Chapter 189

In Liu Er's opinion, there are many inconveniences in bringing a woman, especially red tears, which will be annoying if you lose your temper at a critical moment, so you can't resolutely carry red tears. often travels south and north, Liu Er still has some experience, so as long as Red Tears' father disagrees, Red Tears don't want to go.

"Red Tears, you go back with your father," under Red Tears' expectant gaze, the head of the Liu family still chose to refuse.

"Daddy......", Red Tears didn't want to agree, but she couldn't express her dissatisfaction, so she could only snort softly. By now, the matter of going back to find Lin Xuanzhong and the two has finally been decided, leaving a total of twenty people. According to the instructions of the middle-aged leader, divide into two roads, one way to return according to the original way, the other way to bypass the Sword Emperor Cliff, and then go to the city that never sleeps according to the route described by Qing Yi before.

The personnel of the two sides are crossed, and the team that returns according to the original route is led by Liu Er, and the middle-aged team leader is responsible for the route on the side of the Sword Emperor Cliff. Before dawn, everyone met on the bridge outside the city that never sleeps. Without further ado, after the tasks were divided, the two squads set off immediately.

After they set off, Daddy Red Tears continued to walk back with the others. The distance is long, and there is a possibility of encountering robbers, so the return journey is not very safe.

With everyone traveling lightly, they were indeed moving fast, and because of the strange beasts in the mountains a few days ago. There was not a single beast on the way, and sometimes in order to take a shortcut, the crowd would work together to carry the vehicle carrying the tools.

Overcoming thorns and thorns, crossing mountains and mountains, the five hundred miles away from the post station is a dangerous road full of dangers, but because Lin Xuanzhong killed so many robbers, the road is now unimpeded.

If this continues, the two mercenary teams will be able to arrive at the previous station tomorrow night. And on the way back to their respective cities from the post station, although there are robbers, they are generally not in the climate, and they will only shoot when they encounter ordinary mercenary teams.

In order to let Mo Lingyun and the others return to the city smoothly, Father Red Tears planned to send some more people back with them to ensure Mo Lingyun's safety.

In addition, it is indeed important to go back to Donglincheng, but a large number of people does not mean that it is a good thing, so Red Tears Dad even plans to let the Red Tears sisters follow him, after all, it is more dangerous to go back. As for what they should do after the Liu family's affairs are resolved, it remains to be discussed.

It's a pity that everyone didn't expect that when they went back, everything would be different from before. It was true that the beast movement didn't have much impact on them, but it had a huge impact on those cities.

Aside from the events here, in the south of the city that never sleeps, there are some sparks flashing everywhere on a huge northern territory, and those sparks are the signs of imminent war.

Thousands of years later, the five principalities adapted to local conditions and accumulated strong strength, and their ambitions to dominate the fertile land continued to grow. Under the transition of spring and autumn, the friction between the five principalities has finally sparked, and a bloody storm is brewing that will cover the entire southern region, and perhaps the entire northern region.

For a long time, the five principalities in the south have been led by the Qi Kingdom, and Gu Xuan, Qingyuan, Luo Tian, and the Northern Wilderness have been ranked in turn. A long time ago, the entire Northern Wilderness was ruled by a Yuan Ye Empire. However, the rule of the Yuanye Empire was not solid, and in the end, because there were too many territories divided to the princes, the long-term savings conflict broke out, and the huge Yuanye Empire fell apart within a month.

Due to the chaotic situation at that time, as long as anyone with a territory dared to establish a state, in order to expand the territory, wars between countries continued, and it was not until 3,000 years later that the overall situation was stabilized.

As the Duchy of Daqi in the same era as the Yuanye Empire, after countless years of bloody tempering, it has always stood in the center of the Northern Wilderness, and is the first of the seven great powers of the Northern Wilderness.

The entire Northern Wilderness is divided into two major areas by the Northern Desolate Mountain Range, north of the city that never sleeps and southwest of the city that never sleeps. There are five principalities in the south and only two principalities in the north.

The same long history as the Daqi Principality is the three principalities of Luotian, Beihuang and Dayou, all of which have been handed down from the era of the Yuanye Empire. The other three principalities are considered rising stars, and they are the new principalities that were created by the annexation of various small states to each other. Their history is not long, but after countless years of war, the strength of each principality cannot be underestimated.

Three thousand years is enough time for any principality to grow and grow, but because of the fear of war, although there has been constant friction between countries for many years, it has not been easy to fight.

The current situation is different from before, after three thousand years of recuperation, the five principalities have the determination to dominate again, which is due to historical reasons. If they can't unify the entire Northern Wilderness, even if those monarchs work hard to govern the country and secure the outside and the inside, they still can't fulfill the unification wish of their ancestors in their lifetime, and they can't be called emperors for the rest of their lives.

It is an evasive issue to call the emperor among the countries of the Northern Wilderness, because all countries do not think that other countries are qualified to be emperors, so whoever wants to be the emperor must be unjustifiable, and will only be jointly attacked by other countries. But if they don't call themselves emperors, no matter how big their country is, they can only be called principalities, and they will always be inferior to those empires.

The most important point is that as long as they cannot be crowned emperors, all countries will always worship the Central Empire. No matter how strong their strength is, their monarch will always be a head short in front of the emperor, so annexation is a need for the development of the times, an inevitability, but it has not come until this day.

Cheng Ze unified the countries in the south of the Northern Wilderness, and after the army pressed the border over time, and annexed the Great You and the Great Sword in the north, he unified the Northern Wilderness and established the country as the emperor, and since then it has been on an equal footing with the other four empires. If they are defeated, the kingdoms will not be as strong as they are now, and they will have to develop in a low-key manner under the suppression of other empires. Waiting for the next fighter to unify the Northern Wilderness.

For all countries, this is an opportunity to compete on a level playing field, but it is also a test. If they win, they will have a chance to become emperor, and if they lose, they will lose even more.

There are hundreds of small countries in the Northern Wilderness, which are generally dependent on the existence of various countries, and some of them are independent countries. These small independent states are generally a vein of the great vassal states that were destroyed earlier, they are the remnants of the royal family, and their existence still has the mission of revenge, but it is a pity that there are too many such royal veins in the north of the Great Wilderness, and for many years, they are just surviving.

In any case, after this war, many small countries and the Grand Duchy will be wiped out together, and then new forces will appear, and those ninth-order martial cultivators in the Northern Wilderness have the opportunity to become the overlord of one side, so the arrival of the war makes many people excited.

News of the war had long spread in the south, and more and more people knew that the horn of war was going to be sounded in the south. This war may be fought for decades or centuries, so everyone must be prepared for war.

When the war in the south was about to break out, Lin Xuanzhong and Qingyi were still in that dark prison, and the days of losing their freedom were very uncomfortable, but the emotions full of hope were very exciting.

In such a contradiction, the three of them finally survived three days. In the past three days, Lin Xuanzhong was not hungry, but he was also not full, and even the supply of steamed buns in the prison was limited, so it was really difficult for a martial artist to be full.

Compared with Lin Xuanzhong, Qingyi and Ming have a more difficult life, insisting on eating only one steamed bun every day. For Wu Xiu, this amount of food was like not eating at all, but despite this, those three steamed buns still made the two of them uncomfortable for a long time.

Unlike Lin Xuanzhong, who was immune to the drunken Yuan San in the steamed bun, the two of them had a very painful life. Fortunately, it is better to be hungry than to lose the ability to fight for life, so the two can only starve.

After three days, I don't know if it was because of hunger or the effect of drunken yuansan, Qingyi felt tired, the whole person was like prostration, and he didn't regret it because he came three days earlier than the two of them, and the situation was even worse.

According to Ming Buregret, he said that he is now ten pounds thinner than before he entered the prison, and it is hard to imagine how hard life in the prison is, which will make a martial artist lose weight like this. You must know that as long as the general martial arts cultivator is not seriously injured, the body will not lose weight, and you can imagine how many sins you have lost in prison without regretting.

It was only now that Lin Xuanzhong figured out why those guards locked the two of them together, and only gave the two of them a burden of steamed buns. As long as Wu Xiu is locked up, no one will want to starve to death, so in the end, they can only rush to eat, so no matter how many steamed buns they have, they will definitely be eaten in the end.

For the past three days, the trio would discuss plans to escape when nothing happened. With Lin Xuanzhong as the intermediary to convey the meaning of the other two, the whole process was very troublesome, but fortunately, Lin Xuanzhong himself was very smart, and he also gave a lot of suggestions to the plans of the two of them, and now the three of them have discussed all the plans.

After considering all the circumstances, the biggest question for them at the moment is how to break free from the shackles. If they can't break the shackles, even if they have the opportunity on the way, it will be difficult for them to escape. But now the three of them really don't have the tools to pick the lock.

When they were arrested, the jade and utensils on Lin Xuanzhong and Qingyi were taken away by Zhou Wuji and others, and the situation of Ming Wuyi was even worse, so there were no tools available. Unless the three of them can use the straw stalks in the prison to open the lock.

In addition, picking locks in the prison is not very useful, and once discovered by the guards, it will only attract the anger of those guards, so you can only take one step at a time when it comes to shackles. As for the rest of the matter, there is nothing left, and now they just wait for Ming Unrepentant to call the guards to verify their poisoning.

"Hey," one of the guards raised his face that had been deliberately blackened with ground dust as he patrolled, and shouted at the people outside in a weak tone, "Big brother, I'm so hungry, can you give me something to eat." ”