As the night gradually fell, the Lu family and the mountain people quietly watched the soldiers and Lian Youyou sleeping in the same place, and were moved to tears. Many soldiers still had steamed buns in their hands and fell asleep before finishing them. All they could do was to support them silently from behind.
Many young and strong mountain people hit their heads in frustration. At such a special moment, they were useless.
Mrs. Lu and the women gently covered the warriors with quilts, and the others looked at them with admiration when they saw the people from Jiumen.
"Who are they?"
"I don't know, it just appeared out of nowhere, so cool!"
Everyone was whispering, afraid of waking up the sleeping Coffin Master, Fat Buddha and the others.
Only Zi Gu was guarding the Ice Gate, becoming the only guard tonight. He didn't need to sleep, he didn't feel tired, he didn't feel anything, but Lian Youyou didn't send him to the field.
First, he didn't have a weapon that could chop the Taotie in half, and second, Lian Youyou was afraid that he would get hurt, so she dropped a piece of her meat for the Taotie to eat to increase the number of Taotie. He was like a big meatball, and now he couldn't drop meat casually.
"Madam, do you know their origins? And that goddess?"
Mrs. Lu also had a vague understanding of Lian Youyou and the others: "I am not very clear either, but they belong to a place called Jiumen in the imperial court. There are many strange people in it."
"It turns out that all the gods are loyal to the emperor!"
"I have lived a meaningful life. I can see a miracle this time. I can die with peace of mind."
"Who dug out that monster?!"
"Liangjiazhai!"
Immediately, everyone became angry and looked resentfully at the Liangjiazhai people left, who were less than a hundred people, most of whom were women and children.
"It's them! They dug it out! They killed so many people!"
"Everyone knows that the mountains are a gift from God and we cannot move them recklessly. But you actually dug up the mountain and angered the mountain god, who released such a terrible monster!"
"The gold belongs to the mountain god! He hid it so well and asked you Liangjiazhai people to guard it, but what did you do? Humph!"
Everyone surrounded the survivors of Liangjiazhai and cursed them fiercely with red eyes.
The women and children hugged each other and cried in fear.
"Everyone, stop talking!" Lu suddenly stood up and looked at everyone sternly, "The monster hasn't been repelled yet, and we're already fighting our own people?!"
When the mountain people saw Lu stand up, they stopped talking and gave her face.
Mrs. Lu looked at the crying women and children and sighed, "Look at them. The Liang family has already paid the price. Don't blame them anymore."
The villagers looked at the women and children. Liangjia Village had paid a huge price for their greed. But what about the people in other villages? They all died because of their greed!
An elder came forward with a cane and said, "Madam Yuchi, today our villages will give you face and will not scold them anymore. However, we cannot forgive their worst crime today. This should also serve as a warning to us. The mountains are treasures given to us by the gods. They cannot be moved! They cannot be destroyed! Everyone, please learn from this! We must protect our mountains!"
Everyone nodded, turned around and left angrily, leaving the Liang family alone in a corner.
It was a quiet night, but everyone's hearts were not peaceful at all.
Lian Youyou slowly woke up and found that Lin Tingjun, He Shiqi and Hei Yan were all asleep around her. She got up gently, and the wall of fire around her was still burning. The night in the mountains was originally cold, but now this towering wall of fire brought warmth here.
Lian Youyou smelled a familiar smell of smoke. She looked towards the smoke and saw Sanniang sitting alone facing the fire wall in the distance.
Lian stood up slowly and stretched, her body still not fully recovered. She lazily walked to Sanniang, sat down, and lay on Sanniang's legs.
"Are you wondering who you are?" Lian Youyou closed her eyes and said sleepily.
"Huh..." Sanniang lowered her head and blew a puff of smoke at her. Sanniang's physical strength was amazing, which was why she became the signboard of the Nine Gates. However, she was not a human, nor a demon, nor a cultivator. She came from the sea, but she was not the dragon girl as the people said. She only knew that her family called themselves the Sea Clan, but they were not mermaids.
So, what are they, and who is she
Lian Youyou stretched out her arm and lazily pointed to a group of stars in the southwest: "Nuo, there is a star over there. It used to be the home of your people, but now it has become a dead star, reflecting the light of the stars."
"You mean... our people are from outer space?"
"Yes, the Green Star of Ophiuchus..."
Sanniang looked at the familiar Ophiuchus constellation. She didn't expect that her home was in that constellation. "Death Star... is it dead?"
"Yes~~It has been destroyed. The ecology has been completely destroyed. No living things can survive on it. Not even a bug can be found."
"By whom?!" Anger emerged in Sanniang's eyes. Who caused their entire race to leave their homeland, hide in the deep sea of this earth, and become homeless
"Hmph..." Lian Youyou let out a sigh, "Who are you talking about? Taotie is not unfamiliar to your race at all~~~"
Sanniang was stunned.
Lian Youyou curled up her tired body and said, "You have a mine on Green Star Star~~ It is the famous Green Star Metal in the whole universe~~"
Sanniang looked at her hands, and immediately, the green claws wrapped around her hands: "Just for this?"
"For the sake of gold, the Liang family members can ignore group training and dig their own altars. Naturally, there are also Star Clan who destroy your planet in order to obtain your travel metal. Greed is a common trait of all races in the universe. Thousands of years ago, the Taita tribe searched the universe for Green Star Metal. The planets that cooperated handed over the metal, and those that did not cooperate were destroyed with their weapons. You have also seen their weapons~~" Lian Youyou lazily pointed at the corpse of the Taotie, "They sealed the Taotie in a golden cannonball and then threw it into your planet. The gold will shatter, and the dormant Taotie will be released, completely destroying all life on the planet, and then seize the travel metal. The Green Star Metal of the two swords I made for Young Wolf was dug out from your planet."
Sanniang's hands began to tremble. She never expected that there would be such a heavy history behind their entire race.
"I always thought... we were water monsters here..." Sanniang put down her hand heavily, raised her face, and reached out to touch the distant, shining stars, "I didn't expect that we also had a home..." Once, that home was in the deep sea, dark and suffocating, making her want to leave. Unexpectedly, after leaving, she deeply regretted it. And now, she knows that they once had a home where they could live openly on land, how can she not yearn for it? (To be continued)