The group walked for another moment and finally came to the bottom of the city wall. The strong blood energy floating on the moat was continuously absorbed by the barrier, and condensed into purer blood energy above the water. The cycle continued, constantly enriching the blood energy flowing inside the barrier.
People in the Blood City are not worried that the blood water in the moat will be exhausted. Countless people die every year while searching for treasures in the ancient battlefield. Most of their corpses become part of the blood, and eventually seep into the underground river, and then they have been digging for hundreds of years.
The underground water channels converged under the city wall to replenish the blood gas concentration of the moat.
This is a method that was thought up by the early blood city lords. It is said that the excavation and arrangement of the canals are based on the formations of sages from ancient countries, which can lead water into the river with maximum efficiency.
Situ Mi was close to the blood river and already wanted to spit it out.
That blood is boiling corpse water, or the stench accumulated by thousands of people over thousands of years! It's really disgusting!
"I really don't understand what these people think, settling on a pile of dead people, and using the dead to protect this miserable place!"
Blood City is indeed not a prosperous city. Compared to Ming Ling's home address, this city is extremely shabby!
Who knows how much blood has been soaked in the city wall surrounded by foul gas? There is no sunshine all day long, and there are no birds left, let alone flowers, plants, insects and fish!
Can people really live in this kind of place? After all, what do the city lord’s family think? They lead a group of fugitives and refugees to settle here. How long does it take to live?
No matter how you look at it, it is impossible for people living in such a place to live long. In fact, this is also true. Several generations of blood city lords have not been over 600 years old, and the residents who have settled in blood city age very quickly. At the same age, the average demon race humanoid
He looks about ten years younger than the residents of Blood City.
It is said that a place's water and soil support a person, but the water and soil in this bloody city harms one person from generation to generation!
Situ Mi didn't want to think too much about the original intention of the first blood city lord in choosing the location, so he covered his nose and stayed as far away from the barrier as possible.
"Pour out the water! If this part is broken, other parts will not be able to hold up sooner or later!"
"yes!"
These retainers were not as clean-minded as Situ Mi. They poured out the water bags and piled them on the ground. Then the weakest one stood at the edge of the barrier and was responsible for pouring the water, while the others stood behind and passed the water bags around.
The thickness of the barrier was far beyond these people's imagination. Situ Mi just watched quietly, and as the spirit-melting water became less and less, the barrier gradually became thinner, and finally the suffocating smell could be smelled from a few feet away.
stench.
The poisonous blood that accompanied the stench turned the nearest subordinate into a skeleton in an instant, but no one was moved. They just silently kicked the bones down the moat, and the second person continued to take his place, expanding the damage to the barrier.
Hole.
The fighting at the city gate continued, and the strategist watching at the city gate suddenly had a splitting headache.
Covering his stinging and bleeding right eye, the young monster finally panicked.
Their family has provided advice to the city lord's family for generations. In order to be loyal, each generation will select a child and have a bone fragment that resonates with the blood city barrier buried in the right eye. The child who is buried with the bone fragment will have the bone in his right eye every ten years.
The film will protrude a little until the right eye is destroyed.
This has been true for generations. In fact, in all these years, the counselor's family has never had bleeding from their right eye.
Now that it appears, it only means one thing: the barrier has been broken!
His right eye, which has not yet lost sight, can vaguely see the scene near the barrier. The picture shows a group of people pouring some liquid onto the barrier. Once the liquid touches the barrier, his right eye will sting.
Black blood continued to flow out.
"Someone on the east side of the city wall is destroying the barrier!"
Combining the scenery around those people, the strategist immediately made a judgment, called all the remaining puppets on the map, and selected the approximate location of those people as the destination.
"I'm sorry... City Lord... please hold on... part of the puppets on the defense line must be withdrawn, otherwise once the barrier is destroyed... our last line of defense will be gone!"
After all this was done, the tactician's right eye was completely blind, and the bone fragments pierced the flesh and blood of the eye. He forcefully took out the pieces of flesh and threw them on the ground.
Turning to look at the three-legged crow that flew back to the top of the city wall, he endured the pain of being blind and having his eyes gouged out, and ordered the three-legged crow word by word.
"Go and tell... Lord Regent... I have arranged puppets in various places according to your instructions. Please... no matter what... let the Lord of the City come back... don't... don't care about us... citizens of Blood City...
No matter life or death... we must sacrifice everything to defend our homeland!"
He whispered something again, and the three-legged crow tilted his head closer and nodded understandingly.
After saying this, the strategist's eyes darkened and he fell down.
After the three-legged crow took note of his words, he immediately flapped his wings and soared towards the depths of the battlefield, towards the direction of the fiercest battle.
"kill--!!!"
The middle-aged man swung the giant ax to kill another person, but just when he was about to pick up the weapon and follow Mu Yin and the others to continue crushing the enemy, a wave of heart palpitations appeared in his heart without warning, and his movements were slightly delayed for a moment.
The bird of prey flashed beside him and knocked away a flying arrow.
"Uncle! What are you thinking? This is a battlefield! Don't be distracted!"
The city lord immediately came to his senses, regained his composure, and killed all nearby enemies with Gen Zhi.
Mu Yin and Long Ran each opened a direction, and if they did not defend, they would fight back. No one dared to approach the bloody path they created. Mu Yu threw spears and huge flints made by fortification puppets from behind to repel the enemies behind.
Everyone thought they could take a breather temporarily, but the low-flying three-legged crow brought news that the city lord found hard to accept.
The three-legged crow directly played back the strategist's voice, and then through the dragonfly, a mechanism that only the city lord could hear, he shouted the most shocking words to the man——
"There are dozens of enemies, wreaking havoc on the southeastern barrier! I saw it with my own eyes as a synesthetist in my right eye! Several generations of my family have worked hard for the city lord's family! I am the only one who made this mistake when I was in office. I am of low cultivation and synaesthesia.
All the energy was exhausted in one go, and my family will have no heirs from now on. Please forgive me, Lord City Lord, for my family’s inability to be loyal!”
The eyes of the city lord changed from disbelief at the beginning to convinced sorrow, and finally were replaced by anger.
That child is dead! The last member of the strategist family who has assisted the Lord and his family of Blood City for generations! He is also dead!
Among the first batch of refugees and fugitives that our ancestors brought with them when they came here, the patriarch of the Strategist family was born among those people. It was rumored that the patriarch of their family was a military strategist of a great country who was framed by traitors. He was arrested only after a wanted order was put up in the spiritual world.
His family went into exile and was not accepted by anyone, so he finally fled to Blood City to settle down.
In order to repay the kindness of the Lord of Blood City, the fugitive promised to be his minister for generations, and was willing to serve as the last warning of Blood City's barrier and assist for generations. The clansmen offered thousands of suggestions, all of which benefited the people of Blood City, and almost every generation
Not a happy ending!
By his generation, there was only one single seedling left in the Strategist family. He specifically allowed this child not to have a bone fragment buried in his right eye, and he did not want to restrict the freedom of this family anymore!
It's just a favor of acquaintance. Isn't it enough to pay for it with the lives of more than a hundred clan members?!
But this child still chose the path of his ancestors. The pain that his ancestors had never tried, the pain that even the first-generation clan leader had never tried, he endured at the cost of his life, which also brought hope of stabilizing the war situation.
He understood the meaning of the child's last words to himself and to everyone——
The way the Lord of Blood City can solidify the barrier is very simple, and there is only one way——
That is to invest living people to replenish blood energy in the Blood City barrier! Especially the flesh and blood of the local residents of Blood City have the best effect!
They have settled here for generations, and their bodies contain blood energy that is unmatched by outsiders. Investing one blood city citizen is comparable to investing a hundred outsiders!
It is such a cruel method, which has almost never been used in these years... The child knew the bloody method of this method, but still asked the city lord to rush back and solidify the barrier! This shows that the situation has become critical and must be done.
!
Qingming also understood the meaning of the young man's message. He asked the three-legged crow to inform him before, but he didn't expect this person to be so efficient...
He glanced at the middle-aged man with splitting eyes and roughly understood that the strategist who had completed his mission was probably dead.
Others couldn't tell that the Three-Legged Crow had finally conveyed the message. As the maker of the Three-Legged Crow, how could he not notice it?
Patting the leopard-shaped vehicle puppet under him, the puppet roared, flew out, knocked away a group of mercenaries, and brought Qingxuan to the city lord.
"Your ministers have done a very good job. Go back. We cannot lose this battle, at least not now."
The city lord held back the tears that threatened to fall from his eyes and bowed heavily to Qingxuan.
"Thank you, Lord Regent, for your help! But Sir, please know something! Fan Liu is from Blood City and is my family member! He is not a subject who can be driven around at will!"
After shouting these words, the city lord rushed back along the way Qingxuan came. His momentum became fierce again and he transformed into the God of Death. For a while, no one came close to this seemingly weakest enemy.
Qingxuan did not look back at the city lord as he left. Qingxuan sat on the vehicle puppet, clearly without any weapons in his hands, but the mercenaries confronting him were still extremely frightened.
The people in front of them seem to be powerless, but they are not stupid either! The fundamental reason for maintaining the fighting circle and not retreating is because of him!
If it hadn't been for the puppet army provided by Regent Qingming that had been hiding in the dark and attacking their weak encirclement points, they would have squeezed out a way to break through by now!
The flints and spears flying out from behind are probably this person's tricks!
People can't fight, but thousands of people died in battle! This threat is no weaker than Long Ran and Mu Yin!
They didn't dare to step forward, not because they were afraid of death, but because they were afraid of meaningless sacrifice——
Too many people had died in this battle so far, but they actually didn't feel much about the battle with Mu Yin Longran.
At least they maintained their dignity as warriors, but when they fought against Regent Qingming... he himself didn't take action at all! Puppet is a dead thing after all, and who would be willing to end their living life on a pile of bronze mechanisms?!