Volume 1 Troubled Boys Chapter 117 A prosperous town becomes a deserted village
Finally see the sunshine again, and finally breathe the fresh air that tastes different from the bottom of the tower.
At the first rays of sunlight, the four of them could almost be said to have a sense of joy in escaping and regaining their lives.
Walking out of a huge stone gate at the bottom of the tower, leaving two very thick wedges on the side of the dark rock, I don't know what kind of skilled craftsman dug this deep underground demon tower, and what kind of superb skills can leave such a heavy stone door in the boulder that can be left?
However, now for Luobei Killing Yun Niang and Yu'er, none of this matters, the important thing is that they have left here and can breathe fresh air freely.
For a person who was almost trapped at the bottom of the pitch-black tower and smelled the bones of **, what could be more important than sunlight and air!
Luo Bei and Killing, Yun Niang and the young man finally walked out of the secret passage, only to find that the stone gate was opened in a big mountain.
In the early morning, the sun shines in the mountains, and the fog makes the mountains behind them seem to be hidden in the misty clouds.
The sunlight shines through the layers of clouds and mist and falls on everyone's face, which makes people feel a long-lost warmth.
"Finally come out!" Luo Bei looked at the sun on the clouds and couldn't help but sigh a little.
"Have you ever had a time of despair?" asked Yu'er, who was standing behind him, suddenly whispered.
Luo Bei was stunned for a moment, his expression changed slightly, looking at the little monk who had already rushed to the bottom of the mountain and ran like a joy, he was silent for a long time before he said, "What is despair?"
"Probably there's no hope!" said Elle casually.
"Yes, but every time I come over, I slowly become numb!"
Luo Bei smiled helplessly, there were some dim shadows in his heart all the time, he couldn't remember clearly, but he always couldn't get rid of them.
For example, the picture of Zhuo Xiaochan's tragic death, such as what happened on the night he left Wanfu, why he was already on the riverbank when he woke up, and why was there still a little blood on his body?
He couldn't remember exactly, but deep down he had thoughts of escaping!
"What about you, when did you despair the most?" Luo Bei asked back.
Yu'er almost didn't think about it, standing side by side with Luo Bei, but her eyes looked far away.
"My despair is in that invisible distance, perhaps the future that people often say!"
"As for all the sufferings you have endured, haven't you all come here as you said?"
His words seem to contain a very deep truth, Luo Bei doesn't want to ask in detail, after all, in such an era, everyone has some unknown past, whether it is suffering or ordinary, now they have experienced the test of life and death together, and then walked out of a bizarre and real predicament together, even if this friendship is not spoken, everyone knows it!
"You two should hurry up and go, look at the little monk who is excited, there will be no shadow at this time!" Yun Niang said with a smile on the side, she always stood beside Yu'er with love, as if she was born for this young man.
"You don't know, he must be hungry again, and he is running fast at this time and is probably in a hurry to get to the town to find food!" Luo Bei swept away the gloom in his heart, and said a little wittily.
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After going down the mountain, I crossed a small river, the water was clear and a little cold.
They picked up the river water, washed their faces, and drank two more sips, feeling much more refreshed.
At this time, Kill slapped a few times in the water, and complained a little unhappily: "Drink."
No matter how much water there is, it doesn't matter, and my stomach keeps screaming!"
Luo Bei smiled and comforted: "You can already see the town in front of you at a glance, and if you go further, we should be able to arrive before noon, are you still afraid that there is no place to eat in such a big town?"
Killing only then raised his eyes, and sure enough, a black house could already be seen faintly in front of him, obviously, this town is not small.
He suddenly became happy, patted his little hand on his stomach, but said with some complaints in his mouth: "That can only make you aggrieved for a while......"
The three of Luobei couldn't help but laugh when they saw that the killing looked quite cute.
"Let's go, when we get to the town, we have to ask for directions, we don't know where we are now" Yu'er looked at the town in the distance, and said after some hesitation.
At three o'clock in the morning, the chill of the morning had subsided, and before they knew it, the four of them had walked onto the avenue outside the town.
It was a straight road through the town, and it looked like it had rained a while ago, and the horseshoe prints between the roads were deep, and there was a little bit of rain in it that had not dried up.
Along the way, he couldn't walk because he was hungry for a while, and he ran faster than anyone else, until he came to the town, he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "This can put my hungry chest against my back, if I don't have anything to eat, I'm afraid I won't be able to walk one more step!"
"How do I think you've always been the most powerful and fastest among us!" Luo Bei said jokingly.
Killing glanced at him, snorted from his nostrils, but ran to Yun Niang's side, and asked sincerely: "Yun Niang, do you have any silver on you, I am a monk and I have nothing......!" Surely they are about as poor as me."
As he spoke, he looked at Luo Bei and grimaced.
Yun Niang smiled gently and said, "Although it is not much, it is always enough for everyone to have a full meal!"
"That's good, that's good, I don't have to worry......"
After saying that, the killing steps immediately became much lighter, and he went in front of a few people again.
"Look, how happy you are running now......" Luo Bei saw that the killing had run a long way, so he could only say with a wry smile.
He pondered for a while, but still felt that it was still inappropriate to kill and ask Yun Niang if there was any money, so he blamed himself and said, "Yun Niang, don't mind, kill him...... This is such a temperament, after all, he is still young, and Master Wu'an entrusted him to me at his parting, but I didn't take good care of him......"
Yun Niang waved her hand, and said with some apology in her eyes: "Don't say that, if we hadn't been involved with the master and you, maybe you are living peacefully in the temple at the moment, and naturally you won't be able to make this ...... all the way."
"What's more, he has an innocent and lively temperament, it's too late for me to like it!"
"I don't know if it will be dangerous for the master to face the fierce and brutal Black Feather Cavalry alone after we enter the secret passage?" Yun Niang said with some concern.
"I think the master's cultivation is profound, and there should be ......nothing to do," although Luo Bei said this, in fact, in the bottom of his heart, he was not the same as worried about the master, after all, looking at the master's expression, he must not have the certainty of victory in his heart, otherwise how could he entrust the killing to himself.
When Luobei was talking to Yun Niang, Yu'er seemed to have been thinking about something and didn't speak.
"I wonder if the dumb master will be fine?" he said suddenly.
Luo Bei also suddenly remembered, after dumbly opening the secret passage under the Buddha statue, he sent several of them into it and closed the secret passage, and he himself
But it remained in the glazed tower.
"Maybe he didn't want to leave there again in his life...... I've always wanted to know how old Master Dumb Ran is, obviously he looks very old, but he is so tough, and he never stops sweeping the tower every day!"
Yu'er's expression darkened, he probably had seen the combat power of those black-feathered cavalry, and he had also seen the butcher's knives hanging by those mysterious black-clothed men and the appearance of killing people and slaughtering cities, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, presumably that the temple would be completely abandoned in the future.
"You two don't have to think so much about it, you see that the killing is gone now, is he the only one who is arguing and hungry, don't you think?" Yun Niang reminded on the side.
Yu'er and Luo Bei glanced at each other, touched their stomachs with their hands, and coincidentally their stomachs made a few "gurgling" sounds almost at this time.
"Let's find a place to fill our stomachs first, and by the way, we can ask for directions!" said Yu'er.
Luo Bei nodded.
They didn't go far to the town, where there were many houses, but most of them were closed, and many of the walls had collapsed, and the grass was knee-long.
Seeing the ruins and broken walls everywhere, they realized that it was noon at this moment, and there was not a single car or horse on the widest avenue in the town, and even they walked all the way, without even seeing a single figure.
This is quite strange!
"Seeing that this town is not small, and there are many high-gate compounds, how can it be so deserted?" Luo Bei said with some doubts.
"It may be the impact of the war between the two countries!" said Nian'er, who was very light and convinced.
At this time, the killing creature who had just run away without a trace suddenly ran back, looked up and gasped and said, "This ...... It's ...... for such a big town There is no one, only the front...... There is also a storefront in front ......"
He said this breathlessly, gesturing.
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Along the way, there was no one in the town, only the one and only store that Kill had managed to find was still open.
From time to time, figures walked around the door, and puffs of cooking smoke rose from the chimney of the roof.
They stood in front of the door, and saw what kind of restaurant it was, but it was a small, dilapidated little house, with a dilapidated pergola in front of the door, and although the door was open, the thick panels were placed on both sides, as if they were about to close at any moment.
Through the door, you can see that there are no more than two tables inside, and the guy, who is probably the boss, is sitting on a bench smoking a dry cigarette in a daze.
The guy who smoked was not well dressed, but he could barely see it, his round face was very full, his eyebrows were splayed, and his body was strong and thin at the same time.
He took a hard puff of dry smoke, and then spit it out like a cloud, so that his whole body was filled with smoke.
Luo Bei couldn't help frowning when he saw all this, and knew in his heart that they must all be from big families, so he was naturally a little unaccustomed to the environment in front of him.
"It seems that there are no other shops in this town, so why don't we take a rest here, even if it's not good, we always have to eat!"
He didn't wait for anyone else to respond, and Kill was the first to nod in agreement, because he was so hungry.
At this time, the guy who had been smoking also saw the four people standing in front of the store, immediately put down the dry tobacco in his hand, stood up straight, smiled first, and said slowly: "A few guest officers passing by from here, if you want to find a place to eat, come in, there is no other house in the whole town!"
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