Chapter 15: The Stone Castle
The golden light faded, and the heavens and the earth were gray again, and I didn't know where I fell, only that the snow beneath me was unusually cold...... At this moment, something heavy and cold fell on the palm of my hand, it was a jade bead on the nine-bead ring......
A heavy footstep approached me with a sense of oppression...... I followed the sound and looked at a giant beast with red eyes and blue face...... Its dark blue scales exude a black aura, and its steely claws can easily crush a person's head..... I clenched the jade bead and got up vigilantly, but it didn't give me a chance to retreat, it rushed at me like lightning, I thought I was going to die, but the stinging wind in my ears warned me that I was still alive...... I slowly opened my eyes, this giant beast was holding my clothes, running wildly, the scenery in front of me was white, the wind pierced my body, my body was shaking violently with the running of the giant beast, I was dizzy and painful....... I clung to its sharp fangs, and no matter how hard I tried, it felt like it didn't feel anything...... I want to go back, I don't want to go, I'm worried about the life and death of Spring and Autumn! But now I am like hanging in a dark space, no matter how desperately I try, how I cry, how I threaten, there is nowhere to focus, and the feeling of powerlessness, loss, and disappointment gradually swallows me.......
The Lanqi Tianjiang River is frozen, and the ice and snow blur the boundary between the south and the north of the Yangtze River....... The giant beast carried me across the Lanqi Heavenly River, and the wind and snow it urged formed a snowstorm whirlpool around us, and no one could get close to it.......
I looked up and looked north, as if I saw a carriage, the carriage drawn by the beast...... The carriage passed by me, the curtain was blown open by the wind, and I saw it, and I ......
The majestic castle is made of heavy stone bricks, and the cracks are sealed with black iron...... The heavy iron gate slowly rose to welcome the arrival of the giant beast, and I rushed into the darkness with the giant beast...... On the walls hung many crystal balls the size of two palms, and in the crystal balls there was a crystal ball of transparent water, and in the water was suspended a night pearl, which was very bright, reflecting the "waves" in the dark castle....... The white light of the water reflected a woman in white clothes and silver armor sitting on a high place, her silver mask shining a little brightly against the water.
I watched her so engrossed that I didn't realize that the beast had thrown me to the ground until there was a pain in my chest......
The black pebbles on the ground hurt all over his body.......
"The mission is complete, why don't you know to come back?" The woman's voice was so cold...... She walked slowly towards me from a high place, the silver armor on her body and the sword on her waist collided slightly, and the silver boots were like sharp silver scales, and they were terrifying.......
"Who are you?" I struggled to stand up, but she dodged and rushed behind me, kicked my knee hard, and I fell to the ground heavily, the stone was embedded in my knee, and I trembled in pain: "What are you doing!" I scolded.
She just coldly put her hand on top of my head, and I raised my hand to push her hand away, and at this moment a strong sense of oppression hit me....... The stone floor beneath my knees cracked slowly, and blood slowly trickled down my fingertips.......
"It's only been a few days since you were contaminated in the spring and autumn, and you dare to make a mistake in front of me!" She exclaimed. When she was angry, the light trembled.......
The fog in my mind was gone....... I saw myself....... I am a man in a cage, a man who competes with wild beasts for food, and fights with wild beasts for a chance to survive, I am a dead soldier under the general of Northern Chu, a dead soldier like a beast...... I don't deserve to live with dignity, and I don't deserve to love and be loved......
The general's name is Bai Yu, she single-handedly quelled a rebellion that almost shook the foundation of the country after the unification of Jiangbei by Northern Chu for twenty years...... A rebel, she said, is a rebel, and the moment you decide to rebel, it's useless...... She acted decisively and never made mistakes, so the king of Northern Chu gave her the title of a great general to sit in the stone castle and train the beast dead, in the eyes of the king of Northern Chu, those beast dead soldiers were greater than Bai Yu......
Bai Yu pushed hard, and I fell to the ground, half of my face was broken...... The ripples of the night pearl slowly flowed through my dirty fingers, and my eyes turned to the round lamps on the wall, which were the eyes of dragons...... A man in silver armor grabbed me by the arm and dragged me into the darkness, and I saw an empty Colosseum-like enclosure, with a lamp lit in the middle of the roof, large enough to illuminate the half-buried cage that hung here, nailed to the wall......
In each cage there were two bare-eyed beasts, and a man who was more ferocious than the beasts......
I was thrown into a half-buried cage, and the hungry green beast was almost skinny...... I looked around and saw the other people in the cages, their eyes cold and completely turned into beasts......
At this time, a live sheep was thrown into the cage one after another...... Immediately afterward, it rained blood in this dark room....... I hugged the lamb and a green monster rushed at me, and I reached out and broke its teeth......
The general Bai Yu stood in front of my cage and looked down at me, shook his head helplessly and said, "Waste ......."
She turned away, and I knew what was going to happen....... As a beast deadman, you can't have feelings...... I protected the sheep, I took pity on it, and I proved that all my twenty years of training had been lost...... Either it will be gouged out to make a green beast, or it will become a sheep-like food, which will be eaten by other dead soldiers...... I don't know which ending she's going to give me...... Either way, I can't escape the palm of her hand......
Sure enough, the iron cage and iron railing ignited a fire...... The lamb will die, and so will I...... I looked up at the people in the other cages, their red eyes were so vicious that they could no longer see any signs of being human....... They stared at me like they were staring at food, without any mercy......
I was dragged out of the cage by a silver-armored man and thrown in the middle of the dark room, and immediately after, hundreds of beast dead men jumped out of the cage, some of them hanging in the air with their arms in their arms, and some of them jumped directly in front of me and surrounded me, they looked at each other with hostility, they were all the same, with fierce salivation......
My heart was softened by the throbbing of spring and autumn, and I still had expectations that I would not be able to obey Bai Yu and die in peace......
I'm crazy to fight against the dead who are close to me, anyway, my wounds will heal, anyway, I can come back from the dead, I fight...... The white garment has been completely dyed red...... I want to make an end to my past for the sake of spring and autumn......
A person without a heart is strong because he is fearless, and a person with a heart is strong because he has a heart.
The lights overhead go from boom to flick...... The pool of blood reflected my sweaty face, my blood-covered clothes, and my blood-red eyes...... The corpses on the ground lay limplessly, and the green beast had eaten enough and returned to its cage to sleep...... The snoring sounds like a wail from hell......
I knelt in a pool of blood and looked up at the faint light...... Scold...... I've killed all the dead who want to eat me, but I'm still in this cage...... I'm still in the Stone Castle, and I still can't escape......
"Soon, I will conquer Jiangnan, and you will kill all my beast dead...... Do you not want others to share your merits? "It's Bai Yu's voice, huh....... Why do you use such a trap after a trap on me......
"The general can say it clearly!"
"As my subordinate, if I let you live, you can't die, and if I let you die, you can't live...... Obedience to me is your only reason for survival....... The Beast Dead is the vanguard of Northern Chu's conquest of Jiangnan, and if you kill them all, you are the vanguard. Bai Yu's indifferent voice was even more terrifying than the dead silence after the fight...... I collapsed in a pool of blood, exhausted and unable to exert any strength...... Jiangnan, Jiangbei...... Those who hold the power are playing the game, and the chips in the game are all of each other, including the land and all living beings...... I'm insignificant, and if I hadn't met Spring and Autumn by accident, I would never have had the idea of leaving here......
I fell asleep tired and had a strange dream...... I dreamed of a man like a god and a demon rushing into the Lanqi Tianjiang, the dragon clan was in the Shenqi Palace under the river, he broke in alone, no one could see it, no one could stop it, and suddenly, the Lanqi Tianjiang River was surging with blood foam, born thunder, and the torrential rain was like a note...... The Shengong building turned into sand at the bottom of the river, and the scales of the dragon's empty stumps stranded on the riverside......
At this time, someone kicked me in the head, and when I opened my eyes, it was the silver-armored man: "The thirteenth prince wants to see you." ”