Chapter 82: Rumors
That was the first time Wu Feng had physical contact with anyone other than Brother Wang. And this time the contact seemed so painful and incomparably deep.
Suddenly, with a "bang", the thousand-foot waterfall hanging high outside the mountain stream and the cold wind that was cold to the bone, those soldiers who survived the war knelt down in unison, with the suffering of the rest of their lives on their faces, but also the joy and tears that they had not been abandoned.
They once thought that from the moment their leader was buried in front of the monument of the king's tomb, their elite group secretly cultivated by that person would be forgotten by the world: like an ancient city buried under the desert for thousands of years, it will eventually exist underground and will not be excavated...... Until, they waited for this person, they had a new loyalist, a new hope!
- Perhaps, this is also Liao Ge's last hope for Wu Feng......
Wu Feng looked at the few survivors, and for the first time, his eyes, which had been dull for days, had a firm light.
The man did not say a word, nor did he lift anyone up, he just stared blankly, a little distracted, and a triumphant and desolate smile bloomed on his ugly face.
............
The joy of being together did not pass between this group of suffering people for long.
Half a day later, Wu Feng began to plan with the only remaining forty people.
A few days later, with the uncanny disturbance of the group, they succeeded in stealing the beams and changing the pillars: they disposed of the corpses that had been dug up in a graveyard and had not yet decomposed, and then replaced the left protector on the head of the city, which had become jerky.
At that time, the jade was actually dead, but for some reason, the three souls, seven spirits and one shadow were all left in the body and lingered, and what opened everyone's eyes was that Zuo Quan performed a spell in front of them for the first time to bring them back to life. However, after this, Wu Feng also suffered a backlash because of the use of forbidden arts, which caused his own cultivation to be greatly damaged and could not be recovered, which is a later story.
Finally, the "person" on the stone bed was like a dried corpse that had been injected with a soul, trembling extremely slightly, and the wrinkled and dry joints clicked, and it took about a stick of incense to fit in.
His leaf-like face turned around, and the huge hollow faced Wu Feng's miserable face, as if he could sense the other party's breath, and the look that was a little flustered a moment ago gradually calmed down: "...... Be...... Ah Feng?"
"It's me, it's me......" Wu Feng was a little dizzy and grabbed his hand and choked up a little. In this situation, everyone glanced at each other and retreated with interest.
Seeing that there was no one around, Wu Feng hugged the person on the stone bed, letting the other party's hard bones pierce his flesh and skin, rough and stiff skin, and rub against his scarred face.
As if he didn't react to the fact that the person who spoke was Wufeng, Yong Yu was stunned, and then as if he had thought of something, his lips trembled slightly, and he still wanted to speak after all.
Wu Feng's back was surrounded by two dead branches, and the man with the terrible eye hole said in a low, hoarse voice: "They...... They're all dead......"
"I know ......" is like a voice from a broken bellows, and it responds without any color to "I know ......"
Then the extremely ugly face showed hideousness and resentment, and his eyes stared at the stone wall in front of him motionlessly, as if he wanted to stare through it.
In the days that followed, Wu Feng withdrew all the people who had gone out to inquire about the news, and asked them to collectively remain silent in this unattended mountain nest and temporarily avoid the limelight.
After soaking in water for more than ten days, he was relieved, and he couldn't see things, but under Wu Feng's careful teaching, he learned a strange art - the eye of the heart. Gradually, the things around me changed from darkness to blur, and from blur to clarity.
He walked to the edge of the stone pool, slowly let go of Wufeng's hands that were holding him, and felt the calm song of the mountains and rivers with his heart, and his mood broke free from the dark prison - he smiled happily.
It turns out that you can see things without your eyes, and you can also see the colors of mountains and rivers. Even if you only need to deliberately perceive, the scenery within ten miles can be clearly seen!
"Congratulations. Looking at the face of the person who was blindfolded with a strip of cloth, his face showed joy, and Wu Feng on the side smiled faintly, just such a smile looked more and more terrifying on the face of the gully.
As if sensing something, his smile suddenly disappeared, and he suddenly turned his head to face Wu Feng, and then as expected, he was shocked.
Just as he was about to speak, the person in front of him had already spoken: "It's just a pair of skins, don't make a fuss." ”
This first beauty of the demon clan, doesn't she really care?
Yongyu pursed her lips, and her voice trembled a little: "...... Your legs, your throat, I can help you heal...... You're the only face...... You...... You're too hard. ”
Wu Feng subconsciously touched his face, and the moment he touched his skin, his fingertips trembled slightly, and his voice was bitter: "If you don't be ruthless, how can you fool her." ”
"She still won't let you go?" Gong Yu said in a deep voice.
Wu Feng smiled hideously: "Why did she let anyone go?"
That woman is indeed still in love with him, and after a few years, the streets and alleys are still plastered with notices to arrest him. But the portrait on the notice is now no longer in the same place as him.
Yongyu reached out to touch the terrifying face, but was avoided by Wu Feng. His hands hung in the air, stiffening as if they were shivering in the cold wind.
Wu Feng grabbed the hand that had already returned to normal and pressed it down: "What are your plans in the future?"
"I ...... Tired. "Gong Yu bowed his head," ...... I don't want to stay here anymore, and I don't want to protect those so-called clansmen anymore. I want to leave the demon world and go out and have a look. ”
After ignoring the response of the person beside him for a long time, Yong Yu said eagerly with some expectation: "Let's leave together, take the remnants of Liao Ge and live a peaceful life." ”
Wu Feng looked at his friend without saying a word, and the look of disappointment and loneliness in his eyes was fleeting, and finally returned to calm, like smoke and dust.
"I won't force you to stay. "The voice is as soft as a leaf falling on the sand, but the timbre is as rough as the bark of an old tree.
Yongyu said with a look of disbelief: "The king is gone, and now the power is in the hands of that woman......!" What are you going to do here?!" Then he "looked" at Wu Feng's calm and firm eyes, gasped, as if he had a premonition of something, and hurriedly grabbed the person's shoulder, as if grasping some treasure that was about to pass away, with such force, he shouted hoarsely: "Don't go! Don't go! Please!"
Wu Feng's pale golden eyes stared at the person in front of him, and he slowly broke the pair of hands that were about to sink into his shoulders: "Don't you also suspect or even affirm that my brother Wang was killed by that woman?
"But what do you have now besides a card order? How long do you want to fight with Huo Quanlian?!" The broken hands covered Wu Feng's shoulders again, and Qi Yu said a little anxiously: "Now, the people outside are fascinated by the benefits she has given, and you go alone, but you are just a mantis arm as a car! Under the king of Jiuquan, I don't want to see you die in the hands of that person! You ...... You and the young lord are the only remaining crown princes...... If something happens to you, how can we explain it to the king of life and death?"
This time, his arms were not torn off by Wufeng again, and the man was unmoved as if he was in a state of mind, and many of the emotions of the previous days were cleanly pretended to be locked, leaving no trace behind.
"When Brother Wang is here, he protects me, and when he is gone, I have to protect his things. Wu Feng looked at the person in front of him who was short of breath because of excitement, and said indifferently: "...... In fact, even if it wasn't for him, as far as I was born, I had already framed what I had to do and what I couldn't do...... I don't have a choice, everyone in the royal family can leave it alone, but I can't. ”
Qi Yu said bitterly: "But, didn't you say that the demon clan has long been rotten? How can you afford a broken and rotten river and mountain?"
"You're right...... After Huo Quanlian took power, he reduced the tax burden on the surface, wantonly released grain, built palaces, and built idle military buildings...... The peace and grace that I see is just consuming our clan's combat resources at the fastest speed. Before, I thought she was just greedy for royal power, but now I know that what she wants may be the destruction of my demon clan...... If we continue like this, no one will restrain us, but I am afraid that in a short time, our people will be a piece of fat meat with no ability to defend themselves, and once the foreigners know that we are rich, they will definitely divide it! Those civilians can't see this, can't you see it?"
The body of the jade was shocked, and he was speechless for a moment.
Yes, since Huo Quanlian took office, the people do feel that their lives are abundant and rich, and they have been singing and dancing peacefully. Beneath the surface, however, is the willfulness of spending money, and the new financial officials have repeatedly been met with because of the astonishing rate of consumption of huge sums of money, but as a result, they are either ignored or executed.
Except for those few financial managers and some people who were still sober and realized that something was wrong, the rest of them were singing praises to the pioneers of the new era, and even established temples in various places to worship Huo Quanlian.
"Note: The fundamental "soul and spirit" of human beings, the fundamental "soul, soul and shadow" of demons, and the fundamental "soul and shadow" of the netherworld.