Chapter 25: The Forgotten Stone
The difficulty of the new riddle did not exceed the first four lines of poetry, and in less than half an hour, everyone heard a few stories about the stone that could not speak, and then sifted through them one by one, and finally retained and determined the next legend that happened a long time ago, but was connected to the Water Reflection City.
It is said that in ancient times, there were two countries that were at war all year round, and their beacons and wolves were not only between the battlefields, but also in the officials and merchants of the two countries. A spy, brainwashed by a strong nationalism, began to disguise himself in the enemy market from his teens, and after many years, he completely possessed the identity of the enemy country's people, and then without any help from the motherland, he engaged in business and politics, and worked undercover for as little as ten years, and as much as a lifetime, in the officialdom of these two countries, each adult can trust no more than three roles, and the emperor is even like this, sometimes even his own concubines are secret agents sent by the enemy country.
It is precisely because of this phenomenon of excessive interpenetration of undercover agents that it is impossible to organize a decent war between the two powers, so that the two have been fighting for thousands of years. But this phenomenon, in a certain year, completely changed because of one person.
There were archmages in both ancient countries, also known as high priests, who were proficient in spells and witchcraft, and the person who changed history was the archmage of one of the countries, and due to the long history of the story, the names of these two countries and the archmages and other characters have not been handed down. The archmage secretly proposed to the emperor of his country that he would secretly organize a strong army, and this strong army would mobilize the entire army to wage a great war against the enemy without the knowledge of the armies of the whole country.
The ingenuity of the war lies in the fact that all the armies get different instructions and big plans, a few have slight differences but similar directions, but many of them are different from each other, completely out of tune, in this case, not only the undercover agents placed by the enemy country will be confused, even their own people will be confused, and this strong army firmly controls the movements of all armies, and the small battles in various places are spliced together, which is a war of the greatest scope.
The successive kings of the two countries followed the ancestral precepts and vowed to slaughter the enemy country, so the emperor immediately agreed. The two of them selected three of the country's most unlikely undercover generals overnight, and these generals then picked out the most trusted people to form the strong army. Only one was summoned the next day. Nominally, it was just a reminiscence, after the general left the palace, after a month, he set up a feast with the joy of his second son marrying his wife, invited a group of generals, and then took the opportunity to pass the information to the two generals.
The plan and action were seamless, but even at the beginning, only the news of the meeting between the archmage and the emperor was inexplicably passed on, and that meeting was a sudden move by the archmage, no one would know in advance, and those who had heard the legend had to admire the strong strength of the spies of the two ancient kingdoms in that era.
Of course, the Archmage also thought of this, he would only gather a few people related to the plan, and hold an absolutely hidden and short meeting, and all the accidents in the implementation of the plan would be handled by the people in charge of the part, as long as the goal was completed.
After using many tricks and releasing many false news, the archmage chose the meeting place in the most dangerous place, a workshop in the downtown area, for the sake of safety, the archmage imposed a curse on this square inch of the square, even if someone accidentally broke into or passed by here, even if they heard a word of the meeting, they would be cursed, as long as anyone else revealed any news here, that person would be directly turned into stone.
Even if it is hidden, there are still enemy spies who have found the right place, and the archmage has many tricks to defend, and the tricks of the spies are not weak, in short, the content of the meeting plan is a rough idea, because what the archmage said is a rough idea, this is also for the sake of insurance, some words are whispered, even if the people who participate in the meeting are the most trusted people, they must let them not have any threat to each other.
After hearing the plan, the spy also sensed that he had been cursed, so that another spy unknowingly replaced his identity in the enemy country, and then ran all night, and rushed to the palace of the motherland without stopping for five days and five nights, and met the emperor and the archmage of his country, and told everything he heard and saw, and then turned into stone because of the curse, and even if the archmage of his country tried his best, he could not lift the curse.
The monarch of this country is also ambitious, and under his and the archmage's plan, Dong Shi Xiaofeng also formulated a plan to counter the enemy country, and also secretly organized a strong army, but the scale of this team is smaller, but there are many tasks. The military forces of both countries were mobilized in a state of confusion, and some of them slept all night and were sent out to fight early the next morning, telling no one but only where to go and how long to fight.
(Country A is used to represent the country that made the plan at the beginning, and country B is used to represent the country that made the plan later.)
Country A's plan was implemented very smoothly at the beginning, and the purpose of country B was precisely this, and it was reluctant to let the child trap the wolf, so he slowly wanted to lure country A to the bait, and finally made a surprise comeback. It's a pity that all this is the conspiracy of the archmage who changed history in country A, and even the emperor of country A doesn't know the true plan of the archmage, because from the beginning the archmage told a lie to the emperor, he formed a very small team behind the emperor's back, this team infiltrated the strong army, and secretly controlled the movement of the strong army, to put it simply, the strong army was controlling the movement of the national military force, and the emperor secretly controlled the strong army, but the controller of the strong army was the archmage.
This archmage is quite resourceful, and he has made a plan within a plan, he understands that the copper wall may also be permeable, and the secret will not be leaked only under his own control, even the emperor is unreliable, so he has been carefully concealed by himself and the emperor from the beginning, but it will be discovered, and then in that extremely hidden memory, he said the fake plan, and the real plan that even the emperor did not know was secretly implemented under the cover of the "smoke" created by the fake plan. There are too many spies in the two countries, and the degree of penetration is too high, and only this kind of leakage under the protection of top secrets, coupled with the news that the spies are passing on to death, will be absolutely trusted.
So the emperor and the archmage of country B were successfully deceived, as for what happened, you can imagine, thousands of years of war, to this generation abruptly stopped, I thought that the plan failed, to be the emperor of country A, I didn't expect the situation to suddenly change the situation, I won in a daze, and the whole country won, this hard-won battle and victory, directly beat country B no longer has the possibility of turning over, only twenty years, country B was completely annexed by country A, and the emperor became the founding emperor of the new dynasty, the mage, It was also revered as the first division of the new dynasty, and the scale and nobility of its sacrifice were comparable to that of the emperor.
It is said that after the destruction of country B, the emperor of country B was completely destroyed, and the stone that has been standing in the emperor's cabinet in the palace has not been cleaned up by the spies, and the emperor of country B originally wanted to posthumously crown him as a great hero after he won, but he didn't expect that after the passage of time, the house was destroyed, and the stone was still in place. Then the land was barren and overgrown with weeds, and there was no one to know where the humanoid stone came from, and after that, no one lived in the land.
It is said that this stone has always sealed the soul of the spy, although it is eternal and immortal, but it has not been able to reincarnate, how many years have been lonely, unable to pour out their sorrows, and I don't know when the outside world is, whether their motherland is victorious, but fortunately, every time there is a song and a song, it can penetrate the stone face, and the soul of the spy hears it, and the spy can't speak, and can only emit a buzzing echo.
Later, a family moved to this place, an old woman who died in the country taught her little granddaughter a tune, the little granddaughter happened to run to the edge of the stone to practice singing, the song is the tune of the old country containing the meaning of lamenting the death of the country, the spy soul in the stone heard it, and suddenly understood that his country had died, and instantly realized that it was his own fault that cast this evil fruit, under the grief and anger, the stone body instantly shattered into countless pieces, and scattered in the wilderness, every time there is a rhythm sounding, those stones will follow along with the "singing", But its echo is mournful and heart-wrenching.
As for why this story has some connection with Shuiying City, it is precisely because the location of Shuiying City happens to be the area where the imperial palace cabinet is located in ancient times, although there is no substantial connection between the two, but the stone has been in place for many years, lamenting the song of the country.
With a little inquiry, the people will be able to find the place where the stone is.
Everyone came to a wilderness on the edge of Shuiying City, the grass and trees here are not very vigorous, the ground seems to be covered with a layer of coal dust, and there is no life, everyone can easily see where the stones are, but there are too many of them, everywhere, they can't all be fragments of the stone that used to be.
The kite proposed to play a tune, Fang Tianmu was pushed out, took out a Xiao that he could take with him at any time, blew it gently, and did not deliberately blow any tune, everyone wandered for a while, and the bell was the first to hear the echo, and everyone walked a hundred and ten steps before finally hearing a wail. Then I searched for a moment before I found the legendary place, all the stones scattered on that land, large and small, were echoing, I don't know if it was because of the stone or the wind, the echo sounded like a creature was whispering, and everyone's mood was very low.
"Found it." Mu Ziyun said in a low voice.
At this time, Zhen Wangdong responded, he was closing his eyes, and said, "Don't talk, I'm communicating with that spy." ”
Everyone was surprised, and the bell whispered: "This guy even has such a skill? ”
Zhu Wangdong asked everyone to take a hundred and ten steps back, and then a person "wandered" between the land, talking to this stone, and opening his mouth to that piece, I don't know, I really want to think he is crazy, after a long time, a breeze set off in that place, and Zhen Wangdong beckoned everyone to come over.
Wang Dong sighed: "That's not the soul of the spout, it's just the remnants of his spirit, a little bit left on every stone, alas, his soul has long been broken, but the heart of remorse and the pain of the country's destruction can not be dissipated, with the power of the curse of the archmage, he retains part of his spirit." ”
"Is he still there?" Du Xiaoyue asked.
"It's gone," Wang Dong replied, "I advise him that the world has passed the vicissitudes of life, and the victorious country has long since returned to the loess, and he has died for an unknown number of lifetimes, so that he can not be nostalgic and blame himself, so he is gone." ”
"It's that simple?" Huzi asked, "It's been bitter for so many years, isn't it?" ”
Wang Dong said sadly: "Actually, he is just waiting for a voice to forgive him, and the reason why he has not been able to walk out is precisely because he is still a stone that can't speak, and he can't hear others, he can only hear the tune, he can only make echoes, and he can't make any more exchanges." ”
Everyone looks into the distance on the wasteland, this small place, the ancient myth, can only be shocked at this moment, this little bit of people's hearts, after this moment, it will become a memory that will be forgotten at any time, so how can there be anything that can't be put down.
Fang Tianmu blew out the sound of the flute again, but at this time, there would be no more echoes.