Chapter 22: The Iron Horse
Eight hundred miles away from the north of Tongtian Mountain, there is a city called Lingnan, which is the closest city to Tongtian Mountain within a radius of thousands of miles in the entire Tongtian Mountain, except for Jin City.
Lingnan City is very large, at least Mo Ming has just approached, and when he looks at the tall gate of Lingnan City from a distance, he has a very magnificent feeling.
The city tower in front of it is about 30 zhang high, the straight and straight city wall is a piece of several feet long, and it is uniformly cut into square bluestones, and each stone seam is difficult to insert silver needles, so that people can clearly know with the naked eye that the city wall of this city is difficult to be broken in a short time even if it is the best siege equipment.
Mo Ming walked all the way along the official road in front of the city gate, although his appearance was a little embarrassed, but his slightly immature face became more and more resolute.
Looking at the half-open city gate from afar, he sighed softly in his heart. I'm afraid this city is the same as the previous Jin City, there are no living people in the city!
Because the tall city tower was empty and silent, there were no sentinels, no people, only flags embroidered with tiger stripes planted on the sentry posts, constantly swaying with the breeze.
And in front of the city gate, there were even some ragged beggars lying on the ground in some corners, and most of their bodies were already decomposed, revealing Sensen's white bones, and exuding a pungent stench.
Mo Ming had already been completely numb to the rancid smell of this corpse, and if he hadn't deliberately sniffed it, he wouldn't have felt any discomfort.
Mo Ming stood in front of the city gate, looked up at the three dragons flying and phoenix dancing typing on the beam of the city gate, shook his head slightly, and then strode towards the city.
On the wide city road, the scene of the busy traffic of the past is gone, except for some stenching corpses lying on the side of the road, only those torii swaying in the wind remain.
Looking at this scene like after the end of the world, Mo Ming had nothing but a sigh in his heart, because along the way, he had seen countless corpses and countless empty villages.
Even along the way, most of the corpses still maintained their pre-mortem demeanor in Mo Ming's eyes, or laughing, or angry, or comfortable, or happy and sad, too many life situations seemed to be forever fixed on everyone's face at the same time.
It's hard to imagine what happened that night to make this world so withered.
Standing at a fork in the city, Mo Ming looked at himself, thought about it, and finally walked into a tailor shop, found a few suitable clothes behind the counter to change into, and then walked into the inner room to find the granary, brought some dry food that could still be eaten, and then continued to walk straight towards the other gate of Lingnan City.
Mo Ming didn't know how far such a desolate road was, but he had an intuition that the place where there were people should not be far away, and perhaps the scene of the world withering through this Lingnan City would disappear.
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On another wide official road to Lingnan City, eight hundred galloping iron horsemen galloped forward, led by a middle-aged man wearing black tiger-striped armor.
The middle-aged man had a dark complexion, a Chinese face, thick eyebrows and tiger eyes gave people a very resolute feeling, sitting on horseback, leaning forward, and his expression was a little serious.
"Your Highness, I see that these four wildernesses are extremely desolate, and corpses are everywhere along the way, I am afraid that this Lingnan City will be the same as the previous Qinggang City, fierce and auspicious!" Approaching Lingnan City, the middle-aged man suddenly sighed to a handsome-looking young man beside him.
The voice fell, and the young man beside him raised his eyebrows, and then said with some solemnity: "General Chang, you must know, whether it is really the same or not, we also have to see what happens, this change in the Southern Regions has almost made my Great Xia move the foundation for thousands of years, if you don't check it clearly, how can you be worthy of the ancestors and ancestors? and how can you be worthy of those people who died inexplicably at dawn?"
"What His Royal Highness said is true! However, the last general is a little strange that such a big thing happened this time, and the immortal master on Beiliang Mountain did not react at all, even when Prince Zuo personally visited the door a few days ago, he also closed the door and disappeared! I don't know what is going on!" General Chang's face was a little angry, and he said in a low voice.
"The immortal master on Beiliang Mountain?" The young man suddenly raised his eyebrows and snorted coldly: "How can those immortal masters care about the life and death of our mortals, although you and I are prominent in this mortal world, but in their eyes, they are not as good as ants, how can they care, not to mention that this change in the Southern Regions has caused tens of millions of people to die in my Great Xia, even if my Great Xia is wiped out, all the people are dead, and those immortal masters will not frown!"
The middle-aged man frowned, thought for a while, and then asked in a cold voice: "Since the immortal masters are like this, then why do we still worship them every year?
"What if we feed the white-eyed wolf? After all, you and I are mortals, and we can't compete with the immortal masters, they can not help, but we can't not worship them, otherwise, with the ability of those immortal masters, if we annoy them, how can we live! After all, this world is respected by the strong, and it is the strength that speaks. The young man shook his head bitterly.
"But ......"
The middle-aged man opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but when the words came to his mouth, he didn't know how to distinguish them, and His Highness's words made him unable to refute them, because this world is indeed as he said, and in the eyes of the immortal master, mortals are really like ants.
Shaking his head, the middle-aged man suppressed the resentment in his heart, and whipped the horsewhip on the horse's back with a wave of his hand.
"Drive!"
The middle-aged man drank lightly, raised the horsewhip in his hand, and was about to swing the second whip, when the young man beside him suddenly pulled the reins of the horse with both hands.
"Stop!"
The young man shouted, raised his big hand and made a stop movement to the eight hundred horsemen behind him, and looked at the north gate of Lingnan City in front of him with a touch of surprise.
General Chang was originally a little strange, but when he followed the young man's gaze towards the north gate of Naling South City, his pupils immediately shrank, and his eyes showed a solemnity.
"Is that a living person?"
General Chang's face showed a hint of surprise, and he saw that the black city gate was slowly being opened from the inside, and a young man in a cyan robe walked out of it
"It should be a good person!" the young man said in a deep voice, looking at the young man, the surprise in his eyes growing thicker and thicker.
No wonder they were so surprised, because all the way, not to mention the living people, not even a living animal did not see, there were rotting corpses everywhere, and all around them was desolation and desolation under the autumn wind, except for the ubiquitous stench.
Originally, before coming to Lingnan City, everyone was ready not to see a living person. At this time, they suddenly saw a teenager walking in their direction, and this contrast was really a bit unexpected to them.
Just when the eight hundred horsemen looked at Mo Ming with surprised eyes, Mo Ming also stopped and looked at the eight hundred iron horses.
His eyes moistened unconsciously, and the numbness that had been going on for days was replaced by a very strong excitement, which excited him even more than when he saw the strange old man.
Even this excitement made his tense body relax instantly, and the package in his hand had fallen to the ground unconsciously.
"Isn't this really a hallucination?"
Mo Ming muttered in a low voice, just stood and looked at the eight hundred iron horses, and the next moment he saw a armor soldier wrapped in armor riding a fast horse straight towards him.
"Who's in front of you?" the armor soldier shouted when he was still three hundred zhang away from Mo Ming.
"I ...... I ......"
Mo Ming opened his mouth several times, but found that he was so choked that he could barely speak, and could only keep waving his hand at the armor.
The armor soldier obviously also saw Mo Ming's demeanor, and after repeatedly making sure that there was no danger around, he suddenly tightened the reins of his horse and waved his hand to the eight hundred iron horsemen behind him
"Safety!"
The armor soldier shouted loudly, and jumped off his horse as he spoke, waiting for the arrival of the eight hundred iron horsemen behind him.
The sound of horses' hooves suddenly became louder, and the eight hundred iron horsemen arrived in an instant, and the general Chang and the young man led by him jumped off the war horse and galloped over quickly when they were still dozens of zhang away from Mo Ming.
"Is the little brother alright?"