Since Chen Zhi personally went to Jizhou to implement the official appointment system, the newly appointed officials have been able to devote themselves to public service and serve the people wholeheartedly, and the atmosphere of pastoral officialdom has been completely new. Pegatron's lectures in various states have also achieved good results, and the overall quality of the people has begun to improve. The East Turk is politically harmonious, and all aspects have entered a benign development.

One day, Xinchen was reading the folds in the bamboo house, and suddenly a messenger from Dijing came to report. The man's face was panicked, and he said, "Your Majesty, Lord Chen is missing, and the entire Emperor Kyoto is in a bloody panic!"

"What are you talking about? Is Lord Chen Zhichen missing?", the heart dust and the pen fell suddenly.

The messenger was even more frightened, and said with trepidation: "Return... Your Majesty, it's Chen Zhi... Master Chen. ”

Seeing that the messenger was cramped and uneasy, Xinchen softened his tone a little and said, "Tell me what's going on?"

The messenger calmed down for a moment and replied: "Half a month ago, Lord Chen led us to survey the land at the former site of the Imperial Palace, and suddenly thunder fell from the sky, striking the adult, and the adult fell to the ground in response. We all thought that there was no way for the adults to survive, but we never thought that the adults would stand up on their own after a while. I saw that his eyes were blood-red, and he let out an inexplicable roar, and rushed towards us without saying a word. At that time, there were dozens of people at the scene, and only a few of us escaped by luck. Since then, Lord Chen has disappeared, and then there are often people in the imperial capital who are inexplicably crazy, and the situation is exactly the same as that day of the emperor, and the entire imperial capital has fallen into a bloody panic. Your Majesty, we really can't control the situation, so we came to report to you, please save the people of Dijing!"

Xinchen paced back and forth in the house, thinking that the loyal and upright Chen Lao had ended up being controlled by demons, and he couldn't help but feel sentimental. Could it be that there is something wrong in the fairy world?

The messenger waited there with his head down, and suddenly heard Xinchen say: "You go back first to appease the people, and make every effort to search for the whereabouts of Lord Chen, I will deal with some things, and then I will arrive." ”

The messenger led the order to retreat, Li Miao walked out of the back room, and said, "Childe, is it the fairy world?"

Xinchen looked at Li Miao and said, "I also have a feeling that this matter must be inseparable from the fairy world. The stakes are high, and it looks like we're going to have to make a trip to the Imperial Capital ourselves. ”

The next day, Xinchen arranged all the affairs of Xijing, and secretly went to the imperial capital with Li Miao to investigate. Before entering the city, the two noticed an abnormality, which was the mid-spring season when everything was born, but it was a scene of decay. Xinchen picked up an unknown small flower on the side of the road, and saw that the bud had just opened a little, but it had withered, as if it had been sucked dry by something. Xin Chenzi carefully examined it for a long time, and handed these small flowers to Li Miao, and said, "Miao'er, do you think this flower looks like those dried corpses that have been sucked up by the Soul Devouring Array?"

Li Miao took the little flower and examined it carefully, and replied: "Childe, this flower withered before it was released, and I could feel a faint death qi lingering, it was indeed similar to the dried corpses we saw in the Dead Sea Soul Devouring Array. But weren't the Soul Eater Arrays we saw before all of them sacrificing souls, why do plants have the same situation today?"

Xinchen looked at the devastated field and pondered for a long time before he said leisurely: "Could it be that the Immortal Emperor's mastery of the Soul Devouring Array has gone one step further, and it can not only devour living souls, but even the spirits of all things can be absorbed and devoured together?"

Li Miao was shocked when she heard this, and said, "If that's the case, then wouldn't my Dongtu fall into a catastrophe from which it will never recover?"

Xinchen retracted his gaze and said as he walked forward: "This is just our speculation on the vision in front of us, the truth may not be the case, let's enter the Imperial Capital first." Li Miao followed Xinchen's footsteps and continued to walk towards the Imperial Capital City.

When we arrived at the city gate, it was already unitary time. In the past, this was the time when everyone returned to the city and the traffic was busy, but now there is only an empty city gate, and there is an indescribable desolation. The two of them did not encounter the inspection of the city guard, and entered the city gate at will, is this still the imperial capital with strict military discipline when they were a few months ago!

Not long after entering the door, I suddenly saw a group of soldiers squatting on the ground in front of me. Xinchen wondered that the soldiers were not patrolling well, but they were squatting on the street, and what kind of system they had become, so he went to the front to check. When the soldier heard the footsteps, he raised his head and saw that the two officials were dressed, but he ignored them and continued to bury his head. Only then did Xinchen notice that those soldiers were not idle when they were squatting on the ground, but were wiping the blood!

Xinchen was a little surprised, leaned over and asked, "This military master, please ask what happened here?"

The soldier raised his head and asked, "You two have just come to the Imperial Capital, right?"

Xinchen arched his hand and said: "Exactly, the two of us rushed from Xijing on the order of the emperor to investigate the strange affairs of the imperial capital. ”

The soldier stood up excitedly, grabbed his heart and said, "Your Majesty still remembers us, hurry up and save the emperor!" Your Excellency, you see the blood, just now another person here went crazy, injured several people in a row, and then rushed out of the city gate into the wilderness. We must clean up these blood stains before dark, otherwise there will be ghosts and ghosts who will come to hurt people at night. ”

Xinchen calmed the soldier's emotions and asked, "Why is the city gate not guarded?"

The soldier's eyes were full of horror, and he said, "The guards of the city gate have been torn apart by those mad monsters! We have sent several times more troops to guard the city gates, but to no avail, and we will be slaughtered by the mad monsters soon after, and no one will dare to guard the city gate again!"

Xinchen looked in the direction of the city gate, and the wide open city gate under the remnant sun was like a demon's open bloody mouth, as if it was about to swallow up this newly reborn Hongcheng!