Volume 1: The Forsaken Land Chapter 87: The Death of the Scholars of the World

At the moment when the power of divine thought touched the blood-colored demon flag, the strange man who was originally looking everywhere suddenly turned around, as if he had found something, a pair of purple eyes swept towards Kong Laosan unceremoniously, and at the same time, a violent aura pressed down.

In Kong Laosan's perception, in an instant, the surrounding air suddenly froze, and a pressure like a substance suddenly shrouded him. Sensing this, Kong Laosan's heart was cold, and he didn't want his figure to flash, so he quickly fled towards the outside of the city.

After three hours, until the sky was getting dark, Kong Laosan slowly stopped, but the look on his face was extremely gloomy, and he glanced back in the direction of Zhentian City, and then did not stop, and continued to fly towards Qiongcheng.

"Demon Boundless?Demon Clan?!"

Kong Laosan kept chanting this name in his mouth, and there was a trace of doubt in his voice. The demon banner in the strange man's hand was the one he lost in the ancient forest of the burial demon, but he didn't know why it fell into the hands of the strange man. It's just that the strange person didn't seem to notice the Miss Chen family in the Yin Soul Banner, and at the moment when the power of divine thought touched the flag, he learned a few vague words and phrases from the mouth of Miss Chen, such as Demon Wujiang and Demon Clan, but as for the specific news, I didn't know anything.

With his current strength, it is undoubtedly impossible to take it hard, if he reacts slower just now, maybe his life will be left behind, and he can only temporarily give up the plan to pursue the Yin Soul Banner. However, Kong Laosan has also made up his mind in his heart, and when his strength is enough in the future, he will definitely go to the demon clan to retrieve what belongs to him.

Qiongcheng, located in the north of the Later Zhou Dynasty, is also known as "Qiongjing", before the war of the four countries, the whole Qiongcheng merchants are like clouds and cars like water, and its prosperity is compared with the pear sheep city of Daqin. However, as the war between the four countries intensified, this once prosperous city gradually declined, although the teleportation circle between the city and Daqin was not closed, but the merchants who traveled between the two countries were almost completely cut off.

On the streets of the city, the splendor of the past is a thing of the past, and the shops and restaurants on both sides are extremely cold. However, none of this has anything to do with Kong Laosan, he came to Qiongcheng this time, just to leave with the help of the teleportation circle here.

"Qiongyan Building", known as the first restaurant in Qiongcheng, the building is nine floors high, when the business and trade between the two countries were complicated, every meal, the whole nine-storey building was full of guests, all kinds of grand scenes, just like yesterday's clouds.

At this moment, it was almost evening, and when Kong Laosan came here, there were already many diners sitting in the lobby on the first floor, sweeping around, Kong Laosan frowned slightly, and seemed to be a little puzzled.

In the center of the lobby, a table and a chair, a cup of tea, an old and a young are talking in a low voice. What is surprising is that at what should have been the time of the meal, there were seven or eight tables of scholars and literati dressed in Confucian robes and holding folding fans around them, listening attentively to the old man's storytelling, and everyone's face revealed a sense of sadness and sadness.

"Alas, I think that when Taifu Lu was in power, he rectified the dynasty, suppressed the monarch's side, and pacified the chaos, and returned me to stability after the week with the "Thirty-two Policies for Dingguo", but in the end he ended up with a self-judgment and died, and the world was sad, this is the sorrow of the world's scholars......"

The old man in front of him was wearing a shabby Confucian hat, and although the robe on his body was shabby, it was cleanly washed, which showed that he was also a well-educated man when he was young. Some of the Confucian robes around were also sad, and for a while, the whole lobby was whimpering, which made people feel sad.

In addition to these Confucian students, there were also some well-informed diners around, perhaps influenced by the atmosphere in the lobby, who also sighed and whispered to each other.

After a while, Kong Laosan finally figured out what happened.

At the beginning, Hou Zhou Taizu and Ghost Yunzi competed for the demon baby, and they didn't know where they went, and Hou Zhou's plan failed. After the second prince Zhou Yin returned to the imperial capital, he finally thought of the minister of Dingguo, but when the second prince sent someone to invite Lu Taifu to return, Lu Taifu also heard from somewhere that the second prince killed countless Hou Zhou people and sacrificed the formation, and he actually hit the dragon pillar in front of the second prince in the Dragon Court of the Hou Zhou Palace, and died tragically on the spot.

Thinking of Mrs. Lu's sentence at the beginning, "I am unfortunate in this life, my ability is low, I have a heart to help the world and save the people, and I am too tired to live...... If there is an afterlife, the old man would rather be a ruthless and unrighteous person, no longer bound by the morality in his heart, no longer trapped by love, and a lifetime, without sorrow or bitterness......", Kong Laosan's heart twitched slightly, and a wordless loneliness hung heavily in his heart.

"Ruthless and unrighteous people, huh......"

Kong Laosan muttered to himself, sighed heavily, and had no interest in eating, so he lifted his steps and walked towards the outside of the hall......

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Yu'er City is located in the territory of Daqin Hanzhou, just an inconspicuous small city, but due to the extremely developed waterways, the people in the city mostly live by shipping, and their lives are still passable.

There are many gangs in Yu'er City, there are more than 20 large and small, but since three years ago, after the overlord of the city, the Shuiyan Gang, was slaughtered overnight, these newly formed small gangs and factions have settled down a lot, and each of them has retreated in their own corners, so that the entire Yu'er City is more stable than before.

Walking on the familiar and unfamiliar streets, Kong Laosan's steps unconsciously sped up a lot.

In the northern district of Yu'er City, where the headquarters of the Water and Salt Gang was originally located, at this moment, there was a seal of the government on the two broken vermilion gates. In the courtyard, some blood stains that have long dried up can be vaguely seen, weeds spread around, and occasionally two giant rats drill around, a barren and dilapidated scene.

Kong Laosan looked around quietly, without the slightest expression on his face, but there was a deep sadness in his eyes. Family affection is the only warmth I have felt since I came to this world, and it is also the only thing I lacked in my previous life, and now, even such things seem to be far away from me.

Like a walking corpse, he kept walking and stopping in the yard, until he walked all the places in the yard, and then he stopped, and with a long roar, Kong Laosan suddenly rushed out of the door as if he was crazy, and swept rapidly in the direction of the western district of Yu'er City.

The wooden wall and tile house, the wooden fence woven by bamboo branches around it has long been broken, and the old willow wood in front of the door is becoming more and more vigorous, with green branches hanging down, and a piece of vitality.

Looking at the two wooden houses in front of him that seemed to have not been repaired for a long time, Kong Laosan's eyes unconsciously flowed out of two lines of tears, the feeling at this moment was just like when he walked out of the door from the house of the adopted couple in his previous life, the feeling of a lonely soul and a wild ghost no longer had a home, as if he had been abandoned by heaven and earth.

Lonely, vast, heart, there is no place to dwell......

At this moment, Kong Laosan suddenly felt a heart-piercing pain, and a faint tyrannical meaning slowly rose. Above the dantian, the originally silent blood qi mass seemed to sense something, and it slowly bloomed, and wisps of strange power began to spread.

Just when Kong Laosan was in extreme pain and his eyes were blurred and red, a "crunch" sound suddenly came into his ears. Then the closed dilapidated wooden door suddenly opened, and an old woman in a broken robe, neatly combed with gray hair, and crutches, who looked to be over sixty years old, walked out of it.

Kong Laosan, who seemed to be huddled at the door, was startled, and the old woman staggered back two steps and hit the door directly. When he came back to his senses, he cautiously took two steps forward and carefully looked at Kong Laosan who was lying on the ground.

"Little doll, what's wrong with you?"

"Old man, where are the people who used to live here?"

At the moment when the door opened, Kong Laosan had already regained consciousness, but the old woman in front of him was not the person he was thinking about, but after such a buffer, the originally sunken heart gradually recovered, but his voice was a little hoarse.

"Alas, they have been gone for two or three years, and they were picked up by Xiuni's girl, and they didn't know where they went, and they were in a hurry......

Hearing this, Kong Laosan's heart suddenly relaxed, and he hurriedly asked, "Are they all gone?"

"You kid, what nonsense are you talking about, what will happen to them? It's just that they were frightened by the incident in Yu'er City, if it weren't for the old man alone, I'm afraid they would have to leave. Alas, I don't know what kind of deep hatred there is, the Water and Salt Gang wiped out, and many people died...... By the way, you're also a member of the Kong family, right?"

The old woman sighed with emotion, and suddenly stared at Kong Laosan and said.

"Oh, how do you know?"

"Hehe, the Kong family's old and young, just like you, have a red rope tied to their wrists......"

Hearing this, Kong Laosan subconsciously rolled up his sleeves, a rather rustic red rope was firmly tied, and after a while, he took two deep breaths, and the gloom on his face suddenly swept away, and he smiled and said, "Yes, I am also a member of the Kong family, my name is Kong Laosan!"

After saying this, Kong Laosan seemed to untie all the knots in an instant, greeted the old woman, and turned around and left without looking back.

Surprise Jiao Club, the old gang in Yu'er City, among the several gangs that Yifanmen, the overlord in Yu'er City, wanted to annex, in addition to the Water and Salt Gang, this Surprise Jiao Club is also one of them.

The gang leader mixed Tianjiao, surnamed Fu, with a single name of the word "Tian", had a good relationship with Kong Da at the beginning, and the two sides were originally considered allies, but when Yifanmen and the Shuiyan Gang were fighting, this Fu gang leader actually chose Mingzhe to protect himself, and after that, the two broke off contact.

Later, the power of the Water and Salt Gang skyrocketed, and the Jiao Jiao would shrink into a corner, Kong Da remembered the old relationship, and did not trouble him, and they were at peace with each other.

However, since the Shuiyan Gang was wiped out three years ago, the master of the Shocking Jiao Club seems to have aged dozens of years all of a sudden, and he no longer has the energy to take care of the affairs of the gang.