The enemy has a crush on me

At noon, Qing Ze remembered that Yin Luo hadn't eaten for another day and a half, so he put away the debris and dragged Yin Luo out of the carriage.

What he ordered were all ordinary side dishes, and he ate two mouthfuls with Yin Luo, but because he was in a bad mood, he felt that there was something wrong with any dish, so he took several mouthfuls.Yin Luo asked him what plans he had for the next itinerary, and Qing Ze was a little impatient.Yin Luo was originally tied up on a whim. He didn't have any plans, so he replied perfunctorily. After thinking about it, he said, the carriage is too boring and the air is stuffy, so let's stay outside for a while.

Seeing his attitude, Yin Luo didn't look very good, and said bluntly, "I'll wait for you in the carriage."

Qingze said: "Coachman, you, that's right, you. If you want the horse to run faster, you have to let it eat more grass, drive the cart to the post station, feed the horse some horse grass, and let the horses in the post station eat more grass. Someone tidied and cleaned the inside of the carriage. Huh? The post station is a bit far away? It’s okay, don’t worry, take your time and we’ll set off later.”

After finishing speaking, he turned his head and said to Yin Luo, "What did you just say?"

Yin Luo said: "..."

Since he can't get back to the carriage, let's spend a while outside with Qing Ze.

The two walked on the streets of the town, neither of them spoke, barely walking side by side.

Qingze looked at the turbulent crowd in front of him, then turned his head to look at Yin Luo, but he still only saw the same profile as before.

After a while, Yin Luo coughed softly, looking very uncomfortable.

Qing Ze chuckled and turned his head away.

Two kites are flying high in the sky, sometimes entangled with each other, sometimes separated from each other, gradually drifting away.

They rested here for a few days. Since there was no threat from face-stealers, they wandered around for most of the day. After the horses were fed and drunk, they boarded the carriage and drove to an inn, where they asked for two rooms.

Mostly he thought about it every day, and then one night, when Qingze dreamed back at midnight, he held the dying Yinglong, holding the long sword he had inserted into Yinglong's body, and dreamed of two similar kites.After waking up, I remembered—where did kites come from in those days.

Just as he was thinking wildly, he heard a soft noise from the next door, sat up, and for some reason, he gently pushed the door open a crack.

It was late at night, and Yin Luo was standing at the end of the corridor with his back facing him, with his coat draped over his body, no crown on his head, and his hair hanging down.Kneeling in front of him was a masked man with his head bowed, holding a thin piece of paper in his hands.

Yin Luo took the paper roll—the paper roll was so small that it was only the size of a palm when it was opened—and looked at it in silence for a while, then took out a fire pocket from his bosom, and lit it.The flames beeped and beeped, and the paper was burned to charcoal in a short while.

After the flames were burnt out, he sprinkled ashes on the flower bed in the corner, gestured to the masked man, and the man jumped out of the window.

The window at the end of the corridor was wide open, and the moon hung in the sky like a silver plate. Yin Luo stood motionless for a while, then turned around, gathered his outer robe, and unconsciously glanced across Qing Ze's room.

Qing Ze quickly closed the door.

Although he closed the door, he did not fall asleep, but listened quietly.There was still a dead silence outside, and it took a while to hear a soft creaking sound, it should be that Yin Luo returned to her room.

Qing Ze crawled back onto the bed, his nostrils were filled with the smell of blood flowing from Ying Long's body in the dream just now.

The moon sets and the sun rises, another night.

There was nothing unusual in the daytime, after all, Qingze had a lot of experience in walking the streets and alleys, and he knew best where to find gossip that could not be heard in the bright world.Based on the rumors I heard in the past few days, I decided on the next itinerary.

Thieves and beggars are the quickest to know the news and the easiest to ask for things. They come into contact with many and miscellaneous people, but they are timid and timid. Can get a bunch of news.

First of all, recently, I occasionally see strange people wearing masks from the Moon Kingdom, and I can't get close to them.

Afterwards, he talked about the abnormalities in the Moon Kingdom that he had heard about.

After that, I can't ask anything.

In the end, he caught another red-eyed ghost boy while Yin Luo was resting, and only then did he get some shocking news.

——The people of the demon clan are panic-stricken, and there are rumors that the curse of the demons since more than [-] years ago is actually related to the demon clan.Now the demons have discovered the signs of the demon god's descending into the world, and they are ready to move.The masked people from the Moon-by-Moon Kingdom that the thief and the beggar mentioned are followers of the Demon God.

Qingze asked: "Are believers of demon gods the demon race?"

The red-eyed ghost boy said: "Devil believers and demons are not the same thing. Most of the demons are creatures from all walks of life who are lured by the devil's energy and fall into the devil's way, while the devil's believers are ordinary people who believe in the power of the demons. ... This gang is desperate For the sake of a little profit, I provoked something that shouldn't be provoked."

His tone of voice was bitter, and he obviously suffered a lot from the discord with the demons.

Qing Ze let him go and fell into deep thought:

So far, there has only been one demon god, Chi You, in this world, but Chi You had already been beheaded by the Yellow Emperor at the request of Yinglong. Is this so-called demon god Chi You resurrected, or is there a new demon with the power of a demon god?

Chi You should have died in a frenzy. If this demon god really was Chi You resurrected... Since Chi You can be resurrected, then... Is there any hope for Ying Long... to be resurrected?

He touched a few pieces of scales in the front of his clothes, and his fingertips trembled nervously.

Before dawn, he knocked on Yin Luo's door.

"Yin Luo, where is the Moon-by-Yue Kingdom?" Qing Ze said excitedly, "I've decided, let's go to the Moon-by-Yue Kingdom....Let's go today, no, immediately."

Yin Luo was stunned for a moment, and said, "Wait for me to pack my things."

Qing Ze nodded: "Hurry up."

He paced around the door twice, looked at the sky leaking from the window in the corridor, and said, "Hurry up."

Yin Luo didn't have any luggage at first, so he packed it in a few moments, took out the house number, and found that Qing Ze was talking to himself just now, but he wasn't actually looking in his direction.

The young man stretched his neck slightly, leaving Yin Luo with a naive and indifferent back, and his gaze fell on a distant place where he didn't know where to end. Even from the corner of his eye, he forgot to give alms to the small wooden door in the inn. When he turned around, The look is already very anxious.

He smiled and said, "Is it packed? Then let's go."

Zhuyue is a small country like Sheyi, the two countries are close to each other, and there is a long and barren ancient road between the borders.

Withered vines and old trees, and muddy roads, although it is desolate, there is still extremely turbid sewage covered with insects, which shows that it is not the handwriting of Hanba.When you first entered the ancient road, if you were still at a reasonable level in the deserted countryside, the more you walked in, the more you would feel a strange, chilling gloomy atmosphere.

It is clearly the border between the two countries, but there are no officers, soldiers, or bandits. Even the occasional animals are wrapped in dirty skins and have bony limbs. They rustle and look strange and ferocious. .

The mountain beasts had the same smiles, were wrapped in the same embarrassment, opened the same red eye sockets, and stared at them with the same facial features and expressions without blinking.The body is crawling on the ground as if escaping, and the head is turned almost 360 degrees due to the change of the distance, like running, vicious and romantic abstract paintings.

In the early years, two neat rows of trees were planted on both sides of the ancient road for the purpose of repelling sand and dust. They were supposed to be luxuriant, but now there are only bare branches standing upright.Two rows of long, tall and straight wooden poles with scorched color make this ancient road appear a particularly depressing and narrow.

Squeak, squeak, squeak.

——Bang Dong.

With a huge dull sound, the bumpy carriage shook the huge body violently, one wheel sank into a puddle, and the whole car suddenly tilted and couldn't move.The horse was frightened and was about to run wildly, but the driver pulled the reins abruptly, raised its front legs, and let out a neigh that pierced the sky.

Fortunately, the coachman was also experienced enough, so he took control of the horse in a short while and got out of the car to check the accident.

The angle at which the wheels get stuck is a bit troublesome, but fortunately the puddle is not deep, so it can still come out after a little more time.

but……

The coachman looked ahead, and there were countless similar potholes, which showed that it was not suitable for carriages at all.

Why are you so unlucky.

The wheels idling a few times due to inertia, making a harsh sound, and stopped after a few seconds.The deep ancient road was supposed to be quiet, but it became strangely noisy instead.

"quack……"

"Jie Jie... Jie Jie..."

"Hahahaha……"

Obviously it was rare to see a few living creatures, but various sounds like titters and whispers echoed in my ears.

The coachman's hair stood on end, and he looked in the direction of the imaginary sound, only to see the dark branches covering the sky, and the voice in his ears was so quiet that he almost thought he was being suspicious. .

Seeing that it was getting late and thick black clouds were coming down one after another, the restless sound grew louder in his ears, and he couldn't wait to show his existence.

Suddenly, this place seems out of this world.

Qing Ze also got off the carriage.Seeing the coachman's embarrassed expression, he and Yin Luo looked at each other.

Although King Sheyi had good intentions, it was obviously impossible to drive on the next road.The coachman had nothing to do with this matter at first, and I don't know what will happen in the future. Although Qing Ze is not such a kind person, he also feels that there is no need to continue traveling with him.

So he talked to the coachman, and got nods in reply, watched the carriage drive away slowly, until he could no longer see or hear the sound, only then did he feel a cold wind blowing behind him, as if he was being stared at by a creepy gaze viciously. With that, Qing Ze suddenly turned his head away—there was nothing in front of him.

brush... brush...

A dead leaf that was dying on a branch wobbled down and floated on a small puddle.

Qingze asked: "Have you ever been to the entrance of the ancient road to the Moon Kingdom? It used to be like this?"

Yin Luo frowned since he entered the ancient path, and shook his head when he heard the words, as if he wanted to say something, he pursed his lips, thought for two seconds and then changed his words: "Go further in."

Qing Ze said, "Okay."

This place is not as desolate as Luwei Village, but the atmosphere is much more terrifying.

The terrain of Luwei Village is flat, and there is no vegetation due to the extreme heat. Looking around, it is empty, but the sun is extremely high and bright. Looking around, there is a large area of ​​bright, over-explosive light in all directions.Quiet, dry, empty, hot.

This ancient road is completely opposite, with gusts of wind blowing as if it is not in the same season as the outside world.

It was originally narrow and dilapidated, and there was not much room left for a carriage, but it was full of sticky whispers that never stopped and could not be heard clearly.They grow out of the soil, drop from the branches, crawl out of the snakes, drip out of the rotten water, and fall out of the dead leaves.

The sound is extremely small and dense.

rustling.

Malicious.

Greedy and vicious.

Can't see the light.

——Being silently eaten away, quietly degrading.

Especially the feeling of being greedily stared at by eyes from nowhere, making people think that they are walking into the mouth of some giant beast step by step, and they are almost swallowed by their tongues.

Yin Luo had already taken out the dagger from his arms and held it in his hand.

The two walked further down the ancient road.

At some point, the whispers hidden in the wind all quieted down.

The hundred-year-old trees planted on both sides of the ancient road, whose leaves have fallen off and only have scorched branches, have dwarfed a little bit, without the aura of blocking out the sky and blocking the outside world at the beginning.

The further you go, the shorter the planted tree trunks, and the sunlight that was originally blocked is also sprinkled, dispelling a lot of yin, and you can gradually smell the real grass, trees and soil in your nose, which makes you take a long breath. Only then did I realize that I had unconsciously held my breath before, but at this moment it seemed like I was returning to the world little by little.

Finally, there were no pillar-like tree trunks on both sides of the road, but shrub-like plants that had never been seen before were replanted in clusters, with lush leaves, thin and brittle branches, covered with The short soft white fluff, when you walk in, there is a pleasant fragrance.The land under it is not the loess when the trees were planted before, but the heavy black soil.

Qing Ze bent down and picked up a piece of soil.

The coachman driving back returned to the entrance of the ancient road.

The vegetation in front of me is bordering on Sheyi.If I remember correctly, the frontier should be the border between the two countries a few miles away.Seeing that the road was getting familiar, he relaxed and thumped his lower back, only to realize that his back was covered with dry cold sweat.

Fortunately, within half a stick of incense, you can return to Sheyi territory, and you can rest at the nearest border town tonight.

The coachman tightened the reins and slowed down.

……and many more?

He froze for a moment and rubbed his eyes.

A huge wooden sign stands abruptly on the side of the road ahead.

About one-third of the tree's height, the planks are thin and flat, and the shafts are deeply inserted into the soil, as if growing out of the soil.There are some old soil and broken leaves on it, obviously it has not just been inserted here.

Such a big wooden sign.

Such a conspicuous wooden sign.

A wooden sign that is impossible to see as long as you pass by it.

But, when you came... did you see this wooden sign?

Why didn't I see this wooden sign when I came here?

why?

Obviously it is inserted so straight at the entrance of the ancient road, why didn't I see it before?

The coachman drove the car forward slowly, and finally saw the black letters with the official seal on it, and he couldn't help but get goose bumps all over his body.

Hearing the sound of Jin Ge, the coachman took a closer look: at the entrance of the ancient road, the boundaries between the two countries are clearly defined. Soldiers dressed in armor of different colors are densely packed in two horizontal rows, waiting in line, with vigilant expressions.

They looked at the carriage approaching slowly from the direction they shouldn't be, and drew out their long knives in unison.

A moment later, the coachman fell from the carriage, with blood gushing from his neck, looking at the wooden sign that said "No Passing", he refused to close his eyes when he swallowed his last breath.