dragon pen

The visitor didn't seem to have expected that there were other people in the room besides Zhang Ziyao, and he was also taken aback. However, when he met him, he was just a small child. Although he didn't know his true identity, he gritted his teeth and confronted him a few times. Moves——However, what I didn't expect was that after a few moves, the little boy showed no signs of retreating, and the water-colored long sword in his hand was like flowing clouds and flowing water, and he handled it with ease!

Seeing that the person in front of him couldn't get anything cheap, the black shadow didn't want to fight, and wanted to go around him and go straight to the target—so in the darkness, the black shadow actually split into two, attacking the beasts left and right!

Feishou was caught off guard and blocked one of them with a long sword in his hand, but he didn't expect that the opponent caught a gap in this action, and the other person passed by him and rushed straight at Zhang Ziyao. The black shadow rushed towards him, and there seemed to be a "hissing" sound in his ears, and he screamed and grabbed the pillow in front of his head to wait for death——

However, after waiting for a while, the attack he expected did not come to him. He only heard a sharp scream from close at hand. Steady catch, the weapon in her hand shook the black shadow's jaw, she took two steps back and stepped back slightly to the window, at this time the moon happened to emerge from behind the clouds, under the frosty moonlight, Zhang Ziyao emerged from behind the pillow A pair of eyes can see clearly: the person who came is actually a woman!

He was shocked, and before he could react to what happened, he heard Zhu Jiuyin in the painting say in surprise: "Fuyao, why is it you?!"

At this time, the person who had been divided into two had become one again. Seeing that he couldn't get anything cheap, and was stabbed by a monster on the shoulder, he glared at Zhang Ziyao and jumped out of the window to escape!

Except for the overturned chair and the shifted table, there is no trace of the enemy coming... Feishou hesitated for a while, but did not chase after it, but swung the water-colored long sword in his hand. Hua, the water-colored long sword evaporated like water vapor in his hand, leaving only a simple hilt. He put away the hilt, turned to Zhu Jiu and said coldly, "Explain."

Zhang Ziyao also threw away the pillow and got up from the bed, with a dazed expression on his face, not even congratulating himself for escaping death—if he was confused, he might be the number one in the room right now. The child with a cold face beside the bed, he almost didn't know where to ask the best question, he opened his mouth and said incoherently: "Do you know that person Jiujiu again? Why do you know everyone? That person has no enmity with me." Why did Wu Yuan suddenly attack me? Niu Niu, what’s the matter with you? Aren’t you a Niu Niu? Aren’t you unable to transform into a human form? Aren’t you unable to speak?!”

Zhang Ziyao seemed to be transformed into a hundred thousand whys, with question marks written all over his face.

Reluctantly, he asked a series of questions, but no one in the room seemed to pay any attention to him - Feishou looked at Zhu Jiuyin coldly, while Zhu Jiuyin frowned slightly, looking out the window in the direction the woman had just left , looked away for a long time, glanced at Feishou and said indifferently: "Explain what?"

"What's the matter with that woman."

"Can't you see if you have eyes? One body and two brains, one person and two shapes, so it's naturally 'Fat Yi'."

"Of course I know what kind of monster she is, and this is what I'm asking?" The beast was not led away by Zhu Jiuyin at all, "What is a two-headed snake doing here, and it's attacking people—you called me just now Her name is taboo, so I know her clearly."

Zhu Jiuyin was silent.

At this time, Zhang Ziyao had already opened his mind—a woman, a monster, and Zhu Jiuyin knew each other, and Zhu Jiuyin had a strange attitude. She came here to attack the people around Zhu Jiuyin for no reason... Zhang Ziyao thought for a while, and then slapped his forehead With the answer: "Ninety-nine! Could it be your old lover who came to seek revenge again?!"

Dragon nature is kinky.

The beast sneered.

Zhu Jiuyin finally stopped ignoring Zhang Ziyao, and turned to look at the young man: "Is this the image of this gentleman in your eyes?"

Zhang Ziyao wrote "Otherwise" clearly on his face.

"Fuyao is the maidservant of the Empress Dowager. There is a 'Fat Yi', 'the water flows out, and the northwest flows into the sea. There is a snake with one head and two bodies, named Fei Yi, and when you see it, the country will suffer a severe drought'——Benjun Knowing that you don't know what that is, you can just think of her as a two-headed snake." Zhu Jiuyin said impatiently, "Maybe I heard some rumors from Tai Lianqing's unchained mouth, Knowing what happened in the capital and Huang Shuzhen's death, the Queen sent a maid to retrieve the wooden box... You little idiot is really a crow's mouth, it's just a broken box with a broken lid, and the woman still... Don't take it back!"

Is it the fault of that box again?

Zhang Ziyao: "If you want a box, won't you tell people well? When you come up, you will be beaten and killed..."

Zhu Jiuyin: "Tell you well and you will give it to her?"

Zhang Ziyao: "But I promised Huang Shu that I would hand over the box to today's emperor..."

Zhu Jiuyin rolled her eyes, as if she was too lazy to listen to Zhang Ziyao's nonsense.

Zhang Ziyao thought for a while, and then his face suddenly changed: "Wait a minute, Jiujiu, you just said that when Feiyi appears, there will be a severe drought in the world—"

"I don't write in Tianhe Book." Feishou said indifferently, "There is nothing wrong with it."

He turned his head and glanced at Zhang Ziyao, then paused for a moment and added unnaturally, "Don't worry."

There was a moment of eerie silence in the house.

Zhang Ziyao's eyes made Feishou realize that the problem has finally come to him now, and saw the young boy get up from the bed, hesitantly rubbing his face to his side, and then stopped suddenly when he frowned slightly Stopping not far from him, Zhang Ziyao said: "Niu Niu, it turns out that you not only have a name, but you can also speak, and you can also take the shape of a human... You are not at all the same as I imagined——"

Feishou's frowning brows stretched out, but his golden pupils became even more indifferent. His face did not show the slight unhappiness and bewilderment in his heart when he heard the young man say "You are not the same as I imagined at all". However, before he could react, he saw the young man in front of him grinning and showing his big white teeth, and said with a standard silly and sweet smile: "Niu Niu, you look so good-looking."

The beast was stunned.

Zhu Jiuyin said expressionlessly, "I want to vomit."

Too bad no one paid him any attention.

Feishou stared at Zhang Ziyao for a while as if looking at some monster. After a while, he finally squeezed out two words: "Su Lian."

The silly white and sweet smile remained unchanged, but there was a trace of confusion in the slightly narrowed eyes: "?"

Su Lian seemed to think that the smile was too dazzling, lowered his eyes to stare at the painted table leg not far away, and said concisely: "Name."

"Oh," Zhang Ziyao nodded, and then asked, "You mean, don't you ask me not to name you casually?"

"..."

"Really?" Zhang Ziyao stretched his neck and asked expectantly.

"..." This time, Su Lian finally couldn't bear to twist his head away - the shadow in the room hid most of the expression on his face, from Zhang Ziyao's perspective, he could only see the beautiful little boy in front of him. The golden pupils flickered, and after a long time, he seemed to be struggling and said slowly, "No, the name is just a title—whatever you like, it's up to you."

"!"

The anticipation on Zhang Ziyao's face turned into joy.

In the picture scroll hanging on the wall, Zhu Jiuyin, who rolled up his sleeves and watched the interaction between the two coldly, snorted coldly, as if he was laughing at something, but before the cold and noble expression was in place, he caught a glimpse of the young man striding forward from the corner of his eye. Grabbing Feishou's wrist, he said happily: "It's better for Niu Niu to see it more openly. He was reluctant to give Jiujiu a name before, so he asked me to call him 'Master Zhu Jiuyin' in front of outsiders." 'Otherwise, I won’t follow—I don’t know where so many idol burdens come from a piece of paper, and what’s the matter with nicknames between close partners? Are you right, Niu Niu?”

"Intimate partner? Who are you insulting? If you two want to be bitter, continue to be sour. Don't take me as an adult." Zhu Jiuyin's face collapsed, her eyes were like a scorching flame, holding Su Lian's wrist on Zhang Ziyao Sweeping around in that area, "After you talk nonsense, you are not allowed to call me that in private, and if you don't pay for the house for three days, let's see if you can bear it..."

In Zhu Jiuyin's broken thoughts, Su Lian didn't seem to hear what he was talking about at all. In fact, he even listened to Zhang Ziyao's "intimate partner" Four words, at this moment, the golden eyes stared at the young man's wrist for a long time——

intimate partner.

Su Lian was silent.

Until Zhang Ziyao took his hand in his hands and said "Huh" as if he suddenly saw the bleeding wound on his tiger's mouth, the joy on the young man's face subsided slightly, and he asked "Niu Niu, were you injured just now?" You can see clearly his sleeves... Su Lian seemed to wake up from a dream, and shook the young man's hand off his wrist, and raised his voice slightly: "Don't touch me."

Zhang Ziyao didn't restrain his strength when he moved like this, and Zhang Ziyao was swung back a little two steps.

Su Lian froze for a moment, seemed uneasy, and frowned again.

Just about to accept the boy's anger, he didn't expect that the other party just seemed more worried than before and asked: "What's wrong? Did you touch your other wounds? I'm sorry, I forgot that you still have wounds all over your body. I was just happy to see you and talking to you—”

"No."

"?" Zhang Ziyao's voice stopped abruptly.

Su Lian thought for a while, put her hands behind her back, and then slowly reminded: "Qiangwei."

Zhang Ziyao was slightly confused at first, but finally after trying to think back, he finally remembered that when Niu Niu was still a small animal locked in a wooden box, Zhu Jiuyin once threw a blooming rose in order to persuade Zhang Ziyao not to touch it. Putting it into the box, the rose quickly withered and withered and eventually turned into scorched black... Zhang Ziyao was stunned for a long time, then raised his hand and scratched his head as if he was alive after a catastrophe: "Oh, I almost forgot."

"I like to use hands and feet, suspected of skin hunger and thirst, poor memory and no sense of alarm." Zhu Jiu's cool voice came just right, "It seems that one morning when I woke up and opened my eyes, I saw that you were touched by the dead and alive. The sudden death of the God of Disaster is just around the corner..."

"It's fine if I don't touch him." Zhang Ziyao said disapprovingly, "Niu Niu, I won't touch you, but since you have come out of the painting, I can give you medicine-although ordinary people's medicine may not be as good as some panacea , but your body is full of piercing wounds, so it will definitely be better after applying it."

Su Lian glanced at Zhang Ziyao: "I have injuries all over my body."

Zhang Ziyao didn't understand, so he said, "I've bought a lot of medicine, and it's enough."

Su Lian paused, and emphasized as if emphasizing the point: "It's all over the body."

Only then did Zhang Ziyao realize what the other party was saying, and he sneered and said, "It's okay to be hurt all over, why are you shy? I can't sleep now after being so frightened just now, so I might as well ask the little one to bring up a basin of hot water for you." You scrub and apply the medicine well, when you turned into a beast shape, your hair was all strangled by dry blood, you are about to take off your clothes, I’m going to call someone—”

"Undress?" Before Su Lian could answer, Zhu Jiuyin asked as if grabbing the key words, "What clothes to take off?"

"How do you apply the medicine without taking off your clothes?" Zhang Ziyao asked.

"You let this little bastard take off his clothes?" Zhu Jiuyin asked again.

"Yes, and then I will give him medicine." Zhang Ziyao replied, "Don't call him a little beast."

"After he takes off his clothes, you give medicine to this little beast?" Zhu Jiuyin raised his eyebrows, "What do you use?"

"Use your feet."

"..."

"How else can you apply the medicine? Of course it is with your hands. If you can't touch the cow directly, just put a layer of gauze on it?" Zhang Ziyao also raised his eyebrows. Take the medicine, you cover it up—"

Before the words finished, an object flew out from the scroll, Su Lian stretched out his hand to catch it firmly, and when he fixed his eyes, he saw a jasper bottle in his hand, the mouth of the bottle was well sealed, faintly coming out of it. A pleasant scent of flowers mixed with herbs... Su Lian raised his head and glanced at Zhu Jiuyin expressionlessly. The latter rolled up his sleeves but didn't look at him. Bringing the fragrance of Jiuxiao flowers that bloom once every 300 years, the seven fairies used it to wipe their faces—it’s better than those dog skin plasters made by ordinary people who don’t know what kind of grassroots they are pouring out, and you can take it and wipe it off by yourself, and you little beasts don’t try to cause trouble for others.”

Zhang Ziyao's high-grade gold sore medicine bought at a huge price would become a "dog skin plaster" when the dragon who couldn't spit out ivory in the dog's mouth, he was very unconvinced.

But looking closely here, Su Lian opened the medicine bottle and poured a drop of shock on the tiger's mouth, the wound was indeed visible to the naked eye and healed immediately, Zhang Ziyao swallowed the retort when he reached his mouth, and gave up on giving up. Su Lian thought of taking medicine, turned around and went down to the inn to ask Xiao Er to bring up a basin of hot water, and then let Su Lian torment herself——

Seeing that the beast was shy, Zhang Ziyao worked hard to move a screen for him.

When the yawning and sleepy Xiaoer brought in the hot water and saw that there was a beautiful child in Zhang Ziyao's room, he couldn't help being stunned: When did there be an extra person in this room? ... This man is really good-looking.

The waiter poured hot water into the bathtub behind the screen, steam came out, and the waiter jumped out with the hole in his hand: "Guest officer, the hot water you asked for is ready—that, and, you Don't think it's too small, just remind me that your room is a single room, if there is an extra room for one person, you will have to pay extra money."

"Understood," Zhang Ziyao was fiddling with the screen without raising his head, "Just one night, and he won't be here tomorrow."

Niu Niu usually stays in the painting. For those who don't know, he will indeed "gone" tomorrow.

After Zhang Ziyao finished speaking, Xiao Er stood there in a daze, looking at Zhang Ziyao, and then at the beautiful child sitting by the bed——for a long time, Xiao Er's eyes when he looked at Zhang Ziyao had an unfathomable change, and he said "" You are happy", and ran away quickly with the wooden bucket... The door was shut with a bang from the outside, and Zhang Ziyao raised his head full of doubts: "What's wrong with him?"

"It's nothing," Zhu Jiuyin said gloatingly, "It's alright."

Zhang Ziyao: "?"

What the young man didn't know at this time was that the shop waiter had already rushed downstairs in three steps at a time, and got close to the old man who was dozing off behind the counter, and poked him with his elbow in a gossipy face. ——

"Hey, old Yantou, get up, let me tell you!"

"?"

"That young boy upstairs, tsk tsk tsk, don't look at him at a young age, he's good at playing... I don't know where I got a pretty golden-eyed Fanbang kid and put it in my room, and I had a good night—— —Just now I asked for hot water! I didn’t believe it at first, and I reminded him that there was one more person in the room who needed to add money. Guess what he said, but he didn’t shy away from saying that he would be gone tomorrow—oh, oh, oh ..."

Xiaoer looked excited.

The old man stared at him blankly for a moment.

After a long time, he stretched out his hand and pointed it at Xiao Er's head. Xiao Er said "ah" with aggrieved expression on his face: "Why did you hit me?"

"I can't think of anything all day long," the old man said with a stare. "With this kind of imagination, I would have made my fortune long ago by writing small folk books, and I'm still working as a waiter in a shop..."

Late at night.

Behind the counter on the first floor of the inn, the old man and the young waiter whispered in a low voice...

On the second floor of the inn, a fresh breeze blows into an open room, and in the flickering dim candlelight, there is a vaguely bloody steam rising from behind the screen; outside the screen, a young man in a coat is holding a book. "Shan Hai Jing" sat down by the candlestick, flipped through it in the faint light while chanting "Fat Yi" in his mouth; on the wall behind the boy was a picture scroll, in which he sat among the pine branches The man on the board first looked down at the young man and read the book for a while. After a while, he yawned lazily and said, "Learning the sea is boundless and turning back is the shore." He hid behind the pine branches with a bored expression on his face. There was a slight sound of sleep...

Day two.

Zhang Ziyao woke up early, in fact, he just leaned on the bed and dozed off before dawn - at first he didn't even plan to sleep, he just leaned on the side of the bed and watched the cleaned beasts apply medicine to himself When I was sleeping, I smelled the faint scent of the medicine and the rustling sound of the clothes when I rubbed them. I couldn't help but my eyelids twitched, and finally fell asleep without knowing it.

It was not daylight when I woke up.

Zhang Ziyao got up, and glanced at the wooden barrel behind the screen, and found that it was empty and there was not even a drop of water in it. He sniffed closer and smelled a faint smell of blood, but it was not strong. It was in a daze that he remembered that the beast was dying of water. It’s okay to try to figure it out, but it saves him the need to explain to the waiter where the bucket of blood came from…

Yawning, Zhang Ziyao came to the painting and took a look. He saw the little animal, which had been cleaned of filth, lying at the foot of the rocky mountain in the painting. The breeze blew over its white hair, and there were tiny fluffs on its white face. Its little nose moved very fast Cute... Seeing that the fur on its body is much better than before, and the wound is no longer as red as before, Zhang Ziyao is also very happy in his heart——

At this time, I heard a slight noise from the treetops, and when I looked up, I looked into a pair of red pupils. Zhu Jiuyin looked at the young man outside the picture scroll expressionlessly, and asked after a short pause, "Are you awake?"

"woke up."

"Are you an old man?"

"Not as old as you."

"Then why don't you respect the old and love the young?"

"After all, the old are old and don't respect the first."

"Just kidding again."

"You teach well."

Answering the questions inside and outside the painting was fluent, and he completed the first task every day. Amid Zhu Jiuyin's humming, Zhang Ziyao turned around to wash up contentedly.Then, as if afraid of waking up the sleeping calf in the scroll, the young man carefully took the scroll off the wall, rolled it up slowly and hung it on his waist.

Even walking out of the door was a little more steady than usual. Zhang Ziyao called Yuanshi to get up in the next room—this task was as difficult as ever. When Zhang Ziyao opened the door, he could only smell the tangy woody fragrance It seemed to be more intense than before, he frowned slightly, and came to the bed, only to see the lady sleeping peacefully on the bed, the most strange thing was that there was no wrinkle on the bed except where she slept, as if during the whole sleep process She barely moved, didn't even turn over...

Zhang Ziyao felt more and more strange in his heart, but he couldn't prove anything. He could only reach out and shake the woman gently as before, lowering his voice and trying to wake her up softly——

It's just that Yuanshi seems to be sleeping more deeply today than in the past.

She didn't wake up after Zhang Ziyao shook her a few times, but a strand of hair fell off her chest, but it happened that Zhang Ziyao saw a faint black mark on the back of her neck, which looked like some kind of totem. Half, like a few budding petals...

……strangeness?

Zhang Ziyao stopped his movements and squatted down to look curiously. From his angle, he could only vaguely see what seemed to be a birthmark—there was no such mark on Yuanshi's neck in his memory. ——I felt even more weird and uneasy in my heart. The young man was about to reach out and lift his hair to take a closer look. At this time, the woman who was still sleeping with her eyes closed suddenly opened her eyes. Her eyes were cold and indifferent, which made people feel uncomfortable. Feel very strange!

Zhang Ziyao was taken aback, he took a step back suddenly, his feet were unsteady, and he sat down on the ground!

At the same time, the woman who woke up suddenly turned over and sat up. When she turned her head, the softness Zhang Ziyao was familiar with returned to her dark brown pupils, as if what he saw in an instant before were all hallucinations... Yuanshi Turning around, looking at the young man sitting on the ground staring at him in a daze, he smiled slightly: "Zi Yao? What are you doing sitting on the ground? It's cold, be careful of catching a cold."

Zhang Ziyao stiffly maintained the posture of sitting on the ground. He wanted to get up, but his body seemed to be still immersed in the fright just a moment ago, and he couldn't control it... He could only shake his head, and then said: "I'm here to wake up the mother. It’s time to enter the Taihang Mountains, and there is still a long way to go, I’m afraid my mother will be hungry if I get up late and can’t make breakfast..."

"Understood, you child, you just love to worry about it." Yuan Shi smiled, "Mother is such a big person, can you still starve yourself?"

After Yuanshi finished speaking, she got up a little bit, walked slowly to Zhang Ziyao and stretched out her hand to help him up from the ground - but unexpectedly, when her hand was about to touch Zhang Ziyao, the boy shrank back abnormally Shrink...

Yuanshi was slightly taken aback.

Zhang Ziyao also froze in place.

——It's completely unclear why he made such a subconscious move.

The two sides fell into a short silence. In the end, he took the initiative to reach out and hold Yuanshi's hand, but he didn't use his strength to get up from the ground. The boy smiled at his mother: "Mother, wash up quickly!" , my son is waiting for you downstairs."

Yuanshi nodded in agreement.

Zhang Ziyao turned around, the smile on his lips disappeared, and instead he frowned slightly, walking out of the room with a serious look - when he came out, he happened to meet old man Yanzhen in the corridor, seeing the young man walking out of Yuanshi's room, Yanzhen was very obvious Dazed for a moment, Zhang Ziyao greeted him, but he just pretended not to see him, and instead asked strangely, "Why did you come out here?"

"Wake my mother up, she is in a deep sleep." Zhang Ziyao said, "I'm afraid it will delay the time of departure."

"Mother? Her?"

The old man Yanzhen seemed to ask subconsciously, and the way he looked at Zhang Ziyao became even more strange.

When Zhang Ziyao went downstairs, Lou Hen and his party had already had breakfast around the table—maybe they had a good rest yesterday, and the group was full of energy. Lou Hen was very happy to see Zhang Ziyao, and raised his hand to beckon him to sit down. Ask: "Is your mother awake?"

"If you go back to the prince, my mother is awake, but she is still washing up, so I'm afraid it will take some time."

Zhang Ziyao took a sip of porridge, the porridge was sweet with sugar, but because he was thinking about it again, he didn't know what to eat - after the whole breakfast, Zhang Ziyao didn't know what he stuffed After eating, he only knew that he was full and not hungry anymore, so he put down his chopsticks and sat by the table to wait... At this time, the other guards also finished eating in twos and threes and went to prepare the chariots and horses. Only Zhang Ziyao was sitting by the table. He waited and waited until Yuanshi came down, he stood up again and wanted to go upstairs to have a look, but just as he stood up, a somewhat skinny hand was placed on his shoulder.

Zhang Ziyao was startled, turned his head to take a closer look, but found Yan Zhen standing behind him.The old man frowned and looked at Zhang Ziyao, but said in a startling way: "Child, I will ask you a question, and you have to answer it honestly. Was your mother a deceased person before?"

Zhang Ziyao didn't answer, but he guessed that the expression on his face had perfectly answered Yan Zhen.

"No wonder," Yan Zhen muttered, "I find it strange that you are such a group of living people, why do you still have a person from Wubei City around you... I heard that you are still from the capital, so far away The place--"

City of no sorrow.

Yuanshi was thinking about the place she wanted to go back to, and she said she liked that city.

"Senior, my mother passed away due to a serious illness. A few months ago, my younger brother went to the Wusie City you mentioned in person to exchange her from Huangquan Road. Not here, although I don't know the cause and effect, I am really happy because of the lost relatives, and I am very grateful to the person who called my mother back from Huangquan Road... But recently, Ziyao always feels a little strange in his heart." Zhang Ziyao stood Get up, lower your voice and say, "That city of no sorrow, my mother also thinks about that place every day, what kind of place is that?"

Yan Zhen took a deep look at Zhang Ziyao - that look, could not be said to be sympathy or something.

After a pause, he slowly told Zhang Ziyao a story that he had heard a long time ago——

The content of the story includes the princess, the princess's 36 iron cavalry, the city was broken, and after the princess fled, she came to a city surrounded by rose flowers, and found the 36 iron cavalry who revived her in that city, and led them to regain her own. The lost city...

Zhang Ziyao was familiar with this story, but he had heard the version of the story before, and the name of the city was Wushang City.

"That city is actually called the City of No Sadness, and it exists for real." Yan Zhen frowned slightly, thought for a while with his hands behind his back, and said slowly, "The princess also exists for real, her name is Turing—the country was ruled by others. After the occupation, Turing disappeared for a while. People said that she had long since died in the desert, and some said that she died under the horseshoes of the pursuers who wanted to kill her quickly... Until one day, Turing led her The 36 iron cavalry returned to their former national territory—”

"That was a war." Yan Zhen said, "I personally wrote it in Tianhe Book."

Zhang Ziyao widened his eyes slightly, very surprised: "What, it's you..."

"Even the old men who have seen countless scenes of human beings in the world have never seen a scene as shocking as that day-they are fearless, invulnerable, and fearless of pain. But still waving, the head of the war horse was cut off but still running... At that time, those mortal soldiers who came out to resist the project were frightened by the 36 cavalry. He is no longer a mortal at all, but a dark soldier who crawled out of the underworld... Finally, relying on these dark soldiers, Turing regained his city."

"Yes, I've heard the story, but—"

"The version that has been circulated, the story ends here."

"if not?"

"Actually, in the real situation, in the end, Turing, who ascended the throne, died." Yan Zhen closed his eyes, then slowly opened them again, "died by the loyal iron cavalry in the story who was resurrected by her personally. One of the 36 riders pierced her throat with his own hands and killed her."

"But why—"

"No one knows why, but the City of No Sadness became a taboo later on, and even the Tianhe Book couldn't write anything about the fate of this city." Yan Zhen said, "This city is located at the very edge of the country. It's like a city that is completely isolated and exiled, and people say that the people who come out of it are cursed living dead... Children, listen to this old man's advice."

Yan Zhen paused for a moment, then stared into Zhang Ziyao's eyes and said almost word by word: "The two sides of the yin and yang are not interconnected. Don't go to the city of no sorrow."