Sincerity is both brave and martial, and in the end it is strong and invincible; the body is both dead and the spirit is the spirit, and the soul is resolute and resolute.

- "Nine Songs: National Martyrdom"

"It is rumored that when you die, you go to the land of death," Kai, who has been in the army for two years, told the recruit as a veteran, "There is no end to darkness. ”

"Where is that kingdom?" asked Hong Liang, who had just joined the guard for half a month, and he liked to hear these stories.

Looking ahead, the sea in front of him stretched to the sky, and there were some black spots on the ocean, which seemed to be islands. Kai stretched out his hand and pointed to a black dot in the sea, "Oh, there it is." ”

"Brag, how can you hold so many dead people with such a small point?" Hong Liang didn't believe what Kai said, turned his head to look at Jiang You, who had been silent next to him, and asked, "Brother Jiang You, is what he said true?"

Jiang You, who was over 50 years old, was also a veteran in the army, and he didn't want to get involved in the discussion between the two juniors, but when he finally got involved in the controversy, he asked rhetorically: "What do you think? Has he been there? ”

"Of course it's true!" Kai saw that not only did the two of them not believe him, but also made mocking words, and his face was red with excitement, "Before I joined the army, in the family library, I happened to read an ancient book, and it was recorded that in the North Sea in front of us, there is a big mountain, called the Mountain of Youdu, which is the land of the dead. ”

"But my mother told me that when you die, you really die, and there is nothing. Hong Liang said honestly.

"Hong Liang, my nurse also told me such things. Kai chuckled, "Don't believe what you hear in a woman's arms. Otherwise, what do you think we're patrolling and guarding on this North Sea?"

"Isn't our border army just to guard against wolves, bears, savages and other things to invade the villagers?" Hong Liang retorted.

"Alright, don't argue. Seeing that the argument was endless, Jiang Youkou intervened, "Today's patrol mission has been completed, we should go back to the camp, and now the sky is getting dark." ”

Kai Yi glanced at the sky happily, "It's not like this every day, I said Jiang You, you can't be afraid of the dark, right?" As a noble son of the Yi clan in Great Xia, he came to this army to guard the northern border only on the orders of his family, and he could rise to the top by accumulating a few years of experience.

Jiang You naturally ignored his ridicule, he had been in the army for more than ten years, he had seen a lot of these noble children coming and going, he naturally would not know what a terrible thing they were guarding against.

Kai saw that Jiang You didn't pay attention to himself, and he didn't want to be bored anymore, "Then go back." With that, he turned around and walked away. But suddenly I heard a loud exclamation.

"Wait, what's that?" Kai looked back to see Hong Liang pointing to the sea.

"Hmm, nothing, the sea, the island, what else?" Kai glanced at the sea, and he felt that Hong Liang was teasing himself.

"No, you're seeing it clearly!" Hong Liang was anxious when he saw Kai's indifferent look, and at this time Jiang You also looked at the sea.

Kai was helpless, and looked more carefully this time, "No matter how you look at it, it's still those, what the hell are you talking about?

When Hong Liang saw that Kai finally saw it, he knew that he was not dazzled, and at this time, Jiang You also saw clearly, there were a few black spots on the sea, but they were moving towards the three of them at high speed!

"Hurry up, hurry up, that thing is coming!" Jiang You exclaimed, hurriedly telling his partner to run, that thing is not something that the three of them can deal with.

The three of them ran away, and Kai didn't forget to ask as he ran, "What's that?"

"That's what came out of the country of the hidden capital, anyway, run quickly, we must have someone to go back alive. "Jiang You has no time to explain, he has been guarding the North Sea for so many years, and he has never seen this thing, but he has heard it in legends, as the troops of the Northern Frontier of Yongzhen of the Great Xia Dynasty, what they are guarding is the country of the hidden capital!

"I'll just say it, what I said is true!" Kai was excited, what he just said was actually realized.

Jiang You didn't want to praise this aristocratic kid's mouth anymore, and now he only had one thought, to send the news back!

Kai didn't want to run forward, thinking that the cliff was dozens of feet high, and those things shouldn't be able to climb up. As soon as I thought of this, I couldn't help but look back, and found that there was nothing, but I used my spare eyes to see a black figure next to me, and then turned my head back, and saw a person dressed in black in front of me, no, not a person, his body did not have a trace of human smell, as if he had crawled out of a grave, and the most touching and terrifying thing was that his eyes were pure black!

Kai couldn't run anymore, not because he didn't have the strength, but because he felt like his feet were rooted, and he couldn't move. He couldn't help but look at his companions, Jiang You and Hong Liang also appeared in front of such dead people, and at this time, dead people slowly emerged from the darkness. Four, five, six...... Kai could feel the chill that accompanied them, and he drew his sword, intending to use the last of his courage to defend his last dignity as a guard.

The visitors of the sea gazed silently at the three poor soldiers, without the slightest emotion, and gracefully stretched out their slender hands and grabbed them by the throats.

The dead man's claws collided with the swords of the three soldiers, and the sound was not metallic, but a high, thin sound that stood on the edge of the limits of human hearing, like the pain wails of animals. To the disappointment of the three Kais, their swords did not cut off the dead man's hand, but was blocked, and a force reverberated back, shaking their hands painfully.

Kai's sword was grabbed by the dead man's hand and tried to pull it out, but he found that the sword seemed to be stuck in a stone, and it didn't move. The dead man's hand grabbed the sword, and with a pinch, the sword cracked into hundreds of pieces. In the dead silence, swords rained down. Kai screamed and fell to his knees, reaching out to cover his eyes, blood pouring from between his fingers. Cold hands brushed his cheeks and grabbed him by the throat.

Before Kai died, he heard the sound of his companion next to him also falling, and he knew that it was Jiang You, because he also heard Jiang You's heart-rending shout: "You must go back alive and tell them that the undead are back!" That was the young nobleman's last thought.

Hong Liang ran forward desperately, his face was already wet with tears. Just now, the veteran Jiang You desperately pounced on the dead man in front of him, just to create a glimmer of life for himself. Now I can only run, in order not to let the death of the veteran be in vain, and also to spread the news to the barracks that only I know now.

At this time, Hong Liang didn't know that in the place where he was fighting just now, his companion slowly stood up at this time, and his eyes turned pure black, emitting black light.

In the barracks, a group of soldiers are keeping watch over the campfire. This is the north of Great Xia, and there is an army of the Yi tribe guarding the northern border on the orders of the Xia Hou clan. At this time, the soldiers on duty at night were talking and laughing.

"Did you see Jiang You, Kai, Hong Liang, the three of them? The three of them went to patrol today and haven't come back yet. At this moment, a captain came over and asked the person on duty at night.

"No, haven't they come back yet?" replied the soldiers.

"That's weird. The captain was puzzled, Jiang You, as a veteran and experienced, should not be ignorant of military regulations and not come back so late.

"Captain, they won't be taken by the wild women in the mountains, so let's take them back to sleep!" said one of the soldiers.

"If that's the case, I'd rather take you in for them, I think you'd love to sleep with the wildlings. The captain also quipped, and there was a lot of laughter in the barracks.

"Captain, someone has returned, it seems to be Hongliang. At this time, someone had sharp eyes and found a figure in the distance.

The crowd hurried towards the figure. After running over, he found that this person was Hong Liang, he was exhausted at this time, and he saw his companion running over with only one breath, and his eyes were rekindled with hope, and he said with his last breath:

"Dead man, back!"

In the tribe with the Yi clan, in the city of Yi, a teenager is practicing archery. As the eldest son of the leader of the Yi tribe, Yi Ming was naturally strictly required to be proficient in horseback riding and archery. However, after practicing for half an hour, I felt bored, and I heard that the general of the Yi tribe guarding the northern army came back today, and he wanted to report something important to his father, so Yi Ming moved his mind and wanted to listen to it.

Outside the hall where his father was discussing in the city, he saw that the general who had just come was sitting in the hall talking, and his father was sitting on a high seat, his face seemed to be solemn, and when he raised his head, he happened to meet Yi Ming's gaze.

"Come in. ”

Yi Ming, who was discovered, was about to escape, but when he heard his father's voice, he had no choice but to walk in with his head down.

"I've seen the general. Yi Ming saluted the general.

"I haven't seen you for a few years, Gongzi has grown so tall, yes, you can go to my barracks to be a soldier. Although the general's face was equally solemn, when he saw the young son, a slightly stiff smile appeared on his face.

"I'll send him over for training in two years, you can sit there and listen to it first, you're so old anyway. "There is the leader of the Yi clan, Yi Yuan said, and then looked at the general, "Don't worry about him, you continue." ”

"Well," continued the general, "the soldier who had returned from the news had died when the news arrived, and we immediately sent a large force to search until we reached the shore of the North Sea, and found that there was no one there, but there were traces of a fight, and broken swords of the sword, and blood. The matter was urgent, so I came back to report it myself. ”

"Could it really be that the people from the country of the Youdu have come over?" Yi Yuan also felt the importance of this matter, "Since the Yellow Emperor fought with Chiyou a thousand years ago, the Yellow Emperor sealed the son of the great god Houtu and his descendants forever in the Youdu, and no one has been able to come out of it for thousands of years." ”

"The country of the secluded capital?" Yi Ming silently recited after hearing this, as the son of the leader, he naturally had read a lot of classics, and naturally knew such a legendary country, but he didn't expect it to be real.

"Exactly," the general's tone was also full of worry, "Legend has it that the country of the hidden capital, as the country of the dead, is the place where people go after death, if it is really the people of the country of the hidden capital, it means that maybe there is something wrong with the seal of the ancestor Yellow Emperor, if the army of the undead in it pours out, I don't know what kind of chaos it is." ”

"This matter is very important, I need to go to the Xia capital in person and report this matter to Xia Houzhu," Yi Yuan stood up and gave an order, "You continue to go back to defend the north, and I will send another three thousand soldiers to join the Northern Guard, you must defend strictly, there must be no slackness, and if there is a situation, report immediately." ”

"Yes!" replied, the general standing up. He strode out of the hall.

"It seems that you are going to go to the summer capital, Ming'er, you will go with your father. Yi Yuan looked at Yi Ming.

"Yes, father. Yi Ming's tone was full of excitement, he had lived with the Yi family since he was a child, and he could finally see the outside world!