step by step

Everywhere is red, everything you see, smell, and look at is dazzling and disgusting scarlet.Shi Sang immediately remembered the bloody world described by Kong Zhu.

Is this bloody hell in front of you really the holy place in the hearts of the world, the devil's capital?

Xingkong couldn't help muttering: "How could this be..."

The bloody smell that could be smelled from afar finally had an answer.The densely packed corpses in the moat numbered tens of thousands at least.No, probably more.Where is the moat?The mountains of corpses had already filled the moat inside and out.

Kong Zhu followed Shi Sang out of the carriage.Instead of looking at the corpses all over the floor, she shifted her gaze to the empty city gate.Whether it is the gate of the city or the streets in the city seen from a distance, there is no one there, as if this is just a dead city.

This is the magic capital.

This is the magic city where she came back after three years.

She sighed slightly, her expression couldn't tell whether it was excitement or anger, her dark eyes were even deeper than that night at this moment.But in an instant, a smile slowly bloomed on her face.

"……I like."

Shi and Sang were examining the corpse, but they didn't hear her whisper.The moon that had just disappeared did not know when to push away the dark clouds that obstructed the eyes. At this moment, the moonlight was falling, and everywhere was bright.Corpses were turned up one after another, including minor children, elderly people in their twilight years, pregnant women with bulging abdomens, young men, and girls who had just reached their age.

The faces were so vivid, it seemed that people had just died.Anger, pain, panic, despair.The black eyeballs protruded fiercely from the eye sockets, and the wide-open mouth seemed to express his dissatisfaction in the next moment.

Xing Kong held the corpse of a child who was not yet full moon in his hands, and the child's bruised face glowed with an abnormal light.Shi Sang slowly sat on the ground, watching Xing Kong put the child gently on his mother's body.

No one spoke.

Shi Sang opened his eyes, blankly looking at the city surrounded by corpses.Xing Kong had a dark red sharp sword in his hand, which was different from the usual weapon, it was a weapon condensed from his strength.It is his strongest hole card.He held the hilt of the sword with his left hand, and stroked the blade with his right hand over and over again, as if only in this way could he calm down his slightly trembling fingers.

These people, these people, these are the foundation of Dachang!What is the emperor thinking?Does he really not want Dachang?No!impossible!How could he, who is so greedy for power, be willing to give up the power in his hand?

"How did these people die?" Kong Zhu turned his gaze back.

"Most of them were killed after getting sick." Shi Sang's hand lightly brushed over the cheek of a corpse beside him. The color of that face had turned purple, and the face was still mixed with blood stained from other corpses.A colorful face, eyes still wide open, staring straight ahead, extremely frightening.

It was a young man dressed like a soldier.Shi Sang gently closed his eyes: "This is not a plague, but a kind of toxin. This kind of poison is transmitted through contact. When it attacks, it will be attacked by two kinds of toxins, cold and heat at the same time, making people weak and suffering. But The attack time of this kind of poison is only three days, as long as it survives these three days, there will be no problem."

"He didn't send people to find a cure, and sent troops to rectify the order in the city, but instead massacred the infected people like this?" Kong Zhu smiled lowly, his eyes were cold and mocking.Her gaze crossed the city gate, as if through the thick city wall, she saw the emperor who was far away in the imperial city.Her father.

"Come and see this dress, do you recognize it?" Xing Kong interrupted suddenly.Kong Zhu looked in the direction he pointed, and there was a man's body lying on his side, and the exposed half of his face was covered with blood.

Kong Zhu frowned slightly, feeling that there was something about this corpse that gave her a very familiar feeling.She took a few steps forward, squatted in front of the corpse, and gently lifted his shirt.

There is nothing unusual about the brown clothes, and the embroidery seems to be not very solid, with a lot of crooked stitches. At first glance, it looks like ordinary clothes, the kind of clothes that poor people would wear.But when he opened the shirt, he could find that the seemingly disordered stitches formed a purple character "御" neatly on the back of the clothes.

"All the troops are going to the southern border. There are not many troops stationed in the surrounding cities. Even if there are, they are probably infected with the plague. At least in this magic city, the only soldiers he can use are this one drawn from the black wolf cavalry. secret soldiers." Xing Kong said: "They only have 2000 people, although their military force will be higher, but in this chaotic situation in Shanghai, he may also be powerless."

Kong Zhu's expression suddenly turned cold, and her eyes fell directly on Xing Kong's face, which was so sharp that Xing Kong felt a stinging pain.But her words were very soft: "Are you explaining for him?"

Xing Kong avoided her gaze almost in embarrassment, and murmured: "No... I just..."

"What you think is impossible, it will never be possible!" After leaving this cold sentence, Kong Zhu strode back into the carriage.

Shi Sang glanced at the two of them inexplicably, puzzled by the weird atmosphere between them.But seeing Kong Zhu's panic-stricken look, the sensible man followed him into the carriage without asking any further questions.

Xingkong sat on the spot, lowered his head, and said nothing.The sword in his hand gradually dissipated in his palm.

What should he say? ... But he is your father, your father!

Xing Kong got up and got into the carriage, he set up the carriage and drove into the city.

"Shall we go directly to the imperial city?" Shi Sang asked softly.

Kong Zhu's complexion has calmed down, his eyes swept aimlessly across the deserted street, and he said lightly: "No, let's go to the stronghold of Reading Heart. We don't have any information, it's best to wait and see. s Choice."

The carriage drove for another half an hour, and stopped at a small courtyard not far from the imperial city.

The place where they were at this time was far away from the civilian area, surrounded by the mansions of some nobles in Dachang.You can see the gate of a mansion not far away, and there are several guards standing on their side.It seems that as long as they dare to get close, they will kill immediately indiscriminately.

There are still some people who survived in the Modu, but the number is very small, and they are all powerful nobles.As for the poor people... who will take care of their lives?

Kong Zhu stopped suddenly, looked thoughtfully at the plaque on the mansion, and murmured: "Prince Gong..."

Shi Sang couldn't help laughing, and said, "Being so close can save us a lot of effort."

I have to say that they are very lucky, and this position is very coincidental.A few steps away is Prince Gong's Mansion, but within half a mile is the Imperial City.Moreover, there is only this road outside the imperial city, so no matter what actions they make, they will be able to detect them immediately.

Following Kong Zhu's words, for the next ten days or so, several people stayed here obediently and never went out once.There is enough food secretly stored in the courtyard, and they don't need to worry about it.If it weren't for the strong bloody smell that was always in the air, making people sick, these days would be rare rest days.

"When the world is peaceful in the future, we can live this kind of life every day." Shi Sang said.

"I'm afraid it's not that simple." Kong Zhu just smiled, neither rebutting nor agreeing.

In fact, these days are not peaceful. During the day, the place is dead silent like an empty city, and at night, the bustling noise is enough to resound through the heavens and the earth.The screams of people, the rattling of horseshoes, the shouting of soldiers, and the clash of swords.Not only how many corpses were filled in the moat.

No one who is still alive dares to join in the fun, and the doors and windows of every house are closed tightly, as if they are deaf and cannot hear anything.At this time, everyone has interpreted Mingzhe's self-defense to the extreme.

"He's self-destroying his foundation, I'm afraid he won't last long. I think he has reached the limit of his patience. If we succeed by then, what are you going to do with him?" Xing Kong asked Kong Zhudao.

Kong Zhu was silent for a moment, then said lightly: "It would be a pity to kill him directly."

Xingkong clenched his hand holding the teacup tightly, and a look of disappointment flashed across his eyes.Shi Sang saw all the emotions of the two of them in his eyes, and said casually: "Xingkong, it seems that you are very excited when facing the emperor's question?"

Xing Kong pursed his lips tightly, and responded to her temptation with a blank face: "After all, she is my master now, and the emperor is hers... I am worried that she will regret it in the future."

regret?Shi Sang sneered: "You don't know anything, how do you know that she will regret it? No, she will never regret it. Never regret it."

"You!" Xingkong stood up suddenly, with anger appearing on his face again.Kong Zhu didn't care about the turmoil between the two of them, he knocked on the table a few times suddenly, attracting the eyes of both of them: "Listen, someone is coming."

The heavy horseshoes came from far to near, facing their direction without any hesitation.The knight reined in his horse and stopped at the door, hesitated for a moment, then pushed open the courtyard door and strode in.

The two immediately stopped talking.Xing Kong held the weapon, quietly guarded the door, and shouted sharply: "Who is it?"

The knight was dressed in civilian clothes, with a cloak covering his face, so he couldn't see clearly.Hearing this, he paused and said loudly: "I'm under Gudu, please see the master."

Gudu?Xing Kong froze for a moment, and glanced at Kong Zhu.Seeing Kong Zhu slightly nodded, then opened the door and let Gu Du come in.

Gu Du took off the cloak on his body, revealed a tired face, and knelt down respectfully to Kong Zhu: "This subordinate knows that the crime is serious, but this matter is urgent, so I came to inform the master and ask the master to judge."

Kong Zhu frowned slightly, did not speak, motioned for him to continue talking.

Gu Du licked his chapped lips, and said with deliberation: "It has only been three days since the master left, and many family members of soldiers have appeared one after another under the south gate of Fuxi City. From the beginning, the subordinates strictly obeyed the master's order and forbade anyone from entering. After a few days, more and more people gathered in the city. General Yan and I felt that something was wrong, so we immediately issued a strict order that the city gates are never allowed to be opened under any circumstances.

There were a lot of complaints in the army, but they were all suppressed by General Yan and me, and no major disturbances occurred.But after a few more days, family members continued to fall ill and starve to death.The soldiers couldn't bear it anymore, someone secretly opened the city gate and let their relatives in..."

"Someone is in ambush, Fuxi City has fallen?" Kong Zhu asked casually.

Gu Du glanced at her in shock, obviously she guessed right: "Master knows things like a god, and my subordinates feel ashamed."

"What happened after that? What are you doing here instead of guarding False Creek City?"

Gu Du bowed his head deeply, with a guilty expression on his face: "After those people came a few days later, General Yan... Yan Feng rebelled, and he led his soldiers and almost destroyed the entire Golden Illusory Formation. Later, the ancestor tried his best to restore it and barely controlled it. The formation did not allow the enemy to break through the formation. However, many members of Miss Shisang's clan were killed by backlash. Afterwards, the two sides fought, and the fortune teller clan suffered heavy casualties, and several elders and elite clansmen were imprisoned in the dungeon."

"Yan Feng rebelled?" Kong Zhu frowned tightly, Shi Sang also lowered his head in thought, after a long time, he suddenly looked at each other, and said in unison: "Both sides unite!"

Yan Feng is the emperor's man, and poison is a collateral handwriting.Thinking about it this way, everything became clear.

"Damn it! I think he really thinks the chair under his buttocks is secure!" Kong Zhu sneered: "At this time, instead of cleaning up the mess in Shanghai, you still want to kill me! You idiot Don't you know that his partner has already ruined most of his country, and he is thinking about his position?!"