Origins Chapter 25: The City of Bones (1)
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Zhanyun sat in a coffin-like black carriage.
The horses that pulled the cart wore silver bridles and were covered in black rags. The cloth floated in the wind, and it was so unreal as black smoke.
The most bizarre thing is that the five horses that pulled the car firmly are only white bones.
Zhan Yun looked at the bone horse and said nothing.
One of the horses suddenly neighed, and the sound was inexplicably similar to that of the old man who had just fallen into his hands.
Zhan Yun's shoulders shook.
A hand with black fingers and claws slammed Zhan Yun's shoulder.
Zhan Yun turned back.
"What? The Western Regions have never seen a horse that can move with only bones left, is that scary?" the black-fingered owner laughed.
As soon as these words came out, the people in the carriage burst into laughter.
In this spacious carriage, in addition to the war clouds, there were more than a dozen people sitting.
These people were all dressed in black, black clothes that were like smoke and mist, and they were weightless.
They all have black hair, a high nose bridge, deep facial features, and a pale complexion...... Turquoise eyes.
"No, no, no!" a burly man rubbed his hooked nose and stared at Zhanyun out of the corner of his eye, the man was wrapped in a thick bandage, and the position of his left shoulder and arm was empty.
"We boys, but we've seen monsters that have been pierced in the heart and can kill six of my brothers in the shoulder. In the end, he also wiped the monster's neck with his own hands, so that he would not be cowardly, not cowardly. β
Pierce the heart.
Zhanyun turned his gaze back from the bone horses. He glanced at the long strip of thing that rested beside the leg of the burly man with a hooked nose.
It was an infamous weapon, pitch-black all over, one end thickened at the top, and then turned into a point.
The weapon was stained with clotted blood, the blood of the Hero.
It was this ghost man who sneaked up from behind Geshiduo and pierced this weapon through Geshiduo's heart.
However, it was not the hook-nosed man who ran through his heart that would kill the Gestador.
After being pierced through the heart, the former lord of the Western Regions slapped half of his body with a palm in a fit of rage, and then used his deep spiritual power to support and kill the six masters of the ghost country.
These six masters, their bodies are currently lying quietly at the end of the carriage.
What finally killed Duo Yiba was the bone-deep heavy sword scar on his neck.
This heavy sword scar is not from the ghost soldiers of the ghost country, but from Zhan Yun, Duo Yizhen's good brother Zhan Yun from childhood to adulthood.
Zhanyun closed his eyes.
The picture of Duo Yiba falling into his hands is still in front of him:
"War clouds in the Western Regions, recognize the situation. β
"For the sake of the Western Regions, and for yourself. Even if you don't care about these, then think about the life and death of your sister Zhan Yunwan after the fall. β
"War clouds, with us, hatred can only bring blood, but peace can bring happiness. β
Then, Duo Yiba's thick neck was slashed by the heavy sword, and hot blood gushed out, pouring on the black armor of the Western Regions of Zhanyun.
Zhan Yun's hand clenched the heavy sword tightly, as if it was connected to the sword, he held it so tightly that his hands were numb and unconscious.
Then he heard a cheer in his ears:
"That's right, that's it!"
"He was the one who killed the old thief of Geshidor!"
"From now on, he is our people!"
He killed Geshidor, an old man who treated him and his sister like his own children.
He couldn't forget the look on his face before he died.
Zhan Yun looked at the scenery outside the window, the sky of the ghost country was dull and gray, and it looked half-dark.
The trunks and leaves of the trees that walked behind them were blue-black, like dead things.
"Has the sky of your ghost country always been like this?" the silent war cloud finally spoke.
"What a ghost country is not a ghost country!" one of the ghost soldiers said dissatisfied, "That's the self-righteous name of your Apocalypse, this is the Bone Country, and we are all from the Bone Country." And the tribe in the north, people are called the Northern Relics, and you have to call them Northern Barbarian Slaves, as if you will be superior to others. β
"It's the first time I've heard of this. Zhan Yun said truthfully.
"Young man, you Apocalypse is afraid of 'secrets', so naturally you won't let you know more about the things of the Bone Kingdom. The hook-nosed man sneered, "Wait to see our Bone Clan Prince Xuan." The noble prince will give you answers one by one. β
"Of course, the young man must also be able to pass the level of Prince Xuan, what if he becomes a dead thing......?"
"Hahahaha......"
"Hahaha, then he won't kill the old thief for nothing......"
Zhan Yun shook his slightly chilled fingers in the laughter of a cart of ghost soldiers, no, the bone clan.
The bone horse approached a city with a cartload of men. Zhan Yun looked around, it was a lifeless black city.
Although the castle of the Geshi family is also black, the Geshi Fort gives people the feeling of domineering, grandeur, and Xuansu. And this gray and black city is dead and silent.
Coupled with the dreary sky, Zhanyun felt a distinctly oppressive feeling in his chest.
The Bone Horse was closer to the city, and War Cloud could see that the black walls were made of charred human bones.
On both sides of the tall city gate, there stood a pair of hideous keels, the huge keel skeleton skeleton propped up its bone wings to the sky, and in the huge mouth, the smallest fang was worth three big men.
Zhan Yun looked at the black city wall, his eyes changed, and there was a hint of trembling in his awe. But in a split second, he was back to normal.
He saw that there was a clear mark of blunt smashing on the black wall, a depression, bringing out six straight cracks, and obvious scorch marks.
As a native of the Western Regions, Zhan Yun may not know that the Ghost Kingdom actually claims to be the Bone Kingdom, but he definitely won't be unaware of the great war between the Apocalypse and the Ghost Kingdom back then.
That great war began with a river of blood flowing in the Western Regions, and ended with the Apocalypse army led by the Guiyi God Emperor to attack the ghost country and attack under the capital of the ghost country.
In that battle, Geshiduo was the vanguard of the Emperor of God, all the way to the capital of the ghost country, known as the world's stiffest Xuanxuan City Gate, and smashed six cracks in the gate with a hammer.
This is the mark of shame and embarrassment of the ghost country, and it is also the glory of the Western Regions.
"Young man, seeing this trace, do you feel particularly complacent as a native of the Western Regions?" The sharp-eyed hook-nosed man had a vicious gaze, and through the mask on Zhan Yun's face, he caught the subtle changes in his gaze.
Hooknose smiled coldly, "Are you really loyal to us?"
In a word, the atmosphere present suddenly changed.
Zhan Yun froze: "I just killed the revered lord with my own hands today, and I just betrayed my brother who grew up together. To be honest, I was going to be a ghost in an instant...... Bone people, act and think from your standpoint, that's fake. β
And that was sincere. The group nodded thoughtfully.
But to be honest, seeing this trace, in addition to resentment, Lao Tzu also has admiration and jealousy in his heart. The hook-nosed man also accepted Zhan Yun's statement, and he continued, "Being broken in the heart by my Xuan Bone Staff can still kill six of my brothers, and Lao Tzu's shoulder and whole arm are not wronged for him." β
"However, why is your capital so close to the Apocalypse?" Zhan Yun asked, this carriage is fast, but it can travel for less than half a day to reach the foot of the capital, which is also too abnormal.
The heart of the Apocalypse, the Central Divine Land, as the name suggests, is located in the center of the continent. The four lands surrounded and guarded it.
This is clearly not the case in the Bone Country.
"Because it's not really the capital. The capital of our bone country, the capital of ten thousand Xuandu, is not here. This is a new capital city built by our noble Prince Xuandu near the apocalypse, which is the same as the Xuandu of Ten Thousand Thousand: the White Eagle Xuandu. One of the bones in the company gave him an answer.
It seems that this noble Prince Xuan has been planning for the apocalypse for a long time. Zhan Yun thought.
"To say that our Prince Xuan is not an ordinary person, he has been full of Xuan Li since he was a child, and his vigor is different from ordinary people, Xuan Li Xuan Mai is the spiritual power and spiritual vein of your apocalypse. Not only that, Prince Xuan is extremely talented, at the age of twelve, he was proficient in all kinds of mystical arts, hundreds of languages, and all of them are excellent in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and his temperament is gentle and polite. β
The hook-nosed man said this, and a tacit smile appeared on his hideous face, "How many charming slaves want to climb into his bed and serve him for the night." β
As he spoke, the carriage drove into the capital, and the houses in the city were scattered sparsely and sparsely scattered near the city walls, and most of the people who stayed here were ugly and short, with fierce and wooden eyes
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Zhan Yun saw that there were many skeletons with shackles on their hands and feet, and their bodies wrapped in rags, pulling ropes on their shoulders and dragging huge stones.
"Those are Xuannu. The male slave is called Xuannu, and the female slave is Yinu. The bone clan said to Zhan Yun, "We here, men who have no ability can only be slaves, and all women are born as slaves, women, there is nothing but giving birth." Not only do you have no slaves, but women can also lead troops, it's a hell of a life!"
Zhan Yun understood that they were talking about Gai Shijie, the lord of Yanyang County in the Western Regions.
The closer the carriage is to the center, the taller, more imposing, denser and more prosperous the surrounding buildings.
However, both tall and low, the houses are gray and black in color, and are decorated with skeletons everywhere.
The skeleton horse carried the cart to the center of the more and more prosperous, and the carriage passed through groups of people of the bone country.
It is clearly a noisy and bustling street, and a lively crowd.
But because these people are all pale skin, all gray and black, with all kinds of bone ornaments of different sizes, those clothes are unknown to what kind of fabric, flowing like smoke, indescribable ghosts.
No matter how lively it was, Zhan Yun felt gloomy.
Zhan Yun took a closer look and found that the shops on the street were obviously different except for the same color, including fat powder shops, melon and fruit shops, and weapons shops......
There was also a skeleton in a sexy black dress in front of the shop, which posed in a seductive and seductive pose. A group of sexyly dressed bony girls waved outside the store.
When the men of the bone clan in the carriage saw them, they all had happy expressions on their faces.
"That girl named Yao Hong, her ass is tender and springy, tsk ......"
When Zhan Yun realized what it was, he unconsciously withdrew his gaze and turned his face away, causing a burst of ridicule.
Then, the carriage got closer and closer to the tallest building, a pitch-black structure that towered into the clouds.