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"My lord, he is my younger brother." Ah Jiu turned to the position of the city lord, and bowed with his body. The expression on his face was unclear, but he could only hear the tone respectfully, "If his flesh can really make people live forever , can you give me a piece?"

It is also recorded in ancient books that youth will last forever and prolong life. Presumably no one dared to try it first, and now this young man volunteered to try it.

So voices pleading for the young man sounded from all around, the city lord thought for a moment, then nodded in a slightly embarrassed tone: "As you wish."

"Thank you, City Master!" Ah Jiu raised his head, ran to the side of the cage with mixed sorrow and joy, and stretched out his hand to touch the head of Yuan Qing who was tortured out of shape.

With this movement, Yuan Qing couldn't help but burst into tears.

"Happy birthday." Ah Jiu lowered her head and stuffed a paper bag into his hand, her messy hair covered his expression, and said with a sob, "I will make this vinegar a few days before your birthday." It’s time to soak the eggs, it’s all because I was sick and delayed for a while. When I heard about your accident yesterday, I accidentally broke it, you won’t blame me, will you?”

"How could I blame you? As long as you don't want me—please don't want me?" Yuan Qing begged with red eyes.

"What are you thinking about? I've been here for so many years, and I'm still not used to it without you." Ah Jiu patted his head comfortingly, and gently plucked the broken leaves from his hair.

"I really hope you can live well, Yuanqing—" Ah Jiu suddenly called him.

When Yuan Qing raised his head, he felt severe pain in his left arm, and couldn't help but let out a cry of pain. Looking down, Ah Jiu's teeth were wedged into his forearm fiercely, and the sharp teeth bit off Yuan Qing's arm. A piece of bloody meat.

"Don't cry, it's better to be hurt than to lose your life—" Ah Jiu's eyes were also red, and the tears that fell fell on the peace amulet around his neck, but the expression on his face was vicious.Disgusted, he kept chewing the disgusting raw meat in his mouth, threatening: "Live well, take my share with you, hear?"

Ah Jiu turned around, wiped away the tears overflowing from his eyes, swallowed them completely, and bowed in the direction of the city lord as if to thank him.

Seeing that he was safe and sound, the crowd around him became restless and seemed eager to try.

When approaching the crowd, Ah Jiu, who was originally behaving normally, suddenly went crazy, pressed her fingertips firmly between her eyebrows, and couldn't help but exclaimed in pain: "Ah!"

The people who were close to him were startled, and stepped back.Doctor Zhang was close and wanted to check the situation, but was pushed out of the human wall by the crowd.

Then his whole face turned pale from the pain, as if it was unbearable, he used his nails to scratch his scalp vigorously until it was dripping with blood.

"Ah Jiu!" Yuan Qing ignored his bleeding arm and stretched out his hand to grab the painful person.

Ah Jiu seemed to be suffering from unspeakable pain, and the pain spread from the top of his head. He scratched his scalp with his nails, then scratched his face, followed by his body and limbs.The five claw-like fingers scratched the skin with all their might, as if this was the only way to relieve the pain.In less than a moment, Ah Jiu's belly was ripped open, bloody and bloody, and some intestines even leaked out from the abdomen.

The crowd gathered by the moat burst into an uproar, as if they were afraid of being infected, they backed away in panic.

This scene was so weird that even the city lord, who was sitting high on the city wall as stable as Mount Tai, was so frightened that he trembled.

"God's punishment—this is God's punishment!" Dr. Zhang couldn't help but roared in pain.

"Ah Jiu, what's wrong with you? Ah Jiu! Look at me!" Yuanqing cried out with a disgusting smell of blood floating in the air, slapping the dinged cage desperately, biting hard Only his lower lip can stop the surging tears.

Hearing this, the man in great pain really looked back at him.At that last glance, Ah Jiu's eyes dissipated all the pretended pain, very calm, but so far away that it seemed to be separated by thousands of mountains and rivers.

With his blood dripping face on his face, he opened his mouth and said a few words softly, then he tilted his body, like a kite with a broken string, and fell straight into the rushing moat.

Surrounded by noisy voices, Yuan Qing couldn't hear clearly, but he saw his mouth shape from a distance, but understood it.

Ah Jiu said: Live well.

From the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month of that year to the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month of the next year, it seemed that the sky was also mourning something, and it rained for a whole year—it seemed to have finished all the rain in the days to come.

The same is true.Because since then, not a drop of rain has fallen from the sky.

It won't rain, it won't rain anymore.

Every day, the wrath of hell burns down the entire city.

And the ancient dragon chant drove the people who turned into walking corpses to drown themselves in the cold water of the moat step by step, day after day, year after year.

The people in the city dream of immortality, and they are indeed immortal.

Everyone can't leave and can't die, repeating what happened on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every day, muddled in illusory hopes.

This is living purgatory.

The only one who can leave the city is a white-haired old doctor.When Dr. Zhang of Jimin Hall moved away with his family, he sighed and told his ignorant grandson that this was the curse of the dragon and the divine punishment caused by ignorance.

Later, someone gave this dead city a name - the city that time has not invaded.

"So——you killed the people of the whole city because of the death of one person?" Liu Gudeng was terrified, and hesitantly looked at the thin man who was tightly wrapped in a black cloak.

Xie Yan thought for a moment, then said softly: "Ah Jiu would not want you to live with hatred."

Hearing this, Yuanqing seemed to have heard some joke, and smiled in a low voice.His laughter was rough and hoarse, as if his nails were scratched on a stone, which made people creepy: "Ah Jiu is dead, how can I survive? So I slaughtered the whole city and asked them all to be buried with us."

"Swipe—" Xiao Lian unsheathed, a sword light came towards him, Xie Yan waved the white rainbow, and quickly blocked Yuan Qing.

"Xie Yan, get out of the way. As long as he is wiped out, this city will-" As if startled by the scene in front of her, Jian Suyu suddenly stopped talking.

"Oh my god, his face—" Yue Dusk couldn't help exclaiming.

Xiao Lian's sword move was blocked by Xie Yan, but the biting wind brought it straight through the fence on Yuan Qing's face - revealing a withered and yellow skull.

"Don't look!" Yuan Qing roared murderously.Seeing that Pu Xinjiu was also looking over, Yuanqing frantically covered the bones that were accidentally exposed, and the original murderous intent turned into a begging, "Don't...look..."

Wen Wu, who had been silent all this time, lowered his head, silently stood in front of Yuanqing, blocked everyone's sight, and said coldly: "Ah Jiu's clumsy acting skills can't stop the greedy people from pursuing immortality at all—the one who was there at the time After Ah Jiu pretended to go crazy and committed suicide by jumping into the river, all the young men set life and death together. They drank his blood and ate his flesh in an attempt to prolong his life and become immortal. Finally, to prevent him from giving birth to resentful spirits, they put His limbs and torso turned into bones were sealed in the four corners of Sanjiang City and the City Lord's Mansion, preventing him from being reborn forever."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone was shocked.

So sometimes, the human heart is far more terrifying than demons and ghosts.

"From old people who are half buried in the ground to babies who are crying for food, as long as they are people with red ribbons tied in front of their houses, everyone has a share." Yuan Qing said coldly with deep hatred, "Since They want endless life, so I will fulfill them. From then on, the people of Sanjiang City will work at sunrise, and at sunset, their souls will be burned by the anger of the orphan of the dragon, and they will turn into corpses and drown themselves in the moat. Just like when Ah Jiu died."

"Yuanqing." Pu Xinjiu suddenly called softly.When he spoke, everyone fell silent in a tacit understanding.

Hearing his call, Yuan Qing's body trembled almost invisibly, and his hands clenched into fists.

"Are you not living a good life?" Pu Xinjiu rubbed the dragon scales on his neck, and his eyes turned red. He changed his old impatience and softened his tone, "He will feel so distressed when he sees you like this." gone."

There was a sudden burst of suppressed sobbing in the inn, mixed with the crying of bones rubbing against each other, getting louder and louder.

It was especially sad in the quiet of the night.

After a long time, Pu Xinjiu took Yuanqing's hand, just like when he was young, and slowly disappeared into the night.

Xie Yan looked at their backs, stretched out his hand and patted Wen Wu's shoulder, and asked, "Is New Wine the reincarnation of Ah Jiu? I really can't imagine his personality, he would protect someone until death."

"Do you still need to ask?" Liu Gudeng seemed to have been greatly shocked, he raised his hand and secretly wiped the moisture from his eyes, "Shouldn't the dragon scales on Xinjiu be the best proof?"

"That's the hair left by Yuan Qing." Yue Dusk echoed.

Ignoring their sentiments, Wen Wu suddenly said nonsensically, a little sadly: "So what's so good about longevity..."

"Master Taoist," Jian Suyu said suddenly, and stopped him from turning away, "Everything is Tao according to your heart, and you don't have to stick to life span."

"Wen Wu!" Before Wen Wu finished chewing on the deep meaning in Jian Suyu's words, Xie Yan also called him, "Taoist Wen, I—"

"Xie Yan, the matter of Sanjiang City is over, and one of the people I want to find has also been found." Wen Wu interrupted him directly, and calmly said, "I will leave in a few days, you - take care. "

This farewell is too hasty.Xie Yan was surprised, and before he had time to ask a few more questions, he saw that the windy Taoist had already teleported away and disappeared.

"Who is he looking for?" Liu Gudeng asked a lot.

Yue Dusk sat down, glanced over coolly, and said angrily: "Do you still need to ask? Did you see that Daoist Wen called out to anyone other than Xie Yan?"

Liu Gudeng belatedly said "ah": "The person he is looking for is Xie Yan?"

Unconscious of their unnutritious conversation, Jian Suyu rubbed the center of her brows, turned around and walked upstairs.

"Senior brother, you must have misunderstood something, right?" Xie Yan also chased after him, shouting, "Senior brother, listen to my explanation! I really don't know Wen Wu very well!"