Chapter 185: Lizhou
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They've never seen a forked chicken in their lives!
Look at the stable bottom, at first glance, it is a ruthless chicken, not easy to mess with.
Especially that look, there is a murderous aura!
To tell the truth, Dugu Xingqi was also very surprised, I wanted to find a cloth to wrap the sand sculpture on its back, but I didn't know that this chicken could ride a horse, and it didn't turn it upside down no matter how bumpy it was along the way.
The Nightmare was even more determined to find a chance to eat the sand sculpture.
To tell the truth, this chicken that popped out of the grave may be something terrible.
It squatted on Dugu Xingqi's shoulders all the way, looking at the sand sculpture with fierce eyes.
The sand sculpture glanced back at it from time to time, looking like you have the ability to gnaw on the chicken master and me, and the chicken master has the ability to peck you a hundred mouthfuls.
Come on, hurt each other, who's afraid of whom!
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Lizhou is located in the southeast of the Great Zhou Dynasty, although it is far away from the imperial capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, it was once a fertile land.
Since thousands of years ago, the Li River has nourished a piece of land, before the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, successive wars, resource grabbing, resulting in serious ecological damage around the Li River, since the founding of the ancestral emperor, the Li River has become the heart disease of the Great Zhou royal family.
Over the years, a lot of money has been allocated to build dikes and control floods, but it seems to have no effect, the flood is getting more and more serious year by year, and when the new emperor Ji Quan ascended the throne, the flood in Lizhou has reached the most in the history.
Now it has directly burst the embankment, and I heard that more than a dozen villages in the lower reaches of Lizhou have been flooded, and countless people have been killed and injured.
Dugu Xingqi rode a horse, and as soon as he entered the territory of Lizhou, he could see that the yin and resentment in the sky above Lizhou were intertwined, and the black pressure was overwhelming, even if it was the naked eye, it could be seen a little.
But in the eyes of ordinary people, it is just a dark cloud.
"My God, how many people have died, one by one, the souls are not gone, if there is a big monster or something here, devouring these dead souls, I don't know how powerful it will become!"
Nightmare couldn't help but drool a little as he looked at the round head, those revenants looked delicious, and it hadn't eaten anything good in a long time since the last time it devoured a nightmare beast.
Dugu Xing pulled the reins, his expression a little serious.
It's no wonder that those dead souls are deeply resentful, most of them belong to the unfinished life, these people are full of grievances after death, even the underworld may not be able to accept it, and can only turn into unjust souls to stay in the world.
If they don't go completely over, most of them will turn into ghosts, or be devoured by higher-level monsters and become nourishment for monsters.
At this moment, the sky was already slightly dark, the city gate of Lizhou was not closed, she rode in, and the entire Lizhou city was filled with a wordless sadness and depression, the air was humid, mixed with yin, which made people very uncomfortable.
There were only a few pedestrians on the street, all of whom were still wearing face towels and were in a hurry.
There is not even a small stall on the street, and all the shops and stores are closed, and it looks like a dead city.
The owner of Lizhou is the king of Lizhou, Ji Quan's sixteenth imperial uncle Ji Yu.
Ji Yu was born to a palace maid who was favored by the ancestor emperor after being drunk, and he was never liked by the ancestor emperor, and he was sent to Lizhou when he was five or six years old, and he didn't even bother to give him the title, so he was directly called the king of the dragon.
Nothing in the palace will not recall him back to the imperial capital.
Therefore, the world rarely mentions the Lord of the Dragon.
Even Dugu Xingqi has never seen this imperial uncle.
The second brother was ordered by the emperor to come to Lizhou to deal with the floods, and he lived in the palace of the king of the dragon.
Dugu Xingqi rode a horse to the door of the Snake King's Mansion, only to see that the door plaque of the Snake King's Mansion had been damp and a little swollen.
Even the word was slightly deformed.
The gate of the Snake King's Mansion was closed, and there was not even a gatekeeper outside, which looked very cold.
In the end, he is a prince who has no sense of existence, but he has his own fiefdom, and this palace is not decent, and it is not as good as the mansions of those five or six officials in the imperial capital.
Dugu Xingqian turned over and dismounted, went to knock on the door, and no one responded.
Through the crack in the door, I could only see a depression inside, and no figure moved.
Dugu Xing knocked for a while, but still no one responded.
After a while, a little boy of seven or eight years old crept over from the street, he pulled Dugu Xing's trouser legs, and asked very humbly, "Brother, do you have a sugar gourd?" ”
Dugu Xingqi turned his head and saw that the little boy was skinny, and because of hunger, a pair of eyes had sunken deeply.
The clothes on his body were also covered with mud and a little stinky.
His hand stained Dugu Xing's trouser legs, and when he saw Dugu Xingqian looking at him, the little boy quickly let go of his hand and said to her again and again, "I'm sorry for soiling your clothes." ”
His eyes were full of sincerity, but there was also a glimmer of hope, "I...... My sister is sick and she can't eat anything, she likes to eat sugar gourds the most, I think...... If you want to ask for something, just one, just one. ”
As he spoke, he lowered his head again, and didn't dare to reach out to pull Dugu Xing's trouser legs.
Dugu Xingqi could smell the smell of his body, and it was clearly a corpse smell.
Dugu Xingqian met a lot of victims outside Lizhou City, and all the dry food on his body was distributed, and now he really has nothing to eat except for money and silver.
Oh, and the sand sculpture has that reserve grain.
It's just that there is not even a hawker here, and you can't buy any sugar gourds if you have money.
She glanced back at the closed door of the Snake King's Mansion again, and said to the little boy, "I don't have sugar gourds, but I'm a doctor, take me to see your sister, is it okay?" ”
The little boy saw that she was very good-looking, hesitated for a moment and nodded, "Okay." ”
As soon as the words fell, he led the way in front, and he was barefoot, and the soles of his feet were rubbed out of blood, soaked in water, and festered.
It was very painful to walk, but he gritted his teeth and didn't say a word, and took Dugu Xingqi to a ruined temple on the outskirts of Lizhou.
There is a statue of the goddess with a human head and a snake body in the broken temple, but there is no incense to worship for a long time, the statue of the goddess is covered with ashes, leaning over, and her head is covered with spider webs, which was originally a compassionate smile, but now it looks a little weird.
The little boy led her inside, and then he walked to the offering table under the statue of the goddess, lifted the straw around him, and dragged out a skinny little girl inside.
Then I saw him take the little girl in his arms, kiss her lightly on the cheek, and said very gently, "Sister, I'm back." ”
The little girl looked no more than three or four years old, hungry and inhuman, her clothes were in tatters, her ribs were almost protruding, and she looked like a dried corpse.
Beside the little girl, there was some food, half a moldy steamed bun, a bitten apple, and bits and pieces of other food.
Dugu Xingqi could see at a glance that the little girl had been dead of anger for many days.
The stench of the little boy's body is that of his sister.
The little boy didn't seem to see that she was dead, and continued to say softly in her ear, "Sister, can you take a bite of other things today?" ”
"When the water recedes, we will go home, and my brother will earn money to buy you your favorite sugar gourd, buy a lot, and fill the house for you to eat."