Chapter 7 The World of Ancient Monuments
That night, Chen Mazi came to the door of Gu Che's room and knocked on the door carefully: "Young master, can you come in?" ”
"Come in" and then Chen Mazi pushed the door in, only to see the two sitting at the table, the huge black robe covered outside had been taken out, and they were only wearing ordinary clothes, but the mask on their faces had not been removed, which looked very terrifying, which further intensified the fear in Chen Mazi's heart.
"Sit down, let's talk about the situation," Gu Che said, and Chen Mazi sat down in fear.
"Yangjia Mountain, since five days ago, someone came out of it, saw the flickering red light inside, and then some people said that it was Lingyou fruit about to ripen, but Lingyou fruit was wrapped in a huge fog in the middle, unable to enter, walking into it will be lost, always back to the original point, mortals and animals will be lost in an instant, the monk's body in the inside is also constantly eroded, and now there is no way, but there are many people, stationed in front of the black fog, and I heard that the Ten Thousand Saints Sect and the Spirit Beast Gate and the Xishu Dynasty have sent people to come one after another, There are even more scattered cultivators and small sects, and the black fog may be cracked soon, Childe, there is only so much information that you know at present. Chen Mazi reported in detail the information he had collected recently.
"What's the matter, Si Ming" Gu Che turned his head to look at Kong Zaishu, and found that he had fluctuated a lot for a moment just now.
"It's nothing, Witch Master, it's just that I'm a little excited to hear that so many masters are coming," Kong Zaishu said;
"Lao Chen, your information is still very useful, you can still mix it all these years, and you can do your job, after this time, you can choose to continue to open your inn here, I will lift your curse, but to erase your memory about me, you can also go to Anhu City with me, you don't have to choose in a hurry, wait for me to come back and give me an answer." Gu Che said;
"Thank you Childe for your appreciation." Chen Mazi hurriedly got down from his seat, and then knelt down and said, although he thought that he didn't hurry up to solve the curse seal for me, but his mouth was still full of thanks.
Early the next morning, Gu Che and Kong Zaishu walked up the mountain together, accompanied by more than a dozen people, but after experiencing the situation last night, they did not dare to step forward, far ahead of them, or follow behind, the originally rugged and difficult mountain road, has now been razed to the ground, but it seems very easy to go up the mountain, far away you can go to a large area shrouded in black fog, the diameter of the visual measurement is hundreds of miles, in the middle of a red light straight into the sky, this is a sign of imminent maturity.
Following the crowd in, he found that the south direction near the village had been stationed in a square, where hundreds of people had gathered, and they all had good strength, Gu Che did not choose to walk into the square, but flew around the entire black fog with Kong Zaishu to observe.
Just flew to the north opposite of the crowd, found that there were two people flying from the opposite direction, a hurried glance, only to see a fluttering Hong, graceful like a dragon, a hair capable tied behind the head, flying in the wind, the face is like Fu powder, the eyebrows are slightly curved and slender, the eyes are transparent and bright, the lips are like Danxia, the neck is slender, the shoulders are cut, the waist is like a plain, the upper body is wrapped in a red Chinese Chinese dress, the lower body is a long black skirt, until the ankle, the belt on the waist is embroidered with gold and white silk and the crane and the sun shape, exuding a trace of grace and luxury, followed by a man, With a short hairstyle, a handsome appearance, a dragon-shaped earring hanging from his right ear, his face was expressionless, his eyes were blank, it seemed that everything around him could not arouse his nature, his muscles bulged, he was nearly seven feet tall, and the four of them looked at each other in the air and flew in their respective directions.
Around the black fog, there is nothing special, all are shrouded in black fog, can not see clearly, at this time Gu Che hit a wild deer far away, far into the fog, the wild deer was quickly engulfed by the black fog, unable to see, and then Gu Che gently stretched his hand into the black fog, a rotten smell in the air, instantly spread along the fingers to the arm, but it could not cause damage to Gu Che's body, and then Gu Che's whole body was submerged in it, the visibility was very low, unable to identify the direction, and then took a few steps forward, stepping on a piece of residual bones, It was the wild deer that had just been thrown in, and he took a few steps in a different direction, and stepped on the deer bone.
I saw Gu Che covering his eyebrows with his hand, and after taking his hand away, the third vertical eye on the mask opened, and his blue eyes were like a spotlight in the dark night to scan the surroundings, and the sight was also very limited, the distance was less than 100 meters, and everywhere he saw were the ruins of some ruins, and some armor and chariots that were about to be corrupted, as well as some bones, people, birds, beasts, etc., all of which were left behind, and the entire black fog was like a labyrinth, and then Gu Che closed his eyes and exited the black fog.
In the afternoon, Gu Che also returned to the station, some distance away from the main crowd, after all, the two of them were indeed dressed in a unique way to prevent the kind of unsightly coming to find things, and then one thing attracted their attention;
"The Ten Thousand Saints Sect is here to do business, and the other idle people will retreat." Before the people arrived, the voice came first, only to see a huge griffin appear in the clouds in the distance, gradually pounced towards the station, regardless of the people below, everyone hurriedly dodged, and the surrounding tents were blown by the wind blown by the griffin's wings, and finally the griffin stopped and landed in the center of the station.
At this moment, a huge running sound came, "Knock knock... Rhythmically stepping, from far to near, the sound became louder and louder, attracting everyone's attention, only to see a giant coming, nearly a foot tall, half a body taller than the person Gu Che met in the afternoon, his face was extremely ugly, wearing a nose ring on his nose, like a ploughing ox, wearing only a pair of shorts, his body was full of various sap and flower sap and the color of various animal blood, standing next to the griffin, his eyes were blank, like a sculpture.
From the griffin came down a teenager and a girl, the girl looked a little older than the boy, should be around thirteen years old, and the boy was about ten years old, I saw this girl, dressed in an emerald cigarette shirt, the skin was as warm as jade, especially a cherry mouth was not dotted and red, this boy was dressed in cyan satin, a pair of sharp eyes turned around, the long eyelashes were particularly prominent, the tips of the fingers seemed to be playing with something, and when I looked at it, it turned out to be a small purple snake wandering around its fingertips, and from time to time it spit out letters.
"The tower is running quite fast," the young man said to the girl, unbelievable, this savage is like running all the way from Halloween to here, gathering more than three thousand miles, and all the way there are poisonous insects and beasts.
"You, go get me a tent, and get me some game back, the master is a little hungry, Senior Sister Lu, what do you want to eat?" I saw that the young man first casually pointed to the side and scattered his cultivation, and then asked the girl.
"Senior Brother Ding Ming, let's go out and keep a low profile, this place is no better than the sect," Senior Sister Lu frowned and said, as if she was a little uncomfortable with this young man's arrangement.
"Senior sister, in this southwest realm, who else dares to provoke our Ten Thousand Saints Sect" The young man surnamed Ding didn't care about the Dao;
"Why don't you go yet," and then asked the casual cultivator next to him;
"Even if you are from the Ten Thousand Saints Sect, you don't have the right to arrange for us to do things, and besides, this is not the Ten Thousand Saints Sect, don't you say?" Although this casual cultivator lacked confidence in his words, it resonated with everyone, and everyone saw it this way.
"Oh, it seems that you all think so, hehe" The young man surnamed Ding smiled evilly, as soon as the words fell, the little snake in his finger shot like a sharp arrow at the person who had just spoken, and the loose cultivator dodged before he could dodge, the little snake bit off his throat and was killed on the spot, but it was still not over, the little snake crawled down his throat to his mouth, and then only heard a tooth-sore gnawing sound coming from the click, the little snake actually gnawed through its skull, and the snake head stretched out from the center of the skull, and then quickly shot back into the young man's hand, spitting out the letter from time to time, as if it was very delicious.
"I think you should do what I just said for him, there should be no problem" The young man casually pointed to the other person again, tilting his head to look at him.
"No problem, no problem, I'll go right away" The loose cultivator seemed to have just been blinded, and woke up suddenly, and then quickly went to get a large tent and beat wild deer, hares, etc. The lively casual cultivation around has also dispersed.
Kong Zaishu looked in the direction of the two of the Ten Thousand Saints Sect and lost his mind slightly, Gu Che looked at the afterglow of the sunset in the distance, in the other direction, in the afternoon, the girl in red and the boy with earrings were sitting not far away, looking in the other direction, only to see the girl in red said: "Fan Long, look over there, I didn't expect Wang Zhen from the Spirit Beast Gate to come, it's interesting." ”
"Indeed, he is the treasure of the Spirit Beast Sect, and he is said to be the number one wizard in a thousand years, but he has not fought yet." Fan Long licked his tongue as he spoke, and a sense of battle erupted in his eyes.
The young man with the bear and the dog was barbecuing a huge wild boar, the bear and the dog stared straight at the wild boar, holding saliva, the young man seemed to see this side observing him, he grinned, stood up and waved to the girl in red, and said hello, at the moment when he stood up, the bear and the dog ignored the heat of the flames, and began to grab the wild boar, Wang Zhen immediately reacted, plucked the bear with one hand, kicked the dog with one hand, and scolded in his mouth: "Figure out your identity, you two." Then he began to feast on it.
"He's still as funny as ever." When the girl in red saw this scene, she sneered and smiled, really looking back and smiling;
The sky has completely darkened, and the moon has gradually climbed into the air, today's moon is exceptionally round, and the campfires on the ground are large or small, emitting a little temperature, and the black fog behind him has completely blended with the darkness, only the red light of Lingyouguo in the distance is still flickering.
The moon rose to the middle of the night, it was already the middle of the night, a person got up to relieve himself, and suddenly the moonlight shone on a stone tablet on a remnant slope near the black fog, and suddenly it shone brightly, and the whole stone tablet seemed to be completed by this moonlight.
The man felt that his soul was swallowed by the stone tablet, and he quickly retreated, exclaiming, "Look at this!!" ”。
Everyone was instantly awakened and quickly rushed to this side. The realm is not enough to practice the qi of the people directly disgusted and lose their minds, and the soul can't stop being sucked away, causing the people who came, and most of them quickly retreated, falling into a period of weakness, after absorbing the soul power of this part of the people, the stele seemed to be a little brighter, and the result was that there were less than ten people who really stood in front of the stele, namely the three people of the Ten Thousand Saints Sect, the combination of Fan Long and the girl in red, Wang Zhen alone, Gu Che and Kong Zaishu, and two scattered cultivators, but it does not mean that these people are not affected, the devouring sense of the soul is still there, but the realm is higher, and the soul is more stable.
Gu Che suddenly sat down and sent a voice to Kong Zaishu, "Protect the Dharma for me, I'll go in and find out." Let go of the defense and let the mind follow the stele, the reason why Gu Che did this is because his intuition told him that the key to cracking this black fog is in this stele, the resentment emitted by the stele is soaring, and the black fog at night lacks the sun's illumination, the resentment is rich and almost substantial, and the coefficient of this stele is the same, and he has a soul realm, even if he enters, he is not afraid of damage.
And then the girl in red, Wang Zhen, and Ding Ming's minds were sucked into the stone tablet in turn.
Gu Che was the first to go, and after a period of discomfort, he suddenly felt that he could open his eyes, which made him feel incredible, because his mind was sinking into the stone tablet, and there was no reason to have eyes, and after opening his eyes, he found that he seemed to have crossed again, but this time it was an adult, who knew nothing about his memory, and stood on the road like this.
"National teacher, national teacher, please come here, Her Royal Highness the Empress is waiting for you inside." A man dressed as a palace maid said;
"It turns out that I am the national teacher of this country" Gu Che thought, and then quietly went over with the palace maid, and after approaching the inner hall, he found that he seemed to have entered a combat command center, which used a sand table to simply base the terrain, only to hear a person wearing armor, holding a slender baton, pointing to the sand table is introducing: "At present, Wei has led 200,000 troops to our side, stationed on Qiyang Slope, and is expected to arrive at our city in two days, and our army is currently only 50,000 people left... ”
"The national teacher is here, let's think about countermeasures together" Empress Nanqiao saw Gu Che walk in, Gu Che lifted the wide hat in front of her, and looked up to see that although the empress was frowning, she did not show a trace of weakness, but a firm expression, adding a bit of heroism to her beautiful face.
After the empress finished speaking, her expression and movements seemed to suddenly stop, and after a moment she came back to her senses, but the sorrow and firmness on her face were gone, replaced by doubts, and Gu Che knew that someone had descended on the empress.
When he noticed that everyone was looking at him, he saw the empress and say, "Go on." ”
"The current situation is that the enemy is outnumbered, because the grain route is cut off, the food in the city is only enough for the soldiers and civilians in the city to live for three days, so in two days later the Wei State came to besiege the city, this battle has to be fought, although we occupy a favorable terrain, according to the city wall and moat can be held, but if you want to win, I am afraid you have to think about other strategies." The general explained.
"Who is in charge of the army now, and where is the army now?" asked the empress;
"General Zhu Gui, I am currently checking the city defense in the city," the general replied suspiciously;
"Let him come." The empress ordered, and as soon as the words fell, she saw a middle-aged general who was nearly fifty years old, dressed in full armor, burly inside.
"See the Empress," the general knelt down.
"Excuse me, the general, how the next battle should be fought," the empress asked
"Yangjia Mountain?" The general didn't say a strategy, but said a place name, which made the others scratch their heads, and the empress and Gu Che both had bright eyes, but they didn't know who he was.
"Spirit beasts?" The Empress also said a word tentatively.
"Yes," said the general;
"Everyone will wait in the outer hall first, and I have a plan to discuss with the general." The Empress then spoke, and the group exited the inner sanctum.
"You are the first to enter," asked the Empress;
"The third, there are a few others who don't know, what is certain now is that the black-robed mysterious person was the first to come in, although he must have been lurking, the boy of the Ten Thousand Saints Sect should also come in, but I don't know what the identity is, and the last two scattered cultivators don't know if they came in at the end." Zhu Gui analyzed;
"Although I came in earlier than you, I basically don't know anything, and what is available now is our two identities, but the upcoming war is the biggest problem at the moment, and now it is 50,000 against 200,000" the empress looked at the sand table and said;
"Although I don't have any other forces to bring in now, there is a battle array available, and we occupy a favorable terrain, it is not that there is no chance of victory, and one person needs to have the courage of ten thousand men to serve as the eye of the formation," Zhu Gui said;
"This problem is not big, I can post and look for it, although we don't know anything about the future direction now, but the identities of you and I take the lead, we don't know, the first black-robed person and the kid of the Ten Thousand Saints Sect to come in, and the scattered cultivators who may come in don't know, we can take advantage of the information gap to lure them out, but I just don't know if they will be in the opposite Wei camp" The empress responded and analyzed.
"Then issue two announcements, one to find warriors, and the other to release keywords for Yangjia Mountain, Lingyouguo, okay, Changle" Zhu Gui said,
"No, just Yangjia Mountain and Lingyou Fruit may only expose our identities, and we won't let them come out, change to Yangjia Mountain, and get out of the illusion realm" After thinking about it, Changle said to Zhu Gui.
"And in the future, we will call each other, or according to the name of the world." Changle then instructed again, Wang Zhen nodded, and then called everyone in again.
"The general and I have discussed a way to break the enemy, and now I need you to make two announcements immediately, and then bring people over" After the empress finished speaking, everyone's eyes lit up, and then they went out to make arrangements, and Gu Che also went out at this time, but he didn't know where to go.
Then let the general who had just introduced the situation, and now he was going out to release the news, took him out of the palace and came to the streets of the city, only to see that the road was full of sergeants, transporting all kinds of supplies and ordnance to the city wall, the city wall was very spectacular, as high as five zhang, up to two zhang thick, it was difficult to think about this era, how people built it, walking aimlessly on the street, I saw that the big families were hurriedly hoarding materials in the house, but there was a long queue in the rice shop in the distance, and there was a sign hanging at the door of the rice shop, there was no rice today, and the end of the long line was an old and a young, The beggar was full of holes and patches, but his eyes were full of indifference.
Less than an hour after the announcement was issued, someone was found and led to Changle and Wang Zhen, but unfortunately there was only 1 person, extremely burly, infinitely powerful, it was the vanguard in the army, nicknamed the butcher, in line with the requirements of Zhu Gui's battle array, but this pioneer, as soon as he opened his mouth, Changle and Wang Zhen had a surprise.
"Ling Youguo?" Pioneer Tentative;
"Ancient monuments? Who are you? Wang Zhen responded and asked;
"All Saints," the pioneer butcher said proudly;
"You go down first, the Empress and I have a battle formation method to explain to this vanguard." Zhu Gui said, and at the same time let the others go down first.
"Is there anyone else coming in behind?" Wang Zhensui asked.
"I don't know." Ding Ming said.
"At present, there are only three of us who know the identity now, the mysterious black-robed person who came in first, I don't know what the identity is, I am the general Zhu Gui, she is the empress Nan Qiao, now the Wei State will start attacking us in two days, we only have 50,000 people, and there are 200,000 on the opposite side, although we have no outside strength, but I have a battle array, which is enough to turn things around, and I need you as the heart of the array, this is all the information at present." Wang Zhen first identified himself, and then explained the current situation.
"Then how to get out of this world," Ding Ming asked;
"I don't know, there is no direction for the time being, we only came in a while earlier than you, and we didn't get any information in this regard, so we can only take a step by step and solve the current problem first." Wang Zhen explained frankly;
"Who is in command now," Ding Ming asked;
"There is no one to command, if you have an idea, you can mention it, and after we discuss it, we will decide together," Changle said.
"Not yet." Ding Ming said.
"Then let's go out to practice the battle formation first, solve the crisis in front of us first, and then see where the next step goes." Wang Zhen said.
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Gu Che was still wandering the streets, he was thinking, what was the meaning of this ancient monument world, but his intuition told him that this ancient monument world had something to do with the black mist, and this black fog and the ancient monument both had a strong grudge, whose resentment would this be, empress? Checkmate? Or is it a national teacher? Or is there someone else who hasn't shown up yet?