Chapter 229, there is no way to be a blessing or a curse
The horse team ran along the street for a while, and the street ahead suddenly became chaotic.
It was an open space of about ten acres, and of course, the empty land was just the original name, and now it was occupied by all kinds of vehicles, languishing mules and horses, and muddy humans.
The foul-smelling soil on the ground is littered with mule and horse droppings, mixed with the hay that can be found everywhere, giving the ground a disturbing yellowish-brown color.
Around the courtyard, a low earthen wall was erected to separate the open space from the rest of the city.
Compared with the tall stone walls between the alleys in the capital, these earthen walls with cracks and holes in several places are fragile, and it seems that with a little liliang, these unruly earthen walls can be knocked down.
Outside the earthen walls, there are occasionally a few trees that grow alone, and these trees seem to have been destroyed again and again, perhaps by natural or man-made disasters, in short, these devastation have made the trees unspirited. Even though it's already April, the branches of these trees don't have too many young leaves, and they look very thin, and like the whole city, they have a melancholy atmosphere.
Those who got up early in the morning and spent the night with their horses and mules splashed the buckets that were placed under the carriage - a remarkable invention that allowed a plank under the carriage to be opened and people to defecate directly in the carriage. In the whole venue, it seems that only the activities of these people show a trace of vitality. As for those real protagonists, wounded horses. Lame mule and horse. And the scrawny donkeys standing there. I can't see any spirit. It's like a lamb who has seen through the world and is dying in the twilight, standing there dumbfounded, without a trace of nostalgia for life.
The morning sun was only a little bit of the courtyard sprinkled in the courtyard, and the tall city wall in the distance blocked out the sunlight, which made the whole courtyard even colder. Several men in Pijon jackets were standing on the edge of the field, watching the descent with wary expressions. The horse team slowly approached here, and in their hands, there was a faint flash of light with some weapons.
The rider of the horse team shielded the oncoming sunlight with his hand, glanced at the men who looked like they should be guards, let out an unknown snort, and then manipulated the horses to rush out first, looked at everyone and asked, "Where is Luo Rong?" ”
The rider's accent sounded very strange, not like the accent of any other place in China, but like the voice of those overseas who had tried their best to learn the Mandarin dialect, very stiff.
But. Compared to this strange accent, the rider's voice is extremely crisp. It's not a slightly deep male voice at all, but a woman's tone.
On this muddy morning, suddenly there was a woman's voice, even if it was not natural, it was enough to wake up most of them, and they all looked up from their respective positions.
Compared with those who were a little surprised, the faces of those guards became even more wrong, especially after hearing the name Luo Rong, several guards standing in Zuihou had quietly pulled out their waist knives.
"This guest officer, this is a carriage and horse shop, not a human flesh business."
A tall guard standing at the front of the line casually straightened his fur hat and replied casually.
The female rider didn't care about such an answer at all, and after staring quietly for a while at the guard, or rather, the light white hair on the guard's clothes, she suddenly asked, "Do you have any parents and brothers?" ”
The tall guard was stunned again, looked at this female rider, and suddenly hahadaxiao got up and said: "This woman has such a big appetite, isn't it that I can't make you cool alone, and actually wants my family to come?" ”
The other guards wanted to laugh too, but looking at the unowned horses that were gradually pouring up, and the two also hooded riders sitting in the middle and back of the team, their faces began to become extremely nervous, and their smiles froze on their faces.
The female rider didn't seem to hear the guard's remarks at all, but in the midst of this laughter she asked, "Do you have any parents or brothers?" ”
The guard was choked by such a question, couldn't stop laughing, his heart was furious, and he shouted: "You are so unhappy, I have always been alone, where do you need any family and friends, with these noises, why don't you tell me what you want to do?" ”
The female rider turned to look at the rider in the middle of the team, and asked in a language similar to Franco's, "What did he say?" I don't know too much? ”
The rider in the middle glanced coldly at the guards in front of him and replied, "Why do you ask so much?" You can't make up your mind about something like this yet? Move fast, and someone will come right away. ”
"I just want to solve it once and for all, lest there be a mistake and he could be a new source of infection that will contaminate his family. According to you Orientals, you must pull out the roots of the grass and cut it off. ”
The female rider replied, then turned to look at the tall guard and said in bird language, "Good luck." ”
The guard knew such an overseas language, and he was about to say something, when he suddenly felt a light in his eyes, and at some point, a ball of fire had appeared on the female rider's hand. The next moment, the ball of fire had disappeared, and the guards were in amazement, only to feel that their whole body was burning hot, and in their hearts, they realized that from under their legs, a scorching flame had risen from below.
These flames looked extremely hot, and the large amount of burning caused the surrounding oxygen to be quickly consumed, and the guard began to tremble slightly in the blink of an eye, and various hallucinations continued to appear in front of him, and before he even had time to cry out in pain, he began to slowly incinerate from his feet.
It was a complete incineration, starting with the feet, and the skin, blood, and bones all became decayed in the heat. Then, as the guard's body naturally fell, eventually, the sudden fire burned the entire body of the guard into a black shard, and the heat that continued to emanate from those shards caused the entire field to fall silent.
The rider in the middle also seemed to be shocked by what he saw, and after a long time, he asked, "Merge skills?" ”
The female rider nodded, and said, "The flame is extremely hot and very easy to extinguish, but if it is not extinguished, the longer it is, the higher the temperature of the burn will be, until the attached object is completely incinerated." ”
The indifferent female rider calmly said in bird language that the guards didn't understand at all, and at the same time looked coldly at the rest of the guards again, without taking off the strange hood, she quickly swept over these people with her whole face hidden in the shadows, and paused, and the female rider asked again: "Where is Luo Rong?" ”
This question suddenly woke the guards, not only them, but also the idle handlebars to exclaim in a variety of sizes. In the midst of these exclamations, the female rider seemed to cough, which was not loud, but it caused the whole field to fall silent at once, and only the horse on which the female rider was riding snorted impatiently.
"Luo, Luo, Master Luo is not here, he has another place to live."
One of the guards stammered in reply, and his body involuntarily retreated backwards, for fear that the next time that unprovoked fire would appear on his body.
The female rider turned her head to look at the rider in the middle of the team and asked, "What should I do?" ”
The well-proportioned rider in the middle jumped off his horse suddenly, completely ignoring the disgusting dirt on the ground, and quickly walked in front of the guards, also did not take off his hood, but coldly ordered in the dark: "Tell Luo Rong that disaster is coming, and you can still say something in the morning, if you take a step in the evening, you are afraid that life and death will be separated, and you will not say anything." ”
Several guards glanced at each other, and the life and death in front of them made them forget their fear of the rich man, and one of the guards nodded again and again, saying, "Master, wait, Master, I'll go and talk to Master Luo, and in half an hour, Master Luo will arrive." ”
The rider snorted and said, "Half an hour? Do you think that the immortal outside the city will give your master so long? Tell him that we won't come to save him either, say a few words, turn around and leave. As for his life and death, and let her, as for you and others, just ask for more blessings. ”
The guards listened to the rider's words, and their feet were full of battles. Compared with the defenders in Shanhaiguan, this carriage and horse shop was originally a temporary trading place for merchants from the south to the north to temporarily rent carriages and horses to transport goods, and those people moved around more frequently than the locals, and they were more well-informed. What happened in Jingshi, the defenders of Shanhaiguan may not know about it, and it has already been rumored in the carriage and horse travel. Therefore, the matter of that Lin Immortal, these guards knew far better than those defenders.
That Lin Immortal, not to mention anything else, has a nickname that circulates in private, called "Corpse Bone Immortal", which means that there are no immortals in the place where this immortal passes, and often there is no one alive in the whole family, and they are all dead, leaving only bones.
From the time this immortal appeared in the capital to the present, he actually stepped on the bones all the way, and there were countless killings along the way.
It is said that at that time, there were also ministers in the court who wanted to invite the saint, saying that this immortal was a fake, killing people and shaking the court, and wanted to ask the saint to remove this immortal. However, these voices began to circulate only in the streets, and within a few days, the whole of the Guogong Mansion was eaten up by this immortal, and there was no such sound in the capital.
Offended nine thousand years old, at most it was just a death, offended the gods, and the whole family was left with no bones, this is not a joke, but a bloody reality. (To be continued......)