Chapter 1139 Shadow on the White Hill

Dong Rui asked: "Okay, how do you plan to find her?"

"Back to the country of Fan, well, it should be called the country of Peng now."

"Hasn't she left yet?"

"Arsonists always like to return to the scene after the incident; she is the person behind the scenes, and she also wants to admire her masterpiece up close, right?"

Not to mention others, after he and Dong Rui burned the Heavenly Palace, didn't they stand on the hilltop outside Lingxu City and watch for a long time?

The view from the first row of front seats is of course particularly good.

…

Xuncheng is still the same Xuncheng, and it seems to be no different from a distance.

When He Lingchuan approached, they discovered that the city gate had been damaged a few days ago and had not yet been repaired. It had been removed and set aside.

It was covered with traces of war, telling of the turmoil of the past few days.

Someone was scrubbing the bloodstains on the wall, but a large and beautiful red lantern was hung on the open city gate.

A new country must have a new atmosphere.

The city gate checkpoint has been removed. Although there are still guards guarding it, anyone can come in and out as they please.

People were walking in a hurry, with their heads hunched when they came and went, as if they hadn't woken up from the battle a few days ago.

They are neither happy nor sad.

The aftermath of that turmoil has not yet passed, and is still lingering in the hearts of the people.

Everyone is watching secretly, wanting to see if this new country will follow the old path of the country.

No one has confidence.

All the notices in Wengcheng were torn down and replaced with new notices to calm the people.

When the new king You Enguang came to power, the first three things were of course to consolidate power, promulgate new policies, and win over the people.

Therefore, there are more than a dozen notices on the wall to provide peace of mind to the people, and there are also special personnel to preach them, and the civilians gather around and discuss them.

The words on the announcements are always colorful and righteous. They all sound like good things. How far can they be implemented? Whether they are slogans or true actions, we will see the effects.

The people on the Golden Plains are very aware of the official tactics. They have seen too many tricks that pay lip service but are not real, and they are no longer gullible.

This scene in front of the notice board also happened a few days ago, but it was already two dynasties ago.

Dong Rui suddenly let out a sigh and pointed at the bulletin board: "Mei Fei's wanted notice has not been torn off, so that means it is still valid?"

Only the reward amount has been changed.

"It seems that there is still a lot of money available for reporting Concubine Mei."

He Lingchuan's eyes flashed slightly. Why did this new country, which was founded less than three days ago, continue to want female criminals from the old dynasty?

Things are getting interesting.

Sure enough, the targets he pursued were never boring.

"Let's go to Jizhen."

Ji Town was originally a military town with 4,000 troops stationed there. In addition to farming, the people here made a living by doing small business with the army. After the army withdrew, the town became deserted. Now, there are only a hundred doors and a permanent population of more than 200. Young people are almost invisible.

Not even two dogs.

The inns here are all renovated barracks left by the army. The old man at the door had dull eyes, and his toothless mouth looked like a dark doorway.

The two people passed right in front of him, and he didn't even move his eyes, as if they were nothing.

He Lingchuan asked him specifically: "Old man, when were the defenders on the low mountain to the west withdrawn?"

He asked twice, and then the old man said: "Yesterday, the day before yesterday."

There is plenty of land in Huangzhen, so the guest room is very large, but the four windows are leaking air. When the northwest wind turns at night, the whine is like a ghost crying.

The two of them asked for a common bunk. Lingguang went in and walked around, then frowned and said in disgust: "This is just a lice nest!"

It threw the powder everywhere, on the kang, at the corners of the house, on the beams, and on every piece of furniture.

After spraying the deworming medicine for more than ten seconds, countless insects and ants rushed out, and there was even a nest of five or six rats, ranging from large to small, squeaking and lining up to slip through the door.

Why are they forced to move when humans come? Don’t you know first come, first served?

After all the insects and mice had escaped, Dong Rui used cloth strips to block the gaps in the doors and windows to prevent air leakage.

The bedding also gave off an unpleasant smell of grease and felt a little sticky to the touch. There was nothing I could do about it.

Both of them would dare to lie down with their clothes on in the wild, but here they didn't want to fall down on the kang, so they simply moved chairs and closed their eyes to meditate.

Dong Rui opened the window and looked towards the low hills to the west.

"Will she really come?"

"It depends on our luck, the defenders only withdrew for two days."

Dong Rui was reluctant: "How long will it take for her to appear? Aren't you a great fairy? Can you predict her?"

He Lingchuan took out a tael of gold from his pocket and put it on the table: "Within fifteen hours."

Ling Guang also became interested and took out several days' salary from his arms: "I'll keep it for five days."

"It's rare that Lingguang also plays this game." Dong Rui also offered his gambling money, "I will follow Lingguang!"

Bao Yuan, who was squatting on the beam, scratched his neck. These people were really bored.

"Wait." He Lingchuan casually took out a blanket from the storage ring and covered his head, breathing gradually and evenly.

After years of outdoor activities, he could fall asleep even hanging in a tree.

Dong Rui snorted and said nothing.

As it turns out, they were unlucky.

Even after staying in Jizhen for fifteen hours, He Lingchuan's target didn't show up. Dong Rui happily accepted the one or two bets: "I'll give it to you!"

This was the gold that He Lingchuan lost to him in a bet. It was the first time this happened!

Raise your eyebrows and exhale!

After returning to Alfalfa Island, he will find a good place to display it.

Ling Guang on the side reached out her hand at the right time: "Half of it belongs to me."

It also won the bet, so of course it wanted to share the money.

After dinner, He Lingchuan practiced hard, and Dong Rui did not waste time and went into another room to do experiments.

Until the late night two days later, the summer insects hummed and the wild foxes cried.

Just listening to the sounds, it was like being in the wilderness, except that the old man occasionally got up at night and dragged his heavy footsteps passing by.

He Lingchuan, who was regulating his breath, suddenly opened his eyes and looked at the hills in the west.

That place is called Baiqiu.

Tonight, they finally have something to do.

…

There is a lonely tomb on Baiqiu, and the moonlight illuminates the new soil.

But there are no fruits and vegetables in front of the tomb. There is only a line of shallow words on the stele:

The Tomb of Laosong of the Kingdom of Bulu.

Laosong is the full name of the old King of Bulu.

After being defeated and killed, the new king You Enguang ordered people to bury him here, asking him to sit alone and look at the old place of Xuncheng, watching his country being taken away by outsiders, without any relatives buried with him.

A lonely ghost in a grave, no one worships.

But at this moment, a black shadow in a cloak quietly went up the mountain, grabbed a shovel and started digging the grave.

There was also a black wolf beside it, which also helped dig the grave, digging the soil with its two front paws, which was much faster than its master.

In no time, the new grave was dug open.

The tomb built by the Peng army for the king of the fallen country was certainly not very careful, and the soil was not compacted at all.

Even the wood of the coffin was very ordinary.

The black shadow pushed open the coffin lid with great effort, revealing the dead person inside.

The old king had his throat cut, his skin was pale and bleak, and the age spots could not be seen clearly, but the fatal wound had turned black.

The ground in Baiqiu was extremely yin, and the feng shui was not good, but it was conducive to the preservation of the corpse underground.

Of course, the old king had been dead for many days, and his body would not be lifelike. As soon as the black shadow lifted the coffin lid, an unpleasant smell floated out.

But it reached out and stroked the old king's cheek, saying faintly:

"You are finally dead. Do you know how long I have been waiting for this day?"

"Every time I am in front of you, I have to imagine myself like this-" It suddenly pulled out a dagger and stabbed it into the king's chest!

The force was so great that the whole body moved.

"-I have to imagine that my great revenge is taken before I can laugh in front of you!" It whispered softly, "I swore to eat your heart and drink your blood, otherwise I would not have the face to see my parents, sisters and brothers under the deep spring!"

The dagger was sharp, and after a few cuts, the whole heart was dug out quickly.

"This heart is indeed black, just as I thought."

It actually used the dagger to cut the heart into small pieces, put it in its mouth, and chewed it carefully.

Barren mountains, lonely graves, dead people, wild wolves, and a black shadow that devours people's hearts.

The night owl on the treetop saw this scene and couldn't help flapping its wings.

The heart of the king was covered with black spots, and the blood clots were coagulated, which was very fishy.

But this was not the worst food that Black Shadow had eaten in the past few years.

The heart of the enemy, rotten, withered, and smelly, just like her past life.

Thinking of this, she felt that the flesh and blood in her mouth was a little sweet.

After eating one piece, she took another piece and savored it slowly.

She raised her head, and the bright moonlight illuminated her soft face, showing the happiness and satisfaction on her face.

Concubine Mei.

A fugitive wanted by the previous and next dynasties.

Even in this wild mountain village, she looked pitiful, like a fragrant orchid blooming quietly in the valley -

The blood stains on her mouth and hands could actually add two points of cruel and crazy beauty.

She fed the remaining half of the heart to the black wolf beside her.

The black wolf sniffed a few times, sneezed, and refused to eat.

Something that even wolves don’t eat, haha. Concubine Mei took out the water bag and drank a few mouthfuls, wiping off the blood stains on her lips.

The white wrist was exposed, tied with a red rope.

At this moment, the black wolf suddenly stood up, baring its teeth at the foot of the mountain, and the long hair on its back stood up.

Mei Fei looked in the direction of its alert, and there were little lights at the foot of the hill.

Torches.

At least several hundred people approached with torches.

No, they were searching the mountain.

They were here to search for her.

Mei Fei stood up and was about to run in the opposite direction.

But the people at the foot of the mountain had no intention of coming up.

I don’t know what they lit, and with a "whoosh", the fire broke out.

In just a few breaths, the hill was engulfed by the fire.

Fire gathering formation.

Around this desolate hill and lonely grave, there was actually a fire gathering formation set up in advance, and as long as it was ignited, it would have the effect of adding fuel to the fire.

It didn’t even take two hours to burn the entire hill.

And the flames were white with green, burning at a temperature of a thousand degrees, even the soil could be burned into crystals, and they attacked from all sides of the hill, so the people above could only sit and wait for death.

The people who ambushed her wanted her to die in the sea of ​​fire!

The flames and smoke forced her and Black Wolf to run to the top of the hill, but this hill was less than ten feet high. Where else could they run to?

Just as she was coughing so hard that tears came out, something suddenly emerged from the ground.

This was a barren hill for burials. What else could come out of the ground except zombies and evil spirits?

However, this was a strange-looking behemoth.

Mei Fei was startled and instinctively jumped away. Unexpectedly, the monster on the opposite side opened its mouth and shot out a long tongue like a ribbon, which rolled her in!

Black Wolf rushed up to protect his master, but was also taken away.