SEC Chapter 125 Cloud City
Chapter 125 Cloud City
Cloud City.
Just before dawn.
The tallest building in the city is located in the central area of the south of Yuncheng. It is surrounded by streets and alleys and has a unique location.
On weekdays, there should be a lot of traffic and people coming and going.
But at this moment it is empty and deserted.
On the top floor of the building, a carved window lattice on one side was wide open. The night wind whistled past, lifting the drooping veil, brushing the fine hair on the cheek of the man in the moon-robed robe, and then quickly slipped away.
Xie Xiao side-glanced, staring at the back of the woman standing in front of the window, who seemed to be flying away with the wind.
The scent of herbs and trees on the woman's body was particularly clear at this moment, echoing in every corner of the top floor.
He listened to her advice, left the relief team behind and went on his own with her, riding fast all night, and finally arrived in Yuncheng before dawn.
He did not disturb the soldiers guarding the city, nor did he disturb the county magistrate of Yuncheng.
After entering the city, the woman went straight here.
Then he stood there for nearly an incense stick of time.
He clearly didn't know what she was doing, but subconsciously he wanted to not disturb her.
Xie Xiao shook his head with a smile, and finally, under the white wolf's fierce gaze, he took two steps back and found a chair to sit down.
tired……
Take a break.
Anyway, the purpose of his trip was just to protect her.
He is not a saint, he can only protect those he wants to protect to the best of his ability.
Li Jiaojiao stood in front of the wide-open wooden window on the top floor, holding onto the carved railing with both hands. The surging wood-based supernatural power, with the tallest building in the city as the center, spread out in all directions, like a tide coming ashore.
She was ordered to provide disaster relief without knowing why, and was ambushed and assassinated along the way, and she discovered something strange as soon as she entered the city.
Li Jiaojiao was completely enraged.
She took the lives of an entire city's worth of people, and even if the people behind it died a thousand times, it would not be enough to vent her anger.
As his heart was pounding, his supernatural powers grew stronger and stronger.
The feeling of the spring breeze blowing on my face appeared in this lifeless city for the first time in a long time, surging and surging.
At this moment, many people who had trouble falling asleep felt that the huge stone of depression and blockage in their chest was slightly pried open.
The tightly furrowed brows of the people who were sleeping relaxed a little.
The man who was on the verge of death withdrew his foot.
Perhaps, their redemption will come.
got windy.
The spring breeze blew away the days' heat.
The one who felt this most deeply was Xie Xiao, who was also on the top floor.
He raised his eyes and looked at the person in the window. Her hair and skirt were flying, and her back was facing him.
He remembered it, it was the feeling that flashed through his body that day and he didn't have time to grasp it.
Although he didn't catch it, he remembered it clearly.
Once it is brought back to mind, it is hard to forget.
Xie Xiao stood up, clenched his fists and hid them in his sleeves, then walked to a mural in the house and examined it carefully.
Li Jiaojiao withdrew her hands and turned around. The wind blew over the place where her hands were previously placed, and two sunken pits suddenly appeared behind her.
The bars of the wooden windows were smashed and blown away by the wind.
"Thank you, sir. Let's go and take a look around somewhere else." A cold and pleasant voice sounded in the empty hall.
Without a trace of emotion.
Xie Xiao looked back, smiling, "I didn't expect that Yuncheng could see Master Taifu's paintings. I was stunned for a moment. Where do you want to go?"
Li Jiaojiao turned around again, and jumped down from where she was standing before with a tiptoe, her voice cold and calm: "Chengxi, you can continue to watch, I will go around by myself."
Xie Xiao laughed, then jumped down on tiptoe following behind the white wolf.
The two people and the beast landed at the same time. Li Jiaojiao climbed onto the wolf and patted the wolf's head: "Southwest."
There was a flash of white light, and then it disappeared.
Xie Xiao: ...
Li Jiaojiao did not limit the speed of the little wolf at this moment. Since Xie Xiao could not catch up with him on horseback, he naturally switched to light skills.
Because of the characteristics of her wood-related abilities, she sensed something was wrong the moment Tu Yi approached Yuncheng.
She originally thought that the plague in Yuncheng was caused by drought affecting the harvest, people had nothing to eat, many people died, the hot weather caused rotting, and bacterial infection caused the plague.
Or perhaps the drought affected the harvest, and the rats had nothing to eat, so they all came out to look for food, causing the plague. Humans either contracted the plague or directly became infected by eating rats, causing the plague.
But now it seems that is not entirely true. She sees traces of human control in this epidemic.
The key should be the southwest area of the city.
In the lifeless city, the southwest corner, nestled in a corner, seems out of place.
Of course I have to go and see it.
……
early morning.
The sun rises slowly from the east.
The streets of Cloud City were still empty.
The gates of Yuncheng had actually been closed for a long time. They were closed when some people in the city started to prepare to flee the famine.
No one from Yuncheng can get out.
No one knew who was guarding the city gate, but anyone who forced their way in was killed.
It was said that there was a plague in the city and the order was not to leave the city.
At first people didn't believe it, because everyone around them was fine, except that they were skinny and weak, and had nothing to eat or drink.
There are no other conditions.
They did not believe the people guarding the city, but the county magistrate came out and told everyone that a memorial had been submitted and that the court would send people, food, and imperial doctors to provide disaster relief.
Let everyone not panic.
The county magistrate had been there for many years and was very popular. Although he did not agree with the forceful killing of those who broke into the city, he also understood that he had to act in an emergency.
Some people just want to hold on and everything will be fine.
It's better than dying on the road while fleeing famine.
Someone will come to help with the disaster, and future taxes will be waived.
Everyone stayed.
Some even thought the plague was a rumor.
Not many people died at that time, and even if someone died, it was thought that they died of starvation.
But as more and more people died, those who had food to eat also died, and the whole family died.
Everyone realized the panic.
Even the county magistrate is of no use at this time.
They just want to live.
Many people climbed over the wall at night, and ordinary people saw with their own eyes that the ropes thrown over the wall were not cut.
Their hearts were lifted up and some people went up.
The second person also went up.
Until several people went up.
There was no movement on the city wall. They should have been happy, but they were panicked again. No one had forgotten the scene in broad daylight when the big man who broke into the city gate was pinned at the gate with a spear.
The people stared at the top of the wall and no one dared to go up.
After an unknown amount of time, a wild laugh came from the city wall: "Hahaha, throw them down!"
A row of spears appeared on the city wall, followed by a row of heads. The leader was not the county magistrate, but a strange face, like a brutal bandit leader.
The people who went up afterwards were all thrown down one by one, falling with a loud bang, their faces unrecognizable and covered in blood.
People went home and left everything to fate.
There was no food or water, there was a plague, and we couldn't leave the city.
Everyone is mortal.
In the next life, choose a place without disasters to be reborn.
……
early morning.
Southwest corner of Yuncheng.
There are no rows of shops lining the streets.
There is no lively morning market.
The houses of ordinary farmers did not look out of place, with wisps of smoke rising from several places.
From a distance, it looked like a mass burning of corpses.
This phenomenon can be seen everywhere in Yuncheng.
Only those who came closer knew that they were making breakfast.
Li Jiaojiao and Xie Xiao were walking on the streets in the west of the city.
"Sir, when will your disaster relief grain arrive?" Li Jiaojiao looked straight ahead, stepping on the lime powder on the ground, one step at a time.
Xie Xiao pondered for a moment and said slowly: "We set out from the capital, which is the farthest away. Logically, the relief grain should have arrived. However..."
But except for the southwest region where they are now, other places are dead.
There was no movement of releasing grain at all.
"I think it's time. Let the people following in the dark get ready. How about setting up a porridge stall tomorrow?" Li Jiaojiao stopped at the door of a lavish mansion and turned to look at the man next to her.
His eyes were cold and calm.
"I'll put the plague medicine in the porridge and we can do it together."
Xie Xiao replied softly: "Okay."