The city in front of you is Lingye City. From a distance, it looks like it is shrouded in a layer of yellow sand, and it has no nameless lightness and beauty, but it makes people feel extremely desolate. The city wall is not as delicate and clean as the carved heart city, and the places that are slightly peeled off look mottled and sparse, and even more declining.

There were only two guards lazily guarding the city gate, watching people enter and leave without questioning at all. Liang Yue rode behind, Feng Xun and Xuanyuan Zi left their horses in front, and the carriage slowly followed behind. It stands to reason that they should be interrogated, but Feng Xun has walked through the city gate, and the two guards who are guarding have no intention of moving, and they have not raised their eyelids.

"It's weird." Liang Yue muttered, and said to Qing Jue, who was driving behind, "Take care of the people in the car." ”

Qing Jue nodded, looking around as she drove. When I entered the city, I didn't see any shops, the streets were in a hurry, there were a few vegetable stalls everywhere, and then there were merchants carrying the goods to sell, and the doors of those shops were closed, and none of them were open.

Xuanyuan Zili frowned slightly, and said suspiciously: "This city is so desolate. The excerpt only talks about tax reduction and exemption every year, and does not mention anything else. What's going on? ”

Feng Xun said lightly: "If the city lord truthfully reports the situation here, but can't solve it in the short term, then can he still keep his position?" Certainly won't tell you so much. So this trip to the south, what you came out of is not wronged. ”

The emperor pursed his lips and continued to walk. Feng Xun was right, it was because he didn't know many things in the temple, so he went away to see what the country under his rule was like.

"The inns are closed, how is that good?" Liang Yue said a word and restrained the horse. The door of an inn next to it was closed, and the flying cloth sail had the words "Yongan Inn" written on it, but no one was there.

"Like a dead city." Feng Xun sighed.

The woman passing by hurried by with a cloth covering her mouth and nose, and Qing Jue quickly jumped out of the carriage and went over to stop her: "I'm sorry, is there any other place to live in this city?" ”

The woman looked panicked, carrying a basket of vegetables as if she was about to hurry home, and only replied: "Tomorrow these inns should be open, but not today." You are from a foreign country, you don't understand, go quickly, and the thieves will come later! ”

Liang Yue and the others were stunned when they heard it, in broad daylight, thieves are coming? As she spoke, the woman hurried away again. Looking up, the stalls on the street are also packed up in a panic, and there are not many people now, but now there are even fewer people.

"Shall we stay here?" Liang Yue turned her head sideways and asked Xuanyuan Zili.

The emperor sneered, nodded, and said to Qing Jue: "You drive the carriage to take the peony and the moon out of the city first, and Qi Yu and you will protect them together, and we will stay here to see the situation." ”

Qing Jue was a little worried, but thinking that these three martial arts were enough, he also took the order, got in the car and took them out of Lingye City, temporarily heading to the distant highlands.

Seeing that the people on the street were all gone, Liang Yue said with a low smile: "With such a chaotic life, how can the people stay in Lingye City for a long time, if the city lord has no way to take the thief, he can write to ask the imperial court to send troops to exterminate it, but it has been delayed until now." For his own selfish interests, he trapped the people in fire and water, but can he still stay? ”

The emperor's eyes were deep, and he said coldly: "To find out the situation, if this is really the case, naturally you can't stay." ”

Feng Xun suddenly turned his head, looked in the direction of the city gate, and said in a low voice: "It's here." ”

The two who were talking stopped to listen, and it was true, the sound of horses' hooves was approaching, and there were still a lot of sounds. The two soldiers who had just been guarding the city gate were now gone, and the city gate was wide open, and there was a dead silence everywhere.

"Ho-" shouted, a group of horse thieves broke into the city gate, they did not even wear face scarves on their faces, all of them were strong and strong, and it was not strange to break into the door to see no one, and they were about to break into the door, but they saw three people standing on horses in the distance.

The leading horse thief was stunned for a moment, then laughed, and laughed: "I was lucky today, and I met a stranger who happened to enter the city. Brothers, what about these three fat sheep? ”

Feng Xun frowned, obviously very dissatisfied with being called a fat sheep, and a few gossamers flew out of his sleeves, but he was stopped by Liang Yue.

"You have silenced, how can we still ask about the situation." Liang Yue sighed, "Wait for them to come." ”

Feng Xun snorted coldly and watched as the group of bearded robbers galloped over on horseback, surrounding them in the middle.

"Hey, why are the two more unsightly than the old men?" The head of the horse thief looked at Feng Xun and Liang Yue, and said loudly: "Lao Tzu didn't cover his face when he was a robber, what kind of face do you cover, is it too ugly?" ”

"Boss, I think this little girl in the middle should look good." A small grin said, "I guess it's too beautiful to hide." ”

"Really?" The head of the horse thief touched his chin, and the big knife of the three rings was resisted on his back, and he said rudely: "It just so happens that Lao Tzu lacks a daughter-in-law, what do you think of snatching it back?" ”

"Oh, oh!" The surrounding horse thieves coaxed one after another, and the emperor's face was as deep as water, and he said lightly: "It's so arrogant, is it because no one cares about it in this city?" ”

The leader of the horse thieves glanced at this kid, and subconsciously paused, but for some reason he felt a little empty in his heart. The person in front of him is clearly a good-looking little white face, but how can it be intimidating to look at?

"Isn't there a lord in the city? Do you still count on him? The thief coughed twice, the knife shook so loudly that the iron ring rattled, and said stiffly: "It's all some, we have been here so many times, and we haven't seen anything from the city guard." Don't think about it today. Either leave everything of value with this woman, or leave your life behind. ”

Xuanyuan Zili listened, snorted lightly, and said, "What if you can't leave both?" ”

The thief's eyes widened, and a knife slashed between Xuanyuan Zili's throat, and said, "Lao Tzu didn't give you a third way to choose." ”

Liang Yue was slightly frightened, but she turned her head sideways and saw Xuanyuan Zili stretching out his fingers and clamping the blade of the knife, with an arrogant and domineering appearance on his face that he hadn't seen for a long time: "So, the third way is for us to come out by ourselves." ”

Feng Xun and Liang Yue cooperated very well with the emperor, and as soon as Xuanyuan Zi finished speaking, the two of them flew out of the encirclement at the same time with the power of horseback. The emperor's fingers moved, and the knife was slightly bent, and then it shook the thief's head so much that he almost fell off his horse.

Gossamer pulled out his sleeves, and Feng Xun stood on a high place, quietly looking down at this group of stunned horse thieves. The gentle one silently deprived them of their lives. Liang Yue didn't bring a weapon, but calmly twisted the neck of the man on horseback, and then flew next to the thief's head.

"You just said that you want to rob me of being the lady of the village?" Liang Yue asked him expressionlessly.

The thief looked at all this in front of him, and felt as terrible as encountering black and white impermanence. His mouth trembled and he couldn't speak, and as soon as he rolled over, he fell off the horse.

"I... I don't know Tarzan with my eyes, heroes, please let it go! The thief's face was covered with sweat, and his heart was cold when he saw the brothers around him die one by one before they even had time to resist. Today, I've bumped into God...

Xuanyuan Zili walked up to him step by step, looked at him for a while, and said, "Apart from you, who else will come to make trouble in this Spirit Leaf City?" ”

This group of people just looks strong, and they are not very powerful martial arts, there is no reason for Lingye City to be afraid of this, there must be another hidden reason.

The thief swallowed for a long time, and said, "The other people, I don't know, are from other mountains, I..."

Before the words fell, a gossamer tightened his throat, and with a cruel smile on the corner of Feng Xun's mouth, he slowly walked over and said, "Think about it clearly, otherwise, you won't have a head." ”

The thief head trembled in fright, and hurriedly said: "More than one or two groups, since the first batch of people came to Lingye City last year and found that no one was in charge, the nearby bandits have all come here. Every few days, they sack Lingye City. I really don't know the details of the rest of them, and I just came with them..."

Feng Xun nodded, and the gossamer tightened, cutting the thief's throat.

Liang Yue glanced at him and said lightly: "He told the truth, why did he still kill him." ”

"It's fun to keep the horse thief." Feng Xun smiled: "Besides, his head is still on his neck, I am trustworthy." ”

Liangyue: "...... ＂

Xuanyuan Zili carefully recalled what this person had just said, and his eyebrows condensed slightly. According to this, have the nearby bandits all come to Lingye City? In such a big battle, the city lord still did not come forward. He always felt that something was strange, and he wanted to meet the city lord here.

Also, the method of killing this person is too cruel, and the heart is too ruthless. Although he should have known it a long time ago, but when he looked at it intuitively, he found that he was far more ruthless than he had seen before. Then it was really hard for him, so gentle in front of Gu Liangyue.

The corpses in one place exuded a strong smell of blood, and Liang Yue said lightly: "Let's go to the City Lord's Mansion and find out what is going on." ＂

Both the emperor and Feng Xun nodded, got back on their horses, and continued to find the City Lord's Mansion.

The streets were desolate again, and the doors of every house were closed, except for the horse thief's horse, which was still in place, snorting.

After walking all the way, I finally found a place that looked most like the City Lord's Mansion. But it doesn't look very gorgeous, and it is rarely taken care of, and even the red paint on the red door has fallen off a lot.

The three of them dismounted curiously and went to knock on the door. But after knocking for a long time, no one came to open it, so Liang Yue used her strength and pushed the door open directly.

There was no one in the courtyard, Feng Xun looked around strangely, raised his eyebrows and said, "It seems that there are only people in the main hall." ＂

Xuanyuan Zili walked towards the main hall on the side. The door was ajar, and there were no servants, so he let in easily. As soon as the three of them entered the door, a strong smell of wine came to their faces.