The enemy has a crush on me

Zhuyue Kingdom is not big. Although it claims to have some connection with the Shennong family, there are only villages left on the outskirts. Half of the young people were once forced to conscript, and most of the internal farmland was filled and built into towns. Town areas can be reached in half a day.Guitong had sworn before that there were demon believers in Zhuyue Kingdom, since there is no such thing in Longxia Village, let's trust him again and continue to explore.

There are two major national treasures in Zhuyue Country.One is Longxia Yaocun, and the other is the No. [-] dyeing workshop in the world—Guihuilaixifang.

There was once an empress in China who was very wise and powerful. Because she believed in an unidentified celestial girl in her later years, she began to wear green shirts and skirts, green hairpins on her head, and take selfies by the water every day.The human race's cloth dyeing technique was not very good at that time, and the queen was always dissatisfied, and it seemed like a thunderous anger to get angry.

In order to please the queen, the subjects began to painstakingly research dyes that could make the colors brighter and longer-lasting, and one day they dyed a black long skirt with clear layers and mild color like distant mountains.With the investment of a lot of manpower and material resources and the improvement of the dyeing process, besides green, many bright and mild colors that have never been seen before can be gradually dyed month by month.Because the empress thinks very highly of herself, even if the ladies and beauties from other countries yearn for her, they have no chance to get it, and the price is gradually raised month by month.

At that time, most of Xuanyong's territory was divided up by various countries, and as one of the countries that divided up Xuanyong's territory, the territory was more than twice as large as it is now.

In her later years, she was at the time of Xuanyong's resurgence. After losing the monthly battle and handing over the occupied territory, she fell into a slump, and then passed away with regret.When the new emperor came to the throne, he suffered from the deficit of the national treasury and the lack of agricultural power. With a wave of his hand, he expanded the scale of the dyeing process that was famous for the empress, sold it to the outside world, and built the world-famous Guihuilaixifang.

The majestic city gate gradually appeared in the field of vision, but Qingze was somewhat disappointed.

Along the way, the farther you are from Longxia Village and the closer you are to the main city of Zhuyue, the more normal the scenery and vegetation will become.The plants planted on both sides of the road at the entrance and exit of the village gradually turned into pines and cypresses, and grass stems grew in clusters from the gaps in the stone slabs.

The demons are all gangsters who like to wreak havoc everywhere. If there were really followers of demon gods, it wouldn't be like this.

It seems that this time he was really misled by the ghost boy.

The gate of the main city was quite lively, travelers from all over the world lined up and waited for the soldiers to search and release them.In addition to passing through Longxia Village from the border of Sheyi, there are two other roads that can be reached.The strange thing is that there are endless travelers on other roads, but only two people from Qingze came from Longxia Village.

The soldiers at the gate of the city saw Qing Ze coming from Longxia Village in the distance, showing some weird expressions, because there was an endless stream of travelers in front of them, they continued to search their bodies and check their name tags.Qingze was also included in the team waiting to be checked into the city. The travelers in front were all let go one by one, but when they arrived at Qingze, they were held in front of them by two rows of three-headed forks, one left and one right.

"..."

Qingze looked at the defenders.

"Those who come from Longxia Village are not allowed to go!"

Qing Ze said: "But we came from Sheyi."

The city guard said decisively: "Heavy soldiers have been deployed at the junction of Sheyi border and Delong ancient road for many days, and not even a fly can fly over."

Qing Ze disagreed, and sneered: "When we came, we didn't see a single person."

Seeing that the city guards were unmoved, Qing Ze frowned secretly, but said with a smile on his face: "Okay, okay."

Seeing that Qing Ze raised his hands and stepped back slowly, the city guard put down the three-headed fork, and took the name tag handed over by the person behind him.

Qing Ze turned around, walked to a place where the city guards couldn't see, and rested his chin thinking about what the city guards had just said.

Now that the entire city is under martial law, it can be seen that what Longxia Village has experienced is not a simple matter of the villagers committing suicide.

If what he said is true, there must be a huge problem in Longxia Village, and Zhuyue Kingdom is not ignorant of this.

Thinking of this, he changed his interest along the way, looked at Yin Luo, and said, "It seems that we must enter the main city of Zhuyue."

Because of adoration of Yinglong's magical powers that he saw in his early years, Qing Ze seemed to be a militant who didn't match his appearance, and believed in fighting head-on.Fortunately, although he is not good at this, he is still more than enough to deal with some human guards, because he was determined to enter the city, so he dragged Yin Luo to hide his body in a place where there was no one against the principle, and entered the city in a rare and low-key way.

The main city of Zhuyue Kingdom is not flat and open, limited by the undulating terrain, the houses are all built narrow and narrow. Although the area of ​​each floor is small, it is built extremely high, like short poles standing upright, not like each other. Buildings in other cities and towns are generally of different sizes and have many gaps. One after another, they form long and winding stone walls with no end in sight.

The streets and alleys of the main city are thin, long and deep, winding vertically and horizontally interspersed with each other. Each street and alley looks very similar, and it is no different from a maze to outsiders.

And because the houses are too high and the terrain is uneven, the lighting in Zhuyue Kingdom is not good, and the temperature is less affected by the weather, so it can be regarded as a resort that is warm in winter and cool in summer.

As soon as you enter the main city, you can see the long strips of cloth hanging high on the roof.The fabric is light and thin, leaning against the sky, propelled by long horizontal poles, falling from the sky like a canyon and river, shaking to cover the sky and blocking the sun, like long flags waving to those who have forgotten their way home.

People walked through the narrow market covered by ostentatious long cloths, and disappeared in a certain alley as they walked.

They were dressed in all kinds of clothes, and from time to time there were silhouettes with demonic, ghostly, and aura low-key among the passers-by, but none of them wore black robes like the masked people in Longxia Village.

There is no inn with wide open doors in the city, and there is no Willow Alley Wine Street. Qingze found a place to stay after wandering around the streets and alleys for a long time.

Because the house is built high month by month, the first floor is often used for multiple purposes. The width of each floor is no more than a few feet, and two doors are installed in the middle, leaving only half a foot on each side.The door is not completely wide open, only one door is opened, and only one person can enter and exit at a time.

When I entered it, I found that the room was extremely deep.

Against the wall on the left side of the room is a long row of large wine jars with a height of half a person, occupying one-third of the width, and the remaining two-thirds of the width and the length of the room form a deep corridor.At the end of the room is the counter, and there is an accountant standing on the counter, with wooden signs of different colors hanging behind him, marking different prices, and selling some common medicinal materials. Next to the counter is a wooden staircase.

In order to weaken the oppressive feeling brought by the narrow and long house shape, heights have been made between the floors, and the slope of the stairs is trembling compared with other houses.

The light on the first floor is relatively cold, and the candles are covered with thin jade-like lampshades, elegant and quiet.

The stairs can't go directly to the upper floor, and it is facing a square wooden door, which is flat on the top of the head with the roof of the first floor, and a vertical opening is cut in the center.

Only when the wooden sign is handed up from the vertical opening, will the wooden door be pulled upwards.

After the wooden door was opened, warm candlelight and the sound of toasts poured down from the square door opening above the head. A neatly dressed woman knelt by the door opening, poked her head out to look down, handed back the wooden sign, and pointed her right hand into the room.

There is no wooden door to block the upward stairs.The second and third floors are wine shops, which are about the same size as the same floor. After placing a square table and two benches, there is just an aisle that is one and a half people wide. Each floor can place a long row of about six tables in this way.I couldn't hear it at the counter, but when I came up, I found that the upstairs was already full of people.People in Zhuyue Country are probably used to relatively narrow and private spaces, and when they hear the sound of the door opening, they will subconsciously turn their heads to look at the stairs.

There is a small room farthest from the stairs that diners are not allowed to enter, which should be the back kitchen.

The fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh floors are foot shops. There are two rooms on each floor, and they are marked with "Heaven", "Earth", "Xuan" and "Yellow" from top to bottom.

Qingze opened two ziggurat rooms, stepped on the creaking wooden ladder all the way up to the seventh floor, and found a square wooden doorway above his head that was tightly locked.At this floor, only he and Yin Luo were left, so Qingze covered the square wooden plank on the seventh floor and locked it, so that the slight footsteps and voices from the floors below were isolated.

The corridor was still narrow, just wide enough for two people to pass sideways.If you bring more luggage, it is estimated that you will have to go back and forth several times before you can move into the room.The door is neither pulled inwards nor pushed outwards, it needs to be moved horizontally from left to right. Careful inspection shows that the upper and lower sides are pulled by two rows of simple small rollers.Although the sparrow in the room is small and well-equipped, it has been repaired as completely as possible in the narrow and long room.

Because of the high floor, there is a compartment in the room that is one-third the size, on which a wooden bed is placed.

There is a carpet under the compartment, and on the carpet there are large wooden shelves against the wall, some are empty, and some are used to store candle paper bowls and daily sundries; there are round tables and stools in the middle of the house, and floor-to-ceiling vases A slender flower is inserted; the other side of the room is separated by a screen, and wooden basins, barrels, bath beans, etc. are neatly stacked.

The lighting and ventilation conditions of the room are very limited. There are narrow windows facing the outside, and there are air holes in the four corners of the walls on the inside.

Qingze watched Yin Luo walk into the next room, and also into his own room, closed the door, pulled out the round stool and sat down, looking at the dense air holes and the flat doorway, he felt a sense of oppression.

People here are like being locked in a drawer.

He lived in a room on the outside, because he was on the seventh floor, and he could only see pieces of long cloth fluttering in the air from the window.

The long cloth floated back and forth, Qing Ze was stunned for a while, took a few pieces of silver, pushed the door and went out, and went to the restaurant on the third floor alone.

He drank a pot of wine slowly, and he could hear the voices of men, women, shrill, hoarse, old or young, all over the floor. He got a general understanding of the situation, paid the lady's bill, and put the handle on it. building.

As it was getting late, he walked to the other side of the room, removed the wooden frame, and leaned against the wall to listen. —— Yin Luo's room was silent.

Qing Ze walked up to the compartment and lay on the bed on his back.

The roof is very close, and I don't know what the locked floor is for.

Qing Ze stretched out his hand and scratched in the void, recalling what he heard just now, then withdrew his hand and rubbed the inner corner of his eyes.

Longxia Village is no longer an elixir village, but a well-known lunatic village in Zhuyue Country.

By the time I realized that something was wrong month by month, I was too weak to recover, so I could only do my best to martial law.Although it has not yet obviously spread outside the village, it is close at hand after all, and three out of six tables in the restaurant have mentioned this matter.

Rumor has it that the people in the village have been bewitched by the demon god, and their minds have become insane.

A group of people from Zhuyue Village formed a psychic organization, offering live sacrifices to sacrifice to the demon god every week. Because the people in the organization were the first to be lured, they were already out of human form, their eyes were protruding, their mouths were concave, their skin was wrinkled, and all members wore masks and black robes. , not even the sun.

Whenever this point is mentioned, most people will smack their lips and sigh in a sober way—tsk tsk, these Longxia villagers don't know why.

This is the version circulating in the wine shop.

But Longxia Village really didn't have any evil energy at all.Qing Ze felt some unexplainable boredom in his heart.

When he opened the door and entered, Yin Luo was sitting with his back facing him, writing something.

When Yin Luo was sitting, his back was also straight. Hearing the sound of the wooden door being opened, he first pressed the paperweight on the paper vigilantly to block the writing, and then turned around, and found that it was Qing Ze's tense body. Visibly relaxed.

At this time, two hours had passed since Qing Ze lay down on the bed, and the young man who was supposed to be sleeping soundly turned blue.A faint, invisible black air lingered on the ring of his index finger. He entered the room without saying a word, closed the door with a raised hand, walked up to the well-dressed Yin Luo, took off his hair crown, Seeing the black hair hanging down, he paused for breathing, blew out the candle lamp, picked up Yin Luo and walked towards the bed.

The room was suddenly completely plunged into darkness, and the path under his feet could hardly be seen. Yin Luo was dragged a few steps, knocked to the corner of the stairs connecting the second floor, staggered, and even pulled Qing Ze's hand, so that the young man stop.

Qingze turned his head, knowing that Yin Luo couldn't see his expression clearly, stood in silence for a few seconds before saying in a muffled voice, "Don't ask."

His voice was not loud, but it sounded out of thin air in the darkness so abruptly that he was also surprised.

The size of the bed in the room is limited, and it is really crowded to sleep two big men.Qing Ze didn't mind very much, he took the stiff Yin Luo as a human-shaped driftwood, lay down beside him, and put one hand on Yin Luo's body.

I didn't feel it at first, but after hugging her for a long time, I realized for the first time that Yin Luo didn't have any vitality at all.

Obviously his body temperature is only a few degrees lower than that of ordinary people, but when he really wanted to warm it up, he realized that it was like a cold piece knocked from the deepest part of the polar frost rock. ice.

Qing Ze has always been very unbelieving, so he rolled his eyes, and blew into Yin Luo's thin earlobe as if playing a mischief, and found that although his eyes were still closed and silent, his eyelashes were trembling slightly.

—Fortunately, it is alive.

As if he finally had something to rely on, Qingze finally lay down with peace of mind, closed his eyes and drowned himself in the depths of the dream.

Before dawn, there was a sound outside the door that was so slight that ordinary people could not hear it. Qingze opened his eyes in a daze, and realized that the sound came from upstairs.He withdrew his hands on Yin Luo, turned over and sat up abruptly, grabbed the coat that was on the bed frame, landed on his feet, lowered his head to put on his shoes, stood up and paused, looked back, He found that Yin Luo was lying on his side on the bed with his upper body propped up on one elbow, looking at him.

His expression was a little ignorant because he was still hazy when he first woke up.

The sound insulation effect of the room is good, Yin Luo apparently did not hear the sound outside the door.Qingze opened his mouth, heard another sound in his ear, he shushed Yin Luobi, walked to the door, moved the door to the left and right with the palm of his hand, and stepped out.

The square wooden door that was locked yesterday and covered the top of the stairs has been pulled open, and a person is stepping down from the dark door opening, half of his slender legs are exposed in the square hole.

Qing Ze raised his head slightly, watching the person coming down step by step.After seeing the other person's face, he looked down at the overly flat chest before confirming that the person who came was actually a man.

The visitor looked about sixteen or seventeen years old, wearing a short shirt, with fair skin, soft and beautiful face lines, two big eyes still rippling, thin eyebrows that seemed to be frowning, small nose tip, and delicate lips. Poor pretty boy.

The breath on his body was chaotic, mixed with the faintly pleasing fragrance that Qingze had vaguely sensed since yesterday, coming from above the floor.

This is the aroma of some kind of plant, Qingze smelled it on the ancient road at the entrance of Longxia Village when he first entered Longxia Village.They are short and fat, shrub-like plants growing in clusters on both sides of the road, with lush leaves, thin and brittle branches, covered with short, soft white down.

They often appear in the paintings of scholars, and are often mixed in mysterious pills, making the pills emit the same harmless smell to humans and animals.

The visitor didn't pay attention to Qing Ze standing beside the stairs. After going down a few steps, he pulled down the wooden door, covered it and locked it, and continued to step on the stairs slowly, looking at the ground directly below, until he reached the seventh floor Liao Ye was still looking at the floor, until after he took a step, he bumped into Qing Ze's arms and looked at him with his hands folded, and then he realized that he stopped.

He was petite, and because he was suddenly blocked by a tall stranger, he raised his head, and when he looked at Qing Ze, he was timidly dazed like a frightened small animal.

Qingze didn't care whether he was a man or a demon, but only cared about the subtle smell of Shenkiwan on his body. Originally, he planned to threaten directly, but felt that this person had a girl-like temperament, and thought it was funny, so he bent his eyes and saw that he was being stared at so that he drooped He shook his head and pretended to be surprised: "Ah, I'm so sorry, did I block your way?"

The visitor bowed his head and nodded.

Qing Ze said again: "Look, I have some questions I want to ask you, and you answered me so bluntly, I will let you go downstairs."

The visitor didn't nod, he walked around Qingze and took a step to the left, found that he was blocked, then turned to the right, found that he was blocked again, after a few rounds of silent confrontation, Qingze grabbed his wrist, stopped his movements, and stood helplessly in the original place The ground stopped moving.

Qingze said: "I see you came down from upstairs, but the number given by the accountant downstairs is only up to the seventh floor. Is there any room upstairs?"

The visitor thought for a while and said, "Then, I bought that... The rooms on the top floor of every shop in the main city of Zhuyue are sold out. There is no key to open the door in the counting room. The one who comes down has the key."

Qingze said again: "What's the use of buying the top floor? Why is the top floor of the shop sold separately?"

The visitor said: "Different people buy them for different purposes, some are used as pawn houses, some are used as private casinos, and some are used as golden houses to hide the beauty... Most of them are used as private storage rooms like me, Buy and put something..."

He was talking, when he heard a sudden noise behind Qingze, he stopped like a frightened bird, almost retracting his body into Qingze's arms.

Out of defensive instinct, Qingze turned back half a step slightly, but was still thrown softly by Xiangxiang, so he could only catch the young man, with a smile on his face as usual, feeling a little weird in his heart.

Fortunately, the young man was really frightened, and he was not waiting for an opportunity to plot. He turned his body and looked behind Qing Ze, only to find that the door had been pushed open, so he straightened up awkwardly and returned to his original place.His flaxen hair on the temples was a little wet with sweat from the shock just now, and it hung thinly on his cheeks, his face was flushed, with a hint of innocence.

Qingze looked behind him, and found that Yin Luo was looking in his direction, before he could put his hands down from the door.