The Girl and Her Sword [Comprehensive + Sword III]

A round of pale moon hangs in the deep blue sky, the moonlight is like washing, and it sprinkles thousands of miles of silver light. In the middle of the night, in the wilderness, except for Qingwu and his party, there is the wind blowing from the direction of the dark city of Xu. .

The road from Qucheng to Xucheng is long or short.And if they go back now, a group of people will have to sleep in the wilderness.

"It's just that the lanterns are not lit," Ye Nanxing said indifferently, "Maybe it's because the candles have burned out, so why make such a fuss, don't worry about it, come here to trick people."

The coachman shook his head like a rattle, and said, "A small family has to support the whole family, so how could it be possible to deceive the officials? I don't know how many people are from other places. The reason why Xucheng is called the city that never sleeps is not from here. How much people love lanterns comes from a legend of the ancestors."

It is said that when Xucheng was founded, an incident happened. When this incident happened, many people died. From then on, the city lord ordered that from then on, Xucheng would light up the lights all night and never allow darkness.

This is what the people of Xu Cheng said. However, only the people of Xu Cheng know the specific content. The coachman also often travels between these two places. They sleep in the wilderness and don't want to go to the city.

In desperation, Ruan Qingwu and the others had no choice but to let the coachman drive away by himself, and then stood on the endless wasteland and looked at each other in blank dismay.

A gust of cold wind howled past.

"What should we do now." Ye Nanxing sat down on the luggage and muttered.

"Sister Ruan, what do you think?" Meng Longtan asked.

"At this point..." Ruan Qingwu thought for a moment, then said, "The only thing we can do is head towards Tiger Mountain."

"That's good." Meng Longtan thought for a while, and said, "If you encounter a demon that harms someone, we can still help you."

"I hope so." Ruan Qingwu looked at the pitch-dark Xu Cheng and sighed, "I have heard people talk about the origin of Xu Cheng's name."

"I would like to hear the details." Meng Longtan said.

"Let's talk as we walk." Ruan Qingwu put a few delivery robots A-Gump Type [-], and put all the packages of several people in them. A-Gump walked on two legs unhurriedly, creaking in the silent night. Walking creakingly.

With such background sound, Ruan Qingwu opened his mouth unhurriedly.

Xucheng was not a city at the beginning, but a name.

A hundred years ago, there was no city here. This was the battlefield where the emperor and the coalition armies of the six kings confronted head-on during the Rebellion of the Six Kings. There were only piles of bones that died in the war. After the war, the emperor gained After victory, he began to recuperate. Gradually, the villages, cities, etc. that were burned by the war all returned to their previous prosperity, except here.

Because there are too many bones here, and the war has just ended, people are busy rebuilding things, there is not much time to think about the dead people here, and when the living people finally recover, they find that this place has become a mass grave. , Mountains of bones piled up, rivers of flesh and blood, soaring resentment covered the sky and the sun, someone wrote a text Diaoyun, "The mountains are silent when the birds are silent, and the night is long and the wind is blowing."The soul is knotted and the sky is heavy, and the ghosts and gods are gathered together in the clouds. ' is exactly the scene described.

"So, the plain we saw," Ruan Qingwu glanced around, and said slowly, "There may be a lot of corpses buried underneath."

"Sister Wu, don't scare me." Ye Nanxing shuddered.

"I would rather be a dog of peace than a person in troubled times." Meng Longtan also said with emotion, "I have also heard about that war. The old emperor died and the new emperor lacked prestige. Ascend to the throne as the king, when I saw that article at that time, I couldn't help but be moved by it."

"That's right." Ruan Qingwu nodded and said, "If it wasn't for the size of this place, maybe the souls who died here would never be saved for a day."

"Let's talk about the key points, whether the key points are good or not." Ye Nanxing pitifully huddled herself in the shadow of the verdure for a sense of security.

"The land was planned later, but at that time, no one dared to approach it." Ruan Qingwu sighed, "A group of people couldn't do anything about this land, until one day, a young man named Xu Cheng came out from here."

"Live?" Ye Nanxing asked.

"How is that possible." Ruan Qingwu glanced at him, "This is the place where the two armies fought, even if it was a city, it would have been completely destroyed long ago."

"Could it be..." Meng Longtan said.

"Yes, it's this city." Ruan Qingwu sighed as he looked at the dark city gate standing in front of everyone. "This... city that was affected by the flames of war and died overnight."

The ancient city gate was black all over, and there was a cold aura under the moonlight. When people looked at it from a distance, they didn't feel it. It wasn't until everyone walked not far from the gate that they realized how high the gate was.

"It's so big." Ye Nanxing exclaimed, at this moment, a leaf was blown by the cold wind, and it was sucked in by the dark doorway a few tens of meters behind them.

"Back." Ruan Qingwu felt something was wrong, and pulled everyone back.

"This city is actually attracting people!" Meng Longtan exclaimed.

"Let's go back quickly." Ruan Qingwu turned around and wanted to leave.

"Sister Ruan." Meng Longtan's voice was a little weird. "Have you noticed that we..."

"What?" Ruan Qingwu raised an eyebrow, and soon realized something was wrong.

"We haven't moved all this time." Ye Nanxing wailed, "How could that be! I obviously tried my best to run away."

"It's not that we haven't moved." Ruan Qingwu glanced at the city gate, sighed, and said, "We've been walking towards the city gate."

"Sister Wu, is my jade pendant useful?" Ye Nanxing said with a sad face.

"If it didn't work, you would have been like him a long time ago." Ruan Qingwu pointed to a broken body hanging on the door that was getting closer and closer, barely recognizable as the coachman's corpse.

"Wow!" Ye Nanxing cried out of fright.

"Don't panic, we'll be going in soon," Ruan Qingwu thought a few thoughts in his mind, "Don't be fooled by the illusion, so you can do it yourself."

"Sister Ruan?" Meng Longtan asked, seeing her suddenly determined eyes.

Ruan Qingwu and the others were forced to move forward while retreating. At this moment, she pulled Meng Longtan and Ye Nanxing to the door and said loudly, "The three of us, please enter the city."

As soon as the voice fell, the displacement of several people stopped.Accompanied by the sound of a heavy door shaft opening, the black hole at the entrance of the city gate disappeared, and an extremely deep ditch appeared around it. What appeared was an extremely thick door panel, which was dragged by chains and fell down, lying across the ditch. On it, it just stopped in front of a few people.

When the situation came to an end, if he retreated at this time, he might end up like the coachman. Ruan Qingwu and the others looked at each other and stepped on the door together.

Black mist suddenly swept from the city, surrounded several people, and rushed into the city, and the door was also closed heavily. Under the quiet moonlight, the city gate was still silent.

"Sister, hey, wake up, sister, you're taking my place."

When Ruan Qingwu woke up, he found himself lying in a small corner of the street.A beggar next to her was looking at her with dissatisfaction, urging her to get up and make way for him.

Ruan Qingwu stood up and made room, ignoring the beggar's cursing voice, she looked around and began to observe the environment.

It was late at night, but the street was covered with all kinds of lanterns, illuminating the street as bright as day, with happy smiles on the faces of young and old, and the city gate not far away was still old and dark. There are two characters inscribed on the door plaque.

Ruan Qingwu looked intently, and saw the original name of the city that was destroyed overnight - 'Qucheng' written on the door plaque.