in the ancient last days

On the pale yellow land covered with white snow, a hot air balloon slowly flew away in the sky. Endless snowflakes fell on the bare branches. Chu Zhao and Cui Ziqian stood inside the hot air balloon, looking down from top to bottom.

"Cross the swamp in front of you, and you will arrive at my home!"

Going home, the thought of seeing Cui Ziqian, a relative whom he hadn’t seen for a long time, made him very excited. Following his line of sight, Chu Zhao saw pieces of messy green marshes, like jigsaw puzzles dropped abruptly on the ground, covered by frost. freeze.

"A little weird."

Chu Zhao murmured. He felt that there was no breath of any living things in the swamp. It stands to reason that there are many creatures in the depths of the swamp. Even in the severe cold environment, the breath should not all disappear.

The hot air balloon landed slowly on the light gray stone slab, and Chu Zhao led him to jump out of the hot air balloon. Looking forward, Cui Ziqian stepped forward in a daze.

what happened?Why is the door of the clan land wide open?

He has never written a letter saying that he will return home today, and that he came to the Cui family with Shaojun to give the clansmen a surprise...

Chu Zhao looked around and frowned: "Be careful."

Something was a little strange, he drew out his dagger, blocked Cui Ziqian's body and entered the gate first.

The Cui family is different from the new city. The post-apocalyptic clan land is almost as airtight as a military fortress. Unless someone from the Cui family guides the way, it is extremely difficult for outsiders to enter the maze-like clan land.

But now, there was not a single hustle and bustle of living people in the clan ground, and the cool wind came in gusts, rolling up the fallen leaves, and there was only the sound of the wind blowing and the beating hearts of the two in the space. Chu Zhao vigilantly clenched his knife and dagger tightly.

A silver l-color pistol was pinned to the belt on the back of his waist, which was exchanged from the system. Chu Zhao put his arm around Cui Ziqian's waist: "Hold tight."

"Small, young master!"

He stepped on the dent of the wall with one foot and took a strong leap. He jumped to a height of nearly ten meters in an instant, and landed on the watchtower.

The scene of the Cui Clan's land just came into their eyes, the sky was filled with the color of dead snow, and there were many dense fluorescent greens suddenly appeared in the middle.

Chu Zhao's eyesight was excellent, and his heart sank when he saw the scene below.

On the ground, in the corners, under the eaves, and even in the stone house, there are green mutated giant crocodiles.

The body rises and falls slowly with breathing, which shows that they are all living creatures. At this moment, these mutated crocodiles are nesting in every corner of the Cui family, looking like a new owner, as if they have already taken this place as their own.

Cui Ziqian looked around blankly, but he didn't see a relative.

"Where's my father? Where's Mr. Bu? Cousins, five sisters, clan people, everyone..."

Did everyone... all disappear—?

"Ahhhhhhh." Gasping in pain, Cui Ziqian's eyes were red, and he almost crazily drew his sword and jumped down, but Chu Zhao hurriedly snatched it back: "Are you going to throw yourself to death?"

"Young Master, Young Master..." Gritting his teeth, Cui Ziqian threw himself into Chu Zhao's arms with red eyes, grabbed his collar tightly and let out sobs one after another.

There was a burst of wetness in his chest, and Chu Zhao intuitively felt that the other party should not be so close, so he pulled a little distance away uncomfortably, but the person in his arms cried uncontrollably, and rushed forward again.

Chu Zhao: "..." He patted the other party's shoulder helplessly.

It is indeed a bit pitiful to experience such a blow in one day...

"I want revenge, I want revenge." The little lamb gritted his teeth, every word was full of hatred.

Chu Zhao turned his head to look at the number of crocodiles below: "There are so many mutant crocodiles, how are you going to kill them?"

Squinting his eyes and carefully inspecting the distance, his lips moved: "Wait."

There are strange things in the clan grounds. Although the Cui clan is full of mutant crocodiles without a trace of living beings, there is no smell of blood as far as the eye can see.

Chu Zhao decided to investigate, maybe the truth of the matter would turn around.

"You stay here." He told the other party, and handed him the pistol for self-defense.

Cui Ziqian nodded obediently, and didn't say anything about following Chu Zhao beyond his control.

Seeing this, Chu Zhao took a step back reassuringly, turned over and jumped, wrapped in the endless wind and lightly jumped off the eaves of more than ten meters high, running around in the maze to explore, his steps were as light as a black l-color cat.

No, no, no here--

There was no one alive, and Chu Zhao didn't even find a piece of leftover clothes.

The members of the Cui family seemed to have disappeared from the clan land out of thin air!

Only the sleeping mutated giant crocodiles, and the entire Cui family land covered by wind and snow, looked like a still oil painting of white snow.

In the end Chu Zhao had no choice but to go back to where he was, shaking his head at Cui Ziqian.

Cui Ziqian was stunned: "No?"

Chu Zhao: "Yes. There are only hibernating mutated crocodiles."

As soon as his words fell, the child turned pale, his face seemed to have received a huge blow, and futile whimpers came out of his throat.

Chu Zhao didn't know how to comfort him, so he could only sit silently by the side, quietly blocking the wind and snow for the child.

hoo... hoo...

cold night.

A small bonfire was lit in the snow, making a crackling sound.

Chu Zhao lit the fire with a tree branch, his hair shone with an orange luster under the light of the fire, his eyes were deep and heavy, he was thinking about what happened today.

How could the Cui family disappear out of thin air in their clan land?

A whole family of people would have left some clues, but there were no signs.

Chu Zhao rubbed his forehead, feeling a little headache, he is not a talent for investigating cases, it is really difficult for him to trace the root cause, he should bring Li Xingxu, if you want to come to a magic stick to take a look, you can find out the truth.

While thinking silently, he suddenly felt someone approaching his body, and Chu Zhao raised his head in surprise.

The young man has red lips and white teeth, soft hair, and wet eyes like a puppy. At this moment, he carefully sticks it to his right arm. After being glanced at by him, he immediately bounces up like a rabbit, and he grits his teeth as if he has made up his mind. Continue to get closer, looking up at him cautiously.

"Young Master, Young Master, how do you plan to arrange for the rest of our clan..."

"I, I'm Shuang'er, if Shaojun wants it, I, I...I can do it!" He told the secret he had kept for many years without any concealment. Untie it, grab Chu Zhao's hand and poke inside, the cold and slender big hand felt the warmth inside, and the body shivered instantly.

Chu Zhao pulled back his hand and stood up.

The scene on Cui Ziqian's chest still flashed in the corner of his eye. It was very similar to Zhou Jing's body curve in memory. The Cui family's heir is actually a twin? !

Cui Ziqian had tears in his eyes, and he was almost ashamed to death. Taking the initiative to do this kind of seduction in the wild was a challenge to his family upbringing since he was a child, but he has nothing but this... Shenshan There are still so many Cui family members in the academy, his relatives from childhood to adulthood, he can't let them be driven out of the new city...

If you dedicate yourself to Shaojun and let him control your weaknesses, maybe the other party will soften and leave them behind. Although the Cui family has nothing, the name of the first family can attract many people.

Thoughts flashed through his mind, Cui Ziqian bit his lip, and tremblingly continued to move closer to Chu Zhao, wanting to hug his waist.

Chu Zhao almost threw the opponent out with an elbow.

Turning back the other's hand coldly, he closed his eyes: "Put on your clothes, I don't need it."

"The Cui family will live in Xincheng from now on, they are people in Xincheng. You don't need to do these things. Also, are you an adult?" Chu Zhaoyi pointed out.

Cui Ziqian was ashamed and ashamed. Could it be that Shao Jun meant that he disliked him for not developing well enough?

"Dare to do this kind of thing before Mao grows up."

Chu Zhao twitched the corner of his mouth. He still had [-] poisonous tongues in his mind to ridicule this little boy who wanted to seduce a man, but seeing the other's pale and bloodless face, he silently swallowed it back.

Cui Ziqian was speechless, his expression extremely embarrassed.

It was as if he was bullying the child. After thinking about it, Chu Zhao turned around, took off his cloak and threw it into the other party's arms.

"...Young Master?"

"Put it on." Without further nonsense, Chu Zhao turned around and said, Cui Ziqian held his coat, his palms were drenched with sweat, and stared at Chu Zhao stupidly, watching him explore the terrain in the snow.

The smell of ashes of plants and trees was covered up in the deep snow. Even so, Chu Zhao, who was very open, still smelled it with his nose with a superhuman sense of smell.

After walking around the open area, Chu Zhao poked through the snow with a long arrow, and found the ashes of the burnt grass.

There are four corners of the area, Chu Zhao walked along it, his eyes slowly widened, this is...

"Child, what is the sacred pattern of your family's divination."

Cui Ziqian sniffled: "It's a turtle."

Chu Zhao trembled all over, opened his eyes suddenly, and returned along the original route. The long black arrow kept sliding in the snow, making a rustling sound.

Cui Ziqian stepped forward hesitantly: "Young Master, what's wrong with you, Young Master..."

Chu Zhao must have been frightened by his behavior just now.

Are you so unattractive?Thinking dejectedly, after a while, Chu Zhao's serious voice came from his ear.

"Look, what is this."

In the snow-white world, the snow fell from the bent branches into the snow field with a puff, and a huge pattern was outlined inch by inch where it was walked.

Holding a torch and standing behind Chu Zhao, Cui Ziqian stared at the pattern in the snow, his eyes slowly widened——

"This is...."

A giant tortoise with its head raised.

They are Cui's, sacred patterns.

*****

"Why didn't I think that Grandpa Master Divination has the ability to predict good and bad luck, so he must have taken the people of his family to hide early!" Cui Ziqian's excited little face flushed, and all the previous depressed emotions disappeared, and then replaced by a man full of emotions. excitement.

Chu Zhao led him through the night, turned around and asked, "Then can you guess where your people are now?"

Cui Ziqian was stunned for a moment, blushing in embarrassment when he met Chu Zhao's eyes, his dog's eyes were wet, and his voice was as thin as a mosquito: "Well, I have to go to the house of the fortune-telling grandpa to find out... .”

"It's okay, if you can find clues, it's good to know that they are safe."

The two sneaked into Cui's fortune teller's room carefully. Along the way, the mutated crocodiles were sleeping, looking like they were hibernating. Although Cui Ziqian hated these things for driving away his clansmen and occupying Cui's living place, but now there is more The most important thing is to find the lost clansmen.

The divination master's house is not big, it's in a very hidden place in the Cui family's land.

As soon as Chu Zhao entered the room, he was covered in copper coins all over his face.

The yellowed coins fell on the floor, and as soon as he walked in, he felt an inexplicable pressure, his eyes were about to change color uncontrollably, Chu Zhao quickly took out a pair of sunglasses from the space and put them on.

Cui Ziqian excitedly searched for the clues left by Grandpa Master Divination, and when he turned his head, he saw Chu Zhao wearing sunglasses.

"?"

Chu Zhao didn't change his face: "I haven't slept all night, my eyes are a little sore."

"Oh." Hearing this, Cui Ziqian bowed his head in shame, feeling that he was dragging the other party down, and it was all because of his willfulness, so he asked Shaojun to accompany him to find clues all night.

The orange flames illuminated the entire stone house. Chu Zhao walked around and suddenly found something wrong with the tortoise shells hanging on the wall. The tortoise shells used for divination are usually placed upright, and this one hung on the wall. But misplaced.

The dark green tortoise shell was turned upside down, like a tortoise with its teeth and claws that was deliberately turned over by someone.

With his excellent eyesight, he could see incomplete small handwriting engraved on it, which was extremely concealed, and the combination of text patterns was very strange, like bone inscriptions, and it did not belong to any of his memory cognition.

Holding the torch and watching inch by inch, feeling the power emanating from it, Chu Zhao had to admit that even if there were no supernatural powers in this world, special and mysterious power still existed.

"Cui Ziqian, come and take a look."

Cui Ziqian, who was struggling with grass, trees and copper coins on the ground, ran over immediately: "Young Master, did you find anything?"

Following the direction of Chu Zhao's finger, he saw Gui Wen under the light of the fire, and his eyes widened suddenly: "This is something left by Master Divination!"

"Do you know what it means?"

"Master Divination left two words, meaning..." Cui Ziqian looked up at the tortoise shell, and said word by word,

"—a cave."

Dense fern forest.

Chu Zhao led his people through the forest at high speed, carrying dark green tortoise shells in his arms. They kept changing the trajectory and direction of their actions, looking for the traces of the Cui family according to the subtle light emitted by the text.

sieve--

His steps stopped suddenly.

The area under the feet was extremely quiet, not even the chirping of insects and birds could be heard, but two millimeters away from the tip of Chu Zhao's nose, a long and slender spider thread suddenly appeared.

It was crystal clear, transparent, and almost merged with the air. If he hadn't been vigilant and almost couldn't detect it, he would have bumped into it and was entangled in spider webs to death.

"Young Master." Cui Ziqian's fearful voice sounded from behind.

The rustling sound was like the rubbing of leaves. What appeared in front of Chu Zhao was a huge black spider. The main body was more than two meters in diameter, and the whole body had a dark purple luster. Spitting silk thread.

At the same time, the tortoise shell in Cui Ziqian's arms reacted.

hum-

The tortoise script shines brightly.

The function of the tortoise shell is to guide the way. Whenever they meet a member of the Cui clan, the bone inscriptions will light up to signal.

And now....

Looking up in disbelief, Cui Ziqian looked at the giant spider hanging upside down in front of him, his face was stiff, his hands and feet were extremely cold, and blood rushed to his forehead. He raised his weapon and rushed towards the spider web without thinking.

"jump!"

The blade slashed on the thin spider silk, making a crisp metal collision sound, Chu Zhao stepped forward like lightning, cut off the spider thread with a dagger, and brought back Cui Ziqian, who was almost dead, by his collar: "Are you looking for death?! "

Cui Ziqian: "Wuuu, this monster killed my people, please don't stop me, Young Master, I want revenge—"

Chu Zhao: "I won't stop you, but let's talk after you figure out the situation."

The tortoise shell reacted, indicating that the Cui family was nearby. He didn't believe that with the ability of the Cui family's divination master, the person who could lead the whole family back safely under the threat of a group of mutated crocodiles in a city would be buried in a small crocodile. Small giant spider belly.

Chu Zhao grabbed Cui Ziqian and found that the tortoise shell was shining brightly. The next moment, the giant spider in front of him slowly retreated, and the snow-white hunting spider web also parted to the two sides. An old man with white hair and beard walked step by step with a cane. Surrounded by many men and women in robes.

The familiar faces made Cui Ziqian happy: "Grandpa Divination Master!"

"Everyone...you are all still alive!"

Among these people, Chu Zhao only knew Chen Yue, and as for Cui Rongxi who had met once, he couldn't even remember what the other person looked like.

The youngest old man has white beard and hair in the middle, with a kind and gentle smile.

Chu Zhao secretly thought that the other party should be the elder Bu of the Cui clan. The grand master of divination that Cui Ziqian often mentioned was able to lead the whole clan to predict the danger in advance and retreat safely. He did not know how to drive a black-faced poisonous spider As a defense, he is definitely a character worth looking up to.

Thinking about it carefully, the previous practice of sending the younger generation of the Cui family to the academy may not have been promoted by the other party.

The Patriarch Cui was a middle-aged man with the appearance of a scribe, standing side by side with Chen Yue and the old divination master. The three of them exuded an inexplicable aura of a big boss in every move they made.

Chu Zhao felt a little sad when he saw it. God knows that although his new city is full of talents, there is no harm if there is no comparison. Compared with the three in front of him, the backbone of the new city is still immature.

Even he himself, standing in front of the three of them, must be vigilant wholeheartedly, and be careful not to be fooled.

After a while.

Elder Bu on the opposite side watched Chu Zhao and spoke, and a gentle voice sounded:

"I have been waiting for you for a long time, Your Highness Shaojun."

The author has something to say: Little Theater II:

Weekly diary:

Regarding Shuang'er, after the end of the world, three things become particularly precious.

[-]. Site.A safe site is an important base for survival and gradual development.So far, there are various forces in the north and south, large and small, presenting a state of separatism in each state.In the north, Qujiang, headed by Marquis Zhenbei, is the most powerful force, and the royal family can only hide in the small Cui family. However, in terms of the special bloodline and the symbol of the real dragon, it still has a strong attraction (temptation?)

[-]. Food.With the new city attracting the attention of many forces in many ways, it can be seen that the spies are all-pervasive (Chu Zhao: hum).

[-]. Shuanger and woman.Taking Xincheng again as an example, it will cause a strong damage ratio to the forces with many bachelors (Chu Zhao: Humph!!)

Shuang'er, a more special group of people, was strongly sought after before the doomsday, and even more difficult to find after the doomsday (gold is still worth it, but the purchasing power is not high).

But... I heard that the situation is developing a little differently in Youzhou?

Now Youzhou has become a melting pot of hell that everyone wants to escape from—?

Why in the end, let us stay tuned!

(Quack, let me hold my tongue first.)

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QAQ is talking, it’s the happiest thing to read the article and eat melons. I see a lot of cute comments under other wives’ articles, and I want to have it too!