The rainy night was cold and windy, and there was a strange sound coming from the roof tiles.
In this restless rainy night, there is another pair of strange twin children.
That pair of twin children were wearing bras.
Bare little feet.
Running around in the rain with bare buttocks and back.
The skin is livid, like the complexion of a person who has been dead for a long time.
Their bellies are as big as water jars.
The mouth was ugly and sewn shut with black stitches.
The neck is as slender as the eye of a needle.
This appearance is really weird, and it doesn’t seem to be the right way at first glance.
As soon as the twin children appeared, a strong smell of corpses began to float in the air.
Looking at the twin children’s detailed necks and pot belly, Jin An’s first thought was of starving ghosts.
In folklore, a starving ghost is a person who committed karma or had deep greed during his or her lifetime. After death, he becomes a starving ghost. In simple terms, he is a person who deserves to die.
The physical characteristics of a starving ghost are that it has a small mouth, a thin neck, and a big belly. It can never satisfy its desires, but it cannot eat because of its small mouth and thin throat, and it suffers from hunger.
The biggest difference between these twins and starving ghosts is that they are living people, not dead.
Although they carry a strong smell of corpses.
But they are indeed living people.
Because Jin An recognized that these two people had the yang energy of a living person.
“A living person? Is that someone who is on the wrong path?”
Jin An looked at the pair of twins running around naked in the rain without scruples.
The smell of corpses is very strong. It seems that the direction of their evil cultivation is related to corpses. Only people who hang out with the dead all year round can have such a strong corpse smell.
This reminded Jin An of the corpse-carrying craftsman he met not long ago.
But these twins were obviously not corpse-carriers, because corpse-carriers never leave their bodies, but these two children, who were scarier than dead children, did not carry corpses on their bodies.
“It’s a bit interesting...”
“A stone cow is suspected to have come to life. It has not yet been confirmed, but it has already attracted the attention of so many ghosts and monsters..."
“One person has even died…”
Jin'an is interested.
I wonder if catching one of them will yield any useful clues. At least, knowing some information about the Cave Heaven Paradise in advance can help avoid more risks.
Just when Jin An was about to take action, four more people appeared on the rainy night. As soon as these four people appeared, they stood together and were obviously accomplices.
They are respectively a charming and beautiful woman.
That charming and beautiful woman, wearing revealing clothes and gauze, looks like a prostitute, but she has two greedy mouths.
There was a mouth on the front of her face, and another mouth on the back of her head. The black hair on the back of her head was as flexible as a human claw, tearing the body of an adult man into six pieces, and blood dripped all over the floor. The mouth on the back of her head was eating her hands, feet, and body.
With the head.
It is obvious that the mouth is not big.
But it can easily swallow a human head.
And in the mid-air next to the charming and beautiful woman, flying with a flying head.
When you see that flying-headed man.
Jin An’s expression changed.
He thought of the dead head in the golden coffin in the Headless Village, the Human Head Gu King.
Beside the flying man stood a hunchbacked man covered in black robes, with a pair of giant full-moon scimitars on his back.
The pair of full-moon scimitars were as big as door panels, but the stature of the hunchbacked man was also unusually tall and burly. Even though the black robe on his back had a huge hump and his body was slightly stooped, he was still one or two taller than an adult man.
Size.
Following the dark curtain of the rainy night, when Jin An saw the last person, he saw a familiar figure. The man was in black clothes and a long coat, with an elegant face, harmless to humans and animals, and was middle-aged.
It’s the interrogator who went to the Yinyijiang Ancient Tomb with them not long ago!
The four people lined up in a row, looking at the stone cattle and the imperial army in the square in the distance.
They seemed to feel the gaze coming from not far away from them, and turned to look at Jin'an. These people's gazes were evil, some were expressionless, some were elegant and gentle... I don't know if it was because of the distance, the hazy light on the rainy day, or
Because these three people are stronger than Jin An, they are not afraid to look at Jin An.
The questioner nodded and smiled lightly at Jin An. It was obvious that he recognized Jin An at a glance.
The moment he saw the questioner, Jin An's eyes turned cold.
It seems that the only survivor among the group of antique merchants who smuggled the water beads out of the imperial mausoleum and went down to the Yinyi River was this interrogator.
Wrong!
There is another look!
Jin An followed the fifth gaze, and suddenly, there was a slightly startled expression on his face.
"this……"
It was an absurdly huge figure.
The dark night is the best disguise. In the haze of the night, there stands a tall red-robed figure like a giant.
The man was wearing a red robe and a black gauze hat with stiff wings on his head. His face was as pale as a dead person covered with thick white powder. He had a book of life and death in his left hand and a soul-stirring pen in his right hand. He looked like a judge walking in the underworld. His height... was two or three feet tall.
, much higher than the surrounding buildings.
This thing is no longer human.
Because it is impossible for normal people to grow to such a height.
But Jin An could feel the yang energy of a living person from this person. This thing was actually a living person? It was not a trick.
But how can a living person grow to such a huge size that he stands like a giant between heaven and earth?
The giant was high up, looking down at Jin'an with a condescending expression.
At this moment, when Jin An discovered the five people on the other side, the five people on the other side were also looking at Jin An. The air seemed to be still at this moment, the swords were tense, and the war was about to break out.
Suddenly.
Jin An felt the pressure from the five gazes on him lighten up, and the gazes of the group of antique dealers all looked towards the direction of the square.
Jin An also turned around to look.
The Taoist priest came with an umbrella on a rainy night and met up with the captains and others in the square. The Taoist priest was the Taoist master who had controlled the Xiaohanbao Duanfeng on the Yinyi River and came from the Golden Tower of Yujing in the capital.
But because of the distance and the umbrella blocking his face and facial features, Jin An could not see what the other person looked like.
When Jin An turned back to look at the group of antique dealers, the place was empty, and the five people there had disappeared without a trace.
Jin An looked at the direction where the five people disappeared, his eyes pondering.
Originally, he had always thought that this group of antique dealers had left Fucheng, at least to avoid the limelight for a while, and would not return to the heavily guarded Fucheng so soon.
How did you know that the other party was so brave?
There was such a big commotion not long ago, and we immediately returned to Fucheng.
Thinking of this, Jin An looked again at the square where the torches were as bright as day, and at the stone bull...
“It seems that the Cave Heaven and Paradise Passage will soon appear! It should be within the next few days!”
Jin An is very curious.
Jin An already had some conjectures in his mind as to whether the Taoist master from Yujing Jinque was someone he knew. In order to get a definite verification, he began to move around the rooftops near the square, trying to see clearly.
The other person’s facial features.
But it has been in vain.
On the contrary, in the vast rainy night, he discovered many sneaky people hiding in the dark, peering in the direction of the square.
As the age of great strife approaches...
Hunts from all walks of life began to surface uncontrollably, and undercurrents surged!
…
…
at this time.
The Great Wall is thousands of miles away from Wuzhou Prefecture.
This is a desert world.
From the point of view, the vast field of vision is filled with yellow sand and floating soil. The climate is so bad that it is difficult for human beings to survive. However, this is the vanguard of foreigners from beyond the Great Wall to invade the Kangding Kingdom.
In the desert, there is only one flat land that can enter the Kangding Kingdom. This is not only a trade route, but also the only channel for foreign attacks. As long as this channel is guarded, foreigners can be resisted from outside the border.
Therefore, since ancient times, all dynasties have continuously strengthened this passage and built the ancient Han Pass, the most majestic pass in the world.
The ancient Hanguan Pass is located in the Gobi desert. The north and south are surrounded by dangerous Gobi deserts and mountains. There are few water resources in the desert, and it is windy and sandy all year round. It is easy to lose your way and is not conducive to long-distance treks. Therefore, as long as you guard the few passes,
You will be in an invincible position that is easy to defend but difficult to attack.
It is precisely because of this that the ancient Han Pass was invaded by foreign tribes almost every year in history. As long as the foreign tribes could no longer survive, or the winter was unbearable and food reserves were low, they would invade the border, burn, kill and plunder the people of Kangding.
rations.
The ancient Han Pass was the first barrier against the nomadic tribes outside the Great Wall. It was the most powerful pass in the world. Since its establishment, it has been fighting against enemies outside the Great Wall for thousands of years.
No matter how the heroes of the world compete for the throne, even during the most chaotic period of the Warring States Period thousands of years ago, this most powerful pass in the world has not been lost and has always been a rock barrier against foreigners outside the Great Wall.
Since ancient times, how many heroic sons and daughters have shed their blood here to fight against foreigners.
Protect every inch of mountains and rivers and every inch of land behind you.
Generation after generation of people have paid for this with their blood.
Even in history, there are many ancestors and grandchildren who have shouldered the enemy together and died on the battlefield. They would rather die in battle than live in an ignoble existence, writing tragic epics and bloody stories of the children of the frontier and desert.
It is precisely because of the sacrifices of so many unknown heroes that this most majestic pass in the world, soaked in blood and fire, can stand for thousands of years without falling despite being burned by blood and fire. It has only been lost once in history. It is said that it was
Thousands of years ago, some people collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country, colluded with internal and external forces, and allowed foreigners to enter the country. Thousands of loyal souls would rather die than surrender and were slaughtered.
But that period of history is too long.
It’s also too cruel.
After several dynasty changes...
The cycle of history...
Many unofficial histories and official histories have disappeared...
And the only people who remembered that period of history were turned into bones and loess...
People have forgotten who the traitor was.
Outside the desert, wind and sand are everywhere, and a long stretch of yellow sand appears at the end of the sky. They cover the sky and the sun, and in the Gobi Desert, which is as vast as an endless ocean of yellow sand, they raise a high wall of yellow sand, connecting the sky and the earth, toward this world's largest road.
The ancient Han Pass at Yixiong Pass is coming.
This is the great power of heaven and earth.
Non-human beings can compete.
Even the most majestic pass in the world, with tens of thousands of troops stationed there, looks so insignificant in front of this power of heaven and earth.
Anyone who lives in the northwest desert knows that a big sandstorm is coming.
Haunting by the wind.
Sandstorms are getting closer to Xiongguan.
At this time, it was difficult for both men and horses to distinguish the direction.
But at a high place on a barren mountain outside Xiongguan, nearly a hundred big men were lined up side by side.
These big men have rough, dark skin, with a slightly reddish-black complexion on their cheeks that only comes from living outside the Great Wall all year round, and their clothing is different from that of the people in Kangding.
These people are all foreigners outside the Great Wall.
The skin is exposed to wind, sand and sun all year round, so it is extremely rough and dark, lacking the fine skin and tender flesh of the people of Kangding.
In front of these foreign men, stood a few people in rich attire.
The clothing materials of these people are very luxurious. Even in Kangding, a country with rich products, they are all fine silk pieces that only princes and nobles can afford. And after traveling long distances, these silks were brought to the outside of the Great Wall by merchants outside the Great Wall, where products are scarce, and the prices are high.
It can be doubled several times, and it is not an exaggeration to say it is equivalent to gold.
The status of these people outside the Great Wall is obviously very high.
You can tell one thing or two from the respectful manners of the hundreds of men outside the wall.
The direction they were looking at at the moment was the Ancient Han Pass, the most powerful pass in the world.