Chapter 295 Dead City

This year's New Year's Eve, Kong Ning and the others spent their time in Yuanzhou, a small city in the southwest of Dazhou.

Although Yuanzhou is the capital of a state, it is remote and closed, with a small city wall and a small urban area.

Compared with the prosperity of the capital, this Yuanzhou City can be called dilapidated and decayed, not much better than Shanlan County.

On top of that, there are demons in the city.

The two demons stole the identities of the county magistrate and county magistrate, gathered many little demons in the yamen, and almost turned the entire Yuanzhou city into their back kitchen. They ate the blood of living people if they wanted, and ordinary women wanted it.

When Kong Ning and the others arrived, the Yuanzhou city was lifeless, and the people were terrified and desperate, almost only the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled remained.

Young children, with delicate skin and flesh, were eaten up by demons seventeen years ago.

Those young and strong people who used to be considered laborers are either old or sick and disabled after more than ten years of torture.

Yuanzhou City, which was originally considered to be beautiful in mountains and rivers, has become bloody like a devil's cave.

Here, Caiwei saw such a terrible chaos for the first time.

Although along the way, I saw many monsters and ghosts, and mortals died tragically. But what happened in Yuanzhou City still made the little girl tremble with fear.

Of the two monsters headed in the city, the strongest one only has a Taoism of more than 400 years, but it is only a refinement of the sky. He has a cruel temperament and has no plans for long-term development. He is completely fishing in the marsh and harming this land recklessly.

Although the culprits only have more than 400 years of Taoism, and the entire yamen has only more than 70 little demons, but the murders they committed and the tragedies they caused are the most terrifying things that Kong Ning has encountered in the year since he left Hejian Mansion. .

What a yamen, bloody and smelly everywhere, covered with various human organs, and piled up with skulls of all sizes.

The moment Caiwei walked into the Yamen, she vomited directly.

It is simply impossible to withstand such a huge impact scene.

Even Kong Ning frowned slightly.

This Yuanzhou City has a bit of a Lion Camel Ridge feeling.

Ordinary mortals strayed into this place, fearing that their legs would be weak from fright.

Once the demons and ghosts let go of their temperament to kill, and completely ignore captivity and long-term development, their destructive power is astonishing.

Even if it's just a group of low-level little demons, they can turn a prefecture city where hundreds of thousands of people live into a hell on earth.

After killing all the monsters in the city, Kong Ning did not get the gratitude of the remaining 30,000 old, weak, sick and disabled.

Since Kongning stepped into the city gate, started killing, and went all the way into the Yamen, these mortals just stared at Kongning numbly, doing their own things mechanically, no one came out to cheer.

Even if all the corpses of demons were piled up in front of the yamen and burned by Kong Ning, those mortals with numb eyes just watched silently for a while and then dispersed.

No one came to say thanks, no one cheered.

All the monsters who oppressed them for more than ten years are dead, but these mortals still numbly follow the old rules and do their own things silently.

Continue to wait for the day to be selected, and then dragged into the yamen to be slaughtered...

"Damn, this Yuanzhou City is a bit scary," said the columbarium in a low voice, "I've seen a peerless monster swallow a hundred thousand souls in one bite before, and I've also seen a giant monster that can destroy a whole country's capital with its palm."

"But this is the first time I have seen this kind of city that has been plagued by demons for more than ten years, but no one is in charge."

"These mortals feel like they've all gone crazy."

The evaluation of the columbarium is extremely accurate.

Looking at this lifeless city, Caiwei felt a little heartbroken.

"Master, can you help them?" Caiwei looked at Kong Ning expectantly: "Use your mirror to see the moon in the water?"

Kong Ning's illusion can almost confuse the real with the fake, even the top monks can be confused, let alone ordinary people.

However, Kong Ning opened his eyes, looked at the mortals in the city, and slowly shook his head.

"It's useless, my magic mirror can make them forget the pain of the past ten years, but it can't revive their relatives."

"Once they wake up and regain their sanity, they will definitely not be able to accept the situation at this time, and they may become even more insane... They will probably seek death directly and use death to escape everything."

Kong Ning's answer made Caiwei open her mouth wide.

She subconsciously looked down at the city full of numb mortals, watching those mortals' sluggish and repetitive movements, her eyes were full of grief.

"But if we leave, these people won't even be able to resist, and any little monster will continue to fish them!" Caiwei seemed to have seen such a tragic situation.

Kong Ning shook his head, but did not speak.

The urn said: "Little girl, these people are actually dead... Although their bodies are still alive, their hearts are already dead, and no one can save them."

The words of the columbarium made Caiwei tremble slightly, her eyes completely darkened.

This night, New Year's Eve, they spent the night above the city gate, but there was no joy of New Year's Eve.

Under the night, Yuanzhou City was lifeless.

Ordinary people bathed and changed their clothes, held lanterns, walked out of their homes, and gathered in front of the yamen.

According to the rules of previous years, help the monsters celebrate New Year's Eve, and wait for the monsters to be excited to choose someone to kill.

But this year there are no monsters to kill them.

So these numb mortals all held lanterns and stood in front of the yamen with numb faces, without saying a word, like a group of dull sculptures, turning around and leaving one by one after the third watch, and returning home silently.

In the city gate tower, Caiwei huddled in the warm blanket that Kongning used illusion to create for her, and fell asleep.

From time to time, I had nightmares, my face was livid, my lips trembled, and I didn't know what I dreamed of.

Kong Ning was sitting on the upper floor of the city gate, watching from a distance those mortals gathered at the gate of the yamen, and then dispersed one after another.

There was no response until the lights of the entire Yuanzhou City were extinguished.

The urn jumped to his side and said in a low voice.

"Brother, I probably understand why you have to change your ways and become a good person. Such a world where demons and demons rule the sky is really uncomfortable."

"Even if it is a demon, not everyone has a habit of torture and killing."

The tragedy in Yuanzhou City was too bloody, and those numb and dull mortals made people feel chills down their spines, so that this urn of ashes, which was obviously born as a heretic, felt uncomfortable.

But both Kong Ning and the columbarium knew that what happened in Yuanzhou City was by no means the only case in the world.

Even if they go further west and leave the border of Zhou State, what they see will inevitably be even more terrifying.

The capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty was adjacent to the East China Sea, so when they came all the way from the sea to the capital, the scenes they saw were not too tragic.

But since the capital left, all the way to the west, the farther away from the capital, the weaker the strength of the demons, but correspondingly, the more cruel, violent and lawless these demons became.

Until now, when they came to Yuanzhou City, which was only 2,000 miles away from the border and was isolated in the mountains, they finally saw the first city on this trip that had been brutally murdered by demons for more than ten years.

At this moment, both Kong Ning and the columbarium are clear.

In the big Zhou capital, there was indeed something that deterred the demons nearby. So much so that the closer it is to the capital, the more restrained the demons are when they harm people...