In the middle of winter in the 627th year of the Haoli calendar, on the fifteenth day of the lunar month, the imperial capital should be a water city.

It had been raining heavily for three days, and the snow was up to an adult's knees, but it finally stopped that night.

Everyone was not afraid of it, but everything that could be seen was gilded with a thick, sticky red light, battlements, houses, and shacks...... Everywhere there is a thick ink and color ominous. The townspeople sat in the middle of the house, looking at the faces of their relatives, which were also flushed, and they were worried and uneasy.

Looking up again, there was a red moon in the sky, round as a disk and as red as blood.

This legendary day has finally arrived!

The streets and alleys of ordinary cars and horses are empty, and even the barking of dogs and chickens is no longer there. Yingshui City has been transformed into a lonely city as early as seven days ago, taking the initiative to cut off external contact, no longer allowing internal and external entry and exit, and today's curfew has been brought forward to Shenshi. Before the sun set, all the shops and restaurants were closed, everyone was driven back into the house, and the doors of every house were closed.

The only ones who could stay in the streets and patrol back and forth were armoured armies.

Whoever dares to take half a step out of the house will be buried by the whole family! This is an iron order, and there is no doubt about it.

Slowly when it arrived, the blood moon became more and more red, as if the entire Yingshui City had been immersed in a paint bucket. The light from the sky gradually dimmed, and the people of the city sat in their houses and craned their necks to the sky, their eyes quickly filled with fear.

The sky was covered with wisps of red smoke, which were inconspicuous in the moonlight of the same color, but the scale was getting bigger and bigger, and it actually blocked most of the light shining on Yingshui City. Fortunately, a transparent cover was erected above the castle at some point to keep the red smoke out. Ordinary people should not have seen it, but the red smoke seemed to have life, hovering and twisting and drilling straight into the cover, penetrating everywhere, as if trying to find a hole.

If you have good eyesight, you can still see faces made of red smoke on the cover, some are hideous, some are beautiful, some have horns on their heads, some have green faces and fangs, they are different, but they are all faces that can only appear in nightmares.

Laughing, angry, angry, or crying.

The light is bizarre, like falling into purgatory.

The audience fought with their upper and lower teeth, and gurgled a few times before they trembled: "Heaven, Heavenly Demon!"

That's not nonsense, the Heavenly Demon is really here.

The prophecy came true.

At this time, even the most stubborn people had to cut off the last trace of doubt and admire the holy prophet of the future.

Fortunately, this transparent cover is also really powerful, no matter how the red smoke is drilled, it is still airtight. There are black and white clouds floating in the sky, and the form of entanglement with red smoke inexplicably reminds people of a word:

Never die.

This heavenly event was too far away from ordinary people, and the civilians only saw the red smoke crashing into the transparent cover more and more obviously, and the power seemed to be getting bigger and bigger.

They roared, seemingly burning their lives on fire, unleashing the energy of the rest of their lives, even if they ended up crashing into the barrier and shattering to pieces.

Tyrannical and insane.

Later, almost every blow made the entire Yingshui City tremble, and each blow was like a dull hammer, smashing heavily on the hearts of all the city's citizens.

The competition at this level shows the insignificance of manpower. Countless mortals could only kneel on the ground, facing the east and bowing and praying, praying that Yingshui City would be safe and sound.

Perhaps the heavens felt the sincerity of everyone, and the transparent barrier seemed to be thin and often crumbling, but it miraculously persevered until the end and was not broken.

Degrees and seconds are like years.

Thankfully, time passes. In the midst of everyone's suffering, the time of the child came.

"When—"

The bell representing the third watch had just sounded, and the sky over Yingshui City was suddenly cleared.

The red smoke is gone, the faces are gone, and the tremors are gone.

Their disappearance was as abrupt as their arrival.

Immediately afterwards, the moonlight faded to blood red and became clear as water again, plating the capital city with a warm halo for the rest of its life.

Quiet, serene, as always.

A new day has arrived, and it is as if the visions experienced by the people have never existed.

The world is clear, and the sky is clear.

This means that the Heavenly Demons retreated, and the Haoli Kingdom ...... Save?

In Yingshui City, some people breathed a sigh of relief, some people had all their doubts, some people laughed and cried, some people looked forward to it, and then the cheers almost shook the entire capital!

Crackling, the sound of firecrackers seems to be infectious, quickly changing from less to more, from sporadic to intense.

At this time, they could not go out, but this did not prevent the ecstatic citizens from lighting a few firecrackers to celebrate, and the air gradually filled the air with the smell of gunsmoke, which was still more than the end of the year.

Surviving death is gratifying.

In the midst of this uproar, there were cars on Baishi Street, from far to near, but it was a big black car rushing to the city gate. The guards guarding the city gate quickly stepped forward, raised their eyes to see the marks on the body, and just about to say the scolding they held back their throats, hesitated and still raised their hands and said: "The city gate has fallen, this road is not passable, please go back!"

The curtain of the car was lifted, and a young man in brocade showed his face, with fine skin and tender flesh, clear eyebrows, but his eyes were red and swollen. He shouted at the top of his voice: "Open the door, I have an urgent business to go out of the city!"

The Gatekeeper strode up to him and saluted. Although the action was respectful, the meaning of refusal was obvious: "The curfew has not passed, please come back after the clock rings at five quarters of the hour." ”

"You don't understand that you deceive me? The Heavenly Demon has attacked the city, what danger is there?" The young man's face changed instantly, but a black token shook out of his hand, "Open the city gate quickly, I missed my big thing, and I want you slave to apologize for the dog's head!"

Chengmen Lang was familiar with the tokens of various provinces, and was stunned for a moment when he saw this, and his face was sad. But at this moment, a few people were already rushing to the side, and the first one opened his mouth and hung the word "oh" a hundred times around: "What is the big thing, can it be worthy of today's holy order?"

Hearing this sharp voice, the city gateman's face changed, he hung his head and stood solemnly, and he didn't say anything again. He knew it was none of his business here.

Even the brocade-clothed young man put away his arrogance when he saw the visitor, and said loudly: "Grandpa Cai, my great-grandmother was recuperating in the Zhuangzi outside the city, and the day before yesterday came bad news, saying that her old man's health was not very good...... The Heavenly Demon Attack on the City has passed, I have to rush to see her!"

"Did you get the news the day before yesterday?" Cai Gonggong smiled, "I'm afraid it's ...... now" He is very old, his face is wrinkled like tree bark, this smile is like a crack, not only does it look gentle, but it adds two points of weirdness.

"You, you!" Unexpectedly, he made a disrespectful speech, and the young man in brocade was really stunned, and then his color changed: "You are so bold, dare to speak ill of our prime minister......!

"She's also Concubine Mei's great-grandmother, I know. Gonggong Cai interrupted him, "Yingshui City has been blocked from the outside world for seven days, how did you get the news?"

The young man in brocade was stunned, and his face hesitated: "This, this ......"

"That's it, you're just doing your filial piety, and you all say that the law is nothing more than human affection. Grandpa Cai snapped his fingers slowly, "Okay, I'll send you to see her." ”

The young man in brocade turned a little pale: "Then don't you open ...... quickly"

Before the word "door" was spoken, the snow was bright in front of me. But it was the guard beside Gonggong Cai who stabbed out with a sword and cut off half of his head silently!

The bones were sluggish, the first to roll to the ground, and the headless corpse fell backwards.

The inside of the carriage was crimson and smeared with pulp. The bloody smell spread, and the Chinese wanted to vomit.

The coachman in front of him rolled out of the car, looking at the corpse with twitching legs and feet and wailing long. But before he could howl twice, the guards thought he was noisy, and they also raised their hands to send him back to the west.

"Ignoring the holy order, hehe!" Cai Gonggong snorted, and then his face was full of disdain, "Anointing!" "I didn't know that I was being used as a gun until I died."

Counting nine cold winters, Chengmen Lang felt that he was sweating on his back. The inner servant killed the foreign minister, and the death was still the little son of the Prime Minister's Mansion, but it happened right under his nose!

Did he not see it, or did he not see it? Chengmen Lang only wished that he was blind, but his eyes couldn't help but spin on the golden sword held by Gonggong Cai's guards.

Seeing the golden jade sword, like a saint, this is Cai's greatest reliance. But it is too appalling to kill the son of an important minister on the street if he disagrees.

How can there be such a precedent? I'm afraid, I'm afraid that chaos is not far off.

What happened here was eye-catching, and the night was so dark that no one noticed the sudden slight movement of a piece of paper attached to the city gate, which was so small that it was barely visible to the human eye, but a wisp of red smoke that was so faint that it was barely visible took the opportunity to get through the crack in the door, and escaped close to the root of the wall, and disappeared without a breath.

It is a particularly vivid illustration of what it means to be a "puff of smoke".

"Clean up this place. Gonggong Cai flicked his sleeves and turned to Chengmenlang, "It's all standing, I'll take a look at the formation seal!"

When the guards guarding the city gate saw him, there was a reason why they all did not move and only folded their arms in salute. In addition to the city gate lang, there are a total of eighteen people standing in front of the gate, and they are scattered, and each station is exquisite, and they can't move.

These people are carefully selected, the birth date is excellent, the blood is about to burst out, and they still hold special magic weapons in their hands, which can become the nail riveting to calm the enchantment.

The formation that can resist the Heavenly Demon originally needed to be carefully arranged. If you want to keep the entire Yingshui City, you must not even have the slightest mistake or omission.

Otherwise, all the work done will be wasted.

Although the Heavenly Demon Attack on the City seemed to have passed, none of those in the know dared to relax.

Gonggong Cai observed their faces one by one, and saw that they were in a clear state of mind and had a good look, so he nodded and went to check the paper talisman that sealed the city gate.

Although it is called "paper", it is actually a refined copper sheet, each piece is about one finger thick and five fingers wide. The inscriptions on it are written in special painted materials, and if you get close, you can even smell a faint smell of blood.

There are a total of nine paper talismans sealing the door, each of which is in its original position, square and proper, and even exudes a faint yellow light. Although the shock caused by the Heavenly Demon's attack on the city was large, it did not shake half of them.

This battle of defense looks perfect. Only a very few people know what kind of price the Haoli Empire paid for this victory.

Grandpa Cai was satisfied, and his tense face finally loosened. He deliberately gave a few words, turned around and got on his horse to inspect other places.

If you stand in the sky and look down, you will find that such enchantment formations are distributed in all corners of the city, a total of eighty-one places, each with the same number of paper symbols and people. The enchantment that had stubbornly resisted the invasion of the Heavenly Demons was inspired by this great array.

When Gonggong Cai walked away, someone came to remove the carriage and the deceased from the bloody case, and then cleaned up the bloodstains.

The guards in front of the city gate were slightly relaxed at this time. The crisis of the Heavenly Demon attacking the city has passed, and although everyone can't move yet, they are already talking and laughing, and some people quipped: "Stone, was your little stone born?"

The big man who was called the stone had a sad face: "When I rushed over, my mother-in-law was working hard, and I couldn't come, so I also took a hand...... I don't know what happened now. ”

The city gate man standing in front of him jumped his eyelids, and turned his head to stare at him: "You deliver the mother-in-law?"

His face was ugly, and the green tendons on his forehead kept jumping, as if he had seen a ghost in the sky. The stone was startled by him, and he said, "Ah, it's only been a quarter of an hour, and I've been called over." When I was a child, I gave the cows and sheep the cubs, and it was not difficult to ......"

The city gate lang interrupted him sharply: "The top strictly ordered, we are not allowed to touch the filth when guarding the gate, you should be the wind in your ears?"

The stone suddenly squeaked, but his face was full of grievances.

Chengmenlang also knew in his heart that the timing was very good, and there was no stable woman who could come to deliver the baby at this moment. When a woman gives birth to a child, she is passing through the ghost gate, and when it is critical, no one can help her, and it is a corpse with two lives. But—

"Fortunately, the great array is unhindered, otherwise we will be sinners for the ages, dragging down the more than two million citizens in this city!" Fortunately, there was no one else in front of the door, he made a decision in his heart, his eyes swept over the faces of his subordinates one by one, and said in a deep voice, "Listen, this matter will rot in the stomach, and no one will be allowed to go to the tavern to get drunk from now on." If a word is missed, the 19 people present, including me, will be punished by the whole family!"

The faces of the guards turned even more blue and white in the cold wind, and they responded with a loud "yes". The heavenly demons retreated, they defended Yingshui City, everyone has merit, they will be rewarded, why bother to tell this great sin of killing the head?

This negligence should indeed rot in the stomach.

However, the celebration of the capital's residents did not last long. Just two days later, Hao Liguo suddenly announced:

Demons have infiltrated the city.

In order to prevent it from possessing the body, all babies born in Yingshui City on this day, regardless of gender, will be killed!

The joy turned into a shock, and the whole country was in an uproar. The soldiers searched the house to find the baby, and the whole capital wailed and scolded. In the chaos, more than 12,000 people were slaughtered in clashes with officers and soldiers.

And because of the royal court's order, the neighbors were rewarded for exposing each other, and I don't know how many unjust, false and wrongful cases have been caused for a while.

The government and the opposition shook, and the whole country was in an uproar.

Since then, natural disasters have been frequent, droughts and floods have continued, and visions have appeared frequently in various places.

The method is to kill many people.

Those who have a heart take this as the end and take the opportunity to start an incident and chase the deer to Middle-earth, and the world has changed since then, and the royal power is unstable.

Fifteen years later, the kingdom of Haoli died.

On the side of the sunken boat, there are always thousands of sails racing. Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is more than 300 years.