Volume 1: Bloody Joy Chapter 24 The Grave
The grass on the tomb of the overlord is sparse, the stone beasts are broken and miserable under the rain, the eternal millennium is broken, the last days are restarted to raise the flag, the hero is still too late to die, what is the reopening of the world, do not sing this song to the rivers and lakes, and the reincarnation of the world becomes sorrow and joy.
The book continues from the above, after the storm and rain, the Feng Boyu Master in the Heavenly Palace only rested for a short time, and with a cup of tea, he held the magic weapon and let the slanting wind and drizzle sway into the mortal world.
Overlooking the capital from the sky, Zhanhong is standing outside the courtyard wall of Dong Zhongying's mansion in one place in the city, only to see his toe point to the ground and jump high, and then see his feet kicking the wall one after another and then reaching out to the wall, and his body has jumped into the courtyard as soon as he turned over, this time he did not dislike the high wall.
"Who is it?" The six nurses who patrolled the hospital watched Zhan Hong jump in, first stunned for a moment, and then "Cang Changchang" each pulled out the scimitar on his waist and opened the stance.
"I don't want to do anything with you. Zhanhong stood firm, smiled at the group of nurses in front of him, and just wanted to ask where Dong Zhongying was, only to hear someone in front of him shouting: "What the hell are you talking crazy?" Another nurse shouted loudly: "If you don't call the door but you climb over the wall to enter, it must be a thief! Brothers go up together! Tie up this thief first!"
After about two moments of effort, Zhan Hong slashed over the last nurse in front of him, and then looked at the mansion, the guards of the courtyard with maids, domestic servants, and the old mother who cooked, etc., and the corpses were all over the courtyard and hall.
Zhanhong's eyes were red like the devil who asked for his life, and the mad demon turned the house inside and out, but he couldn't see Dong Zhongying. He found that his heart was anxious, his arms were stiff, his wounds were oozing blood, his internal organs were uncomfortable, his body seemed to be shattered by new and old wounds, and he had not been able to rest for two days in a row, and the strength in his body was stripped out of his body in a trace.
The rain dripping from the eaves flowed into the puddles and mixed into the pools of blood in the courtyard, and there were occasionally two insect chirpings and bird calls in the rain, which was faint and gloomy. Zhanhong sat quietly on the chair in the main hall, staring at the corpses in the courtyard, the curled scimitar hung on the side of the chair, the candlelight flickered under the reflection of the glass mirror, and suddenly only heard a "whoosh" sound, a crossbow arrow shot into the hall from the dark place in the front yard, Zhanhong was shocked to dodge sideways, followed by a few arrows, until Zhanhong retreated to the corner.
Could it be that there is still a living hole in this mansion that has slipped through the net? Zhan Hong thought to himself, inexplicable irritability and that nameless evil fire rushed into his heart, "I don't want to do anything with you!" Zhan Hong shouted outside the hall: "Why do you have to hit him (the clue)'s knife edge!" As soon as the shout fell, he listened quietly, and no one answered for more than half a day.
"Why, why should I kill someone?" Zhanhong's lips closed one by one: "Zhen'er, Zhen'er, where are you......"
Suddenly, Zhanhong only felt thirsty in his mouth, and every breath was like inhaling fireworks, and his internal organs were burning as if he was uncomfortable, and he looked at the arrows deeply embedded in the ground and walls in a daze, only to see that the tails of those arrows seemed to be different from the usual arrow feathers, and he couldn't wait to think about it, and his eyes were difficult to open again, and the darkness in front of him instantly wrapped him tightly.
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The two-wheeled carriage stopped at the entrance of the alley, and the people in the carriage lifted the curtain to look into the alley, only to see six figures gradually appearing from far and near, two of them dragging something on the bluestone pavement.
"Is the tie strong?" the man in the carriage coughed.
"An Ye, I'll do something, you can put a hundred and twenty hearts!" The speaker instructed the other two to throw the things they were dragging into the back of the carriage, and then he turned over and jumped into the carriage, and with a shout of "driving", the horse pulling the cart stepped on its hooves, and the five people next to the cart followed closely and also turned over and got on the horse.
"Where are we going?"
"Back to Ghost City. The people in the carriage coughed and said, "Let Zhen'er go to Cao San." โ
"Okay. โ
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The Northern Dynasty Zhengguo went to Beijing Xidu, yesterday the south of the city fought floods, and there were frequent murders in the city, which was really a good and not lively.
Until the rooster crowed, the rain stopped and the wind stopped, but the sky was still gloomy. It's just strange that there are no old and young people dead in this city, and several carts of corpses swept by rags and grass are pulled out of the city, and there are no other abnormalities in this Xidu City.
In this city, as usual, the old man who went out to do business looked up at the sky, and the whole city was shrouded in black clouds.
Cao San stood expressionlessly at the back door of the Chamber of Commerce in the border city, where two ox carts were parked, and sharp-eyed people could see at a glance that blood was oozing from the cracks in the wooden planks of the ox carts, falling to the ground one by one.
At this moment, I saw two men from the Chamber of Commerce carrying out a corpse with broken arms, legs and feet from the house, and the two struggled to put the body on the straw mat, looking up at Cao San tremblingly. Cao San nodded at the two of them, then turned around, he raised his hand and rubbed the Yintang acupoint, swallowing in his throat, and the pink scar on his neck moved with the swallowing.
"Third master?"
Cao San put down his hand and followed the sound, but saw a young man with a long sword hanging from his waist saluting and said, "An Ye, please you." โ
"Wait a minute. After Cao San finished speaking, he waved his hand to call the steward, instructed the affairs in the mansion, and then said to the steward: "Send a message to the young master, please wait for the young master, and don't go out for the time being." The steward nodded and obeyed, and Cao San whispered something to the steward, but he couldn't hear it clearly.
The two rode out of the city one after the other, and soon arrived at the ghost market, where Cao San saw from a distance that several people in tattered clothes were dismantling a carriage next to the tattered plaque of the Ceres Temple, and the right wheel of the carriage had broken off two spokes.
The young man with the sword did not take Cao San into the Nightingale Club in the center of the ghost market, the two of them walked around the mass grave to a grave, and when they reached the grave, the young man turned over and dismounted, and Cao San also jumped off the horse when he saw it. The two tied their horses, and Cao San saw that there was a downward hole behind the half-human-high tomb, which was dark and bottomless. The young man smiled and made a letter to the entrance of the cave, and Cao San smiled bitterly and got in.
The narrow walkway of the cave had a faint light every twenty steps, and the light came from the small oil lamps, which were placed in the holes carved out of the cave wall, and the light flickered on and off. A heavy wheezing sound was infinitely amplified in this long tunnel, and the people walking in the tunnel couldn't tell where the wheezing sound came from, and no one could see the human figure in the bright light, no one knew if there was something hidden in the place where the light could not shine, only their wheezing sound could be heard in the ear chakra, and there seemed to be something crawling overhead, and the cold and moldy air was full of invisible tentacles, which writhed, tentatively, and gently touched every inch of the skin of the pedestrians in the cave.
Cao San counted the number of steps in his heart, this tunnel is down, according to the length of the tunnel, now the two should have walked to the vicinity of the mass grave, the depth is indeed difficult to calculate, the young man behind him did not speak, and he didn't want to ask too much, so he had to bury his head forward, and finally saw a door at the end of the tunnel.
The door in front of him was very peculiar, the material did not look like copper and iron, it glowed white under the light of the lamp, and the door frame was also made of this unknown metal. Cao San saw that the young man pressed the door panel with both hands to the left and right, and the two door panels were slowly retracted into the door frame one left and one right, and then there were two identical door panels behind the door, and the young man repeated the same method again, and then he saw the situation in the door - the unknown metal wall was on the top and bottom, and the left and right were facing the open door, and there was an identical door. On the right-hand side of this door are two neat columns of embossed text symbols (1, 2, 3, 4...... I looked at it for a long time but didn't understand what it meant.
The young man continued to open the door in the same way, and Cao San raised his eyes to see it, and suddenly opened up when he saw the door.
The cave in front of Cao San's eyes is extremely spacious, the walls are flat, the lights in the cave are bright, and there is a person hanging in the center, in front of that person is Ande, and there are several people sitting or standing on both sides, some are reading, some are wiping long swords, and a man with rabbit lips is boiling water on the stove.
"Third master, forgive me. Ande coughed and walked to the table and chair on the side, and said while motioning for Cao San to take a seat: "This underground is safe, and the entry and exit is just such a narrow road, and it is best to lock him up." Seeing that Cao San didn't come to sit down, he just stood in place and laughed silently, but he didn't speak.
Seeing this, Ander continued: "Look, this is 20,000 gold. With that, he pointed to the hanging man.
After hearing this, Cao San walked towards the man and looked up.
Under the light, it was Zhanhong who was riding a white horse two days ago, but he saw that Zhanhong was tied up like a zongzi at this time, his eyes were closed, the blood stains on his body had condensed, and there was a fishy smell of dark purple.
Cao San looked at the unconscious Zhanhong and said, "Yo, you and I have met again." โ
Ande coughed and stretched out his hand to ask for water, and the young man next to him hurriedly went to get it, he took the water cup and took a sip: "If we accept gold coins from people, we will definitely do things for others, this thing is a rule." He put down the water glass and said: "As long as you pay for this person, you can take it away, and we will naturally leave Zhengguo, if there is still fate, then goodbye to the rivers and lakes." โ
Cao San turned to look at Ande: "I will take the people first, and then I will send someone to send you the gold coin." โ
Limeng, who was staring at the kettle on the side, stood up, licked his lips and looked at Ande, and then looked at Ande to stop coughing and waved his hand and said: "It's not that I can't trust your border city Chamber of Commerce, but we also have our own rules, pay the money with one hand and pay the goods with the other, but there is no reason to take people away first." โ
Cao San raised his hand and rubbed the Yintang acupoint, nodded with a smile, then turned around and walked out the door, disappearing into the darkness in the blink of an eye.
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"Water. Zhanhong's upper and lower lips were dry and sticky, and when he spoke, he tore open a small hole in his lips, blood oozed out, there was no saliva in his mouth, his head was buzzing, and his whole body was sore, but his body was not as painful as before.
"Let him go and feed him some water. Ande commanded, and the young man next to him untied the rope and slowly lowered Zhanhong, and the other sword-wielder brought a water cup to feed Zhanhong, but as soon as the water was sent to Jinhong's mouth, he coughed violently and bleed.
Ande coughed too, and said, "Ahem, feed him slowly, don't choke him." โ
Zhanhong drank a few sips of water and opened his eyes, and only then did he know his situation, he lay on the ground and looked sideways, and saw Ande at a glance, and he was not annoyed but laughed: "Haha, it's really you." โ
The kettle on the stove boiled and made a whining sound, and Limon reached out to lift the kettle and said, "Grandpa, it's time to take medicine." โ
Seeing Zhanhong laughing, An De laughed too: "It's me, it's me." โ
"How much?" Zhan Hong smiled as he twisted his body, adjusting his posture to a better position to be able to lie face to face and see Ande. "Twenty thousand gold. Ander coughed, took the pill from Limon and took it with water. Zhanhong nodded after listening: "That's really a lot, I didn't expect me to be about the same price as those big shots." โ
Ander held back his cough and said, "You madman is no worse than them. โ
Zhanhong opened his mouth and said, "Where are you going to go after taking the money?"
Ander looked at Limon and glanced around the others and said, "Go to the south, find a place where the seasons are like spring, so that these little brothers can live a stable life, and it is best to get married to a beautiful woman and have a few big fat boys." โ
Hearing that he had a family, Zhan Hong's heart trembled, and he muttered: "Okay, good, safe and stable, marry a wife and have children." After a pause, he continued: "I also wanted to forget the past and spend the rest of my life with Zhen'er peacefully." โ
An De sighed: "You madman, how can there be any Zhen'er, how can there be any stability, don't deceive yourself!"
Zhan Hong's eyes were suddenly occupied by the crazy hatred, his bloodshot eyes couldn't help but rush open his eyelids and stare out, his face twitched and bruised, and he roared like a trapped beast: "Zhen'er, it's them, they made me lose Zhen'er! You must know that they made me lose my stable life!" After speaking, he stared at Ande and said, "But you want to exchange me for your stability!"
For a moment, the cave became very quiet, except for the "crackling" sound of the fire.
After a long time, Ander slowly spoke: "You madman, if you die like this, it will be a relief. He coughed.
Hearing this, Limeng on the side reached out and pulled out the sword at his waist, and strode towards Zhanhong.