Chapter Seventy-Two: The Ancient City
Honglian followed Mo Yu and the others out of the Broken Soul Valley, and when she left, Bai Xue entrusted Shi Xian to take care of her daughter, so Shi Xian took Honglian as an apprentice.
Honglian wanted to go to Dragon Tiger City to have a look, so several people went to Dragon Tiger City, and on the way, they heard that there was an organization called the Dragon Gang in Dragon Tiger City, and Red Lotus felt that this Dragon Gang was likely to be related to Ah Long.
The ancient city is full of dust and wind and dust. The city is isolated from the rest of the world and surrounded by mountains.
The dark yellow walls were sprinkled with fallen leaves, and a few emaciated soldiers were patrolling in front of the city gates, all looking very wilted.
When Mo Yu and the others entered the ancient city, there were few people in the city, and there were few merchants, so they looked quite cold.
A gust of wind blew, the yellow sand flew on the street, and the sand and dust covered his clothes, causing Mo Yu to complain constantly.
However, the red lotus, who has always been very lively, was silent after entering the city, and revisited the old place, and her farewell was ten years.
Honglian looked at the people and buildings in the city with red eyes, and said softly: "It's the same here as ten years ago, there are still so few people. You look at the intersection in front of me, and I seem to hear the beautiful music of my mother that night, and it was at this intersection that my mother and I waited for my father to return. ”
Mo Yu sighed lightly and said, "The past is like the wind, and everything has become a thing of the past. We have to look forward and not always dwell on some bad memories. ”
"Monkey, there's a teahouse in front of you, let's settle down there and rest for a while. Tang Xuansong pointed ahead, and several people walked towards the teahouse.
A gazebo was set up outside the teahouse, and several people sat in the pavilion to rest.
The guy served a pot of tea, Mo Yuxiao took a sip of tea, looked at the people coming and going on the street, and sighed: "I thought that Dragon and Tiger City would be very prosperous, but I didn't expect it to be so down." ”
Night Quicksand touched his chin, shook his head and sighed, "I've been here before. The hearts of men are scattered, and the city is no more. Thirty years ago, the city was prosperous for a while, but because of an accident, everything changed. ”
The ancient city always gives people a bleak beauty, a kind of vicissitudes that follow us.
Being in this kind of environment makes people feel very dull.
Occasionally, I heard the laughter of a few children, but the people walking on the street were like puppets, their eyes were blank, as if they had lost their souls.
"I can't stand it, if I stay here for a few days, I'll be suffocated, why is it so depressing here?" Tang Xuansong drank a cup of tea and shouted.
However, the man at the tea house only glanced back at him a little, and then went to greet the other guests. It seems that the people of the city have lost interest in anything.
Liu Xingyan also sighed, he looked at these retro buildings in the city, and said: "It is said that Dragon and Tiger City has been established for more than 1,000 years and has been standing, but the people who live here have changed batch after batch. Time has passed, and the sea has also changed. Things are people, who can reverse the flow of years. ”
"I can't stand it, can you stop talking about such a depressing topic!" Tang Xuansong shouted again, but this time the guy in the teahouse didn't even look at him.
Mo Yu stood up and said unhappily: "I really can't stand this atmosphere, let's quickly find the Dragon Gang and leave this suffocating ancient city as soon as possible." ”
However, as soon as Mo Yu said this, some of the idlers around him quickly left the tea house, and even the guy ran into the small building, and the people nearby hid far away.
"Isn't it, is the Dragon Gang so terrifying?" Mo Yu shouted, speechlessly looking at these people who suddenly left.
Liu Xingyan said in a deep voice: "It seems that this Dragon Gang is a very frightening force, we have to be careful." ”
Mo Yu showed disdain and snorted: "What kind of bullshit dragon gang, which powerful gang would choose such a down-and-out place to settle down, I think it's just in vain." ”
Shi Xian said solemnly: "The master is hidden in the city, no matter what we do, we can't take it lightly." ”
"I want to know if the Dragon Gang is powerful, won't they know in a while?" Mo Yu pursed his lips, put his arm around Shi Xian's shoulder, walked towards the street, and asked when he met someone, "Do you know where the Dragon Gang is?"
However, everyone who heard Mo Yu's question hid far away, and no one dared to answer his question.
The others walked behind, watching Mo Yu and Shi Xian ask in front, but they never found out where the Dragon Gang was.
In the end, Mo was discouraged and didn't ask others, looking around to find the location of the Dragon Gang.
Seeing all this in his eyes, the monkey suddenly frowned, and said to Liu Xingyan beside him: "The people here are a little abnormal, they seem to have been robbed of their souls. Wake up, do you remember what I told you about the Soul Fear Technique?"
Liu Xingyan said in surprise: "Do you suspect that the people here have been dementored by some masters?"
"Just give it a try. The monkey's face was solemn, and he called back Mo Yu, who was walking in front.
Mo Yu ran back and asked, "What are your orders?"
Looking at Mo Yu's grinning appearance, the monkey shook his head and said, "You are also dozens of years old, why can't you be more steady, just like a child." ”
Liu Xingyan also smiled and said: "The monkey suspects that the people in the city have been captured by others, so they want us to verify it." ”
Mo Yu was shocked when he heard this, and said, "I just said that the people here are a little too abnormal, but how do we verify it?"
"Not everyone was ghosted, the most obvious being the children playing in the streets," the monkey said. You can ask where these kids are. ”
Mo Yu and Liu Xingyan nodded, and walked towards the children at the same time.
The two of them said a few words to the children, and then they all came back with surprises on their faces.
Returning to the monkey, Mo Yu said, "As expected, those children rushed to tell me the address of Brother Xingyan's Dragon Gang. ”
Liu Xingyan nodded, and then said: "And I also asked a few children where their parents were, but these children all said that their parents had left them for many days and had not returned, and most of these adults in the city were some new faces, and even these children who lived in the city since childhood felt strange. ”
Just as the two of them were reporting the situation, Honglian suddenly stopped, glanced back, and frowned and said, "Why do I always feel that someone is following us?"
The monkey smiled mysteriously and said, "Someone is indeed following us, and he will come out himself in a while." ”
Several people were a little curious, so they followed the monkey and slowly walked forward.
When he came to another street, the monkey suddenly stopped and said lightly: "Come out, don't hide and hide." ”
At this moment, a slightly shorter middle-aged fat man suddenly sneaked out of the alley on the side of the road.
This fat man looks a little funny, a pair of small eyes are almost unable to open, open his eyes are like squinting, wearing a small high hat, with a small mustache, the fat on his body is still trembling when he walks, and he feels tired when he looks at it.