Chapter 51
Chapter 51
On the second day of the double descent of the dragon and the phoenix, three things spread throughout the martial arts world.
First, the important five strings on the qin sée are expelled from the qin sée without any injuries, and the intersection of the two will be cleared.
As soon as the news came out, speculations emerged one after another like a tidal wave, but most of them were unreliable imaginations, and they were right to be talked about after tea and dinner.
Second, the god-given treasures of dragon and phoenix are gathered on Xiao Nianzhi and Fu Yan, and the two people's intentions are not righteous, which is a cancer of the righteous way.
Speaking of this, everyone can be said to explode, they all hate being deceived by Xiao Nianzhi's harmless appearance before, if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they don't know when they will be able to reveal the ugly face of Xiao Nianzhi.
Talking about this shit pot that fell from the sky, what makes Xiao Nianzhi even more depressed is actually the third thing. I don’t know which idle guy has released the news. Of.
At first, the intention was to encircle and suppress Xiao Nianzhi and Fu Yan, but later they went astray. In order to encourage everyone to eliminate evil for the martial arts, the dragon ball and phoenix souls on the two of them were rewarded. Whose it is.
The hard work done by each of them based on their ability has hard work without credit, so those families with prestige in the world have no objection, and they also join the ranks as if they acquiesced.
Ever since Xiao Nianzhi came back from the cliff of no abyss, he met several farmers carrying burdens on the road, and some of them always saw that his eyes were wrong, or he was timid, or flashed with prey. The latter had ideas but no courage, Frightened back by Fuyan's eyes flashing red.
During the period, life was not peaceful, and thieves and thieves would often find their place of residence. The blacklist of martial arts righteousness.
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Fuyan was leading a horse with two big sacks of melons on its back.The origin of these melons is a bit embarrassing to say, Xiao Nianzhi stole Tianzhong melons for the first time in his life, and even brought back such two big ones, who knows which family is crying for his father and mother now.
When Xiao Xiang and Xiao Nianzhi were depressed, he also comforted himself in his heart. He was misunderstood in vain by the people of the world, making him homeless and precarious, and the people behind the scenes must pay some price.Besides, it wasn't rumored that Xiao Nianzhi was not a good person, so he was bad for them to see.
Flipping a bone fan without a fan in his hand, Xiao Nianzhi pulled the coarse cloth covering his face and complained: "Hey, what did you say I did, the dragon ball and the Phoenix soul are in our hands. Is it better than being in Qin Se's hands, and besides, it's only temporarily released, and it will be released publicly, and it is not allowed to seize the shit pot without giving it a chance, is there such a thing?"
In contrast, Fu Yan is much calmer, he recites this kind of misunderstanding every one or two years, and his face and mentality have long been trained to be invulnerable.
"This is the end of the matter. If they want to say it, they can just say it. The crime is so strange, it must be calculated by those people. Since it is destined to be impossible to avoid, let us do it."
Fu Yan is also wrapped up like a countryman, but he has a clean frame and a tall figure, even if he is wrapped up like a wooden figure, he can't hide his handsome temperament.
There are no people on the uninfluential dirt road, and the two of them wrapped up in rice dumplings on a hot day are not suspicious, but they only walk in the shade of the trees, far away from the houses where the people live, and avoid looking around for a while, so they can protect themselves .
The two led the horse and walked through a ruin, the wooden pillars were burnt black, stacked together, and the bed gauze could be vaguely seen, but there were a few scattered pieces, which were completely ruined; the scorching sun was shining directly over there, and the ruins had only been burned a while ago. Yes, after the harsh sunlight, a few wisps of white smoke rose from the scorched wood.
In front of the city, I don’t know where the land is. They just walked all the way. In order not to arouse suspicion, the two of them retreated close to the border of Gaishang Mansion. Where are you now.
The city gate is covered with dust, and the only bright crimson plaque hanging high has two words "City of Lanterns" scrawled but recognizable written on it.
At the door, there were two men in armor, guarding the two wings, holding their spears, facing outwards coldly.
The gate of the city was closed, Xiao Nianzhi thought it was only daytime, why the gate was closed.
He looked to the side, the wall around this place was quite wide, but the foot of the city wall was covered with weeds, mixed with green and yellow, which was half the height of a person; looking at the wall, there were many scratches that looked like swords , and even fell off the black bricks, a big black hole.
Looking at the entire city gate, it looks like an uninhabitable dead city, and the two soldiers guarding outside the gate don't make a sound when they see anyone, and they don't know if they are dumb or fools...
Xiao Nianzhi tentatively walked forward, and when he got close to the city gate, those two people surrounded him, crossed their spears and stopped him, and said in a rather aggressive tone, "What are you doing?!"
Xiao Nianzhi smiled apologetically and tried her best to appear weak: "We are far away from home, and seeing that it is getting dark, we want to rest here and go on our way tomorrow."
The two soldiers glanced at each other and asked, "What's your name?"
Xiao Nianzhi said: "My name is Xiao Ning, his name is..."
"Xiao Yan." Fu Yan added, her face was calm, no waves could be seen.
One of them glanced at their horses, cut the cloth bag with a long spear unceremoniously, and said, "What's in it?"
There was a big hole in the cloth bag, and the cantaloupe inside almost fell out. Fortunately, the melon next to it blocked it, and the two supported each other, so it didn't end up falling to pieces.
"The melon in the field at home, by the way, do you want to eat it, it's very sweet."
Xiao Nianzhi quickly took out the two cantaloupes with their heads on each other, and offered them up flatteringly.
Unexpectedly, the soldier didn't know good from bad, so he waved the melon to the ground and snorted coldly: "Do you know where this is, not everyone can come here."
Xiao Nianzhi didn't answer, and waited for them to talk.
"This is the City of Lights! The peasants from the countryside go back wherever they come from, don't bump into the immortals in the city."
After hearing what he said, Xiao Nianzhi raised her head and glanced at the plaque again - on it was clearly written the two characters "Dengcheng", so where did the word "Ming" come from?
Xiao Nianzhi showed a bright smile, his words were very blunt, but not ironic at all.
"I'm sorry, my friend, your city wall is broken like this, and there are still immortals willing to live here?"
"What did you say!"
Xiao Nianzhi said indifferently: "That's right, the door is closed in broad daylight, so it's also shady inside, right?!"
The soldier was about to get angry, but was held back by his companions, his eyes lingered on Xiao Nianzhi and Fu Yan for a long time, and whispered to the soldier's ear, "Why do I look at them so familiarly?"
Fangcai felt that the coarse cloth was in the way when he spoke, so he pulled it down, revealing his whole face, especially the sky mirror on his right eye is very conspicuous, and it just so happens that Fuyan also has half of the sky mirror.
Good things in the Central Plains are not spread, but bad things are spread thousands of miles away. The portraits of the two villains Xiao Fu can be memorized by everyone, because everyone wants to kill them and take the Dragon Ball and Phoenix Soul as their own.
"You are Xiao Nianzhi and Fu Yan!"
The soldier exclaimed, and then cursed: "Evil thief, you dare to show up, I will kill you now."
Xiao Nianzhi turned her back, picked out her ears, and said disdainfully: "Can you change it, this makes my ears callous."
It was too late to say it, but Fu Yan instantly moved in front of those two people and broke their necks.
Xiao Nianzhi heard the sound of bones breaking, looked back at the two people who were out of breath, and said, "Did you kill them?"
His intention was to intimidate him, and he didn't intend to make a serious move; but Fuyan was burdened with a lot of infamy, and she didn't care if there was one more or one less. Afterwards are the same result.
Although people in this world say that most of them are innocent, they don't know the truth, Yu Xiao Nianzhi, either he will kill others, or others will kill him, but Fu Yan doesn't care, so he will do the job well.
After briefly disposing of the corpse, Fu Yan kicked open the city gate unceremoniously, and the two doors opened to the side, as if opening a passage to another world.
It is still sunny outside, but it is as dark as night inside. The biggest feature is the red lights all over the street. Red lanterns are hung in front of every shop on the street, with the name of the shop on it; Those who traveled together or went to and from work, no one paid special attention to the two people standing outside the door.
Xiao Nianzhi thought she was dazzled, and wanted to turn around to take another look outside the city, but when she turned around, she found that the city gate had been closed by herself at some point, she stretched out her hand to push it, but unexpectedly it couldn't be pulled.
Three words popped out of Xiao Nianzhi's mind naturally - the gate of hell, the night that does not divide time, the red lantern that looks bright but is evocative, people come and go on the street, but they don't greet each other, they are indifferent like ordinary people.
Xiao Nianzhi walked a few steps forward, blending into the pedestrians on the street; Fu Yan led the horse and followed, the road was blocked, and those who stepped aside were the silent pedestrians.
The street is normal and not normal, there are piercing cries, and low-pitched bargaining, but when there is no intersection, no one knows anyone, and the distance between people is just right.
Xiao Nianzhi asked for directions and found an inn to settle down. This inn was named Wumingshi, with black and white characters, and the building structure was also narrow with pointed tile roofs.
But this inn seems to be the best inn in Bright Lantern City. After asking two people, they both agreed with this one. If it wasn't because of laziness, Xiao Nianzhi would find another one that seemed more comfortable to him.
This inn is mainly decorated in black and red tones. The windows outside the door are pushed left and right. When closed, there is a square sign in relief in the middle, with some unknown characters engraved on it.
The layout inside the inn is traditional with a few tables and chairs. The counter is on the right hand side of the entrance.
"Are the two staying at the hotel?"
Xiao Nianzhi's attention was attracted by the skylight on the roof. The skylight of this inn was made into a circle. The strange thing was that the night outside was as dark as ink, and it was kept as day by thousands of lights, but the light coming in from this skylight was red. Blood red, in a trance above is a blood red spring.
Fu Yan answered the shopkeeper: "I want a room."
The shopkeeper didn't talk much, and immediately arranged for them a room with the worst lighting on the second floor, calling it the best room, because the poor lighting made it impossible to see the bustling crowd downstairs, and they could sleep more peacefully.
The shopkeeper took the two of them up the staircase that turned three times, walked to the end, turned to the right, lifted a piece of black cloth, and entered the door.
The decoration of the room is indescribably weird, a boxy wooden bed, a dressing table facing the door, a wooden table with no stools to rest on, and the windows are tightly sealed.
Xiao Nianzhi tried to push it, but found that it couldn't be pushed, so she turned around and asked the shopkeeper: "Can this window be opened?"
The shopkeeper replied with a smile: "It's just a decoration, it's embedded in the wall, so naturally it can't be pushed away."
There is an incense burner beside the bed, and there is no smoke in it.The shopkeeper went to put a piece of incense inside, closed the lid, and said to them: "This is burning incense. After lighting it at night, it is easy to fall asleep. If you keep sleeping, you can light it at night."
Xiao Nianzhi nodded, the shopkeeper bowed to say goodbye, walked to the door, seemed to remember something, said: "If you two want to go out for a walk, now is the time, it's best not to go out later."
Xiao Nianzhi: "Why?"
The shopkeeper said: "To tell you the truth, Mingdeng City does not distinguish between day and night, and there is no time. The bell rings twice a day, once for the first time, and three times for the second time. After the second ringing, no one is allowed on the street. People are gone."
Feeling more and more treacherous atmosphere around her, Xiao Nianzhi wanted to ask questions, she responded, and the shopkeeper helped her to close the door and went out.
Fu Yan approached the door, opened a gap, saw that the shopkeeper had really left, and then closed the door, and waved a spiritual light from her hand, covering the whole room.
The furnishings in the room surged in the red aura, and I checked them one by one, but there was nothing unusual.
But Xiao Nianzhi always felt that something was wrong, generally speaking, this room didn't look right.
He walked to the dressing table facing the door, and the brass mirror reflected his face wearing a sky mirror, and when he walked away, there was nothing in the mirror.
"Facing the mirror to do makeup..." Xiao Nianzhi muttered these words, a woman combing her black hair with a comb appeared in her mind.
Fu Yan went to the bedside, opened the stove cover, took out the burning incense inside, put it on the tip of his nose and asked, only a light fragrance entered his nose, like ordinary spices for sleeping.
Xiao Nianzhi paced back and forth in front of the vanity mirror, turned around leisurely, and saw two lines of characters written on the back of the door, at the bottom of the middle was written what seemed to be a character for family, and in the lower right corner was Gu Muli.
I don't understand what it means, but I feel a knot in my heart when I look at it.
Xiao Nianzhi was clueless, glanced casually, and finally realized something was wrong.
He called Fuyan over, and said: "Did you see the partition on the bed? There are patterns on the wall on the inside, and there are no pillows on the bed, and the front and back are not connected. It's really weird."
Fu Yan said: "I took a look at the censer by the bedside, there is nothing strange about it, there is no unusual smell from the spices."
Xiao Nianzhi caressed her forehead: "But normally who would put an incense burner by the bedside, wouldn't they usually put it away from the bed's arms?"
The room is airtight, the light is dim, and the noise outside can't be heard, especially the dressing table, which is facing the door——
Xiao Nianzhi took a closer look at the dressing table again, this time he saw not only his own face from inside, but also the words on the back of the door printed on it, the size just matched the height and width of the brass mirror.
Xiao Nianzhi straightened up suddenly, and said: "The mirror is not facing the door, the door is not facing the window, the bed is far away from heaven and earth, and I burn incense to sleep. I know, this is not a house, this is a grave."
The brass mirror reflects that the words on the back of the door are the words on the tombstone, the home is not a home, but a tomb; the ancient wood stands are not combined, but the ancient wood stands together; so the brass mirror is the tombstone of this tomb , the bed placed there is the coffin for the deceased, with two layers inside and outside, just right.
"A censer is a vessel for worshiping the dead."
Fu Yan drew her sword and smashed the brass mirror. Although it was chopped, the texture was like splitting a stone.
Xiao Nianzhi rushed over and kicked open the door, at this moment, the bell rang three times outside.
In an instant, there seemed to be tens of thousands of Taoist priests chanting scriptures in their ears, and the golden characters flew over from the door downstairs like a rain of arrows, with the sound of sharp wind.
The shopkeeper was holding a blood-soaked paper in his hand, and he was chanting a mantra, and then the spell in his hand was on fire.
Oops.
Xiao Nianzhi turned over and jumped down the stairs, Shi Ling went to hit the shopkeeper's burning blood talisman, but as soon as he made a move, the golden characters flying from outside the door turned into iron chains and bound his wrist, preventing him from using the spirit talisman. force.
Seeing this, Fu Yan flew down and drew her sword to cut off those annoying characters. Suddenly, the red color of the skylight above her head flowed like water, and then quickly flew up, extending a strong suction force from inside, pulling Fu Yan inward. pull.
Fu Yan raised her foot and wanted to walk towards Xiao Nianzhi's side, but was restrained tightly, and finally was sucked in by the skylight.
Xiao Nianzhi turned around and shouted, his body was hit hard, before he passed out, he seemed to smell a faint fragrance.
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