Chapter 77: Servility
Under the leadership of the Immortal Moon Immortal, Ning Zai and his party had no danger along the way. During this period, Ning Zaihe was curious to throw out a piece of waste paper out of the path, and as soon as the paper fell to the ground, it seemed to have undergone countless years of wind and sand erosion, and it quickly yellowed, dilapidated, and melted at a speed visible to the naked eye.
According to the explanation of the Stygian Moon Immortal, this is one of the manifestations of the power of the Thousand Sails Sinking Boat Tower's Protective City Array. If you strayed into the mirage, as long as you took the wrong step, in addition to the erosive force, you may also be subjected to a sudden dozens of times more intense sunlight burning, in which case the water in the whole body will quickly evaporate into a dry corpse. Even if you are lucky enough not to encounter the strange scorching sun and sand, countless sand scorpions will emerge from the sand, and they will eventually be devoured by ten thousand scorpions, leaving only a white bone.
"Your Excellency. The guards guarding the city obviously knew the Immortal Moon Immortal, so they no longer interrogated Ning Zaihe and Meng Zhongzi, who were following her.
Without paying attention to the guards, the Stygian Moon Immortal went straight into the city with a cold face and Ning Zaihe, who also looked cold, and Meng Zhongzi, who had an indifferent face.
A city gate is like a door in the summer heat, separating the two worlds inside and outside the city, the outside of the city is the hot place of death, and the inside of the city is like a cool and comfortable air-conditioned room in summer. Unlike what Ning Zaihe thought, the rudder where the Thousand Sails Sinking Boat Tower was located was not as lifeless and ruthless as he imagined. On the contrary, the main road leading from the city gate stretches infinitely into the depths, lined with exotic shops and crowded with pedestrians.
They are all descendants of the Loulan people of that year, and their facial contours and dresses are not very different from those of ancient China and new China. This is especially evident in women, most of whom have slightly curly blonde hair, small faces, high nose bridges, deep eyes, and eyelashes like a small fan. Most of them wear pointed felt hats, woolen blankets, and small leather boots. Seeing this scene, Chen Xinshen couldn't help but have the illusion of traveling to the ancient Western Regions.
As the three people led by the Stygian Moon Immortal walked under the city gate, the originally crowded and noisy bustling streets were instantly silent, and the heavens and the earth were so quiet that tens of thousands of people could hear the breathing of tens of thousands of people. Soon, the crowd quickly dispersed from the middle, and suddenly saw that the main road was empty, as if these descendants of the Loulan people were not qualified to walk on the same street as the Stygian Moon Immortal.
After the awe-inspiring and reverent gaze at the beginning, all the descendants of the Loulan people lowered their heads one after another to show their respect. Chen Xinshen really didn't expect that the infamous Thousand Sails Sinking Boat Tower in the outside world would be so revered in one place, and the Immortal Moon Immortal was like an ancient majestic and virtuous king inspecting his territory at this time, and everywhere he went, the crowd lowered their heads like a wave spreading.
In fact, Qianfan Shenzhoulou is not a bad person in the conventional sense, there is no absolute justice in this world, and there is no absolute evil. Children can distinguish between right and wrong, and adults care more about interests. It's just that the sleepless person binds his own interests to the country and society, while the demon demon does whatever he wants, and takes the maximization of his own interests as the premise. In the outside world, it is natural that sleepless people are more popular, but in this mirage, Qianfan Shenzhoulou is the most beloved and respected god of Loulan people. At this point, even the king of the Loulan people themselves is not as good as the status of Qianfan Shenzhoulou in the hearts of Loulan people.
From this point of view, this Thousand Sails Sinking Boat Tower has a bit of Western medieval Catholicism. In the minds of the people of Loulan, it is the Thousand Sails Sinking Boat Tower that brings them out of the predicament, it is the Thousand Sails Sinking Boat Tower that gives them freedom, and it is the Thousand Sails Sinking Boat Tower that gives them a rich home that will never fall, which is incomparable to others. Therefore, although Qianfan Shenzhoulou had no intention of developing in the direction of religion, their actions were still spontaneously supported by the grateful people of Loulan, and became the most determined belief in their hearts, and the divine power was above the imperial power. Here, the gap between the higher and the average is even much greater than the gap between the average and the ape.
The rooster waits to be slaughtered in the hen shed, and he advocates a hymn to freedom because his owner has provided him with two perches. For the Thousand Sails Sinking Boat Tower, they only need a certain number of mortals to maintain the operation of some mundane clutter. These descendants of the Loulan people have been trapped in this mirage all their lives, and they don't even know what happened to the outside world. For them, the world is the city in front of them, and the tall building in the middle of the city is where the gods and their messengers live, and beyond the city is the world that the gods and their messengers can set foot in. As for beyond the city, they never thought about it.
As the Moon Immortal and Ning Zaihe and his party entered the tall buildings in the center of the city, the originally silent streets were instantly full of people, and the descendants of Loulan on both sides of the main road began to surge again. No one would discuss what had just happened in private, as if they had long been accustomed to it.
In the center of the city, the thousand sails sink boat building is a huge structure, towering into the clouds, and the whole body is made of glazed firing tenon. There are thousands of lanterns inside and outside the high-rise building, and the top is a jewel made of pure gold. Copper wind chimes hang under the eaves of each floor, and even in the gentle breeze, the crisp chimes can be heard for miles. Each of the twelve floors has two windows on each wall, all of which are closed with thinly polished mussel shells, and the window paper is covered with ink paintings. In the middle of the painting, there are thousands of sails racing, sinking boats on the side, or in front of sick trees, and thousands of trees are in spring, but there is quite a strong artistic conception of mountains and rivers.
"Your Excellency, you're back. As soon as he entered the building, a blonde maid stepped forward to greet him.
Serving the gods and envoys in the Thousand Sails Sinking Boat Tower has always been the biggest thing in the eyes of the descendants of Loulan. In their opinion, only untrained girls are the embodiment of purity, and only in this way can they be qualified to enter the screening, and in the end, the dozens of people who survive from the screening can serve as the maids of the Thousand Sails Sinking Boat Tower. Becoming a maid is actually a sad fate, and when the maid is old and decrepit, she will have to withdraw from the Thousand Sails Sinking Boat Tower, return to her family, and will not be able to marry for life. But in the eyes of the people of Loulan, this is a good thing for the glory of the ancestors. What is even more ironic is that all these actions did not come from the interference of the Thousand Sails Sinking Boat Tower. For Qianfan Shenzhou Tower, they just asked the royal family for some servants, but in the eyes of the Loulan people, it became a privilege. At that time, the king of Loulan cooperated with Qianfan Shenzhoulou in order to protect the country, but he never imagined that although the country was saved, the people's hearts trapped Loulan.
"This is my new follower, and this is the one I am targeting. You take them to settle down for a while, and I'll go to meet the Thousand Sails Banner and the Sinking Boat Banner. The Stygian Moon Immortal commanded indifferently.