The carriage carried us all the way downhill for about an hour, and gradually the road began to become gentle, and everywhere we passed, there was an empty underground world. On both sides of the road, there are plains, canyons, rivers, mountain passes, and steep underground peaks, except for the blue sky and white clouds, the sun, the moon and the stars, there is no difference from the landform scenery on the ground. But there is no vegetation in the wilderness.

Along the way, pass through countless villages. In the places where the villages gathered, the rock formations overhead were carved out every few dozen miles, forming a huge patio with a radius of several miles, and the light from the patio penetrated into the ground underground. Everywhere the sky is covered, there are fields planted with crops that cannot be seen on the ground, and the villagers of Huandou are leisurely cultivating the fields. A paradise-like scene.

The underworld cannot see the direction of the sun, and it is impossible to distinguish between day and night, morning and twilight. After a long journey, we arrived at a city at about twelve o'clock in the afternoon, according to the time on Ho's watch.

The city was built on a huge rock platform by an underground river, and the rock platform was in the shape of a long strip, two or three miles wide, but more than ten miles long. One side of the stone platform leans against the cliff, and the other side faces a deep stream, and in the deep stream is a huge current. The two ends of the stone platform are facing the avenue, but they are more than ten meters above the avenue, and the slope made of a long suspension bridge is connected to the avenue, and at the middle end of the suspension bridge, there is a majestic city gate in each. The entire city is surrounded by cliffs, deep streams and two gates.

The carriage we rode on went up the drawbridge and came to the bottom of the tower, where the gates were closed.

I looked up and saw three words written on the top of the pedestal of the city gate: Danshui City. On the castle tower, the officers and soldiers defending the city were neatly arranged, each with iron armor and steel helmets, holding blades, as if they were preparing for battle.

The commander of the army who was escorting us jumped out of the carriage and shouted upwards, "It is the middle hour, why do you close the gates of the city, and open them quickly for us to enter?" ”

Someone in the city asked, "Who are you?"

The military commander said: "I am Liao Mi, the commander of the hundred beaks of the border guard officer of the Three Realms Mountains, and I caught a few Wa royal family members who committed crimes this morning, and I want to escort them to Chongshan to be interrogated by the Division. Hurry up and open the gates, or you will miss the right thing, and you will not be able to afford it. ”

The city said: "In the past few days, there is an emergency military situation in Danshui City, General Long ordered me to wait for the city to be closed, without his order, no one can open the city, you have to go to the capital, not in the city, you may not have to enter the city, please take a detour." ”

When Liao Mi heard this, he said angrily: "Detour? Danshui City chokes the fortress of the two rivers, and this is the only one in the middle of the city, and if you want to detour, you need to go from the climbing trail to the Izumo Valley, and then along the top of the snow peak on the ground, to the big dome of the sky, and down to Jianbi Lake, and walk for half a day on the rugged mountain road, in order to connect the avenue again." Not to mention that the carriages and horses are impassable, it only takes two hours to walk on the road, and it takes four or five days to go to the least. You really don't have a backache when you stand and talk. ”

Chengshang said: "We are also acting on orders, there is no way, please forgive the beaked chief." ”

Liao Mi scolded: "Considerate of a big-headed ghost, it is a violation of the law for you to close the city for no reason, hurry up and call you General Long over, I want to reason with him." ”

There was a burst of laughter from the city, and then it was heard say, "What a breath." You are just a hundred beaks, and you want to see our general, it's really a pipe dream. Don't talk about you, it's your Three Realms Ridge Border Marshal, passing by my Danshui City, you have to come to visit our General Long, what are you, hurry up and leave for the master, otherwise we will release the arrows. ”

At this moment, a voice came from behind the tower: "Why is the city so noisy?" ”

The defenders of the city turned around and saluted together, saying, "General Dragon." ”

After the salute, a cheerful man dressed like a general came to the city.

One of the defenders said: "General, there is a soldier under the city, who said that he came from the Three Realms Ridge, and he wanted to escort the captured Wa royal family to the capital, and he had to open the door." We scolded for a long time and didn't leave. ”

The general said coldly, "So you want to shoot the guards of the border Zhongliang?"

The defenders of the city knelt on the ground when they heard this, and the defenders who had told him before said: "The general atons for his sins, we just want to scare and scare him, not really to release arrows." What's more, there were no archers at the head of the city at this time. ”

The general smiled and said, "Okay, well, you are not guilty, how can you atone for your sins." General Lingshi of the Three Realms is a hero, the mainstay of my Huandou clan, and his subordinates are also many loyal and righteous people, there will be no problem, quickly open the city and let them in. What's more, there is a Wa royal family who have invaded the territory, which is the first time in sixty or seventy years. I would like to meet these Wa royals and see what they are trying to do. ”

The defenders said yes, and the city shouted, "Open the city!"

Immediately, the gates creaked open.

Liao Mi took the lead and walked across the city gate, and the carriage carried us into the city after us.

Walking out of the auxiliary road of the city, we arrived at a military camp, where the dragon general had already led the generals to defend the city.

Liao Mi stepped forward, knelt down on one knee in front of General Long, and exclaimed in a sonorous voice: "The last general, Liao Mi, I have seen the state marshal." ”

General Long said, "Please get up!" Liao Mi stood on the side.

General Long looked at Liao Mi and said with a smile: "It is said that the Three Realms Ridge is a place where heroes and heroes are produced, and when I saw General Liao today, it really deserved its reputation." I have long heard that Brother Shi has a deputy general surnamed Liao, who is brave and resolute, and is a unique talent in the army, don't you know that you are from this family?"

Liao Mi snorted and laughed.

General Long suppressed his smile, frowned and asked, "Why are you laughing, could it be that I said something wrong?"

Liao Mi bent down and knelt on one knee again, clasped his fists with both hands and said, "Thanks to the general's promotion, the deputy general surnamed Liao is the last general." ”

General Long was taken aback after hearing this, and then asked: "Look at your armor, you don't look like a deputy marshal, just now you also said that you are a hundred beaks under the city, how can you say that you are the deputy marshal surnamed Liao?"

Liao Mi replied: "The general doesn't know, just because a few days ago when the general patrolled and found that there were Xihuang people outside the border to gather demons and monsters, I want to lead the troops to conscript, the marshal he is not allowed, said that now the internal disputes are rising, the civil strife is on the horizon, it is not appropriate to use troops externally, I was a little excited, and the marshal quarreled a few words, he was angry, dismissed me from the post of deputy marshal on the spot, and asked me to be the chief of the hundred beaks for two months. I know that the commander doesn't really want to remove me from my post, but he is just worried that I will be rash and do something inappropriate. ”

General Long was surprised: "Outside the border, is it in the territory of the Drought Tribe, or in the territory of the Gao Clan?"

Liao Mi said: "It is not a secret place, so neither the Drought Tribes nor the Gao Clan have the right to govern it. ”

General Long said: "Then the Wa royal family will let the Xihuang people act recklessly?"

Liao Mi said: "That place is hidden in the middle of the peak, and there are cliffs and cliffs to cut off from the outside world, and ordinary Wa royal people can't reach it at all. Since forty or fifty years ago, the first seat of the Wa royal family, Ximu, had a disagreement with the Drought Clan, and since then, the Wa Imperial Clan has stopped patrolling the secret forest where the Drought Clan is located, so it has become a vacuum place where all the clans do not care. But it is close to the edge of my Three Realms Ridge. ”

General Long sighed and said, "It stands to reason that the Xihuang people are in the company of demons, and all races should know about it. But as General Shi said, it is an eventful time in our clan now, and it is indeed inappropriate to use troops abroad. ”

Liao Mi said yes, hugged his fists and asked General Long: "The last general has something unclear, and I ask the general to explain his doubts." I don't know why this Danshui City is closed during the day?"

General Long was about to speak, but he paused again and said, "Please come to the mansion to rest in a while, and then explain the details." ”

After saying that, he walked towards the carriage.

Walking to the front of the car, General Long looked inside the car and exclaimed, "How many children?"

Liao Mi replied: "There is also an adult." ”

General Long said: "The Three Realms Ridge is such a dangerous place, it is definitely not something that a few children can reach, and there must be something strange in it. ”

I was about to open my mouth to tell this Huandou general that we were captured by the Demon Immersion Body, but as soon as I opened my mouth, He Xuanya pulled me, and I immediately closed my mouth.

General Long looked at me and said, "Are you trying to say something?"

I shook my head.

He turned to Liao Mi and said, "I don't think these children look like bad people, besides, our clan and the Wa royal family have always had no enmity and no gap, and they must have a reason for coming here." Treat them to me first, and then I'll talk to them later. ”

Liao Mi said: "Yes"

General Long ordered to the left and right: "Bring these Wa royal family members and the soldiers to the pavilion to entertain them." Prepare the horse, I want to go to the Shuaifu with General Liao. ”

We were taken to the pavilion, where the Huandou people prepared a sumptuous meal to entertain us and escort us to the soldiers of the Three Realms Ridge.

In the lobby of the pavilion, three tables of wine banquets were set up, and the four of us sat alone at one table, and the soldiers of the Three Realms Ridge and the escorts of Danshui City sat at the other two tables.

I looked at the two tables, and there were snakes, scorpions, bats, and all sorts of big bugs. On our table, however, there were a few cooked meats, meat dishes such as chicken and duck, as well as a few vegetables.

A waiter from the Huandou Clan Pavilion stepped forward and said with a smile: "Knowing that you Wa royal family members are not used to eating the food of our clan, I deliberately ran all over the city to find these kinds of food that the Wa royal family is used to. ”

We said again and again, "Politely, this is already very rich." ”

At this time, the two tables opposite were already staggered, and the atmosphere was extremely high.

We all gobbled it up.

When we had eaten and drunk, the other two tables were still drinking.

The waiter removed the cups and plates from our table and replaced them with a pot of tea. The four of us drank tea while watching the people drinking and having fun.

Zhiyong looked at the lively atmosphere on the opposite table, and was also infected, and laughed out loud when he looked at it.

A question occurred to me.

I pushed Zhiyong and asked softly, "Zhiyong, you haven't told us yet, how did you get to that sinkhole with monsters?" By the way, you said that you were caught by monsters, escaped, and then slipped down that black hole, but how did you get to the sky?"

Zhiyong stretched out his two hands, pointed at me, the sailor, and He Xuanya with his left hand, and pointed at himself with his right hand, and then curled his thumb, little finger, and ring finger with both hands, stretched out his index finger and middle finger, and made a walking motion on the table with both hands, his left hand in front and his right hand behind.

I seemed to understand what he meant, and asked, "Did you say you were following us?"

Zhiyong nodded.

I asked, "How did you know we were coming to the mountains?"

Zhiyong thought about it and was about to make a gesture, when he heard someone at the opposite table say, "Your General Long has been deceived." ”

The four of us immediately pricked up our ears and listened quietly.