The sky gradually brightened, until Yun Xiao stretched her waist lazily, and when she opened her eyes, she was dazzled by the sun.

"Ah!" she immediately jumped up, and found that she had slept until dawn, her face was flushed, and she said anxiously, "Didn't you say that you would wake me up after an hour!"

"If you want to rest, I will rest too. Xiao Qianye had to make an excuse for herself, rubbed her knees that had been pillowed all night, and got up to move her muscles.

"Oh...... That's right, too. Yun Xiao answered in a daze, thought about it again, and still felt that he was just deliberately comforting himself, so he quickly stood up and jumped a few times, and when his mind gradually cleared up, the two of them continued to step on the sword spirit to Los Angeles one after the other, and after the last starry field, the wasteland gradually revealed in front of him, those scattered and dilapidated houses were scattered without rules, but it was rare to see a dense crowd surging.

"How can there be so many people down there......" Xiao Qianye muttered strangely, but at this time, he didn't dare to lower the height of the sword spirit to check clearly, and continued to walk forward for a few more hours, the crowd not only did not disperse but became more and more crowded, they gathered together, and even camped on the wasteland and set up tents.

When dusk approached, the outside of Los Angeles was already densely packed with people, some in groups, some like carriages with caravans, but the city gate was closed, and the troops stationed in the capital who were originally subordinate to the forbidden army on the city wall were standing guard nervously, and did not open the door to let them go.

Xiao Qianye cautiously found a remote corner to stop, but before they landed, a few tired travelers immediately appeared next to them, shouting weakly: "There are still vacancies here, let's camp for one night." ”

"Come here!" Yun Xiao dragged him nervously, raised her hand and gently wiped it in front of him, and said in a low voice, "I still have to cover you up, I said, will your face be recognized wherever you go?"

"Probably yes, most of the people on the flying wall know me. Xiao Qianye put away the sword spirit, and also asked Yun Xiao to hide the Qingmei sword under his coat, and the two of them pretended to be calm and sat on the ground like they were in the open space next to the caravan.

Yun Xiao looked at the past curiously, there was no one in this area when they walked down from the sword spirit, and in the blink of an eye, there were also a lot of people crowded over, fortunately, those people seemed to be caravans that had been traveling all year round, and they were polite to each other, and they set up tents in the open space in the order of first come, first served, and several waves of puppets met together, and after a while, they chatted with each other.

As the sky gradually darkened and the temperature dropped suddenly, the city outside Los Angeles was already an empty suburb, and at this time, a cold wind blew and people shivered.

The caravan gathered around, and several people lit a bonfire in the center, took out the dry food that accompanied them, and simply cooked porridge on the spot.

"What are they doing outside the city?" Yun Xiao had been paying attention to the actions of the travelers around her, and asked in confusion, Xiao Qianye couldn't help but secretly raise her vigilance in her heart, and said in a low voice, "Los Angeles is the largest city on this trade route, and it is also the companion capital of Feiyuan, and its status is comparable to the first of the three major cities. ”

"So troublesome?" Yun Xiao muttered quietly, staring at the people next to her seriously, they pulled a carriage, the carriage was loaded with some fancy costumes, it looked like a very distinctive dancing girl costume, but several travelers were very tired, and their clothes seemed to have just crawled out of the mud, and they could rub out the dirt with a little rubbing, but they didn't care at all, and they didn't take clean clothes from the carriage to change, they just sat quietly by the campfire, staring at the fire with a pair of empty eyes and helplessness.

Xiao Qianye didn't know what he was thinking, the expression on his face was faint, he didn't have half a sense of concern for the travelers around him, he still sat still, and calmly explained: "There are queues on the periphery of Los Angeles all year round to wait for inspection, and it is not uncommon for caravans to camp outside, but it is not common for dozens of miles to line up to wasteland, and I see that the city gate is closed, but it is more like sealing the city and not allowing it to enter." ”

"Closed down?" Hearing these two words, Yun Xiao was slightly stunned, remembering her experience in Wanyou City, and said with some worry, "You started to say that this trade route passes through thirty-six cities, could it be that these people came here to take refuge from the East Underworld?"

Xiao Qianye was reminded by her, only then did a spirit come back to his senses, his eyes trembled violently in an instant, if it happened to be a traveler on the trade road who directly encountered the fragmentation of the Eastern Underworld, he might be lucky enough to escape the catastrophe, and then the first place of refuge they could find was undoubtedly Los Angeles at the junction of the Eastern Underworld and Yudu, but the current escort capital was obviously closed to the city, which would cause such congestion on the periphery and a large number of caravans stranded.

"Come, it's not a way to guess, it's all here, let's go and inquire. Yun Xiao took the initiative to pull him up, and the two of them walked to the campfire next to them, Yun Xiao quickly stretched out her hand pitifully and baked the fire on it, and then folded her hands and begged to the group of travelers around her, "Big brother, can we get warm here? It's too cold, I can't take it anymore." ”

The big brother next to him raised his eyelids, although his face was full of exhaustion, seeing that she looked trembling, he still smiled kindly, he moved his position to the side, pointed, and said: "You're welcome, girl, sit down and roast the fire, look at the two of you don't seem to be doing business, why did you go to the suburbs to suffer from the cold at this time?"

"We escaped from the mountains over there. Yun Xiao blinked, the ability to open her eyes and say nonsense was still as smooth as ever, Xiao Qianye was not easy to interject, for fear that he would accidentally say something wrong, so he simply didn't care about her, let her go and talk to a few travelers without a word, Big Brother heard this, his eyes were about to fall out in shock, he opened his mouth, and it took him a long time to shake his head, and he shouted: "In the mountains over there...... You two are so blessed that you can still escape!"

"Hmm...... Well. Yun Xiao replied, the eldest brother looked her up and down a few times, and then looked at Xiao Qianye suspiciously, and finally fell on the overly slender ancient knife in his hand, and suddenly said: "Such a long weapon, the two seem to be people who practice martial arts, fortunately, you can do some kung fu, two days ago, the mountain in the East Underworld collapsed, and the ground cracked a huge hole, and many people who didn't have time to run were either stoned to death, or fell directly into it, and the corpse capital could not be recovered." ”

Big Brother sighed for a long time, and now he still looks frightened when he thinks about it, and quickly pats his chest with his hand, with a sad face: "At that time, we were a group of sixty people, divided into two teams, one in front and one behind, I watched the thirty people in the back fall into the bottomless pit, at first everyone didn't know what happened, and thought about whether it was an earthquake to save people first, but the shaking became more and more violent, and even the mountain began to collapse, the captain could only give up saving people, let us run quickly." ”

Yun Xiao's eyes became complicated, and he swept over the caravan in front of him one by one, counting this big brother, there were only six people left in the team of sixty people now.

The eldest brother felt her mood, thinking that it was his words that made the girl in front of him sad, and hurriedly piled up a simple smile, scratched his head, and said: "The six of us are lucky, and we didn't care so much at that time, so we turned over and jumped on this carriage, who knows that this horse is still excited, running fast in the rockfall of the mountains, and then I was lucky to pick up a life, haha, if I can go home safely this time, I have to provide this guy well, and I will never let it pull the cart and starve and suffer." ”

"Where are you from?" Xiao Qianye suddenly spoke, there was a flash of apology in his eyes, as soon as the eldest brother heard the tone of his mouth, he knew that this person was afraid that his origin was not simple, so he hurriedly sat down and said, "We are all from Yudu, and our hometown is a small coastal town, don't mention it, most of it was flooded by the tsunami in North Shore City a few months ago, and it is still being rebuilt." "Qishu.com

Xiao Qianye's hand tightened slightly, his face darkened slightly, and he wanted to say something, but he endured it again.

"Big brother, drink porridge. As he spoke, a lean young man came in next to him, smiling and handing over a bowl of hot porridge.

"Let's give the guests a bowl too. Big Brother hurriedly greeted, Yun Xiao waved his hand, and said embarrassedly, "No, no, there are so many people blocked outside the city, and I don't know when I will be able to let them go, you save yourself and don't worry about us." ”

"Can we still have two bowls of hot porridge?" the young man had enthusiastically handed over two more bowls, he sat next to the big brother on the ground, held his porridge and blew a few breaths, and then drank it in a gulp, wiped his mouth unsatisfied, pointed to the little food left in the pot and asked pitifully, "Big brother, do you want more, if you don't want me, I will eat another bowl of ......"

The big brother glared at him angrily, pointed to the back of the carriage, and said in a low voice: "You don't die of hunger if you eat less, go and call Aya to come out, she hasn't eaten for two days, and she finally escaped the natural disaster, do you still want to starve yourself to death?"

"Big brother...... She ignored me. The young man smiled embarrassedly, and the big brother was silent for a while, and finally shook his head helplessly, and said no more.

Yun Xiao followed his gaze and looked over, and sure enough, there was a person sitting on his knees behind the carriage, wearing only a thin coat, although the whole person was shivering in the cold wind, he still refused to sit by the campfire.

"What's wrong with her?" Xiao Qianye asked with a rare mouth, the eldest brother put down the bowl in his hand, his eyes flashed with uncertain light, and sighed regretfully, "We were originally an acrobatic troupe that paraded Feiyuan, Aya is the most beautiful dancer in our team, and she has been performing with us everywhere since she was a child. ”

Yun Xiao's heart suddenly set off an irrepressible shame, she wanted to take off her coat to cover Aya from the cold wind, but when she thought of the sword spirit hidden in her clothes, she could only silently look away.

"It's all his fault...... Blame him!" Aya suddenly let out a hysterical roar behind the carriage, and the whole person hugged her knees as if she was facing a great enemy, burying her face deep in it, Big Brother was startled, and quickly kicked the young man next to her, scolding, "Go and accompany her, save some effort, don't let her go crazy." ”

"Oh, oh. The young man hurriedly ran over and crouched in front of Aya, not knowing what he was talking about.

"Alas...... The two of them laughed. Big Brother had to grin helplessly, revealing a tired smile, "Since she escaped from the mountains of the East Underworld, she has been shocked, probably because her brain was stimulated and something was abnormal, and she also met a lot of caravan travelers in a similar situation to us along the way, all of whom said that the matter of the East Underworld was not a natural disaster but a man-made disaster, and it was the military pavilion master of the imperial capital who turned his back on his homeland and took refuge in the Heavenly Realm, and it was he who destroyed the sealed place that caused the shattering of the foundation." ”

Yun Xiao nervously clenched Xiao Qianye's hand, for fear that he would be stimulated by such words, but the people around him just smiled quietly, and asked casually, even pretentiously: "I also heard about this, I don't know what else there is in the imperial capital?"

"Then I don't know, the thoughts of their high-ranking officials and magnates are not something that people like us can understand. Big Brother shook his head, sighed deeply, and raised his hand to the closed Los Angeles not far away, "Last night, a big white bird flew over from the direction of the imperial capital, I don't know what new orders were brought with me, I'm afraid that our caravan that has nothing to do with it will have to live outside the city for a while, little brother, it's inconvenient for you to take a girl's family, don't wait here, go for a walk elsewhere, and settle down." ”

Xiao Qianye didn't seem to hear the next half of his words, and looked in the direction of Los Angeles in surprise, attracted all his thoughts by the more important things in his words-the big white bird? There is only one big white bird in Feiyuan, and that is the Heavenly Expedition Bird!

Since losing contact with the Sky Bird on the Weeping Snow Plateau, it has not come back to look for itself, Feng Ji once helped him find it, saying that he was injured in distress in the snow field, and was rescued by the fifth team of the White Tiger.

Celestial Bird ...... Actually appeared in the city of Los Angeles?

Xiao Qianye's gaze suddenly became stern, seriously thinking about the complicated cause and effect relationship, could it be that Mingxi had already thought that he would return to the imperial capital from the direction of Los Angeles to save people, not only did he not find a way to stop him, but instead specially sent the Heavenly Expeditionary Bird over to help him?

No, it's not.

Mingxi has always been a person who makes multi-handed plans, he can order the wind demon to assist him secretly, and at the same time use Xiao Yibai as a bargaining chip to contain him, he will not be able to take the initiative to give up in this critical period of life and death, if he must do this, there is only one reason, that is, this "bargaining chip" itself has encountered an unsolvable dilemma.

"Big brother......" Xiao Qianye blurted out in a low voice, and the travelers around him thought they were calling him, so they tilted their heads and responded.

Xiao Qianye was slightly stunned, and found that the other party would be wrong, smiled faintly, retracted his thoughts, and thanked: "Thank you eldest brother for the hot porridge, we have to leave too." ”

"This is leaving?" Big Brother raised his head in confusion, looking at the person who had already stood up, he always felt that this figure was a little familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere, and he couldn't remember it for a while, Xiao Qianye put down the bowl, Yun Xiao also hurriedly followed, she touched it in her arms, and found that there was nothing valuable on her body as a thank you gift, so she had to smile awkwardly and bow over.

The two walked quietly through the dense crowd, and found that Xiao Qianye's footsteps were inexplicably anxious and irritable, Yun Xiao quietly pulled his sleeve and muttered: "You go slower, many people are watching." ”

Xiao Qianye didn't seem to hear it at all, and he didn't care about the vigilant and puzzled eyes around him, and went straight to the city gate.