Fantasy: The beginning is dedicated to the empress as auspicious

Shu Road is difficult, and it is difficult to ascend to the sky.

It has been three days since I left Shendu, and the official road ahead has become difficult and steep.

Lynch regretted going to Shuzhou a bit.

He really overestimated the road conditions of this era.

I thought I could ride a horse, sing songs, and walk happily along the way.

While admiring the great mountains and rivers, come to a wild barbecue when you are happy.

But what about the result.

It's only been three days, and he hasn't finished a third of the way, but his butt is about to lose consciousness.

No matter how good the dragon horse is, it can't withstand the roughness and bumps of the road under its feet, it's really uncomfortable.

"I'm so pissed off, I'll exchange the cement formula later, and let the empress repair the road. He's ashamed to call it official."

Lynch clutched his buttocks and limply on the dragon horse.

His cultivation base is not weak now, in fact, this ups and downs will not really affect him, but he is tired.

Lu Xun has a famous saying that there is no road in this world, if there are many people walking, the road will become a road.

This sentence is really a wise saying.

Because the current official road, which is said to connect Shuzhou and Shendu, was created by people, not by repair.

"Master Lin, this road has not yet entered Shu, and the really difficult road is still ahead."

Zen Master Shenxiu couldn't help teasing Lin Qi when he saw Lin Qi laying on the dragon horse.

"No way, the road to Shu is more difficult?"

Lynch was taken aback, "What does the imperial court do?! Don't you know how to repair the roads after all these years? Have you never heard that saying? If you want to get rich, build roads first.

This is still the official way of the court, broken into such a ghost, what a ghost? ! "

"Lord Lin, why doesn't the court want to build roads and connect the world, but building roads is easier said than done."

Yin Caiwei shook her head and explained to Lynch.

It turns out that for Da Zhou, just building roads is actually not too difficult.

Although Dazhou does not have road-building artifacts such as excavators, explosives, and cement, Dazhou has martial arts.

For a martial arts expert, it is easy to open mountains and crack rocks.

Even if it is to cut through a mountain, it is not impossible to dig a tunnel.

But the problem is that the roads are easy to repair, but maintenance is too difficult.

"In the mountains and forests, there are many monsters and ghosts. After the road is repaired, it is easy to attract ghosts and ghosts to pry and attack and destroy. Master Lin has been in a high position for a long time, but he doesn't know the secret behind it."

Zen Master Shenxiu spoke lightly and told Lynch a story.

300 years ago, after the founding of the country, Emperor Taizu of the Great Zhou Dynasty ordered a large-scale construction project in order to consolidate his rule, and wanted to connect the fields of Kyushu.

But soon he was counterattacked by demons and ghosts entrenched in the deep mountains and old forests.

Although the human race is thriving in the Kyushu land, the human race has been living in the city for thousands of years, and the control over the development of the wild is actually not firm.

There are many monsters and ghosts in the deep mountains, this is something that a three-year-old child knows.

However, the Emperor Taizu of the Great Zhou Dynasty wanted to build large-scale construction projects, open mountains, build roads and bridges, and he would naturally invade the lair of demons and ghosts.

In this way, there was a follow-up battle of breaking mountains and destroying temples that lasted for a period of six years.

This battle has been fought for 60 years.

But in the end it was a lose-lose.

The demons and ghosts entrenched in the deep mountains and old forests suffered heavy casualties, but Da Zhou's plan to build roads and bridges was also aborted.

the reason is simple.

Da Zhou's army can destroy mountains and temples, and sweep away all monsters and monsters, but it won't last long.

The no-man's land in the deep mountains and old forests is a paradise for breeding demons and ghosts after all.

There is no way for Da Zhou's iron cavalry to wipe out the roots and completely clear the soil where demons and ghosts live, so they can only defend day and night, and withstand the counterattack from demons and ghosts.

The armed forces of Dazhou can be used to maintain the safety of the city, suppress a party of demons and ghosts, and protect the safety of the people.

But there is not enough power to guard the roads connecting the major cities day after day.

As a result, even though Dazhou repaired bridges and repaired roads back then and built roads extending in all directions, these roads have long been in disrepair and been destroyed, and they are no longer the grandeur of the past.

To put it bluntly, the cost of building infrastructure on the land of China is too high.

It was done once when the Great Zhou founded the country, but now it is a little unable to renovate.

This is also one of the reasons for the rise and fall of the dynasty in the past many years.

When the new dynasty was first established, all things were revived, and the national power was strong, and all monsters and ghosts could be suppressed into the deep mountains and old forests.

But in the middle of the dynasty, the military power of the imperial court could only be maintained around one city after another, and communication and transportation began to gradually become difficult.

By the end of the dynasty, all parts of the world were simply closed to the outside world, and communication and transportation almost did not exist.

The major cities are equivalent to semi-independent kingdoms, which naturally form a state of separation.

At the same time, because of the lack of the imperial army's sweep of the demons and ghosts in the deep mountains and old forests.

The threat posed by ghosts and ghosts will gradually increase, and even directly threaten the location of the human city.

In this way, the fear and resentment of the common people will become deeper and deeper, thus making the demons and ghosts stronger.

Such a cycle, repeated over and over again, formed the periodic rise and fall of dynasties generation after generation.

"Da Zhou is not bad now, at least we haven't encountered any monsters and ghosts on the road until now. The poor monk has read some records of exorcising demons written by my senior from the Great Buddha Temple.

It contains many records of the big monsters who entrenched on the road in the last years of the dynasty. "

Zen Master Shenxiu was excited to speak, and he told a few stories of horrible monsters harming people.

For example, in a deserted temple, a tree demon in the form of a demon manipulates female ghosts, confuses passers-by, absorbs yang energy, and devours flesh and blood.

There are also monsters who are good at changing, transforming into village girls, sneaking into mountain villages, instigating all kinds of evil thoughts in people's hearts, and turning the whole village into death overnight.

But most of them are demons and ghosts who are good at sucking the essence of human race, such as fox demons, bat demons, zombies and so on.

As soon as it gets dark, they will run rampant on the roads, and they will only pick on travelers who are alone.

All kinds of horrors made Lynch's scalp tingle.

"Zen Master Shenxiu, are you trying to scare me?"

Lynch had goosebumps.

He naturally knew that there were demons and ghosts raging in this world, but he stayed in the capital of God after crossing over.

He has also seen the monsters locked in the demon town, and they don't seem to be anything to be afraid of.

At least it feels that although there are monsters and ghosts in this world, they are still respected by the human race, and the monsters and ghosts can't make trouble.

But Zen Master Shenxiu said so.

Lynch felt terrified, and suspected that if this was the case, the human race would have been extinct long ago.

"My lord, the Zen master didn't intend to scare you. I have also heard many stories about ghosts and monsters harming people. Although it is not as scary as the Zen master said.

But there are tens of thousands of crimes committed by demons and goblins every year.This is still counted by the six gates in the city.

In this kind of wilderness, if there are ghosts and ghosts committing crimes, many of them are actually not known at all. "

Yin Caiwei sighed.

"The road from Shendu to Shuzhou is fairly peaceful. The Demon Suppressor has patrollers, who are ordered to patrol the road every month to suppress and kill demons.

But in some remote places, demons and ghosts are likely to be flooded.

We can only rely on the army to sweep over from time to time. "

Seeing Lin Qi's surprised expression, Zen Master Shenxiu frowned slightly, "Master Lin, don't you think that this world is truly peaceful and prosperous?"

"if not?"

Lynch asked back, a little frightening, he really didn't know that the threat of ghosts and ghosts had never been really far away.

"You demon masters are ordered to suppress the demons in the world, how can you let the demons wreak havoc?"

Zen Master Shenxiu was upset when he heard this, "Lord Lin, you made it clear. The poor monk asked you, do you think there are more people in this world, or more ghosts and ghosts?"

"Nature is human... er."

Lynch reacted.

In the previous life, humans were known as the spirits of all things, with a population of billions, but compared with animals and plants, billions of humans are nothing more than a fraction.

Among other things, in the previous life, if all kinds of creatures on land attacked humans, then humans would only be exhausted, or even in danger.

In this world, human beings cannot even be called the spirits of all things.

After all, the real dragon in Longyuan will tell Lynch who is the creature at the top of the world's food chain.

Even if the number of demons and ghosts cannot be equated with the number of all creatures except humans.

But even if it is only one ten thousandth, or even one hundred thousandth.

Then the number of demons and ghosts in this world can also be counted in tens of millions.

And there are tens of millions of creatures with extraordinary power.

With such a terrifying group of enemies, the human race might have exhausted all their strength even if they wanted to maintain their defensive state, let alone win the battle.

What's more frightening is that this is only a threat that humans on land will face.

In the depths of the ocean, how many terrifying monsters are staring at them, isolating the continents and oceans, and splitting the land into isolated islands?

Thinking of this, Lynch suddenly took a deep breath.

It was the ease and peace of the God City that blinded Lynch, making him think that this was just a world similar to ancient dynasties, with martial arts and demons.

But in fact, in this world, the survival of human beings may always be in the blink of an eye.

Maybe even the last home of the human race, Da Zhou, is left in this world.

It is not impossible that other places have already been occupied by demons and ghosts.

"Zen Master Shenxiu, do you know that besides the Great Zhou, there are other human nations?"

Lynch couldn't help asking.

Zen Master Shenxiu nodded, "Yes. But if you mean a country like Da Zhou, where the human race is respected and can suppress demons within its borders, then maybe there is."

"What do you mean maybe?"

Lynch asked in horror.

"Master Lin, have you heard of the Beihai Kingdom?"

"I heard."

The Beihai country where the empress's biological mother lives.

Lynch nodded.

"The Beihai Kingdom used to be the closest country to the Great Zhou, but the Beihai Kingdom was not a purely human nation. In order to survive, the people of the Beihai Kingdom chose to intermarry with some monster races in the North Sea, mixing blood.

Half-human, half-demon, thus obtained the permission of some monster races in Beihai, and thus existed for thousands of years.

It even became a neutral country for my Shenzhou people to trade with the North Sea monsters. "

"A country like the Beihai Kingdom is considered pretty good, but more people simply abandon their identity as a human race and choose to enshrine demons and ghosts in order to obtain asylum.

As for the worse, it is directly like a pig and dog in captivity, reduced to the blood food of demons and ghosts, and deliberately raised in captivity by demons and ghosts. "

Speaking of this, Zen Master Shenxiu let out a long sigh, as if he was lamenting the fate of the human race.

Yin Caiwei's face was pale. Although she knew that demons and ghosts have always been the greatest threat to the human race, this was the first time she had heard of these things.