Bidding farewell to the reluctant fishermen of Dragon's Tooth Island, the roving king led a large army to continue its march south.

The situation along the way is similar, and the lives of the people are far more difficult than imagined. For example, in the drought in Baihua Township, thousands of hectares of grain fields have almost turned into deserts; for example, in Liyun Township, thousands of households have been left homeless due to the inflow of seawater; for example, in the always prosperous village of Wanlong, a locust plague, there are only a few grains of rice left in the village's warehouses......

It is indeed a world of suffering, and almost everywhere it is experiencing its own troubles.

Qi Lang was greatly puzzled by what he saw and heard, although he and those soldiers had traveled a lot, from the Luman Empire in the northwest to the easternmost side of the continent, almost all the countries of Middle-earth, but they had too limited understanding of this world and the real life of this world. Life is far more difficult than they had imagined.

In the memory of the past, the land of Middle-earth has always been rich, with vast fields, endless rice fields, people who have no worries about food and clothing, and everyone has a satisfied smile. But now it seems that it is just imagination, and it is very different from the truth and expectations.

As the journey progressed, the soldiers' expressions began to become serious. Lucy no longer bothered to buy souvenirs, Clethu no longer clamored for lively parties, and even the simple-minded Lancee cut each meal in half......

They all noticed the hardships of the people, and felt sympathy for them, so they began to activate their rusty brains. They recognized the world, and for these soldiers, although they were born and died on the battlefield. Live a life of licking blood with a knife head. But the lives of civilians are just as difficult. There is also no tomorrow today.

Most of the hardships of the people are caused by natural disasters, which is likely to indicate that the devastating disaster is just around the corner, and it is an inevitable and imminent big trouble, and Qi Lang's next task should probably be transferred. He only wanted to end the parade as soon as possible, and then settle down to study the real way out.

The stakes are so high, much more so than running a country. Because that's about the survival of the whole human race.

The previous discussion with Jira did not lead to a clear conclusion, but it was not a complete failure, because Qi Lang seemed to have solved the final puzzle - Heshi held the stars, and Jira should be right, and the answer was space. Time and space may well be the key to solving all disasters.

If time and space change mean that the entire world will escape its current state, there is no doubt that it will provide a safe place to go.

That place must have been a different thing from the escape from this world mentioned by Homo sapiens, because all he could offer at the time was a way for a small group of people to escape from this world. Just like Billy by the Whale's Billy planned, bring a few thousand people. Say tens of thousands more, open the door to escape, take the Tissot, and rush into the passage that can be light and dark, and the result is to abandon more people.

That is undoubtedly not the real way out. Mr. Zhu Lai also said that that is by no means the real way out. The real way out has always been there, hidden in the secret of that wolf necklace, which is the two answers of time and space.

Of course, there should be something else in it, like the contemplation of darkness, the sense of justice of light, the blood of courage, and the rationality of memory...... If these two relatively abstract concepts are the last two chalices, then how can we fill those two chalices with fine wine?

That's still a big problem.

The riddle provides a way to become one, and the key lies in the word "Heshi".

Hesh means to worship reverently, whether it is to worship the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, or to the Buddha, or to some other god, in short, it means that human beings should show respect to the gods.

But Gila is very sure, and what he says is also very reasonable, maybe there are no gods in this world, and that is just another manifestation of science. Therefore, it is likely that Heshi is some kind of symbolic symbol, as if a mechanism is opened in some kind of ritual, like the original four holy swords, inserted into the keyhole, and a path to heaven is opened, and all human beings can ride on a magical object such as Tissot to get rid of the troubles of suffering.

No matter how it is explained, the way out remains hidden in the fog, elusive and unpredictable.

As Wang said, it would be nice if Mr. Zhu Lai was here, that guy was always mysterious, and it was estimated that in his heart, there must be a lot of unknown things, he was like the authority who wrote riddles, just waiting to confuse everyone before pretending to announce the final answer.

Thinking of Mr. Zhu Lai, Qi Lang felt that he was actually very likely to be ignorant, because a large part of the inside information he revealed was also relaying his grandfather's original judgment. It seems that the real answer has always been in the hands of the wise man of my grandfather, but there is one thing that is most strange, why did he go on the road alone without leaving any more news after judging all this? and it seemed that he had gone to climb a mountain......

Regarding climbing the mountain, Qi Lang remembered another person, and that person he had never met. Qi Lang remembered clearly that when he first came into contact with Lao Zhan in Xia Qi Town, he had also brought up a similar topic, as if to say...... His son Xiao Zhan is going to climb the mountain.

James Junior also seems to be a pretty good fighter, if Lao Zhan didn't brag, he could even be called the first genius warrior in the history of the Spiral Army, and why did he also go to climb the mountain, and actually left his father alone at home, and became increasingly obese in the daily drunkenness? Dr. Coombe's analysis should not be accurate, if it was an impulsive decision during the rebellious period, after so much time, he should also return to Lao Zhan's side, why is it still gone?

Trying to reverse the time point, Xiao Zhan's strange mountain climbing may not coincide with his grandfather, but their behavior is the same, and their identities are also similar, so will there be some kind of connection?

These questions are like unsolved mysteries, and thinking about them gives Qi Lang a headache, but he has to work hard to think about and analyze. In the days that followed, he seemed to have been in a trance, and he couldn't settle down, and even two times Mi Rong took the initiative to find him, he seemed a little absent-minded, and that was impossible to happen in the past.

After more than three months of cruising on the east coast, the King's parade finally turned southwest, and the destination would be the town of Sunset, the last stop in the south.

Although Qi Lang had been looking forward to ending this parade as soon as possible, he still had something to look forward to for Sunset Town, because his good brother Dong Hong had always been arranged there, as his most trusted and powerful general, guarding the southern border of the Zonghao Kingdom. Judging from the news transmitted in the past, in the past two years, the young warrior has earned himself the reputation of the guardian saint of the border, he is brave and good at fighting, invincible, invincible, and even some mutant creatures that occasionally maliciously rush over from the Otto Empire have been repelled by his troops. Aunt Dong is very satisfied with her son, because Dong Hong has not insulted the family and has become the number one warrior in the Zonghao Kingdom.

It is said to be a town, but in fact it is just an old bamboo village, surrounded by dense banana forests, and in order to prevent the enemy's fire, the banana trees near the village have been cut down, and the south side of the town near the border may have built some new defensive buildings, but most of the residents and soldiers still live in the village, maintaining the ancient local living customs.

When Qi Lang's large team appeared in the north of the town, the local residents spontaneously organized themselves and rushed to the front of the walled gate, beating gongs and drums, and making noise. Seeing the residents with colorful tattoos on their bodies made the soldiers unconsciously a little nervous.

Dong Hong stood at the front of the greeting team, looking a lot stronger, with a frown and a majestic face. Jira noticed from a long distance that his combat power had improved, and it was estimated that he should have reached the level of a low-level sage, and it seemed that he was not sloppy in his training while managing this border town.

"Welcome to my king!" Under the leadership of Dong Hong, hundreds of southern soldiers knelt on one knee together, with extremely pious expressions. This was unthinkable before, because the southerners had never surrendered to anyone, but at this moment, their eyes were extremely excited, because they had finally seen the legendary god-like and formidable king.

"You bastard, you know I don't like this!" Qi Lang jumped off the war horse at once, rushed up in a few steps, pulled Dong Hong up without any scruples, and hugged him warmly, "Quickly let them all get up, the etiquette of kneeling, I have already announced that it has been canceled, haven't you received a notice?"

"I did it on purpose, just to see your embarrassed expression. Dong Hong grinned and waved his hand behind him, so all the soldiers stood up and automatically retreated to both sides, making way for a road. Qi Lang noticed that those soldiers were all fully armed, which seemed a little incomprehensible, even if Dong Hong was very close to him, but if he waited in front of him in this dress, wouldn't he be afraid of any misunderstanding?

"What are you ......" Qi Lang stretched out his hand and patted the sword of loyalty that Dong Hong was carrying, and asked a little puzzled.

"It's not a coincidence that you're here, we just happened to have some anomalies here. Dong Hong's brows furrowed. (To be continued......)