The windows were blown open by the wind, and the bamboo curtains showed the cold air coming from outside the city, and the thin sound of the wind swirled around the house and quietly dispersed.

Ning Changjiu turned his head and looked at the glimmer outside the bamboo curtain.

Shao Xiaoli was wrapped in a thick quilt, her body shrunk in the corner, and her face buried between her messy hair looked like a frightened young beast.

She fell silent, not even sure if she was telling a real story or just a nightmare.

She only felt cold, as if she was in the snow, and the thick quilt didn't seem to warm her.

"Why didn't you tell me these things before?" Ning Chang's words pulled her thoughts back.

"I ......" Shao Xiaoli shook his head slightly, and said, "I can't think of anything before, I ...... Maybe it's my dream talk. ”

Ning Changjiu continued to ask, "Who is the person who bought your time?"

Shao Xiaoli immediately said: "He's a monster!"

"Huh?" Ning Chang thought to himself, aren't there all monsters outside the city?

Shao Xiaoli said: "I've seen him twice, once he was a very handsome and handsome man, huh...... Second only to the boss, once a monster!"

Ning Changjiu asked, "What kind of monster?"

Shao Xiaoli closed his eyes, as if he was in pain, as if he had a headache when he thought of it.

"Monster...... It resembles a puppeteer, with sticky white threads wrapped around its body, and most importantly, ...... It has no face!" Shao Xiaoli suddenly opened his eyes and said, "He doesn't have a face, his face was painted by himself!"

Ning couldn't search for a similar record in his mind for a long time.

He continued, "What do you get for selling your time?"

Shao Xiaoli said: "Live......"

Ning Chang said: "How much time have you sold?"

Shao Xiaoli recalled: "The price of everyone's time is different, and mine is already very valuable, but even so, I have sold it for nearly thirty years......"

"Thirty years?" Ning Changjiu asked, "But if he doesn't help you, you may have died, then there is no next hundred years in your original life, what did he buy?"

Shao Xiaoli explained in a whisper: "I also asked him this question, and he told me...... As long as I have the possibility of living, my time after that will be valuable! And he is helping me find that possibility. ”

"Sounds like a liar. Ning Changchang said.

Shao Xiaoli nodded and said: "I thought so at first, but now that I think about it, when I just returned to the city, I encountered an accident in the art building, someone killed people indiscriminately, I saved Su Yanshu and became good friends with her, I originally thought that this was a chance for me to live, but I didn't expect to meet the boss later......"

Ning Chang caught one word from her words, fate.

Destiny is an infinite possibility between birth and death, and an old Taoist who once said that the day is divided into twelve hours, and babies born in the same year, the same day, and the same hour and stage have a similar destiny.

And the region, feng shui and many other factors in which they are located can build a more complete numerology model to predict fate.

Nowadays, the models used by the people are all simplified versions, and the real numerology model is only above the five realms, and the great cultivation with the ability of heavenly calculations can be operated and calculated without leakage, and the things involved in the model are extremely complex, and the results they obtain are often unbelievably accurate.

This is what the second senior brother said to himself back then.

He had no interest in numerology.

He didn't believe in fate, but he was just as afraid, what if it was really true?

Everything is determined by itself, how desperate it should be......

Ning Chang roughly understood that the monster that lived in the snow valley might have some authority over fate.

As for how he changed his life for Shao Xiaoli, Ning Changjiu has several general conjectures, he may have directly changed the result of fate to Shao Xiaoli's death three years later, and the remaining "cause" will be filled by fate itself, or it is possible that he found a glimmer of hope in Shao Xiaoli's fate, and then extracted these small probability things that were originally hidden in the cracks of fate, embedded them on the right track one by one, and connected them into the vitality of the main fate.

But a god who holds the authority of fate, what does he do with buying time?

Shao Xiaoli saw that he hadn't spoken, thinking that he didn't believe himself, so he hurriedly said: "Boss, I really didn't lie to you, I don't believe that I will die in three years to show you......"

“...... No, I trust you. Ning Chang looked into her eyes and sighed, "What else did it say to you?"

He also said, and said...... Ah!" Shao Xiaoli suddenly screamed, she buried her head in the quilt, shook it vigorously, and said with difficulty: "In my head, there seems to be a ...... Ice slag. ”

Ning Changjiu hurriedly stretched out his hand and hit her eyebrows, causing her chaotic consciousness to die and return to order.

Shao Xiaoli's brows twitched twice, then he tilted his body and fell towards the bed.

With a snap, she leaned on the bed, and the quilt spread out, covering her snow-white body.

Ning Chang tugged the quilt on the lower edge of her and wrapped her cold little feet, Ning Chang's fingers pressed the center of her back through the quilt, introducing a trace of pure aura, warming her five organs and six lungs, so that the remaining cold could not continue to erode.

The golden crow flew out again and landed on his shoulder, and he touched the golden crow's wings, cold.

Ning Chang sighed, folded her clothes scattered on the ground neatly, put them at the head of the bed, and then moved a chair to sit down on the side of the bed and kept watch all night.

He looked at the endless night, wondering what secrets were hidden in this city and in the wilderness outside.

......

Early in the morning, Shao Xiaoli woke up as usual, she rubbed her eyes, she couldn't remember when she fell asleep, but her head hurt a little.

She turned her head and found that she was lying on her stomach, and then she found that Ning Changchang, who was dressed in white, was sitting and falling asleep next to the bed.

"Boss......" Shao Xiaoli said in a low voice, and then regretted it a little.

Fortunately, Ning Changjiu didn't seem to wake up.

She hurriedly swished and got into the quilt, checked her body, and then lifted a strand of quilt, sneaked her little hand to the head of the bed, grabbed the clothes into the quilt one by one, and put them on with great difficulty.

Ning Chang, who was pretending to sleep, felt that he couldn't understand the character of this little girl more and more.

"Boss, boss. After Shao Xiaoli got dressed, he shouted two more sentences one after another.

Ning Chang pretended to wake up leisurely, glanced at her, and said, "Are you awake?"

Shao Xiaoli was wearing loose clothes and pants, her hair was messily draped, and Su Su's face was a little immature.

"Boss, why are you sleeping here?" asked Shao Xiaoli.

Ning Changjiu also asked, "You don't remember what happened last night?"

"Last night?!" Shao Xiaoli was stunned for a moment, her face showed a look of surprise, and then her face turned red, her ten fingers were crossed and clenched, her arms were bent in front of her, her thin waist was slightly twisted, and she was embarrassed to say: "Last night...... What happened last night? Are we ......?"

She pinched the quilt, looked up cautiously, and set her eyes on Ning Chang's good-looking side face, her mind full of cranky thoughts.

It seems that I don't remember...... Ning Chang thought silently, is this a heavenly opportunity? If it weren't for his action last night to force him to sleep peacefully, maybe Shao Xiaoli would have gone insane and gone crazy and died.

Obviously, Shao Xiaoli didn't realize that she had been closed in the ghost gate, she just blinked and looked at Ning Changjiu, the hand held in front of her pressed on her heart, twisted slightly, her slender calves pressed under her, presenting a figure of eight, trying to make herself look seductive.

Ning Chang turned his head and glanced at her lightly, feeling a bit like a duckling.

Shao Xiaoli looked at his eyes, thinking to himself, why is the boss so cold, could it be ...... She remembered some of the knowledge that Sister Su Yanshu had told her, and her heart beat faster.

Ning Changjiu got up silently and turned to leave.

Shao Xiaoli looked at the boss so cold, and immediately reacted, he thought wrong, how could the boss be so high-spirited, how could he do something to himself...... It must be......

"Boss, last night, I ...... Did I take the initiative to seduce you?" Shao Xiaoli asked tentatively, and then said to himself: "I am also seventeen years old this year, and there have been many people who like me in the past to propose marriage to my mother, but I have always been guarded like a jade...... Now that I see you, I ......"

"Shut up! "I'd rather drink it for a long time.

"Oh. Shao Xiaoli's words were interrupted and he answered in a low voice.

After breakfast, Shao Xiaoli suddenly remembered the matter of Biye, she snapped her fingers, thinking that if she hadn't miscalculated, it seemed that it was today......! What time is it?

Ning Chang looked at her with a blank expression, as if he knew what she was thinking, and said, "Noon." ”

"Oh......" Shao Xiaoli responded, and said anxiously: "If we go out like this, we won't show our stuffing, right?"

Ning Chang said: "Don't worry, I won't embarrass you." ”

Shao Xiaoli was stunned for a moment, and then he was happy in his heart, knowing that what he meant by this was that he was following himself outside.

As soon as he thought that the high-spirited boss at home was going to bow down to him outside, Shao Xiaoli was full of anticipation for this battle of wilderness.

And on this day, Ning Changjiu met the king of Broken Boundary City for the first time.

It was the square in the center of the royal family, and the people in the abyss were not standing in order.

They were either wearing armor, or robes, carrying weapons, and they were all followed by a semi-phase life, those were all spirits after the contract, Ning Changjiu also followed behind Shao Xiaoli, his eyes did not squint, his expression was cold, and he looked like a phase life without emotion.

Soon after, the king came out of the deep palace.

In Broken City, the king and the minister never had their own names, and what gave them power was these two code names passed down from generation to generation, so the descendants of the king, and there was never a fixed surname, they were all chosen by the children themselves on the stone tablet.

Shao Xiaoli's Shao character was grasped by herself.

Ning Chang looked at the king on the stone steps.

He was dressed in the yellow and black robe of the emperor, embroidered with a strange-looking dragon python, and on his head was an ancient crown that fell like a curtain of beads.

His dragon robe was very close to that worn by the headless statue carved on the stone wall at the end of the Shiyuan Yongdao that day.

The king's appearance is mediocre, but when he walks out slowly, he gives people a sense of majesty and power.

Ning Changchang was thinking about not that.

He remembered the ghost from last night.

The dragon robe on that ghost also looks like this.

A chill ran through his heart.

Could it be that the monster in the deepest part of the ghost prison was the king of the previous generation, who was polluted into this form, an ugly and evil ghost, and then imprisoned in the depths of the earth until he died.

The king stood on the metal platform, made an impassioned speech, and then handed over a small bronze sword to each of them.

This small bronze sword can absorb the blood of monsters, and each time it absorbs, the color of the sword body will be darkened, which is also a means of judging who killed the most monsters.

After the bronze swords were finished, the minister gave everyone a blessing to protect their journey.

It's all going on in an orderly manner.

Shao Xiaoli was in a hurry and didn't have time to put on makeup and comb his hair, so he used his five fingers as a comb from time to time and brushed his hair from top to bottom.

The battle of the wilderness is fought many times a year, and most of them are not deep into the ordinary new land, but on the existing land, and the meagre amount of food is grown.

The huge temperature difference between day and night here every day makes it difficult for many plants to survive, so the most important thing for exploring the unknown road and solving the problem of eating in the city is the most important thing in the Broken City.

After everything was done, Shao Xiaoli and Ning Changjiu walked towards the outside of the city.

Xingyuan added up to only more than thirty people, and they couldn't organize like an army, because everyone's spirits were different in size and strange, some were huge toads carrying maidens, some were man-eating flower-like creatures, several large mouths were closed, vines were dancing wildly, and there were also people who were split in half, still crippled, holding long knives in their hands......

Shao Xiaoli's gaze slowly swept around, pretending to look at it casually, and still felt that his boss was the best-looking.

"Shao Xiaoli. Suddenly her name was called.

Shao Xiaoli turned her head and found that it was a strange man, she said coldly, "What's the matter?"

Behind the man was a black misty eye, and the frequency of the blinking of the eye matched the man's perfectly.

"Is this your spirit?" the name looked at the boy beside her, smiling playfully.

"Huh?" Shao Xiaoli looked at him coldly and said, "Have an opinion?"

The man looked at the girl's cold face and said with a smile: "I don't think you are looking for a spirit, but like you are looking for a little white face." ”

The rest of the people who heard the words also chuckled softly.

Shao Xiaoli not only ignored them, but secretly rejoiced in his heart.

And most of the masters of these royal clans are people who have experienced many battles in the wilderness, and they don't regard those monsters outside the city as powerful opponents, and every time they travel, it seems to be just an experience of sharpening their kendo, so they also communicate and joke with each other along the way.

Outside the gate from the royal city to the outer city, there was a wide street specially built, and the people, most of whom were described as withered, stood on both sides of the road, watching them from afar as they walked out of the city, and the shouts rang out one after another.

Shao Xiaoli felt their gaze, and the unconfident gloom that had accumulated in her heart for a long time also dissipated little by little, her steps slowed down a little, and she leaned towards Ning Chang's bird.

Ning Changchang didn't understand the charm at all, and his pace slowed down a little, keeping a distance from her.

Under the high city walls, the gate has been opened, this majestic city is like a cage, hundreds of years ago, wild beasts outside, humans were locked in cages, and now they are the real beasts that can roar the mountains and forests, expanding their territory little by little, until they encounter a new continent, leading all people out of this barren city.

Outside the royal city is a large barren valley and deep mountains, the whole presents a very deep iron blue, those saga mountain stones are intertwined, sharply bent, pointing straight to the sky, among which there is a faint figure of strange birds circling.

A man-made path was buried among the knee-deep weeds that led into the distance, and along this path were separated by several fortresses, small but solid, with beacon towers above them.

"This is outside the city?" The spirit of the Sword Sutra looked through Ning Chang's eyes, looking at the rows of sword-like dangerous peaks and cliffs, those mountains are extremely high, each of them is placed outside, it can be called a famous mountain, but as far as the eye can see, the whole world is desolate, and there is no sign of life.

Ning Chang said: "This place is a little weird. ”

The Spirit of the Sword Sutra asked, "What's weird?"

In the broken sword, Blood Feather Jun shouted: "There are many famous mountains and rivers I have seen, let me out, let me identify it." ”

Ning Chang didn't make any extra moves, but said with his heart: "Help me remember the lines of those cliff rock fractures." ”

The Spirit of the Sword Sutra didn't know what he was thinking, but just answered.

And when the whole team came to the open world outside, it spread out to both sides like a bird with open wings.

Although the outside of the city looked dead and desolate, it was mostly peaceful, and there was no trace of the existence of the monster after walking for a long time.

But this peace was only an illusion after all, and it was not long before the bubble was blatantly burst

When she walked to a certain cliff, Shao Xiaoli slowed down, she stared at the cliff, goosebumps rose all over.

On the cliff between them, there are a large number of creatures seen in the ghost prison lying densely, they are like mutated humans, with tails, and their four claws seem to have a great adsorption force, sticking to the high cliff without moving, like a nest of geckos.

Even if Shao Xiaoli has gone out of the city with the team, even if she has killed many monsters with her own hands, every time she sees this kind of scene, it still makes people's scalp tingle.

"Rather long-lasting. Shao Xiaoli turned his head coldly, snorted confidently, and called him by his name.

Ning Chang frowned, and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, but he still responded calmly.

More than thirty cultivators with swords and swords, led by Kui Yuan, suddenly exploded like fireworks, turning into shadows and shooting towards those monsters waiting for the opportunity, with an extremely crisp sound of bones breaking, like a sickle cutting through straw.

......

......

Outside the palace, everyone was gone.

The king returned to the deep palace.

There are many palace lamps in the palace, but now, these lamps have not been lit, so the palace is particularly cold.

This palace was built against a high mountain, and the mountain was like a wave, as if it were about to overthrow the palace at any moment.

The king calmly walked into the depths, and his throne was in the deepest part.

The throne is not as gilded and engraved with silver as in the outside world, inlaid with jade, and extremely luxurious. This throne is only carved out of a single piece of black jade, which is somewhat long, and looks more like a warm and quiet jade couch.

It's not that the king doesn't love luxury, it's because the real owner of the chair doesn't like it.

Si Ming sat on the throne, the black skirt softly covered her extremely graceful body, and her silver-white hair flowed down the curves of her body, and her whole person seemed to be fused with this black jade.

What should have been the most formidable king of Broken Boundary City actually knelt down in front of her.

"You don't have to kneel to me. Si Ming's eyes widened slightly, and his voice was soft.

The king said reverently: "Lord Si ordered the gods to descend from the sky, and for the tomorrow of the Broken City, you must not kneel." ”

Si Ming Sakura's lips pursed slightly, she leaned back in the chair, one hand supporting her jade cheeks, and her loose sleeves hung down, revealing a flawless white arm.

She smiled indifferently and said softly: "Don't worry, as long as you listen to me well, you won't fall into a demon like the previous monarch." ”

The king thought of the ugly monster in the depths of the dungeon, and fell to his knees even more reverently.

Si Minghao raised her wrist lightly, her fingers were like petals floating on the water, and she said, "If you still have doubts in your heart, you can ask me at any time." ”

The king followed her gesture and got up, "Undoubtedly. ”

Si Ming chuckled, his beautiful eyes narrowed, and said, "Do you have no doubts or dare not have doubts?"

The king bowed a little and said, "I only wish that my people would one day leave this city." ”

Si Ming's voice was faint, and he said, "Do you know that in fact, it is not this city that we are leaving. ”

The king raised his head a little and said, "I don't know, Lord Wangsi will say that tomorrow will be the opportunity." ”

Si Ming looked at the pitch-black roof of the temple, as if she could see the night sky beyond the roof of the temple, and she continued to ask, "Do you know why we can't see the stars in the sky?"

The sun, moon and stars exist only in books, and no one in the city has ever seen them.

"I don't know. The king waited for an answer.

Si Ming said slowly: "Because they have long been far away from you...... You are orphans abandoned by time, and no matter how long you stay here, you will not be able to find the source of everything. ”

"Goddess...... Abandoned us?" said the king.

Si Ming smiled shallowly, and there was a slight mockery in her soft words: "That goddess has long since left, and I am your new god, I will break the curse of this city, lead everyone out, and see the legendary sun, moon and stars." ”

"What are you asking for, Lord Si Ming?" the king did not know what could satisfy her in this barren city.

Originally, Si Ming was an ancient position in the royal city, like a witch, responsible for divination, predicting bad luck, and a few years ago, the last Si Ming Lord died suddenly, and then this unbelievably beautiful woman came to the city, directly took over the position of Si Ming, and has lived in seclusion in the palace since then.

The king was the most powerful man in the city, but he was easily defeated by the commander.

After repeating this defeat many times, he finally bowed down as an emperor.

It's just that even now, he doesn't dare to face this woman directly, every time he sees such a beautiful face, his heart will ignite a fire, and he will fantasize about how good it would be if this was not a god of the highest realm, but an ordinary royal woman, so that he could include her in the room and play with her wantonly......

This kind of thought is an evil fire, and it can't be hidden under Si Ming's nose at all, but she doesn't care, her eyes are quietly staring at the scene of the evil fire, and the corners of her mouth are always hooked with a faint and soft smile.

She never thought of male and female love, which meant nothing to her, because the true Son of God must be white and flawless.

Life in mythology is always as perfect as oneself.

She looked at the prostrate king and gave her answer: "I want to return to my kingdom of God." ”