It was already dusk, and the group stood in front of the city of Garan, but did not enter the city.

The reason why you don't enter the city is that you can't enter the city, and now the city gate is closed, the suspension bridge is high, and there is no one in the city. The second is that I can't bear to enter the city, because the scene in front of me is too tragic!

The tall city walls, black, are all residual stains, smoke marks after the fire, as if they have experienced several fierce battles, and they look extremely dilapidated and vicissitudes. In comparison, what is even more terrifying is that on this city wall, there are dead corpses and countless dead heads, large and small, hanging impressively!

Like an eggplant wilting on a vine after frost, or like an old loofah that has been forgotten to pick, most of those corpses have broken hands and legs, mutilated, and have long been dried, and the purple-brown bodies are revealed in the blood-stained broken clothes, which looks very terrifying. And what is even more tragic is the skull that shows white bones, there are men and women, old and young, all with long ropes pierced through their hair, and they are hanging bloody...... The stench of corpses and heads firmly entrenched in the clearing in front of the city, attracting waves of flies and insects to buzz around.

What's going on here!

Xue Yu had tears in his eyes, and his handsome face was full of complex expressions, including three points of shock, three points of doubt, three points of anger, and one point of anxiety and uneasiness that he was about to face. He forcibly held back the huge shock in his heart, and looked at Yang Ao beside him, but saw that the other party also frowned, and was silent with a cold face. The second elder of Songshi had already drawn his long sword, turned the horse's head outward, and entered a state of alert on the two wings. Zhang Bo also trembled, holding the crutch - since he picked up a stump by the stone cave in Qingniuling to make a crutch, he has not left his body on the way. And Yang Ruoqing, how could she have seen such a tragic scene? At this moment, she had already hid behind Yang Ao, holding the corner of her brother's clothes and not daring to open her eyes.

A gust of wind came, and it seemed that a long eagle whistle was heard. Xuan Xue's horse, as well as the white horse that Xue Yu was riding, snorted twice at the same time. I saw that on the city tower that was reflected by the setting sun with a layer of golden halo, there was a figure with a thief head and a thief's brain shook twice, and then there was a strange sound that broke the sky!

Just listen to the "whoosh" a few times, a cluster of crossbow arrows with a cold light, straight to this side!

"Be careful!" the two elders of Songshi broke off in unison, waved their long swords, and stepped forward to protect Xue Yu and the others. Before the words fell, a string of sparks flickered, and those sudden cold arrows were swept to the ground by the unleashed sword qi.

"Which shameless villain dares to put a cold arrow on your Song Ye's head!" Song Henian roared loudly at the city tower. He has always been kind and pleasant, like a chubby old fairy, but when he returned to the door, he was coldly plotted by others, and he was so angry that his white beard trembled frequently and smoked from his seven orifices. Shi Zhongyue on the side also glared, waved his sword and shouted: "The guy who released the cold arrow! Come out quickly! Don't be a turtle with a shrunken head!"

It's a pity that after shouting for a long time, no one answered quietly on the tower of the city, and no one showed their faces to show up, as if the cluster of cold arrows just now did not fly out of there at all.

This unanswered mode, coupled with the corpses and human heads swaying in the wind on the city wall, looks extremely weird.

Is it really as the soldier at the border gate said, this has become a ghost town with only the living dead?

Yang Ao, Xue Yu, almost everyone present - of course, excluding Yang Ruoqing, who was already in the rain - now had only one idea. That is: hurry into the city and find out!

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Before I knew it, the sun had set in the west, and a large area of fire and clouds burned in the sky, red, orange, and golden, all rolled together, and this treacherous and miserable hell scene was reflected in this treacherous and miserable hell scene, which could really be described as the remnant sun like blood.

The sky was blood-red, but the moat at the foot of the city walls was black and smelly.

The river is several feet wide, the water level is very high, and the sides of the river are as straight as cliffs, mixed with all kinds of messy garbage, and even the rotting corpses of people and animals, as if it has experienced a monstrous catastrophe. The suspension bridge, which is about two zhang wide and made of dozens of whole logs, now falls in front of the city gate at one end, fixed with a semicircular stone trough and hub with the size of a wheel, and the other end is pulled up by two arm-thick iron cables, and pulled diagonally in the air, like a giant palm raised high, making a strong gesture of refusing to receive and prohibit entry.

Needless to say, if you want to enter the city, you must first cross the moat in front of you, and there are no more than three ways to cross the river: by bridge, by boat, or by float.

Although the suspension bridge is in front of me, it is difficult to put down because it hangs overhead. There was nothing but water in the river, and the boat had nowhere to look for it. It seems that there is only a third option left, the floating crossing.

"No!" Seeing that Xue Yu and Yang Ao were about to urge the horse to go down the river, Song Henian hurriedly raised his hand to stop it, and said, "Don't do it! This moat is different from mountain streams and natural rivers, and it must not float!"

"Why not?"

"First, in order to prevent the enemy from crossing the river, this river is densely covered with steel blades, reamers, and barbed wire, and if half of them are accidentally pulled or scratched, they will be fatal! Even if we have martial arts and will not sink to the bottom and touch those mechanisms, it is difficult to guarantee that this sister and Uncle Zhang can cross safely!"

"I didn't expect this kind of vicious design?

"Second, the old man sees that the river is black and smelly, and the filth is mixed, and there must be corpse poison in it, so I am afraid that it will ......"

"What should I do then?" Xue Yu didn't wait for Song Henian to finish speaking, and hurriedly interrupted the other party, his eyes full of anxiety. But seeing Yang Ao's face sank, he pulled out the Wufeng Broken Sword and said: "There is only one way, but you have to borrow the power of the second elder." ”

"What's the solution?"

"My sword is as sharp as clay, and it should be more than enough to deal with those two iron chains. Yang Ao gave the second elder Songshi a look, "However, I still need the help of the second elder to send me to the other side." ”

"How do you send it?"

Yang Ao raised his hand and patted his arm, and said, "Please deign to the second elder and build a 'human slingshot'." ”

"Human, human slingshot?"

"Yes! This moat is only a few feet. With the cultivation of the second elder, as long as you concentrate on it, you should be able to throw me over. ”

Xue Yu on the side had already understood, and said, "Then I will go over together, so that I can give Brother Yang a hand and take care of him." ”

"Good!"

Make up your mind, do it. The two elders of Songshi stood opposite each other, stood firmly, and held each other's hands to form a base, allowing Yang Ao to stand on it. The two of them secretly lucked the qi of the dantian, and used all the sword power of the five-star swordsman, with a muffled snort of "hey", their four arms were raised violently, and they actually threw the tall and tall Yang Ao into the air, drawing a full arc and falling to the opposite bank. Without waiting for the other side to turn around, the second elder used the same method to throw the slightly smaller Xue Yu across the moat.

The two of them did not delay for a moment, and as soon as they stood firm, they flew onto the sloping bridge deck. As long as you rush to the high hanging bridge, raise two swords, you can cut the iron cable and lower the suspension bridge. However, at this moment, I only heard two "whoosh" sounds on the city tower, and a few cold arrows, which shot in a hurry without fighting!

Yang Ao was bent on cutting the iron rope quickly, so he was defenseless at all. Fortunately, Xue Yu was on guard, and the green shirt folding fan galloped like lightning, and with a snap, he shot down a feather arrow that was shot at Yang Ao's back heart, and at the same time, with a quick grasp of his left hand, he firmly grasped the other cold arrow that flew to his ear more than a foot away.

Yes, that's right, it's indeed "hold firmly"!

If this trick of catching flying arrows with bare hands has made many people in the martial arts feel ashamed, then the next sharp killing move can be described as unbelievable and shocking. I saw that Xue Yu stood on his toes while grabbing the cold arrow, his body turned sharply to the left, and he spun around quickly in place, and with the help of the centrifugal force generated by the rotation of the figure that was so fast that he couldn't see it clearly, he threw the feather arrow back directly in the direction from which it came!

The arrow, which resembled a throwing knife, happened to pass through the gap in the battlements, and thud into the wooden pillar of the tower, barely reaching the feathers.

It's a pity that there are no people who shoot cold arrows. Obviously, the guy shrunk back and hid like a turtle.

Taking advantage of this gap, Yang Ao mustered up all his strength, and of course, with the help of the Yuan Yang of the Heavenly Sword Emperor, jumped onto the bridge, and swung the broken sword to aim at the black and thick iron rope is a slash. With several cold rays of light and the crisp sound of metal breaking, the drawbridge that had lost its restraints fell like a fallen elephant and crashed onto the riverbank. The huge shock wave slammed into a turbid wave, and the foul-smelling black water and debris flew everywhere.

Seeing this, the two elders of Songshi hurriedly escorted the others, their mounts, mules and horses across the drawbridge and advanced to the city gate.

Now, they are faced with an even more difficult problem: how to open the closed gates?

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Yang Ruoqing was so frightened that she didn't dare to open her eyes, and she clenched her pink fists and couldn't help exclaiming. Although Uncle Zhang was also comforting, his aging heart was also full of boundless fear. Now, after crossing the moat, I am closer to the dead bodies and human heads on the walls, and I can see the terrible scene more clearly, and smell the rancid smell of death. And, even more disgusting are the shapes of those dead bodies.

From a distance just now, the corpses were all black and yellow, but in fact, when I looked closely, I found that this strange black and purple color was not the color of the corpse spots or the corpse itself, but similar to a layer of oil wax or lacquer. Look at the heads that make people's backs hairy, although the skin is open and the flesh is open, and I can't bear to look at it directly, they all have one thing in common!

A very scary common denominator!

These heads, young and old, have all had their eyeballs gouged out, leaving only a pair of bloody, black eye sockets!

Of course, this is not the most terrifying.

The most terrifying thing is that on the forehead of each person's head, a scribbled word "ghost" is written in blood red color!