Chapter 221: Fang City, Wanmin Banner
"Your name is really showy~" After listening to Zhenxiu's narration, Luo Shen didn't pay attention to the creepy story told by this maid for a while, but focused on the strange place.
And his words, the other party naturally can't understand.
The two left the house and walked along the road for more than ten miles before they saw sparse farmhouse courtyards appear on both sides of the road.
After walking for a while, I came across a small town of some size.
When he came closer, Luo Shen realized that he had thought badly, but this was not the town he thought it was, but a fang market attached to the outside of Gyeongju Prefecture.
At this time, because it was getting late, the interior of the city was closed.
A wooden fence the thickness of an ordinary person's calf roughly encloses it.
There was no heavy gate at the entrance, just a movable fence gate of the same material.
Obviously, the designers of Fang City had no intention of using it as a fortress at all.
"Anyone~~~?" Luo Shen shouted with his hand in front of his mouth in a trumpet shape.
"It's useless, once it's dark, neither the city gate nor the gate of the fang market can be easily opened. Let's wait here until the market opens tomorrow morning! Jin-so said as she tugged at the shoulder of Laroschen's T-shirt.
"Hey~~~~ Is that so? Then there is no way! Luo Shen's little face wrinkled, and just as Jin-so thought that Luo Shen would sit down and rest, she saw the strange white-haired boy turn around and walk to the fence gate, grasping a fence with both hands.
And then......
Whoops!
Sawdust splashes!
With the crisp sound of wood cracking and crushing, Zhenxiu was almost stunned to see this strange child who suddenly appeared in Lu Mansion "click" a few bites and directly gnawed the wooden fence that was the thickness of an adult's calf into two!
"Oops!" At this time, Zhenxiu exclaimed: "Why did you eat the door?!" She hurriedly stepped forward to stop her.
But how could she stop Luo Shen?
A moment later, the fence gate of Fang City had been gnawed off by Luo Shen two and a half times.
He took a stride and walked straight in.
Zhenxiu looked back at the already dark sky outside the city, and then followed in.
……
Luo Shen walked the streets of Fang City.
There was no half of a figure on the street, and only a few of the shops on both sides of the street were still faintly glowing.
When he walked to the center of the city, Luo Shen saw a flagpole standing high in the center of the city.
The light of the Pupil of Truth flickered.
In Luo Shen's field of vision, the flagpole and the apricot-yellow banner with ghostly words written on it were exuding a torch-like energy.
"What is this?" Luo Shen turned back and asked himself the only "guide" at this time.
Zhenxiu was stunned for a moment after seeing what Luo Shen was referring to, and then said after glancing at Luo Shen a little strangely: "This is the Wanmin Banner!" Why don't you even know this? ”
"Wanmin Banner?" Luo Shen tilted his head: "What do you do?" ”
"The Wanmin Banner was invented by our Daxin Founding Monarch 'Mang' in order to prevent the people of our Daxin Dynasty from being harmed by demons and evils, and it can gather the faith of all the people living in this city to suppress the evil!"
Hearing Zhenxiu say this, Luo Shen suddenly showed a sudden look - in the vision of the Pupil of Truth, he could already see that this flagpole was absorbing some formless and insubstantial energy in Fang City, and it was constantly burning to release some pure positive energy......
As an evil god who has obtained the ability of a part of the belief gods of the Faeron World, Luo Shen can still roughly understand the role of this kind of energy that is similar to the "power of faith" but is not exactly the same.
This energy, which was obviously derived from human belief and the yang energy emitted by the sun, had a dispersing effect on the kind of black qi he had encountered before.
At least at this time, Luo Shen's vision did not find that there was the black gas he had seen in the Lu Mansion before.
'What the hell is all that black gas?' Even the ability to feed on everything can't allow me to devour that black qi directly...... And after those paper figures were eliminated, the amount of black gas did not seem to decay......
"And what's written on this flag?" Roshen asked again.
Originally, he had too much hope for a maid's cultural level, but Zhenxiu was obviously not an ordinary rough maid: "That's Qianwen, although other Qianwen ordinary people can't know it at all, but the word 'Wanmin' on this flag is known to everyone." ”
"All the people?" Luo Shen whispered, and at this time, the things he had experienced and seen along the way were lightning connected in his mind.
The black gas, the paper figures, the low courtyard walls of the Lu Mansion, the rain, and the things that the maid Zhenxiu said...... There is also the city's fragile protective capacity......
Ultimately.
Everything was frozen on the flagpole in front of me and the raging flame that could only be seen in the vision of truth.
Hehe.
Is that so?
Luo Shen smiled, even if he couldn't use the flying spell to look down in the air, he could imagine such a picture: in this vast country, which was similar to ancient China, there was everywhere the phenomenon of 'ghosts' accompanied by black aura.
It is this phenomenon that makes the inhabitants of this land miserable.
As a result, people erected the flag of the people in the settlements and cities, which was created by the founding emperor of the country, Mang.
Only under the protection of the Wanmin Banner can ordinary people ensure that they are not disturbed by ghosts and evil spirits.
And because of that......
There are bound to be fewer cases like bandits, rogues and the like, or even bandits need more people to gather together and have something like the Wanmin Banner to be safe.
That's why the walls of Lu Mansion and this Fang City are so low?
From the side...... The external troubles and man-made disasters of this great new dynasty do not seem to be serious...... At least not the first thing to be guarded against.
People are even reluctant to build stronger and higher walls for this.
Do ghosts even affect the basic conditions of human society?
Hehe.
Is...... It's funny~~~ Luo Shen's eyes smiled almost like two rounds of crescents.
He jumped onto the top of a small two-story building nearby and stood at the top of the roof ridge looking out of the city.
It was late at night.
Although there was still a dark rain curtain outside the city, in Luo Shen's vision of truth, he could see that in the extreme distance, the dark and dreary mountains and old forests were rich in black air that almost overshadowed all the stars and moonlight!
Even in the fields around the city.
Wisps of black qi from the earth and the void were also scattered everywhere.
"Now, if you want to figure everything out...... The quickest way is to find someone who has more information! Let's say - the people who hold supernatural powers in this world! ”
Luo Shen recalled what Zhenxiu had told him about the Lu Mansion before, and had some plans in his heart about how to find those who had supernatural powers.