Twilight War

08

"How many strange beasts like that are there outside the pass?" Zichen asked as he walked down the steps.

Lu Shen and Xin Yi appeared on the steps behind him almost silently, with black hats and two swords on their backs, "There are many of them, and they are all outside Wanglongchuan."

"Where did they come from?"

"I don't know, but there are more and more strange beasts as we go north," Lu Shen said.

"En." Zichen nodded.

"Also, young master. Princess Yingluo is in the team of Beiji."

"Why did she come here?" Zichen was taken aback.

"I don't know." Xin Yi shook his head.

"Okay. I see." Zichen looked up at the cloudless sky in Mobei.

"Young master, the team for the Northern Festival has arrived, do you want to go to meet it?" Lu Shu walked up the steps.

Zichen stood on the high steps and looked at the city gate in the distance.

The huge city gate slowly opened.

The heavy and ancient bronze tripod was transported into the city by the armored Huben soldiers.

Like a group of ants carrying caramel.

At the end of the procession, the ten-square ritual chariot with brocade hanging down will also enter the city.

Zichen stood in front of the city gate in a fur coat, watching the palace servants carry the chariot into the city.

All the soldiers except him knelt on the ground.

The ten-square chariot stopped in front of the city gate.

"It's really hard for all the soldiers to guard the border, and the North Festival is related to the national prestige. I hope you will do your best. After the North Festival, you should all be rewarded."

The girl's clean voice came from the layers of curtains.

"Thank you for your grace."

Princess Yingluo was arranged in the general's mansion in the city.

"We have guarded the border for so many years and haven't seen any rewards. There are quite a lot of rewards for just holding the North Festival." General Tanlang walked up to the observation tower, and he didn't know if he said to Zichen beside him.

Zichen was looking at Wanglongchuan in the distance.

"Hey, tell me, is there something wrong with your brain? The princess is so beautiful, yet you escaped marriage." General Tanlang looked at Zichen with a look of hatred for iron and steel, "I still think of a princess as a flood beast, the roar of the Lion in the River East , you just ran away from marriage. Are you dizzy? "

"It's because I'm not worthy." Zichen said.

"At that time, there will still be some self-knowledge." General Tanlang snorted.

"Have you met the princess?" Zichen asked.

"Yes, the princess ordered some things about Beiji." General Tanlang said.

"Do something."

"It's all useless. I'm just going through the motions, and the credit is all due to that General Lu Cun." General Tanlang said.

"The general originally served in Chang'an like General Lu Cun." Zichen asked with his head down.

Tanlang and Lucun are all generals who kill seven, and they should live in the wall of Taiwei, and Jun An is on his side to control the four directions.And how could they be brought to such a miserable place at the frontier.

"Guarding the world is not guarding where you are." General Tanlang said: "Isn't it better to suffer at the border?"

"Hey, it's time for shift." Xiang Liu said as he walked up to the observation deck and looked at Lu Shu and Xiang Wang who were leaning against the parapet.

"Isn't there a class for one person? Why are you two here?" He frowned.

"It's such a dark night, it's a pity to see it alone." Xiang Wang said, the white cloth on his eyes fluttered in the night.

"The young master asked us to watch strange beasts in this shift, not to let you watch the moon." Xiang Liu walked to the two of them, "But the moon is round enough today."

"Today is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month." Xiang Wang said with a smile.

"But it's time, no one reminded me and I forgot." Xiang Liu shook his head, "In the past two years, my memory has gotten worse and worse."

"Me too." Xiang Wang said.

"Why, you're still young."

"But I have forgotten everything about Libai Zeqi." Xiang Wang looked up at the very round moon and said.

"Oh, that's normal too." Xiang Liu patted his head, "Libai Zeqi is a rebirth, and you will forget everything you don't want to remember."

When the dead of Huangxuan's family entered Huangxuan's family, they had to make a deed of Bai Ze, abandoning their own names. From then on, they took Huangxuan as their surname and the name of the beasts in Bai Ze's picture.

Those who have taken the Bai Ze oath are those who have walked through the River of Forgetfulness.

"I seem to want to remember everything too much, but I forgot everything." Lu Shu shook his head and touched the sword in his hand.

"I remember everything clearly." Xiang Liu said quite proudly.

"Oh, tell me, what do you remember?" Xiang Wang turned around and looked at Xiang Liu.

"After all, they are very important things. Li Ah San on the East Street owes me 130 Wen, and the brother next door owes me [-] Wen. I have to remember them all."

"Sure enough, they are all very important things." Lu Shu shook his head and said.

"What about the money you owe others?" Xiang Wang asked.

"How could I owe someone money?" Xiang Liu said.

"Look, I really forgot."

"Is it snowing?" Lu Shu raised his hand and asked in doubt.

"It seems that it's been so long since I've been here, and it hasn't snowed here." Xiang Wang raised his head and looked at the falling snow.

"Over there, what is it?" Xiang Liu suddenly asked in surprise.

Lu Shu and Xiang Wang turned around and watched the huge Wanglong River outside the pass freeze at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The snow fell thousands of miles, and the huge river was frozen.

The sound of the bronze trumpet passed through the winding city gate, and the dust on the Kui drum that had not been sounded for many years on the watchtower shook off.

"alert!"

"What are those...?" Fu Zhu, who was guarding on the watchtower, murmured as if in a daze.

"It's a strange beast! It's a strange beast!" Zhang Shoucai shouted almost in horror: "The strange beast is here! The strange beast is here!"

Those strange monsters came along the frozen Wanglong River.

Like a blacksmith's furnace cracked, hot molten iron flowed along the ice.

The cries of those beasts at night were ghostly and piercing.

The herd of black beasts spread across the wasteland in front of the city wall a few meters away.

The lights on the Great Wall were lit one by one, and the whole city seemed to be burning in the night.

The frontier soldiers in armor and the dead soldiers of Huangxuan's family all rushed up the city wall.

They knew what they were about to face, something no one had ever seen before...

The gray armor is hidden in the night, only the iron at the corners glows with cold moonlight.

"Bows and crossbows!" General Tanlang said immediately, thousands of crossbows and crossbows were placed on the female wall, and sharp arrows were fired at once!

The black arrows cover the fifteenth full moon.

The mournful shout resounded through the Great Wall.

"The fort, I remember that Juyongguan has a fort." Zichen said.

Dozens of divine machine guns are erected from high places.

Zichen looked at the strange beasts trying to climb over the high wall,

Their sharp claws clung to the city wall, like ants swarming up a river embankment.

"General,...the ammunition is damp." Several artillerymen ran over panting, almost desperately saying.

"How could it get wet?" General Tanlang picked up the collar of the artilleryman and said almost ferociously.

"...The ammunition was put in the warehouse a few years ago, so it should be damp." The artilleryman said weakly.

"Damp, haven't you replaced it?" Zichen turned around and asked, "Military supplies are always the top priority. Shouldn't there be routine inspections?"

"My lord... Frontier Army, I have no money." The artilleryman closed his eyes and said.

General Greedy Wolf tossed the artilleryman aside, feeling angry in his heart, but looking at Zichen, he still snorted coldly, "Young Master, everyone is not like you, who grew up in the bustling Jinling...and never suffered .”

"I understand that the frontier army is poor, but no matter how discipline cannot be messed up, routine inspections of military supplies are a must." Zichen said with a frown.

"Young master, it's not your turn to take care of the frontier army." General Tanlang sneered and said, "I also want to put magic machine guns on the Great Wall, and I also want to have all the guns in the warehouse. Ammunition, every soldier has a good weapon in his hand. But can I? The imperial court gives the frontier soldiers every year, and this is only a little money. I have to plan carefully."

"I'm afraid the young master has grown up so big. He hasn't been hungry or bullied." General Tanlang frowned and turned to walk up to the watchtower. Without shells, he had to use more arrows to kill those strange beasts. Press down from the wall.

"I heard...the sound of a flute." Xiang Wang said suddenly in the confusion.

"Is there anyone in the city who wants to play the flute?" Lu Shu said while shooting an arrow down.

"No, it's outside the city." Xiang Wang shook his head, the white cloth over his eyes fluttering in the flames.

Before Lu Shu realized what Xiang Wang was saying, the man beside him had already jumped off the high city wall.

A man walks through the herd like a white leaf.

Like a countercurrent silvertail.

Before he entered Huangxuan's house, he was already a stealth killer, even half of Lu Shen Xinyi was taught by him, so this matter is nothing to him.

He struggled to distinguish the sound of the flute from the roaring herd.

He stopped under a cliff, and the flute player was nearby.

Surrounded by wolves.

Seeing someone approaching, the wolves kneeling under the cliff slowly straightened up.

The wolf's eyes in the night are like lamps.

Holding a sharp blade in his hand, he slashed and killed the silver wolf that suddenly rushed forward.

The silver wolf's fur fluttered like a wave in the moonlight.

Blood spattered on his moon-white clothes.

His movements are skilled and sharp, like a knife to untangle a cow.

Pass through the gap between every bone.

Those ferocious wolves have all turned into corpses under his feet.

He originally existed to kill, and now, he has regained that feeling.

Fight desperately.

Kill everything in front of you...

There are not many people who can survive.

In this world, who is not struggling to live in the barrenness.

Xiang Liu said that those who have established Bai Zeqi will forget all the bad things.

But he remembered those killings and deaths clearly.

He is like a walking dead, with a knife, to kill other walking dead.

Many years ago in Jinling, he walked through the crowd to kill someone.

Talons tore at his back, blood staining his moon-white clothes.

He gritted his teeth and killed all the wolves that rushed over.

beheaded.

He exists only to kill.

Xiang Wang fell on the road leading to the cliff.

He has suffered too many injuries.

Suddenly the wolves scattered.

The sound of the flute in the night stopped.

"If you're like this, you won't be able to go back." The man on the cliff looked down at Xiang Wang and said, a strand of waist-length hair behind his head was tied with a headband.In the darkness of night, his face was as clean as that of a teenager.

"I never thought about going back..." Xiang Wang twitched the corner of his mouth.

"Actually, I have hated Huangxuan Jin for a long time." Xiang Wang propped up his upper body with his arms, but he still couldn't support himself to stand up, "I hate him when Jinling City was broken, why wasn't he there."

"If it wasn't because he stole the jade talisman, the Huangxuan family would not have lost." Xiang Wang seemed to be saying to himself, he gritted his teeth, inserted the sword into the soil, and supported himself to stand up.

For a long time, he had always thought so.

He hated that boy.

Jinling City is broken, why is he not here!

Why is he still alive.

"But when I arrived at Juyongguan, I suddenly understood..." Xiang Wang held the blood-stained sword hilt and said, "I hate...it has always been me."

What he hated was that he failed to die in Jinling when the city of Jinling was broken.

In the wake of the day, he ran around seeking help.

But only King Huai provided reinforcements.

He did nothing.

When he returned to Jinling, everything was burning.

But when that man died, he was still kneeling outside the military department.

He just hated himself for being too tired, so he had no choice but to hate that boy.

It was the boy's fault.

It was him who failed to keep Jinling...

"So you came to die," Fenrir asked him.

"No, I'm a killer, I only know how to kill." Xiang Wang raised the sword in his hand, facing Fenrir.

Blood dripped from the sword.

Finally, after that man died, he became a killer again.

Holding the sword in his hand, he rushed towards Fenrir, who was still dazed.

He used to pay a tael of gold to kill a person.

After all, the Huangxuan family would have to pay him a lot of money.

When the sword was about to hit Fenrir, Fenrir smiled and swung the knife at a speed that was almost invisible to the naked eye.

The wolf knife cut through Xiang Wang's chest, and he plunged the sword into the soil.

Almost fell off a cliff.

"Did you come here on purpose to play with me?" Fenrir smiled, like a child who hasn't grown up, "I'm going to be bored to death here, I want to go to the land of Fember, but my sister won't let me I come over."

Xiang Wang charged forward again, sword in both hands.

Fenrir didn't slash back directly, but followed Xiang Wang's attack like a playful one.

The clash of swords echoed in the night.

"Get on the rolling stone!" General Tanlang shouted as he watched the strange beasts climbing up the brick wall.

Huge rolling stones rolled down the brick wall, and strange beasts fell from the city wall onto the wasteland.

But more and more corpses of strange beasts piled up into a steep slope.

Those strange beasts crawled along the pile of corpses.

"Those strange beasts are going to cross the Great Wall." Zichen said, looking at the strange beasts under the wall.

"Young Master Jin, the last Great Wall should be our million men from Donghuang!" General Tanlang smiled and pulled out the sword from his waist.

Countless Mo knives were pulled out in the moonlight, and those soldiers from the frontier and Huangxuan's family bowed and guarded behind the parapet, gritting their teeth and waiting for the arrival of the alien beast.

The light of the knife swayed.

Xiang Wang once again stood up on the cliff holding his sword, the white cloth on his eyes was covered with blood.

It seems that there are not many times when he is so embarrassed.

The first time, he was caught by that man named Huang Xuanzhou.

The man asked him why he came, and he said he was here to kill someone.

But after hearing who he was going to kill, the man happily let him go.

Say something, let him try a few more times.

At that time, the young master of Huangxuan's family was nodding his head under Guiru Wang Zhiwu's door and dozing off.

The last time he was caught by Huang Xuanzhou.

The man said, otherwise, just enter Huangxuan's house and forget it.

He asked what is good about men.

The man said: "Is the word Huangxuan enough?"

At that time, he told Huang Xuanzhou, "Are you playing tricks on ghosts?"

But now if he can drag this crippled body and walk in front of the man again, he will tell the man, "That's enough...you can also give me loyalty and bravery."

Ferocious beasts rushed up the winding female wall, and countless people were fighting on the Great Wall, which is a tens of thousands of miles away.

During the day, the comrades who complained with you about the cold and windy weather on the city wall were torn apart in front of you the next moment.

But you don't have time to cry and cry, because if you forget to swing your sword at the next moment, you will also be broken into pieces.

"kill!"

General Greedy Wolf roared with all his strength, he didn't know how many monsters he had killed, and the blood fell on him, he didn't know if those belonged to strange beasts or his subordinates.

He has to... stay here.

The strange beast went down the female wall and rushed into the city.

"Stop the beast!"

The decaying Great Wall has not been repaired for decades.

And in this frontier that was forgotten by the imperial court, their flesh and blood is the last wall.

In the light of the fire, blood flowed down the cracks in the wall bricks.

Fenlier swung the wolf knife and threw Xiang Wang down the cliff.

"A mortal, actually wants to hurt me?" He almost sneered, and walked to the edge of the cliff, wanting to take a look at the man's broken bones.

Those who tried to provoke him in vain did not end well.

However, the moment he lowered his head, Xiang Wang suddenly pulled out the sword inserted into the broken wall, stepped on the section of the boulder, and suddenly turned over.

The sword pierced Fenrir's chest.

Xiang Wang's whole body fell to the ground.

The blow just now had used up all his strength.

"Haven't you drained the blood yet?" Fenrir covered his wound and walked in front of Xiang Wang, strangled Xiang Wang by the throat, and lifted him up.

"I'm a killer. How dare I die before the order is completed." Xiang Wang said with a smile, and blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.

"What do you want me to do in Huangxuan's house." He asked that man a few years ago.

"It's still killing, and it's still killing that person." Huang Xuanzhou said happily.

The young master Huangxuan beside him was drooling and sleeping on the stone table, with a drugged osmanthus cake in his mouth.

"You can't kill me," said Fenrir through gritted teeth.

"It doesn't matter, as long as I can hurt you now, I will be very happy." Xiang Wang said with a smile: "Requirements other than orders... How am I happy..."

His neck snapped slowly in Fenrir's hands.

Under the moonlight, the white cloth over his eyes fluttered.

He felt that he had forgotten a lot, but suddenly remembered a lot.

He thought of the wine girl in Jinling who always left him a portion of Huadiao wine.

If you go back this time, marry her.

Her wine is very good, her dimples are also very intoxicating, and even the unaccountable accounts make him feel very good.

Huangxuanjin, don't make me regret that I didn't kill you.

You are... a big list.

09

The night faded away.

Zichen looked up at the countless corpses.

From the alien beast, from the frontier army, from the Huangxuan family.

The sky shines through countless corpses that have inserted their sword blades into the soil.

Their heads are still facing the sky.

Lu Shu dropped the bow in his hand and jumped off the city wall.

She walked through countless piles of corpses like wading through a quagmire.

The eyes are empty.

Finally, she saw the man with the white cloth over his eyes under the cliff.

The body was almost completely shattered.

"what!!!"

Lu Shu knelt on the ground in despair, and his sharp shout pierced the sky.

Her shout was the only sound here.

10

Twilight, the city gate.

"Let us out!"

"We're going out of town."

"What's going on?" Zichen said, looking at the people pushing and shouting at the city gate.

"They wanted to leave the city, but General Tanlang ordered the city to be closed." Said the soldier guarding the city gate.

"My lord, let's go! You also saw the strange beasts last night. They all broke into our yard. If they weren't killed by a few frontier soldiers, maybe how many people would have died."

"We can't stay in this place..."

"My lord, let's go out of town."

The noise of the crowd was chaotic.

"You can't go out of the city, the general has an order!"

"This city can't be defended..."

"That thing is not something humans can deal with..."

"Let them go out." Zichen said suddenly.

"Young Master Jin?" The city guards were stunned.

"It's us, not them, who should guard the city," Zichen said.

"Thank you sir, thank you sir."

Everyone scrambled to break out from the city gate.

"Not only the common people, but all the soldiers guarding the city can leave if they want." Zichen stood by the city gate and said, "After all, you know better than anyone else what we are facing."

"Don't worry about the law. What we are facing has long been beyond human comprehension."

Everyone looked at the young man in light armor.

The boy was very thin and looked a little weak.

Like white porcelain.

Such young people should not appear in the poor frontier, but should be in the beautiful Jiangnan.

But the young man looked at everyone firmly, as if he was not going to change his order.

"If anyone wants to leave, just leave the weapon in their hand." Zichen said.

"Young Master Jin, what you said..."

"I am Huangxuanjin of the Huangxuan family in eight hundred miles, and what I say will not change."

The two guns were thrown on the ground, "I'm sorry, Young Master Jin."

The soldiers guarding the city walked out of the city with their heads down.

Swords were thrown in front of Zichen.

They are deserters, but they also just want to survive.

They don't want to lose their lives on the Great Wall far away here.

Juyongguan, a land of mediocrity.

They were just refugees and criminals...

Why bother to die in this kind of place for these monsters, their families are still in other places, waiting for them to go back.

"Hey, if you don't want that sword anymore, give it to me. I have a gap." Fuzhu, who was leaning against the wall, said to Zhang Shoucai who was about to throw down the sword.

"Aren't you going?" Zichen looked at Fuzhu. Fuzhu's right arm was seriously injured, and it had just been bandaged around. If he stayed here, he could only die.

"Young Master...we failed to defend Jinling, but we should have defended the Great Wall." Fu Zhu looked up at Zichen and said.

He didn't look very old, only fifteen or sixteen years old, with the clarity of a teenager in his eyes.

Juyongguan, a land of mediocrity.

Since the day Jinling City was broken, the Huangxuan family has been a sinner...

"Here you are, you don't want to die." Li Shoucai threw the sword to Fuzhu as if he was about to throw away a hot sword.

Fu Zhu took the sword, pulled out the blade and took a look, "Not bad."

Holding the sword in his hand, he tore off the forehead belt of Huang Xuan's family that had been washed and dried on the branches, and walked up to the female wall.

They didn't give their lives to Jinling, but now they should give their orders to Juyongguan.

The other members of the Huangxuan family who were leaning against the wall and wiping their sword blades also tore off the washed forehead bands on the branches one by one.

It's time for a shift change.

They walked up the winding parapet.

When they passed by, there were still countless black forehead bands imprinted with the insignia of the reverse double swords flying on the branches.

—those belong to the dead.

In this dilapidated and ruined city, everyone is a desperate criminal who is committed to execution.

"Heaven and night!"