On that day, Sunset City was also windy and rainy.

The rain-washed Central Prohibition Palace looked cold. The stones are dark, and the symbols of the eyes are more distinct.

A horse-drawn carriage drove into the inner city for half a day from the Xiahuai District of the outer city and stopped outside the gate of the Central Prohibition Palace. The horse looked up to the sky, and his nose exhaled a white breath. A man came down from the carriage.

The man was still wearing the same heavy coffin gown and a top hat braided with silk flowers.

In the side hall of the Central Prohibition Palace, four prisoners in full-body armor were waiting for her.

"It's the Lady of the Crown...... Mrs. Ogiri, huh? ”

That person was none other than Mrs. Okiri.

"It's me, summoned by His Majesty."

Lady Oki bent down and nodded slightly.

The prisoner's mind seemed to be a little brighter than the other prisoners. He stumbled and relayed:

"Your Majesty has a word: you can now know how to do the first step, now go with me......"

Naturally, it is to enter the Forbidden Palace underground.

Before entering, Lady Ogiri glanced out of the window from afar, and saw that above the mountains, bright thunderbolts were rolling incessantly. She saw the light of a mirror briefly rush into the sky.

So the attendants who observed looked at each other and ran back and forth in the Central Prohibition Palace.

"It seems...... The situation is getting stale. ”

So what kind of Highness will Sunset City usher into, or ...... Can't welcome it back?

Mrs. Ogiri thought.

This is probably very important for His Majesty's plan.

At that time, Chu Yun, who was standing on the top of the cliff, failed to do what Gu Chuan said in time, because she did encounter something unexpected.

According to the orders of the field commander, the pursuers had already regrouped into multiple squads, approaching the fugitives from all directions.

Just a little earlier, a group of people walked up the ridge on the other side, braving the rain, to a higher place.

This higher place is, of course, the top of the rift valley.

The depth of the rift valley is impossible to see, the height of the mountain makes people want to give up when they look at it from afar, and the slippery mountain road makes people fall and never get up. The caves of the stone piles are full of water, and small and large puddles are formed on the uneven soil. The torrential rains caused flooding not seen in nearly 20 years, and the unbridled waters of the river surpassed the rivers formed by the past 100 years of erosion, and once again climbed the land that people call the earth.

In this pristine mountain, all the terrain is temporarily explored. No one has ever walked to this land, and no one has ever seen the scenery of this world.

There is no conventional path, only a path that people have just figured out.

The team did not have the telescope-like curiosity to know everything from afar, so they had to walk carefully in case they were ambushed.

The water stepped on the rain, and the raincoat rattled in the rain.

"There should be a canyon to our left, and that canyon is where the fugitives were predicted to be going."

The team's scout reported.

"I see."

The commander of this team replied lightly, and commanded earnestly and terrifyingly:

"You have to watch more, observe more, maybe His Highness is around our left and right!"

Although along another path, it is not impossible to find His Highness. The pursuers knew that the fugitives could play tricks. And it is not difficult for them to sense His Highness at close range.

There is a special reason for this, because before the pursuers leave the city, His Majesty gave each team a special item. That's the silver feather that Ged mentioned earlier. Whether the silver feather is a strange thing or not, the pursuers do not know. It's just that according to the dictation of His Highness, the silver feathers will react when they approach His Highness to a certain range. This reaction, except for the team of Gude, the others are not sure what it is.

His Majesty only said that when you meet, you will know.

Some would be suspicious of the Silver Feather's function, but the temporary leader of the squad would not. He clenched the silver feather, waiting for it to move.

The further up the canyon goes, the fewer trees become. But when I arrived, I opened my eyes and saw that there were strange piles of rocks everywhere, and there was no sign of any living thing.

The chief was wondering if he had gone the wrong way, but at this moment, the silver feathers in his hand that had been curled up by the moisture actually relaxed one by one, and stretched out again to a fluffy and soft state, as if they were flapping their wings to the sky with their original owner.

"It's ...... Reacted! Your Highness may be nearby! ”

Seeing this, the messenger in the team at that time said:

"My lord, do you want to use the earthquake stone to inform the other chiefs?"

Unexpectedly, the chief suddenly calmed down, his eyes flashed with coldness, and he said coldly:

"It's not going to work. We haven't found His Highness for sure, so how can we easily tell our superiors that you are fully responsible in case of futile effort? On the other hand, if we actually find it and catch it back, then the credit will be ours. Isn't that the truth? ”

The heralds did not dare to refute the superiors of this power.

Then they carefully groped their way forward in the direction of the feathers.

The team didn't have powerful destructive artifacts, and originally only wanted to get close to them in secret, but the rock piles were much more difficult to hide than the bushes. There were a few thunderstorms in the sky, the aurora was shining, and Chu Yun, who was observing the movement under the cliff, really saw their faint figures with the corner of his eye.

She immediately threw the dead wood branch in her hand behind the rock.

The dead wood branch was held by the chief with one hand, and the group of people was discovered, and they no longer hid it, but simply appeared and faced the first clouds. The chief even had a lot of leisure, bowed his head and said hello:

"It's been a while, Your Highness."

The water is long and the clouds are low, and another thunder roar in the distance is shocking, calling off the west wind.

Chu Yun knew this person, and this person had even met Gu Chuan.

"You are the ...... of the Inspection Division"

"It's the contemptible person, the villain can still be remembered by His Royal Highness, it is really an honor for the family."

He lowered his head in awe, hiding his resentful gaze.

As one of the three Lords in the original Dungeon Mission.

The failure of the dungeon undoubtedly affected the three chiefs. For the border people, they are noble adults, and for the crown, they are just villains who can be deposed at any time.

Yu Cun was directly cut down because of his injury. At that time, in the middle palace, Yu De was assigned by His Majesty to enter the search team to atone for his sins. So he realized that he was in a similar situation to Shen De, and immediately after, under the terrible gaze, he took the initiative to participate in the pursuit and make meritorious contributions to the crime.

Shen Shang and Shen De are different people. He felt that even if he lost his position as the chief official, he would not die, and the big deal would be to return to the original state of displacement as a guest.

His heart is still steady.

But he could not achieve this kind of stability, he was the only one whose impoverished family had the greatest hopes, and he could achieve the position of head of the twenty-fourth division, his family had made countless sacrifices, and he himself did his best. He flattered the rotten people he had despised at all, he once professed to be sincere in front of the door of the Great Family, and he had risked his life to participate in the investigation of unregulated and unregistered strange objects directly related to the Deep Earth Family on behalf of the Council, just because he thought that the brave would be rewarded.

The so-called reward is the ladder to higher power.

But it's weird, isn't it?

Everything he had worked so hard to obtain was now easily crumbling, like a rock that seemed solid in the wind and rain, but when it was rolled up by the water and destroyed by the violent nature, it would also shatter and fall.

And all this is because of the wayward actions of one person, one who is more favored by power.

It's really weird, isn't it?

He thought.

He stared at his feet, and the rain beat like a drum at his feet, and the raindrops hit the ground and splashed down on his drooping face. He made a terrible flattering smile that only he could see, and said:

"We are here to welcome His Highness back to the palace."

Although His Majesty claims to live or die, everyone knows that a living Highness is certainly more valuable than a dead Highness.

"How did you find me?"

Chu Yun asked coldly.

She stood on the edge of the rock, threw out the branch, and then picked up another stone in her hand, looking like she was ready for battle. She didn't know what the group was carrying, and what they were carrying that could be used in battle and defeating the enemy. Sunset City doesn't have so many strange things that can be used to defeat the enemy, and most of them seem to have little effect.

But not so little. Able to threaten her life without Chu Yun noticing, Chu Yun has been able to count nearly ten strange things such as the Great Desolation, Chongguang, Xuanhuang, and Dayuan Xian.

"We can find Your Highness, it is a blessing from God, and it is God who wants you to recognize your crown again. We don't have any other thoughts, just the will between the order of the crown and the heaven and earth, and we hope to welcome you back. ”

Shang said.

At that time, the rain was heavier. When the wind blows, all the raindrops hit the people.

The sound of pouring rain and the occasional shining thunder in the sky almost completely drowned out the human voices. In the distance, Chu Yun also caught a glimpse of it with his afterglow, flashing a continuous light like iridescent.

This is a four-sided heavy prism, and of course Hatsuun also recognizes this strange thing.

The use of the four-sided heavy prism undoubtedly proves that the number of strange objects that Her Majesty has invested in this pursuit has far exceeded her imagination. But the more this happened, the more she felt confused-

Why does Her Majesty's attention to her reach such a point, what does she, a strange creature, represent, and what does it mean to Her Crown?

She didn't know.

She said:

"I made a pact with people that I was going to send these two pursued prisoners out, and that I would not go back until they were out of pursuit. When they are out of pursuit, I will naturally go back and apologize to His Majesty. ”

"Your Highness, you should also know that His Majesty will not take back his life, let alone give up pursuing the two of them."

He lowered his head.

"I know, of course I do."

Chu Yun knew that His Majesty would not take back his fate.

No one in Sunset City's generation of power is closer to His Majesty than Hatsukumo. She doesn't know about the crown, but she is already probably one of the people who knows the crown best. She no longer knew what her relationship with the crown was. But there is one thing, she may be the same as Her Majesty.

In her own words:

"But, inspectors, I won't take back my life."

Shen Shang waved his hand in the rain and said with a smile:

"Please don't say that, Your Highness...... We are not crowned, and sometimes we really shouldn't, we don't have the ability to execute it well, so naturally there is no conflict with your destiny. Otherwise, you can go back with us, and we will give up tracking the two of us. And we're halfway through this mission, how? ”

This is a similar technique to the one used by Gude.

The members of the squads are not like the chief officer who holds strange objects one by one, only holding sharp weapons, ready to step forward at any time.

He continued:

"And you should know, right? They'll be killed on the spot because of you. You belong to Sunset City, not anywhere else. ”

The water was bubbling and flowing.

Chu Yun was on the edge of the cliff, like a small white flower standing on the edge of the cliff.

She really couldn't help but think about the proposal.

Seeing this, in order to increase the chips of psychological pressure, he took out the silver-white feather lightly. The feathers spread out in the air, and traces of the creatures that once flew in the air were faintly visible.

Shen Shang said:

"We really don't want to conflict with you, but you know what? Your Highness, this is a strange thing that Your Majesty has given us, and this strange thing can sense your position, and the closer you get, the fuller it will open - you will not be able to escape. You must separate from them, or the pursuers will catch you up and hurt you...... You don't want to see such a scene, do you? ”

But Hatsuun froze.

It's not because of anything else, it's just because she also has such feathers.

At that time, she was extremely uneasy, but she couldn't stop her movements. She unconsciously stretched out her hand and took out a feather from the small waist bag that Chuan's mother had arranged for her, which was almost exactly the same as the feather in Shen Shang's hand.

Seeing this, his eyes widened in surprise:

"How can you have ......?"

Hatsuyun shook his body.

There was only one place she had ever gotten this feather, and that was the big bird that existed in the dungeon.

She thought of the big silver-white bird's kind and sad eyes.

Why did the big bird's feathers find her?

Chu Yun remembered the many surgeries and post-operative recuperations she had done in the past, as well as her original ...... It seems like...... It's not that she can't understand the question.

She lifted her foot in bewilderment and amazement, and the stones at her feet rolled into the bottomless canyon without her knowledge, and disappeared into the mist.

At that time, Lady Oki had already spent a short time in the underground Forbidden Palace.

The water in the dungeon has been pumped clean, and everything is back to its original state. Prisoners patrol back and forth around her. She waited a while,

In the road that Gu Chuan and Chu Yun couldn't walk through, there came an ancient person who Mrs. Otong had only heard of in books. The man's face was crooked, and the scars looked like ...... as if they were cut by some irresistible external force Left after stitching.

He had no hair, as if he had been shaved a long time ago. He did not see sunlight all day long, and his skin was a blue-gray color

According to the information available to Mrs. Ogiri, the person whose face looks like a sewn is most likely the "doctor" of the previous Highness, that is, the doctor of the current Highness's predecessor.

"Did His Majesty tell you to come down? You're a ...... Lord, Something fantastic. ”

"Yes."

Mrs. Ogiri replied calmly. She knew she was useful to Her Majesty, so she didn't have to fear anything here.

"What shall I call you?"

The stitched man replied, "You can call me a garment." ”

The surname Yi is a citizen clan that has disappeared in Sunset City, and Bite is a cheap name, which means that it is gnawed by rats and bitten by rabbits, in short, it is bitten to a broken piece. In other words, without translation, this man's name might be the boy who was bitten by the tailor's house.

"So where do we start to understand the 'first step'? Cloth-sama. ”

Mrs. Ogiri bowed her head slightly as a sign of respect.

But her height, even if she bows her head, is a head taller than her clothes.

He turned his head and walked towards the path that Gu Chuan and Chu Yun had walked before.

"That's a good thing to say." Although he looked quite young on the outside, he spoke like a weird old man, and he had some whining desires, "I don't know where to start telling you...... After all, I thought it was the last time, and then I was waiting to die. ”

When he talks about death, he understates it, as if he was talking about an ordinary thing to eat and drink.

"You should know that the ancestors of Sunset City also came here from far away, right?"

"Nature."

Lady Ogiri's height is almost to the top of the cave.

She narrowed her eyes and saw that the dim cavern led into the uncharted depths, hiding ancient history that no one knew.

There were no lights, but both of them seemed to be able to see the way forward.

"Is there a more detailed record outside?"

Mrs. Oki said:

"Yes."

This made him surprised, and hurriedly said:

"Yes? What's there? ”

"There are many gossip rumors circulating among the citizen families, and I remember one of them saying that at that time, the people who came here to open up land had a unified name called Nine Suspicions, which was an alliance of multiple tribes that were not originally related."

"Hey, that's about the same time as mine, it's all so rumored. Because it all comes from the dictation of His Majesty. In Sunset City, there is only one person who knows all the history in its entirety. ”

Rodent said:

"That's Your Majesty."

They quickly crossed the dirt path and came to the prison wall carved out of the rocky cliff.

"Your Majesty is my teacher, and there are about more things that have been told to me than have been circulated outside."

The sound of rain can't reach here, and the world is the quietest here. Lives trapped in prison have no freedom and should no longer be free, so most of them are in a terrible state of waiting for everything to end as soon as possible.

The ground is quarreled over the sound of animals trying to survive.

Then underground, because of this group of prisoners waiting for death, it is extremely quiet.

Then, the rodent got lost.

Mrs. Ogiri found out that he might not have been here for a long time, so she was very unfamiliar. As he searched for his way, he asked:

"I'm going to ask you something now, now...... What coat of arms is outside Sunset City? ”

When it comes to heraldry, all the families of Sunset City have their own coat of arms, which is a sign of status and distinguishing friend from foe from superiority.

But when it comes to the most representative coat of arms, there is only one person in the entire Sunset City who comes to mind:

"Do you mean the coat of arms under the crown?"

"The coat of arms under the crown ......? Is it the eyes? ”

Gnawing gives rise to some doubts.

"Yes, it's the eyes." Lady Ogiri said, "In the current Sunset City, all the walls, all the bricks that have been fired, have a side engraved with the coat of arms under the crown. ”

"And what does this coat of arms represent?"

That's a wonderful question!

When Mrs. Ogiri first heard this, she felt that it was full of traps, and she did not know what the scheming man had in mind, so she replied in a way that was close to formulaic:

"This represents the ruler of Sunset City, the winner of the six twilights, and the authority of the crown that never sets. His Majesty is the only supreme being in Sunset City. The coat of arms is the glory under the crown, and the crown is the ...... The only god of Sunset City, and the only faith of the people of Sunset City, we have the protection of the crown, and we will take the crown as the highest honor and develop the prosperity of Sunset City for the crown. ”

It didn't seem strange that Mrs. Ogiri said such a politically correct thing, which only made him indifferent:

"That's it."

The glow hung over the top of the two of them. Rodent back to the head. Only then did Mrs. Oki realize that the color of her missing pupils was different, and it didn't seem to be a pair...... The human eye.

At that time, he said in a gloomy voice:

"So you know what? His Majesty had another coat of arms before constructing his own coat of arms......"

"Another coat of arms?"

Lady Okiri's whole body was shocked, and the excessive horror made her head forget to lower. She slammed headfirst into the flares. So pieces of fluorescent silk wrapped around her top hat, glowing with a pale light.

啮動 says:

"Yes, another coat of arms. It was the object of worship of the tribal alliance and His Majesty the Crown, which was originally called the Nine Suspicions. His Majesty told me that the coat of arms represented the most beautiful and powerful creature in the world, a strange beast that was once numerous and now few alive. ”

"So, what kind of coat of arms is that?"

Nick turned a corner slightly, and turned on a small light out of nowhere. So the light shone in front of the two of them, allowing them to see clearly the living creatures that were perched in the cage.

"The name of the coat of arms...... It's called Xuanniao. ”

It was nothing else, it was the beautiful silver-white bird that Gu Chuan and Chu Yun saw in the dungeon. The great bird was now seeing the shortage, but it was not as kind as Hatsukumo, and opened its mouth with its tongue cut off, and let out a terrible powerless whimper.

Its gray eyes burned with hatred, staring straight at the nibby.

"It doesn't make sense for you to hate me."

Lacklustre said to the bird:

"Your time ends sooner than the age of men, and this is where the sun sets last, not where it first rises."

Then he turned his head and said to Mrs. Ogiri:

"And what you see now is the last bird in the world, and it is also the coat of arms, emblem, or ...... of the ancestors of Sunset City. Totem. ”

"Coat of Arms ......"

Mrs. Oki took off her top hat and showed her hair in a bun at the back of her head. Her eyes grew excited, and her mind sank into an incomprehensible abyss. She said in horror:

"He is an admirer, but he puts in a cage what he worships...... Is there anything more peculiar than that? ”

The last bird in the world flapped its wings even more frantically, struggling to get out of its cage. But it has long been weakened beyond its limits...... It was once impossible to break free, and now it is even more impossible.

"Yes, of course."

Gnaw let out a low, terrible laugh.

"That's the 'first step' that we're going to talk about. You are the doctor of His Royal Highness, I have heard that you are the one who participated in the perfection of the Heavenly Punishment, and you are also a little capable, I have heard the teacher praise you. Supplemental punishment is a technique that organically combines the functions of strange objects with the human body. Then do you know the predecessor of the Heavenly Punishment? ”

Without waiting for Mrs. Okiri's answer, he read a word to himself:

"'Renbi'."

In the age of lack of education, this technology is often referred to as "human biao".