The sun was dazzling, and the white robe was blown close to the body by the warm wind, outlining Li Qi's thin figure.
Hearing the latter's question, Wei Changtian was dumbfounded for a long time, and then asked with a confused face:
"Your Majesty...which aspect are you referring to?"
"Of course it's all aspects."
Li Qi smiled and said: "Appearance, life experience, temperament...can all these things still catch the eyes of Mr. Wei?"
"..."
In my eyes?
No matter how slow Wei Changtian reacted, he could roughly guess what Li Qi wanted to do, but at the same time he was very confused as to why the latter would do this.
He had just killed Dafeng, a third-level general, at the foot of Yuanzhou City. Li Qi not only kept silent about the matter, but actually wanted to give his daughter away?
The best way to deal with this situation is to pretend to be deaf and dumb, so Wei Changtian pondered for a moment, and then replied in a dignified manner:
"The emperor is joking."
"Your Highness the Princess has a distinguished status, how dare you talk nonsense."
"Hahahaha, that's fine."
Li Qi laughed a few times: "We'll discuss this later. Both I and Tong'er can afford to wait."
Waiting for your sister, can you please talk about something serious?
Making a complaint in his mind, Wei Changtian decided not to talk to Li Qi about these things, and simply asked:
"Your Majesty, Her Royal Highness the Princess said before that she wanted to ask me for help with something. I wonder what it is?"
"This..."
The smile on his face slowly faded, and Li Qi walked slowly on the bluestone path, his robe swaying slightly with his steps.
"Mr. Wei, I hope you won't tell too many people what I'm going to say next."
finally come!
Wei Changtian looked confused: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, this kid will definitely keep his mouth shut!"
"That's good..."
Li Qi nodded, stretched out his hand to touch his long sleeve, and told a mysterious and mysterious story.
...
One hundred and twenty years ago, it was exactly sixty years since the last war between Feng and Ning.
It was also early summer, and several murders suddenly occurred in a county town in Jingning Mansion, Dafeng.
The deceased were all virgin boys and girls, with no wounds or internal injuries found on their bodies.
At first, the government office only thought that the matter was caused by evildoers, so the case was handed over to the watchman to handle it.
However, unlike the Xuanjing Division, which has branches in various states in Daning, the watchmen do not have offices in Dafeng. Therefore, after the news is sent to Fengyuan, the watchmen will set off to Jingning Mansion to investigate the case.
There was a time difference of more than ten days between the two trips.
And within these ten days, the case worsened again, and the number of children who died unexpectedly increased from a few a day, to more than ten a day, and finally reached a frightening number of nearly a hundred a day.
Although a county has a large population, nearly a thousand children died in half a month, and anyone could tell that something was wrong.
For a time, the people were all panic-stricken and frightened.
All the children in the city were locked up in the house by their parents, but it was no good. As long as there was no one to look after them for a moment, the children would most likely die violently and inexplicably.
Such killing methods are simply unheard of.
However, wherever crimes are committed, some people will be lucky enough to see the appearance of the evildoer...
Or maybe it is not a human being at all, but a monster that looks like an eagle but not an eagle, and looks like a leopard but not a leopard.
This monster can transform between reality and reality, and can also transform into human form. Even if the watchman calls for a second-level master, there is nothing he can do about it.
In desperation, the government had to temporarily avoid its influence and move all the children in the city outside the city.
This approach really worked. No children who left the city were killed violently, and the lives of the adults in the city were not in danger.
And when there were no more boys or girls in the city, the number of dead was fixed at 3,216.
Although the monsters have not been killed yet, at least no more people will die. As for the people in the city...at worst, they will all be moved away in the future.
The lives of the people slowly returned to stability, and the turmoil caused by this incident in Dafeng gradually subsided.
Just when everyone thought that this catastrophe was going to end, something happened on the night of July 15th that makes Li Qi's voice tremble even now when he talks about it.
Overnight, 72,000 households in the city, together with all the pigs, cattle, chickens, sheep...all living creatures died violently before dawn, in the same manner as the children before.
Before sunset, there were still hundreds of thousands of people in the city, but after sunrise, there was only a dead city left.
When something like this happened, the Dafeng court was grieved and shocked and naturally wanted to investigate thoroughly.
But since then, the monster has never appeared again, and no matter how much manpower and material resources are expended, no trace can be found.
Until a period of time passed, the same thing happened again. The location was Huailing City where Wei Changtian had been...
...
"Huailing?"
Stopping, Wei Changtian frowned and asked, "Your Majesty, I passed by Huailing Mansion when I came here. It doesn't look like it has suffered such a disaster."
"Doesn't that mean the monster has been killed?"
"If it had been a few months ago, I would have answered you yes."
Li Qi shook his head and gave a very strange answer: "But now...that's not the case."
"..."
Wei Changtian didn't respond and quietly waited for the next step.
Li Qi was silent for a moment before continuing.
"That time in Huailing Mansion, we were also helpless against the monster at the beginning."
"Taoism, Buddhism, Demonism, Confucianism...all the sects and methods have been tried, but they are still as unable to deal with this monster as they were a hundred and twenty years ago."
"Until a swordsman suddenly came to the watchman and said that he could subdue this monster."
"No one believed him at first, but at that time we didn't care so much and were willing to try whatever we could."
"But who would have thought that this swordsman actually killed this monster...with just one sword."
"This demon was destroyed, and nearly a million people in Huailing City survived."
"I was still young at that time, and the late emperor promised this swordsman a lifetime of prosperity and wealth, and also promised to marry my eldest sister to him."
"But who would have thought that he doesn't want anything, he just wants to have a fight with ten great swordsman masters."
"The late emperor agreed and found ten of Da Feng's most skilled swordsmen to compete with this man."
"The swordsman won ten battles and then left without saying goodbye. It was nine years later that we learned of his whereabouts again."
"In Daning, you are also looking for someone to compete with swordsmen..."
"..."
Hearing this, Wei Changtian was suddenly stunned for a moment, recalling what Qin Zhengqiu had told him about the mysterious swordsman who killed Zhang Benchu on the Tianshan Mountains fifty years ago.
The strength, timing, and behavior all match up, and it looks like they are the same person.
"emperor."
No longer thinking about the swordsman for the time being, Wei Changtian carefully reviewed what Li Qi had said, and then asked in a deep voice:
"It has been exactly a month since the demon disaster occurred in Huailing. You just said that the demon is still alive... Could it be that something similar has happened recently?"
"yes."
Li Qi didn't hide anything and nodded with a wry smile: "Right here in Fengyuan."
"..."
From the county seat, to the prefectural city, and then to the capital city of a country.
If this monster cannot be solved and the whole city will be destroyed, then these three crises are not at the same level at all.
Wei Changtian immediately understood Li Qi's pressure, and after a long silence he asked again:
"Your Majesty, this monster is so powerful, it must have a name, right?"
"I don't have a name, after all, no one has seen this thing before."
Li Qi shook his head: "But people in the community call it..."