Chapter 00016 Jinling Demon City
After listening to the old man's words, I couldn't help frowning, this poem was written by Li Bai.
And Bai Yujing first referred to the place where the gods lived, ethereal, and did not exist at all.
The five cities on the twelfth floor were mentioned in the "Historical Records", saying that it was a matter of the Yellow Emperor period.
Could it be that this weird Jinling City is Bai Yujing? Or is it one of the five cities on the twelfth floor?
"Old man, do you mean this is Bai Yujing?" I asked him.
The old man just smiled and didn't answer.
Niu Meng has been very nervous since he entered the city, and he walks next to me. He usually exhales quite loudly, but now he seems to be holding his breath, and there is no movement at all.
In fact, I also pretended to be calm, although from the moment I knew that Tang Jinghong was a nine-tailed demon fox, I felt that there were too many unexplained things hidden in this world.
But all of a sudden, I came to a city full of monsters, who can be calm?
When I first entered the city, the people I saw were quite human.
The further I went, the weirder the people who pointed at me and Niu Meng.
A girl with three rabbit tails, a kobold, a centaur, a unicorn, a boy with bat wings......
All the youkai I've heard of but haven't heard of can be seen here.
Fortunately, with Yao's mocking token in his hand, this old man seemed to know Nan Ya as well, so he didn't worry about what they would do to me and Niu Meng.
I just don't know if Nan Ya has also been here?
The old man stopped talking, and I didn't dare to ask more, so he Niu Meng followed him honestly.
After walking for about half an hour, I saw a five-story tower, full of light and bright lights.
The old man pointed to the tower and told us, "Here we are, this is the Drunken Immortal Tower." ”
The scene of Jinling City has also changed abruptly here.
Along the way, the streets and alleys were full of people and traffic. When I arrived at the Drunken Immortal Tower, the lively picture seemed to be cut off by a knife, and the other side of the Drunken Immortal Tower was pitch black, and I could only vaguely see the shadows of some pavilions.
These shadows crept silently in the darkness like a giant monster.
The layout of this Jinling City is similar to that of Yingtianfu, and even the distribution of the streets is similar.
If this is the case, then after the Drunken Immortal Tower is where the palace is located.
The sound of running water was heard not far away, which should be the inland river of the Imperial Palace.
If you look closely, you can see countless pairs of red eyes lined up neatly.
"Let's go, remember, don't go near the palace." After the old man finished speaking, he led me and Niu Meng to the Drunken Immortal Tower.
Although the Zuixian Building is a tower, the scale of each floor is far more than twice that of the largest restaurant in Yingtian. I don't know how they built it so high and still kept it from collapsing.
There were two rows of flowery girls standing at the door, all with graceful figures and fairy faces.
This kind of scene is very similar to Yingtian's Yihong Courtyard, the difference is that the girls here just stand quietly on both sides, smiling, and do not come up to talk.
Where is it like the girls of Yihong Courtyard, "Childe, come in and have fun." ”
"Childe, I haven't seen you for a long time, the slave family wants to kill you."
“…………”
It's all flattery and fake laughter, but those girls just want the money in your pocket.
It is worth mentioning that these girls in the Drunken Immortal Building are not only good-looking. There is also a very bewitching temperament, which can make people think about it between gestures.
The old man walked past the girls with me and Niu Meng, and the girls bowed down and saluted.
The old man didn't react, but Niu Meng blushed and looked very shy.
When I came to the door of the Drunken Immortal Building, the door was closed. The old man knocked on the door three times, and it was opened.
Out came an old woman, who looked to be nearly seventy years old, with a withered right hand and a dragon-headed cane.
The old woman, like the old man, has an old face and black hair.
The old man asked me for the token again, handed the token to the old woman, and said, "The people of the Nan family have indicated that they want to come to the Drunken Immortal Tower." ”
The old woman took the token and stared at me with her eyes, which made my heart hairy.
After watching it for a long time, the old woman squinted her eyes and said to me, "It must be Nanya's younger brother, right?" ”
I hurriedly bowed to her, "Junior Nanjiu, I've seen my senior." ”
The old woman nodded, handed me back the token, and then waved at the old man, "You stand down." ”
The old man bowed slightly, turned into a cloud of white mist, and disappeared without a trace.
Niu Meng and I were dumbfounded.
I soothe myself in my heart, calm, calm, must be calm. This is a demon city, and anything can happen.
"Come in with me." The old woman motioned to me and Niu Meng, and then led us into the Drunken Immortal Tower.
Once inside, the scene inside completely changed my perception.
The huge restaurant is full of customers, oh...... No, to be exact, monsters. Because some monsters can no longer be described as youkai.
First of all, the light in the restaurant was not provided by candles, nor by lanterns, but by a kind of bug that I had never seen before.
The body of this insect looks somewhat like that of a mosquito, but it is the size of a palm. The belly was swollen into a ball, and it was glowing brightly, looking like a ball of light floating in the air.
The insects moved slowly in the air, illuminating the entire restaurant, much brighter than candles.
Sitting at the middle table was a fox with a physique about the size of a bull. He looks like a fox, but he wears human clothes and eats with chopsticks.
I can't imagine how it can use its chopsticks so flexibly with its claws.
A giant rabbit with two heads, one head drinks wine and the other eats meat.
A guest with a tiger head is eating a hot pot with black bugs boiling in the hot pot. Underneath the hot pot, there is a golden monster that looks like a toad, spitting flames to heat the hot pot.
The broom grows two legs on his own and runs around the restaurant.
Several teapots, with mouths and eyes, poured blue water into the bowl in front of the guest.
The flower spider, which is more than a foot in size, is actually playing the guzheng, and there is a red cat playing the flute next to it.
The food they ate was also different, from insects that were still moving, to exotic fruits that I hadn't seen before, and of course, to the delicacies that were common in the day.
In the entire restaurant, except for me, Niu Meng and the old woman, there are only seven people outside of normal humans.
Niu Meng's shock was no less than mine, as could be seen from his frozen expression.
At this time, the old woman took the dragon's head cane and knocked on the ground three times.
"Dangdangdang."
The sound it makes is a bit like the sound of a bronze colliding machine, and this sound seems to be drilled into the brain, giving people a feeling of sound.
The originally lively restaurant became silent in an instant.
Immediately afterwards, the old woman showed an amiable face, "Girls, treat yourself." ”
For a while, it was a mess again. All the monsters scrambled to get inside the east door.
After a while, only me, Niu Meng and the old woman were left in the restaurant.
I saw the old woman knock on the ground again with her dragon's head cane, and dozens of monsters that I had never seen before came out of the west door.
These monsters have eight hands, only one eye, faces as long as cucumbers, and no mouths.
They cleaned the restaurant in an orderly and extremely fast manner, and in less than a cup of tea, the messy restaurant was cleaned neatly and neatly.
The old woman took me and Niu Meng to the table in the middle.
"Nan Gongzi, sit." The old woman looked at me with a smile.
I looked at her face and was a little afraid to sit down. Niu Meng sat down with a big grin.
I bowed to the old woman again, "Senior, I'm here to find Tang Jinghong." ”
"The young master has entered the palace, and when the young master comes back, he will come to find Nan Gongzi. Nan Gongzi might as well enjoy it first, not everyone can come in the Drunken Immortal Building. ”
"Senior, do you call Miss Tang the young master? Dare to ask, what kind of young master is she? ”
The old woman smiled and shook her head, "Nan Gongzi should ask the young master by himself, Nan Gongzi, please take a seat." ”
The old woman asked me to sit down again, and I had to sit down.
As soon as he sat down, a monster with eight hands came over with a porcelain bowl. This porcelain bowl is the size of the wooden basin I usually use to wash my face!
I was startled, vaguely feeling that something was wrong, and before I had time to think about it, the old woman showed a weird smile, "Someone told you the rules, right?" We only need a bowl of blood, I don't know who of the two sons is willing to donate? ”