"Looks like the North is already trapped. ”

The young city lord, who had killed a lot of bad people along the way, held the knife in his hand and did not return it to the sheath as he had done the previous times, but looked at the first city at the junction of the northern border and the hinterland of the continent from a distance-Wuyang City.

Ordinary people can't see anything in their eyes, but in the eyes of cultivators, the sky above that city is cloudy, and the miasma spreads in all directions, although there is no end in sight, but they can also guess that the thirty-one cities in the entire northern territory have fallen.

The land of Dafu is located in the north of the continent on the other side, if Guguan Mountain is the first line of defense to isolate the demon clan in the extreme northern ice field, then the northern border of Dafu is the second line. Now that the northern realm is full of demons, the guardians guarding here have no action...... Did you really not notice it, or did you not do it for some other reason?

The young city lord narrowed his eyes slightly, and began to fight with the new wave of monsters with his subordinates.

This must be the last wave.

Sensing that the monsters who came to block the way this time were much stronger, the young city lord and the rest of the forty-nine people under his command all breathed a sigh of relief. With their strength, they are not afraid of these monsters blocking the way, but there are too many times and it is a little annoying.

Along the way, they had accumulated a belly of anger, and those people who followed the young city lord from Yunfu Heavenly City shot one by one, leaving no room at all. The battle with the roadblock monster didn't last long, and he slashed them all under his own sword.

This time, the young city lord did not make a move, he put away his knife and stood to the side and watched, until the battle was over, and then he said, "Let's go." Let's go to Wuyang City first to see what the situation is. ”

As the saying goes, shoot people first and shoot horses to capture thieves and capture kings first, since Wuyang City is the source of demonic energy, the young city lord has no intention of going to Cthulhu City, which is guarded by the disciples of the Mu family.

When they arrived at Wuyang City, the young city lord and his party found that this was already an empty city.

The retinue scattered and searched the whole city, and when they returned, they said, "It seems that there are still people living there, but in fact they are not popular. ”

"Young City Lord, look at this ......"

The young city lord stood outside the Meng family's mansion, looked up at the long-abandoned mansion and did not speak. Elsewhere, though empty and uninhabited, it is not as dusty, cobwebweed, and overgrown with grass as it is here......

"Go in and have a look. The young city lord said this, and took the lead in stepping on the stone staircase of the fifth step in front of the door.

The young man next to him seemed to want to stop it, but in the end, he just kept up with the young city lord in silence.

The vermilion door, which had begun to darken in color, was easily pushed open with a dull creak.

"There seems to be something ......strange here," said the young man, and said to the young city lord, "It seems to be deserted and uninhabited, but I always feel that it is not as simple as it seems. Young City Lord, you have to be more careful. ”

The young city lord said: "Looking at the ordinary place, in all the unusual, it will look unique." "All the houses in this city still retain traces of being used, but here it shows the appearance of being abandoned by the owner for a long time, which seems ordinary, but in fact it has shown the difference.

One of his hands pressed the knife on his waist, and his thumb rested on the blade, ready to unsheath his enemies. However, to his disappointment, their group had searched the entire corner of the Meng Mansion and found nothing wrong. Except that it was tainted with demonic energy like the rest of the world, there was nothing unusual about this mansion.

There is no anomaly, but it happens to be the biggest anomaly.

The young city lord didn't believe that this was just a simple deserted mansion, but after making so much effort and not finding something out of the ordinary, he also knew that either the other party's ability to hide was too powerful, or the strength was even higher than that of their group.

Whatever the real answer is, it doesn't seem to be good news.

Lowering his eyes slightly, the young city lord finally chose to give up and continue to investigate: "Let's go." Go to Cthulhu. ”

"Yes. Naturally, the entourage had no objections.

Passing by those camps outside the city again, the young man who followed the young city lord said, "It seems that the general of Zhenbei is not a useless straw bale. ”

The young city lord chuckled: "Since it is from the Mu family, it is naturally impossible to have nothing extraordinary." But in the end, he is just an ordinary person, and now he can only do that. ”

The young man was silent and did not speak, and the young city lord did not need his answer. Looking at the tall gates of Cthulhu, he said, "Enter the city." ”

With that, he headed for the heavily guarded gates of Cthulhu.

When passing through the city gate, the young city lord subconsciously looked at the people who were coming in and out of his side, and pursed his lips slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, he still closed his mouth and said nothing.

They didn't deliberately spread the word, and when they entered the city of Cthulhu, they found that the city was also heavily guarded, and there were not a few soldiers patrolling back and forth, and many of them knew that they were not from the barracks.

"Are the Jianghu people also involved?" the young man muttered when he saw this.

The young city lord also looked over and said, "I heard that the lord of the ninth floor has also come to the northern realm. According to her character of worrying about the country and the people, she will definitely not care about what is happening here. ”

"Ninth floor ......" the young man read slightly, and then there was no more follow-up.

When I arrived at the City Lord's Mansion, it was still close to noon.

When they came to the door, they happened to meet Shen Yan, who was about to go out.

As a guest of the City Lord's Mansion, Shen Yan originally didn't plan to have any intersection with these people who came to the door, but he didn't expect that he didn't plan to get closer, but the other party first revealed his identity.

"Are you?" Seeing that this line of people were all wearing black cloaks to cover themselves tightly, Shen Yan couldn't help but think of the Le Zhenbi Zun who kept changing his voice when he spoke, and the same was true of that one, even more tightly than these people. At least, they didn't have a mask under the wide hood, and although most of their faces were obscured by the hood, they were still able to get a glimpse of their chins.

It was the young city lord who stopped her, and when she heard this, she hooked her lips slightly and said, "I think, Bai Zhi Shangxian should have told the girl about me." ”

Shen Yan immediately reacted: "The young city lord of Yunfu Heavenly City?"

"Exactly. My name is Jinxiu, and the girl is not from my Luojin City, and she doesn't have to call me the young city lord, just call me by name. ”

Of course, Shen Yan was not embarrassed to call people's names directly, but the arrival of these people was indeed a good thing for the current northern realm, and he immediately said: "General Murong has been waiting for you for a long time, the young city lord. If you don't mind, I'll take you to General Murong first, right?"

"Then thank you, girl. The young city lord Jinxiu nodded slightly and said so.

Shen Yan turned around, made a gesture of invitation to everyone, and returned to the city lord's mansion.

These days, the discussion of the demon clan is carried out in the study, and Murong is usually there, so Shen Yan took Jinxiu and his party to the study of the City Lord's Mansion.

Murong, as the general of Zhenbei and the city lord of Cthulhu City, was a little worried because of the recent succession of events, and he had several more gray hairs.

Hearing that Shen Yan was coming with the people from Yunfu Heavenly City, he invited them into the study without hesitation.

Shen Yan had other things to do, so he didn't stay here long, and after the people brought it, he hurriedly said goodbye and left. In the study, only the group from Yunfu Heavenly City and Murong were left here.

"I heard that the young city lord is from Kyoto, I wonder if Her Majesty the Empress has any edicts to pass on?"

Murong was eager to know the current situation in the court. Although all the messengers sent out for such a long time were gone, he still had a faint hope in his heart, hoping that one of those messengers would successfully reach Kyoto and deliver his letter to the empress.

But to his disappointment, this little expectation was disappointed.

Kyoto has not received any news from the north. But because of this, the empress also noticed that something was wrong, and after Shi Muyuan made a prediction, she found that the situation in the north was not optimistic, so when she was ordered by the city lord of Luojin City to come to Dafulai, she asked him to send an order and Murong to report the current situation in the north as soon as possible.

Murong was a little embarrassed: "The current situation is unknown, but General Ben can't leave easily." All the messengers sent out before have disappeared without a trace, and if the news from here is to be spread, I am afraid it will take a lot of work and less help from the city lord. ”

Jinxiu sat on the chair and didn't drink the tea brought by the maid, but just scraped the tea foam in the bowl for a while, and said when he heard the words: "The general is polite." Since I have been ordered to come here, I will not sit idly by. ”

Murong couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he heard this, and was about to say something more, when he heard Jinxiu continue: "Speaking of which, there are monsters blocking the way all the way on our way here. Since the general said that all the messengers were gone and never returned, maybe it was ...... I'm already dead at the hands of those monsters. If you need to resend the message, you can ask Ada to send it on your behalf. ”

As he spoke, he glanced sideways at the young man standing beside him.

Murong also looked at it and said, "In this way, General Ben will repair a book later, and His Excellency Lao will send it to Kyoto on his behalf." ”

The young man known as Ah Da nodded, but did not respond.

When Shen Yan came back from outside, the group of people in Yunfu Heavenly City had already been properly settled by Murong. The young man who followed Jinxiu didn't know where he went, and he himself sat in the study, listening to Murong and Su Qing talk about the current situation in the north.

Seeing her, the three of them stopped in unison. Jinxiu, who had already known from Su Qing what Shen Yan had done on this trip, opened her mouth and asked, "Miss Shen is here to get something?"

Shen Yan sighed: "I went to see the people who entered and exited the city gate, and I really didn't find anything unusual. But ......"

"But what?"

Shen Yan said with some hesitation: "However, my intuition tells me that they are unusual. ”

This sentence sounded like just a sentence from Hu Chai, but it made both Murong and Su Qing pay attention to it. They are well aware that the practitioner's intuition is generally foreshadowing. Therefore, when Shen Yan mentioned it last night, he agreed to let her go and see the people who entered and exited the city gate today.

Shen Yan thought for a while, and then said: "Moreover, I have visited all the city gates, and I found that most of the people who enter and leave Cthulhu City now are actually a fixed number of people. ”

Murong said: "I have also noticed this matter. The city of Cthulhu is located at the border, and every martial law means that there will be great turmoil. The subjects had long been accustomed to not wandering around during martial law, and would not leave their homes at all if they did not have to. However, there was no order to seal the city, and there was no demonic aura on those people, so they did not let the soldiers intercept them. ”

Jinxiu said at this time: "The demon clan is the best at concealing the method of transfiguration...... If it's convenient, why don't Miss Shen take me to see those people?"