In the center of Karakum there is a city that never sleeps, like a pearl embedded in the desert. There was no city before, and in three months, driven by greed, humans built a city in the middle of the desert.

The city lord is personally responsible for the blood of the Evil Moon Sect, as long as you think of it, what you have outside, everything in the city. There are taverns when you want to get drunk, brothels if you want to vent your rules, and the most luxurious inns if you want to stay comfortably.

The city that never sleeps is like a gold cave in the desert, constantly squeezing everyone who enters the city, constantly torturing the weight of their souls.

A few martial arts people entered the city, riding horses, slowly, but they were not looking left and right to be appreciated by the wonders of the city, even the girls soliciting customers at the city gate could not attract their attention, they went all the way, as if they had a purpose.

Nie Qingqing looked at the city that never sleeps and sighed deeply. She knew that once she was in the city, she was back in the maelstrom again, that the ease of life would be far away, that all leisure would be gone, that she would have to get into trouble, that she would have to solve it again and again, as she had done.

"It's good to have him. Nie Qingqing's gaze fell on Han Chuang beside him, as if he had seen through that disguised face. Han Chuang sensed that Nie Qingqing was looking at him, smiled slightly, and said, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing. Nie Qingqing replied, but the worry in her eyes betrayed herself.

Han Chuang smiled and patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, everything has me." ”

"Yes. Nie Qingqing laughed, although it was still the same ordinary face that was easy to face, but when he smiled, the corners of his mouth hooked a familiar arc.

Suddenly, the arc froze.

The smile stiffened on his face.

"What's wrong?" asked Han Chuang.

Nie Qingqing didn't answer, she didn't answer, but used gestures to guide the answer. Han Chuang looked in the direction of her finger and saw a familiar voice standing not far away.

"Lotus. Han Chuang muttered.

Nie Qingqing shook his head and said, "It's not a lotus, it's an ugly." ”

Lotus and Ugly were originally the same person, but at this moment, Lotus has appeared in the image of Ugly, just like when they first met each other, he was standing in the middle of the road.

Although there were many people coming and going around him, Han Chuang felt that he was standing alone as he had been at the beginning. He's ugly, no one wants to look at his face, no one even wants to get close to him, most people rush by.

"Who is that? Why is it so ugly?" Wei Hongqiong's voice pulled Han Chuang back to reality, he frowned, and said, "That's ugly, my friend." ”

Wei Hongqiong was silent, after experiencing the last incident of the old man, she also saw many problems, this Li Dazhu, who began to disdain her, was not an ordinary person.

At least not the one who could let her vent her young lady's temper.

Wei Hongqiong is rude and willful, but not stupid. How could the young lady of the City Lord's Mansion be a fool? she knew very well what she should do and what she couldn't do. For example, at this moment, continuing to laugh is not something that should be done.

She glanced at her father, and he stared slightly, as if nothing in this world had anything to do with him.

Ah Chou walked over, as in the past, his waist was straight, his arms swung naturally, the arc of each swing and every step was constant, he walked very slowly, but he didn't stop, he kept walking until he stopped ten steps away from Han Chuang.

The two men looked at each other from a distance.

Han Chuang noticed that Ugly's eyes were very bright, but with an indescribable emptiness and melancholy.

"You're not having a good time. Han Chuang said.

Ugly smiled, revealing a row of white teeth, like a row of arrows stuck in the dirt.

"You're very comfortable," he said, his gaze fell on the disguised Nie Qingqing, and then returned to Han Chuang, "You are indeed very comfortable." ”

Han Chuang shook his head and said, "Someone saw that I was comfortable, but he couldn't see it, and he bothered me with one thing." ”

Ah Chou said: "You can go away and fly high, no one will force you to come." ”

Han Chuang smiled and said, "I have to come." ”

Ugly said: "If you come, you can go." ”

"If you come, you won't leave," Han Chuang said with a smile, "What I promised will definitely be completed." ”

Ah Chou was silent for a moment, as if chewing on Han Chuang's words, and after a long time, he finally said, "You may die." ”

Han Chuang smiled and said, "Will you collect the body for me?"

Ah Chou smiled, "I can't ask for it." He said.

Han Chuang laughed.

He hadn't shown such a hearty laugh for a long time, but only those who knew him well understood that behind this laughter did not mean pleasure, but deep worry and helplessness.

He shouldn't have come, but he came, he should have left, but he had to stay, the city that never sleeps, a city full of opportunities for others, but for him, a dead place full of dangerous tentacles, and he had to go deep into it.

Ah Chou nodded and said, "Everyone has to do a lot of things in his life that he is not willing to do, because he has no choice at all." ”

Nie Qingqing looked at him and then at Han Chuang, a little surprised and a little puzzled. Even if she was the one who knew the two of them best, she couldn't figure out what they meant, or if the laugh was too mysterious.

Han Chuang suddenly sighed and said, "Are you here to persuade me to leave?"

Ugly looked at his face, shook his head, and said, "No, I'm here to greet you." ”

Han Chuang said: "Greet for whom." ”

Ugly said: "A person who wants to see you." ”

Han Chuang smiled and said, "There are many people who want to see me, but I may not want to see him. ”

"But you have to see him," Ugly smiled, "and you must want to see him too." His gaze fell on Nie Qingqing.

"Me?" Nie Qingqing pointed to his nose, "I don't know anyone here. ”

Ugly shook his head and said, "There is someone you must know." ”

"Who?" Nie Qingqing asked the same question.

Ah Chou glanced left and right, sneered, and grabbed Nie Qingqing's side like lightning, grabbed her hand, and wrote and drew on her palm with his fingers.

Jin Sanfu, Cho Yuan and Wei Hongqiong all subconsciously glanced at Han Chuang, Han Chuang just frowned, didn't say anything, didn't do anything, as if everything that happened in front of him was a matter of course.

After finishing the painting, Ah Chou glanced at Han Chuang and retreated back to the same place, his speed was so fast that others could only see a vague shadow.

Nie Qingqing glanced at his palm, suddenly sighed, and stared at Han Chuang with a pleading gaze.

That gentle look into the water was enough to melt any cold heart, let alone Han Chuang's cold shell and fiery heart.

"Lead the way. Han Chuang said lightly.

Ah Chou smiled, turned around and walked back, walking a few meters away, his voice floated again: "Just the two of you, he doesn't want to see other irrelevant people." ”

Han Chuang sighed, turned to Wei Zhenye and said, "City Lord Wei, I'm going to deal with some personal affairs, you find an inn to live in first, and I will make peace with you later." ”

"Good. Wei Zhenye's answer was simple and swift, a smart person knew when he should enter and when he should retreat, now is obviously not the time to enter, he can clearly feel the pressure exuded by that ugly man.

"Let's go. He said, leading the way backwards.

Wei Hongqiong was still a little worried, but was pulled away by Jin Sanfu.

Han Chuang looked at the back of the walking away and sighed helplessly in his heart.

"You can call him out. He said.

Ah Chou said: "Come with me, it's not far away." He pointed to a teahouse.

The teahouse is not high, only three floors, Han Chuang and Nie Qingqing followed Ah Chou up to the third floor, passing by two closed doors all the way, and stopped at the third road.

Ah Ugly said: "You go in, I won't go in with you." After speaking, he was about to leave, but Han Chuang grabbed his arm with a handful of wax.

He pursed his lips and asked, "What else is the problem?"

Han Chuang said: "One question. ”

"Asked. ”

"This time, there are you in the team of the Evil Moon Sect. ”

Ah Chou closed his mouth, and after a long time, he suddenly sighed before he said: "I said that people will always do a lot of things that they are unwilling to do in their lives, because he has no choice at all. ”

After saying that, he didn't wait for Han Chuang's answer, he left on his own, and soon, his back disappeared at the end of the stairs.

Nie Qingqing sighed and said, "Don't blame him, he also has his own troubles." ”

Han Chuang shook his head and sighed, "I don't blame him, and I understand his suffering, it's just—" He smiled bitterly and added, "I just don't want to be an enemy of my former friends." ”

Nie Qingqing smiled and said, "Fortunately, we are not a group. ”

"So what?" Han Chuang smiled bitterly, "Do you think we will still be friends after entering the pagoda?"

Nie Qingqing closed her mouth, she admitted that the two words of friend were too heavy, ugly, that is, Lotus couldn't bear the weight of these two words at all, and the biggest possibility, he would force himself to forget. ”

Han Chuang said: "And he is stronger." ”

Nie Qingqing said: "What?"

Han Chuang said: "I said that his strength is stronger. ”

There was a sharp light in his eyes, like a dagger piercing people's hearts, but the smile on his face was a little reluctant, soft and reluctant.

Nie Qingqing suddenly thought that when Ah Ugly came to pull her hand just now, due to the suddenness of the incident, she subconsciously made a dodge action, but she did not avoid it.

"You mean to say?"

Han Chuang nodded, and spit out a sentence from his mouth: "Half-step concentrating." ”

Nie Qingqing took a long breath and said, "This is impossible, as far as I know, his strength is still some distance away from half-step concentration, is it-"

Nie Qingqing glanced at Han Chuang with his peripheral vision.

"You're right," Han Chuang said, "Since it's possible that I've been boosted overnight, then it's also possible for Ugly." ”

Han Chuang didn't hide what happened to him from Nie Qingqing, they were one, and they were one at all times.

Nie Qingqing gasped, unlike Han Chuang, she was a person who grew up in the Evil Moon Sect, but she had never heard of any way to make a warrior rise from the peak of Huayuan to a half-step concentrating in a few months, you must know that Han Chuang could only do this by devouring martial souls.

Han Chuang glanced at Nie Qingqing and said lightly: "Okay, don't think too much, it's not beautiful to think too much, the soldiers will block it, and the water will cover it." ”

Nie Qingqing nodded.

Han Chuang's words aroused the fear of the Evil Moon Sect in her heart, and this fear had seeped into her bones, and it could not be removed.

She glanced at the wooden door in front of her, and the delicate carving carved the posture of a narcissus, and suddenly, she wanted to turn around and leave, leaving the place that frightened her.

She tugged at Han Chuang's sleeve and whispered, "Let's go." ”

"Don't you want to see him?" Han Chuang said with a smile, "Since you want to see him, let's go in." ”

"But. Nie Qingqing wanted to speak, but her lips were sealed by a soft finger.

"Rest assured, everything has me. ”

Han Chuang's words were like a shot in the arm, which shocked Nie Qingqing's heart, she nodded heavily, and knocked on the door under Han Chuang's encouraging eyes.