"Just now I noticed a very interesting detail, there are medical halls, schools, and restaurants, which shows that this Qingcheng is a city with a complete social structure. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoBut there is no inn here, which means that there are no outsiders in this place at all, and this is a completely isolated city. Based on the size of the city wall and the size of the buildings here, it is estimated that it can accommodate nearly 10,000 people.

In the Tang Dynasty, the city of 10,000 people was a huge resource. In the Tang Dynasty, it belonged to the jurisdiction of the Duhufu, which was vast and sparsely populated, and lacked production and living resources. Basically, it can be ruled out that the possibility of purchasing resources through trade means that these people can be self-sufficient underground!

Regardless of the source of wood, if Qingcheng does not build such a large-scale city with the help of external forces, then all the young adults of this 10,000 population must be craftsmen! In the feudal era, taking away two or three thousand craftsmen without permission was a great crime of rebellion!

In fact, what I am most curious about is what is the purpose of living in seclusion underground with so many craftsmen? ”

Saren looked confused.

"Wang Twelve seems to have said that this is a tomb, could they have come to repair the tomb?"

Suddenly I remembered the tomb gate that King XII had said.

"Tomb? Before repairing the tomb, the craftsmen will build a city for themselves? Moreover, the mausoleums built by thousands of craftsmen must at least be owned by the emperor's relatives, and there would be no royal family buried in the capital in the Tang Dynasty. ”

Saren immediately dismissed my speculation.

"By the way, what the hell is this lantern glowing with?"

I've wanted to ask Saren this question for a long time.

"I don't know. Even if Qingcheng was destroyed in the era of Zheleme, these lanterns would have been lit for nearly a thousand years. Maybe the particles in it are material from meteorites. ”

It seems that Saren can only attribute the reason for the light to the meteorite.

"I think everything here has something to do with Hou Yi Gong!"

I don't know what I'm thinking, but this sentence pops up.

Listening to my words, Saren thought that she had come to inspiration, and she said excitedly.

"You're right! All of this may have something to do with Hou Yi Gong! As for the reason for Zheleme's immortality, all clues point to Hou Yigong. And the trenches outside the city are supposed to be dug to meet the Zhelemil tribe or the shaman black witch, and the city is still so powerful after hundreds of years, they even have the ability to face a war.

With the medical and health conditions of that era, even when there was plenty of food, the probability that so many people could live underground and still survive for hundreds of years without going extinct due to disease was too low! These may all be the credit of Hou Yigong. ”

"What have they been doing for hundreds of years?"

I couldn't help but think about the biggest question Saren was talking about.

"In the information given to Zhou Lu by the big man, it is indeed recorded that there is a huge slave camp behind the Hate Life Formation, but this Qingcheng does not look like a slave camp no matter how you look at it. Our previous trips have verified the correctness of the information, and I believe that there will definitely be a slave camp here! With countless slaves and a huge number of craftsmen, there is so much that can be done. ”

Saren said thoughtfully.

"We may not have seen the existence of the slave camp when we walked on the ground, the ropes outside the city, the bullets on the ground, they must not have been left by Batun and Hongxin, maybe they flew directly to the slave camp, right?"

I always felt that Patum and Hongxin were full of death, and that there must have been resentment in the slave camps, and I easily connected them.

"The possibility of such a situation is very high! Perhaps only when I got to the slave camp could I know what the purpose of these men was! ”

"Why did Zhou Lu and Wang Twelve go, why haven't they come back? Why don't we go out and look for it again? ”

The thought of Zhoulu and them leaving marks on me and Saren only to disappear without a trace makes my heart a little empty. I can't tell if I'm worried about their situation or if I'm worried about my safety.

"Let's wait here, judging from the traces outside the city walls, there was a very fierce war here, but there is no trace of invasion inside the city, and from the city to the outside of the city, we have not even seen a single corpse, which is too unreasonable.

It's definitely not as simple as it seems on the surface, and since Zhou Lu left us a mark, it proves that this place is safe, and it's better for us to wait for them to come back here than for us to go out and look around. ”

Saren's thoughts are still very sound.

"The reason why there are no corpses, isn't it because the haters in the hateful formation have cleaned up the battlefield?"

I've already thought of this question, how could Saren not think of it?

"This matter is not as simple as you think, the trenches outside the city will definitely not be able to stop the invasion of Hatesheng, so the trenches dug by the people of Qingcheng are definitely dealing with ordinary troops, and the Hate Sheng Array should be placed after the war. But the invaders had already broken the city, so why didn't they invade the city?

Perhaps, as you said, the corpses of the combatants and the old and weak women and children of Qingcheng were eaten by the later haters. But Qingcheng seems to have been defeated, what happened in the middle of it that made the invaders give up entering the city? ”

I couldn't keep up with Saren's thoughts, and the problems she was talking about gave me a lot of headaches.

"The problem you're talking about is too complicated! How is everything so complicated here? ”

I couldn't help but complain.

"Complex? Simple? ”

Saren muttered.

"Saren, I have a question about one thing you just said! You said that the people of Qingcheng dug trenches to deal with the invaders' army, right? ”

I thought of this question and asked Xiang Saren. Saren nodded noncommittally.

"In this place where there is no light and isolation, when the people of Qingcheng know that there is an enemy attacking, how can they have time to build such a large fortification?

If this trench was dug in advance at the beginning of the construction of the city, then how could these craftsmen who could build the city so neatly build the fortifications so roughly? ”

Listening to my words, Saren fell into thought. Suddenly, she jerked to her feet.

"Let's go! Come with me out of town! ”

After saying that, Saren turned around and walked outside, and she walked out of the house and ran in the direction of the city gate! I immediately followed! The two of us returned to the war-torn city walls, and she stood in front of the trench, holding a flashlight and sweeping in all directions in the inner trench.

Saren's flashlight stopped shaking, and the light of the flashlight stayed at a point on the inner edge of the trench.

"Look!"

Saren suddenly said coldly.

When I looked closely, there was a human hand bone embedded in the trench!