The village is not big, with almost a hundred houses and a population of several hundred. The houses are built along a river. There is a stone arch bridge at the head of the village and a stone arch bridge at the end of the village. There are many trees planted in the village, and there are also fruit trees with fruits. There are farmers working in the fields and children swimming and playing in the river. This is a picture of a quiet and peaceful village isolated from the world.
Not only this small village, Xia Lei, who was hovering in the sky, also saw the lava city which was not very far away. But that city gave him a shocking feeling.
The moat of Lava City is not filled with water, but with lava. Behind the lava city, about one or two hundred kilometers away, stands a huge volcano. The caldera on the top of the mountain is constantly emitting red magma. The sky corresponding to the volcano is also full of thick volcanic clouds, and it is a large area of darkness.
Under normal circumstances, there is no owner here, but the volcanic ash and poisonous gas failed to invade here. The energy shield of the lava city blocked the invasion of volcanic ash and also protected the surrounding villages.
Not only did the active volcano not affect the people's livelihood here, but because the existence of the volcano provided inexhaustible geothermal energy, the plants here grew better and the harvest cycle was shorter than elsewhere. Food crops that can only be grown in one crop in other places can be grown in two crops here, and the yield is still high.
The sulfur ore produced by the volcano is also a major resource here, bringing a steady stream of money income to Lava City. This is also the reason why the comprehensive strength of Lava City is far stronger than that of Ash City.
Xia Lei took Cao Ji and landed in a forest at the entrance of the village. Then he and Cao Ji walked out of the woods and entered the village.
This village is close to Lava City, and strangers occasionally pass by the village to go to Lava City, so the arrival of Cao Ji and Xia Lei did not arouse the suspicion of the villagers. However, several Doge roared at Xia Lei, as if they smelled something unusual. This kind of doggy is somewhat similar to the dogs that humans love to keep in captivity on earth, but they are larger and thinner, twice as big as bulldogs, and more aggressive. The whole body is pitch black and hairless, the eyes are blood red, and it looks a bit like a "cerberus".
Caoji stopped under a tree in the center of the village, "Boss, this is where I met the old farmer and bought his bag of cherry tomatoes for twenty black gold."
Xia Lei asked him to call him "Boss" in the woods. It was definitely not a wise choice to call him "Dragon King" in a hostile village.
Xia Lei said: "Take the portrait I gave you and go to the village to ask if anyone knows the old farmer. I will also look for him in the village. We will meet at the stone bridge at the end of the village in an hour."
"Yes." Kuoji followed and left.
Xia Lei did not take action immediately, but quietly observed the surrounding environment. He awakened the ability to sense energy, and then captured the soul energy remaining in the air through his eyes. Soon, some remnants of souls appeared in his mind, including old people, children, and young men and women. They are all still and some are blurry. This is because the remaining soul energy evaporates.
However, even though he constructed all the remaining images of his soul, he could not find the old farmer. He did find Cao Ji. He stared at the foot of the tree, as if he was talking to a person sitting at the foot of the tree. People with snake patterns are vicious by nature, and their souls are much stronger than other races. Therefore, the soul image of Caoji is the clearest among all the soul images constructed.
"The image of Cao Ji's soul is so clear. Regardless of the characteristics of the snake-printed man, it can be judged that he bought the cherry tomatoes from the farmer not long ago. I can see the image of Cao Ji's soul, but If you can't see that farmer, it's not normal." After finishing the reconstruction of the soul afterimage, Xia Lei had this thought in his mind.
In the dilapidated temple in the Golden City, Xia Lei guessed that the farmer had hypnotized Caoji and implanted the dream in Caoji's brain tissue. The farmer's purpose was to use the grass sacrifice to convey information about the fragment to him. All of this was planned by the farmer.
You can get more information and clues by finding the farmer, but now it seems that the mysterious old farmer is not willing to meet him, otherwise the old farmer will not even remove the soul energy and breath remaining here.
All the soul remnants disappeared. At this moment, Xia Lei suddenly remembered something, and his eyes moved to the direction that Cao Ji was staring at at that time. There is a flat black rock there. Because there are many people sitting on it, the surface is very smooth. Apart from this feature, there is nothing else. It looks like an ordinary stone used as a bench.
Xia Lei's perspective plunged into the flat stone, and soon the image at the bottom of the stone came into Xia Lei's sight. He then turned the stone over, and there was a text engraved on the bottom of the stone: Only one, we will see you in Doomsday City.
This text is not in the language of the Night Watchers, nor the Blue Moon language of the Blue Moon people, but in Chinese characters. The Chinese characters carved on the stone are very neat and neat. They are standard cubes, as if they were printed with a printer, without any trace of carving.
"It turns out that you had expected that I would come here to find you, so you left this information about meeting in Doomsday City. Who are you? What does your relationship have to do with that mission?" Xia Lei secretly said in his heart. Already flown to Doomsday City. He couldn't wait to meet the "farmer" and find out the answer from him.
The deafening sound of hoofbeats suddenly came from the entrance of the village. Xia Lei put away his thoughts and looked at the entrance of the village. At that moment, a group of cavalry rushed into the village, numbering about fifty, and their mounts were all ghost horses. With battle armor the same color as the lava and bright and sharp knight spears, this cavalry team belonging to Lava City is majestic.
"Everyone who can fight must come with us!" A leading knight captain shouted loudly: "That bitch from Ash City dared to kill our Young City Lord of Blood Moon in public. We want revenge! This time the Lord of Blood City will personally Go to war!"
This news caused a storm in the village, and the originally peaceful village could no longer be peaceful.
The faces of some women were full of anxiety, some were young wives, some were mothers raising sons. They simply do not want their husbands and children to go to the battlefield to fight, because only God can decide whether they can come back once they go to the battlefield.
There was no value in further investigation here, so Xia Lei walked along the river that passed through the small village to the stone arch bridge at the end of the village.
Fifty cavalrymen quickly dispersed, searched people from house to house, and then took them away by force. There were sounds of women and children crying everywhere in the village, and it was chaos.
The Lord of Blood City lost his son in old age. This grief is not something ordinary people can understand. Xia Lei was not surprised at all that he wanted to launch a war of revenge. It’s just that it’s still unclear whether the Lord of Blood City will attack Ash City or the blood crystal mine in the northwest district first.
"Two-thirds of the 200,000-strong army in Lava City are dead. A new war is about to start so soon. If the Lord of Blood City is not blinded by hatred, then he has found strong support. Could it be that he brought the blood crystal The secret of the mine was given to some important figure in the Black Sun Empire, and he received support, so he dared to launch a war of revenge?" Thinking of this, Xia Lei's feet also speeded up, and he had to take Caoji away.
These cavalrymen would even arrest the villagers of the Night Watch and take them into the army, let alone a snake-patterned man
Xia Lei listened to the conversation of the cavalry as he walked.
"I heard that the old man from Ash City died."
"Lord Guye City? What a good death. It must be Young Master Xueyue's heroic spirit who found him and claimed his life!"
"The City of Ashes is doomed this time. Does that bitch named Nightingale think she can occupy the blood crystal mine? She is delusional. Our old city lord has already sent the news to the King of the West. It is said that the King of the West will lead five A hundred thousand troops came to conquer in person!"
"An army of half a million is enough to raze Ash City to the ground!"
"We have to speed up. I guess we will set off when the old city lord comes back from the Western King's City."
"I want to avenge my brother, who died in the battle of the mines!"
The Night Watchmen are very competitive, not only killing and plundering other seeds, but also constantly fighting within themselves, so it is not surprising that these lava city cavalry are so eager for war.
These talks entered Xia Lei's ears, and Xia Lei snorted coldly in his heart, "Damn it, I wanted to take away the grass sacrifice and go to Lava City to do a beheading operation to kill the Blood City Lord, but I didn't expect that he wasn't there. In the lava city. And the King of the West, as long as you dare to steal my blood crystal mine and hurt the woman I promised to protect, I will kill you!"
Before Xia Lei reached the stone arch bridge, he saw the back of Cao Ji. He was also speeding away. He was obviously aware of the danger.
"Who is that, stop!" A cavalryman spotted Caoji who was walking quickly.
Caoji did not stop, but quickened his pace and walked towards the stone arch bridge.
"It looks like a snake-printed man. Damn it, stop!" The cavalryman chased after him on a ghost horse. When he got close to the back of Soji, the knight's spear in his hand hit Soji's back and stabbed him.
A stone flew out of Xia Lei's hand and hit the cavalryman hard on the back of the head. The night watchman snorted and fell off the ghost horse's back.
Sosai also reacted at that time. He took a step sideways and bumped into the running ghost horse with his shoulder.
"Hiss!" The ghost horse lost its balance and fell to the ground.
Caoji saw Xia Lei and ran over very fast.
Xia Lei suddenly felt that his action just now was unnecessary. Without his help, Cao Ji could probably defeat the cavalry. After all, he is an explorer traveling around the world. If he didn't even have this fighting ability, he probably wouldn't be alive now.
"Boss, I didn't find the old farmer. Also, we have to leave here. The cavalry of Lava City are here to arrest people and deport them to the army." Caoji spoke very quickly, looking very anxious.
"No need to look for it, let's go." Xia Lei reached out and grabbed Cao Ji's belt, jumped up, and disappeared into the sky in the blink of an eye.
This was not his first time taking people on a flight, but only beautiful women could sit on his back, and that was his first-class cabin. For example, a man like Kussai can only ride in the cargo hold.
ps: I recommend the book "The Gate of Great Rebellion" by my friend Zhibai: Let everyone with good intentions live the life of the richest man, and then send everyone with evil intentions to hell. Does the law restrain good people or bad people? Why do people who respect the Dharma get restricted everywhere? Open a door and go against the grain of the world. Use great evil to do great good. My thoughts are God's will, and my anger is God's power.
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