Li Danqing was stunned when he heard this, and the look between his brows suddenly became strange.
Chaoge City?
Isn't that the name of the former royal city?
It is also the writing engraved on the sword on his back.
Li Danqing suddenly woke up - a fantasy!
Could this be an illusion?
Otherwise, how could there be such bizarre things in this world, and these bizarre things just point to my own secrets.
"Little brother? What's wrong with you? Don't you know the way to the sacrificial altar? I happen to be going there too, why don't you go with me." At this moment, the pedestrian with a face like a withered bone suddenly said in front of him.
There was a gaping hole underneath his skinny, skull-like face, revealing his white teeth. He seemed to be smiling, but such a smile made people feel penetrating.
"Don't do this with me! Isn't it just a fantasy? How can I be afraid of you?" Li Danqing sneered and kicked him out.
The skeleton pedestrian did not expect this. Li Danqing kicked out, and the opponent's body suddenly flew backwards, and stopped several feet away. At this time, the skin and bones body was torn apart and scattered around.
Such a noise immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding pedestrians, and everyone turned their heads to look here. Without exception, these pedestrians were all skinny skeletons like the man just now...
When Li Danqing saw the eyes of these monsters focused on him, he raised his eyebrows. The Chaoge Sword was held in his hand, and his eyes were alert: "Shuangshuang, come behind me."
Xing Shuangshuang behind him seemed to have found a backbone after hearing this, and hurriedly hid behind Li Danqing.
He had only heard of illusions in the past, but had never seen them, let alone learned them personally.
But he was sure that there could be no ghosts in this world. Even if there were, it would be impossible for him to be sleeping peacefully in an inn just now, but now he would appear in this dilapidated town with skeletons everywhere.
But when he thought that the hundreds of skeleton pedestrians in front of him would swarm him, he found that these skeleton pedestrians were surrounding him from a distance, but none of them had any intention of taking action. Instead, they pointed at him with sunken eyes.
The cold will-o'-the-wisp flickered in and out, as if it was fearing him.
Li Danqing felt weird. He thought that in this world, only people are afraid of ghosts, and why are ghosts afraid of people? Isn't this illusion too childish?
"Daddy!" At this moment, a young voice suddenly came.
Li Danqing was stunned when he saw a small skeleton, only as tall as his own waist, running barefoot from the corner of the street and pounced on the skeleton pedestrian who was kicked to pieces by Li Danqing, sinking into his eye sockets.
, the green will-o'-the-wisp jumped up and down, and bursts of black mist gush out from the will-o'-the-wisp, as if crying.
"Daddy is fine... Nannan, be good and pick up daddy's feet." The skeleton who was knocked to the ground by Li Danqing said to the little skeleton with a gentle tone.
When the little skeleton heard this, he touched the black air coming out of his eyes with his thin hands, picked up the broken limbs on the ground, and helped the pedestrian to piece them together...
Li Danqing was dumbfounded, and he and Xing both stood there, watching the scene for more than ten breaths, and saw the pedestrian splicing the limbs together, and then stood up with some difficulty with the help of the little skeleton.
"Little brother, we have no grievances. If I bump into you in any way, just treat me like an adult and ignore the villain. Let me go. My daughter has not had a mother since she was a child, so she has been raised by me alone. He can't
There is no me..." Then the skeleton begged Li Danqing with a low eyebrow.
The little skeleton supporting her looked at Li Danqing timidly, but that terrifying face was clearly filled with grievances, fear, and panic like a frightened deer...
Under such a look, Prince Li felt a trace of unbearability in his heart.
Although he still felt that everything in front of him was not real, Li Danqing really couldn't bear to take action against such a group of guys who were scary but showed no hostility towards him. He waved his hands in a sly voice:
"Then you go."
Upon hearing this, the father and daughter felt as if they had been granted amnesty, and hurriedly thanked Li Danqing and the others, and then quickly left with the crowd, leaving only Li Danqing and Xing standing there, not knowing how to extricate themselves for a while.
at.
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"Master...are they humans or ghosts?" After a while, Xing Shuangshuang seemed to come back to her senses and asked Li Danqing with a trembling voice.
Li Danqing blinked his eyes and muttered: "Someone must be causing trouble secretly..."
"Shuangshuang is a little scared..." Xing Shuangshuang turned pale, and as he said this, he was about to fall into Li Danqing's arms, as if he wanted to seek comfort.
"I don't think they are illusions." But at this moment, every voice suddenly came from behind the two of them.
Xing Shuangshuang, who was about to lean into Li Danqing's arms, was also stunned at this moment. Together with Li Danqing, they turned back to the direction where the voice came from behind them. They saw a girl wearing a white gown and carrying a sword on her back. She jumped lightly.
It fell next to the two of them from the roof of the dilapidated inn.
"An'an, why are you here? Where are Yanzhen and the others?" Li Danqing suddenly became happy when he saw the arrival, and asked aloud at that time.
But Xing Shuangshuang beside him frowned, looking at the stern girl with a bit of surprise and displeasure in his eyes.
Luo Anan didn't seem to notice
When Xing Shuangshuang looked at him, he just walked to Li Danqing and said: "I didn't go back to the room to sleep. Instead, I went to find an open space in the yard and prepared to practice some sword skills. But a burst of mist came and I
I felt a little dazed, and when I came back to my senses, even in this situation, I didn't see Yan Zhen and the others where they were."
"Mist?" Li Danqing murmured this word. Xing Shuangshuang also said before that the night suddenly dissipated after a burst of fog, and the scene in front of him became like this.
But for a while, Li Danqing couldn't figure out what the connection was, so he simply looked at Luo An'an again and asked, "Then why do you say these guys are not illusions?"
Luo An'an raised his head and looked at the group of skeletons walking through the dilapidated streets in front of him. They were wearing different clothes. Some of them were greeting each other, and some were still chasing and fighting. If it weren't for this dilapidated city, and what they could have done,
With a terrifying face, the scene in front of him was very much like a bustling street in a certain city.
"If it is an illusion, these illusions should only act because of us, but I just jumped on the roof and took a look. There are probably hundreds of thousands of such living dead in this city. They are active everywhere in the city, whether they are hawking
Whether they are traders or drinkers, they all behave differently, and their interactions with each other are also different. If it is really an illusion, it would be difficult to maintain such a huge and realistic illusion without thousands of people working together to perform this technique.
It can be done, but there are very few formation masters in the entire Wuyang Dynasty who practice formations, and the illusion technique is a heretical method, and the number is even rarer. Even if you look through the entire Wuyang Dynasty, you may not be able to find such a formation.
Many people are coming..." Luo Anan responded in a deep voice.
Li Danqing frowned when he heard this, and looked up at the pedestrians on the street. The living dead father and daughter also appeared in his mind. No matter what he thought, he felt that every word and action of the other party was not like an illusion.
appearance.
"But if they are not illusions, what are these guys?" Li Danqing asked with a frown.
Luo Anan shook his head calmly: "I don't know either."
Li Danqing felt a little strange when he saw this. He felt frightened when he saw these living dead walking around in front of him, but Luo Anan looked calm and seemed not to be affected at all. In the past, when he was in Dafengyuan, this girl
She has an indifferent temperament and is not as outgoing as Liu Yanzhen, Yue Ningshuang and others. Li Danqing has not had much contact with her, but today Li Danqing was a little impressed.
"Then what should we do now?" Xing Shuangshuang stuck his head out and asked softly.
She really wanted to get close to Li Danqing, but Luo Anan stood straight between her and Li Danqing, whether intentionally or not, not giving her the slightest chance to get closer.
"Now that I think about it, we can only go and see what kind of sacrifice they are talking about. Maybe we can find some clues. Regardless of whether he is a human or a ghost, staying here is not a problem." Li Danqing thought for a while and said
He said this through gritted teeth.
Luo Anan also nodded after hearing this, agreeing with Li Danqing's decision.
Li Danqing glanced at the terrifying faces of the pedestrians around him with lingering fear. Surprisingly, these guys didn't seem to think there was any difference between them and Li Danqing and others, and just walked on the road by themselves. Li Danqing gritted his teeth.
I thought silently in my mind: Amitabha, the Infinite Lord.
Then he took the lead and walked onto the street.
Seeing this, Xing Shuangshuang hurriedly stepped forward to keep up, but as soon as he took a step forward, a hand held her hand.
Xing Shuangshuang frowned and looked at Luo An'an beside him, and said with an aggrieved face: "Sister An'an, what are you doing? You're hurting me!"
Luo Anan's face was still calm, but there was a faint evil spirit surging between her eyebrows. She stared at Xing Shuangshuang and said in a deep voice: "I don't care what your purpose is, but if you dare to hurt the dean, I will not spare you."
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Xing Shuangshuang was stunned when he heard this, and looked at Luo Anan with a strange look.
The girl in front of her was usually a quiet person. Compared to the girl named Xi Wenjun, this Luo An'an had never caught her eye, but she was able to escape the white fog and enter this world with her.
Now he has seen some of his disguises, and this alone is enough to make Xing Shuangshuang look at him with admiration.
However, despite this thought in her heart, Xing Shuangshuang still looked confused on the surface. She said aggrievedly: "What is Sister An An talking about? How could I hurt the young master?"
Luo Anan was silent, and at that time he let go of Xing Shuangshuang's hand and walked towards the direction where Li Danqing left.
Xing Shuangshuang was left standing there, squinting at Luo Anan's leaving figure. The bloody light in his eyes lit up again, flickering, but only for a moment, and then returned to his original state, and quickly followed him away.
of two people.
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Li Danqing walked in Chaoge City, which was full of living dead people. His eyes wandered around, but he found that although the city had changed its name in the mouths of these living dead people, the layout of the city was no different from Sihai City. It was just that the prosperous ones before
The streets and clean buildings were all turned into ruins at this moment.
But just like these living dead people don't think Li Danqing and the others are any different from them, they don't seem to care about the ruins around them. Some people are sleeping in those shabby rooms, and some are talking and playing. At first, Li Danqing
Danqing still felt a little numb walking among these guys, but after walking like this for a quarter of an hour, he found that no one paid attention to him, as if he was just an ordinary pedestrian like them, Li Danqing's courage was shattered
It also gradually grew bigger.
He led Xing Shuangshuang and Luo Anan into a place where they were concerned about this.
For some living dead, it can be considered a bustling street.
There were vendors selling goods on both sides of the street. Prince Li bravely walked into one of the vendor's stalls and took a look, but he saw that the products on the stall were actually some pens, inks, paper and inkstones. Compared to his own appearance,
Even in a place where the buildings in the city reveal a strange and dilapidated appearance, the pens, inks, paper and inkstones sold by the vendors are all in excellent condition - at least these things have no obvious damage, and there are no weird maggots on them.
crawl.
"What do you want to buy, sir! The pens, inks, paper and inkstones I have here are all top-quality goods from our Chaoge City, and they taste very good." The stall owner, who was also skinny and skinny, came up to Li Danqing at this time, with a smile on his face.
He opened his eyes and seemed to be greeting Li Danqing with a sincere smile.
After all, Li Danqing also walked around the city for a while. Although looking directly at the "enthusiastic" look of the stall owner still inevitably made Li Danqing feel excited, he was not as frightened as before.
Deep down in his heart, he was a little surprised that this ink, paper and inkstone had any flavor, but he really didn't want to talk to the stall owner. He waved his hand and hurriedly left with Xing Shuangshuang and Luo An'an.
The three of them wandered around the city for a while, but apart from the living dead and the ruined city, they didn't find anything strange, let alone finding a way out of this realm that was either an illusion or a place where ghosts lived.
"Do you have any ideas?" Li Danqing, who had been thinking about it for a long time but couldn't find a solution, turned to look at Luo Anan and Xing Shuangshuang and asked.
Both of them shook their heads at this moment, obviously helpless about the current situation.
"Hey, little brother." But at this moment, a voice suddenly came from the tavern behind him.
That place is said to be a tavern, but in fact it is a place with no roof and only a few crooked broken walls. However, despite this, the business in the tavern is booming, and those sitting at the wooden tables with missing arms and legs
It was full of drinkers, chatting among themselves, and it was very lively.
Li Danqing's eyes swept over the group of living dead one by one, and finally saw a familiar figure waving to him, but it was a living dead holding a small skeleton.
Li Danqing was stunned and immediately remembered that this guy was the one who was kicked to pieces by him just now...
"Are you trying to get me into a trap to take revenge on me?" Li Danqing muttered in his heart.
"Little brother, come and sit." But the man seemed to have forgotten the unpleasant experience before and continued to greet Li Danqing warmly.
Li Danqing had a strange look on his face. He thought for a while and thought to himself that it was not a problem to stay like this. It would be better to see what tricks this guy could do.
"Be careful." He turned around and told Luo An'an and the two of them, and then stepped into the so-called wine shop.
"The Western Long Yi people have no name for sending troops this time, and there is no chance of victory. In my opinion, our Chao Ge army only needs to wait for work and defend with natural dangers. If the Yi people have an unjust name, the country must be in turmoil. We cannot fight for a long time and cannot go out."
In March, the bandits were forced to retreat!"
"No, no, no! There are five reasons why soldiers start up: one is to fight for fame, the other is to fight for profit, the third is to accumulate evil, the fourth is to cause civil strife, and the fifth is to be hungry. When a division has a reputation, it is just the wind that helps the flames.
It’s hard to be a spring to put out the fire. This time the barbarians are coming with great force, so don’t be careless..."
Just as he entered the wine shop, the quarrel between the two drinkers in front of the wine shop reached Li Danqing's ears.
When Li Danqing heard what the two said clearly, he almost somersaulted and fell to the ground. Are these ghosts and monsters also concerned about the affairs of the family and the country? They said it clearly and logically, citing scriptures. It was not like what ordinary drinkers could say, but this
Which country are the Xilongyi people from?
Li Danqing was thinking like this when another quarrel came from the front.
"Stealing the fairy peaches from Yaochi, flying to the sky to lure Chang'e."
"The body is like Bei Mingkun, soaring ninety thousand miles!"
"What do you think of this poem?"
"It's inappropriate to steal the calligraphy. It looks cheap and disrespectful. I think it's better to pick out the calligraphy instead, which not only looks relaxed and freehand, but also shows the extraordinary momentum."
"Well, Mr. Yu is right. I think there is something wrong with this body like Bei Mingkun. It is too straightforward and lacks artistic conception. I wonder what you guys have to say?"
Three or four drinkers sat together at the wine table in front of them, discussing poetry and songs in a serious manner. Although Li Danqing didn't know much about this, he felt that these scary-looking guys were talking clearly. Li Danqing's face
It becomes more and more weird, and I have this thought in my heart. No matter how you are a ghost, you have to be so educated.
"What do you want from me?" Li Danqing thought about this and walked up to the guy who greeted him. He stared at him and asked with a still somewhat vigilant expression.
The guy who was kicked to pieces by Li Dan before was holding his daughter and looking at him with a smile. The little skeleton in his arms still looked alert, like a frightened kitten.
Although Prince Li still had difficulty developing any good impressions of these living dead, Li Danqing still felt a little guilty when being stared at by that little skeleton.
"Haha, is this your first time coming to Chaoge City? I don't know when the sacrificial ceremony will start, right?" The passerby seemed to see Li Danqing's embarrassment, but said enthusiastically: "By the way, I forgot to introduce myself.
, my name is "Fangzhou County Chronicle", this is my daughter "Lan County Chronicle"..."
"Speaking of it, I have more than 180 children, and they are almost separated. Now only Nannan is still alive..."