expression did not change, still looking at the mirage in the distance.
Well, this is the doctor's masterpiece, what is he going to do?
- Will you tell your companions?
No.
- Let me think about it.
Ξ², enter standby mode.
- Wait, I said.
- The Doctor created a mirage with the Eye of Heaven, intending to evoke the memories of the remnants of Lanling behind the Great Wall, so as to spark a riot and retake the Great Wall.
Oh, guessed it.
- What are you going to do? After all, people will die in the event of a riot, and you have made a promise to Guiguzi that you will never hurt anyone.
I don't usually tell him about the Ark's actions, after all, I put the Ark's orders first.
- Okay, G, I'll get back to you later.
Guiguzi shook the staff in his hand, took back Xuanweizi and said, "Let's set off and go to the Duhu Mansion." β
"She won't call?"
The messenger leaped like a bird, jumped down from the cliff, his cloak fluttering like wings in the wind, and landed on the dunes where they were advancing.
I don't know if it's an illusion, Guiguzi noticed that the wind stood still at the moment she landed.
That's what it is...... God?
Reading fate, watching them step into the arranged story, they themselves are out of the way.
There is a gap between God and man.
If God goes to war with man, what will happen to the world?
"It's not going to be any worse than it is, and it's not going to be better than it's now." The messenger said suddenly.
"You're secretly reading my mind again?"
The messenger said, "It is your thoughts that come directly to my mind, and I can know them without reading them." β
"Tsk, can't you block it?"
"Didn't you say it before, do you need to block it now?"
"Of course, who wants to be spied on!"
"Okay......" said the messenger helplessly, blinking his eyes, "shielded, no matter what you think, I won't receive it." β
"Humph!" Guiguzi was very unhappy, and angrily launched Shenyin, walked in front, and caught up with Li Bai and King Lanling in front.
"Well, what's wrong with him?" Luna asked curiously.
"I pierced my careful thoughts, tsundere."
"At such an age, I'm still arrogant, and my childlike heart is still alive."
"Well, even so, he's someone very important to me?"
"Well, do you like him?" Luna asked suddenly.
"It's not this kind of feeling, it's because of the protection of fate, just like your brother."
"I ......see," Luna nodded, and then suddenly said, "By the way, the King of Lanling once told me that there is a blade warrior named Armor in the Great Wall Guards, and he could be my brother?" β
"You have to believe that the fragments of the power of miracles will allow you to meet."
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