Infrastructure Throne

The deep night is like a dense fog that cannot be melted away, besieging this small northern city heavily.

Near the altar in the square, the noisy crowd seemed to be cut off suddenly.

The men and horses on both sides who were fighting could not help but stop their hands and knelt down softly. All human voices were drowned in the night, only the clanging and falling of swords, guns, and halberds was particularly obvious.

The group of snakes that were still murderous just now wanting to choose someone to devour, also staggered and hung their snake heads, and crawled at Shen Qingze's feet one after another, as docile as if they were meeting a snake king, and did not move at all.

The officiant Mo Yun, who was caught off guard and interrupted the spell, looked like a rooster strangled by the neck, with a ferocious expression on his face, no matter how hard he struggled, he could not resist the powerful force from the Kunpeng's Feather.

At the last moment before he fell down and fainted, the hand holding the staff was still trembling and pointed at Shen Qingze in the center of the altar, his eyes were full of disbelief.

In an instant, as far as Shen Qingze could see, there was no longer an enemy standing!

Yan Zui opened his eyes wide, staring in astonishment at the extremely shocking scene in front of him, speechless for a long time.

Kunpeng's Feather is a one-time-use item, and its lasting effect is only 30 seconds.

Shen Qingze dragged Yan Zui, rushed to the giant black vulture tied to the hanging basket in two steps in three steps, cut off all the ropes that bound them, picked up Priest Mo Yun from the ground, packed them and threw them into it a hanging basket.

When he held Yan Zui and stepped into the hanging basket, the 30 seconds had just ended.

The two most powerful people in Yuanliu City, the city lord and the chief priest, are now in the hands of Shen Qingze.

The people around gradually began to wake up from their lethargy, and their brains were chaotic for a while, and they didn't know what day and night it was.

As the power was exhausted, Kunpeng's Feather turned into countless dandelion-like black feathers, which slowly dissipated in the ashes of the star point.

"What's that?" Yan Zui didn't stop the young man's movement, but only stared at the fine black feathers all over the sky, his absent-minded eyes exposed the turbulent waves in his heart, and he was no longer calm just now.

"The Feather of the Kunpeng." Shen Qingze waved his hand and blew the black feather away.

"Kunpeng?" Yan Zui narrowed his eyes slightly, turned to stare at him, "Who are you?"

Seeing that the other party has never resisted, Shen Qingze simply put down the dagger, and said flatly: "Master City Master, why not take care of yourself first, and Your Excellency the Priest."

He moved his eyes down, and only then noticed Yan Zui's world-defying gun hidden behind him. He frowned and snatched one of them: "This is the gun I made for Yan Zui. Why is it in your hands? You killed someone. Don't let go of the gun, are you robbers?"

Yan Zui was speechless for a while.

For a moment, he couldn't help but ask, "Why are you so angry about him?"

Shen Qingze said coldly: "He owed me money, a lot of money. He died before paying it back, do you think I'm angry?"

Yan Zui: "..."

In the face of danger, beasts reacted more swiftly than humans. The densely entangled poisonous snakes on the altar almost assumed an attacking posture as soon as they woke up.

Shen Qingze cut off a section of the torch and threw it into the snakes, their nature of fearing fire caused them to retreat temporarily.

However, after a few breaths, the recovered Black Eagle was particularly frightened by that inexplicable force. He found himself free from restraint, flapped his wings in panic, and flew up into the sky with the three people in the hanging basket.

At this moment, a crisp prompt sounded in Shen Qingze's mind:

[Main task: Disintegration of the conspiracy is achieved, the total progress of the task is 10%]

Shen Qingze frowned secretly, there was such a big fight, how could it be so little completed.

The people who regained consciousness up and down the altar didn't understand what happened. They only knew that they were suddenly sleepy, their eyelids were fighting, and their hands and feet couldn't be controlled. When they woke up, they were shocked to find that the chief priest and the city lord had gone to heaven!

The crowd was in a mess. The guards and warriors were at a loss as they watched the hanging basket go up higher and higher. Immediately, the surrounding people took advantage of the random smashing of the fences that were holding the old people alive, trying to rescue their relatives.

Xiao Meng hesitated for a moment, guessing that since Shen Qingze's purpose was to release the old man alive, he would not take action against the City Lord, so he began to rectify the guards according to the original plan, cleaning up the mess everywhere.

The first thing to get rid of is these damn snakes and rebellious warriors!

In mid-air, the hanging basket swayed in the direction of Yeshen Mountain along with the swarms of black vultures.

"Look at the good deeds you have done!" The awakened Priest Mo Yun huddled in a corner of the hanging basket with disheveled hair, staring fiercely at Shen Qingze.

His staff didn't know where to go, and if he jumped from the hanging basket, he would definitely be smashed into a pulp.

The muscles of Mo Yun's cheeks twitched, he wished to cut Shen Qingze into pieces, and was afraid of that mysterious force, he didn't even dare to take a step closer to him, he could only lean against the eaves of the hanging basket, That would give him a false sense of security.

"You destroyed the sacrifice and let go of the sacrifice, Night God will definitely be angry! If you can't see the sun, everyone will freeze to death!" Mo Yun roared at him hysterically, "You killed the whole city! "

"Ye Shen?" Shen Qingze raised his eyebrows, "Have you seen it with your own eyes?"

Mo Yun sneered: "Are you joking? Are gods something you and me ordinary people can see?!"

Shen Qingze fiddled with the world-defying gun in his hand, and said in a low voice: "Then I'll take you to meet him."

"Are you crazy?" Mo Yun stared at him like a madman, it was unreasonable, "Night God will eat us! You just want to send yourself to death!"

Shen Qingze approached step by step, looking down at the other party from a high position: "I don't want to die, nor do I want to send others to die. There is no night god on Mount Ye Shen. It's an ancient monster that came from the far east, Kunpeng."

"The so-called eternal night is not that the night god was angry and punished. It's just that Kunpeng's huge wings hung down and just covered the sky above Yuanliu City, covering the sky and blocking the sun."

"All these are rumors fabricated by the ignorance and fear of the predecessors."

As soon as the voice fell, the system prompt sounded again.

[Main task: reveal the truth is achieved, the task progress is 20% complete]

Two goals have been completed, and the total progress is only 20%?Below 30%, there is still a risk of failure.

Sure enough, getting rid of Kunpeng is the key point...

Shen Qingze glanced at the main interface, there were less than forty hours left in the task countdown.

Even though Yan Zui had vaguely guessed when he saw Kunpeng's Feather, now that he heard the truth from Shen Qingze's mouth, he still couldn't help but be moved.

Mo Yun was shaken all over his body, even more unbelievable than being knocked down by an inexplicable force before, and exclaimed: "This is impossible! 30 years ago, it was obviously the same. When I sent living sacrifices to Ye Shen Mountain, Ye Shen calmed down his anger , Let Yuanliu City see the light again!"

Shen Qingze said: "Yes, 30 years ago, Kunpeng ate the sacrifice you gave and flew away. Maybe it used this place as its lair."

Mo Yun's face turned red: "That's Ye Shen's residence! Why do you say it's a monster?"

Shen Qingze pointed to a black mountain shrouded in smoke and clouds in front of him: "Fly to the top of the mountain, and you'll be able to see it with your own eyes."

After a long silence, Yan Zui said slowly, "If what you said is true, wouldn't Kunpeng eat us?"

Shen Qingze's eyes showed sarcasm: "Is the city lord also afraid of being eaten? If there are elders in your family who are over [-] years old, do you want them to serve as living sacrifices?"

Yan Zui smiled unhurriedly: "Who told you that the city lord ordered the living sacrifice? Priest Mo Yun, does the so-called city lord's decree in your hand have my seal, eh?"

"Who gets a fake corpse and feels like a treasure, and can't wait to announce my death?"

His glance at Mo Yun was like a thin blade, cutting off the frightened face down to the bones.

The latter shuddered subconsciously, thinking that people were killing me with knives and I was fish and meat, so he just closed his eyes and said nothing.

Shen Qingze frowned, glancing back and forth between the two of them, the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong, as if some important information was missing somewhere!

Fake corpse?Announcement of death?

"You haven't answered my question yet." Yan Zui left Mo Yun aside, and approached Shen Qingze step by step, with deep inquiry in his eyes.

"Who are you? A mere blacksmith can't know the secrets of Kunpeng, let alone possess such powerful power."

Shen Qingze became more and more suspicious: "How does the City Lord know that I am a blacksmith?"

He lowered his head and glanced at the spear in his hand, his heart skipped a beat, and a terrible conjecture involuntarily surfaced in his mind, and the cause and effect were quickly connected in his mind, becoming more and more clear——

"You, could it be..."

Shen Qingze finally showed a look of astonishment, the man's overly handsome face was already close at hand, and she gently smiled at him, as if a jade mountain was falling, dazzling and shining.

"What do you say?"

Shen Qingze's eyes were squinted by the dazzling brilliance, and he couldn't help but burst out a few words from between his teeth:

"My eyes are about to be blinded by your torch, move it away! My lord!"

Yan Zui smiled and stared at him with those amber eyes, and said slowly: "This is to let you see clearly who I am, so that you won't misidentify me again."

He took back the torch, lighted up the reserved light slots at the four corners of the hanging basket one by one, and stretched out his last hand in front of Shen Qingze, spreading his palm: "Give me back the gun."

Shen Qingze glanced down at the slender fingers, holding the gun barrel unmoved: "Yan Zui is the Lord of Yuanliu City?"

"Yes."

Shen Qingze glanced at the officiant Mo Yun who was cowering in the corner, trying to lower his sense of existence, and asked with a frown, "What happened to that corpse?"

A touch of pity flashed across Yan Zui's eyes: "It was a small captain of the guard who was also cursed by the beast slave and witch, and died of serious injuries. I secretly ordered Xiao Meng to disguise this person as me to lure the traitor."

Shen Qingze continued slowly:

"Then you appeared in public at the sacrificial ceremony and announced that you were still alive. By the way, you clarified to the people in the whole city that the arrest of the elderly elders in the city was a fake order of yours. Then, you caught all those who dared to oppose you, even Yu killed them on the spot to appease the people who lost their loved ones and vent their anger."

Yan Zui stroked his palm lightly: "That's a good guess."

Shen Qingze frowned: "You're here now, and you don't care over there, aren't you worried?"

"The traitor acted hastily, and his strength is limited. Xiao Meng and the guards will clean up for me, don't worry." Yan Zui smiled slightly, "What's more, you have arrested the priest Mo Yun here, and those warriors are gone. The backbone, the only way to go is to surrender."

"You took the dragon scale jade in my fish tank?"

"Yes." Yan Zui wrinkled his nose in dissatisfaction, "How dare you throw such an important treasure in the fish tank casually?"

Shen Qingze corrected him expressionlessly: "I threw it in the fish tank very solemnly."

Yan Zui: "..." Is there a difference?

Shen Qingze: "One last question."

Yan Zui smiled, the long hair tied behind his head fell to his shoulders, he combed it casually with five fingers: "You have a lot of questions, but you don't answer me, it's not fair."

Shen Qingze looked into his eyes non-stop: "If I hadn't appeared to take the two of you away, and no one had told you the truth about Kunpeng, how would you plan to drive away the darkness for Yuanliu City?"

"Or... are you going to continue the living sacrifice? Anyway, these traitors gave the order, and it has nothing to do with you. With one hand, you can punish the traitors, and with the other hand, you can gain prestige, and you can also relieve Yongye.

Under the calm tone, there was an extremely sharp edge hidden, and at the end of the question, it was too late.

"Are you testing me?" Yan Zui, with his usual casual smile, lightly stroked his lower lip with his index finger on his chin, and the lip color became more red with Yubai's fingertips.

Shen Qingze quietly waited for his answer.

Even Mo Yun in the corner raised his ears to listen.

Yan Zui took a step forward, leaned slightly, and leaned close to Shen Qingze's ear, the warm breath almost made the young man's earlobe red.

The city lord let out a low laugh in his chest: "You guessed it right, of course I will continue to sacrifice alive, otherwise I really don't know how to make the sun see the sun again."

Priest Mo Yun sneered mockingly: "I knew you were not a good person."

Shen Qingze fixed his eyes, looked at the other person's face that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, and said: "Could it be that you intend...to replace the old people with these traitors who are against you as living sacrifices?"

Mo Yun was shocked, his whole face was shocked and angry: "How dare you - we are a family of meritorious nobles!"

Yan Zui finally burst out laughing, the laughter echoed in the empty night sky, and then slowly converged into a complicated look.

"Why can't I just keep doing it? You should know that the granary in the city can't last long, and the elderly over [-] have no use value for the city. Without their rations, maybe It can feed more young adults and children."

He is persuasive: "The reality is so cruel. Whether you want it or not, there is always a trade-off."

Shen Qingze rarely showed a faint smile: "If that's your plan, then you should wait for the traitors to push the old people into the snake den, and then appear in front of people as the savior, sacrifice, prestige, scapegoat , have it all."

"But you didn't."

Shen Qingze solemnly handed the world-defying gun back to the other party, and said lightly:

"I believe that a soldier who fights with foreigners to protect Yuanliu City, and an employer who reminds me that this little blacksmith takes his relatives to take refuge, will love this city and its people more than anyone else." .”

The sloppy smile gradually faded from Yan Zui's face, he took the spear with his eyes down, stroked the body of the spear lightly, remained silent for a long time, and said slowly:

"Thirty years ago, both my grandfather and grandmother died in living sacrifices. It was my father's personal order. Later, my mother broke with him. If..."

Shen Qingze's brows moved slightly, but she couldn't wait for the next words.

Yan Zui didn't speak anymore, just looked at the dark and dark Yeshen Mountain in the distance, and buried his inaudible sigh in the wind.

There was no reference in the pitch-black sky, and the three of them had been flying with the black vulture for an unknown amount of time. The temperature in mid-air was horribly low, and Priest Mo Yun huddled in the corner of the hanging basket, his lips turning white from the cold.

The countdown on the main board passed by one minute and one second, Shen Qingze tightened his bearskin coat, and glanced at the system description:

[Gift from Papa Li: a coat made of King Kong bear skin, the fabric is soft and warm, and can withstand sub-zero temperatures.Charm +10, Defense +10]

Comfort and warmth surrounded him, which was the protection from Father Li.

I don't know what's going on at the altar...

Suddenly the cries of black vultures were heard overhead, and the hanging basket became more and more bumpy as they circled up and down.

"It's almost there." Yan Zui stood beside Shen Qingze, looking at him with his head tilted. The cloak on his body was a bit thin, but his back was still straight.

"When we arrive at Yeshen Mountain in a while, how are you going to deal with Kunpeng? Even if they are not gods, ancient monsters are definitely not easy to deal with. Can you use the power just now for a second time?"

Priest Mo Yun was already unconscious from the cold, and he kept muttering: "I will be eaten...I don't want to die..."

Shen Qingze shook his head lightly: "I can't."

He reached into the inner pocket of his coat and took out the pale golden ichthyosaur. Its slender body was coiled up like a snake, shivering in the palm of his hand. After evolution, it no longer needed to stay in the water. inside.

But such a small one, weak and helpless and pitiful, what role can it play in the face of the huge Kunpeng?

Shen Qingze frowned, looking a little worried: "City Lord, can you promise me one thing?"

Yan Zui smiled slightly: "If you can make Yuanliu City see the light again, don't say one thing, I will promise you ten things."

Shen Qingze took a deep breath, with a solemn face: "The Dragon Scale Jade you pledged to me has been taken away, and the money has not yet been paid back. Is the Lord City Master planning to renege on his debt?"

Yan Zui: "..."

After a while, he asked, "Is this what you want to say?"

Shen Qingze was upright and awe-inspiring: "Of course, one must be reasonable in life. It's only natural to pay back debts. Even if you are the city lord, you have to settle accounts clearly."

Seeing that he was getting closer and closer to Yeshen Mountain, he felt that death was close at hand. Priest Mo Yun trembled, almost hysterically:

"You are a mere blacksmith who sabotaged the sacrificial ceremony and took us to Yeshen Mountain to die for nothing. How dare you say that you are reasonable?! What kind of reason?"

For this selfish guy, Shen Qingze didn't even give him a look of disdain, let alone talking nonsense with him.

With a flip of his right hand, the dagger came out, and it was firmly nailed to the side of the opponent's cheek. A few hairs were cut off, and he explained his "reason" with practical actions, which scared the priest Mo Yun into silence for an instant.

"Vulgar man!" Mo Yun could only slander in his heart.

The chirping of the black vultures became louder and louder. Looking down from the hanging basket, one could already vaguely see the dark shadows of the lush forests under the Yeshen Mountain.

In the boundless night, only the gondola they were riding on had a faint light of fire, and as the black eagle swooped down, the fire light fell like a meteor, flickering on and off.

After a violent jolt and shaking, the black vultures flew up to a cliff on the top of the mountain with the three of them. More than a dozen black vultures huddled together to keep warm, and refused to go in half a step.

The dark entrance of the cave is like a huge vertical eye, watching the three uninvited guests.

Shen Qingze held up the torch and looked up, his eyes were filled with unfathomable blackness, he couldn't see anything, and there was a very regular sound of wind coming from his ears, like the breathing of some kind of giant.

Legend has it that Kunpeng's body is as tall as a mountain, thinking that they might step on this ancient monster with every step, even Shen Qingze couldn't help but feel his scalp go numb.

He walked in the front with a torch in his hand, Yan Zui used a long spear to hold the chief priest Mo Yun in the middle, and behind him, the figures of the three were gradually swallowed by the darkness and disappeared at the entrance of the cave.

As the few people went deeper, the temperature around them continued to rise.

Shen Qingze has already taken off the bearskin coat, tied his two long sleeves around his waist, even the officiant Mo Yun is sweating profusely, his body is weak and his feet are weak, and he has to hold on to the rock wall to force it Stay standing.

Shen Qingze vaguely smelled the smell of sulfur in the air, the cave had come to an end, and there seemed to be light ahead.

When he turned his head, he saw that Yan Zui had taken off his cloak and put it on his elbows at some point. He was wearing a black and gold military uniform that outlined a slender and well-proportioned figure. The gold thread stretched all the way to the tight waist.

Hidden there are three daggers of different sizes, the smallest one looks like a throwing knife.

Shen Qingze couldn't help but think of the posture when he held Yan Zui hostage, in case the other party secretly stabbed him with this thing...

"Why did you stop?"

When Yan Zui came to him, Shen Qingze came back to his senses, and pointed to the lighted hole: "We may be there."

The three of them turned the last corner, and their field of vision suddenly widened—no one had ever reached the inside of the Mountain of the Night, it was an extremely empty and smooth mountain wall, the space was so large that there was no end in sight.

The bottom of the mountain wall is actually a natural hot spring gushing from the ground!The faint golden spring water overflowed the interior of the mountain, and the warm steam continued to rise upwards, making the faces of the three of them slightly reddened by the heat.

There was a shadow cast on the hot spring, Shen Qingze held up the torch and looked up, for a moment, his eyes widened, and he almost uttered an obscenity.

——Slant above the three of them, there is a spacious cliff extending towards the center of the hot spring, where countless grass leaves and dead branches are piled up to form a thick nest, and several giant milky white eggs as tall as a person stay quietly in the nest.

Gan!Ganqing Kunpeng comes here once every 30 years, relying on the natural hot spring of Yeshen Mountain to hatch eggs and give birth to cubs!

The expressions of the three people were shocked to varying degrees.

If it is in the online game "Dawn Century", facing such a big boss, there are two common solutions. , but success is guaranteed.

The second is to send death squads to steal its eggs, relay them, and escape from Yeshen Mountain.

When Kunpeng finds out that his cub has been stolen, he will definitely chase after it. When its huge body leaves the top of the mountain, its wings will naturally no longer block the sun, and the task can be completed.

But now, Shen Qingze is alone, without a large number of teammates, and he has no life to steal the Kunpeng egg.

what can we do about it?

The countdown hung in his heart like the scythe of death, Shen Qingze hesitated for a moment, blew out the torch, and tiptoed towards the nest.

When he was about to approach, a pair of giant eyes suddenly opened on the dark cave wall above his head!