"Demon hunter?"

Yue Guanchao narrowed his eyes and teased: "No, I remember the time when Dunhuang made a disturbance with the desert demon dragon, it was two demon hunters who put on a big show for the people of Dunhuang, in addition to only deceiving people, will they have other things?" ”

Gu Xixi shook his head: "Of course not, the people of Dunhuang can be deceived, precisely because their identity is a demon hunter, just imagine, if these two people were pretending to be Taoist priests in Dunhuang at that time, or what kind of monk came to Dunhuang City, it is impossible to be deceived so badly in any case, they can enter Dunhuang as demon hunters, and they are not suspicious, isn't it because the people of the Western Regions believe in the existence of demon hunters?" ”

"At least, the demon hunter is indeed capable of hunting monsters for them."

Yue Guanchao carefully considered the meaning of his words, and indeed as Gu Xixi said, it was precisely when the people of Dunhuang City saw the demon hunting atlas in their hands that they would believe without scruples that they were indeed capable of killing the demon dragon, which was why they were deceived so miserably.

This at least shows that the people of Dunhuang are convinced of the ability of the demon hunter, and they can use the identity of the demon hunter to deceive, and even confuse others and incite rumors.

This phenomenon just proves that the existence of demon hunters in the Western Regions has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, as long as it can be proved that they are demon hunters. The people will be convinced of their abilities.

Yue Guanchao wanted to understand this truth, and continued to ask Gu Xi: "Gu girl, in the Western Regions, what kind of existence is a demon hunter?" ”

Gu Xixi glanced at them meaningfully, and her face became serious: "Do you want to hear the truth or do you want to hear lies?" If it's a lie, I'll tell you that they are hidden masters who live in the desert, specializing in hunting and killing desert monsters that endanger the people. ”

"And what about the truth?" Yue Guanchao continued to ask.

Gu Xixi smiled slightly, and her face showed a mysterious color that seemed to be smiling but not smiling: "They are people who died in the Tang Dynasty, and they have survived for nearly two thousand years from the Tang Dynasty until now. ”

"Wait a minute, didn't you say that they had already died in the Tang Dynasty? What about living for 2,000 years? Yue Guanchao grasped the omission in her words and asked.

"Do you believe that there are undead people in the desert?" Gu Xixi lowered her voice and asked carefully.

"We believe that there are living people in the desert, but forget about the undead, if a person really dies, it will probably be highly decomposed in the next few months, and the probability of people who died from the Tang Dynasty to the present is almost zero." Song Siyuan replied.

Gu Xixi seemed to know that she would say this: "Then you will underestimate the desert, there is everything in the desert, of course there will be immortals, but he seems to be different from the immortal people you understand, their immortality is not immortal as a person with a physical body, but as a soul immortal, the flesh is like a container to them, as long as the flesh begins to decay, they will look for the next corpse that can hold their souls, now, you understand what I mean by dead people who have lived for thousands of years, right?" ”

Song Siyuan narrowed his eyes when he heard his words: "Listen to what you mean, these demon hunters are all immortal, does it mean that their number is extremely large, not a single family, since they are all immortal, why did they start from the Tang Dynasty?" Instead of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period or the Qin and Han Dynasties, could it be said that there were no immortals in the desert before, and it was only from the Tang Dynasty that there were immortals? Does this mean that in the desert of the Tang Dynasty, what happened to make the desert appear undead? ”

There are many questions, inextricably linked, Gu Xixi waved his hand at them: "You have too many questions, if I want to come back alone, I have to talk too much, this is not the place to talk, why don't we go back to the inn together, I will tell you slowly." ”

Yue Guanchao looked left and right, there were many people around, it was really not suitable to say any secrets, so he simply followed the Gu Xixi brothers and sisters and returned to the Bagu Inn!

Coming to their room, everyone sat at the round table, and Gu Xixi told them the historical secrets about the undead and the demon hunters.

First of all, we must clarify a concept, demon hunters are all undead, but not all immortals are demon hunters.

Their history begins with the Tang Dynasty.

During the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, General Ashina broke the Western Regions, including the Hexi Corridor, all of which were included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

From the early years of the Tang Dynasty to the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty governed the Western Regions for two hundred years, making many city-states in the Western Regions rich and prosperous.

During the Anshi Rebellion, even if the Tubo occupied the Hexi Corridor and ruled Hexi for fifty or sixty years, they failed to tame their subjects, but made the people of Hexi miss their homeland even more, which is enough to show the people's longing for their homeland in the Western Regions, and also the Hu people's yearning for the culture of the Central Plains.

The Demon Hunter appeared in the desert during the Anshi Rebellion!

It is rumored that they were the generals and soldiers who protected the capital of Anxi and stayed in Hexi, and were willing to die in the desert in order to resist the Tibetan and other foreign enemy forces.

At that time, the powerful countries around the Tang Dynasty saw the chaos in Guanzhong, and also wanted to bite off a bite of fat from the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and began to compete for the territory of the Western Regions through various means.

It was almost a small battle in ten days, and a big battle in January, and the rotation of power and the dumping of nobles in various state capitals were extremely frequent, including the Tibetans, the Huns, the Sogdians, the Uighurs, the Uighurs, the Khotanese, and the Great Cannibals...... Many foreign regimes want to have their own voice in the land of the Western Regions, divide one side, and divide the territory and seal the territory.

Tang soldiers have always been brave, even if they fight to a soldier, as long as the foreign enemy does not retreat, then they will definitely not retreat, at that time Guanzhong Chang'an can not be saved, the Tang court has become a pot of porridge, even Tang Ming Emperor has to go west to Shu to avoid chaos, they not only want to quell the rebellion in Hedong, but also to suppress the civil unrest in various places, there is no spare strength to deal with the territory of Hexi fell.

In the absence of reinforcements, the fate of these towns, which were under the rule of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, was completely captured by foreigners.

In the past few decades of foreign invasion, the territory that the Anxi Protectorate can control has been decreasing, and Beiting has fallen, Hexi, and Anxi have fallen, until all the territory is completely lost.

A lonely city for thousands of miles, full of white-haired soldiers, these Anxi guards have spent most of their lives in the bloody years, from young generals to white-haired veterans, but their lonely loyalty was not treated well, and they did not wait for Tang Ting to help them until they died.

The fate of most of the white-haired Tang soldiers was just to fight until the last moment and die with the city!