In the city of Shuofang, buildings form a forest, with dozens of buildings often crowded together to form a building cluster.
There are factories between the building clusters. Some are used to make glass, some are used to smelt minerals, some are used for casting, and some are used for sacrifices. Different factories have different divisions of labor.
The Jiehui Factory is located on the edge of Shuofang City. There are also tall buildings nearby. Li Muge said that these buildings are called Youlou.
"Youlou is where the poor people in the city live."
Li Muge walked forward with his bag on his back and said, "Yu means a place for keeping animals in captivity, and Yulou is where the lower class people live. The houses here are old, broken, small, and crowded. Those who live here are all poor guys like me. Some are scholars in school, and some come from the countryside to make a living in the city."
He paused, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Many monsters that enter the city also hide here. Junior Brother Yun, what kind of monster are you?"
"I'm really not a monster." Su Yun said helplessly.
"It's no big deal if you're a monster. I can see that you're most likely a wild bull monster. In fact, some of my fellow apprentices in Wenchang Academy are monsters. But it's not the same in other academies. Most of them are old pedants who want to kill monsters."
Li Muge walked in front and saw that the snow was getting heavier and heavier, making Shuofang City look foggy.
"I've seen monsters many times in the city. The family of the guy who lives next door to me seems to be monsters... Strange, why is it snowing so heavily?"
Li Muge looked up at the sky and said in surprise, "Shuofang City doesn't have such heavy snow in this season. This snow came strangely."
He shook his head.
Huahu suddenly said, "Xiaoyun, when the human demon was born 150 years ago, it was also snowing heavily, and the mountains were sealed off by the heavy snow."
Su Yun felt a chill in his heart.
According to the records in the ancient books of the Dragon Burial Mausoleum, when Zigelong, a member of the Tiandao Academy, entered the Dragon Burial Mausoleum to summon the dragon spirit, it suddenly snowed heavily, blocking the mountain and preventing them from leaving.
"After the demons came out of the Dragon Burial Mausoleum, heavy snow fell in Tianshiyuan, and now it's the turn of Shuofang City."
Su Yun looked up at the sky and saw that the snowflakes were getting bigger and bigger. Each snowflake was as big as a palm and fluttered down. "It seems that the whole village has come to Shuofang City for dinner. And the leader of Tiandao Academy, he should also be in Shuofang City, right? In the past 150 years, he has changed his appearance, but his ability is so extraordinary that it can't be hidden. If he stayed in Shuofang, he should be the most powerful person in the city today, 150 years later, right?"
Of course, it is possible that the team leader did not stay in Shuofang after leaving Tianshiyuan.
"Junior Brother Yun, Junior Brother Hua, look, the Jiehui Factory is ahead." Li Muge pointed ahead and said with a smile.
Su Yun suppressed his thoughts and looked in the direction of his finger.
He was also very curious about the so-called ash factory.
In Li Muge's words, Shuofang is a city built on the ashes of robbery, and the contribution of the robbery ash factory to Shuofang is immeasurable!
Ahead, next to the official road, is a large factory building, covering an area of about a thousand acres. The factory building is built on flat ground, with its back against a mountain. There are some flat houses in the factory, but no tall buildings.
The mountain was not big and had been dug halfway. There were several holes several feet high on the mountain wall.
The factory was brightly lit, and at the gate some oxcarts carrying robbery ash passed by them. These carts ran in the ruts and had an astonishing load. A small cart of robbery ash could weigh several thousand pounds, and the carts creaked under the weight!
Each mine cart had a bull pulling it in front and workers pushing it from the back, which was very strenuous.
Su Yun looked at the car and saw that the ash was not ashes, but large pieces of stones. The heavy snow had covered the ash with a layer of white, but it was still possible to see that the ash was black with a black-gold luster.
Is it this strange thing that supports Shuofang City
Su Yun was curious.
The workers who dug the ash were bare-chested in this winter, their bodies covered with the dust of the ash, dyed black. The snow that fell on them melted and flowed down their bodies along with the sweat.
Sweat, blood, and black dust mixed together, revealing the original color of their skin wherever it slid.
"These robbery ashes are mined and sent directly to various kiln factories."
Li Muge whispered, "Some people here are from the countryside of Shuofang, and some are monsters from the uninhabited area of Tianshiyuan. They have nowhere to make a living in the city, so they can only do hard labor. The work in the ash factory is tiring, dirty, and hard, and there is a risk of life. People in the city are unwilling to do it."
Su Yun, Hua Hu and the others stopped to look around. Su Yun said silently in his heart, "I used to hear people from the neighboring villages say that their children worked in the city, made a lot of money, and lived a very good life. I guess these monsters are just deceiving their parents and don't want them to worry."
Just as he was thinking this, there was a sudden noise in the Jiehui Factory, and someone shouted, "A monster rushed out of the Jiehui!"
In the mine, countless workers in the dark ran out in panic, crying and shouting. Some people fell down and crawled to run, but were stepped on many times and lay motionless, and no one knew whether they were dead or alive.
The workers who were pushing the mine carts were also startled. They quickly abandoned the mine carts and ran away, shouting, "The ash-robbing monster is eating people!"
"Gray Robbery Monster?"
Su Yun looked around and saw that the entrance of a mine tunnel on the half mountain in the mine suddenly exploded with a loud bang, and debris flew everywhere. A monster with a color similar to the ash suddenly flew out, flying close to the ground, and suddenly grabbed a person and landed him on a mine cart.
The mine cart was shaking, and chewing sounds were heard from inside the cart, with blood gushing out from under the cart.
Soon, another dark monster flew up from the mine cart and landed on the ox pulling the cart in front. Then, with a whoosh, the ox and the mine cart were pulled into the sky!
"What a great strength!" Su Yun's face changed slightly. He looked up at the sky, only to see that it was pitch black and he couldn't see where the monster was at all.
The mine cart fell from the sky, landed on the ground with a loud bang, and ashes were scattered everywhere.
There was a sound of cow mooing from the sky, and then blood rained down. The next moment, a bloody cow skeleton fell not far from the mine cart.
Su Yun's face changed slightly. He saw fleeing miners everywhere, rushing towards the mine gate.
From time to time, shrill screams were heard from the crowd, and people kept flying into the air dancing, obviously being caught by monsters and eaten in mid-air!
The monster was as black as the ash, and under the cover of night, it was impossible to see where the monster was!
Li Muge's face also changed. He hurriedly dropped his bags, big and small, and rushed to the factory, shouting, "The robbery monster has appeared again? Yun and Hua, you stay here, the monster is very dangerous!"
Su Yun closed his eyes and suddenly sensed a ball of energy and blood flying in the sky, rushing towards them!
They were facing the gate, and the workers in the mine were pouring in like a tide!
Obviously, the monster's purpose is to block the gate, making it impossible for anyone to escape from the ash factory and turn them all into its food!
Su Yun's eyes twitched, and he said in a deep voice: "Second brother, take Xiaofan and the others and go first, and wait for me and Senior Brother Muge in the Youlou."
Upon hearing this, Hua Hu immediately pulled Qing Qiu Yue, threw the little girl up and made her ride on his neck, then he held Hu Buping in one hand and Li Xiaofan in the other and rushed towards the enclosure.
Su Yun closed his eyes and faced the crowd that was coming like a tide.
Some people in the crowd had already begun to change their shapes while fleeing; some had pig faces and human bodies, some had monkey heads and monkey brains, some had wolf heads and human bodies, and some had goat horns on their heads. There were many kinds of shapes, and they all ran wildly past the crowd.
The miners around them were not surprised by this at all, and it was obvious that they already knew the identities of their partners.
In Su Yun's blood and energy perception, the blood and energy of the Jiehui monster rushing towards this side in the sky was like a wheel with a small dot in the middle, like the axle of the wheel, and the axle and the wheel were connected by spokes.
It is impossible to distinguish the specific form of the Jiehui monster by relying on qi and blood alone. Qi and blood sensing can only determine the form of the qi and blood of the Jiehui monster, which is very easy to make mistakes.
However, the Gray Monster is the same color as the dark sky and cannot be observed with the naked eye. Only by sensing the qi and blood can one determine its location!
The calamity monster attacked them from the air. Su Yun could "see" the calamity monster falling through his blood and energy senses, as if it was going to hit the ground, but it did not land on the ground. Instead, it whizzed towards them close to the ground!
"It has wings, but there is no blood circulation in the wings, so the wings do not appear in my blood perception." Su Yun made a judgment in a flash.
At this time, Li Muge had already rushed into the mine. He obviously did not know how to sense the qi and blood, and the Jiehui Monster was black, so he did not realize that the Jiehui Monster had actually arrived at the door of the Jiehui Factory!
It was a chaotic place with a lot of noise and chatter everywhere, so Su Yun couldn't notify him.
boom!
There was a loud bang, and the ash monster crashed into the mine cart parked outside the mine gate. The mine cart full of ash was knocked over and rolled towards this side.
Su Yun kept backing away from the rolling mine cart. The ashes in the mine cart had already been scattered everywhere, and the smoke and dust filled the air, obstructing his vision.
He simply closed his eyes and activated the transformation of the furnace. His Qi and blood suddenly increased to the extreme, and the muscles on his back bulged, increasing his strength to the extreme!
He suddenly stopped, turned around and kicked backwards.
The dragon wags its tail!
The mine cart made a loud bang and stopped on the spot, with dust and smoke rising up.
There were screams coming from the mine gate, and the place was filled with noise and chaos.
The smoke and dust gradually dissipated. Su Yun opened his eyes and saw a tall figure standing in the thick smoke. It was the gray monster.
The Jiehui monster looks like a human, with arms and legs, but its body is taller and it has wings with a span of several feet. The wings are like a bat and are fleshy.
His feet were like eagle's claws, extremely sharp, but that was not the strangest thing. The strangest thing was that his sternum actually grew outside!
What’s even weirder is that the bones in his chest are distributed like wheel shapes!
Just as Su Yun's blood and qi sensing showed, the bones of the Jiehui Monster were most densely populated in the chest, like the axle of a wheel, and the ribs were like the spokes of the wheel, connected to the axle, with the spokes extending in all directions.
He had never seen such a strange structure before!
"From my experience of Qi and blood, the Qi and blood in its bones are the most concentrated. Could it be that its bones are hollow? Does its blood flow from its bones?"
Su Yun was extremely surprised: "There are no such monsters in the countryside! What the roe owl from Linyi Village said is right. The steel forest in the city is indeed much more dangerous than the tree forest in the countryside. There are more man-eating monsters here than in the countryside!"
The monster turned around and looked at him. Its eyes were gray and the pupils were invisible.
Zhaizhu: I'm back home, writing with peace of mind~~