Chapter 42 Finding a Breakthrough

Once Panlong Desert becomes ordinary, can the border of Yuan Kingdom still be so peaceful? This is a huge question mark, after all, the neighbors are not vegetarians.

Fortune and misfortune are interdependent. If it weren't for the generous conditions offered by the Grand Marshal, He Chunhua didn't want Panlong Desert to disappear.

He was silent for a while, and whispered: "Chuan'er, do you think that Commander Zhong's 32 years of perseverance is worth it?"

He Lingchuan thought to himself that since you asked me, you must think it's not worth it.

"Not worth it." He pretended to speak his mind. "Panlong City still fell, and Xiluo Kingdom still perished. After spending another 32 years, he didn't change anything."

"In the first 12 years, Xiluo Kingdom was unable to move westward to regain lost territory, and didn't even know that there were still millions of soldiers and civilians defending the Panlong Wasteland; in the next 20 years, Xiluo Kingdom tried several times to cede the Panlong Wasteland to Xianyou Kingdom in exchange for a temporary survival. If I were Zhong Shengguang, I would be angry to death if I met such a weak and lagging homeland!"

"Xiluo Kingdom was once famous, with a national life of 217 years. It is a rare long-lived country in the world." This continent is rarely peaceful. The shortest-lived regime only lasted a few dozen days. Most small countries have gone through the full process of rise and fall within 20 to 30 years, so Xiluo Kingdom has been able to endure. "But when Zhong Shengguang was guarding Panlong City, Xiluo was in internal and external troubles, the rich and powerful were living in peace and prosperity, the hungry people were displaced, and the foreign enemies were attacking relentlessly. The end of the world had already sounded." He Chunhua said this and stopped talking, stroking Zhong Shengguang's tombstone and sighing.

Dad was thinking of himself, and He Lingchuan didn't say it out loud. Today's Dayuan Kingdom is indeed a bit too similar to Xiluo in the past.

At this time, the clouds broke and the moon came out, illuminating the desolate city.

"Commander Zhong, it's boring to guard here alone, right? I'll drink two more glasses with you." He Lingchuan couldn't help but toast Zhong Shengguang with two more glasses of wine, "It's a pity that I couldn't pay homage to General Hong and admire his heroic figure!"

Zhong Shengguang and General Hong are both legends. As for He Lingchuan himself, he is more curious about the mysterious General Hong.

He asked He Chunhua: "There is a shrine for General Hong in the city, but there is no tomb for him, not even a cenotaph. Is it possible... that he didn't die in the last battle?"

"General Hong was struck by the thunderbolt that Xianyou State Master sacrificed his life to bring about. He was instantly reduced to ashes after seven strikes. The soldiers of both sides witnessed it with their own eyes, so it should not be wrong, otherwise the morale of Panlong City would not have collapsed suddenly." He Chunhua shook his head, "You are still young, and you don't know that human power is limited."

He Lingchuan was about to speak when two whooshing sounds suddenly came from the northeast.

Two fireworks went up to the sky and exploded.

That was the sign agreed upon in advance. He Chunhua said at a glance: "They found it, let's go!"

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Within two quarters of an hour, everyone gathered at the Mitian Temple.

It is located in the heart of the entire Panlong City, covering an area of ​​ten acres, with many courtyards and pavilions.

I think this place should have been a prosperous scene with ancient trees and tourists when the incense was at its peak. However, it has now become a large-scale desolate scene after more than a hundred years of looting and burning. The clear springs and lotus ponds have long dried up, and the originally lush ancient trees have become dead trees, and no new green has sprouted.

At least half of the exquisite buildings have been destroyed, especially the magnificent main hall that enshrines Mitian. It was completely destroyed. It was first knocked down and then burned. When people approached the original site, they saw only a few black wooden stakes lying in all directions.

Raised his hand and broke it, it broke.

The Mitian statue was a stone sculpture, and the length of a forearm alone was as tall as He Lingchuan. Unfortunately, people could not see its original appearance, because the whole stone statue was cut into seven or eight pieces after it was knocked down, and each piece was chopped with a knife and an axe, and then painted with ink.

The coalition hated Panlong City and the Dafeng Army, and even hated their beliefs to the core.

After everyone arrived, Nian Songyu held the glass jar in his hand and said solemnly: "This is it!"

He walked around the pool in front of the main hall, and the three corpse worms in the glass jar also changed direction. No matter where he went, they pushed against the side wall away from the pool!

"Pool?" Situ Han asked curiously, "Are you sure it's this pool? If we make a mistake, we can't get more clean water."

There is a lot of water on the Chiba Plateau, and the waterscape in the Mitian Temple is also very delicate, with springs, streams, and as many as six pools.

The pool that Nian Songyu liked is just outside the main hall. It is not very regular in shape, and it looks like a wishing pool that accepts people's coins. The area is about twenty-six or twenty-seven square meters.

Of course, it is empty now, with neither koi nor coins.

Sun Fuping walked around the pool and reached out to press the edge of the pool a few times: "There are several color differences in the layers on the edge of the pool, which seems to have been blocked later."

Everyone looked at it and it was true. There are several repairs on the edge of the pool, the workmanship is rough and uneven, which is far from the original craftsmanship of the pool. It can be seen that the later repairs are just repairs, perfunctory.

"There are many years between the old and the new. And the repairs are rough. It doesn't look like the craftsmanship of the people in Panlong City who worship the Mitian God, and it doesn't look like the work of the Xianba coalition." He Chunhua pondered, "Could it be that this was done by the last team sent by Baling Kingdom?"

The proud disciples sent by the ancestor Zhu Gen are not the ones who came thousands of miles to be masons, right?

If this pool was really repaired by them, then they must have a purpose.

What He Lingchuan cares more about is why this pool was dug up in the past.

Sun Fuping said seriously: "More importantly, why was the pool dug up and who dug it up."

Zeng Feixiong pointed to the large and small stones scattered on the ground and said: "Maybe it was accidentally smashed by falling rocks when the main hall was destroyed."

The temple was looted, so the magnificent buildings and statues collapsed with a rumble, and even the ground was smashed into a big hole. What's so strange about a small pool being smashed through?

"Perhaps this is the effect that the person in charge wants to fake?" He Chunhua pondered, "When Panlong City was broken, the coalition soldiers must have entered the city to plunder, and the commander could not stop them at all. No matter what these soldiers destroyed, it was normal. If this pool looks like it was destroyed in the looting, the coalition will not investigate it carefully, and the secrets hidden in it can be concealed."

"When people are panicking and Panlong is about to break, who can arrange it so calmly?"

The answer is about to come out, Nian Songyu murmured: "Zhong Shengguang, or his confidant. He wants to open the pool and release water before the city is broken."

If they are not wrong, the deep meaning behind this action is worth exploring.

Decades later, the expedition team of Baling State probably had a similar judgment and repaired the pool again.

Situ Han came up to take a look and looked embarrassed: "You guys mean to put water into this pool? But even if we put all the spare clean water of more than 200 people in, I'm afraid it won't cover the bottom of the pool."